[gui-talk] anyone but the blind can win on GSN so What do we do about it.

Kenlawrence124 at aol.com Kenlawrence124 at aol.com
Thu Dec 3 18:42:55 UTC 2009


Hi Mike well since the site is a website for a cable channel, it seems to  
me that that's how they make money or at least prt of it.  you exchange the  
points for prises on the channel also there is a shop link there.  What if  
that's not accessible too?  you Can't chat either and all of the  
interactive games that go with the programs on the channel accept GSN live can't  be 
played.  Since I'm over 21 and all of the shows play alongs require  
internet access now that the GSN Radio has been discontinued, should I therefore  
discontinue my account, should I not watch this channel?  that shouldn't be  
an option.  there is only one GSN cable channel and I'm a supporter of  it.  
So what is my participation in the so called GSN community worth to  them 
do you think?  do you think they don't value a viewer's participation  blind 
or other wise?  
 
I pledge to  participate actively in the efforts of the national federation 
of the blind to  achieve equality, opportunity, and security for the blind; 
to support the  policies and programs of the federation; and abide by it's 
constitution.  

 
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Today's Topics:

1. anyone  but the blind can win on GSN,    What do we do about it?
(Kenlawrence124 at aol.com)
2. Which companies  shoud I contact? (James Pepper)
3. Re: anyone but the blind  can win on GSN,    What do we do about
it?  (Mike Freeman)
4. Re: Which companies shoud I contact?  (qubit)
5. Re: Which companies shoud I contact? (James  Pepper)
6. Re: Which companies should I contact? (Steve  Jacobson)
7. Re: Which companies should I contact? (Doug  Lee)


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Message:  1
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 17:04:06 EST
From:  Kenlawrence124 at aol.com
Subject: [gui-talk] anyone but the blind can win on  GSN,    What do we do
about it?
To:  gui-talk at nfbnet.org
Cc: perform-talk at nfbnet.org
Message-ID:  <ca2.5e68a5cb.38483e56 at aol.com>
Content-Type: text/plain;  charset="US-ASCII"

Hello, sending this to performing arts and Gui-talk  because it's a related 
 
issue to CD baby.  I'm a player or at  least want to be a player on the 
Game 
show network site.   unfortunately none of the games, including the Bingo  
blitz drawing,  the wonder wheel, and not even the chat room is accessible 
to 
the   blind.  This means I can only win on the televised GSN live rap  
arounds  between shows betweenthe hours of 3:00 and 6:00 eastern  time.  I 
have an  
account and want to play those games and maybe  today win $13,000 like 
sighted  people in the bingo blitz  drawing.  All of the GSN content 
including the 
chat is Flash.  I  can only win the rewards points called Oodles about 50 
at  a time and  to cash in oodles for all of the prizes you need thousands 
of   
oodles.  only for the daily or weekly or monthly drawings can I even  have  
half a chance to win.  I don't want to say Don't watch  GSN, because that  
only passes the problem on to someone else.   They wouldn't make the sight  
accesible if blind weren't watching,  and GSN is one of the few really 
family  
viewing options left on  TV.  So the question is how to make it known that  
blind people  want access now, not tomorrow or next month or next year or 
years 
from now  that will show that there are many of us who like our sighted  
friends  watch and play along with game shows and there is only  equality 
if we 
have the  same opportunity to win as sighted  people.  I've given GSN the 
federation  Tech center and no  movement at this time.  So my friends short 
of 
deleting  my  account and opting out which is not an option, what should we 
do 
that  will  make blind winners along with sighted.  any thoughts or ideas  
how we should  proceed in a way that lets them know we're fans and  viewers 
too 
would be a big  help.  Thanks, let's achieve  opportunity and equality for 
the blind  together.  

I  pledge to  participate actively in the efforts of the national 
federation  
of the blind to  achieve equality, opportunity, and security for the  
blind; 
to support the  policies and programs of the federation; and  abide by it's 
  
constitution.


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Message:  2
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 21:27:46 -0600
From: James Pepper  <b75205 at gmail.com>
Subject: [gui-talk] Which companies shoud I  contact?
To: gui-talk at nfbnet.org
Message-ID:
<fe5b78280912021927q53fa9ev299c54470605905a at mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type:  text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

I am James Pepper and I have been coming  into this list for a while and I
developed a means of making PDF documents,  forms and interactive content
accessible to the blind, the visually  impaired and everyone else.  It works
with the default settings of  Adobe Reader and it was tested by AFB Tech, 
the
technology division of the  American Foundation for the Blind and they 
called
it a "Raising the Floor"  technology.  So I wanted to see who here knows of
which companies I  should approach to try to get this out there on the
market.

It is a  means of making the graphic user interface accessible to the blind
so I  thought this was the perfect place to ask this question.
My format enables  simple text to speech engines to work as effectively as
JAWS or Window Eyes  in reading PDF documents where all of the content can 
be
read and you can  interact with the document,  My format works with JAWS,
Window Eyes  and Zoom Text and is backwards compatible, so that the blind do
not have to  buy new programs to read and interact with content, they can 
use
their  existing screen readers. I used JAWS 8 to test it.  I thought  that
since most people cannot afford these programs that it would be of  help.

I was blind, I had progressively worsening tunnel vision in High  School and
College and then one day most of it came back.  So I looked  at the software
that people use to make content accessible to the blind and  I fixed it, so
it actually works.  Practical accessibility where you  can actually read and
interact with all of the content.

Last year, I  made the National Voter Registration form to be accessible to
the blind  using conventional techniques, not my new process, and this form
was tested  by the Jernigan Institute of the National Federation of the
Blind, by AFB  Tech, and Jim Dickson the Vice President of the American
Association of  People with Disabilities presented these forms to the
Elections Assistance  Commission which is in charge of accessible voting in
the US.  But of  course they decided to use the forms made by their
webmaster.

I can  do this in multiple languages including Spanish and the languages 
used
in  DAISY format all over the world.

So I was wanting to know which  Accessible Technology companies should  I
approach?

Sincerely,

James G.  Pepper


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Message: 3
Date:  Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:47:53 -0800
From: Mike Freeman  <k7uij at panix.com>
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] anyone but the blind can  win on GSN,    What do
we do about it?
To:  gui-talk at nfbnet.org
Message-ID:  <20091203034753.k7uij at panix.com>
Content-Type: text/plain;  charset=US-ASCII

I'd be willing to speculate that you have to be over  eighteen to play 
also. Isn't that discriminatory? In other words, I doubt very  much that ADA 
covers this situation as I've never seen games defined as places  of public 
accommodation or commerce though I could, of course, be  wrong.

Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: unknown  Kenlawrence124 at aol.com
To: gui-talk at nfbnet.org
Date: Wednesday, Dec 2,  2009 15:26:08
Subject: [gui-talk] anyone but the blind can win on GSN, What  do we do 
about it?

>
>
> Hello, sending this to  performing arts and Gui-talk because it's a 
related  
> issue to CD  baby.  I'm a player or at least want to be a player on the 
Game  
>  show network site.  unfortunately none of the games,  including the 
Bingo  
> blitz drawing, the wonder wheel, and not  even the chat room is 
accessible to 
> the  blind.  This means  I can only win on the televised GSN live rap 
> arounds  between  shows betthe hours of 3:00 and 6:00 eastern time.  I 
have an   
> account and want to play those games and maybe today win $13,000 like  
> sighted  people in the bingo blitz drawing.  All of the GSN  content 
including the 
>  chat is Flash.  I can only win the  rewards points called Oodles about 
50 
> at  a time and to cash in  oodles for all of the prizes you need 
thousands of  
>  oodles.  only for the daily or weekly or monthly drawings can I even  
have  
> half a chance to win.  I don't want to say Don't  watch GSN, because that 
 
> only passes the problem on to someone  else.  They wouldn't make the 
sight  
> accesible if blind  weren't watching, and GSN is one of the few really 
family  
>  viewing options left on TV.  So the question is how to make it known  
that  
> blind people want access now, not tomorrow or next month  or next year or 
years 
>  from now that will show that there are  many of us who like our sighted 
> friends  watch and play along  with game shows and there is only equality 
if we 
> have the  same  opportunity to win as sighted people.  I've given GSN the 
>  federation  Tech center and no movement at this time.  So my friends  
short of 
> deleting  my account and opting out which is not an  option, what should 
we do 
> that will  make blind winners along  with sighted.  any thoughts or ideas 
> how we should  proceed  in a way that lets them know we're fans and 
viewers too 
> would be a  big  help.  Thanks, let's achieve opportunity and equality 
for  
> the blind  together.  
>  
> I pledge  to  participate actively in the efforts of the national 
federation  
> of the blind to  achieve equality, opportunity, and security for  the 
blind; 
> to support the  policies and programs of the  federation; and abide by 
it's  
> constitution.
>  _______________________________________________
> gui-talk mailing  list
> gui-talk at nfbnet.org
>  http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/gui-talk_nfbnet.org
> To  unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for  
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>  
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Message:  4
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 23:23:08 -0600
From: "qubit"  <lauraeaves at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Which companies shoud  I contact?
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List"  <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Message-ID:  <9C783147639C44409A19E14BD5C11B9D at bassclef>
Content-Type:  text/plain;    charset="iso-8859-1"

what type of company do  you want to work with? Freedom Scientific and GW 
Micro produce the jaws  and window eyes screen readers. There are also 
scan-and-read programs  K1000 and OpenBook that have the ability to do OCR 
on 
pdf and other  documents scanned from a printed page and then read the text.
What is it  you want to accomplish? What a laugh it would be if you got 
rejected by  all the current big wigs and started your own company and it 
took  off.
I am a computer science grad and therefore am interested in the  approach 
you 
take.  Aren't you the same person who posted once before  with a way of 
marking up pdf documents?
Sounds like your system  purports to solve all the world's problems, which 
may or may not be  possible--which seems likely as the problems have  been 
worked on for  decades and no one else has a simple solution.
If you got together with an  access company, perhaps you could see some of 
the problems they are  dealing with.
--le


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James  Pepper" <b75205 at gmail.com>
To: <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent:  Wednesday, December 02, 2009 9:27 PM
Subject: [gui-talk] Which companies  shoud I contact?


I am James Pepper and I have been coming into this  list for a while and I
developed a means of making PDF documents, forms and  interactive content
accessible to the blind, the visually impaired and  everyone else.  It works
with the default settings of Adobe Reader and  it was tested by AFB Tech, 
the
technology division of the American  Foundation for the Blind and they 
called
it a "Raising the Floor"  technology.  So I wanted to see who here knows of
which companies I  should approach to try to get this out there on the
market.

It is a  means of making the graphic user interface accessible to the blind
so I  thought this was the perfect place to ask this question.
My format enables  simple text to speech engines to work as effectively as
JAWS or Window Eyes  in reading PDF documents where all of the content can 
be
read and you can  interact with the document,  My format works with JAWS,
Window Eyes  and Zoom Text and is backwards compatible, so that the blind do
not have to  buy new programs to read and interact with content, they can 
use
their  existing screen readers. I used JAWS 8 to test it.  I thought  that
since most people cannot afford these programs that it would be of  help.

I was blind, I had progressively worsening tunnel vision in High  School and
College and then one day most of it came back.  So I looked  at the software
that people use to make content accessible to the blind and  I fixed it, so
it actually works.  Practical accessibility where you  can actually read and
interact with all of the content.

Last year, I  made the National Voter Registration form to be accessible to
the blind  using conventional techniques, not my new process, and this form
was tested  by the Jernigan Institute of the National Federation of the
Blind, by AFB  Tech, and Jim Dickson the Vice President of the American
Association of  People with Disabilities presented these forms to the
Elections Assistance  Commission which is in charge of accessible voting in
the US.  But of  course they decided to use the forms made by their
webmaster.

I can  do this in multiple languages including Spanish and the languages 
used
in  DAISY format all over the world.

So I was wanting to know which  Accessible Technology companies should  I
approach?

Sincerely,

James G.  Pepper
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Message: 5
Date:  Thu, 3 Dec 2009 02:53:11 -0600
From: James Pepper  <b75205 at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Which companies shoud I  contact?
To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List  <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
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Content-Type:  text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

Yes that was me, I can format Acrobat  for accessibility better than what
Adobe teaches!

Well right now I  have a page layout program that makes PDF files that are
accessible to the  most basic screen readers. It also can make content for
print in full color  so it can be used to layout books.  I am not sure that
JAWS and GW  Micro would be thrilled at the idea of my promoting free text 
to
speech  engines.  Of course in the short run they will still command  more
features, but this will eat into their market.  My process does  make them
work better with PDF format.

I will look into K1000 and  OpenBook but my format is more of a page layout
program where you make  content once for everyone.

This is not a matter of converting the  content to an accessible format, the
format is inherently  accessible.

So I have contacted Adobe already but I was wondering who  else out there is
a competitor to Adobe?  Who do I contact? Trying to  find the connections.

The the basic fundamental process is a cross  platform type of thing and so 
I
wanted to try to get it embedded in word  processors so that ordinary people
could make content and not know they are  making it accessible.  Because
right now we are all relying on people  knowing how to do this properly and
they are very few in number but if  everyone could make accessible content
that is intended to be accessible  from the beginning then we can fix this
problem.

I think I've got  it!

Does anyone know the accessibility people at Apple?

I laid  out the format to work in a lot of languages, more than the present
crop of  screen readers support because it works using the text to speech
engines  which are being created for the DAISY format.  So I have been doing
a  lot of work with Unicode time and date formats with this just to make  it
capable of working around the world.  For instance in Hindi and  other
langauges of India.  Of course most of these languages do not  have a screen
reader yet, but I thought that by demonstrating that this can  be done, that
it would give people an incentive to try!  I am not  limited by language in
this format.  And I know how to use screen  readers for languages that do 
not
have screen readers yet!  And of  course this means that this can reach the
illiterate all over the world. so  that is why I laid it out in so many
languages.

Just looking for  some advice.

James  Pepper


------------------------------

Message: 6
Date:  Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:34:31 -0600
From: "Steve Jacobson"  <steve.jacobson at visi.com>
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Which companies  should I contact?
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List"  <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
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Content-Type: text/plain;  charset="us-ascii"

Jim,

If I understand your product from what  you say here and what you have said 
on other lists, I believe you are correct  that the screen reader 
developers are not your 
best place to go.   Having said that, though, I also don't see where you 
are really likely to cut  into their business unless I misunderstand your 
product.  If one used  
one's computer primarily for reading documents, I could see that it might,  
but unless your product is envisioned as part of all computer software, it  
isn't going to 
eliminate the need for screen readers or even substantially  decrease the 
need as I see it.  We use screen readers to interact with  word processors to 
modify and 
create documents, we interact with  spreadsheets, we we read and create 
e-mail, we use spell checkers, we edit  audio and rip CD's, we maintain our 
computers 
copying, moving and deleting  files and running other utilities, and we use 
our computers as terminals on  other computers.  Therefore, I do not see 
what you have to 
gain  
by saying you will cut into the business of screen readers, when, as far  
as I can see, what you are proposing will make the job of screen readers  
easier.  In some 
cases, some of us may use Adobe's text-to-speech  reading capability 
instead of our screen readers, but in most cases we are  able to control the flow 
of information 
better 
with screen readers and  there is better interfacing to more voices and 
braille displays.  This  has little to do with the accessibility of a document, 
so I just don't see a  
conflict there between your product and screen readers.

from what I  thought I understood about your process, it needs to be 
integrated into the  document creation process working more or less behind the 
scenes to imbed  
the structure needed for documents to be accessible.  If that is at  all 
accurate, then contacting the creators of document software such as  Microsoft 
and whatever 
publishers tend to use would seem like the place to  go.  If your product 
does not need to be part of the creation process but  can convert documents, 
that would 
widen your options greatly, and it might  be a product that could be 
included in something like Kurzweil 1000 or perhaps  even be sold with screen 
readers.  Also 
remember that Freedom  Scientific, the makers of JFW, has the Open Book 
product which is a  compettitor to Kurzweil.  Remember further that Freedom 
Scientific,  GW Micro, and Humanware all sell note-taking devices and other 
players that  have the built-in capability of playing various kinds of text 
files.   None of 
these companies are strictly screen reading companies.   Nuance, which 
makes OmniPage OCR software also converts PDF documents into  other formats such 
as 
Microsoft Word and RTF.  There might be a role  for your technology there.  
Again, though, my understanding is that your  process is intended to work 
at document 
creation time which means that  none of our access technology companies are 
going to be in a position to make  use of your product in the way that you 
have 
described elsewhere, and  since the processes used by Nuance are guessing 
at the intended purpose of  format from appearance, it probably doesn't fit 
there, either.

I hope  this is of some help.  I think looking at where to focus the  
implementation of your product is a good idea, as you are doing here.   

Best regards,

Steve Jacobson

On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 02:53:11  -0600, James Pepper wrote:

>Yes that was me, I can format Acrobat  for accessibility better than what
>Adobe teaches!

>Well right  now I have a page layout program that makes PDF files that  are
>accessible to the most basic screen readers. It also can make  content for
>print in full color so it can be used to layout  books.  I am not sure that
>JAWS and GW Micro would be thrilled at  the idea of my promoting free text 
to
>speech engines.  Of course  in the short run they will still command more
>features, but this will  eat into their market.  My process does make them
>work better with  PDF format.

>I will look into K1000 and OpenBook but my format is  more of a page layout
>program where you make content once for  everyone.

>This is not a matter of converting the content to an  accessible format, 
the
>format is inherently accessible.

>So I  have contacted Adobe already but I was wondering who else out there  
is
>a competitor to Adobe?  Who do I contact? Trying to find the  connections.

>The the basic fundamental process is a cross platform  type of thing and 
so I
>wanted to try to get it embedded in word  processors so that ordinary 
people
>could make content and not know they  are making it accessible.  Because
>right now we are all relying on  people knowing how to do this properly and
>they are very few in number  but if everyone could make accessible content
>that is intended to be  accessible from the beginning then we can fix  this
>problem.

>I think I've got it!

>Does anyone  know the accessibility people at Apple?

>I laid out the format to  work in a lot of languages, more than the present
>crop of screen  readers support because it works using the text to speech
>engines which  are being created for the DAISY format.  So I have been 
doing
>a  lot of work with Unicode time and date formats with this just to make  
it
>capable of working around the world.  For instance in Hindi and  other
>langauges of India.  Of course most of these languages do  not have a 
screen
>reader yet, but I thought that by demonstrating that  this can be done, 
that
>it would give people an incentive to try!   I am not limited by language in
>this format.  And I know how to  use screen readers for languages that do 
not
>have screen readers  yet!  And of course this means that this can reach the
>illiterate  all over the world. so that is why I laid it out in so  many
>languages.

>Just looking for some  advice.

>James  Pepper
>_______________________________________________
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Message:  7
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:27:16 -0500
From: Doug Lee  <dgl at dlee.org>
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Which companies should I  contact?
To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List  <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Message-ID:  <20091203162715.GS187 at mini.local>
Content-Type: text/plain;  charset=us-ascii

Actually, if I remember right, you recently announced  that you had
patented this process.  Although patents are often not  the easiest
things to read, it might help us to get a patent number so we  can get
a better understanding of what your process is.  As I  understand
things, once something is patented, it is protected by the  patent and
becomes public information, as opposed to a trade secret, which  tends
to be hidden.

On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 09:34:31AM -0600, Steve  Jacobson wrote:
Jim,

If I understand your product from what you say  here and what you have said 
on other lists, I believe you are correct that the  screen reader 
developers are not your 
best place to go.  Having said  that, though, I also don't see where you 
are really likely to cut into their  business unless I misunderstand your 
product.  If one used 
one's  computer primarily for reading documents, I could see that it might, 
but  unless your product is envisioned as part of all computer software, it 
isn't  going to 
eliminate the need for screen readers or even substantially  decrease the 
need as I see it.  We use screen readers to interact with  word processors to 
modify and 
create documents, we interact with  spreadsheets, we we read and create 
e-mail, we use spell checkers, we edit  audio and rip CD's, we maintain our 
computers 
copying, moving and deleting  files and running other utilities, and we use 
our computers as terminals on  other computers.  Therefore, I do not see 
what you have to 
gain  
by saying you will cut into the business of screen readers, when, as far  
as I can see, what you are proposing will make the job of screen readers  
easier.  In some 
cases, some of us may use Adobe's text-to-speech  reading capability 
instead of our screen readers, but in most cases we are  able to control the flow 
of information 
better 
with screen readers and  there is better interfacing to more voices and 
braille displays.  This  has little to do with the accessibility of a document, 
so I just don't see a  
conflict there between your product and screen readers.

from what I  thought I understood about your process, it needs to be 
integrated into the  document creation process working more or less behind the 
scenes to imbed  
the structure needed for documents to be accessible.  If that is at  all 
accurate, then contacting the creators of document software such as  Microsoft 
and whatever 
publishers tend to use would seem like the place to  go.  If your product 
does not need to be part of the creation process but  can convert documents, 
that would 
widen your options greatly, and it might  be a product that could be 
included in something like Kurzweil 1000 or perhaps  even be sold with screen 
readers.  Also 
remember that Freedom  Scientific, the makers of JFW, has the Open Book 
product which is a  compettitor to Kurzweil.  Remember further that Freedom 
Scientific,  GW Micro, and Humanware all sell note-taking devices and other 
players that  have the built-in capability of playing various kinds of text 
files.   None of 
these companies are strictly screen reading companies.   Nuance, which 
makes OmniPage OCR software also converts PDF documents into  other formats such 
as 
Microsoft Word and RTF.  There might be a role  for your technology there.  
Again, though, my understanding is that your  process is intended to work 
at document 
creation time which means that  none of our access technology companies are 
going to be in a position to make  use of your product in the way that you 
have 
described elsewhere, and  since the processes used by Nuance are guessing 
at the intended purpose of  format from appearance, it probably doesn't fit 
there, either.

I hope  this is of some help.  I think looking at where to focus the  
implementation of your product is a good idea, as you are doing here.   

Best regards,

Steve Jacobson

On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 02:53:11  -0600, James Pepper wrote:

>Yes that was me, I can format Acrobat  for accessibility better than what
>Adobe teaches!

>Well right  now I have a page layout program that makes PDF files that  are
>accessible to the most basic screen readers. It also can make  content for
>print in full color so it can be used to layout  books.  I am not sure that
>JAWS and GW Micro would be thrilled at  the idea of my promoting free text 
to
>speech engines.  Of course  in the short run they will still command more
>features, but this will  eat into their market.  My process does make them
>work better with  PDF format.

>I will look into K1000 and OpenBook but my format is  more of a page layout
>program where you make content once for  everyone.

>This is not a matter of converting the content to an  accessible format, 
the
>format is inherently accessible.

>So I  have contacted Adobe already but I was wondering who else out there  
is
>a competitor to Adobe?  Who do I contact? Trying to find the  connections.

>The the basic fundamental process is a cross platform  type of thing and 
so I
>wanted to try to get it embedded in word  processors so that ordinary 
people
>could make content and not know they  are making it accessible.  Because
>right now we are all relying on  people knowing how to do this properly and
>they are very few in number  but if everyone could make accessible content
>that is intended to be  accessible from the beginning then we can fix  this
>problem.

>I think I've got it!

>Does anyone  know the accessibility people at Apple?

>I laid out the format to  work in a lot of languages, more than the present
>crop of screen  readers support because it works using the text to speech
>engines which  are being created for the DAISY format.  So I have been 
doing
>a  lot of work with Unicode time and date formats with this just to make  
it
>capable of working around the world.  For instance in Hindi and  other
>langauges of India.  Of course most of these languages do  not have a 
screen
>reader yet, but I thought that by demonstrating that  this can be done, 
that
>it would give people an incentive to try!   I am not limited by language in
>this format.  And I know how to  use screen readers for languages that do 
not
>have screen readers  yet!  And of course this means that this can reach the
>illiterate  all over the world. so that is why I laid it out in so  many
>languages.

>Just looking for some  advice.

>James  Pepper
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