Your thoughts are almost exactly mine, although NVDA doesn't support braille enough for me to be comfortable with silent braille operation, but yes, I use Mush-client in Windows XP. Actually, there is a free, windows xp vm, with an older version of NVDA installed, but still, its out there.
Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 27, 2015, at 10:18 PM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu <[email protected]> wrote: > > Windows (and Linux) is for games. An XP VM will do. It runs audio games and > screen readers, now unchanging forever, that will handle such basic functions > as console output correctly. If only OS X’s terminal support worked, MUDing > and Interactive Fiction would at least be alternative gaming possibilities on > the Mac. But alas. I sometimes use Windows for other things too, like > setting up printers with better Windows setup utilities, updating firmware on > devices, handling email in Thunderbird for lists with specific requirements, > or browsing specific web pages that VO chokes on, and occasionally for silent > braille operation, but by and large it’s the games. I don’t start Windows > very often at all. > > I’m not sure if I’d miss OS X if I were to move back to Windows full-time, > although built-in spell check and a joyful, fuss-free experience that I can > get without sighted help are certainly things I immensely value. The tedious > and long-lived VO bugs that Windows users don’t have are, of course, things I > don’t. I will revisit later versions of Windows once Microsoft decide to > respect user privacy again. > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara > Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > --- > 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 https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
