[nfbmi-talk] mac book

[David Andrews]

Two reasons -- the main one is that I can't afford one at this time, 
or in the foreseeable future, and secondly, I have to do a lot of 
things on the web, like mailing list maintenance for this and our 
other 200 lists, and I am not sure Safari is as efficient on the web, 
with commands as JAWS and IE are to me now.  They may be, but my 
little experience wasn't reassuring.

Dave

At 11:15 AM 9/21/2011, you wrote:
>Hi Dave,
>
>Would you be willing to explain why you will not be switching over 
>to the Mac at this point in time?
>
>Thanks,
>Elizabeth--------------------------------------------------
>
>From: "David Andrews" <dandrews at visi.com>
>Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 11:55 AM
>To: "NFB of Michigan Internet Mailing List" <nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org>
>Subject: Re: [nfbmi-talk] mac book
>
>>I am not the best to ask, I have used a Mac for a couple days, and 
>>had some training, but haven't switched over, and am not going to 
>>do so, for now.  There is a learning curve, some things seem 
>>easier, some more complicated, but mostly different.  Lots of 
>>commands to memorize, but if you taught yourself JAWS you can 
>>handle it.  On any Mac type command-F5 and it will start talking, 
>>command is immediately to either side of the spacebar.
>>
>>Dave
>>
>>At 10:37 AM 9/21/2011, you wrote:
>>>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