[gui-talk] Fwd: mac spoken interface (fwd)

[Erik Heil]

Hi their.  Sorry for the off-topic message, but since Mac OSX is based on 
Unix, I figured that maybe some of you guys would be interested in at 
least some of the developments.  Speaking of which, has any of you played 
with this new spoken interface?  Because it would be interesting to see 
just what actually is accessible in the GUI, as well as the system shell. 
i.e. perhaps run Lynx or possibly Gnome under OSX?

-- 
Erik Heil <eheil at va3duk.serveftp.com>
Phone: (865) 673-0542


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Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 14:25:04 +1000
From: Steve Pattison <srp at bigpond.net.au>
Reply-To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
To: GUI-TALK <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Subject: [gui-talk] Fwd: mac spoken interface

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On 22/07/2004 at 8:51 AM Ian Blackburn <iblackburn at gesb.wa.gov.au>
wrote:
good morning list
info below about apple spoken interface

Thank you for participating in the spoken interface preview program.
There have been a few exciting developments regarding the spoken
interface
that we'd like to share with you, and a few reminders.

First, great work on the feedback!  We've received great comments and
suggestions from our previewers and based on their number and quality,
we
know there's as much excitement outside the company about this new
technology as there is inside!  Thank you for taking time to work with
the
spoken interface and for sending your feedback.  Your comments are
extremely valuable and Apple is working hard to deliver as many of your
feature requests as possible in our final release.  Please keep up the
good work!

Speaking of feedback, a number of previewers have requested that Apple
give the spoken interface a name.  Indeed, at its recent worldwide
developer conference, Apple did just that. So, going forward, the
spoken
interface will be now be "VoiceOver" when it appears in Mac OS X Tiger
(due to ship in the first half of next year).  You can read more about
VoiceOver, and Tiger, by visiting Apple's web site at
http://www.apple.com/macosx/tiger/voiceover.html.  Also based on
previewer
feedback, Apple is renaming the "ViewFinder".  Going forward you'll
hear
this feature referred to as "the VoiceOver cursor".  We've also heard
many
requests for documentation to get acquainted with Mac OS X basics in
addition to the documentation provided for VoiceOver. You can now find
this documentation, and other late breaking news, by visiting the
preview
web page at http://www.apple.com/accessibility/spokeninterface/preview/

Now for a reminder.  The preview software you are using is tightly knit
into the fabric of Mac OS X and relies on a wide variety of features
and
technologies in the operating system to function correctly.  Therefore,
Apple highly recommends that you do NOT install any Mac OS X Software
or
security updates on the same system running the spoken interface
preview
software. These updates are not intended for those running the spoken
interface preview.  To prevent updates from appearing or being
automatically installed, turn off the "Check for updates" and "Download
important updates in the background" in the Software Updates panel in
System Preferences.  Also in System Preferences, turn off "Check for
updates automatically" in the Update tab of the QuickTime panel.

Thank you again for participating in this preview program.  We look
forward to hearing from you!

Sincerely,

The Tiger VoiceOver team
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Regards Steve,
mailto:srp at bigpond.net.au
Skype:  steve1963
MSN Messenger:  internetuser383 at hotmail.com


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