To be fair to Jaws, it is only $60 a year if you keep up the SMA. The
professional version is more, I think about $90 a year.
Arnold Schmidt
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From: David Chittenden
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2016 10:06 PM
Subject: Re: Why Is The Mac Better Than Windows?
I switched from Windows to Mac at the end of 2011. Voiceover is updated every
time Apple updates the Mac's OS, just like the iPhone. The touchpad commander
gives me more usability than touchscreens on Windows. That said, I do not know
how accessible Jaws is with Windows 10 touchscreen. I am waiting, quite
impatiently, for Apple to add a full touchscreen to the Mac.
There are things about Mac which annoy me, but paying $250 per year to update
Jaws anoyed me even more.
All that said, I will soon be required to go back to Windows if I get a new
job I am trying for. On the persanal side, I will continue with the Mac. More
software is accessible on it. And, Apple actually has an accessibility focus.
David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA
Email: dchitten...@gmail.com
Mobile: +64 21 2288 288
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On 27 Jun 2016, at 11:17, Arnold Schmidt <arno...@mindspring.com> wrote:
Please forgive the long message to follow. Just delete it if you don't
want to read it.
I have been messing around with my new Mac Mini over the weekend. I have
the two books, Everything You Need To Know To Use The Mac With El Capitan And
Voice Over, by Janet Ingber, and Mastering The Macintosh With Voice Over, by
Tim Sniffen.I thoroughly expected not to know what I am doing for a while, at
the moment, that is an understatement. I have it set up, thanks to Mr.
Sniffen's book, Ms. Ingber seems to assume one will have sighted help to do
that. I have been with windows since 2000, and Jaws 3.5. I still have Jaws,
having bought, last December, the SMA through version 19. I have to figure
out, by July 5, whether I want to take the Mac back to the Apple store to get
my money back. So far, it seems like a bunch of incredible tedium to get
things done, as compared to Windows. The track pad helps, it makes it a little
more like my iPhone 6, that I love. Getting things done on the iPhone never
seemed to have nearly the tedium as does the Mac,even when my iPhone 5 was new
to me. For example, having to interact with things, rather than just hitting
enter when I want to do something, or press two or three keys at the same time
to get VoiceOver to do something, I have no doubt that I can learn it, but My
nagging question during my 14 days is going to be: why? What is so much
better about this than Windows? Is the Mac really better, or just different?
Is, for example, iTunes really easier to use? What little I have investigated,
I am not yet convinced that it is. Already having Jaws, I don't have the issue
of having to buy a windows screen reader, and NVDA is making it unnecessary
even for a new Windows user to do so. I paid over 50 percent more for this
Mac Mini than I could have bought a Windows 10 computer. I wish I had 30 days,
rather than 14, to figure this out. The time is ticking. What is so much
better about this than Windows, which I already know how to use?
Arnold Schmidt
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