Hi all, how goes it?
Mike, in my original post, I made a mention to OSX 10.5.6 and what the
current findings were. Currently, the mentioned findings do not
mention anything about VoiceOver.
As mentioned before, people are not usually testing VoiceOver, at
least not to my knowledge. A good example is in the last update to
Leopard. OSX 10.5.5. There was no mention in the release notes to
the speech dictionary being modified. OSX 10.5.3 had a huge release
for VoiceOver, and that seemed to be announced under the findings when
it was seeded.
Chris, remember, these are incramental updates to the current OS,
which is leopard, or OSX 10.5. Any improvements to the OS, both
benefits us and everyone else. If they make additions to VoiceOver or
modifications, we likely will not know until we actually make the
upgrade, or unless there is an actual announcement for it.
As for the new OS you spoke of Chris, Snow Leopard is going to be
written in Coco. It is worth mentioning that VoiceOver is written in
Coco, meaning that changes done to the for Snow Leopard, meaning, OSX
10.6, will benefit VoiceOver in the long run.
I do not see apple dropping support for VoiceOver, especially since
they are spending the time to provide accessibility to everybody, both
blind and or sighted, and who are also trying to further their
attempts at making so everyone can use the OS.
Take care.
Fonzie
On Nov 3, 2008, at 6:29 PM, Babcock, Michael Alex wrote:
what bought up the no voiceover topic? I might have missed something
On Nov 3, 2008, at 3:26 PM, Scott Howell wrote:
Chris, please, Apple really would never shoot themselves in the
foot in this way. Hell I can't imagine any company spending that
much money on R&D to then just toss it in the trash. The other
person who responded is correct in it would be a P R nightmare as
well. VoiceOver is here to stay and I assure you that Apple has no
plans to stop development anytime soon.
On Nov 3, 2008, at 6:19 PM, Chris Gilland wrote:
I hope to God that Voiceover will be a part of the new OS. If
not, then I will unfortunately lose all respect for Apple.
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Fonzie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Mac OSX 10.5.6 and OSX Snow Leopard
Hi all, ho are you doing?
While looking up the mentioned subject line, I thought I would
provide a link to some of hte seed notes for OSX 10.5.6. Here
it is. It is interesting, but I yet do not see anything
involving VoiceOver. To be fair, people are not usually testing
VoiceOver, and with hte exception of 10.5.3, it may or may not
be public at it's release. You should find them interesting all
the same.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Mac-OS-X-10-5-6-9G21-Seed-Notes-Out-96638.shtml
On 10.6 Snow Leopard, I have found only the following.
Currently, from what I can see, the finder window is now
completely written in coco. The entire OS is supposed to be
written in coco, so that is always good to hear. we really
won't know it's entirety until it is actually released, but
little tid bits or nice here and there.
Take care all.
Fonzie
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