Hi everyone, It sounds as if we have all had varying experiences with an reasons for changing to a mac.
We all have different means of learning as well as different paces we learn. I think also changing under any circumstances requires a major degree of commitment that one must truly consider before making the change. There are plenty of resources out there for one to learn to use voiceover be they Podcasts or blogs etc. This first link is the help file directly from Apple's support site with the table of contents for learning to use voice over. Is broken down by chapter and very easy to use. http://help.apple.com/voiceover/info/guide/10.9/English.lproj/index.html The next link is to a website and podcast by Ceretec Corporation. It is called triple click home. The blog and podcast is very well worth checking out. http://tripleclickhome.com This link is to a site by a voiceover trainer. It's called Macfortheblind.com http://macfortheblind.com/?p=1404 It helps familiarize a new user with interacting on the Mac. The final link is from a gentleman from Australia who has done many Podcasts dealing with various issues with voiceover on the iPhone and the Mac. His material is well worth listening to and learning from. http://davidwoodbr.podbean.com I hope this is been helpful. Pam Francis On Apr 6, 2014, at 9:10 PM, Devin Prater <d.pra...@me.com> wrote: I don't see what the fuss is. I was able to make good documents, for a history class. I could allign things, italicize, make headings and such. What else would you want to do? Sent from my iPod > On Apr 6, 2014, at 21:06, Phil Halton <philh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Personally, I'm still having a tough time with word processing on the Mac. I > want to like and use pages, but I can't figure out styles and formatting > using pages. I still haven't found anything that compares with MS office and > JAWS for writing and formatting documents. JAWS really does work well with > Word and there's no getting around that. Pages seems clunky by comparison, > but I probably haven't given it a fair chance. Spreadsheeting with numbers is > great, but word processing is still a major deficit on the Mac in my opinion. > >> On Apr 6, 2014, at 9:09 PM, Dan Eickmeier <va3ets2...@me.com> wrote: >> >> I've been using a Mac here since February of 2008, and have not had any >> reason to switch back to Windows. Like a lot of people on this thread, , I >> got tired of having to pay to keep a JAWS SMA updated, and I also had it >> with their system of ILM authorizations. I too, had to have my activations >> reset a number of times as well. And what got me really interested, and >> wanting to go to the Mac, is the fact that we can do complete reformats, and >> OS installs with VoiceOver. Even with the unattended install scripts that >> are out there for Windows, and that Winstaller app, which has become >> popular now, we still have nothing close to being able to get the OS, and >> do an install with full speech, or even Braille. >>> On Apr 6, 2014, at 6:59 PM, BBS <bbssh...@icloud.com> wrote: >>> >>> Well April, my offr is still on the table. If you like, I can teach you how >>> to use Voiceover. That goes for anyone that wants my help. Email me off >>> list and we'll set something up. >>> >>> >>> Shawn >>> Sent From My White MacBook >>> >>> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >>> [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of April >>> Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2014 4:52 AM >>> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >>> Subject: Re: Experience Switching to Mac >>> >>> 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? 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