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"Microsoft has a majority market share in the new desktop PC
marketplace. This is a bug, which Ubuntu is designed to fix."

This is a very nice sentiment and one that was valid until myself and
others test drove 12.04 beta.

Basic Disability Accessibility features needed to even test drive the CD
seem to be deprecated - don't function and those that supposedly do
function either break the Unity Desktop - or make it unusable. It is a
spectacular Own Goal - and quite disgraceful.

The situation is so poor and discriminatory that it prevents disabled
people from taking part in testing and bug reporting - and even being
able to report bugs on accessibility. That itself is direct
discrimination.

The matter has been checked against 10.04 through 11.10 which all worked
correctly and allowed valid and utile access as live CD and as full
install. 12.04 fails both.

It would appear that basic Disability Accessibility has been thrown out
in the dash to Unity and some future dream of Ubuntu on tablets retailed
in China!

It is alarming to see that compliance with basic protocols and standards
of Accessibility seem to have been sacrificed and are not addressed.
Short cuts to use them are even still there - but greyed out and
inaccessible!

Bug report filed under #964685 "Failed disability accessibility
standards - 12.04 - Live CD & Installed". I note that bugs addressing
disability accessibility issues remain unaddressed for years!

I fully expect this more recent report to also be ignored for as long.

I am no lover of certain none Linux operating systems and have been a
promoter of Ubuntu for over 5 years. However, if this disgraceful state
of affairs concerning Disability Access and Accessibility is not
addressed promptly and fully resolved it will be the end.

Other operating systems seem to have recently also started beta testing
in their version 8 - and the accessibility options and requirements
there are met. That is why so many Public and Private sector providers
use them - it prevents litigation risk from poor quality and
dysfunctional software which causes both direct and indirect Disability
Discrimination.

They simply will not be able to risk using Ubuntu 12.04.

It may be of interest to consider that there are 1 Billion recognised
Disabled people on planet earth. Ubuntu 12.04, in it's present
discriminatory form, is an insult to all of them.

Ubuntu is reported to mean -"I am what I am because of who we all are.".

Ubuntu 12.04 means "WE are all disabled because Ubuntu 12.04 disables
disabled people even more than before."

That is not the way to promote a replacement for pay software and
operating systems - it simply reinforces their monopoly.

I have contacted Canonical directly in an attempt to have matters
highlighted - and still await contact by return. It seems that no-one
there has oversight or responsibility - a rather large oversight in
itself.

It would seem that there is a focus upon snippets of code - but Code and
Protocol which even pre-dates Ubuntu  defining larger issues such as
compliance with standards and even legal obligations is not a feature of
Ubuntu anymore! 12.04 is proof of that.

Ubuntu is now not designed to fix any bug - only promote other operating
systems as good risk management - and even provides Public Relations
Kudos and opportunity free of charge to the supposed bugs it set out to
fix!

Such a pity - and such a mess!

Well Done - NOT!

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Title:
  Microsoft has a majority market share

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Bug description:
  Microsoft has a majority market share in the new desktop PC marketplace.
  This is a bug, which Ubuntu is designed to fix.

  Non-free software is holding back innovation in the IT industry,
  restricting access to IT to a small part of the world's population and
  limiting the ability of software developers to reach their full
  potential, globally. This bug is widely evident in the PC industry.

  Steps to repeat:

  1. Visit a local PC store.

  What happens:
  2. Observe that a majority of PCs for sale have non-free software pre-installed.
  3. Observe very few PCs with Ubuntu and free software pre-installed.

  What should happen:
  1. A majority of the PCs for sale should include only free software like Ubuntu.
  2. Ubuntu should be marketed in a way such that its amazing features and benefits would be apparent and known by all.
  3. The system shall become more and more user friendly as time passes.

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