[accesscomp] Re: Windows Phone 8 Accessibility
- From: "Sue Buckley" <suebuckley25@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <accesscomp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2012 11:32:29 -0400
If RT does not run the screen readers then this needs to be put up on the
websites of those companies. They need to inform folks soon of this. I am
talking Freedom Scientific and GW Micro for two.
Sue
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From: Reginald George
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Sent: Friday, November 02, 2012 9:20 AM
Subject: [accesscomp] Windows Phone 8 Accessibility
I just read an article on this, and unless someone has more information, It
doesnât sound like itâs much better than in the inaccessible Windows Phone 7.
There was no talk that the menus or settings in the phone were accessible with
speech. You can turn on speech for reading of text messages, called stupidly
audio confirmation, you can turn on talking caller ID, but nothing about access
to the phones functions. This is a disgrace on the part of Microsoft if this
is the case. They have been making empty promises about access to their
Windows Mobile phone system for the last 4 years at the blind conventions and
in meetings. They have also compounded the confusion by creating two other
totally different operating systems called Windows 8, and Windows 8 RT. RT
wonât even run our screen readers. If anyone has any more specific information
on these concerns I would love to hear it.
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