Hi all. I am greatly concerned that voice over now has support for scripting. Especially now that you can make voice over launch an application with a single script. I'm not talking about glancing at the time or seeing how many unread messages you have in mail. I'm talking about opening up apps like mail or Safari from within Voice OVer. I am concerned that voice over is starting to become a bit like Jaws, and that if we don't get a grip on it now, voice over will become Jaws for Macintosh. I, like Mike Arrigo, don't feel that launching apps is something that should be implemented in a screen reader. Also, I fear that the use of apple scripts will replace the responsibility of an application developer to make their application accessible right out of the box. On the Windows side, if something isn't accessible with Jaws, you just download scripts for it. What if you go to another person's computer and they don't have the scripts for the app you are trying to use? It's my belief that a certain article from the NFB prompted this scripting support. Folks, the thing I like about voice over is that it gives the blind user the same conceptual layout and information as it appears on the screen to a sighted user. No other screen reader does this, and we should keep voice over as a screen reader, and let it be. If we don't, eventually, when we try and contact an Apple developer, they will either ignore us, or will say, "Well, just download the scripts for my application and you will have access." Any thoughts? If someone disagrees with me, I'd love to hear your arguments, not so that I can persuade you to agree with me, but so that I can have a new perspective.
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