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From: Athol Gow
Date: Oct 22, 2004 8:36AM










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From: agow
The really
good news
is that VoiceOver will be free (i.e., since it's integrated
into the OS,
it will be standard on new Macs



OT, but: just imagine if MS dared integrate anything into its
OS like this...the outrage! The shouts of anti-competitivenes...

I take your point, but you have to look at the context - the one 3rd-party developer who made a screen reader for the Mac had no plans to re-design it for OS X, and no other companies were stepping in to fill the void.