I wonder about this myself. Although, I think it was because they knew there were a lot of people who left apple, because the 3rd party programs were unstable, then OSX had no accessibility in the early years (Not really until Tiger), so people who were blind or had low vision were using PC's, and Apple wanted them back. It's just a guess. Myself, I came back when Tiger got Zoom curser tracking. I had used Zoom in Jaguar, but it wasn't really feasible. As soon as Tiger came out, I bought a used iBook, sold both my dell Latitude, and Compaq Presario, and never looked back. I also think they had a good turnout in the then-called Spoken Interface beta testing seed. By the time Snow Leopard got here, they knew we also wanted access to portable devices and the iPhone, so it didn't hurt to add that as well. As for where we're at now. I think we'll have to wait for both Mountain Lion, and OS 6 to be available to really see what fixes have been made. I remain optimistic. I challenge anyone to find better accessibility than Apple, for *All* devices in a given platform.
On Jun 12, 2012, at 1:26 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote: > As an aside, I'm intensely curious as to what was the inspiration/motivation > for Apple to make their products accessible? Of course it's good marketing > practice, but I'm thinking there's a bit more of a story to it than that. Was > someone known to be having visual issues? A Family member or someone within > the company? It's very curious. > > Teresa > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > 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/viphone?hl=en. Egun On, Lagunak! (Basque for G'day, Mates) Louie P. "Pete" Nalda http://www.myspace.com/musikonalda http://www.facebook.com/lpnalda http://www.linkedin.com/in/lpnalda Twitter @lpnalda -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. 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/viphone?hl=en.
