Actually, yes. Windows can do that. It just takes tweeking and technical knowhow. However, I hear the results aren't always as good as using a native Mac.
EWOUD wrote: > it should better be a debate. > there is No reason why windows would be favoured above apple. > Apple has the possibilaty to run windows on its machine, therefor its a > great alternative. > windows cannot do that, and the price windows pc with screanreader is also > no good, so Apple has to be mentioned when it comes to choices! > Ewoud > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sarai Bucciarelli" <bucc7...@bellsouth.net> > To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 11:36 PM > Subject: Re: please don't turn this in to a debate, just need information > > > Hi: > Good for you! I'm a Mac user as well, and I too feel rehab agencies need to > present both options, and let the consumer make up their own mind. The only > program I'd ever need to use on the Windows side of things is Kurzweil. > On Oct 11, 2010, at 8:41 AM, heather kd5cbl wrote: > > > I am a very knew Mac user and feel that our state rehab departments are > > favoring the windows based machines over the mac machines. Yes, our > > states have all the money to give there blind consumers all this adaptive > > technology while in school. However, after school, blind individuals > > struggle to keep their equipment up to date. I am trying to write a > > letter about the mac for blind consumers instead of jaws on a windows pc. > > I wanted to make the case that the states should not be so geared to > > window based machines for there blind consumers. I just don't no enough > > about OCR solutions for the Mac like we have Kurzweil1000 for windows. > > Also I am not sure about the braille translation programs for the macs as > > we have mega dots or Duxbury for the windows computers. Also, we use > > victor streams, eclipse reders and for our textbooks so if there is a Mac > > equivalent, I wanted to know about it. I am trying to convince our rehab > > department that they need to show both options to their consumers. I plan > > on submitting my letter at the end of the week to are rehab department. > > Thank you, Heather > > > > -- > > 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.
