[macvoiceover] Re: new member wondering about switching from Windows XP pro to mac, with a billion questions.

  • From: "jim rawls" <jazzpiano@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:08:22 -0700

Hi Marty, I remember you from the blindtech list, and yes, this is great info. 
Thanks. Jim
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Marty Rimpau 
  To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 10:57 AM
  Subject: [macvoiceover] Re: new member wondering about switching from Windows 
XP pro to mac, with a billion questions.


  Hi Jim, no operating system is easy to learn, really, but I think there is 
less of a learning curve on the mac than with the other operating system, and 
you have several places to read and hear about the mac.  You can go to
  http://www.blindcooltech.com
  and listen to the twenty or more podcasts on the mac, you have
  http://www.icanworkthisthing.com
  under mac with voice over to read about navigating with voice over, and other 
mac applications, and you have
  http://blindworldblog.blogspot.com
  for more mac podcasts

  as well as the screenless switchers at
  http://www.screenlessswitchers.com
  and
  http://www.apple.com/accessibility
  so there are lots of places to learn about the mac, but one plus the mac has 
that the other operating system doesn't have is that the more you know about 
voice over, the more you know about the mac operating system, which isn't the 
case with traditional screen readers.  Hope this information helps you, but I 
switched, and will never look back.  
  On Sep 2, 2009, at 8:45 AM, Chantel Cuddemi wrote:


    Hi, Jim, 
    I am going to tell you right now that you need to forget all that you know 
about windows when it comes to using your mac. 
    Mac is very different from windows in the way that the screen reads things, 
and the way you navigate the screen is different. 
    With the mac, you must interact with tables and other things by hitting 
control option shift down arrow. 
    Stop interacting by hitting control option shift up arrow. 
    Hth, 
    Chantel. 

    On Sep 2, 2009, at 11:39 AM, jim rawls wrote:


      Hi all,
      My name is Jim Rawls, from Southern California, and my friend Peggy 
Fleischer,says I need to switch to the Mac. So, since I have been a windows 
user for 8 years, is the change hard? Is the relearning all the stuff I have to 
learn easy, and where can I get a list of the commands I need with voice over?
      my skype contact is
      jim332, and my email is
      jazzpiano@xxxxxxxxxxxx   
      I would appreciate all the help you can offer.
      Thanks in advance.
      Jim






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