Re: State of accessibility on Mac?
Re: State of accessibility on Mac?
- Subject: Re: State of accessibility on Mac?
- From: Raymond Fischer <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 11:11:34 -0700
On Thursday, June 12, 2003, at 05:48 PM, Bill Cheeseman wrote:
on 03-06-12 6:40 PM, Raymond Fischer at email@hidden wrote:
What OS X has is a toy that's a mildly interesting technology
demonstration
but which doesn't have much real use.
You could help by proposing a schedule of requirements that those of us
reading this list could work with.
If I considered myself qualified to do so then I would. But my job is
to
provide accessibility info to assistive apps. What I know about those
assistive
apps is rather limited. My eyes are getting old but still work
reasonably
well.
Apple now offers a built-in framework that has real potential for
allowing
developers of assistive applications to provide what has heretofore
been
missing on the Mac OS X platform. Help us understand what is needed.
I wish that the folks at Alva would chime in here, since they are (the
only
so far as I know) producers of a screen reader.
But, in a nutshell, a screen reader needs to be able to use the current
focus to speak aloud the UI item; moving the focus around using
keystrokes
is more the job of the target application. People also like easily
available
options for adjusting speaking rate and voice and pitch, and probably
options
to back up and skip ahead some number of words. Better voice quality is
also a concern.
Don't misunderstand - I'm all for Mac accessibility. It's just that
there
doesn't seem to be any way for people to make use of it.
----
Ray Fischer
Adobe Systems
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