I can testify to this, as a tester for some of Greg's packages, he
knows his daisy and such.
On 30 Aug 2007, at 14:33, Greg Kearney wrote:
Jeanette;
You can zoom the Mac screen for low vision use using the zoom
option found in the Universal Access System preferences. various
assistive technologies such as Jaws and ZoomText are known to have
issues with Parallels. I would suggest trying VMWare Fussion should
that not work Boot Camp will.
I have done a great deal of work in the area of DAISY, in
particular in the production of DIASY book on the Mac. My program
DTBmaker, will produce DIASY books from text in all three DAISY
formats (2.02, 2002, and 2005 sometimes refered to as DAISY 3) see
http://w3.wmcnet.org/dtbmaker/
I also helped to develop Louis a braille translator for the Mac it
can be found at http://w3.wmcnet.org/braille/louis/
I am working with Iain Murray ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) of
Curtain University in Perth on a native Macintosh DAISY playback
software that will be able to read all three types of DAISY books
on the Macintosh. Progress is continuing at a steady pace. The goal
is to treat DAISY just as DVD or audio CD are now such that when
aCD or pen drive with DAISY at it's tope level is inserted it will
start the player.
Please feel free to contact me should you have any questions.
Greg Kearney
535 S. Jackson St.
Casper, Wyoming 82601
307-224-4022
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Aug 30, 2007, at 12:43 AM, Jeanette Davies wrote:
Hi
I support students with disabilities (technical solutions). All
our schools use Macs but our Visually Impaired students have been
using windows because they need to have access to ZoomText and Jaws.
I'd really like our students to be using MacBooks and have been
playing... ok, so we have VoiceOver instead of Jaws. Safari zooms
beautifully however, I'm stuck on zooming the whole laptop screen
(poor resolutions for low vision students). I installed Parallels
and WINXP and installed ZoomText, however that was a total failure
as the Virtual Machine couldn't handle the redrawing component.
Did some exploring and found this article on Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolution_independence
Sounds very promising if true! (anyone have any inside info on
this??)
So, in the meantime I need a solution for my low vision students
who need to magnify the whole screen on the mac.
Any help you can give me would be very much appreciated.
I'm also jumping in the deep end with DAISY technology, could only
find one player for the Mac (KatiePlayer) however, it doesn't play
DAISY 3
Thanks in advance, Jeanette
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Jeanette Davies
ICLT [Libraries / Inclusive Technologies]
Catholic Education Office, Wollongong
http://www.ceo.woll.catholic.edu.au/home/jdavies
Ph: 0419994045
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
