Hello, Cathy. I, too, have a Mac Mini, late 2012 version. I used it without a monitor for as long as I've had it, a week or so. I just got it for Christmas. Today, though, I hooked it up to this huge, monstrous TV with an HDMI thing. I don't really know if I was successful, I mean there is a new sound choice in the stem prefs, but the TV doesn't seem to work, so I really don't know if the mac thinks its connected to a monitor or not. I think that I may be able to help you if you want, with using applications and such if you need it. The one thing to realize is that Apple wants to pretty much have us use a mac the same way a sighted person does. Now I don't mean that we should use a mouse, I mean, like on Windows, I never, ever used a toolbar. Ever. I didn't have a need to, because there was always some little hotkey I used to do something. And I never had to interact with anything. But on the mac, toolbars are actually useful, and I do love the idea of interacting with items, since you can skip over information you don't need. Tip, you know how in Windows, when surfing the net, when you'd always hear Google adds? Well in VO on the mac, you can skip those! They're in frames, and frames are things that you don't have to see if you don't want to, but you can always interact with it. One thing I thought, at first, is that you'd need to interact with every single thing to work with it. Well, thank goodness, you don't. Its just things like toolbars and list boxes and frames, anything that has other things inside of it, that you need to interact with. So, if you have a button, there isn't anything inside of a button except its text, so if you interact with a button, you're actually looking more closely at its text. I hope this helps. On Jan 1, 2013, at 6:37 PM, Cathy <flowersandhe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, > > I am using the Mini without a monitor, and have learned from this list that > system preferences do not always save. What are some of the other problems > not having a monitor might cause? I will get one of those VGA converters if > necessary but would like first to understand how pressing that is. if it is > only a matter of the function keys, then I would rather save the money. > . I have only had my Mac for a month now and the switch from windows has > given me culture shock, so I don't know what is what right now. > > Thanks, Cathy > > > <--- 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> > > As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that > the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security > strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something > unpredictable happen. > > Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by > visiting the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> > <--- 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> As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
