Hello Murielle, It is possible to set up your Power Mac to speak in French, but you would need to separately purchase and install the French Infovox iVox voices from Assistiveware. Here is the link to their web page of sample voices: http://www.assistiveware.com/product/infovox-ivox/voices
You will find entries for voices under "French -- Parisian French" and "French -- Canadian French" that will play mp3 samples of the available voices when you press the buttons for your selected voice. Use Command-left bracket or Command-delete to move back to the "AssistiveWare -- Voices" web page when the sample has been played. The same web page will have entries for "Dutch -- Belgian Dutch/Flemish" voices. The new purchasing scheme for voices allows you to buy individual voices, for use on two computers. From my reading, this would cost €20 to purchase a French voice that could be used on two computers. (I'm not familiar with the new pricing scheme -- I purchased the French Infovox voices when I was still running Tiger, and at that time you purchased all the voices of a given language, at a per language price.) A Dutch voice would similarly cost €20, and there are discounts for larger purchases. Anne Robertson runs the Cecimac VoiceOver list, for which discussions are conducted in French, and which also has podcasts, resources, and useful links for French-speaking VoiceOver users. Here is the link to their web page: http://www.cecimac.org/ In addition, Anne and her husband, Archie, have assembled Braille tables for many languages, including French. It should be possible for you to install these on your computer running Leopard. Leopard was the first version of Mac OS X to support Braille devices with VoiceOver. Once you have installed a French voice, and French Braille tables, you will be able to create an account that will start up with French (or perhaps more precisely, Belgian) localization. I believe Anne used to keep separate accounts on her computer for English and French, and use fast user switching to change between the two. The Power Mac is a desktop computer, so you should be able to use the NumPad Commander for keyboard shortcuts. (This was first introduced in Leopard.) There is a VoiceOver Getting Started document for Leopard, just as there is for later versions of Mac OS X. The available commands are listed in the Appendix, as they are for Lion. There is no web rotor, since that was introduced in Snow Leopard, and reflected the design of VoiceOver on the iPhone and iOS devices. Instead, VO-U is the links chooser menu. Some things, like item chooser menu, have been around since VoiceOver started, and are heavily used. You'll find there are fewer options for web navigation, though. I find Leopard usable, and I'm sure that Travis and some others may still have direct experience running Leopard. There is support documentation for Leopard, but most of it is in English. Apple created spoken podcasts for all the chapters of the VoiceOver Getting Started Guide for Leopard, and placed them podcast episodes on iTunes: • VoiceOver Getting Started for Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/voiceover-getting-started/id289530738 Greg Kearney also put this material in multiple formats on the Guide Dogs of Western Australia web pages: http://www.guidedogswa.org/books/vogs/vogs.php (I'd forgotten about this, but Greg even included an mp3 file of Mike Shebanek of Apple describing the "new VoiceOver accessibility features in Leopard" when it was introduced in October 2007 -- there's historic value -- and demoed the Alex voice.) Tim Kilburn's VoiceOver web pages were written starting when people were using Leopard (and even still Tiger), so a lot of the background information is well suited both as a general intro to VoiceOver, but specifically for the keyboard-shortcut based commands used in the earlier versions of VoiceOver: http://web.me.com/kilburns/voiceover/ I hope these suggestions will help, but really, it might be more worthwhile and cost-effective to upgrade to a later model of the Mac which can run a more recent version of the operating system. That would allow you to be more productive immediately. Investing in even a new Mac Mini (or a slightly older Mac Mini -- or even a refurbished computer purchased from Apple), might work out better in the long run. Cheers, Esther On Apr 12, 2012, at 12:49 PM, Murielle (listes) wrote: > hello, > > i've a new job since 3 days. > On my job the Mac is a power Mac with Leopard. It's a pity; I can't use it. > It speaks in english and use an american braille table: contracted braille. > I wanted to use a french braille table and french and netherlands voices > but... Voices. I've download old versions but the installations will not > begin. > The majority of VoiceOver commands that I know don't work. > I ask me how to install and to use this Power mac > > Do you have some idee or advice? > > Thanks. > > Murielle > > (french speaker) > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. 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