[macvoiceover] Re: lots of questions from a lurker
- From: Russell Solowoniuk <rsolowoniuk@xxxxxxx>
- To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:52:49 -0700
Hi Mary,
I've been using the Mac now for just over 4 months, and Snow Leopard for about
two months.
I love email on the Mac... it's quite easy to use and you will be able to
efficiently get through tons of email once you get used to it.
I'm not at all impressed with any of the word processing solutions on the Mac.
I use a windows machine at work, and have not yet found a way to work with most
documents I bring home from work. Tables are especially problematic. I use an
agenda created in MS word which has a table with various meeting roles and who
is fulfilling that particular role. I've tried everything I could to make up
the agenda on the Mac, but always end up having to take the document to my
Windows machine to finish it. If you just need to type text in a document and
not worry too much about the formatting, then the Mac Word processors are fine.
Now, a caveat... this is my opinion only, based on my personal experience.
Your mileage may vary.
HTH
Russell
On 2009-12-14, at 5:46 PM, Mary Otten wrote:
> Hello folks. I was subscribed here some while back, but decided that I
> wasn't ready for Voiceover. I'm a long time Windows user, and it didn't
> seem to me that the learning curve would be worth it. But I've been
> reading about the advances in Voiceover that became available with Snow
> Leopard, and it looks like Voice Over has really come of age in web
> browsing, which is one of the main activities that I do on a computer.
> I still have questions about a couple other areas and am looking for
> input, especially from people who have used Windows apps in the past
> with reasonable efficiency. I note that, according to the accessible
> applications list on Apple's website, neither MS Office nor IWork are
> accessible, but Open Office and Nisus writer are. I don't make great
> demands of a word processing app, but I need to exchange documents with
> people using Word, including the latest Word. I also need to read pdf
> documents, and I did see a couple pdf viewers, but not Adobe Acrobat.
> So my questions are, how well do these viewers work? And for those of
> you who need to work with documents produced in Word, how do you find
> this process using the Mac and the accessible word processors?
>
> The other area that interests me is email. I actually have a friend who
> has a Mac, but hers is running Leopard, not Snow Leopard, and she's
> sighted, so doesn't really know much about Voice Over. She did turn it
> on when I was at her house and went through email. The process seemed
> painfully slow, but again, she really didn't know how to operate VO.
> I'm looking for an efficient email experience that will let me zip
> through lots and lots of email without having to hear a whole lot of
> header info for each message. I'd like to be able to go down the list
> of messages in a given folder, hear who they are from and what the
> subject is and then press a key to delete or another key to start
> reading the message body. I love my old email app that I've used for
> ages in Windows, but its showing its age, in that it does not do html
> messages particularly well, hasn't been updated in years and will,
> sooner or later, not run any more on new pcs.
>
> Finally, I scan lots of material, and I use Kurzweil 1000 to do so. I'd
> like to keep using that if I bought a Mac, and I understand there are
> solutions for running Windows on a Mac, but don't know how well they
> work with Kurzweil. Has anybody had experience with this combo? I
> understand Read Iris is accessible, but I'd like to stick to Kurzweil,
> which has tons of good features that make document handling and masses
> of scanning easy. Sorry this went on so long, but I thought I'd get my
> questions out there and see what answers people have. If this is boring
> to a list of old hands, please feel free to reply off the list to me at
> maryotten@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Mary
>
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