Yes, it might be true, that standard IT training material doesn't cover
accessibility.
But the story of a corporation's web services like online database and
online banking system using Silverlight was in fact true.
The sad fact was that one trainer had JAWS knowledge allthough he was fully
sighted, while the other trainer was totally blind.
At that time JAWS 10 was the latest available release and neither of us
could access that web site properly without sighted assistance.
But enough of that now.
I really hope that the next few years will bring more accessibility features
into Windows.
I also would like it if someone either rewrote older games where allowed or
that some kind of emulator or virtual machine configuration would be
distributed which can be used by blind people to play some older games.
I also think that Microsoft should focus more on internal changes for
Windows than inventing a new user interface every two major releases or so.
I know that not everyone liked the optical design of Modern UI, regardless
of what new technology or hardware support Windows 8 brought.
If Windows could be more like linux where you could permanently choose which
desktop you want to use, it would probably do more good for Windows, because
then people (sighted and blind) could choose during the installation which
components they want to use.
In Linux you can use Gnome or KDE (if that's still up and running).
If you should do so as a blind user is obviously another story, but in
theory you can choose.
And that's something you could not officially with the ribbons in MS Office
2007 and newer over the menus from Office 2003.
Same went for the Classic (XP start menu) to the Windows Vista/7 start menu
up to no conventional start menu in Windows 8/8.1.
---
Gamers mailing list __ [email protected]
If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected].
You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at
http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org.
All messages are archived and can be searched and read at
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected].
If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list,
please send E-mail to [email protected].
