[senit] Safari on PC

From: "Ira David Socol" <socolira at msu.edu>

Mark - 

That "wider selection of software," I would argue, is a direct result of 
corporate and programming decisions made by the two companies. as I just 
noted, Microsoft - and I'm no MS-loving fool - has gone out of their way to 
embrace this kind of software development. Apple simply has not. 

Ira 

webmaster at aylesburyvale-sec.bucks.sch.uk writes: 

> From: "Ira David Socol" <socolira at msu.edu>
>>as with most Apple
>> products - accessibility is an afterthought,  if thought
>> of at all. 
> 
> Whilst I agree that Firefox is a more accessible browser
> than Safari (if slower) I must say that your last sentence
> is complete nonsense. 
> 
> Apple have always striven to make their products very user
> friendly. This benefits everyone regardless of your
> 'ability'. A 'typical SEN' student (if there is such a
> thing) finds 'Pages' easier to use than 'Word' but then so
> would a 'non SEN' (again if there is such a thing) user. 
> 
> There are a number of features built into the OS which are
> specifically designed to increase accessibility. 
> 
> I use both Macs and PCs (though modern Macs are PCs, the
> main difference being that the are capable of running OSX)
> and you couldn't really persuade me that windows is more
> accessible other than in the sense that there is a wider
> selection of software available on the Windows platform. 
> 
> Mark 
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Ira David Socol
Special Education Technology Scholar
CEPSE
College of Education
Michigan State University
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