[macvoiceover] Re: MAC with Voiceover mentoring?

Keith, my first question is: who would be interested? This is not a sarcastic response but a legitimate response that requires sincere consideration. Expanding on this thought: Have you been approached by individuals who have asked for this type of service? Do you know of individuals who perhaps have gotten frustrated enough with Windows who desire to try something different? Are you aware of people who perhaps because of the lack of affordable assistive technology would be interested in paying one price for everything and getting there work done?
Now, in answer to your question yes! this is an excellent idea but I believe there has to be a group of interested people to get it started. Windows is a challenging foe and changing peoples minds is not easy. I did a presentation with an associate for a conference attended by a variety of professionals in the field of visual impairment including individuals from an organization I work with and they weren't convinced that access via screen reader was a viable alternative. One of the questions I was asked was how do you do certain things such as moving through a dialog? When I suggest moving through a dialog box with the voiceover curser the question is why not tab? when I answer that the Vo Curser reads more there is this sorta under lying grumbling why should we have to do that when in windows you just tab? Trust me, I try to share the benefits of the Mac with everyone I meet. So having offered my thoughts, how would you propose to start such a program and how would you recruit perspective beneficiaries? After seeing the Jobs presentation I was extremely encouraged that Apple didn't leave us in the dust. That all the things I was told about voiceover being taken seriously were true. I believe that one of the things that moved Apple along on this was the amount of feedback people left. It shoed apple that the product was actually being used and how it was being used. I think they realize the opportunity and will do some great things. Let us not forget, half of the accessibility solution also falls on the application developers following the standards apple has laid out. It's a partnership and rightfully so. I look forward to your thoughts and would be pleased to be on whatever team you assemble.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Reedy" <WA9DRO@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 3:44 PM
Subject: [macvoiceover] MAC with Voiceover mentoring?


Hello every one,

I have been thinking about starting a MAC with Voiceover mentoring program, where some one would take some one new to the MAC and Voiceover and get them up and running.
1, Is this a good idea?
2, Do you have some thoughts on how this mite work?

I just want to start from scratch with these folks.


Thanks.
Keith Reedy
WA9DRO@xxxxxxxxx
God gives his best to those who leave the choice with him--J. Hudson Taylor



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