I guess I'm looking at it as an equal access question. If I want a chat
communications app to be 'accessible' then it wasn't unreasonable to
download and configure Growl to make that happen. Not quite equal but
quite doable, like adding a screen reader. So do we cross some line when
a chat app now needs you to download and buy another app to be
acccessible and/or download/compile a free version to get a usable
interface. If the answer is no then we're done. If it does cross the
line then we need to push upstream and let the chat app developers know
we need self-voicing at least for incoming messages.
CB
On 10/6/11 5:17 PM, Darcy Burnard wrote:
Apparently it's still an open source project, and the $2 is to support
the project. According to an article I read on I think Mac World, the
source code is still available from the growl site. So if you know
how to build something from source, you could go that route.
Darcy
On 2011-10-06, at 10:13 AM, Chris Blouch wrote:
Yes, it's not a wallet breaker, but should you have to pay another $2
to make a free chat app accessible?
CB
On 10/5/11 9:12 PM, erik burggraaf wrote:
If it's 2 bucks I'm gonna pay and be happy to have the service.
It's so useful that apple should just buy it and build it into the OS.
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On 2011-10-05, at 2:49 PM, Chris Blouch wrote:
So I just had somebody ping me about upgrading to Lion and how they
would need to update Growl but now it was $2 instead of free. This
got me wondering. For many chat apps, or at least the ones I use
often like Skype, AIM and Adium, Growl is the common way to get
incoming messages read. If it's no longer a free solution for these
otherwise free apps, should these chat apps now go back and start
adding self-voicing to their incoming messages? I know AIM has this
feature today but others got a bit of a pass because Growl could
take care of it.
CB
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