Hello Marc, If you buy a Mac laptop, you'll have a built-in trackpad, but if you buy a desktop Mac, you'll have the option of buying the Magic Trackpad instead of, or as well as, a mouse. There are no other brands of trackpad that work with a mac.
As for it's limitations, there are a number of navigation commands already mapped to gestures on the trackpad, but you can add the VO commands you use most frequently and map them to unused gestures. It isn't exactly like the iPhone because Mac OS X isn't IOS 5. So, on the Mac, you have gestures for interacting and stopping the interaction, for instance. None of this will make sense to you until you have a Mac and learn about the OS. Using the trackpad with VoiceOver means turning on the trackpad commander which renders the trackpad inoperable for moving the mouse. However, a simple gesture turns the trackpad commander off and on, so getting sighted help to fix a problem is still possible. I can't give you any comparisons with Windows and its various screen readers as I've never used Windows. Cheers, Anne On 14 Apr 2012, at 16:38, Marc Rocheleau wrote: > Is there any brand of track pads people can recommend? Using an > iPhone, this intrigues me a great deal -- are all the gestures the > same as on that device as well? Obviously my next question is what > limitations does the track pad have when it comes to navigating > through the Mac OSX? > > Thanks! > > -Marc -- 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.
