Cheree Heppe here: The thing we blindness consumers have to concern ourselves with is, in our admirable efforts to make a new product more accessible, that we do not re-invent the limitations and pitfalls embedded in other well-known and used consumer products. All day at work, I have to listen to this yammer-yammer-clack-clack of the fishiest, buggiest, most unstable screen reader I have ever had to use. The screen reader, also Windows-based, that I use on my home system is far better, but doesn't reach the level of ease and seamlessness of Apple's VoiceOver.
If I can squeeze the budget hard enough, I'm migrating to Apple really soon. Yes, I've said this earlier, a few times, but this may be the real deal. I have had it with half-is-done-is-good-enough for blind consumers. So much of the blindness market would collapse if it competed in a sighted, open market because it operates in a sub-standard way to what the general population, what the general level of industry has come to accept as optimal. Yes and yes, I am very much delighted with Apple because Apple levels the playing field to universal access. There is a cool feature that amazes me. The app I explored through my IPhone has a free and paid version. In exploring the My Way app which is a navigation app made by the Swiss Federation of the Blind, I discovered that when the website became German, the I-device spoke German, not garbled English trying to shape the unfamiliar words to its inflexible syntax. I understand German, so this meant that I could access all those websites easily, seamlessly. Yes and yes, I am a supporter of Apple. Apple re-shaped their faltering accessibility to compete as the device of choice in schools, universities and you name it. So, happy Appling, and many more to come!!! Regards, Cheree Heppe ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shawn Krasniuk" <bigbigshawn....@gmail.com> To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2012 20:33 Subject: Re: what Voiceover bugs people want or are hoping will be fixed or squashed in Mountain Lion? Boo Eloquence! If I wanted to listen to that stupid robotic voice drone on and on, I'd switch back to PC and install Jaws or Window-Eyes. But I don't want to do that because I'm a Mac user, and I like listening to human-sounding voices. If I had to pick voices to be added to the Mac, I'd pick the Loquendo voices just because they do good inflections with exclamations. And sorry, but I don't think Ivona will ever come to Apple because I'm sure they don't want to follow Apple's speech API. Shawn -- 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. -- 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.
