I went to a conference session last October by Chris Hofstader (http:// iphonefall2010.crowdvine.com/speakers/10842), who heads up GNU accessibility for the FSF. He said that in his opinion, Apple was "years ahead of everyone else" when it comes to accessibility.
Not sure if I'd attribute it to PR when greed will do: you need a solid accessibility story to sell into most Western governments, and that tends to trickle down to education too. I've been working on an iPad course pack reader for a client and accessibility was an important requirement. We got about 95% of what we needed for free. -Chris On Mar 3, 6:11 pm, Karsten Silz <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mar 3, 6:25 pm, Carl Jokl <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The one where the Woman > > started saying "I define a miracle as being". I felt just a tad > > uncomfortable with any piece of electronics being hailed as a miracle > > but I may be being oversensitive about it. > > Of course, stories about the iPad helping autistic children are great > PR. However, both the Mac and the iPhone have had built-in screen > readers for quite a while, making them the best computers / > smartphones for blind users > (seehttp://behindthecurtain.us/2010/06/12/my-first-week-with-the-iphone/). > Now I don't know whether Steve Jobs really cares about blind people or > whether he just loves a good PR story (though I've never seen them > mentioned in a big way), but they put more effort in to help them than > anybody else. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
