Hello, > On 30 Mar 2015, at 19:26, Todor Fassl <[email protected]> wrote: > > Correct me if I'm wrong but the reason Apple developed voiceover in the first > place was that the only company making a screen reader for Mac OS went out > of business. If that company couldn't survive before voiceover, it certainly > couldn't survive now.
I was already a Mac user back when OS X first came out and Alva Access Group was still in business and wanted to make a screenReader for OS X. However, Apple would not give them access to the necessary information and it was a few years before it became clear that Apple had decided to make its own screen reader. Along with quite a few other blind Mac users, I was unable to progress beyond OS9 and in fact remained with OS 8 as it was still working for me. I protested vociferously to Apple about the lack of a screen reader and jumped on the public beta of VoiceOver in the summer of 2004. It was then known as the Spoken Interface. Cheers, Anne -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
