Remember that FS has a strangle hold and it has little to do with cost benefits or actual product performance.
FS has paid off some organizations for the blind that actively work to undermine the migration to Apple. Just follow the money and see the interesting hit pieces and scare tactics used to push people to FS and away from devices with included accessibility features. Also, FS has a real lock on state agencies. Many agencies and rehab teams just don't know about Apple or worse still believe these hit pieces written by certain organizations. It's a situation where everything looks like jaws, acts like jaws so jaws is the only way to go. Lists like this one and the mobile access list are helping to spread the word and reports I've read here seem to indicate that agencies are starting to come around and allow their clients to use Macs. On Nov 18, 2010, at 3:01 PM, eddy wrote: > hey eveyone, I am a mac os x user who really likes the way voice over > works. I have organizations like. DBS division of blind servises and > other giving their clients who request computers Dell laptops with > Jaws screen reader installed. what I am aware of is that Jaws alone is > more than a thousand dollars recently I her two thousand. I wonder why > organizations like DBS don't just give their client a macbook or a > machbook pro and be done with it. then they whon't have to pay for > Jay. and the client can use voice over which in my opinion has a > shorter learning curve. I also recently asked a Vision teacher or V.I > teacher and she answered that at leat 70=90 percent of note takers, > and all other digital devices are not comopatible with mac os x. > I would like to know what you guys think about this. and if there are > any high school and college students who are blind or visually > impaired, Is a Mac with voice over sufficient enough for all school > work or do you still need a note taker? > > > thank you > > -- > 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.
