Thread Subject: Re: General Issues:Speechinterfaces and equivalent facilitation

From: Gregg Vanderheiden
Date: Sat, Jan 20 2007 11:20 PM

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Hi David,

Software working with the Mac screen reader would be accessible. My
point was that the line is getting blurred these days.

And my previous point about productivity products (personal workstations)
may need optimal interfaces rather than just any access.


Gregg
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Gregg C Vanderheiden Ph.D.



> -----Original Message-----
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> David Poehlman
> Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2007 4:36 AM
> To: TEITAC General Interface Accessibility Subcommittee
> Subject: Re: [teitac-general] [teitac-websoftware] General
> Issues:Speechinterfaces and equivalent facilitation
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> Greg,
>
> If my app does not need to be used with a screen reader
> because it has one in it, why would it need to be compatible
> with a screen reader? Does this fail the Mac because it's
> not compatible with JAWS?
>
> On Jan 11, 2007, at 2:19 AM, Gregg Vanderheiden wrote:
>
> I also have trouble with the fact that the line is not bright
> as we would like.
>
>
>
> But the problem with not requiring this is that one could
> have a self voicing application that is not screen reader
> compatible and it would
> be called accessible. I think that that might be a big problem.
> In the past we did this by requiring AT compatibility for
> software. But as we move forward with software being
> generalized,
> this old approach starts to fail. We need to think about
> how we are
> going to deal with this situation. Doing it the way we did
> - isn't
> working as we move forward.
>
>
>
> We need to look at this carefully to be sure that we don't
> avoid one problem and create a greater one.
>
>
> Gregg
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> Jim Tobias
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> Speechinterfaces and equivalent facilitation
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> I agree with Audrey's concerns about defining situations
> where "productivity" is required, given that the same products
>
> may be used in different contexts, not to mention the
> difficulty of defining the threshold level of productivity.
>
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