I have been an access technology trainer, and I was intrigued with the idea of the out-of-the-box accessibility of the Mac. I had been experimenting with Linux distributions, but I was doing far more tweaking than I cared to. I had a problematic Windows laptop, but was just starting to use NVDA before I switched, and really liked that screen-reader. Ultimately, I decided to immerse myself in the Mac world and never look back, partly just for the challenge of it, and partly for the accessibility aspect. In April 2010, I bought a Mac Mini, gave my laptop away to a friend, and have never looked back. I haven't even installed Windows on my Mac. There are a few things I miss a little, such as the games I used to play and the accessibility of some flash elements on web pages, but in my opinion, these are small considerations, and I've gotten very comfortable using the Mac. So as far as I'm concerned, come on in; the water's fine. :)
Teresa On the other hand, there are different fingers. On Apr 6, 2014, at 2:52 AM, April <aprilbrownsh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello. About ten months ago, I was declared legally blind. I have been on > the search for a full diagnosis and prognosis since. No luck. > > In December, when my Windows 7 machine became totally unstable, and had been > reformatted three times in less than a month, I bought a Mac. I figured, if > I had to learn a screen reader, it was best to do so on one where the screen > reader came built in. > > So far, no luck learning how to use the screen reader though. I can turn on > and off. That's about it. I have a 40 page list of random commands, and > can't figure out what any of the are supposed to do. A dictionary would > help. Perhaps the lines above or below that don't make sense are supposed to > tell me what they do? > > I used to be a web designer, and I thought a screen reader should be easy to > learn to use. After all, I'm good with with computers. > > I'm also horrible with foreign languages, and figured braille would be > impossible to learn. I started the first contracted braille book I'm reading > last night. I started learning braille last November. > > I still use a Windows 7 computer at night. It takes about 15 minutes to turn > on, and every scroll of the screen takes forever. I don't count on it for > anything. > > On Saturday, April 5, 2014 4:11:11 PM UTC-4, Scott Duck wrote: > Hi, > > As I have said, I am thinking about switching to the Mac and have been trying > to gather more information about it. To that end, I have been asking > specific questions. I will continue to do that but I would like some general > feedback from people who have made the switch from Windows to the Mac. Why > did you switch In the first place? Having switched, do you feel that it was > the right choice for you? Do any of you regret having switched or have you > even gone back to the PC? > > Thanks, > > Scott Duck > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
