Hi Regina,
I know my Mac Mini made a sound when it turned on for about two
weeks. It no longer does. Confused me too.
I really need a "Dummies" manual for the newly deaf blind new Mac
user.
Good luck!
April
On Thursday, January 9, 2014 11:31:15 AM UTC-5, regina alvarado wrote:
>
> Boy do I understand. Mini when running is totally baffling to me. I have
> found no program or blog or anything that starts from absolute zero. Right
> now, all I want to do is read and answer email, surf and be able to enter
> in Safari, and find out where to transfer files to so I can read them in
> Pages and work with them. Don't feel bad. Right now I can't even get my Mac
> running again. If it wasn't a Christmas gift, want to throw it out the
> door! Only thing is, patience and playing got me where I am with iPhone,
> and really don't want Mini to defeat me so nothing for it but to keep
> trying!
>
>
> reggie and Allegra
>
> On Jan 9, 2014, at 8:00 AM, April Brown <aprilbr...@gmail.com<javascript:>>
> wrote:
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> Since dictation won't do what I need it to do in Pages, I'll try to find
> something that will. Just not right now. I've still got to many little odd
> things I don't know how to do on my new computer, and it exhausts me trying
> to figure them out.
>
> As for VoiceOver, I tried to run training program three times over the
> last few weeks, and couldn't get it to do what it was supposed to do within
> the program. I printed off a many page document from AppleVis a few days
> ago, and tried that yesterday. Extremely frustrating. I was able to get
> it to work in Pages about as well as the regular reading program. As for
> on the Internet, not at all. It read the tabs and nothing on the pages.
> I'm setting it aside for now.
>
> Everyone usually comes to me for computer tech advice, reformatting,
> and more. When I read the comments and questions on this, and other blind
> computer sites, I feel like I'm reading a combination of Greek and Chinese.
> I'm totally lost.
>
> I'd rather spend the next couple of weeks doing what I can do. Rather
> than spending them trying to figure out how to do something, that a person
> could show me how to do correctly in five minutes. Somehow there is a
> missing key and I have to figure out what it is. Or better yet, have
> someone show me.
>
> In a couple of weeks, I have my tech evaluation for the state. Or
> maybe they're just going to set the date, I'm not sure. It takes forever to
> get through the state program. I've been working on it for six months.
>
> I'm also slowly learning braille. I figure I will have to use a
> braille display at some point. Talking for the dictation program exhausts
> me, and makes my jaw hurt. Due to hearing loss, I have trouble
> comprehending spoken words, so VoiceOver may not work for me either.
>
> I will keep checking back to learn new computer skills. At this
> point, I'm not sure I have anything to offer anyone else. I don't even
> recognize a tenth of the programs mentioned.
>
> Thanks for all your help.
>
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