On 2010-03-15, at 9:05 AM, Donna Goodin wrote:

> Your point about Facebook and web standards is well-taken, but 
> Facebook--whether they follow web standards or not--is a very widely used 
> site.  For me right now, this is just one more thing that my Mac can't do 
> that my PC can.  The more things like that that are out there, the less 
> likely it is that the Mac can take the place of the PC.

* Good morning Donna,

I definitely understand your point of view, and I share it in part.  The reason 
that some technologies work better with assistive technologies on Windows than 
on the Mac, not speaking about Facebook in particular, is because assistive 
technology vendors for Windows accommodate application and web development 
techniques that don't follow standards.  The Apple approach, which has annoyed 
me more often than not, is to not accommodate these poorly written applications 
and web-sites.  Arguably the owness for making an application accessible is 
that of the developer, and not of the assistive technology vendor, however, 
this means that some things will be poorly accessible, since generally speaking 
developers don't really tend to understand accessibility, or standards in 
general, very well.

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