Ben, I won't address everything (though I wish I'd had this post three hours ago!) but thanks for the wealth of info, and for the Mac/MAC notation. Something good to know.
Best, Joe Monks Every day you haven't written is a day you've written off... Chanting Monks Press http://www.chantingmonks.com Sight Unseen Pictures http://www.sightunseenpictures.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 2:52 AM Subject: [JAWS-Users] Re: Jaws equivalent for MAC > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
