Heh. I still maintain that Aqua for Windows would solve a ton of
their crossplatform issues.
Funnily enough, Carbon does provide accessibility APIs, but why
iTunes doesn't call them is beyond me, given that Apple could, I
suppose, write stub functions for Windows that do nothing. I mean, I
suppose they could try to implement MSAA, but the fact that MSAA
resembles the Carbon accessibility APIs like my iBook resembles a
sausage egg McMuffin might create more crossplatform portability
issues than it would solve.
-C-
On Jan 16, 2006, at 8:42 AM, David Poehlman wrote:
It was stated from the beginning that in order for an app to be
accessible, it had to be coded. It was stated from the beginning
that ITunes was popular among windows users and to code it
accessibly for VO would break it for windows. No One is less
frustrated than you.
--
Jonnie Apple Seed
With his:
Hands-On Technolog(eye)s
On Jan 16, 2006, at 11:02 AM, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
Ok, I've put the gun away in the locked drawer!!!
I just find it frustrating how the rules--o peoples' perceptions of
them--change instead of people admitting there are legitimate
complaints.
For months we waited for iTunes to show some signs of going toward
accessibility; when that didn't happen we started hearing how this
wasn't going to happen anyway because of the cross-platform issues.
When somebody complains that vo isn't being upgraded, suddenly we
shouldn't expect to see an upgrade because it's upgraded with the
OS. When the latest OS upgrade totally messes up my ability to
navigate the radioshark menus and window, I should expect breakage
because after all radioshark is a third-party app. When people
don't get answers from the accessibility email, from which some
people have received replies in the past, suddenly that's probably
just a suggestion box anyway. While some or all of these premises
may have their merit, I'm seeing a trend to justify whatever's
wrong and make it into something that's our own fault or something
we shouldn't expect anyway. Not aiming this at any particular
person; just a trend I'm seeing that I don't intend to follow.
--
Cheryl
"Where your treasure is,
there will your heart be also".
