Re: Blackboard and Voice-over?

2012-01-10 Thread Michael Busboom
Hello Shanna, Although many portions of the Blackboard platform can be navigated with VO through Safari, there is one area that is difficult and, as far as I am concerned, inadequately "accessible." I am referring to the discussion areas where students interact with one another and their teach

Re: A truly frustrating issue

2012-01-10 Thread Les Kriegler
Tim how does one know if the procedure actually worked when executing all of these keystrokes in a short time period? Thanks. Les On Jan 10, 2012, at 9:22 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > Hi, > > You don't actually need the keys down when you turn on the power button. > Simply press the power button

wordpress 3.2 and mars edit

2012-01-10 Thread Maxwell Ivey Jr.
Hello group; I've been using mars edit with wordpress and blogger for a while now. for some reason i have recently found out that my photos aren't being uploaded correctly. they don't show up properly on my blog. It just shows the bottom half of the image. is there something in wordpress i need to

apple keyboard instructions:hi all,

2012-01-10 Thread Chenelle Hancock
i wanted to say thank you to who ever sent the thread of instructions on how to use the apple keyboard with ones i-phone etc... i most greatly appreciated. i am currently placing this bit of information into my important file fold located on my i-phone 4 s. for the first time in over 3, year

Blackboard and Voice-over?

2012-01-10 Thread Shanna Stichler
Hi all, I'm wondering if anyone has attempted using Blackboard with VO, and whether or not it worked for you. It seems semi-accessible, so I thought it would be good to check with this list. I'm using Blackboard version 9.1, I believe. If anyone can give me some tips for working within this sit

Re: to do list apps

2012-01-10 Thread Eric Caron
Hi Becky, My recommendation would be list recorder. You could do your to do lists as either recordings or as a text list as List Recorder does both. It also now has do dates available. I suspect you might find it useful in additional ways for your classes. I use List recorder to org

Re: A truly frustrating issue

2012-01-10 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, You don't actually need the keys down when you turn on the power button. Simply press the power button, quickly get your hands/fingers in place, then press the cmd+option+"p"+"r" as the startup chime sounds. HTH Later... On 2012-01-10, at 5:57 PM, Red.Falcon wrote: > Hi there! > I was w

Re: to do list apps

2012-01-10 Thread Emrah
Becky, I went hunting on the App Store to see if something would fit the description of what you-re looking for. I found an app that claims to have recently improved its VoiceOver support and I purchased it to give it a try. It's only $0.99, so if you want to have a look, here is the link: http:

Re: to do list apps

2012-01-10 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
Hi: I like Evernote, Reminders, and Paperless. On Jan 10, 2012, at 1:37 PM, Badger, Nancy wrote: > reminders or iprioritize > Nancy > On Jan 9, 2012, at 5:58 PM, Becky Knaub wrote: > >> Hi All, >> I am taking 5 graduate level courses this semester and all of them require a >> ton of work. SO doe

Re: A truly frustrating issue

2012-01-10 Thread Red.Falcon
Hi there! I was wondering how to do this with a Imac! If you have to hold down the keys and then press the power button its a bit tricky with the power button on the back of the Imac! Any tips? Colin On 11 Jan 2012, at 00:25, Tim Kilburn wrote: > Hi, > > It's not VO+p+r, it is cmd-+option+p+r.

Re: A truly frustrating issue

2012-01-10 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, It's not VO+p+r, it is cmd-+option+p+r. I usually use my left thumb across the cmd and option keys then my left index and right pinky for the "r" and "p" respectively. What it does is clears out your memory so that any residual stuff that has, for whatever reason, remained clogging up you

Re: perhaps not new but solution for safari busy… : google chrome

2012-01-10 Thread André Nuno Soares
Hello, The official builds of Google Chrome work fairly well with VO since version 12 or 13, you don't need to run the dev versions. HTH, André On 10/01/2012, at 13:46, Rose Morales wrote: > William, > Wow, it turns out that I was an 11.0.x build. Discovering that I was so far > back encoura

Re: a rather difficult question about converting e-mail

2012-01-10 Thread André Nuno Soares
Hello, If you are using GMail with IMAP then you probably have those messages stored on GMail' servers. You can confirm this by going to GMail's Web interface and looking for the messages. If you find them, you don't need to worry with copying messages to the Mac. Just configure your GMail acco

Re: Clearwire internet? Is it any good?

2012-01-10 Thread Emrah
Hello, If you have a nice return policy, you could always test it. The fact is that cellular broadband is not as reliable as wired Internet, whether it is a landline DSL or cable. 4g might give you better bandwidth than what you currently have, but it depends on a lot of factors. Also, although

Re: getting my contacts from a windows smartphone to my mac?

2012-01-10 Thread Traci
When I needed to transfer my contacts from my HTC Ozone to my Mac, I use the bluetooth connection. For me, this was the easiest. Turned bluetooth on for both devices, made a connection, then beamed the contacts on over. HTH, Traci - Original Message - From: "Eric Oyen" To: "[MacV

RE: Clearwire internet? Is it any good?

2012-01-10 Thread Daniel Miller
Hi, Clearwire is completely useless. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Cheree Heppe Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 2:16 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Clearwire internet? Is it any goo

getting my contacts from a windows smartphone to my mac?

2012-01-10 Thread Eric Oyen
ok, I need to figure out how I can get my contact off my windows smartphone sim card and into my mac's address book. anyone have any ideas on how to do this? also, the smartphone uses activeSynch to backup a copy on t-mobile's website in my user account. however, since t-mobile's website is larg

Effectively navigating through edit fields on iPhone with Bluetooth keyboards

2012-01-10 Thread Michael Busboom
I have recently acquired a Bluetooth keyboard with a tiny docking station to use with my iPhone 4 running IOS5. While it is easy enough to enter text into an edit field, via the Bluetooth keyboard, I have been unable to cursor or arrow through a text that I am creating in order to insert or del

Re: Clearwire internet? Is it any good?

2012-01-10 Thread Cheree Heppe
Cheree Heppe here: I found Clear's interfaces inaccessable. Regards, Cheree Heppe Sent from my iPhone On 10/01/2012, at 10:51, matthew Dyer wrote: > Hi All and including mac users. I am going to be switching over from > timeworner to clearwire and was wondering if anyone using clearwir

Re: to do list apps

2012-01-10 Thread Badger, Nancy
reminders or iprioritize Nancy On Jan 9, 2012, at 5:58 PM, Becky Knaub wrote: Hi All, I am taking 5 graduate level courses this semester and all of them require a ton of work. SO does anyone have any suggestions for an accessible app that would function like a to do list but for assignments that

Re: a rather difficult question about converting e-mail

2012-01-10 Thread Denise Barajas
I have everything through google mail. I have Mozila thunderbird and Outlook express. I believe I have it all set as Imap. It's either that, or one and one. I don't qutie remember. On Jan 10, 2012, at 11:34 AM, Mr. L. Alexander wrote: > ok. who's your email provider? also are you using IMAP or P

Re: a rather difficult question about converting e-mail

2012-01-10 Thread Mr. L. Alexander
ok. who's your email provider? also are you using IMAP or POP3 as your mail setup in windows? if it's imap, you should be able to set up your email account directly in mail and mail will fetch data from your mail server. that's if the emails you've kept are stored on the mail server to your pro

Re: a rather difficult question about converting e-mail

2012-01-10 Thread Denise Barajas
That's a lot more hassle. I would like to simply find a way to transfer these e-mails to an external or some removable medium, convert these to whatever form the Mac will recognize for the mail client and simply get rid of those programs. It's either that or I have to switch out systems, as thes

Re: a rather difficult question about converting e-mail

2012-01-10 Thread James Scholes
Denise Barajas wrote: > I have a Windows XP computer which contains several sentimental e-mails on a > few programs I've tried. Is there any way I could get step-by-step > instructions on converting these to send these to the Mac Mail application? I > know this might be a very dificult question,

Re: most likely off topic,used Garageband to do remix, please help out and vote

2012-01-10 Thread Ed Worrell
sorry I just found the player on the website isn't accessible, it is done in flash, but here is a link to listen to it http://soundcloud.com/blindworrell/get-up-blindworrell You have to use the support link to vote for the song on the http://www.talenthouse.com/blindworrell Sorry for the confusi

Re: a rather difficult question about converting e-mail

2012-01-10 Thread James Scholes
Mr. L. Alexander wrote: > depending on whether your email provider has it's own saved folder or work, > etc you can drop those emails to the directory, then open mail in mac, build > your account, then when it's up and running, your emails should come accross. > if not, then it's time to make an

Re: a rather difficult question about converting e-mail

2012-01-10 Thread Mr. L. Alexander
ah lol you see what I did there. ah ha! lol people might consider the to and from, subject header just as important as it's content. lol lew Kicking the daylights out of a windows laptop which WON'T BEHAVE! On 10 Jan 2012, at 18:39, Ricardo Walker wrote: > I guess, > > but since she said

Clearwire internet? Is it any good?

2012-01-10 Thread matthew Dyer
Hi All and including mac users. I am going to be switching over from timeworner to clearwire and was wondering if anyone using clearwire knows how it is working and how easy is it to use? I will have 4g and my understanding it is wify over 4g. I am just trying to get an idea from anyo

Re: a rather difficult question about converting e-mail

2012-01-10 Thread Ricardo Walker
I guess, but since she said they were sentimental, I assumed the content was more important than the to and from information. :) Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Jan 10, 2012, at 1:38 PM, Mr. L. Alexander wrote: > that would depend di

Re: microphone settings

2012-01-10 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, open up system preferences/sounds and select the input tab. Navigate to the table of inputs and select the one your using. Then Press VO right arrow and turn down the gain. hth Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Jan 10, 2012, at

Re: a rather difficult question about converting e-mail

2012-01-10 Thread Mr. L. Alexander
that would depend directly upon whether the user wishes to keep all data associated to the email including the email address. this can also depend on the type of content taken within the email. lew On 10 Jan 2012, at 18:35, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Hi, > > maybe I'm missing something but, can'

Re: a rather difficult question about converting e-mail

2012-01-10 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, maybe I'm missing something but, can't you just copy the text into word or something then just save the file and e-mail it to where ever you want? Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Jan 10, 2012, at 12:09 PM, Mr. L. Alexander wrote:

Re: most likely off topic,used Garageband to do remix, please help out and vote

2012-01-10 Thread Emrah
How do we listen to your remix? E On Jan 10, 2012, at 6:05 PM, Ed Worrell wrote: > Hello all you music fans out there, I have done my first remix contest, I do > believe that I am the only blind contestant in this contest. I just want to > see if the blind music community would like to help me

Re: A truly frustrating issue

2012-01-10 Thread Mr. L. Alexander
the sequence mentioned resets PRAM. this stores bootup memory and some other settings including date and time, etc. basically because of the way the firmware behaves, there can be the odd conflict so firmware rebuilding helps. if you're using a PowerPC chip, there's also another setting to repai

Re: A truly frustrating issue

2012-01-10 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Never heard of that procedure before. VO+P+r? That would be interesting to do with only one control key on the left side. Just what exactly does that sequence do when used as you describe? Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! Skype name: barefoo

Re: a rather difficult question about converting e-mail

2012-01-10 Thread Mr. L. Alexander
more than happy to help. It's pretty simple. depending on whether your email provider has it's own saved folder or work, etc you can drop those emails to the directory, then open mail in mac, build your account, then when it's up and running, your emails should come accross. if not, then it's

most likely off topic,used Garageband to do remix, please help out and vote

2012-01-10 Thread Ed Worrell
Hello all you music fans out there, I have done my first remix contest, I do believe that I am the only blind contestant in this contest. I just want to see if the blind music community would like to help me out and give me a few votes, you can vote here http://www.talenthouse.com/blindworrell T

a rather difficult question about converting e-mail

2012-01-10 Thread Denise Barajas
Hello all, I've been dying to ask this question for a long time, but I thought I would get some outside source help, but to no avail. I have a Windows XP computer which contains several sentimental e-mails on a few programs I've tried. Is there any way I could get step-by-step instructions on

Re: Getting files into the cloud

2012-01-10 Thread Paul Hunt
Hello Tim. This worked and it's not so complicated. Thanks so much. On Jan 9, 2012, at 11:23 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > Hi Paul, > > Sorry, I missed a step in my previous messages. You'll need to open your > document on your iPhone first, then do the following: > > 1. Double-tap the Tools but

microphone settings

2012-01-10 Thread May McDonald
Hey there, is there a way to turn down the volume on the microphone? I'm trying to go on a chat site and the microphone is extremely loud like it's on boost or something. Help help. May and Prince Noah -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionarie

creating appointments using ICal.

2012-01-10 Thread Jessica
I've just started trying to figure out how to create an event using ICal, but when I try to use the left and right arrows to scroll through the days of the week, instead of showing them in their correct order, it wants to jump ahead a week. Am I doing something wrong? Are you looking for a free

adium 1.4.4 and braille in the contactlist

2012-01-10 Thread William Windels
Hello all, I just have update adium to 1.4.4 but I have still problems with the braille output (in the contact list). It should be nice to see the contacts in the list since I have made a profile so that voiceover is not speaking when adium is active. So, I can hear the incoming messages and t

Re: perhaps not new but solution for safari busy… : google chrome

2012-01-10 Thread Rose Morales
William, Wow, it turns out that I was an 11.0.x build. Discovering that I was so far back encouraged me to update to the latest dev build. This version of Chrome is so much faster with Voiceover than I remember, and the quirks I previously saw seem to be gone. Thank you very much for the suggest

Re: perhaps not new but solution for safari busy… : google chrome

2012-01-10 Thread William Windels
Hello Rose and others, I have version 16.0.912.75. I have no idea at all if this is the most recent version but I am pretty shore that this is the development version. But, anyway, tips, suggestions, questions... are welcome. Kind regards, William Windels Op 10-jan.-2012, om 12:28 heeft Rose Mor

Re: perhaps not new but solution for safari busy… : google chrome

2012-01-10 Thread Rose Morales
Hi William, What version of Chrome are you running? I have an older dev build here which still had some quirks, but things must have improved since then. Either way, you've encouraged me to try out the newest dev build. Rose On Jan 10, 2012, at 5:17 AM, William Windels wrote: > Hello, > Perhap

Re: a list of accessible apps?

2012-01-10 Thread Michael Busboom
Hello Johnny, Perhaps I am a coward, but I almost always try to do website registrations on my Mac or PC instead of on my iPhone. I still find data entry via the iPhone slow, unreliable and cumbersome. This is not the fault of the Accessibility team at Apple; I am perhaps just somewhat uncoor

perhaps not new but solution for safari busy… : google chrome

2012-01-10 Thread William Windels
Hello, Perhaps this is not new but I have discovered that google chrome is fully accessible , at the first look including the vo-navigation on websites. I am new to that browser and I was wondering if there are interesting/accessible extensions or other things to know to make the browsing experi

Re: Switching between message format alternatives in Apple Mail -- very useful!

2012-01-10 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Hi Victor, when I press CMD + Option + right or left bracket nothing happens. Do you mean the left or right bracket what I can reach by pressing Shift + 9 or 0 on an english keyboard? All the best Jürgen Am 10.01.2012 um 05:54 schrieb Victor Tsaran: > Thought some may enjoy this tip. > When yo