[macvoiceover] Re: new member
- From: Keith Reedy <keithreedy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:20:49 -0500
Hi Mary and welcome to the list.
Check out the growing list of guides and helps at,
www.icanworkthisthing.com
under
MAC with Voiceover. We have tried to present the mac from a user standpoint
and it has been a help to many. We will try to guide you through it all. Just
take it slow and easy and we will be here to help you.
Once again, welcome to the world of the MAC and to the list.
Keith Reedy
On Jan 27, 2010, at 12:11 PM, <maryemerson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm Mary Emerson and I just ordered a Mac Mini last weekend. I have the
> keyboard (with the num pad) and downloaded the Voiceover documentation and a
> few other things such as the Fusion documentation and their information about
> migrating Windows to the Mac.
>
> I am primarily a Braille user; speech is secondary, and I keep it on in the
> background but am glad to see that braille is supported.
>
> A little background: I am a retired IBM employee, having worked in main frame
> tech support for ten years, technical writing for a while, and computer
> programming for a bit over ten years. I still like Windows and have some
> software I just can't part with at this time, such as what I use for audio
> and video file conversions and podcast editing. I know next to nothing about
> the Mac, but I am going to slowly, and I emphasize very slowly, start working
> with it. I don't like the direction Microsoft is going; what I've heard about
> Vista and Windows 7 is very upsetting to me. I really like XP and am able to
> do what I want with it. But I have to think of the future direction of
> computing; since I don't have sighted help, I have to be able to use the web
> for everything from shopping to doing things like income taxes and banking.
>
> I'm intrigued with what I've been reading in the above-mentioned
> documentation, but am a bit overwhelmed, so am going to take things very
> slowly.
>
> I'm totally blind, deaf on one side (which is why I prefer braille), and
> still use the optacon to read printed items such as mail, books, etc. I am
> especially interested in seeing what a Mac screen looks like, so it will be
> fun to plug in a DVI to VGA adapter and hookup the monitor to check out the
> screen.
>
> Looking forward to seeing what's going on on this list, but I probably won't
> read much because I feel like I've landed on another planet and can't speak
> the language or figure out the culture. I've listened to a series of Mac
> podcasts on BCT, but even those went too fast and left me exhausted. I
> suspect the best thing to do is start with the Voiceover book and stick with
> that for a while. My Mac won't be here till the end of this week or maybe
> beginning of next, but I requested 4 gig of memory and a slightly faster
> processor, since I plan to run two systems on one machine.
>
> Has anyone out there used Vmware Converter to build a virtual machine and
> move it to the Mac via an external drive? Or would it be easier to just use a
> new copy of XP and build from scratch?
>
> Thanks, and I look forward to learning from this list.
>
> Mary
>
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