Hi All, Just a quick addition to the points that John Panarese made about why the process of interacting for VoiceOver on the Mac is likely to stay around for a while longer. Interacting minimizes the load on your system by only loading/tracking those facilities that VoiceOver needs to use in a particukar situation. On the Mac, in contrast with your iOS devices, you are running a much wider range of activities, and have access to many more system functions, services, etc. -- whether or not you are aware of this, or consistently make use if this. If you work on older version of Mac OS X that have VoiceOver loaded, or on machines with limited memory resources, it's clear there are ways to optimize your system's response and performance, both by which specific commands you use and how you operate. The process of interacting actually helps you work well with the available resources. It may be that at some time in the near future that typical memory resources, processor speeds, etc. for devices is such that there's no need for any kind of performance optimization when screen readers are used, and that the additional load on resources and the need for efficient usage is irrelevant. But for the present, interacting is still providing an efficiency advantage to the way that VoiceOver works on the Mac. This is much clearer based on the experience of using VoiceOver on older Macs. And by the way, I still run the PowerBook G4 laptop I had when I first joined the Macvisionaries list in 2005.
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