Hello, Actually VoiceOver came out with Leopard, OS X 10.4 in 2004 I purchased my first Mac Mini in September that year and it was the first with VoiceOver fully implemented.
> On Mar 31, 2015, at 1:04 PM, Todor Fassl <[email protected]> wrote: > > Well, I didn't really make a note of the dates. I can only give them based on > dates of historical events. I believe that I was using jaws 4.0 at the time. > According to wikipedia, jaws 4.0 was released in 2001. That coincides nicely > with the release of Mac Os X also in 2001. So I am going to say my memory > there is correct. But I was not a Mac user at the time and I was never > directly responsible for the computer labs. > > Tiger wasn't released until 2005. So there would have been 4 years where > there was no screen reader for Macs unless you wanted to run an obsolete > version of the operating system. I know it's fair to say you could stick > with Mac OS 9 up until tiger came out but I don't think that is realistic in > many cases. For example, the manager of a computer lab in a school or > university isn't going to want to stick with a version of an operating system > that was obsolete 4 years earlier. It's easier to talk the administration > into ponying up the money for jaws. > > I no longer work for the department that manages the computer labs here so I > don't know when the switch back to Macs began. They're all over the place > now, though. > > On 03/31/2015 01:44 PM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote: >> Indeed, the education sector/section-508 (in the US) looks, on the existing >> evidence at least, to have been the cause for Apple’s commitment. A shame, >> I suppose, that it always takes legislation to set of this sort of thing. >> >> Can you remember when about which period it was that your institution >> decided to convert to Windows for this reason? The one thing I’ve not yet >> been clear on is when Apple’s APIs were actually substantial enough. For >> example it is documented that 10.2 or thereabouts contained support enough, >> but the screen reader did not actually appear until Panther (as Spoken >> interface Preview). Could it have been that, though present, the APIs were >> simply not documented? And in which case, when did the documentation >> appear? It’s certainly available now. >> > > -- > 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.
