There's an active e-mail list of folks discussing VoiceOver.  You can find
archives to the list at
http://www.macvisionaries.com/pipermail/discuss_macvisionaries.com/ and
details on joining the list linked off of
http://www.macvisionaries.com/mailinglists.php.

I've spent maybe two hours with the product doing mostly system navigation
and reading help content myself.  Those tasks worked well but I recognize
that those are basic functions.

Kelly





-----Original Message-----
From: * EASI: Equal Access to Software & Information
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Terri Hedgpeth
Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 3:35 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [adtech-ps] Anyone Tried Apple Tiger Screen Reader?

Hi Norm,
The presentation at CSUN was pretty impressive. They did the entire
presentation by keyboard only. I still adopt a wait and see attitude, but
I'm willing to give them a chance. Tiger in his office and he has invited me
to try it out. I'll let you know how it goes.

Take care
Terri Hedgpethng to check it out. One of my co-workers in a Mac person and
will have the

-----Original Message-----
From: * EASI: Equal Access to Software & Information
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Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 3:06 PM
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Subject: Re: [adtech-ps] Anyone Tried Apple Tiger Screen Reader?

Hello Norm.  Reliable hearsay evidence is that it isn't very usable by
blind people.   It is more of a screen reader for people with vision
having
various print disabilities.  I'm not aware of any direct information from
Apple about plans to make it more accessible to blind people.

John




At 02:35 PM 5/3/2005, Prof Norm Coombs wrote:

>I understand that the new Mac operating system has a screen reader.  A
>friend who is not blind tried it and was impressed, but he does not
have
>the experience to be a valid judge.
>
>Anyone on this list have any experience or comments?
>Norm
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