Dear Editor:
I have just read "An Evaluation of VoiceOver, the Macintosh Screen Reader" and thought it excellent. I am a former Mac and outSPOKEN user, and this article makes me want a new Mac that much more.
Christopher Peppel
To the Editor:
I wanted to thank you for including Jim Denham's review of VoiceOver in the November issue of AccessWorld. As you will undoubtedly recall, I was a staunch critic of AccessWorld's previous review. I do feel that Jim's examination of VoiceOver was quite good. I've just read through it and essentially agree with everything he said.
I would imagine you approached the idea of doing another review of VoiceOver with some trepidation, given past experience. I appreciate your decision and approach.
Thanks again,
Slau
Dear AccessWorld:
Jim Denham's review of VoiceOver is not only excellent, it had an immediate impact at our company, 7-128 Software.
We just ported our entire inventory of 18 blind-accessible games to the Mac. None of these games uses VoiceOver. We use a different text-to-speech engine for self-voicing. However, it's clear that we need to work with VoiceOver. Jim's article is where we'll start.
John Bannick
Chief Technical Officer
7-128 Software
TV in Stereo
["TV or Not TV: The Accessibility of Digital Television Converter Boxes"] talks about the minor difference in signal quality between using a coax to connect to the TV versus the three RCA cables. My family tells me that they did discern a difference in picture quality. More important to me, though, was that the audio from the Ensignia box via the coaxial cable was monaural. Using RCA cables gave me full stereo audio as well as a better signal-to-noise ratio. If you're at all an audiophile, the RCA cables are the way to go if your TV or sound system permits it.
Jerry Weichbrodt
