Well, I didn't really make a note of the dates. I can only give them
based on dates of historical events. I believe that I was using jaws
4.0 at the time. According to wikipedia, jaws 4.0 was released in 2001.
That coincides nicely with the release of Mac Os X also in 2001. So I am
going to say my memory there is correct. But I was not a Mac user at the
time and I was never directly responsible for the computer labs.
Tiger wasn't released until 2005. So there would have been 4 years where
there was no screen reader for Macs unless you wanted to run an obsolete
version of the operating system. I know it's fair to say you could
stick with Mac OS 9 up until tiger came out but I don't think that is
realistic in many cases. For example, the manager of a computer lab in a
school or university isn't going to want to stick with a version of an
operating system that was obsolete 4 years earlier. It's easier to talk
the administration into ponying up the money for jaws.
I no longer work for the department that manages the computer labs here
so I don't know when the switch back to Macs began. They're all over the
place now, though.
On 03/31/2015 01:44 PM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote:
Indeed, the education sector/section-508 (in the US) looks, on the existing
evidence at least, to have been the cause for Apple’s commitment. A shame, I
suppose, that it always takes legislation to set of this sort of thing.
Can you remember when about which period it was that your institution decided
to convert to Windows for this reason? The one thing I’ve not yet been clear
on is when Apple’s APIs were actually substantial enough. For example it is
documented that 10.2 or thereabouts contained support enough, but the screen
reader did not actually appear until Panther (as Spoken interface Preview).
Could it have been that, though present, the APIs were simply not documented?
And in which case, when did the documentation appear? It’s certainly available
now.
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