Aren't you guys worried also though that Apple might not be that committed
to accessibility? I know they built VO, but will they always make the effort
of keeping it up to date? Are there enough blind people buying Macs and
showing Apple that it's good what they're doing? Are there people at Apple
who a person can contact to express appreciation and encourage them to
develop more features, like an accessibility team? I'm asking since I've
read some article where the author criticises Apple on accessibility a lot,
I think the site was Blind Confidential, or something like that.
Ari
----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg Kearney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by
theblind" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 5:58 PM
Subject: Re: Hi
None of the third party screen reader company have the financial backing
to mount a serious legal challenge to Microsoft and I do not think the
government will either.
The day of the third party screen reader is over in five years time they
will not exist. Microsoft can not permit a situation to exist where a
competitor has built in screen readers and they do not.
Greg
On Apr 13, 2007, at 9:42 AM, Joshue O Connor wrote:
Greg said:
I doubt that if they were to provide a screen reader they would be in
any kind of serious trouble.
I fully expect that with in a few year a screen reader will be just a
part of any OS and the third party screen readers will just go away.
Lol :-) and then Microsoft will end up with an anti-trust case as the
inclusion of a fully functioning screen reader will be seen as
anti-competitive and an abuse of their monopoly, a threat to third party
vendors.
I can see the headlines now...
Josh
