Yup, You won't have to do anything special. In the unusual case your mac doesn't start talking when you turn it on, the command keys are directly to the left and right of the spacebar. The same place you would find the alt key on a PC keyboard. The prompts should help you set up everything you need. It's completely accessible.
hth On Aug 10, 2010, at 10:39 AM, focus wrote: > Hi Geoff! > I do not know if anybody else will beat me to this! > Or give you a better answer! > But when I got my Imac all I had to do was plug it in and wait a little while > and voice over started by itself! > and took me through what I could do! > hth > focus > Skype focus_66 > On 10 Aug 2010, at 15:26, Geoff Waaler wrote: > >> Greetings y'all, >> >> I just received shipment notification for my 13 inch 2.4GHZ MacBookPro. >> BTW, thanks Brian for suggesting the refurbished store -- the model and >> warrantee were identical. >> >> I've been poking around Apple's site, and among other things found the >> voiceOver getting started >> documentation. That doesn't seem very useful until you have a Mac to play >> with though. >> >> I thought I'd ask here for suggestions on what to do after I take it out of >> the box and plug it in. I assume I can press command+f5, and if I don't >> know which key is command can keep trying until VO starts. Then do I check >> for updates? Are there any gotchas like with some Windows computers where >> you can't proceed until you enter the serial number? Will I need to enable >> the trackpad? Since I've been using the iPhone I suspect I'll probably >> mostly use those gestures to interface with VO. >> >> I located the MacBookPro manual, but it was a PDF document. If an HTML >> version exists I have not been able to locate it. Perhaps I should be >> reading about Snow Leopard instead of my specific model anyway? >> >> Any advice would be most appreciated. >> >> TIA and best regards. >> Geoff >> >> -- >> 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.
