I do most of my web browsing on the mac. It is different than windows,
you generally move item by item, the mac does things differently than
windows, and keeping this in mind should make things easier.
Original message:
I have recently switched from Windows to Mac - JAWS12 to VoiceOver.
Word Processing - very disappointing as I use Tables extensively.
Pages is slow loading and getting into editing quite tiresome. I am
finding it difficult to get used to "interacting" with this and that.
I still find web browsing rather finicky as you have to use a number of
ways to access it: turning NavKeys on/off; using the ItemUser and the
inability to cursoring vertically rather irksome.
For scanning purposes I use the ReadIt wand (which works very well)
but, funnily enough, for this I have to use VM to virtualise the
Windows platform!
I have not yet used Numbers (for spreadsheet work) : so cannot comment.
On the positive side: this list is a good place to be as people are
very helpful in their informed responses.
Good luck!!
On 15 Aug 2012, at 09:48, Catherine Turner wrote:
Hi all,
I don't have a Mac at the moment but am considering getting one and
have some questions about Voiceover and general Mac access which I
wonder if people could help me with?
1. With word processing, is VO able to give font/formatting information?
2. I use spreadsheets a fair bit and databases a little. I currently
use Excel with JAWS and quite often monitor certain cells so I can at
a keystroke find out what's in them. Does anyone here do anything
similar on Mac? How configurable is VO when working in spreadsheets
e.g. is there a keystroke for reading a column total and can you set
which row the total is in either in VO or the spreadsheet program?
3. Scanning/OCR - what are people using for this? How do you find it
and what sort of things do you scan?
4. Sound editing and MIDI - I do a fair bit of sound editing in wave
format, currently in Goldwave. I haven't started doing any MIDI yet
but hope to in the future. So I don't know much about the MIDI but am
just wondering if anyone is doing any Mac and what you use, how you're
finding it.
If anyone has any comments/feedback on the above questions that'd be
great. Or if anyone here has switched from Windows to Mac and has any
other observations I'd be interested in hearing them.
Thanks,
Catherine
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