[nabs-l] Macs Verses PCs

[Brianna Scerenscko]

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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