RE: Bak on an Apple Again

2009-12-06 Thread Simon Fogarty
What, sorry I've missed something here. Are you saying that NVDA will work on the mac platform? Simon F -Original Message- From: Nicolai Svendsen [mailto:chojiro1...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, 6 December 2009 12:36 p.m. To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Bak on an

Re: Bak on an Apple Again

2009-12-06 Thread Krister Ekstrom
6 dec 2009 kl. 00.35 skrev Nicolai Svendsen: > NVDA is great, though it does not come installed by default Plus another thing, At least when i looked at it and i admit this was pretty long ago, Nvda worked only with the MS programs plus Firefox and maybe another application but try opening Peg

Re: Bak on an Apple Again

2009-12-05 Thread Jake
Hi In theory you could remove Voiceover manually, but there's no official way to do it and the actual core accessibility infrastructure is part of the OS X core system libraries. It is tied into the GUI at a very low level. As far as Linux and Orca goes, that is more complicated than it first appea

Re: Bak on an Apple Again

2009-12-05 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, I'd imagine you probably can. I'm not gonna try it, though. Regards, Nic Skype: Kvalme MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk AIM: cincinster yahoo Messenger: cin368 Facebook Profile My Twitter On Dec 6, 2009, at 12:49 AM, James & Nash wrote: > You're right Nic. Mac is good in that regard a

Re: Bak on an Apple Again

2009-12-05 Thread James & Nash
You're right Nic. Mac is good in that regard as well as many others. I guess the same is true of Linux and Orca although a user could remove Orca and then you'd be stuck. Can the Universal Access or whatever Apple calls it be deleted just out of interest. Thanks TC James On 5 Dec 2009, at 2

Re: Bak on an Apple Again

2009-12-05 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, NVDA is great, though it does not come installed by default. The thing I love about the Mac is that, if a sighted user requires you take a look at something on their Mac, you can just turn VoiceOver on without having to download it, or run the portable version. I guess the portable version

Re: Bak on an Apple Again

2009-12-05 Thread James & Nash
Welcome to the list. I agree with your point about using mainstream products where appropriate. Mac and Linux AT are two very good examples of this. However, Windows is now also coming to the same place with NVDA which is brilliant. TC James On 5 Dec 2009, at 21:55, Jessi and Goldina wrote:

Re: Bak on an Apple Again

2009-12-05 Thread Jessi and Goldina
enjoy your mac!! you'll love it!! and I completely agree. if there's a mainstream solution, people should use that. these note takers and screenreaders are okay if there's no other solution, but people already see blind people as bad different as it is and it seems to me like people don't take

Bak on an Apple Again

2009-12-05 Thread Matt Roberts
I just got my Mac a couple of days ago. I have extensive computer knowledge, starting on the old Apple II, and moved to MSDOS, not by choice, but out of necessity. The switch to Windows took place, and with it the cost of the screen readers came as well. Every time you changed operating syste