Not exactly. When Berkeley Systems went bankrupt, Alva bought Outspoken during the assets sale for a good price because they wanted the Windows code. They let the Mac version die immediately and ported the windows code into their own projects.
David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: [email protected] Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone > On 31 Mar 2015, at 20:57, Krister Ekstrom <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > I was under the impression that Berkeley systems got bought by Alva and, this > is my own theory, they, Alva were more interested in Outspoken for Windows > than they were of the mac version. Am i correct in any of this? > /Krister > >> 30 mar 2015 kl. 21:53 skrev David Chittenden <[email protected]>: >> >> 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.
