Cheryl: You should complain strongly about this fact. They shouldn't be assuming everyone is using Windows, and that's what's going on. On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > Janina just informed me bookshare doesn't have accessible software for > linux yet. > Sorry, from the thread I read I thought somebody had resolved it. > I think that's really rotten of them to set it up so it's inaccessible to linux > and then not even make that clear to people while they are giving their big > sales plug! > It's like if you are blind and a non-windows user, you don't even > exist! > Nothing at bookshare that says "accessible only to Windows users"--at least not > that I found; just > trumpetting about their wonderful new service that i could have thrown $75 down > the drain for.! > Fine, if it's not accessible, they could at least state that clearly. They > certainly made the demo page accessible; very misleading! > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org