oh, wow...I didn't go to the dueling OS session, but now i'm thinkin' I
probably should have!! I went to the general voiceover one though, and the
ITunes one.
peace and positivity:)
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!
----- 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 5:25 PM
Subject: RE: a newbie with questions!
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-----
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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-----
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Poehlman
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 3:25 PM
To: General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS
Xby the
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Subject: Re: a newbie with questions!
they also announced it last year.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pratik Patel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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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-----
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Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 2:42 PM
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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!
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