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Giving OS X a voice
Macworld, 2005
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- What it is
- A Macworld news article, dated 28 April 2005, that describes VoiceOver as a built-in screen reader in Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and explains that it works with Command-F5.
- How much weight it carries
- Contemporary trade press written at launch. It reports Apple's own description of the feature, so it shows what Apple said in 2005 rather than independent testing.
Facts taken from this source
- Apple built VoiceOver into Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, which Macworld reported in April 2005 as a feature that starts with Command-F5.
“Because VoiceOver is built into Tiger, Apple believes its spoken-word application has an advantage over third-party screen readers” (Article body, paragraph on VoiceOver)