Re: Another Annoying issue in mail.

2012-02-28 Thread Chris Moore
To be honest I have switched back to the classic layout. Only because I like being able to interact with the columns so I can just whizz up and down the subjects. Makes it much quicker when you get so much mail to red. I do find this version of mail more buggy and less responsive than the

Re: Seri on the Mac?

2011-10-24 Thread Chris Moore
Well you have guessed it, it will be part of Mac OS x 10.8 (Lynx) :) Well I would not be surprised if Apple did licence more Nuance speech to text stuff for the Mac, and perhaps some built in OCR so we can read graphics and DVD menus just like JAWS 13 Let's hope VO gets a complete rewrite on

Re: A Quick Tip for Those Now Using Control-Tab in Lion Mail 7.2

2011-10-22 Thread Chris Moore
You can also use VO+J to jump to the message area. On 22 Oct 2011, at 09:24, M. Taylor wrote: Hello Everyone, As has been noted in previous messages, it is now necessary to add the [Control] key to the [Tab] key in order to quickly jump to the Message Content Area when Lion 7.2 Mail is set

Re: Editing MIDI Events In Garage Band

2011-10-18 Thread Chris Moore
Sadly there is nothing on the Mac currently that let's you edit MIDI events with VO. It is an area we are all hoping will add. My advice for now is write to accessibil...@apple.com requesting the feature to become accessible in GB and also visit www.apple.com/feedback and select GB, and

Re: Editing MIDI Events In Garage Band

2011-10-18 Thread Chris Moore
, Gavin On 18 Oct 2011, at 12:50 PM, Chris Moore wrote: Sadly there is nothing on the Mac currently that let's you edit MIDI events with VO. It is an area we are all hoping will add. My advice for now is write to accessibil...@apple.com requesting the feature to become accessible

Re: I can't seem to move my contacts and Mobile data to I Cloud.

2011-10-14 Thread Chris Moore
I had issues moving mobileme to iCloud and tried all day yesterday. I just tried 30 minutes ago and worked this time. I have even successfully backed up my iPhone 3GS to the cloud, so no more having to plug my phone into iTunes. Give it another go. Chris On 14 Oct 2011, at 09:06, Kawal

Re: ios5 podcast VoiceOverOn

2011-10-13 Thread Chris Moore
I totally love listening to Ivan and Kevin. They just provide the plain truth good or bad. No nonsense, just how I like it being british. Ivan, if you are reading, really happy you have managed to regain some useful vision. Hope this does not mean you will no longer be helping us improve VO

Re: Keyboard equivalent of 2 finger flick down gesture??

2011-09-26 Thread Chris Moore
Press control + option + A On 26 Sep 2011, at 06:23, Ioana Gandrabur wrote: Hi all, Is there a command to read all from cursor like 2 finger flick down on trackpad? I thought of adding it as a braille display command but could not find it in the list of available commands. Thanks,

Re: Is there a manual eject button anywhere on the MBP?

2011-09-16 Thread Chris Moore
You can eject a disc whilst holding the mouse button down on a Mac with a mouse attached. Hold down the mouse button (left if you have two) and then power up keeping the button pressed. Am not sure if this works on a MBP whilst holding down the trackpad instead. On 16 Sep 2011, at 12:52,

Re: Switching Between Open Pages in Safari

2011-09-16 Thread Chris Moore
Press VO + F2 and that will let you switch between open windows. Just use the arrow up and down keys to select which window you wish to bring into focus and hit enter On 16 Sep 2011, at 17:00, Teresa Cochran wrote: Hi, folk, Just when I think I've figured this out, I'm bumbling around

Re: iTunes 10.4.1 is out

2011-08-22 Thread Chris Moore
This version seems lightning fast, I would even say faster than 10.3. The column browser is still read out by VO as the playlist browser though and we still can't read the About iTunes window. Well done Apple though, iTunes now is a joy to use again. On 22 Aug 2011, at 22:28, Darcy Burnard

Re: garageband jampacks and other plugins?

2011-08-18 Thread Chris Moore
Isn't it about time Apple brought out some new ones? I think I bought mine in 2004! *looks in Ricardo's GB folder for those trax I was after :p On 18 Aug 2011, at 15:06, Ricardo Walker wrote: Hi, you can't buy the jam packs via the Mac app store at present to my knowledge. But you can

Re: Installed Windows7 Alone.

2011-08-17 Thread Chris Moore
I don't mean to be rude guys, bud isn't it off topic for a Apple Mac list to discuss how to install Windows 7? On 16 Aug 2011, at 19:29, Red.Falcon wrote: Hi Chris! Sorry but someone else posted about the sighted help! They snuck in and if you still have the older post's you can see who it

Re: going from an MBP to a MacBook Air

2011-08-15 Thread Chris Moore
Donna, One other thing to bare in mind if you are going for the 11inch model, is that it does not have a memory card reader. This is done via a USB dongle instead. Not sure if this is important to you. I must admit, the 11inch model is very alluring. I think I will stick with my Macbook Pro

Re: IMPORTANT: To MacBook Pro Lion Users

2011-08-12 Thread Chris Moore
If only we could turn the screen brightness down to complete zero on the iPhone too (it is still visible with the brightness way down). On 12 Aug 2011, at 08:06, Ricardo Walker wrote: Hi, Just like to add to this, If using a macbook, turning on screen curtain is not a substitute for

Re: IMPORTANT: To MacBook Pro Lion Users

2011-08-12 Thread Chris Moore
rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter Skype: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On Aug 12, 2011, at 3:12 AM, Chris Moore wrote: If only we could turn the screen brightness down to complete zero on the iPhone too (it is still visible with the brightness way down). On 12 Aug 2011, at 08:06, Ricardo Walker

Re: IMPORTANT: To MacBook Pro Lion Users

2011-08-12 Thread Chris Moore
, restarting your macbook will turn back up screen brightness. But there's no intuitive way to restart an iPhone without sight unless your a voiceover user. Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter Skype: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On Aug 12, 2011, at 3:12 AM, Chris Moore

Re: IMPORTANT: To MacBook Pro Lion Users

2011-08-12 Thread Chris Moore
Or should I say, that is what he implied, he's a smart cookie :) On 12 Aug 2011, at 18:24, Chris Moore wrote: Ricardo did not say that, he said if you turn the screen curtain on it will turn itself off after a reboot, this behaves the same way on iOS devices too. On 12 Aug 2011, at 18:19

Re: double reading of linked text in safari reader

2011-08-08 Thread Chris Moore
Mary, I can confirm this issue no longer happens with Lion. I used to experience the same problems whilst reading UK online newspapers. Am pleased to say that annoying issue is now history. That Macworld article read flawlessly. Chris On 8 Aug 2011, at 21:38, Mary Otten wrote: Hi all, I

Re: Garageband success again

2011-08-07 Thread Chris Moore
Seems to play fine for me via the Sound Cloud website. *shrugs On 7 Aug 2011, at 14:21, Paul Erkens wrote: Hi Christer, Unlike some on the list, I can go to edz page, but even pressing the play button won't play the tune. Maybe, public dropbox links are an alternative good way of sharing

Re: Lion Mail, Conversations view and interacting

2011-08-02 Thread Chris Moore
Yeah I must admit, I used to browse this way too. I have not tried it in classic mode, so have you tried to see if you can still do it that way? On 2 Aug 2011, at 10:53, Neil Barnfather - TalkNav wrote: Hi All, A hopefully quick question, I used to have my mail in Snow Leopard set up so

Re: addictive drums vst in garage band?

2011-08-02 Thread Chris Moore
There are some nice drum kits included in the Apple Jam Packs for Garage Band. On 2 Aug 2011, at 19:45, Cody wrote: Hi all, I am a musician and one of the best VST's I've found is called addictive drums. I have used it on windows under vst host and it works, but I am wondering how this

Re: adium not working under lion

2011-08-01 Thread Chris Moore
I am not having any Adium problems here, have you tried doing a disk repair with disk utility? or tried downloading the latest version and installing it again? On 1 Aug 2011, at 10:45, johns.kary wrote: Hopefully this will be the last question. lol Ever since I've installed lion, adium has

Re: Anyone having the follwing issues with safari and mail?

2011-07-31 Thread Chris Moore
Are you using conversation view in Mail? If so, your messages are probably being grouped. Which website causes VO to crash? Have you ran disk utility and repaired permissions since upgrading to Lion? On 31 Jul 2011, at 11:15, Naama Shang wrote: Hi, I have noticed the following issues since

Re: Mail classic view

2011-07-31 Thread Chris Moore
Yes I have seen this too, and it happens in standard view also. I think it has something to do with Mail sorting the items into newest first, previously the oldest message would appear first. I have reported this to Apple, I suggest you do the same. On 1 Aug 2011, at 06:52, Shen wrote: Hi,

Lion Mail

2011-07-30 Thread Chris Moore
Hi all, I am interested to know how everyone is now using Lion Mail? At first, I was using the classic view, but now I have switched to the new standard 3 column layout. I have my messages grouped by conversation (collapsed) and I used to hit enter to open all of the conversations (previously

Re: Lion Mail

2011-07-30 Thread Chris Moore
Jul 2011, at 01:44, Kevin Mattingly wrote: Chris, Its good to see the ban has been lifted and you're no long providing useless babble to the list (JUst kidding). All good stuff man and I'll switch and give it a try. Kev On Jul 30, 2011, at 8:22 PM, Chris Moore wrote: Hi all, I am

Re: Lion Mail

2011-07-30 Thread Chris Moore
me to the top and bottom of the message list. I have a way that I can put my finger-pad on VO and shift keys so that it overlaps all of them at once, and it's like holding down one key with each hand. Teresa On Jul 30, 2011, at 5:22 PM, Chris Moore wrote: Hi all, I am interested

Re: Running Parallels with voiceover

2011-05-17 Thread Chris Moore
Sadly it is not accessible, I made the same mistake last year and now I am using VM Fusion which is fully accessible. On 17 May 2011, at 06:58, Jenny Wood wrote: Good day all. So basically, I am just now toying with running windows inside of OS X. We already happen to have a copy of

Re: Digital Distribution, was Re: macbook pro or macbook air?

2011-05-17 Thread Chris Moore
I have a pile of blank CDs, to be honest I can't see me using them, I do not even create MP3 or Audio CDs anymore. The only thing I have on Disc are DVD or Blu-ray, but with my Apple TV I can see them being boxed up and placed in storage soon. Can anyone remember how expensive blank CD and

Re: Digital Distribution, was Re: macbook pro or macbook air?

2011-05-17 Thread Chris Moore
Contact me: Skype: brandt.steenkamp007 MSN: brandt...@live.com Google talk/AIM: brandt.steenk...@gmail.com Twitter @brandtsteenkamp - Original Message - From: Chris Moore moor...@blueyonder.co.uk To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 9:41 AM Subject: Re

Re: Digital Distribution, was Re: macbook pro or macbook air?

2011-05-17 Thread Chris Moore
: Skype: brandt.steenkamp007 MSN: brandt...@live.com Google talk/AIM: brandt.steenk...@gmail.com Twitter @brandtsteenkamp - Original Message - From: Chris Moore moor...@blueyonder.co.uk To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 1:54 PM Subject: Re: Digital

Re: Digital Distribution, was Re: macbook pro or macbook air?

2011-05-17 Thread Chris Moore
, an Eclectic mess every Wednesday afternoon at 3 PM UTC by going to www.TheGlobalVoice.info Contact me: Skype: brandt.steenkamp007 MSN: brandt...@live.com Google talk/AIM: brandt.steenk...@gmail.com Twitter @brandtsteenkamp - Original Message - From: Chris Moore moor

Re: Digital Distribution, was Re: macbook pro or macbook air?

2011-05-17 Thread Chris Moore
- Original Message - From: Chris Moore moor...@blueyonder.co.uk To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 3:11 PM Subject: Re: Digital Distribution, was Re: macbook pro or macbook air? Those are products you currently own, have you seen the amount of stereo systems

Re: Digital Distribution, was Re: macbook pro or macbook air?

2011-05-17 Thread Chris Moore
: brandt.steenk...@gmail.com Twitter @brandtsteenkamp - Original Message - From: Chris Moore moor...@blueyonder.co.uk To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 3:23 PM Subject: Re: Digital Distribution, was Re: macbook pro or macbook air? Wrong, I am British :) I

Re: Digital Distribution, was Re: macbook pro or macbook air?

2011-05-17 Thread Chris Moore
afternoon at 3 PM UTC by going to www.TheGlobalVoice.info Contact me: Skype: brandt.steenkamp007 MSN: brandt...@live.com Google talk/AIM: brandt.steenk...@gmail.com Twitter @brandtsteenkamp - Original Message - From: Chris Moore moor...@blueyonder.co.uk To: macvisionaries

Re: New text-to-speech voices in Lion

2011-05-17 Thread Chris Moore
Don't panic, these are additional voices you can download as they are quite large. Alex is going no where, and like you I prefer him. I am really not a fan of Nuance voices. On 17 May 2011, at 15:10, Howard Dupuis wrote: Just read about -- and listened to -- the new voices that are

Re: something like pdf2txt on the mac?

2011-05-17 Thread Chris Moore
Sertek Docuscan Plus? On 17 May 2011, at 15:57, carolyn Haas wrote: Hi Matt and others: I believe you can do this with pages, and possibly with Stanza, though someone with more experience can verify this. I have a related question: If someone sends a mail attachmentthat appears as pdf

Re: Digital Distribution, was Re: macbook pro or macbook air?

2011-05-17 Thread Chris Moore
around for your grandchildren, because they won't be using them, and you can show them a little piece of forgotten history. On May 17, 2011, at 9:11 AM, Chris Moore wrote: Those are products you currently own, have you seen the amount of stereo systems for home audio, home theatre and car

Re: Digital Distribution, was Re: macbook pro or macbook air?

2011-05-17 Thread Chris Moore
around for your grandchildren, because they won't be using them, and you can show them a little piece of forgotten history. On May 17, 2011, at 9:11 AM, Chris Moore wrote: Those are products you currently own, have you seen the amount of stereo systems for home audio, home theatre and car

Re: New text-to-speech voices in Lion

2011-05-17 Thread Chris Moore
Hmmm really got to disagree here, great voices at the time, but Betty? You'll be asking for the inclusion of the speak and spell voice next. On 17 May 2011, at 16:47, Terry Klarich wrote: It would be nice if the DECTalk voices were available. I've used a DECTalk for the past 20 years or so.

Re: Digital Distribution, was Re: macbook pro or macbook air?

2011-05-16 Thread Chris Moore
Well you could plug in an external DVD via USB, or maybe your OS could be backed up onto a memory card or a bootable portion could be available on your SSD drive. In all 10 years of having a Mac, I have never had to re-install my OS on any of my Machines. With Windows I think I used to

Re: Okcupid.com and voiceover

2011-05-10 Thread Chris Moore
Not sure if any of you guys have tried www.manhunt.net , but I find it pretty accessible, and had some great meets off there :) On 10 May 2011, at 15:08, matthew dyer wrote: Thanks Chris, Wuill take a look and see what I come up with on that front. Matthew On 5/10/11, Chris Snyder

Re: Say Goodbye to Skype, Microsoft just bought it for 8.5 billion

2011-05-10 Thread Chris Moore
I agree, look at the Bing app for the iPhone for example, totally accessible. I think the problem with Microsoft is based on their old coding, such as office for example which is coded using C++ and contains millions of lines of code. They have no excuse not to add accessibility to new

Re: A jingle I recorded for a client. All done on a Mac in Pro Tools 9.

2011-05-09 Thread Chris Moore
hmmm for some reason it won't play for me On 9 May 2011, at 08:23, Kevin Reeves wrote: Hey folks. Just got through with this jingle I wrote for a client. I was going for that late 70's early 80's Smooth Jazz feel. Besides the fact that the mastering bus is a tad over compressed, let me know

Re: A jingle I recorded for a client. All done on a Mac in Pro Tools 9.

2011-05-09 Thread Chris Moore
Oh I can open the link no problem, and the play button appears etc, but nothing plays. On 9 May 2011, at 13:59, carolyn Haas wrote: Chris: interact with the text before attempting to open the link. Worked like a charm here. On May 9, 2011, at 2:07 AM, Chris Moore wrote: hmmm

Re: IPad II thoughts

2011-05-06 Thread Chris Moore
Kev, My old buddy, does your new case also turn into a stand like the Apple one can? Chris On 6 May 2011, at 13:05, Kevin Mattingly wrote: Hey Scott, Here's the link... http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004UDC5OM/ref=ox_ya_os_product Kev On May 5, 2011, at 10:56 PM, Scott Ford

Re: the installation, and uninstallation of applications to the Mac

2011-05-05 Thread Chris Moore
If you download apps from the Apple App Store, the apps are automatically installed into your Applications folder. To get an email address from the header, interact with the message header, press option + shift, and use the arrow keys, this will let you move by word and select the word at the

Re: Campaign to get an accessible Microsoft Office for the Mac

2011-05-05 Thread Chris Moore
said it is still worth a try we'll never know before we try, maybe they surprise us so I say give it a go... On May 5, 1:39 am, Chris Moore moor...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: I totally agree, fancy dropping them a line? I have been in touch with the RNIB over here and a couple of other

Re: Campaign to get an accessible Microsoft Office for the Mac

2011-05-04 Thread Chris Moore
attempted to contact the author my email bounced. I just looked again and see that a new post was added by a new author last month so I'm going to try contacting them again. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/accessibility/ Cheers, Bryan On May 3, 2011, at 2:28 PM, Chris Moore wrote: Maybe we should start

Re: Campaign to get an accessible Microsoft Office for the Mac

2011-05-04 Thread Chris Moore
I totally agree, fancy dropping them a line? I have been in touch with the RNIB over here and a couple of other organisations on this side of the pond. Will keep you posted of any outcome. On 4 May 2011, at 22:49, Laura McGlynn wrote: I think I've said this before, but what I find annoying is

Re: statement about microsoft's accessibility on the mac

2011-05-04 Thread Chris Moore
All true and very valid points. I think we all need to contact Eric Wilfred who is the General Manager of the Mac Business Unit at Microsoft. He has been part of the unit since Office 98. He was responsible for PowerPoint and recently over seeing Office 2011. I don't know a direct way of

Re: Campaign to get an accessible Microsoft Office for the Mac

2011-05-04 Thread Chris Moore
Finally someone who totally gets where I am coming from *sighs* Gordon yo might have to set up a separate office mailing list for us :) On 4 May 2011, at 15:03, Kevin Shaw wrote: Isn't it interesting that blind people are willing to fight for access to ProTools, Facebook and Flash, but when

Re: Campaign to get an accessible Microsoft Office for the Mac

2011-05-04 Thread Chris Moore
://blogs.msdn.com/b/accessibility/ Cheers, Bryan On May 3, 2011, at 2:28 PM, Chris Moore wrote: Maybe we should start a campaign to get Office on the Mac accessible. Anyone up for it? If you know anyone who is willing to send an email requesting that Microsoft make their Office Suite

Re: Campaign to get an accessible Microsoft Office for the Mac

2011-05-04 Thread Chris Moore
If that was the case, then why have Microsoft gone to all the trouble to bring Outlook back to the Mac? Why have they gone to the trouble to make Office 2011 100% compatible with the Windows version? Clearly they are interested in the product and there is a market there. Apple don't need any

Re: Campaign to get an accessible Microsoft Office for the Mac

2011-05-04 Thread Chris Moore
Ok to be fair, they had to get something decent out of the bag quickly. Android and Apple caught Nokia and Microsoft with their pants down. Nobody in the business expected Google and Apple to topple these boys. Even RIM are running scared and finally being more creative than they have ever

Campaign to get an accessible Microsoft Office for the Mac

2011-05-03 Thread Chris Moore
hi, Maybe we should start a campaign to get Office on the Mac accessible. Anyone up for it? If you know anyone who is willing to send an email requesting that Microsoft make their Office Suite accessible then point them to this web page.http://www.microsoft.com/mac/product-feedback Select

Re: Campaign to get an accessible Microsoft Office for the Mac

2011-05-03 Thread Chris Moore
Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt On 2011-05-03, at 2:28 PM, Chris Moore wrote: hi, Maybe we should start a campaign to get Office on the Mac accessible. Anyone up for it? If you know anyone who is willing to send an email requesting that Microsoft make their Office Suite

Re: voiceover words per minute

2011-05-03 Thread Chris Moore
You can follow it at 80? Jeez! On 3 May 2011, at 20:15, Greg Aikens wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know the estimate of words per minute corresponding to the different voiceover rates? If I am reading with VO at 80% how many WPM is that? How many WPM is 55%, etc.? Thanks for any help.

Re: Campaign to get an accessible Microsoft Office for the Mac

2011-05-03 Thread Chris Moore
On 2011-05-03, at 3:42 PM, Chris Moore wrote: That is because there is no built in screen reader for Windows, all the screen readers rely on scripts to work. scripting to get programs to work on OS X is not an option available to us, so therefore we have to apply pressure

Re: voiceover words per minute

2011-05-03 Thread Chris Moore
, 2011, at 2:44 PM, Chris Moore wrote: You can follow it at 80? Jeez! On 3 May 2011, at 20:15, Greg Aikens wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know the estimate of words per minute corresponding to the different voiceover rates? If I am reading with VO at 80% how many WPM is that? How many WPM

Re: Campaign to get an accessible Microsoft Office for the Mac

2011-05-03 Thread Chris Moore
Some excellent valid points Kevin, thank you. You have given me even more to think about. On 4 May 2011, at 01:28, Kevin Shaw wrote: A few points from me: Windows comes with a screen reader called narrator. It's not as robust as Voiceover, but Microsoft does develop it, much the same way

Re: rules again

2011-05-03 Thread Chris Moore
Can you not just add him to your junk list? On 4 May 2011, at 02:02, Donna Goodin wrote: Hi all, So, with Tim's help I set up a rule to delete messages from this guy whose spamming me. Everything looks OK, but it doesn't seem to be working. Anyone know what might be the problem. I've

Re: MobileMe Renewal Hell

2011-05-02 Thread Chris Moore
Barefooted Ray!!! Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! Skype name: barefootedray Facebook: facebook.com/ray.foretjr.1 On Mar 18, 2011, at 11:59 AM, Chris Moore wrote: Don't worry, they were the first people I contacted, following feedback of mobileme on Apple's website :) On 18

Re: imho: the cost of Mac vs others and their solutionsWas: docuscan is available

2011-04-30 Thread Chris Moore
Compare the build quality of a cheap PC laptop to a Mac and you will see that you get what you pay for. The closest in build quality to Apple is Sony. Computers are like cars, you can buy cheap ones, or you can buy luxury ones. They all have 4 wheels and get you from A to B, just some do it

Re: MobileMe Renewal Hell

2011-04-30 Thread Chris Moore
, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! Skype name: barefootedray Facebook: facebook.com/ray.foretjr.1 On Mar 18, 2011, at 11:59 AM, Chris Moore wrote: Don't worry, they were the first people I contacted, following feedback of mobileme on Apple's website

Re: Safari Reader Question

2011-04-23 Thread Chris Moore
My guess is that Safari looks for a print.css version of the web page as that would provide a printer friendly version of the page with no usual page furniture. I could be wrong, but I am pretty sure it is CSS related. On 23 Apr 2011, at 21:28, Sarai Bucciarelli wrote: All: I just figured

Re: Exceedingly frustrated trying to find address bar info/link info

2011-04-20 Thread Chris Moore
Press command + L, this will move VO's focus to the address bar and highlight the URL, then hit command + c to copy. On 20 Apr 2011, at 17:02, Christine Grassman wrote: Hello, all. I am futilely attempting to locate the links in a list of search results on Google in order to copy and paste

Re: word documents on mac's?

2011-04-16 Thread Chris Moore
Sadly not, depressing eh? VO reads the menus, some of the icons and buttons, scroll bars, but sadly just can't see the document area. Not a fault of VO but a failing by Microsoft for not using the accessibility APIs On 16 Apr 2011, at 07:13, Melody wrote: Does VO not work at all with word

Re: word documents on mac's?

2011-04-11 Thread Chris Moore
If you are only requiring to read the document, you can just hit the space bar and it will open in preview. VoiceOver will then read this document to you. TextEdit lets you edit RTF Word Documents. For Office 2007 and 2010 docx files you will need Pages. A new OS is due in the summer, who

Re: Sharing Apps Between IPhone and IPad

2011-04-05 Thread Chris Moore
Kev, One of the wonderful abilities of being locked into the iOS ecosystem is that you buy an app once and it is available to every device that uses the same iTunes account. So in answer to your question, YES! :) Hopefully one day Apple will be able to extend this to music and video too.

MobileMe Renewal Hell

2011-03-18 Thread Chris Moore
Hi gang, Do any of you have mobileme accounts? Have any of you had to renew your mobile me account and update your credit card details after your current card expires? I have just received an email from Mobileme informing me that my subscription is due for renewal and that I need to update my

Re: MobileMe Renewal Hell

2011-03-18 Thread Chris Moore
18, 2011, at 9:59 AM, Chris Moore wrote: Hi gang, Do any of you have mobileme accounts? Have any of you had to renew your mobile me account and update your credit card details after your current card expires? I have just received an email from Mobileme informing me that my

Re: MobileMe Renewal Hell

2011-03-18 Thread Chris Moore
that somebody's gone and dropped the ball big time on this one. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! Skype name: barefootedray Facebook: facebook.com/ray.foretjr.1 On Mar 18, 2011, at 11:59 AM, Chris Moore wrote: Don't worry, they were

Re: Mac OS X Lion

2011-03-09 Thread Chris Moore
Now now boys, keep it nice. On 9 Mar 2011, at 13:06, Ben Mustill-Rose wrote: Lets be honest though, he was probably right. On 09/03/2011, Michael Thurman kb7...@gmail.com wrote: I agree who the hell do you think you are accusig anyone of doing anything illegal I'm half a mind to leave

Re: by way of introduction

2011-03-03 Thread Chris Moore
Welcome to the world of Mac and VoiceoVer, I am sure you will have a lot of fun. You do not have very long to wait for Mac 10.7 (Lion) either which will come with even more VoiceOver enhancements and apparently a whole host of new voices in various languages. Chris On 3 Mar 2011, at 16:06,

Re: speech recognition with Voiceover

2011-02-24 Thread Chris Moore
You would need to purchase Nuance Dragon Dictate which is now accessible with VoiceOver. On 24 Feb 2011, at 17:31, Robert Nelson wrote: Native to the Mac is Speakable Items. Speakable Items is accessible to Voice Over. There are some work arounds required if you want to define a new

Re: [Bulk] Re: My 2 cents about the inaccessibility of the set up of drop box

2011-02-22 Thread Chris Moore
Why not just get a mobile me account and use iDisk instead? Hit them where it hurts, their wallet and vote with your wallet On 22 Feb 2011, at 11:41, Ray Foret Jr wrote: Look, here's how I see it. They've been telling us for about two years that they know about the accessibility issues

Re: anyone home?

2011-02-19 Thread Chris Moore
Steve, Check out: http://www.visionaustralia.org/info.aspx?page=2296 Chris On 19 Feb 2011, at 07:58, Steve Gladstone wrote: Thanks Les. I’m a JAWS user and looking to get started with Voice Over. Any suggestions where to find a good “getting started” tutorial? Thx Steve From:

Re: scanning and the mac

2011-02-19 Thread Chris Moore
with both Windows 7 and Snow Leopard. - Original Message - From: Chris Moore moor...@blueyonder.co.uk To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 2:09 AM Subject: Re: scanning and the mac That seems quite odd, as I have a iMac and a 13 inch Macbook Pro

Re: scanning and the mac

2011-02-18 Thread Chris Moore
That seems quite odd, as I have a iMac and a 13 inch Macbook Pro, and VM Fusion is fine on the Macbook. I also have the iPal Solo (stand alone version of the iPal). I opted for this as I did not realise at the time they were working on Mac software. On 18 Feb 2011, at 01:40, David Tanner

Re: request for people in the UK using Voiceover

2011-02-16 Thread Chris Moore
Liam, Try mac-access.net mailing list, although it is international, it is based in the UK and attracts a great number of UK contributors like myself. Kind regards Chris On 16 Feb 2011, at 20:08, DJ Nezumi wrote: hi to all i was wondering if anyone could help at all. i'm wanting to find

Re: [Mac-cessibility News] Twitterific for Mac 4.0 Is Released Sans VoiceOver Accessibility

2011-02-14 Thread Chris Moore
I must admit, I totally agree with this. What is the point in directing us to only read a few extra words? This seems to happen with the majority of these postings. Why not just paste the entire article in here? On 14 Feb 2011, at 09:51, Søren Jensen wrote: I'm tired of reading

Re: VMWare 3.02

2011-02-14 Thread Chris Moore
Press VO + F2 and then select view from the window chooser On 14 Feb 2011, at 22:39, Sarah Alawami wrote: Hello. try hiding all he windows except for vmware then press cmd g. that used to work. Take care. S On Feb 14, 2011, at 2:15 PM, Jürgen Fleger wrote: Hi Guys, I installed a

Re: frustration

2011-02-09 Thread Chris Moore
No problems here. On 9 Feb 2011, at 02:48, Candie Stiles wrote: Yes I have definitely noticed a major increase in voice over saying safari busy. I rarely ever got a busy response before, and now I'm getting them just about every time I'm using safari. I did repair permissions as well and it

Re: 13 reasons why software is not free

2011-01-31 Thread Chris Moore
Riccardo, It is quite common for types of communities to adopt nicknames or phrases for themselves that might not seem acceptable outside the community. For example the black community have adopted the N word, the gay community have adopted queer or puff in the UK, and over here there are

Re: VM Fusion

2011-01-31 Thread Chris Moore
Gucukoglu wrote: Read PDF on the Mac, forget jaws! I hear that PDF isn't very accessible at present. Might be wrong though. On 31 Jan 2011, at 15:40, Chris Moore wrote: Hi guys, I waswondering if there was any known issues with Fusion. Every time I open a PDF document from my

VO Safari Flaw

2011-01-31 Thread Chris Moore
This is what I have just sent to Apple, and I would be interested if anyone else has experienced this or has any knowledge of why Safari and VO do this: Hi there, I have been doing some comparisons of using screen readers on a major supermarket in the UK. Tesco are huge in the UK and Europe

Re: Garageband tutorial 3.

2011-01-18 Thread Chris Moore
I use my numeric keypad, bliss! On 18 Jan 2011, at 02:26, Christopher Peppel wrote: Hi Rickardo, How about using Quick Nav. I use it all the time and don't have to worry about locking down the VoiceOver keys. Just a thought. Chris On Jan 17, 2011, at 7:46 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote:

Re: :pages export annoyance

2011-01-17 Thread Chris Moore
Text Edit is great for basic stuff, but the word format it supports is really only rich text format. This is fine for being able to read the contents of a word document but most formatting will be lost. On 17 Jan 2011, at 08:13, Anne Robertson wrote: Hello Carolyn, While it's true that

Re: the acsesability of the latest verssion of adium??

2011-01-17 Thread Chris Moore
That bug can still sometimes happen, but the trick is when you look at the conversation window, press VO + End and you should hear the last message that was sent, and if not Adium might say group, just hit VO and right. Of course if you have growl setup (which I don't) you could configure this

Re: Accessibility of Hotspot Shield

2011-01-17 Thread Chris Moore
Maybe this is something Brian Smart could look at with Voxkeys. In the meantime have you tried writing to the developer? Do you know if there is an iPhone version too? Could this app also be used for our american cousins to access BBC iPlayer from their side of the pond too? On 17 Jan 2011,

Re: the acsesability of the latest verssion of adium??

2011-01-17 Thread Chris Moore
I must admit I do use group mode for certain websites where I can whizz up and down and around quicker then linear DOM mode and group mode can be very handy when you use the main Facebook site. On 17 Jan 2011, at 13:47, Oriol Gómez wrote: Wait what? People actually browse the web in group

Re: group mode was Re: the acsesability of the latest verssion of adium??

2011-01-17 Thread Chris Moore
Lazy bitch lol but yeah that works on some sites too. On 17 Jan 2011, at 14:25, Ricardo Walker wrote: Hi, I find that on many sites, pressing command shift R to enter the article reader works great. Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296 Google Voice:

Re: Magic Track Pad

2011-01-16 Thread Chris Moore
Did you turn the track commander on in VO utility? On 16 Jan 2011, at 08:35, Christopher Peppel wrote: Hey Everybody, I just rejoined the list and it is great to still see a few familiar names here. I bought a magic track pad and wasn't able to do to much with it. I tried changing some

Re: Magic Track Pad

2011-01-16 Thread Chris Moore
Hmmm how odd, I have one too and it seems to work fine. What trouble are you having exactly? Had you used the gestures before on say an Macbook or iOS device? Chris On 16 Jan 2011, at 09:18, Christopher Peppel wrote: Yes, I did. Thanks. Chris On Jan 16, 2011, at 3:41 AM, Chris

Re: :pages export annoyance

2011-01-16 Thread Chris Moore
, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296 Google Voice: 1-646-450-2197 On Jan 15, 2011, at 2:06 PM, heather kd5cbl wrote: Ah, my mawmaw said the same thing, smiles! Heather - Original Message - From: Chris Moore moor...@blueyonder.co.uk To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday

Re: Magic Track Pad

2011-01-16 Thread Chris Moore
utility. Chris On 16 Jan 2011, at 17:20, Christopher Peppel wrote: Hi Chris, No, I haven't used any of those devices so far. I went into the track pad settings On Jan 16, 2011, at 4:24 AM, Chris Moore wrote: Hmmm how odd, I have one too and it seems to work fine. What trouble are you

Re: Garageband question

2011-01-16 Thread Chris Moore
Its one of the 2 hyped up new features which are not accessible Ricardo L( borrowed from Logic 9. I would be happy with basic midi note editing. Man at the moment Reeper and Sonar really do make me drool (and that is not a pretty sight I can assure you). On 16 Jan 2011, at 18:48, Ricardo

Re: shortcut for accessing the downloads folder?

2011-01-16 Thread Chris Moore
Could you not just create a shortcut in VO utility for the keyboard commander? On 16 Jan 2011, at 19:45, Jonathan Cohn wrote: Hmm, I believe I could write a little apple script to create an alias for the selected item on the desktop. I wonder if that would work just for file / folders or

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