Hi List!
My name is Sarah. I'm from Minneapolis, Minnesota and am mostly blind. For my birthday, a little over a month ago, I received a Macbook. I have always been a PC and Jaws user. A friend of mine, who visited me this past September, had his Macbook with him and he used voice over with it. I thought it was so cool and seemed more user friendly than Jaws. So when my parents gave me the Macbook for my birthday, along with a year's worth of training over the phone and at the Apple store through Apple cares; I was utterly amazed and taken aback. My friend, who introduced me to the Mac, was in town for my birthday. My Mom said "your Dad and I thought it would be a perfect time to give it to you because Mark can help you get acquainted with it while he's here." I do love my Macbook and the voice over voices are so much better than Jaws voice selections by far! I am having some frustrations with the Mac, but I knew that would be par for the course, because I am learning a new type of computer and software. I alos am unable to receive my e-mail through my Macbook yet. For some reason when I try to set up my G mail account, either I do something wrong, or it just doesn't want to accept the settings. Besides that I am navigating Safari quite well. I need to call and set up an appointment, with the people at the Apple store near me, to start my year's worth of training. I also received an I-Pod shuffle from my brother along with a twenty-five dollar I-tunes gift card from my niece and nephew. So I will be all set with Apple products. I don't have an I-phone though. I looked at one when I needed to purchase a new phone. It wouldn't work for me. I have very short, wide, and stubby fingers. When I tried to use the touch screen pad the commands wouldn't work for me. So I'm sticking with Verizon. I have their Haven phone which I love. I'm hoping that all you experienced Mac users with voice over will be able to answer all the questions that is newbie will have for you when I get stuck in a jam. *smile* I know that I'll love switching over to the Mac even though I'll get frustrated from time-to-time. Also I'm wondering if any of you are Braille Sense product users? And if so are you able to use your Braille Sense product with the Mac? I have a Braille Sense Plus. I'm just curious. Well, I thought I'd introduce myself by saying hello and look forward in learning a lot from this list. Sarah -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
