At 8:27 -0800 17/3/06, Chris Meredith wrote:
In reading the press release, I myself have one question, that being what enhancements to application access, if any, are being made. Will this lower the barriers to more products, or will it merely add more languages to VoiceOver in some fashiohn?
Chris, it will be more than just more languages and better voices. However, we have not yet finalized the feature set. I do not expect us to be able to make inaccessible applications more accessible (as mentioned in the earlier discussions, I firmly believe those products need to be fixed instead of Apple or us resorting to dirty tricks; dirty tricks may help in the short term but may not make things better in the long run).
What we plan to do is add features useful to people who have some vision (so not blind) and add speech related features currently absent in VoiceOver or the system. So try think beyond access to inaccessible applications, but think more in terms of things that could be done to better enjoy (partly) accessible software, or allow you to work more efficiently. I see this as an interactive and iterative process, where I learn more about needs and try to think of technical solutions. We usually have a whole series of free updates of a new product adding features based on user feedback.
david. -- -------------------------------------------------------------- David Niemeijer, CTO AssistiveWare(R) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.assistiveware.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------
