off topic: accessibility with mac stuff?

[Lorenzo Taylor]

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A major problem with screen readers for graphical environments is that they tend
to be tied to specific graphics libraries.  I know I will probably get flamed so
bad for this I'll feel the burn, but IMO it is up to screen reader developers to
make their technology work with as many application development libraries as
possible and it may also be up to library developers to make their underlying
development libraries send import info to screen readers.  Tying a screen reader
to a specific application library is IMO a very bad thing to do.  Sighted people
only have to worry about the underlying graphics library to know if it is
installed or not.  True access for blind people is access to every application
no matter how the developers choose to render the text and buttons to the
screen.  There has to be a way to allow this type of access for all individuals,
so that as a blind or visually impaired individual I only have to worry about
libraries or programming languages if they are not installed, and of course
apt-get even solves that problem for me.  I shouldn't have to worry whether my
screen reader is designed to work with the libraries the application I'm using
is linked against in order to know if I can actually get speech out of the
application.  My programming skills aren't good enough to take on such a screen
reader project, unfortunately, but I have to say that there has to be a way to
make such a universal screen reader that would be designed to just work(TM), and
if anyone knows how to do such a thing, I'm sure Apple should have the necessary
skill and/or resources to make it happen.  Is there a specific reason why they
made Voiceover only work with their own graphics library and few if any others?_

Lorenzo
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