Hi George, I can't speak to ChromeOS, but, getting back to the matter of Macs, I'm not sure what you mean by websites that use calendars. As for keeping track of personal calendar events and reminders, I find my iPhone a breeze with Siri, such that I don't have to use anything else but my voice, since I have learn how Siri thinks and how to edit everything even when I make mistakes. Of course, I always have the option of editing the calendar and reminders manually with the touch screen, but this is not very often, now that my scheduling system is all set up. As for a Mac computer and the screen reader, at $449 US, you really can't go wrong picking up a Mac Mini, although many complain about it being an out-of-date machine. I see now that I went a bit overboard in buying a Macbook Pro, since, for me, a Mac Mini would have done the job just fine. The Mac Mini is simply an aluminum tower which lies flat in the footprint of a regular size apple pie, and then all you need is a keyboard and a monitor whose role could be filled nowadays by most flat-screen TVs and an HDMI cable. They come standard with a 500 GB spinning hard drive, and VoiceOver works fine with this setup. Admittedly, navigating the macOS and editing documents is quite a different experience, insofar as each control you want to use is not immediately in focus as we are accustomed to in Windows, requiring a repetitive process of interacting and un-interacting with each control. Personally, I have chosen to push myself to get comfortable with macOS, seeing the benefits of being in the Apple ecosystem even with my PC. It all comes down to what you want for yourself, and what you believe about the manufacturers you want to associate with, and, in this light, I don't think there are any right or wrong answers. My wife jokes with me that I always seem happier when I use my Mac than when I use my comfortable Windows 10 machine. As I've mentioned before, I always wanted to use a Mac, and so I suppose I'm still in the grips of my honeymoon with it. Interesting, though, I still count on having my Windows PC around, and so maybe I'll always have one. I will say that Window-Eyes going out of support was the trigger event which caused me to buy my Macbook Pro, as I sought to diversify my accessibility toolbox, and even to expand out of the Windows world, just incase I needed to access websites which Windows screen readers might have trouble with. Safari on the Mac has proven to be very robust in my web work, even though I had some challenges up to quite recently. However, I've learned the little tricks and the special hotkeys necessary to access all of the different parts of web pages, and so now my browsing competence on the Mac is on par with that on Windows with Firefox, whether I use Window-Eyes or NVDA or Narrator. Anyway, I'll leave off for now, and wish all of us well as we navigate this very technical world in which we find ourselves. Smile
All the best, Rod Sent from Outlook for Windows -----Original Message----- From: Talk <[email protected]> On Behalf Of George Savory via Talk Sent: August 23, 2018 7:45 PM To: Window-Eyes Discussion List <[email protected]> Cc: George Savory <[email protected]> Subject: ChromeBook Accessibility How good is a ChromeBook with web accessibility? On 8/23/18, George Savory <[email protected]> wrote: > Listers, > Been using Win-Eyes since Win-Eyes 3X. As Win-Eyes will not be > updated, I am strongly considering going to VoiceOver on Apple. Using > VoiceOver on my iPhone with Safari works perfectly. I don't know if > Jaws will ever work well with websites that use calenders; besides, I > won't have to be upgrading a screen reader everytime there is an > upgrade > _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flists.window-eyes.com%2Foptions.cgi%2Ftalk-window-eyes.com%2Frod_hutton%2540hotmail.com&data=02%7C01%7C%7C751de2151f664682778e08d6095285e9%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636706647364490626&sdata=RjLn2ZSdOcxPGxPHdTXtZlKu6JrDb5MISEpViznHyZ4%3D&reserved=0. For subscription options, visit https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flists.window-eyes.com%2Flistinfo.cgi%2Ftalk-window-eyes.com&data=02%7C01%7C%7C751de2151f664682778e08d6095285e9%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636706647364490626&sdata=1fspJd331q0mCEuw3gK%2FXzRTsbCo0XJmcQMnw8x84lI%3D&reserved=0 List archives can be found at https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flists.window-eyes.com%2Fprivate.cgi%2Ftalk-window-eyes.com&data=02%7C01%7C%7C751de2151f664682778e08d6095285e9%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636706647364490626&sdata=qG2ZsB7lWU2byd9do5tnmez%2B9VCtEi4XgoJtIk1AzjU%3D&reserved=0 _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/archive%40mail-archive.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com
