Subject: FW: interesting article about Mac accessibility
From: Ozmun, Karen (Karen.Ozmun@METROKC.GOV)
Date: Fri Feb 23 2001 - 14:10:24 PST
thought some of you might be interested in the e-mail forwarded below, which
includes a link to an article and comments by dan comden at university of
washington adaptive technology lab regarding pc versus mac platforms and
accessibility based on students' experiences at the lab there. karen ozmun
-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Comden [mailto:danc@cac.washington.edu]
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 10:40 AM
To: DO-IT general interest list
Subject: interesting article about Mac accessibility
http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=06311
This pretty much mirrors what we've been seeing the last few years in
terms of AT used by DO-IT Scholars. Nearly everything we're doing now is
on PCs instead of Macs. In the AT Lab at the University of Washington, PCs
running Win98 are used almost exclusively -- almost no one uses the nice
new Mac G4s we have available.
In my mind, the basic problem with the Mac operating system is lack of
keyboard access. The Mac OS forces use of a mouse (or some sort of
pointer). This has significant implications for accessibility when
compared to the Windows platform for everything from screen reader use to
mobility accommodations to speech input.
-*- Dan Comden danc@cac.washington.edu
Adaptive Technology Lab http://www.washington.edu/computing/atl/
University of Washington http://www.washington.edu/doit/
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