Hello Neil,
I appreciate your comments but I think that you are maybe missing some
of the context of my conversation with Leo. Is it true that some of these
social networks are a bit problematic for us blind people to use? Yes they can
be, but I think as a blind person that uses them on a daily basis that they are
usable, and I believe that Leo's question was not if they were totally
accessible, but if they were able to be used by blind people.
Could I have gotten on my soapbox about some of the inaccessibility of
some of these sites? I could have, but remember that this is a radio show and
my time with Leo was coming to an end.
Remember my call to Leo was to discuss using social networks to build
an audience for our business that we are trying to get started, not to discuss
whether or not we as blind people can use all of these sites. As for my answer
that they are absolutely accessible, I meant that they are accessible in a
general sense of the word, not that they are completely accessible.
I hope that this clears it up a little, and if you want to talk about
the inaccessibility of these services then you are more than welcome to give
Leo a call yourself this weekend to talk to him about it. His show begins at
2:00 P.M. Eastern Time on Saturday and goes until 5:00 P.M. Eastern Time. It
is on Sunday afternoon as well at the same time. His toll free number is
1-888-875-637.
Scott Rumery
On Jul 9, 2012, at 6:11 PM, Neil Barnfather - TalkNav wrote:
> I was surprised in fact to hear Scott so readily and easily suggest just how
> usable and accessible Face Book and other social media sites and services are.
>
> This to me was a prime opportunity to really lay out on the table to a core
> sector of the internet community, and Mr. Leo Laporte himself, thee tech guy,
> just how dam lazy, lousy and poor many web-sites, online services and
> applications truly are… and Scott just said, oh yeah, sure they are
> accessible and all but completely usable.
>
> The majority of folk would even argue that opening an account with many of
> these services is hell on earth with screen capture etc, let alone the myriad
> of unlabelled buttons, poorly laid out tables, difficult to navigate
> interfaces and UI's, oh, not to mention, Face Book's complete inaccessibility
> of their iOS App…
>
> I would have focused on that, well Leo, let me tell you, some of it works,
> but when we say works, we mean partially, or that with a little guess work we
> can figure it out, but, the truth is that Face Book, Linked In, Twitter etc
> could do way, way more to help us…
>
> To my mind, and I'm sorry if this is taken harshly, Scott had a prime
> opportunity to really state for the record to a hugely influential person in
> this field just how bad things are, and failed to do so…
>
> I'm sure that the promotion was good etc, but, what we need to be doing is
> outlining to these people our predicament and what we need them to be doing
> for us.
>
> for example, check out the, stress not yet completed, www.TheOEF.org
>
> its just my view...
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Neil Barnfather
>
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>
> On 9 Jul 2012, at 00:20, VaShaun Jones wrote:
>
>> On this Saturday's episode of The Tech Guy podcast Leo Laporte spoke with
>> Scott Rumery of our firm about the importance of social media in business.
>> Leo is a tech luminary and pioneer of podcasting with over 30 years of radio
>> and television experience. He is the founder of the TWIT TV podcast network
>> and currently has over 25 shows on life, technology and law. We commend
>> Scott for his initiative to bring this type of exposure to the firm and we
>> are proud to have him on our team.
>>
>>
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