Hello,
In fact, I wish that Apple itself would be advertising VoiceOver just
as they do the Apple/PC ad. VO is certainly fare more than just an
annoying item to unsighted users. I can see where sighted people
might be able to use VO for things like listening to documents they
have created or something like that. I think that as time goes on, it
might be necessary to demonstrate and even for businesses to
advertise to sighted people how accessability devices like VO may not
be just for us blinks.
On Apr 16, 2007, at 2:15 PM, Holly Anderson wrote:
This article did make me laugh a bit, but at the same time it kind
of makes me sad. It seems the only press voice over ever gets in
the mainstream mac sites is that it is annoying and how do I turn
it off. I'm not saying vo should get top story or anything like
that, but when the itunes update came out and was accessible that
was mentioned nowhere. I tried emailing some podcasters about it
and when I did get responses it was like oh that's cool but they
never mentioned it on the podcasts. It just sometimes feels like
we are invisible in both the blindness community and the sighted
community as well. I remember when tiger came out and it had voice
over, I never heard voice over mentioned. People talked about
spotlight being new and all the cool new features but voice over
was never mentioned. If I didn't read blindness related blogs and
that sort of thing I wouldn't know about voice over.
I'm not saying sighted people should always talk about voice over,
but a positive mention every now and then wouldn't hurt would it?
Holly
On Apr 16, 2007, at 3:28 PM, Josh de Lioncourt wrote:
Here's a link, good for a chuckle.
http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/mac911/2007/04/accidentua/
index.php?lsrc=mwrss
Thought you all might enjoy.
