Re: Insuring Windows are Maximized with VO?

2010-08-11 Thread Teresa Cochran
Thanks for that, Mike. neat trick. The things I learn on this list. :) Teresa On Aug 10, 2010, at 5:55 PM, Mike Arrigo wrote: Hi, to do this, press VO tilda, that's the accent key shifted. Voice over will say window resize menu, and you will have 2 options, horizontal or vertical. Select

Re: interaction and getting one's teeth in to the Mac

2010-08-11 Thread Michael Busboom
Hi, Donna, As far as reading e-mail messages is concerned, I rarely interact with them as long as I am just interested in content. When I come across a message I wish to read, I just hit Enter on it, and VO reads it aloud. While this doesn't work in every program or situation, it's nice for

Re: interaction and getting one's teeth in to the Mac

2010-08-11 Thread Donna Goodin
That only works if you have the preview pane enabled. Cheers, Donna On Aug 10, 2010, at 11:24 PM, Sarai Bucciarelli wrote: Hi: Actually, you don't. Do what Mike said, once you see an email you want to read, press vo j and you'll be in the message area. Press vo a and you can read the entire

Re: interaction and getting one's teeth in to the Mac

2010-08-11 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi Michael, I do the same thing, and I like it very much. But I receive a lot of messages with links to articles and the like, and it would be nice to be able to just press enter or VO-Space to activate the link, without the two additional keystrokes of interacting with message area and text.

Re: interaction and getting one's teeth in to the Mac

2010-08-11 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Donna, I don't use the Preview pane, and in the Viewing section of Mail Preferences, I have Show header detail: set to None. I just press Return to read a message, and only have to interact once if I want to activate a link. I don't have to read through the message so far to find the

Re: Teaching Mac to sighted people

2010-08-11 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Teresa, The book you are recommending, snow leopard, the missing manual from oreilly, can we order this somewhere in an accessible format, like ascii text, daisy, brf or something equal? Very interested. Paul. - Original Message - From: Teresa Cochran vegaspipistre...@gmail.com

Re: interaction and getting one's teeth in to the Mac

2010-08-11 Thread Ray Foret Jr
When you press the return key to read a message, does Voice Over tell you what window you are in; or, does it just read out the text of the message right away? Mine always tells me the window I'm in; maybe because I'm pressing enter to read the text of the message. Can I turn this window

Re: Teaching Mac to sighted people

2010-08-11 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, Paul, I read it quite accessibly in Preview, but I also transcribed it into Braille using Louis. I copied the text over to a Text-edit file and went from there. I honestly don't know if any of the libraries or publishers for the blind have picked it up. Teresa On Aug 11, 2010, at 1:14 AM,

Re: Teaching Mac to sighted people

2010-08-11 Thread Chris Moore
Have you got the address bar and the dock hidden? Or auto hide could be activated for the dock, this means it will not come into view until you move the mouse pointer down to the bottom of the screen. You can check the status of the dock settings within the sub menu of the Apple menu. As for

accessible ePub conversion service

2010-08-11 Thread Jonathan Chacón
Hello everybody, I developed and publish an accessible ePub conversion service for Finder in my Blog. You can read the article in spanish and english here http://programaraciegas.weblog.discapnet.es/articulo.aspx?idA=1897 Regards Jonathan Chacón Barbero Accessibility, usability

Re: interaction and getting one's teeth in to the Mac

2010-08-11 Thread Donna Goodin
Mine also announces the window. Best, Donna On Aug 11, 2010, at 4:36 AM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: When you press the return key to read a message, does Voice Over tell you what window you are in; or, does it just read out the text of the message right away? Mine always tells me the window I'm

Re: interaction and getting one's teeth in to the Mac

2010-08-11 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi Anne, Thanks for the tip. I actually like having the headers spoken. I often skip passed much of that info, but I like having it there. But, I'll keep this in mind, and maybe experiment with it. Cheers, Donna On Aug 11, 2010, at 3:48 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: Hello Donna, I don't use

Re: how to select from curser directly to the bottom of text

2010-08-11 Thread Donna Goodin
Oh, that's interesting. I would think that the need to interact would be the same with or without the trackpad commander. Guess I'm going to have to find some time to sit down and play around more with it.. I tried it out a while back, but I kept making things happen that I didn't mean to,

Re: interaction and getting one's teeth in to the Mac

2010-08-11 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Ray, Mine also says Window and reads the subject line before reading the text of the message. I know no way of turning this off. Cheers, Anne -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: interaction and getting one's teeth in to the Mac

2010-08-11 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, You simply need to change a few things in your verbosity. 1. Open the VoiceOver Utility. 2. Go to the Verbosity category, then leave it on general and expand the Details exclosure triangle. 3. Locate Window in the table that will appear to the right of the expanded triangle, then interact.

Hi Linda Adams

2010-08-11 Thread focus
I've only just got to this message! I'm glad to see you got it sorted! But in answer to your question Yes!! Oh but you know that already! :-] hahahahahahaha! Focus Skype focus_66 On 11 Aug 2010, at 01:04, Linda Adams wrote: Well, after checking the box and sending my former message, I sent

is there any accessible software for editing epub

2010-08-11 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi. I can now convert to EPub files. But is there any accessible software so that i can edit the epub files. It would be nice if I can mark up, so I can navigate in chapters. Best regards Annie. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries

Re: accessible ePub conversion service

2010-08-11 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi Jonathan. Thank you very much. I have now installed the service. The only thing I wonder about is why I can not run the service from both accounts on my mac. I have installed it in both accounts. Best regards Annie. On Aug 11, 2010, at 12:26 PM, Jonathan Chacón wrote: Hello everybody,

Re: interaction and getting one's teeth in to the Mac

2010-08-11 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
Hi: I use iWork09 and Text edit. Sarai Bucciarelli Personal Come join me on www.swagbucks.com/refer/sdbuccia On Aug 10, 2010, at 10:58 PM, AndyBaracco wrote: Sarai, Which software do you use on the mac for word processing? Andy - Original Message - From: Sarai Bucciarelli

Re: interaction and getting one's teeth in to the Mac

2010-08-11 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
Hi: I like that analogy! Sarai Bucciarelli Personal Come join me on www.swagbucks.com/refer/sdbuccia On Aug 10, 2010, at 11:42 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: I explain this on my youtube vid actually at http://marrie125. think of like a box. To find out what is in it open or interact with it. If

Re: interaction and getting one's teeth in to the Mac

2010-08-11 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
Hi: Actually, you can. When you are on the link, either press vo space, or you can press vo shift m and choose open link. Sarai Bucciarelli Personal Come join me on www.swagbucks.com/refer/sdbuccia On Aug 11, 2010, at 12:29 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: This is not true,. You can not activate

Re: Mac vs. Windows Accessibility was Re: Reopen office

2010-08-11 Thread Rajiv Shah
Hi, Thanks. This is very helpful. Regards, Rajiv Original message Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 19:31:56 -0500 From: Mike Arrigo n0...@charter.net Subject: Re: Mac vs. Windows Accessibility was Re: Reopen office To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Ok, I can get this to work, but voice

Safari extension for posting an url to facebook and / or twitter

2010-08-11 Thread Peter Durieux
Hi folks, Does anyone of you know an accessible Safari extension which can post the url of the visited page to facebook and / or twitter? I've tried yourversion, but it seems not to be accessible. I can find the button in the toolbar, but when clicked the menu that is shown, isn't visible with

Re: Insuring Windows are Maximized with VO?

2010-08-11 Thread Sarah Alawami
Now if only I had enough fingers to do this? lol! Neat trick. On Aug 10, 2010, at 11:56 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote: Thanks for that, Mike. neat trick. The things I learn on this list. :) Teresa On Aug 10, 2010, at 5:55 PM, Mike Arrigo wrote: Hi, to do this, press VO tilda, that's the accent

Re: Insuring Windows are Maximized with VO?

2010-08-11 Thread Ricardo Walker
Yeah. lol. I really wish they would put the control key on both sides of the space bar on all there keyboards. On Aug 11, 2010, at 11:41 AM, Sarah Alawami wrote: Now if only I had enough fingers to do this? lol! Neat trick. On Aug 10, 2010, at 11:56 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote: Thanks for

Re: accessible ePub conversion service

2010-08-11 Thread Jonathan Chacón Barbero
Hello Annie, well, I think you can copy the workflow files in the share library folder instead of your library folder. follow these steps: first copy the convert to epub.workflow and convert to rtf.workflow files. In Finder, go to computer (Comand+Shift+C) open the Library folder Open the

Re: is there any accessible software for editing epub

2010-08-11 Thread Jonathan Chacón Barbero
Hello Annie, I'l post an article to create simple HTML files with characters marks to be converted in a ePub file with sections. I'll post it soon in my blog. Regards Jonathan Chacón El 11/08/2010, a las 15:23, Annie Skov Nielsen escribió: Hi. I can now convert to EPub files. But

Re: Insuring Windows are Maximized with VO?

2010-08-11 Thread focus
Hi all! You can lock vo keys on or off by vo; so you do not need so many fingers! This is supposed to help if you are doing a lot of vo commands! hth :-] Focus Skype focus_66 On 11 Aug 2010, at 16:54, Ricardo Walker wrote: Yeah. lol. I really wish they would put the control key on both sides

Re: interaction and getting one's teeth in to the Mac

2010-08-11 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Actually, I don't want to be read the subject line. Should have made that clear. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! A Very Proud and Happy Mac User!!! E-Mail: rforetjr at comcast dot net Skype Name: barefootedray On Aug 11, 2010, at 7:41 AM, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: Hi, You

Re: Insuring Windows are Maximized with VO?

2010-08-11 Thread Sarah Alawami
but you cannot for example excicute the vo fn shift left or right arrow with keys locked. I've tried. lol! On Aug 11, 2010, at 9:26 AM, focus wrote: Hi all! You can lock vo keys on or off by vo; so you do not need so many fingers! This is supposed to help if you are doing a lot of vo

Re: accessible ePub conversion service

2010-08-11 Thread Sarah Alawami
Have you considered uploading this to www.icanworkthisthing.com? Take care and can't wait to try this out. On Aug 11, 2010, at 9:07 AM, Jonathan Chacón Barbero wrote: Hello Annie, well, I think you can copy the workflow files in the share library folder instead of your library folder.

Braille Question.

2010-08-11 Thread Jesse Bollinger
Hi everyone, I am trying to Use the Focus Braille Display with Voiceover. I plugged in the USB and the mac recognized the display. I rebooted and the status message came on the display saying my battery time and such. However when Voiceover starts, the display goes blank and just shows the six

Re: Braille Question.

2010-08-11 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi Jesse. I have a focus 40 blue, and it works fine. Try press the last router key i mean the right key. Wait a moment, and see if there happens something. I often have to do this, when I have connected the display. I love that display, this time freedom scientiffic has really made a good

Re: Insuring Windows are Maximized with VO?

2010-08-11 Thread focus
Hi Sarah! I have not seen vo fn shift commands before! where are they used and for what? Focus Skype focus_66 On 11 Aug 2010, at 18:49, Sarah Alawami wrote: but you cannot for example excicute the vo fn shift left or right arrow with keys locked. I've tried. lol! On Aug 11, 2010, at 9:26 AM,

Re: Insuring Windows are Maximized with VO?

2010-08-11 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi Sarah, Actually, that's not correct. I just tried it here when they were locked, and it worked just fine. :) It went to the toolbar as usual. Regards, Nic Mobile Me: nic2...@me.com GoogleTalk: chojiro1...@gmail.com Facebook Twitter Skype: Kvalme MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk Yahoo!

Re: Teaching Mac to sighted people

2010-08-11 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
Hi: That was the issue. Thanks! Sarai Bucciarelli Personal Come join me on www.swagbucks.com/refer/sdbuccia On Aug 11, 2010, at 4:01 AM, Chris Moore wrote: Have you got the address bar and the dock hidden? Or auto hide could be activated for the dock, this means it will not come into view

Re: accessible ePub conversion service

2010-08-11 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi Jonathan. It works great, I have not thought doing it that way. It is fantastic I learn something new every day. Best regards Annie. On Aug 11, 2010, at 6:07 PM, Jonathan Chacón Barbero wrote: Hello Annie, well, I think you can copy the workflow files in the share library folder

Re: is there any accessible software for editing epub

2010-08-11 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi Jonathan. That sounds great. But I have a problem, when I tries to make HTML. I really feel, that I got a lot of codes to navigate around with, sometimes it is difficult to find the real text among codes. Does there exist a HTML editor where I can toggle between a mode were it shows all

Re: Braille Question.

2010-08-11 Thread Jesse Bollinger
Hi, Thanks for the help. It did the trick. Have you had any luck using the blutooth connection? It finds the display ad asks for the passkey. I enter like the manual says but it never pares. Thanks, Jesse On Aug 11, 2010, at 2:09 PM, Annie Skov Nielsen wrote: Hi Jesse. I have a

Re: Braille Question.

2010-08-11 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi Jesse. Yes i have paired my display to my mac via bluetooth, and it took me 30 seconds. Try again, maybe you have not been quick enough. If you do not succeed in it, please write again, and we will find a solution, maybe you have a skype account, and I can call you. Best regards Annie. On

Re: Braille Question.

2010-08-11 Thread Jesse Bollinger
Thank you for all your help. I guess I didn't enter the code fast enough before. Jesse On Aug 11, 2010, at 4:43 PM, Annie Skov Nielsen wrote: Hi Jesse. Yes i have paired my display to my mac via bluetooth, and it took me 30 seconds. Try again, maybe you have not been quick enough. If you

Re: Insuring Windows are Maximized with VO?

2010-08-11 Thread Linda Adams
Focus, To expand on a previous response to your question, I frequently use this when I've read an email and want to go back to the top to re-read it. Press shift-FN-VO with the left arrow to go back to the top or the right arrow to go to the bottom. You can lock the VO keys or the finger

Re: somewhat ot: a new use for audiohijack pro

2010-08-11 Thread Michael Thurman
only bad part is it doesn't have anything for cleaning up tape hiss or vinyl surface noise that I know of if it does that would be very awesome On Aug 7, 2010, at 9:47 AM, Courtney Curran wrote: Hi, Eric, In the toolbar, audiohijack pro does have a split button, and also, it has a place

To the ... Linda

2010-08-11 Thread focus
Thanks Linda [The] I was wondering where my home \end keys were!! :-] Focus Skype focus_66 On 11 Aug 2010, at 21:54, Linda Adams wrote: Focus, To expand on a previous response to your question, I frequently use this when I've read an email and want to go back to the top to re-read it.

Re: Insuring Windows are Maximized with VO?

2010-08-11 Thread Sarah Alawami
They are used to go tothe top and bottom of a document, list, dialogue box, etc. Hit vo h for more info as the explanation is a lot shorter. lol! On Aug 11, 2010, at 11:15 AM, focus wrote: Hi Sarah! I have not seen vo fn shift commands before! where are they used and for what? Focus

Re: Insuring Windows are Maximized with VO?

2010-08-11 Thread Sarah Alawami
Hmm I could not get it work but nowt hat i try it I think they might have fixed somethng a few updates ago. lol! On Aug 11, 2010, at 11:55 AM, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: Hi Sarah, Actually, that's not correct. I just tried it here when they were locked, and it worked just fine. :) It went to

Re: somewhat ot: a new use for audiohijack pro

2010-08-11 Thread Sarah Alawami
Yeah but you can import that to amadeus pro and set the noise flow to very low and it sounds almost professional. I did it for a show promo. Take care. S On Aug 11, 2010, at 3:08 PM, Michael Thurman wrote: only bad part is it doesn't have anything for cleaning up tape hiss or vinyl surface

Re: is there any accessible software for editing epub

2010-08-11 Thread Sarah Alawami
Use text edit. There is a checkbox in the prefs that alows the showing of code or not when an html file is opened. I forgot where it is byt I can dig up a blog post on it. S On Aug 11, 2010, at 12:46 PM, Annie Skov Nielsen wrote: Hi Jonathan. That sounds great. But I have a problem, when I

Re: interaction and getting one's teeth in to the Mac

2010-08-11 Thread Mike Arrigo
Yes, I have mine set up the exact same way. I only interact with a message if I want to click a link, otherwise, that's not needed. On Aug 11, 2010, at 2:48 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: Hello Donna, I don't use the Preview pane, and in the Viewing section of Mail Preferences, I have Show

Re: Braille Question.

2010-08-11 Thread Teresa Cochran
I had to set my focus up with Bluetooth through the Bluetooth menu, and then go into VO and activate it. It works fine once I did that. Teresa On Aug 11, 2010, at 1:21 PM, Jesse Bollinger wrote: Hi, Thanks for the help. It did the trick. Have you had any luck using the blutooth

Re: accessible ePub conversion service

2010-08-11 Thread Jonathan Chacón Barbero
Helo Sarah, I didn't think about that web site. Does anybody know how can I do it? regards Jonathan Chacón El 11/08/2010, a las 19:51, Sarah Alawami escribió: Have you considered uploading this to www.icanworkthisthing.com? Take care and can't wait to try this out. On Aug 11,

Re: is there any accessible software for editing epub

2010-08-11 Thread Jonathan Chacón Barbero
Hello Annie, I use smulltron or bean to edit html code. well, I think is better to develop a little application to set marks and charapters. It's easyer than edit the html code. I'l think about that regards Jonathan Chacón El 11/08/2010, a las 21:46, Annie Skov Nielsen escribió: Hi

Skype.

2010-08-11 Thread Geoff Waaler
Okay so I've spent a few hours getting acquainted withmy MBP. I registered, installed the latest updates and went through the VO tutorial. I downloaded and installed Skype. Not quite sure how I pulled it off since I couldn't seem to run it from my downloads folder, but I did get the license

a big big problem with a drive

2010-08-11 Thread Sarah Alawami
hello. I can access this drive on windows fine but nt on mac. I have ntfs3g and macfuse installed A few days ago I received this odd message. i have a recording of me troubleshooting but basically I ran chkdsk and rebooted twice in to windows then I tried to repair permissions ont he drive with

Strange behavior from adium

2010-08-11 Thread Justin Ekis
Hi all, I'm getting some strange behavior from voiceover when adium is running. Whenever someone signs in or out, voiceover will say row 1 expanded as if I was working with the list of contacts. This happens if I am not even in the adium window. The row number is different each time, probably

Re: Strange behavior from adium

2010-08-11 Thread Jeffrey Shockley
Hi, In Adium, go to the View menu, and Click Hide Groups I think it's called. That should fix it. The groups are the Contacts groups like Facebook, Friends from WLM and Buddies from AIM (I don't think names are changed of groups.) That above step should fix that annoyance for you. HTH, Jeffrey On

Re: Skype.

2010-08-11 Thread Justin Kauflin
Hi, I'll try to help. 1. When I want to know when someone is online, I noticed that if they are online, their name is above the Skype Test Call. That seems to be pretty consistent. If your not sure where the test call is, its in a table that lists all of your contacts in the main window. 2.

Re: is there any accessible software for editing epub

2010-08-11 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi. Sarah. I think I know where it is, but you will have to go into the prefs all the time to change. Best regards Annie. On Aug 12, 2010, at 1:54 AM, Sarah Alawami wrote: Use text edit. There is a checkbox in the prefs that alows the showing of code or not when an html file is opened. I

Re: is there any accessible software for editing epub

2010-08-11 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi Jonathan. That would be really great. I have been looking for an EPub editor, but they are not accessible. Best regards Annie. On Aug 12, 2010, at 4:15 AM, Jonathan Chacón Barbero wrote: Hello Annie, I use smulltron or bean to edit html code. well, I think is better to develop a little