Coming up on Main Menu for the week of March 19-AT&TWirelessAccessibility

[Frank Ventura]

Hi Darryl, I too could not listen to the show live last night due to
some ongoing health issues with these darn kidneys but caught the replay
this morning. Of course the show wasn't the same without you and with
that said I too agree that there were a lot of softballs and beach balls
being tossed around and not hardballs. I am going to listen to the 'cast
again but as of now I am still not clear why the CF deal is restricted
to older "clear out the stock" phones and is not available for the full
A T & T product line; such as the Tilt hich I think has one of the best
tactile QWERTY keyboards of any blind friendly phone. Also would have
liked to hear some more on the relationship with Apple and the future
accessibility or not of the IPhone. Hope to see you back in future
episodes.
Frank

-----Original Message-----
From: blindphones-bounces at mosenexplosion.com
[mailto:blindphones-bounces at mosenexplosion.com] On Behalf Of Darrell
Shandrow
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 10:04 AM
To: The Accessible Phones Discussion List
Subject: Re: Coming up on Main Menu for the week of March
19-AT&TWirelessAccessibility

Hello Brent,

I was unable to co-host last night due to a city commission meeting 
obligation, but I was able to listen to most of the show as it took
place 
right before the meeting.  I was actually surprised at the lack of hard 
questions asked.  I was expecting people to call in with some pretty 
challenging issues for her.  Susan is actually one of the good guys.  I
have 
a great deal of respect for her.  She's blind and the wife of a leader
in 
the tech sector of the blind community, Jamal Mazrui.  Remember, though,

that she does work for a huge corporation.  :(


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brent Harbolt" <bharbolt at sbcglobal.net>
To: "The Accessible Phones Discussion List"
<blindphones at mosenexplosion.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 4:05 AM
Subject: Re: Coming up on Main Menu for the week of March 
19 -AT&TWirelessAccessibility


Yeah, just goes to show you what people might believe if they don't do
their 
research. Sorry I missed it. Forgot all about it.

Best Regards,
Brent Harbolt
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Stephen Giggar
  To: The Accessible Phones Discussion List
  Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 5:20 AM
  Subject: Re: Coming up on Main Menu for the week of March 19 - 
AT&TWirelessAccessibility


  Took a lissen to Main Menu last night. It doesn't shock me at some of
the 
things that Susan from the
  AT&T/Cingular tried to claim was do to them and was their own idea.

  IE. VoiceAid, Message Reader. That existed on the E-Series and the
6290 
long before the N75 ever
  came out. The Say Name function is on all 3rd Edition phones as well.

  I found some other things as well that shell we say were not all the
way 
true and very scued! That
  doesn't shock me coming from the AT&T/Cingular disability center.

  I would have hoped that they would have cleaned up their information
some 
but it doesn't look to
  good. I guess that comes from the fact that they do not use the
products 
for the most part
  themselves.

  Lets see they are coming up on 4 years this September and I wouldn't
trust 
them as my only source of
  information. I would question anything that they told me and do my own

research.

  Signed: Stephen Giggar
  sgiggar at sbcglobal.net
  Skype: dr-phone.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: "Darrell Shandrow" <darrell.shandrow at gmail.com>
  To: <announce at acbradio.org>; <friends at acbradio.org>; 
<main-menu at googlegroups.com>; "Mobile
  Speak/Magnifier Smartphone Users List" <mss_mailing at codefactory.cat>;
  <blindphones at mosenexplosion.com>
  Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 11:40 AM
  Subject: Coming up on Main Menu for the week of March 19 - AT&T 
WirelessAccessibility


  > Hello Everyone,
  >
  > This week on a one hour Main Menu Live, we hear from Susan Mazrui
with 
AT&T Wireless all about the
  > company's accessibility initiatives for delivering screen readers
and 
smartphones into the hands
  > of blind and visually impaired customers.
  >
  > Here is how to participate in the show:
  >
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