Darcey, er ... dArcy ... however you spell it.
Congrasts on ordering your Mac, too. :) LOL! Am I going to drool
over it, too? *sighs* can't win 'em all., :)
I like the idea of a podcast devoted to Mac users like that, yes,
including all your experiences learning the screen reader. This is
the kind of thing I think is vitally important to have--something
that will show Mac's good and bad points, what t will and will not
do, how easily you can pick up on things and tyhe like. I think
it'll be just the kind of thing that other blind people considering
getting a Mac would love to hear.
I relaly wish I could have let you two play with it longer that day,
but I am glad you both had such fun and got the machines.
Jane
On Jun 5, 2006, at 1:21 PM, Darcy Burnard wrote:
Hello everyone. I've been lurking on this list for about a year
now, and have really enjoyed all the discussions that have went
on. I've been both a windows and linux user for a while now, and
I'm happy to say that soon I'll be taking the plunge in to the
world of the Mac. I ordered my Mac Book from the Apple store on
Thursday night, so with luck, I'll have it sometime this week, or
early next week.
My girlfriend Holly has also just purchased a Mac Book. This is
the same Holly who wrote in to the list the other day. Holly and I
have been doing a podcast called the Darcy And Holly Show since May
of Last year. We've now decided to start a new podcast, which
we're calling
The Screenless Switchers Podcast. Neither of us have ever owned a
Mac, so we thought it might be interesting to cronicle our
experiences learning a new screen reader and operating system. At
least, that's going to be the initial focus of the podcast.
Eventually, we hope to expand the show to include things like,
apple and voice over news, interviews with other blind mac users
and developers, product reviews, etc.
This is something we've been planning ever since we saw Jane's
Ibook last February, and got a glimpse of what the Mac and
Voiceover were like.
I'm not sure if listening to Holly and I learn about Voice Over
will be of interest to a lot of you long time Mac Users, but I hope
some of you will check it out. We want the podcast to have a
community feel to it, so we're interested in any feedback we can
get. The feed address for the show is http://feeds.feedburner.com/
screenlessswitchers. Right now, all that's there is a brief pilot
episode, where we discuss our plans for the podcast. I will say
that this pilot isn't as polished as we hope that future shows will
be, but I hope lots of you will check it out anyway.
You can also get it from the shows web site which is http://
www.screenlessswitchers.com. There's not much on that site right
now, but we're planning to build it in to a quite extensive voice
over related resource.
Darcy Burnard
