[access-uk] products that just work was: The Kindle
- From: Gordon Keen <gordonkeen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 10:48:02 +0100
:-)
As my dear old, silver haired, scottish mother would have said:
The cheapest is always the dearest in the long run.
You get what you pay for and you have to compare the computers with other
platforms that require the extra cost of screen reading software to get the
same sort of functionality out of the hardware.
One day in the future blind people will have the same access to consumer
products as apple users today have, they are just going to have to balance the
need to pay extra to get it now in a wonderfully designed and reliable piece of
high end engineered hardware or wait a decade or two for the rest of the world
to catch up.
.
Don't forget that apple sell refurbished equipment that has been serviced by
apple specialists and offered at reduced prices, yes even the ipad.
Cheers
G
From glorious Devon, England.
On 28 Sep 2010, at 10:14, Jackie Cairns wrote:
> I agree Gordon, but they are extortionately over-priced, and they won't do
> well unless they drop their costs a bit.
>
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Jackie Cairns
> J&M Work-Ability
>
> jandm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> www.work-ability.co.uk
> -----Original Message-----
> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Gordon Keen
> Sent: 28 September 2010 10:02
> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: The Kindle
>
> Hi
> ibooks are fully accessible with voiceover on the mac products, can't speak
> for other platforms or screen readers though.
>
> Regards
>
> G
>
> From glorious Devon, England.
>
> On 27 Sep 2010, at 22:04, ari wrote:
>
>
>
> Yeah, I wonder if a blind person can read books on the IPad though,
> I can't test that because its not in my country yet, but its quite
> depressing how inaccessible ebooks are for us. My uni can't even buy me the
> Adobe Digital Editions version of ebooks because they are inaccessible, so
> we have to wait ages for publisher's alternative formats and special
> permission and all sorts of rubbish like that.
>
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