But Voiceover has the same problem as Narrator has, although somewhat
better, it is unusable unless the app uses MAC standard as it were,
and inevitably some apps won't do that for whatever reason. The only
thing that saves the day a bit is that more mac apps do the standard
thing than windows ones.
on Thursday 01/17/2008 Greg Kearney([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote
> I spoke to a Microsoft engineer at an NFB conventions shortly after
> VoiceOver was released. He told me, and I have no way to know if this
> was the case that the NFB told Microsoft to back off making Narrator
> a screen reader as the NFB felt that in doing so Microsoft would kill
> the screen reader market for Jaws and WindowEyes.
>
> He further said that they felt that they got sandbagged by the whole
> thing given that they backed off only to have Apple turn around and
> release VoiceOver. In effect the NFB put Microsoft at a competitive
> disadvantage.
>
>
> Greg Kearney
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> On Jan 17, 2008, at 3:56 PM, Josh de Lioncourt wrote:
>
> >
> > Well, I don't think Apple would've submitted to NFB in any case.
> > Microsoft is all about catering to large organizations and
> > corporations. Look at the Universal deal. For every Zune player
> > Microsoft sells, they give Universal a pay-off. Insanity.
> >
> > Josh de Lioncourt
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > ...my other mail provider is an owl...
> >
> >
> >
> > On 17 Jan, 2008, at 2:52 PM, James Austin wrote:
> >
> >> To be fair, NFB were the ones who told MS not to continue
> >> development on their own Screen Reader. The reason Apple have
> >> carried on with their own development was because they never
> >> informed NFB
>
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