I have karma to burn and I was going to moderate this thread, but I think its more important that I comment.
I'm legally blind. I use JAWS and other software to hear the internet when the little vision I have in one eye goes south; And let me tell you this; Nobody cares about the blind when it comes to computers.
We are a small market segment because most blind people cant afford technology, and even worse because we are small companies feel like they can get away with screwing us over because they know that not only do we not have the money statistically to buy their products, but we also don't have the money statistically to hire a lawyer and sue. So they do it knowing full well that the ADA applies, they just dont care and know they can get away with it.
I'm lucky. I have worked as a programmer for over 15 years and I have worked in fortune 100 companies on products that most people use daily; I have technical skills and thankfully my income while not as much as somebody who is sighted - my disability is often used as an excuse to not pay me correctly - I still get paid a lot better than most of the blind people I have know. You sighties don't know how good you have it. Worse, most of you sighties (sighted people) don't give a crap about the blind yourselves, despite all the hollabaloo you make publicly.
Your comments like most who are sighted, are non-consecutive and do little to help. Why don't you get off your butt and show how elite and skilled you are by solving the problem and doing some good in the world instead of putting down the best solution found? Or at least help gear up somebody who actually cares about the problem, like I did when I worked with OLPC so many years ago to help them use the correct device for the audio system so flite and other blind access tools actually worked?
Better yet, why don't you start making patches to firefox and all the other browsers that are open source to make them easier to use for the blind, since right now Internet Explorer, for all of its faults, has accessibility hooks built in? Oh I forgot, you are too good to actually write code and solve problems, its much easier for you to act like you care and then go off and not actually help, becouse its easier to waste away teh fact that you can see and so you can do things and help in ways the blind cant to help themselves, no matter how hard we try.. my bad.
He who has but four and spends five has no need for a wallet.