It's a slippery slope, one Apple will hopefully avoid. If they continue to add features to label and customize how VO interacts with the OS and apps they are giving themselves more work, as well as risking the awesome independence VO gives us. JFW practically dominates the keyboard, making interacting with things like web apps potentially less pleasant while VO uses specialized keys to perform all of it's functions. VO Commander sounds like a clone of what spark can do for us. Nice feature, but hopefully they don't make it too hard to interact with applications in a standard way. Labeling could result in more work for us, but if they stop there it's probably OK.
On 6/10/09, Scott Howell <s.how...@verizon.net> wrote: > > I think you are wrong about this. It is yet one more tool, not some > scripting ability or a way to shrug off responsibility for > accessibility. What gave you the idea that this was some way to avoid > the issue of accessibility? > On Jun 9, 2009, at 11:45 PM, Alex Jurgensen wrote: > >> >> Hi, >> >> Did you guys see the feature to add descriptions to elements. It >> sounds a lot like FS's JAWS Scripts, don't you think. >> >> I think we should bprevent this from happening before it gets out of >> hand. Too many developers will take that as the easy way out. >> >> Regards, >> Alex, >> >> >> >> > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
