Jared Earle wrote:
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Lachlan Hunt<[email protected]>wrote:
Sure it could. That's just a regular computer with a Braille I/O device
attached. Using the OS accessibility APIs should be sufficient for
supporting this. From a programming POV, supporting Braille output is, I
believe, no different from supporting screen readers. Just expose the text
to be output via the accessibility APIs and let the screen reader/braille
output or whatever render it.
You're assuming that the machine in question is a Mac. I'm not: It doesn't
have any clients that read IMAP mail.
Huh? What you said here is just confusing and contradictory. Yes, this
will be a Mac application, as you noted below and macs certainly do have
existing clients that read IMAP, so I'm not sure what you meant by "It
doesn't have any clients that read IMAP mail". But I'm sure you knew
that already, and I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and
just assume that you mistakenly didn't write what you meant.
Doesn't Apple Mail allow braille readers to work? I assumed it'd be one of
the basics.
I'm sure it does. There are braille displays for Mac and, in general,
accessibility for Mac Applications is quite good. OS X even comes with
VoiceOver - a built-in screen reader.
Take a look at this to get a brief overview of the accessibility support
in OS X. (I'm sure they have developer documentation for it somewhere too.)
http://www.apple.com/accessibility/voiceover/
And no, I'm not rallying against accessibility, obviously. I'm rallying
against porting it to non-Macs as being on 10.6 (or 10.7) is part of the
brief.
Who said anything about porting it to non-Macs?
--
Lachlan Hunt - Opera Software
http://lachy.id.au/
http://www.opera.com/
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