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

[Karen Lewellen]

Agreed, As for who would use os 9 with pro tools and outspoken, many 
people in the sound editing business for music and radio.  Far more cost 
affective and efficient than anything else at the moment....and of course it 
is not a question of if vo will work with pro tools it is when, and still 
at a more cost  reasonable functional and accessible structure.
i still wish someone would come up with a pro tools level sound editor for 
Linux though.


On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, John Heim wrote:

> My opinion is that this discussion belongs on the VoiceOver list, not here.
>
>
> At 01:57 PM 3/30/2006, W. Nick Dotson wrote:
>> 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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