[jawsscripts] Re: Fw: Announce: Accessibility Anywhere Braille Display Petition
- From: "Geoff Chapman" <gch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:59:40 +1100
My question would be about this though, presumably they've done it this way
not just to be exclusionary/profit margin based
for the sake of it, but due to a no doubt customer driven
desired tightest/most controlled interface/functionality, for the end user,
between their screenReader and braille display. would this not be so?
----- Original Message -----
From: "E.J. Zufelt" <everett@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 8:14 PM
Subject: [jawsscripts] Fw: Announce: Accessibility Anywhere Braille Display
Petition
> Please see the following petition meant to encourage manufacturers of
> Braille displays to support a more common driver interface. Note: the
link
> in the message below did not work correctly for me, you can try accessing
> the petition at:
>
> http://www.petitiononline.com/brldis/
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Serotek Announcements (by way of David Andrews<dandrews@xxxxxxxx>)"
> <noreply@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <david.andrews@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 4:34 AM
> Subject: [nfbcs] Accessibility Anywhere Braille Display Petition
>
>
> >
> > A petition has been started by George McDermith at
> >
<http://www.petitiononline.com/brldis/petition.html>http://www.petitiononlin
e.com/brldis/petition.html
> > asking Braille display manufacturers to base their drivers on the human
> > interface protocol, found on all Windows computers. Such a design
> > philosophy will ensure that users can be certain of having support for
> > their Braille display on any computer, not just one which has been
> > custom-configured for such access, and will eliminate the need to depend
> > on specific screen reader drivers.
> >
> >
> >
> > The text of the petition reads as follows:
> >
> >
> >
> > "To: Braille display manufacturers
> > We, the undersigned, who are Braille display users, friends and family
of
> > Braille display users, and teachers of the blind,
> > *: Believe that accessibility to information for the blind on a par with
> > their sighted piers is a right. Believe that due to this right, and due
to
> > the cost of Braille displays, accessing Braille through the use of
Braille
> > displays should not be limited by the type of screen reading solution
used
> > by the blind.
> > *: Strongly request that all manufacturers of Braille displays cease
> > basing the drivers of their Braille displays off of particular screen
> > reader drivers, but rather base all Braille display drivers off of the
> > Human User Interface Protocol, which can be found on all Windows
> > computers.
> > *: This will allow true portability and equal access to information for
> > the blind, as they will be able to use their display with any computer.
> > This will create greater competition in the market for the best Braille
> > display to stand out, grant greater literacy in Braille through greater
> > access to electronic Braille books and other materials, and support the
> > right of all blind people to have accessibility anywhere."
> >
> >
> >
> > To add your support to this worthy cause, visit the petition web page at
> >
> >
<http://www.petitiononline.com/brldis/petition.html>http://www.petitiononlin
e.com/brldis/petition.html
> >
> >
> >
> > The Serotek Team
> >
> >
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