Lector de pantalla en Apple

Hasta hace poco, Apple y su sistema operativo carecía de funciones para mejorar la accesibilidad. Sin embargo, ahora en Apple existe un lector de pantalla llamado Voiceover (manuales y más información) que viene con la versión del sistema operativo OSX. Además, también proporciona un magnificador de pantalla.

En el artículo titulado Screen reading Apples han realizado un análisis varios expertos que trabajan en Windows con JAWS.

Las conclusiones del artículo son que el lector de pantalla se debe de mejorar, pero el magnificador de pantalla cumple su función:

For people who need to use a screen reader for day-to-day computer usage, we could not recommend Voiceover, unless email and text documents are all that is required. It is also not an equivalent screen reader for web developers to use for testing their websites. (Using tools such as "linearise" on Firefox's "Web developer's toolbar" in conjunction with removing styles would be more suitable). However, if Apple continue to work on the screen reader and more importantly keyboard accessibility in general, it would be great to have an equivalent screen reader on a non-Windows operating system.

For those that are happy with using a mouse and a screen magnifier, there is nothing to stop them from switching to the Mac, it would be no harder than fully sighted people find it, and possibly far cheaper than buying a Windows based screen magnifier.