[nfbcs] Fwd: Accessibility help for knew OS (fwd)
David Andrews
dandrews at visi.com
Mon Apr 22 17:40:33 UTC 2013
To both of you personal attacks are not permitted here. Please write
your messages with a little more care!
David Andrews, List Owner
At 10:38 AM 4/22/2013, you wrote:
>Nope. You're just a close minded bigot. It was obvious English is
>not his first language, but I bet he's a better programmer than you
>would ever be.
>
>Gabe Vega
>Sent from my iPhone
>(623) 565-9357
>
>On Apr 22, 2013, at 7:38 AM, <majolls at cox.net> wrote:
>
> > Perhaps I'm a bigot, but it amazes me how such an email wants you
> to take the person submitting it seriously and yet the email has
> such obvious spelling errors. Where is the professionalism? If I
> were marketing a product, I'd make sure my spelling didn't send the
> wrong signal. Just my opinion, but it leaves me with the
> impression of an uneducated person or someone outside of the
> country. Not that foreign nationals can't write code well, but I
> have had experiences with foreign nationals where communication was
> a real issue and this email just reinforces that thinking. The
> email just causes a red flag to be raised for me.
> >
> > Anybody else?
> >
> > ---- Jude DaShiell <jdashiel at shellworld.net> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >> jude <jdashiel at shellworld.net>
> >> Microsoft, windows is accessible. why do blind people need screen readers?
> >>
> >>
> >> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> >> Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2013 21:59:05
> >> From: David Hilbert Poehlman <david.poehlman at HANDSONTECHNOLOGEYES.COM>
> >> To: BLIND-L at LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
> >> Subject: Fwd: Accessibility help for knew OS
> >>
> >> Begin forwarded message:
> >>
> >> From: Willy Sam <tasbablue at gmail.com>
> >> Subject: Accessibility help for knew OS
> >> Date: April 21, 2013 8:07:32 AM EDT
> >> To: dev-accessibility at lists.mozilla.org
> >>
> >> KolibriOS is a tiny yet incredibly powerful and fast operating system.
> >> This power requires only a few megabyte disk space and 8MB of RAM to
> >> run. Kolibri features a rich set of applications that include word
> >> processor, image viewer, graphical editor, web browser and well over
> >> 30 exciting games. Full FAT12/16/32 support is implemented, as well as
> >> read-only support for NTFS, ISO9660 and Ext2/3/4. Drivers are written
> >> for popular sound, network and graphics cards.
> >> Have you ever dreamed of a system that boots in less than 10 seconds
> >> from power-on to working GUI, on $100 PC? Applications that start
> >> instantly, immediately after clicking an icon, without annoying
> >> hourglass pointers? This speed is achieved since the core parts of
> >> KolibriOS (kernel and drivers) are written entirely in FASM assembly
> >> language!
> >>
> >> I have asked the KolibriOS team to insert accessibility features
> to there OS.
> >> They have responded well, but need technical help as they state below.
> >> "Hello! Thank you for your reply. We are very interested in
> >> implementing of Accessibility standards, but we don't sure what
> >> exactly do we need to implement.
> >> As for now, we have only Magnify (not very useful though) and Speak
> >> engine (not very good though). Do we need add something else? Do we
> >> need some text-to-speech interface for software? May be something
> >> else? We are really want to help, I think it's possible to create even
> >> brand new branch (we already have few, why not?) with suitable desktop
> >> environment and programs. What do you say?"
> >> Please help to make this new ausum free and open source OS accessible
> >> for all, by providing nolige or adapting software to be compatible
> >> with Kolibri.
> >> Find out more at
> >> www.kolibrios.org
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> dev-accessibility mailing list
> >> dev-accessibility at lists.mozilla.org
> >> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-accessibility
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