RE: Preview of JAWS 12
- From: "Cy Selfridge" <cyselfridge@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 06:51:42 -0600
Alan,
I also used Outspoken in the early 90s.
You are almost correct, Outspoken made the Mac *almost* useable. (LOLLOLLOL)
Compared to what we have today it was very basic to say the least.
That is actually why I migrated to the DOS/Windows machines. I believe the
first speech software I used on a DOS machine was Artic and used a
Symphonics 215 speech board. It was also pretty limited but better than
Outspoken.
I wish I had the guts to just switch back to a Mac and leave all this W7,
JAWS 11 and so on behind. (LOL)
Cy, The Anasazi.
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Alan Clendinen
Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 1:45 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: re: Preview of JAWS 12
Actually this is not accurate. I was using a Macintosh back in 1991 by using
a screen-reader app named "OutSpoken" which was produced by Berkley Systems.
This was years before Apple introduced their own built-in screen-reader app
in OS X, and after they did, it killed off all the third-party screen-reader
applications.
Alan
Alex M wrote:
"No blind person could use it until Apple
themselves coded a built-in screen reader."
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