apple's screen reader (was New Linux PDA For Blind People)

[Steve Holmes]

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I didn't get a lot of time to really get down and use Voice Over heavily
but I did give Itunes a try.  Forget it! Itunes was quieter than a
church mouse! I understand applications have to be built in Coco
framework in order for Voice Over to work.  Itunes and the ports of
Microsoft Office are in Carbon; I was told that Carbon apps just flat
don't work in Voice Over.

On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 01:39:04PM -0500, Travis Siegel wrote:
> What are you talking about?
> I use the mac every day. Email, file manipulation, cd/dvd playing, cd/ 
> dvd creating, online chatting, web browsing, word processing, and to  
> some degree, even programming on the mac are completely 100%  
> accessible.  There's folks using it for sound editing, and podcast  
> creation as well.  If there's stuff you can't do on the mac, there's  
> probably a third-party solution out there somewhere to do it.   
> Admittedly, some of the programs aren't 100% accessible, but there's  
> always workarounds.  The shell prompt (they call it terminal) works,  
> though not automatically, but if that's the worst I have to worry  
> about with a machine, then I'd say it's a pretty good machine.
> Also, the apple provided dvd player won't let you get to the video  
> described sound tracks on your dvd by yourself, but the softcon DVD  
> player does (http://softcon.com/mac). and there's other developers  
> working on things like producing audio mp3 files from text using the  
> apple voices, and various other little things to make macs easier/ 
> better to use.  I'd suggest going into your local apple store,  
> sitting down with a mac, and trying it before insisting it's not  
> usable.  I think you might be surprised at how much you can do with it.


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