Biggest problem with the Access World review is that the author told
me in person before the review was ever written that he would "make
sure this blew up in Apple face." He never intended to give it a fair
review. The whole matter was dishonest from the start.
There are those in the blindness community who do not want built in
screen readers in any OS. They believe that Apple by doing so will
cause Microsoft to do the same. At that point the market for third
party screen readers will disappear and with it their choices in
Windows screen readers. So they oppose any effort by Apple to
introduce accessibly as part of the OS.
Greg Kearney
On Apr 12, 2007, at 6:16 PM, Access Curmudgeon wrote:
Welcome Ari. I think you have hit on four of the biggest reason why
switching is appealing for screen reader users. Here are some more:
http://home.adelphia.net/~bmss/vo/reasons.html
That Access World article was all wet, very disappointing. Here is a
list of most of the problems with it:
http://home.adelphia.net/~bmss/vo/aw060505fix.html
Those URLs are expected to go dark sometime.
