Meanwhile, what they don't show is the nightmare that software developers
have to get their software able to be actually used by those who cannot see.
I worked for a major credit card company that proudly proclaimed that they
were always willing and able to hire the handicapped and work with them in
order that they can do the sme job as those who aren't handicapped. A TV
newscast reporter was shown that this credit card company bought a braille
embosser to be used by their blind employees when printed material had to be
made, such as reference materials or software manuals. What they did not
tell the reporter was that only the LAN team were allowed to work with this
embosser to get it to work with their Intranet system. I could get it to
work if I had been allowed to, but I was not given permission or access. As
a result, the blind employees got no brailled material. A year later, the
same reporter came out to do another human interest story on the company and
he noticed that not one of the blind employes had any braille reference
materials at his or her desk. When asked about why, I told him the reason.
The story appeared in the paper the next week. I got into hot water for
telling the truth, revealing the company's deplorable policy.
Microsoft has earned a reputation based on it's past performance. Releasing
buggy and crappy operating systems, then, eventually, fixing the known
issues before the next buggy crappy release of yet another OS. I don't know
anyone who runs out and buys the newest releases from them when they first
appear on shelves. They always wait until at least the second fix before
buying. Only problem is, it will soon be scrapped for the new. Then, here
we go again.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Willem" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 2:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Tomb Hunter Error
Microsoft does have an excuse um I mean accessibility solutions, like
their sapi voices and charmap.
They show it off to make people see how kind they are accomadating the
disabled.
----- Original Message -----
From: "dark" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 8:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Tomb Hunter Error
Bloody capitalism!
I did actually find the switch to office 2007 quite irritating, not that
it was expressly inaccessible, but having to look for things like
spellcheck in random places was a real pain (I stil haven't found the
wordcount option).
It is ultimately an inherent access problem that what is necessarily
better visually with more information and contextual items desplayed on
screen ready for mouse clicking is not necessarily better for a Vi user
attempting to find small amounts of information with a minimum of
keyboard use.
If big coorperations like microsoft could be brought to account for this
and include access modes as well as the shiny new interface it would be a
good thing, ---- but sadly the almighty prophit margin means that won't
happen.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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