My message was tayloreed. Jaws seems to be her windows screen reader of choice.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ryan Mann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by theblind" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 10:45 PM Subject: Re: New list member intro with some questions I just want to make one correction to your message. If she decides to use Windows on the mac, she won't necessarily have to use Jaws. There is a cheaper screen reader called System Access. Visit serotek.com. On Mar 20, 2008, at 6:43 PM, David Poehlman wrote: > I have something for you to consider. First, you can still get > computers > with xp on them but even if you do go with a Mac, best buy is not > your best > bet. You are better off going streight to apple and having it > shipped for > free and customizing it to your liking. Buy the apple care plan > right away > and while you are at it, hop on over to newegg.com and pick up a > copy of xp > pro sp2 for $139.99. Reason? Leopard comes with bootcamp and you can > install windows and boot into it as though you were using a dedicated > windows system and this way, while you are getting up to speed on > the Mac > and to do things we cannot yet do on the Mac that you may wish to do > in > windows. Oh, yeah, you'll still have to lay out the bread for jaws > if/when > you go with windows on your Mac but it'll be worth it or you could > just use > your old copy of jaws since you won't have to run vista. > > Getting a Mac and then another and another... was the best thing I > ever did. > -- > Jonnie Appleseed > With His > Hands-On Technolog(eye)s > Reducing Technologies disabilities > one byte at a time > > >
