OT: Is there a list for blind Mac users and programmers?

[david poehlman]

According to the page at:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/tiger/voiceover.html
it will be robust and it has an accessibility api which can be coded for by 
developers.  I cannot answer your specific questions except to say that 
right now, with osxv1.3, you can telnet/ftp into it and access the shell 
etc.  telnet is through ssh.

Johnnie Apple Seed
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brent Harding" <bharding at doorpi.net>
To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 1:41 PM
Subject: Re: OT: Is there a list for blind Mac users and programmers?


How well will the shell work, and how is the speech? What synth? I currently
use a PC with a double talk PC to run my shell stuff in fedora, but it's
slowly failing in windows, and sometimes locking dead in linux too, and I
want faster equipment. Would OSX be the answer I'm looking for, or is
voiceover going to be a feeble product like the narrator in windows.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sébastien Sablé" <sable.jussieu at free.fr>
To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2005 2:08 PM
Subject: Re: OT: Is there a list for blind Mac users and programmers?


> Hi John,
>
> John J. Boyer wrote:
> > Does anyone know about such a list? Will the Tiger release of XSX
> > support braille access?
>
> AFAIK Voice Over (the screen reader in Tiger) will not support Braille
> displays for the moment.
>
> However I got Libbraille to work on Mac OS X and added a Preference Pane
> for Braille; you can download an installer there:
> http://libbraille.org/download.php
>
> There is only a test application which detects the Braille display and
> displays a few things for the moment, but if you have a braille display
> I am interested on feedback.
>
> MozBraille should also work with Braille displays on MacOS X but you
> have to compile it yourself at the moment:
> http://mozbraille.mozdev.org/
> I am currently working on an XPI installer for MozBraille to make it
> easier to install and I will make it work on MacOSX also.
>
> regards
>
> -- 
> Sébastien Sablé
>
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