here here! thank you for writing my thoughts exactly.
Gabe
On Apr 16, 2007, at 5:36 PM, Greg Kearney wrote:
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.
