Phil, that is why I suggested NVDA.  Or, if you have Office 2010 or 
later, you can get Window Eyes for free.  Or, if JFW meets your 
needs, that will do for now.



earlier, Phil Scovell, wrote:
>You do, John, for right now.  Apparently some key strokes are now 
>talking but I'm not planning on upgrading jaws any longer.  I only 
>have a couple of programs that are still windows based.
>
>Phil.
>
>
>
>
>----- Original Message ----- From: "john schwery" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Monday, May 04, 2015 4:26 AM
>Subject: Re: Why go to a Mac?
>
>
>>Phil, I thought, that when adding Windows to a mac, you needed a 
>>Windows screen reader.
>>
>>
>>
>>earlier, Phil Scovell, wrote:
>>
>>>John,
>>>
>>>I checked it out but figured I needed a new computer anyway so if 
>>>I was going to learn a new system, I might as well go for the Mac 
>>>because of all it's built in features for the blind.
>>>
>>>Phil.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> > On May 3, 2015, at 5:33 PM, john schwery 
>>> <[log in to unmask]> > wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Phil,  for Windows on the Mac, if you don't want to buy JFW
>>>upgrades, I hear that NVDA is getting better all of the time and 
>>>it is free, so that may be an option  for you.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > earlier, Phil Scovell, wrote:
>>> >> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>>> >>
>>> >> Sharon,
>>> >>
>>> >> That's a good question and I've been asking myself that same 
>>> question >> for
>>> >> many months prior to buying one.
>>> >>
>>> >> First, my old computer is about 12 years old and is having a lot
>>>of lockup problems.  I've replaced the power supply several times 
>>>and other old parts
>>> >> as well.  I was wondering what I was going to do about buying the new
>>> >> upgrades to jaws, too.  Sandy had gotten a mac air, which is a
>>>netbook type
>>> >> of computer, and she has really been learning how to use it 
>>> over the >> past
>>> >> year.  She uses it to pay all our bills online and orders her
>>>groceries from
>>> >> WalMart using her mac air, too, and of course for all her
>>>emailing.  A book came out by the National Braille
>>> >> Press on how to use various mac computers and phones so that helped me
>>> >> decide for a mac, too.  Prices run from 500 dollars on up.  In fact, I
>>> >> bought the MacMini that has 1 TB of storage and the half a TB 
>>> costs >> 500
>>> >> dollars or less, if they are on sale or if you buy a rebuilt 
>>> and >> certified
>>> >> machine, you can get them for even less.  Plus, I like being
>>>able to sync automatically my iPhone and my
>>> >> computer.  I can even make and receive calls on the 
>>> Macmini.  I also >> like
>>> >> the idea of being able to give voice commands to the Mac which 
>>> I >> haven't
>>> >> learned to do as of yet.  There is a trackpad which allows you
>>>to touch the
>>> >> pad as if it were a touch screen and thus move around the 
>>> screen and >> do
>>> >> various commands on the computer.  The mac also can run on wifi
>>>so one less
>>> >> thing to connect to a router.  The mouse can be used in various
>>>ways by a blind user, too, but the track pad is especially 
>>>designed for screen manipulation through gestures and thus making 
>>>it faster than sighted people with a mouse.  The mouse is wire 
>>>free as well.  Macs are much more difficult to hack and they 
>>>rarely get a virus due to their standard Apple encryption. 
>>>Additional the voice over personality called Alex is so much 
>>>easier for me to hear using my hearing aids.  Software updates are 
>>>free and the same is true for all operating systems.  I likely 
>>>could come up with more, because I considered it for many months 
>>>before buying one, but I will be formatting the mac as both a 
>>>windows machine and a mac machine so you end up with two computers 
>>>in one.  There is a format procedure which installs windows and 
>>>then allows access to the mac through a virtual computer 
>>>exchange.  This means, at any given time, you can switch, on the 
>>>fly, from mac to windows and back again without rebooting the 
>>>computer.  I have a few ham radio programs that has nothing made 
>>>for the macs yet so things like that I can still run via 
>>>windows.  So, Sharon, those are a few reason why I bought the 
>>>MacMini. I'm having fun learning how to use the thing and it will 
>>>be nice to eventually format the mac into a pair of computers so I 
>>>can move my old computer elsewhere or get rid of it all 
>>>together.  Oh, yes, I got this mac due to the voice recognition 
>>>software.  I'm hoping it works well enough so I can dictate to 
>>>screen my articles and books but I haven't gotten that far as of yet.
>>> >>
>>> >> Phil.
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sharon Hooley" >> 
>>> <[log in to unmask]>
>>> >> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>> >> Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2015 6:52 PM
>>> >> Subject: Re: Working
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> Yea, I'm glad you're set up with your Mac!  But I'm 
>>> curious.  Why >> would
>>> >> anybody want to buy a Mac when it costs more than a Windows system?
>>> >>
>>> >> Curious Sharon H.
>
>John