[gui-talk] Mac desktops and laptops

[Joel Deutsch]

But no normal, easy-to-use, conversational mailing list, like this one and 
the JFW list?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wayne Merritt" <wcmerritt at gmail.com>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 03, 2009 4:27 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Mac desktops and laptops


There are several sites for blind Mac users, one of which is called
Mac Visionaries. Not sure of the address, but probably something like:
www.macvisionaries.com

Good luck,
Wayne

On 10/3/09, Joel Deutsch <jdeutsch at dslextreme.com> wrote:
> Warning, long post. Perfectly readable, though, unless you're in an awful
> hurry. Just took me a while to get to my main informational question. I'm
> just feeling conversational today. So consider yourselves warned. Thanks.
>
> Special request to Andy Barraco: Even if you are not in a reading mood,
> please down arrow undtil you hear something about Mac mailing lists, 
> please?
> Thanks.
>
> As the holidays approach, I'm still thinking of getting myself a laptop to
> complement or even to replace my destop Dell PC. The choice of which has 
> to
> do with factors, at least for me, like whether or not it's got a normal or
> close-to-normal size keyboard I write a *lot*)  , a competent up-to-date
> microprocessor, sufficient RAM (2 megs would suit me fine with a PC-type
> product; I don't know how you evaluate this need with a Mac product), and 
> a
> serviceably-sized hard drive. My computer use is limited mostly to the
> basics like word processing, Web surfing and email, so the nowadays
> paltry-sounding 160 gigs or just a bit more would probably be enough. yes, 
> I
> do keep some music files on my computer, and they take up space. But so
> let's say 250 Gigs would be good enough, then. If I didn't raise the ante 
> on
> hard drive space a little, Al Briffith would give me a hard time, I think.
>
> Okay. So I can stay alert for possible Windows laptops that might suit my
> purpose, enough of a workhouse to sit on my desk a lot of the time, but
> portable enough to put on my lap if I must travel or find myself 
> bedridden,
> Heaven forbid. Just being facetious, I'm afraid. I do have some health
> issues that have found me painfully separated from my computer.
>
> Which means I'm a little skeptical of a Windows biggie like one of the 
> well
> reviewed Toshiba studio models that weighs in around ten pounds and is a 
> bit
> large.
>
> Enough babbling about Windows machines, though. I've looked up Mac laptops
> and have the idea that there's a nice range of sizes and capabilities to
> choose from, and although I'm a longtime Jaws user and still have credits
> left on my SMA, that alone wouldn't keep me loyal to PC's if I really
> believed I could learn to use Mac with voice over and get  underway pretty
> quickly, which Andy Barraco seems to believe is the way it could go.
>
> So what I want to know (finally, he says! Whew!) is And or anyone else who
> knows, are there tech support mailing lists dedicated to blind people 
> using
> Mac with Voice Over, the way there is a JFW list or two? That would be 
> ever
> so encouraging. I mean, Andy, you have said there's a blind Mac guru here 
> in
> Los Angeles, but I never needed to call on anyone over the years of using
> Jaws. I just had to learn from the basic training tapes (long time ago, 
> this
> was) and then, besides being willing to go into the Help now and then, 
> could
> always turn to the JFW list or even this list.
>
> But I never hear anything about such online casual and personal resources
> for blind Mac users. Please set me straight.
>
> Thanks,
> Joel
>
>
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