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
>
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