[access-uk] Re: no discussion regarding accessability on the latest windows consumer preview breaffing by microsoft
- From: David Griffith <daj.griffith@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 15:46:24 +0000
I disagree. Microsoft still have a lot to do.
Since 2011 I have never had to employ support for any issues on my Mac
because Accessibility is built into the OS across the system. So for
example, when a problem occurred with my OS last year I was able to
format my primary drive and download and install a completely fresh copy
of Mac OS and then restore all my apps and data without any sighted
help. This is possible on the Mac because Accessibility support is
inbuilt across the OS.
On Windows the situation is completely different. For example I know of
no accessible way of looking at BIOS settings. So in the same period I
have on average had to employ assistance fairly regularly to cope with
problems which arise with my Windows PC. None of these issues are beyond
me technically but simply require someone with sight to resolve. I
thought I had protected myself with a combination of Re-image and
Snapshot packages on the windows side but as I discovered a couple of
weeks ago it takes only a minor hardware glitch for these packages to
fall over despite these precautions. In this situations the images
become useless and a new install is required. . Then once again the
need for sighted help re-emerges.
People are trying to develop talking windows installers but Microsoft
should embed this accessibility into all its installation packages.
David Griffith
On 22/01/2015 12:35, Steve Nutt wrote:
Hi,
Who cares? We don't need one. Just download NVDA.
All the best
Steve
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Subject: [access-uk] no discussion regarding accessability on the latest
windows consumer preview breaffing by microsoft
Hi all.
First of all want to apologize for cross posting but want to raise an
important question.
For all who have not watched the presentation that Microsoft put out
regarding the win 10 consumer preview this is the audio link.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/16617710/videoplayback.m4a
Note.
The presentation is a full presentation without the cutting off of the
question answer session
I have only converted into audio so that it becomes small to download.
The original video presentation is about 1.35 GB
In the entire presentation of about 2hrs 19 min and 23 seconds
Microsoft has not discussed on accessibility or regarding adding a
screen reader to windows 10 and I mean full fledge screen reader.
So now what do we do next.
Although there are some fantastic things in this presentation will not
spoil the excitement watch and see
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