Would you mind if I quoted from what you've written below when I put
together the Sighted VoiceOver Users article? What name/email/URL/
whatever would you like as attribution, assuming you are OK with it.
And if there's anything else you'd like to add, please do! I was
actually looking for a wide range of answers so yours is *very*
welcome because I'm sure you're not part of who Apple imagined would
use VoiceOver. The more "unlikely" uses are actually more interesting
sometimes!
If you could get that developer who used VO when his monitor packed
up to write a bit for me too, I'd be eternally grateful. Especially
interesting would be about the learning curve and how easy/hard it
was to go from screen to VO with no transition, and whether he
learned anything that was still useful after he got his screen back!
Thanks in advance,
Ricky Buchanan
On 08/10/2007, at 12:58 AM, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote:
This probably isn't what you're looking for, but I'm a sighted web
developer who tries to test my work with VoiceOver as part of
general accessibility testing. Now VoiceOver and Safari aren't as
powerful a combination for web browsing as, say, Window-Eyes and
Firefox, and it's more crucial that websites work with more popular
screen readers like JAWS, so testing with VoiceOver can't replace
other screen reader testing. But because VoiceOver is free, tightly
integrated into my operating system, easy to learn, and convenient
to switch on and off, it's ideal for quick tests. And it's nice to
know that such testing benefits other Mac users :).
A developer I know was able to use his Mac with VoiceOver while he
had a problem with his monitor, so I guess that's another advantage.
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Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
Ricky Buchanan wrote:
I would like to do an article for my ATMac blog about users of
VoiceOver who are not blind but use VoiceOver for other reasons. I
know we have Greg here, and I seem to remember at least one
message about a user with parkinsonian tremors or similar? Does
anybody know of others?
For sighted VoiceOver users who are interested in such an article,
a few sentences about the ways VoiceOver helps you and why it's
better than other solutions would be greatly appreciated.
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