[macvoiceover] Re: Report Number One
- From: "David Poehlman" <david.poehlman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 4 May 2008 06:44:22 -0400
Sarah,
I seldome hold much less control-option. I know it is cool to do but having
been a windows user, I have found that it is possible to mostly do without
it. It's not like the jaws cursor but once you know more about how things
work, you find that it is not necessary to hear everything that is there so
tab, arrows, space and enter work just fine and the control and option
become second nature when you need them.
A word about shut down. You can just close the lid and that will put the mb
to sleep.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sara" <push649@xxxxxxx>
To: <macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2008 11:11 PM
Subject: [macvoiceover] Report Number One
Hello all. I am not writing this from the Mac. That doesn't mean that I
don't want to try, but I don't know if I should put personal info on it in
case it has to be returned so I am keeping my email on the PC for now.
I love this Mac.
That's the short version. The slightly longer version is I love this Mac and
feel like a kid exploring a shiny quirky cool new toy for the first time.
Reminds me of a song I used to listen to as a kid but I won't type all the
words. It was about a kid who gets a mysterious toy and passes it on to his
own son.
I know Macs are more than toys, I mean the word toy in the sense of fun and
not as something silly to play with. It's fun but I am sure it will get
serious too. smile
I pressed the power button by mistake lol. I was trying to figure out the
power cord and was feeling the computer and suddenly woops, power goes on. I
was like "oh no, what have I done!".
The Mac started up and that cool guy started talking. He explained about
voiceover and soon it was talking. I got to "interact with table" among
other things. I love the way the speech says that. I can't always understand
the speech and I still haven't figured how to navigate with the braille
display. The display works though, it worked as soon as I plugged it in,
just like somebody on here said.
I got through the setup assistant and was in my shiny Mac without knowing
what to do. I interacted with a popup button and got into my applications
folder some how and over to text edit. I typed a text file and saved it. The
save dialogues are very familiar, sort of like those in another operating
system. wink
I changed rich text to word 97 format and saved it. I then some how
remembered command Q was exit and I exited into the finder with my
applications folder still open.
My fingers are sore from holding control option but that lock will come in
handy. smile
I love this Mac, that's what I'm trying to say. Now to figure out how to
shut it down. lol
I assume I can press power? Guess I'll try it.
Sara
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