[accessibleimage] Re: Failing devices, designed for visually impaired

Hi,
 
Blindness products that don't work properly or do everything we expect?
 
 The list of those that do actually work is much shorter.
 
To wit:
 
I use three screen readers (JAWS, Window-Eyes and Freedom Box System Access)
because I have enough variation in my activities that JAWS doesn't handle
(word processing), Window-Eyes doesn't handle (Java, VisualStudio) and FBSA
doesn't handle (Excel and PowerPoint).  FBSA gets launched when I want to
use the Internet, WE in Word and JAWS most everywhere else.
 
For portables, I use MSS and MSP from Code Factory.  These are generally
very good but have many features missing that don't exist elsewhere.
 
Other than Tiger embossers, I think virtually all high tech hardware made
for us blinks basically suck.
 
All of this is why I'm doing hofstader.com and Ad Lib Technology - to serve
as a community based alternative to the crap that gets shoved on us by
uncaring CEOs who feel that investors come first.  
 
cdh 
[mailto:accessibleimage-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Snir Dinar
Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2007 1:54 AM
To: accessibleimage@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [accessibleimage] Failing devices, designed for visually
impaired


Hi Everyone,

Apologies in advance if this isn't appropriate for this list! I'm looking
for examples of devices (of any type) which were specifically designed or
adapted to people with visual impairment, yet when you came to use it, you
found it to be failing or lacking something that you thought was quite
essential. This could be absolutely anything: from insufficient
functionalities to wrong physical shape/size/design.

Thank

Snir

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