Re: very nice experience at University Village Apple Store in Seattle Washington

2009-05-28 Thread Cara Quinn
hey Ben, thanks so much for sharing! this is exactly the kind of thing I personally love to hear. I'm glad that Apple is really stepping this great level of service up even further. For someone with or without a disability to go into a store and really be shown not only equal

Re: French Braille

2009-05-28 Thread Andrzej Cuber
Dear Anna, Wonderful job, I was looking for that kind of information for a very long time. According to this job it is possible to prepare braille tables for many languages. I think that it may be a good idea to share the tables between all of us. Anna I would like to ask your husband to share

Re: very nice experience at University Village Apple Store in Seattle Washington

2009-05-28 Thread Vicki Manley
Hi, That would be so ace if they brought out an accessible i phone What a really great suggestion!!! Best wishes, Vicki. On 28 May 2009, at 06:37, Ben King wrote: Dear Mac Friends, I am writing you to let you know about an experience I had today at the University Village Apple Store in

Re: French Braille

2009-05-28 Thread Greg Kearney
Anne; Could you outline the steps you took to get this to work so I could write some documentation on it. Gregory Kearney Manager - Accessible Media Association for the Blind of Western Australia 61 Kitchener Avenue, PO Box 101 Victoria Park 6979, WA Australia Telephone: +61 (08) 9311 8202

Re: French Braille

2009-05-28 Thread Andrzej Cuber
Hi, I will try to answer this question for Anne. The 7th and 8th dots are used as prefixes for capital letters and number signs in a regular 6 dot braille. In order to indicate that the letter is capital you use the 7th dot. In order to say that some dot pattern is a number you use 8th dot in a

Re: French Braille

2009-05-28 Thread Koumanova Rostislava
ok! it would be very nice, thank you in advance. rossy Il giorno 28/mag/09, alle ore 13:44, Greg Kearney ha scritto: Anne; Could you outline the steps you took to get this to work so I could write some documentation on it. Gregory Kearney Manager - Accessible Media Association for the

Re: very nice experience at University Village Apple Store in Seattle Washington

2009-05-28 Thread Sean Tikkun
Can folks on this board help me out here? I don't see the point of an accessible iPhone. The fluid dynamic of screen touch technology combined with GUI interface seems like it is just a counter accessible design form the get go. Once you make the thing accessible it is no longer

Re: Adding e-mail addresses in address book?

2009-05-28 Thread Esther
Hi Arthur and Dan, Dan has answered the main question by pointing out that you can use VO- H to get information on the fields in an address book, but here are a few other tips. Take a look at the notes about Address Book at Tim Kilburn's web site for VoiceOver:

Re: very nice experience at University Village Apple Store in Seattle Washington

2009-05-28 Thread Jessi and Goldina
hey, Ben, this is good news!!! I love when I hear good stories about apple employees not only knowing what voiceover is, but wanting to help improve it!!! I've never even been to the apple store here in vancouver, canada, I know...sad!! lol. I need to find a way over there. but when I do

Re: very nice experience at University Village Apple Store in Seattle Washington

2009-05-28 Thread Cara Quinn
Sean, I'd be happy to entertain your below points, but firstly, forgive me, but this honestly sounds like the very same rhetoric that I hear all too often in the blind community which simply is a negative response to touch screens?… Yes?… Is this really what your saying with the

Re: very nice experience at University Village Apple Store in Seattle Washington

2009-05-28 Thread gene
Hi yeah I hope that mozilla will make firefox accessible I mean it's accessible with jaws and window eyes for windows so I curtainlly don't see why they wouldn't make it work with voice over. Safari still has some bugs in it and hopefully, if ff was accessible we wouldn't have to deal with

Re: very nice experience at University Village Apple Store in Seattle Washington

2009-05-28 Thread Jessi and Goldina
yeah, in deed. and I'm sure safari's bugs will all get worked out in time too. the only reason i really want firefox is so I can use webvisum. although, there's that solona captcha solving service, so maybe webvisum isn't even needed. still, it would be nice if firefox was accessible and

Re: very nice experience at University Village Apple Store in Seattle Washington

2009-05-28 Thread Mike Reiser
On 5/28/2009 2:34 PM, Jessi and Goldina wrote: agreed, Arthur, lol. if you're gonna take that approach about the iphone and firefox and their various addons and apps why don't you just say that about voiceover as a whole? what it seems like you're saying is let's not make the iphone

Re: very nice experience at University Village Apple Store in Seattle Washington

2009-05-28 Thread Mike Reiser
On 5/28/2009 3:39 PM, Cara Quinn wrote: Sean, I'd be happy to entertain your below points, but firstly, forgive me, but this honestly sounds like the very same rhetoric that I hear all too often in the blind community which simply is a negative response to touch screens?… Yes?… Is

MacUpdate Software Bundle

2009-05-28 Thread Esther
Hello all, There is a promotional software bundle of 9 apps for $49.95 available from MacUpdate. This may be of special interest to people who watch DVD movies, because 3 of the 9 apps are devoted to DVD ripping, converting to various platforms, and watching movies on a digital server:

Re: Braille Blazer

2009-05-28 Thread Alex Jurgensen`
Hi, I'm thinking that NFB is thinking of Duxbury, where it shows up on screen in Braille first. What proceedure are you using to print the document? What connection is physically attaching the BB to the computer. If you are using an USB to serial adapter, is its driver installed. Is it showing

Transmit FTP Software at half price [was Re: MacUpdate Software Bundle]

2009-05-28 Thread Esther
Hello, Someone on another list responded to my post about the MacUpdate software Bundle promo with this information: Another promo: At http://www.panic.com You can get transmit (an ftp client) or Unison (for usenet) for half off. That's really cheap. The poster didn't give the information,

Re: Transmit FTP Software at half price [was Re: MacUpdate Software Bundle]

2009-05-28 Thread Buddy Brannan
Sorry Esther, You're right: I forgot to mention the time frame. I was posting and had my daughter hollering at me at the same time. I reckon I don't multitask well. LOL --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: Braille Blazer

2009-05-28 Thread arthur gindin
thank you. yes, Steve at NFB is only familiar with Duxbury. i have no driver for the Blazer. it does appear on the printer list as default printer. i select a text file and save as Document. i then went to processing and chose Louis.cfg.for send Braille i used /dev/null (the others

Re: Braille Blazer

2009-05-28 Thread Alex Jurgensen
Hi, What is the connection between the iMac and the BB? Is it using a Parallels to Bluetooth or an USB to Serial adapter? What make of adapter is it? Regards, Alex, On 28-May-09, at 7:57 PM, arthur gindin wrote: thank you. yes, Steve at NFB is only familiar with Duxbury. i have no