Re: vo randemly reading stuff in mail.

2010-09-27 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Kevin, Mail says One row added or whatever for the mailbox that is currently active, whether Mail is the front app or not. Leave Mail in a mailbox that doesn't receive mail directly and this won't happen. Cheers, Anne On 27 Sep 2010, at 06:53, Kevin Reeves wrote: Hey folks. One more

Re: Microsoft Office 2011 and VoiceOver

2010-09-27 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
I too will be switching to I works rather than working with Microsoft Products in the future. Kawal Gucukoglu On 27 Sep 2010, at 12:53 AM, gkearney gkear...@gmail.com wrote: It is interesting to note that the ribbons were accessible, much of the user interface is as well. It is the main

Re: ABISee and Macs

2010-09-27 Thread Les Kriegler
Hi Frank, I was at a conference and spoke with an abisee rep who stated that a mac version of the Eye-Pal software was being released. I went to their site yesterday and didn't see yet, but it's coming. Les -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: Microsoft Office 2011 and VoiceOver

2010-09-27 Thread ISAAC OBIE
Hi Kawal, Frankly, I don't like programs like MS Word because it's too big for what I want to do. It's huge, clumsy and plain a pain in the posterior. I love notepad! I think Notepad can do all I want including cleaning up a file. Now when I really get in to the Mac I think Text edit might do

Re: Microsoft Office 2011 and VoiceOver

2010-09-27 Thread Krister Ekstrom
but how good is OpenOffice really? When i tested it i found a couple show stoppers. You couldn't do a say all command, because VO or if it is OOO itself presents every paragraph in a document as a separate edit box. Also you couldn't select using vo commands and you couldn't select whole blocks

RE: Microsoft Office 2011 and VoiceOver

2010-09-27 Thread Dave Taylor
All I will need to do is basic text editing, reading of word documents and some fairly basic spreadsheet work. I'm hoping that Text Edit and Open Office will get me through that! Cheers Dave -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

Re: pogoplug anyone?

2010-09-27 Thread Justin Thornton
have not tried that but you can try zumocast its free and lets you share your music and other files you can stream them of download them from a web browser or they even have an iphone app with is so cool and its all free On Sep 26, 2010, at 9:37 AM, Yuma Decaux wrote: Hi list, Just wanted

Re: Microsoft Office 2011 and VoiceOver

2010-09-27 Thread Rose Morales
The problem with something like Notepad is that notepad can only write text files. This is fine if you're just looking to jot down a note or ten. Hence the name notepad, :). MS Word is designed to let you format your text. Now, one could use Wordpad, but that doesn't have a spellchecker.

Re: Some stuff I did with pro tools.

2010-09-27 Thread Justin Thornton
hi this is so cool I would love to get stated with pt but am not sure where to do so I want to grab an interface I already have a keyboard with midi capabilities but I would also like to record 9 different drum mics at once sence I am a drummer can someone point me in the right direction please?

Re: Microsoft Office 2011 and VoiceOver

2010-09-27 Thread Isaac Obie
Hi Rose, do you have any tylenol or Leave? I got a headache readin' your dissertation on MS Word! I don't really need a spellchecker! I honestly don't! If I have any typos it's because my fingers didn't press hard enough! I have Word97 on all my windows machines. I use it mostly to convert

Re: Microsoft Office 2011 and VoiceOver

2010-09-27 Thread Cheree Heppe
Cheree Heppe here: That sounds like a plan. How does IWorks differ from the Microsoft product? Regards, Cheree Heppe - Original Message - From: Kawal Gucukoglu kawal_gucuko...@sent.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 1:27 AM Subject: Re:

Re: Microsoft Office 2011 and VoiceOver

2010-09-27 Thread Cheree Heppe
Cheree Heppe here: Notepad isn't enough for me, so I am hoping that the Apple alternative to Office is comparable. Regards, Cheree Heppe - Original Message - From: ISAAC OBIE coac...@verizon.net To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 2:51 AM Subject:

Re: Microsoft Office 2011 and VoiceOver

2010-09-27 Thread Justin Ekis
I have found a free word processor that has just enough extra features over textedit to make it sufficient for most of my writing needs in college. The program's name is bean. I don't have a feature list in front of me, but I do remember the address of the site. http://www.bean-osx.com I

Re: Microsoft Office 2011 and VoiceOver

2010-09-27 Thread Scott Granados
Actually, it's well documented why Microsoft doesn't address accessibility directly. On Sep 26, 2010, at 3:02 PM, Mike Arrigo wrote: I don't think he said it was a beta. It is very disappointing indeed, really, Microsoft has no excuse for this one, it's not like they were not aware of

Re: Useful hint for terminal users open -f

2010-09-27 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Sarah, Did you get it to work? Note there are two special characters in the command, these are important to get right... 1. There is a pipe or OR bar as some might call it, (In US keyboards it is a shifted back slash). This was between say and open. This command is used in terminal to say send

Re: Microsoft Office 2011 and VoiceOver

2010-09-27 Thread ISAAC OBIE
Hi, You have three choices: 1. Text Edit, 2. Pages. 3. Iworks! and read Rose Morales' note. It's excellent! Isaac - Original Message - From: Cheree Heppe che...@dogsc4me.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 10:28 AM Subject: Re: Microsoft Office 2011

Re: Microsoft Office 2011 and VoiceOver

2010-09-27 Thread Chris Moore
Pages is in the iWOrk Suite, there is also OpenOffice and Bean (both are free) and there is Nisus Writer Pro. On 27 Sep 2010, at 16:18, ISAAC OBIE wrote: Hi, You have three choices: 1. Text Edit, 2. Pages. 3. Iworks! and read Rose Morales' note. It's excellent! Isaac - Original

Re: Microsoft Office 2011 and VoiceOver

2010-09-27 Thread Erik Heil
The question here is what specific security issues? Clearly, they were made aware of the issues. We should try and find out what the issues are. It would be no different if for security concerns, you couldn't see the sdreen. Corporations wouldn't stand for this. It's the same like putting up a

using track changes and comments in pages

2010-09-27 Thread Greg Aikens
Hi all, In pages, how do I move from a comment or a change into the body of the text? Is there a way to get VO to announce these things as I am reading the text? I can see the list of changes and comments, just have no idea where they go in the document. Any tips are appreciated. Greg --

Re: Microsoft Office 2011 and VoiceOver

2010-09-27 Thread Scott Howell
Scott, where is this stated. If it is such a well known fact, I would like to read the reasons myself. Can you provide a source? Thanks, On Sep 27, 2010, at 11:17 AM, Scott Granados wrote: Actually, it's well documented why Microsoft doesn't address accessibility directly. On Sep 26,

Alerts causes loss voice

2010-09-27 Thread VaShaun Jones
Listers whenever I get an alert like your batch processing is complete or something like that it speaks slow and then voice over crashes. Can someone tell me how I can prevent this from happening? This is pretty much every time it gets an alert that speaks. -- You received this message

Re: Alerts causes loss voice

2010-09-27 Thread Sarah Alawami
Sometimes the system voice can cause that. I have not found a work around for that at all. except to hit vo cmd f8 if vo is still running to bring up the practice dialogue and hit escape. good luck. On Sep 27, 2010, at 9:29 AM, VaShaun Jones wrote: Listers whenever I get an alert like your

Re: Microsoft Office 2011 and VoiceOver

2010-09-27 Thread Sarah Alawami
Text edit will work fine. I've used it to write and format esays for classes. S On Sep 27, 2010, at 2:51 AM, ISAAC OBIE wrote: Hi Kawal, Frankly, I don't like programs like MS Word because it's too big for what I want to do. It's huge, clumsy and plain a pain in the posterior. I love

Re: Microsoft Office 2011 and VoiceOver

2010-09-27 Thread Sarah Alawami
I thnk pages also does mail merge. I don't know how accessibil it is as I don't use pages though. Good luck. On Sep 27, 2010, at 5:15 AM, Rose Morales wrote: The problem with something like Notepad is that notepad can only write text files. This is fine if you're just looking to jot down a

Re: Useful hint for terminal users open -f

2010-09-27 Thread Sarah Alawami
Yeah I tried that and it opeend a blank document with a n odd title in text edit. lol! On Sep 27, 2010, at 8:29 AM, Jonathan Cohn wrote: Sarah, Did you get it to work? Note there are two special characters in the command, these are important to get right... 1. There is a pipe or OR bar

Re: vo randemly reading stuff in mail.

2010-09-27 Thread Sarah Alawami
Or close the window intirely wiht cmd w. to bring up a new view hit cmd option n or cmd 1 for inbox. Take care. On Sep 27, 2010, at 1:23 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: Hello Kevin, Mail says One row added or whatever for the mailbox that is currently active, whether Mail is the front app or

Re: getting mail to stop saying Thread.

2010-09-27 Thread Scott Ford
Hi, Can you provide a step by step for this. I went to vo prpreferances, then verbosity, general, I have the main verbosity set to medium, then went over to details and chose the discoloser symbol. The only option I see is low, med, default. Can you set me right? Thank you. Scott t

Re: MacSpeech\Dragon Dictate

2010-09-27 Thread Goldfinga Productions
how much does it cost for the mac? GF On Sep 26, 2010, at 5:33 PM, Colin M wrote: Hi All! I've got Mac speech but as yet not got it up and running! I've been sent an opportunity to upgrade to the new Dragon dictate for Mac! I'm writing to the list to see if any of you use either software

Re: Help with Fission.

2010-09-27 Thread Goldfinga Productions
would it better to get this program or use audacity? I have been playing with that and it seams pretty cool. Witch one is better? I like the multi-track setup in audacity. Can you have multi tracks in this one as well? GF On Sep 26, 2010, at 4:29 PM, Kevin Reeves wrote: Figured out Amadeus.

Re: Help with Fission.

2010-09-27 Thread Sarah Alawami
I use amadeus pro for my multi track stuff. S On Sep 27, 2010, at 1:21 PM, Goldfinga Productions wrote: would it better to get this program or use audacity? I have been playing with that and it seams pretty cool. Witch one is better? I like the multi-track setup in audacity. Can you have

Re: getting mail to stop saying Thread.

2010-09-27 Thread Sarah Alawami
Ok after that go to custom and go to the table. Now uncheck all but status, hit ok and close the utility. S On Sep 27, 2010, at 12:39 PM, Scott Ford wrote: Hi, Can you provide a step by step for this. I went to vo prpreferances, then verbosity, general, I have the main verbosity set

Re: Help with Fission.

2010-09-27 Thread Allison Manzino
Hi GF, I have to agree with Sarah, Amadeus is great. I use it too for all my multi-track recordings. I have never used Audacity so I can't comment if it is accessible or not. Eric Caron who is on this list as well has a great podcast on amadeus up on BLind Cool Tech. I used his podcast as a

wayfinder access compensation

2010-09-27 Thread Colin M
Hi all! To anyone it applies to, if you have wayfinder full software vodafone are now giving compensation! If you go to the wayfinder access web site there should be a link to take you to where you need to go! I hope this is of use! I'm not on the viphones list so if this is not already out

Re: MacSpeech\Dragon Dictate

2010-09-27 Thread Colin M
Hi GF! I'm offered dragon for just under 40 pounds because I've got macspeech! There are a few prices available online from 150 pounds I've seen one for 184 pounds! So I would have a good look around! hth Colin On 27 Sep 2010, at 21:16, Goldfinga Productions wrote: how much does it cost for the

Re: MacSpeech\Dragon Dictate

2010-09-27 Thread arthur gindin
we're all waiting for a brave person to let us know if it works art On 9/26/10 5:33 PM, Colin M wrote: Hi All! I've got Mac speech but as yet not got it up and running! I've been sent an opportunity to upgrade to the new Dragon dictate for Mac! I'm writing to the list to see if any of you use

Re: Microsoft Office 2011 and VoiceOver

2010-09-27 Thread Mike Arrigo
Yes, this is one of many reasons why I switched as well, I have no problem paying for a computer, what I do have a problem with is having to pay extra to use it that sighted people do not have to pay. On Sep 26, 2010, at 5:16 PM, Dave Taylor wrote: I bet that if they tried, they would soon

Re: Microsoft Office 2011 and VoiceOver

2010-09-27 Thread Mike Arrigo
Text edit will certainly handle the word processor side of things, and open office should handle the spreadsheet. On Sep 27, 2010, at 5:22 AM, Dave Taylor wrote: All I will need to do is basic text editing, reading of word documents and some fairly basic spreadsheet work. I'm hoping that Text

Re: wayfinder access compensation

2010-09-27 Thread Kevin Reeves
How long from when our form is submitted to when we receive the payment? On Sep 27, 2010, at 4:48 PM, Colin M wrote: Hi all! To anyone it applies to, if you have wayfinder full software vodafone are now giving compensation! If you go to the wayfinder access web site there should be a link to

Re: Useful hint for terminal users open -f

2010-09-27 Thread Jude DaShiell
Interact with the text window then try reading, that sometimes works in cases like these.On Mon, 27 Sep 2010, Sarah Alawami wrote: Yeah I tried that and it opeend a blank document with a n odd title in text edit. lol! On Sep 27, 2010, at 8:29 AM, Jonathan Cohn wrote: Sarah, Did you get it

Re: Help with Fission.

2010-09-27 Thread Kevin Reeves
Yep. You do have multitrack support. It looks really promising as a soundforge replacement for the mac. Once I buy the license, I'll really have a look at it. Reeves On Sep 27, 2010, at 3:21 PM, Goldfinga Productions wrote: would it better to get this program or use audacity? I have been

Re: Useful hint for terminal users open -f

2010-09-27 Thread Sarah Alawami
I did. nothing. I heard the sound meaning there's nothing there, the hollow pop sound as I call it. lol! On Sep 27, 2010, at 4:56 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote: Interact with the text window then try reading, that sometimes works in cases like these.On Mon, 27 Sep 2010, Sarah Alawami wrote: Yeah

Re: MacSpeech\Dragon Dictate

2010-09-27 Thread Esther
Hi Colin, Art, and Others, A couple of people on the mac-access list who have MacSpeech Dictate are just in the process of trying the update to Dragon Dictate. So far there have been a few snags, so I haven't heard more about this. You could subscribe to the mac-access list if you're

Re: MacSpeech\Dragon Dictate

2010-09-27 Thread Sarah Alawami
Hey I've been looking for this list link for about 2 or 3 wekes now. googling brought up not much except adds. lol! I will subscribe to this list as I'm interested in mac stuff. S On Sep 27, 2010, at 5:18 PM, Esther wrote: Hi Colin, Art, and Others, A couple of people on the mac-access

Voiceover with Open Office how-to's?

2010-09-27 Thread cathyk
Hi All, Apologies if this has come up before, but with the unlikelihood of access in MS-Word 2011 it seems newly relevant: has anyone compiled a how-to guide for those of us who want to make most efficient use of the access features in Open Office? Thanks much, cathyk -- You received this

Re: Microsoft Office 2011 and VoiceOver

2010-09-27 Thread Rose Morales
I had to laugh while reading that message, Isaac. Ironically, I wrote that while dealing with a migraine I already had for four or five hours. Yes, I did go to business school and was given the opportunity to study Office XP very extensively. For those of you who have never seen Office XP (Also

Re: Microsoft Office 2011 and VoiceOver

2010-09-27 Thread Sarah Alawami
OH wow. I might have to check that out. I'm using text edit and open office but it's nice to have another tool under your belt. S On Sep 27, 2010, at 8:08 PM, Rose Morales wrote: I had to laugh while reading that message, Isaac. Ironically, I wrote that while dealing with a migraine I

Re: Word Service, an excellent addition to any word processing application (was Re: Microsoft Office 2011 and VoiceOver)

2010-09-27 Thread Esther
Hi Rose, Word Services is indeed a useful add-on, but I should warn you and others that it works by installing shortcuts for many of these functions, and that several of these conflict with default shortcuts that most VoiceOver users use (for example to move forward and backwards to

Re: Word Service, an excellent addition to any word processing application (was Re: Microsoft Office 2011 and VoiceOver)

2010-09-27 Thread Rose Morales
Hi Esther, I did take this into account but didn't think to mention it. SOmetimes I spend so much time focusing on the complexity of a task that I forget to mention the simple things, :). I just tried going backward and forward in Safari, and I'm fine. Perhaps I didn't enable the functions

RE: Microsoft Office 2011 and VoiceOver

2010-09-27 Thread Dave Taylor
As I hoped, excellent. I've been saving messages from these lists for months now in anticipation of what should be this day now. Thanks Dave -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Mike Arrigo Sent: Tuesday,