Considering the kind of polemics this list is going through, and that I haven’t seen one topic of which I am not aware of being an older mac os/ios user, I think it is time to shut my subscription from this list and look for a more adapted list which tries to advance the ideas of technology, and voice over in particular. May someone point me to a list which basically does not discuss so much about how to click this icon or make this boot drive work with that OS but rather a more creative output of ideas, developer topics and other subjecst that may appeal more to computer scientists, programmers and other creative heads? I know of some list that goes in this line, but I am looking for a place where everyone, or a large majority is a blind apple developer, programmer or tech industrial who uses xcode or can enter a more intellectually stimulating line of topics to help me understand better what blind/visually impaired users are looking for in apps, technologies such as A.I, machine learning as applied to apps or even conceptual discussions for sonificating apps for games and interactive media? Or does such a list exist?
In any case, I hope this list will clean up a bit as now it has become a large boudoir of everyone throwing in their opinion on every topic, which has become very tedious and superfluous at this point. I am not pointing fingers at anyone in particular, but hope that as a group, this list will start putting more emphasis on what matters. Action is much more respectable than politics and competing to have the most score in giving technical advice or saying what you think. I have noticed one very important difference between sighted and visually impaired users. The former are inundated with visual advertising and therefore know how to filter out the superfluous. As a blind programmer, I live in a world almost devoid of any ads save youtube, and therefore am much aware of the superfluous. So I preffer filtering it out rather than sticking to some strange illusion of grandeur over being in some list where everyone is cackering over everything. In some ways, this is counter productive as it is hours and hours of writing back and forth, every day. Think about it. It has no utility and no intrinsic value. But people get addicted to it, just like anything else in the world. I’d rather get addicted to producing music, apps, creating technologies and being outdoors camping, going to festivals, socialising, dining and doing sports than being addicted to responding to tech help requests. In any case, take care of yourselves everyone. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
