The NFB is in on this whole deal. They deliberately work against built in accessibility so they can keep getting 7 figure payoffs from companies who shal remain nameless but have the initials FS.:) (among others) When accessibility is built in they and other blind organizations don't get a cut from the vendors as hush money and also don't get a cut of the sales where applicable.
This is why cable boxes aren't accessible, why windows doesn't have a real built in screen reader and why groups like the NFB publish so many hit pieces on Apple. On Jan 19, 2011, at 9:06 PM, Michael Thurman wrote: > amazon there shows how much disregard they have for us and how much they want > to crawl and lick the boots ad other less savory parts of th ebig dogs they > cower to i for one am sick of being 3rd class in society and why doesn't > the nfb sue for crap like that the nfb can't even get us accessible cable > boxes even though most of th eboxes even have usb ports on them m time > warner hd cable box has a usb port on the front the mac doens't even see it > havn't tried with a windows computer yeet but I suspec tit's disabled and > useless > it's getting to whre a blind person can't even listen to tv or music or > anything on cable or over the air the new digital tv converters for over > the air broadcat tv are also completely unusable if ou are blind > On Jan 19, 2011, at 9:13 PM, Jane wrote: > >> Not fair, but here's a solution; access would only be enabled if VoiceOver >> is turned on. If not, you're screwed. >> >> Jane >> >> >> On Jan 19, 2011, at 9:11 PM, Mary Otten wrote: >> >>> Ricardo, >>> The Kindle accessibility plug in application was designed using something >>> called the qt graphics package. I haven't a clue what that is. But given >>> that they went out of their way to use something that doesn't let you >>> actually use the app with your screen reader, using the screen reader's >>> navigation keys, speech synthesis etc, I would guess that they're not going >>> to write anything for the Mac that enables vo users to get full access. >>> they're still worried about their precious agreement with the publishers >>> and the tts. Since Macs and I-devices have screen reading available by >>> default, somebody at Amazon will undoubtedly decide that they can't let Mac >>> users have the access, because they it would be available to everybody. You >>> can't use the accessibility app on Windoes unless you have a screen reader >>> installed, even though the tts used does not come from your screen reader. >>> >>> Mary >>> >>> Mary Otten >>> motte...@gmail.com >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@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 macvisionaries@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 macvisionaries@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 macvisionaries@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.
