Nick,

if narrator won't run, system access won't run.  I use boot camp and am
running k1000 just fine with jaws as well Ah, you don't have anything but
narrator, but if you get audio, you can run k1000 without any other screen
reader.  I have an early MacBook and run windows on it just fine under 
bootcamp.

Yes, ocr is available on the mac but brf file translation back to english is
another animal.  I think it can be done though.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nicholas Abrahamson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 11:19 AM
Subject: re: Jaws and windows on the mac


I just have a 13 inch macbook with the standard video card that comes
with it.  When I went under about this mac, and clicked more
imformation, under audio it just says intell high graphics audio, so
I'm doing a dangerous thing here, and assuming that that's my sound
card, because I don't see a sound solection under more imformation.
Still nothing else from freedom scientific and I called microsoft only
to feel slightly like an idiot, because I realized I had no screen
reader on the windowos side, and thus no  way to do any of the things
they might possibly want me to do.  My only excuse is that I've gotten
a little used to built in accessability from the mac, and when I
switched to windows it took a second to realize that there was
nothing.  What can I say, but that I was lacking coffee.  *smile*  I
just can't help but think that there's an easier way to do what it is
that I wanted windows for.  I wanted it to install Kurzweil 1000 so
I'd have an OCR program that could also read BRF files, because I read
a lot of stuff for school from webbraille and bookshare, so I thought
that kurzweil'd be an easy fix.  Who was I kidding?  it involved
windows, ofcourse it couldn't be easy.  Thanks for sharing your
experiences with me.  I don't mean to ask a dumb question but what's
system access?  How do it and NVDA work?  Are they relativly easy to
figure out?  Is there something for the mac that would do OCR and or
would be able to read BRF files?  Thanks again for sharing your
experiences and I'll keep you updated on the ongoing windows saga.

Thanks,

Nick





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