Strange problem with the Finder

2013-04-22 Thread Chris Gilland
I am having a very strange problem with the Finder which I hope you all can help me resolve: As some of you know, I had to format my Mountain Lion partition last night due to system instability. This process required me to erase the entire partition before reinstalling the OS. Subsequently, u

Re: odd behavior when trying to pair and connect my Mac and iPhone

2013-04-22 Thread Ray Foret Jr
I think, that is if I am not mistaken, that he may be trying to use the typetophone app and is having connection problems. IS that correct? Sent from my mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in! Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray Still a very proud and happy

Re: odd behavior when trying to pair and connect my Mac and iPhone

2013-04-22 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Shane, You can't pair an iPhone and a Mac via Bluetooth. You can sync your iPhone wirelessly, but that's different. Cheers, Anne On 23 Apr 2013, at 04:01, shane christenson wrote: > HI listers. IN trying to pair and connect my iPhone to my Mac, I do > everything it says to do, and wh

Re: App Accessibility: Please Read!

2013-04-22 Thread Anne Robertson
I've been thinking about this one and wonder whether a pool of beta testers could be made available to developers to test for accessibility for various disabilities. Then, if an app has been tested and approved, it could be noted in its description. After all, we're not the only ones with diffic

Re: Apple Submenu

2013-04-22 Thread Kerri
I unchecked mine as well, hope it rids me of my problem. On 2013-04-22, at 5:36 AM, Steve Holmes wrote: > I fixed it ! At least I think I have so far. The question of dealing with the > mouse pointer was the key. When I went into the VO utilities menu, I came > across the mouse pointer heading;

odd behavior when trying to pair and connect my Mac and iPhone

2013-04-22 Thread shane christenson
HI listers. IN trying to pair and connect my iPhone to my Mac, I do everything it says to do, and when I go to connect the phone with the mac, it says 'connection unsuccessful. Mac Mini is not supported. Anyone know how to fix this? Shane -- You received this message because you are subscrib

Re: Software Update

2013-04-22 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Okay, thanks, Maria. I'll give that a go next time. -- 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 thi

Re: pdf files when in a web site

2013-04-22 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Can't you just uninstall Adobe Reader from your user account anyway as you shouldn't need it? Or do other people use your account who like Adobe? I would have also thought you could disable plugins from the Advanced tap in Safari Preferences. -- You received this message because you are subscr

Re: App Accessibility: Please Read!

2013-04-22 Thread Nicholas Parsons
I agree that: • Some indication of an app's accessibility prior to purchase would be incredibly useful; however • A simple user rating system would be inadequate for the following reasons: – It would require someone to purchase the app in order t

Re: pdf files when in a web site

2013-04-22 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Nothing drastic should happen other than Adobe not working within Safari which is immaterial for you anyway. If you wish to be careful, just move the two Adobe PDF Viewer plug-ins out of the folder and onto your Desktop. This should make them unavailable to Safari thus telling Safari to u

Re: Wickedly! strange problem with symbol pronunciation

2013-04-22 Thread Chris Gilland
Alex, That's exactly how you fix the issue. By default, Apple has put that exact entry you mentioned in the dictionary. Unfortunately, mine somehow got wiped. Again, as I said this morning, I got it fixed, I think, but man! that was the strangest thing I've ever seen! I wonder what the hec

Does anyone use Logic for music creation?

2013-04-22 Thread Tom Frank
Is there anyone out there who uses Logic on the Mac? Before I shell out $199 I want to make sure it is VO friendly. For that price, it better be a love affair and not just friendly. Tom Frank vermont...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: pdf files when in a web site

2013-04-22 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi Tim. I found two plug-ins. I deleted one, and it didn't work but nothing drastic happened either. Then I found another one which says AdobePDFViewerNPAPI.plugin Plug-in group (6 of 11) when VoiceOver lands on it. Oh, when I deleted the first one, I got what I said before, a pdf file up there

RE: alfred

2013-04-22 Thread wayne17a
Hello esther thank you for the reply and lets hope there is somebody that has used Alfred because what I heard on the nosila podcast it did sound a very useful happ so lets hope the problems can be sorted out so again thanks From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisi

Re: de-authorizing windows7 in a bootcamp installation

2013-04-22 Thread Chris H
I am saying uninstall the Bootcamp copy by erasing the Bootcamp partition for example then yes the product key in the Fusion copy will overwrite the previous activation. Christopher Hallsworth E-mail and Facebook: challswor...@sky.com Skype: chrishallsworth7266 Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/

Re: de-authorizing windows7 in a bootcamp installation

2013-04-22 Thread Phil Halton
Are you saying that I don't have to do anything about the bootcamp copy, and that using the product key in the Fusion copy will override the bootcamp installations authorization? - Original Message - From: "Chris H" To: Sent: Monday, April 22, 2013 2:49 PM Subject: Re: de-authorizin

Re: VoiceOver and MathML

2013-04-22 Thread niles.bisp...@capella.edu
Thanks Chris! Your information about the lone developer is what I had learned too, and the status of VoiceOver support for MathML doesn't seem to have changed much in almost a year. I contacted Chris Bledsoe last year for information about Apple's plans regarding support for MathML, and he di

Struggling with new iTunes Interface

2013-04-22 Thread Graham Roby
Hi Esther, Big thanks for your help. Worked like a charm. Pity to get it to work I've had to revert back to the old look. I could make things work with the new look but god it was slow and cumbersome compared to how it used to be. As ever all the best Graham -- You received this message b

Re: silver dollar app question.

2013-04-22 Thread Teresa Cochran
Yes, practice. Really; I'm not being facetious. It just gets faster and faster, and there's a narrower and narrower time window. Teresa On Apr 22, 2013, at 11:30 AM, Jessica Moss wrote: > I finally bought the app yesterday and find the shooter game to be my > favorite, but can't get passed the

Re: Mouse keys doing a mess

2013-04-22 Thread Teresa Cochran
This might be the difference. I have a Mac Mini with standard keyboard. I wasn't paying attention to the model of the machine you have; sorry. Teresa On Apr 22, 2013, at 10:30 AM, Daniela Rubio wrote: > Well, Thank you for saying this, do you also have a mac book pro? It is very > strange, isn

Re: App Accessibility: Please Read!

2013-04-22 Thread Ricardo Walker
Well, yes. Me and around half of the people alive actually. But, that's besides the point, and I'm not even going to go there any further with you about that. I just believe that making blanket statements like "separate is never equal" is pretty narrow thinking especially when talking about

Re: de-authorizing windows7 in a bootcamp installation

2013-04-22 Thread Chris H
This is done automatically once you activate the installation in Fusion. Christopher Hallsworth E-mail and Facebook: challswor...@sky.com Skype: chrishallsworth7266 Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/@christopherh40 Find my blog at challsworth2.wordpress.com On 22/04/2013 14:30, Phil Halton wrote:

Re: silver dollar app question.

2013-04-22 Thread Jessica Moss
I finally bought the app yesterday and find the shooter game to be my favorite, but can't get passed the round where she throws the bread plates. Does anyone have a tip for that? Sent from my iPhone On Apr 21, 2013, at 9:20 PM, Alex Hall wrote: > You get points for each plate you shoot, more

Re: wordpress expert needed

2013-04-22 Thread erik burggraaf
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Re: Mouse keys doing a mess

2013-04-22 Thread Daniela Rubio
Well, Thank you for saying this, do you also have a mac book pro? It is very strange, isn't it? Thank you if there are more ideas! Best Daniela Rubio T iPhone: +34662328507 El 22/04/2013, a las 16:14, Teresa Cochran escribió: > How odd. I don't notice that it interferes, and I leave mous

Re: Mouse keys doing a mess

2013-04-22 Thread Daniela Rubio
Thank you for the suggestion. Now it does what I need to do and I turn it back off. Take care! Best Daniela Rubio T iPhone: +34662328507 El 22/04/2013, a las 12:30, Anne Robertson escribió: > Hello Daniela, > > Mousekeys interferes with the normal use of the keyboard. This is why I have

RE: flack conversion?

2013-04-22 Thread -
Regarding sox and xld audio applications: "Whitch one is more voice over friedly? Or are these for the PC?" Both are for the mac, I use them in terminal only with no speech issues. Xld has a gui version also, so why not download it and see, both are free and everyone can lern from your exper

wordpress expert needed

2013-04-22 Thread Maxwell Ivey
Hello group; I just made this offer on Facebook, linked in, and twitter; so I'm going to put it out here too. I need someone to help me understand how to make my links section work like links pages. I also need help sorting the ads on my site. I'm using wordpress and don't really want to go

Re: Soundforge for mac.

2013-04-22 Thread Juan Pablo
Exactly, jürgen. For this kind of edittin sf works very well. But when you try to make plugins customizations the problems apeare. Was for this cause that I wrote in the first E-mail: That for advanced editions SF for mac at this point does not a good option. Best, Juan. From: Jürgen Fleger Sen

Re: alfred

2013-04-22 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
It is a application that is very similar to LaunchBar it is similar to spotlight except it does not just do searches. For example you might be able to type nm jon in the text entry box to have it create an email to me. The developer for Alfred has stated on twitter that the next version should

Re: Mouse keys doing a mess

2013-04-22 Thread Teresa Cochran
How odd. I don't notice that it interferes, and I leave mouse keys on all the time. Teresa On Apr 22, 2013, at 3:30 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: > Hello Daniela, > > Mousekeys interferes with the normal use of the keyboard. This is why I have > it set to be toggled on and off by pressing the Opt

de-authorizing windows7 in a bootcamp installation

2013-04-22 Thread Phil Halton
I want to use the version of windows7 I currently have installed in bootcamp in a VMWare fusion virtual machine instead. I have only one product key for windows7 currently attached to that bootcamp install, and am not interested in spending another few hundred for another key. Does anyone know

Re: App Accessibility: Please Read!

2013-04-22 Thread Cheree Heppe
Too young to remember the civil rights movement, eh? Sent from my IPhone 4S On 22/04/2013, at 4:15, Ricardo Walker wrote: Hi, So there shouldn't be men and women rest rooms? :). Just keep in mind, separate might not always mean equal but, equal doesn't always mean fair either. JMO. Ricardo

Re: Software Update

2013-04-22 Thread Maria & Joe Chapman
HI. it will do that for me while it's still searching for updates. Wait until it has totally finished doing it's thing and see if it still jumps around. hth Blessings! Maria Joe and loving guide Karly. Email/ I Message: &fb bubbygirl1...@gmail.com twitter: bubbygirl skype: bubbygirl1972 bub

Re: Soundforge for mac.

2013-04-22 Thread Juan Pablo
Hello, Other plugin that is unusable in the mac version. The graphic EQ. is not a valid reason that if is a graphic plug is obvious that has to be unusable. In other. platforms are 100% accessible. If kevin can do some tests would be great, naturally. best, Juan. From: Ray Foret Jr Sent: Mon

switching between devices with big jam box?

2013-04-22 Thread Kliphton
The subject line says it all. How do you switch between devices on the big jam box when you have more than 1 paired, and they are both on? Thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiv

Re: Apple Submenu

2013-04-22 Thread Alex Hall
That does indeed seem to have done it, thanks! I'll still be reporting this, since low-vision users may wish to have vo follow the mouse, and so this is still a problem. For me it is fixed since I never use a mouse, but I can see it being problematic for some users. Thanks for the tip, and for a

Re: App Accessibility: Please Read!

2013-04-22 Thread Karen Lewellen
? I am not sure how this applies? this is simply a different ranking rooted in marketing that showcases the advantages. instead of keeping as I suppose? things are now, the evaluation blended in among things that have nothing to do with its use. why not include more people who are never goin

Re: Apple Submenu

2013-04-22 Thread Steve Holmes
I fixed it ! At least I think I have so far. The question of dealing with the mouse pointer was the key. When I went into the VO utilities menu, I came across the mouse pointer heading; the next option is a popup menu. I changed it to Ignore; it had been set to Follow or something. I'm not sure

Re: App Accessibility: Please Read!

2013-04-22 Thread Sandi Jazmin Kruse
hi. First-too chris. Never let them put you down because you are blind, no matter the situation, i have a story about that and it is scary but since it is not directly mac related i wont post it here. I am not sure if a program can be tested if it is accessible or not so that would mean that every

Re: Wickedly! strange problem with symbol pronunciation

2013-04-22 Thread Alex Hall
I have no idea how you could fix this, but maybe you could trick it. What if you add the ampersand to your pronunciation dictionary and told it to be spoken as "and"? I know it is not an actual fix, but it will save you the annoyance of hearing the whole thing when vo runs across it. Also, and t

Re: Apple Submenu

2013-04-22 Thread Alex Hall
My cursors all chase each other, and the mouse pointer moves the vo cursor. Again, though, I use a Mini so I'm not even touching my mouse when I type. I have not yet tried making a new account... On Apr 22, 2013, at 4:31 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Hi, > > How do you have your cursors set up i

Re: App Accessibility: Please Read!

2013-04-22 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, So there shouldn't be men and women rest rooms? :). Just keep in mind, separate might not always mean equal but, equal doesn't always mean fair either. JMO. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Apr 22, 2013, at 6:34 AM, Cheree Heppe

Pronunciation issue is fixed, but I'm still baffled.

2013-04-22 Thread Chris Gilland
Well, I finally did the one thing I didn't think to try. I went to vo utility, then to the file menu, and reset custom settings sub menu. Under there I found pronunciations. I tried it, and sure enough. It worked. I'm still totally perplexed how in the heck all of them were deleted to start

Ouch! This pronunciation issue's worse than I thought!

2013-04-22 Thread Chris Gilland
OK, Now, I'm really! wonderring! I just made a discovery. The reason that it's not saying and, but is saying ampersand as described in my last post is because that entry got removed from the rponunciations tab under vo utility/speech. What's strange though is everything! including the stuff A

Re: App Accessibility: Please Read!

2013-04-22 Thread Cheree Heppe
Separate is never equal. Sent from my IPhone 4S On 21/04/2013, at 13:16, Karen Lewellen wrote: Hi folks, Interesting discussion. This is just a suggestion. Why does access have to be included in the same ratings system at all? Two ideas come to mind here, again just as a question. First why no

Re: Mouse keys doing a mess

2013-04-22 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Daniela, Mousekeys interferes with the normal use of the keyboard. This is why I have it set to be toggled on and off by pressing the Option key 5 times. You certainly don't want Mousekeys on permanently. Cheers, Anne On 22 Apr 2013, at 11:52, Daniela Rubio wrote: > Hello: > Just to

Re: Mouse keys doing a mess

2013-04-22 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Did you lock your keys by accident? I did that once. VO semicolon Kawal. On 22 Apr 2013, at 10:52 AM, Daniela Rubio wrote: > Hello: > Just to see if somebody has experienced the same and if we could fix it. When > I activate mouse Keys, my keyboard becomes unusable. I can't hit enter, or >

Mouse keys doing a mess

2013-04-22 Thread Daniela Rubio
Hello: Just to see if somebody has experienced the same and if we could fix it. When I activate mouse Keys, my keyboard becomes unusable. I can't hit enter, or CMD+W or Q, nothing works as it should. Not even VO+Space bar. I need to untick the checkbox using my trackpad if I want my Mac to be OK

Wickedly! strange problem with symbol pronunciation

2013-04-22 Thread Chris Gilland
OK, I must honestly say: this has me very baffled. I was having lots of disk permission problems so badly that Disk Utility couldn't even fix all of them. So, I reformatted the partition, and reinstalled Mountain Lion from scratch, then remigrated all of my stuff back over with migration Assis

Re: Apple Submenu

2013-04-22 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, How do you have your cursors set up in Voiceover utilities? For example, do you have your mouse pointer set to move voiceover cursor? Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Apr 21, 2013, at 11:37 PM, Steve Holmes wrote: > I just looke

Re: Help with VMWare Fusion

2013-04-22 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
I use the USB keyboard provided by Apple if I want to use NDVA in Fusion and use the insert key on the number pad without any problems. I also leave my Apple keyboard which is connected Via bluetooth to operate certain functions in VMWARE. It's just great that I can use both keyboards in Fusion

Re: Soundforge for mac.

2013-04-22 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Hi, that's not my experience. At least normal sound editing like highlighting, deleting, mixing, adding effects and so on works fine for me. I don't use mastering features and so I don't know about htem. But all in all SF for Mac is quite accessible in terms of my needs. What I miss a lot compai

Re: Apple Submenu

2013-04-22 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
I have no such thing happening on my I Mac. Kawal. On 22 Apr 2013, at 05:05 AM, Kerri wrote: > I thought so too but I even turned my track pad off and it still occurs. > On 2013-04-21, at 2:20 PM, "Chris Gilland" wrote: > >> That's the only thing I even remotely could think of, Harry. >> >>