The idea that certain types of accessibility aren't really needed because why can't a sighted person "just help us" really needs to fuck off.

There are a million different valid reasons for someone to want to be able to install an OS independently.

It's so ignorant to say "if your vision is that bad the act of setting up Windows 10 is not a priority," like blind people are some sort of needy collective and you know every blind person's priorities.

> It’s something that is going happen once and you probably have someone else that can help you with that.

Accessibility is about independance. Even if the set up is once, it doesn’t matter. If anything, the set up should also introduce the practicality of these tools. With my MacBook, both me and a fully blind acquaintance set up our macOS on our own. This process was once, but I’m a heavy user of their accessibility tools.

Stopped a quarter way because Paul's rhetoric makes me furious.

Accessibility is a 'crock'? Really? I don't know how they can call this guy 'respected' but he can fuck right off with his ignorant, unresearched and misinformed opinions. Thankfully companies who deal with accessibility won't take anything he said in that podcast seriously.

I'd hate to see how he advocates for his deaf son. Holy shit.

He back peddled though, if anybody actually took the time to listen to his whole rant. His overall shitty point was that these accessibility options suck but he made it a, well, these suck, because things don't matter."

For a tech journalist, he was an extremely poor communicator on this issue.

I have worked with several people in IT who are blind. They install Windows more than once.

I just reinstalled Windows a few days ago, after trying to give Linux yet another chance. I'm very grateful to Microsoft for their actual work on accessibility, moving things forward exponentially just about every year. Its tech journalists like this that have no idea of the freedom stuff like this gives us that should remind everyone involved that we have far more to do in educating people, indeed, even supposedly smart people, about what we face and how we do things.

Also, I turned Cortana off when doing the Out of Box experience, because firstly it was late at night, and because while Narrator and Cortana work well together, mostly, its not all that useful for me, really.