This is a good thing, I get tired of people always suggesting one product, regardless of what else is available, I would put the capabilities of voiceover against any windows screen reader, it would at least tie them and in some cases, come out ahead. On Jul 26, 2011, at 7:59 PM, David Tanner wrote:
> No, I just happen to be one of those terrible assistive technology specialist > that tells it the way he sees it and sometimes some of the big boys in the > assistive technology field don't necessarily like what I say, but they know > that I wouldn't say something is bad unless I have the facts to back up what > I say. > > On the other hand, those that I work with would tell you that I don't play > favorites with one product or another. And, I don't try to push a product > down people's throats that they don't want. Nor will I push a product on > someone unless I believe that it will truely meet their needs. > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "carolyn Haas" <chaas0...@gmail.com> > To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Monday, July 25, 2011 11:26 PM > Subject: Re: Voice over lag and other lion issues > > > Hi David: > Can you be bribed? > > On Jul 25, 2011, at 7:24 PM, David Tanner wrote: > >> I am certainly glad that I don't see nearly as many bugs in VoiceOver as you >> will find in the shark. >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ricardo Walker" <rwalker...@gmail.com> >> To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> >> Sent: Monday, July 25, 2011 8:12 AM >> Subject: Re: Voice over lag and other lion issues >> >> >> Hi, >> >> In regards to the iWork stuff, Its kinda unfair to pin that on the Lion OS >> in my opinion. after all, There has not been a major update to iWorks since >> 2009. Lets see what the next big release will mean for accessibility. And >> in regards to the lack of new features, hmm, I don't know. For example, How >> many new features exist in jaws 12 that weren't there in jaws 10? I'm not >> sure how many new features one can really cram into a screen reader in 2 >> years. And as far as the bugs go, its not like Apple is going to delay >> Their new OS because of some Voiceover bugs. Lets give it an update or 2 to >> see what happens? >> >> Ricardo Walker >> rwalker...@gmail.com >> Twitter & Skype: rwalker296 >> www.mobileaccess.org >> >> On Jul 25, 2011, at 8:31 AM, Luca wrote: >> >> I agree, i was expecting a lot more from vo in lion... look, two >> years have passed since last release, and what have you new? ok >> activities, single navigation letter (which could have been made >> better...), international voices (very buggy, cant deny it...), and >> new drag and drop... >> Well in two years only these things is a little on my opinion.. >> Braille support is terrible, whe told them, wrote a lot of mail... and >> nothing has changed. >> Still You cannot do decent word processing with vo, no tables, no >> footnnotes detection, no title/list detection... >> Ok some of these things you can do wiith pages but in an extremely >> convoluted and non efficient way.. >> And what about numbers? you can use it in a very basic way only... >> And i am not speaking of bugs, those i hope will be fixed.. but there >> are quite significant ones.... >> >> -- >> 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. >> > > -- > 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. 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