And also if AAGI thought there was no market, then why were a couple
of other developers also atempting to come up with scripts which
would work with OS 10. Talked to one company who was developing a
screen navigation system, but Apple was debating still whether they
were going to try "in house" or 3rd party vender. Well within a
month after talking to one of those companies, Apple came out with a
test program, Spoken Interphase. The precusor to VO for Panther.
And at this time it was 2004.
I don't think all of this can be laid at the feet of AAGI. Soome of
that problem of stranding us in OS 9 was Apple as well. However,
back then we hadn't finished paying for the computer, so we were
stuck with it. If you can immagine, I was sure second guessing
myself for deciding to go with Apple regardless of the superior
quality of their machines. Not so great if you are a whole OS
behind, and more and more things on the web wouldn't support OS 9.
Finally though they got Tiger and VO going, so am now enjoying
catching up with my computer.
On Jan 13, 2006, at 3:32 AM, Anne Robertson wrote:
On 13 Jan 2006, at 1:02 AM, David Poehlman wrote:
The reason we aren't seeing outspoken on os x is that AAGI felt
there was no market. Schools spoke other wise when they began to
scramble to fill the niche. Going back a bit, The Mac was used a
lot over the years in education but for some reason or other, it
never made it into the mainstream of blindness employment. There
were quite a few presures that I won't list, but we were all told
that the mac was not the way to go although I kept seeing these
tantalizing bits and knew people who used macs and had even begun
to work out some ways of using the mac without outspoken or VO.
Hello everyone,
When OS X came out, I contacted AAGI and was told that they were
trying to update OutSpoken for OS X but Apple was refusing to give
them the necessary information to do the job.
My husband tried to write me some applescripts that would make OS X
usable but found it impossible.
I was very angry with Apple at the time, as were many other people,
I'm sure, but it took the threat of losing the U.S. education
contracts to make Apple get its finger out.
Anne
