sean, I agree with you on this idea. from an international standpoint, not just from a US standpoint, a huge change could happen with this kind of process.
what this effectively would do is open doors to international programming companies, developers, etc to engineer their software to blind and visually impaired users needs. There's real oportunities here we can all invest in. take as an example this. I'm working as a cabinet maker / tool demonstrator. For a lot of work I do, I need to rely on a package which could give me tactile drawings. however, the main platform I used to work with back in the days of windows 98, was AutoCAD. I took on as a road test, the newest version of AutoCAD through the manufacturers. Guess what, it's coded in a non mac language and cannot be used with voiceover in any way. So, I have a copy of autocad sitting here doing nothing, locked to my user name. what a pain. Now, if we created an investment fund internationally speaking and introduced this to developers per year, then they can start work with our input in creating a "universally accessible" package. anyway, as regards the sensitivity of the subject at hand, there's no cause for people to become wound up, offended or cornered in this. It isn't necessary and getting us nowhere. lew On 30 Apr 2012, at 11:05, Sean Murphy wrote: > All. > > I would raise a different slant on the whole discussion. No one took this up > before in one of my prior posts. This is a concept and please treat it as an > idea. If people want to discuss this off line to see if it could be actually > adopted. Then please let me know. I am more then happy to discuss. > > > A we all know Business only cares about the bottom line. Since this is the > situation. A solution to our problems is to become investors. So how can we > as a group become investors? Being individual investor will not have the same > impact as if we do it as a group. Let me put up some figures. > > If 10 million people in the USA put $10.00 into a investment fund per month. > This would give the group $100000000.00 per month or 1.2 billion a year. If > you extend this to a international level and got another 20 million people. > Then the yearly amount grows to 3.6 billion dollars a year. > Having this type of yearly funds for investing into companies. Their > attitudes towards accessibility or what I would prefer to say Universal > design will quickly change. Since this type of money could place the fund > managers who ever they are on boards of companies due to amount of shares > held by the investment fund. > > Basically what I have outlined is a different approach of changing peoples > attitude by playing the same game. I believe there is at least 10 million or > more people world wide that could afford $10.00 per month. Of course there > are those who cannot. But they would benefit anyway. Before you shoot the > idea down. Stop and think about if we had as a community this type of money. > What changes could be done. The fund could be open to anyone who wants to > help. It could even be open to all disabilities. That makes the numbers > bigger and making the pool of investment larger. Investing into proactive > companies like Apple would ensure they continue doing there good job. > Informing companies like publishers that we will invest x million per month > over the next x months if I believe would quickly change their attitude. > > So take off the blinkers everyone and see what this idea could do to change > the world of technology? > > Ideas or comments are more then welcomed. > > > Sean > > -- > 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.
