Re: Continuous read with Read2Go app

2013-04-09 Thread Mike Busboom
Hello Donna, Although I use Braille sometimes, I frequently use speech by itself. That is why I am looking for a way to read continuously, using the iPhone voice, without having to constantly manually advance through a book's pages. Take care, and thanks for your input, Mike On 9,Apr,2013,

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2013-04-09 Thread Donna Goodin
Anyone know if that list is still around? Cheers, Donna -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to

Re: First post

2013-04-09 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
The AI Squared group recently released a version of ZoomText for the Macintosh. I have not seen much about it but I did use ZoomText on other platforms for several years with IDE's, so it is very probabable that it could help you on the Macintosh side. When I used it for code development, I use

Re: iAd Producer a11y framework, best practices, and stamdard

2013-04-09 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Kevin, First, I probably would have missed your post since you started it with a reply to a post that I would have ignored, except I recognized your name and I am fairly up to date for a change on this list. I am not familiar with the package you mention, is this a new web development Also,

Re: mac keyboard shortcuts, for mail

2013-04-09 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
I am fighting a bit with ApppleScript and message / thread views in Lion. AppleScript does not seem to support this type of window completely. If somebody with mountain lion could check the "contains" area of apple script or else run a very specific 1 line AppleScript for me then I could determi

Convincing rehab services to purchase a Mac

2013-04-09 Thread Donna Goodin
Hello all, I am trying to advocate for student who is having difficulty getting rehab services to purchase a Mac for her. I would be interested in hearing from those of you who have gotten rehab to purchase a Mac. How did you go about convincing them to do that? Best, Donna Sent from my iPhone

Re: Convincing rehab services to purchase a Mac

2013-04-09 Thread Mark Baxter
In my case, I tailored my entire IWRP around becoming an accessible technology trainer and, once I proved my aptitude in a few "test cases," both California and Oregon's Rehab departments have so far played ball; Oregon just recently purchased this here Iphone 5 that I"m in love with, and in 200

Re: Convincing rehab services to purchase a Mac

2013-04-09 Thread Scott Berry
Hi Donna, Of course as you know justification is a big thing for rehab. Is this for personal or work purposes? Actually if you can give me a call I can work with you on this I have helped other people convince DVR to do these types of things. Please send me a private message and I'll share

Re: Really strange problem with Amadeus

2013-04-09 Thread Chris Gilland
OK Garth. I think that is probably what I was not understanding, was that while not playing, it was the insertion point that was moving, not the play head. So, I guess then, what would be the best stratigy that you! would personally take if you didn't want to have audio playing and use your ar

Reply directly to the sender of an email?

2013-04-09 Thread Brandt
Hi there folks, Is there anyway to reply directly to the sender of an email message? Thanks so long. Warm regards, Brandt Steenkamp Sent from my macbook pro Contact me: Mobile/iMessage/WatsApp: +27781205013 Email: brandt.steenk...@gmail.com My ring to Skype: California, United States +(1

Transmit, or cute FTP which is better?

2013-04-09 Thread Jeffry Miller
Yes, I was just wondering, which is better to use, transmit, or cute FTP? I am trying both of them, but can't seem to find how to get the list of sites in the cute FTP one. Are there any tutorials or anything on Cute FTP Jeffry miller -- You received this message because you are subscribed to

Re: Reply directly to the sender of an email?

2013-04-09 Thread Mark Baxter
Command R replied to the sender of the E-mail, with the caveat that if the sender is a list serve, your message will go to the list. If you want to reply directly to the sender of a message you get from a list serve, you can obtain the individual E-mail address of the sender by interacting wit

Re: Reply directly to the sender of an email?

2013-04-09 Thread Brandt
Thanks. Highly appreciated. Warm regards, Brandt Steenkamp Sent from my macbook pro Contact me: Mobile/iMessage/WatsApp: +27781205013 Email: brandt.steenk...@gmail.com My ring to Skype: California, United States +(1)760-5140161 Extension 512 Cape Town, South Africa +(27)213-002317

Re: Continuous read with Read2Go app

2013-04-09 Thread Esther
Hello Mike, Have you looked into using the Voice Dream Reader app? This app does not have the same level of navigation options that the Read2Go app has, so you'll probably still want to do most of your Bookshare reading with Read2Go. However, Voice Dream Reader has some features that I believ

Making a document accessible to seniors who don't use a computer?

2013-04-09 Thread Maurice Mines
Good afternoon, I have an interesting accessibility problem. I have a document that reads very well in TextEdit. But the document that I am being easily on a computer, has to be converted into an audio form format? So my question to the group is what he is the best way to achieve that? I have tw

Re: Making a document accessible to seniors who don't use a computer?

2013-04-09 Thread erik burggraaf
Why don't you just highlight all the text, press control option shift M, and choose add to ITunes as a spoken track? Then you can just burn the resultant audio to a CD. Best, Erik Burggraaf Follow my series of articles about setting up a small business through the ontario disability support p

Re: Reply directly to the sender of an email?

2013-04-09 Thread Teresa Cochran
Another possible way to do this assumes that you have quoted text in the reply. If you do, reply to a message, find the sender's email address in the body of the message, copy it, delete the list address in the "to" field, and paste in the address you copied. HtH, Teresa On Apr 9, 2013, at 12:1

Re: Making a document accessible to seniors who don't use a computer?

2013-04-09 Thread Chris Blouch
If you uses TextEdit and convert the document to plain text does it read reasonably well? If so then you can use terminal to generate an AIFF file of the audio. So if I save the document as important_stuff.txt then in terminal I would do say < important_stuff.txt -o important_stuff.aiff and y

Re: Making a document accessible to seniors who don't use a computer?

2013-04-09 Thread Chris Blouch
Or you can do what Erik suggest, which sounds a lot easier than my solution, unless you wanted to embed some directives in the doc. Hmm, maybe those directives would still be honored by the add to iTunes process. Here is one of the early emails which talks about using the say command and embedd

Re: Making a document accessible to seniors who don't use a computer?

2013-04-09 Thread erik burggraaf
Hi, I think you can actually set a few arguments in the add to ITunes as a spoken track service. The only one you seem to be able to do within dictation and speech is the default voice and the speech rate. Best, Erik Burggraaf Follow my series of articles about setting up a small business thro

Re: Digest for macvisionaries@googlegroups.com - 25 Messages in 17 Topics

2013-04-09 Thread Chenelle Hancock
> > Hi Donna I was able to get rehab to purchase a mack over 3, years ago. I then told them that i wanted to learn another new computer system and that i wanted to work for apple. Therefore, they went ahead and it chased me a 15 inch mack book pro 2010. Sincerely Chenelle -- You received thi

Re: Convincing rehab services to purchase a Mac

2013-04-09 Thread Eric Oyen
I haven't done so myself, but it is possible. The 2 justifications that can be used are: 1. lower cost of ownership (as accessibility is included) 2. Greater included feature set for the cost involved (built in camera, bluetooth, wi-fi, firewire, USB 2.x or greater, full apple repair support, mi

Re: Convincing rehab services to purchase a Mac

2013-04-09 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi there Although the cost may be a good justification to rehab, I think the second option of the employer wanting training and use of Apple products is an even better argument in this case. You might want to also get the employer on this as well, if it's possible. What they say means a lot. Al

keyboard focus with vmware 5/win8

2013-04-09 Thread anouk radix
Hello everyone, I am impressed with the narrator version that microsoft put into windows 8. I could install it quickly thanks to vmware and was then able to go right ahead and get nvda with just the narrator. So nvda works fine but i have at time sproblems knowing if i am in windows or in vmwar

Re: Convincing rehab services to purchase a Mac

2013-04-09 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi Erik, Thanks for this. Unfortunately I live in the rural backwater that is southern Illinois. Our VR people are at least 10 years behind. What they've told my student is that they already have PCs and copies of JAWS stock-piled in a warehouse, so even if the mac cost $5 it would be more e

Re: Convincing rehab services to purchase a Mac

2013-04-09 Thread Donna Goodin
Thank you, Gigi. I'm not sure much of this will carry much weight, for the reasons I just explained. but I'll try and get them to talk to Texas. Someday these idiots just have to move into the 21st-century. Best, Donna On Apr 9, 2013, at 5:51 PM, Eugenia Firth wrote: > Hi there > Although th

Re: Convincing rehab services to purchase a Mac

2013-04-09 Thread Mark Baxter
The counter argument to this is that those PCs are out of date, and the copies of Jaws come with out of date SMA's which may cost to upgrade. Stockpiling does not sound like much more than a cop-out. • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1..

some wordpress help please

2013-04-09 Thread Maxwell Ivey
Hello; I have a question about wordpress, but its not a mac accessibility question. I have received a request to post my first banner ad on my wordpress built website. So, now i need to know the best and easiest way to add rotating banners to my website. I have read about add rotate and anoth

Re: Convincing rehab services to purchase a Mac

2013-04-09 Thread Donna Goodin
I agree, but they don't care. Donna On Apr 9, 2013, at 9:23 PM, Mark Baxter wrote: > The counter argument to this is that those PCs are out of date, and the > copies of Jaws come with out of date SMA's which may cost to upgrade. > Stockpiling does not sound like much more than a cop-out. > >

Re: Convincing rehab services to purchase a Mac

2013-04-09 Thread Eric Oyen
having items in a wherehouse for 5 years?> thats a waste of public funds, not to mention a potential pollution hazard. I don't think there would be much aftermarket support for such machines. In fact, the entities that stockpiled all this equipment and never disbursed it to the clients should be