This information comes from the blog of the person who worked at FS at the time and was involved in the negotiation. He was for it. The boss would not be convinced.
David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: [email protected] Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone > On 31 Mar 2015, at 12:21, Christopher-Mark Gilland <[email protected]> > wrote: > > You gotta be kidding! regarding Apple and FS. Oh dear god! please tell me > you are! LOL! > > Chris. > --- > Check out my web site at: > http://www.clgproductions.net > ----- Original Message ----- > From: David Chittenden > To: [email protected] > Sent: Monday, March 30, 2015 3:53 PM > Subject: Re: starting to get irritated by IOS 8 > > 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. > -- > 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.
