I'vfe a couple of comments here.
First, there are powerful tools to deliver what you seek for the Mac.
One of those tools is visiovoice which will voice some apps which vo
will not. If you want to go with vo, there are apps which provide
most if not all of what you want. Next, you can put windows on that
box and have the best of both worlds. Last, I gather that what you
mean by no braille is that you cannot use your particular braille
display with Leopard. I say this because I am using two braille
displays quite nicely.
It doesn't really matter in the skeme of things, but if some see your
message below, it will provide amunition for their crusade against use
of the Mac by the blind. I know this is not your responsibility, but
it would be helpfull if you would post a full account of your issues
so that instead of using it as amunition, they will have the facts
clearly spelled out. Asside from not wanting to loose you as a mac
user, it is important to you and everyone who has worked hard to bring
the Mac forward that everything possible be done to keep you in place
as as a Mac user.
Here is what you will say when it is done.
"I had decided to give up my Mac because I could not do the work I
needed to do on the Mac or so I thought. After further examination,
here is how I solved the issues......"
Lastly, you will kick your self in the foot when everything you need
is readiliy to hand and you don't have a Mac to take advantage of it.
It looks for instance like office 2008 will be accessable when it
arrives in the relatively near future. It might be that if you are
using a serial display that apple will support serial displays and you
can use a usb to serial adaptor to run your display. I cannot
currently think of anything I cannot do on the Mac that I need to do
and I have a lot of needs.
On Nov 5, 2007, at 1:49 AM, william lomas wrote:
hi all
as much as i love the mac i am still having to work in windows every
day for my work needs as i find microsoft word a more powerful word
processor and i need powerpoint etcetera
also i do need braille for my needs which is not provided in leopard.
so to any UK person i have
macbook core 2 duo intel
1.83 ghz
2 gigs ram
the 13.3 inch model with cd rw dvd reader
and the infovox british english and french voices installed
asking between 400 and 500 pounds
i do love the mac but leopard, as good as it is in my view, hasn't
really come that far with voice over in the last 2 years, criticize me
all youw ant but there you ahve it, smile
so anyone interested please get back to me. i prefer to run a full
blown windos environment on my windows laptop i have at home and then
i ahve full braille support for the applications i need it in like
foreign languages
