![]() Of course, I'm not in apple's head, but I remember when in 2007, after first iPhone came out, I was worried that accessible phones era was over. I do not think the future will stay as it is now, I suppose the iWork platform, now does not move a step but I suppose they have to renew every part of it, including accessibility. Office automation is, let's say, "the painful point" of mac osx accessibility, for now. Better, worse, it depends on what needs a person can have. Phone and computer's approaches are different from each other, so, it's very easy to find the accessibility of one is different from the other. So now, please let me know where you agree and, more importantly, where you disagree. The computer itself is still the mainstay for work and the Mac with Voiceover just can’t compete with the PC and Jaws. While I would like to move everything to the Apple platform, (effectively integrating phones, tablets and computers), I can’t get there. Similarly, I find using the web with Jaws to be far easier and more efficient than Safari with Voiceover. Therefore complex word processing is ruled out on the Mac. I do not find Pages to be easily usable and Word for the Mac is inaccessible. While the operations of the machine itself are effectively integrated with Voiceover, I do not believe Apple and Voiceover have come close to Windows and JAWS when it comes to functionality. I love many features of the Mac platform (especially stability, security and uniformity), but it ranks far lower on the usability scale. Because of the smaller screen surface, I find the iPhone easier to use than the iPad (but I can perform all the same functions on it). I can handle all my voluminous email, take notes, read newspapers, etc. I have had a good deal of experience with accessible phones and, hands down, the iPhone is an absolute marvel. While I believe Apple and app developers have done a fantastic job on accessibility on the IOS platform, I cannot say the same for the OS on the Mac platform. Through work I have both an iPad and iPhone, which I use both with and without braille. A few years ago I bought a MacBook Pro to digitize a large music collection and to experiment with Voiceover. I have been a JAWS user for years and spend much of my work day on a PC writing and editing complex documents in Word, using Outlook very heavily for email and using Internet Explorer on the web for research. Intending to be somewhat controversial and spawn a discussion, I’m posting this perspective to see if others agree and how much I can learn from this community. As a new registrant on this site and a totally blind computer user, but one who has browsed quite a bit, I appreciate all the information it contains.
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