Here Here, VoiceOver is far from a perfect accessability tool as
things stand but right now so therefore the only way of making it
thus is to stand together and work constructively with Apple, I'm
thanking my lucky stars we have good responsible people who know what
they're about as part of the Lepard and VoiceOver beta team.
On 21/07/2007, at 10:27 AM, Richie Gardenhire wrote:
With all due respect, Cheryl, in my opinion, FS and other third-party
Windows vendors are fearing the worst; that Apple has found a niche
in that small market and they are aggressively going after it. I
refer to Greg's message about Freedom Scientific's being a sponsor of
NFB's convention, and I honestly believe that, perhaps they are
defending their position as accusing Apple of being "an enemy of the
blind." This is why I fear ACB's resolution concerning Apple, while
well-meaning, had a combative tone that could do more harm than good,
and those of us who use Apple products should have been consulted
before the resolution was put forth. To that end, I hope that those
of us who are Mac users will work with Apple and not be combative
toward them; they are tryi9ng to make access to information and to
their computers a dream for blind people who want to get out from
underneath the agency bonds. In fact, I convinced one of our
counselors in Alaska to purchase a MacBook for a student; I don't
know how the Alaska Center for the Blind is going to react, but more
and more requests will be forthcoming from graduating students from
the school districts throughout our state, and if they don't address
that need, they will lose students, as well as money they would get
via fees for services. I have warned them the whole time I was
there. Richie Gardenhire, Anchorage, Alaska.
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