VoiceOver is yet another reason for all you Windows using web professionals to get yourselves a Mac for testing. Especially when you take the price into account. It doesn’t have all the features of a more advanced screen reader like JAWS, but from the testing I have done so far it seems to do a decent job. VoiceOver has made checking my work in a screen reader a lot easier.
This is very exciting for me as a Mac using accessibility advocate, and VoiceOver was the main reason for me to buy Tiger since I don’t care much about Spotlight, Dashboard and the other new gadgets. Up until now, people needing a screen reader have been more or less forced to use Windows because of the lack of decent screen reader software for the Mac, but now it’s built right into the Mac OS. One of the most interesting features of Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger, the newest version of Apple’s operating system, is VoiceOver, a built-in screen reader.
VoiceOver and Safari: Screen reading on the Mac
