Hi Jes, I've not installed Snow Leopard yet, but I do understand your concerns. I would just like to say though, that you can use shortcut keys in Windows to launch applications. I'm sure you know this smile.
I do understand your concerns about the ability to script taking the onis away from developers. You also made a good point where VO gives a conceptual layout and it may be the only screen reader apart from possibly NVDA to do this. I think it is a nice feature though but I hope that Apple developers continue to make their programs accessible and VO continues in the way that it has always done. The ability to add scripting is a nice featue though. Do we know for certain that we can script applications with VO? Take care james ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jes Smith" <theeternal...@gmail.com> To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> Sent: Monday, September 07, 2009 1:52 PM Subject: Voice Over with Apple Scripts, must get this off my chest > > 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. > > Jes > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
