That was a pleasure to read, and sheds a different shade of light on the matter of accessibility. Definitely is going to make me think twice when designing a webpage or application. Thanks for the writeup :)

Well I would say some comment on articles that people have written are more thought provoking

It's pretty.... But..but I have linux.

Unfortunately I think Synapse [0] is your only option.

0: http://lifehacker.com/5704221/synapse-is-a-super-fast-tightl...

Check out Mutate https://github.com/qdore/Mutate/ - an open source launcher like Alfred for Linux with ability to create your own script.

Agreed, though the explosion of desktop applications (that are bundled with a browser), although understandable, is annoying.