Hi Alfredo: Ok, here we go: How much would you pay (regardless of where you live) for a one hour session on basic to advance apple computer skills with voice over? I personally would pay around $25 an hour, since that's about what I can afford. What is your age? My age is 49. What part of the world, or United States do you live? I live in Denver Colorado. Was it difficult for you to learn the apple computer screen reader? I am finding the switch from PC to mac very tough, unlike a lot of people who seem to jump right in. I've had my MBP since Christmas, and still resort to my PC for heavy-duty work. I'd like to be a true convert. But there are so many differing commands, and varying ways to do the same thing. When I ask for help, I get a deluge of info and numerous ways.
How do you think you would have learned faster or more efficiently? When I started this adventure, I perused the Apple web site, and there were a lot of videos, a Voiceover manual, and very few actual text-tutorials. There are some good podcasts that people have done, but I simply find myself unable to sit and listen to someone work through their stuff, and learn anything from it. Probably my personal quirk<grin> I think a very well-written well organized text or interactive tutorial would have gotten me a lot further, a lot faster. Just as an example, I taught myself to use Word Perfect completely independently given it's tutorial (in the 90's). It came to me easily. Do you think that you could have learned the apple OS with voice over as easily as you did jaws or window eyes, if you had not had these screen readers? This is a tough question: While there are differences in how they work and show the screen, I feel like with Jaws, things are re-arranged into a manageable format, and while they don't actually reflect the layout of the screen, it's pretty easy to navigate. With the Apple, on the other hand, I'm told that VO shows you the screen as it is. Yet, to move down the screen, for example, I'm using right arrow, Sometimes. So, there's some disconnect there. Having said this, I used my jaws experience to help my understanding, and also to search for answers when I couldn't do some things on the Mac. If I were to start fresh, with no experience with Jaws, with no previous understanding of Windows etc, perhaps this would seem like a breeze to learn. But, I'm not sure. Was it hard for you, economically, to buy the mac? I received the MBP for Christmas from my husband. He'd observed me spending time at the apple store just about druling over the pretty little computer that talked right out of the box. How did you learn about the Mac voice over screen reader? I learned about the screen reader mostly from the getting started exercise, and a braille manual I purchased. However, it seems I learn the most by tinkering, trying to do things and asking questions when I get stuck. I have signed up for one to one training, and mostly what has worked is the trainer observing me at a task that I'm struggling with, and making the appropriate suggestions/correcctions. HTH and let me know how this idea progresses. I think there's probably a good place for it. Carolyn Haas -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
