[macvoiceover] Re: new member
- From: Samantha Ash <samanthajade@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:00:49 +0000
When you get the mac press control which is like the windows key on a windows
laptop and then the option key which is like the alt key on a windows machine
then command which is the backslash key right next to the spacebar on a windows
machine then F8 that brings you the voiceover quickstart which will teach you
everything. Hope that helps, Samantha Jade Ash.
On 27 Jan 2010, at 17:11, <maryemerson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm Mary Emerson and I just ordered a Mac Mini last weekend. I have the
> keyboard (with the num pad) and downloaded the Voiceover documentation and a
> few other things such as the Fusion documentation and their information about
> migrating Windows to the Mac.
>
> I am primarily a Braille user; speech is secondary, and I keep it on in the
> background but am glad to see that braille is supported.
>
> A little background: I am a retired IBM employee, having worked in main frame
> tech support for ten years, technical writing for a while, and computer
> programming for a bit over ten years. I still like Windows and have some
> software I just can't part with at this time, such as what I use for audio
> and video file conversions and podcast editing. I know next to nothing about
> the Mac, but I am going to slowly, and I emphasize very slowly, start working
> with it. I don't like the direction Microsoft is going; what I've heard about
> Vista and Windows 7 is very upsetting to me. I really like XP and am able to
> do what I want with it. But I have to think of the future direction of
> computing; since I don't have sighted help, I have to be able to use the web
> for everything from shopping to doing things like income taxes and banking.
>
> I'm intrigued with what I've been reading in the above-mentioned
> documentation, but am a bit overwhelmed, so am going to take things very
> slowly.
>
> I'm totally blind, deaf on one side (which is why I prefer braille), and
> still use the optacon to read printed items such as mail, books, etc. I am
> especially interested in seeing what a Mac screen looks like, so it will be
> fun to plug in a DVI to VGA adapter and hookup the monitor to check out the
> screen.
>
> Looking forward to seeing what's going on on this list, but I probably won't
> read much because I feel like I've landed on another planet and can't speak
> the language or figure out the culture. I've listened to a series of Mac
> podcasts on BCT, but even those went too fast and left me exhausted. I
> suspect the best thing to do is start with the Voiceover book and stick with
> that for a while. My Mac won't be here till the end of this week or maybe
> beginning of next, but I requested 4 gig of memory and a slightly faster
> processor, since I plan to run two systems on one machine.
>
> Has anyone out there used Vmware Converter to build a virtual machine and
> move it to the Mac via an external drive? Or would it be easier to just use a
> new copy of XP and build from scratch?
>
> Thanks, and I look forward to learning from this list.
>
> Mary
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