[macvoiceover] Re: Mission control & Launch pad useful or not?
- From: Russell Solowoniuk <rsolowoniuk@xxxxxxx>
- To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 20:50:39 -0700
Hi Suzanne,
Good point! I'm loving my Mac too, and, it's fun learning about all the cool
things one can do with it! :)
Russell
On 2012-02-29, at 4:31 AM, Suzanne Erb wrote:
> I don't know if I'll ever know all there is to know about my Mac. It's nice
> to know that I don't need to know everything in order to do what I want and
> need to do both personally and professionally.
> Drivers don't need to know al there is to know about cars in order to
> drive, and I think that computer use should be the same. Yes, I'm having fun
> exploring, and I enjoy learning so many new things as time goes by. At the
> same time, I am glad that, generally speaking, I need not worry about
> stability, I can do almost everything I need to do professionally, and, I
> think that by the time my Windows XP machine dies, I won't need to replace
> it.
> I like being able to take my machines to any Apple store for repairs
> without worrying about whether my speech software will suffer i any way.
> Thank you, Apple.
> Suzanne
> On Feb 28, 2012, at 11:12 PM, Russell Solowoniuk wrote:
>
>> Thanks Ricardo! I appreciate the info about launch pad being modeled after
>> IOS... now I understand it a bit better. I guess I need to make time to
>> read some of the manuals and help that is out there to learn more about my
>> Mac.. I've been a Mac user for 2 and a half years now, but there never seems
>> to be enough time to learn all the ins and outs of the Mac! One day
>> perhaps! :)
>>
>> Thanks again,
>>
>> Russell
>> On 2012-02-28, at 6:51 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote:
>>
>>> I think mission control is pretty useless for blind users. Launch pad,
>>> well, its just another way of opening apps but, I don't find it all that
>>> useful. There needs to be some added functionality for VO users like the
>>> ability to create folders by dragging apps on top of each other like on
>>> IOS. After all, this is what launchpad is modeled after.
>>>
>>> Ricardo Walker
>>> ricardo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Twitter:@apple2thecore
>>> www.appletothecore.info
>>>
>>> On Feb 27, 2012, at 10:11 PM, Russell Solowoniuk <rsolowoniuk@xxxxxxx>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>
>>>> I'm not sure exactly how to use mission control or launch pad in Lion with
>>>> VO. Are these features that benefit sighted users and not blind users, or
>>>> are there benefits for us as well?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Russell>
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