On Oct 7, 2007, at 5:49 PM, Joseph Selbie wrote: > Sophisticated or simple, web or desk top, the challenge remains the > same. > How do you take a primarily visual experience and provide it > verbally, or > sonically, or otherwise?
Exactly. And if Apple or Microsoft can't solve it at the hardware and OS level, how on earth do you expect readers and those who develop software for the computer to be able to solve the problem on their own? Maybe someone can, but I don't see how without intimate access to the guts of the system. > Meanwhile you need a translator from visual to audio. Agreed. But why should that be a software overlay on the system instead of built into the system itself? That's my point. > Perhaps all you are really advocating is that MS and Apple should > take the > responsibility to provide good translators with their OS's. Or put > another > way, they should be in the reader business whether they like it or > not. That's exactly what I'm advocating. And if it's required by government regulations, obviously it doesn't matter what they want or not. > I doubt they would agree. But even if they did, and they develop > built in > software support for the disabled, the people designing and coding the > software will still have to understand how that built in capacity > works and > make sure that they have coded to its standards. Coding to standards is not the problem. It's coding to incomplete compounded by different standards that is the problem. If the proper hooks are in the APIs supplied by Apple and MS, and further, those API hooks across the platforms are *EXACTLY* the same, 100% as forced by government regulations, then it's not hard at all for everyone else to follow and stay in compliance. -- Andrei Herasimchuk Principal, Involution Studios innovating the digital world e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] c. +1 408 306 6422 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] List Guidelines ............ http://beta.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://beta.ixda.org/help Unsubscribe ................ http://beta.ixda.org/unsubscribe Questions .................. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home ....................... http://beta.ixda.org
