Scott, Fair point. In my daily word processing I need to make use of footnotes and other reference notations, indices and other layouts, comments, track changes, mail merge, document comparisons, and this is completely independent of the spreadsheet formulaic and diagram operations I need to be able to perform. My tune may change when Office becomes more accessible with Voiceover, but for now, detecting simple elements like styles is not comparable to other products. If anyone is tackling such tasks with relative ease, by all means set me straight. Part of the issue, as someone else pointed out, is that for the moment at least the PC still dominates the workplace, and other assistive solutions have had time to mature along the way. No wrong answer here, just a difference of opinions.
Joe -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Scott Howell Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2012 6:59 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Mac verses Ipad Joe, although you are entitled to your opinion, I think you have to qualify "complex" word processing. There are many who would disagree with your assertions and that applies to either iOS or the Mac platforms. On Oct 23, 2012, at 6:30 PM, Joe <jsoro...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have an iPhone, a PC, and a Mac at home. The iPhone is great, but my > PC is superior for complex Word editing. Voiceover can be conquered if > you want to switch exclusively to the Mac, and if you don't require > advanced editing, it'll be great. I don't think Voiceover on the Mac > still rivals PC screen readers. To be fair JAWS 14 has come a very > long way. My frustration decreased since version 13, but this also has > to do with an overhaul of my computer system. That's another thing you > don't have to worry about with the Mac. Bottom line, you'll do great > with Voiceover, but if anyone likes JAWS, it's not out of the running > yet, at least in my own personal opinion.--Joe > > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On > Behalf Of Kathy and Wilda > Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2012 4:52 PM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: RE: Mac verses Ipad > > I do have an iphone and love it. JAWS and internet explorer are > driving me crazy with all the crashes etc. > > Kathy and Seeing Eye dog Wilda > > > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On > Behalf Of Neil Barnfather - TalkNav > Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2012 4:09 PM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Mac verses Ipad > > I cannot comment on your book point, but, will say that I was a Nokia > and Widnwos PC user for donkey's years, moved over exclusively to > Apple in 2010, and haven't looked back at all! > > The Voice Over experience is reliable, consistent, user friendly and > most of all a joy to use. I always felt that JAWS and I lived a love > hate relationship together, Freedom Scientific loved to screw me over, > over and over, and over again more, and probably would have continued > to do so until I was bleeding to death from all the money that > terribly flakey product cost me, and I, I was the hate part of the > relationship. I hated being dependant on something which caused me stress, anxiety and misery. > > Apple's products do what you want, without fuss and without hassle. > > > > > Regards, > > Neil Barnfather > > Talks List Administrator > Twitter @neilbarnfather > > TalkNav is a Nuance, Code Factory and Sendero dealer, as well as an > Apple iOS, Macintosh and Android accessibility specialist. For all > your accessible phone, PDA and GPS related enquiries visit > www.talknav.com > > URL: - www.talknav.com > e-mail: - serv...@talknav.com > Phone: - +44 844 999 4199 > > On 23 Oct 2012, at 20:43, Kathy and Wilda <wi...@nc.rr.com> wrote: > >> >> >> I have been a PC Jaws user for many years and I'm thinking of going > exclusively Apple. First do any of you just use the Ipad as your main > computer and if so what are the pros and cons? Also I like to download > books from Bookshare to my Victor stream and I know the Ipad doesn't > have a US port.Is there a work around for that? If anybody could give > me feedback and let me know their experiences I would greatly > appreciate any suggestions or comments. 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