[Discuss] An interesting win with the Canadian government

[Corey Burger]

On 5/14/06, Alan W. Irwin <irwin at beluga.phys.uvic.ca> wrote:
> On 2006-05-14 01:40-0700 Corey Burger wrote:
>
> > On 5/13/06, David Bronaugh <dbronaugh at linuxboxen.org> wrote:
> >> Looks like Stats Can will let us complete our census online with Linux
> >> after all.
> >>
> >> http://www12.statcan.ca/IRC/english/advisory_e.htm
> >>
> >> I'd say that's a big win :)
> >>
> >> David Bronaugh
> >
> > Yep, looks like we won, but only partially. Now we need to get the
> > blind and disabled groups to join us and get the Java killed as well.
>
> Java is a viable and useful language.

I agree. Once we have have a free java, I will not hesitate to
consider it for desktop applications. However, Java embedded into a
webbrowser is terrible for accessibility, as most screenreaders cannot
read it.

Corey