Linux desktop push could benefit disabled 
From: Electronic Engineering Times - October 15, 2001 - page 109
By: Terry Costlow 
 
If the push to extend Linux to the desktop is successful, the disabled will
be big beneficiaries. The Gnome Accessibility Framework is finalizing a
release that incorporates support for accessible applications programs, a
move that will make it far simpler for developers to link peripherals such as
screen readers to systems running the open-source Linux operating system. 

http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20011010S0069

check out results from "Gnome Accessibility Framework":
http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/
http://www.gnome.org/pr-accessible.html
http://developer.gnome.org/feature/current/
http://www.sun.com/tech/access/;$sessionid$RMNL44YBDT4UFAMTA1LU4GQ
http://www.sun.com/software/white-papers/wp-gnome/#accessibility
http://www.abletv.net/events_gnome_101900_transcript.asp
http://www.linuxpower.org/display.php?id=202
http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/10/11/0429204
http://www.iforce.com/software/cover/2001-0328/