[gui-talk] question about the Mac

[Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis]

Mac OS X is certainly a very different operating system from Windows, 
with different user interface conventions (e.g. metaphors and keyboard 
shortcuts), different applications (e.g. Finder and Safari rather than 
Explorer and Internet Explorer). It has a decent built-in screen reader, 
called VoiceOver, rather than relying on third-party screen readers for 
effective access.

If you want to learn about these things, you might visit:

1. Apple's page about VoiceOver. I'd certainly have a read of the 
manual, which is available for download. It's a bit out of date as they 
haven't update the page to reflect updates in Leopard, the latest 
version of Mac OS X:

http://www.apple.com/accessibility/voiceover/

2. A website about Mac accessibility and the VoiceOver screen reader 
maintained by a regular user, with news and resources:

http://lioncourt.com/

Here are two mailing lists full of VoiceOver users:

http://www.MacVisionaries.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss_macvisionaries.com

http://www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover

Best to search the archives before asking questions.

Although Window-Eyes and JAWS won't work on the Mac OS X, you can run 
Windows on your Mac machine alongside Mac OS X, either dual-booting or 
running it in a virtual machine.

Hope that helps.

--
Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

jaybee wrote:
> I am toying with the idea of buying a Mac, but I have never used anything but Windows.  What I'd like to know is how much different is the Mac system, and whether or not Jaws or windows will work with that platform.  If there are any blind Mac users who are willing, please contact me off list,.  I'm Jaybee Johnson and my email is mailto:jayjohnson62 at bellsouth.net jayjohnson62 at bellsouth.net
> . Thanks.
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