[nabs-l] Macs Verses PCs

[Jorge Paez]

No,
you'd have to buy iWork for that.

Jorge


On Mar 5, 2011, at 7:31 PM, Brianna Scerenscko wrote:

> I mean does it come with the softwhere to do things like Powerpoint,
> Excell, and Word already in it? I will have a Braille Note note taker
> that I can use as a Braille Display. I was told that I would need a
> braille embosser in college because of math.
> 
> On 3/5/11, Greg Aikens <gpaikens at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Joe,
>> I have been able to accomplish everything I need to do with Pages, the word
>> processor in iWork.  You can save and apply different styles, change the
>> spacing, font, alignment etc.  Very little of this is done in a similar way
>> to the way it is done with Jaws though.
>> 
>> When you mention tables, comments, and track changes, you hit on the few
>> things that iWork and voiceover don't do well.  You can access the content
>> of tables in Pages, but only by copying them and pasting them into a
>> document in Numbers, the spreadsheet program.  You can read and see the
>> various comments and changes, but it is completely disconnected from the
>> body of the text, making them almost useless.
>> 
>> Hopefully the next release of iWork will fix these problems.
>> 
>> -Greg
>> On Mar 5, 2011, at 4:58 PM, Joe Orozco wrote:
>> 
>>> I'd be curious to know what the level of flexibility is when it comes to
>>> the
>>> word processor.  Someone once told me that in order to find out things
>>> about
>>> underlining, justification and so on, you had to paste the text to the
>>> system's text editor because the information was not readily available on
>>> iWork.  Can you use styles in the same way you can with MS Word?  What
>>> does
>>> table navigation look like, and how easy is it to review and edit
>>> documents
>>> using comments, footnotes, revision histories and the like?  One good
>>> thing
>>> about Mac OSX is the availability of several full word processors as
>>> opposed
>>> to just the Office package for which JAWS scripts have been optimized,
>>> though to be fair I'm not sure how many of these Mac options are
>>> accessible
>>> with VoiceOver.  Sorry to use the thread to pose my own questions, but
>>> I've
>>> been curious.
>>> 
>>> Best,
>>> 
>>> Joe
>>> 
>>> "Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves,
>>> some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all."--Sam Ewing
>>> 
>>> 
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