true jim.
I am not against change, but yeah it seems to happen all at once.
Access is behind and usually costly to upgrade, nvda can handle most
things now but still you will need a real reader to actually do
everything properly and that costs cash.
Its about the only thing I hate about being blind.
The standard hardware I don't care about.
After all that the interface we have been using for ages and ages has changed.
We have to learn it with bad to no support, either have to buy it, or
get it in some other way.
It doesn't help when ms released bad software like me and vista or
when avg stuffed its access up or in fact when any software suddenly
is not accessable.
We have to use old versions which I don't like, upgrade, or use other software.
Its a good thing that a lot of opensource software exists because
there was a stage where software I had to use but couldn't possibly
afford I had to crack and thats not good.
We are pushed to use sertain software standards, office, windows, etc.
And unless you can just buy it yourself, or get it for a job there is
almost no legal way to get it yet you need to use it because the world uses it.
Again thank god for opensource.
Another issue is that once we are just getting used to something its
in the trash.
I am just getting the concept of the ribbon in office and the windows
interface for win7.
Win8 and over will probably have it totally going out the window so to speak.
We always seem to get the pointed end of the umbrella.
Its not a gradual change we get.
A zombie decides to ripp out our guts and then make us eat it.
THen when we are getting settled, it happens again.
And for the most part we are still behind.
THough they try to change it.
And to be honest, if I had known all about all the hastles I would
have used a mac.
I however have invested to much in windows to go over now.
All the games and legal software and all that.
Its a real pain.
There are probably good points in upgrading but for us it doesn't
happen straight away, maybe 6 months, maybe a year or 2 years or more.
At 05:58 a.m. 12/12/2011 -0500, you wrote:
Hi Thomas,
Yeah, you know allot of people just do not like change. Routine is
comfortable. And learning a new way of doing things may not be easy
for some. And then there is that often our access is behind. That
is our screen reader of choice may not support the newest version of
an operating system as it comes out. And then I don't think that
the graphical user interface is as intuitive for us as it is for
sighted folks. So when it totally changes it may be harder for us
to get a grip on what is going on with it. Heck it took allot of
blind people a very long time to move on from the text based command
line to the graphical user interface.
BFN
Jim
A long time ago I changed my name from Ron Moore.
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