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Date: | Sun, 24 May 1998 07:21:28 -0400 |
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Hi:
It sounds like what you have received is the typical bureaucratic response
("sorry, we can't help you because we really don't want to".). I would
encourage you to see if the organization where you work might be willing to
intercede on your behalf, and, failing that, maybe alerting them to
appropriate legal statutes might be in order.
Good luck,
Peter Altschul
At 12:13 PM 5/23/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi All:
>
>Recently most Oracle tutoring books and user menu books include the
>electronic version on CD. But the those Books can only be read by their
>text reader, which is fully graphical and not accessable to any window
>speech program. I have contact Oracle company in the past month. Last
>week, they give me the final answer: "Because the books must be
>confidential, we can not give out any electronic copy that can be read by
>other text editor." When I ask them whether they could make their text
>reader included in the CD be accessable by the screen reader for the
>blind. Their answer is absolute negative.
>
>I told them that I have been working on Oracle database system for a
>couple of years. In my current job, I need to use SQL Loader to load text
>data and use SQL*net and Pro*c to develop an application that interfacies
>two instances--one on Oracle 7.2.2 and the other on 7.3.3 version. Since I
>have never done that before, I ask them if they could release some related
>information in any accessable format because those books are available on
>the market; and sighted people can easily search the information on
>Windows 95. They just told me that they could do nothing because their
>products are not made for the blind.
>
>What should I do? Since we have appealed to MicroSoft for the
>accessability, should we do that to Oracle?
>
>Thank you.
>
>Ren Wang
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