- From: david poehlman <david.poehlman@handsontechnologeyes.com>
- Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 09:59:02 -0500
- To: <david@dorward.me.uk>, <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
fyi, osx will fully implement x11 in v1.4. Johnnie Apple Seed ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Dorward" <david@dorward.me.uk> To: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org> Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 9:53 AM Subject: Screen Readers and Operating Systems (was Re: accessible banking:) On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 09:45:37AM -0500, Access Systems wrote: > yes I rarely mess with a mac, but I wondered since OSX is a unix > variant (sort of) if it was close enough that a *nix screen reader > could be made to work?? It depends on what it is trying to read. Gnopernicus, for example, would be next to useless since it (as far as I know) depends on X11 (and possibly GTK supporting applications). Most applications on OS X do not run under X11. Emacspeak, on the other hand, runs on top of emacs (I think, I haven't actually tried it[1]), so it could probably run under OS X without too much difficulty. Emacs is available for that platform, any holdup would likely be with the speech synthesis software and/or hardware. [1] I did some poking around on my system and I seem to have it installed, along with a software speech synth, so I'll try to get it working tonight - its a 45 minute drive to earshot of the speakers on that system otherwise I would do it now :) -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk
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