Understood, Miriam.
You are, as they say, preaching to the choir. There was a period of
time in my life when I was on top of most new technology. And I was
skilled in basic repair and maintenance of such stuff as typewriters,
tape recorders, cameras, and all those sorts of personal appliances.
My dad had a radio repair business, which fascinated me. I did free
lance photography, and knew my way around all of the equipment from
cameras to strobe lights. As for the repair and care of our
equipment,, we self taught out of necessity.
Today my grand children carry on the family tradition. The equipment
they use, smart phones, computers and so forth, are well understood by
them, and as far as they are able, they do their own maintenance, even
building computers from scratch. But at 85, I am living in their
world while trying to exist using Old World Technology. Years ago I
discovered that technology had left me behind. But I limped along,
falling further and further behind. Even as I thank my lucky stars
that I decided to take touch typing classes in high school, my grand
children and even my three children send notes typed with their
thumbs. I'd say the skill makes me feel as though I'm all
thumbs...but I guess that old saying is out dated, too. I still
haven't checked to see how easily NVDA can be installed and learned.
But probably the reason I'm so slow in going forward with it is due to
my understanding that I could end up stuck in a mire of garble.
Speaking of Windows XP, that was the high point as far as my computer
ability goes.
Carl Jarvis
On 10/21/20, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I've changed the subject line and removed your original email. Let's see if
my response gets to the list and back to me.
The reason I'm afraid to try to learn anything new at this point is that
learning anything about the computer was difficult for me when I was a lot
younger, back in the early 90's, and my brain was working better and was
more alert. And back then, we were using Windows XP which was a hell of a
lot easier to use than windows 10. I know that NVDA is a stripped down
version of Jaws, and I know that I am using few of all of the functions that
Jaws offers. However, I have no idea what might be omitted in NVDA that I
use. Also, I depend on this one very kind, inexpensive tech person to help
me, and I don't think she could or would do that with NVDA. She understands
and accepts my limitations. Most skilled blind tech people, don't. So I'm
not willing to look for someone new. I'm old. Not for all old people, but
for most of us, things become more and more difficult.
Miriam
