You are also correct. To my mind there's no question but that 508 is responsible for Apple's efforts. They want to sell to the U.S. Government--a $40 Billion customer, and they know they need to be accessible to do so. Saqib Shaikh writes: > Yes, very true Janina. As a developer I've spent quite a bit of time > looking at their accessibility support which is very similar to MSAA, except > that it goes further. I also *think* it is similar to the Gnome > accessibility, but haven't had much experience of the latter . > > All software written since OS x 10.2 was released will be accessible, and > this may well include many shareware apps that can be downloaded from the > internet, but will definitely not include any Microsoft products, including > Office X, Internet Explorer or MSN Messenger. Office is the only one I'd > want to use anyway. Also apps like Norton Antivirus/Systemworks may not > initially be accessible. This is all because they existed under OS9, and > the developers have just ported them to OS x using Carbon, which doesn't get > accessibility by default (only Cocoa apps do). But, with the 508 > legislation etc this could change. > > But I don't want this to negate the great stuff that Apple is doing - I > believe that all Apple software, such as the Ilife suite, is written in an > accessible way (or will be modified to be cccessible very soon). > > Saqib>
