Hello, Apple attempted to get Freedom Scientific to create a screen reader for OSX. FS refused, so Apple took development in-house.
Berkeley Systems was a small company. I visited their offices once in the mid 90's. I suspect Apple did not wish to use a small group for screen reader development again after Berkeley Systems went out-of-business. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: [email protected] Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone > On 31 Mar 2015, at 07:37, Anne Robertson <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. -- 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.
