Hi Krister, I agree completely, for what it's worth. I switched to mac for this reason among many others, and am not a fan of blindness-specific solutions, if they can be avoided. I am personally quite happy with YoruFukurou as a very powerful, and mainstream, Twitter client. I doubt the two of us are alone on this planet. Best, Zack. On Jul 10, 2011, at 2:20 AM, Krister Ekstrom wrote:
> Hi, > Look, i don't want to diss your product, Jonathan but i must ask the list > this: Do we really need a blind specific Twitter client? Wasn't it so that we > chose the Mac platform to get away from blind specific solutions and be more > standard, thus being able to more easily communicate with sighted people on > equal terms? I can understand the need for one or more blind specific > solutions in the PC world, but here? Am i naive, stupid, living on another > planet? > /Krister > > 9 jul 2011 kl. 19.41 skrev Jonathan Chacón Barbero: > >> Hello, >> >> there are some problems to develop a ported version of Qwitter: >> >> * keystroke management is very different in OSX than Windows... We have to >> rewrite all modules about keyboard >> * window dialog management is very different in OSX. >> * there are few diferences in IO file system for OSX and Windows >> >> >> well, I have a good news... I'm developing Blindtweet for OSX. It is a >> twitter client for OSX managed using keystrokes and it uses speech >> capabilityes to show the twiter information. >> I hope finish it for september and it will be in the Mac app store >> >> >> >> >> Regards >> Jonathan Chacón Barbero >> Accessibility, usability and new technologies consultant >> >> Phone: +34 679953948 >> e-Mail: jonathan.cha...@telefonica.net >> Blog: http://www.programaraciegas.es >> Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/jonathanchacon >> LinkedIn: http://es.linkedin.com/in/jonathanchacon >> Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/jonathan.chacon.barbero >> Messenger: tyf...@hotmail.com >> Skype: Tyflos_ >> FaceTime: jonathan.cha...@telefonica.net >> >> -- >> 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.
