[bcab] Re: Accessibility of the Mac Minnie for office, web and development.

Hello Nick

There have been a number of useful discussions/demonstrations   on both Main
menu and Main menu live of ACB radio in the last two months or so.

I looked it up and many episodes are kept on the RSS of the Podcast versions
of these, simply stream or download these, I can not remember which are the
relevant ones but the first minute of each episode introduces the content.

You will here a lot of opinions on mailing lists many from people who never
used the Mac themselves.  In the above podcasts, people who are actually
experience and new users are sharing their knowledge - very informative.

Regards
Isaac
  
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Hi All.

I'm sure this has been spoken about so many times but I've not been
interested before.

One of the guys at work has been talking about his mac and I'm pretty
impressed.

I'm thinking about one for home and I'm wondering about accessibility.
I know there's Voice Over which is the built in screen reader. How good
is this, how does it compare to the plethora of windows screen readers.

Mostly I'd want to do email, office type applications, read books which
are plain text or html, brows the web, maybe a bit of IM.

I'd also want to develop PHP on it and some C++. what are the
development environments like, how accessible are they?

Any information gratefully received.
Cheers.
Nick.



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