Hi, Mike and Eric make good points. I noticed a couple of other inaccuracies as well. I sent this note, below, to the wrong place yesterday. I should note for the sake of full disclosure that I do work for Serotek, but am subscribed and commenting here only as an end user of computer thingies. I'm also a very happy Mac user and own Window-Eyes.
Umm, wow? Anyway, there were a couple of inaccurate statements in GW's response. First, while it may have been the first to offer a payment plan, it is not the only company to do so. Serotek has offered such a plan, two of them in fact, for a couple years now. Also, System Access also worked with Office 2010 (Word and Excel, anyway) on release, and during a good bit of the beta cycle. We can argue semantics as to who was first, but that's kind of silly, isn't it? -- -- Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA Phone: (814) 860-3194 or 888-75-BUDDY On Sep 2, 2010, at 10:36 AM, Mike Arrigo wrote: > Over all, I think GW Micro's response was good, the one part I disagree with > is saying that including a screen reader in the operating system is a > disservice. Apple has built an excellent screen reader in to their operating > system, and I would put its features up against the features of the windows > screen readers any day. At home, I use the mac for just about everything now, > and voiceover makes it accessible in a very good way. As a blind person, why > should I have to pay more than sighted people do to use a device? As Serotek > says, accessibility is a right, not something we should have to pay extra > for. The companies who make the products should have the responsibility of > making them accessible. Voiceover works with many applications that are not > from Apple. You can't beat having accessibility right out of the box. > > -- > Email services provided by the System Access Mobile Network. Visit > www.serotek.com to learn more about accessibility anywhere. > > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender > only. If your reply would benefit others on the list andyour message is > related to GW Micro or the BookSense, then please consider sending your > message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. > > To manage your subscription to gw-booksense, visit: > > http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv > 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.
