- From: Jo Miller <jo@bendingline.com>
- Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 12:27:37 -0400
- To: "WAI Mailing list" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
At 8:52 -0700 10/5/01, Kynn Bartlett wrote: >At 08:41 AM 10/5/2001 , Anthony Quinn wrote: >>Hi Folks, >> >>I've attempted to research accessibility guidelines and support on the Mac. >>I found this link to a very general article which is really all about 508 >>and web accessibility http://developer.apple.com/internet/_html/access.html >> >>Also, I tried to find information in the Apple Developer site (I signed up) >>and there's noting in there. If someone was designing an interface for the >>Mac, where would they go for specifics on making it accessible? >> >>Or is there any support for accessibility in the Mac OS at all? > >My understanding is that Mac accessibility is quite limited. Joe Clark wrote about Mac accessibility in TidBits a while back: http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=06311 Universal Access and OSX: http://www.apple.com/disability/ In the area of web accessibility, I would note that IE5.x for Mac allows easy one-click resizing of ALL text, regardless of what units the web author has used to specify his font sizes (we're still waiting for this feature in IE-Windows). And text-to-speech has been built into the Mac OS for a long while now (yes, I know its limitations). David Pogue, a Macworld columnist who has repetitive-motion disorder and relies on voice commands to work on his Mac, wrote an article about voice recognition and device-independent input a couple of years ago -- I'll try to find the reference. Jo Miller ___________________________ B e n d i n g L i n e 7 0 3 - 7 8 3 - 0 6 9 5 Strategic Web Consulting http://bendingline.com
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