Not saying this to you personally, but all of this is kind of
silly. I don't know what the market share in the blind community of
windows users is but I can say that it is high, so to see an article
that isn't that favorable to Voiceover isn't surprising. I don't
think that the NFB is "trashing voiceover", I think it was just an
article by someone who uses windows most of the time and just like
someone who never used a Windows screenreader before but had only
used Voiceover, when having to write an article, their opinions of
the screenreaders were schewed. You guys are much to sensitive.
On Jun 10, 2009, at 1:51 PM, Marty Rimpau wrote:
Hi all, it is obvious that the person who wrote the article hadn't
explored the menus of mail, and wasn't aware of the items that
could be checked in the view menu, but they kept insisting on using
windows standards for everything, when mac and windows aren't the
same thing, though I will say, I do wish there were a mode of the
voice over tutorial for people coming from windows, so that the
windows user would immediately be aware of the diferences, and put
aside some of those concepts.
--Original Message Text---
From: David Poehlman
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 08:10:43 -0400
Begin forwarded message:
From: Anne Robertson <conseil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: June 10, 2009 3:50:14 AM EDT
To: Snow Leopard <seedvosnowleopard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: And a beta tester wrote this
Hello everyone,
I just read this article and noticed that it was written by someone
on this list. I wouldn't mind if the observations were fair and
reasonable, but they're not.
Who ever heard of anyone learning to use Windows with Jaws without
training? Apple is being held to a completely different standard
from any other hardware or software or screenReader provider.
Here's the link:
All;
While not surprising, This article certainly shows a good deal of
what the nfb is all about here and this after they went around
saying they were responsible for apple making ITunes and the IPod
accessible.
http://www.nfb.org/images/nfb/Publications/bm/bm09/bm0906/
bm090606.htm
Marty
