I'm not sure how I feel about this but choice is always a good thing.
I'd like to see this ... from the Daily star ..
Luwrain: an operating system for the blind
MikhaïlPozhidaev, 32, working on his operating system Luwrain, a
textbased environment for blind persons.
Thomas Gras
Russian developer Mikhail Pozhidaev, himself visually impaired, has
created a free operating system for the blind, which is simple to use
and compatible with all platforms.
The 32-year-old Mikhail Pozhidaev lost his sight at the age of 17 after
suffering a retinal detachment, as he was preparing to enter the
first-year computer studies programme at the State University of Tomsk
in Siberia. Despite this disability, he completed his studies, and since
2012, has been working on an operating system designed to be used
especially by the visually impaired.
Called Luwrain, this system allows blind people to work on a computer at
the same speed as anyone else. This advantage is crucial – the
traditional IT tools designed to be used by the blind work too slowly,
says the developer.
A completely free system – the Luwrain is freely available on the
Internet and can be installed either as a primary OS or as an
application on Windows, MacOS, or GNU/Linux operating systems. “The goal
is that Luwrain remains accessible to as many people as possible,
regardless of their financial situation,” insists Mikhail Pozhidaev. No
special computer knowledge is required to use the Luwrain.
Working as an IT architect for the Moscow-based ElektronnayaMoskva
Certification Centre since February 2015, the young developer is
planning to release a final version of his programme by the end of 2015.
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