Ricardo, I'll agree with you we're not that big an audience, but, I do think, when they decided to do Accessibility, they decided to do it right, as I'd bet the Spoken interface Beta seed brought in a bunch of folks, and so they decided that hey, there is really interest in this community, and it makes us look good, so let's do it.
On Jun 12, 2012, at 4:30 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Hi, > > I don't think it was the number of people who left because of a lack of > accessibility. This number is so small, not to even be counted by a company > as big as Apple but, that lack of accessibility would have left them in the > short end of the stick in regards to those contracts with educational > institutions. This is pretty big money. But regardless of that, they could > have probably slapped on the Mac answer to windows narrator, and gotten away > with it. Instead, they decided to do accessibility right. That is the true > astonishing part of the story. They didn't just settle when it was in their > financial interest to do so. That what makes the "Apple doesn't care > comments so strange to me. > > Ricardo Walker > [email protected] > Twitter:@apple2thecore > www.appletothecore.info > > On Jun 12, 2012, at 2:45 PM, Pete Nalda <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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. > > -- > 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.
