You all might want to look at the emacspeak archives for ways to run emacspeak under osx. Sean ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Poehlman" <poehlman1@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bob.dodd at acm.org>; "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2004 9:04 AM Subject: Re: Spoken interface for Mac OS X > 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 at rocketmail.com> > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
