I agree that you need to put in the effort to learn voiceover as it is a learning curve and it is silly just to get the Mac to simply run Windows. Whether you can simply drop Windows is another thing though. It depends on what you need to do. If you need only basic word-processing and are mainly interested in say music or audio file management then I agree that switching to the Mac completely and dropping windows is viable and probably desirable.
If you want more advanced office functionality then it is a more difficult decision. Sadly reading tables in word docs is very difficult and clunky on the Mac. If you are reading lots of academic material, as I am, then you really have not got a choice. In addition some utilities are more difficult to find. I have never found a free powerful multiple file renamer with all the functions of say the Windows "Bulk Renamer" on the Mac side . I think you might have to write apple scripts to get some of the functions of Bulk Renamer but please let me know if there is something out there which I have not found. Also I would love a Mac version of Mp3Tag which is free and makes playlist and tag editing so quick and easy. If you need precise selection off web pages then on the Mac this is quite difficult. I have tried loads of techniques with limited results. Pressing Shift VO C to copy last phrase spoken is the easiest and most precise I can get to . I really wish you could copy on a web page like you could in Text Edit. Transferring every page to Text Edit is too time consuming . Also some pages are regrettably not accessible with Voiceover but are with Jaws. The opposite is true though as some pages voiceover sails through which Jaws struggles with. So my advice is explore and enjoy your Mac. I am still learning and I have not even explored say the Unix stuff under the bonnet yet. However I think it is misguided to deliberately create barriers on principle which exclude you from useful functioning. My preference is to do everything under the Mac but will go back to Windows if necessary. David Griffith -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Welty Sent: 25 April 2012 01:10 To: 'Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility' Subject: RE: running windows programs on mac I really wouldn't put windows on your mac straight out of the gate as you will want to use it foreverything. Trust me when I say that'll only make learning th mac that much more complicated if you just plop windows in any form on the mac whenyou're learning voiceover as well. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Laurel Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 18:12 To: Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility Subject: running windows programs on mac Hi all, It's me, Laurel and Stockard, with yet another question. Are there accessible programs out there that let you run windows based programs without actually installing windows on the mac? One that I saw was called "cross over for mac." Has anybody tried this and if so, is it JAWS compatible? I wanna find a program that will let me run windows based programs and use OSS at the same time if I can. I would love to find a way to put JAWS screen reader on my mac if I can so that I could use it for some things. 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