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Nations with large populations also have large numbers of people with disabilities. Countries including Brazil and Russia are discussing whether to standardize government purchases on GNU/Linux platforms. These nations are all signatories to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and include technology in their agenda for providing such rights. This will require them to hire programmers to work on accessibility software for their populations. If it is free software, the rest of the world will be able to use it too. The hackers who work on free access technology will provide tools that people with disabilities can use to expand their horizons enormously.