I agree with that as well. Furthermore, the Mac OS does not change its UI and UX every version or so. Apple, unlike Microsoft, has learned that users would rather not learn a literally new OS every upgrade. Sure, additions like the Doc in Os X was new, but it didn't take changing the Finder into a touch panel to add the Doc. Also, Apple doesn't change so much that it has to virtually, literally, take back what it said Windows 10 as opposed to 8. Also, if your friend speaks une autre langue, excuse my French, he will have plenty of other choices to choose from on the Mac, all for free. From Arabic to Vietnamese, OS X has the multilingual user covered. If your friend wants to cool down after his purchase of his Mac and not spend so much money on apps, all he must do is look in the Applications folder and there will be plenty of apps to rule the day, from a calculator music-creation studeo, terminal for the older generation of computing, and text based games I might add, iTunes for all his musical desires, and even a chess game for the gifted gamer. All of these apps and the chess game are completely, and yes utterly accessible to the point that a blind person can even command thine chess pieces to do thy will. "pawn a6 to a7." Anyway, I hope this helps someone, I just spent 15 minutes of my life typing away on braille screen input, all on my iPhone.
Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 25, 2015, at 5:23 PM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu <[email protected]> wrote: > > Very similar story at my end: belligerent XP user won’t move because he just > can’t see any point and everything he already has works, except half the web > which he just avoids. > > I disagree with those saying it’s an obvious jump to later versions of > Windows. Notwithstanding that there’s still a curve, and the general decline > of keyboard and screen reader accessibility since XP, I can’t help thinking > that if you’re going to change you may as well change to a platform of your > preference rather than simply continuing to pedal the treadmill. For > example, somebody opposed to ribbons may prefer OS X for its menus. Quite a > lot has changed in Windows since XP; perhaps changing platform is more than > just the screen reader. Even somebody with limited patience will be happy to > learn something they see as more appropriate and amenable to their needs. > > The Mac Mini is a nice machine, and it can be made to work well standalone, > but especially since the removal of the quad-core version I tend to agree > with the person who said you may as well go for an Air. For a first Mac > experience, it’s going to make a far better impression, too. The Mini can be > for later, when the spec bump is worth the slight inconvenience of not having > a monitor and not having the portability, though perhaps a more powerful > machine (an iMac) would be on the cards if they were really committed. > > JMO, of course. > > Cheers, > Sabahattin > > -- > 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.
