Hello Laurel My name is Lynne, and I'm one of the list owners. :) I'm going to try and answer your questions but first, I should tell you that I am not visually impaired, although I have a very keen interest in accessibility.
On 24 Apr 2012, at 19:02, Laurel <laurel.stock...@gmail.com> wrote: 1, what were some of the most important changes from using jaws to using voice over that you who made that switch had to get used to? My first piece of advice is to try and forget the concepts of Windows and Jaws; many of them do not apply. Do not expect things to behave the way they do under Windows because really it's a different operating environment in many respects.\ 2, what are the biggest things I should know about switching? Again, forget about JFW, and allow yourself to be flexible during the learning process. 3, what are the best web tutorials for learning voice over? That one I cannot answer; but there are some very good guides built into VoiceOver itself. For instance, try pressing Control+Option+Command+F8, which will bring up the quick start guide. It will give you exercises to follow which should help you learn the basics. 4, if any of you used Kurzweil1000 for Windows, what did you do for a mac? Are there any other OCR programs that work with voice over and are as good as Kurzweil? There are a number of OCR programmes for Mac; but be mindful of the fact that they are not written along the same principals as K1000. Therefore, there's far less hand-holding. But you could try either ABByy FineReader Express by Nuance, ReadIRIS Pro, or VueScan. I forget who develops VueScan but a google search will find it for you. The process isn't as seamless as K1000 but again, it's worth investigating because one can achieve excellent results with a Mac and a scanner. 5, I have office for mac, how vo accessible is this and what can I do to make it more accessible? Unfortunately Office for Mac is not accessible at all. 6, this is a mac question in general, what programs did y'all use to run windows programs on your mac, did you all use boot camp or something else and what's the cheapesst/easiest? It depends on how you want to do it. If you want your Mac running OSX and Windows together, then try VMWare Fusion from <http://www.vmware.com/fusion/> which will allow you to run a virtual machine and is totally accessible. If you want Windows to run naively then you'll need help to set it up because as with any PC there's no talking or accessible installation process. Please don't be afraid to ask questions on list; that's why we are here. Also, feel free to use the list archives, (detailed below) where you'll find a number of discussions regarding what you've asked. Please also be aware that we have strict policies regarding the discussion of off-topic things like Windows and JFW. Anything on the Mac side is fine; but if you want to discuss Windows with us, feel free to join one of our sister groups: Techno-Chat which you can join by sending an email here: <techno-chat-requ...@techno-chat.net> or Window-Access, whose subscription address is: <windows-access-requ...@techno-chat.net> I hope some of this proves helpful. Lynne <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
