Hello all, I am Alex. I use a pc with win7x64 and jaws (or nvda if jaws decides to act up). I also use an iPod Touch, sometimes paired with a Braillenote Apex. While I do not plan on getting a mac, mostly because I lack the money, I do have questions about vo on the mac, as well as one or two about osx in general. Here goes:
1. What is with this "interact" command, or whatever it is called? What is it and when is it used? 2. While the rotor, I gather, is available, can you still use commands to quickly navigate webpages? With jaws, for example, f moves by form fields, x by checkbox, n by non-linked text, t by table, and so on, instead of having to take the time to move through the rotor. 3. Can vo be scripted? For example, I have jaws set to play a musical note based on the indentation level for a certain text editor so I can know where I am in Python code. NVDA can do this as well, though the functionality has to be written as a plugin in Python. Is anything like this available in vo? 4. Can other voices be used with vo? Alex sounds okay, but are there other options at this point? 5. In some podcasts I have heard, it sounds like there is no menu or dialog wrapping. That is, if there are ten options in a menu and you are at the bottom, you have to up arrow nine times instead of down arrowing once. Is this true? 6. It is quite rare that jaws will freeze or require a restart. How often do you experience problems with vo that cause a loss of speech? Does command-f5 fix the problem, or do you have to restart the whole machine? 7. Are shortcut keys available? For example, in a file menu, you might just press "o" to open instead of arrowing to and activating that option. 8. How well does Windows work on a system like bootcamp? There is not much from windows I would miss, but my audio games are definitely on the short list. Many of them rely on the .net framework, ActiveX, and other core components. Does any of that work on the mac? In short, can audio games for Windows run on the mac with Windows installed? 9. Is there a virtual machine option for the mac so you can "boot" windows without restarting? 10. How is vo with punctuation? Can you customize what symbols are spoken, is it level-based, or is it all or none? 11. Can you set up application-specific options? For instance, jaws lets you set a low punctuation level for one program and a high level for another and switches between them as you switch between applications. Is something like this possible, even if it is not punctuation? 12. Is it at all possible to get osx10.6 or later to dual boot with windows on a windows box to test it out without making the huge switch to a mac? Thanks in advance for any information. Again, I am not looking to replace my Windows machine, but I have heard so many conflicting reports about vo and the mac in general that I thought I would get to the bottom of it all by coming to the people who use it on a daily basis. -- Have a great day, Alex (msg sent from GMail website) mehg...@gmail.com; http://www.facebook.com/mehgcap -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@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.
