Re: Need help with safari in Lion
Hi, no. For the 6 years I’ve been using a Mac, although new features are added, things are taken away and changed, the overall feel of the operating systems are the same. For me, the most significant feature added in Mountain Lion is the ability to access third party icons in the status menu. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Aug 8, 2013, at 6:33 PM, Stacey Robinson stacey...@bellsouth.net wrote: Ricardo, I'm getting it now. Is mountain lion a lot different than lion which is what I'm running. Blessings, Stacey Robinson andGemini mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net On Aug 8, 2013, at 1:55 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote: Hi, I recorded a short overview of some of the features added in Lion. You can find it here http://www.appletothecore.info/2012/07/apple-to-core-episode-5.html hth Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Aug 8, 2013, at 9:35 AM, Stacey Robinson stacey...@bellsouth.net wrote: Ricardo. Thanks. I'll do that. Any other helpful tips you can give? Web pages to read, podcasts etc. Blessings, Stacey Robinson and Gemini mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net On Aug 8, 2013, at 8:21 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: Hi, open safari and open preferences. In the toolbar select tab and I believe the first option is a pop up where you can set Open pages in tabs instead of windows:. Set this to never. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Aug 8, 2013, at 8:47 AM, Stacey Robinson stacey...@bellsouth.net wrote: Hi all, How do I tell safari that I want web pages to open in new windows and not in tabs? Can't find this anywhere. Thanks, Blessings, Stacey Robinson andGemini mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: help with vmware
i ended up using windoex xp proff in the mac pro, and after a bit of surprises i was free to go. My eyes could see a heck of text flying over the screen but, that was all really. But after end installation and changed key bindings it all runs as i would expect. thanks for all the help so far sandi On 8/8/13, Angus Mackinnon thedog...@gmail.com wrote: Installed Sharp Keys 3.5 and then went into VMWare 5 Pro and launched Windows 7 Professional 64bit. I can do Command U for the Utilities Menu and not Option(ALT) N for Narrator. I do not get passed Suspend, Snapshots, Devices and Enter Unity to get to the login box that I have not set up yet. Can someone please help me get Narrator running? And get to the Login box? Thank you for all the help. Angus MacKinnon MacKinnon Chrest Saying Latin - Audentes Fortuna Juvat English - Fortune Assists The Daring Creating a Better Universe for the future. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: FCC seeks comment on Amazons request for waiver of accessibility requirements
Hi Eric. It is a gorgeous idea, with one major drawback, how many of us do you think got that kind of money. I definitely know that I don't. There's got too be something else that might work. sandi On 8/8/13, Donna Goodin doniado...@me.com wrote: I agree. Cheers, Donna On Aug 8, 2013, at 4:18 PM, Mike Arrigo n0...@charter.net wrote: Oh, I'm not saying amazon should be off the hook. Not at all. I think they should be required to make their device accessible just like everyone else. Really though, it's a shame that it may take a requirement from the government to make this happen. Usually when it's required, the company only does the minimum required to satisfy the requirement. They should make it accessible because it's the right thing to do and increases their consumer base. When a company does something because they want to, rather than because they have to, usually the result is much better. Original message: Right. But why does that let Amazon off the hook? Donna Sent from my iPhone On Aug 8, 2013, at 9:08 AM, Mike Arrigo n0...@charter.net wrote: There are other choices. The newest versions of android are just as accessible, and these are made by several manufacturers. Original message: Hi all, I really have to agree with Eric, here. In response to Barry, what Apple did with the iPhone 3Gs was to make a main-stream device accessible to us. And yes, that still has the potential to level the playing field . But the playing field is hardly level if Apple is the only company doing this, if for no other reason than what that means is that blind consumers would only have one choice. I agree with Bary. I love my Apple products and have absolutely no interest in personally owning a Kindle. But I work with lots of students who do have them. Kindle does a lot more in textbooks than other e-text providers, which means that people will want to buy these devices for school. Isn't it reasonable to strive to have the same level of choice in our mobile technology as our sighted peers? Sandy is right, there's a big gap between the ideal and the current reality, but that's a big reason why I think it's worth doing everything we can to stop Amazon from getting this waiver. Barry may be correct, and that all our comments may be for naught. However, the only way we'll know is to try. Best, Donna On Aug 8, 2013, at 5:01 AM, eric oyen eric.o...@gmail.com wrote: and what is wrong with that? the powers that be try every way to keep us penned up, but I do not accept that. We have the right to be able to live the same as others (at least here in the U.S.). So, why should we accept anything less? -eric On Aug 7, 2013, at 2:16 PM, Barry Hadder wrote: I recall a time not so long ago when i devices first became accessible, everyone thinking how that was going to level the playing field. It’s funny how quickly perspectives change. Now the bar has been raised even higher. The playing field will not be level until blind people have access to every cheep piece of crap in existence. I should say that I’m happy with what Apple does and I have no desire to use anything else. That said however, I certainly think that it would be a very good think if other companies would realize the importance of opening their products up to other segments of society and not excluding them. I just don’t think that this is going to convince them. I don’t want to completely let Apple off the hook as it seems to me at times that there are factions under their roof that don’t seem to understand the importance of accessibility or what Voiceover is even used for. On the other hand, I think that there is a much larger faction at Apple that definitely gets it and that the evidence to support this is over whelming. I realize that not every body can listen to them, but there were some very impressive sessions at WWDC on the importance of accessibility and how easy it really is to not only make an app usable to a blind person, but make it a nice experience to use. I would like to suggest, that just maybe, if a government agency needs to step in to private inderestry and dictate to a company how their product is required to function, the result probably won’t be something you are going to want to use. I think that we as a blind community have access to more information then at any other time in history. And, while things can always be better, maybe some gratitude is in order for the really good things that some companies like Apple have done. On Aug 7, 2013, at 12:36 PM, Richard Ring richr...@gmail.com wrote: And, let's face it! Not all blind people can afford i devices, nor should they have to! Having a relatively inexpensive Ereader would really help to level the playing field! You can have an off day, but you can't have a day off! ---The Art of Fielding Sent from my Mac Book Pro richr...@gmail.com On Aug 7, 2013, at 12:21 PM, Eugenia Firth
Re: help with vmware
Hi Sandy and others interested, After you have fusion installed and you have a windows vm running, you can go a few different ways. As it is by default with fusion and windows, the command key next to the spacebar, is not the alt key as you would expect from a windows keyboard. Instead, command is now the windows logo key, while the mac option key is alt, in windows. You can choose to leave that as it is, or you can swap the keys if you prefer so. You can do this in the global preferences inside fusion, command comma, when all VMs are shut down. There is a keyboard setup screen with multiple tab sheets there, available from the toolbar. You'll find a listbox there, containing all current, default key bindings. For example, the mac user does a command c to copy, while in windows, you would do control c rather than command c. So, fusion, to make the windows interface as intuitive as possible for the mac user, assigns command c to be mapped to control c. In other words, in a windows virtual machine, by default, command c does the same thing as control c. This is not always what you want. There are a few other keystrokes that can get in your way, mapped inside this same screen, that you may want to get rid of, depending on your preference. For instance, command h, by default in windows fusion, maps to hide the current application, in this case fusion itself, while alt h in windows, will simply open, or pull down, the help menu for the current program. This is only true, if you swap the windows and alt keys yourself, so that the windows keyboard feels more like a windows one. When I was inside windows working happily away, I pressed alt h to open the help, and suddenly speech went away. I later discovered, that fusion was out of focus, and so I was in the mac system. After turning voiceover back on, I could navigate back into windows, turn it off, and continue windowing. so depending on your preference, you might want to do away with these key bindings. Anyway, over 10 key combinations are here by default, and simply by highlighting the key you don't want changed and hitting the remove button next to the list box, you can get rid of them. In windows xp, you can start narrator in a few ways. You can type in its name and have windows start that up. In this case, hit alt plus r, type narrator, and hit enter. Or, you can start narrator by launching what is called the utility manager in windows. This is a program for assistive technologies, and if you run that, it also happens to invoke narrator. To start narrator this way, simply hit windows logo, plus the u key, as in utility manager. Be aware though, that you now have 2 programs open, the utility manager and the narrator. If you then alt tab to the utility manager, you can safely close it, without loosing speech, because narrator is still running, and so you no longer need utility manager to be running, because you only used it to invoke narrator. In windows 7, I found that the easiest way to get narrator to talk, is by hitting alt plus r, typing narrator followed by enter. You can still use utility manager, but I don't know its keystrokes. Once narrator is running, you need a way to get NVDA or any screen reader of choice, to run in windows. To do that, you could use a USB stick, but there's an easier method. You can access your mac files, from within windows, using a service that fusion gives you. If, during the windows setup in fusion, you chose to set windows up more seamless, as opposed to more isolated, then in seemless mode, there is an icon on your desktop called vmware shared folders. Technically, this is a virtual network connection, but in practice, this takes you into your mac file system, and if you have NVDA downloaded there somewhere, then you can easily install it. If you move to windows 7 from xp, which is wise in the near future given the fact that security updates will no longer appear after april 14th 2014, then if you install NVDA, it may seem to hang during the installation. This is in fact not true, but what I had to find out about before being able to install NVDA, is that on the screen, but in the background, there is a user access control window, asking you if you really want to install a new peace of software. UAC protects you from installing unintentional things, by popping up a warning if windows sees that stuff is being installed, and that's all fine and good, but not if you are not aware of this window appearing in the background, while you are awaiting the finish of the NVDA installation. What you can do is, simply alt tab to this UAC window, say yes, and immediately NVDA goes on and installs. Hth, Paul. On Aug 8, 2013, at 3:23 PM, Sandi Jazmin Kruse sandi1...@gmail.com wrote: hi, eventually i have at long last got vmware up and run with windows, but can anyone tell me what do i do from there? getting narrator or nvda up and run would be a good thing, but how? all
Re: Switching Between Mac and Windows when Editing a Text File
Hi Jef, Yes I ran into this as well. If you have a mac text file in your windows machine and you want to edit it, then yes, the line breaks are all messed up. I'll try to explain what is going on, and then give you the solution. Each character in a text file is a 1-byte value. In the old days, we called them ASCII values. In this character to numbers mapping, an A was 65 in our decimal system, or 41 in hex. Just remember that each letter has its associated value. These days, there is unicode next to ASCII, bug the idea is the same. Each printable character gets a number assigned, so the characters can be stored in computer files. Now, a line break is also a number: 10 in decimal, or 0a in hex. In unix and mac text files, if you manually hit enter in a text file, then a byte with the decimal value of 10 is inserted as the line break. Windows and dos on the other hand, use 2 characters to signal a line break, being 0d 0a, or the 2 bytes together, having values of 13 and 10. 13 Is a carriage return, while 10 is a line feed. Carriage return comes from the old type writers, where you push the carriage back, ready for a new line to be typed. The line feed, stands for pulling the handle on the left of the type writer, so that the paper advances one line down. See how old unix actually is? In short: mac uses one byte, 0a, as a new line, and windows uses the carriage return and then line feed pair, 0d 0a. So the cause of the problem is, that linebreaks look different, in mac files and windows files. Wordpad in windows is aware of this, but notepad is not. So, while on a mac text file inside windows, use the application key to bring up the context menu for the file, choose open with, and then choose wordpad. Alternatively, you can also first open wordpad and then hit control o to retrieve the text file. If you use wordpad to open the file, its lines will be nice the way you expect them. What I usually do is hit space and then backspace, so that wordpad will ask me to save the file once I hit alt f4, and if you save it, even over the mac copy, then you will have a nice windows file, where after each linefeed 0a, wordpad nicely adds the windows carriage return for you. So, for each messed up text file from the mac that you are seeing in windows, use open with, choose wordpad, save it back, and you're done. I haven't yet found out how to get rid of the carriage return pair to go the other way from windows back to mac. In text edit, I keep seeing carriage return linefeed pairs, but text edit is smart enough to handle these nicely. Hth, Paul. On Aug 9, 2013, at 1:36 AM, Jeff Berwick mailingli...@berwick.name wrote: Hi All, I am working with a file that I have created on my Mac and I need to access it on my Windows machine. The line endings are all messed up though, so that returns are not being honoured. Does anybody know a quick way to make sure that the file can be edited on both a Mac and Windows machine? Thx, Jeff -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: help with vmware
Hi Paul, and first of all thank you for the tidbits, :) it is always wonderful to get help from others who knows more about a given situation than one might. What i have done so far, and it is not given it is the best thing, but more about that later on. Eventually i have a scanner, it won't run under mac, so i simply took a old xp cd, inserted it into the 12 core mac pro, installed windows on it and more or less have mapped the keys as you said, installed nvda and after that moved it allover via the usb key on the mac book air. Now of course i need to set the nvda keys up, but I'm confident i can do that on my own :) have a wonderful day sandi On 8/9/13, Paul Erkens paul.erk...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Sandy and others interested, After you have fusion installed and you have a windows vm running, you can go a few different ways. As it is by default with fusion and windows, the command key next to the spacebar, is not the alt key as you would expect from a windows keyboard. Instead, command is now the windows logo key, while the mac option key is alt, in windows. You can choose to leave that as it is, or you can swap the keys if you prefer so. You can do this in the global preferences inside fusion, command comma, when all VMs are shut down. There is a keyboard setup screen with multiple tab sheets there, available from the toolbar. You'll find a listbox there, containing all current, default key bindings. For example, the mac user does a command c to copy, while in windows, you would do control c rather than command c. So, fusion, to make the windows interface as intuitive as possible for the mac user, assigns command c to be mapped to control c. In other words, in a windows virtual machine, by default, command c does the same thing as control c. This is not always what you want. There are a few other keystrokes that can get in your way, mapped inside this same screen, that you may want to get rid of, depending on your preference. For instance, command h, by default in windows fusion, maps to hide the current application, in this case fusion itself, while alt h in windows, will simply open, or pull down, the help menu for the current program. This is only true, if you swap the windows and alt keys yourself, so that the windows keyboard feels more like a windows one. When I was inside windows working happily away, I pressed alt h to open the help, and suddenly speech went away. I later discovered, that fusion was out of focus, and so I was in the mac system. After turning voiceover back on, I could navigate back into windows, turn it off, and continue windowing. so depending on your preference, you might want to do away with these key bindings. Anyway, over 10 key combinations are here by default, and simply by highlighting the key you don't want changed and hitting the remove button next to the list box, you can get rid of them. In windows xp, you can start narrator in a few ways. You can type in its name and have windows start that up. In this case, hit alt plus r, type narrator, and hit enter. Or, you can start narrator by launching what is called the utility manager in windows. This is a program for assistive technologies, and if you run that, it also happens to invoke narrator. To start narrator this way, simply hit windows logo, plus the u key, as in utility manager. Be aware though, that you now have 2 programs open, the utility manager and the narrator. If you then alt tab to the utility manager, you can safely close it, without loosing speech, because narrator is still running, and so you no longer need utility manager to be running, because you only used it to invoke narrator. In windows 7, I found that the easiest way to get narrator to talk, is by hitting alt plus r, typing narrator followed by enter. You can still use utility manager, but I don't know its keystrokes. Once narrator is running, you need a way to get NVDA or any screen reader of choice, to run in windows. To do that, you could use a USB stick, but there's an easier method. You can access your mac files, from within windows, using a service that fusion gives you. If, during the windows setup in fusion, you chose to set windows up more seamless, as opposed to more isolated, then in seemless mode, there is an icon on your desktop called vmware shared folders. Technically, this is a virtual network connection, but in practice, this takes you into your mac file system, and if you have NVDA downloaded there somewhere, then you can easily install it. If you move to windows 7 from xp, which is wise in the near future given the fact that security updates will no longer appear after april 14th 2014, then if you install NVDA, it may seem to hang during the installation. This is in fact not true, but what I had to find out about before being able to install NVDA, is that on the screen, but in the background, there is a user access control window, asking you if you really
Re: ole aria?
Olaria keeps crashing for me every time I open it. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: FCC seeks comment on Amazons request for waiver of accessibility requirements
HI, This is really interesting. I just have a couple of points to make. 1. I hope this doesn't mean that if Amazon is unsuccessful in getting the exemption it will stop supporting VoiceOver on its iOS app. 2. I really respect the fact that you're making your voice heard to the FCC. However, I would respectfully suggest that you consider changing the angle of your submission a little. Instead of focusing on publicly available information, instead focus on what the FCC can only get from you. 2.1. The thrust of Amazong and friends' argument is that blind people don't use e-readers anyway, so why make them accessible? You should explain to the FCC that in fact you and many blind people love using e-readers and receive an enormous benefit from using e-readers. Explain the benefit of electronic books to blind people. 2.2. Explain how these e-readers would give blind people equal access to many more books than they would otherwise be able to access. 2.3. Explain how blind people would benefit from the same aspects of an e-reader that sighted people benefit from, namely that they are more simple than ordinary tablet computers as they focus solely on reading, they have better battery life, are lighter, and are less expensive. 2.4. Amazong also tries to argue that e-readers do not run apps like other tablet computers. Explain that this does not matter for blind people, that blind users do not want e-readers to use other apps, but simply to read electronic books in an accessible manner, through the use of text-to-speech technology or external third party braille displays. 2.5. Saying that Apple makes its products accessible and keeps its costs the same as its competitors is unhelpful, and may actually be misleading. Apple's prices are generally more expensive than it's competitors. We don't know how easily or otherwise Apple makes its products accessible, or how expensive this is. All we know is that they do it well. But Amazon's argument is that Apple's products are more advanced machines with better processors and so they can support accessibility, whereas its e-readers are designed to use more basic components to keep costs down and increase battery life. In any case, this issue is really one for experts to advise the FCC on. The blind community is better off giving assistance to the FCC by explaining how and why we use e-readers. Those are just my suggestions. I hope they are of some help. I'd be keen to discuss the issue further as I think it's a really interesting one and you're doing a great thing by making the voice of the blind community heard. Thanks for your work! Best, Nic -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: FCC seeks comment on Amazons request for waiver of accessibility requirements
I just hope that if Amazong doesn't get this waiver, it doesn't stop supporting VoiceOver on its iOS app. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: FCC seeks comment on Amazons request for waiver of accessibility requirements
You can also point out that I phones and other appe devices are expensive and not all blind persons can afford such technology so it would be in their best interests to make their stuff more accessible. On 9 Aug 2013, at 11:11 AM, Nicholas Parsons mr.nicholas.pars...@gmail.com wrote: HI, This is really interesting. I just have a couple of points to make. 1. I hope this doesn't mean that if Amazon is unsuccessful in getting the exemption it will stop supporting VoiceOver on its iOS app. 2. I really respect the fact that you're making your voice heard to the FCC. However, I would respectfully suggest that you consider changing the angle of your submission a little. Instead of focusing on publicly available information, instead focus on what the FCC can only get from you. 2.1. The thrust of Amazong and friends' argument is that blind people don't use e-readers anyway, so why make them accessible? You should explain to the FCC that in fact you and many blind people love using e-readers and receive an enormous benefit from using e-readers. Explain the benefit of electronic books to blind people. 2.2. Explain how these e-readers would give blind people equal access to many more books than they would otherwise be able to access. 2.3. Explain how blind people would benefit from the same aspects of an e-reader that sighted people benefit from, namely that they are more simple than ordinary tablet computers as they focus solely on reading, they have better battery life, are lighter, and are less expensive. 2.4. Amazong also tries to argue that e-readers do not run apps like other tablet computers. Explain that this does not matter for blind people, that blind users do not want e-readers to use other apps, but simply to read electronic books in an accessible manner, through the use of text-to-speech technology or external third party braille displays. 2.5. Saying that Apple makes its products accessible and keeps its costs the same as its competitors is unhelpful, and may actually be misleading. Apple's prices are generally more expensive than it's competitors. We don't know how easily or otherwise Apple makes its products accessible, or how expensive this is. All we know is that they do it well. But Amazon's argument is that Apple's products are more advanced machines with better processors and so they can support accessibility, whereas its e-readers are designed to use more basic components to keep costs down and increase battery life. In any case, this issue is really one for experts to advise the FCC on. The blind community is better off giving assistance to the FCC by explaining how and why we use e-readers. Those are just my suggestions. I hope they are of some help. I'd be keen to discuss the issue further as I think it's a really interesting one and you're doing a great thing by making the voice of the blind community heard. Thanks for your work! Best, Nic -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: Downcast on the Mac All podcasts dim
I've never had episodes dim before either, but would also point out that to start a podcast playing initially you need to use the command-shift-s command. Space bar only works to play/pause once playback has begun. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
External battery
Morning to all, having seen the discussion regarding the limeade line of external batteries, I almost purchased the 18. I am now trying to make a choice I discovered the peak 6000 which includes the ability to speak certain status information. My question is anyone out there own both external batteries? If yes which one would you recommend? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: help with vmware
Sandy, Capslock is trickey to do under fusion, so let's just use the insert key. Insert is normally not available on a mac keyboard. There is a key that you could use as insert though, which is the accent key, on US keyboard just below escape. To map the accent key to become the insert key as long as you have windows on, do the following. Open fusion and make sure that all VM's are shut off. Then hit command comma, to get into the preferences for fusion. From the toolbar, select keyboard and mouse. You now see your current key mappings. Skip the profile bit. Just leave that at default. Hit add, to add a new mapping. In the dialog that comes, VO over to the first combobox. This is where you set your source key to be mapped, in your case accent. So, once on the combobox, just hit accent and move on. You'll then find the to, field. Skip all the checkboxes and stop on the next combobox. This is where you select the key you want to happen, if you hit your accent key, so we must select insert in here. If you hit VO space on the combobox, a list will pop up as usual. Select insert, but do not hit VO space. What you have to do in little, non-standard interface, is stop interacting till you can not go up any further. This leaves the combobox alone, having insert selected. Now hit okay and you have your insert key. Exit fusion preferences by hitting command w, for close window. Fire up windows and NVDA, hold down accent, below escape, and hit n. If all went well, the NVDA menu will pop up, because NVDA thinks it sees insert plus n. If that does not happen, go back into fusion preferences and check your mapping. If it was wrong, delete it and start over. Hth, Paul. On Aug 9, 2013, at 11:42 AM, Sandi Jazmin Kruse sandi1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Paul, and first of all thank you for the tidbits, :) it is always wonderful to get help from others who knows more about a given situation than one might. What i have done so far, and it is not given it is the best thing, but more about that later on. Eventually i have a scanner, it won't run under mac, so i simply took a old xp cd, inserted it into the 12 core mac pro, installed windows on it and more or less have mapped the keys as you said, installed nvda and after that moved it allover via the usb key on the mac book air. Now of course i need to set the nvda keys up, but I'm confident i can do that on my own :) have a wonderful day sandi On 8/9/13, Paul Erkens paul.erk...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Sandy and others interested, After you have fusion installed and you have a windows vm running, you can go a few different ways. As it is by default with fusion and windows, the command key next to the spacebar, is not the alt key as you would expect from a windows keyboard. Instead, command is now the windows logo key, while the mac option key is alt, in windows. You can choose to leave that as it is, or you can swap the keys if you prefer so. You can do this in the global preferences inside fusion, command comma, when all VMs are shut down. There is a keyboard setup screen with multiple tab sheets there, available from the toolbar. You'll find a listbox there, containing all current, default key bindings. For example, the mac user does a command c to copy, while in windows, you would do control c rather than command c. So, fusion, to make the windows interface as intuitive as possible for the mac user, assigns command c to be mapped to control c. In other words, in a windows virtual machine, by default, command c does the same thing as control c. This is not always what you want. There are a few other keystrokes that can get in your way, mapped inside this same screen, that you may want to get rid of, depending on your preference. For instance, command h, by default in windows fusion, maps to hide the current application, in this case fusion itself, while alt h in windows, will simply open, or pull down, the help menu for the current program. This is only true, if you swap the windows and alt keys yourself, so that the windows keyboard feels more like a windows one. When I was inside windows working happily away, I pressed alt h to open the help, and suddenly speech went away. I later discovered, that fusion was out of focus, and so I was in the mac system. After turning voiceover back on, I could navigate back into windows, turn it off, and continue windowing. so depending on your preference, you might want to do away with these key bindings. Anyway, over 10 key combinations are here by default, and simply by highlighting the key you don't want changed and hitting the remove button next to the list box, you can get rid of them. In windows xp, you can start narrator in a few ways. You can type in its name and have windows start that up. In this case, hit alt plus r, type narrator, and hit enter. Or, you can start narrator by launching what is called the utility manager in windows. This is a
Re: Keyboard shortcut iCloud tabs?
Hi Tracey, I don't have the answer, but because you seem familiar with icloud tabs, I hope you know how I can delete all of them. How do I get rid of all icloud tabs, so that I can start from scratch with them? Interested. Paul. On Aug 8, 2013, at 6:02 PM, Traci Duncan our4p...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I just did some googling with no result. Does anyone know if there is a keyboard shortcut to quickly jump to the iCloud tabs in Safari? Thank you, Traci -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
secure ftp and ssh
Hi listers, If I set up a secure ftp server, then what happens to secure shell? I'd like to set up an sftp server, without allowing secure shell for users outside my network. How can I do this? Can I have one without the other? Paul. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: help with vmware
The advantage of doing it Paul's way is that it doesn't matter how many VM Machines you have with Windows, you can always have an insert key that way paul says in his message below. One of the reasons why I only use VM preferences. Kawal. On 9 Aug 2013, at 11:38 AM, Paul Erkens paul.erk...@gmail.com wrote: Sandy, Capslock is trickey to do under fusion, so let's just use the insert key. Insert is normally not available on a mac keyboard. There is a key that you could use as insert though, which is the accent key, on US keyboard just below escape. To map the accent key to become the insert key as long as you have windows on, do the following. Open fusion and make sure that all VM's are shut off. Then hit command comma, to get into the preferences for fusion. From the toolbar, select keyboard and mouse. You now see your current key mappings. Skip the profile bit. Just leave that at default. Hit add, to add a new mapping. In the dialog that comes, VO over to the first combobox. This is where you set your source key to be mapped, in your case accent. So, once on the combobox, just hit accent and move on. You'll then find the to, field. Skip all the checkboxes and stop on the next combobox. This is where you select the key you want to happen, if you hit your accent key, so we must select insert in here. If you hit VO space on the combobox, a list will pop up as usual. Select insert, but do not hit VO space. What you have to do in little, non-standard interface, is stop interacting till you can not go up any further. This leaves the combobox alone, having insert selected. Now hit okay and you have your insert key. Exit fusion preferences by hitting command w, for close window. Fire up windows and NVDA, hold down accent, below escape, and hit n. If all went well, the NVDA menu will pop up, because NVDA thinks it sees insert plus n. If that does not happen, go back into fusion preferences and check your mapping. If it was wrong, delete it and start over. Hth, Paul. On Aug 9, 2013, at 11:42 AM, Sandi Jazmin Kruse sandi1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Paul, and first of all thank you for the tidbits, :) it is always wonderful to get help from others who knows more about a given situation than one might. What i have done so far, and it is not given it is the best thing, but more about that later on. Eventually i have a scanner, it won't run under mac, so i simply took a old xp cd, inserted it into the 12 core mac pro, installed windows on it and more or less have mapped the keys as you said, installed nvda and after that moved it allover via the usb key on the mac book air. Now of course i need to set the nvda keys up, but I'm confident i can do that on my own :) have a wonderful day sandi On 8/9/13, Paul Erkens paul.erk...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Sandy and others interested, After you have fusion installed and you have a windows vm running, you can go a few different ways. As it is by default with fusion and windows, the command key next to the spacebar, is not the alt key as you would expect from a windows keyboard. Instead, command is now the windows logo key, while the mac option key is alt, in windows. You can choose to leave that as it is, or you can swap the keys if you prefer so. You can do this in the global preferences inside fusion, command comma, when all VMs are shut down. There is a keyboard setup screen with multiple tab sheets there, available from the toolbar. You'll find a listbox there, containing all current, default key bindings. For example, the mac user does a command c to copy, while in windows, you would do control c rather than command c. So, fusion, to make the windows interface as intuitive as possible for the mac user, assigns command c to be mapped to control c. In other words, in a windows virtual machine, by default, command c does the same thing as control c. This is not always what you want. There are a few other keystrokes that can get in your way, mapped inside this same screen, that you may want to get rid of, depending on your preference. For instance, command h, by default in windows fusion, maps to hide the current application, in this case fusion itself, while alt h in windows, will simply open, or pull down, the help menu for the current program. This is only true, if you swap the windows and alt keys yourself, so that the windows keyboard feels more like a windows one. When I was inside windows working happily away, I pressed alt h to open the help, and suddenly speech went away. I later discovered, that fusion was out of focus, and so I was in the mac system. After turning voiceover back on, I could navigate back into windows, turn it off, and continue windowing. so depending on your preference, you might want to do away with these key bindings. Anyway, over 10 key combinations are here by default, and simply by highlighting the key you don't want changed and
Re: help with vmware
nice! :) On 8/9/13, Kawal Gucukoglu kawa...@me.com wrote: The advantage of doing it Paul's way is that it doesn't matter how many VM Machines you have with Windows, you can always have an insert key that way paul says in his message below. One of the reasons why I only use VM preferences. Kawal. On 9 Aug 2013, at 11:38 AM, Paul Erkens paul.erk...@gmail.com wrote: Sandy, Capslock is trickey to do under fusion, so let's just use the insert key. Insert is normally not available on a mac keyboard. There is a key that you could use as insert though, which is the accent key, on US keyboard just below escape. To map the accent key to become the insert key as long as you have windows on, do the following. Open fusion and make sure that all VM's are shut off. Then hit command comma, to get into the preferences for fusion. From the toolbar, select keyboard and mouse. You now see your current key mappings. Skip the profile bit. Just leave that at default. Hit add, to add a new mapping. In the dialog that comes, VO over to the first combobox. This is where you set your source key to be mapped, in your case accent. So, once on the combobox, just hit accent and move on. You'll then find the to, field. Skip all the checkboxes and stop on the next combobox. This is where you select the key you want to happen, if you hit your accent key, so we must select insert in here. If you hit VO space on the combobox, a list will pop up as usual. Select insert, but do not hit VO space. What you have to do in little, non-standard interface, is stop interacting till you can not go up any further. This leaves the combobox alone, having insert selected. Now hit okay and you have your insert key. Exit fusion preferences by hitting command w, for close window. Fire up windows and NVDA, hold down accent, below escape, and hit n. If all went well, the NVDA menu will pop up, because NVDA thinks it sees insert plus n. If that does not happen, go back into fusion preferences and check your mapping. If it was wrong, delete it and start over. Hth, Paul. On Aug 9, 2013, at 11:42 AM, Sandi Jazmin Kruse sandi1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Paul, and first of all thank you for the tidbits, :) it is always wonderful to get help from others who knows more about a given situation than one might. What i have done so far, and it is not given it is the best thing, but more about that later on. Eventually i have a scanner, it won't run under mac, so i simply took a old xp cd, inserted it into the 12 core mac pro, installed windows on it and more or less have mapped the keys as you said, installed nvda and after that moved it allover via the usb key on the mac book air. Now of course i need to set the nvda keys up, but I'm confident i can do that on my own :) have a wonderful day sandi On 8/9/13, Paul Erkens paul.erk...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Sandy and others interested, After you have fusion installed and you have a windows vm running, you can go a few different ways. As it is by default with fusion and windows, the command key next to the spacebar, is not the alt key as you would expect from a windows keyboard. Instead, command is now the windows logo key, while the mac option key is alt, in windows. You can choose to leave that as it is, or you can swap the keys if you prefer so. You can do this in the global preferences inside fusion, command comma, when all VMs are shut down. There is a keyboard setup screen with multiple tab sheets there, available from the toolbar. You'll find a listbox there, containing all current, default key bindings. For example, the mac user does a command c to copy, while in windows, you would do control c rather than command c. So, fusion, to make the windows interface as intuitive as possible for the mac user, assigns command c to be mapped to control c. In other words, in a windows virtual machine, by default, command c does the same thing as control c. This is not always what you want. There are a few other keystrokes that can get in your way, mapped inside this same screen, that you may want to get rid of, depending on your preference. For instance, command h, by default in windows fusion, maps to hide the current application, in this case fusion itself, while alt h in windows, will simply open, or pull down, the help menu for the current program. This is only true, if you swap the windows and alt keys yourself, so that the windows keyboard feels more like a windows one. When I was inside windows working happily away, I pressed alt h to open the help, and suddenly speech went away. I later discovered, that fusion was out of focus, and so I was in the mac system. After turning voiceover back on, I could navigate back into windows, turn it off, and continue windowing. so depending on your preference, you might want to do away with these key bindings. Anyway, over 10 key combinations are here by default, and
Re: Using a hearing aid and voiceover together
Hello Gigi. My position is a bit different from that of your friend, I am totally blind and use this sort of system all the time, in fact, I'm writing this message with such a system. What you need to determine, if I may say so, is the bluetooth profiles supported by the streaming device in question. The easiest way is just to plug the name of the device (every manufacturer has their own), into Google. If the device supports only HSP/HFP, it will probably not work with VO when the phone is not on a call. There are some jailbreak applications which claim to make things like VO work with HFP/HSP only Bluetooth headsets, but they are quite unreliable in my experience even if you do wish to jailbreak. If, on the other hand, the device supports A2DP, it will probably work with VO whenever you use it. If the device is confirmed to work with A2DP, then try playing music while the device is on. If that dosn't work, you may have a defective device. If that playing of music does work, then it may be worth contacting Apple Accessibility to see why VO is not sending through the proper channel. I hope all that is of use. Aman On 2013-08-08, at 7:46 PM, Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com wrote: Thanks Maurice. I will save your message because I am going to try to get somebody to work with us on this problem on Saturday. All the information you gave is out of my experience, but I'm sure somebody there will know what I'm talking about when I show them your message. Regards, Gigi Sent from my iPhone On Aug 8, 2013, at 5:27 PM, Maurice Mines maurice.mi...@gmail.com wrote: hello, I use a Bluetooth system that Internet onto my hearing aids that can take the audio from a variety of devices, providing however that the our Bluetooth capable such as the iPhone, or have a headphone jack and you can plug a small transmitter into the device that will then transmit a Bluetooth signal to what essentially is a Bluetooth repeater and/or Smalley Reeboks if you will, such a system does exist with many popular hearing aid models I just so happen to have one made by Siemens. I think it's called the Mini TAC. What I do when I want to hear voiceover without any distractions, is I plug the transmitter unit into the headphone jack of my MacBook Pro, and then use the Bluetooth AV box that comes with the system change to the appropriate channel that the Bluetooth receiver, can receive the output of the little transmitter that I've plugged into the headphone jack of my MacBook Pro. This works extremely well. If the person you are working with has this type of a system what she needs to do is keep pressing the pairing button Intel B Bluetooth AV box terrors with a transmitter that is taking the output of the MacBook Pro and by using both of these devices one can essentially use their hearing aids as headphones. Depending on the manufacturer the audio from the computer can be mixed with the environmental audio that the hearing aids would normally pick up, but what is likely to happen, is that the hearing aids will have to turn off the environmental sound i.e. the built-in microphones in the hearing aids in order to allow the hearing aids to receive the output from the computer. If you need any more suggestions on how to use the type of system I've described, and use please send me an email either on, or off the list and I'll see if I can help you, and/or find resources to help you. My full signature follows. Sent from my MacBook Pro. Sincerely Maurice mines secretary national Federation of the blind of Washington Clark County chapter. Amateur radio call sign kd0iko. Phone 360-524-0791. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit
Re: FCC seeks comment on Amazons request for waiver of accessibility requirements
The waiver only applies to future productions of the ereaders. Teresa On Aug 9, 2013, at 3:21 AM, Nicholas Parsons mr.nicholas.pars...@gmail.com wrote: I just hope that if Amazong doesn't get this waiver, it doesn't stop supporting VoiceOver on its iOS app. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: secure ftp and ssh
Google is your friend: http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=2007110914083783 CB On 8/9/13 6:46 AM, Paul Erkens wrote: Hi listers, If I set up a secure ftp server, then what happens to secure shell? I'd like to set up an sftp server, without allowing secure shell for users outside my network. How can I do this? Can I have one without the other? Paul. -- ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: Switching Between Mac and Windows when Editing a Text File
Hi Paul, Thank you for your suggestion. Unfortunately, I use Wordpad all the time and this is where I am having the problem. It seems like it is ignoring the LF as it doesn't have the CRLF. Any other thoughts? Thx, Jeff Original email: - From: Paul Erkens paul.erk...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2013 11:41:42 +0200 To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Switching Between Mac and Windows when Editing a Text File Hi Jef, Yes I ran into this as well. If you have a mac text file in your windows machine and you want to edit it, then yes, the line breaks are all messed up. I'll try to explain what is going on, and then give you the solution. Each character in a text file is a 1-byte value. In the old days, we called them ASCII values. In this character to numbers mapping, an A was 65 in our decimal system, or 41 in hex. Just remember that each letter has its associated value. These days, there is unicode next to ASCII, bug the idea is the same. Each printable character gets a number assigned, so the characters can be stored in computer files. Now, a line break is also a number: 10 in decimal, or 0a in hex. In unix and mac text files, if you manually hit enter in a text file, then a byte with the decimal value of 10 is inserted as the line break. Windows and dos on the other hand, use 2 characters to signal a line break, being 0d 0a, or the 2 bytes together, having values of 13 and 10. 13 Is a carriage return, while 10 is a line feed. Carriage return comes from the old type writers, where you push the carriage back, ready for a new line to be typed. The line feed, stands for pulling the handle on the left of the type writer, so that the paper advances one line down. See how old unix actually is? In short: mac uses one byte, 0a, as a new line, and windows uses the carriage return and then line feed pair, 0d 0a. So the cause of the problem is, that linebreaks look different, in mac files and windows files. Wordpad in windows is aware of this, but notepad is not. So, while on a mac text file inside windows, use the application key to bring up the context menu for the file, choose open with, and then choose wordpad. Alternatively, you can also first open wordpad and then hit control o to retrieve the text file. If you use wordpad to open the file, its lines will be nice the way you expect them. What I usually do is hit space and then backspace, so that wordpad will ask me to save the file once I hit alt f4, and if you save it, even over the mac copy, then you will have a nice windows file, where after each linefeed 0a, wordpad nicely adds the windows carriage return for you. So, for each messed up text file from the mac that you are seeing in windows, use open with, choose wordpad, save it back, and you're done. I haven't yet found out how to get rid of the carriage return pair to go the other way from windows back to mac. In text edit, I keep seeing carriage return linefeed pairs, but text edit is smart enough to handle these nicely. Hth, Paul. On Aug 9, 2013, at 1:36 AM, Jeff Berwick mailingli...@berwick.name wrote: Hi All, I am working with a file that I have created on my Mac and I need to access it on my Windows machine. The line endings are all messed up though, so that returns are not being honoured. Does anybody know a quick way to make sure that the file can be edited on both a Mac and Windows machine? Thx, Jeff -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. mail2web.com - Microsoft® Exchange solutions from a leading provider - http://link.mail2web.com/Business/Exchange -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: Using a hearing aid and voiceover together
Thanks Aman. All that you said is useful, thanks for it. I will put your answer into Archives so I can use it tomorrow. Regards, Gigi On Aug 9, 2013, at 7:40 AM, Aman Singer aman.sin...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Gigi. My position is a bit different from that of your friend, I am totally blind and use this sort of system all the time, in fact, I'm writing this message with such a system. What you need to determine, if I may say so, is the bluetooth profiles supported by the streaming device in question. The easiest way is just to plug the name of the device (every manufacturer has their own), into Google. If the device supports only HSP/HFP, it will probably not work with VO when the phone is not on a call. There are some jailbreak applications which claim to make things like VO work with HFP/HSP only Bluetooth headsets, but they are quite unreliable in my experience even if you do wish to jailbreak. If, on the other hand, the device supports A2DP, it will probably work with VO whenever you use it. If the device is confirmed to work with A2DP, then try playing music while the device is on. If that dosn't work, you may have a defective device. If that playing of music does work, then it may be worth contacting Apple Accessibility to see why VO is not sending through the proper channel. I hope all that is of use. Aman On 2013-08-08, at 7:46 PM, Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com wrote: Thanks Maurice. I will save your message because I am going to try to get somebody to work with us on this problem on Saturday. All the information you gave is out of my experience, but I'm sure somebody there will know what I'm talking about when I show them your message. Regards, Gigi Sent from my iPhone On Aug 8, 2013, at 5:27 PM, Maurice Mines maurice.mi...@gmail.com wrote: hello, I use a Bluetooth system that Internet onto my hearing aids that can take the audio from a variety of devices, providing however that the our Bluetooth capable such as the iPhone, or have a headphone jack and you can plug a small transmitter into the device that will then transmit a Bluetooth signal to what essentially is a Bluetooth repeater and/or Smalley Reeboks if you will, such a system does exist with many popular hearing aid models I just so happen to have one made by Siemens. I think it's called the Mini TAC. What I do when I want to hear voiceover without any distractions, is I plug the transmitter unit into the headphone jack of my MacBook Pro, and then use the Bluetooth AV box that comes with the system change to the appropriate channel that the Bluetooth receiver, can receive the output of the little transmitter that I've plugged into the headphone jack of my MacBook Pro. This works extremely well. If the person you are working with has this type of a system what she needs to do is keep pressing the pairing button Intel B Bluetooth AV box terrors with a transmitter that is taking the output of the MacBook Pro and by using both of these devices one can essentially use their hearing aids as headphones. Depending on the manufacturer the audio from the computer can be mixed with the environmental audio that the hearing aids would normally pick up, but what is likely to happen, is that the hearing aids will have to turn off the environmental sound i.e. the built-in microphones in the hearing aids in order to allow the hearing aids to receive the output from the computer. If you need any more suggestions on how to use the type of system I've described, and use please send me an email either on, or off the list and I'll see if I can help you, and/or find resources to help you. My full signature follows. Sent from my MacBook Pro. Sincerely Maurice mines secretary national Federation of the blind of Washington Clark County chapter. Amateur radio call sign kd0iko. Phone 360-524-0791. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it,
Re: ole aria?
Hi there, I found another daisy app called Emerson, which looks more promising. I'm playing around with it now but can't figure out how to open daisy files with it. Maybe it doesn't like bookshare daisy books. anybody know where to get these sort of books from places other then bookshare? Cait On 2013-08-09, at 5:46 AM, Nicholas Parsons mr.nicholas.pars...@gmail.com wrote: Olaria keeps crashing for me every time I open it. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: OT: torrent for freely available books?
I have a collection of over 3 books, do you want them in mobi witch is for kindle, or epub, whitch works with iBooks? Contact me off list and I will arange a way to get them to you. Kliphton Senior (iMessage )kliph...@icloud.com-Email kliph...@gmail.com (Twitter,instagram,foursquareSkype) kliphton72 [Text only] 914-820-2298 (Personal blog-read at your own risk!) http://kliphskorner.wordpress.com On Aug 6, 2013, at 7:08 AM, Alex Hall mehg...@gmail.com wrote: I've found lists of free book resources, and tried several. They are tedious to use, and that Ebook Buffet app it sluggish and confusing. That's why I was hoping for a torrent, or even a zip file, instead. Klifton, I think you said you had such a resource somewhere, or maybe that was someone else? On Aug 6, 2013, at 7:25 AM, Kliphton kliph...@gmail.com wrote: Depending on what app you use to read books, there is a lot of free books on certain sites. Amazon has a kindle buffay, and a lot others. If you search the message arkives, I think someone posted a message about 25 links to get free e-books. Google should even work in this instance. HTH Kliphton (iMessage ) kliph...@icloud.com - (Email) kliph...@gmail.com (Twitter,instagram,foursquareSkype) kliphton72 [Text only] 914-820-2298 (Personal blog-read at your own risk!) http://kliphskorner.wordpress.com www.linkedin.com/pub/kliphton-miller/71/896/a0 http://facebook.com/kliphandsharrie On Aug 5, 2013, at 7:21 PM, Alex Hall mehg...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I just started using torrents today, specifically the µTorrent app (which is wonderful from a VO perspective). I'm wondering if anyone can suggest torrents for freely available ebooks? Please do not misunderstand: I am NOT looking for torrents of commercial books so I can pirate them. What I'm after are books that are public domain, free from the author or publisher, or in some other way free and legal. I've done some searching, but everything I find is either not a torrent or seems to be paid books being offered free by the torrent provider, which is, again, not what I want. Any suggestions would be great, but I think everyone would appreciate off-list responses. You can email me at mehg...@gmail.com. Thanks in advance! Have a great day, Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) mehg...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. Have a great day, Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) mehg...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Can't Login to Facebook Chat
Hello, My wife, Christine, just changed her username on Facebook. But now she's unable to login to Facebook chat through Messages. We've put in her new username, but it says the login ID or password is incorrect. I'm not really sure what else can be done. Any ideas? The old username doesn't work, either, obviously. Brandon -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Mike Arrigo 's mac tutorials
Hi Does anyone know where I can download the mac tutorials that Mike Arrigo Did on blindcool tech they are no longer available on blindcooltech thanks in advance. Corey -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: Downcast on the Mac All podcasts dim
Hey Nicholas, Yah command shift s wasn't working either, but now it is. I still seem to be having some sync issues, as episodes I delete from the mac don't seem to delete on the iPhone. Not sure if that has to do with the fact that the episodes weren't refreshed on the iPhone until much later in the day, but I did noticed that all the episodes I went through and deleted in the mac version reappeared on the iPhone. I am sure it will get better sync wise in upcoming versions. For a new app downcast hits it out of the park with their mac version and accessibility which is why I waited for them to release a mac version and never even looked into other alternatives. On Aug 9, 2013, at 6:26 AM, Nicholas Parsons mr.nicholas.pars...@gmail.com wrote: I've never had episodes dim before either, but would also point out that to start a podcast playing initially you need to use the command-shift-s command. Space bar only works to play/pause once playback has begun. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: Mike Arrigo 's mac tutorials
You can get them from the iBlink radio app. On Aug 9, 2013, at 12:40 PM, Corey Knapp core...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Does anyone know where I can download the mac tutorials that Mike Arrigo Did on blindcool tech they are no longer available on blindcooltech thanks in advance. Corey -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email tomacvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Accessibility My Opinion with Yahoo
Hey all, Having nowhere to write this as it is much more than 140 characters, I wanted to share my experience and opinion with the group. Relating to the big picture, I do get that this is fantasy football, but it really has opened my eyes to where accessibility falls with big companies. Going completely blind over the past several years, one of the things I miss most is being able to play team sports such as baseball and football. One of the ways I have adjusted to not being able to play or see the games anymore is by playing fantasy baseball and fantasy football. As my vision has deteriorated and I have come to completely rely on voiceover technology playing fantasy games has gotten harder and harder. The most important part and most fun is the live draft. It's where you build your team for the year. Do to sites like Yahoo and ESPN using java and flash to run these drafts, I have had to auto pick which doesn't allow you to participate with everyone else, and leaves you with an inferior team starting out. Two years ago, I was so excited when after scouring the web and app store I came across an app released by an individual entrepreneur called Big Noggins that was the first app that made it possible for you to draft your ESPN and Yahoo teams on your iPhone. I was so thankful and surprised when the app actually worked with Voiceover. Of course I figured once the live draft started there would probably be some complications with Voiceover. Nope, the app worked perfectly with Voiceover. Amazing, as technology had made my day a little brighter by allowing me to once again participate in a live draft. I know in the big picture this is just fantasy games, but anything that brings you a little enjoyment is a good thing, and I was so thrilled for the past two years to be able to draft my own teams. With the 2013 fantasy football season coming up I have been preparing to draft my teams and kept checking the app store for Big Noggins release of the 2013 draft app. With the season getting closer and closer, and no release of the app, I began to investigate what was going on. I went to Big Noggins website and discovered that his technology that allows people to draft their team on an iPhone had been acquired by Yahoo. Ok, well, yahoo is supposedly a forward thinking company when it comes to accessibility. I downloaded Yahoo's 2013 fantasy football app which has been completely retooled for 2013, and now thanks to Big Noggins technology allows Yahoo users for the first time to draft their team on an iPhone. Last night I decided to check out one of the mock drafts to prepare for my live draft and see how the accessibility works. No surprise, as even though Yahoo acquired a company whose app was fully accessible, Yahoo in implementing the technology into their own app completely broke its accessibility with Voiceover. Once again leaving blind fantasy sport players in the dark. How could a company as big as Yahoo that claims to care about accessibility break something that once worked? It just goes to show where accessibility falls with a big company. They don't care. For years, I have been speaking with Yahoo about the accessibility of their fantasy games, and have been getting the typical we're aware of the accessibility issues and are working on it. After this latest experience, I now believe and know that companies like Yahoo could care less when it comes to improving accessibility. If this small entrepreneur was able to make his app accessible how in the world can a billion dollar company like Yahoo take that same technology, implement it in their app, and completely leave out accessibility. My only conclusion is it is they just don't care. ESPN is even worse than Yahoo, as I have tried contacting them about accessibility for five years, and have not once received a response. I find it pathetic that a company like ESPN, which is owned by Disney could care less about implementing any form of accessibility to help allow blind people to use any of their apps. Their website is an absolute nightmare to try and read with a screen reader. If Major League Baseball and other small entrepreneurs can make their apps fully accessible with Voiceover than their is no excuse for a company like ESPN to not be able to make their apps and website accessible. I know that I am talking about fantasy games, and in the big picture, they are not important, but this experience with major companies does shed some light on where accessibility falls. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: Accessibility My Opinion with Yahoo
I feel your pain. I am a big fantasy sports guy, and this is a subject that sends my blood pressure through the roof. Yahoo has crappy fantasy sports apps in general. You can’t set your lineups from the iDevice and need to use the web interface. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX Mountain Lion and LION AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT On Aug 9, 2013, at 1:24 PM, Brian Fischler blindga...@gmail.com wrote: Hey all, Having nowhere to write this as it is much more than 140 characters, I wanted to share my experience and opinion with the group. Relating to the big picture, I do get that this is fantasy football, but it really has opened my eyes to where accessibility falls with big companies. Going completely blind over the past several years, one of the things I miss most is being able to play team sports such as baseball and football. One of the ways I have adjusted to not being able to play or see the games anymore is by playing fantasy baseball and fantasy football. As my vision has deteriorated and I have come to completely rely on voiceover technology playing fantasy games has gotten harder and harder. The most important part and most fun is the live draft. It's where you build your team for the year. Do to sites like Yahoo and ESPN using java and flash to run these drafts, I have had to auto pick which doesn't allow you to participate with everyone else, and leaves you with an inferior team starting out. Two years ago, I was so excited when after scouring the web and app store I came across an app released by an individual entrepreneur called Big Noggins that was the first app that made it possible for you to draft your ESPN and Yahoo teams on your iPhone. I was so thankful and surprised when the app actually worked with Voiceover. Of course I figured once the live draft started there would probably be some complications with Voiceover. Nope, the app worked perfectly with Voiceover. Amazing, as technology had made my day a little brighter by allowing me to once again participate in a live draft. I know in the big picture this is just fantasy games, but anything that brings you a little enjoyment is a good thing, and I was so thrilled for the past two years to be able to draft my own teams. With the 2013 fantasy football season coming up I have been preparing to draft my teams and kept checking the app store for Big Noggins release of the 2013 draft app. With the season getting closer and closer, and no release of the app, I began to investigate what was going on. I went to Big Noggins website and discovered that his technology that allows people to draft their team on an iPhone had been acquired by Yahoo. Ok, well, yahoo is supposedly a forward thinking company when it comes to accessibility. I downloaded Yahoo's 2013 fantasy football app which has been completely retooled for 2013, and now thanks to Big Noggins technology allows Yahoo users for the first time to draft their team on an iPhone. Last night I decided to check out one of the mock drafts to prepare for my live draft and see how the accessibility works. No surprise, as even though Yahoo acquired a company whose app was fully accessible, Yahoo in implementing the technology into their own app completely broke its accessibility with Voiceover. Once again leaving blind fantasy sport players in the dark. How could a company as big as Yahoo that claims to care about accessibility break something that once worked? It just goes to show where accessibility falls with a big company. They don't care. For years, I have been speaking with Yahoo about the accessibility of their fantasy games, and have been getting the typical we're aware of the accessibility issues and are working on it. After this latest experience, I now believe and know that companies like Yahoo could care less when it comes to improving accessibility. If this small entrepreneur was able to make his app accessible how in the world can a billion dollar company like Yahoo take that same technology, implement it in their app, and completely leave out accessibility. My only conclusion is it is they just don't care. ESPN is even worse than Yahoo, as I have tried contacting them about accessibility for five years, and have not once received a response. I find it pathetic that a company like ESPN, which is owned by Disney could care less about implementing any form of accessibility to help allow blind people to use any of their apps. Their website is an absolute nightmare to try and read with a screen reader. If Major League Baseball and other small entrepreneurs can make their apps fully accessible with Voiceover than their is no excuse for a
RE: Mike Arrigo 's mac tutorials
Hi thanks for that does anyone know where I can download the actual mp3 files thanks I think that there 12 ro 13 files thanks in advance. Corey From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Scott Rumery Sent: Friday, August 09, 2013 12:54 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Cc: Mac OSX iOS Accessibility Subject: Re: Mike Arrigo 's mac tutorials You can get them from the iBlink http://www.serotek.com/iblink radio app. On Aug 9, 2013, at 12:40 PM, Corey Knapp core...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Does anyone know where I can download the mac tutorials that Mike Arrigo Did on blindcool tech they are no longer available on blindcooltech thanks in advance. Corey -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: Accessibility My Opinion with Yahoo
Hey John, Thanks for feeling the pain. It's a shame that they still haven't improved the accessibility. I have been able to manage my teams in Yahoo on the web using several work arounds, but cannot access everything, and just make due with what I can. I have used Big Noggins in season app to check my teams daily results but can't edit my lineup using Big Noggins app, but I guess that doesn't matter anymore since Big Noggins has been acquired I will have to find another way to follow my teams moving forward. Just pathetic on Yahoo and ESPN's part. On Aug 9, 2013, at 1:32 PM, John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com wrote: I feel your pain. I am a big fantasy sports guy, and this is a subject that sends my blood pressure through the roof. Yahoo has crappy fantasy sports apps in general. You can’t set your lineups from the iDevice and need to use the web interface. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX Mountain Lion and LION AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT On Aug 9, 2013, at 1:24 PM, Brian Fischler blindga...@gmail.com wrote: Hey all, Having nowhere to write this as it is much more than 140 characters, I wanted to share my experience and opinion with the group. Relating to the big picture, I do get that this is fantasy football, but it really has opened my eyes to where accessibility falls with big companies. Going completely blind over the past several years, one of the things I miss most is being able to play team sports such as baseball and football. One of the ways I have adjusted to not being able to play or see the games anymore is by playing fantasy baseball and fantasy football. As my vision has deteriorated and I have come to completely rely on voiceover technology playing fantasy games has gotten harder and harder. The most important part and most fun is the live draft. It's where you build your team for the year. Do to sites like Yahoo and ESPN using java and flash to run these drafts, I have had to auto pick which doesn't allow you to participate with everyone else, and leaves you with an inferior team starting out. Two years ago, I was so excited when after scouring the web and app store I came across an app released by an individual entrepreneur called Big Noggins that was the first app that made it possible for you to draft your ESPN and Yahoo teams on your iPhone. I was so thankful and surprised when the app actually worked with Voiceover. Of course I figured once the live draft started there would probably be some complications with Voiceover. Nope, the app worked perfectly with Voiceover. Amazing, as technology had made my day a little brighter by allowing me to once again participate in a live draft. I know in the big picture this is just fantasy games, but anything that brings you a little enjoyment is a good thing, and I was so thrilled for the past two years to be able to draft my own teams. With the 2013 fantasy football season coming up I have been preparing to draft my teams and kept checking the app store for Big Noggins release of the 2013 draft app. With the season getting closer and closer, and no release of the app, I began to investigate what was going on. I went to Big Noggins website and discovered that his technology that allows people to draft their team on an iPhone had been acquired by Yahoo. Ok, well, yahoo is supposedly a forward thinking company when it comes to accessibility. I downloaded Yahoo's 2013 fantasy football app which has been completely retooled for 2013, and now thanks to Big Noggins technology allows Yahoo users for the first time to draft their team on an iPhone. Last night I decided to check out one of the mock drafts to prepare for my live draft and see how the accessibility works. No surprise, as even though Yahoo acquired a company whose app was fully accessible, Yahoo in implementing the technology into their own app completely broke its accessibility with Voiceover. Once again leaving blind fantasy sport players in the dark. How could a company as big as Yahoo that claims to care about accessibility break something that once worked? It just goes to show where accessibility falls with a big company. They don't care. For years, I have been speaking with Yahoo about the accessibility of their fantasy games, and have been getting the typical we're aware of the accessibility issues and are working on it. After this latest experience, I now believe and know that companies like Yahoo could care less when it comes to improving accessibility. If this small entrepreneur was able to make his app accessible how in the world can a billion dollar company like Yahoo take that same technology, implement it
Re: Mike Arrigo 's mac tutorials
www.blindcooltech.com Though they are a bit dated now, they are still extremely useful for learning and fully explaining the basics. After all, that's how I learned. Sent from my mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in! Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray Still a very proud and happy Mac and Iphone user! On Aug 9, 2013, at 12:37 PM, Corey Knapp core...@gmail.com wrote: Hi thanks for that does anyone know where I can download the actual mp3 files thanks I think that there 12 ro 13 files thanks in advance. Corey From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Scott Rumery Sent: Friday, August 09, 2013 12:54 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Cc: Mac OSX iOS Accessibility Subject: Re: Mike Arrigo 's mac tutorials You can get them from the iBlink radio app. On Aug 9, 2013, at 12:40 PM, Corey Knapp core...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Does anyone know where I can download the mac tutorials that Mike Arrigo Did on blindcool tech they are no longer available on blindcooltech thanks in advance. Corey -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email tomacvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: Accessibility My Opinion with Yahoo
I will gladly buy an app that gives us full accessibility to fantasy sports. I usually have 2 football and 2 hockey teams, so it would be great. I’m handling baseball, but have to do all of that on the web. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX Mountain Lion and LION AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT On Aug 9, 2013, at 1:37 PM, Brian Fischler blindga...@gmail.com wrote: Hey John, Thanks for feeling the pain. It's a shame that they still haven't improved the accessibility. I have been able to manage my teams in Yahoo on the web using several work arounds, but cannot access everything, and just make due with what I can. I have used Big Noggins in season app to check my teams daily results but can't edit my lineup using Big Noggins app, but I guess that doesn't matter anymore since Big Noggins has been acquired I will have to find another way to follow my teams moving forward. Just pathetic on Yahoo and ESPN's part. On Aug 9, 2013, at 1:32 PM, John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com wrote: I feel your pain. I am a big fantasy sports guy, and this is a subject that sends my blood pressure through the roof. Yahoo has crappy fantasy sports apps in general. You can’t set your lineups from the iDevice and need to use the web interface. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX Mountain Lion and LION AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT On Aug 9, 2013, at 1:24 PM, Brian Fischler blindga...@gmail.com wrote: Hey all, Having nowhere to write this as it is much more than 140 characters, I wanted to share my experience and opinion with the group. Relating to the big picture, I do get that this is fantasy football, but it really has opened my eyes to where accessibility falls with big companies. Going completely blind over the past several years, one of the things I miss most is being able to play team sports such as baseball and football. One of the ways I have adjusted to not being able to play or see the games anymore is by playing fantasy baseball and fantasy football. As my vision has deteriorated and I have come to completely rely on voiceover technology playing fantasy games has gotten harder and harder. The most important part and most fun is the live draft. It's where you build your team for the year. Do to sites like Yahoo and ESPN using java and flash to run these drafts, I have had to auto pick which doesn't allow you to participate with everyone else, and leaves you with an inferior team starting out. Two years ago, I was so excited when after scouring the web and app store I came across an app released by an individual entrepreneur called Big Noggins that was the first app that made it possible for you to draft your ESPN and Yahoo teams on your iPhone. I was so thankful and surprised when the app actually worked with Voiceover. Of course I figured once the live draft started there would probably be some complications with Voiceover. Nope, the app worked perfectly with Voiceover. Amazing, as technology had made my day a little brighter by allowing me to once again participate in a live draft. I know in the big picture this is just fantasy games, but anything that brings you a little enjoyment is a good thing, and I was so thrilled for the past two years to be able to draft my own teams. With the 2013 fantasy football season coming up I have been preparing to draft my teams and kept checking the app store for Big Noggins release of the 2013 draft app. With the season getting closer and closer, and no release of the app, I began to investigate what was going on. I went to Big Noggins website and discovered that his technology that allows people to draft their team on an iPhone had been acquired by Yahoo. Ok, well, yahoo is supposedly a forward thinking company when it comes to accessibility. I downloaded Yahoo's 2013 fantasy football app which has been completely retooled for 2013, and now thanks to Big Noggins technology allows Yahoo users for the first time to draft their team on an iPhone. Last night I decided to check out one of the mock drafts to prepare for my live draft and see how the accessibility works. No surprise, as even though Yahoo acquired a company whose app was fully accessible, Yahoo in implementing the technology into their own app completely broke its accessibility with Voiceover. Once again leaving blind fantasy sport players in the dark. How could a company as big as Yahoo that claims to care about accessibility break
Re: Accessibility My Opinion with Yahoo
Hi there I am not a sports fan like my brothers. However, your comments are not small here. I think what is needed is that accessibility, especially for sensory accessibility, be required as a course for all computer programmers, including those doing iOS. This is because, and I see it in the group that I belong to, it never even occurs to those folks what is needed and why something doesn't work. A lot of them just plain flat don't get it, and when you have a big group of people doing the project, then you are probably going to have a whole bunch of them that have not gotten it yet. So, what I think you are looking at, is a group of people that sat down and looked at the program that they had gotten, and thought some wonderful ideas that would work just great for our sided friends. I'll bet they never even thought that someone like you would want to play the game Until programming for sensory disabilities is a required course at universities for computer programmers, I think we are going to continue to have our programs broken from time to time. We are all busy trying to get companies to recognize the importance accessibility, and Apple, for one has done a good job on that. However, until we get universities across the board to recognize that, we will continue, in my opinion, to have an uphill battle. There are too many people out there thinking I think it's too bad that these people can't do anything. That's a real shame. We have to get people away from that centuries-old mindset, and that is not easy. Sincerely, Gigi On Aug 9, 2013, at 12:24 PM, Brian Fischler blindga...@gmail.com wrote: Hey all, Having nowhere to write this as it is much more than 140 characters, I wanted to share my experience and opinion with the group. Relating to the big picture, I do get that this is fantasy football, but it really has opened my eyes to where accessibility falls with big companies. Going completely blind over the past several years, one of the things I miss most is being able to play team sports such as baseball and football. One of the ways I have adjusted to not being able to play or see the games anymore is by playing fantasy baseball and fantasy football. As my vision has deteriorated and I have come to completely rely on voiceover technology playing fantasy games has gotten harder and harder. The most important part and most fun is the live draft. It's where you build your team for the year. Do to sites like Yahoo and ESPN using java and flash to run these drafts, I have had to auto pick which doesn't allow you to participate with everyone else, and leaves you with an inferior team starting out. Two years ago, I was so excited when after scouring the web and app store I came across an app released by an individual entrepreneur called Big Noggins that was the first app that made it possible for you to draft your ESPN and Yahoo teams on your iPhone. I was so thankful and surprised when the app actually worked with Voiceover. Of course I figured once the live draft started there would probably be some complications with Voiceover. Nope, the app worked perfectly with Voiceover. Amazing, as technology had made my day a little brighter by allowing me to once again participate in a live draft. I know in the big picture this is just fantasy games, but anything that brings you a little enjoyment is a good thing, and I was so thrilled for the past two years to be able to draft my own teams. With the 2013 fantasy football season coming up I have been preparing to draft my teams and kept checking the app store for Big Noggins release of the 2013 draft app. With the season getting closer and closer, and no release of the app, I began to investigate what was going on. I went to Big Noggins website and discovered that his technology that allows people to draft their team on an iPhone had been acquired by Yahoo. Ok, well, yahoo is supposedly a forward thinking company when it comes to accessibility. I downloaded Yahoo's 2013 fantasy football app which has been completely retooled for 2013, and now thanks to Big Noggins technology allows Yahoo users for the first time to draft their team on an iPhone. Last night I decided to check out one of the mock drafts to prepare for my live draft and see how the accessibility works. No surprise, as even though Yahoo acquired a company whose app was fully accessible, Yahoo in implementing the technology into their own app completely broke its accessibility with Voiceover. Once again leaving blind fantasy sport players in the dark. How could a company as big as Yahoo that claims to care about accessibility break something that once worked? It just goes to show where accessibility falls with a big company. They don't care. For years, I have been speaking with Yahoo about the accessibility of their fantasy games, and have been getting the typical we're aware of the
Re: Accessibility My Opinion with Yahoo
Hey John, I have sent an edited version of my letter to Yahoo fantasy, so we shall see if we get a response. I am very bummed about the steps back this year, and Yahoo's failure to improve accessibility in this area for several years, even though they claim to be aware of it. Should you find something that works with Voiceover on the web or iPhone, please do let me know. Big Noggins was like $3 for the draft app and $5 for the full season app, but they are dead now thanks to Yahoo. On Aug 9, 2013, at 1:46 PM, John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com wrote: I will gladly buy an app that gives us full accessibility to fantasy sports. I usually have 2 football and 2 hockey teams, so it would be great. I’m handling baseball, but have to do all of that on the web. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX Mountain Lion and LION AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT On Aug 9, 2013, at 1:37 PM, Brian Fischler blindga...@gmail.com wrote: Hey John, Thanks for feeling the pain. It's a shame that they still haven't improved the accessibility. I have been able to manage my teams in Yahoo on the web using several work arounds, but cannot access everything, and just make due with what I can. I have used Big Noggins in season app to check my teams daily results but can't edit my lineup using Big Noggins app, but I guess that doesn't matter anymore since Big Noggins has been acquired I will have to find another way to follow my teams moving forward. Just pathetic on Yahoo and ESPN's part. On Aug 9, 2013, at 1:32 PM, John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com wrote: I feel your pain. I am a big fantasy sports guy, and this is a subject that sends my blood pressure through the roof. Yahoo has crappy fantasy sports apps in general. You can’t set your lineups from the iDevice and need to use the web interface. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX Mountain Lion and LION AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT On Aug 9, 2013, at 1:24 PM, Brian Fischler blindga...@gmail.com wrote: Hey all, Having nowhere to write this as it is much more than 140 characters, I wanted to share my experience and opinion with the group. Relating to the big picture, I do get that this is fantasy football, but it really has opened my eyes to where accessibility falls with big companies. Going completely blind over the past several years, one of the things I miss most is being able to play team sports such as baseball and football. One of the ways I have adjusted to not being able to play or see the games anymore is by playing fantasy baseball and fantasy football. As my vision has deteriorated and I have come to completely rely on voiceover technology playing fantasy games has gotten harder and harder. The most important part and most fun is the live draft. It's where you build your team for the year. Do to sites like Yahoo and ESPN using java and flash to run these drafts, I have had to auto pick which doesn't allow you to participate with everyone else, and leaves you with an inferior team starting out. Two years ago, I was so excited when after scouring the web and app store I came across an app released by an individual entrepreneur called Big Noggins that was the first app that made it possible for you to draft your ESPN and Yahoo teams on your iPhone. I was so thankful and surprised when the app actually worked with Voiceover. Of course I figured once the live draft started there would probably be some complications with Voiceover. Nope, the app worked perfectly with Voiceover. Amazing, as technology had made my day a little brighter by allowing me to once again participate in a live draft. I know in the big picture this is just fantasy games, but anything that brings you a little enjoyment is a good thing, and I was so thrilled for the past two years to be able to draft my own teams. With the 2013 fantasy football season coming up I have been preparing to draft my teams and kept checking the app store for Big Noggins release of the 2013 draft app. With the season getting closer and closer, and no release of the app, I began to investigate what was going on. I went to Big Noggins website and discovered that his technology that allows people to draft their team on an iPhone had been acquired by Yahoo. Ok, well, yahoo is supposedly a forward thinking company when it comes to accessibility. I downloaded Yahoo's 2013 fantasy football app which has been completely retooled for 2013, and
Re: Mike Arrigo 's mac tutorials
The pod casts on blind cool tech are no loger available since the site was taken down. When I have time, I'm going to do some new mac pod casts, and you will be able to find those on the blind geek zone web site. Original message: Hi Does anyone know where I can download the mac tutorials that Mike Arrigo Did on blindcool tech they are no longer available on blindcooltech thanks in advance. Corey -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: Accessibility My Opinion with Yahoo
Hey Gigi, Well put. I know I was only speaking about fantasy games, but wanted to refer to the big picture as well, this was just my example, and I think you summed it up very well. There are far more important things that need to be made accessible to people with all sorts of disabilities. This was just my way of chiming in. Thanks again for your thoughts and comments. On Aug 9, 2013, at 1:51 PM, Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com wrote: Hi there I am not a sports fan like my brothers. However, your comments are not small here. I think what is needed is that accessibility, especially for sensory accessibility, be required as a course for all computer programmers, including those doing iOS. This is because, and I see it in the group that I belong to, it never even occurs to those folks what is needed and why something doesn't work. A lot of them just plain flat don't get it, and when you have a big group of people doing the project, then you are probably going to have a whole bunch of them that have not gotten it yet. So, what I think you are looking at, is a group of people that sat down and looked at the program that they had gotten, and thought some wonderful ideas that would work just great for our sided friends. I'll bet they never even thought that someone like you would want to play the game Until programming for sensory disabilities is a required course at universities for computer programmers, I think we are going to continue to have our programs broken from time to time. We are all busy trying to get companies to recognize the importance accessibility, and Apple, for one has done a good job on that. However, until we get universities across the board to recognize that, we will continue, in my opinion, to have an uphill battle. There are too many people out there thinking I think it's too bad that these people can't do anything. That's a real shame. We have to get people away from that centuries-old mindset, and that is not easy. Sincerely, Gigi On Aug 9, 2013, at 12:24 PM, Brian Fischler blindga...@gmail.com wrote: Hey all, Having nowhere to write this as it is much more than 140 characters, I wanted to share my experience and opinion with the group. Relating to the big picture, I do get that this is fantasy football, but it really has opened my eyes to where accessibility falls with big companies. Going completely blind over the past several years, one of the things I miss most is being able to play team sports such as baseball and football. One of the ways I have adjusted to not being able to play or see the games anymore is by playing fantasy baseball and fantasy football. As my vision has deteriorated and I have come to completely rely on voiceover technology playing fantasy games has gotten harder and harder. The most important part and most fun is the live draft. It's where you build your team for the year. Do to sites like Yahoo and ESPN using java and flash to run these drafts, I have had to auto pick which doesn't allow you to participate with everyone else, and leaves you with an inferior team starting out. Two years ago, I was so excited when after scouring the web and app store I came across an app released by an individual entrepreneur called Big Noggins that was the first app that made it possible for you to draft your ESPN and Yahoo teams on your iPhone. I was so thankful and surprised when the app actually worked with Voiceover. Of course I figured once the live draft started there would probably be some complications with Voiceover. Nope, the app worked perfectly with Voiceover. Amazing, as technology had made my day a little brighter by allowing me to once again participate in a live draft. I know in the big picture this is just fantasy games, but anything that brings you a little enjoyment is a good thing, and I was so thrilled for the past two years to be able to draft my own teams. With the 2013 fantasy football season coming up I have been preparing to draft my teams and kept checking the app store for Big Noggins release of the 2013 draft app. With the season getting closer and closer, and no release of the app, I began to investigate what was going on. I went to Big Noggins website and discovered that his technology that allows people to draft their team on an iPhone had been acquired by Yahoo. Ok, well, yahoo is supposedly a forward thinking company when it comes to accessibility. I downloaded Yahoo's 2013 fantasy football app which has been completely retooled for 2013, and now thanks to Big Noggins technology allows Yahoo users for the first time to draft their team on an iPhone. Last night I decided to check out one of the mock drafts to prepare for my live draft and see how the accessibility works. No surprise, as even though Yahoo acquired a company whose app was fully accessible, Yahoo in implementing the technology into their own
Re: Mike Arrigo 's mac tutorials
Hey Mike, Have you given any consideration to submitting your new Mac podcasts to: www.coolblindtech.com You contact them, and, provided you have a drop box account, they set up a shared folder with you. In to which folder, you load your submitions. Sent from my mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in! Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray Still a very proud and happy Mac and Iphone user! On Aug 9, 2013, at 12:53 PM, Mike Arrigo n0...@charter.net wrote: The pod casts on blind cool tech are no loger available since the site was taken down. When I have time, I'm going to do some new mac pod casts, and you will be able to find those on the blind geek zone web site. Original message: Hi Does anyone know where I can download the mac tutorials that Mike Arrigo Did on blindcool tech they are no longer available on blindcooltech thanks in advance. Corey -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Accessibility with everybody
Hi guys I just had a very bad accessibility hour. Luckily, this was not something I had to do, but the better I got, be more I wanted to do it. I have an application on my iPhone which sort of works with VoiceOver. For one thing, the links don't always tell you what they are, and there are some existing buttons or whatever they are that you can't tell exist. So, if you want to play a video like I did last night, you have to get sighted help to turn VoiceOver off and activate the button to play. The other thing is that if you watch the free ones like I started to last night, you get interrupted with an ad, and there's no way to get back using VoiceOver, never mind that VoiceOver tells you that your video will start up in 12 seconds, but it never does. Then add insult to injury. You are asked to do a survey. You are suspicious taht there might be some accessibility problems, but forge on anyway. They sent me a message to my iPhone with the link for doing the survey. I should have chosen the email option because , you guessed it, it didn't work with the iPhone. I could read all the questions, and find all the choices, including the part to make comments. However, when I double tapped on the answers, their dumb computer didn't recognize that I had tapped on them. So, I got out my Mac, and this time it worked. You guys can imagine what I had to say, and of course, it was not complimentary at all. At the end I told them to contact Apple accessibility to improve their program. Then I told the survey people that I had spent an hour on their survey. I told them I had to do it twice. Regards, Gigi On Aug 9, 2013, at 12:59 PM, Brian Fischler blindga...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Gigi, Well put. I know I was only speaking about fantasy games, but wanted to refer to the big picture as well, this was just my example, and I think you summed it up very well. There are far more important things that need to be made accessible to people with all sorts of disabilities. This was just my way of chiming in. Thanks again for your thoughts and comments. On Aug 9, 2013, at 1:51 PM, Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com wrote: Hi there I am not a sports fan like my brothers. However, your comments are not small here. I think what is needed is that accessibility, especially for sensory accessibility, be required as a course for all computer programmers, including those doing iOS. This is because, and I see it in the group that I belong to, it never even occurs to those folks what is needed and why something doesn't work. A lot of them just plain flat don't get it, and when you have a big group of people doing the project, then you are probably going to have a whole bunch of them that have not gotten it yet. So, what I think you are looking at, is a group of people that sat down and looked at the program that they had gotten, and thought some wonderful ideas that would work just great for our sided friends. I'll bet they never even thought that someone like you would want to play the game Until programming for sensory disabilities is a required course at universities for computer programmers, I think we are going to continue to have our programs broken from time to time. We are all busy trying to get companies to recognize the importance accessibility, and Apple, for one has done a good job on that. However, until we get universities across the board to recognize that, we will continue, in my opinion, to have an uphill battle. There are too many people out there thinking I think it's too bad that these people can't do anything. That's a real shame. We have to get people away from that centuries-old mindset, and that is not easy. Sincerely, Gigi On Aug 9, 2013, at 12:24 PM, Brian Fischler blindga...@gmail.com wrote: Hey all, Having nowhere to write this as it is much more than 140 characters, I wanted to share my experience and opinion with the group. Relating to the big picture, I do get that this is fantasy football, but it really has opened my eyes to where accessibility falls with big companies. Going completely blind over the past several years, one of the things I miss most is being able to play team sports such as baseball and football. One of the ways I have adjusted to not being able to play or see the games anymore is by playing fantasy baseball and fantasy football. As my vision has deteriorated and I have come to completely rely on voiceover technology playing fantasy games has gotten harder and harder. The most important part and most fun is the live draft. It's where you build your team for the year. Do to sites like Yahoo and ESPN using java and flash to run these drafts, I have had to auto pick which doesn't allow you to participate with everyone else, and leaves you with an inferior team starting out. Two years ago, I was so excited when after scouring the web and app store I came across an app
Re: Accessibility with everybody
Forgot to say that last night the only way I was able to finish watching my video was to choose the iTunes link and pay Apple $1.99 for the download. I was going to do that again today, but I couldn't find the iTunes link for the one I wanted, unless I wanted to buy the dvd, which I didn't. Regards again, Gigi On Aug 9, 2013, at 2:51 PM, Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com wrote: Hi guys I just had a very bad accessibility hour. Luckily, this was not something I had to do, but the better I got, be more I wanted to do it. I have an application on my iPhone which sort of works with VoiceOver. For one thing, the links don't always tell you what they are, and there are some existing buttons or whatever they are that you can't tell exist. So, if you want to play a video like I did last night, you have to get sighted help to turn VoiceOver off and activate the button to play. The other thing is that if you watch the free ones like I started to last night, you get interrupted with an ad, and there's no way to get back using VoiceOver, never mind that VoiceOver tells you that your video will start up in 12 seconds, but it never does. Then add insult to injury. You are asked to do a survey. You are suspicious taht there might be some accessibility problems, but forge on anyway. They sent me a message to my iPhone with the link for doing the survey. I should have chosen the email option because , you guessed it, it didn't work with the iPhone. I could read all the questions, and find all the choices, including the part to make comments. However, when I double tapped on the answers, their dumb computer didn't recognize that I had tapped on them. So, I got out my Mac, and this time it worked. You guys can imagine what I had to say, and of course, it was not complimentary at all. At the end I told them to contact Apple accessibility to improve their program. Then I told the survey people that I had spent an hour on their survey. I told them I had to do it twice. Regards, Gigi On Aug 9, 2013, at 12:59 PM, Brian Fischler blindga...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Gigi, Well put. I know I was only speaking about fantasy games, but wanted to refer to the big picture as well, this was just my example, and I think you summed it up very well. There are far more important things that need to be made accessible to people with all sorts of disabilities. This was just my way of chiming in. Thanks again for your thoughts and comments. On Aug 9, 2013, at 1:51 PM, Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com wrote: Hi there I am not a sports fan like my brothers. However, your comments are not small here. I think what is needed is that accessibility, especially for sensory accessibility, be required as a course for all computer programmers, including those doing iOS. This is because, and I see it in the group that I belong to, it never even occurs to those folks what is needed and why something doesn't work. A lot of them just plain flat don't get it, and when you have a big group of people doing the project, then you are probably going to have a whole bunch of them that have not gotten it yet. So, what I think you are looking at, is a group of people that sat down and looked at the program that they had gotten, and thought some wonderful ideas that would work just great for our sided friends. I'll bet they never even thought that someone like you would want to play the game Until programming for sensory disabilities is a required course at universities for computer programmers, I think we are going to continue to have our programs broken from time to time. We are all busy trying to get companies to recognize the importance accessibility, and Apple, for one has done a good job on that. However, until we get universities across the board to recognize that, we will continue, in my opinion, to have an uphill battle. There are too many people out there thinking I think it's too bad that these people can't do anything. That's a real shame. We have to get people away from that centuries-old mindset, and that is not easy. Sincerely, Gigi On Aug 9, 2013, at 12:24 PM, Brian Fischler blindga...@gmail.com wrote: Hey all, Having nowhere to write this as it is much more than 140 characters, I wanted to share my experience and opinion with the group. Relating to the big picture, I do get that this is fantasy football, but it really has opened my eyes to where accessibility falls with big companies. Going completely blind over the past several years, one of the things I miss most is being able to play team sports such as baseball and football. One of the ways I have adjusted to not being able to play or see the games anymore is by playing fantasy baseball and fantasy football. As my vision has deteriorated and I have come to completely rely on voiceover technology playing fantasy games has gotten harder and harder.
Re: Mike Arrigo 's mac tutorials
Yes, I did these back in version 10.5 of the mac operating system. Definitely time to do a new version. Although the basics really have not changed much, there are some new improvements. Original message: www.blindcooltech.com http://www.blindcooltech.com Though they are a bit dated now, they are still extremely useful for learning and fully explaining the basics. After all, that's how I learned. Sent from my mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in! Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray Still a very proud and happy Mac and Iphone user! On Aug 9, 2013, at 12:37 PM, Corey Knapp core...@gmail.com wrote: Hi thanks for that does anyone know where I can download the actual mp3 files thanks I think that there 12 ro 13 files thanks in advance. Corey From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com http://googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Scott Rumery Sent: Friday, August 09, 2013 12:54 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Cc: Mac OSX iOS Accessibility Subject: Re: Mike Arrigo 's mac tutorials You can get them from the iBlink http://www.serotek.com/iblink radio app. On Aug 9, 2013, at 12:40 PM, Corey Knapp core...@gmail.com mailto:core...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Does anyone know where I can download the mac tutorials that Mike Arrigo Did on blindcool tech they are no longer available on blindcooltech thanks in advance. Corey -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email tomacvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: Mike Arrigo 's mac tutorials
Have not heard of this site. Is it popular, I thought the blind geek zone was the main place where pod casts were going now. Original message: Hey Mike, Have you given any consideration to submitting your new Mac podcasts to: www.coolblindtech.com You contact them, and, provided you have a drop box account, they set up a shared folder with you. In to which folder, you load your submitions. Sent from my mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in! Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray Still a very proud and happy Mac and Iphone user! On Aug 9, 2013, at 12:53 PM, Mike Arrigo n0...@charter.net wrote: The pod casts on blind cool tech are no loger available since the site was taken down. When I have time, I'm going to do some new mac pod casts, and you will be able to find those on the blind geek zone web site. Original message: Hi Does anyone know where I can download the mac tutorials that Mike Arrigo Did on blindcool tech they are no longer available on blindcooltech thanks in advance. Corey -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: Mike Arrigo 's mac tutorials
Well, seems to me it's sort of both. Sent from my mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in! Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray Still a very proud and happy Mac and Iphone user! On Aug 9, 2013, at 3:13 PM, Mike Arrigo n0...@charter.net wrote: Have not heard of this site. Is it popular, I thought the blind geek zone was the main place where pod casts were going now. Original message: Hey Mike, Have you given any consideration to submitting your new Mac podcasts to: www.coolblindtech.com You contact them, and, provided you have a drop box account, they set up a shared folder with you. In to which folder, you load your submitions. Sent from my mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in! Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray Still a very proud and happy Mac and Iphone user! On Aug 9, 2013, at 12:53 PM, Mike Arrigo n0...@charter.net wrote: The pod casts on blind cool tech are no loger available since the site was taken down. When I have time, I'm going to do some new mac pod casts, and you will be able to find those on the blind geek zone web site. Original message: Hi Does anyone know where I can download the mac tutorials that Mike Arrigo Did on blindcool tech they are no longer available on blindcooltech thanks in advance. Corey -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: Mike Arrigo 's mac tutorials
Hi Mike, Have you considered uploading your old files to somewhere like Dropbox albeit temporarily and circulating the link to groups like this one? It looks like there's quite a bit of demand and recording new ones is obviously going to be time-intensive. While the operating system hasn't changed as you say, the basics are still useful. Ed On 9 Aug 2013, at 21:12, Mike Arrigo n0...@charter.net wrote: Yes, I did these back in version 10.5 of the mac operating system. Definitely time to do a new version. Although the basics really have not changed much, there are some new improvements. Original message: www.blindcooltech.com http://www.blindcooltech.com Though they are a bit dated now, they are still extremely useful for learning and fully explaining the basics. After all, that's how I learned. Sent from my mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in! Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray Still a very proud and happy Mac and Iphone user! On Aug 9, 2013, at 12:37 PM, Corey Knapp core...@gmail.com wrote: Hi thanks for that does anyone know where I can download the actual mp3 files thanks I think that there 12 ro 13 files thanks in advance. Corey From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com http://googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Scott Rumery Sent: Friday, August 09, 2013 12:54 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Cc: Mac OSX iOS Accessibility Subject: Re: Mike Arrigo 's mac tutorials You can get them from the iBlink http://www.serotek.com/iblink radio app. On Aug 9, 2013, at 12:40 PM, Corey Knapp core...@gmail.com mailto:core...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Does anyone know where I can download the mac tutorials that Mike Arrigo Did on blindcool tech they are no longer available on blindcooltech thanks in advance. Corey -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email tomacvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email
Re: Mike Arrigo 's mac tutorials
Hi Mike, I do a podcast with Garth Humphries who is the owner of this site and I can tell you that he is a real stand up guy. Scott On Aug 9, 2013, at 4:13 PM, Mike Arrigo n0...@charter.net wrote: Have not heard of this site. Is it popular, I thought the blind geek zone was the main place where pod casts were going now. Original message: Hey Mike, Have you given any consideration to submitting your new Mac podcasts to: www.coolblindtech.com You contact them, and, provided you have a drop box account, they set up a shared folder with you. In to which folder, you load your submitions. Sent from my mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in! Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray Still a very proud and happy Mac and Iphone user! On Aug 9, 2013, at 12:53 PM, Mike Arrigo n0...@charter.net wrote: The pod casts on blind cool tech are no loger available since the site was taken down. When I have time, I'm going to do some new mac pod casts, and you will be able to find those on the blind geek zone web site. Original message: Hi Does anyone know where I can download the mac tutorials that Mike Arrigo Did on blindcool tech they are no longer available on blindcooltech thanks in advance. Corey -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: Mike Arrigo 's mac tutorials
Dropbox will quickly lock down someone's account if a lot of people start downloading files. I am thinking of the time when Curtis Delzer tried to share his Samsung Haven podcasts via Dropbox. Perhaps Mike might charge a nominal fee for his new Mac tutorials. Sent from my iPhone On Aug 9, 2013, at 3:20 PM, Edward Green ergreen1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Mike, Have you considered uploading your old files to somewhere like Dropbox albeit temporarily and circulating the link to groups like this one? It looks like there's quite a bit of demand and recording new ones is obviously going to be time-intensive. While the operating system hasn't changed as you say, the basics are still useful. Ed On 9 Aug 2013, at 21:12, Mike Arrigo n0...@charter.net wrote: Yes, I did these back in version 10.5 of the mac operating system. Definitely time to do a new version. Although the basics really have not changed much, there are some new improvements. Original message: www.blindcooltech.com http://www.blindcooltech.com Though they are a bit dated now, they are still extremely useful for learning and fully explaining the basics. After all, that's how I learned. Sent from my mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in! Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray Still a very proud and happy Mac and Iphone user! On Aug 9, 2013, at 12:37 PM, Corey Knapp core...@gmail.com wrote: Hi thanks for that does anyone know where I can download the actual mp3 files thanks I think that there 12 ro 13 files thanks in advance. Corey From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com http://googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Scott Rumery Sent: Friday, August 09, 2013 12:54 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Cc: Mac OSX iOS Accessibility Subject: Re: Mike Arrigo 's mac tutorials You can get them from the iBlink http://www.serotek.com/iblink radio app. On Aug 9, 2013, at 12:40 PM, Corey Knapp core...@gmail.com mailto:core...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Does anyone know where I can download the mac tutorials that Mike Arrigo Did on blindcool tech they are no longer available on blindcooltech thanks in advance. Corey -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email tomacvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this
Re: Mike Arrigo 's mac tutorials
Hi Jamie, How many is a lot? I get a journal once a quarter that a hundred or so people download and it seems to work. Ed On 9 Aug 2013, at 21:37, Jamie Pauls jamiepa...@gmail.com wrote: Dropbox will quickly lock down someone's account if a lot of people start downloading files. I am thinking of the time when Curtis Delzer tried to share his Samsung Haven podcasts via Dropbox. Perhaps Mike might charge a nominal fee for his new Mac tutorials. Sent from my iPhone On Aug 9, 2013, at 3:20 PM, Edward Green ergreen1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Mike, Have you considered uploading your old files to somewhere like Dropbox albeit temporarily and circulating the link to groups like this one? It looks like there's quite a bit of demand and recording new ones is obviously going to be time-intensive. While the operating system hasn't changed as you say, the basics are still useful. Ed On 9 Aug 2013, at 21:12, Mike Arrigo n0...@charter.net wrote: Yes, I did these back in version 10.5 of the mac operating system. Definitely time to do a new version. Although the basics really have not changed much, there are some new improvements. Original message: www.blindcooltech.com http://www.blindcooltech.com Though they are a bit dated now, they are still extremely useful for learning and fully explaining the basics. After all, that's how I learned. Sent from my mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in! Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray Still a very proud and happy Mac and Iphone user! On Aug 9, 2013, at 12:37 PM, Corey Knapp core...@gmail.com wrote: Hi thanks for that does anyone know where I can download the actual mp3 files thanks I think that there 12 ro 13 files thanks in advance. Corey From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com http://googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Scott Rumery Sent: Friday, August 09, 2013 12:54 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Cc: Mac OSX iOS Accessibility Subject: Re: Mike Arrigo 's mac tutorials You can get them from the iBlink http://www.serotek.com/iblink radio app. On Aug 9, 2013, at 12:40 PM, Corey Knapp core...@gmail.com mailto:core...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Does anyone know where I can download the mac tutorials that Mike Arrigo Did on blindcool tech they are no longer available on blindcooltech thanks in advance. Corey -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email tomacvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are
Re: Mike Arrigo 's mac tutorials
Funny, I was just going to make that very point. Sharing a podcast on a public odcast server such as the blind geek zone or else cool blind tech would be the better way to go about this. Sent from my mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in! Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray Still a very proud and happy Mac and Iphone user! On Aug 9, 2013, at 3:37 PM, Jamie Pauls jamiepa...@gmail.com wrote: Dropbox will quickly lock down someone's account if a lot of people start downloading files. I am thinking of the time when Curtis Delzer tried to share his Samsung Haven podcasts via Dropbox. Perhaps Mike might charge a nominal fee for his new Mac tutorials. Sent from my iPhone On Aug 9, 2013, at 3:20 PM, Edward Green ergreen1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Mike, Have you considered uploading your old files to somewhere like Dropbox albeit temporarily and circulating the link to groups like this one? It looks like there's quite a bit of demand and recording new ones is obviously going to be time-intensive. While the operating system hasn't changed as you say, the basics are still useful. Ed On 9 Aug 2013, at 21:12, Mike Arrigo n0...@charter.net wrote: Yes, I did these back in version 10.5 of the mac operating system. Definitely time to do a new version. Although the basics really have not changed much, there are some new improvements. Original message: www.blindcooltech.com http://www.blindcooltech.com Though they are a bit dated now, they are still extremely useful for learning and fully explaining the basics. After all, that's how I learned. Sent from my mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in! Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray Still a very proud and happy Mac and Iphone user! On Aug 9, 2013, at 12:37 PM, Corey Knapp core...@gmail.com wrote: Hi thanks for that does anyone know where I can download the actual mp3 files thanks I think that there 12 ro 13 files thanks in advance. Corey From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com http://googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Scott Rumery Sent: Friday, August 09, 2013 12:54 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Cc: Mac OSX iOS Accessibility Subject: Re: Mike Arrigo 's mac tutorials You can get them from the iBlink http://www.serotek.com/iblink radio app. On Aug 9, 2013, at 12:40 PM, Corey Knapp core...@gmail.com mailto:core...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Does anyone know where I can download the mac tutorials that Mike Arrigo Did on blindcool tech they are no longer available on blindcooltech thanks in advance. Corey -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email tomacvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at
Re: Mike Arrigo 's mac tutorials
I have no idea what their criteria is. Sent from my iPhone On Aug 9, 2013, at 3:44 PM, Edward Green ergreen1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Jamie, How many is a lot? I get a journal once a quarter that a hundred or so people download and it seems to work. Ed On 9 Aug 2013, at 21:37, Jamie Pauls jamiepa...@gmail.com wrote: Dropbox will quickly lock down someone's account if a lot of people start downloading files. I am thinking of the time when Curtis Delzer tried to share his Samsung Haven podcasts via Dropbox. Perhaps Mike might charge a nominal fee for his new Mac tutorials. Sent from my iPhone On Aug 9, 2013, at 3:20 PM, Edward Green ergreen1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Mike, Have you considered uploading your old files to somewhere like Dropbox albeit temporarily and circulating the link to groups like this one? It looks like there's quite a bit of demand and recording new ones is obviously going to be time-intensive. While the operating system hasn't changed as you say, the basics are still useful. Ed On 9 Aug 2013, at 21:12, Mike Arrigo n0...@charter.net wrote: Yes, I did these back in version 10.5 of the mac operating system. Definitely time to do a new version. Although the basics really have not changed much, there are some new improvements. Original message: www.blindcooltech.com http://www.blindcooltech.com Though they are a bit dated now, they are still extremely useful for learning and fully explaining the basics. After all, that's how I learned. Sent from my mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in! Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray Still a very proud and happy Mac and Iphone user! On Aug 9, 2013, at 12:37 PM, Corey Knapp core...@gmail.com wrote: Hi thanks for that does anyone know where I can download the actual mp3 files thanks I think that there 12 ro 13 files thanks in advance. Corey From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com http://googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Scott Rumery Sent: Friday, August 09, 2013 12:54 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Cc: Mac OSX iOS Accessibility Subject: Re: Mike Arrigo 's mac tutorials You can get them from the iBlink http://www.serotek.com/iblink radio app. On Aug 9, 2013, at 12:40 PM, Corey Knapp core...@gmail.com mailto:core...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Does anyone know where I can download the mac tutorials that Mike Arrigo Did on blindcool tech they are no longer available on blindcooltech thanks in advance. Corey -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email tomacvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options,
Re: help with vmware
Kawal, I have two VM's running win7 with JAWS and have them set to use the SharpKeys solution where sharpKeys swaps the capslock and the grave accent functions from within windows. I just set one of my VM's to do it the other way mentioned here using fusion keymapping to set the grave accent key to be an insert key. It works fine, and I like it because its simpler and avoids messing around with the registry. the only drawback I see is that the fusion way, you completely lose the grave accent key, and there's no way to produce a grave or tilda in case you ever needed to do so. with SharpKeys remap, the capslock key will produce the grave and tilda keys when needed. Other than that, I like your/pauls way better. Can you think of any reason that not having the grave key would be a show stopper? On 8/9/13, Sandi Jazmin Kruse sandi1...@gmail.com wrote: nice! :) On 8/9/13, Kawal Gucukoglu kawa...@me.com wrote: The advantage of doing it Paul's way is that it doesn't matter how many VM Machines you have with Windows, you can always have an insert key that way paul says in his message below. One of the reasons why I only use VM preferences. Kawal. On 9 Aug 2013, at 11:38 AM, Paul Erkens paul.erk...@gmail.com wrote: Sandy, Capslock is trickey to do under fusion, so let's just use the insert key. Insert is normally not available on a mac keyboard. There is a key that you could use as insert though, which is the accent key, on US keyboard just below escape. To map the accent key to become the insert key as long as you have windows on, do the following. Open fusion and make sure that all VM's are shut off. Then hit command comma, to get into the preferences for fusion. From the toolbar, select keyboard and mouse. You now see your current key mappings. Skip the profile bit. Just leave that at default. Hit add, to add a new mapping. In the dialog that comes, VO over to the first combobox. This is where you set your source key to be mapped, in your case accent. So, once on the combobox, just hit accent and move on. You'll then find the to, field. Skip all the checkboxes and stop on the next combobox. This is where you select the key you want to happen, if you hit your accent key, so we must select insert in here. If you hit VO space on the combobox, a list will pop up as usual. Select insert, but do not hit VO space. What you have to do in little, non-standard interface, is stop interacting till you can not go up any further. This leaves the combobox alone, having insert selected. Now hit okay and you have your insert key. Exit fusion preferences by hitting command w, for close window. Fire up windows and NVDA, hold down accent, below escape, and hit n. If all went well, the NVDA menu will pop up, because NVDA thinks it sees insert plus n. If that does not happen, go back into fusion preferences and check your mapping. If it was wrong, delete it and start over. Hth, Paul. On Aug 9, 2013, at 11:42 AM, Sandi Jazmin Kruse sandi1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Paul, and first of all thank you for the tidbits, :) it is always wonderful to get help from others who knows more about a given situation than one might. What i have done so far, and it is not given it is the best thing, but more about that later on. Eventually i have a scanner, it won't run under mac, so i simply took a old xp cd, inserted it into the 12 core mac pro, installed windows on it and more or less have mapped the keys as you said, installed nvda and after that moved it allover via the usb key on the mac book air. Now of course i need to set the nvda keys up, but I'm confident i can do that on my own :) have a wonderful day sandi On 8/9/13, Paul Erkens paul.erk...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Sandy and others interested, After you have fusion installed and you have a windows vm running, you can go a few different ways. As it is by default with fusion and windows, the command key next to the spacebar, is not the alt key as you would expect from a windows keyboard. Instead, command is now the windows logo key, while the mac option key is alt, in windows. You can choose to leave that as it is, or you can swap the keys if you prefer so. You can do this in the global preferences inside fusion, command comma, when all VMs are shut down. There is a keyboard setup screen with multiple tab sheets there, available from the toolbar. You'll find a listbox there, containing all current, default key bindings. For example, the mac user does a command c to copy, while in windows, you would do control c rather than command c. So, fusion, to make the windows interface as intuitive as possible for the mac user, assigns command c to be mapped to control c. In other words, in a windows virtual machine, by default, command c does the same thing as control c. This is not always what you want. There are a few other keystrokes that can get in your way, mapped inside this same screen,
Re: Mike Arrigo 's mac tutorials
Hi, I agree for new material that it would be much better to put it up as a podcast. However, if Mike were to put up old material, then I thought it might look a bit odd for material relating to an old version of Mac OSX to appear as a podcast, which is why I suggested the Dropbox route. Cheers, Ed On 9 Aug 2013, at 21:45, Ray Foret jr rfore...@att.net wrote: Funny, I was just going to make that very point. Sharing a podcast on a public odcast server such as the blind geek zone or else cool blind tech would be the better way to go about this. Sent from my mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in! Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray Still a very proud and happy Mac and Iphone user! On Aug 9, 2013, at 3:37 PM, Jamie Pauls jamiepa...@gmail.com wrote: Dropbox will quickly lock down someone's account if a lot of people start downloading files. I am thinking of the time when Curtis Delzer tried to share his Samsung Haven podcasts via Dropbox. Perhaps Mike might charge a nominal fee for his new Mac tutorials. Sent from my iPhone On Aug 9, 2013, at 3:20 PM, Edward Green ergreen1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Mike, Have you considered uploading your old files to somewhere like Dropbox albeit temporarily and circulating the link to groups like this one? It looks like there's quite a bit of demand and recording new ones is obviously going to be time-intensive. While the operating system hasn't changed as you say, the basics are still useful. Ed On 9 Aug 2013, at 21:12, Mike Arrigo n0...@charter.net wrote: Yes, I did these back in version 10.5 of the mac operating system. Definitely time to do a new version. Although the basics really have not changed much, there are some new improvements. Original message: www.blindcooltech.com http://www.blindcooltech.com Though they are a bit dated now, they are still extremely useful for learning and fully explaining the basics. After all, that's how I learned. Sent from my mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in! Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray Still a very proud and happy Mac and Iphone user! On Aug 9, 2013, at 12:37 PM, Corey Knapp core...@gmail.com wrote: Hi thanks for that does anyone know where I can download the actual mp3 files thanks I think that there 12 ro 13 files thanks in advance. Corey From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com http://googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Scott Rumery Sent: Friday, August 09, 2013 12:54 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Cc: Mac OSX iOS Accessibility Subject: Re: Mike Arrigo 's mac tutorials You can get them from the iBlink http://www.serotek.com/iblink radio app. On Aug 9, 2013, at 12:40 PM, Corey Knapp core...@gmail.com mailto:core...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Does anyone know where I can download the mac tutorials that Mike Arrigo Did on blindcool tech they are no longer available on blindcooltech thanks in advance. Corey -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email tomacvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out
Daisy apps for the Mac
Hi, Are there any Daisy apps for the Mac that support the online streaming of Daisy content? Many thanks, Ed -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
VoiceOver intro
Hi list: Have you all noticed that, at least in Mountain Lion, there is no longer an intro that plays the first time a user runs VoiceOver? The option to display the Welcome dialog still exists, but, effectively does nothing. You can still get the VoiceOver quickStart via the VO+Command+f8 keystroke, but, unless a new user knows this, he may never get the Welcome message for the first time. Is this my system, or, is this something anyone else on the list can confirm? Thanks! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
To those considering making tutorials, reviewing apps or tech blogging
Hey everyone, I know this is a little off topic but I hope the moderators will cut me a bit of a break. on and off I've read about people thinking about starting a podcast or accessibility blog related to tech. Some want to write actual articles about topics that effect the blind community While applevis is a great place to do this I understand the desire for more flexibility and just something new. They are also strictly Apple so that is limiting as well. For this reason I went to extend a little invitation for those of you entertaining these thoughts to consider working with me on my website How to be Blind at www.htb2.com. I've been running it for a while and have been thinking about bringing on some other contributors so if you think you may be interested check the site out and email me off list and we can talk further. There are a few details and precautions I will be taking before turning whoever loose with publishing rights but that can be addressed one on one. If your wondering why I'm doing this it's because I want HTB2 to continue to grow and gain more perspective. I have lots of ideas for the future but only have so much time in each day. So if your interested in becoming a contributor, whether for articles or tutorials, then let me know. Have a good day everyone! Mike Malarsie -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: VoiceOver intro
My experience after doing a recent reinstall is exactly the oposate. Sent from my mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in! Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray Still a very proud and happy Mac and Iphone user! On Aug 9, 2013, at 5:27 PM, Joseph Norton joseph.nor...@gmail.com wrote: Hi list: Have you all noticed that, at least in Mountain Lion, there is no longer an intro that plays the first time a user runs VoiceOver? The option to display the Welcome dialog still exists, but, effectively does nothing. You can still get the VoiceOver quickStart via the VO+Command+f8 keystroke, but, unless a new user knows this, he may never get the Welcome message for the first time. Is this my system, or, is this something anyone else on the list can confirm? Thanks! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: Third Party Turn-by-Turn Direction Apps with Blindsquare (was, Seeing Eye GPS)
Hi Motion X users, What does Motion X offer that free solutions such as Google and Apple Maps do not? thanks, Nic -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: FCC seeks comment on Amazons request for waiver of accessibility requirements
Yes, but it sounds like at least one important motivation for Amazon to support VoiceOver on its iOS app was so it would have a better chance of not needing to make its eReaders accessible in the future. So, if the FCC rejects its request, would it no longer be motivated to make its iOS app accessible? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: Downcast on the Mac All podcasts dim
Maybe just try marking them as played instead of or as well as deleting? That way your iOS app might not bother downloading them or they will be marked as read and then not appear in the main list of podcasts. I'm having an issue now that continuous play doesn't seem to be working in playlists. I might write to the developer again about this one. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
How Can videos be shared?
Hello, everyone. My husband took some videos which he wants to send to me and others. However, after syncing them to his MacBook from his iPhone and attempting to send, he got a message that said you could not sen videos from iPhoto, only photos. How can he send videos? Thanks. Christine -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: How Can videos be shared?
Hi, You can use IMovie on Mac to send vedeo, or, IMessage and send it as an attachment or Mail, as a vedeo attachment or share it thru dropbox, or if it is on your phone, you can go to video, and tap on action, and it will give you different options to share or if you go on photos on your phone, when you choose vedio, you can also tap on action on specific vedio to share and send as well hope this help The flip side of Inclusion is Exclusion.Joanne Chua Leaders For Tomorrow 2013 Candidate Send from my iPad On 10/08/2013, at 11:50, Christine Grassman cgrassman1...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, everyone. My husband took some videos which he wants to send to me and others. However, after syncing them to his MacBook from his iPhone and attempting to send, he got a message that said you could not sen videos from iPhoto, only photos. How can he send videos? Thanks. Christine -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: How Can videos be shared?
He tried sharing, but it says the video is too long. One is about seven and a half minutes; the other three and three quarter minutes, so we need an alternative. Is there a way to get them into iMovie? they don't seem to be transferring using iTunes. Thanks. Christine On Aug 9, 2013, at 11:07 PM, Joanne Chua shuang.an...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, You can use IMovie on Mac to send vedeo, or, IMessage and send it as an attachment or Mail, as a vedeo attachment or share it thru dropbox, or if it is on your phone, you can go to video, and tap on action, and it will give you different options to share or if you go on photos on your phone, when you choose vedio, you can also tap on action on specific vedio to share and send as well hope this help The flip side of Inclusion is Exclusion.Joanne Chua Leaders For Tomorrow 2013 Candidate Send from my iPad On 10/08/2013, at 11:50, Christine Grassman cgrassman1...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, everyone. My husband took some videos which he wants to send to me and others. However, after syncing them to his MacBook from his iPhone and attempting to send, he got a message that said you could not sen videos from iPhoto, only photos. How can he send videos? Thanks. Christine -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: Downcast on the Mac All podcasts dim
Hey Nicholas, I had a debacle with the Downcast iPhone app tonight, as it completely crashed and I couldn't get it to reopen and even let it sit for awhile made sure it was cleared from the app switcher and it still wouldn't open. I had to delete it from my iPhone and reinstall the problem is I lost everything I had stored on it. I did backup everything in March so starting there to see what I can recover but it is a total pain and not sure if being synched through iCloud to the mac app had anything to do with it. Just very frustrating I know on the iPhone I had all my podcasts listed in playlists to manually delete and to show if played will have to check that setting in the mac app. On Aug 9, 2013, at 9:35 PM, Nicholas Parsons mr.nicholas.pars...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe just try marking them as played instead of or as well as deleting? That way your iOS app might not bother downloading them or they will be marked as read and then not appear in the main list of podcasts. I'm having an issue now that continuous play doesn't seem to be working in playlists. I might write to the developer again about this one. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
