Re: adium, growl and similar: the end of the story

2012-03-23 Thread elena brescacin
what a strange thing, then! i changed my mac book's system language to english, and played around with voices, and nothing happened! just alex and the non-scansoft english work! i'll try to find italian infovox, demo at least, and try using them with voiceover, keeping scansoft for instant messag

Re: adium, growl and similar: the end of the story

2012-03-23 Thread May McDonald
I wish you lots of luck. It definitely is strange. May and Prince Noah On 2012-03-23, at 3:24 AM, elena brescacin wrote: > what a strange thing, then! > i changed my mac book's system language to english, and played around with > voices, and nothing happened! just alex and the non-scansoft engli

Re: adium, growl and similar: the end of the story

2012-03-23 Thread Elena Brescacin
I think so! I'll write to adium support, accessibility apple support and nuance to see if something figures out 2012/3/23, May McDonald : > I wish you lots of luck. It definitely is strange. > > May and Prince Noah > On 2012-03-23, at 3:24 AM, elena brescacin wrote: > >> what a strange thing, the

Re: Reconnecting a Refreshabraille to an iPod

2012-03-23 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Both devices use a different profile in Blue Tooth I forget which profile so won't attempt to tell you which. Kawal. On 23 Mar 2012, at 12:52 AM, Alex Hall wrote: > I didn't know that would work. So you can type in braille or on the > qwerty keyboard? I figured there would be some sort of conf

Re: Deleting album from iPhone

2012-03-23 Thread chris hallsworth
Ditto, I do this as soon as I hear the tri tone and worked every time so far. Christopher Hallsworth On 23/03/2012 04:01, Shen wrote: Hi everyone, I spoke to someone at Apple and was able to get clarification on the gesture. It's very strange that it works every time in Messages and Mail, bu

Re: Reconnecting a Refreshabraille to an iPod

2012-03-23 Thread Steve Holmes
I didn't think there were any profiles on an IOS device. I've used the Braille display and the touch screen interchangably quite often with no problems. But I never typed on the RB and then continue on the touch screen but I've used some of the touch screen gestures on the iPod and then read outp

Skype and facebook

2012-03-23 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, As has been mentioned here before you can use skype to access facebook and it works really well. What i don't understand is, can i update my status on FB without updating my Skype mood message? How would i do that? If i try updating the facebook status it looks like i update my mood message

Re: Using your air in public.

2012-03-23 Thread Neil Barnfather - TalkNav
an awful lot, but... the tangible keyboard for one makes a notable difference. Regards, Neil Barnfather Talks List Administrator Twitter @neilbarnfather TalkNav is a Nuance, Code Factory and Sendero dealer, for all your accessible phone, PDA and GPS related enquiries visit www.talknav.com URL

Re: Using your air in public.

2012-03-23 Thread Lewis Alexander
the macbook air can handle applications that the iphone can't, the obvious keyboard and USB interfaces also make a huge difference, CPU, RAM and storage capacity also make a considerable difference. what you have to consider is what exactly you want to achieve with the product? smiling as I wri

Navigating in mail on the iPad [was Re: some iPad questions]

2012-03-23 Thread Esther
Hi Denise, The delete button for individual messages is located in a different place on the iPad from where you're used to finding it on the iPhone. If you can find the "move" button, you can just flick right from it to reach the "delete" button on the iPad. Alternatively, if you can find the

Re: Navigating in mail on the iPad [was Re: some iPad questions]

2012-03-23 Thread Garth Humphreys
Hi Denise It sounds like you need to first need to go to your gmail account in the setting app and disable email archiving. The archive button will turn to a delete button. Garth On 24/03/2012, at 7:06 AM, Esther wrote: > Hi Denise, > > The delete button for individual messages is locate

Re: Kindle App on iPhone

2012-03-23 Thread Adie
Hi all I first cane across this when I looked into the speech on the Kindle itself, when it first came out with that function and couldn't believe the attitude of the Authors' Guild. It seems to me, if you buy a book, it shouldn't matter a damn whether you want to access the text by looking at a s

Re: Using your air in public.

2012-03-23 Thread Cheree Heppe
Cheree heppe here: It won't b long until I get to find out for myself. Regards, Cheree Heppe Sent from my iPhone On 23/03/2012, at 13:56, Lewis Alexander wrote: > the macbook air can handle applications that the iphone can't, the obvious > keyboard and USB interfaces also make a huge differe

Re: Kindle App on iPhone

2012-03-23 Thread Eric Oyen
that has already happened. you can't play it out loud because they have already declared it a public performance. even the protests in front of the American Authors Guild HQ a couple of years back didn't even sway them. they did offer to setup a registry of blind people that purchase from Amazon

Re: Kindle App on iPhone

2012-03-23 Thread Hank Smith
if any one does start a law sute count me in. this is friggen rediculiss. On 3/23/2012 5:30 PM, Eric Oyen wrote: that has already happened. you can't play it out loud because they have already declared it a public performance. even the protests in front of the American Authors Guild HQ a couple

Applying for membership

2012-03-23 Thread Dawn Johnson
Hello: I am trying to sign my friend Pam up for the group but when we click on the apply link it does not show the sign up button. Any idea why? Sent from my iPad -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send em

Re: Facebook Audio and video Chat Accessible?

2012-03-23 Thread Ezzie Bueno
have found the latest version of Skype to be accessible. Try it out! =D Ezzie Bueno Sent from my Macbook Pro ezziebu...@gmail.com (323) 448-0757 Check out daily jokes and more! www.SillyEz.com Facebook: http://facebook.com/SillyEz Twitter: http://twitter.com/SillyEz On Mar 22, 2012, at 7:02 P

Re: Facebook Audio and video Chat Accessible?

2012-03-23 Thread Ezzie Bueno
Hello, To use the dial pad on Skype, press Command+2 and type the phone number you wish to dial on the edit box. Ezzie Bueno Sent from my Macbook Pro ezziebu...@gmail.com (323) 448-0757 Check out daily jokes and more! www.SillyEz.com Facebook: http://facebook.com/SillyEz Twitter: http://twitte

Re: Kindle App on iPhone

2012-03-23 Thread Ricardo Walker
lol, I agree its stupid but, I doubt these people huddled up in a corner and said, " lets figure out away to steel money from a population base which extremely small, and has a 70% unemployment rate. I just think their paranoid about sighted people taking advantage of this, not how to make an

Re: Using your air in public.

2012-03-23 Thread Ricardo Walker
Are you serious? Its faster, has USB ports, supports flash, has a physical keyboard, a larger screen, Runs Mac OSX apps, etc, etc, etc. Now, that doesn't mean its better than an iPs product but, you really are compairing apples to oranges here. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitt

Re: Digest for macvisionaries@googlegroups.com - 6 Messages in 4 Topics

2012-03-23 Thread Chenelle Hancock
Hi all, I cannot get my right side button undone. For some reason or another it became stuck on the inside of the right side corner. Thus I cannot get it to come unstuck. Is there someone that can help me with my wireless keyboard plight?.thankssincerely, chenelle Sent from my iPhone On Mar

How to select multiple messages in a mailbox

2012-03-23 Thread Jenny Keller
Trying to select multiple messagesto delete. How do I do that? Jenny and my goofy guide Brooks On Mar 23, 2012, at 8:38 PM, Ezzie Bueno wrote: > Hello, > > To use the dial pad on Skype, press Command+2 and type the phone number you > wish to dial on the edit box. > > Ezzie Bueno > Sent fr

pdf converter

2012-03-23 Thread annelie robledo
Hi I wanted to find out from the list wheither there is an accessible pdf converter for the macl Would greatly appreciate any help. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegr

Re: Kindle App on iPhone

2012-03-23 Thread Eric Oyen
thats the very point: MONEY. to them, the 25 million of us that are print disabled aren't a large enough market to worry about. considering how many people actually read in the US, our population is roughly 10% of the overall population. that is a non-trivial market. If they simply allowed us to

Re: pdf converter

2012-03-23 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, I'm not sure I totally understand but if you're asking about converting documents to pdf format, then you simply need to open the original document, press cmd-p to bring up the Print dialog (or choose Print from the File menu). Once the Print dialog is up, navigate through it until you loc

Re: pdf converter

2012-03-23 Thread Eric Oyen
I think they want to go the other way. making a PDF is easy. converting to another format (like reich text or some other document format) is a bit harder. there are a few utilities in Linux that can do this. not sure if there is anything for windows that can do this that don't cost a mint. -eri

Re: How to select multiple messages in a mailbox

2012-03-23 Thread Garth Humphreys
Hi Jenny Go into your Inbox on your iPhone so that you have the list of messages on screen. You will find an Edit Button a couple of swipes from the top of the screen. Double tap on this Edit button. Now double tap on each Message you wish to delete. VO will announce which messages are selected

Re: Kindle App on iPhone

2012-03-23 Thread David Tanner
Well, I guess I am not as convinced as you are. The truth is it really is all about the money, and rich publishers figure they aren't going to make much money off of blind people anyway, so why should they give in because they have the money and the control and they would just as soon keep it t

Re: Kindle App on iPhone

2012-03-23 Thread Ricardo Walker
Right, Its about getting money, not necessarily screwing blind people over. We just happen to be the major losers in the entire mess. I never said it wasn't about money. I just don't think its about our money. Our, being blind and print impaired consumers. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothe