[gui-talk] Voiceover

[Gerald Levy]

Does Apple offer any kind of scripting support for Voice Over?  Have they 
ever been approached with the idea of offering a scripting function?

Gerald

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Arrigo" <n0oxy at charter.net>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 25, 2009 8:05 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Voiceover


> Hi. Allow me to answer your question about each type of program. First 
> the office suite. Microsoft Office is not accessible on the mac,  however 
> there are 2 alternatives. Open Office version 3 for the mac is  accessible 
> with voice over, so is Apple's office suite, i work version  9. Both of 
> these suites will open and save Microsoft Office files. The  word 
> processor that comes with the mac, called text edit, will open  and save 
> Microsoft Word files, even version 2007.
> For playing and ripping media, there are several choices. Itunes will 
> play CDS, as well as rip them to your hard drive. It can also play 
> streaming media. There are also 2 other players that I know of. Quick 
> time will play several media types, and there is a plug in you can 
> install that will allow quick time to play windows media files as well  as 
> windows media streams. Another player worth considering is the vlc 
> player. This plays windows media as well as .ogg files.
> Adobe reader is not needed on the mac, there is a program included  with 
> the mac called preview. This will open pdf files, and you can  start 
> reading right away, no waiting for the document to be prepared  for 
> reading.
> For the web, the safari browser works great, and you have access to  much 
> of the same functions such as moving by link heading, etc. There  is also 
> no forms mode to worry about, just move to the control and  start typing, 
> works very well. Let me know if you are concerned about  any other 
> applications.
> On Jul 25, 2009, at 6:04 PM, albert griffith wrote:
>
>> Hello Curtis:
>> If someone needs to access, Ms. Office, a media player to rip, burn,
>> organize and play files along with managing place markers in a wide 
>> range of
>> file types
>> will the voiceover work? This person has to access the acrobat  reader, 
>> an
>> instant messenger and an internet browser.
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk- bounces at nfbnet.org] 
>> On
>> Behalf Of Curtis Chong
>> Sent: Saturday, July 25, 2009 5:56 PM
>> To: 'NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List'
>> Subject: [gui-talk] Voiceover
>>
>> On July 25, 2009, Kevin Fjelsted wrote in relevant part:
>>
>> "The fact that the NFB technology center chooses to publish  inaccuracies 
>> and
>> propaganda which is so misleading must mean that the existing  companies 
>> like
>> Freedom Scientific are running scared and trying to rally resources  to 
>> quash
>> VoiceOver usage."
>>
>> Having managed the International Braille and Technology Center for  five
>> years, I think I can say with some credibility that the Braille  Monitor
>> article which Kevin refers to was not intended to be deliberately
>> inaccurate.  Nor was it intended to (as he says) "quash VoiceOver 
>> usage."
>>
>> The article that was published in the June edition of the Braille 
>> Monitor
>> was clearly written from the perspective of a community which, in  the 
>> main,
>> has strong familiarity with the Windows operating system, Windows- based
>> screen access technology, and Windows conventions.  Having read the 
>> article
>> myself and reviewed some of the responses to it, I would acknowledge 
>> that
>> the article can be said to contain some inaccuracies and erroneous
>> conclusions.  However, the perspective of the author, while not that  of 
>> a
>> VoiceOver user, is reflective of the majority of blind computer  users 
>> who,
>> today, are familiar with Windows.  Clearly, the author of the  article 
>> was
>> not aware that there is a very dedicated community of blind people  who 
>> have
>> developed a high degree of understanding, competence, and  sophistication
>> with VoiceOver and the Macintosh.  The article would have been well 
>> served
>> if the author had been able to talk with some of these people.
>>
>> This may have been the case when the article was written, but I am 
>> confident
>> that the voices of the Macintosh and VoiceOver community have been  heard 
>> and
>> are even now being consulted.
>>
>> Cordially,
>>
>> Curtis Chong
>>
>>
>>
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