It is also incumbent on us to move with the times. Too often, blind people equate "accessibility" with "the same as it's always been". New proceedure, immediately people start screaming that something is not accessible. We want things to stay as they were, but life doesn't work that way, computers don't work that way, Skype doesn't work that way. It makes us look bad if we greet change with howls of "inaccessible", when what we really mean is "different".
Bruce On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:59:05 -0500, "Lino Morales" <lino0876 at gmail.com> said: > I agree with you Jack but we can also make a difference by contacting > Skype's development team via the Gira bug report forms and let them know > of > our concerns. I'm sure you saw my message a few days ago and I still > stand > on that. It is up to us the blind consumer to let the Microsoft's, IBM > etc > etc companies know what we want and need for accessibility. Even though > what > we say might go out one ear and out the other, we can still try. Long > live > Skype! Your bro in Christ, > Lino Morales and Louie Lab > Email and Windows Live Messenger: > lino.morales at lljfm.net > For Blind Christian Men, visit: > http://morales-family.lljfm.net/mailman/listinfo/blindmen4christ_morales-family > to subscribe to Blind Men For Christ. > And check out our site at: > www.lljfm.net > where you'll find our blog and other links. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jack" <jlowe27 at neo.rr.com> > To: "screen access software with skype" <skypeenglish at emissives.com> > Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 8:14 AM > Subject: [Skypeenglish] Skype Concerns > > > When it comes to computers and the internet, I'm pretty computer savvy. > My > concern is that with each upgrade of Skype, it becomes less user friendly > for blind people than the previous one. And while some improvements are > going to happen, my thinking is that if it's not broken, don't fix it. > It > seems that the Skype software is slowly becoming more and more unfriendly > to > screen readers. And while all the credit in the world goes out to Doug > for > keeping the Jaws scripts as current as possible, my fear is that one day > the > program will just become too complicated for the average Jaws user to > navigate. And from the looks of the posts to this group, I'd say that > we're > heading in that direction. > > > Thanks for posting to the skype english list. To access scripts for the > latest version of skype go to > http://www.dlee.org/skype > To access tutorials and other goodies go to > http://www.marrie.org/skype/skype.html > thanks and have a wonderful day. > > > _______________________________________________ > Skypeenglish mailing list > Skypeenglish at emissives.com > http://emissives.com/mailman/listinfo/skypeenglish_emissives.com > > > > Thanks for posting to the skype english list. To access scripts for the > latest version of skype go to > http://www.dlee.org/skype > To access tutorials and other goodies go to > http://www.marrie.org/skype/skype.html > thanks and have a wonderful day. > > > _______________________________________________ > Skypeenglish mailing list > Skypeenglish at emissives.com > http://emissives.com/mailman/listinfo/skypeenglish_emissives.com -- Bruce Toews dogriver at ogts.net
