off topic: accessibility with mac stuff?

Jane Lee applegoddess at gmail.com
Sun Oct 23 18:41:37 EDT 2005


hey deedra, Apple was beta testing VoiceOver before tiger came out. 
Since nobody really did anything to make OS X accessible, having given
up at the small user base, Apple decided to take matters into their
own hands.

IMO, the accessibility features in OS X are fantastic, but only
because there's nothing to compare it to - a little is better than
nothing.  A lot of the features like magnification work well, but
VoiceOver is still clearly beta and limited and is not all too great
if you're using a non-Apple application.  However, it's most
definately more usable than Microsoft Narrator and the likes.  Apple's
Accessibility team did a good job with starting, here's to hoping they
make it more advanced and less buggy than it is right now.

Cheers
j




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