[nabs-l] Fwd: [M-A] FW: [MSS] Fw: I'm filing an official complaint against Microsoft

Fri Aug 20 04:27:05 UTC 2010

I got this off of another list.
Take care.
>> Please forward this to all blind mailing lists that have anything to do with
>> technology.  You may also, submit this to magazines such as The Braille
>> Forum, the Braille Monitor, and any other magazine for the blind.
>> 
>> To all the blind of America,
>> 
>> Well, nobody has had the guts to do it, so, I have done it.  I have filed an
>> official complaint with the US Justice department on behalf of the blind of
>> America!
>> 
>> This complaint is about Microsoft's new operating system for cell phones and
>> PDAS.  I have the complaint below, so you can see it.
>> 
>> It is time to put Microsoft in the corner, and push them around, like we
>> should have done, with computer screen readers, years ago!
>> 
>> The address, for the Justice Department ADA complaints office, as you'll
>> see, is below, so, if other blind people want to join me on the cell phone
>> complaint, they can.  I'm excited, that finally, someone is gonna make
>> Microsoft face the music, and it should be loud, and thunderous!
>> 
>> If anyone does want to file a complaint with the justice department, you
>> must be sure to mention your full name, your mailing address, phone number
>> with Area code, and the date of your complaint.
>> 
>> Many blind people have asked me in the past year, "Harry, does it really do
>> any good to file a complaint against a big corporation?"  You'll see it
>> does, below, in my complaint history, in the past 15 months!  I thought like
>> many blind folks did, before that.  I thought, "I'm a nobody, they won't
>> listen to me."
>> 
>> I filed a complaint against Motorola last year, about their phones with no
>> screen readers on them, and we settled in a week, and out of my complaint,
>> came a talking cell phone, with a built in web browser, voice note recorder,
>> word processor, talking clock, and internet radio station player.  They were
>> wonderful with me!  They gave me a phone, with a screen reader installed
>> from Code factory, which I use everywhere I go!
>> 
>> the NFB and Motorola had an agreement that all cell phones using the Android
>> operating system will be fully accessible, out of the box.  This has started
>> to take place, as of January, 2010!  I also filed a complaint with the FCC
>> against Apple, about touch screens not being accessible for the blind, and
>> the latest from Apple is, a braille expert on refreshable braille screens,
>> has been hired by Apple, as of 2 weeks ago!  This man, Apple says, will make
>> all their touch screens on their iPhones to use refreshable braille, so, the
>> blind can feel where they are on the screen at all times, and tap all icons,
>> because they will be able to feel all icon labels!
>> 
>> So, want something changed? Get bold, and don't back down, and file that
>> complaint!
>> 
>> You take care,
>> 
>> Harry
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> 
>> From: Harry Brown <mailto:wd8oep2464 at sbcglobal.net>  
>> 
>> To: ADA.Complaint at usdoj.gov 
>> 
>> Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 5:09 PM
>> 
>> Subject: I'm filing an official complaint against Microsoft
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> August 19, 2010
>> 
>> To whom it may concern,
>> 
>> My name is Harry Brown, and I'm a blind man living at address was in the
>> official complaint, but not in this copy).  I'm filing a complaint against
>> Microsoft.
>> 
>> As you may know, Microsoft, is coming out with Windows phone 7, an operating
>> system for cell phones, and PDAs.  Right now, they're using Windows Mobile
>> 6.5.  which is not fully accessible, out of the box.  As to this date of
>> writing, they have never put speech on their phones.  Whereas Apple, has put
>> built in speech on their IPhones.
>> 
>> I request that the Justice department, give Microsoft an ultimatum.  They
>> either put a fully functioning built in screen reader on their windows phone
>> 7 operating system within the next year, or, they will be sued by the
>> justice department, or,  their Windows Mobile operating system department
>> will be shut down by the federal government.
>> 
>> This is blatent descrimination, and they have proven they don't care about
>> making their cell phone operating system fully accessible.  Now, what you
>> will hear from them is, "we can't do it, because we have no people on staff
>> with experience in screen reader implementation."
>> 
>> I will give you the name of a company whose employees Microsoft can hire,
>> that knows everything about screen readers for Windows mobile cell phones,
>> and how to make Microsoft's new upcoming operating system completely
>> accessible, for every new Windows Mobile cell phone, out of the box.
>> 
>> The company who Microsoft needs to hire people from is called Code Factory,
>> and their web site is
>> 
>> http://www.codefactory.es
>> 
>> Please follow up with me on this official complaint.
>> 
>> The blind of America will not put up any more, with being second class
>> citizens, by a company who doesn't care, and has never made it's computer
>> operating systems, or, it's cell phone operating systems, fully accessible,
>> right out of the box.
>> 
>> Sincerely,
>> 
>> Harry Brown
>> 
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