Were it not for a colleague, who is here in the Anchorage area, I
would never have known about developments at Apple. I don't think
Trudy's on this list, but she's a partially sighted lady who got me
to switch back to the Mac. The management at the Apple store here in
Anchorage has encouraged blind students and potential customers to
try practicing with the demonstration models that are already out on
the shelves. Richie Gardenhire, Anchorage, Alaska.
On Apr 16, 2007, at 2:22 PM, Gabe Vega wrote:
its not for just blinks. dislexic individuals is targeted for this
application also.
On Apr 16, 2007, at 3:15 PM, Dan Keys wrote:
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.
