Your comments are good ones here. If I had had an Apple Store in my community, I think I would have looked carefully at a Mac and have not ruled it out for the future. I had just upgraded my screen reader of choice and was able to then just put it on my HP PC. But I really can't afford to continue to almost pay double for a new system when it becomes necessary. I don't want to see anyone go out of business, but I think we have to look carefully in the future at where we can get the best bang for the buck and where our favorite adaptive companies can do their best to assist us. It may be that many of these will do their work in different ways but still be viable and help us.
Dianne -----Original Message----- From: Mike Arrigo [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 7:36 AM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [GW-Booksense] Re: GW Micro Responds to the Future of Screen Readers Discussion Panel Questions Over all, I think GW Micro's response was good, the one part I disagree with is saying that including a screen reader in the operating system is a disservice. Apple has built an excellent screen reader in to their operating system, and I would put its features up against the features of the windows screen readers any day. At home, I use the mac for just about everything now, and voiceover makes it accessible in a very good way. As a blind person, why should I have to pay more than sighted people do to use a device? As Serotek says, accessibility is a right, not something we should have to pay extra for. The companies who make the products should have the responsibility of making them accessible. Voiceover works with many applications that are not from Apple. You can't beat having accessibility right out of the box. -- Email services provided by the System Access Mobile Network. Visit www.serotek.com to learn more about accessibility anywhere. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list andyour message is related to GW Micro or the BookSense, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. To manage your subscription to gw-booksense, visit: http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list andyour message is related to GW Micro or the BookSense, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. To manage your subscription to gw-booksense, visit: http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv
