amazon there shows how much disregard they have for us and how much they want to crawl and lick the boots ad other less savory parts of th ebig dogs they cower to i for one am sick of being 3rd class in society and why doesn't the nfb sue for crap like that the nfb can't even get us accessible cable boxes even though most of th eboxes even have usb ports on them m time warner hd cable box has a usb port on the front the mac doens't even see it havn't tried with a windows computer yeet but I suspec tit's disabled and useless it's getting to whre a blind person can't even listen to tv or music or anything on cable or over the air the new digital tv converters for over the air broadcat tv are also completely unusable if ou are blind On Jan 19, 2011, at 9:13 PM, Jane wrote:
> Not fair, but here's a solution; access would only be enabled if VoiceOver is > turned on. If not, you're screwed. > > Jane > > > On Jan 19, 2011, at 9:11 PM, Mary Otten wrote: > >> Ricardo, >> The Kindle accessibility plug in application was designed using something >> called the qt graphics package. I haven't a clue what that is. But given >> that they went out of their way to use something that doesn't let you >> actually use the app with your screen reader, using the screen reader's >> navigation keys, speech synthesis etc, I would guess that they're not going >> to write anything for the Mac that enables vo users to get full access. >> they're still worried about their precious agreement with the publishers and >> the tts. Since Macs and I-devices have screen reading available by default, >> somebody at Amazon will undoubtedly decide that they can't let Mac users >> have the access, because they it would be available to everybody. You can't >> use the accessibility app on Windoes unless you have a screen reader >> installed, even though the tts used does not come from your screen reader. >> >> Mary >> >> Mary Otten >> motte...@gmail.com >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
