VO for Mac, in my opinion hasn't only not improved, but it's become worse with introductions of other bugs that have not been quashed such as the inability to call apple scripts with keyboard commander. I'm just a bit bored of paying a thousand pounds upwards for a beautifully built laptop that is somewhat still broken inside. It's interesting you're using the surface. I'm still in the shallows of what I can and can't do on it and, as I say, I've not taken the full plunge just yet. That's good to know that you find it easier on windows. I think this is because apple actually pioneered the means of blind people using a solid piece of glass which I still find amazing despite using it every day. ![]() Yes, I completely agree, there is nothing better than IOS for accessibility. In mine, windows works better for me than Mac, I only wish I'd discovered this sooner. I'm not looking to start a whole Mac windows war thing, I'm just asking for your views. Windows users, how do you find it? Those of you with experience on both platforms, how do they stack up in terms of accessibility against one another and I'm not just talking screenreader, but ease of use of each system? There is just one piece of software I can't yet get for windows which is the latest scrivener, but as soon as that comes along, I think I'm jumping ship to a far more responsive and more pleasurable setup that doesn't give me the 'busy' feedback on java websites, doesn't need us to drill up and down through levels and is basically better, in my view.īut this is personal opinion. Of course it's more than the accessibility that makes a system work and so far, I like windows, I can get tasks done quicker using the search in Cortana which is a key press away. The trouble is now, for me at least, is I've not made the distinction between voiceover on Mac (a useable but clunky solution) and that of VoiceOver on iOS (absolute genius and the gold standard of portable accessibility).Īnyway, these were my thoughts. It was always going to be at a disadvantage. We have to recall that screenreader existed on windows a long time before VoiceOver ever came to Mac. Returning to Mac OS, I realised just how convoluted, bloated and flawed VoiceOver is as a screen reader and I thought about why this might be. It was so easy to use that I felt I was missing a trick. ![]() It's simply move through items with the cursor keys or tab and that's it. There is no real need for a modifier like the VO combination of option and control to be held down all the time, or to switch modes. Windows accessibility with NVDA is far easier, far more intuitive than Mac OS. We get this a lot when trying to learn new skills that aren't mainstream.Īfter a couple of days and installing NVDA I realised something. Yet another new system to battle my way into with no real understanding of what success looks like. When first getting onto windows, an OS I've not used for almost 15 years, a feeling of dread came over me. ![]() My experiences with the xbox fall outside the subject of this post and the remit of the AppleVis website so I'll not talk about them here however, as part of this experience, I used bootcamp to create a windows partition. After watching the firefight I thought I'd take a little delve and bought myself an xbox. So, a hotly contested subject on AppleVis is accessibility of mainstream games, whether they can be made accessible and even if they should be made accessible. I thought I'd take this opportunity to tell you a little of my experiences after dipping my tentative toe back into the windows world and what I discovered. Here's a link to CotEditor's open source repository on GitHub.Hi everyone. "Excellent support for Japanese encoding" is the top reason why over 2 developers like CotEditor, while over 698 developers mention "Lightweight" as the leading cause for choosing Sublime Text.ĬotEditor is an open source tool with 2.77K GitHub stars and 252 GitHub forks. On the other hand, Sublime Text provides the following key features: Some of the features offered by CotEditor are: Sublime Text uses a custom UI toolkit, optimized for speed and beauty, while taking advantage of native functionality on each platform.ĬotEditor and Sublime Text can be categorized as "Text Editor" tools. One license is all you need to use Sublime Text on every computer you own, no matter what operating system it uses Sublime Text is available for OS X, Windows and Linux. What is Sublime Text? A sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose. ![]() CotEditor is a lightweight plain-text editor for OS X. What is CotEditor? Open Source Plain-Text Editor for OS X. CotEditor vs Sublime Text: What are the differences?
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