off topic: accessibility with mac stuff?

[David Poehlman]

As a voice over user, I must partially take exception with this  
post.  It is the app developpers who will need to make their apps  
work with voice over.  Voice over is far from primitive.  You can for  
instance run pine and lynx on it quite nicely as well as pico and  
other linux/unix apps.  Don't under estimate it.  More third party  
apps are coming on board all the time.

-- 
Jonnie Apple Seed
With his:
Hands-On Technolog(eye)s


On Oct 23, 2005, at 6:41 PM, Jane Lee wrote:

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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