Re: What keyboard shortcuts for external keyboards used with the iPhone under iOS4? [was Re: reading ibooks on iphone with braille display?]

2010-07-02 Thread Mike Pedersen
> Does the iPad keyboard dock work with the iPhone? No it doesn't fit. Mike > On 30 Jun 2010, at 16:42, Esther wrote: > >> Hi Thuy, Donna, and Erik, >> >> Can you really do page up and page down on the Braille Display? I'd be >> interested to see a list of the navigation capabilities of th

Re: opening applications folder in the doc

2010-06-12 Thread Mike Pedersen
Another thing that I find makes use of the applications, downloads, and documents icons more useful is to do the following: 1. VO+shift+m on the doc icon that you wish to act upon 2. Make sure that folder and list are checked and be sure that stacks or fan are not After you do this you shou

Re: Voiceover and Alva Satelite 544

2010-06-05 Thread Mike Pedersen
Do you hear the Alva initialization sound when you connect the USB to the Mac? I'm currently using one of these with a Macbook pro running Snow Leopard and it is working fine. The alva that I am using is a satellite 44 that is about 6 years old. It is the one with the USB port only it does no

Re: Virtualbox 3.1.4 released without VO working

2010-02-16 Thread Mike Pedersen
Hello Chris, I believe the problem is that virtualbox relies very heavily on the QT toolkit which is an accessibility train reck on multiple platforms. I know this is at least the case from my time working on OpenSolaris and Linux. They may be using a different toolkit on the Mac but I don'

Re: trouble installing latest version of open office under snow lepard.

2010-01-27 Thread Mike Pedersen
Hello Cameron, my guess is a corrupted download. I just installed the latest Openoffice download on my Macbook pro with Snow leopard and everything went as expected. Note that you will hear the word "text before each new paragraph in a Writer document. This seems to be a bug in Voiceover tha

Re: scanner software

2010-01-27 Thread Mike Pedersen
Hello May, > Ok, I finally have a scanner to use and can't remember for the life of me > what people suggested to use for scanning with the mac that works with VO. > Any help right now would be greatly appreciated. You could give readiris a try. I don't know how well it works with whole books

Re: verbosity options that refuse to change

2010-01-22 Thread Mike Pedersen
ere to only navigate images with descriptions, all images or none . > > Hope this helps, > John André > > > On 22. jan. 2010, at 23.40, Mike Pedersen wrote: > >> Hi all, I'm running into a rather annoying problem that I'm wondering if >> anyone has

verbosity options that refuse to change

2010-01-22 Thread Mike Pedersen
Hi all, I'm running into a rather annoying problem that I'm wondering if anyone has experienced. I wish to change the verbosity of "image" to custom. Each time I change the image to have all pieces of information unchecked the changes don't get saved. As soon as I press OK the setting reverts

Re: accessible bit torrent client

2010-01-18 Thread Mike Pedersen
d that > transmition is workable. > On 2010-01-17, at 2:31 PM, Mike Pedersen wrote: > >> Hi all, have any of you found a bit torrent client that you are particularly >> happy with? I've found the client directly from bit torrent not accessible. >> >> >> thank

accessible bit torrent client

2010-01-17 Thread Mike Pedersen
Hi all, have any of you found a bit torrent client that you are particularly happy with? I've found the client directly from bit torrent not accessible. thanks much Mike -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this gro

Re: mouseovers and voiceover

2009-12-21 Thread Mike Pedersen
; On Dec 21, 2009, at 5:36 PM, Matt Roberts wrote: > >>> On Dec 21, 2009, at 7:04 PM, Mike Pedersen wrote: >>> >>>> I have no idea where you get the idea that I sent this more than >>>> once. I sent it exactly once and got a response an hour later. &g

Re: mouseovers and voiceover

2009-12-21 Thread Mike Pedersen
not help your cause. This is more > then five postings. People will get back to you with responses when they > have one. > > pete > On Dec 21, 2009, at 3:14 PM, Mike Pedersen wrote: > >> Hi All, does anyone have any good tips for interacting with mouseovers in >

mouseovers and voiceover

2009-12-21 Thread Mike Pedersen
Hi All, does anyone have any good tips for interacting with mouseovers in safari? Two examples I'm thinking of are: The new privacy settings in facebook where only the currently selected option gets keyboard focus. Also, at last.fm where you can highlight an artist in your library and the de

Readiris pro 12 initial setup

2009-12-14 Thread Mike Pedersen
Hi all, after reading some posts suggesting that readiris was accessible I purchased it. I'm running a Macbook pro with a fully up to date snow leopard. The install seemed to go just fine and completed successfully. WHen I launch Readiris Voiceover tells me that Readiris has no windows. I

Re: Sun VirtualBox 3.1

2009-12-14 Thread Mike Pedersen
> Apparently a new version was released November 30 (I'm a bit behind) but > the GUI seems no more accessible than it was before. > One thing I've noticed with this application is that you can interact with the containers that call themselves "unknown". If you do this, the individual controls