[nfbcs] Mac Accessibility

[Dean Martineau]

I can tell you a little, and advise you where to go for much more.  Voice
Over is part of the operating system and costs nothing extra, one of the
much-touted advantages of the mac.  

I think you should join, even if only temporarily, the mactisionaries
mailing list to pose these questions.  Many of the people there were former
Windows users, and some at least seem to brim over with satisfaction.  You
can, according to an item in an earlier Top Tech Tidbits, join the list by
sending a blank message to discuss-join at macvisionaries.com, or go to the
site 

www.macvisionaries.com.

If you do what I recommend, I hope you pin the people down and ask very
specific questions about web accessibility, because it is my impression that
that is the one area where the mac laggs behind.  Word Processing, sound
editing, other basic things, one can do apparently well on the mac, and I
don't think its stability can be disputed.  

Let us know what you learn.

Dean


-----Original Message-----
From: nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Joe Orozco
Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 9:35 PM
To: NFBCS; nabs at acb.org; 'National Association of Blind Students mailing
list'
Subject: [nfbcs] Mac Accessibility

Hello all,

Forgive the cross post.  I need information from former PC users who are now
using the Mac environment as their primary operating system.  My questions:

1. How steep is the learning curve moving from Mac to PC?

2. Is Firefox available to the Mac environment, and are there any
limitations to the browser in this environment?

3. What general limitations have you discovered using Mac moving from the
PC?

4. Is Voice Over built into the Mac system.  If not, how much is it, and
where is it found?

5. How often is the screen reader for the Mac OS updated?  How comparable is
Voice Over to JAWS?  What kind of speech does Voice Over use?

6. How easy is it to exchange documents between PC and Mac machines?

I hope someone can help me address some or all of these points.  I've picked
up an organization who insists on using Mac computers.  I would rather stick
to the PC.  I'm not impressed with JAWS a lot of times, but it's what I
know.  That said, I have a Mac laptop headed to me, and I suppose I had
better learn how to adopt to the new environment real quick-like.  I would
appreciate any and all advice you can provide.

Many thanks in advance.

Regards,

Joe Orozco
 

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