Apple to Add Free Screen Reader to Mac OS X

Posted by pudge on Friday March 19, 2004 @08:41PM from the accessibility-good dept.

Joe Clark writes "Screen readers for blind Mac users have been nonexistent since 2003 when development was halted on the only one in existence. On Windows they cost up to $1,295. This week, Apple announced the upcoming Spoken Interface for Mac OS X, the long-rumoured Apple screen reader and more, we are told. Apple is looking for beta-testers for this technology preview. Already, a developer muses that IBMs accessible Java software could work with the screen reader. No mention of Braille-display support yet, which many blind and deaf-blind people need and want."

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Re:You know what this means, folks... by Lane.exe · 2004-03-19 20:48 · Score: 5, Funny

Forcing blind people to install, configure and maintain a Linux distribution is tantamount to a human rights violation.
And I say this as an avid Linux user.

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