Cara, Yes, unfortunately I was the one who did the Dueling OS session. My MacBook decided to have one of the key stick during the session and it did not go over well at all. All the activities should've been done as well by Voiceover and the MacBook as JAWS and Orca, but Alas, I completely managed to embarrass myself. Oh, well. I had to take the Macbook to the local Apple shop yesterday and they managed to fix the key. I even managed to get a $50 gift cert out of them.
Pratik -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cara Quinn Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 5:58 PM To: General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by the blind Subject: Re: a newbie with questions! Pratik, -apologies if I'm mistaken, but were you the one involved with Jamal on the dueling OS's at CSun? I unfortunately missed it, but I'm betting that the list as a whole would love to know how it went. Speaking for myself, I sure would! <smile> Thanks so much and have a wonderful day!. Smiles, Cara :) On Mar 18, 2008, at 2:49 PM, Pratik Patel wrote: > They did. This time though, I saw some sneak peak code. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David > Poehlman > Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 3:25 PM > To: General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS > Xby the > blind > Subject: Re: a newbie with questions! > > they also announced it last year. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Pratik Patel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "'General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac > OS X by > theblind'" <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 3:23 PM > Subject: RE: a newbie with questions! > > > Just to add one thing: OpenOffice folks announced at CSUN last week > that > they will be supporting Voiceover accessibility very soon. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David > Poehlman > Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 2:42 PM > To: General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS > Xby the > blind > Subject: Re: a newbie with questions! > > Hi Jessi, > > I'm going to use dp: to mark my responses inline with parts of your > message > below: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jessi R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 2:12 PM > Subject: a newbie with questions! > does the mac have plug and play, like windows or would I have to > install a > bunch of drivers for my printer/scanner etc? > dp: I've not found a piece of hardware yet that requires drivers > that are > not already readily available on the Mac. I would say though that if > drivers are required, they are provided with the hardware. > > text edit...is it a fully functional word processor with a good spell > checker, all the attributes you can add to your text in ms-word, > etc? is > there a way to tell with voiceover whether text is single/double > spaced, the > > font, where the indents are, all that important stuff? I'm a creative > writing/journalism major in college, so having a good, fully > functional word > > processor is very very important to me. > dp: you will want to get an 3rd party document shredder do do some > of the > fancy stuff but I don't know how good voiceove support is for all > that you > need to do. > > I heard that voiceover also worked with open office, which > apparently is a > freeware wannabe office suite...is that true? > dp: it's not a wannabe at all. VO does not work with it though. > > would there be a way for me to save files as .doc or .rtf or > something that > other people could open on their pc's? > dp: windows will read text edit files because they are either .txt, > html, > xml or rtf and I guess you can save them as doc too. > > I heard it's possible to load windows onto the mac and then switch > between > the two operating systems...is that hard to do? I thought I might do > that > and kinda use both until I got to know voiceover really well. > dp: bootcamp which allows you to partition your hd and run windows > as a > dedicated bootstrap is free and comes with your new Mac. It's better > cecause you have a 100% windows compatible system which you do not > with any > vmware. for your purposes at least initially, this might be a > better way to > > go. > > is there an accessible OCR program, like open book or k1000, for the > mac? > dp: we are getting along just fine with off the shelf OCR packages. > > I think that's all I have for now, but I'm sure I'll be back with > more, lol. > peace and positivity:) > dp: pleae look at the archives of this list and > http://www.icanworkthisthing.com and you'll find a wealth of > information. > There are other places too like: http://www.screenlessswitchers.com > which > has podcasts discussing moving from windows to the Mac which will be > helpful. The new getting started manual will be helpful as well but > the > best thing is exploration. > > > Jessi with guide dog Goldina > I am only one but I am one, > I can't do everything but I can do something, > the something I can do, I must do, > and by the grace of God, I will! > count it all joy, no matter what! > > > > > > > > > > --- View my Online Portfolio at: http://www.onemodelplace.com/CaraQuinn
