[macvoiceover] Re: Teaching the use of the Mac to Computer newcomers
- From: Keith Reedy <wa9dro@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 16:33:09 -0400
I have sent your message to John Hess who is a trainer and I think he will be
able to help you.
Keith Reedy
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On Jun 9, 2011, at 3:58 PM, Norbert Müller wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I guess I must go into more detail, so you understand the reasoning of my
> colleagues. I did not want to do it in the list, but since I got replies
> here, I will give it a try.
>
> My personal feeling is that a total newcomer would indeed quickly learn to
> use the Mac. There are already German voices available, which you have to
> download separately. And they have the best artificial speech quality I have
> heard so far. Also, they respond more quickly than the SAPI 5 voices
> available for JAWS. So that's a big plus for a newcomer already.
>
> However: When we start teaching JAWS, we can let people go quite a way
> without having to know any JAWS commands: The press the Windows Key and are
> in the start Menue. They can select programs, we can teach them to start a
> program, we can direct them to a file and have them read that file with just
> the cursor keys.
>
> If we would try to do the same on the Mac, we would rather quickly come to
> the point where we have to explain to them the concept of interacting with an
> object.
>
> On the other hand - that is the argument I bring into the discussion - Once
> you understand that concept and know only seven VO commands, you can get very
> far on an Apple computer: Thats the combinations for starting and ending
> interaction, vo+spacebar and vo+cursor keys in their four directions.
>
> But that's all our thinking. I am looking for someone who has actually tried
> it with a total newcomer or - even better - who has experience with teaching
> newcomers under Windows and Snow Leopard. Is there such a person?
>
> Best greetings again,
>
>
> Norbert
>
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