I don’t agree that executives shouldn’t know about accessibility. They may not know the details, but they ought to understand the urgency and importance. Steve Jobs was once the CEO of Apple and he demoed the latest products for his admiring audience; he didn’t palm the job off to his engineers. If Steve Jobs could understand what made Apple products great, then so can his underlings, past and future.
As for the comment that VoiceOver is merely one part of accessibility, that may be completely accurate, but it’s irrelevant to a discussion about quality control. We are the customers and we expect a great experience while using VoiceOver. Perhaps you accept that a mainstream company can never deliver the quality expected of an accessibility company, but others might not. To these people, Apple’s offering is inferior and you are endorsing the view that we should merely be grateful for an inferior alternative instead of what we deserve. I am one of these people. I want and expect VoiceOver to be indistinguishable in quality from fully-paid Windows screen readers, and fear that Apple’s internalising of VoiceOver puts it under unwelcome business pressures that adversely affect us, particularly in recent times, and not just for an initial release either. I would prefer not to move to Windows, but if I did, it would only because I finally accepted that Apple’s strategy was untenable. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
