Kestrell

I think I have finally mastered the rotor gesture, which I can also use with my Kindle Fire tablet.

The secret is: there is no secret, you just need to do it over and over a few dozen times.

Here's how I finally came to think of it: hold your fingers about an inch apart, as if you are making the "this much" gesture. You can hold them either on the vertical or horizontal plane: for me, the best starting position is to make the "this much" gesture and then twist my hand to the left as much as as comfortable.
Note: you should get your hand into position before you touch the screen.
Once you have your fingers in this position, lightly touch the screen. Now switch the position of your fingers without moving your hand: it's a lot like a finger snap, but without having the fingers touch.

While I was practicing this, I imagined my thumb and forefinger as two dancers in an old-fashioned dance: they begin positioned opposite each other, then switch sides, passing each other without touching.

Another way I imagined this was to place my thumb lightly on the screen, and then have my forefinger move around it in an arc. Think of those old-fashioned protractors we used to get with pencil sets. Put your thumb in the center of the bottom's straight edge, then move your forefinger along the arc over it. This doesn't work as consistently as the dancers/fingersnap version, but it got me started in being able to picture the gesture in my head.

The benefit of the latter gesture is that, if you have reduced agility in your hands, you can put one finger down on the screen in that center position, and then take your other hand and make the arc around it with the forefinger.

While this was what I consider my big success for the week, the Tech Juggernaut Voiceover course is giving us *huge* amounts of information. The other big challenges for this week was learning to use Webex with Jaws (because I'm not adept enough at using my iPhone to manage all the emails and Webex links), and learning to use Google Classroom, plus its (kind of crappy). I'm also trying to figure out how to move files and recordings from Google Classroom to Google Drive. viewer for videos.

Also, yesterday afternoon I got to help beta test the new Bookshare skill for Alexa. The voice is very nice, but there is a still some functionality that needs to be added. Still, this Alexa skill is going to be really awesome when its finished.

I did take the opportunity to voice my disappointment that Maria Dahvana Headley's Beowulf is still not available on either Bookshare or NLS.

These are the folks that are teaching the in-depth Voiceover class I will be taking in October-December.
https://ttjtech.net/2020/09/15/getting-ready-for-ios-14-and-its-counterparts/#content

I've been thinking about possibly making the switch to a Mac at some point in the future and, although I've been researching hese questions, I still don't have a clear answer, so I'm hoping my knowledgeable friends can give me more definite answers.

Does Voiceover work with the following programs and formats:
Firefox
ePUB
PDF
Flash

Also, are there any Voiceover users out there who do a lot of scanning and OCR use and, if so, what program and hardware are you using? I'm really not keen on the Docuscan approach of having to send everything I scan to the Internet.