Hi guys Karen, doesn't sound like we're talking about what you care. It sounds like we're talking about emotions. That's a very difficult thing to come back. I have you decided decided if I wanted to weigh in on this topic, but I would like to say that there's no way I would give people information about my blindness just to do business with them. I have to get the government information about that occasionally, but I see no reason to do that for those who have no business knowing. Regards Gigi
Sent from my iPhone On Mar 24, 2012, at 8:54 PM, Karen Lewellen <[email protected]> wrote: > Esther, > Two questions. > Does the author's guild have statistical evidence that the average mac > product user even knows that voiceover is there let alone that they would opt > for this behavior? > I might point out that audiobooks, commercial ones were not created for the > vision challenged population, but for the general public, so the argument > that a vision challenged person would opt for a voiceover edition instead of > a commercial one, seems well silly. They have figures to document what > percentage of the billions of audiobooks sold are sold to individuals with > vision loss? After all, that population was serviced via nls and other > programs for decades, with commercial audio books selling just fine. > > lastly, would not creating an access specific format not solve that issue > then? there would be no risk of random audio hungry people learning how to > use voiceover just so they can avoid listening to a real person read an audio > book. > Not picking on you, just wanting your thoughts since you understand their > logic. > Karen > > On Sat, 24 Mar 2012, James Mannion wrote: > >> Which is why this stupid nonsense will probably rob us of access in >> the name of their closed minded greed until the old members of the >> gild all die and we get minds in there with open minds to a moddern >> world perspective. The good part is there excessive greed will put >> them under extra stress which will drive them to the grave sooner. >> >> On 3/22/12, Esther <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hi Ray, -- 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.
