Yes, you will have speech in system preferences, just like anywhere else on the Mac side. And also on the windows side as long as you have a working screen reader. Selecting a boot disk at logon is a different matter. It requires bringing up the boot screen by holding the option key for ten seconds or so when you hear the boot chime sound, and then arrowing right or left a set number of times to set focus to the desired boot disk, then pressing enter. It’s easy enough, you just have to know the order in which the bootable disks are listed in the boot screen. Get some sighted help to figure this out, or do a little experimentation. e.g. just press enter without any arrowing and see what system comes up (99% of the time it is Mac OS X). or, arrow right once, press enter and see what system comes up etc. Often, if you’ve installed boot camp and you don’t have any bootable external disks connected, the order is OS X, then arrow once to the right and its the recovery partition, then once more and its bootcamp. Or, since the arrow keys wrap around, you could arrow once to the left and wrap around to the end of the list landing focus on bootcamp.
> On Dec 26, 2014, at 11:59 PM, denise avant <[email protected]> wrote: > > I had heard that there were a sequence of steps to be done at the log in > screen, at least just before the Mac side of things booted up. I just was not > certain what the order was. I know if this is done at the log-in screen, you > will not have any speech. I am assuming there will be some speech if I used > the steps Phil initially described, i.e. using system preferences to get back > and forth? > >> On Dec 26, 2014, at 8:04 PM, Phil Halton <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> as long as you know the boot order you can use a scheme like that to >> determine the boot OS. Problem is, yours is not a typical boot order, >> usually its Mac OS, then Recovery, then bootcamp. But it could be any order >> depending on various factors. Usually Mac OS X comes up when booting a mac. >> >> One way to do things is to try various arrow keystrokes at the boot screen >> and see where you wind up, then write down the results. A little >> experimentation I suppose will give you your Mac’s boot order and then you >> can use the method described below.. >> >> Of course, all this is rendered moot by VMWare Fusion which lets you command >> tab back and forth between OS X and windows with no rebooting. >> I like fusion for the ability to cut and paste data between OS’s and such >> things as that. >> I can have Safari and internet explorer open at the same time and use them >> interchangeably etc, can’t do these sorts of things with a bootcamp >> installation, but each to their own. >> >> >>> On Dec 26, 2014, at 8:24 PM, Rob <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> Logging into windows just to turn around and log in to the mac and vice >>> versa is too much. >>> here is a quicker way. >>> Here is the steps I used. >>> when I start the mac normally, windows would start. >>> Here is how to choose the drive you want. >>> Start your Mac, at the sound press and hold the option key about 10 seconds. >>> For me, windows was listed first of the three drives. >>> >>> 1 windows >>> 2 recovery >>> 3 Mac. >>> to select the Mac drive, I would press left arrow then enter, >>> or >>> press right arrow once for recovery and right arrow again for Mac. >>> the reason for this is windows is the first choice and is selected. >>> pressing left arrow will wrap around to choice 3 which is the Mac. >>> >>> I hope this helps. >>> and if your drives are listed differently. you will have to experiment a >>> little. >>> Thanks, >>> Rob >>> >>> On 12/26/2014 5:36 AM, denise avant wrote: >>>> Hello all, >>>> Now that I have bootcamp up and running on my mac, I am looking for >>>> instructions on how to reliably switch back and forth from the mac side to >>>> the windows side on my macbook air. I have yosemite and windows 7 >>>> installed using bootcamp on a macbook air 2013. Any guides or podcast >>>> links would be greatly appreciated. >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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 [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> 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 [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> 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 [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
