Don't kid yourself. The keyboard isn't going away any time soon. :) Not only has apple not done away with the keyboard for it's touch screen devices, but they built one specially for those devices and they charge $90 for it. You'll always have the keyboard option even when gesture support on windows comes up to speed.
On the other hand, no windows screen reader has done anything to allow access to multi-touch under windows, nor will they until windows 8 has been out for quite some time. Although I don't prefer gesturing at my macbook personally, I know many blind people who do and I consider the lack of gesture support on windows to be a serious oversight on the part developers. Not nearly on a par with the ridiculous amount of time we had to wait for 64 bit support, but pretty bad all the same. Best, Erik Burggraaf This month in Ebony Promos: Two new gps systems for demo. Mac OS Lion When will it be supported? Ebony Consulting at accessibility Unconference Toronto. To read more and subscribe, Visit: http://www.erik-burggraaf.com/mailman/listinfo/ebony-promos_erik-burggraaf.com Ebony Consulting toll-free: 1-888-255-5194 or on the web at http://www.erik-burggraaf.com On 2011-09-16, at 9:34 PM, Peter Wolfe wrote: > To all, > > > I just read a Time Magazine article at time.com talking about the > newest version of Windows 8 scheduled for release in like a year. So, > th issue that I have is that it appears from scant research that > Windows 8 will be mimicing Apple on the fingerprinting commands like > Appple's I-Pad model already does. How would this affect screen > readers and is Gw-Micro prepared for this dramatic drastic transition > for us screen readers? If so then will it be like Apple or something > different entirelly? It looks like the keyboard is going to gone > right? Thanks for any opinions into this matter. > > thanks, > Peter > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender > only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is > related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to > [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. > > GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can > manage your list subscription at 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 and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
