Actually that's what I do on my youtube channel. Sure the quality is not all that good and i have a slight stutter but I still try and get the point across that I, a blind user can use a mac. In fact feel free to spread this vid around if you want.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcYxoM67_4c Sarah Alawami MSN: [email protected] aim: [email protected]: website: http://music.marrie.org youtube: http://youtube.com/marrie125 Podcast: http://marrie.podbean.com Mobile site for podcast: http://marrie.podbean.com/mobile/ On Sep 2, 2010, at 6:42 PM, Kevin Shaw wrote: > GW Micro is in trouble. They're losing market share and the only thing > keeping them afloat is the government or state agency that is contracted to > push their products and discourage discussion of anything else. The genie is > out of the bottle and there is no way the blind consumer is going to go back > to the old model of 4 digit software prices, expensive SMAs and shoddy > performance. > > If GW Micro wants to innovate, build good software. Charge a monthly or > yearly subscription fee. that would Include EVERYTHING!!! Tech support, > training, upgrades, bug fixes, scripts, the works. Don't charge for secondary > installs. The future is in subscription, not in broken upgrades and $1000 > screen readers. > > Apple upset the status quo with Voiceover. They've changed the attitudes of > blind consumers to the point where we recognize the universality of Apple's > access solutions, their innovative and clever product design and their ease > of use. What Apple has that GW Micro and FS are jealous of is customer > loyalty. Once I got my Macbook Pro, I was glad to be back on the Mac > platform, but I was even happier with the product as a whole. I bought n > iPhone, an Airport Express, an iMac. No one I know of sings praises about > JAWS or Window-eyes voluntarily. Yes, it gets the job done, but what about > the customer's experience? > > People will always rally behind the underdog and Apple's Voiceover is the > underdog. GW Micro will continue to lose market share and will continue to > spew vacuous statements like the one being discussed. > > Keep using Voiceover, tell others about your experience. Help those who need > it and keep these discussions going. Voiceover will make great strides in the > next five years and others will switch. You can be a part of that change by > breaking new ground with the software. > > Thanks for listening. > Kevin > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" 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/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" 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/macvisionaries?hl=en.
