Honestly, I would start voice over and run the voice over training. When you
first start voice over it gives you the option of running the training. You
might not want the store to activate it for you since you can do it yourself
for the first time. That’s one of the best things about voiceover. Unlike
bolt on windows screen readers or 3rd party applications voice over is built in
to the operating system so it means you have full access to your Mac instead of
only after you’ve booted like in the case of windows. All you have to do is
hit command F5. You can walk up to any mac and hit command F5 and have access
to the machine.
That being said the best way to learn to use your new Mac is use your
pC only to google or read documentation for the first time. Go to the various
podcasts and listen to how it’s done and attempt it yourself. Once you get the
basics cut the cord and stop using the PC or other device. Honestly 90% of
succeeding with a new environment like this is fully committing. If you keep
falling back on the PC you’ll never quite switch. Try to use the PC only as a
tool to look something up when you don’t know how to do it on your Mac. Over
time and with patients you’ll become a power user.
I would also say post a lot of questions here and other places and
bottom line enjoy the process as much as possible. It can be frustrating at
first but you’ll get it and in my opinion not look back. I’ve been using the
mac since 2010 or so and am glad I made the transition.
Good luck
On Jun 17, 2015, at 3:05 PM, gracewellness@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hello,
Finally today I was able to buy my first Apple computer. This is a mac book
air. The store will activate voice over, do the configuration and set up the
email, and tomorrow I will pick it up.
Please, my questions are:
Where can I find a list of voice over commands?
What is the best way to learn how to use the mac book?
Thank you,
Rena
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