[mac4theblind] Re: Jaws vs. voice over
- From: Tracy Duffy <tracyduffy@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:54:36 -0500
Just off the top of my head, I can't think of anything I could do with JAWS
that I can't do with VoiceOver.
On Feb 22, 2012, at 7:48 AM, David Hilbert Poehlman wrote:
> You could drive your self silly working at it from this angle. I think I saw
> a functional comparison somewhere but Suffice it to say that they are
> opposites in the way they opperate. While jaws has a "virtual cursor" in
> addition to its "jaws cursor" Vo has no "virtual cursor" instead, there is
> only a "vo cursor" which serves us well. The "vo cursor" is what you will
> use to do more than the jaws cursor in that with it, you can control how much
> information you want to view and view information in many ways. this last is
> similar to what you can do with the JAWS cursor especially in the newer jaws
> products. it is possible to do things with voiceover on the mac through tab,
> arrow keys and the space bar similar to that which can be done in windows.
> Voiceover is integrated into mac os where as Jaws is added to windows and
> this makes a big difference in the approach. Jaws changes the way you work
> with windows, voiceover is addative meaning that it ads speech and
> functionality which complements that which is already present in mac os.
> Although many of the terms are different, say jaws cursor versus vo cursor,
> much of the functionality of how they work is similar. for instance, using
> the vo keys with arrows, does the same thing that using the jaws cursor with
> arrows does but the vo cursor does a better job.
>
> I'll stop here because I don't want to make this post over long but I hope
> this has started a discussion that others of us who are veteran jaws users
> can continue.
>
>
> On Feb 21, 2012, at 4:33 PM, Benjamin Blatter wrote:
>
> Hello to all!
>
> I guess this topic may have been covered here a few times. but as far I can
> remember not since I'm here.
> I often hear or read that voice over is different to jaws. but usually it
> stops there.
> My question is what's so different to jaws? Whats the most important thing to
> know or to consider for someone who grew up with jaws?
>
> Also I'd like to know if someone of you run windows with bootcamp and have
> jaws or NVDA installed successfully? No problems with licencing because it's
> a mac? I have Jaws 9.
>
> Maybe these questions sound a bit dumb LOL But I want to be sure that I still
> can have an accessible windows on a mac in case I don't grasp voice over or
> the whole apple way of thinking at the begin.
>
> Thanks
> Ben
>
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