Re: o. t.: Microsoft Office for Mac! Important: read and leave comments!

2013-02-01 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Hello, just to let Sara and the others know: The german Mac users are also absolutely interested in an accessible MS Office for Mac. Word processing is one of the biggest issues for blind Mac users in my country. Apples iWork could also be more accessible in certain functions and it's to compl

Re: Skype scripts

2013-02-01 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Yeah, that's a great option in Mac OS. Unfortunately your desired function to answer a call is not a menue command and so it doesn't work in this case. The answer button is just a button in a dialogue box. But in general it's great to define all the hotkeys you want to. Jürgen Am 01.02.2013 um 1

Re: Polite Request for All List Members

2013-02-01 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, How about when when some one reads a message but, they don't know who the person was actually replying to? For example, your post that I'm replying to now. I don't know if your response was triggered by my response or Karens. But either which way, I think its asking a bit much for hundre

last question about pages.

2013-02-01 Thread Chris Bruinenberg
Hi all. This should be my last question about pages. Thank you for all of your assistance so far. Is there a way to say if something is centered or left alind? Also, how can i center just the title or particular text? Thank you. Chris -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: Adding Album Art in iTunes

2013-02-01 Thread Esther
Hi Nic, OK, there is a way to add artwork to more than one track at a time, if you select multiple tracks and use Command-I, but you have to do this on the Info tab. Select your tracks, do a "Get Info" and move to the Info tab, then use item chooser menu to navigate to "artwork well" and paste

Adding Album Art in iTunes

2013-02-01 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Thanks, Esther! You're amazing, as always! That worked exactly as you said (of course). My problem was that previously I had been in the edit multiple information view, and the album art work tab didn't appear. And this is my problem. Most of my audiobooks that are missing album art are broken

o. t.: Microsoft Office for Mac! Important: read and leave comments!

2013-02-01 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Personally, the inaccessibility of Microsoft Word for Mac didn't stop me from switching over to the Mac. I run a Mac without Windows installed, but I do still have an old Windows machine. It also hasn't stopped many, many blind people I know from using Macs. If Microsoft Office for Mac were acc

Polite Request for All List Members

2013-02-01 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Hi Karen, In situations such as that you mentioned, where the post is something as simple as "no", I'd either • Discover the question from the subject title of the thread. Where the question was simple enough to get such a simple answer, the subject line usually says it all.

Polite Request for All List Members

2013-02-01 Thread Nicholas Parsons
OKay, I accept there are different views on this and I'm not going to get my way. But I can't help continuing the discussion now it's started. I already have a separate mailbox just for this list and server side rules/filters that all messages go straight to this mailbox. Even so, without diges

Re: o. t.: Microsoft Office for Mac! Important: read and leave comments!

2013-02-01 Thread Esther
Hello Sara, Thank you for joining the list and asking for inputs about MS office. It's difficult to give detailed feedback because the text area of Microsoft Word for the Mac, where all the actual composition and user interaction takes place, cannot be accessed at all with VoiceOver. My understand

RE: extra talk from voice over

2013-02-01 Thread Kimsan
I did CTRL option and v and pressed enter on the do not speak attributes is that not the right choice? Kimsan Song kimsans...@aol.com From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Eugenia Firth Sent: Friday, February 01, 2013 3:29 PM To: mac

Re: mac application prismo is half price in Mac app store

2013-02-01 Thread John Panarese
It seems to be fairly accessible. The problem is figuring out how the heck you actually scan and OCR a document. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFES

Re: help with script speaking bluetooth

2013-02-01 Thread Alex Hall
It's output, but in a tell block: tell application Voiceover output "my text" end tell or something like that. I have a neat script from Apple that checks to see if vo is even on and has the preference to be controlled by scripts enabled, and defaults to "say" if it is not. On Feb 1, 2013, at 8:

Re: o. t.: Microsoft Office for Mac! Important: read and leave comments!

2013-02-01 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, lucky you. haha. I have had success with numbers but, It makes my macbook pro extremely hot while open, I actually get worried. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Feb 1, 2013, at 8:25 PM, Eugenia Firth wrote: > Hi there > I am hav

attaching pictures to mail messages

2013-02-01 Thread Randy George
Hi Gang, I'm able to attach files such as documents to my mail messages, but am absolutely failing when trying to attach pictures--can anyone give me some pointers? Whenever I try to access them I am only able to find dates and things like that, but only what I think are the dates in which I

Re: Adding Album Art in iTunes

2013-02-01 Thread Esther
Hello Nic, You asked: For a number of audiobooks I have downloaded I have album art in the form of jpg files. Does anyone know how to add these as album art using VoiceOver? You can add album art to your audiobooks in iTunes the same way that you add tagging information: by selecting the track

Re: o. t.: Microsoft Office for Mac! Important: read and leave comments!

2013-02-01 Thread Laura ann Grymes
Welcome to the list Sara. I am so excited your working with MS office for the mac to make it accessible. I agree with all that have posted here how effective and efficient it would be to have excel and word and office products accessible. Thank you for working toward a solution and I would be ha

Re: help with script speaking bluetooth

2013-02-01 Thread Sean Murphy
Hi, The say function is the system speech. I believe it is output that should be used to get Voice-Over to talk. A Friend and I found this function flakey. Sean On 01/02/2013, at 11:03 AM, Traci wrote: > Ok, here it is. I added the part of speaking bluetooth on. The toggle works > perfectly

Re: o. t.: Microsoft Office for Mac! Important: read and leave comments!

2013-02-01 Thread Sean Murphy
All, If you want something to change, then you have to be involved. Regardless of what has occurred in the past, we have an opportunity now to get some changes. Sara, I have already sent you quite a detailed email from your blog. I also will send you some private communication from my work acc

Re: o. t.: Microsoft Office for Mac! Important: read and leave comments!

2013-02-01 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi there I am having no problem using numbers with my business, but I would like to say a few things about Excel. I hope that when you get voiceover to work with Excel that it's easier to set up then it is with Excel and Jaws. When I was using Excel and jaws, I never could remember those command

Re: mac application prismo is half price in Mac app store

2013-02-01 Thread Esther
Hello Mary, Les, and Others, Apparently you can download a trial version of Prizmo 2 from the developer's web, but not, of course, from the Mac App store. Try going to the Macupdate page for this app and use the "Download Now" link: http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/31157/prizmo I would be cautious

Re: mac application prismo is half price in Mac app store

2013-02-01 Thread Red.Falcon
Hi there! If they have made the Mac version VO friendly that would be great I've herd the iPhone version is very good! Colin On 1 Feb 2013, at 23:24, Mary Otten wrote: > I will be curious how it works if you try it, Les. I was kind of hoping I > could buy it at this price and then install it o

Bluetooth Keyboards that Work with Apple TV

2013-02-01 Thread Les Kriegler
Subject line says it all. Any recommendations on wireless keyboards that will work with Apple TV? I have the latest generation; my Apple Keyboard was designed for the iPad, so that won't work, thus the need for a keyboard. Thanks. Les -- You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: o. t.: Microsoft Office for Mac! Important: read and leave comments!

2013-02-01 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
Hello, Thank you Sarah for having an earnest look at the MS Office situation for blind mac users. Since the latest release has been ported to the 64 bit coco framework, and that menus work fine with voice over, the bulk of the work wil be to make sure axaccessibility tags are added to every non

Re: o. t.: Microsoft Office for Mac! Important: read and leave comments!

2013-02-01 Thread Kliphton A M
Of course this is my own opinion. But I think that hurdle is real high on making voice over as accessible with office, as Jaws or window eyes. The way that jaws interacts with spread sheets, is way beyond what voice over can do with numbers. But I wish you luck. I am a small business owner m

Re: Some paprika questions

2013-02-01 Thread Esther
Hi Christina, The meal planning information for Paprika Recipe Manager syncs between the iOS apps and the desktop version on the Mac through the free Cloud account that comes with purchase of the app. Like the grocery lists there's no export format, but in addition to accessing the synced informat

Re: Jailbreak iPhone 4S

2013-02-01 Thread Raul A. Gallegos
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Fwd: AccessNote Press Release

2013-02-01 Thread Eugenia Firth
I received this from AFB, and I have been asked to forward this along. You can send it to anyone you want. Regards, Gigi Begin forwarded message: > Please, help us get the word out about this new tool available to those with > vision loss… > > New American Foundation for the Blind App Help

Re: extra talk from voice over

2013-02-01 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi there You need to press the control option and V so that you can go into the verbosity menu then just use right and left arrows to go through the things you want to change an up-and-down arrows when you get to the item that you want to fix and then press escape to get out of there that should

Re: safari and voiceover issue

2013-02-01 Thread Randy George
Thanks so much. I click that link whenever I see it; I'm not seeing it now. I will definitely keep that in mind though. Thanks again, Randy On Feb 1, 2013, at 6:20 PM, Jamie Pauls wrote: > Hi, Randy: > > > > I think what you were dealing with is something called Google instant. If I >

Re: Decent 7-Zip App For The Mac

2013-02-01 Thread cait furness
Hi Gavin, I'm not a hundred percent sure, but check out both the unarchiver and s archiver. The first can be found on the mac app store and the second one you'll have to google because I don't think they're on there. hth, Caitlyn On 2013-02-01, at 4:57 PM, Gavin Grundlingh wrote: > Hi all, >

Re: safari and voiceover issue

2013-02-01 Thread Jamie Pauls
Hi, Randy: I think what you were dealing with is something called Google instant. If I understand correctly, this causes webpages to change dynamically. You should find a link on the screen that says something like screen reader users click here. That will turn off Google instant and you shou

Re: mac application prismo is half price in Mac app store

2013-02-01 Thread Mary Otten
I will be curious how it works if you try it, Les. I was kind of hoping I could buy it at this price and then install it on a future Mac, but it won't let me do that because I have only SL. And of course I meant os 10.7.5, not ios 10.7.5 in my original note. Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com --

Re: o. t.: Microsoft Office for Mac! Important: read and leave comments!

2013-02-01 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hello, I honestly think that the lack of Voiceover accessibility of the MS Office suite holds back many potential Mac users from switching over. For example, I've spent much time talking with adaptive tech specialist, rehab and state agencies and, most see the Mac as a entertainment console in

Re: o. t.: Microsoft Office for Mac! Important: read and leave comments!

2013-02-01 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi there I have a question here. Does the Mac version of office read numbers and pages files? In my case, if I did decide to get office once you guys get it working, I have a whole bunch of numbers and pages files. I would hate to have to convert all those files. Thanks bye. Regards GG Sent fro

Re: mac application prismo is half price in Mac app store

2013-02-01 Thread Les Kriegler
Hi Mary, Thanks for letting us know about this sale. It sounds like I can use my iPhone 4S or our HP scanner with this product. Les On Feb 1, 2013, at 5:46 PM, Mary Otten wrote: > This is advertised as a Macworld special, so I would guess it will not be on > long. But if you're running at le

Re: Polite Request for All List Members

2013-02-01 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hello, My thought exactly. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Feb 1, 2013, at 5:56 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: > While I respect your frustration, will not that make following the context of > a discussion more of a challenge? > say if s

Re: Polite Request for All List Members

2013-02-01 Thread Karen Lewellen
While I respect your frustration, will not that make following the context of a discussion more of a challenge? say if someone has asked a question, and the respond is simply no, that will not work? How will someone, say researching the issue later, gather the information they seek, without read

Final thoughts on Launch Bar

2013-02-01 Thread Traci
Hi all, My 30 day trial of Launch Bar is nearly up, and I have been very happy with it. Not only is it fun in a geeky way, it is very productive. A bonus, I have positive feedback and results from the developers on Voiceover accessibility. With the latest update, they made some accessibility

mac application prismo is half price in Mac app store

2013-02-01 Thread Mary Otten
This is advertised as a Macworld special, so I would guess it will not be on long. But if you're running at least ios 10.7.5, this could be a good scanning application. I'm on s/l still, so it is a "no go" for me. It is supposedly vo friendly. mary Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com -- You recei

Re: o. t.: Microsoft Office for Mac! Important: read and leave comments!

2013-02-01 Thread Kevin Shaw
Hello Sara, I imagine you're going to become somewhat of a celebrity on this list. I bid you a warm welcome. You and your team will be faced with the challenge of making Microsoft Office fully accessible with Voiceover on the Mac. You will also be faced with repairing the image many blind Mac

Re: Decent 7-Zip App For The Mac

2013-02-01 Thread Chris H
Try Stuffit Expander. Christopher Hallsworth On 01/02/2013 21:57, Gavin Grundlingh wrote: Hi all, For the life of me, I can't seem to find an app, either to use in Terminal or as a GUI app, that will do the same, or at least similar, things to what the 7-Zip app does on WIndows. I've tried

extra talk from voice over

2013-02-01 Thread Kimsan
Hi, I can't remember what I did as I am not a frequent user of the mac and voice over so will someone kindly assist me? Every time I am reading in pages or mail for example, I keep hearing 12 point helvedica royal blue and things like that. How do I stop voice over from saying all of this crap?

RE: Jailbreak iPhone 4S

2013-02-01 Thread Scott Berry
Thanks Raul I'll do that. I really like Jeff's blog it's really blind friendly and has everything one needs to do the jail breaking. I like the fact that he has downloads right on his site. I have also listened to his videos and he is very explanatory in what he does. -Original Message---

Re: Decent 7-Zip App For The Mac

2013-02-01 Thread Gavin Grundlingh
Thanks Chris, will definitely check that out! I need to update my copy of macports anyway. Regards, Gavin - Original Message - From: Chris Blouch To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2013 12:05 AM Subject: Re: Decent 7-Zip App For The Mac I h

RE: o. t.: Microsoft Office for Mac! Important: read and leave comments!

2013-02-01 Thread Scott Berry
Hi Sara, I am also a college student and could benefit from the accessibility of Microsoft Office. I appreciate you joing the list. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of SaraFord Sent: Friday, 1 February, 2013 11:00 To: macvisiona

Re: Decent 7-Zip App For The Mac

2013-02-01 Thread Chris Blouch
I haven't used it but if you don't mind fiddling in the terminal there is a 7zip utility you can install through macports. http://www.macports.org/ports.php?by=name&substr=7zip After it's installed do a man 7z for details. CB On 2/1/13 4:57 PM, Gavin Grundlingh wrote: Hi all, For the life

Decent 7-Zip App For The Mac

2013-02-01 Thread Gavin Grundlingh
Hi all, For the life of me, I can't seem to find an app, either to use in Terminal or as a GUI app, that will do the same, or at least similar, things to what the 7-Zip app does on WIndows. I've tried 7zx, but it didn't have all the functionality I was looking for. I'd like to be able to create

Re: iBooks question

2013-02-01 Thread Lisette Wesseling
Just put your finger on the screen and you can touch each line on the page. I sometimes do this and slowly move my finger down the screen to hear each line spoken. Then I can interrogate by word or character if I desire. Flicking right and left doesn't work, but running your finger slowly up or

Re: BrailleTouch: Still more irritation by far!

2013-02-01 Thread Lisette Wesseling
Hi Yes the speech rate is set to fast. The delay seems to be worst when set to word echo only. When set to word echo. you hear a little click each time you press a letter and then the word when you press space or a punctuation mark. This word seems to take maybe half a second which slows me up a

Re: No messages from the list

2013-02-01 Thread Alex Hall
Odd, your message came through just fine... Sent from my iPhone On Feb 1, 2013, at 14:51, Anne Robertson wrote: > Hello everyone, > > For the past 24 hours, I've had no messages from the list. Could a moderator > check this for me please? > > Cheers, > > Anne > > -- > You received this me

Re: How to turn off Un Plug & Play in OSX

2013-02-01 Thread Agent086b
Many reasons security being the mane one. I don't want anything opening ports on my router without me giving permission. Max. On 01/02/2013, at 10:55 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: > Is there a reason to do this? I can't think of any. > > Chris Gilland. > Founder of CLG Productions > htt

Re: o. t.: Microsoft Office for Mac! Important: read and leave comments!

2013-02-01 Thread Gabe Vega
Thanks John and Sarah. I agree this access to Office is vital in my line of work with cooperating with clients we work with in our field. Gabe Vega CEO Commtech LLC Web: http://commtechusa.net Email: i...@commtechusa.net Phone: (623) 565-9357 On Feb 1, 1:02 pm, "J.P." wrote: > Welcome Sara, >  I

Re: o. t.: Microsoft Office for Mac! Important: read and leave comments!

2013-02-01 Thread J.P.
Welcome Sara, I am glad you made it on the list. I'm excited to see what comes of this. To my fellow peers on this list, Sara and I have been communicating everyday for a week. I can assure you she is interested. Just by the questions she has asked. I personally wrote a note to Microsoft about

Re: help with script speaking bluetooth

2013-02-01 Thread Traci
Thank you for this information. :) For now, I have used the beep command, instead of speech. Beep 3, so the toggle beeps 3 times each time I turn bluetooth on/off. I'll tuck this project away though, for future tinkering. Traci 1 step, 2 step, ... 1,311 steps! I can do the BIG CLIMB 2013, with

Re: safari and voiceover issue

2013-02-01 Thread Randy George
thank you all for your suggestions, they have all been helpful. I will definitely file a bug report, as like I've said, I feel that navigating between pages is a fairly basic function and one which VO should be able to handle with no issues. Thanks again, Randy On Feb 1, 2013, at 2:50 PM,

No messages from the list

2013-02-01 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello everyone, For the past 24 hours, I've had no messages from the list. Could a moderator check this for me please? Cheers, Anne -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails fr

Re: safari and voiceover issue

2013-02-01 Thread Barry Hadder
Hi, I have that happen all the time. If it happens, I stop interacting with the html area and interact with it again. Also, I open a search results link in a new tab with command-enter. Then, when I'm done I just close the tab with command-w and I'm back in the Google search page. When I do

Re: BrailleTouch: Still more irritation by far!

2013-02-01 Thread Chris H
Oh yes, I can in fact duplicate this. I will do this right away. I don't see it a deal breaker myself but yes I see what you mean and am happy someone else has the same problem. Christopher Hallsworth On 01/02/2013 14:25, Alex Hall wrote: I find a delay even with characters if I type an inva

Re: safari and voiceover issue

2013-02-01 Thread Alex Hall
Oh, I see. It happens to me, but only an average of once or twice a week. You're saying it happens all the time? I'd call Apple's accessibility phone number and see what they have to say, as well as filing a bug at http://bugreporter.apple.com. Sent from my iPhone On Feb 1, 2013, at 14:22, Ran

Re: safari and voiceover issue

2013-02-01 Thread Randy George
it is time consuming because I do literally hundreds to thousands of searches daily as part of my consulting business, and even adding 2 seconds to every search adds literally hours of time to what I am trying to accomplish. It is frustrating because in my opinion, these sort of basic issues wi

Re: safari and voiceover issue

2013-02-01 Thread Chris Bruinenberg
that's really weird. Hmmm, sorry, it worked for me, i noticed i was having the issue as well. Maybe the toolbar is getting in the way? I turned mine off. On Feb 1, 2013, at 11:13 AM, Randy George wrote: > Hi there, > > That's the thing, the page is seemingly not coming up at all. if i wouldn'

Re: safari and voiceover issue

2013-02-01 Thread Alex Hall
I have had that happen as well. I just toggle vo off and back on and it works. I also use cmd-left bracket to go back a page, which always works for me despite whatever oddities vo has decided to exhibit. Why would toggling vo be time-consuming if your machine is brand new? Sent from my iPhone

Re: safari and voiceover issue

2013-02-01 Thread Randy George
Hi there, That's the thing, the page is seemingly not coming up at all. if i wouldn't reload voiceover it continually tells me that I am still on the google search page when I'm in fact on the page that I meant to go to. This is a brand new issue for me, as pages have always loaded fine from

Re: safari and voiceover issue

2013-02-01 Thread Chris Bruinenberg
to make the webpage read properly i usually stop interacting with the HTML area. Then to go back a page, i usecommand+{. Hope that helps. On Feb 1, 2013, at 11:08 AM, Randy George wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > With in the past day or so I've begun having issues with voiceover and > safari. I'll

safari and voiceover issue

2013-02-01 Thread Randy George
Hi Everyone, With in the past day or so I've begun having issues with voiceover and safari. I'll try to explain in as few words as possible. I will do a google search, which will work fine. When I press the link I want, seemingly nothing happens, even though I have a great wifi connection

Re: BrailleTouch: Still more irritation by far!

2013-02-01 Thread Ray Foret Jr
My speech rate is set to %100 and I'm using an Iphone 3GS. Now, you would sure think that an Iphone 3GS would be the one to have slugish response, but it seems not so much as I expected. Sent from my mac Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray Still a very proud and happy Mac and Iphone user!

Re: BrailleTouch: Still more irritation by far!

2013-02-01 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Ah, true, but, when you want to or need to reply to a message, best just to type in Braille Touch and paste to the clip board. Sent from my mac Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray Still a very proud and happy Mac and Iphone user! On Feb 1, 2013, at 9:28 AM, Alex Hall wrote: > The commas

Re: Skype scripts

2013-02-01 Thread Chris Bruinenberg
Thank you Alex. I will look in to this. On Feb 1, 2013, at 10:51 AM, Alex Hall wrote: > No, they are local to the app. However, you could set up a system service > tied to a hotkey, using automator I think it is. I don't know if you can use > a service to bind a hotkey, but google should help

Re: o. t.: Microsoft Office for Mac! Important: read and leave comments!

2013-02-01 Thread Chris Bruinenberg
Hi Sarah. Welcome to the group as well. Microsoft office to be honest would be the last hurdle i would have to jump to be able to use the Mac fully as my main machine for uses while in college. The bardest thing with office, is the edit areas. I hope that Microsoft office becomes accessible in th

Re: Skype scripts

2013-02-01 Thread Alex Hall
No, they are local to the app. However, you could set up a system service tied to a hotkey, using automator I think it is. I don't know if you can use a service to bind a hotkey, but google should help you there. Sent from my iPhone On Feb 1, 2013, at 13:49, Chris Bruinenberg wrote: > wow, >

Re: Skype scripts

2013-02-01 Thread Chris Bruinenberg
wow, THank you for that. I'm assuming that the keyboard commands are global? Meaning that i can be in another window and press say control+shift+c to answer? On Jan 31, 2013, at 11:11 PM, Jürgen Fleger wrote: > You don't need special scripts to define keyboard commands for any App. Just > check

Re: Polite Request for All List Members

2013-02-01 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
It's Human Ware's note Taker. You can connect it via bluetooth to your I phone or your Mac and use the Braille display to read. Kawal. On 1 Feb 2013, at 06:41 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: > What is an Apex anyway? > > Chris Gilland. > Founder of CLG Productions > http://www.clgproduc

Re: Polite Request for All List Members

2013-02-01 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
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Re: BrailleTouch: Still more irritation by far!

2013-02-01 Thread Alex Hall
That only changes the rate used when vo is off, not when it is on. Sent from my iPhone On Feb 1, 2013, at 12:38, "Tammy" wrote: > Hi, > > Did you go in to settings and change the speech rate to fast? I don't know > if that will help for sure because I changed both settings at the same time,

Re: Braille Touch Doesn't Work as I expected

2013-02-01 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Hello Jonathan. I'd like to agree with you about the repositioning of how you might put your fingers. Only because, earlier, myfingers began to ache and I am worried that one might get RSI. I don't want to be sceptical, but, we need our hands as for us all, our hands are important to us due

Re: Skype scripts

2013-02-01 Thread Jürgen Fleger
You don't need special scripts to define keyboard commands for any App. Just check the Keyboard section in the System Preferences of your Mac. There you can create a hotkey for each command in a menue of all your Apps. Jürgen Am 31.01.2013 um 23:45 schrieb Chris Bruinenberg : > Hi all. > I migh

Re: o. t.: Microsoft Office for Mac! Important: read and leave comments!

2013-02-01 Thread John Panarese
Hi Sara, Thank you for joining the list and hearing the stories of the blind Mac users. Office is undoubtedly an important productivity application for many people. I have three current clients that could benefit from accessibility to Office, and I sincerely hope that Microsoft intends to

Re: Jailbreak iPhone 4S

2013-02-01 Thread Krysti
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Re: o. t.: Microsoft Office for Mac! Important: read and leave comments!

2013-02-01 Thread SaraFord
> > Hi all, > > > > Thank you J.P. for starting this thread and for inviting me to the group! > My name is Sara Ford. I’m a Program Manager on the Office for Mac team. > Since I recently joined the Office for Mac team, I asked J.P. to describe > his experiences. Previously at Microsoft, I wo

Re: My issues with Braille Touch

2013-02-01 Thread Tammy
Hi, I totally agree with this, maybe an upward flick would be logical, but definitely something is necessary for editing purposes in the app. I have to copy to the clipboard and paste in to notes or another app and edit from there right now which isn't very efficient. But it's still early da

Re: BrailleTouch: Still more irritation by far!

2013-02-01 Thread Tammy
Hi, Did you go in to settings and change the speech rate to fast? I don't know if that will help for sure because I changed both settings at the same time, but it's worth a try, and I hope it helps. Tammy -Original Message- From: Lisette Wesseling Sent: Friday, February 01, 2013

Re: iBooks question

2013-02-01 Thread Richard Ring
It made perfect sense, thanks. You can have an off day, but you can't have a day off! ---The Art of Fielding Sent from my Mac Book Pro richr...@gmail.com On Feb 1, 2013, at 11:19 AM, Mary Otten wrote: > Well, you can't read lines in the sense of using the rotor element, because > it is absen

Re: Have you contacted a developer with an accessibility issue successfully?

2013-02-01 Thread Jonathan Mosen
Hi Bill, I frequently contact iOS developers, and am impressed by how many of them really want to help. Many developers have no idea blind people are using iPhones and find it fascinating that their app can make a difference to the lives of blind people. One very good example of an app that r

Re: iBooks question

2013-02-01 Thread Mary Otten
Well, you can't read lines in the sense of using the rotor element, because it is absent when in the content area. But you can move around using the braille display within the page of the book and thus get chunks of text. I hope that made sense. Mary Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com -- You rec

Have you contacted a developer with an accessibility issue successfully?

2013-02-01 Thread Bill Holton
Hi. I am putting an article together about developers and how to make them more aware of accessibility needs, and I need a few success stories. If You've had a good experience with a Mac or iPhone developer, or even a Win developer, who went "above and beyond," can you let me know the app and any

Re: iBooks question

2013-02-01 Thread Richard Ring
Can you read lines with a Braille display? You can have an off day, but you can't have a day off! ---The Art of Fielding Sent from my Mac Book Pro richr...@gmail.com On Feb 1, 2013, at 10:56 AM, Mary Otten wrote: > Hi Rich, > You are out of luck with trying to read by lines using speech. I

Re: iBooks question

2013-02-01 Thread Mary Otten
Hi Rich, You are out of luck with trying to read by lines using speech. I have written to accessibility at Apple, and I hope you will do the same. It use to be possible, but they broke it in the last big update, which I think was about a year ago. Another thing I've noticed that works on Nook o

Re: Jailbreak and ios 6.1

2013-02-01 Thread Raul A. Gallegos
Hi, if you are on 6.0 or 6.01, then it won't hurt to upgrade to 6.1 in the mean time. Now, if you are on iOS 5.1.1, then you can already jailbreak that. -- Raul A. Gallegos A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to rouse the interest, but long enough to cover the essentials

Re: BrailleTouch: Still more irritation by far!

2013-02-01 Thread Raul A. Gallegos
Hi, I have what I think are large hands and I can type with BrailleTouch just fine. So, maybe it's more about finger placement with you than finger size. That, or you just want to brag about the size of your hands. . -- Raul A. Gallegos "People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but th

Re: Jailbreak iPhone 4S

2013-02-01 Thread Raul A. Gallegos
Hi, The iDownloadBlog is always a good source. Their site is http://www.idownloadblog.com. In the mean time you can read the following article from their site. http://www.idownloadblog.com/2013/01/28/how-to-prepare-for-the-ios-6-1-untethered-jailbreak/ -- Raul A. Gallegos Having sex is like p

Re: Polite Request for All List Members

2013-02-01 Thread Raul A. Gallegos
Hi, one good suggestion is for people to either paraphrase, or if they do leave the prior quoted message, they can erase everything afterward. However if people delete everything, and then they don't paraphrase, it creates confusion anyway. Cheers. -- Raul A. Gallegos - Moderator "I told my p

Re: misbehaving rtf file?

2013-02-01 Thread Alex Hall
Well, I made a discovery about the file: it has nine pages, and vo sees each one independently. So, within the scroll area in Textedit, I can choose to interact with any one of the pages, but I can't see them all as one document. Very strange! At least I know why it refuses to go past a page bre

Re: My issues with Braille Touch

2013-02-01 Thread Alex Hall
You can't do that yet, but the developers have said that editing is coming. Currently, the best you can do is to open the menu to hear what you have written in its entireity. However, I recommend that you go to brailletouchapp.com and send a feature request under the support link. The more peop

Re: Polite Request for All List Members

2013-02-01 Thread Donna Goodin
I really agree with Alex here. It has always bugged me when people don't include the previous message(s) in their posts. too often it happens that someone writes a post, and I find I want or need to see the full context of the conversation in order to understand the point they're trying to mak

Re: Accessible mp3/wav editor

2013-02-01 Thread Alex Hall
Yes, Audacity can do all this and it is free. It takes some getting used to, and there some accessibility problems in a few effects, but it does work well overall. Sent from my iPhone On Feb 1, 2013, at 10:41, Marc Rocheleau wrote: > Hey all, > > I am looking for an accessible audio editor t

My issues with Braille Touch

2013-02-01 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Hello. Last night or in the early hours this morning, I went into settings, Braille Touch, feedback and changed the advance settings and speech feedback. So when I opened Braille Touch, everything was as I wanted it to be, but, (there is always a but] once I've typed a phrase or line, I can't

Accessible mp3/wav editor

2013-02-01 Thread Marc Rocheleau
Hey all, I am looking for an accessible audio editor that lets you edit and save in both wav and mp3 formats. I would also like something that allows me to separately change the speed and pitch in the app or another app that can do this, if possible. Wavepad has these features but I'm not prepared

Re: Polite Request for All List Members

2013-02-01 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Hello. I'm afraid, I need original messages to know what has been discussed as I read mail as it comes in if the topic is interesting. As I travel about, meaning that I'm at work most of the time as I work full time, I have to read all what I read as quickly as possible as I don't think my sup

Re: BrailleTouch: Still more irritation by far!

2013-02-01 Thread Alex Hall
The commas may be due to your using your left hand ti swipe left, but not swiping and instead just touching the dot 2. I still manage to accidentally touch the screen and get dots where I don't want them, but I'll get used to making sure I don't do that. As to emails, you can email right from t

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