There are quite a few potential beta candidates out there. I am one of them who has a titanium g4 powerbook running osx but the only way I can currently use it is with os9 and outspoken for the mac. There are lots of people for one reason or another who are currently not working in some places because there is no screen reading access to osx for the blind. The last qquestion on the survey askes if you would preview spoken interface. No mention is made anywhere of the status of the spoken interface except that it is in the early stages of development and will appear in the next upgrade of osx. Right now, it only works with some internal stuff for the mac but this is planned to be expandable with additions to the development kits for internal and external use. Don't expect to see a beta any time soon. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Dodd" <Bob.Dodd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2004 10:25 AM Subject: Re: Spoken interface for Mac OS X No it hasn;t. Currently they are looking for beta testers I believe: http://www.apple.com/accessibility/spokeninterface/questionnaire.html I'm not sure how many beta testers they think they will get, since I don't imagine there are many visually impaired users that currently have macs... /bob --- David Poehlman <poehlman1 at comcast.net> wrote: > From what I have gathered, it has not yet been launched. > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
