It should also be pointed out that Microsoft employees have publicly
stated that unless they did something such as develop this "Active
Accessibility" that programs like Office 97 wouldn't work with screen
readers.  I seem to recall several posts saying that screen readers
wouldn't be able to find the menus, dialogs and such without this
development.  So in effect this only maintains the current status.

I'd like to see more action and less talk from Microsoft.  True they are
better than they were years ago but the hurtles and barriers for computer
users who are blind are much higher due to systems like Windows 95.



On Wed, 19 Mar 1997, Kelly Pierce wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I received the same press release.  I *choose not to forward it to the list
> as, at this time, Active Accessibility is only a concept, not a product.  No
> one can install Active X accessibility and run it on an application, such as
> microsoft Work, at this time.  i hope the liberal use of the future tense was
> noted in the article.  That's no accident.  I did not post it because it is
> vaporware and can not be used by the blind end user at this time.
> Additionally, the end user is made to feel as if significant progress is being
> made toward accessibility, when Microsoft's effort so far has been
> uncooridnated and half-hearted at best.
>
> kelly
>
>
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>