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Re: Pricing of Screen Readers

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From: Austin, Darrel
Date: Oct 22, 2004 9:18AM

> OT, but: just imagine if MS dared integrate anything into its
> OS like this...the outrage! The shouts of anti-competitivenes...

Uhh...MS *does* do that.

And, AKAIK, there really isn't an easy OSX solution out there right now.

And, ultimately, shouldn't this BE the one thing that any OS developer
include? The OS, itself, should be accessible to anyone without the need of
3rd party software. I find it somewhat unfair that those with accessibility
needs are the ones that have to pay more to use the same OS as everyone
else. (sometimes having to pay more than the actual cost of the original
machine). But, then again, I'm a pinko socialist at heart. ;o)

> Can you imagine how much Apple would have to charge for a screen
> reader if it were priced as they would normally price products. That would
> really give one something to complain about.

These days, their software and hardware are very competitive in price. I
doubt there'd be much complaining about the price at all if they did release
it as a product.

-Darrel