Hi Erik, Since you mentioned Greg's list of third-party applications rated by their VoiceOver compatibility at:
http://w3.wmcnet.org/vo/index.php you might add Garage Sale to that list, along with Grabber, Poster, etc. There's a search function so that you can tell if a particular software is included there, so that you can check whether it is accessible or inaccessible. Some widely used/discussed software is not in that database -- for example, Adium (which I don't use). Maybe somebody could put in an entry for that, too, with some comments? Also, I think Greg mentioned that the very latest Pages update from Apple became accessible, but I haven't seen any further discussion about this. (I might be in error, since usually somebody follows up when an announcement of this sort is made, so maybe I'm not remembering this correctly). Pages is the Mac alternative offering to MS Word under Office, but is part of iWorks 08 and has to be separately purchased. If I'm remembering this correctly, it's only the latest update and not the version as purchased in the iWork 08 distribution disk that might be accessible (sort of like the way iTunes suddenly became accessible in a minor version release). Anybody know more about this? Cheers, Esther On June 20, 2008, at 04:44AM, erik burggraaf wrote: >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. > >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 >erik burggraaf >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 - >> > > > >
