Spoken interface for Mac OS X

[David Poehlman]

There are quite a few potential beta candidates out there.  I am one of them
who has a titanium g4 powerbook running osx but the only way I can currently
use it is with os9 and outspoken for the mac.  There are lots of people for
one reason or another who are currently not working in some places because
there is no screen reading access to osx for the blind.  The last qquestion
on the survey askes if you would preview spoken interface.  No mention is
made anywhere of the status of the spoken interface except that it is in the
early stages of development and will appear in the next upgrade of osx.
Right now, it only works with some internal stuff for the mac but this is
planned to be expandable with additions to the development kits for internal
and external use.  Don't expect to see a beta any time soon.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Dodd" <Bob.Dodd at rocketmail.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2004 10:25 AM
Subject: Re: Spoken interface for Mac OS X


No it hasn;t. Currently they are looking for beta testers I believe:
http://www.apple.com/accessibility/spokeninterface/questionnaire.html

I'm not sure how many beta testers they think they will get, since I
don't imagine there are many visually impaired users that currently
have macs...

/bob

--- David Poehlman <poehlman1 at comcast.net> wrote:
> From what I have gathered, it has not yet been launched.
>


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