[nabs-l] Macs Verses PCs

[Ignasi Cambra]

Hello,
Even if you don't install iWork or Open Office, you can read and write word documents with Textedit, which comes with the operating system. Also, Nisus Writer is an excellent text processing application.
Finally, you can buy each application in iWork separately from the mac app store. For example if you know you won't need Keynote, which is the iWork equivalent of powerpoint, you can just buy Pages and Numbers.
A new version of iWork should be out this year (at least that's what people say) and hopefully it will be even more accessible than the current one. We'll have to wait and see!
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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