Donna,
The document you have is for voice over on the Mac. Ther are a ton
of documents on icanworkthisthing.com which you should read and a
lot of what you need is also in the help for the app you are looking
at. The difference between mac and windows for us is that when we
learn something about the mac, we can use our knowledge of voiceover
to apply it. Also, the mac is simpler because there is not a lot of
difference between applications other than their functions and there
is much less hoopla all the way through the mac. User friendly is a
relative term but I guarantee you that the learning curve for the
mac is less steep than that for windows and the ease of use is much
greater.
If a page is stored in your bookmarks you can open it from there or
if you go to google from the location bar and type something in the
search and find a page you can open it from there so that's why I
said the familiar. If you have a lot of bookmarks/favorites in
windows, you can export them and then import them into safari.
On Jul 17, 2009, at 1:16 PM, Donna Goodin wrote:
Hi David,
First, thanks for all of this. I really am trying to be fair and
objective,
but I think I'm alittle surprised. I had always heard that Mac is
so much
more user-friendly than Windows, and I'm finding it to be completely
the
opposite. Now granted, I have been using Windows for a lot of
years, but
what's frustrating me the most is not that I don't know what I'm
doing, but
that I can never find answers to what seem to me to be pretty basic
questions.
So, I get the bit about command comma. But when you were talking about
opening webpages, you said "if you want the familiar". Is what you
described the typical way to go to a new page?
Also, if you don't mind another question, I'm wondering about
documentation.
I actually embossed the bRF copy of the manual from the Apple site,
but am
not finding it to be very helpful. For example, in the section on
Safari,
there were just a few paragraphs on the different ways you can
organize a
web page (view by links, by groups etc). Do you know of any
documentation
that is more thorough?
Thanks a lot again!
Best,
Donna
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Subject: [macvoiceover] for donna, setting application preferences:
Hi Donna,
I left out an answer to one of your questions because I wanted o kill
a few birds with one proverbial stone.
When you want to change something about an app, it is often done in
preferences. windows has this stuff all over the place and there is
never a way to know where it is. Not so thewith mac, in every app,
command-comma brings up it prefs, tis includes the finder.
You asked how to set a home page in safari, this is your answer.
Click on the link below to go to our homepage.
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