[nfbcs] Mac Accessibility

[Buddy Brannan]

Mac Visionaries is now on Googlegroups.
macvisionaries at googlegroups.com

Also,
macvoiceover at freelists.org
is another good list. For some resources, also see
http://www.icanworkthisthing.com

I can't address whether or not Pages or Nisus Writer does tables well  
with Voiceover, but both work with Voiceover, and Pages comes with  
iWork ($79 from Apple, far cheaper than Mickeysoft Office). There are  
also a couple of spreadsheet apps that are accessible; Numbers (also  
in iWork, but I understand it works quite differently from xcel);  
Tables ($40 from....I'd have to look it up but I have it). And  
OpenOffice is mostly accessible with some glaring difficulties.
On May 28, 2009, at 1:32 AM, Dean Martineau wrote:

> 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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