While sometimes I too wish that Apple would be more aggressive about
advertising VoiceOver in a way I think it tell us a great deal about
how they view accessibility in general.
In the Apple mindset accessibility should just be a natural extension
of the computer experience. It is just something that is there in
every computer sold. Sort of like a keyboard. When was the last time
you saw an ad for a computer that extolled the wonders of it coming
with a keyboard or a mouse? Apple's efforts is to make computer that
can be used by anyone, computers that people will come to simply
expect that of course if I am blind or dyslexic I will be able to use
a Mac. The fact that Apple is held to a very high standard when it
come to anything involving the human-computer interface, and that
includes VoiceOver, is not a bad thing at all. Apple has survived
all these years exactly on that reputation.
When seen as part of a lager philosophical approach to computer and
how humans use them it seem out of place for Apple to call attention
to VoiceOver because VoiceOver is simply one small part of a complete
environment, like cut and paste, AppleScript or a hundred other parts
of the Macintosh experience.
Greg
On Apr 16, 2007, at 18:18 , Gabe Vega wrote:
it just doesn't make sense to me why they would. we should just all
feel confertable in the fact that there is a built in fefree usable
screen reader on every mac out there. I am not sure why they have
to push it. i mean come on its not costing us anything why is it a
tool for them to ppush. they won't make more money off it.
On Apr 16, 2007, at 4:47 PM, Josh de Lioncourt wrote:
On Apr 16, 2007, at 4:39 PM, Gabe Vega wrote:
again, I think if she felt so strongly about it, she would have
posted publically on the site of interest about voice over ad how
it is more than just an annoying tool. why must we depend on
apple to do it for us.
sorry don't mean to argue just making point s here. thanks
Well, both Holly and I have emailed podcasts and other outlets,
and I'd be very surprised to hear that we were the only ones. But
really, I think it is Apple's responsibility to market their own
product. It's great for us on the list to be advocates for VO and
the Mac, but Apple needs to push it as well.
