Let's see what happens. I remember that in its infancy, the majority if not all of the accessibility software which of course was proprietary was on the Apple II series. I was just giving a demonstration of some assistive technology this morning at a job networking group and the one of the first things I mentioned was the fact that in the 80s all of the word processors and games and things like that were used on the Apple II series like to see the two Ian the 2G also, who could forget the echo synthesizer. I remember not only seeing it on our types of software, but in the third grade at the elementary school that I went to they had a robotics demonstration and it had a synthesizer and it was the echo synthesizer.
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> On Oct 16, 2013, at 3:48 PM, "Baracco, Andrew W" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> The reason that Apple is still a minor player in the PC world is that
> enterprise is heavily invested in Microsoft, and enterprise is the last
> to change. One example is that at my work we are still using Windows XP,
> scheduled to migrate to Windows 7 some time in the next 6 months, and
> how long has Windows 7 been around?
>
> The one thing that Apple proved, and Google reinforced is that
> accessibility can be incorporated into a mainstream product without
> damaging the bottom line. From a functional standpoint, it is no longer
> necessary to bolt on third party accesibility solutions that cost more
> than the device that they make accessible. Microsoft has an
> accessibility division, and one of the main reasons that screen readers
> are as effective as they are, and why they can be ready to go when a new
> version of Windows comes out is because of the groundwork done by
> Microsoft. Do you remember when it took screen readers two or three
> years to catch up to a new version of Windows? Microsoft has the
> wherewithall to build accessibility into Windows, and every new version
> of narrator is just a little more robust than the last. I bought a new
> windows 7 machine last year, and I fully expect that when it comes time
> to replace that machine, that I will not have to pay extra for
> accessibility.
>
> Andy
>
>
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> Subject: [MARKETING] Re: [VICUG-L] [leadership] FW: Code Factory
> Enhances Blind and Visually ImpairedAccessibility for Windows Phone 8
>
>> if Windows narrator is so stripped-down then why even put it on there?
> It also goes for the screen and larger program as well. I have to agree
> with Harry here. What is coat factory been up to in the last several
> years that is going to be very beneficial? I think that what they're
> doing now is a little too late. The last time I really heard much from
> coat factory was when I got my Cayenne FB reader mobile. Of course, you
> have to pay separately for the screen reader. I was delighted to be able
> to walk into my local AT&T store and get a phone off the shelf that had
> a screen reader built right into it. Now, hopefully that will be the
> case with other things that are mainly used in the work world. True,
> Apple has got what it needs, but now we have to expand it to what is in
> use in the business and government worlds as well. The one thing that is
> stopping a lot of friends of mine who are blind from getting computers
> and doing things is the fact that they are having to pay for the system
> twice meant for the computer in another time from screenreader. That
> Windows narrator is to
>
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