HUDLUG: Open Letter: How the FOSS Community May Help Disabled Users

[ Thanks to Marco Fioretti for this link. ]

"I recently wrote an article about the serious communication problems between the Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) community and disabled users...

"My article has been both attacked and praised on many mailing lists. It has also been criticized on Groklaw, because I would be out of the loop and discussed on Slashdot. I have a few quick comments about this, and above all a proposal for all FOSS supporters worldwide.

"First of all, the world is much bigger than Massachusetts, or USA for that matter. The stories I reported show that it is the majority of disabled people to still be, or be left, out of the loop..."

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