Well, good news for me. Apparently, all I had to do to use the Zoomex was to download the software and install it. I really got a good deal, someone was selling their barely used Zoomex, about a year or 18 months old, had to move it, so I got a steal. That, plus $200 to get up to the latest version of the software, and I came out way ahead. No upgrade cost for the Mac version is even better.
Some preliminary observations, in case anyone's giving the Eyepal or Zoomex some thought: The software is a self-voicing environment. It's written under X-Window, apparently, and runs in that environment. Therefore, it's completely separate from Voiceover, and generally speaking, its controls are inaccessible using Voiceover. Further, it uses the same Nuance Realspeak Solo voices that the PC version does, and also uses the same or similar commands to the Windows version. If you're familiar with the Windows version, it appears that moving straight across to the Mac will be fairly easy and straightforward. One thing that threw me at first and wasn't exceedingly well documented was that you get to the Zoomex (and, presumably, Eyepal) menu with the cmd key, much as you'd use the alt key to pull down the menu in Windows. It looks like their design decision was to make the softwre on the Mac look and act like the software on Windows, so the documentation could be pretty well pulled straight across with little to no alteration; in fact, Zoomex for the Mac even mentions that you won't need JAWS. I haven't tried a scan yet, but I fully expect that it will work just like theWindows version of the software. -- Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA Phone: (814) 860-3194 or 888-75-BUDDY On Nov 26, 2010, at 3:14 PM, Mary Otten wrote: > For those who are curious and have lots of money, the above subject line says > it all. This price represents a very substantial discount off the usual price > of this device, which connects via a usb cable to a Mac or a Windows pc and > comes with software for either. The demos on the site are rather primitive. > For instance, there is no screen reder feedback in the background, so one > must take it on faith that the controls are all accessible via the keyboard > in some fashion. Of note is the fact that you can scan two pages at once of > only what they term small paperbacks, which I take to mean pocket books. > there is no support documentation on line that I could find, and thus one has > no way of getting an overview of what this will actually do, beyond the > basics demonstrated in the short demo "tutorials". If they have a decent > return policy, and you've got the money, it could be worth investigating. > > Mary > > Mary Otten > motte...@gmail.com > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
