Have the makers of Fire released an upgrade? Can the accessibility o
its Preferences or the annoyances of navigation be any worse? Lol
Yes Travis, this is a common occurance for many of us Blind users,
something heeds to be done but as you say at least software
manufacturers are aware of the problems.
James
On 2 Aug 2006, at 17:13, Travis Siegel wrote:
Is this upgrade anything like the aol instant messenger client quote
upgrade unquote that they put out a while ago?
In the version I was using before the upgrade, I could asign sounds
to *every* event, thereby telling me when someone logged in, logged
out, sent me a message, or when i sent one to them, and since these
sounds could be different for each user, it was a fantastic way to
determine who was sending messages, and who to reply to. After the
upgrade, most of these options were removed, and it was back to a
single sound for each event, and it was no longer able to be done on
a per user basis. Needless to say, I scrapped the upgrade,
downloaded the older version, and haven't bothered to upgrade since.
The same thing happened with the palm reader for windows. Version
1.0 was 100% accessible, and had keyboard shortcuts for every
function the reader cold do. After 1.01 came out, shortcuts were in
short supply.
So, I ask you.
What's the point of removing functionality, and calling it an upgrade?
Why is this the common trend, and why do users put up with it?
I've complained bitterly everytime this happened, and I never
received a reply to my emails, but at least I made them aware of it
even if they wouldn't reply.
Why is this the current trend, and what (if anything) can be done to
reverse this behavior?
