Hi,
I think you bring up an excellent point. In my opinion, There is no really one
super addition to Mavericks. ibooks is cool, I’ve read 3 books with it
already, but accessibility wise, it feels like its still in beta. That being
said, it really doesn’t need much to become awesome. Label the buttons, fix
voiceover in the table of contents, and add a continuously read function with
Voiceover. I feel strongly that these are things we will see pretty soon.
Same thing with mail. If you are a person who uses mail extensively with an
IMAP gmail account, especially if you have a bunch of labels, rules and filters
set up, your going to feel put out I think. Again, I feel strongly this will
be fixed pretty soon. Why? It’s honestly in Apples best interest to do so.
Who likes bad press right? Even if your OS is free. haha. Plus, it is obvious
to see that Apple is trying to position itself as a more viable option for
productivity. Not working well with the largest e-mail provider in the world
isn’t a good way to get the ball rolling. lol. But besides these 2 things,
which are indeed significant, Mail more than iBooks, Mavericks is pretty good.
If you feel these two things are show stoppers? I don’t feel you will be
missing much by waiting a little while to upgrade.
That being said, since its free, You can always make a partition, and install
Mavericks on that and take it for a little test drive. That’s what I really
recommend to those on the fence.
JMO.
Ricardo Walker
rica...@appletothecore.info
Twitter:@apple2thecore
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On Oct 26, 2013, at 6:34 PM, Brian Fischler <blindga...@gmail.com> wrote:
> As someone who has read everyone of these Mavericks post, and has yet to
> update, the answer to this question for a gmail user seems to be No. I
> usually upgrade to the new operating systems in the first week or two, but
> from what I have read, I can't seem to find one thing that makes Mavericks
> worth the upgrade. Please do correct me if I am wrong, but since I would list
> email and mammal towards the top of what I use my computer for, it sounds
> like either Apple or Gmail dropped the ball somewhere big time. I don't plan
> on using Ibooks and I am disappointed to hear that Apple failed miserably
> when building the accessibility in to it. As a die hard Apple fan, iMac, Mac
> Air, iPhone 3S, 4S, and 5S, I feel Apple has really been slipping in testing
> accessibility for releases. Considering how buggy IOS 7 is, and now
> Mavericks, I might have to start paying more attention to what the other guys
> are doing. I have gotten rid of anything running Windows in my house so am
> disappointed by the results to Apple's latest releases. Hopefully the bug
> improvement schedule won't be on the same schedule fixing numbers has been, 8
> years.
> On Oct 26, 2013, at 4:51 PM, Matt Dierckens <matt.dierck...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> Well, it makes sense, as Nuance bought Loquendo a few years ago.
>>
>> Matt Dierckens
>> matt.dierck...@gmail.com
>> Assistive Technology Trainer
>> IOS and Macintosh User support
>> Windsor area
>>
>>
>> On 2013-10-26, at 4:34 PM, BBS <bigbigshawn....@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> My favorite voice for Vocalizer Expressive is Karen because she sounds more
>>> human than the rest of them. I kinda find it funny that Nuance put the
>>> original Loquendo voices, (Alison, Kate, and Susan) into Vocalizer
>>> Expressive. Funny and a little bit saddened that they didn’t keep the
>>> ability for those three to do exclamations anymore.
>>>
>>> Shawn
>>> Sent From My White Mac Book
>>>
>>> On Oct 26, 2013, at 11:59 AM, Alex Hall <mehg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Yes, if you go into Voiceover’s speech settings and choose customize from
>>>> the default voice popup, or from the same popup in System Preferences >
>>>> Speech and Dictation > Speech tab, you’ll find them. As usual, check the
>>>> ones you want, they will download, and there you go. Off the top of my
>>>> head, the new voices are kate, Ava, Allison, Oliver, Susan, and an India
>>>> one whose name I don’t remember. My personal favorite is Ava, but they are
>>>> all pretty good.
>>>>
>>>> Mario, your messages are reaching the list. I’m not sure what tutorial you
>>>> mean, though.
>>>> On Oct 26, 2013, at 12:23 PM, mario navarro <mario....@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> hi guys, sorry for making dynamic reading, but I do not know if my
>>>>> messages are reaching the group.
>>>>> please tell me.
>>>>> read below.
>>>>> hi folks.
>>>>> for those who have already upgraded to the Mavericks:
>>>>> someone can tell me if the manual VoiceOver Getting Started
>>>>> is now available for the mavericks?
>>>>> would be nice to take some questions.
>>>>> I think it's still a bit early but ...
>>>>>
>>>>> thanks.
>>>>> cheers.
>>>>> Em 26/10/2013 16:58, Maggie's Dobermail escreveu:
>>>>>> Well, for what it’s worth, I don’t think they are really “new”, just
>>>>>> improved a bit. For example, you don’t get any new choices to my
>>>>>> knowledge other then the usual Samantha, Daniel, etc..
>>>>>> I know somebody will correct me if this is off base..
>>>>>> Cait
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Oct 26, 2013, at 11:25 AM, Courtney Curran <moopiecur...@gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>> Wait a minute, there are new vo voices?
>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>> Courtney
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Sent from my iMac
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Oct 25, 2013, at 6:16 PM, Alex Hall <mehg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> new
>>>>>>>
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