Actually, I wish Apple would advertise VO more. Microsoft has
had plenty ofcommercials touting their accessibility access and so
forth. It is good press, after all.
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John D. Panarese
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MAC VOICEOVER TRAINING
On Jan 11, 2007, at 10:27 AM, Greg Kearney wrote:
I had the chance to speak with some people at Apple today on the
matter of accessibility in general. Here are some assorted notes.
Apple is keenly aware of the accessibility issues. A great deal of
time and effort is going into making the applications which ship
with OSx will be accessible.
Apple has heard the requests about iTunes and is working to make
that product accessible. How iTunes is more difficult than other
programs to introduce accessibility to I do not understand but Apple
is very much aware of the need to get iTunes working with VoiceOver.
The iPhone is so new that there are less than a dozen of them in
existence and those units could hardly be considered finished
products. Again Apple is aware for the need to make it and other
such products accessible and is working to that end. I don't know
what form that might take. I suspect that beyond a few engineers at
Apple no one does.
Steve Jobs quite understandably demoed the iPhone features and
interface that most people will be using. That does not mean that
other options such as speech or touch with voice will not be
available. Remember folks that the blind and profound dyslexics make
up a tiny sliver of the market. As much as I would like to have
Apple mention VoiceOver in their advertising I can understand why
they don't.
Greg Kearney
