[ddots-l] Re: MAC alternatives

Hey Ginette!

The problem with Apple's "Voice Over", is that it isn't anywhere as 
comprehensive as JAWS or Window Eyes, and also, it's not all that good.

Mind you, I say it ain't all that good, but maybe some day it will be, but 
as we speak, it sucx...

It's quite surprising seeing as Apple own Logic, so you'd think that the 
integration of Voice Over in to Logic would be a given, but nothing could be 
further from the truth!

I guess you're talking about the Intel powered Mac's, when you talk about 
the ability to load Windows, but I've no idea just how well these work, in 
terms of compatibility etc.

One of the sighted producer/engineers I work with, loves his new Intel Mac, 
he reckons it wipes the floor with his previous G5 PowerBooks, and this guy 
makes hit records, so I trust his opinion, but as for it's accessibility for 
the visually impaired, well it ain't anywhere close to being usable yet!

Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeanette" <jeanette@xxxxxxxx>
To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 6:04 PM
Subject: [ddots-l] MAC alternatives


>I seem to remember a discussion about jaws not being available on macs not
> long ago. A friend of mine forwarded me a link for some mac screenreader
> called voiceover.  http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/voiceover/ My
> questions are:
> 1. Does anyone know about it?
> 2. Does it work with complex audio systems?
> Also, I am looking into different audio laptops and wanted to consider a
> mac.  Apparently, you can now run windows XP on a mac by creating a 
> windows
> partition and installing XP on it.  Do you know of any hardware issues 
> this
> may have?
> Jeanette.
>
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