According to wikipedia Berkeley systems was bought out by Sierra Online
in 1997 for $13.8M. Sierra was bought by Vivendi and apparently was then
folded into iwin.com. I've met Peter Korn who was one of the primary
Windows developers of outspoken. A very smart and gentle person.
CB
On 3/31/15 3:57 AM, Krister Ekstrom wrote:
Hi,
I was under the impression that Berkeley systems got bought by Alva
and, this is my own theory, they, Alva were more interested in
Outspoken for Windows than they were of the mac version. Am i correct
in any of this?
/Krister
30 mar 2015 kl. 21:53 skrev David Chittenden <dchitten...@gmail.com
<mailto:dchitten...@gmail.com>>:
Hello,
Apple attempted to get Freedom Scientific to create a screen reader
for OSX. FS refused, so Apple took development in-house.
Berkeley Systems was a small company. I visited their offices once in
the mid 90's. I suspect Apple did not wish to use a small group for
screen reader development again after Berkeley Systems went
out-of-business.
David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA
Email: dchitten...@gmail.com <mailto:dchitten...@gmail.com>
Mobile: +64 21 2288 288
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On 31 Mar 2015, at 07:37, Anne Robertson <a...@anarchie.org.uk
<mailto:a...@anarchie.org.uk>> wrote:
Hello,
On 30 Mar 2015, at 19:26, Todor Fassl <fassl....@gmail.com
<mailto:fassl....@gmail.com>> wrote:
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.
I was already a Mac user back when OS X first came out and Alva
Access Group was still in business and wanted to make a screenReader
for OS X. However, Apple would not give them access to the necessary
information and it was a few years before it became clear that Apple
had decided to make its own screen reader.
Along with quite a few other blind Mac users, I was unable to
progress beyond OS9 and in fact remained with OS 8 as it was still
working for me.
I protested vociferously to Apple about the lack of a screen reader
and jumped on the public beta of VoiceOver in the summer of 2004. It
was then known as the Spoken Interface.
Cheers,
Anne
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