[blindlaw] Mac Users Out There?

[Mark BurningHawk]

You're applying capitalist values to a poverty-ridden community.  In a fair market, you're right; more competition is better, drives down the price, brings out more innovations.  The blind are not a fair market.  As long as universal access is not followed, the blind will always be dependent--on the agencies, on the workplaces, on whomever can afford Jaws or its like.  Apple is practicing universal access, or at least they're asymptotically close to it.  MS is not.  Making software accessible is like building a gas tank into a car and saying you help get great mileage.  As long as blind people have to pay more for a computer to use it than a sighted person, there is room for improvement.  If MS comes out with the equivalent of VoiceOver, following universal access guidelines, then anything else is just a cop-out.

Mark BurningHawk
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Namaste!