Good morning Jed
you asked for opinion on the mac
depends what you want oppinion on. I will give you oppinion on it for work
in my situation. Others will have different experience.
first thing dont think a mac is a PC or voice over is jaws. If you start
that way you will put up your own barior. You wont learn then or be able to
cope with the mac differences.
Voice over has no concept of a off screen model it doesnt seem to have what
jaws would call jaws cursor. Indeed it might have one but I dont know enough
about the technology.
one thing is that with voice over at least at the moment there are not too
many keystrokes to memorize and they are consistant across applications.
Leopard will be different using the neumeric pad for more navigation
another thing you will find is that voice over (VO) does not assume you want
to do certain things. you have to interact with items. unlike jaws which
assumes you want to interact with many items vo just assumes you want choice
what to interact with.
vo will work with all properly coded coco applications and apple scrypt is
much more powerful than jaws scrypting so there is potential for this vo
community at macvisionaries to create a repository of apple scrypts to fix
problem applications
I would not abandon windows for work yet
indeed with a new mac you can dual boot mac and windows under various
methods I use bootcamp
I have a fully working windows partition on my mac and use it a lot because
certin work I do requires me to present ms word documents which are
propperly formatted and I still am more familiar with windows and like k1000
and all sorts of applications that I am used to. I run jaws 8 on my windows
partition
enough for now
Regards
Ian Blackburn
Boys' Brigade
10th North Beach
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