It would figure that it was the NFB. I went to a tech meeting there, and discussed the history of technology. While there they discussed how much the NFB affected technology and used examples, but they forgot to mention other companies; Voiceover, window eyes, speak up, orca, etc. I found it mildly amusing, especially at the end when we were encouraged to bring all our inventions to the nfb because that's apparently how fs has become so popular. I guess in a way it would be, but on the flip side, I'd rather people have a choice in buying my software, not getting it just because it's what all other blind people use and not knowing of other solutions. You have a higher standing with customers that way. On Nov 30, 2009, at 2:10 PM, Mark BurningHawk Baxter wrote:
> My first visit to an Apple store, the guy said "what over? Voice > what? Oh, you mean that speech synthesizer program? we don't have > that." When I showed him VoiceOver, instead of being helpful, he > became defensive; "Well how'm I supposed to know about that? no one's > ever used it before." I'm not sure that buying Jaws or VocalEyes off > the shelf is an answer, but it would certainly be better than having a > go-between decide what we need. Having said that, I believe it was > blind people who told MicroSoft that they didn't want Narrator > developed as a usable screen-reader built into windows, "Because we > need someone like FS to give us what we really need." I believe it > was the NFB who discouraged MS from developing its equivalent of > VoiceOver. > > > Mark BurningHawk Baxter > > Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 > MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com > My home page: > http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
