A sad tale of (in-)accessibility
Being a multiplatform sort of chap, I've long sung the praises of Mac OS X when having geeky conversations with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ednun - but it's only when he started reading about the improvements in the VoiceOver screenreader in the latest version of OS X, "Snow Leopard", that he really got interested. So last Sunday, he booked an appointment to go into the Apple Store on Regent Street and have a demonstration of VoiceOver, both on OS X and on an iPhone 3GS, which also includes it. (The older iPhones do not.) He asked me if I'd like to go along, both to help him find the store & also to play with the shiny toys & maybe assist, as I am beginning to learn how using a computer & the Web via a screenreader works. (It's profoundly different from using a GUI with a mouse.)
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ednun - but it's only when he started reading about the improvements in the VoiceOver screenreader in the latest version of OS X, "Snow Leopard", that he really got interested. So last Sunday, he booked an appointment to go into the Apple Store on Regent Street and have a demonstration of VoiceOver, both on OS X and on an iPhone 3GS, which also includes it. (The older iPhones do not.) He asked me if I'd like to go along, both to help him find the store & also to play with the shiny toys & maybe assist, as I am beginning to learn how using a computer & the Web via a screenreader works. (It's profoundly different from using a GUI with a mouse.) ( Read more... )