Re: What is a TV anyway?
Re: What is a TV anyway? One thing Samsung is going to have to do to make this TV meet accessibility standards is rewrite their manual. The current manual constantly refers to pictures or drawing rather than descripbe it in the text.For example I was trying to figure out how to turn on the audio description feature, and this is what the manual says.You can activate an audio guide that provides an audio description of video scenes for the visually impaired. This function is only available with broadcasts that provide this service. Press and hold the 80button on the Samsung Smart Control to turn Video Description on or off.Notice that instead of naming the button on the remote, there is just the number 80, which refers to figure 80.What gets me is that I think it would have been easier to name the button than to use a picture or drawing and refer to that. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=239749#p239749 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: What is a TV anyway?
Re: What is a TV anyway? One thing Samsung is going to have to do to make this TV meet accessibility standards is rewrite their manual. The current manual constantly refers to pictures or drawing rather than describing it in the text.For example I was trying to figure out how to turn on the audio description feature, and this is what the manual says.You can activate an audio guide that provides an audio description of video scenes for the visually impaired. This function is only available with broadcasts that provide this service. Press and hold the 80button on the Samsung Smart Control to turn Video Description on or off.Notice that instead of naming the button on the remote, there is just the number 80, which refers to figure 80.What gets me is that I think it would have been easier to name the button than to use a picture or drawing and refer to that. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=239749#p239749 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: What is a TV anyway?
Re: What is a TV anyway? What did I buy anyway? A TV or a bunch of software? I ask because in the set up portion of the TV's menus, there is a terms and conditions entry. In there you find about half a dozen agreements you have to accept and agree to be bound by before you'll have access to all the TV's features. For exampled, to have access to the voice guidance and voice command systems you have to accept and agree to two agreements from Nuance because they provided their text to speech and speech recognition technologies to those features.Samsungs own terms and conditions agreement was 61 pages long,good grief! For a TV? Somebody's lawyers don't have enough to do.Apparently the TV collects data about you, specifically your TV viewing habbits, and sends this information back to Samsung for them to supposedly use for marketing purposes, because one of the agreements you have to accept is Samsung's privacy policy. Whether sending that data to Samsung requires yo u to set up an account on Samsung.com, I don't know, if the data is supposed to be annonymous, I would suspect that the account has other uses. But two of the agreements mention that the collected data will allow for targeted advertising that more closely matches your interests. Does that mean Samsung or their partners can send advertising to your TV? That doesn't sound very annonymous to me.I tried the voice command option today. It's pretty neat. As it turns out, the microphone is in the remote, which means it isn't on all the time listening to you, if it was the remote would burn through batteries fairly quickly for a remote, which would be an alert to something going on. To use voice command, you hold down one of the remote's buttons for two seconds, you know when the microphone is on because the TV clicks when it turned on and the volume gets cut in half so it can hear. You give the command, which the TV repeats after it has been recognized to te xt, then it does what you asked, if it understood you. I don't think voice command sends a recording of your voice to some server for processing because the responxe to your commands is very quick. It's possible that the recognized text is sent in the background though. Either way, I'll be using voice command because it's a lot more convenient that the TV's on screen remote.Speecking of the remote, this is certainly one of the smallest remotes I've ever run across. Here are the buttons it has; power, source, menu, volume up and down, information, channel up and down, joystick, return, play/pause, extra, smart hub, and mute. Joystick is actually two buttons, one is a large square that you press on the side of to get up, down, left, and right. The other is a select button in the middle. The return button isn't return as in enter, it's return as in go back. And the mute button is on the side.That's right, there are no number ke ys for entering channel numbers, to do that you have to use the on screen remote. It works, but it's not very convenient, that's why I'll be using voice command, it's much easier to say "channel 34" than it is to use the on screen remote.AS I continue to work with the TV, I begin to get the feeling that accessibility was added rather than designed in from the beginning. Either that or it is not very well tested.For one the TV keeps disabling the voice guidance. And when the voice guidance is on the TV acts like the voice guidance system is interfering with other parts of the TV's software. I've seen strange behavior in the on screen keyboard in one area and strange behavior in the channel list while editing it.I'm really curious about what benefits having the TV log in to an account on Samsung.com provides. So far all I can think of or find is that it provides an online presence to link your social media a ccounts to. Otherwise, the TV doesn't seem to act any differently regardless of whether it is logged into the Samsung account or not.At least for now, the electronic program guide isn't going to work. The TV uses how you get your live TV signal to determine what providers to support. I'm getting analog cable TV direct to the TV's antenna connection, unfortunately Samsung's provider list doesn't support cable TV through the antenna connector, so the only provider that's supported is off the air local channels and there's no electronic program guide available for that.One interesting point, I chose analog cable because I know the cable company doesn't have an accessible cable box, so having to use a cable box would defeat the whole purpose of getting an accessible TV. But while playing with the TV to see if I could get it to let me choose my provider, it went through a process that appeared to be for setting it up to control t he cable box itself. If that's true, then all I'll need to do is have the cable company put in a box, and let me see if I can get the TV to control it. That would mean they'd add a couple of dollars to my monthly bill for the equipment
Re: Audio Enhancements on OEM computers
Re: Audio Enhancements on OEM computers You said it crashmaster, speakers that come with laptops are crap, but to be fair, they don't really have room in a laptop for proper speakers. So they put an audio out jack on the laptop so you can hook up your own speakers.I did the same thing with the Realtek drivers you described. I discovered that all the drivers needed to work was the default windows sound system user interface. So I always disabled Realtek's user interface from loading at startup. I did this because I didn't want the unneeded fancy user interface taking up valuable system resources, not because they were inaccessible, because I still had good vision at the time.While the sound system in my laptop won't win any awards for sound quality, for what I need it for it is plenty adequate.My speakers are pretty much the same, they are just very basic stereo speakers. I got them because they are USB powered. The speakers have a standard 3.5mm stereo audio plug for audio input and a USB connector for power. What that gets me is that the speakers turn on when the computer does, and turn off when I shut down the computer. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=239738#p239738 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: What is a TV anyway?
Re: What is a TV anyway? Well, I guess Samsung is getting into the data mining business. To access all of the TV's features, you have to set up an account on Samsung.com and set up the TV to log into it. This is all part of their Smart Hub. Right in the agreements there is a notice that the TV sends your viewing habbits to Samsung for marketing purposes and that that information may be shared with their partners. Since the gathered data comes in through an account you set up, the data is not annonomous.Once I set this up, features of the TV that were disabled, suddenly are available.Which means, the bottom line is, unless you agree to Samsung collecting personally identifiable information about you and your TV viewing habbits, including the voice commands you say to your TV, you will not have access to all the TV's features! That's crap! I paid for the TV, I should have access to all it's features! This is probably going to be the show stopper that gets this TV returned.< /p>After setting up the Smart Hub, I was finally able to identify my cable TV service provider, but because the TV expected me to use their set top box, which I don't, it would only allow me to select one of the HDMI or analog audio/video inputs. So no TV channels because my TV's antenna connector is hooked up directly to the cable with no set top box.I had to go back and rerun the auto tune through the antenna input again to get my TV channels back. But then it only offered over the air local stations as my service provider.So that means the electronic program guide will not work.At this point, the TV is more than likely going to get returned. I don't think Samsung will be able to address these issues, assuming they even want to, within three weeks, and for what I paid for this TV, I'm not willing to hold on to it to wait and see if Samsung fixes these and other problems.Sebby may be right about accessibility being designed i n from the beginning rather than added on. The TV repeatedly disables the voice guide and I believe the voice guide interferes with other parts of the TV.In one area while entering some information via an on screen keyboard, after entering a key, the cursor randomly jumped around the keyboard for three to five attempt to get it to move where you want it to.And while scrolling through the channel list removing channels I didn't want, it started skipping back about 10 channels instead of moving forward one channel, I'd have to go back one channel before it would move forward one channel like it's supposed to. When it skips back, the voice guide starts to read the correct channel, but stops and reads a channel number about 10 places back. So if I'm on channel 30 in the channel list, and go up one channel, the TV says, "thirt", pausses, "sixteen dash one"., and the channel list will be on channel 16.1, if I keep trying to go up throu gh the channels it keeps going up from channel 16.1, but if I go down one channel first, it goes back to channel 30, then if I go up again from there it goes to channel 31, and so on. It's the reading of the channel number being interrupted that makes me feel like it's the text to speech software that's the problem.For what it's worth, Samsung got their text to speech software from Nuance because you have to agree to Nuance's terms and conditions to use the voice guide URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=239775#p239775 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: What is a TV anyway?
Re: What is a TV anyway? Actually, the accessibility option for the Trecker Satnav system sounds like it was done by a third party and not by the people who designed the Satnav system in the first place. If that's the case, then it's little wonder the accessibility isn't as good as it could be.I may have to correct myself about the TV accessibility being designed in from the beginning. I discovered that I can choose the gender of the TV's voice, to do it you have to go into the voice command options, in there, there are three settings choices, the voice command options, turning the TV's voice on or off, and setting the voice's gender. Really, those last two options should be in the accessibility options, or at least duplicated there. Kind of disorganized if you ask me. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=239652#p239652 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: New little program from ultrasound! Toney!
Re: New little program from ultrasound! Toney! It was my intention to say you were insulting someone or something, just that it gave the impression you were offering a review and opinion of some program rather than just a program announcement.And yeah, I know how late nights can be. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=239663#p239663 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: What is a TV anyway?
Re: What is a TV anyway? That the Trecker Satnav system's accessibility is poorly design isn't because they added accessibility to an existing product. The blame for it having a poor accessibility design rests soley with the designers that thought it was a good idea.Deciding whether a products accessibility is well designed based on whether the accessibility features were added on to an existing product instead of being designed in from the ground up is like judging a person based on whether they live in the country they were born in or immigrated to another country.The unit the judgement is being made with isn't relevant to what is being judged.In the case of the Samsung TV, it's probably a combination of both. They take an existing product, say a 2014 model. And start with that in designing the new 2015 model they are designing. Yet accessibility is being designed into the 2015 model from the beginningThe method works because many things in the design of a TV aren't going to change from one model to the next, so why keep designing the same thing over and over again?.With my TV it feels like the accessibility was a part of its list of features from the beginning, because it does read everything the TV puts on the screen as text.But Samsung made some design errors in other parts of the TV.For example, instead of using the internet and partnering with someone else to provide the electronic program guides, Titantv.com and TiVo are two sources that have extensive channel and program information databases along with cable TV provider by area. Samsung decided to rely on cooperation from the various cable and satellite providers to work with them so the TV can pick up the program guides they transmit over their system for their set top boxes to pick up. Apparently, that's not working out too well. In my area none of the four cable TV providers are supported, so the electronic program guide doesn't work.The remote is poorly designed for people that have to do things by feel. The button on it are small, are barely raised above the body of the remote, and are made of the same plastic the rest of the remote is. All of this makes the buttons harter to locate. Unlike the remote from my old TV which had larger buttons that were rubberized and raised above the rest of the remote making them easy to find. With the new remote you have to focus on what you are doing to find the right button.In the accessibility menu Audio Description is turned off and the option is disabled so you can't turn it on. And so far I haven't been able to find any information about how to enable it so I can turn it on. This leads me to think that while accessibility may have been designed in from the beginning, it is not yet complete.I've also noticed a number of other settings that are disabled so they can't be changed. Some of them make sense, such as setting the clock is dis abled because I have the clock's mode set to auto, which means the TV probably get time from over the internet or from the time singal that most PBS station piggy back on their TV signal. So there no need to set the clock's time. But I can see no reason why the other disabled options should be.Companies are finding more ways to pry into our lives. The TV has a feature called Smart Hub, at first I thought it was the flat brick shaped device that comes with the TV and connects to it via a custom cable that looks like an extra wide HDMI connector at each end. The TV itself has just the barest minimum of connections to allow it to function. If you need more connections that that, you have to hook up this brick, because it has additional HDMI conections as well as USB and optical digital audio out connections on it. Since I didn't yet need those extra connections, I haven't bothered to hook up the brick to the TV, it's still in its box along with its cable s. But after reading more about it, Smart Hub appears to be just the software in the TV that puts all the different sources of content in one place. In order to use Smart Hub, you have to accept Samsung's Terms of Use and Privacy Policies, and you also have to create an account on samsun.com for the TV to log into. . Since I'm not yet sure what Smart Hub is or how it might be of benefit to me, I currently have it turned off. Whether doing that disables some of the TV's features, I don't know.I still have my old TV just sitting out of the way. I also still have the box and all the packing material the new TV came in. I'll give it three weeks to resolve the issues I highlighted or to find out if they will be. If the issues don't appear that they ever will be resolved, I intend to return the TV. At this point all I've gained is that the TV tells me what channel it's on. I took care of that with the old inaccessible TV by not using the chan nel up and down buttons, instead I entered the channel numbers directly. That's not worth the price I paid for the new TV. URL:
Re: New stupid program from ultrasound! Toney!
Re: New stupid program from ultrasound! Toney! Because the topic title said this was a stupid program from Ultra Sound, I was expecting someone's opinion of a program, not a program release announcement. And at the end of it all, there's nothing about why this program should be considered stupid. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=239637#p239637 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: What is a TV anyway?
Re: What is a TV anyway? Amazing, the last time I dealt with Samsung, their technical support was basically non existent. I tried contacting them anyway about some of the problems I'm having with the TV, such as the program guide feature not working, and just got contacted by them wanting to help me resolve the problem. There's hope for this thing yet!I also discovered some addditional things about the TV.Unlike most remotes, this TVs remote uses radio to connect with the TV. I can be in another room and still operate the TV with it. There is a section in the manual about pairing a TV and a remote, so it might use bluetooth technology. Interesting.I also found out the microphone used for voice command is in the remote, which makes sense, a microphone on the TV would have difficulty hearing commands over the TV's own sound, unless the TV mutes the sound when it's expecting a command. A microphone in the remote wont have that problem since it will be closer to the us ers than it is to the TV.And finally, what I thought was the Smart Hub, the brick with additional connectors to connect devices to the TV, is called the "One Connect Mini". All that not connecting it to the TV does is, you don't have access to those extra connections. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=239643#p239643 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: accessible html editor for windows
Re: accessible html editor for windows My absolute favorite editor for just about anything from text files to source code to data files of a wide variety is Ultra Edit IDE (UEIDE) by IDM Corp. Unfortunately it has some conflict with JAWS that makes both programs unstable. I believe I have both IDM and FS working on a solution.Until there is a solution, Notepad++ isn't a bad alternative. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=239644#p239644 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: book suggestion for someone who was blown away by wheel of time and th
Re: book suggestion for someone who was blown away by wheel of time and th I was introduced to fantasy in the late 70s when I decided on a whim to read The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings.Before that I wasn't that much of a reader, after that, I always had my nose in a book.Thank you Mr. Tolkien for that wonderful gift! URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=239408#p239408 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: how to send iphone's audio to pc?
Re: how to send iphone's audio to pc? You could also use a Y cable that's two 3.5mm male plugs to one 3.5mm female jack. Y cables are usually quite short, about six inches, so no matter what you get you may need some kind of extension cable to give you some freedom. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=239421#p239421 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: What is a TV anyway?
Re: What is a TV anyway? I can see one feature this TV needs right now and that is the ability to lock the settings. I was just exploring some of the features and suddenly the voice guidance stopped and now the TV doesn't respond to some of the remote's buttons. I'm sure I accidently changed something but since I live alone I don't have a sighted person handy to help me figure out what I did.The TVs software appears to have some bugs, frequently the TV doesn't bring up the menu when the menu button is pressed on the remote, it just says "TV" meaning it's returning to TV viewing after you've done something in the menus. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=239442#p239442 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: how to send iphone's audio to pc?
Re: how to send iphone's audio to pc? You could also use a Y cable that's two 3.5mm male plugs to one 3.5mm female jack. Y cables are usually quite short, about six inches, so no matter what you get you may need some kind of extension cable. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=239419#p239419 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: book suggestion for someone who was blown away by wheel of time and th
Re: book suggestion for someone who was blown away by wheel of time and th I was introduced to fantasy in the late 70s when I decided on a whim to read The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. Now fantasy is my favorite genre.Before that I wasn't that much of a reader, after that, I always had my nose in a book.Thank you Mr. Tolkien for that wonderful gift! URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=239408#p239408 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: What is a TV anyway?
Re: What is a TV anyway? I don't know how its development went, but I can tell you that in the setting menus there is a whole section dedicated to accessibility. There's the voice guidance that's basically a screen reader, you can adjust the voice to some degree, not as much as you can the voices in JAWS or NVDA, on the TV, there is only one voice, a female sounding one, but you can choose among five speeds, three pitches, and three volumes, the voice guidance volume is separate from the TV's audio volume. And for people with some vision left there's a high contrast mode and a screen magnifier to help make text on the screen easier to read.Samsung still has some work to do to make the TV truly blind accessible. The voice guidance system is off by default and, other than a downloadable PDF, there are no blind accessible instructions on how to turn it on, which is easy enough for a blind user to do once he knows what to do, you just hold down one of the buttons on the r emote for several seconds, that brings up the accessibility menu with the voice guidance system turned on.It should also put you into the learn the remote section so you can learn what all the buttons do. While trying to figure out the remote, I accidently changed the menu language to something not supported by voice guidance so I lost the voice, it took a sighted persons help to undo what I did.I already noted problems with the design of the remote in my initial post, so I won't rehash that here.The TV has its manual in electronic form built in and the voice guidance system will read it to you. You can also get PDFs of the manual from Samsung's site.TVs, have, for a long time been dedicated computers, especially with TV went digital. The difference now is that they are beginning to act like they are computers and not just a fancy TV. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=239413#p239413 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Malware bytes new version accessibility?
Re: Malware bytes new version accessibility? I have version 2.2.0.1024 which appears to be the current version. I'm pretty sure there are somethings in the program's window JAWS isn't reading to me, but it reads enough that I can successfuly run it.With other screen readers, your milage may vary. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=239407#p239407 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: What Race would it be good to date as a blind person
Re: What Race would it be good to date as a blind person I don't know why, but it seems like most Cubans, Haitians, and Mexicans, seem to have a chip on their shoulders. So I tend to approach this group of people with a wary eye, so to speak.But I always try to approach everyone as a friend and let them proove to me that they are not my friend by their actions.Unfortunately, I've had family members do just that.One family member learned some of my secrets, I don't know how, and proceeded to tell them to the entire family. That was very embarrassing.And her husband, my brother, tried to extort money from me in exchange for a job when I was looking for and needed one. he wanted me to pay him one quarter of my income for as long as I held the job. If I refused, he wouldn't tell me where the job was so I could apply for it.I quietly, so as not to create a scene, avoid both of them now. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=239415#p239415 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Audio Enhancements on OEM computers
Re: Audio Enhancements on OEM computers That wasn't my experience with the Realtek sound system on my last motherboard.Yes, the Realtek supplied drivers and user interface had a rather large footprint for what they were as well as being inaccessible.When I removed the Realtek supplied drivers and user interface and let Windows XP load its generic drivers, I had the use of the entire Windows sound management system including the mixer and device preferences, which were accessible. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=239423#p239423 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: What Race would it be good to date as a blind person
Re: What Race would it be good to date as a blind person If there is one, I can't really blame the Cubans, Haitians, and Mexicans, for the chip on their shoulders, people from those countries tend to be very poor, then they come to the US and see how much we have. I can easily imagine the feelings of resentment that can create.So by approaching them with a wary eye, I'm giving them space to work it out. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=239424#p239424 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: What is a TV anyway?
Re: What is a TV anyway? Sebby;I've thought about it a bit and I don't understand the relevance of your question. I mean what difference does it make? As long as it is accessible, does it really matter whether it was an existing model modified to be accessible or a new model that was intended to be accessible from the beginning. At the end of the day, what you have is an accessible TV, and that's really all that matters. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=239435#p239435 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: What is a TV anyway?
Re: What is a TV anyway? How well a TV with voice command could listen to conversations would depend on where the microphone is, if it's on the TV, I'd think it would have a hard time hearing anything over the sound the TV is producing. The TV may mute the sound when it is expecting a voice command.Sebby,I don't think your question is significant because the quality of a products accessibility is dependent on the people designing the accessibility features. Whether accessibility is added to an existing product or is designed in from the ground up.Remember, iPhones weren't accessible until Apple released iOS 4, so the iPhone's accessibility was added on to an existing product and yet it is considered the most accessible smart phone. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=239505#p239505 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: What is a TV anyway?
Re: What is a TV anyway? magurp244;How well a TV with voice command could listen to conversations would depend on where the microphone is, if it's on the TV, I'd think it would have a hard time hearing anything over the sound the TV is producing. The TV may mute the sound when it is expecting a voice command.There is a setting that allows you to disable the microphone , but the setting itself is disabled so you can't change it.I also notice that the Descriptive audio option on the TV is currently off, and that setting too is disabled, which means I can't turn it on.The TV comes with something Samsung calls a smart hub. The TV itself has only the barest minimum of connections, one HDMI, one CoAx for an antenna or cable, an ethernet connector, and two analog video connection, one for component video and the other for composite video. If you need more connections than that, you have to hook up the smart hub, which is a flat brick with HDMI, digital optical audio , and USB connections on it. It's possible that some of the disabled settings are disabled because I haven't connected the smart hub to the TV, so far I haven't needed it.Sebby,I don't think your question is significant because the quality of a products accessibility is dependent on the people designing it. Whether accessibility is added to an existing product or is designed in from the ground up.So designers who take accessibility seriously will do a better job adding it to an existing product than designers doing only a half hearted job on a new product that they are designing from the ground up.Remember, iPhones weren't accessible until Apple released iOS 4, so the iPhone's accessibility was added on to an existing product and yet it is considered the most accessible smart phone. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=239505#p239505 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: What is a TV anyway?
Re: What is a TV anyway? magurp244;How well a TV with voice command could listen to conversations would depend on where the microphone is, if it's on the TV, I'd think it would have a hard time hearing anything over the sound the TV is producing. The TV may mute the sound when it is expecting a voice command.I'm not really sure about this because I have yet to try it out. But when I do I'll treat it like I do Apple's Siri, I don't say anything I wouldn't say to a complete stranger.There is a setting that allows you to disable the microphone , but the setting itself is disabled so you can't change it.I also notice that the video description option on the TV is currently off, and that setting too is disabled, which means I can't turn it on.Sebby,I don't think your question is significant because the quality of a products accessibility is dependent on the people designing it. Whether accessibility is added to an existi ng product or is designed in from the ground up.So designers who take accessibility seriously will do a better job adding it to an existing product than designers doing only a half hearted job on a new product that they are designing from the ground up.Remember, iPhones weren't accessible until Apple released iOS 4, so the iPhone's accessibility was added on to an existing product and yet it is considered the most accessible smart phone. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=239505#p239505 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Malware bytes new version accessibility?
Re: Malware bytes new version accessibility? Yeah, my install of Windows has some issues too, but none of them are show stoppers yet, so I'll hold off on reinstalling it.Sheesh! You would think that after over 20 years, Microsoft would have learned how to write a stable operating system. Just look at Linux! URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=239509#p239509 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Audio Enhancements on OEM computers
Re: Audio Enhancements on OEM computers I suppose that's possible, I built my last desktop about six or seven years ago, and retired it about two years ago. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=239503#p239503 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: What is a TV anyway?
Re: What is a TV anyway? Well, I rescued the TV, all I had to do was turn it off for several minutes, then turn it back on. The voice guidance was still turned off, but I was able to use the shortcut to the accessibility menu to turn it back on.The electronic program guide service the TV uses is pretty bathetic. The only thing they have listed for my area are the broadcast channels, they have no cable providers listed so the electronic program guide feature won't work. I'll have to give Samsung a raspberry for that, building a feature into their products and then not adequately supporting it? May as well not have bothered. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=239454#p239454 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Audio Enhancements on OEM computers
Re: Audio Enhancements on OEM computers I'm not sure if my old desktop used Wave Max software for its Realtek HD audio hardware. But when I lost my vision and discovered that the sound system's user interface was inaccessible, I uninstalled the sound system software and drivers. After rebooting, Windows recognized the sound system hardware and installed generic drivers with an accessible user interface.You lose some of the abilities of the sound system hardware, like 5.1 or better audio support, but you end up with something you can access.I'd recommend having a sighted friend around, if Windows doesn't have generic drivers for your sound system hardware, you might need their help to reinstall the original drivers and software. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=239260#p239260 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: When is a business to big? FS in another Merger?
Re: When is a business to big? FS in another Merger? To combat the unemployment problem among the handicapped, here in the US companies get substantial financial breaks in the form of tax deductions, for each handicapped person they hire and keep as an employee.With that in mind, I don't think it's the cost of any assistive technology that might be needed that keeps employers from hiring the handicapped., because part of the calculation of how much of a tax deduction they get is how much they spent in assistive technology so that the handicapped people they hired could do their jobs.There in lies the problem for inexpensive and free assistive technologies like NVDA, the less companies spend, the lower the tax deduction they get. So as far as the tax deductions they get for hiring the handicapped go, it's more advantageous for a company to buy JAWS for a blind employee than it would be to just use NVDA.The real reason unemployment among the handicapped is so high is because, despite the anti discri mination laws, companies still discriminate against the handicapped and get away with it. All they have to do is claim that they hired the best candidate for the job, and no law can tell an employer that they cannot hire who they feel is the best candidate for the positions they have that need filling. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=239250#p239250 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: The Coolest Little Computer!
Re: The Coolest Little Computer! I have to side with Frastlin about Lenovo.My first laptop was a Lenovo that a friend gave me when he bought a new laptop for himself. That laptop was heavier than most laptops because it was made from desktop grade components rather than lighter mobile grade ones. But it made the laptop very powerful. other than the Alienware gaming laptops, It was the only laptop in it's day that could play main stream video games. It was also built like a tank, solid as a brick. A lot of laptop back then just felt fragile in my hands.The next Lenovo product I got was a 22 inch widescreen monitor. The monitor cost about twice what most monitors cost back then, but it had a high quality MVS LCD panel that had a fast response time for games and good color reproduction. Most monitors have cheap TN film panels, they are very fast for games but have poor color reproduction. Reds tend to be very strong giving people the appearance of being sunburned when they aren't. The monitor also had other features that were very rare in other cheaper monitors. Even though I can't use it any more, it was such a nice monitor that I decided to keep it. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=239256#p239256 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: how to send iphone's audio to pc?
Re: how to send iphone's audio to pc? In that case you'll need a Y adapter like I described in my previous message, it will allow you to plug two devices into that one port, whether the port is on the iPhone or your computer.Yeah, Radio Shack today is more like the electronics section of a Best Buy than the electronics hobbyist store it used to be. fortunately the Radio Shack near me has been there for over 40 years under the same owner. He does sell the newerr products like cell phones, but he still sees his store as an electronic hobbyist store, so he still has all that hobbyist stuff in stock and his people do know what they are. Except for the computers and cell phones, it's like taking a step back into the past 30 to 40 years. I was talking to the owner the other day, he said he would be retiring soon and that his son would be taking over and the good news is that his son has no plans to change the store's focus away from hobbyists.Tandy, the corporation that owns the Radio Shack fran chise, should take a lesson, while most Radio Shack stores are closing due to lack of customers, in all the 40 years I've been going to that store for my electronics needs, I've never seen it with less than ten or so customers in it. Most are in the back with me going through the parts looking for what we need for our latest project. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=239252#p239252 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: What Race would it be good to date as a blind person
Re: What Race would it be good to date as a blind person I think using race or culture is a very poor way to judge a person because in both you'll find people that are truly wonderful people and people who you wouldn't want to meet anywhere much less in a dark alley at night.If you have to judge someone, judge them by the way they act.For the most part, I've found most people of a variety of races and cultures to be very nice and considerate of other people, generally, unplesent, unfriendly, or judgemental people seem to be the exception.From my own experience I wouldn't want to deny myself of knowing some of my friends by choosing to shun a race or culture. I'd prefer to decide if I want to associate with someone based on the kind of person they show themselves to be. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=239320#p239320 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
What is a TV anyway?
What is a TV anyway? I just bought a Samsung UN50JU7100FXZA 50 inch LED accessible TV.Holy crap! This isn't a TV, it's a damned computer with tuners, a big monitor, and speakers.What makes this TV accessible is that it has a text to speech system that reads to me all of the TV's menu and settings options as well as external information such as information about TV shows from the electronic program guide.Once it knows what each of the channels is, Discovery, History, ABC, NBC, etc., it can download program guides from the Internet, and it will read it to me when I use it. That will make it easy to know what's currently on and what's coming up.It also has the ability to be controlled by vocal phrases, like, "tune to" or "volume up", etc. What would be really cool, once I get all the channels set up is if I could say "tune to history channel" and it searched my channel line up for the History channel and tuned to it, no need to remember channel numbers any more. What would be even neater, though I'm not expecting it, is if I could say "tune to Shark Tank" and it searched the program guide for Shark Tank and if it was on, tuned to it.If I hooked up a USB hard drive to it, the TV has the ability to record scheduled TV programs to it for viewing at a later, more convenient time. Unfortunately that feature is disabled in the US and Canada. Rats! I'll bet I have the lawyers paid by the motion picture and music industry association to thank for that. Otherwise, I can't think of any logical reason why recording programs for watching later shouldn't work just because I live in the US or Canada. Normally, I'm not inclined to hack things because everytime there's an update to the device, you have to redo the hack, but the ability to record programs for later viewing is such a useful feature that I'll be watching for a hack to reenable itThe TV ca n be hooked up to the Internet for streaming services like Netflix, Amazon Instant Video, YouTube, Pandora, and others. It also has a web browser in it! I don't expect to be using any of those, but I will have it hooked up to the Internet so it can get the program guides.I'm not sure I like the remote for the new TV. The remote for the old TV had nice, well defined, raised, and rubberized buttons that were easy to find and use. The new remote's buttons are small, designed to blend into the remote, and made of the same material, making them not so easy to find and use. For that reason, I plan to see how much voice command can do to minimize the need to use the remote.One thing that I thought was interesting. My old TV has a 46 inch screen, my new TV's screen is 50 Inches, and yet the old TV weighs more than the new TV does.There is a lot to explore here, it should keep me out of mischief for a while. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=239325#p239325 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: What Race would it be good to date as a blind person
Re: What Race would it be good to date as a blind person Stargate, touche! URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=239333#p239333 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: When is a business to big? FS in another Merger?
Re: When is a business to big? FS in another Merger? Ok, answer me this.I noticed that you removed your questioning my ability to pay for JAWS without assistance, from your message. So, how would you have felt if that remark had been directed at you. I think that you have already answered the question with your little edit.Enough said. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=239150#p239150 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: When is a business to big? FS in another Merger?
Re: When is a business to big? FS in another Merger? 1. Nobody asked you and if you don't like it, nobody is holding a gun to your head making you come hear and read it.2. Hm No comment. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=239187#p239187 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: what is the most imbarrosing/ occward situation you have ever been in?
Re: what is the most imbarrosing/ occward situation you have ever been in? People can be so wierd at times.In our area a local church runs a fund raising event called the Soup-a-thon. To attend you have to buy tickets, it's very popular, the soup-a-thon is usually in January, the Tickets usually go on sale somewhere around Thanksgiving (the fourth Thursday in November) . The are usually sold out by the end of the month. In it a lot of restaurants from around the area donate soup along with employees to handle heating it up and dishing it out. Attendee's then go around and get small bowls of various soups they want to try. You are usually full after about eight bowls, but you got to try a lot of different soups. I look forward to it every year. They hold the soup-a-thon over a weekend and divide each day into three setting sessions lasting about an hour and a half each.The first time I went, it was dark by the time we left. I still had some vision left so I wasn't yet using a white cane, but had zero for night vision so my Dad had to guide me to our car. He forgot he was guiding me and ran me into a curb, the grass on the other side of the curb was a slope going down to a pond, which is where I ended up. Being January, winter here in the US, it was unplesently cold.The second time I went to the soup-a-thon, I decided to take my white cane, which I needed now, so that I could detect things like curbs, in case my guide forgets to tell me about them. When we arrived, there was a long line of people waiting for the doors to open for the next seating session. I unfolded my cane and used it while my mom guided me. The reaction to my cane was immediate and dramatic. Everybody got out of our way as if touching the cane or us would give them blindness. I could hear them moving about and it was all I could do not to laugh at their antics. Then one of the church people saw us and immediately ushered us to the beginning of the line. Once the doors openned and we were inside, they then led us to sp ecial tables set aside for the handicapped.While it was nice to go to the beginning of the line to get in, the handicapped tables weren't so great, there was a lot of traffic around them as people went to and from their tables, getting more soup to try.This year it's a toss up whether I'll take out my cane or not. My Dad thinks I should take it out anyway, then when we get inside, we'll decline the offer to use the tables for the handicapped. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=239181#p239181 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: When is a business to big? FS in another Merger?
Re: When is a business to big? FS in another Merger? There is no shame,statistically 85% of blind people are unemployed because nobody wants to hire them, so many people that want or need JAWS have no choice but to seek assistance to get it. It's the same for most of assistive technology devices because the market place is so small.The issue is, that by this argument against JAWS,. You use JAWS, but did you purchase it with your own credit card, with no outside assistance what soever? I know that I had no assistance getting NVDA... this person seems to think that needing assistance is shameful enough to warrant choosing something other than JAWS.Since it was aimed at me, it made the debate personal and I found it insulting that without knowing anything about me, this person assumes that I could not buy JAWS without assistance.Besides, this remark has no business being in a thread about a merger between two assistive technology companies. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=239177#p239177 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: When is a business to big? FS in another Merger?
Re: When is a business to big? FS in another Merger? If that was truely all you meant, then why did you feel it necessary to question my financial situation and capabilities? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=239178#p239178 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: When is a business to big? FS in another Merger?
Re: When is a business to big? FS in another Merger? H... No comment. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=239172#p239172 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: When is a business to big? FS in another Merger?
Re: When is a business to big? FS in another Merger? severstormsteve1,To answer your question.It's really quite simple, we are defending our choice against those who put down our choice by saying things like JAWS is not good. Just as you would feel inclined to defend your choice of NVDA, if I were to say something like, NVDA is crap.If you don't like hearing us defend our choices, then don't make disparaging remarks about them. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=239119#p239119 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: how to send iphone's audio to pc?
Re: how to send iphone's audio to pc? I'd look at using a Y adapter, a male 3.5mm stereo plug to 2 female 3.5mm stereo jacks or a female 3.55mm stereo jack to 2 male 3.5mm stereo plugs. either one would allow you to feed the iPhone's audio to headphones for yourself and some device to record the audio for your demos or playthroughs or whatever you are working on.Here in the US I'd just go over to a neighborhood Radio Shack, if you are lucky enough to have one, they'll have everything you need. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=239121#p239121 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: book suggestion for someone who was blown away by wheel of time and th
Re: book suggestion for someone who was blown away by wheel of time and th Ymslion, If your talking bouce gets its material from the same sources mine does, the reader or narrator if you prefer is Erik Sandvold, I've litened to a lot of books he's read and from that I can say that he is very good. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=239116#p239116 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: When is a business to big? FS in another Merger?
Re: When is a business to big? FS in another Merger? I don't think that JAWS or any of Freedom Scientific's other text to speech software products, like Open Book, will be affected by the merger because, as far as I can tell, Optelek is primarily a hardware company making mostly hand held video magnifiers.I wouldn't be surprised to see technology being swapped back and forth between the two companies to enhance their magnifier products.But, that would be about it.For those who haven't listened to the podcast. According to Blake, Freedom Scientific's CEO, there will be no changes to the way either company does business until both companies have a firm grasp of what the other company has to offer to the entire business.Wile what it maens is vague, Blake said that one thing they wanted to be sure of was that they did nothing that could result in a customer from either company having a negative experience with them.I think he's just putting a happy face on things he doesn& #039;t yet know.So, for now, we are still in a holding pattern as far as what this merger will mean to the blind and visually impaired people who rely on products from either company. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=239131#p239131 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: When is a business to big? FS in another Merger?
Re: When is a business to big? FS in another Merger? I don't think that JAWS or any of Freedom Scientific's other text to speech software products, like Open Book, will be affected by the merger because, as far as I can tell, Optelek is primarily a hardware company making mostly hand held video magnifiers.I wouldn't be surprised to see technology being swapped back and forth between the two companies to enhance their magnifier products.But, that would be about it.For those who haven't listened to the podcast. According to Blake, Freedom Scientific's CEO, there will be no changes to the way either company does business until both companies have a firm grasp of what the other company has to offer to the entire business.Wile what it maens is vague, Blake said that one thing they wanted to be sure of was that they did nothing that could result in a customer from either company having a negative experience with them.I think he's just putting a happy face on things he doesn& #039;t yet know.So, for now, we are still in a holding pattern as far as what this merger will mean to the blind and visually impaired people who rely on products from either company.Frastlin is right. From what he says it sounds like any school that needs or wants to provide screen readers on their computers for students that need them can only use JAWS. I applaud Freedom Scientific for supporting education, your favorite deity knows that education is badly underfunded in the US so any support they can get from the private sector is a big help. But to use that to gain unfair advantage in the market place is just wrong on so many levels.One could point fingers at Freedom Scientific for proposing such an arangement, but you'd also have to point fingers at the rest of the industry for not contesting it, and also at the government and education officials that accepted it.Apple did pretty much the same thing back in the 80s by offering Apple 2s and Macintoshes to school system for little or no cost. So just about every school that had computers, had computers from Apple. Of course the move didn't help them much in the long run. The Apple 2 soon died and Macintoshes never achieved anything like the market dominance the PC compatibles enjoyed. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=239131#p239131 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: When is a business to big? FS in another Merger?
Re: When is a business to big? FS in another Merger? Brant, according to the podcast, Vector Capital, the company that accquired both Freedom Scientific and Optelek, said that for now both companies will continue as "business as usual". Consumers will not notice any change. Over time, as the two companies get to know each other, they will begin colaberating. It sounds to me like the greatest change we'll see will be in their products. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=239142#p239142 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: book suggestion for someone who was blown away by wheel of time and th
Re: book suggestion for someone who was blown away by wheel of time and th Dark, lucky you! It may have been on cassette as opposed to being a modern digital book, but at lease you got to listen to a human read the book. The talking book library hasn't gotten around to digitizing Tailchaser's Song so I'll have to listen to a computer read it from DAISY files from Book Share. Oh well, at least I'll get to read it.The Otherland series is in digital form and is on my list of books to read, along with what seems like a thousand other books. So many books, so little time. LOL!Somebody may already have mentioned this but, another series I've read and enjoyed is Tad Williams' Shadowmarch series, it's has 4 books, Shadowmarch, Shadowplay, Shadowrise, and Shadowheart.A bit off topic but related.Just as some movie watchers follow favorite stars, I've found that when I'm looking for new talking books to add to my to read list that I check to see who read it and am happy when it is one of the r eaders I've come to know and like. The Otherland series is read by Erik Sandvold who is very good, my favorite reader is John Polk. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=239005#p239005 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: When is a business to big? FS in another Merger?
Re: When is a business to big? FS in another Merger? I don't know where you get your information but JAWS is not used only by institutions, I myself and most of my blind friends plus most of the blind people I know use it and we are hardly an institution. Or maybe that's just wishful thinking on your part?Of course most of us use JAWS because that was what was recommended to us by the rehabilitation center we went to. But now I've heard that depending on your computer skills, they might recommend NVDA.From my own experience, if you have the computer skills necessary you can with some effort get NVDA to work as well as JAWS. JAWS comes with a fairly extensive set of configuration files for those commonly used programs that need a little tweaking. NVDA on the other hand doesn't come with anything, so if a program you want to use doesn't quite work with NVDA you'll have to create your own configuration for it yourself.The best way I can describe it is that NVDA is the computer techie
Re: When is a business to big? FS in another Merger?
Re: When is a business to big? FS in another Merger? severestormsteve1 wrote:1, it's easy to set up and get running, whereas JAWS requires registration, and from my experience people actually had to be called, to help my vision teacher and I install it.You must have run into an unusual problem then, I've installed JAWS a number of times on my own and other systems and have never needed to contact anyone else to get it installed, activated, and configured as needed, which usually amounts to answering half a dozen questions.severestormsteve1 wrote:3. It's a more practical financial solution. You use JAWS, but did you purchase it with your own credit card, with no outside assistance what soever? I know that I had no assistance getting NVDA...I find this question insulting, but I'll ignore that and answer your question anyway. Yes I bought JAWS with my own money with no assistance from anyone. I understand that not everyone is so fortunate so they have to look at other options. I don't go around insulting NVDA users by implying that they had to choose NVDA because they are poor or needed assistance to get JAWS.severestormsteve1 wrote:5. You actually have to go through a whole set up wizard with JAWS when it's installed. There are so many settings you have to configure, and you have to read the documentation to get what some of them mean.The same is true of NVDA. With JAWS I've been able to make all the adjustments I needed or wanted almost without ever reading the manual. With NVDA, I could not get any program specific settings to work until I've read the manual. That's time that I could have been productive.severestormsteve1 wrote:6. May I ask what tweaking, (Code because jaws requires s ettings tweaking as well so that's not a valid argument if it's not code related), you had to do for NVDA in the month you used it? Or, were you just trying to make it like Jaws since that's what you were used to. Unfamiliarity does not make a screen reader only usable for geeks and techies. I had a hard time getting used to NVDA, simply because I was using Jaws for 3 years before starting with it. But to be honest, I was doing my every day tasks with NVDA, starting the first day...No code tweaking at all, usually just a changing a single setting. And no, I wasn't trying to make NVDA like JAWS, I was willing to accept learning a different program. The tweaking I had to do in NVDA was to make the programs accessible, period. For example, in NVDA my prefered file manager is completely inaccessible until you make some pretty significant changes to NVDA. But in JAWS I only had to change one setting and that was so JAWS could read the filenam es of files I've selected for multi file operations. If I was willing to forego multi file operations, the file manager was completely accessible in JAWS with no adjustments necessary.No, I don't believe I'm bashing NVDA, it's quite an impressive program, I'm just comparing it to JAWS, but because you don't agree with me you call my comparisons, bashing. On the other hand, I see a lot of scornful comments made about JAWS that are just opinions, rather than comparisons of the two programs, now that is bashing.But, go ahead and bash away, because it's human nature to bash the top dog. So all you are doing when you bash JAWS is acknowleging that JAWS is the best screen reader.k_jones, You're right, this is turning into a screen reader debate which is not the purpose of this thread. I'm partially guilty of hijacking the thread, but in my defense I felt that the remarks that severestormsteve1 made about JAWS needed an answ er. I guess I gave more of an answer than was needed. Sorry. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=239024#p239024 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: book suggestion for someone who was blown away by wheel of time and th
Re: book suggestion for someone who was blown away by wheel of time and th Yeah, I don't care for synthesized reading, but it is better than not being able to read the book at all. What I really need is a decent stand alone text to speech DAISY book reader with a decent voice similar to Eloquence. Preferably one that can also play the NLS digital books and MP3 files.I think that one of the major reasons why I liked Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn so much is because Simon and Miriamelle weren't these shining heros that could do no wrong. They both had flaws, made mistakes, and sometimes acted stupidly. There were times when Simon was very awkward and while Miriamelle didn't share Simon's awkwardness, she was at times a very sheltered little princess and so very naive. but it made them very likable because it made them very human. They were easy to identify with.Shadowmarch was good, but at the end I thought, well, that might have been better if it was only three books long. It seemed to me like somewhere in the middle, the stor y was getting stretched a little too thin. And while I rooted for Berik and Briony, there were times when I wished that they were more like Simon and Miriamelle. And some things in Shadowmarch, I thought went a lottle too far, such as the living god and his slaves that always laid down in front of him so he could walk on them to prevent his feet from ever touching the ground. To me that was rather silly. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=239045#p239045 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: When is a business to big? FS in another Merger?
Re: When is a business to big? FS in another Merger? Excuse me, but it was you who made this personal by questioning whether I could buy JAWS without assistance. That remark was, in my opinion, entirely un called for, or as the British would put it, completely over the top.And now, I will leave this thread, never to return.Now we return you to your regularly scheduled program. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=239039#p239039 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: When is a business to big? FS in another Merger?
Re: When is a business to big? FS in another Merger? Excuse me, but it was you who made this personal by questioning whether I could buy JAWS without assistance. That remark was, in my opinion, entirely un called for, or as the British would put it, completely over the top.And now, I will leave this thread, never to return. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=239039#p239039 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: book suggestion for someone who was blown away by wheel of time and th
Re: book suggestion for someone who was blown away by wheel of time and th Dark, lucky you! It may have been on cassette as opposed to being a modern digital book, but at lease you got to listen to a human read the book. The talking book library hasn't gotten around to digitizing Tailchaser's Song so I'll have to listen to a computer read it from DAISY files from Book Share. Oh well, at least I'll get to read it.The Otherland series is in digital form and is on my list of books to read, along with what seems like a thousand other books. So many books, so little time. LOL!Somebody may already have mentioned this but, another series I've read and enjoyed is Tad Williams' Shadowmarch series, it's has 4 books, Shadowmarch, Shadowplay, Shadowrise, and Shadowheart. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=239005#p239005 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: When is a business to big? FS in another Merger?
Re: When is a business to big? FS in another Merger? Excuse me, but it was you who made this personal by questioning whether I could buy JAWS without assistance. That remark was, in my opinion, entirely un called for, or as the British would put it, completely over the top.And Now we return you to your regularly scheduled program. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=239039#p239039 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: When is a business to big? FS in another Merger?
Re: When is a business to big? FS in another Merger? This just looks like more Freedom Scientific bashing to me.First of all, before the merger can happen it has to be approved by the Fedral Trade Commision. One of their jobs is to insure that businesses don't get so big that they could become a monopoly.Second, if I wanted to take the time, I could name thousands of businesses that are far larger than Freedom Scientific will be if the merger is approved. Companies like, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Google, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Amazon, Wal-Mart, Sears Roebuck, AT, Verizon, Publix, need I go on? As far as I know, these are all US companies, I'll bet there are plenty of UK based companies that are just as bigg as those.While we are discussing Freedom Scientific getting too big, let's discuss companies in general getting too big so as not to target a specific company. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=238921#p238921 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Why this profile problem isn't fixed?
Re: Why this profile problem isn't fixed? I propose the motion that this topic be closed to encourage people to post in the already existing topic instead of here. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=238914#p238914 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: book suggestion for someone who was blown away by wheel of time and th
Re: book suggestion for someone who was blown away by wheel of time and th Dark,Unfortunately, I find that to be a problem with many stories. They start off really well, but by the time you get to the ending, the story seems to have lost the momentum it had in the beginning, and the ending seems a bit contrived just to finish it, and be done.MSlion ,I first read Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, before I lost my vision and while it was still being written. The paperback for Stone of Farewell was released while I was reading The Dragonbone Chair, and had to wait for To Green Angel Tower. If you live in the US and are a member of the National Library of Congress' Talking Books for the Blind Program, you can get it from them or download it from their BARD web site. I wish they had Tad Williams' Tailchaser's Song, but Book Share does. Pity, I much prefer listening to a human than a computer. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=238918#p238918 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: what is the most imbarrosing/ occward situation you have ever been in?
Re: what is the most imbarrosing/ occward situation you have ever been in? LOL!The lady that did the face plant and her reaction sounded like something you'd see in a slapstick comedy.If there was one, and there usually is in most subway systems, besides being lucky there was no train approaching, you are also lucky you didn't touch the electrified third rail.And I think every blind person has experienced talking to someone, only to have them leave without saying anything so you end up talking to yourself. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=238923#p238923 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: When is a business to big? FS in another Merger?
Re: When is a business to big? FS in another Merger? Whether this is a good thing or bad depends on several factors.If Optelec wasn't doing that well, the merger with Freedom Scientific may keep products on the market that would otherwise have disappeared. On the other hand, it sounds like both companies make video magnifiers, so perhaps Freedom Scientitfic wants to add Optelec's technology to their own and develop some new products from the blend.Or maybe Freedom Scientific is just looking to clear the field of its competition, if that's the case, then I don't favor this merger at all. The choices the blind and visually impaired community have are already slim, the last thing we need is somebody killing off what choices we do have.Before I lost my vision and was just entering the vision impaired community, I looked at video magnifiers. Their price kept me from buying one, but I can say that there were quite a few models from quite a few vendors. This merger in no way puts Freedom Scie ntific in danger of becoming a monopoly. AI Squared, the makers of the ZoomText screen magnifier also make video magnifiers, and I don't see them going anywhere any time soon.The way I look at it is that this is just a merger, not an out right buy out. What that means is that Freedom Scientific and Optelec are joining forces. I don't think Freedom Scientific will have any more control over Optelec than it did before the merger. But then I'm no expert on mergers and buy outs, so I could be way wrong.The most I can say for now is to sit back and watch to see what happens. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=238951#p238951 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: book suggestion for someone who was blown away by wheel of time and th
Re: book suggestion for someone who was blown away by wheel of time and th Dark, Out of curiosity, what format did you get Tailchaser's Song in from the Library of Congress? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=238956#p238956 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: When is a business to big? FS in another Merger?
Re: When is a business to big? FS in another Merger? Reviewing the article further, I ran across this:Both companies were recently acquired by Vector Capital, a San Francisco based firm that invests in market leading global technology companies.“We are excited to bring together two of the industry’s leading companies to create a global, diversified end-to-end technology provider to the low-vision and blind community,” said Andy Fishman, a Managing Director at Vector Capital.So the question becomes, was merging with Optelec even Freedom Scientific's idea to begin with?Ironcross32, that's interesting. In 2000 I still had 20/60 vision so products from companies like Freedom Scientific weren't in my radar yet.20/60 vision is just marginally vision impaired. I could read printed material with no problem and ride a bike safely, I just couldn't drive a car because you have to have 20/40 or better vision to get a driver's license. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=238955#p238955 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: When is a business to big? FS in another Merger?
Re: When is a business to big? FS in another Merger? Whether this is a good thing or bad depends on several factors.If Optelec wasn't doing that well, the merger with Freedom Scientific may keep products on the market that would otherwise have disappeared. On the other hand, it sounds like both companies make video magnifiers, so perhaps Freedom Scientitfic wants to add Optelec's technology to their own and develop some new products from the blend.Or maybe Freedom Scientific is just looking to clear the field of its competition, if that's the case, then I don't favor this merger at all. The choices the blind and visually impaired community have are already slim, the last thing we need is somebody killing off what choices we do have.Before I lost my vision and was just entering the vision impaired community, I looked at video magnifiers. Their price kept me from buying one, but I can say that there were quite a few models from quite a few vendors. This merger in no way puts Freedom Scie ntific in danger of becoming a monopoly. AI Squared, the makers of the ZoomText screen magnifier also make video magnifiers, and I don't see them going anywhere any time soon.The way I look at it is that this is just a merger, not an out right buy out. What that means is that Freedom Scientific and Optelec are joining forces. I don't think Freedom Scientific will have any more control over Optelec than it did before the merger. But then I'm no expert on mergers and buy outs, so I could be way wrong.The most I can say for now is to sit back and watch to see what happens.The thread title says that this is another merger that Freedom Scientific is involved in. Does anyone recall what they did after the last merger they were in? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=238951#p238951 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: apple device owners this topic is for you.
Re: apple device owners this topic is for you. My memory expansion lament comes from that my iPhone only has 16 GB and I need at least 32 GB to store my music collection and other files on it. Unfortunately, I got the phone as part of a promotion, so there was no memory size option, otherwise I would have gotten at least the 32 GB model.The lament about the battery is because my battery is dieing, if owners could replace the battery themselves, iPhone battery prices wouldn't be so high. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=238816#p238816 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Alternatives to Adobe's Reader for viewing PDFs
Re: Alternatives to Adobe's Reader for viewing PDFs Sebby, I agree with you about Adobe, for what it does Reader seems pretty bloated, plus it installs a bunch of crap not at all related to reading PDFs, like the browser helper that allows Reader to load faster so you can view PDFs online. I don't need that, I always download the PDF, then view it. Viewing is faster and smoother that way. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=238817#p238817 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: book suggestion for someone who was blown away by wheel of time and th
Re: book suggestion for someone who was blown away by wheel of time and th Here are some more, though maybe not for the topic starter as they are most for teen readers, never the less, I think they are good enough to recommend.Veronica Roth's Divergent series, 3 books, Divergent, Insurgent, and Allegiant. There is a 4th book, it's a collection of short stories by Roth that take place in the world of the Divergent series, it is call Four: a Divergent collection.Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games series, 3 books, The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and Mockingjay.Mike Mullin's Ashfall series, 3 books, Ashfall, Ashen Winter, and Sunrise.Lois Lowry's The Giver series, 4 books, The Giver, Gathering Blue, Messenger, and Son. This series is interesting in that the first 3 book seem unrelated until you read the 4th book.Enjoy! I did! URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=238815#p238815 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: The mind blowing deal for the NS studios sound library!
Re: The mind blowing deal for the NS studios sound library! Apparently NS Studio's hosting service was having issues, they put the file in a dropbox and I was able to succefully download it on the first try.I was wondering where I'd get sounds for a couple of audio games I'm working on. I guess that now I know. :-D URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=238818#p238818 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: apple device owners this topic is for you.
Re: apple device owners this topic is for you. As it is now, with not enough memory and a dieing battery, I'm considering upgrading to an iPhone 6s next month when my contract on the iPhone 5s expires.I'll probably go with 64 GB, which is about twice what I minimaly need. If I can get a deal on it, I'd go with the 128 GB model just to be sure, but I'm not willing to pay more of Apple's extravagant prices than I have to. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=238835#p238835 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Alternatives to Adobe's Reader for viewing PDFs
Re: Alternatives to Adobe's Reader for viewing PDFs Ethin,Rather than try AVG Ultimate, I decided to try AVG Free anti virus, I got my answer about how accesible it wasn't pretty quick. I got to the second page of the installer where they try to sell you the Pro version and no matter what I did I couldn't get it to continue from there when I chose not to buy Pro. So I canceled and deleted the AVG installer, and decided that AVG wasn't accessible.So now I'll see if I can find the thread about accessible anti viruses to see what else I can try. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=238709#p238709 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: what is the most imbarrosing/ occward situation you have ever been in?
Re: what is the most imbarrosing/ occward situation you have ever been in? I recently had to have a cable TV installer make a service call to my place because I thought I wasn't getting all the channels I was supposed to.When he arrived, he demonstrated that there was no problem. I then demonstrated the missing channels.He told me the channel I had just tuned to and it wasn't what I thought I was tuning to. It turns out that Panasonic made the remote for my TV backwards. From before I lost my vision, every TV or video device related remote had a key pad like a calculator's with the 1, 2, and 3 keys on the bottom row, but this remote's key pad was made like a phone's with the 1, 2, and 3 keys on the top row. So when I thought I was tuning to channel 19 I was actually tuning to channel 73. I felt pretty foolish after that discovery.Yeah, sighted people can be strange. I just moved, my brother was visiting, helping me get my new place organized. While he was there, I had him follow me as I walked to the grocery store next door. I wanted to make it there on my own but since I hadn't been there for over 20 years, I wanted him to point out where things had changed that affected my walk to and from the grocery store.One thing he kept doing which bothered me was to announce to everyone that I crossed paths with that that I was blind and that they should let me know they were there by announcing themselves. I tried to tell him that it wasn't necessary for them to announce themselves unless they wanted or needed to interact with me, but I guess he didn't believe me because he just kept on doing it.Although I'd feel really bad if someone tripped over my cane, I don't worry about it. I have a need and a right to use the cane, and since they are the ones who can see, it's their responsibility to notice my cane and not trip over it. That may be callous, but honestly, I'm the one who can't see, how am I supposed to know when I should pull my cane b ack to avoid tripping someone? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=238717#p238717 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: blind mice mart, where arhe are the movies
Re: blind mice mart, where arhe are the movies My experiences with the movie vault.I'm in the US and discovered the movie vault several months ago, I've been accessing it since then with no problems, so the remark about people in the US not being able to access the movie vault is wrong.To get access the movie vault, you have to sign up to be a member of the Blind Mice Mall, and then be logged in, once you are logged in, the link to the movie vault appears.Some where on the movie vault page is an email address to Lee Hodgson who is generally very quick and very helpful in solving download problems. Lee has offline backups of all their movies and shows so fixing files with download problems usually take only 24 hours.The search feature doesn't search just the titles. It searches the entire movie description, which includes genre. I recently did two such searches and they worked just fine. The first was to search for "TV" to pickup all the TV series they had. The other was to s earch for "Documentary", because I like them.The only problems I've ever had with sendspace was the how slow the downloads were, but that was easily solve by getting a sendspace subscription.I hope that helps everyone. :-) URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=238723#p238723 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: what is the most imbarrosing/ occward situation you have ever been in?
Re: what is the most imbarrosing/ occward situation you have ever been in? My memory could be flaky and low numbers on the top row like a phone may be the standard, but for whatever reason, my brain thought that low numbers on the bottom row was.Oh well, after that, I'm not likely to forget the proper order.On the flip side, I'm paying for just basic cable TV with just the local channels, but because the cable distribution equipment is old here, if they put in a basic cable trap, TV can't recieve anything, so I'm getting all the channels in the standard cable package.The cable company won't fix it because that would take replacing all the equipment in the apartment complex which would cost them more than the few bucks they're losing to those few people that order only basic cable. They said I'm probably the only person in the complex that ordered just basic cable. The problem with the equipment is apparently not common knowlege or more people would take advantage of it. To keep the benefit to me, I& #039;ll keep their little secret! URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=238737#p238737 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: The mind blowing deal for the NS studios sound library!
Re: The mind blowing deal for the NS studios sound library! According to MalwareBytes I had some malware in my system. They are now gone, so I'm trying again to download the zip file with the .wav files in it. I kind of doubt it was the malware because I've not had any problems downloading anything else. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=238741#p238741 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: book suggestion for someone who was blown away by wheel of time and th
Re: book suggestion for someone who was blown away by wheel of time and th As I think more on this topic, I keep coming up with more multi book stories I've read and enjoyed.Harry Harrison's West of Eden series was pretty good, it's about a world like ours except that the dinosaurs never died out, so humans had to compete with them as they evolved.The three books in the series are, West of Eden, Winter in Eden, and Return to Eden. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=238751#p238751 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: book suggestion for someone who was blown away by wheel of time and th
Re: book suggestion for someone who was blown away by wheel of time and th Another multi book story that I liked a lot was Tad Williams' Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series which is composed of the books, The Dragonbone Chair, The Stone of Farewell, and To Green Angel Tower. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=238750#p238750 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Alternatives to Adobe's Reader for viewing PDFs
Re: Alternatives to Adobe's Reader for viewing PDFs Ethin, How do I install the free version of AVG? I downloaded what I thought was the free version but it turns out to be a trial of the pro version. Uninstalling it now because it is not what I wanted. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=238762#p238762 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Alternatives to Adobe's Reader for viewing PDFs
Re: Alternatives to Adobe's Reader for viewing PDFs Well, now I really wish I hadn't installed AVG.I don't know what version of AVG you have but this 2015 version is proving to be barely accessible with a lot of difficulty, with JAWS or NVDA.Even worse, AVG thinks JAWS is a virus and deleted it.So now, not only do I need to remove AVG, I need to restore JAWS. And the last time I tried to remove AVG the uninstall failed spectacularly.AVG can go to ()*&)![ a-t ]&)&! hell! URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=238771#p238771 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Alternatives to Adobe's Reader for viewing PDFs
Re: Alternatives to Adobe's Reader for viewing PDFs Well, now I really wish I hadn't installed AVG.I don't know what version of AVG you have but this 2015 version is proving to be barely accessible with a lot of difficulty, with JAWS or NVDA.Even worse, AVG thinks JAWS is a virus and deleted it.So now, not only do I need to remove AVG, I need to restore JAWS. And the last time I tried to remove AVG the uninstall failed spectacularly.AVG can go to ()*&)![ a-t ]&)&! hell!Whew! After a couple of hours, damage repaired, and AVG is gone! That was as bad as getting rid of a virus. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=238771#p238771 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: accessible html editor for windows
Re: accessible html editor for windows I myself use Notepadd++, it's free and very capable. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=238719#p238719 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: knfb alternative?
Re: knfb alternative? One reason why I spent the $99 for KNFB Reader is because I learned that many of the cheap or free OCR apps don't do the OCR recognition on your device. Instead the picture of the page you are trying to process is sent to a server where the OCR recognition is performed, then the resulting text is sent back to you.If that's the case, I'd be very nervous about what I use the OCR app on. That the OCR is done on somebody's server opens up some serious privacy and security concerns. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=238725#p238725 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: apple device owners this topic is for you.
Re: apple device owners this topic is for you. I hate that I can't expand the memory in my iPhone with something like a microHD card like you can with most Android phones.I also don't like that the battery isn't user replaceable. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=238726#p238726 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: The mind blowing deal for the NS studios sound library!
Re: The mind blowing deal for the NS studios sound library! What was used to build the zip file with the .wav files in it? My standard zip file manager, which never has problems with any zip file handed to it, says there are CRC and structure errors in it. And Windows 7's built in zip file manager gives unspecified errors if I try to use it to extract the files.This is my second attempt to download the file, the first attempt terminated early. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=238659#p238659 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: The mind blowing deal for the NS studios sound library!
Re: The mind blowing deal for the NS studios sound library! Very annoyed. NS Studios must know they are dealing with blind and visually impaired people, and yet there is a very difficult, for me, CAPTCHA in the middle of the purchase process.I tried more than a dozen times to get past the CAPTCHA but the quality of the audio puzzles with the electronically altered voices is poor enough to be difficult at best to understand, so I simply couldn't get past it.Until that CAPTCHA is removed, I'll just consider this inaccessible.Besides, who ever heard of blocking being able to make a purchase with something like a CAPTCHA anyway? In all the online purchasing I've done over the past nearly 20 years, this is the first time I've ever encountered a CAPPTCHA in the purchase process.I will say no more on this, it either gets fixed so I can purchase the library, or it doesn't, and they lose a sale. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=238601#p238601 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: The mind blowing deal for the NS studios sound library!
Re: The mind blowing deal for the NS studios sound library! Very annoyed. NS Studios must know they are dealing with blind and visually impaired people, and yet there is a very difficult, for me, CAPTCHA in the middle of the purchase process.I tried more than a dozen times to get past the CAPTCHA but the quality of the audio puzzles with the electronically altered voices is poor enough to be difficult at best to understand, so I simply couldn't get past it.Until that CAPTCHA is removed, I'll just consider this inaccessible.Besides, who ever heard of blocking being able to make a purchase with something like a CAPTCHA anyway? In all the online purchasing I've done over the past nearly 20 years, this is the first time I've ever encountered a CAPPTCHA in the purchase process. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=238601#p238601 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: The mind blowing deal for the NS studios sound library!
Re: The mind blowing deal for the NS studios sound library! Very annoyed. NS Studios must know they are dealing with blind and visually impaired people, and yet there is a very difficult, for me, CAPTCHA in the middle of the purchase process.I tried more than a dozen times to get past the CAPTCHA but the quality of the audio puzzles with the electronically altered voices is poor enough to be difficult at best to understand, so I simply couldn't get past it.Until that CAPTCHA is removed, I'll just consider this inaccessible.Besides, who ever heard of blocking being able to make a purchase with something like a CAPTCHA anyway? In all the online purchasing I've done over the past nearly 20 years, this is the first time I've ever encountered a CAPPTCHA in the purchase process.I will say no more on this, they either remove the CAPTCHA so I can purchase the library, or they don't remove it, and they lose a sale. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=238601#p238601 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Intersting Windows feature?
Re: Intersting Windows feature? For me, when alt tabbing between applications, JAWS just calls each desktop, "Desktop". So from there you can't tell the desktops apart from each other.But when you enter the Windows desktop, JAWS describes it as, "Folder view List view".But the desktop created by control N is described as, "Items view Multi select list box". URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=238596#p238596 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: The mind blowing deal for the NS studios sound library!
Re: The mind blowing deal for the NS studios sound library! Got the links and the file. :-DSo here's the deal with the CAPTCHA. Apparently someone at PayPal thinks that a CAPTCHA proves that the person making the purchase is the holder of the PayPal account being used. I didn't know CAPTCHAs could do that! Does anybody here know how that works?LOL! Sheesh! Idiots! URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=238646#p238646 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: The mind blowing deal for the NS studios sound library!
Re: The mind blowing deal for the NS studios sound library! Well, for whatever reason, when I use Internet Explorer, PayPal throws up that impassible CAPTCHA, but when I use Firefox, no CAPTCHA appears.Which means that PayPal at least needs to be made aware that their CAPTCHA is a road block to completing purchases for blind users.So now I'm waiting for the download links to the libraries. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=238638#p238638 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: help with Iphone
Re: help with Iphone Does a hard reset clear the data on the phone? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=238639#p238639 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: The mind blowing deal for the NS studios sound library!
Re: The mind blowing deal for the NS studios sound library! That's just it, I was using the PayPal option to pay for the sound library.I suppose it's possible the CAPTCHA is from PayPal, but I've used them many times to pay for things before this and never had to pass a CAPTCHA until now. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=238633#p238633 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Alternatives to Adobe's Reader for viewing PDFs
Re: Alternatives to Adobe's Reader for viewing PDFs Ethin,How accessible is AVG?I remember a couple of threads a while back asking that question about all the better known anti virus programs and the general concensus was that none of them were very accessible. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=238652#p238652 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: No Flash player installed
Re: No Flash player installed This is the web site I'm trying to access, it's a customisable TV guide.http://www.titantv.com URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=238653#p238653 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: No Flash player installed
Re: No Flash player installed This is the web site I'm trying to access, it's a customisable TV guide. It hangs both my Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers.http://www.titantv.com URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=238653#p238653 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: No Flash player installed
Re: No Flash player installed This is the web site I'm trying to access, it's a customisable TV guide. It hangs both my Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers.http://www.titantv.comOne of the other sites I have problems with is Book Share's home page, it always produces a message from Internet Explorer that the page is running a script that is slowing down the browser, and that allowing the script to run could make the browser and my system unstable, and then asks if I want to keep running the script. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=238653#p238653 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: book suggestion for someone who was blown away by wheel of time and th
Re: book suggestion for someone who was blown away by wheel of time and th To each his own, I have no complaints about any of Terry's books I've read. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=238499#p238499 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Intersting Windows feature?
Intersting Windows feature? I discovered this accidently and wonder, is this intended or just an artifact of using Ineter Explorer to render many of the Windows screen like the Control Panel or Windows Explorer.While on the desktop, press the Windows key +D to make sure the desktop has focus, then press control+n, now if you use alt+tab to switch applications, you'll find you have two desktops.Since I don't know what the status of this is, or what it might do, play with this at your own risk. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=238523#p238523 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: The Coolest Little Computer!
Re: The Coolest Little Computer! I know some TVs can play content from a USB flash drive. Are these supposed to look like a file on a flash drive with the difference being the images are being generated dynamically, such as for a game, instead of just being stored in a file, such as for a movie? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=238501#p238501 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
No Flash player installed
No Flash player installed By choice I do not have Adobe's Flash player installed. The reason is because I've run across a number of web pages that automatically start a Flash video, and you can't do anything on the page until the video finishes, and the flash player control are inaccessible.Now I run across a number of web pages that hang the browser, and other web sites where Internet Explorer reports that a script is slowing down the browser and asks if I want to continue running it.Would not having Flash installed cause web pages that expect it to behave that way?If so is ther a way to have Internet Explorer simply ignore anything Flash?On about half the sites where I'm having these problems, using Firefox instead doesn't eliminate the hanging. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=238535#p238535 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: book suggestion for someone who was blown away by wheel of time and th
Re: book suggestion for someone who was blown away by wheel of time and th In the Stormlight Archives, I thought the first book was a lot better than the second, I hope that's not a sign of where things are headed.If you like Tolkien, I highly recommend Dennis McKiernan's Mithgar series. It's not a series like Wheel of Time, each book in the Mithgar series is a stand alone story, the stories all take place on a world called Mithgar.For DND stories, there's also Terry Brooks. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=238466#p238466 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: The Coolest Little Computer!
Re: The Coolest Little Computer! I think those were designed with the idea that you set up multiple work stations where you need them, then just carry the computer and it's storage with you.That being said, I'll keep my laptop, thanks. It's a computer and a work station all in one compact, light weight package.But if you are intent on using these, I'd recommend storing your files on the internal flash for ease of use and portability, but back it up on an external hard drive. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=238470#p238470 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
