I have to agree. I switched to the Mac a year ago this month. Voice-Over on the Mac functions quite differently from screen-readers on Windows, so you will need to give yourself plenty of time and patience to learn the new system. Also, Mac does many things differently as well.
As for going exclusively to the iPad without a computer, it is possible unless you need to do semi-complex word processing. Pages for iOS is accessible except when it comes to renaming files. For that, it gets difficult. That said, there are apps for the iPad which do not exist for the iPhone, that write and edit word documents. As I do not yet have an iPad, I do not know if, or how well, they are accessible. I've played with a friend's iPad for surfing the net and really enjoyed the relational experience for examining web pages. With my Mac, it is a bit more hit and miss, though overall, I prefer surfing the net with my mac. In my case, my iPhone 5 is my primary computer. I use my mac for editing and formatting papers for my doctoral studies. I also use it for EndNote reference tracking as EndNote is required by my University, and I have not yet found an iOS version of the program. If one ever comes out, I may almost never turn on my Mac. Do to the nature of my research, I am currently saving for an iPad Mini. I will need it when I begin the practical portion of my research. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: [email protected] Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone On 24/10/2012, at 9:08, Neil Barnfather - TalkNav <[email protected]> wrote: > I cannot comment on your book point, but, will say that I was a Nokia and > Widnwos PC user for donkey's years, moved over exclusively to Apple in 2010, > and haven't looked back at all! > > The Voice Over experience is reliable, consistent, user friendly and most of > all a joy to use. I always felt that JAWS and I lived a love hate > relationship together, Freedom Scientific loved to screw me over, over and > over, and over again more, and probably would have continued to do so until I > was bleeding to death from all the money that terribly flakey product cost > me, and I, I was the hate part of the relationship. I hated being dependant > on something which caused me stress, anxiety and misery. > > Apple's products do what you want, without fuss and without hassle. > > > > > Regards, > > Neil Barnfather > > Talks List Administrator > Twitter @neilbarnfather > > TalkNav is a Nuance, Code Factory and Sendero dealer, as well as an Apple > iOS, Macintosh and Android accessibility specialist. For all your accessible > phone, PDA and GPS related enquiries visit www.talknav.com > > URL: - www.talknav.com > e-mail: - [email protected] > Phone: - +44 844 999 4199 > > On 23 Oct 2012, at 20:43, Kathy and Wilda <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> I have been a PC Jaws user for many years and I’m thinking of going >> exclusively Apple. First do any of you just use the Ipad as your main >> computer and if so what are the pros and cons? Also I like to download books >> from Bookshare to my Victor stream and I know the Ipad doesn’t have a US >> port.Is there a work around for that? If anybody could give me feedback and >> let me know their experiences I would greatly appreciate any suggestions or >> comments. Thanks in advance.Kathy and Seeing Eye dog Wilda >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google >> Group. >> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. >> 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/viphone?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > 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/viphone?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. 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/viphone?hl=en.
