I'm a web developer with an interest in screen reader issues who uses Mac OS X, Windows XP, and Ubuntu Linux, just so you know where I'm coming from.
There is no JAWS for the Mac. For Mac OS 9, there was a screen reader called outSPOKEN sold by Alva, who have now gone out of business, though you may be able to find a second-hand copy. That's the bad news. The good news is Apple built a screen reader called VoiceOver into their new operating system, Mac OS X. For an introduction to VoiceOver see: http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/voiceover/ For more details see: http://www.apple.com/accessibility/voiceover/ Key software usable with VoiceOver includes the bundled Apple Mail program, the bundled Safari web browser, Adobe Reader, and (just recently added) ITunes. Microsoft Office for the Mac has not yet been made accessible with VoiceOver, but you can use other software capable of basic editing of Office files. Your message doesn't say what you need to use a Mac for so I'm not sure what software you'd need. Firefox is not yet accessible with VoiceOver, partly because the developer working on this found another job. However, it can be used as a talking browser on the Mac with the excellent Fire Vox extension: http://www.firevox.clcworld.net/ A future version of the free Opera browser will apparently also be usable with VoiceOver: http://my.opera.com/chaals/blog/speaking-out?cid=2506923 Questions about VoiceOver are best addressed to the discussion list for http://macvisionaries.com/: http://macvisionaries.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss_macvisionaries.com Darcy Burnard and Holly Anderson record a podcast for VoiceOver users: http://www.screenlessswitchers.com/ The BBC maintains a collection of Mac accessibility hints: http://www.bbc.co.uk/accessibility/mac/sub_root.shtml PS Just so you know, Mac is written with the M in uppercase and the a and c in lowercase, not MAC all in capitals. When all in capitals, MAC typically refers to a unique identifier for a networking card: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_address Hope that helps. -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 22:17 -0400, Chanting Monks wrote: > Hi folks, > > Could be I am just missing it, but I was tooling around the Freedom > Scientific site looking for Jaws for MAC if it exists. Nothing popped > up in the Jaws headquarters. I may be doing some work with a company > that almost exclusively uses MAC (and I have a MAC that my film editor > works on here at my home) so I am thinking about finding a > screenreader for it. Obviously, I would want to use Jaws since I know > it, but if there isn't such a thing, maybe somebody could tip me off > to something similar? Anybody using both a MAC and a PC? Thanks. > > Best, > Joe Monks > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/jaws-users-list%40googlegroups.com/ In order to contact the management team simply fill out the following form found at: http://www.jaws-users.com/contact.php You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JAWS Users List" group. To post to this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jaws-users-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
