Hello Ed Speaking as a visually abled person, (I hate the term "Sighted", I found a lot of his comments extremely odd. I was actually tempted to leave a comment or two on MacWorld but thought better of it. This person clearly has absolutely no perception of what VoiceOver is, what it can do and how it can help even those of us with vision.
My own vision is excellent, according to the opticians I visit once a year for an eye test. Nevertheless I still find VoiceOver a valuable and useful tool. Yes, the appearance does take on a more graphical form without VoiceOver and yes, it does sometimes slow one down when VoiceOver is present. But those are just small considerations and once you get used to it the overall effect is actually quite pleasant and the tools that you have available are quite easy to use. So in summary I would say that the author of this article really needs to be educated. Vision impairment does not, nor should it ever, make it necessary for those of us with vision to work in a totally different environment, I often work alongside Gordon, who needs VoiceOver. But it really doesn't present a problem to me. It's just a little different, that's all. Lynne On 2 Jun 2012, at 17:23, Ed Worrell <blindworr...@yahoo.com> wrote: I agree with you, this article isn't that usefull for anyone, he just jumps to a bunch of assumtions what is useful to the sighted. Forgranted my wife doesn't use Voiceover unless I have questions, but she doesn't find things like character navigation or rotor settings useless, thats the way we do things that the sighted users can do by looking at the screen, my wife wishes she had some of the rotor options available to the sighted too. Pourly researched article. <--- 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/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
