I currently use an M1 Mac mini. I use logic pro almost daily for music production, and I am happy to report that it works quite well. There’s also a nice little community of blind musicians who use it. As for video editing, I successfully managed to use iMovie several years ago, but I can’t speak to its current state. I don’t have experience with final cut. Sightlesskombat has been experimenting with that, and using it with some success, from what I remember. All that said, voiceover for Mac is not the same experience as voiceover for iOS. Yes, it has a similar navigation, structure, and rotor controls, but it also has all of the typical desktop navigation commands. You would expect from a screen reader, like Jaws or NVDA. It also has a lot of quirks and bugs. A lot more than on iOS. It’s bad enough that I wrote an email to Tim Cook about it not long ago. If you want a Mac to do content creation, I think it’s a good machine as long as you’re prepared For a little frustration. Otherwise, I cannot, in good faith, recommend a Mac. Some blind people feel differently, and that’s OK. It’s good to get perspectives from multiple users.

Also a primary and power Mac user here. All of the native Apple apps in MacOS are built to be accessible no matter what assistive tech you are using in the system. Garageband and Logic Pro are accessible with VoiceOver and there are some good tutorial videos out there on YouTube from professional blind musicians on how to get them to understand their workflows. iMovie comes with the Mac for video editing, but if that's something you are really going to get into, it's worth buying Final Cut Pro. It's a much more robust and professional editing system that also happens to be fully accessible with VoiceOver.

Compression and conversion apps like Compressor and Handbrake are accessible as well, along with playback apps like VLC. Automator, Scripting tools, Xcode, and system utilities are all accessible as well, and I love building websites and writing code in either TextEdit or Xcode and using Terminal for command line processes. However, if getting into Terminal, I'd recommend getting the TDSR screen reader which was built at the Lighthouse here in SF purely to make a better screen reader experience when using Terminal itself.

Mail, Safari, Photos, iCloud, Pages, Numbers, and Keynoteare all inherently accessible, as is Microsoft Office. No trouble at all with Messages or Zoom for connectivity, and adjusting system preferences and managing networks is a breeze.

Hey ! If you are using Logic Pro, there is a plugin called FastBoard that allows you to use Logic entirely with VoiceOver. It does cost 100€, and the website is probably in French, but it works pretty well. Here's a link : **https://www.fastboard.fr/**

Full time primary mac user here, and I am not your typical everyday user either. I code on the mac as well and starting to use terminal. I am totally blind and so is my boss who is totally blind and who also primarily uses a mac and he owns his own dev company. Let’s just say he wouldn’t have it any other way.

I’ve done some audio stuff on mac and it’s pretty good.

So one thing to note is macs are not flat Osx and it’s mostly all shortcuted. Mac is it’s own thing and you can’t use it like a windows device.

I like it and it works well for me. It depends on you though but totally usable and accessible and just as good if not better in my opinion. I recommend it.

I am so impressed I am learning swift at some point but right now work works off javascrip and html so I have to learn that first.

I too and really wondering about a MacBook or a Mac pad? Because my vision is so low drink simple things is extremely frustrating and takes forever. What are some of the better benefits of a Mac pad?