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

[Jane Jordan (gmail)]

Actually iTunes is usable to some extent--honest.  You just have to  
remember where you are on the screen.  Mind you, there are  
alternative players that I mostly use now.  iTunes is somethingI use  
mainly fr when I want music that's playing selected for my  
LiveJournal entries that I do on this machine.

Jane


On Apr 2, 2006, at 4:30 AM, Steve Holmes wrote:

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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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