Hello Those who suggest that GW Micro (or any other assistive technology group) should develop a blind dedicated program, e-mail client, database, etc., are cluless!!
First of all, dedicated programs for the blind are old hat, to say the least; that was 1980 thinking. Us blind folks want and need to use the programs that everyone else uses - that's why I complained about WLM inaccessibility this past weekend. Second of all, the development of any major application takes years of work and lots of big bucks, and very specialized talent. So let's get real about this! Look at how much work it takes to make a Microsoft program truly accessible; remember the work required to make Outlook 2002 accessible? The problem is that things change so fast nowadays that assistive groups can't keep up. For instance, Microsoft currently has 5 different e-mail clients out there with dozens of variants. So which program should GW address? If you go to and read the MSDN Blogs dedicated to Windows 7; it's clear that the marketing department at MS has decided to go with WLM for Windows 7; Outlook Express and WM are no longer supported. And, supposedly, MS released a new beta of WLM on June 10, 2010 with menus replaced with the Ribbon Bar; perhaps, they fixed some of their bugs as well. Peter Duran If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
