Hi Anne, > The only concession to non-English speakers I got from Apple was the change > from contracted to uncontracted Braille during installation.
Is This still in American Braille though? I too have been asking Apple to consider their non-English client base. Perhaps it is time for me to start sending more E-Mails. Hopefully, the more those of us who use other languages contact them, they may do something to assist non-English speakers.. This is not directly Mac related, but as Mac OS X is a true UNIX operating system, it might be possible to port E-Speak - the native speech synthesizer for Orca and NVDA to Apple. The speech is pretty awful, but at least non-English speakers and language users could use Mac with support out-of-the-box and then buy David's voices when they can afford them. E-Speak can speak in forty seven different languages I believe and infact, I think I remember hearing that it had already been ported to Mac OS X when Tiger was released. Just a thought. TC James On 15 Nov 2009, at 19:48, Anne Robertson wrote: > > Hello Donna, > > On Nov 15, 2009, at 8:43 PM, Donna Goodin wrote: > >> >> Ah, licensing issues, I should have thought of that. Still, if that's >> the case, how is it that they can be included on the iphone? > According to Apple, they are licensed specifically for the iPhone and iPod > Shuffle. I've been hammering Apple about this for at least four years but > they're not budging. > > The only concession to non-English speakers I got from Apple was the change > from contracted to uncontracted Braille during installation. > > Cheers, > > Anne > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
