It isn't (yet) possible for a voiceover user to build an apple
interface from start to finish without sighted assistance. This
means, that if you're trying to use apple provided tools (such as
interface builder) you're out of luck if you want a gui and you don't
have sighted help. On the other hand, it's possible to build and
distribute apps built with other technologies such as java, without
any sighted assistance at all, since java has some gui layouts that
will do the work for you. Then, there's the rennasaince development
tools, which you can use to generate gui screens for you without need
of sighted assistance. The latest version of the renasaince system
only works on 10.6 and later (so leopard/tiger is out) but if you're
on snow leopard or lion, that's not a problem.
On the other hand (have I run out of hands yet?)
There's always apple scripts for simple tasks, which can generate a
limited gui for small programs, and there's always terminal programs
wich are of course not tied to any gui at all, and can be anything
you like.
The long and short of it is, if you want to use apple tools, and you
want to build from scratch, you'll need sighted help (and fairly
knowledgeable help at that) to do the job. If you're modifying
existing things, or using java, you're fine. If you're using
something else, then it's possible you can do it alone, but most of
the time, development environments for the mac tend to forget there's
such thing as a non-gui interface, and we're sunk on those systems,
but if you search hard enough, you may find something that works.
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