Re: skype on the iphone

2009-09-17 Thread Thuy
Hi Rebecca. I use Fring, which is an instant messaging/voice over ip app which includes skype. http://maccessibility.net/iphone/apps/# the maccessibility site is a brillint resource for all things Apple including Macs and IPhones. You can get a whole list of accessible apps for the iphone at http:

Re: lowering the verbosity of the finder column view

2009-09-17 Thread James & Nash
You've noticed this too? It is a bit annoying but still useful for those who are not used to Mac. I would be greatful for any help too please. Thank you Take care James - Original Message - From: "Justin Harford" To: Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 10:43 PM Subject: lowering the

Re: Typing Spanish characters

2009-09-17 Thread Simon Cavendish
Dear Lindsay, In System Preference (which you will find in the dock) interact with the scroll area and choose "language and text" button. There you will find a few tabs that will help you customise various features to do with foreign languages. One of the tabs is input tab where you check

Re: Spanish Braille tables

2009-09-17 Thread rossy
hi ann, i remember that you recomended read2me app for the iphone. if this is so , i would like to ask you some questions: 1. how can i put books from mac to iphone 2. do you know if there are other tts languages , i.e. italian o russian ? thank you in advance. rk Il giorno 17/set/2009, alle

Re: Spanish Braille tables

2009-09-17 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Rossy, On Sep 17, 2009, at 12:24 PM, rossy wrote: > i remember that you recomended read2me app for the iphone. if this is > so , i would like to ask you some questions: > 1. how can i put books from mac to iphone I haven't done this yet, but apparently you have to upload the books to a s

Re: Spanish Braille tables

2009-09-17 Thread rossy
thank you. let you know if there are news. rk Il giorno 17/set/2009, alle ore 12.52, Anne Robertson ha scritto: > > Hello Rossy, > > On Sep 17, 2009, at 12:24 PM, rossy wrote: >> i remember that you recomended read2me app for the iphone. if this is >> so , i would like to ask you some questions

Re: skype on the iphone

2009-09-17 Thread John J Herzog
Hi, I use Fring too. Has anybody else noticed though, that when using Fring, voice quality is lower than it is on skype? On Sep 17, 2009, at 5:00 AM, Thuy wrote: > > Hi Rebecca. I use Fring, which is an instant messaging/voice over ip > app which includes skype. > http://maccessibility.net/iph

A possible solution to the Voice Over not responding when using certain options in Keyboard Commander

2009-09-17 Thread James & Nash
Hi folks, Firstly, thank you to Anna for telling me how to enable the option for hearing how many unread messages are in Mail via Keyboard commander. After experiencing the same issues as some list members where Voice Over would not respond after using a command I think I've found a solut

Voice Over occasionally stops speaking in Text Edit

2009-09-17 Thread James & Nash
Hi list, Has anyone else noticed this behaviour? Occasionally in Text Edit, Voice Over will stop speaking or it will not allow you to edit text and the only way to fix this is to turn VO off and on again. It's quite annoying as sometimes you have to do this more than once. I will report t

Re: skype on the iphone

2009-09-17 Thread Krister Ekstrom
I would like.to use Fring but i have no wifi.wonder if it is possible to use gprs or such in Sweden? Krister Skickat från min iPhone 17 sep 2009 kl. 15.15 skrev John J Herzog : > > Hi, > I use Fring too. Has anybody else noticed though, that when using > Fring, voice quality is lower than it

Sync-question on the Iphone

2009-09-17 Thread Søren Jensen
Hi. I ordered my Iphone yesterday but I haven't received it yet. Damn I can't wait to get this thing. I tried it in a phone-shop, and I was really surprised. Wow it's cool. Well, now to my question: How do I sync my calendar, contacts, mails, favorites and other things which don't have some

Re: Just upgraded to Snow Leopard!

2009-09-17 Thread Pete Nalda
On Sep 16, 2009, at 3:12 PM, matthew Dyer wrote: > > Hi, I do not get the typing sound in password field eather in the os > or on the web. I could not find a way to fix this. > > Matthew You have to check "Use VoiceOver in Login Window in Login options which is in System Prefs>Accounts. It

Re: problems normal emptying trash

2009-09-17 Thread Chris Blouch
I didn't notice any replies to your post but the empty trash menu item is still there. CB a radix wrote: > Hello, according to some posts i found on the internet the empty trash > option was removed from the finder menu with the introduction of snow > leopard. > I was assuming the delete key w

Re: A possible solution to the Voice Over not responding when using certain options in Keyboard Commander

2009-09-17 Thread Justin Harford
I don't use my system voice though for the time and unread messages commands though. J On Sep 17, 2009, at 6:16 AM, James & Nash wrote: > > Hi folks, > > Firstly, thank you to Anna for telling me how to enable the option for > hearing how many unread messages are in Mail via Keyboard commander

Re: Sync-question on the Iphone

2009-09-17 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Søren, On Sep 17, 2009, at 4:38 PM, Søren Jensen wrote: > How do I sync my calendar, contacts, mails, favorites and other things > which don't have something with Itunes to do? All mine were synced automatically. My Address Book is there, sorted into groups, just like on my MacBook. All my

Re: Typing Spanish characters

2009-09-17 Thread Justin Harford
Another thing worth mentioning if you don't want to change back and forth between keyboard layouts is that you can use the option key. option+e then type a vowel and it puts an accent over it option+n and then type the n and it putes a tilde over it option+u and then type u and it puts a diali

A few questions

2009-09-17 Thread Angel Dockham
Hi All I have one question for VO and one about aduim. First VO when it reads stuff online it will say "clickable" on things that aren't clickable. is there away to get it to stop doing that? now on to aduim is there a way to turn off the time stamp in messages VO reads the time the messages were

Re: scripting voiceover

2009-09-17 Thread Chris Blouch
All Latin character languages. There are 191 characters which covers 25 languages fully plus 6 others mostly. For web sites I use UTF-8 which handles everything. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8 CB Jonathan C. Cohn wrote: > Did you make any progre

Re: moving items to doc

2009-09-17 Thread Pete Nalda
On Sep 17, 2009, at 12:59 AM, May and Wynter wrote: > Hi everyone. > > How do I move things to the doc? I would like to move text edit > there, thanks. > > May and Wynter with a y Hi, one way is to open Text edit, that'll put it in your dock, then navigate to the dock by using VO+D then yo

Problems selecting text in E Mails

2009-09-17 Thread James & Nash
Hi list, Has anyone had any problems selecting text in E Mails with the VO Selection Command VO Enter? I could not select any text in an E Mail I need to take some info from. In the end, I saved the message into Text Edit so I'll deal with it rom that. Thanks Take care James --~--~

Re: Problems selecting text in E Mails

2009-09-17 Thread Brett Campbell
Hi James, A really cool feature with SL is that you no longer need to use the VO shift to select text in an email. Give the traditional selecting techniques a try that you use in other apps such as Text Editor. Brett On Sep 17, 2009, at 1:05 PM, James & Nash wrote: > > Hi list, > > Has a

Re: Problems selecting text in E Mails

2009-09-17 Thread Jessi and Goldina
yep, I have this problem too. I think it's a bug in sl! On 2009-09-17, at 12:05 PM, James & Nash wrote: > > Hi list, > > Has anyone had any problems selecting text in E Mails with the VO > Selection Command VO Enter? I could not select any text in an E Mail I > need to take some info from. In the

Re: navigation questions

2009-09-17 Thread Christina
Hi Simon, > Yay, they worked and now I know how to navigate quicker. :) I > appreciate your help. I would still like to know how to page up and > down. Especially when on a long pdf or web page. :) Christina On Sep 16, 2009, at 1:10 PM, Simon Cavendish wrote: > Christina > Dear Ch

Re: Problems selecting text in E Mails

2009-09-17 Thread Søren Jensen
Just use shift and the arrow keys. Best regards Søren Jensen Mail & MSN: s...@coolfortheblind.dk Website: http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ On Sep 17, 2009, at 9:05 PM, James & Nash wrote: > > Hi list, > > Has anyone had any problems selecting text in E Mails with the VO > Selection Command VO Ente

Re: Sync-question on the Iphone

2009-09-17 Thread Søren Jensen
Hi Anne. Thanks a lot for your answer. Do you know if these things are synced using Itunes? And is it possible to choose what you wanna sync? For example if I don't wanna sync my mail for any reason? Best regards Søren Jensen Mail & MSN: s...@coolfortheblind.dk Website: http://www.coolforthebl

RE: Typing Spanish characters

2009-09-17 Thread claire amoroso
Thanks for this info, I'm currently studying spanish at university and I've been looking for this everywhere ! Is it better to do changes to the pronounciation manager of VoiceOver or of Infovox Ivox ? Thanks claire > Subject: Re: Typing Spanish characters > From: blindst...@gmail.com > Date:

Re: Spanish Braille tables

2009-09-17 Thread Lindsay Yazzolino
Hi Anne, Would it be possible to send you the Braille tables for JAWS? If so, do you know howI owuld go about doing this? And do you know if they differ from the Windows tables in terms of how the Mac would recognize characters? Thanks! Lindsay On 9/17/09, rossy wrote: > > thank you. let you k

Re: navigation questions

2009-09-17 Thread Simon Cavendish
Yo You are welcome, Christina. I too would like to know about page an down in TextEdit. As for PDF and in Preview, you have to go to your toolbar where after interacting with it you have previosu and next buttons you can press. I think there's a shortcut key for it in the menus but I tried

Re: Sync-question on the Iphone

2009-09-17 Thread May and Wynter
I can't get my IPhone and ITunes to work with each other. If I tell it to sync my calendars or my bookmarks ITunes freezes and will just sit there for hours. Any suggestions? May and Wynter with a y - Original Message - From: Anne Robertson To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

microphone

2009-09-17 Thread May and Wynter
Ok, where is the microphone located on the macbook? There is a chat site that I want to go on but want to check the microphone first to see how loud it is and so on, what program do I need to find to play with this feature? May and Wynter with a y --~--~-~--~~~---~--

Re: Problems selecting text in E Mails

2009-09-17 Thread James & Nash
Hi Bret, > A really cool feature with SL is that you no longer need to use the VO > shift to select text in an email. Give the traditional selecting > techniques a try that you use in other apps such as Text Editor. Sorry, perhaps i did not explain myself clearly enough, but VO + Enter should

Re: Just upgraded to Snow Leopard!

2009-09-17 Thread matthew Dyer
On Sep 17, 2009, at 11:45 AM, Pete Nalda wrote: > > > On Sep 16, 2009, at 3:12 PM, matthew Dyer wrote: > >> >> Hi, I do not get the typing sound in password field eather in the os >> or on the web. I could not find a way to fix this. >> >> Matthew > > You have to check "Use VoiceOver in Login

Re: Sync-question on the Iphone

2009-09-17 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Søren, When you connect your iPhone, it launches iTunes. Find your iPhone in the Sources table, then navigate right to the scroll area. When you interact with this, you'll find all kinds of settings to play with. Explore and have fun. Cheers, Anne On Sep 17, 2009, at 10:01 PM, Søren

Re: skype on the iphone

2009-09-17 Thread Rebecca Redmile
Thank you so mich to everybody that replied about this thread. Apps for the IPhone is me!!! Rebecca On 17-Sep-09, at 5:00 AM, Thuy wrote: > > Hi Rebecca. I use Fring, which is an instant messaging/voice over ip > app which includes skype. > http://maccessibility.net/iphone/apps/# > the maccessi

Re: Spanish Braille tables

2009-09-17 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Lindsay, On Sep 17, 2009, at 10:35 PM, Lindsay Yazzolino wrote: > > Would it be possible to send you the Braille tables for JAWS? > Don't worry, someone has already sent them. We're going on holiday tomorrow for ten days, but when we get back, we'll get on to Spanish. Cheers, Anne --~

Mac crashes in GMail

2009-09-17 Thread Lindsay Yazzolino
Hi, I was trying to send an attachment in GMail today, and each time I try and select the file, Safari shows a "busy" message so that I have to force quit. Has anyone else had this problem, and have you found any solutions? I am running Snow Leopard. Thanks. Lindsay --~--~-~--~~

play list instructions

2009-09-17 Thread peter apgar
Good evening, could some one provide a set of instructions for creating a play list in I Tunes using SL? if possible provide step by step directions for adding songs from the music library to the newly created play list. Thanks in advance, Pete --~--~-~--~~~--

Re: Just upgraded to Snow Leopard!

2009-09-17 Thread Angel Dockham
Its supposes to be able to read the net to right? On Sep 17, 11:45 am, Pete Nalda wrote: > On Sep 16, 2009, at 3:12 PM, matthew Dyer wrote: > > > > > Hi,  I do not get the typing sound in password field eather in the os > > or on the web.  I could not find a way to fix this. > > > Matthew > > Yo

Re: play list instructions

2009-09-17 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Pete, I believe you should be able to find some good historic references, and I don't use play lists much right now... However I wanted to make sure you know there are two kinds of playlists 1. Manual These are static lists of songs you add from your main library and don't change unless you

drag and drop with sl

2009-09-17 Thread peter apgar
Good evening all, how does one drag and drop with vo and snow lepard? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 To

Re: sluggish composng of mail

2009-09-17 Thread Rich Ring
I have the same problem in Mail. - Original Message - From: "Christina" To: Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 2:41 PM Subject: sluggish composng of mail Hello list, I've been experiencing sluggish typing while typing an e-mail. When I'm composing a message voiceover speaks very

Re: drag and drop with sl

2009-09-17 Thread Matthew Campbell
In Itunes anyway its the same as in leopard. On 2009-09-17, at 9:30 PM, peter apgar wrote: > > Good evening all, > > how does one drag and drop with > vo and snow lepard? > > > --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Go

Do Ipod Classics have VoiceOver?

2009-09-17 Thread Pete Nalda
Folks, this is a sad day of sorts as my 5th generatiion ipod has finally given up the ghost. It can not absolutely be revived. I've some sight and could read the menus a little but want to upgrade. It was a 32gb. I'd like something with VO so I guess my 2 choices are Nano and new Touc

why did my Ipod become corrupt? Anyone else experience this?

2009-09-17 Thread John J Herzog
Hi listers, I received my Ipod touch on Tuesday, and everything was working fine last night. However, when I turned it on today, none of my installed apps would launch. I would double tap them, but the home screen would not go away, and the app refused to run. Long story short, I had to rese

Re: Do Ipod Classics have VoiceOver?

2009-09-17 Thread Woody Anna Dresner
Hi Pete, I'm pretty sure the Classic doesn't have VoiceOver, unfortunately. Best, Anna --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@go

Re: Sync-question on the Iphone

2009-09-17 Thread Søren Jensen
Awesome. Thanks for your reply. I just didn't thought Itunes was able to sync all that stuff like mail and the calender. Can't wait to get my Iphone. :) Best regards Søren Jensen Mail & MSN: s...@coolfortheblind.dk Website: http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ On Sep 18, 2009, at 12:26 AM, Anne Robe

Re: Do Ipod Classics have VoiceOver?

2009-09-17 Thread Pete Nalda
On Sep 18, 2009, at 12:06 AM, Woody Anna Dresner wrote: > > Hi Pete, > > I'm pretty sure the Classic doesn't have VoiceOver, unfortunately. > > Best, > Anna Ah ok. I guess that leaves the 16gb nano or the 32gb touch then. I do wish they had a 16gb touch or a classic with VO. > > > > Egun O