Ok I want to talk a little about voiceover. When I refer to things I will refer to voiceover stuff as VO for short. I am doing this because this is how the user guide refers to voiceover.
There are two keys that need to be held down to perform certain VO tasks. The two keys that need to be held down are the option and control keys. On a laptop they are located to the left of the space bar. There are 4 keys total and the option and control keys are the second and third keys.
The VO keys are very important to remember. They allow you to enter drop down menus and lists, to name a few things. They are used in conjunction with other keys. To enter menus and lists the VO keys are held down and you press the shift key and the down arrow.
The shift key is located directly above the VO keys. The down arrow is located to the right of the space bar, three keys over to be exact.
When these are held down, menus and lists can be entered.
This is the handiest thing to know about VO. Knowing this will help immensely. These keystrokes will allow you to use the MAC with VO.
I will talk more about this next week. Till then.
Eureka!
I know what I am going to do with this blog at least for awhile. I am going to turn it into a blog to help people with MAC computers, actually blind people especially. Although it will hopefully help both blind and sighted people. This inspiration comes from a video I watched. I thought who better to tell sighted people then an actual blind person. I hope this will help people learn the MAC and that way more sighted people will be able to help out the blind.
First thing I need to say, is that the MAC is ready to use right out of the box. You can technically do not even have to be sighted to start it up. It can be started with voiceover.
Voiceover is what allows everything on the screen to be read to a blind person. All MAC products have this technology on them. I use to have a PC, but made the change over and I am glad I did.
If you are sighted go to system preferences and then go to accessibility. Once there, there is an option for voiceover. Select that and the computer will start talking to you. There is also an option to turn voiceover on and off. Click this option and then all that has to be done is hit command f5 to turn it on and off.
This will help those who want to know get started. I will write more next week. I want to spread this out as much as possible. I won't talk all about it at once. Till next week, enjoy.
First thing I need to say, is that the MAC is ready to use right out of the box. You can technically do not even have to be sighted to start it up. It can be started with voiceover.
Voiceover is what allows everything on the screen to be read to a blind person. All MAC products have this technology on them. I use to have a PC, but made the change over and I am glad I did.
If you are sighted go to system preferences and then go to accessibility. Once there, there is an option for voiceover. Select that and the computer will start talking to you. There is also an option to turn voiceover on and off. Click this option and then all that has to be done is hit command f5 to turn it on and off.
This will help those who want to know get started. I will write more next week. I want to spread this out as much as possible. I won't talk all about it at once. Till next week, enjoy.
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