Hi, This sounds like a very interesting concept and one much worth investigating further, however, i want to put in my own 2 cents. I am not going to go into my view of the whole access/disability situation, because it's so politically incorrect and cynical that i don't think it will do good to vent it out on the list, however, i want to ask: Are we unanimous about what constitutes accessibility? I mean what works for me others claim doesn't work for them. Take the scanner issue for example, where the opinion on this list is that the Scangear utility is inaccessible, and yet i work with it if not on a daily basis so at least once per week and i am totally blind. What i say is if we're gonna invest money into companies to make them make their products accessible we must think what the least common denominator of accessibility is. Some may think some web pages are inaccessible whilst others think they're a bit messy but not hard to work at all. Do you see where i come from? /Krister
30 apr 2012 kl. 12:05 skrev Sean Murphy: > All. > > I would raise a different slant on the whole discussion. No one took this up > before in one of my prior posts. This is a concept and please treat it as an > idea. If people want to discuss this off line to see if it could be actually > adopted. Then please let me know. I am more then happy to discuss. > > > A we all know Business only cares about the bottom line. Since this is the > situation. A solution to our problems is to become investors. So how can we > as a group become investors? Being individual investor will not have the same > impact as if we do it as a group. Let me put up some figures. > > If 10 million people in the USA put $10.00 into a investment fund per month. > This would give the group $100000000.00 per month or 1.2 billion a year. If > you extend this to a international level and got another 20 million people. > Then the yearly amount grows to 3.6 billion dollars a year. > Having this type of yearly funds for investing into companies. Their > attitudes towards accessibility or what I would prefer to say Universal > design will quickly change. Since this type of money could place the fund > managers who ever they are on boards of companies due to amount of shares > held by the investment fund. > > Basically what I have outlined is a different approach of changing peoples > attitude by playing the same game. I believe there is at least 10 million or > more people world wide that could afford $10.00 per month. Of course there > are those who cannot. But they would benefit anyway. Before you shoot the > idea down. Stop and think about if we had as a community this type of money. > What changes could be done. The fund could be open to anyone who wants to > help. It could even be open to all disabilities. That makes the numbers > bigger and making the pool of investment larger. Investing into proactive > companies like Apple would ensure they continue doing there good job. > Informing companies like publishers that we will invest x million per month > over the next x months if I believe would quickly change their attitude. > > So take off the blinkers everyone and see what this idea could do to change > the world of technology? > > Ideas or comments are more then welcomed. > > > Sean > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@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 macvisionaries@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.
