I wholeheartedly agree. spare yourself the increased pain of trying to use fading vision and get a mac with voiceover on it NOW. learn voiceover and you'll be all set to go when vision finally fails. believe me when I say this: you don't want to be stuck trying to learn voiceover while dealing with the fact that you went totally blind only a short time earlier (I have and its hard).
-Eric On Oct 7, 2010, at 6:28 AM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > To speak frankly, David, let me say this to you. > > If you know your vision is going, why cheet yourself out of a Mac now? Why > not just make the jump to Mac right away and start using Voice Over? It > seems to me, (IMHO) that you're consintrating too much on using the little > sight you have left, and therefore, on the wrong thing. I think it would > benefit you to get a Mac now, and, just take the plundge. > > > Sincerely, > The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! > > A Very Proud and Happy Mac User!!! > > E-Mail: > rforetjr at comcast dot net > Skype Name: > barefootedray > > On Oct 7, 2010, at 8:21 AM, David Goodwin wrote: > > Hi all, > > Just back from the local Apple retailer. I had anticipated having a Mac Mini > under my arm at this point, so I am a little surprised (and probably a little > disappointed too) that I have returned home empty-handed. > > I had gone to the store to see how the Mac would perform with a combination > of magnification and a white on black colour scheme. The magnification worked > well, but unfortunately the white on black colour scheme was less > satisfactory. I had hoped that it would be similar to the high contrast > feature on the PC, where it basically rewrites the colours used by the > operating system and software (albeit it not always successfully). This means > that on a PC I can have it so that nearly all screen elements (desktop, > toolbars, tooltips, menus, etc) are shown in my preferred colours. However, > on the Mac all that I can do is invert all the colours that are on the > screen. Apart from doing ugly things to images and video, this is far from > ideal when the screen contains both dark on light elements and light on dark > elements. This means that I cannot simply turn on high contrast and forget > about it. Instead, I suspect I would be constantly toggling colour inversion > on and off depending upon what is on the screen at the time. > > Unless I have missed something, this might make a PC a better option for now. > > Regards > > David > > -- > 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. > > > -- > 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. > Eric Oyen - N7ZZT Phoenix Arizona Geocode: 33.488462 -112.234926 N33° 29.3077', W112° 14.0956' -- 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.
