On 13 Jan 2006, at 1:02 AM, David Poehlman wrote:
The reason we aren't seeing outspoken on os x is that AAGI felt
there was no market. Schools spoke other wise when they began to
scramble to fill the niche. Going back a bit, The Mac was used a
lot over the years in education but for some reason or other, it
never made it into the mainstream of blindness employment. There
were quite a few presures that I won't list, but we were all told
that the mac was not the way to go although I kept seeing these
tantalizing bits and knew people who used macs and had even begun
to work out some ways of using the mac without outspoken or VO.
Hello everyone,
When OS X came out, I contacted AAGI and was told that they were
trying to update OutSpoken for OS X but Apple was refusing to give
them the necessary information to do the job.
My husband tried to write me some applescripts that would make OS X
usable but found it impossible.
I was very angry with Apple at the time, as were many other people,
I'm sure, but it took the threat of losing the U.S. education
contracts to make Apple get its finger out.
Anne
