Of course, this is done also but any support or remark of you as voiceover-users is also very welcome
Mvg william Windels Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPhone > Op 12-feb.-2015 om 06:30 heeft Faisal ali <faisal.a...@icloud.com> het > volgende geschreven: > > 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. > > -- > 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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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