Re: If there would be a way for getting your sight back, would you do it?
@turtlepower32No need as I have access to BARD myself, do you recall if the book was an audio or braile book?
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Re: on the fence about an ipad/tablet
Who knows? Maybe Microsoft didn't want to be another sheep following the herd by jumping on the arm bandwagon. Unfortunately for them, such tactics often backfire.
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Re: New audio drama podcasts of note
The Phenomenon sounds interesting, I've always liked dystopias and its end of the world theme sounds like it might be right up my alley.
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Re: Help with finding two shows with description
There are seasons one through four.
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Re: Help with finding two shows with description
Here you go!Thunderbirds are go, season 1https://www.sendspace.com/file/3q5me1Other than the Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. series, the only thing Avengers I could find were the movies Age of Ultron and Assemble.Enjoy!
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Re: on the fence about an ipad/tablet
That's true, and it's probably closer to an iPhone as far as available built in sensors for gaming go than an iPad is, however, I had one and didn't like it, plus for gaming, I wanted something with a bigger screen, so I got an iPad Mini.
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Re: on the fence about an ipad/tablet
I got an iPad primarily for game playing because I don't play games on my iPhone. If I'm going to burn up battery life playing a game or games, I'd rather do it on something non essential like an iPad than on my iPhone which is my primary means of commu
Re: If there would be a way for getting your sight back, would you do it?
@JaceKI've been there where I had no money and was forced to use welfare just to survive. In that mode you take advantage of every free thing you can, but to get the most value out of it, I'd go for what will fill the
Re: Question about reading numbers in dollars and other currencies
@sljUsing more than two decimal places isn't commonly done for US dollars and cents either, but there are a few places where it's done, such as when calculating interest. Otherwise we just round to the nearest penny ($0.01).
Re: Question about reading numbers in dollars and other currencies
@ironcross32From my experience with localization during my software development career, generally, those locales that use a comma instead of a period to separate the whole and fractional parts of a number also use a period i
Re: If there would be a way for getting your sight back, would you do it?
@JaceKThat's the problem with welfare systems, there are too many ways to abuse them.Bob sounds like a pretty pathetic person. If he weren't blind, he'd probably be the type to spend hours price shopping to save a pen
Re: Question about reading numbers in dollars and other currencies
To be sure you know, though it sounds like you do, dollars are separated from cents by a period. Commas are used just as they are in large numbers, they separate groups of three digits for easier reading.
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Re: Monthly chat February 2018
@DarkI'm sorry to hear that, it's never good to lose a friend.I've always felt that funerals should be about the person's life, not their death, hench they should be up beat instead of doleful.
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Re: iphone not accepting a two finger double tap to hang up calls
Could it be a screen problem where the screen is failihng to sense two fingers instead of just one?And what do you mean the iPhone SE is on its way out? Rumor has it that the SE is popular enough that Apple will be releasing
Re: If there would be a way for getting your sight back, would you do it?
@JaceK1,000 Ways to Die, I always liked that show and still listen to all the old reruns. I have my TiVo box set up to record it whenever it is aired. Yeah, call me morbid, but I always thought it was hilarious how st
Re: If there would be a way for getting your sight back, would you do it?
LOL! These days, cars are a lead pipe sinch to start, just grab the digital key fob that locks and unlocks your car, push the remote start button, and you're done!Of course this assumes your car has the remote start o
Re: iphone not accepting a two finger double tap to hang up calls
I used to have this problem with my iPhone 5s and then my iPhone SE, but found a simple solution.At the end of a call, when you take the phone away from your face so you can do the two finger double tap, it begins switching o
Re: Question about reading numbers in dollars and other currencies
There are 100 cents in a US dollar which is the first two numbers after the decimal point. Anything after those first two numbers are fractions of a cent, so your $0.1240 means you have 12 cents and almost half a cent or 12.
Re: If there would be a way for getting your sight back, would you do it?
I wonder if the fear of blindness and the reason we tend to be shunned has anything to do with the age old myth that doing certain things to ourselves causes blindness. So people fear our blindness and stay away from
Re: If there would be a way for getting your sight back, would you do it?
As far as entitlement goes, I will gladly accept anything that I need that society has decided to provide to me at no cost, but on the other hand, I don't go out of my way to find every little thing that's available t
Re: If there would be a way for getting your sight back, would you do it?
I know what a lot of you have said here from personal experience and can sum it up this way.I know a lot of sighted people who are more visually impaired than most of the blind people I know.Blindness shouldn't define
Re: If there would be a way for getting your sight back, would you do it?
To the person who said they can't live alone, that sounds more like a limitation you are placing on yourself than an actual limitation caused by blindness. I lost my visionabout five years ago and have never stopped l
Re: If there would be a way for getting your sight back, would you do it?
Hell yeah, I'd do it! While being blind is turning out not to be the catastrophe I thought it would be, still I'd much rather have my vision back and have to rebuild my life, than to remain being blind.I've had vision
Re: If there would be a way for getting your sight back, would you do it?
To the person who said they can't live alone, that sounds more like a limitation you are placing on yourself than an actual limitation caused by blindness.I lost my visionabout five years ago and have never stopped li
Re: If there would be a way for getting your sight back, would you do it?
Hell yeah, I'd do it! While being blind is turning out not to be the catastrophe I thought it would be, still I'd much rather have my vision back and have to rebuild my life, than to remain being blind.That's a no bra
Re: Audio described GoT?
Oh! I believe that LordLundin may have just encountered one of those prove you're a human screens that used to ocasionally pop up here. I haven't seen one of those in quite a while.My favorite character is Aria Stark, and my second favorite is Sansa Stark now that s
Re: Audio described GoT?
My favorite character is Aria Stark, and my second favorite is Sansa Stark now that she is beginning to wise up and not be so royalty struck by the Lancasters.When the series started I thought it was great because back then the only real fantasy aspect it had were D
Re: Pontes Media Downloader 2.1 was released
UltraLeetJ wrote:@8: shouldn't really be the case, probably you mess up with your system too much or upgraded or did something I have absolutely no clue about and furthermore, you are pretty much the only one complaining.So, is this your idea of
Re: Monthly chat February 2018
@DarkFor the first couple of years, the Amazon Echo and the Alexa service were only available in the US and some of those skills may have been written back then, so there was no rest of the world for them to be made available to.As Amazon, the Echo, and Alexa
Re: Pontes Media Downloader 2.1 was released
From what I understand Ponce Media Downloader is just a graphical front end for youtube/dl and some file converter.I wish that it would keep a log file, then maybe I could figure out where the failure to download is coming from so I can attempt t
Re: Audio described GoT?
Yeah, I guess I'm slow because it took me several hours to figure those out. (frowns)So far Game of Thrones has been a good series, however I'm really disappointed with George Martin because it appears as though he has abandoned finishing the Song of Ice and Fire bo
Re: Bye bye, firefox
@Nizda07What have you got against people who choose to use and are happy with Internet Explorer? It's a choice, just as JAWS and NVDA are choices, or PC and Macintosh's are choices. There's nothing wrong with any of them. Be thankful you have the option to choose and re
Re: Audio described GoT?
Yeah, I guess I'm slow because it took me several hours to figure those out. (frowns)Anyway, the Blind Mice Movie Vault has all seven seasons, here they are:Season 1http://www.sendspace.com/file/vr0qwvSeason 2http://www.sendspace.com/file/66f1x2Season 3http://www.se
Re: Bye bye, firefox
I don't use Firefox or Chrome because I like the way Internet Explorer integrates into Windows. The sad thing is that both Firefox and Chrome could have taken advantage of many of the integration possibilities, but chose not to. Their loss.Besides, for accessibility, In
Re: Bye bye, firefox
I don't use Firefox or Chrome because I like the way Internet Explorer integrates into Windows. The sad thing is that both Firefox and Chrome could have taken advantage of many of the integration possibilities, but chose not to. Their loss.
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Re: accessible torrent client?
For whatever reason nothing from www.discus.com will display and I believe that that is where the actual download links are hosted from.I'll find it using google, this site can't be the only site with older versions of the program.
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Re: Audio described GoT?
I suppose that ASOIAF means something? Assuming that everyone is going to know what your abreviations mean is a good way to insure that you'll get meaningful answers instead of "Huh?" like this one.For example, if I could figure out what that abbreviation meant, I'd
Re: Monthly chat February 2018
@DarkYes, iHeart is primarily as US thing just as the BBC is primarily a UK thing.
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Re: Bye bye, firefox
I recall having to do something like what Enes suggests in #9 with Thunderbird when an update caused JAWS to stop being able to read the message list. It worked great. I had forgotten that or I'd have suggested it myself.Sorry about getting the version number wrong, I m
Re: Monthly chat February 2018
Well, the prime account will give you access to amazon music, which isn't bad as part of prime, but I wouldn't pay for it or music unlimited. As Dark said, prime music is pretty dire in that it caters primarily to what's popular now, and music unlimited isn't
Re: Bye bye, firefox
To avoid the current accessibility issues that Firefox is having, have you considered using an ESR edition?When Firefox 57 was released with all of the accessibility problems it introduced, most people recommended switching to the ESR edition of 56 to avoid the problems
Re: Monthly chat February 2018
I'm not complaining about it. I've never been a big fan of youtube and only use it to add music to my library when I encounter a track I don't have and want.Beyond that, I couldn't care less about youtube and definitely don't want a youtube skill for the Echo.
Re: Pontes Media Downloader 2.1 was released
Lucky you! I just tried this new version and still can't download or convert anything. For now I'll just leave it uninstalled and use convertfiles.com, at least it works.
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Re: accessible torrent client?
Thanks for the link gamesmaster, but all I get are sponsored links to pages that can't be displayed where the actual download links should be.I'll just check some other old apps web sites.
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Re: Monthly chat February 2018
That Echo doesn't do youtube doesn't surprise me, Amazon has always been a bit snotty about cooperating with other companies it views as competitors.And with the release of Google Home, Amazon definitely sees Google as a competitor.So unless Amazon can figure
Re: Pontes Media Downloader 2.1 was released
@UltraLeetJ1. I've never had or needed a proxy so I have never set one up.2. I do occasionally update the downloader, currently it is from this month, February 2018.3. Just because it never quit for you doesn't mean that the same is true for ever
Re: Monthly chat February 2018
I personally don't use the calling feature the Echo has because I am unwilling to share my phones contact list with Amazon or the Alexa service.No big deal, I didn't buy the Echo to make calls anyway.
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Re: Pontes Media Downloader 2.1 was released
This is wonderful news, especially if the fixed the problem that the media downloader quit working altogether a couple of months ago.
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Re: accessible torrent client?
Where can one get a copy of uTorrent 3.1, I have an old copy but am not sure what version it is because it isn't currently installed. Thanks!
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Re: Please help, Recovery files after shift+delete.
I used to be in the habit of always using shift delete, but after mistakenly deleting several files I had wanted to keep, I broke myself of that habit and now always allow deletions to go through the recycle bin.I now also maintain two com
Re: eloquence on IOS.
@ironcross32 and EthinI think we've had enough of this flame war, neither one of you is accomplishing anything useful or constructive with it. So just agree to disagree and move on, please.
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Re: Looking fro two book series.
So am I correct in that you are asking someone to pirate a commercial audio book for you simply because you don't want to use BARD. LOL! Good luck with that.
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Re: eloquence on IOS.
Or hearing about TV shows or movies that you'd like to see that aren't audio described.
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Re: Maiden Flight of the Falcon Heavy Rocket: Feb. 6
I think it's sad that NASA is pretty much out of the space program these days. Even if it wasn't going anywhere, at least the Space Shuttle kept them in the thick of things instead of watching from the sidelines as they are now.
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Re: game of thrones audio description with video?
As a visually impaired person, what would you want the video for?
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Re: Is There Any Way to Read Scanned Image PDF's?
Please do, I haven't ran across anything yet to try it out with. I simply noticed the new entry in the context menu after installing 2018.
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Re: The Hidden Meanings Of Songs?
The first time I heard Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds was Elton John's version, and I like it better than the original Beatles version.
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Re: The Hidden Meanings Of Songs?
One Headlight by The Wallflowers is a song who's meaning mystifies me.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zzyfcys1aLM
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Re: The Hidden Meanings Of Songs?
One Headlight by The Wallflowers is a song who's meaning mystifies me.
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Re: The Hidden Meanings Of Songs?
I know that, still, before I click them, it would be nice to know what the videos are. To me it's just a simple courtesy to tell people what you are presenting them with, and simple laziness not to bother.
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Re: The Hidden Meanings Of Songs?
And then there's always Don McLean's American Pie about the death of Buddy Holly.@JaceKIt would be nice if you'd say something about what those links you are posting are about, I'm not inclined to click on a link just to see where it leads.
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Re: Humble Bundle no better than spammers
Yes I have, several times, and to date have never received a reply, and the unwanted emails keep showing up in my inbox.I don't consider a service where every page is so overloaded with ads that you have to search to find the content you want burie
Re: make voiceover not telling phone number outloud when you\re being call
In that case, I'd recommend asking over at AppleVis, there will be people there that know way more about iOS and Voice Over than most people here.Sorry we couldn't be of more help.http://www.applevis.com/
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Re: make voiceover not telling phone number outloud when you\re being call
Go to settings, on the main screen, scroll down to phone and double tap it, on that page there is an option to set when incoming calls are announced.Have fun!
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Re: make voiceover not telling phone number outloud when you\re being call
I don't mind voice over reading the number for incoming calls because if it is reading the call's phone number, that means that whomever is calling is not on my contact list so the call can be ignored because its mor
Re: This doesn't make sence, audible book not availible in south africa.
Hey! That is great news! Enjoy the book!
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Re: Humble Bundle no better than spammers
The unsubscribe link is still there at the bottom of the emails, it takes you to a page that says it will unsubscribe you, and when you click the unsubscribe button it reports that the unsubscribe was successful, but the emails keep coming. I've tri
Re: Monthly chat January 2018
We do have intersections with pedestrian crossings, but as far as I know, they don't have any special designation other than being a pedestrian crossing.Now I've heard there are pedestrian crossings that have a speaker next to the button you push to signal you
Re: Talking windows PE with 64bit win 7
Same as before, only if your Windows 10 DVD is for the Creator's edition. The original release and the Anniversary edition DVDs won't have Narrator available prior to Windows being installed.
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Re: Monthly chat January 2018
@DarkPardon my ignorance, but what are pelican crossings? I've never heard of them before, maybe it's a UK thing.Oh Aira wouldn't have any issues reading signs for you, but they'd leave what to do with the information up to you.Not to disparage your parents bec
Re: broke my elexa
The only time I've ever had problems with my Echo being unresponsive was when the Alexa servers were unreachable.If it isn't working tomorrow, you'll probably have to do a master reset, which is I believe done by holding down the action button for 5 or more seconds, after
Re: broke my elexa
The only time I've ever had problems with my Echo being unresponsive was when the Alexa servers were unreachable.
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Re: A question.
LOL! Voice actors are always changing their voices to fit the roles they are playing. Ever heard of Mel blanc? Better known as the voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and many other looney tunes characters. And yet if you heard his real voice, you never guess he played all thos
Re: Questions about outlook express
I'm sorry to hear that. It does sound like something outside Outlook Express is interfering.The only other thing I can think of is to check your GMail settings and make sure that both IMAP and SMTP access is turned on.
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Re: Questions about outlook express
Try these, this is what I use for Thunderbird.Incoming Mail (IMAP) Server: imap.gmail.comRequires SSL: YesPort: 993 Outgoing Mail (SMTP) Server: smtp.gmail.comUse Authentication: YesPort for SSL:: 465 or 587 Use same settings as incoming mail server Full
Re: Monthly chat January 2018
Unfortunately, as part of signing up I had to go through their terms and conditions, and one of those was that Aira was not to be used as a substitute for your own mobility skills. They might be willing to guide you to a particular store in a shopping mall, but
Re: Monthly chat January 2018
Did I speak too soon?Somewhere I think I said that I had not had a cold or flu for about ten years.I woke up yesterday with a scratchy throat that made me cough frequently, and today I woke up with the throat plus something that feels like chest congestion but
Re: Questions about outlook express
What email service do you use?
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Re: Questions about outlook express
There is also the question of whether your email service uses a SSL connection or one that is unencrypted, that can affect which ports should be used. However, if I recall correctly Outlook Express has an option that selects SSL versus an unencrypted conn
Re: Microsoft outlook is pissing me off!
One of the reasons why I won't upgrade to Windows 10 until forced is because all the new features Microsoft added to it was so they could add more eye candy making it an accessibility nightmare for anybody but their own narrator. Just look at how lon
Re: Questions about outlook express
That's the beauty of Thunderbird's nick names, you can make sure that each contact has a unique nick name, then when you type that nick name into an address field, you always get the person you want. Most of the time just the persons first and last initia
Re: Microsoft outlook is pissing me off!
If Office is successfully installed, which is how it sounds, PST files should now show as an Outlook file type. If that's the case, try launching the PST file and see if that invokes Outlooks import function.I used to use Outlook with my GMail accoun
Re: Monthly chat January 2018
True enough, if you always have sighted family members around who are willing to help, then you probably don't need Aira. But in my case, I live alone in a one bedroom apartment 40 miles or a one hour road trip away from the nearest family members I trust and a
Re: Questions about outlook express
I don't know where you heard that about Thunderbird's address book, but I can tell you that it's very easy to work with and has a nick name feature that can be quite helpful in making similar names distinguishable from each other. It also supports auto co
Re: Questions about outlook express
Yeah, my last employer required that everyone use Outlook. Some people liked it, I simply tolerated it.I was using Outlook Express up until I finally quit Windows Xp for Windows 7. If I had found that Outlook Express on the JAWS users site before I got co
Re: Questions about outlook express
Dark, I know you are an NVDA user, but the JAWS users web site has an installable copy of Outlook Express v6 which is the version that came with Windows XP and may also have a stand alone spell check that works with it. I never looked for the spell check
Re: Monthly chat January 2018
That depends on you. While you are connected to the service, your assistant sees what the camera sees, and talks to you through the connection on your phone. It's like having a sighted person at your side to describe to you what's around or what's going on, or
Re: Questions about outlook express
Outlook Express is a commercial program only in that it was distributed with Windows prior to Vista.There is a commercial program called Outlook Express Classic but it is a completely different program that is no where near accessible.To find a stand alon
Re: The 3Doodler Start 3D Pen
Oops! I forgot about that. Thanks!
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Re: Monthly chat January 2018
The cost for the equipment is part of your subscription so there is nothing to buy. The glasses and hotspot only provide the video connection so the assistant can see what you are looking at. The smart phone app is used to connect to the service and provides th
Re: The 3Doodler Start 3D Pen
Oh [[wow]]! Before I lost my vision, one of my all time favorite past times was drawing. Even though I can no longer enjoy them, I keep my drawing pads with all my drawings.I'd like to be able to download these audio instructions to listen to off line, is there
Re: Monthly chat January 2018
Hmm, Dark, you have a good point there about the glasses. All I can say is that apparently Aira is targeted at people who's vision is so poor that glasses wouldn't do them any good. In my case, before I lost my vision, I did wear a pair of very strong and thick
Re: accessible youtube converter?
Since it has always worked for me, I've never felt that I needed to change that setting, so I just left it alone.
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Re: accessible youtube converter?
At first I didn't think Ponce had a playlist downloader, which didn't bother me because all I wanted was the ability to download individual videos.Later I noticed that it did have the option to download playlists, but if it doesn't work, no big loss. I'd pr
Re: accessible youtube converter?
I swear by Pontes Media Downloader. It's very simple and easy to use and is fully accessible. It can convert video from a variety of sites to a number of formats including MP3. And it's free.http://www.pontes.ro/en/
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Re: Monthly chat January 2018
I got my Aira glasses today and spent some time with an Aira representative learning how to use them and the service.During the first month they recommend you use the service in a variety of situations even if you don't need it to familiarize yourself with the
Re: AMD against Intel?
@braille0109At current exchange rates, 500 pounds is about 675 US dollars.I used to have both a desktop and a laptop. What a pain! Every time I went traveling I had to go through my files and synchronize them between the two systems, and make sure that any programs I
Re: AMD against Intel?
LOL! 95 degrees C isn't even the boiling point of water, no way silicon will melt at that low temperature.Time was I would say that AMD was definitely the superior CPU, but that would be from nearly ten years of using them with never a problem getting in the way. But
Re: AMD against Intel?
Whether a processor overheats or not is not a good way to rank or rate processors because there are so many factors involved that the CPU manufacturer has no control over. How efficient is the heat sink or the cooling fan? How well designed is the air flow through the
Re: AMD against Intel?
Whether a processor overheats or not is not a good way to rank or rate processors because there are so many factors involved that the CPU manufacturer has no control over. How efficient is the heat sink or the cooling fan? How well designed is the air flow through the
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