Great days to come!!

[Marian Selea]

This is to be tested carefully, as it either will be THE device for us, or..... just another interface developed `blindly' by seers.... ;-)

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http://developer.apple.com/accessibility/universalaccess.html

Coming Soon: VoiceOver Spoken Interface

Tiger, the next major release of Mac OS X, will  include a major new
adaptive technology that will  benefit users with visual and learning
disabilities: the VoiceOver spoken interface. This new technology will
provide a complete sound-and-keyboard-based user  interface alongside
the Mac OS X Aqua visual user  interface.

VoiceOver will make it possible for users with vision and learning
disabilities to navigate the Mac OS X interface and interact with
application and system controls. Such users will interact with Mac OS X
using the keyboard, and Mac OS X will respond with audible speech and
sound feedbackfor example, Mac OS X will speak the name of the active
window, and it will provide descriptive feedback when the user changes
the value of a slider control.

VoiceOver is fundamentally different from the third-party "screen
reader" utilities that people with visual impairments have
traditionally used in that the spoken interface is an integral part of
the operating system. Because VoiceOver is built into Mac OS X, it will
be available on every Macintosh computer running Tiger and later
versions of Mac OS X. It will have the high stability and ease-of-use
for which Mac OS X is known, and it will provide a single, consistent
spoken interface for both Mac OS X and all access-enabled third-party
applications.

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http://www.apple.com/macosx/tiger/voiceover.html

VoiceOver reads aloud the contents of documents such as Web pages, Mail
messages and word processing files. It provides a comprehensive audible
description of your workspace and all the activities taking place on
your computer. And it includes a rich set of keyboard commands that
allow you to navigate the Mac OS X interface and interact with
application and system controls.
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