Re: What are your hopes for vee oh two point oh?

[Travis Siegel]

Me personally, I'd like to see vo work better with XTools.  Whether  
this is via XTools becoming more vo friendly, or vo doing something  
to vo to make it work better with things like interface builder  
really makes no difference to me, as long as I can use the silly  
thing to build a full-blown app from scratch without having to resort  
to coding tricks, command-line editing, and/or canibalizing other  
programs just to get the interface objects I need.  Though version  
2.3 is a leap forward from previous versions, it still lacks a *lot*  
of things.  I.E. there's no way (I know of) to get at the pallete's  
tool bar, and customizing items such as matricies, buttons and window  
panels can't be done using vo only key combinations.  Admittedly, a  
lot of this has to do with mouse drag-and-drop type operations, but  
some of it doesn't,  have anything to do with mous movement (such as  
customized toolbars) and it sure would be nice if we could do these  
kinds of things without sighted assistance.  Especially since,, in my  
case, sighted assistance for programming related tasks is extremely  
hard to come by.  Sure, my wife can click and drag things for me, but  
often she has no idea what she's supposed to do, and trying to  
explain what I want isn't always possible.
To say the least, working with the tools apple provides for  
programming that make it so simple for sighted folks is a real chore  
for vo users, and downright impossible in some cases.

I'd also like to see better access to terminal.  I've fiddled with a  
few solutions myself, and had some success, but nothing I'd write  
home about.
I'd also like to see a mode where you could have vo read  
automatically when text changes on the screen.  While I don't need  
this very often, I find occasions where this could be very handy.