I've heard that point about Apple's responsiveness before. I am a
somewhat casual Mac user and I don't have a good way to gauge the value
of that point. But I brought it up on another list and got soundly
trashed for it. But I don't know enough about voiceovers flaws to defend
the point. What problems are there with voiceover?
And I am guessing that when you say it's possible for there to be a
second screen reader for Mac OS, you mean just that -- possible but not
likely. Correct me if I'm wrong but the reason Apple developed voiceover
in the first place was that the only company making a screen reader for
Mac OS went out of business. If that company couldn't survive before
voiceover, it certainly couldn't survive now.
For now, Freedom Scientific's response to nvda, orca, and voiceover
seems to be to up their game. But I wonder how long they can keep it up.
Your only choice on Mac OS is voiceover. There's only 1 screen reader
for linux too. That does seem to be the future.
On 03/30/2015 10:54 AM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote:
I dunno, really. I am fortunate enough to have access to three
> commercial screen readers for Windows (Window-Eyes, Supernova and
> JAWS) as well as to NVDA and of course VoiceOver on the Mac, the
> latter of which just happens to be my primary combination. I’m still
> not convinced that’s enough. Certainly there does exist the
> potential for the Mac to have a third-party screen reader that sucks
> less than VoiceOver, and Windows accessibility is just fundamentally
> broken anyway by birth, but if Microsoft ever pulls its finger
> out—who knows, we may yet reconcile the need for working
> accessibility out of the box with a choice of multiple platforms, but
> I do worry that the commitment to (at least OS X’s) VoiceOver has not
> been as good as it could or should be, and if we _want_ to have just
> one choice of screen reader for every platform then we had better be
> ready to accept nothing less than perfect. It would be a great
> disappointment to find that platforms with excellent out-of-box
> accessibility were hamstrung merely by internalised development
> processes and NIH politics, yet that seems to be the one true way
> with OS X and iOS, and also recently ChromeOS and Windows as well. I
> consider Windows to be the more accessible platform at the moment,
> merely on the basis of application choices, but I use OS X because I
> prefer the model and quality of the accessibility that it provides.
> This may change if Microsoft does a half-decent job with Narrator in
> Win10, or alternatively that my discontent with OS X in general and
> perhaps VO in particular simply drive me back to Windows for the
> better of the mediocrities. MS are strongly hinting that they do not
> intend to replace AT, so this seems very likely.
>
> JMO. :)
>
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