Agreed. I can't count the number of times I had to restart my windows machines, because the screen reader, or some other program running in conjunction with it, crashed the whole machine. Most notably, this happened when I was writing a huge paper in college. I lost a good chunk of the paper. I got through a year of graduate school with out my mac crashing on me once. Having VO as a native part of the OS is a huge advantage, IMO, and I'd never go back to windows with out of date third party access solutions like Jaws! Olivia"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower" Steve Jobs
On Jun 14, 2010, at 2:42 AM, Scott Howell wrote: > Chris, although this may be unacceptable, at least it restarts and does not > take the entire machine down, which has been my experience with windows-based > screen readers. Even though Apple Accessibility may not have responded, they > do take these messages seriously. I cannot say why you did not receive a > response, but generally they do respond. I initially thought I had some > issues with Safari 5, but I have to do some more testing since most sites I > use regularly are behaving fine. And in Apple's defense, they may not have > encountered any problems or did not have the opportunity to test with every > possible site. SO, continue to provide feedback, you are not being ignored. > > On Jun 13, 2010, at 9:17 PM, Chris Westbrook wrote: > >> No, I'm referring to the audible.com bug and the ichat bug. Even if going >> to audible from a google search works, that shouldn't be necessary, and a >> browser upgrade shouldn't effect an unrelated chat application. There is no >> way a webpage or a chat application should randomly restart your screen >> reader. That to me is unacceptable. >> On Jun 13, 2010, at 9:13 PM, louie wrote: >> >>> Works ok here. If you are coming from jaws I can understand why you are >>> having troubles. >>> >>> On Jun 13, 2010, at 6:02 PM, Chris Westbrook wrote: >>> >>>> I am a new mac user, and while I really enjoy my mac, I am slightly >>>> concerned about Apple's release of Safari five with apparently little >>>> regard to accessibility. I guess I took this somewhat for granted, since >>>> Microsoft generally makes sure that the major assistive technology vendors >>>> are working with their browsers before release. I am also bothered, >>>> though not particularly surprised, by apple's apparent lack of a statement >>>> of any kind on this issue. I sent a message to accessibility on the ichat >>>> bug, for example, and got no response, not even a canned one. Does this >>>> not concern anyone else? I realize Apple is a secretive company, but I >>>> would think the least they could do was acknowledge the problem and say >>>> they are working on it. For all we know they aren't even working on it. >>>> /am I missing something here? >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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. >>>> >>> >>> louie >>> [email protected] >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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. >>> >> >> -- >> 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. >> > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
