Re: Newbie question: Section 508 and "full keyboard access" on Mac OS X
Re: Newbie question: Section 508 and "full keyboard access" on Mac OS X
- Subject: Re: Newbie question: Section 508 and "full keyboard access" on Mac OS X
- From: Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 06:24:11 -0400
on 03-09-02 3:57 PM, Marshall F. Scott at email@hidden wrote:
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I've watched this thread with with great interest. I am a blind person who
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tried to use OS X and had no luck. Yes, the tab key moves the cursor, but
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there is no speech feedback even in the Finder. Have I missed something?
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It seems to me that without speech feedback it doesn't matter what moves the
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cursor.
The speech support in Mac OS X is very good. There are some settings you
have to turn on in the Speech preference pane (Spoken User Interface tab,
especially the "Text Under the Mouse" checkbox) and the Universal Access
preference pane in System Preferences. If you set it up right, your Mac will
speak every item under the mouse, and the text of alerts as they appear.
I believe the location of these settings will be rationalized a bit better
in Panther.
I should say that I haven't tested this exhaustively to see what, if
anything, does not get spoken. But the head of Apple's speech group, Kim
Silverman, makes a point of telling developers every year at WWDC to test
their choice of text for user interface items with speech turned on, to make
sure the words are easily understood. This is something that every Mac OS X
application, even old ones, get "for free" as Apple likes to say.
--
Bill Cheeseman - email@hidden
Quechee Software, Quechee, Vermont, USA
http://www.quecheesoftware.com
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