[gui-talk] when will folks start raising hell regarding Windows Phone 8?

[Gerald Levy]

Actually, this backwards step in terms of accessibility should have been 
raised a year ago when Windows 8 was still in beta testing.  Everyone knew 
that it was going to be one big mess, but nobody at the so-called "advocacy" 
organizations gave it much thought.  Now that the final product is here and 
Windows 7 computers are rapidly vanishing from store shelves, it is probably 
too late to do anything.  MS seems to be an 800 pound gorilla that nobody 
can stop.  But based on preliminary sales figures, Windows 8 could be a 
bigger disaster for MS than Vista.  And last week, Steve Sinofsky, the MS 
design executive responsible for launching Vista, Windows7 and Windows 8 
abruptly left the company.  Some reports claim that he resigned before the 
you know what over Win 8 hits the fan.  Other reports assert that he was 
forced to resign because of personality clashes with MS CEO Steve Dallmer. 
In any case, Win 8 could well turn out to be the Edsel of operating systems. 
All we can do is hope that it is such a colossal commercial flop that MS 
will be forced to back peddle and release a more blind friendly OS with 
Windows 9.

Gerald


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hoffman, Allen" <Allen.Hoffman at HQ.DHS.GOV>
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Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2012 7:56 AM
Subject: [gui-talk] when will folks start raising hell regarding Windows 
Phone 8?


> Given the terrible accessibility support in the windows Phone 8 release, 
> not the first time for Microsoft, when will we, as a community feel its 
> time to raise some real hell over this continuing lack of corporate 
> responsibility?  Seems we focus a lot on Kindle, and rightly so, but 
> Microsoft should not be let off the hook on this stuff.  In addition, when 
> would we as a community think its time to raise hell over getting 
> authoring tools which actually ensure accessibility of content produced 
> rather than impose nearly impossible additional work on authors?  I'm sure 
> battles must be picked, but am unclear on the strategy for picking them of 
> late.
>
>
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