Well, I asked since apple is such a "green" company. As I was rubbing my hand across the new solid oak tables, and work spaces I asked, " how many trees do you think apple had cut down to do this in all their stors", I got no answer
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Scott Granados Sent: Friday, October 02, 2015 05:39 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: 10.11 and braille Maybe not but we don’t lie about it either.:) That whole VW / AUDI / PORSCHE thing cracks me up especially from a country that claims to be so green. I don’t know about the braille literacy thing either to be fair. Now this may have changed, I fully admit when I was in public school we still had public schools that were worth while and they hadn’t degraded to the point they are now but I as well as all the blind folks in my state at least received fantastic braille training as well as mobility and each blind student received a full free ride to college up to the cost of the degree if it was offered in our state school or full cost if the degree was only available outside the state or at certain universities like special technical degrees for example. Bringing this back on topic as blind students we were also encouraged to work with the computers which at the time were Apple 2 series. I also had a blind teacher, in the states I believe they are called itinerate teachers or resource teachers who work with blind and other disabled students to augment the class room. Maybe things have changed but at least when I went to school we had a pretty good deal? I see a lot of European blind engineers on different lists so I suspect you have something similarly forward thinking available across the pond? Oh and to the original poster and you, I’m in total agreement. I’m not sure if the problem is that Apple doesn’t produce the hardware, I don’t suspect that it’s but what ever the reason the braille support is lacking and seriously lacking at that. What’s interesting is the support is quite a bit better on the phone. Braille at least with the focus 40 I’m using on the iPhone isn’t half bad, on the Mac though it’s just about unusable. Could be the guy behind the keyboard (pointing at myself) but others have agreed so I don’t think it’s just me. > On Oct 2, 2015, at 8:23 AM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu <[email protected]> wrote: > > Nah Anders, I feel your pain completely. Even iOS has acceptable braille > support, so it’s not as if they couldn’t port that over to OS X. Clearly > nobody at Apple uses or cares about braille. Probably because it doesn’t > make them any money from hardware sales. Kinda tragic. > > Hey Scott, you can stop trolling now. The grand old US of A isn’t exactly > known for its braille literacy or deep regard for environmentalism either. :) > > -- > 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. -- 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. -- 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.
