Hello Sara, The quickest resource to point you to is Apple's VoiceOver Downloads page: http://www.apple.com/accessibility/voiceover/downloads.html
That contains the link to the current VoiceOver Getting Started Guide (that is also on your computer if you start up VoiceOver with Command-F5), and can be accessed once VoiceOver is turned on by pressing Control-Option-F5 by accessing the VoiceOver Help menu with Control-Option-h The Control and Option key combinations are referred to here as the "VO-Keys", and are pressed in combination with other letters. So to bring up the help menu with VO-h means pressing Control-Option-h. When you turn on VoiceOver with Command-F5, you will be taken through an introduction training in the basics. More details are given in the VoiceOver Getting Started Guide (on the web), with a summary of commands in the appendices. There are different resources for learning about the accessibility APIs for developers. Another good place to get basic information is the AppleVis.com web site under the Users Guides, David Woodbridge has been running a series of podcasts for new Mac users there, and also has a number of resources at the Vision Australia Web site. This is an older link to their web pages, but is more suited to an introductory impression: Adaptive Technology Related POD casts, files, and links <http://www.adaptive-tech.org/ess/html/> HTH. Cheers, Esther On Feb 4, 2013, at 7:39 AM, SaraFord wrote: > Hi Everyone! > > Wow, thanks for all the responses! I appreciate the warm welcome. I’ve read > all the comments, even though I'm replying to the middle of the thread. And I > have taken notes. I’ve also learned that there are also other areas I need to > investigate that I wouldn’t have known about if it wasn’t for this thread. > > For what it’s worth, my personal philosophy is that software is about people. > Sure, at the end of the day, the code must be written correctly, but it is > the experiences of the people who both use the code and write the code that > matter the most. So thanks again for sharing your experiences with me. It is > all about people. > > One question I have for this forum is where might I find the best training > materials for learning Voice Over? As I mentioned previously, I’ve been > trained in the past on Window Eyes and JAWS. I’m hoping there are some online > courses or documentation out there so I can learn to use Voice Over > effectively. It doesn’t matter what application the training is for. I just > need to get used to the keyboard shortcuts and how Voice Over structures its > Text to Speech output. > > Thanks, > -sara > -- 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?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
