Re: Zoom text for Mac

2013-02-11 Thread Tom Frank
The demo is free, so just download it and try it out for yourself. I find the Mac 'zoom to be a minimal magnification program. It does little to smooth out the jaggies and there are few color enhancements. 'zoom Text lets you change cursors, pointer, colors, small and large magnification

Re: Zoom text for Mac

2013-02-09 Thread Pam Francis
Hi I hope my comments werenot construed as being ungrateful. I am primarily a voiceover user, though do have the vision to use screen magnification to find elements on the screen voiceover doesn't seem to want to read. I have found Apple's own screen magnification to work quite nicely. I did

Re: Zoom text for Mac

2013-02-09 Thread Pete Nalda
I'm going to play the cynic here, and ask, just what does ZoomText offer that Zoom does not? I'll be happy to read somewhere, but WILL NOT install a demo without answers first, as I too, am fully satisfied with Zoom, and it's ability to work in conjunction with VoiceOver. Jmo. Egun On,

Re: Zoom text for Mac

2013-02-09 Thread ppowells09
Hello, I think if there were enough low vision users to contact Apple accessibility and ask for different color combinations Within their zoom product, There would be no need for Third-party vendors to develop a nap. We as low vision users/screen reader users Need to be our own advocate for

Re: Zoom text for Mac

2013-02-08 Thread Pam Francis
Hi folks, I also downloaded the file. It seems to work, yet needsa little work with reference to its layout. Not sure how I feel about 3rd party developers getting in to the mac OS with referenced to Apple seems to do an admirable job thus far. I am afraid if 3rd party developers are allowed in

Re: Zoom text for Mac

2013-02-08 Thread Tom Frank
ZoomText is not a screen reader, and as there questions and answers state, they have no interest in making a screen reader for the Mac. AI squared only makes products for low vision users. Their Windows products include some text to speech features, but, no matter what, you need some vision to

Re: Zoom text for Mac

2013-02-08 Thread ppowells09
Hello, Thanks for your kind response. I understand Zim text is not a screen reader per se. I use a combination of speech and screen magnification. My concern is with the idea that Apple would allow someone else into their API therefore allowing a third-party vendor to take over their

Re: Zoom text for Mac

2013-02-08 Thread Karen Lewellen
Considering that Apple continues to score record breaking profits with its product line, cost cutting is not likely a major issue just now. still have people broached the screen maganification factor with apple accessibility directly? I honestly figured that it already existed in some form.

Zoom text for Mac

2013-02-07 Thread Emilio S. Hernandez
Hey everyone, I have recently tried to download the demo for Zoom text. I went to the developer website, which was provided as a link in the Applevis News feed I am subscribed to. Upon entering in my information, I was taken to a page where I could download a trial version. I was not able to

Re: Zoom text for Mac

2013-02-07 Thread Rodney Haynie
From what I see you will need to give a bit of information on yourself before the trial download is allowed. Here is the link. http://aisquared.com/zoomtextmac/more/download_zoomtextmac_trial/ Take care. -Rodney On 2/7/13, Emilio S. Hernandez emilio.s.hernan...@gmail.com wrote: Hey everyone,

Re: Zoom text for Mac

2013-02-07 Thread Tom Frank
I downloaded Zoomtext successfully last night and took it for a short spin. It seems to work quite well. I went to the products link on the AI Squared website and found the Mac download link there. I had to enter my name, email and a few other details and it then downloaded the file to my

Re: Zoom Text on Mac Question [was Re: iTunes/iPod Shuffle Problem]

2009-03-18 Thread Esther
:34 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Zoom Text on Mac Question [was Re: iTunes/iPod Shuffle Problem] Hello, How about the options under Universal access. The mac has accessibility aides for blind, visually empaired and deaf persons. Dan key...@comcast.net On Mar