[macvoiceover] Re: You know, I really like Apples Voiceover!

  • From: Keith Reedy <keithreedy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 13:45:03 -0400

John,

Thank you for posting this.

I was one of the first to use Tiger and I can agree we have come a long, long 
way.

Life with the MAC and the iPhone is good!

Keith Reedy
On Jun 23, 2010, at 1:32 PM, John Panarese wrote:

>      I think, among the issues we all have and the bugs we find, it is often 
> lost that Apple has come so far with VoiceOver overall.  We are at 10.6.4 
> Snow Leopard, but for those of you, like me, who were there in the beginning 
> with Tiger, think of how far our access on the Mac has come in such a 
> relatively short time.  There were so many people who wrote off Apple's 
> initial efforts as just a quick and dirty way to avoid lawsuits and predicted 
> that there would not be any real development for the product.  So many didn't 
> take the Mac seriously, and we often heard the, "everyone uses Windows, so 
> the Mac is a fad that will just go away."  I really don't think that the 
> VoiceOver team and accessibility people working for Apple receive enough 
> credit at times for all the hard work and effort they have put into the 
> VoiceOver development that has benefited us all.
> 
>    Now, well, consider where we stand today.  Not only has VoiceOver evolved, 
> expanded and improved on the Mac platform, but we have it on the iPhone and 
> iPad and iPod Touch.  How many people would have thought the blind would have 
> access to a touch screen?  To me, I just have to sit back and feel a sense of 
> utter amazement and satisfaction every so often.  
> 
>     And, yes, iBooks truly rocks.  Also, for all the reports of the problems 
> with safari 5, I have had few issues and I find the reader to be simply 
> amazing.
> 
> 
>    Thank you, Apple, for providing the continued and ever improving access to 
> your products.
> 
> Take Care
> 
> John D. Panarese
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> On Jun 23, 2010, at 1:25 AM, Mary Otten wrote:
> 
>> Hi Keith,
>> I love ibooks. I just bought my first one, a book that isn't on
>> bookshare, nor audible nor web braille. I could, of course scan this
>> 400 page book and come out with excellent copy. But clicking and having
>> it immediately available without having to take the time to scan and
>> fix is pretty awesome. The only problem with ibooks is, of course,
>> they're not free. <smile> Not quite as good as going to the public
>> library and picking up a book without having to scan or pay for it. But
>> still pretty darned cool. I'm also really glad for the keyboard input
>> and braille support in ios4. I see a braille display in my future, for
>> sure. Oh and multi-language support for speech and braille. 
>> 
>> Mary
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