Hi Esther, thanks as always for your extremely helpful reply. I have thought about it and to begin with i would like an app that just works on the mac (and possibly has ios alternatives) so i am diffenitely going to look into your first suggestion! Are there any other translation/dictionary apps on the mac that you can recommend that are vo accessible? Thanks! Greetings, Anouk, On May 31, 2013, at 2:41 AM, Esther <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Anouk, > > As Daniela mentioned, Ultralingua has accessible dictionary apps on both the > Mac and iOS platforms. There was substantial feedback and interaction with > VoiceOver users several years ago. As it happens, it seems that the > Ultralingua dictionary apps for iOS just went on sale for 50% starting > yesterday, according to their blog: > http://blog.ultralingua.com/ > > I actually caught the price drop for dictionaries that I recognized in the > Store News app, then went to check out their web site to find out whether > this was true for all their iOS products. It coincides with a major upgrade > of their iOS dictionary apps to version 2.3, and is probably timed to also > hit Apple's World Wide Developer Conference that will take place soon. I > think most of their iOS apps are universal -- so they'll work on iPhone and > iPad. > > A lot of translation apps hook into Google Translate, which is also available > as an iOS app. The main annoyance of using a lot of dictionary apps on iOS is > the trend for inserting links into most or all of the words in the > definitions. I keep around older versions of some of the dictionary apps > before they went wild with the links, and just don't update them. You can > read some of Amir's posts on AppleVis about discussions with dictionary app > designers. The American Heritage Dictionary 5th edition was one of the apps > that was updated with VoiceOver users in mind (not available in the app store > currently, but supposed to return soon). The Australian Oxford Dictionary is > another one in the same group. (Neither of these appear to be available > right now, but they're in the over $20 category for purchases.) > > ABBYY has the Lingvo dictionary apps that can integrate with the OCR > functions of their TextGrabber app. They're only OK, and accessibility is > about the level of TextGrabber just before the latest version upgrade -- that > means they're usable, but the control labels haven't been optimized for > VoiceOver users. I think the Ultralingua dictionary and thesaurus apps are > better (and I would wait for a sale on the Lingvo dictionary apps if you want > to try them out -- the ABBYY app prices have been bouncing around.) > > As Rachel stated, there is also built-in dictionary support both in Mac OS X > and under iOS. You can get spelling support in other languages if you switch > your input language keyboard to another language. > > If you want an easy-to-use and quick translation app for iOS, I'd recommend > SayHi Translate ($0.99). This is not meant for professional translation use, > but it has a convenient and fairly accessible interface. It was slightly > more accessible before the version 3 upgrades in December 2012, but is still > OK. Again, read the app entries at AppleVis. For a number of languages (not > all), you can just speak, and have your voice recognized, then listen to the > translated phrase transcribed and spoken. (Again, not all languages that are > supported for translation have voices that will speak the translated > phrases.) You can copy the translated phrase to clipboard, or send it via > email. This is particularly useful if you work with languages that are not > written with Latin characters. Navigating to the original text phrases for > copying, repeat pronunciation, or forwarding as email, text message, etc. is > what is slightly less accessible with VoiceOver in the more recent versions > -- once you select the phrase, the window with options to copy, etc. comes up > in the middle of the screen, where it use to appear almost directly above the > translated text in earlier versions. This is more of an issue for iPad usage > than on the iPhone. It still works with VoiceOver -- just more of a nuisance > to get focus to the right location. > > HTH. Cheers, > > Esther > > > On 30 May 2013, at 04:55, Daniela Rubio wrote: > >> Hello! >> Ultralingua is very nice and very accessible. I am a translator and I use it >> a lot. As well as the iOS version, which I use when working in the booth. >> Cheers! >> >> Daniela Rubio T >> Distinguished Educator >> iPhone: +34662328507 >> >> >> >> >> >> >> El 30/05/2013, a las 15:31, Anouk Radix <[email protected]> escribió: >> >>> Hello, Has anyone got experience with dictionary apps (translation apps) on >>> the mac or ios that are accessible with voiceover? >>> Thanks >>> Greetings, Anouk, >>> > > > -- > 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?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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