Hi Phil,

That sounds cool.

We were given a Mac just this year, but it 
doesn't have an operating system on it, so we 
have to get the latest version of IOS. We just 
haven't had time to do that right now.

Also, I love the idea of being able to dictate.

I have my Windows Asus Transformer 
Tablet   with  System Access  on it. This tablet  has a keyboard on it.
  I am on my desktop now and I'm using NVDA right now.

I really don't like NVDA with Eudora because some 
times it looses focus and it's hard to edit messages.

Actually, even System Access and Window-Eyes loose focus some times.

hanks much.

Many Blessings,

Pat Ferguson
"I can Do all Things Through Christ Who Strengthens Me" Philippians 4:13.


At 07:29 PM 7/13/2016, you wrote:
>It has just been over a year since I got the mac 
>mini.  I haven’t used it every day but I have 
>gotten to the point where I am using it more 
>than my old Windows XP machine.  I have Windows 
>7 installed as a parallel drive on the mac mini 
>but I have just used it a couple of times 
>learning how to boot up Windows while the Mac is 
>running.  You have to press some hot keys to 
>boot up Windows 7, use more hot keys to turn the 
>mac voiceover speech off, and then jaws and 
>windows boots up.  You can then hot key back and 
>forth as you desire from windows to the mac with 
>both programs running at the same time on the 
>same hard drive.  Anyhow, I have been using 
>spell check, of course, on the mac but it took a 
>little getting used to at first.  It corrects 
>your spelling on the fly as you type.  A 
>burble  or bubbling sounds when it corrects the 
>word on the fly.  If it cannot find a 
>replacement word, it pops up with several 
>choices you can pick from.  You hit a hot key on 
>the word you want, and it exchanges the 
>words.  You can open a dictionary or thesaurus, 
>turn on the grammar checker, tell the mac to add 
>this word to the spell checker, such as a last 
>name the obviously is going to show up as a 
>misspelled word, or a number of other 
>choices.  I am using the text editor, Pages, 
>which is the Mac’s version of MS Word for word 
>processing, and of course, the same commands are 
>used in the spell checker.  If the dogs aren’t 
>barking, or heavy trucks aren’t passing by our 
>busy street, along with fire trucks and police 
>cars, or if Beaky isn’t out doing his 
>routines, or my radio is turned up, or my son in 
>law isn’t passing by and honking his big truck 
>boating horn he installed that sounds about like 
>an ocean liner passing by, I tap a couple of hot 
>keys and dictate into the microphone whatever I 
>want.  I’ve used it a number of times but 
>prefer typing due to the afore mentioned sounds 
>interrupting my dictation.  But, as I was 
>saying, this form of spell checker has really 
>gotten me to the point I really enjoy using it 
>and it is saving me time trying to find words in 
>a dictionary and such as that as I type.  You 
>can turn all the spell checker features, 
>including the grammar checker features, off and 
>on as you wish, too, so that allows you to 
>customize the program to your liking.  Now, I 
>wonder how many mistakes I made in this message.
>
>Phil.

T