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

[Ryan Mann]

Hi.  You mentioned Microsoft Office not being accessible with Voice 
Over.  For word processing, you could use the editor that comes with 
Mac OSX called Text Edit.  You can read and save documents in Word or 
rich text format.  I've recently used my new Mac Mini to do a research 
paper for one of my classes.

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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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