I usually go one to three weeks between restarts on my Mac. Apps that are doing something or stop working don't affect the system, and Voiceover will kindly inform you that the app is 'busy" instead of locking up. Other apps work fine even when one goes nuts, so you can force quit it or wait for it to error out on its own. Jaws, I've found, loves to randomly read graphics with only numbers for labels, or only read bits of a dialog, and so on. Jaws and NVDA both have a few different review modes you have to keep track of. Voiceover has one mode, and is simpler to use. I encourage you to go onto www.applevis.com and take a look at the page for Mac newbies, which offers a lot of resources that might give you some good information. Sorry if I've already suggested that page to you, I've sent a few people there today and I honestly don't remember if you were one of them or not. <smile> Keep checking that page, as I'm about to put up a blog post that I think will help you a lot. On Apr 1, 2014, at 11:44 AM, Scott Duck <scottduck1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Everyone, > > As I said previously, I am thinking about getting a Mac and the main reason > is that I am tired of the increasing instability of the PC environment. My > first question is, is this really different on a Mac? > > I am using JAWS 15 with Windows 8. Both are not all that stable. I have > been a JAWS user for 17 years and I have noticed a definite progressive > increase in instability with the last few releases. JAWS crashes frequently > and, even if it doesn't crash, it often stops talking when errors occur with > other applications. Then, there's Windows 8. I don't mind the Windows 8 > interface but several times per week, I will have a problem that requires me > to restart my computer. I did not have that nearly as much with Windows 7. > Also, it isn't unusual for me to install a program which will, either > directly or through add ins, make Windows and/or JAWS more unstable. I then > have to decide rather the additional functionality is worth the increased > instability. I'm just tired of all the crashes and reboots and having to use > three or four screen readers because I have to run one when another one > crashes. > > By contrast, my iPhone and iPad, while not perfect, are certainly more > stable. VoiceOver seldom just stops working. Of course, every single app is > not accessible and they do not all work correctly but any problems with an > app are almost always confined only to that app. When an app crashes, it > usually does not also cause VoiceOver or the device to crash. Is this also > true of the Mac? > > I have certainly used technology enough to know that none of it is perfect. > However, I would like something that is better than the PC, when it comes to > stability. Over all, in your experience, is the Mac more stable? > > Thanks, > Scott Duck > > -- > 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 tomacvisionaries+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.
