And, according to Apple's accessibility website, Snow Leopard will incorporate this same technology in to the new OS. the touch pad will become the screen, and where you touch will relate to the visual screen for the same relational referencing. And, flicks and other gestures will work as well.
I will be purchasing a mac book Pro as soon as I have set aside the appropriate funds later this year.
Apple is really raising the bar here. Oh, and the same web page also illustrates that they have been paying attention to many of the negative reviews from places like the NFB. It really is a good read.
David Chittenden, MS, CRC, MRCAA Cheryl Homiak wrote:
It really is historic!!! Do you realize that you can now have an intelligent conversation with a sighted person about orientation on a device, meaning that when they say something is in the bottom right corner of your screen that's actually probably where it is?!!! Just recently I was talking to a tech support person about something on my computer and she kept telling me to look at various places on the screen and I had to tell her that location on the screen was really no help to me. But with the iPhone it is!!! Do you also realize that you can read the manual and make sense of much of it without having to translate from mouse-ese to keyboard-ese? I do realize there are some differences of gestures with vo off and on but still, there's much less translation needed. Just being able to locate something on the screen and do an appropriate tap sequence to open and use it, and then get back to Home with a press of a button, seems so much more intuitive to me than going through a bunch of menus. I can't really explain it and maybe it's totally psychological on my part, but it gives me such a feeling of otientation to feel that I know where something is on the screen instead of just maneuvering through menus or doing a keyboard sequence and having what I want appear without any context. Of course I know menus and shortcuts are still useful and appropriate; I'm just saying that using the iPhone gives me a whole new sense of perspective and integration and orientation.Click on the link below to go to our homepage. http://www.icanworkthisthing.com Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below. //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceoverUsers can subscribe to this list by sending email to macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover
