Re: A question about a specific example of slowness in iTunes 10.4

2011-07-30 Thread Dan Roy
yes, I am getting the same behavior. The even more weird thing is if I don't use quicknav, it doesn't read anything at all. This is a little annoying since, when you use quicknav, some of the other hotkeys like left and right arrow won't move between songs. Even when I do use quicknav, it's

Re: ugh, darn latest update for safari and sl

2011-08-03 Thread Dan Roy
H! Yes, your right, I am not sure why that would have happened on an upgrade installation. Especially since the other settings appear to have stuck. Well, sometimes, we overlook the obvious like I just did! On Aug 3, 2011, at 10:45 AM, Mary Otten wrote: I found that the option in the

Re: back to previous version of itunes

2011-08-06 Thread Dan Roy
Well, I am pushing my luck here, but, I have 3 backups of my system. Unfortunately, with Lion, Apple doesn't let you delete the iTunes.app file. However, since I do have 3 backups, i decided to take a chance. I booted up from 1 of my external backups and then deleted the iTunes.app file and

Misspelled Announcements

2011-08-08 Thread Dan Roy
Ok, I like having vo tell me I misspelled something when I am typing. However, I am annoyed about it doing so when reading mail. If I turn off the misspelling indication from the VO utility menu, then, it won't work when I am typing. Also, if I do a spell check, it won't read properly

Re: double reading of linked text in safari reader

2011-08-08 Thread Dan Roy
that read beautifully for me using the latest build of webkit and Lion! However, I have experienced that on some other articles. Honestly though, I can't remember if it was Lion or SL. On Aug 7, 2011, at 6:01 PM, Mary Otten wrote: Hi Scott, Here you go. This is from MacWorld. Pretty much

Re: double reading of linked text in safari reader

2011-08-08 Thread Dan Roy
Again, I didn't get any double links when using the reader. I read the article all the way through. Perhaps, it's time to seriously consider the Apple TV. On Aug 8, 2011, at 3:38 PM, Mary Otten wrote: Hi all, I used the following link

Re: double reading of linked text in safari reader

2011-08-08 Thread Dan Roy
Nothing, it was the content of the article I was commenting about, just a side thing and wasn't strictly on topic with the message. I should probably not have done it! On Aug 8, 2011, at 10:52 PM, Mary Otten wrote: Ok, sounds like this item is fixed in Lion. Excellent. Dan, I'm not sure

Re: Misspelled Announcements

2011-08-10 Thread Dan Roy
is with mail which is, to my knowledge, completely separate from Safari. On Aug 9, 2011, at 5:20 AM, Red.Falcon wrote: Hi Dan! This is a software update problem [not sure witch software] but people reckon safari! But I'm not sure, but since I've updated my safari and a couple of others

Preview issues

2011-08-11 Thread Dan Roy
I am realy really glad to discover they fixed the preview focus problem. I have 1 annoying thing that is now happening in preview though, it's seems to cut off letters on words that are at either the beginning or end of a line. So, the word computer might be read as omputer and so on. I

RE: iphone vs pac mate

2009-08-23 Thread Dan Tevelde
options. I think my ultimate preference will be the IPhone because I'm convinced this is the direction things are going. Dan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group

Re: iPod Shuffle podcast now available

2009-08-25 Thread Dan Eickmeier
with this particular podcast, I'm not able to download it now. Getting download failed in iTunes here. On Aug 25, 2009, at 10:16 PM, Woody Anna Dresner wrote: Hi, As several of you know, I have been working over the past couple of weeks to record a podcast demonstrating the third

Re: On My Mac Mailboxes

2009-08-27 Thread Dan Eickmeier
Hi, try expanding the on my mac section with VO backslash, then you should see those mailboxes. HTH On Aug 27, 2009, at 1:51 PM, terre...@terrencevak.net wrote: How do I access messages in these mailboxes? I have messages being moved to them, but I can't seem to find those folders to read

Re: clean install or upgrade?

2009-08-28 Thread Dan Eickmeier
Cool, I'm planning to do a clean install as well. Looking forward to that podcast Mike. On Aug 28, 2009, at 12:55 AM, Mike Arrigo wrote: I would reccomend that you do a clean install, it may take a bit more time to reinstall everything, but it's usually more reliable, certainly that's

Re: Supported apps on Snow Leopard

2009-08-29 Thread Dan Eickmeier
A weird thing that I'm having happen in Adium, is when going through my contacts list, before a contact's name, Voiceover will say, Empty. This is probably something which Adium developers could probably fix. As this isn't happening inany other tables for me. On Aug 28, 2009, at

What is a data detector, and how is it used?

2009-08-29 Thread Dan Eickmeier
Hi all, in email messages now, especially when there is an email address in the body of the message, , after VO reads the email address, it'll say data detector present. These datadetectors are something that were in Mail in Leopard, as I heard about them on one of the mainstream MAc

Re: What is a data detector, and how is it used?

2009-08-29 Thread Dan Eickmeier
window that already has the email address in the To field; you don't need to retype or add the email address yourself. hth On Aug 29, 2009, at 2:24 PM, Dan Eickmeier wrote: Hi all, in email messages now, especially when there is an email address in the body of the message, , after VO reads

Re: problems with a website

2009-08-30 Thread Dan Eickmeier
Hi, since you're using Leopard, what you'll have to do is interact with that heading, and then you'll see the link. IN Snow Leopard, you won't have to do this, the link will just be there. On Aug 30, 2009, at 1:09 PM, a radix wrote: Hello everyone, i am on the blindcooltech website because

Re: toolbar button?

2009-08-30 Thread Dan Roy
Try interacting with the toolbar, usually that does it for me! On Aug 30, 2009, at 11:34 AM, Yuma Antoine Decaux wrote: Hi everyone, a flurry of noob questions for productivity: -whenever i stumble on a toolbar button, i don't seem to be able to do anything to it. Is it normal, or is there

Re: my blog, if anyone is interested

2009-08-30 Thread Dan Eickmeier
Nice post Marie, totally liked it. On Aug 30, 2009, at 3:24 PM, Marie Howarth wrote: well, if you fancy a read, and all that good stuff, check out my blog on Snow Leopard with voice over. And please remember, it's my opinion alongside the facts, no offence is intended.

Re: Voiceover problem.

2009-08-30 Thread Dan Eickmeier
I'd experienced this when I was tryingto add a folder that i wanted shared across my network, and in the sidebar, VO was doing just that. On Aug 30, 2009, at 6:55 PM, Jesse Bollinger wrote: Hi, I've noticed a problem in snow leopard. When I go into any program with a table, VO starts

Re: SMTP rethinking

2009-08-30 Thread Dan Eickmeier
Hi, if you're trying to use an smtp server other than your ISP's server, some ISP's block the use of port 25 on other servers but their's, If this is a case, try putting in your ISP's server instead. As far as other mail clients that are accessible with Voiceover, I really, don't

A nice keystroke that we have now to add folders do the doc

2009-08-31 Thread Dan Eickmeier
Hi all, found this in the VO getting started manual for Snow Leopard, which you can request from Apple accessibility, that we can now add folders to the doc, at the press of a keystroke, when we're focused on the folder. This was definitely something we couldn't do in Leopard with ease.

Re: 3 features that hmm?

2009-08-31 Thread Dan Eickmeier
Well said John. When Vista came out, I wasn't impressed with it either, based on what I was hearing from people that were running it. I'd heard so many good things about the Mac, and the fact that I would have access to the mac right out of the box, without having to pay extra costs

Re: beginning of document (textedit)

2009-08-31 Thread Dan Eickmeier
Hi, command-up arrow should do what you want. On Aug 31, 2009, at 9:06 AM, a radix wrote: Hello, I need to jump and search through documents a lot, how can i go back to the beginning of a document in textedit? I tried vo-home command-home and option-home but this does not seem tow ork and

Re: Baby Steps with the White Cat and, Mark Has A Question

2009-08-31 Thread Dan Eickmeier
Wow, that's a shame, that they did offer that in one of the betas,and then took it away. Anyway, to stay on topic with Apple stuff, from Tiger, on, Apple has always given us the ability to install with VOiceover, which is awesome On Aug 31, 2009, at 2:50 PM, william lomas wrote: ah wow

Extra Verbage in Mail

2009-09-01 Thread Dan Roy
Hello Everyone: This is my first time posting on this list. So far, however, I have gotten a lot of help just by reading, grins! I did the install of OS 10.6 and it went off without any problems. Boy, some nice new functionality, almost everything i wanted. However, now that reading has

Re: Mail messages not being read automatically

2009-09-02 Thread Dan Eickmeier
Hi, this is a bug which i hope will be fixed in a 10.6.1 update. On Sep 2, 2009, at 11:53 PM, Woody Anna Dresner wrote: Hi, I upgraded to Snow Leopard this afternoon. The transition is going reasonably well, but I have a question. I have been reading e-mail by pressing VO-J from the

Re: interesting bug with the save dialog

2009-09-03 Thread Dan Eickmeier
Hi Justin, I've noticed this in save, and open dialogs as well, particularly on the side bar, Voiceover starts studdering, and I can't seem to do anything in this dialog, that is, select the location where I want to save to, oropen a file from. On Sep 3, 2009, at 9:29 AM, Woody Anna

Re: background picture

2009-09-04 Thread Dan Eickmeier
Hi, you can change this in the accounts section of preferences, on the personal tab in there. YOu can select to not use an icon. Hope this helps. On Sep 4, 2009, at 4:31 AM, anouk radix wrote: Hello all, when i first installed my mac it asked for a picture to select for my account I

Re: background picture

2009-09-06 Thread Dan Eickmeier
the defaultdesktoppicture.jpg in library/coreservices but I am not sure if thats it. Greetings, Anouk, On Sep 4, 2009, at 10:55 AM, Dan Eickmeier wrote: Hi, you can change this in the accounts section of preferences, on the personal tab in there. YOu can select to not use an icon. Hope

Re: audio higjack pro

2009-09-07 Thread Dan Eickmeier
And what about Sound Flower? Is that actually working under Snow Leopard? Or not yet? On Sep 7, 2009, at 11:40 AM, Steven M. Sawczyn wrote: Yes, but instant hijack for apps is broken. HTH, Steve On Sep 7, 2009, at 5:57 AM, william lomas wrote: hi in snowleopard can one use

A solution for stopping voiceover from saying empty in the contacts table in Adium

2009-09-08 Thread Dan Eickmeier
Hi all,a friend of mine who's not on this list, was playing with verbosity settings, and we found that if you go under list, and customise it so that the status isn't spoken, this will fix the problem of voiceover saying empty in the contacts table of Adium. So for those who were

Re: My MacBook Has Arrived

2009-09-09 Thread Dan Eickmeier
Cool, glad to hear thatyou got your Mac. I'm assuming it has Snow Leopard installled on it. If so,you can hit control-option-h, and go down to the getting started guide, hit return on it, and you'll be taken to a nice HTML version of that. . It's worth looking at for you, since

Re: Question on Mail Settings on the Mac

2009-09-14 Thread Dan Eickmeier
Hi Dave, this setting is found under accounts in the mail preferences, on the advanced tab of that pane. Hope this helps. On Sep 13, 2009, at 4:22 PM, Dave McLean wrote: Hello, Another question from a Mac newbie: Where in the mail menus is the setting to delete messages from the pop

Re: New Ipod Nano

2009-09-20 Thread Dan Roy
Ok, can you use the FM presets? What about the sleep timer and alarms. there seems to be some question as to whether or not the extra features are fully accessible. Does anyone know? I have a friend who isn't real computer savvy who is considering buying 1. On Sep 20, 2009, at 12:32

Re: New Ipod Nano

2009-09-20 Thread Dan Roy
, Pete Nalda wrote: On Sep 20, 2009, at 1:15 PM, Dan Roy wrote: Ok, can you use the FM presets? What about the sleep timer and alarms. there seems to be some question as to whether or not the extra features are fully accessible. Does anyone know? I have a friend who isn't real computer

Re: adium

2009-09-22 Thread Dan Eickmeier
Hi May, if you want to read the last message in a Window, interact with the area that'll say Unknown with VO-shift down arrow, and then hit VO-shift-fn right arrow. HTH. On Sep 22, 2009, at 7:42 PM, May McDonald wrote: Ok, here's another question for today. When reading messages with

Re: hey guys help help help

2009-09-23 Thread Dan Eickmeier
Hmmm, be more specific? What is it that's not working? Then maybe we can help? On Sep 23, 2009, at 4:48 PM, Chantel Cuddemi wrote: What do you need help with? Maybe I can assist. On Sep 23, 2009, at 4:42 PM, David Geiger wrote: hey guys i love my mac but need help help for some odd

Re: Setting up a Router

2009-09-24 Thread Dan Eickmeier
Yeah I'd agree there. Most of the Apple routers would probably be b, g, and likely N compatible as well. On Sep 23, 2009, at 6:09 PM, Tyler Littlefield wrote: Hello, I'm going to say that it's b and g compatible, most newer cards are these days. Just a guess, but I haven't seen anything

Re: twitter for the mac, what will work with vo?

2009-09-24 Thread Dan Eickmeier
I agree, this is something that I'd like to see as well. On Sep 24, 2009, at 2:39 PM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: Hi, I also use Syrinx and love it. The only thing i wish it had is a way to see those who follow me, not only those i follow. When this appears i will be a really happy camper,

Re: Getting Stuck in Submenus with VO. Does this happen to you?

2009-09-25 Thread Dan Eickmeier
Hi Pete, this is a bug, where if you have your Mouse cursor set to follow your VO cursor, this will happen. If you set it to ignore your voiceover cursor, that'll be a workaround. You do this in the navigation section of VO utility. HTH. On Sep 25, 2009, at 4:39 AM, Pete Nalda wrote:

Setting up a mac, so that the setup assistant will come up for somebody else that's getting it?

2009-09-28 Thread Dan Eickmeier
Hey all, a friend of mine who is not on this list, is eventually wanting to give his current macbook that he has to somebody else, since he'll eventually be getting a new one. and He's thinking of doing a clean install of Leopard. Of course after the install, the MAc boots up, and

Re: List Boxes.

2009-09-30 Thread Dan Eickmeier
I'm not totally sure, but I had heard that we could use them on web pages, as of Safari 4. On Sep 30, 2009, at 1:15 PM, Jesse Bollinger wrote: i all, Is there a way to use extended or multi select list boxes with VO? Thanks, Jesse

Some Weird Mail Behaviors

2009-10-05 Thread Dan Roy
Hello Everyone: I am having a lot of fun with my mac mini. The weirdest thing is the application that I spend most of my time with is giving me some weird problems. Sometimes when navigating between mailboxes in mail, when I get to the box I want, VO will say empty table. I get this even

Re: Itunes and VO: a possible bug?

2009-10-08 Thread Dan Eickmeier
Hi, this has been a bug for as long as I can remember. It was back in iTunes 8, and is obviously still a bug in 9. On Oct 8, 2009, at 4:06 PM, Donal Fitzpatrick wrote: Hi all, I just came across something and I'm wondering if anyone else has noticed this. I tried to import an audio CD

Re: MacBook Pro suggestions wanted

2009-10-18 Thread Dan Eickmeier
Hi Bob, right now as it is, the best app for doing audio work would have to be Amadeus pro. On Oct 14, 2009, at 9:32 AM, Bob Hill wrote: Hi all, I am going to be starting with a new job, and will be advising and demonstrating access using VoiceOver and the Macintosh. We're thinking of

Re: mac vs windows

2009-10-19 Thread Dan Eickmeier
Does Echo Mac work ok under Snow Leopard? I was aware that it hadn't been updated in quite some time. I'd had it when I was running Leopard, but haven't put it on since installing Snowy. 73 de Dan VA3ETS. On Oct 19, 2009, at 10:09 AM, May McDonald wrote: Hi, I just found echomac

Re: logic

2009-10-20 Thread Dan Eickmeier
Is Logic at least sort of accessible? Or totally not at all? On Oct 20, 2009, at 4:21 AM, Justin Kauflin wrote: I'd also like to express my interest in any developments concerning Logic and any other music production software being made accessible. It would certainly be nice to actually

Re: Checking VoiceMail on Skype

2009-10-21 Thread Dan Eickmeier
Hi, I'm assuming the voicemail that you're talking about is your Skype voicemail. What usually works for me, is to go to the history window in Skype, with command-4, and then I can interact with the table there, and go through anything I may have missed, such as calls, chats, and

Re: scanning wasRe: my 2 months with a mac

2009-10-23 Thread Dan Eickmeier
There's an application called PDF pen from smileonmymac.com. THis is good for doing stuff with PDF's, but from what I've heard about it, it also has scanning, and OCR capibilities. If it were accessible, maybe it would illiminate the need to use two applications to do scanning and OCr,

Re: hard drive and desktop

2009-10-23 Thread Dan Eickmeier
Go into finder preferences with command-coma, and check the hard discs checkbox so that they'll show on the desktop. By default, if you do a clean install of SL, harddiscs are not set to show on the desktop, like they were in Leopard. Hope this helps. On Oct 23, 2009, at 7:04 PM, May

Re: safari help

2009-10-24 Thread Dan Eickmeier
Hi May, on the advancedtab of Safari preferences, you'll find a checkboxthat says press tab to highlight each item on a web page. Check that, and hit command-w to close safari preferences. On Oct 24, 2009, at 2:35 AM, May McDonald wrote: Hi everyone. I have discovered another problem.

Re: recording video on the Mac

2009-10-24 Thread Dan Eickmeier
Donna, if you're looking for audio recording and editing software, which sounds more along the lines of what you're looking for, , right now I think your best choicewould be Amadeus pro from http://www.hairersoft.com . The developer has really made efforts to support us voiceover

Filling out PDF forms on the Mac?

2009-10-25 Thread Dan Eickmeier
Hi, is it possible to fill out a pdf form on the Mac with Preview? Thanks. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: garageband accessibility

2009-11-04 Thread Dan Eickmeier
Hi Ginny, to export your labels, go into voiceover utility, hit command-shift-E, in the dialogue that comes up, there'll be a pop-up button from which you can select to export your labels, and then like any other save dialog, you can select where to save the exported file. HTH. On Nov

Re: Time capsule configuration

2009-11-09 Thread Dan Eickmeier
Hi Frank, time capsules, or any airport base station for that matter, are configured through the airport utility application, which you'll find in /applications/utilities. Hope this helps. THis is what I like about them, as I've found some routers' web interfaces to be accessibility

Re: Abbyy FineReader works well

2009-11-10 Thread Dan Eickmeier
I think there's been discussions about FIne reader in the past on this list. And some people had thought that it wasn't worth it compared to Read Iris at the time. Has the overall accessibility of it now, if it's had updates since this was last discussed on this list, which i think it was,

Re: Time capsule configuration

2009-11-10 Thread Dan Eickmeier
[mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Dan Eickmeier Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 9:01 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Time capsule configuration Hi Frank, time capsules, or any airport base station for that matter, are configured through the airport utility

Re: anyone else having trouble with ebay and safari?

2009-11-12 Thread Dan Eickmeier
Yep, same here in trying to go to ebay.ca here in Canada. On Nov 12, 2009, at 2:28 AM, John J Herzog wrote: Hi all, Lately, whenever I go to www.ebay.com safari immediately crashes. Is anybody else experiencing this? Thanks, John

Re: adem, and msn, ipodtuch?

2009-11-12 Thread Dan Eickmeier
Hi Maurice, Adium is definitely very useable. If you interact with the area that Voiceover is reporting as an unknown in the chat window, ou hsould be able to read your chats just fine. On Nov 11, 2009, at 6:34 PM, Maurice Mines wrote: HI ALL I AM TRAYING TO USE ADEM WITH MY FREND WHO

Re: Major Problem with macbook, Need Help ASAP

2009-11-12 Thread Dan Eickmeier
Hi, I'd say try that external keyboard when you can find it. On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:43:01 -0500, Eleni Vamvakari wrote: *Sending to The Zone BBS and Mac Visionaries.* I'm having a major problem with my Macbook and have no clue what's going on. I was writing something in Text Edit and then

Re: yojimbo

2009-11-14 Thread Dan Eickmeier
I've heard a lot about this App from mainstream Mac podcasts. How is it for accessibility? On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:02:56 +0700, Yuma Antoine Decaux wrote: Hi list, Has anyone of you tried yojimbo? So far i love it. Since i have loads of tweets from public feeds, and also use

Reading with Text Edit?

2009-11-15 Thread Dan Roy
I am running with snowy version 10.6.2, and, I have all updates installed. However, I continue to have problems reading files with text edit. I can navigate fine using up down left right etc. However, any time I stop, if I do any function other than that, the cursor seems to jump back to the

Re: Reading with Text Edit?

2009-11-15 Thread Dan Roy
types. HTH TC James On 15 Nov 2009, at 20:13, Dan Roy wrote: I am running with snowy version 10.6.2, and, I have all updates installed. However, I continue to have problems reading files with text edit. I can navigate fine using up down left right etc. However, any time I stop

Re: itwinge?

2009-11-16 Thread Dan Eickmeier
That was a big deal that was mentioned when iPhone OS 3.0 was released, the fact that the dock connector would be open to use with other hardware, but have we really seen hardware manufacturers tapping into this? Not really that i've heard. On Nov 16, 2009, at 6:16 AM, Scott Howell wrote:

Re: Am I missing something

2009-11-16 Thread Dan Eickmeier
Hi Lindsey, try VO-A that'll do what you're looking for On Nov 16, 2009, at 7:19 PM, Lindsay Yazzolino wrote: Hi, I was looking for the command to read from the VO cursor to the end of a document, and cannot seem to find it in the commands help. Is there a comprehensive list of

Re: Adium for Twitter andresources for just learning computers

2009-11-16 Thread Dan Eickmeier
Hi, I never could quite figure out Adium's support for twitter. What i'd recommend, is that you use Syrinx, which is a dedicated twitter client. You can get that from www.mrrsoftware.com. On Nov 16, 2009, at 2:49 PM, Israel wrote: Hi list!! I've been reading the posts on this list

Re: + Buy Apple computers and pay and pay and pay (fwd)

2009-11-19 Thread Dan Eickmeier
I certainly can't imagine having adds inserted into the Os, and don't see Apple doingsomething that crazy. On Nov 18, 2009, at 6:12 AM, Chris Hofstader wrote: Hi, I have two thoughts about inserting ads into the OS and both are bad. First, those of us who use VoiceOver do not need

Re: voices app

2009-11-19 Thread Dan Eickmeier
Hmmm, ok. Is this an iPhone/iPod touch app, or a Mac app? On Nov 19, 2009, at 9:07 PM, Yuma Antoine Decaux wrote: Hi list, I have just purchased the voices app from tap tap tap, and though its a really fun app to have, it has some accessibility issues and went straight to the

Re: converting WMV files to MP3 or something?

2009-11-21 Thread Dan Eickmeier
Or maybe the batch converter in Amadeus pro could handle this? that's worth a try too. On Nov 21, 2009, at 9:49 PM, Esther wrote: Wow! Sorry about this. Another thought: can't VLC handle this type of conversion from WMV to something that can be played in native format on the Mac? I

Re: converting WMV files to MP3 or something?

2009-11-21 Thread Dan Eickmeier
Or here's another option, you could use Audio Hijack pro to hijack the audio from VLC and then get an mP3 out of that. On Nov 21, 2009, at 11:12 PM, Mark BurningHawk Baxter wrote: This is as far as I got with it: VLC player will play the WMV files just fine. For this, I'm grateful.

Date received column only showing the date, and not the time as well?

2011-01-15 Thread Dan Eickmeier
HI, I noticed that in my inbox particularly, that my date received column, is only showing as yesterday, or if I go further back, January 13, 2011, and not the time as well. In other mailboxes, the time is showing as well, like it should. COuld I somehow ahve acccidentally resized the date

Re: adium and adding contacts?

2011-02-07 Thread Dan Eickmeier
HEy jOhn, so I'm not alone. Good to hear that. . I'm getting the same hting here with a contact of mine, and they can't seem to add me either. On Feb 6, 2011, at 5:53 PM, John D. Lipsey wrote: Hi guys: I've been using Adium forever, well since I got my mac, and am over all happy with

Re: Can voiceover speak Kurgish or Russian?

2011-02-18 Thread Dan Eickmeier
I'd have a look at the assistiveware site, , or maybe Cepstral would have voices in those languages, if Assistiveware doesn't? On Feb 18, 2011, at 12:33 AM, Kevin Reeves wrote: Hey folks. An instructor in training here at the Louisiana Center for the Blind is from Kurgistan. She was curious

Re: testing brailledisplays for mac and iphone4

2011-02-24 Thread Dan Roy
Ahmed: can you input from the keyboard on the focus in to your iPhone and Macbook? I have an old pacmate 40 display that only works with USB. I can get it to display braille fine, but, I can't get any of the routing buttons to work on the display, they do absolutely nothing. The Focus 40 blue

1 Password

2011-03-25 Thread Dan Roy
I thought I read on this list that the 1 password software was accessible with voiceover? Well, I downloaded the trial version last night. It actually downloaded as an .app file. However, when I open it, VO says it has no windows. the only way I could close this app was by doing a force

Re: 1 Password

2011-03-26 Thread Dan Roy
to Agile Software and they said that they would fix the problem. In the meantime, if you can get someone sighted to help with those two screens, you will be in business with VoiceOver after the initial time. Robert Carter On Mar 25, 2011, at 9:09 PM, Dan Roy wrote: I thought I read

Re: cleaning out mac hard drive?

2011-04-03 Thread Dan Eickmeier
I've heard a lot about Drive Genious in a lot of hte Main stream mac podcasts. Exactly how accessible is this App? On Apr 3, 2011, at 2:33 PM, Scott Howell wrote: Yes it does. I picked up a copy of Drive Genius more for its capabilities to repair damaged drives etc. An expensive program,

Re: cleaning out mac hard drive?

2011-04-04 Thread Dan Eickmeier
, 2011, at 11:43 PM, Dan Eickmeier wrote: I've heard a lot about Drive Genius in a lot of hte Main stream mac podcasts. Exactly how accessible is this App? On Apr 3, 2011, at 2:33 PM, Scott Howell wrote: Yes it does. I picked up a copy of Drive Genius more for its capabilities to repair

Re: Reading text in Pages and TextEdit

2011-04-11 Thread Dan Roy
Well, this is a good suggestion, however I myself have not been able to do anything in verbosity that would stop the speaking of blank lines using the word newline. this is a rather trivial thing, but, does get quite annoying. This isn't only true in text edit, but, just about any type of

Re: [Bulk] skype 5 pretty nice though

2010-11-05 Thread Dan Eickmeier
I've found this as well Ray, with the alerts. Even though i have them set up, I'm getting no sounds, or no spoken notifications when people are coming online, or going offline. On Nov 5, 2010, at 4:05 AM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: the thing I have found is that none of the alerts work.

Re: Skype 5.0 Beta and conference calling

2010-11-05 Thread Dan Eickmeier
You can use command-option-left and right arrow to switch conversations. HTH. On Nov 5, 2010, at 9:28 AM, Brandon Misch wrote: has anyone figured out how to move from one conversation to another when you have more than one or how to get skype to behave like it does in the release

Re: Skype 5

2010-11-07 Thread Dan Eickmeier
Not hearing any sounds when people come online, or go offline, even though I have those set. I've got the speak text checkbox also checked for both of those events, and am getting no spoken notifications either for contacts coming online, or going off. On Nov 6, 2010, at 7:01 PM, Mark

Re: Getting rid of DropBox

2010-11-09 Thread Dan Eickmeier
Dropbox is an absolute hastle to work with on the Mac, And it's a shame, but the dropbox people do not seem to be the most responsive when it comes to accessibility of the mac client. On Nov 8, 2010, at 5:36 PM, Daniel K. Gartmann wrote: Hi, Has anybody tried deleting the DropBox

Re: Been away too long from Yurufukuru - a couple of stupid questions

2010-11-14 Thread Dan Eickmeier
I've also disabled auto complete, as I found it to get in the way, rather than help me to use the client the way I wanted. . On Nov 13, 2010, at 2:59 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: Hello. contact the dev about the auto complete issue. As far as your first question I hit cmd n and hit follow

Re: selling old macbook?

2010-11-15 Thread Dan Eickmeier
Hi Erik, not sure if the site is US only, or whehter it's a golobal site, but to get a good idea on what she should sell it for, try putting information about it into gazelle.com On Nov 15, 2010, at 11:03 AM, erik burggraaf wrote: Hi guys, one of my clients bought a macbook in 2009 and

Re: Doing a put in the land of ftp

2010-11-15 Thread Dan Eickmeier
Hi marlaina, I'm assuming you're trying to do this via the , finder, don't think you can upload this way, think you can only download. I'd highly recommend checking out Transmit from http://panic.com It's an absolutely excellent client. Hope that helps. If you need help with Transmit

Re: Pages Podcast is now up

2010-11-19 Thread Dan Roy
Allison: Any possibility of doing the same thing for numbers. Right now, Text edit is enough for the vary light word processing work I do. However, numbers is another thing, I would love it if you could do something with that, thanks in advance. On Nov 15, 2010, at 6:28 PM, Allison Manzino

Re: problems saving using save as in text edit and pages

2010-11-29 Thread Dan Eickmeier
H, interesting. Can't say I've experienced this in either app. Maybe try a permissions repair? Don't know for sure , but maybe something is screwed up with permissions somehow? To do this do the following: 1. Go to the finder, 2. HIt command-shift-U to go to your utilities folder,

Re: Numbers Podcast

2010-12-02 Thread Dan Roy
Alison, thanks vary much, I am looking forward to it! On Dec 2, 2010, at 3:34 PM, Allison Manzino wrote: Hi again all, I'm sorry for the multiple posts, but since I'm posting about different topics, I thought it would be easier to write multiple messages. I remember a while ago someone

Re: apple mail question

2010-12-08 Thread Dan Eickmeier
Hi marlaina, there absolutely is. Try the address panel, which you can access from the window menu in mail. This should give you what you're looking for. HTH. On Dec 8, 2010, at 4:53 PM, Marlaina Lieberg wrote: In Outlook and Outlook express, i could visit my address list and choose

Re: WMA fileson the mac

2010-12-08 Thread Dan Eickmeier
Hi, try vlc from http://videolan.org/ This will play .WMA files just fine. So long as they aren't protected WMA files. As far as playing protected WMA's, not sure what you could do about that. On Dec 8, 2010, at 4:23 PM, Christina wrote: Hello, Is there a way to play or convert a

Re: mudding on the mac

2010-12-09 Thread Dan Eickmeier
mudding is playing text adventure games. WHich i never did on WIndows and don't really care for at all. Certainly for those that like to do it, there clearly isn't an accessible solution for the mac yet. On Dec 9, 2010, at 4:26 AM, Oriol Gómez wrote: Hello! Has anyone found a proper

Maximizing Windows?

2010-12-09 Thread Dan Roy
I was working with my wife who is fully sighted. I was trying to get her to visually describe some images on a site. She was continuously frustrated because, Finder was covering up most of the web sites window. She couldn't figure out what to do about that. Meanwhile, VO was performing just

Re: My Eyepal demo is here.

2010-12-12 Thread Dan Roy
So, if I go out and buy an Epson TX110 and Abby I should be able to use it without VuScan? On Dec 12, 2010, at 1:00 PM, Yuma Decaux wrote: My Epson TX110, standard at 100 dollars does the job perfectly With abbey fine reader. I don't want to insist with a dialogue which may jeopardize

Re: My Eyepal demo is here.

2010-12-13 Thread Dan Roy
Thanks, however, I was lead to believe that On Dec 12, 2010, at 8:21 PM, Carolyn Haas wrote: Hi Dan: There are two and actually 3 programs in this thread: The first is a scanning device known as the eye-pal, which works inhich I don't! conjunctionn with a pc or Mac to easily scan

Re: anyone using skype 5 beta with os10 having this issue

2010-12-14 Thread Dan Eickmeier
Hi Sarah, i'm experiencing this as well, and I find it happens after i've cleared my recent conversations, and I get a chat after that. I've found that going back and forth a bit between that conversation, and the next item above or below that, and then stoping interaction with the sources

Re: IPad questions

2010-12-26 Thread Dan Eickmeier
Carolyn, regarding the bluetooth keyboard, when I got one, i had used it with my 3rd gen iPot touch, and then I wanted to use it on my Mac. The mac was never seeing it as an available device. Finally, I went into settings, on hte iPod, and then bluetooth, and told the iPod to forget the

Strange Issue with Macbook Pro

2010-12-26 Thread Dan Roy
This isn't Vo related, however, it is definitely Apple! This might be a bit off-topic fir this list. However, this type of thing has come up before and people have been willing to help. I hope, in this case, someone has an answer. Recently, there was a thread on battery maintenance, and, just

Re: very peculiar behavior change with audible.com

2011-01-01 Thread Dan Roy
Are you finding the toolbar next to each audio book, it is usually right after the title. If so, you have to interact with that toolbar a play/pause, mute, rewind 30 seconds and 1 other button will then appear. I hope this helps. On Jan 1, 2011, at 9:12 PM, Marlaina Lieberg wrote: I have

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