[email protected] wrote: > James wrote: > >> Ten years ago, there was speech recognition (Voice Type Dictation) in >> OS/2, that worked with *ANY* app. > > IBM Dos 6.x contained a speech recognition function that worked with any > program. That was released circa 1993. > >> Why is Windows so slow with this? > > a) Microsoft prohibited IBM from distributing OS/2 on new computers, > unless the individual also paid for --- but did not receive --- the > Windows operating system and certain other Microsoft software products. > At a minimum, that action setback a11y in computers back fifteen years. > [One of the markets that IBM owned at that time, was the a11y market.] > > b) Microsoft has always had a hostile attitude towards a11y. From their > point of view, the only good person who requires a11y devices is a dead > person. [All of their a11y efforts are mere "tokenism" --- much like > Corporate America had the "token black executive" during the sixties and > seventies, or TV stations hired the Asian or Hispanic female newscaster > during the eighties and nineties.]
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