if he already has k1000 it is a better product for the blind than k3000 is and even though it has improved, last I heard, k3000 is still not quite as accessible on the mac as k1000 is in windows.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Jurgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by theblind" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 9:58 PM Subject: Re: Jaws and windows on the mac Hi, Use Kertswile for Mac. Thanks for listening, Alex, On 14-Oct-08, at 8:19 AM, Nicholas Abrahamson wrote: > 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 > >
