- From: Access Systems <accessys@smart.net>
- Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 08:56:06 -0500 (EST)
- To: David Poehlman <poehlman1@comcast.net>
- cc: Joe Clark <joeclark@joeclark.org>, WAI-IG <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, David Poehlman wrote:
> although the target is not a bulls eye, we will not achieve comparable
> and equivilant access till we knock down that barrier.
> > > At any rate, lots of apparent improvements in HTML interpretation.
> >
> > but not the all important "Works on ANY Operating System" it is still M$
> > windoze ONLY
>
> Oh, who cares? I use a Mac and even I think that there's nothing
as a Mac user (as is my daughter) I would think you would also be a little
tired of a M$centric computer philosophy.
> wrong with operating-system-specific software. I'm having a hard
as long as they still remember the other systems
> time imagining a world in which everything works on every imaginable
> system. Access Systems' complaint here has nothing to do with
> improved accessibility for disabled people. It's purely an
if a significant portion of people with disabilities cannot use the
accessible features and I complain why is this not improved access for
people with disabilities.
> anti-Windows reflex.
oh I complain about stuff that is written only for the latest and greatest
windoze versions, will the newest Jaws work on windoze 95, or 98, or
heaven forbid, 3.1???? many many people in other countries still consider
it a major upgrade to be able to finally be able to use W95.
I'm not "anti-windows" - I'm pro "diversity"
Bob
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve Neither liberty nor safety", Benjamin Franklin
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