Hi group!
I both agree as well as deagree with that point. First of all, 15 years
ago if I remember we were still using Win98 or maybe XP. As far as
accessible phones forget it. I am now running Windows 10 and find it to
be far superior to anything I ran in the past. I find with a few miner
bugs the new W.E. works extremely well-at least it does for me anyhow.
Perhaps the falt with the software your employer is running is that they
have failed to try and make their software compadible with
screenreaders..? I know I went to a job interview for a dispatcher's
position and their system was totally unusable by any blind or visually
inpaired person. They didn't seem to see the difficulty that I would
encounter and instead of working with me to try and find a solution I
just didn't get the job. I know this isn't exactly the forum to discuss
some of these matters, but I honestly believe that the NFB and other
blind advocacy groups should put forth more of an effort to educate and
inform, especially employers on ways inwhich they can make their jobs
more user friendly towards the blind community. Yes, I do believe the
screenreader companies should try a bit harder but as I stated I do feel
that we should try to educate as well as inform employers on how they
can make the workplace more user friendly. Just my 2-sence worth! Have
A Good 1! de
<KF8LT><Jim>.
On 18-Mar-16 09:32, Tom Fairhurst via Talk wrote:
To be honest, I have pondered this myself
-----Original Message----- From: via Talk
Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2016 11:26 PM
To: A I Squared Support List
Subject: Losing Touch, or do I still have it?
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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