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

[david poehlman]

Hmmm, maybe we can take a look at freelists and see what's going on.  Have 
you cunsulted with the manager of free lists?  You probably have, but if 
not, it might be worth a try.

Johnnie Apple Seed
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John J. Boyer" <director at chpi.org>
To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 11:15 PM
Subject: Re: OT: Is there a list for blind Mac users and programmers?


Bruce and others,

Good info. Now if they would just qet voiceOver to support braille!
Maybe this could be done using the brlapi interface in BRLTY.

As I said previously, I am using my Mac through ssh. My Elba had a
defective key, but I'm expecting it back soon. Then I'll try to use ssh
with the wireless card I got with the Elba.

The Mac comes with postfix. I got instructions on configuring it. most
of the time it works great, but a few mailing list services, including
smartgroups and freelists, won't accept m# messages. Nobody seems to be
able to tell me what to change in the postfix configuration files, and
I've looked at the documentation so much I started to have nightmares
about it. So I'm not sure just what to do about the blindmac-devel list.
Maybe I'll put it on yahoo.

John

On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 10:30:34PM -0500, Bailey, Bruce wrote:
> Brent, my apologies for taking so long to respond to your post.
>
> > How well will the shell work,
>
> OS X is based on BSD Unix.  You can have the Mac boot to the command line 
> if you like, but the usual route is to use an application called 
> "Terminal" which can be configure to launch the shell of your choice.
>
> > and how is the speech?
>
> Mac's have shipped with integrated text-to-speech since the very 
> beginning, I think in 1987.  It is very good.  The only sample I could 
> find quickly is at URL:
> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/89/Vicki_speech_synthesis_test_PlainTalk.ogg
>
> > What synth?
>
> Apple calls their technology Plain Talk.  Here are a couple of links:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_PlainTalk
> http://www.apple.com/speech/
>
> > Is VoiceOver going to be a feeble product like Narrator in Windows?
>
> No!  VoiceOver is being advertised as an integrated underlying optional 
> feature of the OS and not a separate application.  Apple demonstrated 
> VoiceOver two weeks ago at the CSUN conference.  The main apps they 
> featured were web browsing and email.  As you probably know, Narrator is 
> not even compatible with IE nor Outlook!
> http://www.apple.com/accessibility/voiceover/
>


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