I'm surprised FS didn't try to sue Apple over Voice Over.
Are you threatening me? I am the great Cornholio! I come from Lake Titicaca!
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From: Trouble
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2012 6:09 AM
To: Gamers Discussion list
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] narator is hmmm?
They did try and Microsoft let them know just who is boss in
software. Nothing like being slapped by a billion dollar company!
They couldn't do anything about it anyway or NVDA would have to go also.
At 12:38 AM 4/4/2012, you wrote:
To be honest trouble, its my view that fs and others, no especially fs
would sue ms for taking their market if they actually made narator more
than the crap that it is and always must be.
In fact rumor has it that when they decided to do that in win2k fs did just
that though its only a rumour.
It doesn't help when other big and bad companies want to keep us spending
3000 pluss on their so called product.
At 08:13 p.m. 3/04/2012 -0400, you wrote:
FYI, have a listen,
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From: John J Herzog [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2012 1:12 AM
Subject: windows 8 narrator, provides hype and not hope
Hello everyone,
I just completed a podcast explaining how narrator works in the new
windows 8. Here is the link, and below are my opinions. I urge you to
share this with every blind person you know, before our time to change
things for the newest windows has passed.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15813782/windows%208%20narrator%20demo.mp3
Ok, now here are my thoughts. Long story short, Narrator is incredibly
disappointing, and yet Microsoft is emphatically stating how great the
upcoming accessibility will be on their developer blog.
I am sending this podcast to all of you with the hopes that you will have
ideas on how we can encourage blind consumers to pressure Microsoft to do
better. It is clear to me that Microsoft is interested in nothing more
than positive publicity for helping everybody out, yet does not want to
put in the effort to give the blind a truly usable screen reader. Louis,
narrator is no better in the consumer preview than it was in the developer
version of windows released last September. Microsoft claims that over
100000 changes were made from the first preview of windows to the current
beta. And yet nothing was done for accessibility in that time. If we do
not voice our disappointment as a community, then the final version of
windows will likely not contain further accessibility improvements.
To Marlaina and everybody else, you need to give this a listen to
understand what Microsoft claims they are doing versus what they are
actually doing. Scott, I know you were with me when I produced this
tonight. However, I cannot find the link needed to submit this to the
blind cool tech web site. Maybe one of you can get this posted to
serotalk? If not, then I hope you all will share this with every other
blind person you know. I normally don't get upset when things won't work
as advertised. However, Microsoft really should know better than to
produce such a flawed access solution. When better screen readers can be
found in free operating systems such as Linux, there is a definite problem
that needs to be addressed. And when they market accessibility, they
really should have a product that stands up to the claim that it makes
windows an inclusive operating system for everybody.
I don't mean to rant, but give this a listen and let me know what you
think.
Thank you,
John
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