Hello James,
You are a newcomer to the Mac and yet you pontificate as though you
knew it well. I, on the other hand, know nothing about Windows but
have been a Mac user for 11 years and a VoiceOver user since Tiger
was released. I don't recognise your problems with Safari. It behaves
beautifully for me and I use it a great deal as I am a freelance
translator and have to do research on the web all the time.
Cheers,
Anne
On Sep 1, 2007, at 11:29 PM, James Jolley wrote:
Forgive me, VO doesn't compare to either screen reader.
Imagine, JAWS cursor all day long, that's VO. sorry, but facts are
facts. If people compare it to Window-eyes they hardly know the
product. As it stands now, VO is narator with navigation. It
doesn't tend to read things automaticly, nor have the ability to
monitor screen areas but future releases will have this. Sorry, but
as a screen reader, it's minimal at best.
Take the web, using it with Safari is more or less a lesson in
frustration. Pages skip around, it jumps about and refuses to read
passed elemennts, etc, etc.
Like I said, it is a work in progress. Any employers wouldn't see
VO as a viable solution. I am expecting a lot of replies to this,
but sorry, that's how I feel. Why do you think I have to run
windows? It's to simply use the net because access isn't there yet
with VO but it is relatively good with Window-eyes, well, streets
ahead. actually.
Just my thoughts and not a reflection on what's to come. I own a
mac for it's technology, not for the screen reader.
On 1 Sep 2007, at 21:33, Jude DaShiell wrote:
VoiceOver is decidedly not screen narrator nor anything like it.
Leopard will have more screen reader features in its version of
VoiceOver than tiger has and by screen reader features I do not
mean voices. tiger at least for now is missing a read entire
screen feature but leopard will have that ability. There'll be a
learning curve but VoiceOver's complexity is above Window-eyes and
below jaws for windows. Once the learning curve is mastered
VoiceOver can do as well as jaws can for reading the screen.
VoiceOver was built into the operating system while screen
narrator was a bolt on job deliberately left with enough to get
windows installed and no more capabilities than that. Hope this
helps, every screen reader I've mentioned in this message I've
used extensively at one time or another and I've had exposure to
screen readers not yet discussed as well too.
