Hi guys,
Ever since I did a time-machine restore, I can't get Facebook andTwitter to
work. they show a password that has the same number of characters as my
computer account password. When I try to change them, they revert right back to
the eight-character password. oddly enough, I've been able
In adition to which problem, I have one contact on my Mac that just will not
back up no matter how times I refresh on my Iphone. I have Icloud set to my
main contact account.
Sent from my mac
Sincerely,
The Constantly Barefooted Ray
Still a very proud and happy Mac and Iphone user!
On Feb 23,
Say y'all,
Has anybody here noticed that when you go in to your contacts app here lately,
Voice OVer always says busy most of the time and you cannot do anything? This
is happening to me more and more and I'm getting tired of it. this didn't
start until about a month ago. Any ideas?
Sent f
I don't even have Pages.
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Sincerely,
The Constantly Barefooted Ray
Still a very proud and happy Mac and Iphone user!
On Feb 22, 2013, at 9:09 PM, Lisette Wesseling
wrote:
> Thanks Ray. Can it be done in Pages instead?
> Lisette
>
> On 23/02/2013, at 12:48 PM, Ray Foret Jr wr
The other alternatives being discussed were www.skipinput.com which employs an
add-on in either Firefox and safari and charges 99 cents for 50 captchas which
expire after a year and www.webvisum.com which requires you to request an
invitation before you can register and employs an add-on for fir
I'm not sure what you're referring to, but assuming you're referring to
ZCaptcha.
Go to www.azavia.com and click register. Once you are registered, you have to
refill your account to have funds for the captchas, which are currently
$0.16/captcha. Then go to www.azavia.com/zcaptcha to submit you
Hello, Jed, which site do you mean, the one for zcaptcha or romola?
On 2013-02-22, at 9:15 PM, "Jed Barton" wrote:
> Hey guys,
> Sorry if i mssed it. What is this sight, and how do i go about using it?
> Having just got on a mac, how do i go about it?
>
> Thanks,
> Jed
>
> From: macvisionarie
Hey guys,
Sorry if i mssed it. What is this sight, and how do i go about using it?
Having just got on a mac, how do i go about it?
Thanks,
Jed
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I did some googling and found the following link that gives a script to use.
The script appears to work but turning on the applescript menu as this article
suggests is a bit cumbersome because it means you have to go into the extras
menu and down to the script. So you might want to put it in the
WebVisum has an algorithm to read the captchas. ZCaptcha turns the screenshot
over to Amazon Mechanical Turk so that actual people may read the captchas.
God bless,
Brandon Olivares
Azavia Technologies
ZCaptcha — The Captcha Reader
Christ's Little Flock — Jesus is the Good Shepherd
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Hi all,
When I try to create a new blog post on wordpress.com, or edit one I posted
with my iPhone, I can't get arrow navigation to work. Vo sees some sort of rich
text area application, which threw up a red flag for me as soon as I heard it.
Inside there I interact with the edit text, but only
Hello, I did not realize it was people reading them. Is that how it is with web
vissum?
On 2013-02-22, at 7:43 PM, Brandon Olivares wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Sometimes if the screenshot is not very clear, it'll take a longer time to
> get back. Remember that people need to actually read it, and so i
Hello,
Sometimes if the screenshot is not very clear, it'll take a longer time to get
back. Remember that people need to actually read it, and so if it is unclear,
less are likely to do so, and the result is prone to be less accurate. We are
always trying to find ways to improve the service, bu
Hi,
First, make plain text from the format menu and save the file.
Then open terminal and type wc -w filename.
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On Feb 22, 2013, at 4:54 PM, Lisette Wesseling
wrote:
I don't own a TV and not watching Survivors is not doing me any harm. It's not
that VoiceOver is in danger, it is that Samsung has chosen to bring up
something which is doing them no financial harm whatsoever. And, frankly, it
will gain them nothing, besides being a rather ill conceived PR move.
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On Feb 22, 2013 2:54 PM, "Lisette Wesseling"
wrote:
> Is it possible to get a word count in text edit? If so how?
> I've looked everywhere.
> Thanks.
>
> Liset
Lisette,
The only way I've found to get a word count for my Text Edit documents is by
writing and saving in Text Edit, but then when I wish to get a word count, I
open that same document in Pages, navigate the Inspector until I see where it
says Word Count and get my count there. I do not know
Thanks Ray. Can it be done in Pages instead?
Lisette
On 23/02/2013, at 12:48 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote:
> No. Not directly. There are two ways you can do it. One way is through an
> apple script which you can find online and insert and assign a hotkey for
> and use. Another way is via an app
the only way that samsung will back off is if all blind people in north america
(and elsewhere) sue them (on an individual basis). they would be spending so
much money defending themselves in various courts that they would either go
under or call it a day and try something else.
the only way th
Well go figure, it's pretty much your typical competition on either end, and
one or the other has to get upset at some point over something petty. There
was the whole thing with GW Micro vs Freedom Scientific, a while back, which I
unfortunately don't remember what the whole story on that was,
Can we all just take a chill pill here?
Samsung makes some of the best televisions on the planet.
What happened in Germany has little if anything to do with accessibility at
all.
It was part of an ongoing legal maneuver to prevent Apple from kicking their
ass in sales and market share.
There'
Hi guys
I sure am sorry I bought that TV and speaker several months back from Google
Best Buy. It was made by this company. Now what's really strange is that
several years ago, that company-sponsored a guy dog school in Correia. Go
figure. Do something nice for Korean blind and then put the wood
It's certain not to be a problem regarding VoiceOver, however, why would
Samsung wast their time stirring up a tempest in a teapot? They deserve none of
my currency, that's for sure.
You can have an off day, but you can't have a day off! ---The Art of Fielding
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richr.
I've just installed firefox on my mac, which I'm not impressed with, and only
to on occasion, use webvisum when I can't get rumola to work, only to have it
not download. I've pressed the download link multiple times, and it just pops
up a new window, but when I open my downloads folder, it's no
The hell? That's senseless?.
Can they not handle competition or something? I don't foresee that holding
out and that's a waste of everybody's tax dollars, but the way I look at it, if
they want to waste their's and everybody else's time, all the power to them.
On Feb 22, 2013, at 4:22 PM, jsh
Hello,
I'm looking for a good RSS feed application. Any suggestions?
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Hi,
I am having a right evening of trying out captcha services!
I found ZCaptcha took a long time and then even though it said it was 100%
certain it didn't work when i pasted in the code.
I just go round in circles.
So then I tried Rumola. I downloaded the extension; activitated it fine and
I will never purchase one of their products! I can't believe they are so small
minded! What do you expect from lawyers!
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On Feb 22, 2013, at 3:22 PM, jshandr...@gmail.com
According to the article, echoed in the mac accessibility mailing, Samsung
has lost this battle in the German court in question.
However the pr damage should haunt them seriously. Does not google use
their phones for their accessibility items?
If the company wants to fight access, it should lose
Maccessibility has posted a new item, 'Samsung struggles to block iPhone function for the blind'
Samsung has suffered a setback in its effort to win an iPhone ban based on a function making its software accessible to blind people.
The South Korean firm had sought an injunction in a German
That's good news. I was a little concerned about if Voiceover would still be
available for I phone in the future. I was thinking of getting this for my next
cell phone once I try out one of my friend's Iphones to see if I like it. I
haven't used a touch screen before, so it will be a new experie
No. Not directly. There are two ways you can do it. One way is through an
apple script which you can find online and insert and assign a hotkey for and
use. Another way is via an app called "Word Count". Not in the app store so
far as I know.
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Sincerely,
The Constantly Ba
Also, how long has voiceover been out? If this really is true, it seems like
they waited an awful long time to sue over it.
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and the meditation of my heart
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On Feb 22, 2013, at 5:35 PM,
Hi there
I don't really know what's involved, but you might suggest to them that they
would want to be recognized as a Apple developer for the Mac portion of what
they're doing. In my case, my security settings won't let me download anything
that is not either from the app store or from a recogn
Hi there
Maybe I misremembering something, but didn't they not lose the last time they
did something like this? Therefore, I don't think we should worry about it yet
Regards
GG
Sent from my iPhone
On Feb 22, 2013, at 3:22 PM, jshandr...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> Hey Guys,
>
> This is completely
Or you could do cmd-y in the email and bring the attachemt up in quick look.
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May the words of my mouth
and the meditation of my heart
be acceptable to You, Lord,
my rock and my Redeemer.
(Psalm 19:14 HCSB)
On Feb 22, 2013, at 5:10 PM, Mark Baxter wrote:
> VO M to the menu bar, F f
VO M to the menu bar, F for File. Pull that down, and somewhere there should
be a "save attachments," option. Click it and you'll get the normal file
browser, specify where you want it to go. If I can help more, let me know.
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I've just received an attachment from a family member that I need to open and
read, that's supposed to be a text file of some sort, but for some reason, I
can't seem to locate it. This file is really important as it concerns family
matters, so I need to be able to locate it, but have tabbed aro
Is it possible to get a word count in text edit? If so how?
I've looked everywhere.
Thanks.
Lisette
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Folks,
How can I print a simple envelope without any recipients. I played with the
options in Pages and Contacts. With pages, I do not like any of the options as
they all include some form of shading and other pretty type effects when I just
want a basic black return address. As for the options
The lower price was offer they sent me. It's also on Amazon UK for under £60.
Regards
Adrienne
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Hello,
I am running 1 Password on my Mac and I can't seem to figure out how to get the
extension to show up on my toolbar. Does anyone know how to do this?
Scott Rumery
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Hey Guys,
This is completely off topic. However, this story I'm posting here is
disturbing.
samsung is suing Apple in a German court over Voice Over. They are claiming it
violated one of their patents. What is disturbing, they are trying to get
devices with Voice Over banned. Knowing what th
Hi, everyone.
I listened to Ricardo's first tutorial on the Apple to the Core site about
learning to use Garage Band. This is one of the programs I wanted to learn for
a week or so. Anyway, I wanted to use Garage Band today and install a driver on
the Mac for my Oxygen 8 keyboard. I've tried to
Hello everyone,
I have been noticing that voiceover has been performing strangely.
For example, when trying to have voiceover announce a line of text by pressing
VO-L nothing happens. Mostly all cases until recently this keyboard function
worked fine, but now voiceover no longer reads me the lin
Thanks Ray. I'll try that when I get back to my desk.
J.P.
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My guess is that the password dialog would be in a seperate window. Get to it
by using VO+F2 twice quickly. Then, you just choose the window you want and
press return.
Sent from my mac
Sincerely,
The Constantly Barefooted Ray
Still a very proud and happy Mac and Iphone user!
On Feb 22, 2013,
Hi, all,
When I go into Mail, etc. in System prefs in M L, I notice that Facebook has a
password with the same number of characters as my computer user account, and I
can't change it. I can type the Facebook one in there, but it just switches
right back to the previous password. Also, Facebook
Hi, folk,
There've been some questions about the Louis Braille Translator. I've had a
copy on my system for a few years and it still works in M L . Also, here's the
project link:
http://www.cucat.org/projects/louis/
HtH,
Teresa
"Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough."--Ric
Hey Guys,
I am hoping someone can help! I am having one hell of a morning. I forgot the
password on one of my Mac's. Let's not go there.
My Mac is running Mountain Lion. I get stuck at a certain point in recovery
mode and cant figure out the rest of the key strokes.
I go into recovery. Th
Hello Blake,
Your idea of tucking the thumb in under the index finger worked very, very
well. Now, perhaps you can tell me which finger I should tuck under which
other finger when attempting to place apps on one page of the homescreen into a
folder on another one. :-)
Again, thanks for the ti
As mentioned previously, Mozilla has adopted the IAccessible2 APIs on
all their products and refuses to add support for a second API, namely
Apple's. They claim Apple should implement IAccessilbe on the Mac but
Apple says they already have a perfectly good accessibility API
implemented. So unti
Last I checked, Filezilla is not accessible. I still can't figure out why,
since it works perfectly in Windows.
On Feb 22, 2013, at 12:11 PM, Chris Blouch wrote:
> Dunno about FileZilla but there have been a number of discussion previously
> about good accessible FTP clients. If you check the a
Hello list, I was wondering, if there is any accessible app for the Mac dealing
with weather, not the widget, but an app, that looks somewhat like weather
allowed? If anyone has any info please let me know. Thank you very much.
Jeffry Miller
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Here's the normal flow of things, at least for me:
1. I read a tweet in Tweetlist with a link I want to look at, but don't have
time to right then.
2. I triple tap the tweet, double tap the "URL" item, double tap "read later",
and am returned to my tweets to keep reading.
3. When I have more time
Actually no there is a guy named Alex that did the I think it was a .dmg
file for the Mqac. I can certainly find out.
On 2/22/13 9:49, Erik Burggraaf wrote:
Hi, I know that john is a linux user, and I know he's aware of the
mac. Most of the testers and other developers are on windows though.
Dunno about FileZilla but there have been a number of discussion
previously about good accessible FTP clients. If you check the archives
you'll find Trasmit and cyberduck mentioned often. Based on the other
Mozilla products I would assume Filezilla is not accessible.
CB
On 2/21/13 7:08 PM, Ke
Hi, I know that john is a linux user, and I know he's aware of the mac. Most
of the testers and other developers are on windows though. As far as I know, I
was the only mac tester at the time I was involved with the project.
Best,
Scott Berry wrote:
Actually Eric I'd like to correct your
Actually Eric I'd like to correct your statement just a bit the main
developer is a full time Linux user who develops this on Linux and does
have access to a Mac. I'll touch basis with them and if people are
alright I'll send a few of these emails out to their mailing list and
see what comes o
Hi Henry,
I have worked with this developer before and they were in a development
stage so yes your right. I'll keep this email and send it forth to them
and we'll see what happens here.
On 2/21/13 18:04, Henry D. Hollithron wrote:
Good Day:
Indeed. This program appears to be qui
It may be your pdf. I'm sitting here doing arrows with vo-keys locked and
holding shift down and i'm not having any skipped characters or spaces.
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be acceptable to You, Lord,
my rock and my Redeemer.
(Psalm 19:14 HCSB)
On Feb
Yes, shift and arrows still just bings at me, but VO-SHIFT ARROWS does the
trick. Thanks, Cheryl and Alex! This is a great help. I'm grateful for this
much, but I hope in the future Apple improves this a little. When I'm reading
word by word but change direction, VoiceOver misses some letters wh
I just installed this on my phone last night, and was able to get through the
angry acorns level, but it won't let me go any further, and for some reason,
won't even let me start the game over. It just keeps telling me, that some
character whose name I can't pronounce always starts from the bot
Okay, that does sound kinda cool. Organising into folders would be useful,
though I suspect this would just help me avoid reading some of those articles
I've been meaning to read for sometime now. So do I understand correctly that
you can add a link to Instapaper from Twitter clients without hav
Hmm, as for that, I'm not so sure, sorry. Maybe in the Calendar Settings. I
suspect there will be that ability but, if not, you could always create a new
Google Account I guess.
Just FYI, if your friend shares a calendar with you it may show up in Calendar
Preferences under the Delegates tab of
For me, in Preview, shift and arrows only pings at me; I have to use vo-shift
and arrows. However, I can lock vo-keys with vo-semicolon and then I can move
with shift and arrows.
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and the meditation of my heart
be acceptable to You, Lord,
my rock and my Rede
while it is on.
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On Feb 22, 2013, at 9:06, Nicholas Parsons
wrote:
> Thanks for the tip. I just tried this but it didn't work for me. I was in
> Preview, had interacted with the text, had Quick Nav on and set to
> Navigation. Shift with any arrow key just got that blank do
How are you attempting to read character by character? In most applications
with voiceover, unless you are in an application where you can edit, you have
to interact with the text you want to read and use vo-shift and the arrows. In
editable areas in applications that allow editing you can actua
The thing I like is that I can add articles from anywhere at all, then read
them in a simple interface. Reader does work, unless I'm in Windows or reading
a tweet on the iPhone but don't have time to read the linked article. Also, the
ability to save articles, and sort them into folders, is help
Thanks for the tip. I just tried this but it didn't work for me. I was in
Preview, had interacted with the text, had Quick Nav on and set to Navigation.
Shift with any arrow key just got that blank dong sound meaning there's nowhere
to go.
Did you mean shift with arrow keys while QuickNav was o
Thanks so much, I'll try this. Is there a way to create a new calendar? I'd
rather not share my primary one; I'd like to make a separate one just for this
group.
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On Feb 22, 2013, at 8:37, Nicholas Parsons
wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>
> 1. Yes, it will sync with Calendar on your M
To read by character, use shift with the left/right arrows.
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On Feb 22, 2013, at 8:54, Nicholas Parsons
wrote:
> Hi Tim,
>
> Thanks for your comments here. I've been getting mixed up with QuickLook and
> Preview and associating one with the other.
>
> In QuickLook I basic
Hi Tim,
Thanks for your comments here. I've been getting mixed up with QuickLook and
Preview and associating one with the other.
In QuickLook I basically had to read each whole page in one go. With Preview
I'm able to interact with the text and, with QuickNav turned on and set to the
Navigatio
Hi Alex,
1. Yes, it will sync with Calendar on your Mac and iOS device/s. You just add
your Google account like any other account. ON the Mac, you can do this from
within the Calendar app or from within the Mail, Contacts and Calandars
preference pane in system preferences. If you already have
News Rack, for sure. It ain't pretty, but it's accessible, simple and
efficient. Some buttons aren't labelled, but these don't seem to be important.
Some buttons have help tags which are, funnily enough, helpful.
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Great news. Thanks, Kawal. Currently there seems to be a bunch of GPS solutions
for people who are blind or have low vision but none of them is ideal. Some
have good accuracy but few features, some have plenty of features but poor
accuracy. They each seem to have some advantages and some disadva
Call me crazy, but I really like Apple Reader for that purpose. I find it
really useful. I can just open the context menu on a link on my Mac, add it to
reader, and then read it later on my iPhone. I know Instapaper looks really
pretty, but I'm not sure how this would benefit a VoiceOver user. I
Hello Adrienne,
According to the Irislink website, the cost of ReadIris 14 is €99 which is more
expensive than ABBYY FineReader.
They seem to have completely redesigned the whole program so I've no idea how
accessible it is.
As far as I know, FineReader will work with any scanner that's recogn
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