Interesting, so I'll explore my own journey with you. My first talking computer ironicly was an apple ii e. My second was a dos machine. Neither of these gave me much trouble. Windows was my next stop, and with no prejudgement I worked for a week before I got myself grounded. Windows 95 98 and xp as well. I then moved on to voiceover for both financial and technical reasons. It took only 2 or 3 days to get my feet, but I couldn't tell you if it was easier to learn, or if my difficulties with jaws and window-eyes were merely experience not understanding differences between cli and gui. Editing with the mac gave me more problems than with windows but that was before someone explained the differences in how the cursors were handled. This is not a reporting error, as sugestive in the article but a different method of cursor tracking and usage. If this fellow writing Was truly interested in understanding the differences and giving the program a fair crack, it would have been just as easy for him to take advantage of the good help available on this list:). On 11-Jun-09, at 9:20 AM, Dean Wilcox wrote:
> > When you first started to use Windows were you new to computers? I > mean you didn't use Lunux or an older flavour of Mac before > hand? I'm asking as I wonder if you found the Mac quicker to learn > because you had a better grasp of computers in general when you > started with the Mac, something you may not have had when you started > to use Windows. I'm not suggesting the Mac isn't easier to learn but > I may have a valid point also. > > At 01:04 11/06/2009, you wrote: > >> You know what was so funny to me is I have been using the Mac since >> 2005 and quite honestly there was a learning curve, but it took me >> considerably less time to get up to speed on the Mac than it did for >> me to master Windows and Window-Eyes. I think a lot of it has to do >> with the fact that the experience of the Mac and VoiceOver are so >> closely related, where the experience of the windows environement and >> the screen reader are not going to be the same. I guess the best way >> to say it is the screen reader does present things a little different >> than what a sighted user may experience and VO more closely >> represents >> the experience a sighted user gets. Hmmm, hope that made sense. :) >> >> >>> >> >> No virus found in this incoming message. >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >> Version: 8.5.339 / Virus Database: 270.12.50/2150 - Release Date: >> 06/02/09 06:47:00 > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
