Re: Losses of Speech or Crashes in Mountain Lion

2012-08-31 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hello, If this happens again, try pressing command F5 4 times quickly. I have had this happen once while waking my Macbook pro running 10.8. This brought VO back up. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Aug 31, 2012, at 2:24 PM, Steve H

Boom--a fantastic app when it works, but not very accessible

2012-08-31 Thread Marcia Yale
The subject line says it all--if and When I have accidentally succeeded in getting it to work, the volume increase on my little Macbook Air is very nice! However, the interface is not great, and I'm hoping that someone out there with some usable vision has also purchased it and can give me some tip

Re: Voices and mac vs iPhone

2012-08-31 Thread venky . 92
Hi. I recently switched from the English United States to English UK voice on my iPhone 4S. However, I'm stuck with the compact Male voice both in voice over and Siri. How do I get the premium Voice? Thank you. Venkatesh Sent from my iPhone On 01-Sep-2012, at 1:32 AM, Bill Holton wrote: >

Re: Voices and mac vs iPhone

2012-08-31 Thread Lisette Wesseling
Hi Yes you can go back to the compact version on either device. I think it's in the VO utility under voices. Though my compact version is still in my roter which is vo-command plus arrow keys. Good luck. Lisette On 1/09/2012, at 8:24 AM, "Bill Holton" wrote: > Yes, I do have the update. T

Re: Sygic Offline GPS App

2012-08-31 Thread Ed Worrell
Not at all accessible. Voiceover doesn't read anything on the screen. This is disappointing. Ed On Aug 31, 2012, at 2:30 PM, Jane wrote: > Anyone tested this for accessibility? > > http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sygic-ukraina-gps-navigacia/id447067819?mt=8 > > Jane > > -- > You received thi

Sygic Offline GPS App

2012-08-31 Thread Jane
Anyone tested this for accessibility? http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sygic-ukraina-gps-navigacia/id447067819?mt=8 Jane -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To u

RE: Voices and mac vs iPhone

2012-08-31 Thread Bill Holton
Yes, I do have the update. That sounds like the difference. Don't suppose it's possible to go back to the compressed version. BILL HOLTON Email: b...@bholton.com Direct: 386-624-6309 Home Office:1520 Loughton ST DeLand, FL 32720 -Or

Re: Voices and mac vs iPhone

2012-08-31 Thread Lisette Wesseling
Bill, Are you using Karen premium on the mac? Karen compact on the mac is terrible, but I use premium on my mac and I like her. Funnily enough, I prefer Karen compact on the iPhone. I guess I'm used to her in compact mode on the iPhone. I don't know if that answers your question. Did you update

Voices and mac vs iPhone

2012-08-31 Thread Bill Holton
Hi. On my iPhone I prefer the Australian voice. However on my Mac, Karen, who I think is the same voice, Does not sound exactly the same. Is there a better way to get the same voice on my iPhone and Mac using the Australian voices? Bill -- You received this message because you are subscribed to

I've Resolved Octoshape/Paralympics Accessibility

2012-08-31 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, all, I had the name of the player wrong yesterday; sorry about that. In any case, once I had run the stand-alone app and agreed to its terms, I can now play it at will. Since my computer was set to install only App Store apps, I kept it on the medium setting and used the contextual menu to

Re: Help with Flash for my Fantasy Football Draft

2012-08-31 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey Christine, I am on a lot of lists, and have kept a look out for a fantasy football app that works with VO, but unfortunately have not come across one as of yet, the one that I thought was going to work almost worked but failed in one important area, making your pick On Aug 31, 10:51 am, Brian

RE: Excel App

2012-08-31 Thread Marcia Yale
I'd highly recommend Tables. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of tealgree...@gmail.com Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2012 12:54 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Excel App Can someone please tell me of a

Losses of Speech or Crashes in Mountain Lion

2012-08-31 Thread Steve Holmes
I'm not sure if it is a total crash of VO, loss of speech or some kind of modal dialog that doesn't talk. But I have had 3 or 4 incidents where I come up to the Mac Mini and wake it from a sleep state. I hear sounds that mail updated with new messages and whatever but after that, no speech. Only

Mail again

2012-08-31 Thread Mary Scott
Hi all, Now Mail is no longer saying Unread. It says Image instead. Why do things change without me telling it to? What to do about this? Mel -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar

Re: BBC Radio Player

2012-08-31 Thread Steve Holmes
Is there a Mac version of this program too? I know they have one for the IOS platform. On 8/31/12, Neil Barnfather - TalkNav wrote: > For radio, from anywhere around the world, including the BBC, and this works > very wel, I use Tune In Radio, I use the Pro version, but, the none Pro is > fine. >

Re: Help with Flash for my Fantasy Football Draft

2012-08-31 Thread Christina C.
have you tried any apps for the iPhone in the app store? there has been a discussion on the viphone list but I did not follow it. Sorry, I'm not into football and just deleted the messages without reading them. Sent from Christina's iMac :) On Aug 31, 2012, at 8:51 AM, Brian Fischler wrote:

Re: Possible bug with Messages under ML, can you duplicate?

2012-08-31 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
Hi Chris. She tried sending an email to that address, but she got a return to sender message. Shawn Sent from my white Mac Book On 2012-08-31, at 9:58 AM, macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote: > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" g

Help with Flash for my Fantasy Football Draft

2012-08-31 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, Been a real bad two days as everything I have tried does not work whether using the Iphone of my mac. It is pretty pathetic that Yahoo, ESPN, and a few other sites still have such poor accessibility to screen readers. For example, I am in a few fantasy football leagues and pick em leagues

Re: Piano Pub Questions

2012-08-31 Thread Dan Roy
You can select a different station in your existing list but, for some reason, you have to hit vi-shift-space twice instead of once. On Aug 30, 2012, at 2:36 PM, Marc Sutton wrote: > My Pianopub started working again under Mountainlion once i updated to the > latest version (1.55). I was runn

Afconvert, was Converting text to mp3

2012-08-31 Thread -
Chris wrote: "That someone was me and thanks for the new command. I didn't know afconvert existed. Seems like there ought to be a way to pipe the file output from say into afconvert but I wasn't able to figure that out." Me: There are also afplay and afinfo. The first plays audio files and

Re: Piano Pub Questions

2012-08-31 Thread Dan Roy
A different pandora app, do you care to share it with us? Even if it's paid, some of us don't really mind that to much. On Aug 30, 2012, at 11:52 AM, Rose Waagan wrote: > Thank you for letting me know that, Alex. I use a different pandora app on > the Mac now, which I find to be more accessi

Re: Piano Pub Questions

2012-08-31 Thread Dan Roy
Thanks, this was quite helpful. On Aug 30, 2012, at 9:25 AM, Rose Waagan wrote: > Hi Dan, > Perhaps this page on my web site will help you. > http://chicksdigmacs.net/node/7 > Here I explain the order of buttons in pandora as well as how to play music. > Simply refer to additional notes.. >

RE: Piano Pub Questions

2012-08-31 Thread Missy Hoppe
Yes, I have 1.5.5. I've been fighting with it for a couple of months now. It just stopped working very suddenly. I deleted it, reinstalled, redownloaded and anything else I can think of, but as soon as I run it, problem reporter pops up. I'm baffled for sure! I even check periodically and redownl

dealing with selected items in mail when a new message arrives

2012-08-31 Thread Alex Hall
Hi all, Here's the problem: I select a bunch of messages in mail, but suddenly one or more new messages are downloaded. Vo stops reading the message I just selected and instead says "one row added. x rows selected". This would be okay, but vo then jumps down to focus on the first message I selec

Re: Piano Pub Questions

2012-08-31 Thread Alex Hall
Rose recommended an app called Pandora Jam, which I found with google very easily. I haven't yet figured out how to log in using this app, though. Are you sure you have the latest version of Piano Pub? I updated and it works now. On Aug 30, 2012, at 11:37 PM, "Missy Hoppe" wrote: > What app hav

Re: Help with successfully adding an email account to Mac mail

2012-08-31 Thread Kirsten Edmondson
Thank you very much Teresa! You were right, it was so simple! Am in love with Apple again and its amazing ease! Doing that in outlook would have taken me hours and probably never worked!! Now I just need to sort out transferring groups etc ... :) Kirsten Edmondson kirsten.edmond...@btinternet

Re: Possible bug with Messages under ML, can you duplicate?

2012-08-31 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
I do not have a G-mail account, so just go to the G-mail groups, look for Macvisionary Group, Aply for membership but first you have to set up an account in google and it does not have to be a Google account. You have to get some sight asistance to fill in the capture so the know it's not spam.

Re: BBC Radio Player

2012-08-31 Thread Neil Barnfather - TalkNav
For radio, from anywhere around the world, including the BBC, and this works very wel, I use Tune In Radio, I use the Pro version, but, the none Pro is fine. On 29 Aug 2012, at 11:00, Adrienne Sinclair Chalmers wrote: > Der Christopher and Kawal > > Since a year or so back, when you try to a