[nabs-l] Macs Verses PCs

Sat Mar 5 20:14:52 UTC 2011

I would also say that it depends a lot on what you are used to and how much time you are willing to spend to learn a new system.  Most things are quite easy to learn on the mac once you get the basics of how voiceover works.  The most difficult part of switching for me was learning to do word processing on the mac, which is a huge part of what you will use in college.  If you have learned to use a windows screen reader and microsoft word, making the switch to voiceover and one of the word processors on the mac will take some serious time to learn and adjust to.  

I love my mac now and I am quite comfortable with word processing.  It took a few months of frustration though for me to learn to do everything I was able to do with Jaws and word.  I'm sure it would be the same if you were going to switch the other way.  

So, if you are going to switch, allow yourself enough time to learn how to do the essential tasks you will need for college beforehand.  Connect with people who can help you learn too.  

Hope this helps.

-Greg
On Mar 5, 2011, at 11:37 AM, Jorge Paez wrote:

> PCs are good.
> 
> The only advantage apart from all the Apple accessibility you'll get with the OS, and more 3rd party programs being screen reader-friendly,
> the other advantage is that you can bootcamp or vertual machine your Mac so it can run Windows for anything you need.
> 
> 
> Hardware wise though, either one is fine.
> 
> 
> Jorge
> 
> 
> On Mar 5, 2011, at 11:45 AM, Brianna Scerenscko wrote:
> 
>> Hello NABS Members,
>> 
>> My name is Brianna. I am in the process of making the list of
>> technology I will need for college and I was wondering what are
>> people's oppinions of Macs verses PCs?
>> 
>> Thank You
>> 
>> Brianna
>> 
>> On 3/3/11, Jewel S. <herekittykat2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> CTRL+Shift+tab? Thanks for that one! I always like to just convert to
>>> outline form, but do so by getting the powerpoints by e-mail and
>>> viewing it as HTML. This'll make it even easier for my teachers, since
>>> they could jst give me all of them at once! My teachers are pretty
>>> good about not using graphics that are necessary for the understanding
>>> (or like my psychology teacher does, put a caption under the picture
>>> that comes out in the HTML format, where there's no image for it to go
>>> with...an example would be "Graph 2.3," where 2.3 stands fort eh graph
>>> in the textbook that she uses [and she only uses graphs and charts
>>> fromt he textbook]).
>>> 
>>> Thanks for that tip,
>>> 
>>> On 3/2/11, Patrick Molloy <ptrck.molloy at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Another option would be to convert the powerpoint to outline form,
>>>> then paste the outline into a word document. To convert to outline
>>>> form, hit Control+Shift+Tab after you have selected all. Then you
>>>> should be in outline view, from which point you can copy and paste to
>>>> microsoft word.
>>>> Hope This Helps:
>>>> Patrick
>>>> 
>>>> On 3/2/11, Mary Fernandez <trillian551 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Hi!
>>>>> So I'm using powerpoint 2007, but I think the basic menus are very
>>>>> similar. What I do is go the the slide show menu, and hit start show.
>>>>> That way, it goes directly to hte main body of the slide. If you hit
>>>>> your right application key, you can go the next slide, previous, or
>>>>> choose a slide number even. Also, if you just his insert_f1 jaws
>>>>> provides a pretty good built in guide for powerpoint. Hope this helps.
>>>>> Mary F
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 3/2/11, Anmol Bhatia <anmolpbhatia at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hello nabs,
>>>>>> I am trying to read some powerpoint slides, but I am having
>>>>>> a hard time getting jaws to read me the content on the
>>>>>> slides. Does anyone have a lisgt of key strokes for
>>>>>> powerpoint in Microsoft 2003 and would not mind emailing
>>>>>> those to me? If you could email me this I would appreciate
>>>>>> it.
>>>>>> thanks
>>>>>> Anmol
>>>>>> 
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