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by lynx23 696 days ago
The same would apply to assistive technology. Right now, various countries are paying relatively big sums to Freedom Scientific for JAWS licenses. It would be way better for the users if those countries would pay open source devs to work on accessibility for everyone. However, capitalism is preventing this. Resellers would be out of bussiness, so they lobby for the current system to stay as it is.