Re: Universal design

2009-08-14 Thread Daniel Crone
I would like to know what Mr. Henter is doing also. On Aug 14, 2009, at 4:45 PM, hank smith wrote: > > what is he doing these days? any one know? > On Aug 14, 2009, at 7:08 AM, Daniel Crone wrote: > >> >> I remember the early jaws days. I knew that Ted Henter and all the >> people there really g

Re: mac veils

2009-08-14 Thread Dan Eickmeier
And you can turn the screen curtain on and off on a mac with VO-shift- f11 On Aug 11, 2009, at 9:48 AM, Dan wrote: > > Hello, > VoiceOver has always included the nifty feature known as Screen > Curtain. Both in Tiger and Leopard. I see no reason for it to go away > in Snow Leopard. > Dan > On Au

Re: Universal design

2009-08-14 Thread John Panarese
Last I heard, he had started a company, Henter Math. Not sure if that still is the case. Take Care John Panarese On Aug 14, 2009, at 5:45 PM, hank smith wrote: > > what is he doing these days? any one know? > On Aug 14, 2009, at 7:08 AM, Daniel Crone wrote: > >> >> I remember the earl

Re: finding specific text on a web page

2009-08-14 Thread Mike Arrigo
Hi, for web searches, I would suggest the item chooser. Press control option i which will display a menu of all items on the page, type a part of what you're searching for, and this will narrow down the list. Press enter on the item you want, and the voice over cursor will be placed on tha

Re: Universal design

2009-08-14 Thread hank smith
what is he doing these days? any one know? On Aug 14, 2009, at 7:08 AM, Daniel Crone wrote: > > I remember the early jaws days. I knew that Ted Henter and all the > people there really gave their all. Seems that when a company is > small, it is easy for it to keep its focus. > On Aug 14, 2009,

Re: enabling smtp?

2009-08-14 Thread Esther
Hello Donna, The entry for SMTP identifies the mail server that you're using to send outgoing mail. It will be specific to the service you use. For MobileMe, it might have a name like "smtp.me.com" or "smtp.mac.com". For gmail, it might be "smtp.gmail.com" Usually, this information is

Re: determining people's status on skype

2009-08-14 Thread patrickneazer
Hello Anna and all: If your setting is show offline contacts, the online contacts automatically appear at the top of the list. You can set it to only show online contacts. This works though if you attempt to send a request to someone you will not know if they receive the request until they

Re: installing snowleopard

2009-08-14 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Krister, On Aug 14, 2009, at 8:38 PM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: > > Then i wonder if those voices will be available from the Apple sight > or from the other makers of voices from Apple. I doubt Apple will sell them. I use Infovox iVox voices for French and they're brilliant! Cheers, Anne

Re: determining people's status on skype

2009-08-14 Thread Woody Anna Dresner
Hi Scott, Thanks for the tip. I just turned off Show Offline Contacts, and sure enough, the names that disappeared all appear below Skype Test Call when I have all contacts shown, so it appears to work. All the best, Anna On Aug 14, 2009, at 12:18 PM, Scott Chesworth wrote: > > This migh

Re: Updating Mac 10.5 (password)

2009-08-14 Thread Dr.Khalid
The user name is already there. Pressing the OK button while the password field is empty didn't solve it. Best Khalid - Original Message - From: Mac Cougar To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 11:47 AM Subject: Re: Updating Mac 10.5 (password) Y

Re: Updating Mac 10.5 (password)

2009-08-14 Thread Mac Cougar
You will still need to put in the user name which on mine is already there and the i go to password field and press enter. Hope that helps steve On Aug 14, 2009, at 8:21 AM, Dr.Khalid wrote: > Pressing enter didn't work. It says: either the username or password > is wrong. I kept both field

Re: installing snowleopard

2009-08-14 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Then i wonder if those voices will be available from the Apple sight or from the other makers of voices from Apple. /Krister 14 aug 2009 kl. 18.24 skrev Anne Robertson: > > Hello Krister, > > If you read the information about Snow Leopard on the Apple website, > you'll see that only American v

Re: messenger sounds

2009-08-14 Thread william lomas
sorry i meant i get the text not sounds, I surprised that adium won't play them yet On 14 Aug 2009, at 19:05, Scott Chesworth wrote: > > Do you mean the sounds for nudges and the little animated imoticon > thingies? > If so, nope, I don't think Adium plays ball yet. Whether you get any > ind

Re: messenger sounds

2009-08-14 Thread william lomas
yeah i get the messenger sounds On 14 Aug 2009, at 19:05, Scott Chesworth wrote: > > Do you mean the sounds for nudges and the little animated imoticon > thingies? > If so, nope, I don't think Adium plays ball yet. Whether you get any > indication as text I'm not sure, but that's more likely.

Re: messenger sounds

2009-08-14 Thread Scott Chesworth
Do you mean the sounds for nudges and the little animated imoticon thingies? If so, nope, I don't think Adium plays ball yet. Whether you get any indication as text I'm not sure, but that's more likely. On 8/14/09, william lomas wrote: > > hi can adium users hear the messenger sounds peopl

messenger sounds

2009-08-14 Thread william lomas
hi can adium users hear the messenger sounds people may send me? WIll --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.

Re: determining people's status on skype

2009-08-14 Thread Scott Chesworth
This might not still work, but I recall a while ago someone posting a tip for this. If you add the skype test call facility to your contacts, one mac user claimed everything online would be above them, and everything below was either offline or not contactable. Bit of a stab in the dark because I

RE: Keychains, wasRE: Updating Mac 10.5 (password)

2009-08-14 Thread Donna Goodin
Oh, interesting. Thanks for the explanation. Donna From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Chris Blouch Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 1:03 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Keychains, wasRE: Updating Mac 10.5 (password)

Re: Keychains, wasRE: Updating Mac 10.5 (password)

2009-08-14 Thread Chris Blouch
I don't use them but the theory is that you store all your screen name and password pairs in a master keychain. Then you use one screen name and password to unlock all your other passwords. So the idea is that you only need to remember that one password and the keychain will supply all the othe

Re: determining people's status on skype

2009-08-14 Thread Robert Carter
Hi, Anna in the current skype release, all you can do is go in to the view menu and tell skype to hide offline contacts. This will cause only online contacts to show up in the contacts table. Robert Carter On Aug 14, 2009, at 11:37 AM, Woody Anna Dresner wrote: > > Hi, > > How can I find ou

Re: snowleopard on august 28?

2009-08-14 Thread Chris Blouch
Rumor mill has been abuzz saying that Snow Leopard has gone golden master but usually that sits a couple weeks before going to production for any last minute bug shakeouts. That puts it at mid September. They seem to like to release on a weekend, a tradition going back to the first non-beta of

Re: finding specific text on a web page

2009-08-14 Thread Barry Hadder
Anna, For now Vo-i is your best bet. Just start typing what you want to find and the list will narrow down. It works pretty well all though I would like to see the other search options work better also. On Aug 14, 2009, at 11:42 AM, Woody Anna Dresner wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm having trouble

finding specific text on a web page

2009-08-14 Thread Woody Anna Dresner
Hi, I'm having trouble finding specific text on a web page. I've tried Command-F and VO-F, and generally afterward I'm either at the top of the text or outside the HTML content, and when I interact with that content, I'm at the top, not where the search text is. Sometimes Item Chooser hel

determining people's status on skype

2009-08-14 Thread Woody Anna Dresner
Hi, How can I find out whether a Skype contact is online? Thanks, Anna --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com T

Re: installing snowleopard

2009-08-14 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Krister, If you read the information about Snow Leopard on the Apple website, you'll see that only American voices will be provided. Other language voices will have to be bought separately. Cheers, Anne --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message

Re: items not going into cart?

2009-08-14 Thread Chris Blouch
This was covered previously but basically apple dropped the buy keyboard shortcut and the latest iTunes releases but you can add it back: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/msg03508.html You can also do a VO mouse click on the buy button: http://www.mail-archive.com/ma

Re: installing snowleopard

2009-08-14 Thread william lomas
yeah i hope so to On 14 Aug 2009, at 16:32, Krister Ekstrom wrote: > > Hi, > What will really be interesting to see is if VO only comes with > american voices as it does now or if you have for example Swedish as > an alternative. I haven't heard anything from Assistiveware about any > new versio

Re: installing snowleopard

2009-08-14 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, What will really be interesting to see is if VO only comes with american voices as it does now or if you have for example Swedish as an alternative. I haven't heard anything from Assistiveware about any new versions of the Acapela voices so i begin to get a bit worried to say the least

Re: Updating Mac 10.5 (password)

2009-08-14 Thread Dr.Khalid
Thanks Esther for this thorough step by step explanation. I was able to check the account setting, and it asked me to enter old password. I left it empty, and I typed a new password but this didn't work. I noticed something strange though; under password, there is a field called "password hint"

Re: iPod Shuffle 3rd gen headphones

2009-08-14 Thread Woody Anna Dresner
Hi Scott, I've ben carrying my Shuffle headphones around in my pocket pretty much every day since I got my Shuffle, and they're still working fine. Sorry you're having such a hard time, and I hope whatever you end up with this time works out. Best, Anna --~--~-~--~~--

Re: Updating Mac 10.5 (password)

2009-08-14 Thread Dr.Khalid
Pressing enter didn't work. It says: either the username or password is wrong. I kept both fields empty. Best Khalid - Original Message - From: Mac Cougar To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 6:26 AM Subject: Re: Updating Mac 10.5 (password) jus

iPod Shuffle 3rd gen headphones

2009-08-14 Thread Scott Chesworth
Hi folks, I own a 3rd gen shuffle. Come Monday when I can make a trip to an Apple store, I'll be on my 3rd set of headphones since buying it a few months ago. The first pair stopped working on one side with no obvious external damage, and the 2nd pair have pretty much just fallen to pieces with

installing snowleopard

2009-08-14 Thread william lomas
hi this article http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/08/12/sources_detail_changes_to_snow_leopard_installation_process.html talks about the install process for the upcomming snowleopard --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are s

items not going into cart?

2009-08-14 Thread william lomas
hi all, now when I click the price of a song with voice over it is playing the sample, not adding it to my cart, or if one click is on, letting me purcase? Has anone else noted this behaviour? Will --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message becaus

Re: enabling smtp?

2009-08-14 Thread Thomas McMahan
What info is there when you go into acounts, select the specific acount that's having the problem and then clicking the advanced button in acounts? Perhaps it didn't add the smtp when you were setting up acount, or wrong info. On Aug 14, 2009, at 9:25 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: > > Hi all,

enabling smtp?

2009-08-14 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi all, When I first got my Mac and set up my primary email account, I had a problem sending mail. This problem was resolved by enabling SMTP, or something like that. I have now set up a secondary mail account, and am having the same problem. But I can't remember what I did that enable

Re: Universal design

2009-08-14 Thread Daniel Crone
I remember the early jaws days. I knew that Ted Henter and all the people there really gave their all. Seems that when a company is small, it is easy for it to keep its focus. On Aug 14, 2009, at 5:56 AM, Chris Hofstader wrote: > Hi, > > I couldn't agree with you more as regards Apple and i

Re: Flash content, who do we contact?

2009-08-14 Thread Marie Howarth
you know what is really annoying? on their home page they are seemingly all for accessibility wit "assistive technology". It's time adobe realised that we mean business. lol. But sadly, I see no way to contact them. On Aug 14, 2009, at 5:36 AM, Mike Arrigo wrote: > > Apple has provided the

Re: Updating Mac 10.5 (password)

2009-08-14 Thread Mac Cougar
just press enter without typing anything On Aug 13, 2009, at 9:49 PM, Dan Eickmeier wrote: > Yes, I believe it can have a space in it. > On Aug 14, 2009, at 12:40 AM, Dr.Khalid wrote: > >> Hello! >> >> I tried to enter a username and password, but this didn't work. I >> still get the message tha

snowleopard on august 28?

2009-08-14 Thread william lomas
Hi it is rumoured that snowleopard is due out in 2 weeks on august 28? Why don't people get fact in stead of wasting time cluttering up the internet with rumours all day long lol, if this is true, fine, but if not it is egg on peoples faces, as the expression goes. The only people wh

RE: Universal design

2009-08-14 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi Chris, Nice point about contacting third party vendors whose apps are accessible. Even if it wasn't a deliberate effort on their part, it raises awareness, and lets them know that their product being accessible did matter. Best, Donna -Original Message- From: Chris Hofstader Sent:

Keychains, wasRE: Updating Mac 10.5 (password)

2009-08-14 Thread Donna Goodin
Hello all, Sorry if this is a dumb newbie question, but what are keychains anyway? I've seen references to them, but I don't understand what they are or how they work. TIA, Donna -Original Message- From: Dr.Khalid Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 12:42 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.c

Re: Universal design

2009-08-14 Thread Chris Hofstader
The survey was done independently and has been published even before Macintosh had even marginal accessibility built-in. As I said yesterday, Apple's number is probably unnaturally low because of the "invisible" users out there who aren't attached to any blindness agency or other place whe

Re: Universal design

2009-08-14 Thread Chris Hofstader
Hi, I couldn't agree with you more as regards Apple and its efforts toward universal access. I understand the feeling you must have when the kid went off to school with a new talking iPod as, when I worked at HJ/FS, i was well aware that every new copy of JAWS that went out the door probabl

Re: trade in

2009-08-14 Thread Charlie Doremus
Sadly, no. If that were the case my partner would have beaten a path to the Waikiki store weeks ago. On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 9:12 PM, william lomas wrote: > >hi all, as i hear the new macbooks the uni body ones have the > touchpad that can use gestures, can i trade in this perfectly worki

trade in

2009-08-14 Thread william lomas
hi all, as i hear the new macbooks the uni body ones have the touchpad that can use gestures, can i trade in this perfectly working mac i wonder, at my UK apple store for one of those? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are sub