[gui-talk] new windows mobile phones

[Jude DaShiell]

Apple along with the app writers have simply set the bar too high for 
Microsoft to even have a hope of touching it for any windows phone for 
the foreseeable future.  Now to even be competitive with Apple, a store 
well loaded with accessible apps has to be available for purchase in 
addition to an accessible phone.  But then again, Apple was eating 
Microsoft's lunch as far back as 2006 with the Tiger version of their 
operating system and simply continued their success with the IPhone 3GS 
when that went on the market.  I have been totally blind from birth.  
When I got my Mac Mini in 2008, it had no operating system on it at all. 
 I hooked it up by myself with no sighted assistance and managed to put 
the right disk in the drive on the second try and waited.  A few seconds 
later as the operating system loaded up, Tiger started asking me 
questions with its sound card and the speakers I had attached.  If I 
hadn't attached speakers, I'd still have heard the questions all be it 
on smaller speakers.  I managed to get that operating system installed 
and used that computer for four years until it died.  To the best of my 
knowledge, Microsoft hasn't written any version of windows I can do that 
with and Windows 8 will not have any such capabilities either.  If 
malware had ever attacked my Mac, I'd be able to do the clean up and 
reinstall myself but not with Windows.  Finally, my family is several 
hundred miles away from where I live.  It is true I do have one computer 
solely dedicated to windows 7 in my apartment but the only reason that 
happened was due to major pressure from sighted colleagues.  I think if 
I ever buy another disabled version of windows and it goes feet up on 
me, I'll first pay to have it fixed then put a letter together for the 
media outlets and Microsoft and a few people in Congress and send a copy 
of the bill along with that letter to all of them with documentation of 
my disability and an explanation in that letter as to why Microsoft got 
sent the bill.  I am certain nothing will happen as a result, and that 
in and of itself will be a worthwhile update for any interested parties.

On Mon, 7 May 2012, Dean Martineau wrote:

> It is clear from Microsoft's actions in this area, that they have no interest whatsoever in making Windows phones accessible to theblind. They simply are not putting any resources in that direction. The only smart phones a  blind person can use our the iPhone and, to some extent, android phones.
> 
> On May 7, 2012, at 12:31, "Baracco, Andrew W" <Andrew.Baracco at va.gov> wrote:
> 
> > Nothing right now.
> > Andy
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
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> > On Behalf Of Hoffman, Allen
> > Sent: Monday, May 07, 2012 8:05 AM
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> > Subject: [gui-talk] new windows mobile phones
> > 
> > what's the word on Windows mobile latest phones and accessibility?
> > 
> > 
> > Allen Hoffman
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