firevox is an extention to fire fox which makes it more accessible to assistive technologeyes on platforms which do not support its apis.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Simon Cavendish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by theblind" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 4:00 AM Subject: Re: New version of Fire Vox - Support added for the Mac's built inTTS! Hello Macvisionaries, With a degree of embarrassment, I'd like to ask whether yo could explain more bout what fire vox and Orca are. To whom is it of interest? With best wishes Simon Cavendish On 10 Jan 2008, at 20:31, David Poehlman wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Charles Chen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Newsgroups: mozilla.dev.accessibility > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 8:57 PM > Subject: New version of Fire Vox - Support added for the Mac's built > in TTS! > > > New version of Fire Vox released today. This is the release that Mac > lovers have been waiting for! Support for the built-in Apple voices! > I'd > write more in this release post but I'm guessing that most Mac owners > have already stopped reading at this point and are hitting my download > page. This release also includes some optimizations/stability fixes > for > Orca users. > > Enjoy! > > Direct link: > http://firevox.clcworld.net/clc-4-tts_bundle_v3.6_release.xpi > > -Charles > http://clcworld.net > > > Note: > This is my first shot at doing Cocoa programming and I developed > this on > an Intel-based Mac laptop running OS X Tiger. So far, I've tested it > on > other Intel-based Macs running Tiger and those have all been able to > run > it fine. But I'm curious as to whether this will work on a PPC-based > Mac > or on OS X Leopard (Intel or PPC) - my guess is that it won't work on > PPC-based Macs but will work on Intel-based ones running Leopard. If > you > have one of those configurations and have tried this, please let me > know > if it worked for you or not. Thanks! > _______________________________________________ > dev-accessibility mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-accessibility > >
