Something Good From Microsoft

[David Poehlman]

the report might do some good as a stand alone.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 8:59 AM
Subject: Re: Something Good From Microsoft


Exactly, Sinna.

Our attitude about this in the FSG is that we're happy for Microsoft to
care about accessibility and we're glad they want to make their products
accessible. We just want to do better with free and open environments.

Sina Bahram writes:
> From: "Sina Bahram" <sbahram at nc.rr.com>
>
> 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-----
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> On Behalf Of Janina Sajka
> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 5:48 PM
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> 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
> >
> > No trees were destroyed in sending this message; however, a large
> > number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.
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> > [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
> > On Behalf Of Janina Sajka
> > Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 3:40 PM
> > To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> > 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
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> > Director, Technology Research and Development
> > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
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> > Chair, Accessibility Work Group
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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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