Problems with VO

Hi all, I have been using my MacBook for the last 3 months. And, To be honest, my experience so far has been very, very frustrating. Some of the problems that I've faced so far are: 1. VoiceOver doesn't read anything as I type, so I can't use it for sending messages and emails. It reads every cha

windows on mac? using the mouse and keyboard?

Hi, I installed windows on my mac but I can't figure out how to use the mouse under windows. Like I can't figure out how to use the jaws curser or window eyes and mouse commands. How do you guys change the keys that your windows system uses for start menu and such? -- You received this message be

Re: Problems with VO

My view is I am not having the problems you obviously are. So, not having used JAWS either, but having used WIndow-Eyes, I sure wouldn't switch back. Cutting and pasting text is quite simple. You would use shift-command or option-arrows to select individual words or entire lines respectively. Lik

Re: Problems with VO

Rahul, I certainly can emphasize with your new found frustrations as I too am a new MBP club member. However, I have found that most of my questions are answered at least eventually. So I would encourage you to hang in there and keep plugging away at this new fronteer. First of all can you t

Re: windows on mac? using the mouse and keyboard?

Blake, Are you running windows on the mac using bootcamp, or do you do it using fusion from vmware? Paul. On Oct 9, 2011, at 10:12 AM, Blake Hardin wrote: > Hi, I installed windows on my mac but I can't figure out how to use > the mouse under windows. Like I can't figure out how to use the jaws >

Downloading podcasts rather than playing them

Hello: When I go to a web site in Safari such as blindcooltech.com and attempt to download a podcast, I run into trouble. What happens is, that when I VO space on a link, a strange window opens,and the podcast in question plays. Sometimes, if I press VO shift M, I'll get a download option in a c

Re: Downloading podcasts rather than playing them

Hi Richard! When sitting on the link try option+return! This should automatically download the podcast! hth Colin On 9 Oct 2011, at 14:25, Richard Ring wrote: > Hello: > When I go to a web site in Safari such as blindcooltech.com and attempt to > download a podcast, I run into trouble. What happ

Mooving programs to the Applications folder

Hi all, I am having trouble doing this. I don't know what I am doing wrong. I highlight the program to be copied into the Applications folder, do a Cmd + C, but when I open up the Applications folder and try to paste the program there, nothing happens. MacBook counseling needed! Thanks, Jo

Re: Downloading podcasts rather than playing them

Thanks, it works like a charm! On Oct 9, 2011, at 8:45 AM, Red.Falcon wrote: > Hi Richard! > When sitting on the link try option+return! > This should automatically download the podcast! > hth Colin > > On 9 Oct 2011, at 14:25, Richard Ring wrote: > >> Hello: >> When I go to a web site in Safari

Re: Problems with VO

Hi Rahul! Well unfortunately there is no capture solution on the Mac! Can you use audio alternatives! And can you tell us if your using Lion or SL! Also there is a problem with some text fields try typing a letter then arrow away and back and see if you then can type the rest or interact with the

RE: This is more fun, was Steve Jobs introducing the Macantosh in 1984

One thing I really find interesting in this article is when the author quotes Mitch Kapor, developer of Lotus, who says," The IBM you respect, the Apple you love." And this was from 1984. Just last week there was an article in the New York Times about ow scientists say that emotional reactions an

Re: windows on mac? using the mouse and keyboard?

hi im actually using bootcamp On 10/9/11, Paul Erkens wrote: > Blake, > Are you running windows on the mac using bootcamp, or do you do it using > fusion from vmware? > Paul. > On Oct 9, 2011, at 10:12 AM, Blake Hardin wrote: > >> Hi, I installed windows on my mac but I can't figure out how to us

Re: Dragon! :)

Hi everyone! Is there a Dragon dictate for the MBP that is Vo compatable? Thanks, Johnny On Oct 3, 2011, at 6:02 PM, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: > Thanks Esther. I always find your posts most helpful and I keep all your > posts. I'm so glad you are on this list. > On 3 Oct 2011, at 22:13, Esther

Typing psychology

Hi Mac Visionaries, Would someone please remind me where I go to speed up the Vo speech rate for keyboard inputing? Perhaps it's psychological, but the slower the speech rate is for keyboard input the harder it is for me to type fast. Thanks for helping, Johnny Johnny Angel! beefca...@neo.r

Re: Typing psychology

To adjust the speaking rate, use cmd-ctrl-option with right or left arrows until you hear "speech rate", then up and down with those modifiers to adjust. Sorry if that isn't what you meant. Have a great day, Alex (msg sent from my iPod) mehg...@gmail.com; //facebook.com/mehgcap On Oct 9

Re: Downloading podcasts rather than playing them

Yes, one you are on the link, hold the option key and press enter, this will download the linked file. On Oct 9, 2011, at 8:25 AM, Richard Ring wrote: > Hello: > When I go to a web site in Safari such as blindcooltech.com and attempt to > download a podcast, I run into trouble. What happens is,

Re: Typing psychology

I turn keyboard echo off altogether, so that not even words are spoken. This can be adjusted in VO Utilities under Verbosity. • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com • My home page: • http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ -- You rece

Re: Dragon! :)

Hello everybody, IAM using DragonDictate to actually dictate my response, I a am not blind and have other physical disabilities, but I do have a written expression for. That's the very reason why I do use DragonDictate for the Mac, the current version is 2.5, and it seems to work for the most pa

Alarm Apps

Hi Folks, Do any of you know of an accessible app that has an alarm? I'm basically looking for something that will wake me up in the morning and remind me of events. Thanks, Ezzie Ez Bueno Sent from my BrailleNote Apex Skype: sillyez Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sillyez Google Talk: sill

RE: Dragon! :)

Hi Maurice start a new thread else others will delete the thread as they don't wish to comment on Dragon. Larry & Flax GD (Guide Dog) & Elliot RGD (Retired Guide Dog) London, UK Multiple Installer http://ninite.com Flash Updater http://upd

Re: Problems with VO

Hello, Gall, I don't know why VO isn't reading out what you are writing, especially if you have changed the typing setting. Have you emailed apple accessibility about this? Here is a link that describes how to select and edit text. Once you read it, I suggest you open text edit and practice.

Re: Dragon! :)

OK! So what's the problem with Dragon! Why will people not want to comment! Colin On 9 Oct 2011, at 18:26, LaMcAs wrote: > Hi Maurice start a new thread else others will delete the thread as they > don’t wish to comment on Dragon. > > Larry & Flax GD (Guide Dog) > & Elliot RGD (Retired Guide D

Re: Trying Again, Ricardo's Garage Band Podcasts

Thanks, Ricardo. Now, i don't want play it with Safary. How can i download it to my Mac? 2011/10/9, Ricardo Walker : > Here you go. >> >> Here goes the links. >> >> Part 1. >> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5326929/GB-6-Part-1.m4a >> >> Part 2. >> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5

Re: Trying Again, Ricardo's Garage Band Podcasts

Hi Francisco! When in this email or the other one! Sit on one of Ricardo's links and open vo+shift+m and in there is download file just vo space on that and it will download to your default download place! Colin On 9 Oct 2011, at 19:22, Francisco Salvador Crespo wrote: > Thanks, Ricardo. Now, i

Re: Trying Again, Ricardo's Garage Band Podcasts

Thanks. I'm downloading it now El 09/10/2011, a las 15:32, Red.Falcon escribió: > Hi Francisco! > When in this email or the other one! > Sit on one of Ricardo's links and open vo+shift+m and in there is download > file just vo space on that and it will download to your default download > place!

RE: Dragon! :)

Because he asked another question that had nothing to do with dragon Larry & Flax GD (Guide Dog) & Elliot RGD (Retired Guide Dog) London, UK Multiple Installer http://ninite.com Flash Updater http://updateflash.org/ Impartial info on Andr

iTunes Movies and Apple TV

Hi folks. First, what can we do when buying movies on iTunes? Can they be redownloaded, or do we have to find a backup-solution our self? And what is the possibilities with Apple TV? What can it do wich other gadgets don't? Can it for example record from TV, and then save it other places and so

Batch converting m4r?

Hello all, Which program do you use to batch convert audio files to m4r? I've been reading about Amadeus Lite, but I can't figure out if it will convert to m4r. I've downloaded the script to quickly convert to ACC, but I don't believe I can change the extension of many files at once in finder.

Re: Batch converting m4r?

Small trick is that if you convert the files to m4A, then change the file extension manually to M4R, this will work. Note: This will *ONLY* work in this instance; changing the file extension is in any other case I've heard of a very bad idea. It only works from M4A to M4R or vice versa, but i

Safari sluggishness

Hello: I have a brand-new Mac Book Pro here. It has a 2.7 core I7 processor, 4 gigs of ram, and to my way of thinking, that should be enough. When I go to download a file from the Internet, Safari becomes extremely sluggish. This behavior is quite recent. When I first got my wonderful new machi

Re: Safari sluggishness

I have not encountered this behavior. Have you tried clearing your cache? Option-command-e will get the job done. On Oct 9, 2011, at 3:43 PM, Richard Ring wrote: > Hello: > I have a brand-new Mac Book Pro here. It has a 2.7 core I7 processor, 4 gigs > of ram, and to my way of thinking, that shou

Re: Safari sluggishness

I shall, hope it helps. On Oct 9, 2011, at 3:01 PM, Scott Howell wrote: > I have not encountered this behavior. Have you tried clearing your cache? > Option-command-e will get the job done. > On Oct 9, 2011, at 3:43 PM, Richard Ring wrote: > >> Hello: >> I have a brand-new Mac Book Pro here. It

replace Safari with Chrome?

Hi all, i briefly tried out Chrome today and it seemed to work fine with Vo, even without ChromeVox. Is it safe, from an accessibility standpoint, to use Chrome all the time in place of Safari? I have heard a lot of complaints about Safari being busy all the time, and while I have not found this

net fliks help

hello; just signed up for the free trial to net flicks watch online service. it installed a mac version of silverlight. not having any problems finding a show or starting it but wondered if anyone has any keyboard commands for up and down volume, pause, stop, or switching between episodes

Re: Problems with VO

Hi Rahul. I have a question because I am having some trouble understanding why you are having your difficulties. First, I have never been entirely happy using the Internet to do email. I have done it, but have, on the whole found it less satisfactory than using a program dedicated to email produ

a new strange behavior in my mail

Okay, Now this is weird. Until this morning, I have been arrowing up and down through my messages and when I want to read one, I just press VO+J and that interacts with the message content table. When done, I just press VO+J and that usually pulls me right back to the message table. Now, tho

Re: a new strange behavior in my mail

I had this same problem and wrote to the list about it three weeks or so ago. What I did for a while was use full screen, and the jump command seemed to work better after that, but full screen had problems like not allowing me to command tilda back to the inbox while composing a new message. Th

Re: Problems with VO

Hello Rahul, Gigi, and Others, Rahul, I'm wondering whether your problems with not hearing VoiceOver read with typing echo in Safari is because your verbosity settings under VoiceOver Utility. By default, as Gigi described, most list users do not want to hear every key that you type echoed whe

Re: Safari sluggishness

When I press command option a I hear the word activity and am placed in a window that feels like a table but is not a table. I am not given any options as to how to proceed. So, I am uncertain as to how to erase the cache. I just tried to download an NLS book, and I am unable to check download p

Re: Safari sluggishness

Hi Rich. There is an option to empty the cache from the Safari menu. The shortcut is option-command-shift-e. I missed your original message, so I am not sure of what you are encountering. Take Care John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com On Oct 9, 2011, at 10:26 PM, Richard Ring wrote:

Re: Safari sluggishness

Hi John: What's happening is this. If I try to download a file, any file, Safari gets strange. If I download something, I stop interacting with HTML content. I interact with the toolbar. I click the download button. Immediately, I start hearing "Safari busy". Basically, this means I cannot check

Re: Safari sluggishness

Hi Rich, I'm assuming this is Lion? What kind of a machine and specs are you working with? Have you tried toggling VoiceOver off and then on again? I'm sorry to be coming in on this late. I've had family here all weekend, so I have only been able to browse messages quickly. Take Care

Re: Mooving programs to the Applications folder

I may be wrong but I think that you may be assuming that the Mac copies and pastes files in the same way as Windows. From my experience of only a month of using the Mac it does not. This is what I do in column view. highlight the app to be copied. I then navigate to the application folder but

Re: Dragon! :)

I have been using dragon dictate on the iphone for quite some time now. I do most of my lengthy "typing" with it. You have to work around it's transcription limitations though. I don't agree with that it won't let you say things it decides that you should not. It will not let you use a curse word o

Re: windows on mac? using the mouse and keyboard?

I installed boot camp, Windows 7, on an IMac with Lion and boot camp 4. and found it nothing but a hassle with regards to both the keyboard and magic trackpad. Despite the fact that the wireless keyboard and trackpad worked for a sighted person during the actual windows install as soon as the

Re: Safari sluggishness

I am afraid I also have encountered it quite a lot on my Lion IMac bought a few weeks ago. On 9 Oct 2011, at 21:01, Scott Howell wrote: > I have not encountered this behavior. Have you tried clearing your cache? > Option-command-e will get the job done. > On Oct 9, 2011, at 3:43 PM, Richard R

Re: windows on mac? using the mouse and keyboard?

Well what I am talking about is the built in keyboard on the mac. I can't seem to find out how to map the keys to different things or make window eyes or jaws use mouse commands such as jaws curser. Everything works ok but as you probably know some of the keys like control and alt are not in the co

moving through folders in mac?

Hi, how do you move back and forth through folders in mac? The only way I know how to do that is hit comand q I believe to close it and it brings me back to the main finder window. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to thi

Re: moving through folders in mac?

hello; I use command plus option plus up arrow to go back. i believe i found that in the menu for finder. good luck, max On Oct 9, 2011, at 11:44 PM, Blake Hardin wrote: Hi, how do you move back and forth through folders in mac? The only way I know how to do that is hit comand q I believe t

Re: moving through folders in mac?

The easiest way I have found it to put your folder in column view. Command 3. You simply navigate between folders using the arrow keys then. I have set column view as my default view. In In list view if you want to do the same thing I believe you use command [ to move back a folder and comm

Re: Dragon! :)

Oh, I have a basic mobile phone dictation question, so if you want the dictation to occur properly? You should do the triple top, to turn our lives over do the dictation that you want? Then do a triple top to turn voiceover back on? Drive this process correct? The reason why I ask is in addition

Re: replace Safari with Chrome?

Yes, personally, I mainly use Chrome/ChromeVox and absolutely enjoy, appreciate, and can be very productive. I almost never touch Safari and haven't done so since I've been using Chrome web browser. Most of my usof Mac OS X VoiceOver has stopped because of ChromeVox. Sent from my iPhone On Oc