bookshare inaccessible?

[Janina Sajka]

Cheryl:

You should complain strongly about this fact. They shouldn't be assuming everyone is using Windows, and that's what's
going on.

On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, Cheryl Homiak wrote:

> Janina just informed me bookshare doesn't have accessible software for
> linux yet.
> Sorry, from the thread I read I thought somebody had resolved it.
> I think that's really rotten of them to set it up so it's inaccessible to linux
> and then not even make that clear to people while they are giving their big
> sales plug!
> It's like if you are blind and a non-windows user, you don't even
> exist!
> Nothing at bookshare that says "accessible only to Windows users"--at least not
> that I found;  just
> trumpetting about their wonderful new service that i could have thrown $75 down
> the drain for.!
> Fine, if it's not accessible, they could at least state that clearly. They
> certainly made the demo page accessible; very misleading!
> 
> 
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina at afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

Chair, Accessibility SIG
Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
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