Hi Dave,
OK, now I see what you are doing.
Thanks for posting this list.
It will be interesting to see what people say.
On Apr 2, 2006, at 7:38 AM, David Poehlman wrote:
No, I want to hear from others as to what has already been done.
Quite a lot of it is doable today, and I'll send people's responses
to the person posing the questions. It might be enough to help a
decision to purchase or acquire a Mac.
On Apr 2, 2006, at 10:36 AM, Dan Keys wrote:
Hi Dave,
You should send that list to Apple.
On Apr 2, 2006, at 7:31 AM, David Poehlman wrote:
Here is a concrete list of requirements someone has posed. If you
had these requirements, which ones could be filled by the Mac with
VO and how?
My list of essentials:
1. A web browser with a feature set similar to that in JAWS or
Window-Eyes
as I don't have a lot of spare time to poke around looking for
things so the
quick keys and whatever it is that we called the bookmark thing in
JAWS are
essentials.
2. A fully featured word processor with an outliner and
collaboration
tools. Working at a university, I have enormously long writing
projects to
do and must collaborate with a team to get them done. Spell
checker is a
must but you can chuck even the best grammar checkers.
3. A personal organization program like Outlook that can handle
calendar,
task list, contacts and email that can synchronize with my HP iPAQ
PDA/Phone.
4. Skype.
5. A spreadsheet with many of the JAWS augmentations so I can
work on
complex five year budgets and such.
6. A media player that can handle: audible.com, MP3, Daisy, OGG,
Real and
most anything I might stumble across that is highly accessible.
7. A good compiler and development environment with which I can
quickly
slap together 3D audio and haptics experiments (Direct X does the
job on
Windows).
8. UPNP control software for my research into smart spaces.
9. High quality 3D sound, including HRTF for my research.
10. Ability to handle most haptic (force feedback) devices I can
buy at
Best Buy or Circuit City for my research.
