Here are my reasons whyI think the mac is better and why I left the
Windows world, at least for home use. First, an excellent screen reader
is built in to the operating system. I think you said you were using a
mac mini, you can use the track pad if you have one, I use the numpad
commander on my mac mini, it makes navigating easier. You can change a
voiceover setting so you don't have to interact with most things if
it's too confusing for you. You can reinstall your operating system,
even with a new hard drive without requiring sighted help. I think the
mac provides the best experience when browsing the internet. This is
not an accessibility feature, but the mac operating system is much
cleaner than windows. The applications are self contained, you don't
have a central registry controlling everything, or shared files that
need to be installed all over the place. Finally, Apple has maintained
the same interface over several versions of the operating system, they
don't feel a need to change it with each version the way Microsoft
changes Windows. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
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Please forgive the long message to follow. Just delete it if you don't
want to read it.
I have been messing around with my new Mac Mini over the weekend. I
have the two books, Everything You Need To Know To Use The Mac With El
Capitan And Voice Over, by Janet Ingber, and Mastering The Macintosh
With Voice Over, by Tim Sniffen.I thoroughly expected not to know what
I am doing for a while, at the moment, that is an understatement. I
have it set up, thanks to Mr. Sniffen's book, Ms. Ingber seems to
assume one will have sighted help to do that. I have been with windows
since 2000, and Jaws 3.5. I still have Jaws, having bought, last
December, the SMA through version 19. I have to figure out, by July 5,
whether I want to take the Mac back to the Apple store to get my money
back. So far, it seems like a bunch of incredible tedium to get things
done, as compared to Windows. The track pad helps, it makes it a little
more like my iPhone 6, that I love. Getting things done on the iPhone
never seemed to have nearly the tedium as does the Mac,even when my
iPhone 5 was new to me. For example, having to interact with things,
rather than just hitting enter when I want to do something, or press
two or three keys at the same time to get VoiceOver to do something, I
have no doubt that I can learn it, but My nagging question during my 14
days is going to be: why? What is so much better about this than
Windows? Is the Mac really better, or just different? Is, for example,
iTunes really easier to use? What little I have investigated, I am not
yet convinced that it is. Already having Jaws, I don't have the issue
of having to buy a windows screen reader, and NVDA is making it
unnecessary even for a new Windows user to do so. I paid over 50
percent more for this Mac Mini than I could have bought a Windows 10
computer. I wish I had 30 days, rather than 14, to figure this out. The
time is ticking. What is so much better about this than Windows, which
I already know how to use?
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