It depends on the application and the designer.
A month or two ago I downloaded and installed a very powerful third
party application called garage sale for creating ebay listings on the
mac. It was about 98 per sent accessible and a joy to use. The
developer also shows interest in building in the touches that will
make it perfectly seemless.
I'm also using a fully accessible and fully featured cd burning
application called simply burns. I have a full suite of news group
tools including grabber, poster, and two varification tools. We have
access to two or three very high functioning bit torrent clients.
VMware fusion, the commercial grade OS management software is fully
accessible.
And I've only been on the mac now for four months. I'd recomend
bookmarking the mac third party accessible applications list at http://w3.wmcnet.org/vo/index.php
and be very warie of blanket statements like "third party
applications aren't accessible".
It's too bad that not all third party applications are well designed,
particularly the microsoft office family for mac, but the Mozilla
foundation has demonstrated a serious commitment to accessibility on
windows and linux platforms and will eventually catch up on the mac.
Hope this helps,
Erik
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On 20-Jun-08, at 6:09 AM, Hernandez, Jose wrote:
How can one get VoiceOver in Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) to work with
third
party applications such as Microsoft Office or Mozilla Firefox?
VoiceOver works great with integrated applications such as Safari or
TextEdit. The user is able to type words and/or characters in Safari
or
TextEdit and VoiceOver will read the words and/or characters to the
user. However, in third party applications, VoiceOver does not read
the
typed text. Any ideas? User would prefer not having to purchase
software
to add this capability.
What is VoiceOver? See information about VoiceOver at
http://www.apple.com/accessibility/voiceover/.
Thanks !
Jose -
