Another reason why Voice Over isn't being pushed in the press is that
Apple isn't satisfied with it yet. Also, Apple is probably pushing
third party developers to make their products VO compatible.
Remember the list of applications that came out as Apple went from
the PowerPC chip to the Intel chip?
Anyway, just my $0.02.
Marshall
On Apr 16, 2007, at 8:26 PM, Richie Gardenhire wrote:
I don't know if you're having this problem in the Lower 48 states,
but here in Alaska, our Division of Votional Rehabilitation (DVR)
keeps our hands tied because the major screenreader producers have
created somewhat of a monopoly with their products, and VoiceOver,
as well as other lesser known players are fighting an uphill
battle. More and more of us up here are trying to "get the word
out" but it's been a hard sell. Richie Gardenhire, Anchorage, Alaska.
On Apr 16, 2007, at 3:19 PM, Josh de Lioncourt wrote:
Hey Holly and all,
Yes, I totally agree. I'm always listening in to various Apple
related podcasts and Mac news sites, hoping for a mention of
VoiceOver, and it is depressing, frequently, when there is none.
I emailed a couple of places to mention it, but got no responses
whatever. This is just the way it goes with access technology, it
seems.
On Apr 16, 2007, at 2:15 PM, Holly Anderson wrote:
This article did make me laugh a bit, but at the same time it
kind of makes me sad. It seems the only press voice over ever
gets in the mainstream mac sites is that it is annoying and how
do I turn it off. I'm not saying vo should get top story or
anything like that, but when the itunes update came out and was
accessible that was mentioned nowhere. I tried emailing some
podcasters about it and when I did get responses it was like oh
that's cool but they never mentioned it on the podcasts. It just
sometimes feels like we are invisible in both the blindness
community and the sighted community as well. I remember when
tiger came out and it had voice over, I never heard voice over
mentioned. People talked about spotlight being new and all the
cool new features but voice over was never mentioned. If I
didn't read blindness related blogs and that sort of thing I
wouldn't know about voice over.
I'm not saying sighted people should always talk about voice
over, but a positive mention every now and then wouldn't hurt
would it?
Holly
On Apr 16, 2007, at 3:28 PM, Josh de Lioncourt wrote:
Here's a link, good for a chuckle.
http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/mac911/2007/04/accidentua/
index.php?lsrc=mwrss
Thought you all might enjoy.
