To be honest trouble, its my view that fs and others, no especially
fs would sue ms for taking their market if they actually made narator
more than the crap that it is and always must be.
In fact rumor has it that when they decided to do that in win2k fs
did just that though its only a rumour.
It doesn't help when other big and bad companies want to keep us
spending 3000 pluss on their so called product.
At 08:13 p.m. 3/04/2012 -0400, you wrote:
FYI, have a listen,
-----Forwarded Message-----
From: John J Herzog [mailto:johnjher...@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2012 1:12 AM
Subject: windows 8 narrator, provides hype and not hope
Hello everyone,
I just completed a podcast explaining how narrator works in the new
windows 8. Here is the link, and below are my opinions. I urge you
to share this with every blind person you know, before our time to
change things for the newest windows has passed.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15813782/windows%208%20narrator%20demo.mp3
Ok, now here are my thoughts. Long story short, Narrator is
incredibly disappointing, and yet Microsoft is emphatically stating
how great the upcoming accessibility will be on their developer blog.
I am sending this podcast to all of you with the hopes that you will
have ideas on how we can encourage blind consumers to pressure
Microsoft to do better. It is clear to me that Microsoft is
interested in nothing more than positive publicity for helping
everybody out, yet does not want to put in the effort to give the
blind a truly usable screen reader. Louis, narrator is no better in
the consumer preview than it was in the developer version of windows
released last September. Microsoft claims that over 100000 changes
were made from the first preview of windows to the current beta. And
yet nothing was done for accessibility in that time. If we do not
voice our disappointment as a community, then the final version of
windows will likely not contain further accessibility improvements.
To Marlaina and everybody else, you need to give this a listen to
understand what Microsoft claims they are doing versus what they are
actually doing. Scott, I know you were with me when I produced this
tonight. However, I cannot find the link needed to submit this to
the blind cool tech web site. Maybe one of you can get this posted
to serotalk? If not, then I hope you all will share this with every
other blind person you know. I normally don't get upset when things
won't work as advertised. However, Microsoft really should know
better than to produce such a flawed access solution. When better
screen readers can be found in free operating systems such as Linux,
there is a definite problem that needs to be addressed. And when
they market accessibility, they really should have a product that
stands up to the claim that it makes windows an inclusive operating
system for everybody.
I don't mean to rant, but give this a listen and let me know what you think.
Thank you,
John
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