1 September, 2008 @ 9:42 pm by Lioncourt
Last week, the National Federation of the Blind settled out of court with Target Stores Inc. regarding access for the blind and visually impaired to its website and online store for an amount in excess of $6M.
In an insightful entry to their blog, Disability Nation points out the shortfalls of this settlement, particularly where the NFB stands to gain. Most notable to VoiceOver users on the Macintosh platform is that this settlement only pertains to access to the Target.com site with Jaws for Windows from Freedom Scientific. This fails to take into account the millions of visually impaired users of alternative access solutions such as VoiceOver, GW Micro’s Window-Eyes, or any number of other commercial or open source screen access products.
Check out the entry by clicking here. Let us know what you think.
Posted in Apple Inc., Commentary, Misc, Third-Party Products, VoiceOver | 2 Comments »
1 September, 2008 @ 1:27 pm by Lioncourt
Through the unconventional medium of a comic book, Google announced a new open source web browser called Chrome. The browser is scheduled to debut on Wednesday, 03/September, and it uses the same HTML rendering engine as Apple’s Safari browser. That engine is the open source project WebKit.
Although no details on what platforms the browser will be available for, it is very possible that this browser will be compatible with VoiceOver, as it will be sharing key components with Safari, if it is indeed available for Mac OS X.
Google and Apple have a history of strong ties, so we do expect a Macintosh version of Chrome to be available.
As soon as we know whether or not it is accessible with VoiceOver, we will report. The browser, along with additional information, will be available later from www.Google.com/chrome
Posted in Apple Inc., Mac OS X, Third-Party Products, VoiceOver | No Comments »
