I have recently switched from Windows to Mac - JAWS12 to VoiceOver. Word Processing - very disappointing as I use Tables extensively. Pages is slow loading and getting into editing quite tiresome. I am finding it difficult to get used to "interacting" with this and that.
I still find web browsing rather finicky as you have to use a number of ways to access it: turning NavKeys on/off; using the ItemUser and the inability to cursoring vertically rather irksome. For scanning purposes I use the ReadIt wand (which works very well) but, funnily enough, for this I have to use VM to virtualise the Windows platform! I have not yet used Numbers (for spreadsheet work) : so cannot comment. On the positive side: this list is a good place to be as people are very helpful in their informed responses. Good luck!! On 15 Aug 2012, at 09:48, Catherine Turner wrote: > Hi all, > > I don't have a Mac at the moment but am considering getting one and > have some questions about Voiceover and general Mac access which I > wonder if people could help me with? > > 1. With word processing, is VO able to give font/formatting information? > > 2. I use spreadsheets a fair bit and databases a little. I currently > use Excel with JAWS and quite often monitor certain cells so I can at > a keystroke find out what's in them. Does anyone here do anything > similar on Mac? How configurable is VO when working in spreadsheets > e.g. is there a keystroke for reading a column total and can you set > which row the total is in either in VO or the spreadsheet program? > > 3. Scanning/OCR - what are people using for this? How do you find it > and what sort of things do you scan? > > 4. Sound editing and MIDI - I do a fair bit of sound editing in wave > format, currently in Goldwave. I haven't started doing any MIDI yet > but hope to in the future. So I don't know much about the MIDI but am > just wondering if anyone is doing any Mac and what you use, how you're > finding it. > > If anyone has any comments/feedback on the above questions that'd be > great. Or if anyone here has switched from Windows to Mac and has any > other observations I'd be interested in hearing them. > > Thanks, > Catherine > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > [email protected] > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at > either the list's own dedicated web archive: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > or at the public Mail Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. > Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> > > The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free! > > Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting > the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
