There used to be a version of Outlook express for Mac, in the days of
Outspoken, was supposed to work with OS 9, and I believe X, but it
wasn't very stable at all, if I remember right I never got it to
fully work anyway. It wouldn't find acounts a lot of times so what
good is it if it won't get your mail. To the trash can it went, so
another program which didn't have MS support again.
But I tended to prefer Eudora anyway, now I have to admit I like the
Apple mail, but don't think there will ever be a perfect email
program. To many people with to many diffferent needs, and when they
get to complex that makes acessibility more difficult, especially
with certain other platforms.
On Dec 15, 2005, at 7:30 PM, Jacob Schmude wrote:
Hi
I've tried to answer each one of your questions below.
On Dec 15, 2005, at 6:12 PM, YanYan wrote:
Does a totally blind user use a Mac computer to do the following
tasks independently, easily?
1.. surf the internet, search and read web pages easily
For the most part this is no problem. There are, as with all
screen readers, difficult web sites but I've been able to use
every one I've tried, some more difficult than others.
2.. receive and send emails, send and download attachment files
This is no problem with the Mail program supplied with the os, for
POP3 EMail. I've also been able to use GMail and hotmail via web
interface, though gmail is a bit tricky.
3.. compile and burn CDs
This is not a problem at all.
4.. read, edit files created by Microsoft office software
Currently, we can't use ms office for mac with voiceover right
now, but many wordprocessors will import and export office
documents correctly. I use a wordprocessor called Nisus Writer
Express, which works well and does this, though textedit, the
small wordprocessor that comes with OS X, can read these as well.
5.. connect to a refreshable Braille display
Unfortunately, this is not possible at this point with Voiceover--
there is currently no braille display support.
6.. listen to online read that usually require a Window Media
player program
Yep, this is no problem, though you'll have to download windows
media player for mac to play windows media audio streams.
7.. use a regular PC keyboard
I'm a bit confused. If you mean plug in a PC keyboard to the Mac,
you certainly can. However, I've tried this and, while it does
work, some of the modifier keys--the command and option keys--are
not in their usual place when you do this. On mine, the windows
key became the command key and alt became the option key, so they
wound up being reversed, though everything worked just fine. I
normally use the built-in keyboard on my iBook, though, instead of
plugging in an external one.
8.. use Outlook Express to receive and send hotmail emails
I don't think there's an outlook express for Mac, though I could
be wrong here.
hope this helped
