Hello Ben. If your wife doesn't do anything that requires the use of Microsoft Office she will do well with the Mac. If, however, she needs to use Microsoft Office then her best bet would be to use Microsoft Windows for Microsoft Office related tasks. There is IWork on the Mac but the accessibility of these products has not reached the level of maturity I require as they relate to accessibility. If she wants to use Windows on her Mac, she has two viable options, VMware Fusion or Bootcamp. If she uses VMWare Fusion, then she will be able to install Windows without sighted assistance. Windows and the MAC Operating systems run at the same time. JAWS works in this environment with Windows and so does Office. There are tradeoffs however. First, since the Operating systems share resources there can be performance issues particularly with applicatios like Kurzweil 1000 and Open Book. On the other hand, if she decides tu use Bootcamp then she will have a dual boot system. She will need sighted assistance to install Windows. However, the OS that is running has all of the machine's resources. Finally, whenever she makes changes to VMWare Fusion, she loses a JAWS activation. Freedom Scientific will give her grief if she needs to request too many key resets.
HTH Paul From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of N2KPV Sent: Monday, September 03, 2012 5:13 PM To: [email protected] Subject: New to Group Hello to All, I have only been in this group for a few days and I have already learned alot from you guys. I purchased my mac about 11 months ago and was a windows xp user before that. I am visually impaired and used ZooomText on my xp. On my mac laptop I use a combination of voiceover and zoom to navigate around. My wife is totally blind and uses Jaws with Vista. She is thinking of taking the plunge and getting a mac laptop or iPad. I am wondering if there are any totally blind users in this group and how accessible it will be for her. She already has an iPhone and does with it. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Ben -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/macvisionaries/-/iQaWl2zqe74J. 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.
