Re: The growing accessibility gap: was Ameritech.net

[Andor Demarteau <ademarte@students.cs.uu.nl>]

How hold on please.
1. think before you write, we don't want an os-war on here
2. linux console in my opinion is more accessable then windows
3. there are already java/console tolls
4. fine that you use windows, but you still have trouble with
javascript/flash/applets and whatever extra graphical garble you find on
the web, thatis if no alt-tags are used whihc is in 99% of the cases
5. if memory serves me, Sun is one of the companies working on the gnome
accebility kit
6. msaa okay, but if it wasn't for that nice american law, MS would not
have put such effort in that at all (I remember IE4.0 took about 6 months
to get all the GPF-errors out wheile usiing it under windowbridge and don't
start about office97).
7. Windows XP ahs a narrator (speech stuff), but it sucks trust me


On Fri, 7 Sep 2001 blindguy13@juno.com wrote:

 > Quiet your bitching. The probleum is linux. I use it a little and use
 > windows a lot things with it are a lot more accessible. If you love
 > editing your configeration files so mutch then stay with linux and create
 > your own access bridge sun didn't have to put that out for windows. Html
 > is accessible with internet explorer through jaws, window eyes or what
 > ever else you want to use. As for microsoft I know a tech guy who will
 > bend over backwords to help out with accessibility and in there new
 > visual net relies msaa will be built in to a lot larger extent. Don't
 > bitch at other compinies when if you carred so mutch you could write the
 > damn program to read java your self try working with the accessibility
 > people at sun althoe with an attitude like yours trying to blame
 > everything on big compinies they won't want to work with you it is the
 > small programs I have found are the bigger probleums not the larger ones
 > thats why I am using windows to write this message because it is
 > accessible.
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