Screen readers are complicated to learn. They require one to think very differently about accessing computers. Newly blind people can easily spend months learning the extremely different interface that the screen reader provides. It is not at all intuitive. It requires an extreme amount of memorisation.
Learning braille, on the other hand, is comparably easier. The structure is quite similar to print. The main differences are, learning dot patterns rather than line and curl patterns, and learning to feel rather than see the symbols. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: dchitten...@gmail.com Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone > On 6 Apr 2014, at 21:52, April <aprilbrownsh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello. About ten months ago, I was declared legally blind. I have been on > the search for a full diagnosis and prognosis since. No luck. > > In December, when my Windows 7 machine became totally unstable, and had been > reformatted three times in less than a month, I bought a Mac. I figured, if > I had to learn a screen reader, it was best to do so on one where the screen > reader came built in. > > So far, no luck learning how to use the screen reader though. I can turn on > and off. That's about it. I have a 40 page list of random commands, and > can't figure out what any of the are supposed to do. A dictionary would > help. Perhaps the lines above or below that don't make sense are supposed to > tell me what they do? > > I used to be a web designer, and I thought a screen reader should be easy to > learn to use. After all, I'm good with with computers. > > I'm also horrible with foreign languages, and figured braille would be > impossible to learn. I started the first contracted braille book I'm reading > last night. I started learning braille last November. > > I still use a Windows 7 computer at night. It takes about 15 minutes to turn > on, and every scroll of the screen takes forever. I don't count on it for > anything. > >> On Saturday, April 5, 2014 4:11:11 PM UTC-4, Scott Duck wrote: >> Hi, >> >> As I have said, I am thinking about switching to the Mac and have been >> trying to gather more information about it. To that end, I have been asking >> specific questions. I will continue to do that but I would like some >> general feedback from people who have made the switch from Windows to the >> Mac. Why did you switch In the first place? Having switched, do you feel >> that it was the right choice for you? Do any of you regret having switched >> or have you even gone back to the PC? >> >> 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 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.
