Re: Newbie question: Section 508 and "full keyboard access" on Mac OS X
Re: Newbie question: Section 508 and "full keyboard access" on Mac OS X
- Subject: Re: Newbie question: Section 508 and "full keyboard access" on Mac OS X
- From: "M. Uli Kusterer" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 14:43:37 +0200
At 5:31 Uhr -0400 01.09.2003, Bill Cheeseman wrote:
Are your friends
suggesting that there are no third-party applications that will run on
Windows XP but that fail to take full advantage of Windows accessibility
features? -- I doubt it. I'm sure Microsoft will tell you, as will Apple,
that they do everything they can to make accessibility technology available
to third-party developers, but that it is the third-party developers who are
responsible for making sure it works in their own applications.
Bill,
keep in mind that Windows had its main focus on being
keyboard-accessible from the get-go, because most PCs didn't have a
mouse back in the Windows 3.1.1 days... I have an old 286 sitting
here (or maybe a 386, I always forget, it was a gift), and I can use
it perfectly fine without ever touching its MS-Mouse.
The Mac's advantage of being mainly a mouse-controlled computer is
what makes that whole Section 508 (who came up with this name anyway?
Is that some US legislation thing, or what?) business so much of an
effort for Apple. They had to take their entire mouse-centric OS and
marry it to a keyboard-based OS concept.
In Windows, you hit the "alt" key, and you are in the menu bar ...
on the Mac it's something cryptic like "ctrl" + F2.
--
Cheers,
M. Uli Kusterer
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