Comment Problems with the article (Score 1) 663
As a blind computer user I see several problems with the article. First narrator is in no way represented of any decent windows screen reader, weather free or that costs money. Second the article doesn't define what users we are talking about. I'm a computer user who has experience with programming, and isn't afraid to figure things out on my own. Just because the learning curve may be steeper if your blind doesn't mean the internet isn't usable some blind people just don't put enough effort into figuring out how to use sites and give up when they come to the first hurtle. Third blind people helped cause this problem Microsoft wanted to make narrator a good screen reader, but companies like Freedom Scientific and GW Micro who sell screen readers threw a fit which is why narrator is so useless and Microsoft didn't develop it to it's full potential. I'm hoping that Linux screen readers will surpass windows ones since the code for the operating system, most applications, and the accessibility API's are all available. While I'm impressed with what I've used so far on ubuntu it's not good enough for me to switch from windows to Linux yet.