Re: Safari Update

2010-06-22 Thread Chris Moore
Are you using the full facebook site or the cut down mobile one at m.facebook.com ? On 23 Jun 2010, at 04:32, Cody Hurst wrote: Voiceover doesn't seem to meshw ell with facebook either. sometimes if I'm kicked out of the html content even if I just try to arrow over it and not even

Re: Color Replacement for the Mac

2010-06-21 Thread Chris Moore
Not sure if there is an app to change screen colours like zoomtext, have you tried writing to accessibil...@apple.com? as for the Firefox bit, you could create your own CSS which you get Firefox to use instead of the CSS that is on your web server. On 21 Jun 2010, at 13:41, KeelhaulChris wrote:

Re: Color Replacement for the Mac

2010-06-21 Thread Chris Moore
All web browsers have the accessibility feature of being able to use an external CSS (Case Cascading Stylesheet) You could import your existing style sheet into a stylesheet creator for something like Adobe Dreamweaver and just change the font and save it under a different name. On 21 Jun

Talking Wallpaper

2010-06-21 Thread Chris Moore
Well struggling to find the 100 new features, but have found one that I did request. When going into setting and selecting Wallpaper you now get a description of the image as you roll your finger over them, before the update the wallpaper image was just read out as image. Very useful and hope

Re: Talking Wallpaper

2010-06-21 Thread Chris Moore
and the coloured icons and photos as is. My mum likes to use white on black text in sun light situations, have set her phone to toggle between negative and positive with 3 button clicks of the home button. Come on Apple? On 21 Jun 2010, at 21:59, Chris Moore wrote: Well struggling to find the 100 new

Re: Question About How To Engage The White-On-Black Display Mode

2010-06-20 Thread Chris Moore
This is a stupid question I know, but what are you guys exactly talking about? When yo say you want to toggle white on black with VO do yo mean the white on black menus that pop up for things like item chooser etc? On 19 Jun 2010, at 21:44, Anne Robertson wrote: Hello Mark, The ding sound

Re: New Mac Mini

2010-06-18 Thread Chris Moore
I personally think this is a good step taken by Apple. The introduction of HDMI on the mini is fantastic for those who wish to hook up a full computer to their HD TV. Internet browsing etc on the XBox/PS3 On 18 Jun 2010, at 12:11, Rob Lambert wrote: leaves a lot to be desired and the Mac mini

MobileMe redesigned website

2010-06-18 Thread Chris Moore
Hi all, Have any of you taken a look at the re-designed mobileme site yet? I am sure visually it is stunning, but it seems even less accessible then the previous site. Ok I can still read my mail, but trying to switch between applications such as calendars, contacts etc seems impossible. I

Re: new apple user

2010-06-18 Thread Chris Moore
Sorry to sound thick, what is OpenBook? is this some sort of OCR for the PC? And this Fine Reader is this expensive? I am hoping to get an iPal Solo from Humanware, but in the meantime I would like an OCR package that I can use to read my printed documents that come through the post. The

Re: installing windows on macs? What are the advantages/why do people opt for this?

2010-06-18 Thread Chris Moore
I have parallels installed on my Mac. I already had Windows xp installed via BootCamp which I used rarely for applications that you could not get to run on a Mac back in the day when I used to have a Nokia phone and a Sat nav that was not a tom tom. After losing my site I thought I would

Re: MobileMe redesigned website

2010-06-18 Thread Chris Moore
and a follower Steve Jobs On Jun 18, 2010, at 6:02 AM, Chris Moore wrote: Hi all, Have any of you taken a look at the re-designed mobileme site yet? I am sure visually it is stunning, but it seems even less accessible then the previous site. Ok I can still read my mail, but trying

Re: Abbyy fine reader for Mac

2010-06-18 Thread Chris Moore
Maybe we are all thinking a bit too old school. Two weeks ago Humanware demonstrated document readers to me which used a camera instead. The camera was portable as it was on a fold up tripod type thing. The software was on a Windows machine which drove the camera, words were also displayed

Re: Abbyy fine reader for Mac

2010-06-18 Thread Chris Moore
, is the flash LED or xenon based? Cheers, Dónal -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Chris Moore Sent: 18 June 2010 17:06 To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Abbyy fine reader for Mac Maybe we

Re: Abbyy fine reader for Mac

2010-06-18 Thread Chris Moore
If the iPhone was docked into an L shaped stand like Humanware's iPal then multiple pages could be easily done. Turn the page and wait for the camera click, then turn to the next page and so on. Also the ability to upload the data direct to a computer like the iPal to take advantage of a

Re: installing windows on macs? What are the advantages/why do people opt for this?

2010-06-18 Thread Chris Moore
Could you not use a Newsreader on the Mac similar to how news groups are displayed within Outlook Express? I have not used those type of news groups for years, but I am sure there will be something you could get on the Mac, this will mean less time on Windows On 18 Jun 2010, at 18:11, Scott

Re: installing windows on macs? What are the advantages/why do people opt for this?

2010-06-18 Thread Chris Moore
Donna, Excuse my ignorance, but what audio software do you use on Windows and for what purpose? Chris On 18 Jun 2010, at 15:38, Donna Goodin wrote: Hi Olivia, Remember that a lot of us who are coming to the Mac now, have been Windows users for many years, which means, unfortunately,

Re: installing windows on macs? What are the advantages/why do people opt for this?

2010-06-18 Thread Chris Moore
Fair comments... However, wasn't Exchange support added to Mail with Snow Leopard? Whilst there is a smaller audience on the Mac front who are not requesting VoiceOver support from Developers yet there will quite a wait before we start to see more accessible stuff. Windows has had JAWS,

Re: TIP: The Best Way to Shove That MacBook Pro In Your Ear!

2010-06-18 Thread Chris Moore
Are your hearing aids not compatible with the Phonak iCom streamer ? This might save the need to wear headphones altogether On 18 Jun 2010, at 23:03, Maurice Mines wrote: Hello, it's taken a while to respond to this post. It's good to find out that there is someone who knows actually where,

Re: Prospective Mac User

2010-06-17 Thread Chris Moore
You can create keyboard command shortcuts to perform basic tasks, such as launch an application, tell you the current time, tell you how many unread messages you have and I have assigned a toggle between DOM and Group mode for when using Safari. mAC os x has scripting built into the OS which

Re: Prospective Mac User

2010-06-17 Thread Chris Moore
I found this interesting thread regarding scripting for VO: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/msg09201.html On 17 Jun 2010, at 10:49, Sarah Alawami wrote: You can have vo scripts but i don't find them necessary. As for curser tracking you can do that in vo. just

Re: Prospective Mac User

2010-06-17 Thread Chris Moore
, Chris Moore wrote: You can create keyboard command shortcuts to perform basic tasks, such as launch an application, tell you the current time, tell you how many unread messages you have and I have assigned a toggle between DOM and Group mode for when using Safari. mAC os x has scripting

Re: automatically having incoming messages read i nIChat

2010-06-17 Thread Chris Moore
This is very useful, thank you Mary. I also stumbled across this when I looked in the VO help area getting started, using os x applications. There is a very useful section on using iChat. I forgot how useful pressing VO+H is for help is lol. On 17 Jun 2010, at 16:51, Mary Otten wrote:

Re: VoiceOver Used to automatically jump to the Text Area When Opening a Mail Message but not in 10.6.4

2010-06-17 Thread Chris Moore
what problems are you having? I just use VO +J and it works fine. Mind I must admit it would be nice if I did not have to do that. On 17 Jun 2010, at 17:09, Pete Nalda wrote: Thought I'd share this email I got back from accessibil...@apple.com Begin forwarded message: From:

Re: How To Get VoiceOver To Read Mail Messages Automatically

2010-06-17 Thread Chris Moore
in case you did not know, to activate quick nav hold the cursor keys left and right together until you hear quick nav is on, press agains to turn it off. quick nav saves you having to hold down the VO buttons when surfing the web etc On 17 Jun 2010, at 18:18, Anne Robertson wrote: Has

Re: re-organizing the dock?

2010-06-17 Thread Chris Moore
yes, select the item in the doc you wish to move and then press and hold the option key and the command key together whilst pressing the cursor key left or right depending on where you wish to move the app to. voice over will announce what it is moving and to where as you press the cursor keys.

Re: The Safari 5 Journey

2010-06-16 Thread Chris Moore
I have a 18 month old MacBook which has the new track pad and I also have a 2 and a half year old iMac and I have experienced the same problem with both machines. was on the Apple site today and was trying to download a manual for the iPod Nano and VoiceOver had a heart attack. Before Safari

Re: DJ for mac

2010-06-16 Thread Chris Moore
I used to love record scratching on my old Technics turntables. cAn you use external devices with this program like you can with Native Instrument's DJ scratch? I would love an accessible app that I could scratch into, the track pad would be a bit rubbish as you would need a cross fader for

Re: The Safari 5 Journey

2010-06-16 Thread Chris Moore
and a follower Steve Jobs On Jun 16, 2010, at 2:18 PM, Chris Moore wrote: I have a 18 month old MacBook which has the new track pad and I also have a 2 and a half year old iMac and I have experienced the same problem with both machines. was on the Apple site today and was trying

Re: Applications

2010-06-16 Thread Chris Moore
I prefer Apple Mail and Safari to Microsoft's Outlook and Internet Explorer. You can get AOL instant messenger for the Mac, but personally I prefer iChat for use with AOL, you can get iChat to also work with Facebook and MSN too Apple will fix these current problems within weeks I am sure.

Re: DJ for mac

2010-06-16 Thread Chris Moore
See this is where Apple is missing a trick. Garage Band is pretty good for putting podcasts together, but it would be nice to have some DJ features too. Better integration with iTunes and some beat matching etc Its been a while since any decent new features were added to GB, over to you

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