Good news for those who did not like the switch to percentages in Watch 9

2022-10-28 Thread 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries
Hi all, For those who shared my displeasure with the shift in Watch 9 to VO speaking percentages rather than numbers in the activity complication, that appears to have been fixed in 9.1. I’m using the Modular face, so cannot speak for what happens with other watch faces. Cheers, Donna -- The

Re: Encrypt.me vpn & accessibility good news

2019-06-08 Thread 'Andrew Lamanche' via MacVisionaries
Thanks, I’ll forward this link to the team in question. Many thanks Andrew > On Jun 7, 2019, at 9:00 PM, CHUCK REICHEL > wrote: > > Hi Andrew, > > Did you get them this Apple link? > https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Accessibility/Conceptual/AccessibilityMacOSX/ > >

RE: Encrypt.me vpn & accessibility good news

2019-06-07 Thread Simon Fogarty
Great work, Wish I could get my employer to follow this kind of sensible forward thinking. From: 'Andrew Lamanche' via MacVisionaries Sent: Saturday, 8 June 2019 6:32 AM To: 'Jason White' via MacVisionaries Subject: Encrypt.me vpn & accessibility good news Hi, I’ve

Re: Encrypt.me vpn & accessibility good news

2019-06-07 Thread CHUCK REICHEL
Hi Andrew, Did you get them this Apple link? https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Accessibility/Conceptual/AccessibilityMacOSX/ Its very helpful and takes the guess work out of VoiceOver Accessibility. :) HTH Chuck On Jun 7, 2019, at 2:31 PM, 'Andrew Lamanche' via MacVisionar

Encrypt.me vpn & accessibility good news

2019-06-07 Thread 'Andrew Lamanche' via MacVisionaries
Hi, I’ve been using for some time encrypt.me VPN service. It’s a paid service but I have found their application fairly simple in terms of accessibility. They have just changed their top people - and since I’m on their mailing list - I got to know about it and received a

Some Good News for Low Vision California Lottery Players

2018-06-09 Thread M. Taylor
Hello All, I am delighted to report that the new official California Lottery app, for iOS, is now VoiceOver accessible. Also, the app has been updated so that lottery players can now scan their tickets, via the bar code, to determine if they've won any prizes and, if so, the app informs them of

RE: good news about sirius XM

2017-04-23 Thread Matthew Dyer
@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Mike Arrigo Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2017 1:19 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: good news about sirius XM Yes, I decided to try logging in just to see if anything had changed, the first thing I noticed was that I was able

Re: good news about sirius XM

2017-04-22 Thread Mike Arrigo
flash will be gone completely. > On Apr 22, 2017, at 9:49 AM, Scott Granados wrote: > > Mike, thank you for this pointer. Nice to see flash slowly dying off like it > should. This is very good news and thanks for pointing it out to the group. > >> On Apr 22, 2017, at 10:45 A

Re: good news about sirius XM

2017-04-22 Thread Scott Granados
Mike, thank you for this pointer. Nice to see flash slowly dying off like it should. This is very good news and thanks for pointing it out to the group. > On Apr 22, 2017, at 10:45 AM, Mike Arrigo wrote: > > They have finally gotten rid of their use of Adobe Flash, listening on t

good news about sirius XM

2017-04-22 Thread Mike Arrigo
They have finally gotten rid of their use of Adobe Flash, listening on the web site works really well with safari. I'm glad they finally made this change, it was long overdue. If you have a subscription, give it a try. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visiona

Good News, A T & T Wireless Now Offering Mobile Tethering with Unlimited Plan

2017-02-27 Thread M. Taylor
Hello Everyone, Well, as I suspected, A T & T Wireless caves on the mobile tethering issue. Below my signature, I will paste in the text of the new announcement beneath which you will find the URL to the original article. Mark Mobile Data Price-War Continues As AT&T Announces A $60 Unlimited D

Re: Good News From Trillian Developers

2016-02-16 Thread Dora Speck
ehalf Of Jessica Moss > Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2016 7:01 AM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Good News From Trillian Developers > > All I did was downlode the file from the link provided, so have no idea what > to make of that, unless there were more tha

RE: Good News From Trillian Developers

2016-02-16 Thread BBS
[mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jessica Moss Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2016 7:01 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Good News From Trillian Developers All I did was downlode the file from the link provided, so have no idea what to make of that, unless there were more

Re: Good News From Trillian Developers

2016-02-16 Thread Jessica Moss
ud.com > > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jessica Moss > Sent: Monday, February 15, 2016 8:40 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Good News From Trillian Developers > > I downloded that one as w

RE: Good News From Trillian Developers

2016-02-15 Thread BBS
Skype Username: bbstheblindrapper Facetime Username: bbssh...@icloud.com From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jessica Moss Sent: Monday, February 15, 2016 8:40 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Good News From Trillian

Re: Good News From Trillian Developers

2016-02-15 Thread Jessica Moss
gt;> On Feb 11, 2016, at 6:59 AM, Jessica Moss >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Oh wonderful, thanx for the info on this. >>>>> On Feb 8, 2016, at 6:16 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>

Re: Good News From Trillian Developers

2016-02-11 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
@gmail.com>> wrote: >>> >>>> Oh wonderful, thanx for the info on this. >>>> On Feb 8, 2016, at 6:16 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland >>>> mailto:clgillan...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Oh man! This is wonderful!

Re: Good News From Trillian Developers

2016-02-11 Thread Jessica Moss
r the info on this. >>> On Feb 8, 2016, at 6:16 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Oh man! This is wonderful! Thank you. >>>> >>>> Chris. >>>> >>>> - Original Message - >>>>

Re: Good News From Trillian Developers

2016-02-11 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
;>> From: Shawn Krasniuk <mailto:bbssh...@icloud.com> >>> To: 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries >>> <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> >>> Sent: Monday, February 08, 2016 2:22 PM >>> Subject: Good News From Trillian Developers >>> &g

Re: Good News From Trillian Developers

2016-02-11 Thread Sharon Hooley
derful! Thank you. >> >> Chris. >> >> - Original Message - >> From: Shawn Krasniuk >> To: 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries >> Sent: Monday, February 08, 2016 2:22 PM >> Subject: Good News From Trillian Developers >> >> Hi all.

Re: Good News From Trillian Developers

2016-02-11 Thread Jessica Moss
nt: Monday, February 08, 2016 2:22 PM > Subject: Good News From Trillian Developers > > Hi all. I just received an email from Kevin at Trillian. He says that they'll > fix the current accessibility issues that are present in the current release > of the app in version 3.4. In th

Re: Good News From Trillian Developers

2016-02-08 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Oh man! This is wonderful! Thank you. Chris. - Original Message - From: Shawn Krasniuk To: 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries Sent: Monday, February 08, 2016 2:22 PM Subject: Good News From Trillian Developers Hi all. I just received an email from Kevin at Tr

Good News From Trillian Developers

2016-02-08 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
Hi all. I just received an email from Kevin at Trillian. He says that they'll fix the current accessibility issues that are present in the current release of the app in version 3.4. In the meantime, for those of you that don't have a time machine backup of the app which I doubt I have, he has gi

Re: some very good news for users of media human youtube to mp3 converter and VO

2016-01-20 Thread Jessica Moss
Ok, thanx for the info. I uninstalled it months ago, because it wasn't working anymore, and not sure if I was ever able to even find an update/download for it anymore. On Jan 19, 2016, at 2:49 PM, Michael Marshall wrote: > hey, > this is one program that you have to update because youtube keep

Re: some very good news for users of media human youtube to mp3 converter and VO

2016-01-19 Thread Michael Marshall
hey, this is one program that you have to update because youtube keeps changing there algorithms so the program updates when they occur. > On 20 Jan 2016, at 2:58 AM, Jessica Moss wrote: > > Oh cool, thanx for sharing this, I didn't know that even still worked. The > last few times I tried usi

Re: some very good news for users of media human youtube to mp3 converter and VO

2016-01-19 Thread Jessica Moss
Oh cool, thanx for sharing this, I didn't know that even still worked. The last few times I tried using it, it just sat there and didn't do a thing. On Jan 17, 2016, at 7:15 PM, Devin Prater wrote: > That's awesome news! > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Jan 17, 2016, at 4:18 PM, Michael Marsha

Re: some very good news for users of media human youtube to mp3 converter and VO

2016-01-17 Thread Michael Marshall
the accessibility is still not total and it can still be a bit funny but considering where it was at they should be applauded. > On 18 Jan 2016, at 11:15 AM, Devin Prater wrote: > > That's awesome news! > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Jan 17, 2016, at 4:18 PM, Michael Marshall >> wrote: >>

Re: some very good news for users of media human youtube to mp3 converter and VO

2016-01-17 Thread Devin Prater
That's awesome news! Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 17, 2016, at 4:18 PM, Michael Marshall > wrote: > > hey all, > just wanted to let you know that with the latest update of media human's > fantastic youtube to mp3 converter the program has become a lot more > accessible with VO. > in stead of

some very good news for users of media human youtube to mp3 converter and VO

2016-01-17 Thread Michael Marshall
hey all, just wanted to let you know that with the latest update of media human's fantastic youtube to mp3 converter the program has become a lot more accessible with VO. in stead of just saying unknown the main window now has options and a menu that you can now access. Michael -- The followin

Re: Good News About Downloading Music from Amazon to your Computer

2015-12-10 Thread Brian Fischler
I played around with the Amazon music player a few month’s ago and unfortunately on the mac found it to not work with VO. Yet another disappointment from Amazon as I would have loved to have put some of my Apple music in to the player so I could enjoy on the Echo. > On Dec 10, 2015, at 8:00 AM,

Re: Good News About Downloading Music from Amazon to your Computer

2015-12-10 Thread Jessica Moss
I've been trying to access this in safari, and so far, still can't get it to do anything. I go into my music library, select the songs I want to download, then all I see are the play button, and an unlabeled button, that doesn't seem to do anything. Can someone please shed some light on this?

Good News About Downloading Music from Amazon to your Computer

2015-09-24 Thread M. Taylor
Hello Everyone, This post is for anyone who, like me, prefers to purchase music via Amazon.com. A while back there was some chatter on this list about the accessibility of Amazon's music cloud storage system and finding the Amazon MP3 downloader app. The following is a notification I received s

Re: Some Good News

2015-06-08 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
First before I tell you, have you tried using Trillian yet for Facebook? Shawn Sent from my White MacBook > On Jun 4, 2015, at 8:24 PM, Ted Phillips wrote: > > Hi shawn. Forgive me for asking an obvious question to some of you > experienced mac users, but is the jabber Facebook client the o

Re: Some Good News

2015-06-08 Thread Ted Phillips
Hi shawn. Forgive me for asking an obvious question to some of you experienced mac users, but is the jabber Facebook client the one that allows you to chat in your messages ap through Facebook? If it is, how do you set it up, and if it is different, how do you set that up. I have only had a m

Some Good News

2015-06-04 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
Hi all. I got some great news. I don't know how, but my Night Owl is back operational. However I had to boot into Windows to try and do some accessibility survey that Google has on right now and when I booted back to the Mac, that dialog came back again. I said cancel and quit the app and launch

Good News | Auto Complete Options in Safari are Accessible

2014-04-07 Thread Nicholas Parsons
HI all, This might be old news for some, but I just discovered that auto complete options are accessible, at least in Safari. I had always assumed they weren't. I don't mean the way in which VoiceOver reads out the main suggestion as you type, and how you can just press return after typing the

Re: good news with mail

2013-03-06 Thread matthew Dyer
Hey man. Glad you got things working again. Matthew On Mar 5, 2013, at 11:47 PM, Jed Barton wrote: > Hey guys, > I have some great news about my mail issues. It seems that the imap was > throwing things off a lot. What we ended up doing is to set it to pop, and > now everything is working a

good news with mail

2013-03-05 Thread Jed Barton
Hey guys, I have some great news about my mail issues. It seems that the imap was throwing things off a lot. What we ended up doing is to set it to pop, and now everything is working awesome. Sorry guys if i came across really grumpy, sincerely appreciate your patience. Thanks, Jed -- You r

Re: Good News about Safari and Bookshare XML Files

2012-11-05 Thread Harry Hogue
Amber, you're very welcome. it was the most annoying problem to me, because I simply could not understand what was causing it, and knew neither the Bookshare folks nor the Apple folks would have a clue. Glad to help. Harry On nov 5, 2012, at 3:34 p.m., Amber Wallenstein wrote: > Harry: > Th

Re: Good News about Safari and Bookshare XML Files

2012-11-05 Thread Harry Hogue
Hi Greg, glad I would help. Thanks for reminding us how to find and enable the "Develop" menu option, as I could not remember for the life of me! Harry On nov 5, 2012, at 2:25 p.m., Greg Aikens wrote: > Harry, this is genius. This worked perfectly. I still don't know why Safari > only bloc

Re: Good News about Safari and Bookshare XML Files

2012-11-05 Thread Amber Wallenstein
Harry: Thank you so much! I have been having this problem with BKS files for a while. Thanks again! Amber -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe fro

Re: Good News about Safari and Bookshare XML Files

2012-11-05 Thread Greg Aikens
Harry, this is genius. This worked perfectly. I still don't know why Safari only blocks new bookshare files but now I can read them. To show the develop menu in the menu bar, go to the Preferences dialog from the Safari menu. Select the Advanced tab and you will find the option to show the

Re: Good News about Safari and Bookshare XML Files

2012-11-05 Thread Maria & Joe Chapman
Hi. where do you find this option? thanks Maria Chapman bubbygirl1...@gmail.com "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." - Mahatma Gandhi On 05/11/2012, at 2:53 PM, Alex Hall wrote: > First, I think you meant to say refresh with cmd-r, not cmd-f5. > Second

Re: Good News about Safari and Bookshare XML Files

2012-11-04 Thread Harry Hogue
Hi Alex, Yes, you're exactly right. having been on the Windows side of my mac, I was thinking in half Windows terms there for a second. Sorry about that! I have yet to try the latest Safari update, actually, but I will run a check for software updates now. Thanks for letting me know. Harry

Re: Good News about Safari and Bookshare XML Files

2012-11-04 Thread Alex Hall
First, I think you meant to say refresh with cmd-r, not cmd-f5. Second, I saw a Safari update when I got on the mac today (I had been on windows for a few days). Does this most recent Safari update not fix things? I doubt it will, but you never know. On Nov 4, 2012, at 10:27 PM, Harry Hogue wr

Good News about Safari and Bookshare XML Files

2012-11-04 Thread Harry Hogue
Hello, guys, I know I, and others, and been having issues reading .xml files from Bookshare in Safari. Sometimes, these files will load as blank within Safari. I decided to load the .xml file in my Internet Explorer on the Windows side of my computer, and it brought up an error that said it c

Re: good news for Drop box users!!

2012-01-28 Thread Ray Foret Jr
e fiddling around a bit >> but I found the dropbox menu. >> Thanks >> >> Nektarios. >> >> On Jan 28, 2012, at 5:30 AM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: >> >>> Okay. I have some good news for those of y'all wondering when Drop Box >>> would

Re: good news for Drop box users!!

2012-01-28 Thread Ray Foret Jr
drop box ibnstalled here on this machine running sl. I have some > files which I want to get the links for. How do you do this in sl. I tried > vo shift m and I don't see a drop box menu to get the link. > > Matthew > > > On Jan 27, 2012, at 10:30 PM, Ray Foret Jr w

Re: good news for Drop box users!!

2012-01-28 Thread erik burggraaf
Foret Jr wrote: > >> Okay. I have some good news for those of y'all wondering when Drop Box >> would improve their accessibility. Under Lion, it is actually possible now >> to fully access the Drop box prefs menu and windows. Here's what you need >> to do.

Re: good news for Drop box users!!

2012-01-28 Thread Ricardo Walker
t's cool. > It actually works here as you described. I don't have a mouse, but I managed > to do this using the trackpad. It requires a little fiddling around a bit but > I found the dropbox menu. > Thanks > > Nektarios. > > On Jan 28, 2012, at 5:30 AM, Ray Foret Jr

Re: good news for Drop box users!!

2012-01-28 Thread Ricardo Walker
et the links for. How do you do this in sl. I tried > vo shift m and I don't see a drop box menu to get the link. > > Matthew > > > On Jan 27, 2012, at 10:30 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > >> Okay. I have some good news for those of y'all wondering when Drop

Re: good news for Drop box users!!

2012-01-28 Thread Nektarios Mallas
I have some good news for those of y'all wondering when Drop Box would > improve their accessibility. Under Lion, it is actually possible now to > fully access the Drop box prefs menu and windows. Here's what you need to do. > > 1. In the Voice Over Utilities, make

Re: good news for Drop box users!!

2012-01-28 Thread matthew Dyer
Okay. I have some good news for those of y'all wondering when Drop Box would > improve their accessibility. Under Lion, it is actually possible now to > fully access the Drop box prefs menu and windows. Here's what you need to do. > > 1. In the Voice Over Utilities, m

Re: good news for Drop box users!!

2012-01-28 Thread Krister Ekstrom
been impossible before? /Krister 28 jan 2012 kl. 04:30 skrev Ray Foret Jr: > Okay. I have some good news for those of y'all wondering when Drop Box would > improve their accessibility. Under Lion, it is actually possible now to > fully access the Drop box prefs menu and windows. H

Re: good news for Drop box users!!

2012-01-28 Thread Ricardo Walker
Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Jan 27, 2012, at 10:30 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > Okay. I have some good news for those of y'all wondering when Drop Box would > improve their accessibility. Under Lion, it is actually possible now to > fully access the Drop box prefs me

good news for Drop box users!!

2012-01-27 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Okay. I have some good news for those of y'all wondering when Drop Box would improve their accessibility. Under Lion, it is actually possible now to fully access the Drop box prefs menu and windows. Here's what you need to do. 1. In the Voice Over Utilities, make sure you set you

good news mac utorrent save to other folders

2011-11-11 Thread Anouk Radix
could browse to other then the standard locations. I see this as good news since i have a pretty small hard drive but a really big external disk. Greetings, Anouk, -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group,

Re: Some very good news to report regarding RS games and lion

2011-10-19 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
Yes, I heard about that too, but they said it was a temporary fix. Wonder what they're gonna do to permanently fix it. Shawn -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

Some very good news to report regarding RS games and lion

2011-10-18 Thread Courtney Curran
Hi, I'd like to let everyone know that RS Games Yahtzee and Monopoly, which previously didn't work on lion now work. HTH, Courtney -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegrou

Re: Good news for all writers

2011-08-13 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
iceOver > accessibility for us. > > Mark > > > > > -Original Message- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jürgen Fleger > Sent: Friday, July 29, 2011 12:51 PM > To: Mac Visionaries Visionari

Re: Good news for all writers

2011-07-31 Thread Jürgen Fleger
m > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jürgen Fleger > Sent: Friday, July 29, 2011 12:51 PM > To: Mac Visionaries Visionaries > Subject: Good news for all writers > > Hi All, > > here's a good news for all of you who likes to write textes, novels and

RE: Good news for all writers

2011-07-30 Thread M. Taylor
[mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jürgen Fleger Sent: Friday, July 29, 2011 12:51 PM To: Mac Visionaries Visionaries Subject: Good news for all writers Hi All, here's a good news for all of you who likes to write textes, novels and so: One of the most popular programs for writ

Good news for all writers

2011-07-29 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Hi All, here's a good news for all of you who likes to write textes, novels and so: One of the most popular programs for writer is Scrivener. It provides you with different styles to write manuscripts or even complete novels. The latest version of Scrivener took a big step to get

Re: Good news about VueScan 9

2011-01-11 Thread Mary Otten
Hi Anne, If you ever figure out a way to tell from the specs presented in the literature about a given scanner if it will work with abbyy fine reader, I hope you will let the list know. I know that the scanner I have, a bookedge type from plustek has beta Mac drivers now. But I haven't the first

Re: Good news about VueScan 9

2011-01-11 Thread Carolyn Haas
Hi ray: No cost if you bought one before. It seems to be behaving fairly well, though I'm still not able to figure out how to set the folder and follow the item scanned to read it. Carolyn h On Jan 11, 2011, at 4:39 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > Will this updatae to VUscan cost anything? > > I'd

Re: Good news about VueScan 9

2011-01-11 Thread Ray Foret Jr
I did try to use Image Capture; but, I just couldn't get recognizable text with Abby Fine Reader that way. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now A Very Proud and very happy Mac user!!! Skype Name: barefootedray On Jan 11, 2011, at 5:14 PM, Carolyn Haas wrote: > Chris: > Just one m

Re: Good news about VueScan 9

2011-01-11 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Will this updatae to VUscan cost anything? I'd really rather have to pay for a good HP three-in-one printer than an update to VUScan. That way, I could just use Abby Fine Reader to do both taks. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now A Very Proud and very happy Mac user!!! Skype Na

Re: Good news about VueScan 9

2011-01-11 Thread Sarah Alawami
Not wiht my MDF device which is a cannon printer scanner coppyer. S On Jan 11, 2011, at 3:14 PM, Carolyn Haas wrote: > Chris: > Just one more thing: You can use image capture which is already on your mac > to do the scan part. Carolyn > On Jan 11, 2011, at 1:25 PM, Chris Moore wrote: > >> Gu

Re: Good news about VueScan 9

2011-01-11 Thread Carolyn Haas
Hi Chris: Funny you should ask. I just wasted a vast amount of time trying to figure out how to correctly tell the is program how to file things I scan, and getting ... getting ... back on my d*** PC.:) Ok, to be fair, I don't know that Vuescan does orientation, (such as "page is upside down."

Re: Good news about VueScan 9

2011-01-11 Thread Carolyn Haas
Chris: Just one more thing: You can use image capture which is already on your mac to do the scan part. Carolyn On Jan 11, 2011, at 1:25 PM, Chris Moore wrote: > Guess I replied to that last message too quickly lol, Ann thanks for that > and clearing things up. Think I will download trial ve

Re: Good news about VueScan 9

2011-01-11 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Chris, On 11 Jan 2011, at 21:25, Chris Moore wrote: > > So you can't scan directly into Abby and bi-passing VueScan then? Not with your scanner. I'm constantly trying to collect information on scanners that work directly with ABBYY FineReader, but the quest is proving elusive. They appear

Re: Good news about VueScan 9

2011-01-11 Thread Chris Moore
Guess I replied to that last message too quickly lol, Ann thanks for that and clearing things up. Think I will download trial versions of both of these packages. So you can't scan directly into Abby and bi-passing VueScan then? On 11 Jan 2011, at 18:42, Carolyn Haas wrote: > Hi Chris: > Ocr i

Re: Good news about VueScan 9

2011-01-11 Thread Chris Moore
Cool, so why do some others also use Abby Fine Reader Express too? Chris On 11 Jan 2011, at 18:42, Carolyn Haas wrote: > Hi Chris: > Ocr is built in, and I've started having success with it after a little help > from another user. If you're in the US, it's about $39.95. I'm using a > canon m

Re: Good news about VueScan 9

2011-01-11 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Chris, VueScan should work well with your scanner. I have a Cannon MP170 which I use with VueScan. However, I'm not sure whether your scanner has an up-to-date driver. I have to use the 32-bit version of VueScan with my MP170, but can use the 64-bit version with my CAnnon Lide 700F portab

Re: Good news about VueScan 9

2011-01-11 Thread Carolyn Haas
Hi Chris: Ocr is built in, and I've started having success with it after a little help from another user. If you're in the US, it's about $39.95. I'm using a canon mp160 successfully. Just have to figure out how to fill in the edit boxes to tell it what to name and where to save. I'm feeling

Re: Good news about VueScan 9

2011-01-11 Thread Chris Moore
I am a bit new to scanning on the Mac. Well that is a small lie, a year ago when I had sight I used my Canon MP630 to scan photos etc. But now that I have no sight I would like to get into OCR for the Mac. I have an iPal Solo which is fine for reading most things, but chuck a bank statement o

Re: Good news about VueScan 9

2011-01-11 Thread Carolyn Haas
Hi John Andre and others: There now appear to be multiple updates to Vuescan including 9.12 and 9.x.22. Anyone know whether these are all related/safe? Carolyn H On Jan 8, 2011, at 10:38 AM, John André Netland wrote: > Hi all, > > Ed Hamrick, the developer of VueScan, has found the reason for

Good news about VueScan 9

2011-01-08 Thread John André Netland
Hi all, Ed Hamrick, the developer of VueScan, has found the reason for VoiceOVer saying "busy, busy" whenever you try to use VueScan 9. He has published a new version, 9.0.11 today, and from my testing so far, it seems like it works great now! ;-) You'll find the update at www.hamrick.com Chee

Re: good news for 10.6.3

2010-01-24 Thread Dan Eickmeier
Oooo, this looks good, I see Voiceover is mentioned. The Mac OS is just going to get better and better. On Jan 22, 2010, at 11:46 PM, Yuma Antoine Decaux wrote: > http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/01/22/mac_os_x_10_6_3_to_enhance_quicktime_64_bit_logic_printing.html > > It points out ap

Re: good news for 10.6.3

2010-01-23 Thread Krister Ekstrom
ister 23 jan 2010 kl. 10.22 skrev Jessi and Goldina: > ooh yes, this is good news!!! voiceover was mentioned!!! I wonder what's > coming? ooh ooh it's exciting and better printer compatibility!! I hope > my printer will finally be supported!!! I swear I own the only hp pr

Re: good news for 10.6.3

2010-01-23 Thread Jessi and Goldina
ooh yes, this is good news!!! voiceover was mentioned!!! I wonder what's coming? ooh ooh it's exciting and better printer compatibility!! I hope my printer will finally be supported!!! I swear I own the only hp printer that is not mac compatible!!! On 2010-01-22, at 8:46 PM, Yu

good news for 10.6.3

2010-01-22 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/01/22/mac_os_x_10_6_3_to_enhance_quicktime_64_bit_logic_printing.html It points out apple asking for closer compatibility for voice over. A standardization of accessibility on the mac 64 bit coco environment? Here's hoping Yuma Yuma Decaux Light has no

Re: good news

2009-08-27 Thread Scott Howell
OS > X by > the blind" > Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 12:43 PM > Subject: good news > > > > hi > > found this in an article > > However, in contrast to Microsoft - which offers a confusing array > of full and upgrade versions of Windows, all of t

Re: good news

2009-08-27 Thread James & Nash
That's great news, but it's also what i would have expected from Apple. - Original Message - From: "william lomas" To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by the blind" Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 11:43 AM Subject: goo

Re: good news

2009-08-27 Thread william lomas
a full install, so basically > that i > could not wipe my whole hd and then install 10.6 > Greetings, Anouk, > - Original Message - > From: "william lomas" > To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS > X by > the blind&quo

Re: good news

2009-08-27 Thread william lomas
nd" > Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 12:43 PM > Subject: good news > > > > hi > > found this in an article > > However, in contrast to Microsoft - which offers a confusing array > of full and upgrade versions of Windows, all of them requiring that > users ent

Re: good news

2009-08-27 Thread a radix
, - Original Message - From: "william lomas" To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by the blind" Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 12:43 PM Subject: good news hi found this in an article However, in contrast to Microsoft - whic

good news

2009-08-27 Thread william lomas
hi found this in an article However, in contrast to Microsoft - which offers a confusing array of full and upgrade versions of Windows, all of them requiring that users enter a unique serial number in order to prove they’re not pirates - Apple continues to rely on