inflection cannot be changed through the voiceover utility, but everything else can.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Marty Rimpau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "mac visionaries list" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 2:51 PM Subject: questions regarding the mac Hello, my name is Marty, and I'm a new person on the list, and am seriously thinking about the mac, because of the fact that voice over is built in to the operating system, and I know I'm looking at this thing through the eyes of windows, but I've tried writing a couple people with no response, but I did get a friend of mine to put Edward Alonzo's 98 everything mac on sendspace, but being so use to window-eyes, I had some questions, so I'll paste the original message I wrote to Edward and Holly late Saturday evening. Hello, Edward, and Holly, I am a windows 98 se user, and am several > versions behind with regard to my screen reader window-eyes, and for > this reason, and because voice over was a part of the operating > system, > I am interested in the mac, but have some questions regarding the > quick > start tutorial. Maybe this is unfair, for I am looking at this from a > windows perspective, and I realyze that with the mac, you have to > throw > windows concepts out the window, but why are they having you worry > about navigating complex tables, when you are new to the operating > system, since one may not know voice over? The screen reader meerly > should be voicing what a sighted person sees on the screen, and I > found, possibly, looking at this through the unfair lenses of windows, > that it seems that a lot of options were left out, for example, why > isn't there some type of smart table mode, where the screen reader > reads the contents of the table as you down arrow through it, so that, > if you have to interact with a button at the bottom of a table, you > can > do that, because, to me, interacting with a control, means, checking a > check box, or radio button, not meerly the privilege of reading the > information one needs to read, and if they started out with > complicated > tables, then, why didn't it take you to an imaginary web page, where > with the safari browser, you could navigate links and such? Is > there a > way to get in to the voice over control pannel to change inflection > and > such, or does one always have to access these options through the > quick > start tutorial? Remember, I know nothing about the mac, and I > appologize for looking at this thing from the unfair vantage point of > windows, but seeing that I've never seen a mac, nor even an xp > machine, > I have only my limited knowledge to go on. I think there should be > some type of instant tutorial, available from anywhere within the mac > environment, so that, if one has trouble navigating complex tables, he > can be guided through the table by the tutorial. I felt frustrated, > hearing some of the tutorial, because I felt like, you weren't exactly > describing what you were doing, though, I will say, thank you for > doing > this podcast, that a mac friend of mine downloaded, and put on > sendspace, so I could hear it, and at least, now, when I go look at a > mac, I'll have a much better concept of what to do, and how to > approach > things. Is control option right and left arrow, the only way to move > the cursor around, and can you use the right and left arrows by > themselves to do things like spell a word? Does voice over have a > manual to read? I think it is neat that the macs seem to be built > much > better than windows machines. If the concepts behind the mac could be > explained, rather than meer instructions for getting things done, then > I think some of the frustration I felt could be dealt with, but I'm > not > upset at you guys, just one thing at a time, and let's not worry about > complicated tables until we get there, but maybe future editions of > quick start, will give you just what you need to know, and then you > can > learn, a little at a time, until you master the operating system. > Thanks for reading this, but these were some questions I had, and one > more, if you don't mind, if you only had to plug in the key board, > mouse, and power cord, then, in a situation where a person was using a > high speed connection, like I am, then, where does the ethernet cable > go, because there was no mention of any ethernet connections for dsl > or > cable and such. Once again, thanks for reading this, but I am curious > about the mac. > > Marty > >
