VoiceOver in iOS 4.2 first impressions

Hi all, I've just updated my iPhone 3gs and played around with it a bit, so I thought I'd let you all know what I've found out so far. You can now disable the volume buttons if you like, which is actually very handy for us VO users. With them disabled, you can control VO's volume just

Re: Fun fun fun with Alex :)

Hi. Jaws does actually have quite a few emoticons and abbreviations in the dictionary manager file for windows live messenger, so you could use that to find out what they are and add them to VO's pronunciation dictionary if you're so inclined. Dannie On 15 Nov 2010, at 21:41, Carolyn Haas

Adium problem

Hi all, for some reason,Adium has started acting strangely. More often than not, the vO cursor will get stuck in the message history window. This happens when I'm moving between messages, and it'll randomly stick on one and nothing I can do will move it. It's like it finds invisible

Re: Changing voice on Iphone for Mark

Hi. I just want to add that since version 4, you can change voices without changing the international settings. In the voiceOver part of settings, scroll down to language rotor. Find each voice you want and double tap it. When you selected all the voices you'd like to use, close the settings

Re: Audacity tutorial

Hi Josh, The tutorial is on blind cool tech. Here's a direct link to it. http://media.libsyn.com/media/bct/bct1478LetYourVoiceBeHeard.mp3 Dannie On 3 Nov 2010, at 22:08, Joshua Loya wrote: Hi all, I recently downloaded Audacity, and remember running across an audio tutorial of the program

Re: trouble with loops in garageband 11

will hear where you are in the song, and where ever you press command v, that's where the loop will drop. You can use left and right arrows to get to where you want in the song, then just paste away. I will try this other way though. GF On Oct 29, 2010, at 3:26 PM, Daniel Rowe wrote: Good

trouble with loops in garageband 11

HI all. I got my copy of iLife 11 today and have just been playing around with garageband.. Apple have done a wonderful job improving accessibility and it's now a lot more intuitive to get around. VO telling you the bar and beet you're on as well is priceless. However I can't seem to get loops

Re: trouble with loops in garageband 11

Good idea, but you can't insert them that way unfortunately. It can only be done by drag and drop as far as I'm aware. Dannie On 29 Oct 2010, at 18:31, Chris Moore wrote: Have you tried cutting and pasting the loop from the loop browser instead? On 29 Oct 2010, at 18:27, Daniel Rowe wrote

Apple's event next wednesday

Hi all. As you might be aware, apple are holding a Back To The Mac event next Wednesday at 10 eastern in Cupertino, California. There are rumours of possible upgrades to the MacBook Air and also the unveiling of MAC OS X 10.7. So, what would you like to see included in next version of the OS,

Last.fm

Hi all. Have any of you had any luck getting the last.fm scrobbler to work with VO, or are there any 3rd party applications that are more accessible? The iPhone app is completely accessible bar some unlabelled buttons, so it's a shame to find that the Mac version is completely unusable. All

Re: which is more accessible?

Hi. Amadeus Pro can't record midi. Dannie On 15 Sep 2010, at 23:29, joseph wrote: hello list members which is more accessible? garage band or amadeuspro? can i also use my usb midi controler with the latter? best -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Another bug in iOS 4.1

Hi all. Has anyone else noticed that when moving to the beginning or end of a text box, VO nolonger announces the location of the insertion point? It only happens when the box isn't empty. Also I've just noticed that navigating in text boxes seems to be broken.completely. I'm writing this

Facebook iPhone app

Hi all. Just to let you know that the Facebook app seems to be more stable with VO. Whether it's something they've fixed in iOS 4.1 or Facebook itself I don't know, bbut it hasn't crashed on me yet. Also links seem to activate more consistently now when they are double tapped. Dannie -- You

Re: Facebook iPhone app

After I sent this message, I went back into the Facebook app and it's gone back to how it usually works for me. That is, not allowing me to click on links. How strange. Dannie On 9 Sep 2010, at 15:30, Daniel Rowe dannie@googlemail.com wrote: Hi all. Just to let you know

New Nike + app

Hi all. Just to let you all know about this new version of Nike + that doesn't require a censor. Instead it uses the accelerometer and gps. It's £1.20 and is currently in the top 25 paid apps chart in the UK. I assume that its as accessible as the previous version. Hope this is of use to some

using Navigon

Hi all Has anyone successfully used Navigon to travel somewhere safely on foot? I've yet to try to walk a route using it myself, and since I have a 3gs, I wouldn't trust the battery in any case. I'd like to gage your responses before I attempt it and also wait til I have an iPhone 4. Did you

Re: vo settings are trashed

This happened to me yesterday. Luckally I had backed up my settings a few months earlier as it was doing it quite often. But I had changed a few more things since then so I'll have to boot off my backup drive, export the settings off that and import on my original installation. Most

Problem with 3 finger flick on trackpad

Hi all, has anyone else noticed that in some cases the 3 finger flick doesn't work? I've found this particularly in tables and in the playlist browser in iTunes. Is this a bug in VO or is there a reason why these elements can't be scrolled? I'm using the magic trackpad but this happens on

Re: How do you perform a command click on the multi gesture trackpad?

Secondary clicking is Mac speak for right clicking, like to open up a contextual menu. Press down on the trackpad with 2 fingers til it clicks. Dannie On 4 Aug 2010, at 07:20, Ricardo Walker wrote: Lol, We are wondering the same thing. I haven't a clue what it means or, how to do it.

Re: Kind of funky, intermittent problem in mail

Hi Mike, I have the same problem. In fact it happened to me a few seconds ago before reading this message. Quite a coincidence really. I think it's maybe a problem with Gmail being slow as sometimes I have it when Mail crashes when I try to delete a load of messages at once. Dannie On 3

Re: magic rackpad commands

Hi Mary, if you do a search for trackpad in VO's help system, you'll find a list of standard gestures there. Dannie On 3 Aug 2010, at 04:58, Mary Otten wrote: Somewhere, I know I saw a list of commands that work out of the box with the magic trackpad and vo. Now however, I can't recall where

Thoughts on Magic Trackpad

Hi all. I took the plunge yesterday and bought the magic trackpad. i've only used Vo with multi-touch trackpads briefly before as I have an iMac. But because I use the iPhone I could see the benefits such an interface would bring to Mac OS. Having spent nearly two days with the trackpad, I

VO and spell checker bug in safari fixed.

Hi all, Just to let you all know that VO now brings up the menu of corrections for a misspelled word when you use VO+shift+m in edit boxes in Safari, after you use command+semicolon. This bug was fixed either in mac os X 10.6.4 or Safari 5. I asume this will also work if you have check

Re: VO and spell checker bug in safari fixed.

It worked for me the other day then when I was on a form after I sent that message, I tried it again and it didn't work. hmmm . On 30 Jun 2010, at 17:50, Sarah Alawami wrote: Hmm I have never gotten that to work even in safari 5. Um? S On Jun 30, 2010, at 6:25 AM, Daniel Rowe wrote: Hi

using the numpad commander without a numpad

Hi all. I accidentally came across this a few minutes ago. if you press and hold any arrow key then press a key on the number roe, this will cause VO to trigger the function you assigned to that key on the numpad. For example if I press and hold the down arrow while hitting 1 on the number

Re: using the numpad commander without a numpad

Thanks. Glad you're finding it useful. Dannie On 8 Apr 2010, at 14:28, Anne Robertson wrote: Daniel, this is amazing! Thank you for finding this. Cheers, Anne On Apr 8, 2010, at 2:16 PM, Daniel Rowe wrote: Hi all. I accidentally came across this a few minutes ago. if you press

Navigon now in UK

hi just in case anyone's missed this already, there's now a UK version of Navigon Movile Navigator. Currently it's £29.49 and apparently this will only be until the 12th of april. I'm not sure how much it will be after then. Dannie -- You received this message because you are subscribed to

Re: third pardy vst for garage band

Hi Garage band works with Audio Units plugins and not VSTs. On 30 Mar 2010, at 14:55, clarence griffin wrote: I heard that some of the stuff from logic works with GB. I haven't confirmed this for my self yet, but I have heard it from a couple people that you can get some of the soft synths

Re: Solving image capture in Safari

Hi Phil. Have a look at Solona. www.solona.com Hope this helps, Dannie On 20 Mar 2010, at 08:58, phil stephenson wrote: Hi, Is there a way to solve image capture on the mac using Safari? I know there is Web Vsm for Windows but is there an equivalent for the mac? thanks, Phil --

Re: Old Leopard VoiceOver sounds

yep, I've noticed that, too. All the old voiceover sounds, plus the ones unique to the iPhone and iPod touch are in a Sounds directory near to the one where the VoiceOver AppleScripts are. Dannie On 9 Mar 2010, at 11:08, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: Hi guys, I know there is really no

Re: modifying the say date and time applescript

/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ScreenReader.framework/Versions/A/Resources/Scripts I'll take a look at the script. It might be nice to have a more precise speaking of the time. Jim On Mar 3, 2010, at 4:08 PM, Daniel Rowe wrote: Hi all. I'd like to modify this script so that VO says only

modifying the say date and time applescript

Hi all. I'd like to modify this script so that VO says only the time, and preferably in 24 hour format. Does anyone know where the script is and what I'd need to change to make it work the way I want? Thanks, Dannie -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: modifying the say date and time applescript

Hi That folder seems to be missing unless it's hidden. Dannie On 4 Mar 2010, at 04:11, Jonathan Chacón wrote: Hello, the scripts for voiceOver are in /library/scripts/screenReader Regards Jonathan Chacón Barbero Accessibility, usability and new technologies consultant

typing in edit boxes on webforms

Hi all. Ever since I've owned a mac, I've noticed that when I enter text into a single line edit box on a web form e.g. a username or password field, the first character I type doesn't always get entered. To use a password field as an example, VO will click for each character, even though the

Re: typing in edit boxes on webforms

. see below: Entering information in text fields should be smooth and fast, with no pauses or delays of any kind. Despite this, some background tasks if corrupt or otherwise malfunctioning may interfere with typing. Read more… On Mar 1, 2010, at 12:53 PM, Daniel Rowe wrote: Hi all

Re: 3D audio game

I'm also interested. It sounds like a cool idea. Dannie On 27 Feb 2010, at 19:29, Donna Goodin wrote: OOOh, me too, please!!! this sounds very cool! Donna On Feb 27, 2010, at 10:51 AM, peter apgar wrote: Good day Yuma, Please ad me to that list of interested

Re: further to locating radio streams in iTunes

. When I want to delete one, I simply highlight it and press delete. It works great. Why A a smart playlist when you probably want to manually choose your radio stream? Just curious. On Feb 4, 2010, at 10:43 AM, Daniel Rowe wrote: Hi all. I'm subscribed to Mac OS X hints RSS feed

Re: question about IPhone applications

Regarding moving apps around on the home screen, double tap an app, hold your finger down till VO says either moving on an app that came preinstalled on the phone, or delete on an app you've installed. While still keeping your finger on the screen, move it to where you'd like the app to be.

further to locating radio streams in iTunes

Hi all. I'm subscribed to Mac OS X hints RSS feed and today they posted a great hint that is helpful for deleting radio streams you no longer listen to. I found that when I created a smart playlist of all the streams I imported I couldn't delete any of them from the library from there. So

Mac VO resetting itself

Hi all. If my iMac does this again, I will go mad. Over the last month or so, VoiceOver has reset nearly all its settings spontaneously and with out any warning. Everything bar my numpad commander customisations get reset to factory defaults. I make quite a lot of changes mainly in the

Re: Mac VO resetting itself

I really must remember to use reply all when replying to an e-mail list. Oops. Anyway, Here's my reply that I meant to sent to the whole list not just to Jim. I completely forgot that you can save your settings to a file. thanks for reminding me and I've just done it. For those of you asking

Re: apple tablet

Well said, Bryan Dannie \ On 20 Jan 2010, at 22:16, Bryan Smart wrote: Well, William, sighted people like larger screens. A tablet can include a larger battery, faster processor, and more storage. A big touch screen makes apps possible that don't work well on small screens, such as apps

spotify alternative

Hi all. For those of us in the UK at least, there is a free alternative to spotify called WE7. Like Spotify, it is a free legal way to stream music over the interweb. However, it is browser based, resulting in better accessibility. It's not perfect though. When you've found what you want to

Clean my Mac accessibility improving.

Hi all. just to let you know that in the latest version of Clean my Mac, most controls are now labeled. The table where you select each section such as logs and universal bynaries still says blank when you arrow through it. However the label of the next table changes to reflect the section

Re: getting started with VO

Hi Amelia. Try fn, command and f5. The FN key is located in the bottom left corner of the keyboard. Dannie On 17 Jan 2010, at 02:18, ameliadicker...@gmail.com wrote: I am taking a class on universal media design and it will be best for me to be able to use a Mac. I borrowed a Macintosh

Re: Adium and display name for Windows Live Messenger

I have a similar problem, but rather than it showing my e-mail address, it displays my first name, which I believe it has gleaned from the registration info I entered when I originally set up my mac. Dannie On 12 Jan 2010, at 12:32, May McDonald wrote: I never have that problem. Mine stays

Re: Deleting mail in Mail.app

Hi David. Another thing to try is, with your gmail account's trash folder selected, go to the mailbox menu, go down to use this mailbox for and in that submenu hit return on trash. Dannie -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To

iPhone - using different voices with VoiceOve

Hi all. I was speaking to a friend last night whose friend also has an iPhone. Somehow, he uses VoiceOver with an English male voice instead of the default female voice. I searched briefly for text to speech on the iTunes store and found that Neospeech's Paul and Cate voices are available as

Re: Arrow Keys not Responding Properly

The onl suggestion I can give you is try pressing the left and right arrow keys together. Sounds to me as though you have turned on quick nav by accident which makes the arrow keys behave as though you are holdin down control and option. Dannie On 8 Jan 2010, at 02:00, Eleni Vamvakari

Accessible interactive fiction client

Hi all. just to let you know that there is a free accessible open source interactive client available for the Mac called Spatterlight. I have literally only spent 5 minutes testing it, but apparently it can play most formats, such as AGT, Adrift, TADS, Level 9 and Zcode games. It supports

captcha problem

Hi all. Has anyone else noticed that on blogger, the audio captchas won't play when you click the link? I can't understand why this might be as they work whereever else they appear through google's products. These particular captchas play fine in windows and they sound the same as other

Re: Quicksilver

Thanks for the info Yvonne. All I got when I tried to use it was button button button, so I just uninstalled it. I'll try what you suggested though. By the way I'm running snow leopard. Dannie On 20 Dec 2009, at 21:09, Yvonne Thomson wrote: On 20/12/2009, at 6:51 AM, Daniel Rowe wrote

Quicksilver

Hi all. I'm wondering has anyone else tried Quicksilver? I have a feeling that it has the potential to be a fantastic app for getting things done quicker. However it's not accessible with VO. For those who haven't heard of Quicksilver before, I'll try my best to explain what it does. It's

Re: Accessible Password Manager

i use Keychane access, which is built into the Os. You can find it under applications and utilities. On 17 Dec 2009, at 13:45, Robert Carter wrote: Hi, I recently tried using the beta of the online Roboform password manager. I wanted a cross platform solution. I got this sort of

CleanMyMac accessibility to be improved hopefully

For those of you who tried this software before, I have e-ailed the developers and they are going to make it fully VoiceOver compatible. CleanMyMac is a utility that basically removes junk files and removes files left behind when you uninstall programs. It also reduces the size of universal

Re: CleanMyMac accessibility to be improved hopefully

Yep I'll keep you guy's posted. Dannie On 17 Dec 2009, at 19:25, Mike Babcock wrote: hi; please keep us up to date when the developer makes changes, etc. thanks mike On Dec 17, 2009, at 10:20 AM, Daniel Rowe wrote: For those of you who tried this software before, I have e-ailed

Re: new member intro

On 7 Dec 2009, at 16:35, anouk radix wrote: HEllo, Well for me it does not saysay macvisionaries in the subject. Sorry, no it doesn't for me either, I was getting mixed up with another list. Oops. I had just woke up. Btw, there is a version of ventrilo for the mac as well I use it

Re: new member intro

Hi Paul. I switched over to the mac about a month ago. It really is such a fantastic. platform. The only things that I use windows for now are Ventrillo and anything flash based that requires me to interact with it. I occasionally use Sonar, too. For me, e-mails from this list say Mac

Re: iTunes Store Question - Previewing Music

just to add my 2 p's worth, I havethe same problem. I hope they can fix it soon. On 7 Dec 2009, at 10:54, Scott Howell wrote: Folks, I'm wondering if any of you have noticed a change in the iTunes store. Here is the issue. If you go to the iTunes store and perform a search for a song,

Re: Importing audiobooks into Itunes continued

On 3 Dec 2009, at 22:15, Brett Campbell wrote: I thought the join files option would do the trick. Another idea that comes to mind is going into iTunes, select your created audio book, use command I to get info, select options and check the box that says Part of a gapless album. . If

Help importing audiobooks into itunes.

Hi all. I use Audiobook Builder to convert audiobooks to the bookmarkable format. For the most part, it works great. However, if I convert something like a radio play where tracks are seamlessly joined together, it leaves little gaps between them. Has anyone got any other suggestions? I

Re: Help importing audiobooks into itunes.

On 3 Dec 2009, at 18:04, Brett Campbell wrote: After selecting your files in Audio Book Builder, have you tried using the join files button? No, i haven't yet. I'll try that later. Thanks, Dannie -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries

Importing audiobooks into Itunes continued

Hi all. I tried using the join function in Audiobook Builder but it still leaves a little gap between each track. Any more ideas on how I could fix this? Thanksin advance, Dannie -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to

Re: voicover through computer speakers?

Hi Anouk. this isn't possible at the moment as far as i know. I sent Apple an e-mail asking them if they could put in a sound output device selector. I haven't had a reply yet. So, What I suggest is the more people who e-mail them to request this feature, the more likely it will be

mail problem

Hi all. last night, I've started having a strange issue with Mail. for some strange reason, messages intermittently come up as images and not text. When I hit return on a message, voice over will just say image and will behave as though it is an image I'm focused on. After restarting mail

Re: system sounds through computer speakers

Hi. I'd like to know how you set this up as well since neither voiceover or itunes has an obvious option to set which soundcard they come through. Anouk, To get system sounds through your headset, there's an output list on the sound effects tab. Select your headset there, as well as on the

Answering calls on iphone

Hi All. i bought the iPhone yesterday. overall, I love it. I'm having problems answering calls though. for some reason, two finger double tapping the screen doesn't seem to work like it should and I have to flick to the answer button and douple tap that. two finger double tapping does end

Re: Answering calls on iphone

Thanks Anne. I just tried the gesture again and it worked. I guess it is just down to practice. On 14 Nov 2009, at 15:35, Anne Robertson wrote: Hello Danie, On Nov 14, 2009, at 4:28 PM, Daniel Rowe wrote: i bought the iPhone yesterday. overall, I love it. I'm having problems

Couple of safari questions

Hi all. I've noticed that on some webpages such as Wikipedia that vO speaks both the onscreen text and the title of the webpage when reading links. i realise you can turn off either of those settings but then you get some links that have only one of those attributes then you run into

I've done it.

Hi all. Yes, I bought an imac last friday. So far, I love it. it's amazing how fast it is to get things done, and*most* things work fine. I have my phone sinced with iCal and address book, been doing a bit of web brouzing with safari, used front roe, gotten voice over saving my settings on

Re: I've done it.

by Applescript. I think you can find in the general category in VoiceOver utility. On Nov 8, 2009, at 5:50 PM, Daniel Rowe wrote: Hi all. Yes, I bought an imac last friday. So far, I love it. it's amazing how fast it is to get things done, and*most* things work fine. I have my phone

switching

Hi all. I have decided to take the plunge and get a mac either this or next week and have a few questions. I use firefox on windows, and have amassed a good number of bookmarks over the years. Recently I've started using an extension called xmarks, which basically syncs your bookmarks and

Re: switching

complicated with v o. But the standard settings works fine. Good luck. Regards Tony 4 nov 2009 kl. 16.19 skrev Daniel Rowe: Hi all. I have decided to take the plunge and get a mac either this or next week and have a few questions. I use firefox on windows, and have amassed a good number

couple of iPhone questions

Hi all. As the subject says, I have a couple of questions. How long does the battery life last? A friend of mine told me that it's pretty poor. bair in mind that he's only going from what he's heard so I thought I'd ask you folks who actulaly use the thing. Also, is there an accessible

Re: couple of iPhone questions

, Daniel Rowe wrote: Hi all. As the subject says, I have a couple of questions. How long does the battery life last? A friend of mine told me that it's pretty poor. bair in mind that he's only going from what he's heard so I thought I'd ask you folks who actulaly use the thing. Also

New To The List

Hi all. I'm sereously considering switching over to the mac and also will be getting an iPhone when it becomes available on my network. I've been following Apple's progress with voice-over since the beta of Tiger. Apple are an amazing company for putting all this effort into making their