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

[Karen Lewellen]

How did you do the footnotes?  Thee is a person on the vo list wanting to 
know how this is done in text edit?


On Sun, 2 Apr 2006, Ryan Mann wrote:

> 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.
>
> Original message:
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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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