[nfbmi-talk] mac book

Mike Welty rattail4 at gmail.com
Wed Sep 21 17:12:09 UTC 2011



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From: "Brandy W" <branlw at If anyone has questions about the mac, voiceover, 
or the IPhone you can feel free to contact me privately, I use them every 
day as my secondary computer is a mac and I use an IPhone full time.
sbcglobal.net>
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 11:41
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Subject: Re: [nfbmi-talk] mac book

> I would also be interested in other's experiences. I too have an Iphone, 
> and am tired with all the windows problems so have thought of switching to 
> an Apple.
>
> Bran
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ann Petrous" <annpetrous at gmail.com>
> To: "NFB of Michigan Internet Mailing List" <nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 10:37 AM
> Subject: Re: [nfbmi-talk] mac book
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>> is it easy to learn? when i learned jaws the first time, it didn't
>> take me long to figure it out, and to learn the key commands. I ask
>> this because I'm tired of shelling out money i don't have just to
>> upgrade a software that isn't that great to begin with.  I can't
>> imagine it being hard to learn. I'm hoping to go to the apple store
>> soon, and have them show me how to use it so that when i do purchase
>> one, i will know what i'm doing. i love the iphone, and how smooth the
>> voiceover is on it. it was a lot easier than i thought it would be
>> touse.
>>
>> On 9/21/11, David Andrews <dandrews at visi.com> wrote:
>>> VoiceOver is quite usable, but it is quite different from JAWS.  The
>>> key commands are not the same and some of the underlying concepts
>>> with the Mac and  VoiceOver are different.  Pre-conceptions from
>>> Windows and JAWS seem to be a big part of what a Windows user has to
>>> get past when learning the Apple.
>>>
>>> Dave
>>>
>>> At 09:50 AM 9/21/2011, you wrote:
>>>>Hello all,
>>>>Does any one here own a mac book? if  so, I'm thinking about getting
>>>>one in the near future, and i was wondering how similar the voiceover
>>>>program is like jaws,  meaning, are the key commands the same? I
>>>>haven't had the chance to actually check it out at the apple store, so
>>>>i thought to ask before i go, and play with it. If anyone owns it,
>>>>please email me, so that I'm not flooding everyone's mail box on here.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>thanks,
>>>>Annother
>>>>thanks,
>>>>Ann
>>>
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