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#1727 - 04/21/05 08:30 AM "Tiger" feedback
Jeff Steinborn Administrator Offline
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Mac OS X.4 (Tiger) is due in a week. I'm not sure when my copy will arrive, but it would be interesting to get feedback from forum members on it's new accessibility features.
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#1728 - 04/23/05 05:48 PM Re: "Tiger" feedback
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I'm hoping our tech department will give me time to play/learn before they release it on the district!!

Can't wait to see if it lives up to my expectations!!

Bridget \:\)
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#1729 - 04/24/05 11:00 AM Re: "Tiger" feedback
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Just hope they roll it out quickly! Just because of VoiceOver this will be the most important release of OS X for special education since we got Universal Access and Zoom. That doesn’t account for the other new features . Plus, with sufficient RAM, each previous release of OS X has made the same old hardware run faster. This is great news for schools with tight budgets. Can you image a major MS Windows release speeding up an older computer?
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#1730 - 04/29/05 01:14 PM Re: "Tiger" feedback
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Macworld article on Tiger\'s acessibility features.

My copy of "Tiger" is not in yet. \:\(

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#1731 - 04/30/05 02:01 PM Re: "Tiger" feedback
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Thanks for the link Jeff!!

I got word yesterday that our tech department is going to load Tiger on one of the computers in my lab for me to play with!!

will share soon!!

Bridget : - )
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#1732 - 04/30/05 09:39 PM Re: "Tiger" feedback
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Thanks for that MacWorld article link. It’s good to see more than a paragraph or two on a mainstream site. One thing they omitted is how much better Tiger is for keyboard navigation (without VoiceOver running). For example, one can do a complete install without using a mouse (or resorting to Mouse Keys).
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#1733 - 05/03/05 07:43 PM Re: "Tiger" feedback
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Apple Discussions Home > Mac OS X > Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger > Universal Access & VoiceOver
http://discussions.info.apple.com/tiger.voiceover/

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#1734 - 05/13/05 08:41 AM Re: "Tiger" feedback
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Can VoiceOver work with Safari web pages?
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#1735 - 05/13/05 08:35 PM Re: "Tiger" feedback
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Safari, TextEdit, and Mail are fully accessible. Terminal is useable. Success with web pages depends on how they are coded.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/voiceover/

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#1736 - 06/07/05 09:11 AM Re: "Tiger" feedback
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Could you list a few websites that work with VoiceOver.
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