Hi Rahul. Do you know what screen reader they have? If it's Jaws, there is one difference I would like to point out, and you can practice on it on your Mac ahead of time. By default, VoiceOver announces a letter when cursor goes over it and then moves to the right so that you backspace usually to delete the character (never mind about forward delete right now.) In Jaws, you don't do it that way. The cursor stays put so when you hear a letter, if you want to delete it, you press delete. you can change this option in VoiceOver, and you may want to do that and practice in TextEdit. It took me some time to get used to the difference when I switched.
Windows machines have slightly different keyboards, but you can give yourself a crash course by making sure you know where the delete key is. Until or if you are able to practice more with it, you'll probably have to endure whatever speech options are already set, depending on what the last person did. I know why they might not let you do it, but, if you have a laptop, could you talk them into letting you get into TextEdit or Pages to do your writing? They can see your screen and can tell what you're doing. Since you've been using a reader anyway, maybe they'd let you use your own computer (assuming it's a laptop, of course.) Eugenia Firth gigifi...@sbcglobal.net On Jun 27, 2012, at 6:54 AM, Rahul Bajaj wrote: > Hi all, > > I hope you all are well. > Until recently, I always used to give my exams with a writer, but now I've > decided to ask the university to allow me to give my exams on the computer. > I have a Mac and always use it for doing everything, including typing. > But, if my demand is accepted, I will be asked to give my exams on their > computer, which, I am sure, would be a Windows machine. > So, is there a lot of difference between the Mac and Windows when it comes to > typing, editing and reading text? > How can I prepare myself to use a Windows machine for giving my papers? > > Your help and suggestions in this regard would be immensely appreciated. > > Cheers, > Rahul > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
