When you say MS has been promising accessibility for years, what products are you talking about? As far back as the 90's MS's public policy has been to work with 3rd party screen reader vendors to produce screen readers for Windows. I think they've delivered on this policy. It may not be as ideal as the Apple model where you don't need a 3rd party solution, but I don't think MS has promised us one thing here and delivered something else. Ditto for Windows Mobile. Granted, Windows Phone wasn't accessible when it came out, but I don't think it's been out for more than a year yet. I think it took Apple two years to get accessibility into the iPhone.
If were talking about Windows Phone then this should probably be taken to a list like the accessible phones list. If we're talking about all MS products then I'm not sure what the appropriate list would be. On 17/09/12 15:11, Jesus Garcia wrote: > and when will this be available? Sorry and I understand this is not the list > for this discussion, but Microsoft has been promising access for blind users > now for years and thus far nothing. > > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf > Of Ed Worrell > Sent: Monday, September 17, 2012 15:58 > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Windows 8 and Windows phone. Any projected timeline for > release? > > Yes you can access the phone, Windows 8 will have a screen reader much like > VoiceOver on both there tablet and phone. > > Ed > On Sep 17, 2012, at 12:07 PM, Jesus Garcia <jesusga...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Except for one little problem if you are blind you will not have >> anyway to access the phone. Oh, well just a little miner issue. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On >> Behalf Of AppleGourmet >> Sent: Monday, September 17, 2012 13:09 >> To: viphone@googlegroups.com >> Subject: RE: Windows 8 and Windows phone. Any projected timeline for >> release? >> >> Wow! And best of all the windows eight phone has wireless recharging, >> microSD card to increase memory by up to 64 GB, and NFC! I suggest you > wait. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" >> Google Group. >> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit >> http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. >> To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" > Google Group. >> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. >> To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > -- Christopher (CJ) chaltain at Gmail -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
