David 

Articles such as that also remind me of something else.  While the modern 
computer user views such legacy pc environments as ancient and obsolete, 
we were more than happy with them at the time appreciating what they 
allowed us to do which could not be done before with such relative ease.
Perspective is everything; and sometimes I see the demands of today's 
blind user  as sort of unappreciative given where we once were.  We have 
so much today; but rather lthan focusing on what we have and can get 
accomplished with technology, we focus on what we cannot do.
Growing up in the 1960s, I would have been deemed crazy if I had wanted 
technology what is 2nd-nature today.  Yet, we have it and more.
Sure, things can be better and more things could become usable to a 
handicapped person; but, on the other hand, sometimes pull back from the 
advocacy complaining mode of things could be better and concentrate on 
appreciating what, thanks to God, you can do on your own.
Those who never lived prior to the personal pc era too often take for 
granted what they truly have in access and availability of information. 





The world asks, "What does a man own?" Christ asks, "How does he use it?"
Andrew Murray, (1828–1917), South African minister, missionary, and author


One's life does not consist in the abundance of the things he possesses.
Luke 12:15 (NKJV)



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