[mac4theblind] Re: To monitor or not to monitor
- From: Edward Redfern <edwardredfern@xxxxxxx>
- To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 16:44:04 +0000
I would always recommend purchasing a monitor or interfacing with an available
monitor. there are some older mac minis that have a hardware issue where
voiceover struggles to respond correctly and in certain circumstances the GPU
will fail the connector for DVI, etc. this goes back to some of the early
intels and some G4 machines.
you can pick up a cheap LG or anything like that with DVI or HDMI and go that
way. the reason also as stated by the author of the email is for sighted
assistance. as an example, if you have an application with an area that cannot
be interacted with through voiceover and THERE ARE applications out there that
don't have a VoiceOver layer, a sighted assistant can help, also where CAPTCHA
codes are available on secure sites. without a monitor, you're screwed as
voiceover has no definition to a captcha element as it's a BMP file or JPEG
file and not pure text or tag identified.
hope this helps
lew
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On 20 Jan 2013, at 16:35, john farina <farina1952@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Good morning folks,
>
> I want to throw this in to the discussion as to whether or not to get a
> monitor or use one. Even if you think the monitor is optional because you
> will not be using it, there could be times when you might require sighted
> assistance and then the monitor becomes essential. Of course this has more to
> do with buying a mac mini or imac because on the mack books there is already
> a monitor.
>
>
> john farina
> farina1952@xxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
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