Thaks Paul, she does email, newspapers, facebook ect. , and I think she is beginning to get annoyed with the Jaws works with vista. I will have to let her play with my mac to see how she likes it. Ben Constantini [email protected] Sent from my Mac
On Sep 3, 2012, at 7:05 PM, Paul Hunt wrote: > 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. -- 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.
