This is the latest boost that caught me to read this article dealing with accessibility.
It says:
Jeffrey D. Stark: Boosting Helidonkey (ednun_p): My good friend Liam recently wrote an article about how several tech firms are somewhat screwing over blind people. see what you think: https://www.theregister.com/Print/2023/10/16/apple_lenovo_blind_fail/
The link, leads to this article by Liam Proven titled Apple and Lenovo are dropping the ball for visually impaired users. The sub title is: “Accessibility features help everybody… and one day, you might need them too.”
I read this fully, and I completely agree. Several people were mentioned in this article, I know of one, but you may know them personally.
We, the blind and visually impaired, aren’t going anywhere. While one person baught something and a price match apparently passed, if the company was mean about it, that’s one thing. But if let’s say it took the whole time to ship even while they were price checking, you want to make sure the product works well.
I would urge everyone to read this, as there are links to various blind terms and things to be aware of as well as some statistical stuff too.
I hope everyone is well. More later!
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Hi jared.
Yeah, the big issues I have are with laptop tools.
On my old hp envy, the support tool will lock the system but it does eventually come up and its a web page.
I am unsure about lenovo advantage but comercial had a busted progress bar but that got fixed and it to comes up like a web page.
I know msi and toshiba and a few others had tools not working.
I have recently pushed an asus system I had and their tools well I had to bypass a lot of things.
I just got an acer I had to do work on.
The first thing I did after reinstalling things was to remove every spaciffic tool and program and driver that wasn’t essential for the system as they didn’t work.
There are a lot of extras on these things and while some look good they just don’t.
Even with my brother printer their tools, scanner software, etc are rubbish.
Thats a shame because the web printer server on there is fine.
It would be nice if the usefull tools for your system worked.
When I get a system the first thing I do is reformat and install generic windows on it.
After that and its updated I will myself install any extras the store has for the system and then any special drivers from the manufacturer.
Everything from sound, display and all the other stuff I use the windows or intel/amd drivers.
I don’t generally use the system drivers unless they are newer.
And even then I am often removing a lot of stuff from starting unless its needed.
I have customised my system so it workks for me.
I try not to do that to systems I am working on but its quite hard not to at times.
There was a time where it wasn’t a problem but that was at least years back.
Sadly we went wrong at the integrated chips.
Yes they are fine but when audio and display were not on the same chip things did run better in my opinion.