Joan are you in Arizona? Gabe Vega The BlindTech----tech of all techs Board of directors Arizona Council of the Blind Phoenix 602-903-3852 skype theblindtech
On Jun 19, 2007, at 11:17 AM, Joan Alice Maria Gibson, Esquire wrote:
My D.E.S. Counsellor for the Blind and Visually Impaired saw my iMac G4 running Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and was highly impressed. I gave her a brief demo and she said she thought it might be a viable alternative to the clients she is helping. I told her that Voc Rehab is pushing PCs with JAWS and ZoomText but those of us who are working on our own and/or retired cannot afford the expenses; so, some of us, like me, are going to the Mac and are delighted. Also, VoiceOver comes with the operating system starting with OS 10.4 Tiger. Also, the speech does not have to be shut down for doing other things, like on my old PC, as I would never have enough RAM and, besides, VoiceOver is part of the operating system on the Mac. I did this with her back in 2005, just after I upgraded my Mac OS X 10.3 Panther so as to be able to have the speech. She said she would see what she could do to consider it as an alternative to PCs to some of her clients. So, little by little, one person at a time [me with my Counsellor], perhaps, can get more and more people considering the Mac. JG
