Hello, I am very new to apple in general (although I did use an ipod shuffle
and a rockboxed 5.5g imod i nthe past). I am a 24-year old blind law student
from the Netherlands and have been using computers from a very young age mostly
with dos, windows and sometimes ubuntu. Recently I became interested in macbook
pro because I am an audiophile and the macbooks are one of the few powerful
laptops I know that have optical audio output. But of course I was also
interested in trying os x since I had read the voicover page (although not the
manual).
I went to a local apple store yesterda and was rather disppointed that I could
not seem to use things intuitively as I had thought so I mailed apple
accessibility who pointed me to the manual and this page. Aside from the fact
that I thought apple voicover would not be usable (and so neither os x) by a
blind person right out of the box (I am rather independand and besides no one
in my vicinity knows anything about apple) I was concerned that the
screenreader was not made by a professional screenreader manufacturer and was
built-in into os x (after all narrator is not that great although it is
functional) I was also concerned by the lack of scriptability or map files to
make unaccessible applications accessible. In short I thought it would be a
second Narrator. Also despite my googling I could not finda user community for
vo, no one in nl seems to use it.
So I will be reading the manual asap but a few quick questions:
1. does omnipage pro work on the mac/is it accessible?
2. I guess it would be able to use my linksys route ron the mac?
3. hp scanners/printers, are they supported?
4. Is it possible to install mac os x (or reinstall it sinc eI guess it always
comes preinstalled but you might want to install a bigger hd for example) as a
blind person? (this is possible with both ubuntu and windows xp).
5. How is braille support with voiceover? I dont mean the displays themselves i
know mine will work but the amount of details shown versus spech. I am a
die-hard braille user.
6. Since os x is unix based, I wonder if ORCA (the screenreader for linux,
although it work sunder gnome) will ever be ported?
Well, I guess that is it for now, although I am sure I will think about more
soon.
Thanks in advance,
Greetings, Anouk,
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