but what does this have to do with switching in all due respect?
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On Apr 6, 2014, at 7:56 AM, David Chittenden <[email protected]> wrote:
> Screen readers are complicated to learn. They require one to think very
> differently about accessing computers. Newly blind people can easily spend
> months learning the extremely different interface that the screen reader
> provides. It is not at all intuitive. It requires an extreme amount of
> memorisation.
>
> Learning braille, on the other hand, is comparably easier. The structure is
> quite similar to print. The main differences are, learning dot patterns
> rather than line and curl patterns, and learning to feel rather than see the
> symbols.
>
> David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA
> Email: [email protected]
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>
> On 6 Apr 2014, at 21:52, April <[email protected]> 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
>>
>>
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