good news for the future?
Begin forwarded message: > From: Accessibility <accessibil...@apple.com> > Date: 18 August 2009 19:12:33 BST > To: william lomas <lomaswill...@googlemail.com> > Subject: Re: Languages request > > Thank you for your suggestion William. It's a bit late for Snow > Leopard, but we'll be happy to consider this request for a future > release. > > > On Aug 17, 2009, at 11:45 PM, william lomas wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> >> I am delighted as stated in a previous mail that voiceover has been >> localised into eighteen or more languages. For foreign friends who >> are considering the apple range of products, this is fantastic >> news, particularly if they are blind. >> However, I would only respectfuly request please, that the >> snthesizers used in the iPhone and IPods for languages, be included >> in snowleopard. >> A sighted colleague is not expected to pay to read text in their >> language so why should the blind consumer? >> Also, on the IPhone when i tried a friends, (as I am a fluent >> French speaker) I put the product into French and to my delight a >> French voice came up. May I ask why this will not be the case with >> snowleopard? that if one chooses French for the user account, that >> they do not get a French voice? >> >> I agree the voices on the iPhone are not the best but at least one >> would have voice like chinese which do not have third party access, >> to get them started, then if higher quality voices are available, >> they can then be added on >> By not having the foreign voices and assuming everyone can read >> english, I believe that sighted people should be made to "buy" the >> languages as well, as if they have equal access to the languages of >> the OS why does the blind person not have the same rights? >> This is not a dig at Apple but meerley a suggestion >> Regards, WIll >> > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
