On 12/7/10, David Taylor wrote:
> Here's my take as a recent switcher:
>
> Email: There simply isn't a mail client that comes close to Apple Mail for
> responsiveness, stability or features. If you are a heavy email user, Mac is
> by far your best bet now.
>
> Media: iTunes is great on the Mac, bu
>>>> Web browsing, Email and Skype and iTunes work very well with VoiceOver on
>>>> the Mac. My only gripe is that Office for Mac is not accessible, that
>>>> really would be the cherry on the cake for me. And it would be nice if
>>>> some mus
re powerful
> and can handle what you're doing..
> Isaac
> - Original Message - From: "richard watson"
>
> To:
> Sent: Friday, December 03, 2010 3:03 PM
> Subject: mac vs jfw
>
>
>> Good afternoon,
>> my name is rick watson
Here's my take as a recent switcher:
Email: There simply isn't a mail client that comes close to Apple Mail for
responsiveness, stability or features. If you are a heavy email user, Mac is by
far your best bet now.
Media: iTunes is great on the Mac, but VLC media player is now pretty useful as
Thanks, have to check this out.
I'm still on a windows machine mostly, but we've got a mac book laptop
running leopard that we use. When we get our next desk tops, we're both
seriously considering macs all the way.
Cait
On 05/12/2010 7:56 PM, Darcy Burnard wrote:
Google has started to mak
Ok, thanks.
Cait
On 05/12/2010 6:40 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote:
Not really. Firefox is not accessible as of yet nor are most of the other
browsers. You could give Opera a try but it has limitations in its
accessibility as well.
Later...
On 2010-12-05, at 4:24 PM, Caitlyn and Nicky wrote:
If
Hi Darcy,
Well I could not resist trying Chrome out. First thing folks will want to know
is by default it wants to become your default browser, so uncheck this in
options and in the basic section. WHen you first launch Chrome there are
several buttons that are unlabeled that allow you to choose
Hi!
Well, Mozilla is already aware and working on it. In fact, if you get the
Firefox source, you can enable some accessibility features and some of it will
work. It's pretty limited, but it's a step forward.
Unfortunately, adding accessibility to Firefox is a lot more complex than you
might t
unfortunately, no. firefox and opera are both inaccessible when using VO.
I have sent off a small screen capture video to both mozilla )makers of
firefox) and opera. I hope it has a much more desired effect than all the
e-mails I have sent.
-Eric
On Dec 5, 2010, at 4:24 PM, Caitlyn and Nicky w
Google has started to make Chrome accessible. I've downloaded it, but haven't
played with it extensively, so can't really comment on how well it works. Here
is their accessibility page.
http://dev.chromium.org/user-experience/screen-reader-support
Darcy
On 2010-12-05, at 6:24 PM, Caitlyn and N
Not really. Firefox is not accessible as of yet nor are most of the other
browsers. You could give Opera a try but it has limitations in its
accessibility as well.
Later...
On 2010-12-05, at 4:24 PM, Caitlyn and Nicky wrote:
> If you don't want to use safari, are there other options for the
If you don't want to use safari, are there other options for the mac,
like firefox?
Caitlyn
On 03/12/2010 7:46 PM, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote:
I'd like to make one personal comment here which is that I'm using Safari more
and more not just to get information but am now buying on line with it more
th JAWS. Plus VoiceOver is more stable.
>>>>
>>>> Web browsing, Email and Skype and iTunes work very well with VoiceOver on
>>>> the Mac. My only gripe is that Office for Mac is not accessible, that
>>>> really would be the cherry on the cake
t;> On 4 Dec 2010, at 07:15, Isaac Obie wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Rick,
>>> Spreadsheets? You'd best go with a Macbook pro or an imac! Imacs are
>>> powerful and can handle what you're doing..
>>> Isaac
>>> - Original Message - From: &qu
ys upgrade your OS when Lion comes out, the
>>>>> beauty
>>>>> of the Mac is even blind users can install an OS without sighted
>>>>> assistance.
>>>>>
>>>>> I much prefer surfing on my Mac as I can whizz around web pages much
>
iTunes work very well with VoiceOver on
>>>> the Mac. My only gripe is that Office for Mac is not accessible, that
>>>> really would be the cherry on the cake for me. And it would be nice if
>>>> some music packages were as accessible as Reaper and Sonar are on Windo
>> really would be the cherry on the cake for me. And it would be nice if
>>> some music packages were as accessible as Reaper and Sonar are on Windows,
>>> but the Mac is steadily coming along in those areas.
>>>
>>> Chris
>>> On 4 Dec 2010,
>>> the Mac. My only gripe is that Office for Mac is not accessible, that
>>> really would be the cherry on the cake for me. And it would be nice if
>>> some music packages were as accessible as Reaper and Sonar are on Windows,
>>> but the Mac is steadily coming
gt; Hi Rick,
>>> Spreadsheets? You'd best go with a Macbook pro or an imac! Imacs are
>>> powerful and can handle what you're doing..
>>> Isaac
>>> - Original Message - From: "richard watson"
>>>
>>> To:
>>>
; powerful and can handle what you're doing..
>> Isaac
>> - Original Message - From: "richard watson"
>>
>> To:
>> Sent: Friday, December 03, 2010 3:03 PM
>> Subject: mac vs jfw
>>
>>
>>> Good afternoon,
>>>
:15, Isaac Obie wrote:
> Hi Rick,
> Spreadsheets? You'd best go with a Macbook pro or an imac! Imacs are powerful
> and can handle what you're doing..
> Isaac
> - Original Message - From: "richard watson"
>
> To:
> Sent: Friday, Dec
Hi Rick,
Spreadsheets? You'd best go with a Macbook pro or an imac! Imacs are
powerful and can handle what you're doing..
Isaac
- Original Message -
From: "richard watson"
To:
Sent: Friday, December 03, 2010 3:03 PM
Subject: mac vs jfw
Good afternoon,
my
The mac should work well for all of those things, and you won't need to pay
extra to keep the screen reader up to date. And, since you use voiceover on the
iphone, you'll have a head start with using a mac.
On Dec 3, 2010, at 2:03 PM, richard watson wrote:
> Good afternoon,
> my name is rick wat
- From: "Sarai Bucciarelli"
>
> To:
> Sent: Friday, December 03, 2010 6:26 PM
> Subject: Re: mac vs jfw
>
>
> Hi Rick:
> First thing is first, ifyou switch, you need to throw your Windows and Jaws
> knowledge out the Window. Remember, this is a new operati
My suggestion is to get a Mac before your windows machine dies so you can learn
the Mac at your leisure, while you are still productive in windows. That's
what I did anyhow, and it worked out great.
On Dec 3, 2010, at 3:14 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote:
> Hi, Rick,
>
> The first thing to be aware
I'd like to make one personal comment here which is that I'm using Safari more
and more not just to get information but am now buying on line with it more and
I prefer it as it's easier than IE unless the websites don't want to work with
Safari There are a lot of them still.
Kawal.
On 4 Dec 201
Hay Sarai the link did not work! Can you post again! Heather
- Original Message -
From: "Sarai Bucciarelli"
To:
Sent: Friday, December 03, 2010 6:26 PM
Subject: Re: mac vs jfw
Hi Rick:
First thing is first, ifyou switch, you need to throw your Windows and Jaws
knowled
Hi Rick:
First thing is first, ifyou switch, you need to throw your Windows and Jaws
knowledge out the Window. Remember, this is a new operating system, so you have
to start from the ground up. You can go to www.blindcooltch.com, and download
all podcasts by Mike Arrigo. He does a very good job
n I use Voice Over
> it's speedy!
> On 3 Dec 2010, at 23:21, heather kd5cbl wrote:
>
>> Isn't that the truth! Heather
>>
>> - Original Message - From: "Scott Granados"
>>
>> To:
>> Sent: Friday, December 03, 2010 4:56 PM
&
mber 03, 2010 4:56 PM
> Subject: Re: mac vs jfw
>
>
> ANd unlike the JFW, VO actually stays up and running more than it crashes.:)
>
> On Dec 3, 2010, at 12:16 PM, Kevin Shaw wrote:
>
>> Hi Rick,
>>
>> JAWS and Voiceover perform well as screen readers. th
Isn't that the truth! Heather
- Original Message -
From: "Scott Granados"
To:
Sent: Friday, December 03, 2010 4:56 PM
Subject: Re: mac vs jfw
ANd unlike the JFW, VO actually stays up and running more than it crashes.:)
On Dec 3, 2010, at 12:16 PM, Kevin Shaw w
ANd unlike the JFW, VO actually stays up and running more than it crashes.:)
On Dec 3, 2010, at 12:16 PM, Kevin Shaw wrote:
> Hi Rick,
>
> JAWS and Voiceover perform well as screen readers. they work on different
> principles and comparing one to the other is like comparing a car to a
> motorc
Hi Rick,
JAWS and Voiceover perform well as screen readers. they work on different
principles and comparing one to the other is like comparing a car to a
motorcycle. They both take you from A to B, but each requires a different
method of negotiation and navigation.
Voiceover will do everything
Hi, Rick,
The first thing to be aware of is that you have to throw all your Windows
knowledge of keystrokes, etc. out the window and start from scratch.
Personally, I love learning new stuff, but sometimes folks don't. That's the
biggest concept. Even so, you can still dual-boot with Windows sh
Good afternoon,
my name is rick watson. Currently I have a 7 year old hp pc running
windows xp media center and jaws for windows. I also have an iphone
3gs and love it!
Because I realize that it is going to come time to replace the pc I am
considering a mac.
most uses include media, word processing
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