Here is a concrete list of requirements someone has posed. If you
had these requirements, which ones could be filled by the Mac with VO
and how?
My list of essentials:
1. A web browser with a feature set similar to that in JAWS or
Window-Eyes
as I don't have a lot of spare time to poke around looking for things
so the
quick keys and whatever it is that we called the bookmark thing in
JAWS are
essentials.
2. A fully featured word processor with an outliner and collaboration
tools. Working at a university, I have enormously long writing
projects to
do and must collaborate with a team to get them done. Spell checker
is a
must but you can chuck even the best grammar checkers.
3. A personal organization program like Outlook that can handle
calendar,
task list, contacts and email that can synchronize with my HP iPAQ
PDA/Phone.
4. Skype.
5. A spreadsheet with many of the JAWS augmentations so I can work on
complex five year budgets and such.
6. A media player that can handle: audible.com, MP3, Daisy, OGG,
Real and
most anything I might stumble across that is highly accessible.
7. A good compiler and development environment with which I can quickly
slap together 3D audio and haptics experiments (Direct X does the job on
Windows).
8. UPNP control software for my research into smart spaces.
9. High quality 3D sound, including HRTF for my research.
10. Ability to handle most haptic (force feedback) devices I can buy at
Best Buy or Circuit City for my research.
