Dear Madam or Sir,

My name is Gabriel Brodowski, I've made a few sites in my time, non have ever really taken off but the first I ever made was a games directory, it didn't break the schools policy on having games embedded in it so it actually didn't do too bad at my school. I'm from Weymouth, Dorset and it's a seaside town where the seagulls get well fed and the dock workers get well drunk.

I’m petitioning for you sincerely to read my written thoughts:

Technology, it’s brilliant! I am infatuated and dependent on social media and other technological applications such as music apps, games and productivity apps but it is hindering us; the specific you, us or one. It’s not technology’s fault. It’s not our fault. The rush of pushing for more ‘magic’, marvel and innovation has caused us all, including me to annoyingly lose sight of one thing:

Technological Transparency.

We have:

Privacy policies (the nature with which one’s data is owned by not one).

Terms and Conditions (the rights we lose to licenses).

And

Terms of Service (the nature of technology’s servitude).

These documents tell us what is going on, I’ve read my fair share and what they don’t do is tell us the full story.

One solution to this is to publicise what technological providers are doing with our data and our products (in it’s fullest extent) on an informative and communicative level that is easy to understand by us all.

The lack of this is stopping a fundamental ethic of our psychology.

The mental of the mass, plateaued by the fearing nature of lack of informative class, in information and data, technology needs to shape up.

Magic is not powerful, it’s dangerous to our health; for not knowing causes disturbance to our own resolves.

Available, public and provided knowledge is an ethical informative basis required by modern society for its stable progression.

I want a society where we are not implicitly fearful of what - OUR product that WE bought does. The very fact that we are not informed of what our stuff does is disturbing. Luckily, just one step further, what data that is out there is ethically secured by the software company that installed their version on the device. In other words; before someone wants to play a software prank on us they go through the big boys at first port of call. Please take a breather, this is a very stressful topic but human time, our time will prevail.

What I want is what I think we all want, and to expand and sum it up in conclusion:
A solid healthy mind in solidarity with the beautiful technologies that have just missed the important click of transparency.

#TechnologyinTandemWithEthics

To resolve please allow me to gesticulate in the written word form:

As much as I love dogs I am not one, but I certainly don’t want to sit and let technology take my data so it can provide me with a good experience, not pay for the data I am an important instigator of and sell the data to someone else who does the same until Dodgy Person number 1’s goldfish hates him enough to make his attitude towards the world become pessimistic and in doing so, eventually do something wrong.

So here we are… and it comes down to these three:

1. Data Security
2. Transparency
3. True Data Ownership

If all follow ethical standpoints, we will have saved the ever important psyche and can maybe more easily focus on other matters such as World peace amongst other ethics.

Yours sincerely with all the best intentions,

    Gabriel Brodowski

I am visually impaired and suffer from Macular Degeneration and diabetic retinopathy. Dell Computer had me reload my windows operation system yesterday in order to correct a problem that was using 99% to 100% of my disk drive, slowing down my computer and causing continual freezes. I was using Window Home version 1607. One the reload of the Window was complete I was using Windows version 1703.

This version eliminates certain text enhancements I used to better be able to read text. It made text darker and increased the font size and allowed me to bold menu and tools fonts, making header and menu text much easier to read. The new version has eliminated these features. I contacted a Microsoft tech support person who advised these features were no longer available in the updated Windows. He was going to download the 1607 version and show me how to prevent an upgrade update to newer version. I would just be able to do the security updates and keep my text enhancement features of version 1607. Unfortunately, I could not do the update at that time (this morning) as I was on wifi at a restaurant and wanted to do it when I reach home. I recontacted Microsoft tech support and they have started the download for version 1607.

I am very disappointed in Microsoft for removing these important features that are valuable to people in my condition. Although someone advised me to file a complaint with the United State Department of Justice, I have decided not to do so, but instead wanted to let you know I think you should reincorporate these features back into Windows version 1703. I realize Microsoft typically has a young group of people making these decisions and readability is not important when you have good vision. I previously ran into this problem when upgrading from Office 2007 and discovered some readability features were eliminated. I hope you will consider adding these features back into version 1703 (or future version) as people like me have some difficulty reading.

In HTML, you can add "lang" attributes to pages and to individual chunks of text. This, among other things, tells screen readers in which language they should pronounce the words (as long as the user has the appropriate voice profiles installed).

In Microsoft products such as PowerPoint, however, screen readers (JAWS, NVDA, Window Eyes) read the content in English no matter the language you set words to via the language settings. This makes it very difficult to use Microsoft documents to accompany language classes--where we switch between the target language and the native language often, to include adopted phrases such as "joie de vivre" in documents Microsoft, to welcome everyone at a presentation in their own language on an opening PPT slide, etc.

Sending the information about the spell-checker language settings to screen readers so that they can switch voice profiles and pronounce things in the correct language would be a boon.