Not only that but I’ve noticed that making something like that required by law does more harm than good because the laws are more often than not too general. Look at te ADA, though that’s another rant. What I mean is that oftentimes a company can do a half-arsed job and yet they’re still considered to be within the law because they made an effort.
Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul, Ash nazg thrakatulûk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul. From: Katherine Moss Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2013 1:24 PM To: Pat Ferguson ; Duyahn Walker Cc: [email protected] Subject: RE: GW Micro plans to announce a new accessibility solution, what will it be? I’m sorry to bust your buttons,, but I don’t think that there is any such thing as “one hundred percent accessible” simply due to the way accessibility is portrayed in frameworks; it’s optional and not required, and making it required would break the consistency of the sighted developing world causing hundreds of hours of unexplained agrevation for people who don’t understand why their code won’t compile when it looks right to their eyes. As a training administrator of Windows systems and beyond, I’d like to see more accessibility efforts put into the pre-boot environments that computers can enter such as the Intel Out-of-band management interfaces, the SBUU and recovery interface from Dell, the UEFI interface used as the booting process for newer computers and those converted from the legacy BIOS interface, as well as the environments provided by WinPE and those from other venders. I see no reason why just because we are visually impaired we should have to require so much sighted assistance when installing and troubleshooting windows systems under preOS environments. From: Pat Ferguson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, July 2, 2013 11:15 AM To: Duyahn Walker Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: GW Micro plans to announce a new accessibility solution, what will it be? Amen!! I agree with this. There is no company like the Loving folks at GW Micro! I don't care what anyone says. I love them and they know it. I love Window-Eyes and they also know it. Also, I don't care who puts me down for what I say either. I'm loving Window-Eyes 8.02. Keep up the excellent work GW Micro Staff! I'm excited and can't wait to hear what the new product is. I want to guess, but I'm probably wrong, anyway. <smile> No matter what it is, I know we'll love it. Maybe it's an application that will work on all Windows smart phones and make them 100 percent accessible? I sure hope that is what it is. No matter what it is, I'll appreciate it. Thanks much. Blessings, Pat Ferguson At 06:31 PM 7/1/2013, you wrote: I don't mean to sound a bit cold harded in this message to the GW list at all but, why don't you all stop complaining! Seriously? GWMicro is doing what they can to fix bugs that user's like myself have reported. I haven't updated fire fox to the latest version because it works for me. And as for the smoke and mirrors comment? Really? We have to act like five year olds on this list? I thought we were past the immature stages of that past time. I guess not for some user's on this list. Why don't you wait for the announcement on the list to find out what this is. You really should be thankful. GWMicro works hard on what they do in my opinion. If you don't like the current version of Window eyes, downgrade! It's that simple. No pain no gain. We really have to have GWMicro's staff personally attacked because you feel that they are not doing there job correctly? Maybe you should trade places for a week and do what they do and then sit back after your done and see how you feel b eing put under scrutiny when they start complaining and wining to you. You wouldn't like it much would you? Ok. Rant over. And if the staff at GWMicro see it fit to have me removed from this list, fine. But, I would rather stand up and defend a company for it's hard work. Duyahn Walker ----- Original Message ----- From: Jon Rawlings To: sebastien naudet ; gw Info List Sent: Monday, July 01, 2013 5:58 PM Subject: Re: GW Micro plans to announce a new accessibility solution, what will it be? I'd settle for greatly-improved stability within WE and IE and FireFox, and set files that load and stay loaded when they're supposed to. I couldn't care less about Skipe and GW Connect as I don't use those programs and have only met one or two other blind people that do. I'd like to see GW focus on the programs used most often by the greatest number of people. But, who am I, anyway? And as for suspense and watching TV, I don't really watch much TV, so the marketing attempts don't work there on me either. Jon ----- Original Message ----- From: sebastien naudet To: gw Info List Sent: Monday, July 01, 2013 3:35 PM Subject: Re: GW Micro plans to announce a new accessibility solution, what will it be? maybe the possibility to use tactile screens with windows 8 Le 02/07/2013 00:00, Duyahn Walker a écrit : Something that will be able to access all flash content! ----- Original Message ----- From: Warren Logan To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, July 01, 2013 4:54 PM Subject: RE: GW Micro plans to announce a new accessibility solution, what will it be? Built in captcha support with Window-eyes. Talk about a game changer. Hey Leave me alone I can dream lol.. :P Warren -----Original Message----- From: Sandra Fouts [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, July 01, 2013 3:24 PM To: mailto:%[email protected]%27; [email protected] Subject: RE: GW Micro plans to announce a new accessibility solution, what will it be? Let’s pray and hope it’s affordable for all. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, July 01, 2013 3:19 PM To: [email protected] Subject: GW Micro plans to announce a new accessibility solution, what will it be? In the very near future, GW Micro will be announcing the release of a new accessibility solution that will once again break down barriers for people who are blind or visually impaired. It's something that many people in the blind and low vision community have been requesting for quite some time. What do you think it could be? Don't worry, you won't have to wait much longer to find out, so stay tuned for more details! 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. 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