I am fully sighted, and have been exploring VO since this last winter. I am not a software developer. I am a Mac consultant, I am very familiar to sighted usage. I had no prior experience with screen reading. I now volunteer VO and Mac access instruction to the Santa Barbara Braille Institute. I still find frustration in reading websites, but can navigate around the computer very well.
For sighted people VO shows tracking by drawing a box around the item, additionally we can have a window that shows the audible interface as text. When I use VO I try to not use a mouse and stay on the keyboard. When I become a bit more masterful with this I hope to be helpful on this list. As is, you are welcome to make use of my sight, ask and I will attempt to explore and discover solutions. Woody On 9/11/06 5:29 AM, "David Poehlman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > Our talking interface thread which is splendid thanks to all who've > made positive and thoughtful contributions, has spawned another idea > which I'm hoping will also spawn a fine and thoughtful discussion. > > I'm calling out to those Mac Folk who are not blind who use VO for > one reason or another. > > We've talked about the fact that every Mac comes with VO built in. > I've run into folk who don't even know this and have gotten Macs > since VO began to appear on them. Some others say they've played > with it a bit, but What I want to look at here is how easy it can be > to test development work with VO. Are you prone to turn VO on and > point and click? If so, would this be enough? If development is > going to have any validity for folk who do not use VO but want to > test with it, VO needs to work sort of like a Sighted person who uses > the computer works. Most folk are not going to want to learn the > interface just so they can test their code. > > The answer to the divide may be VO but as has been pointed out, we > aren't there yet and this I believe is partly due to the fact that we > have been on a path of rrequirement to use a different approach and > interface on all platforms and in all instances. > > At any rate, if you are not a person who is blind and you use VO, > please share your thoughts? If you know someone who uses VO who is > not blind, Please invite them to share their thoughts or forward with > permission. > > Thanks!
