Yes, I don't find myself biting my knuckles with Os X installs. It's quite nice.
There is Braille support for USB only in recovery mode and with the installer. HtH, Teresa "Twinkle, twinkle, little bat How I wonder what you're at" --Lewis Carroll > On Jun 20, 2014, at 12:15 PM, Christopher Hallsworth > <christopher...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all > I was frustrated with the stuttering speech at startup on my late 2011 > Macbook Pro 13 inch. I contemplated doing a clean install and finally got > round to doing this today. I thought I would share my experience after years > of reinstalling Windows countless times. Fortunately the stuttering has gone > away for now. Note I was using a flash drive to boot into the Os X Installer > which I made thanks to a free program called Diskmakerx formally Lion Disc > Maker. > Let me stress that the entire process can be done completely independent of > sight thanks to VoiceOver or be it a temporary copy if you like shipping with > Os X Installer. The Fred voice is used which will remind you of Dectalk. Sure > VoiceOver does not start automatically, never does, but pressing command-f5 > is all you need to do to get the installer to talk. I believe Braille support > is even included so even a deafblind person can do this. > I got a bit lost in translation when it came to rebuilding my disk which I > personally wanted to do so could really start fresh. Turned out all I had to > do was choose 1 from the partition layout pop-up button, click apply and it > does the rest including formatting the entire partition in this case. So > intuitive! Because I was so used to Windows ways of reinstalling I thought I > had to remove all partitions first. No wonder I wasn't getting anywhere as Os > X doesn't work like that. > The installation process was very straightforward indeed. Although for some > reason it got stuck right at the end of preparing to install. I was on the > landline at the time when the mac suddenly rebooted into the installer loaded > on the newly created partition. Os X Installer took care of the rest. Finally > I set up my new install again completely independent of sight as by this time > you are in the actual Os X installation. You do not need to do anything at > this point as after about a minute a prerecorded voice lets you know about > VoiceOver and how to get started. All Macs do this whether just bought or > after a clean install. So just follow the verbal propts and set up your mac. > Hope you find this valuable. Enjoy! > -- > Christopher Hallsworth > Student at the Hadley School for the Blind > www.hadley.edu > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
