Re: iOS browsers was Re: IOS 7, probably the most buggy I've ever seen yet!

2014-05-10 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
better with VoiceOver. I of course realize this is only a workaround and doesn't solve the current problems and so writing to accessibil...@apple.com is encouraged. Regards Chris Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth! On 08/05/2014 15:48, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: Hi! I’m

Re: IOS 7, probably the most buggy I've ever seen yet!

2014-05-08 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi! I’m finding web browsing with Safari to be an absolutely horrible experience on my iPhone 5. This has been the case through all versions of iOS 7 for me. VoiceOver will bounce all over the place, or is very sluggish at telling me what’s on the webpage when I navigate, especially when

Re: a friend of mine wants to get the old Siri back

2013-09-19 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi! Yeah, I’m still trying to understand this. I just installed the high quality UK voice and it sounds a world different from my compact voice here. Any chance you can provide samples? I hear multiple people saying it sounds either distorted or different in some other strange way. Regards,

Re: CereProc Voices for Mac

2013-05-05 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
, at 11:21 PM, Nicolai Svendsen chojiro1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! I tried this with VoiceOver, and they were absolutely terrible to work with. I'd maybe hear one phrase spoken, then the voice would crash. Even then, the voice was truly unresponsive, even if I used the voice without VoiceOver

Re: CereProc Voices for Mac

2013-05-04 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi! I tried this with VoiceOver, and they were absolutely terrible to work with. I'd maybe hear one phrase spoken, then the voice would crash. Even then, the voice was truly unresponsive, even if I used the voice without VoiceOver. I just had another look, and it seems that the male voices

Re: How to use crutial's memory scanning tool?

2013-04-27 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi Sarah, When you say memory scanning tool, I'd assume the application you download off of Crucial's website. That tool simply scans the computer quickly, then brings up a page in Safari with your current specs and compatible upgrades, but also allows you to choose other options like a

Re: MarsEdit

2013-04-06 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi! Yeah, I love MarsEdit. I've been using it for years to blog, and it even has some built-in HTML functionality already if you don't know how to code it. There's other choices like Mac Journal which some seem to prefer, but I've only tried it briefly. The developer of MarsEdit is great at

Re: Very high intermediate towards advanced question about sharing

2013-02-08 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi! Some people won't have the web sharing box in System Preferences in Mountain Lion. So, you have to enable Apache in Terminal like so sudo apachectl start You can replace start with stop and restart as you see fit, but keep in mind that you have to make OS X launch the daemon when you boot

Re: Problem with Log in Window, can you try and help?

2012-09-07 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, I've covered this is another topic. Basically, what happens is that the screensaver appears. When that happens, tapping a key doesn't automatically bring focus to the window. So, you can hit VO-F1-F1 to bring up the Application CHooser. Go to the Login window menu, then hit enter on it

Re: WXWidgets and voiceover.

2012-09-06 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, From what I know, it's not that easy to make it accessible, but it's possible. I don't know as to how to do this, though, but from what I've been told by a developer using it, it's not the easiest thing to do. Sorry that I can't be of a lot of help here. Regards, Nicolai On Sep 6, 2012,

Re: WXWidgets and voiceover.

2012-09-06 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
wrote: Not what I wanted to hear Nick *smile* I used Widgets on *cough* another OS back in the day and it was pretty accessible actually hence the question. As ever, thanks. On 6 Sep 2012, at 18:54, Nicolai Svendsen chojiro1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, From what I know, it's not that easy

Re: Enable Accessibility Options Anywhere In Mountain Lion [OS X Tips] | Cult of Mac

2012-08-31 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, What's actually really nice about this is that it uses your system speech to read the dialogs, too. If you tab through the options, it reads the status of the checkbox you're on, and what the option does. This is if Voiceover is off. The article didn't seem to mention that. Regards,

Re: Battery Time Remaining Brings More Battery Info to Mountain Lion's Menu Bar

2012-08-27 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
wrote: Hello Nic Just out of interest, is your installation a clean install or an upgrade from Lion or Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion? On 26 Aug, 2012, at 20:45 PM, Nicolai Svendsen chojiro1...@gmail.com wrote: • Yeah, I'm not sure why they say it's not there. It shows on my MacBook Air

Re: Battery Time Remaining Brings More Battery Info to Mountain Lion's Menu Bar

2012-08-26 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, Yeah, I'm not sure why they say it's not there. It shows on my MacBook Air too, whether it's charging or discharging and how much time until battery is full as well as how much battery remaining, respectively. It does have one feature I do want though, and that's custom notifications.

Re: (what Fleksy means for us) was Re: Fleksy

2012-08-21 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi Dónal Just to throw in my two cents also. Fleksy is a nice application because it lets you type incredibly fast, and this even applies to when VoiceOver is off for sighted users. Sighted users don't have to focus as much on what they're typing if they already know how to touch-type, and it

Re: So What Constitutes A New iMac?

2012-08-14 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi Dane, You won't get any compensation for this, even if you tried. The manufacturing isn't taken into account when reading the System Report. OS X bases the model year off of the last produced Model, which was I believe on May 3 2011. The system report doesn't say anything different just

Re: Fleksy

2012-08-10 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, yeah, I've used it. I'm slightly impressed, but not enough to use it whenever I type. I text often, so I usually just end up sliding to reply when it comes in on the lock screen and typing away. That's more convenient than waiting for Fleksy to load more times than I think it should,

Re: Fleksy

2012-08-10 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
was originally sent with Fleksy. Hope these all help. On 10/08/2012 11:43, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: Hi, yeah, I've used it. I'm slightly impressed, but not enough to use it whenever I type. I text often, so I usually just end up sliding to reply when it comes in on the lock screen

Re: Mac air vs macbook pro

2012-08-01 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, I chose the MacBook Air for portability reasons. I didn't want a MacBook pro because of its weight, and I didn't really need the noise. My MacBook Air has the 2.0GHZ processor which is turbo boosted to 3.2 GHZ, 8GB of RAM and only 128GB of disk space. However, I could've picked a 512GB SSD

Re: Mountain Lion App store question

2012-07-29 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hello Paul, Try going to the purchases tab, then interact with the cell that says Installed. You should hear that the installed button is dimmed. Now, try hitting Option-Space. This overwrites the behaviour of OS X and forces the app to reinstall if it is not already. This also works on

Re: infovox ivox 3

2012-07-28 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi William, They are charging by voice now. You can purchase credits which only cover one voice, or multiple voices at once. The only difference being that Scandinavian voices cost more in terms of credits. Obviously, if you already purchased a voice pack when you had iVox 2.x or earlier, you

Re: Voiceover on sites with Ajax, was Re: Any progress?

2012-07-27 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi Gordon, I'm a bit confused then. Where, exactly, is the problem? I'm able to see my current books and redownload the PDFs just fine. Can you give exact directions? Regards, Nicolai On Jul 27, 2012, at 10:23 AM, Gordon Smith gor...@mac-access.net wrote: The reason we maintain separate

Re: Voiceover on sites with Ajax, was Re: Any progress?

2012-07-27 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
a total mess. Gordon On 27 Jul 2012, at 09:47, Nicolai Svendsen chojiro1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Gordon, I'm a bit confused then. Where, exactly, is the problem? I'm able to see my current books and redownload the PDFs just fine. Can you give exact directions? Regards, Nicolai

Re: Voiceover on sites with Ajax, was Re: Any progress?

2012-07-27 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
. Gordon On 27 Jul 2012, at 12:11, Nicolai Svendsen chojiro1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Hmm, that's curious. Mine appear as links within the different cells. I wonder if that might indeed have something to do with it, then. Regards, Nicolai On Jul 27, 2012, at 1:10 PM, Gordon Smith gor

Re: Vmware not support in mountain lion: at least not yet

2012-07-26 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, The latest VMWare Fusion works perfectly fine. The latest version is 4.1.3, but every 4.x version has worked without a hitch. VMWare may not be aware it works if they don't have the ability to test it, of course, which is where this might stem from. Either way, though, it works fine and

Re: Mountain Lion: is it safe to take the plunge and buy it?

2012-07-25 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, Nope, you can update to Mountain Lion just fine. The drivers and so-forth are completely separate, so you shouldn't encounter any issues. I can't think of any, anyway. It'll still boot into Windows as expected, and you can still set startup disks, etc. Regards, Nicolai On Jul 25, 2012,

Re: Mountain Lion: is it safe to take the plunge and buy it?

2012-07-25 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, Just for those who have a qualified Mac for the up-to-date program, you won't be able to complete the form. Read more here: https://uptodate.apple.com/UtdPrepareAction?program=Mountain%20Lionlocale=en_us It appears that the page uses a widget which does not work with VoiceOver, probably

Re: Mountain Lion Up-to-date program for recent Mac buyers [was Re: Take Control Titles]

2012-07-25 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, I pointed this out in an earlier message about upgrading to Mountain Lion. If you hit enter, VoiceOVer speaks the current date but I haven't found a way to accessibly change it. I'd guess that it's a widget which makes use of a canvas element or another visual element to change the date,

Re: Apps not supported on Mountain Lion (was Infovox ivox voices and Mountain Lyon)

2012-07-19 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, X11 might not be supported under 10.8. In fact, the page that leads to the download page no longer exists. It's worth considering which apps may not be supported, though I'd expect most already work. Mountain Lion has a lot of changes, but not a complete redesign. Secondly, the way

Re: fleksy is out!

2012-07-16 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, I've tried the app. In fact, I downloaded it while I was on holiday because the hotel I was staying at on my way home offered free Wi-Fi. I find myself typing very accurately with this. Even without VoiceOver, you can hit the wrong letter with the regular keyboards, so Fleksy is actually

Re: fan in mbp?

2012-07-04 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi Lynne, Depending on what application he used to play music (we'll assume iTunes,) some processes in OS X sometimes run very resource-hungry tasks. One resource to watch out for in particular is mdworker. What this stands for is Metadata Server worker and it ensures that your files are

Re: fan in mbp?

2012-07-04 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
to the dreaded Blue Screen that Windows users will know so well. Perhaps my description was a little inaccurate and, if so, I apologise most humbly for that. ;-) Lynne On 4 Jul 2012, at 13:37, Nicolai Svendsen chojiro1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Lynne, Depending on what application he

Re: macbook

2012-07-03 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, Actually, the MacBook essentially does not come in three flavours anymore. The MacBook is no longer being supported, at least not officially by Apple. You can get them with educational pricing, at least where I live, but not without the educational discount. The MacBook Pro and MacBook Air

Re: Is there an easy way to examine the clipboard?

2012-07-01 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, Certain elements you can't review them by character, even if you interact. Not all elements will let you interact with them to read them, or even use VO-W. In the case of Finder, it is possible, but not all elements even if they appear as menu buttons, etc. Menu buttons is one particular

Re: a website for viewing apps that are no longer in the iTunes app store? Please?

2012-06-26 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi Josh, In a lot of cases, yes. If the developer has the application available to circumvent the App Store, at least on OS X, you can get it via Mac-Update if they have it listed. Even if they don't, though, you can also try to Google it. In the case of Sandboxing, as someone who has worked

Re: Booting the New Mac Mini

2012-06-21 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi Lynne, This is the same with memory upgrades, and even hard drives. You can't, for instance, swap a non-Apple hard drive into an iMac from 2011, at least not without the right firmware. I accidentally went ahead and got one that didn't have the correct firmware onboard, and the fan just

Re: Apple MacBook Air SuperDrive MacBook Pro Don't Get Along Together!

2012-06-17 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hello Lynne, Yes, you can make it work. It's a firmware limitation, that's correct, but you can fix it by editing one text file. The file you need to edit is /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist You may wish to check if you have permissions on it first before editing

Re: Apple MacBook Air SuperDrive MacBook Pro Don't Get Along Together!

2012-06-17 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
. But using root as the name and password it would not let me in. Where do I go from here please? Lynne On 17 Jun 2012, at 12:41, Nicolai Svendsen chojiro1...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Lynne, Yes, you can make it work. It's a firmware limitation, that's correct, but you can fix

Re: What are Press and Hold Buttons in Mac OS?

2012-06-14 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, Press and hold buttons are items which you can adjust by holding them down. This applies to sliders, splitters, steppers and even regular buttons. This is very useful, for instance, when you want to go forward in a track in iTunes. Another example is that holding the Add event button will

Re: a good accessible disk utility program.

2012-06-10 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi! yeah, this totally baffles me as well. Disk Utility works perfectly fine. So far, I've only seen one thing that doesn't work under 10.7, and that's locating the Destination field when restoring a disk image to a drive. It's doable if you know how to use a mouse, but it appears VoiceOver

Re: Apple to reject Mac App Store apps using hotkeys starting June 1?

2012-05-18 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi! I'm positive that it is. It wouldn't be beneficial whatsoever to remove all hotkey functionality from App Store Applications, and the article was even updated to say that they will not be rejecting them. Also, if that was the case, I'm sure it would have been submitted to developers to

Re: Accessible Mud Client found

2012-05-11 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi! Thanks a lot for this! I've found about 15 of them in total, but none of the developers seemed very interested in either continuing development or improving VoiceOver support. No more Espeak now. I'll give this a bit of a test drive soon enough and give feedback of course. I wonder about

Re: winclone no accessible with VO..

2012-04-26 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
this is a typo and the lister really meant to say Winclone is now accessible rather than winclone is no accessible. David Griffith -Original Message- From: mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net [mailto:mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net] On Behalf Of Nicolai Svendsen Sent: 25 April 2012 17:59

Re: winclone no accessible with VO..

2012-04-25 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi! It still looks like the latest version is still 3.2, according to the site, and that is the version I have. It is perfectly accessible, and everything reads here. I've been using it ever since it was free, and then turned into something you had to pay for, though an individual license

Re: CarrierCompare: Test your carrier's network quality

2012-04-14 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi! The application is actually international. Given the article only points out U.S. networks, though, and clearly haven't done any international testing, I have to wonder if it'll be anywhere near usable despite being in my store. I'll give it a try though and see what happens. Regards,

Re: Mac going crazy when personal hotspaot

2012-04-12 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi! Actually, my situation is slightly different, but somewhat similar. Mine affects applications, and not the entire connection. I may be able to get network on YoruFukurou and iTunes, but Safari refuses to except the internet connection. Other times, for instance, I can't retrieve email but

Re: EU law forces Apple two-year warranty | Macworld

2012-04-11 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, Actually, this is perfectly justifiable. Before just now, you only got one year of warranty if you included AppleCare, which truthfully isn't any better than what the insurance any other company can provide. In a lot of countries, you have an insurance which covers all damages to

Re: EU law forces Apple two-year warranty | Macworld

2012-04-11 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
in the pocket book, which would be identical to the affect of raising taxes on Apple. Corporations do not pay taxes you see -- they simply collect them from their customers. Best regards. Geoff - Original Message - From: Nicolai Svendsen chojiro1...@gmail.com To: Mac OSX iOS

Re: volumes of mac voices

2012-03-30 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi william, Yes, I do. In fact, it varies depending on the voice you use. Also, the nitrate of the voices is also less than the originals. Daniel is low, but try Samantha, and I think you'll agree that she's right bang in your face. Regards, Nicolai On Mar 30, 2012, at 8:34 AM, william lomas

Re: Time Capsule up and running again

2012-03-25 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, I'm not planning on upgrading to Airport 6.0.0 or above whatsoever, personally, anyway. I haven't found options for RADIUS-based access control (802.1X) no IPV6 configuration, no more raw log views, and Apple apparently seems to have removed the options for Unix syslog server destinations

Re: Time Capsule up and running again

2012-03-25 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
...@me.com wrote: Okay, perhaps I'm wrong but isn't all that stuff available under the Network tab for your particular device? I recall seeing it there though I did wonder what happened to the IP6 stuff. On 26/03/2012, at 11:30 AM, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: Hi, I'm not planning

Re: iMac: first impressions

2012-03-16 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
, 2012, at 1:57 AM, Dane Trethowan d.tretho...@me.com wrote: What's Thunderbolt? On 16/03/2012, at 11:43 AM, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: Hi, The iMacs are 17.75 inches tall, have a width of 20.8 inches, depth of 7.42 inches and weigh 20.5 pounds. You can still get the iMacs with 21.5 inch

Re: the new ios

2012-03-08 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, Yes, this is correct. This particular focus issue has been throughout betas of iOS 5.1 builds, also plaguing every one of them for the most part. It still has not been resolved, as you can tell. I'd recommend that when you unlock the phone, wait just a second before moving to another

Re: new ipad

2012-03-08 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, Just to correct you here. Yes, Apple does allow it, and yes they do exist, but experimentally so. However, the companies haven't made it into a regular keyboard such as the ones you can set under Keyboard preferences in Settings, which is also possible to do without any particular access

Special Characters with VoiceOver

2012-01-23 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi everyone, As you might know, Mac OS X has a ton of special characters built in, including the currently hugely popular Emoji. Emojis are, to be brief, Japanese emoticons or pictographs. Hundreds if not more of these exist, and an emoji keyboard can also be added to iOS which permits you to

Re: Two questions for iPhone 4S owners who've used either Siri or a keyboard case to speed up text entry

2012-01-04 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi! Another feature worth noting is that every keyboard on the iPhone 4S has a dictate key. When you press it, you can dictate punctuation marks and so-forth as well, and simply tap the same spot when you're done dictating. Another interesting thing worth mentioning is that if you are using

Re: got the voice to work on the iphone

2011-12-18 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi William, Getting more than one voice is pretty pointless, at least if you plan to use them all. While you can obtain them by switching regions or even language, they are not used later on by the rotor even if they still exist on the device. Also, several hours after not being used the voice

Re: Top Ten list of tools and techniques I used to successfully complete my first college semester as a blind student

2011-12-18 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, I tend to use LaTeX as well. I'm obtaining a Computer Science Degree, of which UML (Unified Modeling Language) plays a massive role throughout all six semesters. Also, I was kind of forced into LaTeX, but it's actually really useful when you learn how. It also works for a lot of

Re: Anyone Using Tweetlist Pro for iPhone/iPad?

2011-12-10 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi Dane, That trick works assuming that you are arranging your followers by lists. If you are not, tab More at the bottom right, then select My profile at the top and select Following. This also applies to Followers, so choose Followers if you would like to see those. Regards, Nicolai On Dec

Re: contacting YoruFukurou devs.

2011-12-06 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi Dónal You can try using yoru.fuku...@gmail.com or contact them by Twitter using @YoruFukurou I've found they're not always as responsive to either of these methods, but they usually tend to listen anyway. Regards, Nicolai On Dec 6, 2011, at 11:59 AM, Dónal Fitzpatrick wrote: Anyone have

Re: contacting YoruFukurou devs.

2011-12-06 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
but got nothing back. Will try the gmail address. On 6 Dec 2011, at 11:01, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: Hi Dónal You can try using yoru.fuku...@gmail.com or contact them by Twitter using @YoruFukurou I've found they're not always as responsive to either of these methods, but they usually

Re: iPhone 4 and iPhone 4s Questions

2011-12-01 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi! I find that Siri tends to break a lot. Granted, it is beta, but I find that if I have to perform various different tasks very rapidly Siri breaks. Either Siri won't listen, or it just keeps searching without stopping to find answers for me. Other times though, I have no issues, but it's

Re: sim fee iPhone: be very very careful.

2011-11-08 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi! The reason that it's sometimes worth looking elsewhere is that you can get it cheaper, even though it's an Apple authorized reseller. That doesn't always mean that it's the price Apple puts out, as is the case with my iPhone. Apple themselves also charge more for the iPhone 4 than they do

Re: Which has greater usability/accessibility, Sound Flower or Jac oS X?

2011-11-06 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hello James, Jac OS X is more meant for studio setups or in those cases where you need multiple inputs and outputs through aggregate devices or other methods. While I think Soundflower has similar capabilities, Soundflower needs to be accessed via the status bar which VoiceOver is unable to do

Re: Growl question

2011-10-30 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
anything in growl set-up other than set display style to speech. Do you think iCal may need to be updated to work with growl 1.3? Should I scrap growl 1.3 and install an earlier version of growl? Many thanks. Paul On 30 Oct 2011, at 17:12, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: Hi Poul, When

Re: favourites list in YoruFukurou

2011-10-30 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi! Just command-right arrow to the favorites tab. It's set as default to show, so that should do the trick for you. Keep in mind that it only loads a hundred of your favorites, though. Regards, Nicolai On Oct 30, 2011, at 10:57 PM, Dane Trethowan wrote: Hi! How do you access your

Re: Good news!

2011-10-29 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi Chris, I'm a little bit curious as to why you didn't go for the iPhone 4S instead of the 4, since the 4S is the latest one. I suppose it's either because it was too much, or you just didn't need the extra specs. Anyway, have fun with your iPhone regardless. :) Regards, Nicolai On Oct 29,

Re: buying iPhone models

2011-10-29 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
on this list last week, a new 16GB iPhone 3GS on a pre-paid plan costs over $450.00 here and we're talking Australian dollars so I can perhaps udnerstand why Chris went for an iPhone 4. On 30/10/2011 5:06 AM, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: Hi Chris, I'm a little bit curious as to why you didn't

Re: VoiceOver: a convenient option for the sighted?

2011-10-27 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi! I tend to agree with this. I've met very few employees who know about VoiceOver, but those who have have been knowledgeable in that area. I've watched Youtube videos where people deliberately go out of their way to display accessibility on iOS, and when VoiceOver is on they refer to the

Re: VoiceOver: a convenient option for the sighted?

2011-10-26 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi Chris, I actually have a sighted classmate at university who uses VoiceOVer to read iBooks. However, I do know that iBooks also has a setting which lets you read kids books aloud, I believe, but I'm not sure if this extends to all books or simply depending on the author's permission.

Re: downloading premium voices.

2011-10-14 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi Donál While it will download the premium voice, simply go into SettingsGeneralAccessibilityVoiceOver and toggle the Use compact voice switch to on. If you mainly don't want the Irish voice at all, simply go into SettingsGeneralInternationalRegion Format and select the other format that you

Re: downloading premium voices.

2011-10-14 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
in their visual displays in terms of themeing them with wall-papers etc. Why shouldn't we as blind users have the same choices over the visual theming? That last bit is an extract of a mail I sent to apple, which yet again has been ignored. Dónal On 14 Oct 2011, at 09:31, Nicolai Svendsen wrote

Syncing to Google Contacts perhaps broken in 10.7.2

2011-10-14 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi everyone, I realize this may be a bit of an odd subject, but since I have an iPhone and an Android device, I wanted to run this by you guys. Firstly, what I have done is to click the Accounts tab in Preferences in Address Book, then selected ON My Mac. I then click the Account information

Re: Syncing to Google Contacts perhaps broken in 10.7.2

2011-10-14 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
. Best regards, Geoff - Original Message - From: Nicolai Svendsen To: Mac OSX iOS Accessibility Sent: Friday, October 14, 2011 6:05 AM Subject: Syncing to Google Contacts perhaps broken in 10.7.2 Hi everyone, I realize this may be a bit of an odd subject, but since I

Re: voices in iOS five

2011-10-14 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
, 2011, at 9:15 AM, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: Hi! Did they fix it so that it knows to switch to the proper setting now? Previously, it always used to use compact when the compact setting was off. Also, you have to have the default language to the voice you wish to download. That part hasn't

Re: voices in iOS five

2011-10-14 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: Hi! As a reply to my own message, I already got this confirmed. It has not been fixed as has been thought on the list, speaking of premium voices as originally was the case. At least, that's what we ended up talking about. If you download more than one premium

Re: IOS5, I Messaging and Twitter

2011-10-14 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi! Yes, you have to use a country code as with regular messages. Otherwise, it assumes that the number exists within your current country and who knows who you're sending to then? Regards, Nic On Oct 14, 2011, at 5:42 PM, chris hallsworth wrote: Not sure but if this is the case you can

Re: My iMessage contact

2011-10-13 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi Lynne, This is iOS related and is a new feature which potentially lets you send free texts from an iPod Touch, iPad or iPhone on Wi-Fi. If you have 3G and flatrate, there is also supposed to be no charge. It's pretty slick. Regards, Nic On Oct 13, 2011, at 1:00 PM, Mrs. Lynnette Annabel

Re: VO Query

2011-10-13 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi! He meant VO-F2. On an American keyboard, if you accidentally hold down the shift key while hitting 2, you make the @ sign. Regards, Nic On Oct 13, 2011, at 6:52 PM, Gordon Smith wrote: Could somebody please enlighten me as to where on my keyboard I may locate the Vo-F@ key? I don't

Re: is the iPhone 4s worth it?

2011-10-08 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi! You also have to consider that these are only example phrases. I highly doubt it is only limited to these sayings, even if you change the phrasing a little bit. The article also pointed this out. Even so, if it can't do what you want, chances are it may be able to in the future. I'm

Re: thoughts on iPhone 4S

2011-10-06 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi !From what I remember from having an Apple headset with remote, holding down the play/pause button would trigger Voice Control. That functionality isn't going to be stripped out, so when that voice assistant launches, you can use it for the very same. Secondly, iOS 5 probably isn't going

Re: twitter

2011-10-05 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi! You can also get YoruFukurou off of the App Store. http://itunes.apple.com/dk/app/yorufukurou/id428834068?mt=12 Additionally, here's the link to the application from their website. http://aki-null.net/yf/YoruFukurou_SL.zip This is the same as distributed on the App Store. Regards, Nic On

Re: unatteneded windows installations

2011-09-03 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi! You can use unattended installations just fine, as long as you tell it to use the right partition. The partition will always be named Bootcamp, so running the Automated Installation Kit won't be an issue at all if you configure the right parameters in advance. Regards, Nic On Sep 3, 2011,

Re: unatteneded windows installations

2011-09-03 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Kit won't be an issue at all if you configure the right parameters in advance. Regards, Nic On Sep 3, 2011, at 8:17 PM, joe quinn wrote: was this a blank message? :) - Original Message - From: Nicolai Svendsen chojiro1...@gmail.com To: Mac OSX iOS Accessibility mac-access@mac

Re: use my macbook pro as an access point?

2011-08-31 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hello Donál This is quite easy to do. Simply click Sharing from within System preferences, then move down to Internet sharing within the Services table. When that is done, VO-right away from the table until you reach the Share my connection from pop up button then select the port you wish to

Re: On-Screen Content, let's all bug Apple!

2011-08-29 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi Gordon, This is something that the Infovox voices do, not Apple's. In fact, if you switch to a voice by Apple, Alex or others do not interpret this wrongly. I'm guessing in some places this is another way to format the dates, and VoiceOver does not always govern how information is

Re: Verbosity

2011-08-29 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi Gordon, I agree. He sounds a bit beefier in Lion than he did on Snow Leopard. in SL, I actually quite liked him, and I still do in 10.7, but he just sounds a lot rougher to me than he used to sound. As for numbers, Apple still tries to control this. An example is that if you have a certain

Re: Verbosity

2011-08-29 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Daniel, and that's saying something. Gordon On 29 Aug 2011, at 12:03, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: I agree. He sounds a bit beefier in Lion than he did on Snow Leopard. in SL, I actually quite liked him, and I still do in 10.7, but he just sounds a lot rougher to me than he used to sound

Re: Verbosity

2011-08-29 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
doesn't always make things too easy as they use fonems to string together sounds. I suppose that is reasonable in a way, as it allows you to customise things pretty accurately when you get used to how they goners work. Gordon On 29 Aug 2011, at 14:48, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: Hi Gordon

Re: accessible mud cliants for mac

2011-08-19 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi Collin, I've actually tracked down at least 15 clients for the Mac. I haven't had a chance to try all of them, but I saw a page listing them all. I had it bookmarked, but my bookmarks have become scrambled, so I'll have to dig it up. However, a simple Google Search will find it, too, if

Re: Turning on the I-Mac

2011-08-15 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi! Another thing that may be useful is to add System Preferences to your dock. This can be done by going to your Applications folder with Command-Shift-A, then typing the first few letters of System. Then, when you are on it, hit Command-Shift-T to add it to the Dock. Incidentally, you can

Re: Gifting App Store applications

2011-08-15 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
, it's not there on ours. But I wonder if that appears post-purchase. Gordon On 15 Aug 2011, at 16:09, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: Hi everyone, According to Apple's Terms of COnditions, you are supposed to gift App Store applications by clicking Gift this app in the Actions popup menu

Re: Gifting App Store applications

2011-08-15 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
2011, at 17:33, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: Hi! Can you give Mac App Store apps from within iTunes? That's what I'm asking about, as made clear by my other message. I don't see them in there, at least. Regards, Nic On Aug 15, 2011, at 6:32 PM, Chris Moore wrote: You can gift apps

Re: Gifting App Store applications

2011-08-15 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
brother, but guess I won't be able to do that now! I will drop feedback to Apple about this. Chris On 15 Aug 2011, at 17:46, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: Hi Chris, My apologies! I thought I'd written this to perfection, but it seems like I forgot to put the word Mac in there somehow

Re: Gifting App Store applications

2011-08-15 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
! I also looked through the help area and there was no mention of gifting anywhere! So it looks like [if it cannot be done] those place's saying you can gift might have the wrong impression! Colin On 15 Aug 2011, at 17:56, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: Hi Chris, Well, some sites claim

Re: Crucial Website

2011-08-04 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi! I have to admit that I did the same, using the scanner and just letting it take me on a fun ride, even though I partly knew what to upgrade. I dod go ahead and try picking machines, but I seemed to not have an issue with this. It seems to work fine here, though the labels may be a bit

Re: Optimizing Terminal with VoiceOver

2011-08-04 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi Gordon, Also, if you encounter the issue where information scrolls so rapidly down the screen that VoiceOver simply skips to the last information received, you can simply hit VO-H-H. This enters the command menu. Simply type s p ok and hit enter on the option, and VoiceOver will not move

Re: Optimizing Terminal with VoiceOver

2011-08-04 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Aug 2011, at 17:48, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: Hi Gordon, Also, if you encounter the issue where information scrolls so rapidly down the screen that VoiceOver simply skips to the last information received, you can simply hit VO-H-H. This enters the command menu. Simply type s p ok and hit

Re: Cocktail, anyone had trouble running this under Lion?

2011-08-03 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi Dane, Did you make sure to grab the 5.0 beta? it works fine here, but scheduling has been disabled due to it being in the beta stages. It may very well be 5.0 now, in which case I haven't received the update. Regards, Nic On Aug 3, 2011, at 3:25 PM, Dane Trethowan wrote: Subject line asks

Re: Cocktail, anyone had trouble running this under Lion?

2011-08-03 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
, they have updated it for Lion and it works a treat. On 3 Aug 2011, at 14:25, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: Hi Dane, Did you make sure to grab the 5.0 beta? it works fine here, but scheduling has been disabled due to it being in the beta stages. It may very well be 5.0 now, in which case I haven't

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