Hello,
Has anyone on this list heard of blindsoftware.com? It is owned and
operated by a blind programmer, whose mission is to develop Windows
applications accessible by the blind. As blindsoftware.com welcomes
suggestions for future releases, I strongly urge the subscribers to
this list to contact this company, to suggest that it may be
financially prudent on their part to develop software compatible with
Tiger and VoiceOver.
I can think of three reasons why blindsoftware.com might wish to
consider doing this. First, Macvisionaries.com has a record of 91
blind computer users who have switched to Tiger and VoiceOver, many
of whom are in need of accessible applications. Second, apple has a
strong presence in education, which, because of equal-access laws,
means that blindsoftware.com has an untapped market. Finally,
critical applications compatible with Tiger and VoiceOver--namely,
spreadsheet and word processing applications--have yet to be released.
I think that, if enough people wrote to blindsoftware.com informing
them of the need for more applications accessible to blind Mac users,
they might respond.
Cordially,
Rafael Bejarano
