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OS X gets more accessible

Posted on 22/3/2004, 3:25 am, by Colin Charles, under General.

It’s great to note – Apple’s got a new Spoken Interface utility, thats part of Universal Access. This is a screen-reader, that will be available in the next release of OS X for free; blind users might find buying Macs a lot better now!

A little blurb at diveintomark is rather useful, as there are links to the Apple developer docs. I’ve signed up to become a beta tester, and all this made me find a new interesting site: Macaccessibility.

Timely news all of this, as here we are now writing a DAISY Player, that will work on Windows, Linux, and hopefully OS X – though it might be X11 based, so I’ll start polishing up on my Cocoa skills. Ack, this probably means OpenOffice.org on OS X is not accessible as well.

2 Comments

  1. pleavitt says:
    22/3/2004 at 2:46 pm

    how do you guys make money?

  2. byte says:
    23/3/2004 at 5:39 am

    Whom? The accessibility folk?

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