[blindlaw] Mac Users Out There?

Mon Jun 20 03:27:09 UTC 2011

Done that to no avail. I still would like to know pros and cons of switching. 

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On Jun 19, 2011, at 6:21 PM, "Daniel K. Beitz" <dbeitz at wiennergould.com> wrote:

> This doesn't sound right.  It sounds to me like there is something wrong
> with your PC.  Jaws is pretty solid, although by no means perfect.  You
> should not have so many crashes.  If you can get cited help, you might try a
> system cleaner, such as registry mechanic.  That has really cleaned up my
> PC.  But first, you should go to MSconfig and uncheck anything in startup
> that you don't need. 
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of William Burley, III
> Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2011 6:01 PM
> To: 'NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Mac Users Out There?
> 
> Hi Daniel.  
> 
> I think this e-mail helps.  The accessibility issues that I'm having with
> Jaws is that it simply crashes too much for my taste and I've gone through
> almost a week of not being able to work because FS broke my license and
> nothing seemed to work to get it going again until today.  I wasn't able to
> respond to a couple potential clients because my Jaws completely stopped
> working and for some reason, the free screen readers out there wouldn't work
> for me or I just simply did something wrong in trying to use them.  I'm just
> tired of having a constant struggle with FS and it's either not working for
> prolonged periods of time or intermittently not working for up to 5 minutes
> or until I do a hard reboot.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Daniel K. Beitz
> Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2011 11:08 AM
> To: 'NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Mac Users Out There?
> 
> I'm no tech guy, but here are some of my observations and hard lessons I
> have learned.  I hope this helps somebody.
> 
> I hear Macs are very accessible, but I've never tried one.  However, the
> ipad and iphone are absolutely fantastic.  The only thing with a mac is that
> microsoft office is not accessible at all.  Apple's word processor, pages,
> is accessible, and is apparently 99% word compatible.  However, I might be
> afraid of some formatting compatibility issues between pages and word,
> although your docs should be pretty simple and maybe you won't have any.
> That is the issue I would want to get feedback on though.  Email and web
> access should not be a problem.  As far as third party programs which are
> accessible on a mac, I hear good things, but have no firsthand knowledge.
> 
> If you don't mind me asking, What accessibility issues are you having with
> jaws?  I know jaws has had issues with Westlaw, but all you have to do after
> you log in is shut jaws off and turn it back on, and Westlaw seems to work
> fine.  I don't even use the text addition of Westlaw, as I want all the
> features the full website offers.  I am a trial attorney, and I use jaws
> with few issues.  The only thing with jaws is that, in my experience, there
> are some web pages it simply won't read completely.  Window-eyes will read
> many pages that jaws will not read.  Jaws has never caught up with GW micro
> on web access, but window-eyes doesn't have all the features that jaws has,
> and can be more cumbersome to use.  Also, jaws works better in word and
> outlook.  Also, window-eyes has some bugs right now with windows 7.
> 
> I did learn recently that if you are using jaws 12 in word, you will notice
> that office 2010 is real responsive.  But apparently, in making word 2010
> work so well, they somehow broke word 2003, because jaws 12 is very
> unresponsive in word 2003.
> 
> If you have issues reading emails in word 2010 or 2007, you can display the
> email in HTML format by using the following keystrokes:  alt H, A, V.
> Office 2010 uses word, rather than the browser, to display emails, and they
> can be hard to read.  But once you get use to the keystrokes to dump
> unreadable emails into an HTML window, you can pretty much read most emails.
> 
> Hope this helps somebody out there.
> 
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> Daniel K. Beitz
> Wienner & Gould, P.C.
> 950 University Dr., Ste. 350
> Rochester, MI  48307
> Phone:  (248) 841-9405
> Fax:  (248) 652-2729
> dbeitz at wiennergould.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of William Burley, III
> Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2011 12:24 AM
> To: 'NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List'
> Subject: [blindlaw] Mac Users Out There?
> 
> Hello all!
> 
> 
> 
> Are there any Mac users out there in the group?  I am considering possibly
> switching from Windows because I'm having lots of issues with jaws and
> accessibility.
> 
> 
> 
> If there are Mac users out there, can you give me the Pros and Cons to using
> this in a legal world full of Windows users?  How do you make that work?
> What apps do you use to make your legal practice effective with so many
> others using Windows products?
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks for any information!
> 
> 
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