Braille is needed too! Re: Great days to come!!

[John J. Boyer]

Marian,

If you have contacts with Apple, be sure to urge them to include support 
for braille ASÂAP! Some people, like me are deaf-blind. Others greatly 
prefer braille. Moreover braille is better for highly detailed work such 
as programming or studying mathematics.

Thanks,
ºJohn


On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Marian Selea wrote:

> 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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