Making Mousetraps Accessible

…or, the danger of extending metaphors.

Winske [president of the Disability Policy Consortium] said he likes the concept of open-source technology and hopes that OpenDocument will one day be accessible. “I have no problem with it,” he said. “The Mozilla Project and Firefox have proved that if people build a better mousetrap, people will use it. It’s a matter of making that mousetrap accessible.”

Should mousetraps be accessible? Depends if you are a mouse… ;-)

5 thoughts on “Making Mousetraps Accessible

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  2. The Mozilla Project and Firefox have proved that if people build a better mousetrap, people will use it.

    Mousetraps? Really? I don’t get it.
    Do you have to be a native speaker to understand why software such as Firefox can be pictured as a mousetrap? I mean, it’s not antivirus software or any such thing�

    * Puzzled *

    Oh well�

  3. John Winske?? Are you sure this guys name isn’t Yogi Berra? His quote sounds more like something Yogi would say. E.G

    “This is like deja vu all over again.”

    “You can observe a lot just by watching.”

    “I knew I was going to take the wrong train, so I left early.”

    “If you can’t imitate him, don’t copy him.”

    “Baseball is 90% mental — the other half is physical.”

    And my favorite: “Nobody goes there anymore; it’s too crowded.”

  4. for those who dont get the mousetrap coment
    “Ralph Waldo Emerson made the oft-quoted remark in favour of innovation:
    “Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your
    door”.”

    from the artical on moustraps in wikipeidia, maybe this turn of prase is more comon in some places than others.