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Greetings:
Those of you who read my speech on the GUI will remember my point
about the Macintosh being the first accessible GUI platform for the
blind. Although OUTspoken is far from perfect, it does work, and
a fair number of blind people are using it to good effect.
I agree that action is called for to encourage the government to
refuse to buy software that is not accessible to us. Look at the
resolution that I helped to write that came out of the second
US/Canada Conference on Technology.
The GUI is here to stay, my friends. We'd best get with it and
figure out how to live with it. In the same vein, we should also
recognize that there are SOME applications that we will NEVER have
independent access to. Mike's point about Pagemaker is well taken.
The important point here is that we should insist that blind access
not be trivilized, as it has too often been in the past. We cannot
wish for the Mac to go away. We can wish for better access,
however.
Cordially, Curtis Chong
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