Do you think Mac with VoiceOver will ever replace Jaws with Windows?

You could always buy a Mac and dual-boot Windows using Boot Camp. I'm seriously considering doing that when I replace my current laptop in a year or two.

With NVDA taking the place of Jaws and 99% of computer audio games made for Windows I highly doubt it.

Hi
Personally, there are things I prefer to do on mac and other things I prefer doing in Windows with NVDA.
For instance, I really like doing office work with Windows, where as I prefer to do audio editing on mac. I think the optimal solution is running something like VMware fusion, where you can virtualize Windows with NVDA alongside Mac OS, or running bootcamp (or both).

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Malthe

Hello,

I don't think it will especially if you use braille. Support for braille under the mac seems to be getting worse as time goes on. I bought a mac a couple of years ago, and I regret it.

Hi Sophie and All

I am in exactly the same situation. Since I use iOS so regularly (iPhone and Apple Watch), it scenes like using a Mac would be the best choice, but, there are certain tasks mostly around productivity, Google Apps and basic web-rousing I can't imagine being as efficient in doing on Mac.
I do have a question though, for those of you who duel-boot on MBP, do you not need the function keys once you are running windows? How do you handle the touch bar in other OSes?

Thank you so much.

No. JAWS tends to come out with update several times within a year and now they have an open line podcast in which people call and report issues and jaws tend to address those problems. I use Windows 10 and jaws 2019 and I have an iPhone xx. I had an iPhone since the 4. I love apple iPhone but from what I hear mac owners, the voiceover have problem and apple does not update quickly like jaws. Again I am an iPhone user. As I stated I used iPhone 4, 4s, 5, 5s, 6, 7 and xx but love windows.

I haven't touched a Mac in years, but I do have an Ipad Pro and IPhone XR. I too would prefer to switch to Mac for audio editing since I've heard it's better. But then, I do just fine on the PC with Reaper. What the PC is hands-down better for though - at least back in the day when I DID use a Mac - is anything to do with writing. Granted you do have Scrivner on the Mac and apparently it's quite accessible, but for anything beyond the most basic text editing, I'm not sure how reliable it is. I know that's my only gripe about even my Ipad. Text editing and formatting is very unintuitive, even with a keyboard.

Whenever this comes up, I tell people that it comes down to personal preference. All 3 platforms--Windows, Mac OS and iOS--have their pros and cons. There are things I miss about Windows, and for awhile I tossed around the idea of running either Bootcamp or VMware Fusion on my Mac. But then somebody told me about the battery life and memory issues when working with a dual-booting machine. So out the window went that idea. I also have a question. That is, how is FS tech support now? They were really good back in the day, and then they seemed to go downhill pretty quickly. Having said all that, I've been recommending to a neighbor friend that he switch from an Android to an iPhone. Why? He has some disabilities--not visual--and his phone just hasn't done it for him. It doesn't seem to have near the amount of features that my iPhone has. Apple's accessibility team just seems to be really good with other disabilities too. But I don't think his remaining family members want to shell out the extra bucks for an iPhone. That's a whole other story though.

Having owned an 15 inch macBook Pro 2017 (i.e. with touch bar) for almost two years now (it's going to be exactly two years in September), I will attempt to sumarize my experience.

The machine is incredibly sleek, tough looking, portable, quiet and powerful, even in Windows. However, it forced me to buy an expensive Logitech mechanical keyboard. Not because of the touch bar but because I need the ability to type as quickly and accurately as possible for a long time in one go to make my living. Laptop keyboards, even without things like the touch bar, have always degraded my speed and accuracy, and my wrists always start hurting sooner or later when typing on laptop keyboards (i.e. low profile, low travel, but incredibly quiet) for a long time. The built-in keyboard on the macBook Pro requires a little more pressure to respond than most traditional laptop keyboards but it's still very low-travel and the keys are all cramped together to save physical space. So, I knew I was going to need to get a mechanical keyboard even if the laptop didn't have the touch bar.
I've never had any battery or memory issues in Bootcamp, which means that the laptop certainly doesn't last for the proclaimed 10 hours or more per charge in Windows but I can get 6 to 8 hours, depending on the work being done, which is pretty standard for most Windows laptops out there, I believe.

I like the philosophy, look and feel of macOS but after several failed attempts to give it a deep dive and a second, third, fourth and fifth chance, I've settled on never even booting into macOS for more than a year now. This means that since the last time I changed my startup disk preference in macOS's recovery, I kept it set to Windows. Thus, every time I turn the laptop on, it automatically boots into Windows immediately. Since then, I have never felt a single difference in experience to using a native Windows computer. I have the latest build of Windows 10 Pro installed, X64 of course.

Like most other posters here, I have gone from the iPhone 4S to the 7 Plus and now am entirely happy with my XS Max, yet I belong to those who prefer the combination of iOS for mobile and Windows for desktop. I haven't used Jaws or any other screen reader than NVDA for more than 10 years now, though, and by that I mean not even a demo version of a commercial screen reader for a task that I could not do with NVDA. I have experimented with Narrator out of curiosity, just to see what it's becoming capable of with every new update of Windows, but I have never used it for any serious work.

My computer activities include the common administrative work, e-mails, web browsing, lots of typing (including creative writing), translations, text formatting, coding and the occasional rudimentary audio editing with Goldwave which I purchased a couple years ago.

I would conclude that from the point of view of a screen reader user, all Apple devices including those on macOS are best for simple, intuitive and comfortable entertainment and content consumption. If you want to do serious, productive, efficient work, you need Windows, regardless of the screen reader, even if the initial learning curve might be a little steeper at first.

VoiceOver advertizes the ability to quickly navigate by changes in text formatting attributes, the sound of which I absolutely loved at first, but the current implementation seems to be so incomplete so far that it's effectively unusable in a practical everyday scenario. In every other way, VoiceOver seems slower and more cumbersome than NVDA to me in almost every imaginable situation. Part of this might be because I am used to very fast boosted rates with the built-in Espeak NG with NVDA, which the Czech voices which are currently available for VoiceOver on macOS can never achieve, but even the responsiveness of VoiceOver itself tends to be sluggish every now and then. It appears to be less stable, getting stuck for no apparent reason and sometimes even hard restarting itself, or it recovers from a hang-up in a weird state that does strange, unpredictable things to its focus handling and keyboard interception, causing me to eventually have to restart it anyway. All but the native system apps, the simplest of websites and only small text documents exhibit this behavior with no reproduceable pattern that I could discover yet. And when I had File vault on for a while, it was much worse than what I just described, which means that I actually had to disable that security feature which was one of my main reasons for trying out macOS in the first place.

VoiceOver's international support is disastrous. English users might have a better experience, I don't know. I even had to remap more than half of VoiceOver's command shortcuts just to make it ergonomic to actually use it.

In fact, I booted into macOS after more than a year just a few days ago only to update to Mojave and then to the Catalina beta. It seems not to have gotten any worse, but neither any better. So, back to Windows it is.

Let me emphasize, though, that my average typing speed is 600 keystrokes per minute, sometimes even being able to listen to the screen reader saying something while I type something entirely different. So, again, to sum it all up, as someone already said here, it all comes down to personal preference.

Lukas

I'll say this. In my decade of using a mac exclusively (no dual booting, no virtual machine, just plain MacOS 10) it works great for my needs. If you're doing web browsing, formatting, etc it works perfectly fine. People are happy with windows, because that's what they've used for years. I jumped into the wonderful world of MacOS in 2010 when I was a junior in college, and haven't looked back since. Here's the thing I've noticed with windows. When I used windows, it was XP, but still... if/when you lost speech, the only way to get it back was to either restart your machine, or restart screen reader. On the mac side in most cases, if speech fails, VO will automatically restart and it'll be good to go. The thing I love about apple is software/hardware are married to eachother. That is, they work in harmony with each other to achieve the best results. Personally, if you're not doibg a lot of processor intensive activities, then get either a low end 13 inch MBP, or get a MAcbook air and save a few bucks. Yeah, I know they're still expensive, but in my view... It's worth every penny. Also, I've purchased the apple magic keyboard, since on my 2016 late MBP 15 inch I've got the dreaded keyboard problems. Anyway, enough waffling on here. I'd say go to an apple store and have a play around with either a MBP or an air and see what you think. I think you'll be surprised. Just give Macos a shot, and try to learn and get used to it. Honestly, if you have patience and the time to learn about it, I think you'll love it.
Note: I have barely touched a windows machine in my decade of MacOS use, so opinions date back to old win XP.

About ten years ago, I started listening to podcasts about the Mac, and I ended up switching. I have to say, I'm more comfortable with Mac OS than I ever was with Windows. I have no trouble browsing the web. And Pages works fine for all my writing needs. I can choose fonts and spacing, and italics and bold have convenient keyboard commands. I haven't played much with braille, since I use my display mostly to read Bookshare books or connect to my iPhone. My boyfriend actually installed Windows 10 in Bootcamp the other day, and we keep saying how much better we like the Mac's way of doing things. In the end, it's personal preference. Those are just my thoughts. :)

JAWS is on the way out. It will take some time, but with NVDA as good as it is and Narrator slowly coming into its own, why would anyone choose it? The only thing the others really need is better options for configuring special use cases such as one finds mostly in business settings. I'm stuck with JAWS at work in part because they mandate what I have to use, but also because it is the only thing on the market right now with enough flexibility to do my job efficiently. That will change. Will the Mac catch up? Only time will tell, but it will take a shift in the mainstream market toward Macs in general for that to happen, and that's not the kind of company Apple is right now. I tried the Mac for roughly two years. I enjoyed using it, but it fell short in the areas already discussed. With time and practice I won't say that I could not have used Pages as effectively as Word, but it seemed very cumbersome to me. It's one thing to do the simple formatting someone has mentioned in this thread. It's quite another to do complex formatting with tables and other more advanced features. Word on the Mac was usable, but not as good as on Windows. Numbers was workable but with issues and Excel was worthless. So I'm back to Windows. I still love my iPhone, but I don't see myself getting back into the Mac. Yet it still sits on my desk and I can't bring myself to let it go.

I had to use a mac full time a year or so ago when my windows machine broke down. I elected to return to windows due to familiarity audiogaming (I didn't do much of that after I switched back) as well as mudding (didn't do much of that either), however, I often find myself thinking, "I wish windows did this like mac."
I'm looking forward to seeing how catolyst apps from third-party developers play out, but I digress.

What I will say is the experiences are different, and you will find that there are certain websites (chewy.com) that work way better on windows than saphari. I did not try the affore-mentioned site on Chrome, so that may be a non-issue. For a person that doesn't use the Espeak NG speeds (I can't understand it that quick), Jaws and NVDA both feel less responsive than Mac and Voiceover, and I'm running a surface pro 6, so not the greatest and fastest, but usable.

Having said that, I was able to edit google docs and spreadsheets, work, and do it all with extremely little experience on the Mac. Don't discount the Applevis community, either; you don't get that with windows. Not in a central organized space like this. That and system-wide spellcheck is pretty nice.

My limited experience as well as the couple other pro mac users make me think that formatting is able to be done as ably as windows. I'm pretty confident I would be able to make the switch fully to Mac OS, and may consider it with the new OS, and only lose out on audiogames; most of which, to me, aren't worth playing, anyhow.

I can't speak too much in the land of Braille, as I'm still teaching myself how to use a display with all the screen readers, but I hate Braille support with Jaws, so, the Mac can surely not do worse; Jaws, at least, and the braille commands make zero sense.

Of course one can use VoiceOver on the Mac and it will be sufficient for the needs of many people.

But there is also no doubt that if you do much other what the "average" person would do on a computer or if you use any special programs, JAWS on a windows machine is the answer.

In my opinion here are some of the major deficiencies of VoiceOver compared to something like JAWS, or even NVDA:

1. Keeping up with changes to programs - As someone already pointed out, both JAWS and NVDA release regular updates during the year with significant improvements and bug fixes in response to user feedback. Let's face it, programs are always being updated and changes in the UI and functionality have to be continualy reflected in the screen readers and how they interact with these programs.

2. Scripting - VoiceOver will never be as powerful as either JAWS or NVDA until it has a scripting capability that is readily useable by people so that they can customize their experience when using specific programs. In addition there needs to be a community of users and a place where such scripts can be easily shared and installed so that everyone can take advantage of the communal efforts of other users and scripters.

3. productivity - finally I always make the point that just because a program is "accessible" does not necessarily mean that it can be used productiviely or efficiently by someone using a screen reader. Yes, yu might be able to navigate around the screen and find all of the information you want, but if it takes many keystrokes and searching to find what you are looking for, you'll be lost in the dust of your sighted colleagues and Also, people who use screen readers work differently than people who can see. Screen reader users rely on hotkeys and are not efficient at using a mouse. If hotkeys for performing simple functions that could easily be done with a mouse are not built into a program, then a screen reader can compensate with hotkeys designed with scripts. also, one size doesn't fit all. Some folks might work better if the experience was customized to work in a different way for them. Scripting is the answer here.

This last point about productivitty and efficiency is the most imnportant to me. Accessibility isn't the entire answer except for the most simple use cases.

Anyway, just one man's opinion.

--Pete

Narrator voice is bad and with NVDA you have to purchase eloquence.

you could buy a mac, set up a windows vertual machine with a program like vmware fusion, parallels, and whenever you need to format word documents, startup the windows vm

Its either a $1300 purchace versus a, I believe it was $69? Cost. Not to mention with jaws you have to pay if you want to upgrade... Not worth it; for me atleast. I went for elequence for NVDA As someone else mentioned, jaws is on its way out. I would go for a mac and set up a vm, or vise versa on windows. It really depends on what you need to do. I do audio editing on the mac, as of now I mostly use windows for gaming lol, but i'll give word a shot.

I have seen several comments here talking about how you run Windows on your Mac. How can you recommend that to someone as a viable option? This option makes your computer more expensive because if the original poster was going to go in that direction, she would have to pay for a mac and a copy of windows. I think if you are recommending a mac to someone and telling them they can run Windows to overcome the shortcomings in the Mac, then clearly the mac is not cutting it for you.

there are vertual machines that already are made and already in some cases, come installed with a screenreaders. That is in the case of vertual machines. However on bootcamp? then yes, you would have to buy a copy of windows

Hello all,
I came to the mac back in 2016 and I have seen voiceover fall behind the windows screen readers every year. I have a horrible time trying to navigate the web with safari and voiceover. If you are doing simple web browsing it might be okay but for more complicated things it is a nightmare. For example freecodecamp.org works well on windows but is nearly completely inaccessible in safari with voiceover. Issues with web browsing is the biggest reason I do not go to mac full time. I usually get a better web browsing experience on my iPhone or iPad. Do I think a mac could replace JAWS or NVDA on windows, not at the present moment. If they would fix browsing and add scripting to voiceover it would improve things tremendously.

As somebody who does plenty of audio editing, word processing, and web browsing, I'll say I've used the Mac exclusively since 2015. My last holdover from Windows was audio, but once I got Logic and Pro Tools, I haven't looked back. Are there things I miss? Not really. There are a few Jaws commands I had to figure out the VO equivalent of, and the web will always be a little wanky in both operating systems, as developers are inconsistent! Voiceover is scriptable with Applescript, and many people are doing great things, especially as the audio production world has opened up to us, but with state agencies still pushing Windows and Jaws, that's what will be the norm, probably until forced to do otherwise. One word of advice though...switch cold turkey. Force yourself to learn a new way, or it'll take you years to change. Trackpad Commander will be your friend since you're used to iOS gestures. In fact, I bought an external trackpad for my iMac for that very reason. I'm not bashing Windows, Jaws, or NVDA! They're all fine choices, but unless you have a corporate job that requires JFW and Windows, you can be just fine in the Mac world if it's what you so choose.

Hi,

Mac and Windows are two completely different systems. I use Mac since 2012. At first it was very dificult to switch, you have to learn everything from scratch. Now it is easier for me to do text formating in Mac with Pages. Mac with VO not only replaces Windows with JAWS or NVDA, it is much more officiant. By the way, MS Word works perfectly with VoiceOver. Browsing is also easier on Mac, just use Track Pad. If you are not afraid of learning something new, try Mac. There is nothing you couldn’t do on Mac, except for a few audio games. Just don’t give up immediately, if something goes wrong.

I honestly don't know. VoiceOver has been neglected for many years and is falling behind *all* the Windows screen readers. Maybe I'll be proven wrong in Catalina, but I'm doubting this based on previous releases. The focus and freezing issues in Safari, poor Braille support, and lagging text-to-speech voices are just a few of the longstanding issues that have been reported time and time again only to fall on deaf ears.

As for JAWS, why would anyone use it when NVDA and even Microsoft's own Narrator continue to improve? The only scenario I can think of is scripting applications for a workplace setting. NVDA can already be used to do this using NVDA add-ons, and Narrator might be getting scripting capabilities in the future.

Scripting should not always be the go to option either. No matter what your views are on Apple, you have to give them credit for not immediately taking the scripting option. Developers should take the time to properly code their applications so they're accessible out of the box. Scripting is a band-aid solution that may fix the problem temporarily. What happens if the application updates and all that scripting work is broken? We should be striving to make the world a more accessible place, not making band-aid workarounds that might convince developers to ignore implementing proper accessibility support into their apps.

Yes, it would be really great if scripting wasn't necessary and yes, developers should take accesibility into account out of the box.

two things though:

1. The reality is that developers don't always take accessibility into account out of the box and they don't necessarily know how a blind person might want or need to interact with a program.

2. Even if a program is "accessible" out of the box, different users might want to customize their experience according to their particular work flow and/or requirements.

I don't know about Apple scripting for VoiceOver or how well such tools are shared within the community of VoiceOver users.

--Pete

Here's my view on lagginess etc. It's a use case sinario. On my end, I've not really noticed major killing bugs. For me, it works just fine. Sure you'll have issues... But we need to find workarounds for said things. Find what works on mac side and keep using what works. What works for you, may not work for others. I second special K's points on the mac side. Yes the mac can be quirky, yes web browsing has issues, no the mac is not the be all and end all OS, but for my needs it blows windows out of the water for now. Yes, VO is not perfect, Yes VO is probably slightly behind NVDA, but that's okay. It works, and is built-in to the OS. Thank god. Different people have different views on wheather the mac is perfect or not. For my needs I will not be using windows in the forseeable future.

As others have said, it comes down to personal preference. That's all I'll really say on the matter. I have no intention of being a broken record and repeating what everyone else has said.

I have been using windows and JAWS for over 20 years and MAC and VO for over 10 both personally and for work. There has been many good points made here and I agree for many it is a matter of personal preference. However, MAC and VO fall short in one chritical area, the almost complete lack of PDF support, yes Preview is accessible to a limited extent, but it is not possible for VO to take advantage of fully accessible tagged PDF files and as of yet I have not seen an accessible way to use accessible fillable PDF files on MAC with VO. If there is I would love to try it out.

I sincerely hope we always have a choice of hardware and software. Personally, I love my iPhone and iOS, but I'll never willingly buy a mac, mainly because I think it's seriously overpriced. One can buy equivalent hardware to a mac for about half the cost for a Windows computer. I agree with Ben in comment #20, why recommend buying a mac computer and purchasing a copy of Windows to install on it? You're paying more for the same hardware and gaining nothing more than what you'd get if you just bought a Windows computer for a fraction of the cost. Put another way, why try to convince people that if they are persistent and spend more money, they can learn to do on a mac what they already know how to do on a Windows computer? I fail to see any sense in this argument.

As I said, I love my iPhone and there are some things I actually prefer to do on my phone rather than on my Windows computer (such as Facebook and playing most media) but I learned to touch type more than 50 years ago, so when it comes to doing anything that requires more than a little typing or dictation, I want to do it on my Windows computer with a "real" keyboard. That includes typing this comment. So, I fervently hope that the mac with Voiceover will never replace Windows with its screen reader, be it JAWS, NVDA or Narrator, and I seriously doubt it ever will.

I have used windows and JAWS in a personal and work situation for over 20 years. For the last 10 years I have used a Mac as my personal computer. I am more comfortable with the Mac than I have ever been with windows. This may be a bit surprising considering the fact that I am Microsoft certified. I have certifications in windows 2000 professional and Server. I would also say this, I am not a programmer or a web designer. I also find the Mac easier to figure out. Again, personal opinion here. I find that the new features that are introduced with each operating system upgrade or always well thought out. Of course, you will always have those features that you individually can't or don't need to use. In closing, I cannot stress enough that it is up to each person to make their own decision. Don't depend on someone else's opinion to give you a choice on what you decide. Use each person's opinion is a determining consider a Tory factor.

I use both, and would like to find a way to stop using Windows.

One thing I keep Windows around for is Google Hangouts video conferencing. Running a Google Hangout on my MBP seems to cause the laptop to heat up and the fan to run excessively. Not a problem on my Asus laptop running Windows 7. This is most likely a difference in the video or graphics hardware.

Regarding formatting, anything other than bold, italic, and standard paragraph styles seems equally difficult on both platforms. I do a lot of track changes in MS Word documents, and find that Pages on Mac is just as easy as Word on Windows for those types of tasks.

VoiceOver's built-in highlight rectangle is great if you're a low vision user. JAWS lacks this by default, but you can purchase MAGIC from Freedom Scientific, which provides equivalent functionality.

I find web pages easier to navigate with VoiceOver than JAWS but perhaps this is because I've pretty much made the switch to Mac, so on those few occasions when I try it on Windows, it feels awkward.

I find the Mac to be responsive enough for me. I don't see it as slow in comparison to a Windows machine. I also do not have my speech turned up as fast as it will go. I was never able to perceive speech that quickly anyway.I find the Mac to be responsive enough for me. I don't see it as slow in comparison to a Windows machine. I also do not have my speech turned up as fast as it will go. I was never able to perceive speech that quickly anyway.

I've been using a Mac exclusively since 2011 and it is now time to leave it behind. My new toy will be a ipad air with blue tooth keyboard, probably logittech. So I've had 8 years with no JAWS upgrade costs. And yes there were occasional maddening navigating, browsing and PDF problems using vo. But my memory is not dimmed enough to forget the similar hair pulling times thanks to JAWS & Windows. I'll not be going back, but moving forward. In the final analysis, it will eventually all be replaced with better and faster - in a smaller package. I bow to the screen reader gods, thank you all!

Hi.

Someting real quick from me.

I plan to getr a possible cheaper MBA some day for my mobile needs, so mostly word processing and browsing.
Two questions.
1: Can I use hotkeys like for setting headings from level 1 to 3?
2: In Safari, do I have hotkeys to jump to different objects like under windows with NVDA? So H for headings, l for links, g for graphics and so on.

Greetings Moritz.

Hi Moritz,
Yes, there are hotkeys under safari with VO to navigate by different items. However, in the traditional sense, without quicknav enabled, VO ( control and option keys held down, or the capslock key if enabled) plus command, plus H for heading, L for link, etc... will navigate around the web area like in windows. With Quicknav enabled, you can use the numbers to navigate by heading levels 1 thru I believe 6.

I’m actually considering a switch back to Windows full time. I’ve been on Mac for a decade now. I prefer visual and sound projects on Mac. Documents and word processing are less of a headache on Windows.
I came to Mac with much hope. Apple showed such dedication to the accessibility experience. Somewhere along the way VO on Mac became a side project. Kind of like what Apple TV once was. Accessibility improvements came few and far between. New features just don’t impress. Not sold on Catalyst. Just my personal opinion.
Microsoft once cared less about accessibility experience. Last few years have shown that to be different. Much more progress than Apple.
No platform is perfect though. Apple makes beautiful hardware, but software has suffered. I can’t justify the high premiums for Mac anymore. Software and crappy butterfly keyboards are just a couple examples. I also like knowing that I have more control under the hood when it comes to a Windows machine. I’m an NVDA user, over JAWS. JAWS in my opinion has just become a racket. I know that some are still devoted.
I will always advocate for accessibility on any platform. My wallet is also going to speak a lot louder.

The answer is no. I am happy with Windows 10 specially since it will allow Alexa to be use on the lock screen of my PC. JAWS releases updates fast and address issues regarding bugs that people have. I do like my Series 5 and iPhone XS but unlucky 13 no. I am waiting for iOS 14. It can not be worse than 13.

This is actually harder than I thought.
I yesturday checked out some ultra books at our local electronics store and darn, they pritty much look like MacBook Airs these days, look at devices like the Asus Zenbooks or Wivo books.
The machine I looked at cost around 900 Euros, had an I7 8500, 8 gigs of ram and 512 gigabyte SSD, what more could you want?

Hi, thanks for the answers.

Would it also be possible to use the quick nav keys in Safari without having to press down on the VO keys all the time? Because it would be quite tedious and would more hinder my workflow than improve it.

Greetings Moritz.

Hi,
Yes you can do this. Sometimes it doesn't always work, however, if you want, you can use quicknav with the single letter navigation. I just find using the capslock, or VO keys as the modifier keys work for me.

I don't think it will. Microsoft is doing a pretty good job and Apple doesn't really care about VO on the MAC. With iOS it is a different story of course.
In Catalina, there are lots of new bugs. The new Music app is just...... NVDA might take over the consumer sector but I don't believe in VO on the MAC anymore. Since switching back to Windows I more and more realize how much faster I am, especially with daily tasks. The responsibility of JAWS/NVDA is just so much better.

I think it's hard to say if VoiceOver will replace JAWS. According to the latest Webaim survey, NVDA usage has increased so there are more NVDA than JAWS users. I think companies who make products people need to purchase will need to think about their business model. Screenreader users are now accustomed to free options and these options can't be dismissed. VoiceOver, NVDA, narrator, and TalkBack are serious contenders with JAWS.

well,
it is a different thing.
if you only use Mac.
and maybe it is correct in this case.
buyt, you know! it is more people using windows.
and the thing is:
many software or apps just have the windows version.
and mac and windows are different system...

Hi.

Well, I finally decided to go with a Windows ultra book or sub notebook and not with an apple computer.
I tryed one out yesturday again and for example the quick letter browsing didn't even work, not with quick nav on or quick nav off.
Yes, I could get a MacBook and install windows on it, but seriously why, this is just ideotic in my opinion.
And regarding the uni boddy design of the MB's, there are other cool llooking devices out there as well, Zenbooks, XPS13's surface and so on.

I have to work a lot with ms excell now on macbook air, and that's a pain. That macbook was given to me by some organisation, it has 128 gb disc space and i cannot install windows on it at all. I really need to use Excell for studies and i don't know what to do

These devices are so expensive and help us do so many tasks that its important that you’ve got that right fit for you. The best way to answer this question would be to just try out whatever out on the market and then making an informed decision. Afterall, it’s not about choosing the best one, its about the choosing the right one.

Agreed. I use both mac and windows, mostlyu mac but windows and nvda for my gaming. Mac for my music recording and paper writing and note taking.