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

[W. Nick Dotson]

What sound editing.  ProTools isn't as yet accessible with Tiger, and who wants to run OS9 and OutSpoken?  Again, 
programs are only as accessible on a Mac as programmers choose to make them by adhering to the strictly volunteery 
standards which make applications accessible to the not-Screen Reader.

Nick

On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 13:39:04 -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.
 On Mar 30, 2006, at 11:46 AM, Ann K. Parsons wrote:

 > Hi all,
 >
 > Interesting point of view.  Not sure it's accurate, but definitely
 > interesting.  <smiling>  It may even work, if, I say if, the
 > mainstream market can be persuaded that it is just what is needed.
 > Somebody in this discussion used the illustration of the typewriter.
 > Good choice, why, because that device was, in the 1880s designed
 > specifically *for* a blind person so that person could write more
 > effectively.
 >
 > You may want to be careful when talking about Apple's screen reader.
 > I have heard that it is good, but it doesn't give sull access yet.
 > Perhaps there have been improvements?
 >
 > Ann P.
 >
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