Something Good From Microsoft

[Sina Bahram]

Oh interesting. Well I wish them all the luck in the world. Any
accessibility progress in any platform, OS, or field is good news to hear.

Take care,
Sina

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-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Janina Sajka
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 5:48 PM
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Subject: Re: Something Good From Microsoft


Oh, I'm not that cynical about them. I do think the people on their
accessibility team do actually care a lot about accessibility. I'm sure
there are others in the corporation that care about accessibility as well.

On the other hand, their business practices have sometimes gotten in the.
But that, too,  isn't very surprising. It fits.


way of accessibility standards development, at least in my experience.


Sina Bahram writes:
> From: "Sina Bahram" <sbahram at nc.rr.com>
> 
> Interesting report. What are your thoughts on how it will help any 
> future implementations of Microsoft's *cough* operating system *cough* 
> *smile*
> 
> But seriously, do you think they'll actually do something as a result, 
> or was this mainly for some PR and also to see if they could possibly 
> draw out a bit more revenue in a nitch market?
> 
> Take care,
> Sina
> 
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> Subject: Something Good From Microsoft
> 
> 
> Am I wrong? Check it out for yourself at:
> 
> http://www.microsoft.com/enable/research/default.aspx
> 
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Janina Sajka
Email: janina at rednote.net		
Phone: +1 (202) 408-8175

Director, Technology Research and Development
American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
http://www.afb.org

Chair, Accessibility Work Group
Free Standards Group
http://a11y.org

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