Hi there I occasionally teach adults computers. I did it as one of those "duties as assigned" before I retired and started my current business. I also do some on a voluntary basis, having started a VoiceOver special interest group with the Apple Corps of Dallas.
I can't tell you the number of totally blind adults I have met who started out as partially sighted. That statement applies to my best childhood friend and several others I know now. I try to encourage any low vision person I help with computers to learn the speech use so that they know it if and when they need it. I found that some people accept that suggestion, and some don't. Recently, I was having a conversation with some adults who learned their blindness skills back in the days when many partially sighted children learned braille etc. when nowadays they would be taught to rely on their eyes. One of the ladies has kept her vision, and the other is now totally blind and using braille all the time. Both ladies said they were glad they learned like that as children. To get back on the topic at hand, I gather from what you are saying that this is a child. If so, you may be able to convince her to learn this, if for no other reason than she can show it off to the other kids. As for upgrading, I don't think there are enough differences to cause her a lot of grief unless the computer is barely able to be upgraded because of its age or memory. It's not like Apple rewrote the whole system. Besides, like it was said before, should her family get her a Mac, it will be under the newest version of the software. Then she can learn the new Pages. Regards, Gigi On Mar 28, 2014, at 12:56 PM, Alex Hall <mehg...@icloud.com> wrote: > I know. Unfortunately, it is a school Macbook, and even if it supports 10.9, > the upgrade is controlled by the school. I could tell the TVI to suggest an > upgrade, but the student is low-vision and only just getting used to using > Voiceover. I'd hate to change the interface she is just starting to become > familiar with and have her move backward. She will never need to be a VO > power user; she uses it more as a crutch when print is too small or she loses > the mouse. She could be more efficient with it than she can with the vision > she has, but making her see that isn't my job. :D So unless there are big > advantages to upgrading in terms of low vision/VO (and there may well be - I > only really started using a Mac with 10.8) upgrading might hurt at this > point. Then again, it might be a great idea which should really help, I > really don't know. Any thoughts on this? > On Mar 28, 2014, at 1:40 PM, Anne Robertson <a...@anarchie.org.uk> wrote: > >> Why is the student using 10.6.8? Snow Leopard really is going back a bit in >> terms of accessibility. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Anne >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > Have a great day, > Alex Hall > mehg...@icloud.com > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
