From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from femail3.sdc1.sfba.home.com ([24.0.95.83]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 15HQnr-0006P9-00 for ; Tue, 03 Jul 2001 10:05:24 -0400 Received: from DavidPoehlman ([65.1.246.44]) by femail3.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with SMTP id <20010703140400.PSWZ23257.femail3.sdc1.sfba.home.com@DavidPoehlman> for ; Tue, 3 Jul 2001 07:04:00 -0700 Message-ID: <001501c103c9$0c2efb80$2cf60141@mtgmry1.md.home.com> From: "David Poehlman" To: References: Subject: Re: Multi-tasking Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 10:04:16 -0400 Organization: Hands-on Technolog(eye)s MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.4 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: actually, msaa was a bid to get government us federal that is and other entities here to buy in. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kirk Wood" To: Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 9:21 AM Subject: Re: Multi-tasking On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Ann Parsons wrote: > Then, I guess I'm an idiot. I fully admit it, I'm an idiot. I want > to tell you I went to the Zmud site with MSIE, and I tried to make the > combo boxes work for me. I tried alt-down arrow, and I tried pressing > enter, and nothing worked. Maybe I'm just an idiot. I took a class > in Windows, but it didn't seem to help. I don't think this follows. I have watched a person quite familiar with Jaws work and it is a hit or miss situation. Most sites work fine. But notice that most. This of course leaves a huge number that don't work well with Jaws. And it isn't always script that causes the problem. The fact remains that m$ has shown a committement to saying they have a committment to accesibility. They own rights to put much of the Jaws speech into their product and choose not to use it. They have released 3 major revisions to IE without MSAA catching up since making the committment to always have them working together. They have released a major revision of Office breaking the same promise. They released a "new" version of Windows breaking the same promise. (Maybe two, I don't know about WinME.) MSAA is pure and simply an effort to appease the the blind community and shut them up. It is nothing more. In 1998 they had a total of three people on the team with two people helping out. Five people to make a major change to the OS work correct. That compares to hundreds working on the rest. In fact, they had a distinct lack of bete testers who are blind. ======= Kirk Wood Cpt.Kirk@1tree.net The mind is like a parachute; it works much better when open. If your too open minded, your brains will fall out. _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup