Macs are nice, but Voice Over is not quite there yet, to be a good effective screen reader for everyone. The Mac is a nice computer but not alas compadible with most of our "special" software, not yet anyways.
Shelley L. Rhodes, M.A., VRT And Guinevere: Golden Lady Guide Dog guidinggolden@xxxxxxxxx Guide Dogs for the Blind Alumni Association www.guidedogs.comThe people who burned witches at the stake never for one moment thought of their act as violence;
rather they thought of it as an act of divinely mandated righteousness.The same can be said of most of the violence we humans have ever committed. -Gil Bailie, author and lecturer (b. 1944)
----- Original Message ----- From: "Cindy Rosenthal" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 11:57 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: OT Computer Hell
Might I suggest a Mac? smile Cindy --- Gary Petraccaro <garyp130@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:I hoped they could fix things several months ago. This is a pesky network glitch which doesn't seem to be easily solvable, though I'll bet that once it is solved we will say how obvious it was. I actually did start looking for a computer out of desperation yesterday. Every blasted machine I saw at Best Buy had Vista 64 on it. They said they would charge me list for Vista 32 and $139 worth of labor to install. Called Sam's Club with same results. Obviously I was just doing this to have something to do more than anything else. I did find a computer which appealed to me as a piece of equipment. If it had had wireless, I'd have bought it just to feel better; an Asus Essentio CS5111 PC. The 5110 has wireless, but I can find nobody selling it at all. We'll see what tomorrow brings by way of a solution.----- Original Message ----- From: Monica WillyardTo: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 8:15 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: OT Computer Hell Gary, I'm sorry you're having so much trouble with your computers. For some people it's an inconvenience. For a blind person, it's like losing our eyes for awhile. If I were transported back in time where computers with speech didn't exist, I would have a hard time adjusting to the lack of independence and inability to read freely. I hope they can fix your computer issues with a minimum of downtime for you.-- Monica WillyardVisit my blog at http://www.scannersguild.com To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.WISH LIST (CALLED REQUESTED ADDITIONS TO THE BOOKSHARE COLLECTION)IS AVAILABLE AThttp://www.friendsofbookshare.org/wish_list/wish_list.htm www.lljfm.net/bookshare/home.htm A LIST OF BOOKS CURRENTLY BEING SCANNED IS AVAILABLE AT http://www.friendsofbookshare.org/ www.lljfm.net/bookshare/home.htm To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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