I think that this kind of an email should be directed toward apple accessibility as they can address some of your issues? > On Feb 11, 2015, at 2:38 PM, William Windels <william.wind...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hello, > > I am writing to you since the progress of the accessibility features are > really pour in the last releases of osx 10.10.2. > The mac is still missing some important features against windows with a > commercial screenreader, and this after more 6 years of voiceover as > built-in screenreader. > Ok, voiceover is still a free, built-in screenreader but on windows , there > are 2 free screenreader for the windows platform that are better in some > cases than voiceover. > > Braille is still very basicnin osx: > Some daily problems I discover with voiceover: > I can’t follow courses with only braille output (without speech) during > colleges. > I mean: there is some important information missing on the braille display > that’s only available with speech. > > What is missing: >>> 1- no option for word wrapping: this can be useful for fast reading >>> (loudly); >>> 2- no different modes line, structured, speech (like in jaws): specialy >>> structured mode in jaws is configurable, type of controls is shown, >>> interaction-levels could be shown on this way. >>> It’s e.g. very frustrating if you are in a text area and you can read all >>> with the braille-line but you can’t edit or simply move the cursor to any >>> position that is visible on the braille display. >>> >>> 3- to know if quicknav is on/off before moving isn’t possible also. >>> On this way , it’s very easy to lose your position in a text-area or a >>> window. >>> The quick-nav option has also some bugs in general but is sometimes very >>> useful for navigation (and specially on a macbook). > >>> 4- In some cases, the text that’s in the voiceover cursor is (always) >>> underlineed with dots 7-8. On this way , no other attributes are shown and >>> the cursor isn’t shown. If dots 7,8 are turned off, the cursor isn’t >>> visible at all and capitals aren’t shown also. >>> >>> 5- When i put the cursor on a letter in a text I delete a .(dot) sign on >>> the left sign of the cursor and voiceover says sometimes something else. > > > > further braille bugs: > cursor routing on the first sign of the braille-display: the text on the > display is gone; > when composing a message to multiple recipients , while the speech is saying > correctly the contact that has the focus, the braille display isn’t following. > >>> Further: > > > Some bugs since 10.9 aren’t fixed: > the icons in the statusbar like the third party app dropbox can’t be accessed > with voiceover from there. > The drag and drop-function with voiceover is not improved since the > introduction in osx 10.7 and gives not the same possibilities for blind > users as for sighted users. > The button to mount all external (network)-stations at once in finder is not > accessible with voiceover; > > And some different points: > Ibooks was basically accessible with voiceover after one update from osx 10.9 > to osx 10.10. > > iWork’s is mainly accessible but is still missing some important > compatibility options to work together with ms office. > (most of the people that work in a administrative job, use windows with ms > office). > > I still love the mac because of some intuïtive features like the trackpad > with voiceover, time-machine, the possibility to maintain the system as blind > user on my own. > But , I don’t know if the newest features for blind users are good and > innovative enough to spend that much money on. > > With so great financial results the last weeks that where announced from > Apple, I should hope that more innovation is coming for people with > disabilities. > > Keep on the work that Steve Jobs has started. > > Kind regards, > William Windels > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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