Hi. I think the last point you made hit the nail on the head. i think
it's increased with some things, but not others. I've not noticed any
real steps backwards when it comes to Window-eyes, but then again I've
been using Windows 7 since 2011 and things have pretty much stayed
solid. A program or two may have lost a bit of accessibility but the
next version fixed those problems. So I think things are just changing
so fast that it's harder for the screenreader developers to
keep up with all the changes. Look at the first versions of Windows
10. Even now we still don't have really solid access to the Edge
Browser. You do have a choice of browsers what with Google Chrome and
Firefox being available too along with Internet Explorer, but the fact
that Edge still isn't usable is kind of a sad thing. I'd love to be
able to sit down at a new Windows 10 computer and bring up edge and
experience all the new stuff, but we can't just yet. So I think that's
probably what's happening.
On 3/18/2016 12:26 AM, via Talk wrote:
Hello,
I am curious about something. I have thought for a while now that
accessibility is either going backwards, or it is not keeping up with the new
changes coming in modern apps and programs.
This isn't meant to be a slam at A I Squared, but I am wondering if this is
just my own misguided and inaccurate perception, or have any of the rest of you
noticed the same steps backwards, as I think I have.
At a time when it appears as if accessibility is increasing, , when I examine
the topic closer, there are just more choices today, than in days past. There
is multiple versions of MS Windows, and now Apple has put Access in their OS.
The Iphone and other Smart phones have access, and the same for Tablets. Even
Lenox I've been told now has some support for reading its screens.
We have more Gadgets that have some Speech, but so far, the level of access
seems shallow. As long as you only use the basics of any given program, or OS,
you might be OK. But if you need to get in a make some deeper changes, you
might be hard pressed to make any such changes because you find the access into
those areas is just not there.
I worked at a Computer Software company for a long time, and I was let go when
Cash flow was slowing up. If I had to go back and work there today, I doubt if
I could do so, because I do not have the access I once had. They have changed
the Phones system, and they are using software that I doubt if any screen
reader would read enough of it to make it usable by someone blind.
They now have three Databases, and one is an On-Line Database, and I doubt if I
could work fast enough to do my old job.
Even before, I had to memorize a ton of stuff, and today, I would need to
memorize a lot more than before.
So are those of us who are Blind experiencing less access these days than say
we did 10 or 15 years ago?
I would say we have less, even though we have more choices today, the access is
shallower.
Am I just a guy that is out of touch, or is what I think I see, an observation
others have noticed as well?
And don't worry about hurting my feelings. I hope I am wrong in my assessment.
Grumpy Dave
P.S. And I may not be seeing Steps Backwards, but just that changes are taking
place so fast, that Screen reader builders can not keep up with these changes?
Or is it a bit of both.
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