Hi Greg, Adium spelled with a D as in David is accessible with VoiceOver. I think Marrie or Mike Arrigo did a podcast on that. If you would like, I can do a minicast for you taking through some of the Mac's built-in programs.
Allison My birds are winged blessings, they help me soar! On Jul 22, 2010, at 7:34 AM, joseph wrote: > hi > > is abium accessible with voice over? > > best > > Chris Moore wrote: >> On the chat side, you can download Adium which will let you connect to MSN, >> Yahoo, Google, Facebook etc or if you only need GoogleTalk then use the >> built in iChat program. If you still get stuck with anything you can always >> install Fusion or use boot camp to run Windows on your Mac. >> On 22 Jul 2010, at 03:18, Greg Aikens wrote: >> >>> Hello everyone, >>> I am brand new to the list. I am looking at getting a new computer and >>> have been thinking for a while about getting a mac. I am starting an >>> M.Ed. at Vanderbilt University in Education of the Visually Impaired >>> this fall and my biggest concern is being able to do my schoolwork on >>> the mac. I have heard and read all kinds of info about what does and >>> doesn't work with voice over and much of the info conflicts. I was >>> wondering if someone could point me to some resources which might help >>> me decide if making the switch is right for me. Any information about >>> how big the learning curve will be for a guy used to Jaws and windows >>> vista would also be appreciated. >>> >>> Things I must be able to do include word processing, reading pdf's, >>> accessing books from bookshare and RFB and D, research on the >>> internet, accessing course notes and presentations, accessing >>> educational sites such as Blackboard, working with braille files, and >>> OCR. >>> >>> Things that are also pretty important to me are access to chat >>> programs like google talk or whatever the mac equivalent is and Skype. >>> That's all I can think of at the moment. >>> >>> I know this is a long list of things but I'm not really sure where to >>> start. Any direction, specific info on one of these topics, or general >>> info about making the transition would be great. >>> >>> Thanks for your help. >>> >>> Greg Aikens >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
