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From: barner@udel.EDU (Ken Barner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Easy Access
Message-ID: <4311@louie.udel.EDU>
Date: 28 Sep 88 20:20:44 GMT
References: <10159@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <17834@apple.Apple.COM> <6413@ut-emx.UUCP>
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Reply-To: barner@udel.EDU (Ken Barner)
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In article <17834@apple.Apple.COM>, Ed Tecot writes:
>In article <10159@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>, Peter Merchant writes:
>>Apple still does things to make their products usable by the handicapped, not
>>because it sees handicapped people as just as vital to the workforce as
>>non-handicapped, but because they are a market-niche and that means more
>>sales.
>
>Wrong.  I wrote Easy Access because I wanted physically handicapped people to
>share in the Macintosh experience.  You have no idea just how satisfying this
>can be.
> 
> 						_emt

I doubt that Easy Access has done much for Apple's market share.  I can
tell you first hand that Easy Access makes using a computer much easier
for some people, me included.  I am disabled and type with a stick in
one hand, making "control escape shift #" combinations a real pain in
the *ss.  I bough my MacII last summer because I liked the system, I'd never
even heard of Easy Access (the salesman never mentioned it either).  I'm
very happy with the Mac and features like Easy Access make it a pleasure to
use.  I'd rather use the Mac than the Sun workstation in my office (anyone
at Sun out there want to remedy this situation).  I know Apple bashing
popular but I'd like to thank Ed Tecot, so ease up Dick Merchant.


                                         Ken Barner