[macvoiceover] Re: New User

  • From: "Sara" <push649@xxxxxxx>
  • To: <macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 14:25:46 -0500

Hello Keith.
My experience has been negative. I didn't mean to say that nobody else can do it or that they shouldn't try. I've just sent another message with why I don't word process on the Mac so I won't repeat all that here.
Sara
----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Reedy" <wa9dro@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2009 12:33 PM
Subject: [macvoiceover] Re: New User


Sara,

I am a little concerned about where you are going here.

Try to remember, just because you can't do it, doesn't mean that it can't be done.

Please try to be a little less negative.

Keith Reedy

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On Sep 8, 2009, at 1:12 PM, David Poehlman wrote:

we gotta do what we gotta do.

On Sep 8, 2009, at 12:51 PM, Sara wrote:

Struggles with access technology are not what grad students need.
I don't mean to say don't buy a Mac, but don't count on it to do everything yet especially with nitpicky formatting and such. For just typing the paper out it's great, but you still need windows to fix up the fonts and all that jazz. Of course, the best option would be to sit down with a Mac at a store and test out what things you need it to do.
then you'll know 100% for sure if it can indeed do what you need.
Sara
----- Original Message ----- From: "David Poehlman" <david.poehlman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
To: <macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2009 11:47 AM
Subject: [macvoiceover] Re: New User


yet there are folk writing term papers with vo and leopard/snow leopard. granted, it's an bit of an struggle but it is being done.

On Sep 8, 2009, at 12:35 PM, Sara wrote:

Word processing is likely not good enough for writing term papers so not sure I'd agree that it is ready for a grad student. Of course, it's getting better each time they release an update so if you can hang on to a pc for the stuff that doesn't talk yet then you're good to go.
Sara
----- Original Message ----- From: "David Poehlman" <david.poehlman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
To: <macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2009 5:05 AM
Subject: [macvoiceover] Re: New User


it does not work with microsoft office, but it does work with iwork and open office and a couple of other mac suites.

As for how functional it is, it's good enough for this former 15 year jaws user to be using it every day now for almost 5 years for all of his formerly jaws tasks.

On Sep 7, 2009, at 9:28 PM, Jeff Kisecker wrote:

I am looking at purchasing a Mac, I have been a windows and jaws user for years. Truly, how functional is VO with mac applications and does it work
with Office?

This is a start, but you gotta start somewhere. I will be a grad student
come October.

-----Original Message-----
From: macvoiceover-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:macvoiceover-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Keith Reedy
Sent: Monday, September 07, 2009 8:19 PM
To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [macvoiceover] Re: SL with Nisus Writer

Mary Anne, you are the goods, thank you.

Keith Reedy

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On Sep 7, 2009, at 8:48 PM, Mary Anne Lynskey wrote:

Hi everybody. I have some very good news to report about SL and Nisus
Writer.

I've downloaded teh NW beta for SL adn I was really happy to see  that
it works pretty well with SL.  Attributes and font announcements  work
fine. And I was really happy to see that page numbers are also working
great too. It will say "page 4", Page 5" as the cursor goes from  page
to page.

If you go through the document quickly in page view, you hear  page 1,
page 2, etc as you hit the arrow keys.  Then I think you can go to
draft on the particular page you want and interact with it.  The
interact part is a little tricky because I just haven't figured it out
completely. but I will play with it more later.

Just a preliminary reprot and I am very pleased.

For any of you looking for a medical speller, I've found one that
works, Inductel.  They just updated it in May of this year, so it
should be pretty up to date. I also like Typinator which I think will
do fine for storing and quickly typing addresses, although I have  not
tried it with SL yet.

Mary Anne
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