[jaws-uk] Re: What Jaws will work with today.
- From: "Tristram Llewellyn" <tristram.llewellyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 13:53:18 -0000
An interesting site with some intersting technical points in the "Ten VI
Mac Myths" section, some of which I would agree with but others perhaps
less so.
Regards.
Tristram Llewellyn
tristram.llewellyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Technical Support
Sight and Sound Technology
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Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: What Jaws will work with today.
Well, in case anyone is frustrated enough... Macs aren't impossible.
Have a look at this... and the new OS is apparently even easier.
http://www.lioncourt.com/memoirs-of-a-blind-switcher/
Tristram Llewellyn wrote:
> The Mac and PC were to start with two entirely different software and
> hardware platforms and even distinct "cultural differences" as well.
In
> more recent years since the abandonment of the PowerPC processor line
> and move to Intel based microprocessors (the chips that go inside the
> box that does most of the work) they have become somewhat similar on
the
> hardware front, in fact mostly the same now really. As a result there
> is a bizarre growth movement of Windows PC enthusiasts who attempt to
> make Apple's OS X 10.5 go on Windows PCs, no doubt feuled by the
> availability of leaked and illegal patched copies of Apple's software
> over torrent sites.
>
> However this belies the differences inherent in them all the way down
to
> a very low level. Windows is based broadly on a low level layer that
> looks similar to MS-DOS but in fact isn't and completely proprietory
on
> which the main Windows interface sits atop. The Mac from OS 10.0 runs
> variously on a Unix (Darwin) or Linux shell with Mac OS 10 sitting on
> top.
>
> The a developers point of view it is possible to port applications
from
> one platform (particularly Mac to PC) easier, particularly if the use
> Cocoa. However even saying this it would not benefit screen reading
and
> even in the mainstream world this is not immediately going to become
> less complicated due to Apple's movement toward newer technologies
> within their operating system.
>
> Suffice to say that these are two different worlds which only merge
very
> slightly at the edges.
>
> Regards.
>
> Tristram Llewellyn
> tristram.llewellyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Technical Support
> Sight and Sound Technology
>
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> On Behalf Of TIDDYogg
> Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 1:53 PM
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> Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: What Jaws will work with today.
>
> Dorothy... you can't put petrol in any car... some are diesel.
> I think that's a pretty good corollary.
>
>
> Dorothy Ingram-Gorban wrote:
>
>> Hallo friends, the question was "what Jaws will work with today, and
>> the year is 2008 after all, I was speaking to a friend the other
night
>>
>
>
>> who is a Jaws user, and he was testing out an Applemac, maybe I
>> should have asked him why but it suddenly reminded me that I did once
>> here Tristram refer to an Applemac. I know Jaws is said like
>> Kurzweil to be what is called Mapi compliant, but maybe that was in
>> the past that is all no big deal friends will it or not, Jaws goes on
>> about JAW standing for Access to work seems a natural question to
>> ask if this is just if you work with as George would say star star
>> Ms! incidentally since I put the punction to non Tiddy if you are
>> reading this the star which is there is not seen by Jaws, now if I
>> send to myself and pick up on laptop this is Desktop it will read
>> the *** stars. so maybe I shall try some punctuation. Dorothy
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