Multi-tasking

[Kirk Wood]

On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Ann Parsons wrote:
> Then, I guess I'm an idiot.  I fully admit it, I'm an idiot.  I want
> to tell you I went to the Zmud site with MSIE, and I tried to make the
> combo boxes work for me.  I tried alt-down arrow, and I tried pressing
> enter, and nothing worked.  Maybe I'm just an idiot.  I took a class
> in Windows, but it didn't seem to help.

I don't think this follows. I have watched a person quite familiar with
Jaws work and it is a hit or miss situation. Most sites work fine. But
notice that most. This of course leaves a huge number that don't work well
with Jaws. And it isn't always script that causes the problem.

The fact remains that m$ has shown a committement to saying they have a
committment to accesibility. They own rights to put much of the Jaws
speech into their product and choose not to use it. They have released  3
major revisions to IE without MSAA catching up since making the
committment to always have them working together. They have released a
major revision of Office breaking the same promise. They released a
"new" version of Windows breaking the same promise. (Maybe two, I don't
know about WinME.)

MSAA is pure and simply an effort to appease the the blind community and
shut them up. It is nothing more. In 1998 they had a total of three people
on the team with two people helping out. Five people to make a major
change to the OS work correct. That compares to hundreds working on the
rest. In fact, they had a distinct lack of bete testers who are blind.

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Kirk Wood
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The mind is like a parachute; it works much better when open.
If your too open minded, your brains will fall out.