Re: Nomensa review of VoiceOver

[Travis Siegel]

Apparently in their documentation browsing, they missed the mouse  
keystroke.  They claim that in finder there's no way using the  
regular voice over keys to open an application.  Performing a single  
mouse click (vo-space) does the job very nicely.  And, although you  
can use command-o, it's not necessary.  I also don't think they tried  
most other apps that ship with the os, since I clearly note  on my  
programs accessible with vo page that address book and calendar *do*  
work, but with a bit of work.  These are applications that require  
slightly more advanced vo usage, and isn't something I would expect  
someone to have learned after only two days of using voiceover for a  
couple hours a day.
I'd also like to point out that they're incorrect about images on web  
sites too.  If the image doesn't have an alt tag, voice over *does*  
see the image, and simply labels it image.  vo-h will give you the  
url to the image.  It's images that have blank alt tags that  
voiceover doesn't see, but this is the same with most of the windows  
screen readers as well, so I see nothing wrong with that.
Otherwise, I have no problem with their review, since they did try to  
be objective, they certainly did a better job than most other reviews  
I've seen done by 3rd party reviewers.