Hi: Forgot to send to list, all not just the individual.
Anyway, point was that now that GW is a partner with Microsoft perhaps they
will start using their products and thus have some incentive to make them
truely accessible using the tools provided by Microsoft and whatever tweaks
are necessary.
This would be a good thing for a Microsoft Partner if not just a marketting
gimick.
My opinion is to target a format, ie MS or Linux, and run with it until you
are the best in the industry from top to bottom with that platform. That is
how you get dedicated users of your product. Expanding into another platform
whichever, should be either an extension of the original best product line
or another product line to avoid the mess and headaches of trying to be all
things to all people in one huge mass of really, really complicated code
base .
I am also not a big fan of scripting being used to try and circumvent
having to manage that large, often likely outdated legacy code base.
Scripting good for small stand-alone fixes by amature users or hobbiests but
bad when applied globally.
Anyway, I hope they start developing using Visual Studio, SQL
Server or something out of that platform along with other MS Products
perhaps even something like Web Matrix, Team Foundation Server, SQL
Management Studio and some of the other products produced by Microsoft to
manage their work environment and make those products totally accessible -
at least as far as possible.
All their tech staff should also use all Microsoft products at home using
only their own screen reader to find any glitches that need fixing.
Then whenever a student or pro or even hobbiest wants to learn programming,
build or work on a website or work in any other arena covered by microsoft
software WindowEyes will be the screen reader of choice out of the gate and
Bam! An actual image for Windoweyes that will get covered in all technical
publications whenever Microsoft and Accessibility are mentioned including
new releases of all Microsoft products which should then include the name of
the screenreader, their partner, Windoweyes in every Media Release and in
every Media release covering the Microsoft publication - allot of free
advertising read by any community interested in computers in general or for
the public looking for specific solutions in particular like education or
government for example.
A Second Team could "Partner" with one of the Linux distribution groups to
build accessibility into that platform if they can pick one, perhaps vinux
or one of them that might be around for the next 20 to 50 years and so on.
I dont know allot about Linux except it is a hodge podge of individuals all
creating their own versions which may, or not, end up stable and upgraded as
their hobbiest programmers come and go.
Not a slam but what it is and it is what it is.
So, I will tell all the folks who respect my opinion, think there might be
one or 2 out there, that this is some reason to use WindowEyes when I hear
something beyond the marketting noise put out on list so far.
Rick USA
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