[nfb-talk] Fw: Penn State - NFB Files complaint against

Loren Wakefield isaiah5719 at mchsi.com
Mon Nov 15 23:04:09 UTC 2010


Where do you find this animal?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Heim" <john at johnheim.net>
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> Well, I agree with your main point but you don't necessarily have to go to 
> Apple if you want a free screen reader. There are a couple of free screen 
> readers for Windows. The one I am most familiar with is called nvda.
>
> So I don't know if VoiceOver is scaring Microsoft as  much as it is 
> scaring Freedom Scientific.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Loren Wakefield" <isaiah5719 at mchsi.com>
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>> That would still be to the education factor.  Whatever made them do it, I 
>> think it is really cool they did.  I'm thinking seriously of taking 
>> advantage of it.
>>
>> It would also seem to me that with tightening budgets, state agencies who 
>> buy computers and such for their clients are going to have to look more 
>> at Apple.  It doesn't take long for real savings to start adding up if 
>> the speech is already there, versus buying a computer and then still 
>> paying Jaws or Window-eyes or someone another $1200 or so to make the 
>> thing talk to you. I believe it will be interesting to watch this in the 
>> future.
>>
>> Loren
>>
>>
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>> From: "Ryan O" <ryano218 at comcast.net>
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>>
>>>I thought apple made their machines accessible due to a lawsuit filed by 
>>>a
>>> kid in the Maine public school system.
>>>
>>> RyanO
>>>
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