Unm it's not Bill's fault though. A big part of the reason that Microsoft doesn't have native accessibility is the way a subset of the blind community handled accessibility and MS years back. There were a whole series of payoffs and backroom dealings that took place on behalf of some organizations who make money by selling 3rd party tools. Microsoft truth be told wanted to include a screen reader with the OS and make their tools accessible but found again a certain subset protesting on their front door as a result. (because they were paid off by a certain screen reader company founder to do so to the tune of 7 figures) This same subset still writes hit pieces against Apple today because they do not get a cut of the Apple accessibility pie.
Don't think I defend Microsoft unconditionally, I generally hate their products and their developers come from the back of the class but in this case at least your anger is a bit misdirected. I won't detail the specifics here because it's only tangentially ontopic and it ruffled a few feathers of folks on this list who benefits from the status quo. On Oct 26, 2010, at 2:12 PM, heather kd5cbl wrote: > Bill is responsible for that robot they call narrator and he claims windows > is accessible. While our friends at Apple, actually have a real screenreader > built in to their system. So, Bill is not doing anyone any favors by making > us, windows users, go out an by screenreaders worth more than their pc > computers. I want to put a blind fold over his eyes and make him use his own > computer with just narrator, I am sure he would not get very far! Also, > anyone who has to use word 2010 with jaws, has to by another msa or their job > has too. And the mac users with voiceover, cant use it at all. So he is an > easy target. Otherwise, he would have wised up a long time ago and had his > own built in speech for windows but, he just does not care. I am starting to > use open office and pages more and the msword does not matter that much > anymore. Heather > -- > 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.
