Hi Dan, You are not alone when it comes to learning the Mac for the
first time. Many of us were just as frustrated as you. One of the
things I tell students who are learning the Mac in the Anchorage
school district, "When learning the Mac, don't think in terms of the
Windows operating system, or your Windosw screenreader, assuming it
will work the same way in the Mac. The Mac commands are very
different from Windows, and VoiceOver looks at the screen in somewhat
different manner than, say, Jaws or Window-Eyes, or even Hal or
Supernova." First, are you using Leopard 10.5.5? If you press Vo
+shift+F8, I believe the VoiceOver tutorial/help will appear on the
screen. I will check again, to make sure that command is the correct
one I told you. If it isn't, my apologies. Richie Gardenhire,
Anchorage, Alaska. PS Don't be discouraged; there are people here who
will take the time not only to explain how your system works, but will
explain it in "Plain English," something I'm trying to learn to do,
since I have a tendency to get very technical.
On Oct 28, 2008, at 4:15 PM, Dan Geise wrote:
hello list hope you all are doing well,
still trying to set up my mac. When I go into apple, system
preferances , then i think keyboard do I want under window dialogs
do I want keyboard focus to text boxes or all lists.
.
and where do I make the mouse follow the keyboard. what options do I
need to check there. I remember finding a area where I can make the
mouse follow the keyboard and the v.o. cursor and other options.
what do I want to check....I am totally blind and having a tough
time setting this thing up.
sorry for the repeated issues. thanks dan
also, you all seem to have much more blind time under your belt,
listening to the issues you are having with your computers sounds so
out of my reach as now, I have to laugh.I have only been blind for
just 2 years and a mac user for only a little bit. thank you all.
