Gigi, thanks so much! My friend Liz, is a graduate student at Arizona so we don't often get to see eachother, except holidays. Would you mind me giving her your email address in case she has additional questions? I used to exclusively use PC's, in fact I started in the computer industry (manufacturing & distribution) selling AT's and micro-channel based systems. I was pretty closed minded about Mac's, until I lost most of my vision. When I found out how much PC adaptation and accessibility equipment sold for, and having spent two decades in product management and sales, I was outraged. It was the first time I seriously considered Apple products.
Now I would never go back! I love my iMac, iPad2, iPhone and won't give up my iPod touch for the life of me. As I still have a little vision left I rely on high contrast, I haven't become well versed in Braille and have yet to totally rely on VoiceOver. I'd like to take a class to become efficient as I tend to cheat with my eyes in order to quickly get my papers written. It's getting mite difficult A's my vision degrades. Sorry, I see I got off topic. Would it be okay to give Liz your email address? Thanks again, Tammy L. Abreu-Butron (408) 892-1964 mobile [email protected] [email protected] On Sep 21, 2011, at 10:42 AM, Eugenia Firth <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Tammy. > I hope the following statements don't give too much unneeded information and > cause confusion. I know you just asked about braille translation. However, I, > as a professional braille proofreader who needs a lot of braille on her > computer, would like to share some observations which I hope will be helpful > to your friend. These are things which I didn't know about the Mac before I > got mine, and it took some getting used to. > > There is a significant difference that a I am finding in doing braille on the > Mac from Windows. It never occurred to me that translator would work like > VoiceOver does. I've never had one that did work like this. > > Let me see if I can explain what I'm talking about. Does your friend have a > braille display with braille input keys? If so, he may want to try out his > braille display for a while to get used to the fact that translation is not > delayed in VoiceOver until a space or carriage return is pressed. This means > that inputting in uncontracted braille is different with VoiceOver than it is > with Jaws. At first, I had trouble on my Focus 40 inputting so that I didn't > make a lot of mistakes. If I typed a letter and then stopped to think about > what I was doing for too long in the wrong location, it got translated. > Sometimes this gave me the wrong word. As a short example, if i typed the > letter b, then stopped before going on, I got the word but. The letter b is > short for the word but in braille. > > I had to learn when to stop so this didn't happen as often. I still am having > some trouble with this, although I am getting better. > > I did not have a friend like yourself that had a Mac, so I was unable to > practice with it beforehand. When I decided to switch I had to just get my > own computer, after doing the most research I could on my questions. This > braille input thing came as a surprise. Maybe you could help your friend set > up portable preferences for VoiceOver on your computer so he could try these > things out, with the help of us here on this list, of course. > > Regards, > Gigi > > > On Sep 20, 2011, at 8:53 PM, Tammy Abreu-Butron wrote: > >> Hello >> I have a friend who wants to convert to mac and is 100% blind (I have a >> little residual so I don't know the answer as mac user. She needs to >> convert braille into text or docs and to create audio files. Is there a >> solution for her? She has just about had it with jaws and needs the V12 so >> this might be a good time to switch to mac and use the money toward a >> technology change into the mac world. >> Thanks for your help and suggestions >> >> -- >> Tammy & Dubai >> >> -- >> 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. > -- 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.
