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Oh, they already did, circa 2004, and they never stopped. They were the first mainstream company to release a screen reader, the first company ever to release
by miki123211 5y ago
Oh, they already did, circa 2004, and they never stopped.
They were the first mainstream company to release a screen reader, the first company ever to release a high-quality, free screen reader, the first to build one into the operating system, the first to make installing the OS accessible, the first to make touchscreens accessible for the blind, and that's not even all of it. The things we're seeing from Apple are just extraordinary, and beyond what anyone else provides. I've been a really happy iPhone user for years, and I recently got myself a Mac too. This technology literally changes our lives.
- Someone 5y ago“They were the first mainstream company to release a screen reader” I don’t think that’s correct. Microsoft Narrator is from 2000 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Narrator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Narrator), voice-over from 2005 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_Tiger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_Tiger) The Mac had a screen reader in 1989, but that was third party software (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OutSpoken https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OutSpoken) IIRC, Narrator was designed for use during OS installation. If so, “the first to make installing the OS accessible” isn’t correct, either.
- miki123211 5y agosorry, by "release a screen reader" I meant "release a screen reader that was actually usable, and that people wanted to use". Narrator wasn't usable for almost anything until Windows 8, and that's when it started supporting OS configuration. Before then, it was mostly used for recovery, when your screen reader crashed and you needed to do one or two really simple things.