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

[david poehlman]

A small correction:

I use narrator in ie mostly quite well.

Johnnie Apple Seed
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bailey, Bruce" <Bruce.Bailey at ed.gov>
To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 10:30 PM
Subject: RE: OT: Is there a list for blind Mac users and programmers?


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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