I actually got the Notebook program in a bundle and I've ben meaning to have a look at it. I suspect if the issues are brought to their attention, it is possible they will listen. I think most Mac software developers are willing to listen.
On Jul 4, 2009, at 5:32 AM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: > > Hello folks. > I was listening to a podcast called "the maccast" and they mentioned > their sponsors. It turned out they made software for the Mac, so out > of curiosity i went to their home pages to check them out. > Pathfinder from www.cocoatech.com is a finder replacement that has > some extra features that you don't find in the regular finder. > Unfortunately though for vo users, buttons are unlabeled and so are > check boxes and other controls and no help tags exist for them, and it > seems the only view it works decently in is the column view. In the > other views you just get "unknowns". > Note book from www.circusponies.com, (has it ever struck you guys what > cool names these software makers have for their companies?), is a very > interesting program. It's a note book as the name suggests, but it's > so much more. You can take a selected piece of text and from within > the app you're working with you can put it in a clip page, so that you > can read or use it later, but that's just the beginning, or so i > gather. > Buttons are labeled as are other controls, however you can't see the > text you're working with once it's in the app so it's a case of "so > close but yet so far". > Would there be an interest from you guys to make these apps further > accessible? Could someone else more knowledgeable have a look at them > as well? > I'm not terribly good at contacting developers to communicate the > glory of VO to people, so if i could get some advise or if someone > who's really good at this could do it, if we want these progs to be > available even to us, that would be great. > Both these programs are shareware. I have no price tag for the note > book app, but the path finder is $39.95 i think. > Thanks for reading this rather long mail. > /Krister > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
