That reminds me of what happened when i showed the iphone at a big vendors show here in Sweden. I got told that this was a new device and that people most likely never would switch because "blind people should use physical buttons, nothing more". Some said that this was a modern design interface that was good for nothing. We have a word for this in Scandinavia, we call it the law of Jante. "don't think you are something" is one of the paragraphs of that law. And yet, after what i've said i've started to get requests from small vendors to give there staff education in the Iphone and the Mac, which i gladly will do just to kill the myths that the Iphone is the pleasure of the news and the Mac works but not quite and isn't worth dealing with. The ideal thing would be to have blind people have the posibility of looking at both the PC and the Mac and see what's best for them. I love the Mac and will never go back to the Pc, and some will probably say they love the Pc and don't want to come close to a Mac, but at least let people test and judge for themselves. /krister
30 nov 2009 kl. 23.40 skrev Mark BurningHawk Baxter: > in 1990, when OutSpoken for the Mac came out and I was using it at my > place of employment, I was asked to demonstrate it as a visually > impaired computer users group in Boston, MA. I got up there and > demonstrated it with four part harmony and feeling, and the guy from > MS got up and started asking me "what can't you do with the mac? are > there programs you can't use? tell me about that." I started to say > that some programs were inaccessible, and he interrupted me and said > "well there you go; it's not a real solution." I blew up at him, > called him several names and then asked him to demonstrate how his > graphics programs and even some of the mainstream DOS products were > not accessible--this is *BEORE* VocalEyes came out, I believe. I was > shouted down and told to leave, and take my Mac with me. That's what > happens when you think outside the blind box. > > Mark BurningHawk Baxter > > Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 > MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com > My home page: > http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
