[macvoiceover] Re: I really like my macs!!

  • From: Olivia Norman <olivianorman@xxxxxx>
  • To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 04:32:21 -0700

My Mac has changed my life! From work, to play, I couldn't live with out my 
macs and would never go back to windows!  Macs offer fully functioning 
solutions for everyone, whether blind or not.
Hope that was nice enough! :)
Olivia

"Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow know what 
you truly want to become.", Steve Jobs

On Mar 30, 2011, at 12:43 AM, Justin Mann wrote:

> What is the command to spellcheck systemwide?
> On Mar 29, 2011, at 5:38 PM, James Dean wrote:
> 
>> Maybe it's difference in configuration, whatever. The fact is, some areas, 
>> like web browsing, are very lacking. The mail client is nice, best I've ever 
>> used. Adium is also great, as is the twitter client that I can never spell. 
>> Voiceover has been a thorn in my side, crashing frequently when doing things 
>> that, before 10.6.6, never happened. Hopefully Lion will fix the frequent 
>> crashes and improve Voiceover's interaction with Safari, especially. There 
>> are still some things that I must use windows for, most notably being 
>> playing MUDS, which is fine, because I know that's not a very popular thing. 
>> Also, other than Solona, which I have had very bad experiences with as 
>> compared to Web Visum, there is no accessible solution for solving captious 
>> on the Mac as far as I know. Vuscan is great, and I suppose if I took the 
>> time to learn an entire new interface, I could do my audio editing on the 
>> Mac too. For now, I'm still an avid Gold Wave user.
>> 
>> I've also used pages with great success. I'll still keep my Mac and continue 
>> to update as each new version of an OS is released, hoping that things 
>> improve.
>> 
>> All this having been said, I think that some of the "problems" on this list 
>> are not "problems," but rather people not knowing how to do something or 
>> knowing how to do it half-way, and that is what we're here for, to educate 
>> and help each other. The built-in accessibility, of course, is still the 
>> driving force behind Mac for me. Oh, and we can't forget the system-wide 
>> spell checking capability rather than having to depend on a particular 
>> plug-in or program as you must do in Windows. And the way Voiceover handles 
>> mouse support is just spectacular!
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> James A. Dean
>> 
>> 
>> On Mar 29, 2011, at 6:00 PM, Keith Reedy wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi folks,
>>> 
>>> This is a list where people almost always talk about problems with a mac, 
>>> to get some one to help them to salve them, so, I am afraid that some one 
>>> new on the list mite think that all we have is problems on the mac and that 
>>> is just not the case.  I have used the mac for nearly 6 years now and I 
>>> have had very few problems and most of those I have caused my self.  I have 
>>> never used a more responsive system and so easy to learn and use.
>>> 
>>> Say something nice about your mac once in a while.
>>> Keith Reedy
>>> Click the link below to download MP3's of Keith Reedy's music as a gift 
>>> from Bibles For The Blind.
>>> 
>>> http://biblesfortheblind.org/download_music.shtml
>>> 
>>> God gives His best to those who leave the choice with Him.  J Hudson Taylor.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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