Re: Universal design

2009-08-14 Thread Daniel Crone
I would like to know what Mr. Henter is doing also. On Aug 14, 2009, at 4:45 PM, hank smith wrote: > > what is he doing these days? any one know? > On Aug 14, 2009, at 7:08 AM, Daniel Crone wrote: > >> >> I remember the early jaws days. I knew that Ted Henter and all the >> people there really g

Re: Universal design

2009-08-14 Thread John Panarese
Last I heard, he had started a company, Henter Math. Not sure if that still is the case. Take Care John Panarese On Aug 14, 2009, at 5:45 PM, hank smith wrote: > > what is he doing these days? any one know? > On Aug 14, 2009, at 7:08 AM, Daniel Crone wrote: > >> >> I remember the earl

Re: Universal design

2009-08-14 Thread hank smith
what is he doing these days? any one know? On Aug 14, 2009, at 7:08 AM, Daniel Crone wrote: > > I remember the early jaws days. I knew that Ted Henter and all the > people there really gave their all. Seems that when a company is > small, it is easy for it to keep its focus. > On Aug 14, 2009,

Re: Universal design

2009-08-14 Thread Daniel Crone
I remember the early jaws days. I knew that Ted Henter and all the people there really gave their all. Seems that when a company is small, it is easy for it to keep its focus. On Aug 14, 2009, at 5:56 AM, Chris Hofstader wrote: > Hi, > > I couldn't agree with you more as regards Apple and i

RE: Universal design

2009-08-14 Thread Donna Goodin
Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 6:56 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Universal design Hi, I couldn't agree with you more as regards Apple and its efforts toward universal access.   I understand the feeling you must have when the kid went off to school with a new talki

Re: Universal design

2009-08-14 Thread Chris Hofstader
The survey was done independently and has been published even before Macintosh had even marginal accessibility built-in. As I said yesterday, Apple's number is probably unnaturally low because of the "invisible" users out there who aren't attached to any blindness agency or other place whe

Re: Universal design

2009-08-14 Thread Chris Hofstader
Hi, I couldn't agree with you more as regards Apple and its efforts toward universal access. I understand the feeling you must have when the kid went off to school with a new talking iPod as, when I worked at HJ/FS, i was well aware that every new copy of JAWS that went out the door probabl

Re: Universal design

2009-08-13 Thread Chris Blouch
So this is survey based or is Apple somehow able to gather usage statistics. I'm assuming the former since the latter would have interesting legal issues about snooping around to identify users with disabilities. Glad to see a 3% market share. I guess I was leaning towards monetary kinds of rew

Re: Universal design

2009-08-13 Thread patrickneazer
Hello Chris and all: Yes, I am a fan of more carrots and less stick if possible. Sticks are easy to make though I do not know anyone who enjoys being hit by one no matter how worthy or just the cause (grin). The best way to accomplish what is desired is to reward apple for their innovation

Re: Universal design

2009-08-13 Thread Chris Hofstader
One "reward" Apple can measure for taking on universal design principles will be reflected in the portion of the population of Macintosh users who had, not too long ago, been shut out from the Apple product line. In an annual report that I read in detail every February when it comes out, A

Re: Universal design

2009-08-13 Thread Chris Blouch
It would also be nice, albeit unmeasurable, that Apple would be rewarded for implementing universal design. I could then point to it as an example of what happens when a company does things right. I have lots of examples of when companies do things wrong (Target, PriceLine, Ramada and recently

Re: Universal design

2009-08-13 Thread Chris Hofstader
Hello Chris the Other, I agree with your thoughts on universal design. Six or seven years ago we found that a lot of rehab counselors were downloading daily content from audible.com and listening on a PAC Mate as they went from client to client in their cars. this, I suppose, was a bit of

Re: Universal design

2009-08-12 Thread Chris G
Hello, Here's a URL people may be interested in. http://www.senderogroup.com/VisionFree/ This is a step in the right direction. Chris On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:41:27 -0400 patrickneazer wrote: > Hello Chris and all: > > Agreed. > On Aug 12, 2009, at 11:40 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: > > > With

Re: Universal design

2009-08-12 Thread patrickneazer
Hello Chris and all: Agreed. On Aug 12, 2009, at 11:40 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: > With most mainstream popular products there is huge value in not > only the thing itself but in the universe that surrounds it. The > iPod being a case in point. There are jillions of add ons and public > share