Am I writing to a puzzle freak? Because if you really enjoy puzzles I'll
make a couple suggestions which will enable you to stick a fork in that
counsellor. The ruby scripting language is available for the mac probably
in the development tree. I installed the development tree but the mac
isn't plugged up now so will have to go check this out later. The
documentation in html form for ruby is at http://ruby-doc.org/ and it's a
scripting language. So if you can write bash scripts you can learn to
write ruby scripts. Additionally,
http://www.empowermentzone.com/ruby-doc.zip has a bunch of ruby books in
it you can read through and learn from. ruby is in demand these days.
Another web site http://www.rentacoder.com has people on it that offer
programming work and bid on projects. Many people from India on that site
you'll be bidding against, but for a while you'll need practice after
picking up the language so will do well to undercut your competition. If
you manage to get a good reputation, then work and money will find you.
At that time, you may have enough money from doing the other work to
enable further technology exploration. On Tue, 26 Oct 2010, Carolyn Haas
wrote:
Heather: I share your prospective. I just met with a rehab counsellor who
insists that there's really no place for the Mac in the work world. (she also
insists that since I'm doing ok with my Mac, I don't need a braille display.
Guess that's what I get for trying topfunction and be a part of a new
solution.:)
This counsellor actually suggested I might want to move somewhere where they
have the money and clientele to afford to keep up with the new technologies.
She also basically said no one is going to pay me to do this kind of
exploration of helping discover and working toward of improvement of
alternative technologies. So, I feel more and more like it's mac-vs-pc, and
conform to the old ways, or you're on your own. Sorry for venting. Thanks for
reading.
Carolyn Haas
chaas0...@gmail.com
On Oct 26, 2010, at 3:12 PM, heather kd5cbl wrote:
Bill is responsible for that robot they call narrator and he claims windows is
accessible. While our friends at Apple, actually have a real screenreader
built in to their system. So, Bill is not doing anyone any favors by making
us, windows users, go out an by screenreaders worth more than their pc
computers. I want to put a blind fold over his eyes and make him use his own
computer with just narrator, I am sure he would not get very far! Also, anyone
who has to use word 2010 with jaws, has to by another msa or their job has too.
And the mac users with voiceover, cant use it at all. So he is an easy target.
Otherwise, he would have wised up a long time ago and had his own built in
speech for windows but, he just does not care. I am starting to use open
office and pages more and the msword does not matter that much anymore. Heather
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