How to read entire article on web page.

2009-10-11 Thread Kevin Gibbs
guys, I'm cruising around on my wife's Mac, an original Power PC Powerbook. this runs Leopard, not SL. When I choose a link with VO Space bar, I always get sent to the top of the new page and have to VO right arrow several times to get to the body of the article I wish to read. In addition,

Re: How to read entire article on web page.

2009-10-11 Thread Simon Cavendish
Dear Kevin, There is no such equivalent to Jaws ctrl+n with Voiceover. I'm afraid that this is how one reads articles, i.e. by paragraphs. With time, you learn various techniques to speed things up. For instance, I use the vo+command+h command - sometimes repeattedly - to get to the

Re: How to read entire article on web page.

2009-10-11 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Kevin, Yes, you can start from a particular point and read to the end of a web page. It's easiest if you have all your cursors tracking one another: • Find the point from which you wish to start (it must not be a link); • Click 3 times with the physical mouse; • Move to end

japanese local settings keyboard and voice over

2009-10-11 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
Hi list, I've decided that i wanted to start using my fluency in jaanese to communicate with, well, japanese individuals :) Can anyone give me some pointers on the use of japanese, as it seems relatively difficult? Is it just a matter of having the local setttings installed on the system,

Re: japanese local settings keyboard and voice over

2009-10-11 Thread william lomas
there is no japanese chinise, or other similar voice for the mac, though. On the IPhone there is japanese but not with the mac os x On 11 Oct 2009, at 08:44, Yuma Antoine Decaux wrote: Hi list, I've decided that i wanted to start using my fluency in jaanese to communicate with, well,

Re: japanese local settings keyboard and voice over

2009-10-11 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
Hi william, There is a japanese voice available on http://www.cereproc.com/products/voices The japanese voice has been made in collaboration, and if tyou go around, there is also a obama and arnold voice. best Yuma --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this

Re: japanese local settings keyboard and voice over

2009-10-11 Thread william lomas
is there chinese, to? On 11 Oct 2009, at 09:01, Yuma Antoine Decaux wrote: Hi william, There is a japanese voice available on http://www.cereproc.com/products/voices The japanese voice has been made in collaboration, and if tyou go around, there is also a obama and arnold voice. best

Re: japanese local settings keyboard and voice over

2009-10-11 Thread william lomas
ah wow thank you for this! On 11 Oct 2009, at 09:01, Yuma Antoine Decaux wrote: Hi william, There is a japanese voice available on http://www.cereproc.com/products/voices The japanese voice has been made in collaboration, and if tyou go around, there is also a obama and arnold voice.

RE: voice over bug report web site url

2009-10-11 Thread Portia
Send a mail message to: accessibil...@apple.com Hth, Portia. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Esther Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2009 1:42 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: voice over bug

problems with http://www.cereproc.com/store voices

2009-10-11 Thread william lomas
Hi all, has anyone purchased a voice, for their mac from this copany: http://www.cereproc.com/store When I highlight the license number and paste into the window where it is required it says no text entered? Will --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received

Re: Reading PDF Files with Preview

2009-10-11 Thread Les Kriegler
I have mine se to single page continuous which I thought would result in PDF files reading the entire document? Les Nicolai Svendsen wrote: Hi, *chuckles* Oops. Well, that was my fault. I had accidentally set PDF display to Single Page, not SIngle Page COntinuous. My submenus are sometimes

Re: problems with http://www.cereproc.com/store voices

2009-10-11 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, I would test it, but my country isn't added to the list of possible choices, even though the closest countries to me are. Regards, Nic Skype: Kvalme MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk AIM: cincinster yahoo Messenger: cin368 Facebook: Profile Twitter: http://twitter.com/chojiro On Oct

Re: Reading PDF Files with Preview

2009-10-11 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, It does. Only problem seems to be that, when you want to read just one chapter, and you highlight it, if interacting to go down VoiceOver jumps to top. At least, in my case. Searching, maybe? Regards, Nic Skype: Kvalme MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk AIM: cincinster yahoo

Re: japanese local settings keyboard and voice over

2009-10-11 Thread Esther
Hi Yuma, According to the Multilingual Mac's summary of Snow Leopard, VoiceOver is able to handle all 18 system languages, but only English is provided by Apple. See: http://m10lmac.blogspot.com/ under the entry for OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard): New Language Features item number 6.

Re: How to read entire article on web page.

2009-10-11 Thread Howard Dupuis
What you are describing is what I found most frustrating when I made the switch to the Mac. Thankfully, it became a jillion times easier, at least on well-written Web sites, once I upgraded to Snow Leopard. (I recognize that that is not an option for you at present on the computer you are using.)

Re: Reading PDF Files with Preview

2009-10-11 Thread Simon Cavendish
Nic, I interact with the table of content, and when I reach the chapter heading I want to read, I perform the click with vo+shift +spacebar and then stop interacting and vo+left arrow once and I usually am at the top of the page where my chapter begins. The only thing I noticed then is

Re: Just purchased software DJ3

2009-10-11 Thread michael A. Babcock
hi; can you guys give me the directions for how to interact with the turn tables on this software, with my multi touch trackpad on this mbp? mike On Oct 3, 2009, at 10:26 PM, Yuma Antoine Decaux wrote: Hi list, i did get a reply from algoriddim about the missing scratch feature with voice

Re: How to read entire article on web page.

2009-10-11 Thread Christina
Hi, I know this is not an option for you under leopard but one of the new features of Snow Leopard is the web spots. When on a page there is a command vo plus command plus n. This jumps to spots on a page that voiceover detects as significant. It helps me out quite a bit. It often

Re: Reading PDF Files with Preview

2009-10-11 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, I would try that, if I wasn't having severe issues with the mouse tracking in general. While I always have it on, it sometimes doesn't track properly. Even if I do VO-Command-F5, to move it to the VoiceOver cursor, it still stays in the other window (Skype in this case). I can't

Re: Just purchased software DJ3

2009-10-11 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, I'm tempted to purchase this software as well. I seem to recall a thread that mentioned specifically being able to scratch with the trackpad. What do people without a trackpad do in this case? I know you can certainly use an iPhone as a trackpad, but if you don't have one, you could

using an itunes gift card?

2009-10-11 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi all, I have an Itunes card that I need to use soon or it will expire. But, when I go into Itunes, I can't see any place to enter a card number or anything. Can someone explain how to do this? thanks, Donna --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message

ITunes U course on iPhone Application Programming [was Re: iphone app creation}

2009-10-11 Thread Esther
Hi Max, I have no knowledge of what it's like to write an iPhone app and this is not something I'd be likely to try. That said, one of the most popular iTunes U downloads has been the Stanford University course on iPhone Application Programming. Here's the address at the iTunes Store:

Re: ITunes U course on iPhone Application Programming [was Re: iphone app creation}

2009-10-11 Thread Esther
A quick addition: the iTunes Store pages for iTunes U downloadable podcasts and PDF files under iTunes 9 still have the structure that podcasts had in iTunes 8, so there is a list view table of podcast entries and PDF files that is like the songs table lists in your our library -- they're

Re: ITunes U course on iPhone Application Programming [was Re: iphone app creation}

2009-10-11 Thread Maxwell Ivey Jr.
Hello; Thanks for that. When i signed up at the developers page, they have a link to a introductory video, but half the time it locks up. I listened to the first two parts before that happened. I've tried going to it again with no luck. I'll try this link. I'm not sure i want to do

Bookshare and Olearia

2009-10-11 Thread Ryan Mann
Hello. There is a mac Daisy reader called Olaria. I thought it it supported Bookshare books, so I downloaded it and tried it on a Bookshare book I just downloaded. Whenever I try to open the Bookshare book with Olaria, a dialog box pops up that says that the book is missing an audio

Re: using an itunes gift card?

2009-10-11 Thread Donna Goodin
As always, thank you Esther! I don't know what we would do without you! :) Best, Donna On Oct 11, 2009, at 4:21 PM, Esther wrote: Hi Donna, When you're in the iTunes HTML area use item chooser menu to look for a link to Redeem. Activate the link with VO-Space and you'll be taken to a

skype on the itouch

2009-10-11 Thread Joe Quinn
this may've been covered before, so excuse my repetitiveness if it has. trying to use skype on the ITouch, and it's not being very good... i click on all contacts, but don't see anyone... now i know taht it's not very accessible to begin with, but does that mean it's not usable at all?

RE: skype on the itouch

2009-10-11 Thread Blake Sinnett
I'm able to type in the edit box and call people that way, but that's the only way I know of using it. From: jdawg1...@gmail.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: skype on the itouch Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 16:58:32 -0500 this may've been covered before, so excuse my

Bookshare and Olearia again

2009-10-11 Thread Ryan Mann
Hello. I had copied the files for the book to another folder and I found out that I didn't copy all of the files. Therefore, I unzipped the files to the folder and tried to use Olearia again to read the book. I still get the message about not being to load an audio file. The files for

Reading Email

2009-10-11 Thread Mac Cougar
Hello, When reading mail I keep hearing t hanks or w elcome as if these messages are being split onto 2 different lines. Is it possible to correct this. Thanks Steve --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: Bookshare and Olearia again

2009-10-11 Thread Greg Kearney
We are finishing up the Bookshare text only book reading part and will be releasing a finished version of Olearia with that feature very soon. Greg Kearney 535 S. Jackson St. Casper, Wyoming 82601 307-224-4022 gkear...@gmail.com On 12/10/2009, at 7:33 AM, Ryan Mann wrote: Hello. I had

Re: Bookshare and Olearia again

2009-10-11 Thread Brandon Misch
the player doesn't support text only or full text and audio books yet. bookshare.org books are text only. On Oct 11, 2009, at 7:33 PM, Ryan Mann wrote: Hello. I had copied the files for the book to another folder and I found out that I didn't copy all of the files. Therefore, I

Re: Reading Email

2009-10-11 Thread Simon Cavendish
This split reading happens in Snow Leopard when the message comes in the HTML format. To get rid of this annoyance, press the shortcut command+option+p to change the format to plain text and it will read fine. With best wishes, Simon On 12 Oct 2009, at 00:41, Mac Cougar wrote: Hello,

Re: Reading PDF Files with Preview

2009-10-11 Thread Simon Cavendish
Ah Nic, I do not have my mouse tracking the VO cursor. I found early on on my journey with mac that it interfered with my navigation and some reading functions so I only route my mouse to VO cursor when I need to click the physical mouse. Best wishes, Simon On 11 Oct 2009, at 19:58,

Re: VoiceOver and File Maker

2009-10-11 Thread John JD Denning
If someone does have the answer I'd also like to know. On Oct 5, 2009, at 9:06 PM, John Panarese wrote: Someone asked me this question via the telephone. Does anyone know the status of VoiceOver accessibility with the latest versions of File Maker and Ben - JD - John Denning

Re: skype on the itouch

2009-10-11 Thread John J Herzog
Hi Use nimbuzz instead. Nimbuzz can log into facebook, AIM, yahoo, google talk, and skype. It even lets you use your skype out call plan to dial phone numbers. Perfectly accessible, except the dial pad buttons are not labeled. But if you know the layout of a telephone, its completely

Re: Bookshare and Olearia again

2009-10-11 Thread Greg Kearney
Olearia does support Full Text/Full Audio for playback now. 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 Telephone: +1 (307) 224-4022 (North America) Fax:

Re: skype on the itouch

2009-10-11 Thread Simon Cavendish
Where do you get Nimbuz from? On 12 Oct 2009, at 03:13, John J Herzog wrote: Hi Use nimbuzz instead. Nimbuzz can log into facebook, AIM, yahoo, google talk, and skype. It even lets you use your skype out call plan to dial phone numbers. Perfectly accessible, except the dial pad buttons are

RE: skype on the itouch

2009-10-11 Thread Blake Sinnett
from the app store. Subject: Re: skype on the itouch From: simon.cavend...@googlemail.com Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 03:30:58 +0100 To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Where do you get Nimbuz from? On 12 Oct 2009, at 03:13, John J Herzog wrote: Hi Use nimbuzz instead. Nimbuzz can

Re: Bookshare and Olearia again

2009-10-11 Thread Chantel Cuddemi
What formats does this support? On Oct 11, 2009, at 9:29 PM, Brandon Misch wrote: the player doesn't support text only or full text and audio books yet. bookshare.org books are text only. On Oct 11, 2009, at 7:33 PM, Ryan Mann wrote: Hello. I had copied the files for the book to

Mac Flip and Quick Time Player

2009-10-11 Thread James Fettgather
Hi to the list. Using Snow Leopard, I was attempting to play Windows Media audio files. I was directed to a page on the Apple site, and then a page on the Microsoft site to download Flip for Mac, which I believe adds support to Quick Time for Windows Media audio files. So, I had installed

Re: Bookshare and Olearia again

2009-10-11 Thread Greg Kearney
At the present time it will read the following format which are not protected by DRM: Daisy full audio Daisy full text/full audio We are working on Daisy text only which is what Bookshare produces. Gregory Kearney Manager - Accessible Media Association for the Blind of Western Australia 61

Re: Bookshare and Olearia again

2009-10-11 Thread Chantel Cuddemi
I see now. I understand. On Oct 12, 2009, at 12:04 AM, Greg Kearney wrote: At the present time it will read the following format which are not protected by DRM: Daisy full audio Daisy full text/full audio We are working on Daisy text only which is what Bookshare produces. Gregory

Re: skype on the itouch

2009-10-11 Thread John J Herzog
Look for Nimbuzz in the app store. You can find it there. Also check out www.nimbuzz.com On Oct 11, 2009, at 10:30 PM, Simon Cavendish wrote: Where do you get Nimbuz from? On 12 Oct 2009, at 03:13, John J Herzog wrote: Hi Use nimbuzz instead. Nimbuzz can log into facebook, AIM, yahoo,