Re: accessible banking:

sorry, I should be more clear on this.  when using the unix console 
remotely, you would use it via a screen reader on another system.  I suppose 
if one were to set up the mac to boot to terminal and emacs speak were 
available for it that it would work just fine.  As I understand it though, 
emacs speak is a desktop for unix so I don't know how this plays out.

Johnnie Apple Seed

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From: "Access Systems" <accessys@smart.net>
To: "david poehlman" <david.poehlman@handsontechnologeyes.com>
Cc: "Kelly Pierce" <kpierce2000@earthlink.net>; "Pawson, David" 
<David.Pawson@rnib.org.uk>; <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 9:30 AM
Subject: Re: accessible banking:


On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, david poehlman wrote:

> macs are accessible to the blind.
>
> there are two ways to access them.
>
> If you use outspoken, you can use a mac through version 9.2 of the 
> operating
> system.  If you have osx, you can use a mac but it is currently a bit 
> tricky
> and will soon change.  You can also use osx through a remote log in and 
> you
> have all the good stuff from the unix text console available to you and 
> you
> can add more if you like.

does emacspeak work thru the text console or thru unix?????

Bob

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> Johnnie Apple Seed
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kelly Pierce" <kpierce2000@earthlink.net>
> To: "Pawson, David" <David.Pawson@rnib.org.uk>;
> <david.poehlman@handsontechnologeyes.com>; <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 8:47 AM
> Subject: Re: accessible banking:
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> From: "Pawson, David" <David.Pawson@rnib.org.uk>
> To: "Kelly Pierce" <kpierce2000@earthlink.net>;
> <david.poehlman@handsontechnologeyes.com>; <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 2:46 AM
> Subject: RE: accessible banking:
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> >
> >    -----Original Message----- Kelly Pierce
> >    the goal
> >    is possible using software running on more than 95 percent
> >    of computers in use today.
> >
> > Does the ADA only apply to 95% of users then?
> >
>
> **No, but the number cited is a mainstream figure.  It includes three
> percent of mac's, which are not accessible to the blind.
>
> Kelly
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