April, Just a few comments that I hope will be helpful.
First, it seems like you've turned this thing into a dragon. It really isn't it's just a piece of software. Treat it that way. You're not climbing a mountain. Many of us, myself included found the Mac very frustrating at the beginning. for me, that lasted about three months, and then suddenly everything just clicked.. I don't think this is due to any inherent problems on the Mac, but rather that it was a new system and new screen-reader. I'm pretty sure I was equally frustrated with JAWS and Windows, but that was so long ago now that I've forgotten how frustrated I was. So take it easy, and take it in very small chunks. Second, don't rely too much on your husband. I'm not sure it's always intuitive to sighted person how someone who is blind or low-vision uses a computer, so his take/experience with Voiceover may not be the best measuring stick. this may apply to you as well. You've mentioned that you're losing both your hearing and your vision. That is going to require that you figure out new ways of interacting with things, which is inevitably going to be quite frustrating at times. So while you may have a lot of computer knowledge, I suspect that you are doing more than just learning to use a Mac, you're relearning how to use a computer. Regarding the terms you say overwhelm you, if you can figure out physics terms, then you know that every discipline, and even subdisciplines, have their specific terminology. If you don't know what a hot-spot is, either google it, or ask one of us. We'd be happy to tell you. Asking questions and then getting answers is a much better use of this list then just venting your frustrations, though of course many of us have had occasion to do that as well. :) As for dictation, I hate to shoot down your husband's theory, but it isn't context-based. So it works the same way, whether your using Facebook or Pages. It cares less about the inflection in your voice than it does the clarity of your speech. One key difference that I can see between social media and a pages document is that the latter is usually much longer. So I'm wondering if the chunks you are dictating in your social media posts are simply shorter, and thus you're having better luck. Just some thoughts, hope they're helpful. Good luck today, Donna On Jan 13, 2014, at 6:47 AM, April Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > I get to spend the afternoon doing one of my favorite things (and yes, this > is honest, not sarcastic): Re-formatting a computer for one of hubby's > co-workers. > > While in that room - Hubby and I will try the VoiceOver trainer on his Mac, > and see if he has any luck figuring it out. > > Most people say that if between his computer knowledge, and mine, it cant be > figured out, it either can't be important, or it isn't easy. > > I can figure out earthquake, volcano, and even some physics terms relatively > easy. And yet, these term that I cannot find defined anywhere on the net > that are used in the VoiceOver training are OverWhelming. > > Regina, I did see that link to Sarai's post, and have read all the pages on > that site, even before my first post on here. > > Oh, and hubby thinks he knows why I can use Dictation in social media, and > not Pages to tell a story. In social media, I rarely use inflection. > However, I am a storyteller, so in novel writing, I have all kinds of > inflection and excitement. I don't talk in a monotone while recording a > story. Makes sense. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
