Please pardon me for this somewhat off topic message, but I do feel
obligated to clear the air just a wee bit on a subtle matter that has come
up in the original thread.
Now first, let me say that I also am extremely pleased with my iPhone 5 and
the embedded accessibility. And likewise; major, major KUDOS to Apple for
having the (dare I say) foresight to design that accessibility right into
their products. Certainly, Apple is to be commended for the effort to
provide devices that customers can use right out of the box without
incurring additional, prohibitive expense.
But I have to point out that Microsoft at one point had mulled around the
idea of providing at least an embedded screen reader in the Windows OS; I'm
sure there are more than a few others on this list that will remember this.
The company had approached both NFB and ACB with feelers to get an idea how
that would be received by the blind and visually impaired community. The
result of that inquiry caused Microsoft to drop the idea. I must confess my
guilt here as I replied with a resounding "NO" to this idea -- I regret to
say now. Why I (and many others I presume) replied that way is not germane
to this list, but I think we should be careful not to imply that Microsoft
has been insensitive to our circumstances. Just for the record.
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Holland's Man, Bill
- "A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running."
- Julius Henry (Groucho) Marx, 1890 - 1977
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