I don't disagree with you. We should all have access and we should be included in all aspects of society.
I just don't think it is the fault of GW Micro. They have to pay staff and if we don't pay for the product there is nothing wrong with asking the developers of Skype to either make their product accessible or to pay GW Micro to do it for them. I don't think it is right to expect a company, GW Micro in this case, to swallow the cost of making something accessible. With respect to Apple yes they did what they could to make their product accessible. however there are a heck of a lot of aps out there that are not accessible on the IOS platform. Web content is no different. it too can be as accessible or as inaccessible as someone would like. This is also true for the PDF argument. When someone tells me that a PDF file is not accessible, I remind them I can make a Word or HTML web page just as inaccessible, but I digress. I still suggest to get after Skype to either follow accepted practices to make their offering accessible, or approach a company like GW Micro to negotiate a contract to do it for them. Vic ________________________________ From: Baracco, Andrew W [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2013 2:43 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: GWSocialEyes Price Change Coming Soon I believe that in the 21st century, the concept of making blind people pay through the nose to have basic access, especially to something that is free to begin with is truly criminal. I think that Apple did a pretty good job of blowing up that mentality, and even people who do not use Apple products are seeking other ways to gain access. As far as Facebook is concerned, many blind people are having at least some success using the Facebook mobile site. Others are gaining access through smart phone apps which are free. In the beginning, the founders of Facebook considered charging a subscription fee, but abandoned the notion because they knew that nobody, except for die-hard addicts would pay for it. So why should people have to pay to access it just because they are blind? There are other social networking sites that blind people use, i. e. Twitter, Linkedin, etc. Are you expecting blind people to pay $200 per year to access their favorite social networking sites? Andy From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2013 12:10 PM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: RE: GWSocialEyes Price Change Coming Soon is it the fault of GW Micro that the developers of Skype are making their product more and more difficult to use with adaptive technology? ________________________________ From: Peter Beasley [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2013 1:26 PM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: GWSocialEyes Price Change Coming Soon I don't use facebook, but I thihnk an annual subscription for an application to enable blind people to have easier access to it is criminal. ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2013 6:12 PM Subject: GWSocialEyes Price Change Coming Soon GWSocialEyes, an application for Windows-based PCs that provides access to Facebook via a consistent, keyboard friendly and fully accessible user interface, has become enormously popular among the blind and visually impaired community. Its user base continues to grow each and every day. If you have not already purchased GWSocialEyes, now is the time! As you may remember, the retail price of GWSocialEyes is $50 for a 12-month subscription. Starting on Friday, October 18, our introductory price of $25 will end and the cost will increase to $39 for an annual subscription. This gives you one week to purchase GWSocialEyes at the very special introductory price. To learn more about GWSocialEyes, please check out the Introduction to GWSocialEyes audio/video tutorial. The video can be accessed from GW Micro's YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/gwmicro and can also be downloaded from the GW Micro website: www.gwmicro.com/Training/Tutorials/Video/SocialEyes_Intro.mp4. A text transcript is also available at: www.gwmicro.com/Training/Tutorials/Text/SocialEyes_Intro.txt. You can also listen to the archived webinar covering GWSocialEyes at http://www.gwmicro.com/Training/Webinar_Training/. Order online <https://www.gwmicro.com/Catalog/GWSocialEyes/> or call GW Micro at (260) 489-3671 to place your order today. The GW Micro Team 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.
