I'm completely confused as to why, if folks are experiencing so much
difficulty, they are prone to use browsers and e-mail clients other than
Internet Explorer and Windows Mail or Outlook. I understand the "glamour"
of being able to identify one's self as a non-conformist and hence using
tools other than those provided by Microsoft, but considering the
difficulties I've seen on various lists I wouldn't touch any of these tools
with someone else's screen reader. Obviously, JAWS has been developed and
delivered complete with strong support files to interact with Internet
Explorer and any of the Microsoft e-mail clients. I presume the same can be
said for WindowEyes. So, why not not use what works best given the
framework of needing to use a screen reader?
I guess, that since I was a software developer for so many years, I find no
personal satisfaction in being able to say I am not a conformist. I just
want to use what works the best given my limitations.
If the reason for using the non-Microsoft tools is enhanced security, then
why not take the entire plunge and move to Linux?
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!!!
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Holland's Person, Bill
E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net
In the opening paragraphs of "A Christmas Carol" Dickens is overwrought to
express that Jacob Marley is dead:
"Mind! I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is
particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to
regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But
the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall
not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to
repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a door-nail."
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