Hello,
You have mentioned being able to select text in Safari and mail. Could
you give me the keystrokes to do this? Thanks in anticipation.
Simon Cavendish
On 13 Jan 2008, at 12:45, David Poehlman wrote:
Hi Cheryl,
I hope you mean tiger because I don't have any experience with the
accessibility in panther although I did try.
There are vast improvements in VoiceOver with Leopard and they were
written
right into the description of Leopard in the VoiceOver section. I
love the
braille support, the header navigation, the way you can use the item
chooser
to quickly scan a window for similar objects and much more. Oh,
there are
some drawbacks but over all, it's a more solid os than tiger was at
least
for us and of course as with everything, Milage will vary. I don't
like the
new mail reading interface but have learned to live with especially
because
I found that you can use a special vo selection command to select
text and
that's another thing we can now do in safari is select a chunk of
text.
Itunes is more accessible in fact, there are only one or two bits it
seems
that need to be worked out. Drag and drop works at least to some
degree
which it didn't for us in tiger and they've apparently fixed the
cursor
tracking but we had in tiger.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cheryl Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS
X by
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2008 3:33 PM
Subject: leopard verses panther
Hi all,
As stated in previous posts I've not yet upgraded to Leopard.
Rather, I've been watching the list to see what kind of report you
all would give it. Unless I've missed something there hasn't been
such a post, so I'm going to ask a straight-forward question or two.
1. Do you find a vast improvement in the new OS?
2. If so, is that improvement in stability, accessibility, or
interaction and functionality?
3. Are there disadvantages to Leopard?
4. Is there not enough significant change to warrant an upgrade
right now?
I understand Mac loyalty for those of us who are die-hard long-time
users,, as well as appreciation for the VoiceOver team and all
they've done and are doing; however, honesty is honesty and I would
really appreciate some "where the rubber meets the road" answers,
please.
There's been some reviews by folk who don't use VoiceOver, but do
use the Mac, that give it a thumbs-down, saying that Apple released
it too soon and that one should wait for the next upgrade. There's a
lot said about its beauty and such, but that isn't my focus. I'm
just not wanting to trade the accessibility and functionality I
already have for something less or more frustrating.
Thanks for any input you would like to give,
Cheryl E.
