Oh interesting. Well I wish them all the luck in the world. Any accessibility progress in any platform, OS, or field is good news to hear. Take care, Sina No trees were destroyed in sending this message; however, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Janina Sajka Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 5:48 PM To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Subject: Re: Something Good From Microsoft Oh, I'm not that cynical about them. I do think the people on their accessibility team do actually care a lot about accessibility. I'm sure there are others in the corporation that care about accessibility as well. On the other hand, their business practices have sometimes gotten in the. But that, too, isn't very surprising. It fits. way of accessibility standards development, at least in my experience. Sina Bahram writes: > From: "Sina Bahram" <sbahram at nc.rr.com> > > Interesting report. What are your thoughts on how it will help any > future implementations of Microsoft's *cough* operating system *cough* > *smile* > > But seriously, do you think they'll actually do something as a result, > or was this mainly for some PR and also to see if they could possibly > draw out a bit more revenue in a nitch market? > > Take care, > Sina > > No trees were destroyed in sending this message; however, a large > number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. > > -----Original Message----- > From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca > [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] > On Behalf Of Janina Sajka > Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 3:40 PM > To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca > Subject: Something Good From Microsoft > > > Am I wrong? Check it out for yourself at: > > http://www.microsoft.com/enable/research/default.aspx > > -- > > Janina Sajka > Email: janina at rednote.net > Phone: +1 (202) 408-8175 > > Director, Technology Research and Development > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) > http://www.afb.org > > Chair, Accessibility Work Group > Free Standards Group > http://a11y.org > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka Email: janina at rednote.net Phone: +1 (202) 408-8175 Director, Technology Research and Development American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) http://www.afb.org Chair, Accessibility Work Group Free Standards Group http://a11y.org _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
