UofMich Developing New Braille Display

2016-01-11 Thread Rick Thomas via Talk
Hi: Nicole Casal Moore out of the University of Michigan, Michigan Engineering Is working on a fluidic braille display to display several lines of braille, graphs etc using fluidic technology. They plan the cost to be around $1000 which is less expensive than other displays out there from what I

RE: auto language switching is window eyes 9.3.1

2016-01-11 Thread Chris Grabowski via Talk
Auto language only works with Eloquence and eSpeak. Chris Window-Eyes Product Support Ai Squared 725 Airport North Office Park Fort Wayne, IN 46825 (802) 362-3612 www.aisquared.com   -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+cgrabowski=aisquared@lists.window-eyes.com] On B

Re: UofMich Developing New Braille Display

2016-01-11 Thread Matthew Chao via Talk
Sounds great if they can pull it off. Then there's this issue of long-term support - remember the VersaBraille?--Matt, n1ibb. On 1/11/2016 3:20 AM, Rick Thomas via Talk wrote: Hi: Nicole Casal Moore out of the University of Michigan, Michigan Engineering Is working on a fluidic braille displ

Re: UofMich Developing New Braille Display

2016-01-11 Thread Matthew Chao via Talk
Hi, Again, folks. Sorry for the different signature on my last email, but thought this message came from the blind hams listserv. At any rate, as I said, aside from price, support long-term will be critical. I had a VersaBraille II+ which cost $7,000 at the time. When TSI went belly up, so we

RE: question about funtion keys.

2016-01-11 Thread Chris Grabowski via Talk
Correct, Some laptops include a utility that allows you to toggle the state without going into bios. Chris Window-Eyes Product Support Ai Squared 725 Airport North Office Park Fort Wayne, IN 46825 (802) 362-3612 www.aisquared.com   -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+cg

RE: error after windows enhanced app update

2016-01-11 Thread Chris Grabowski via Talk
Hi, If you know the app in question. 1. Press insert-7 until you hear app status off. 2. go to the apps menu with alt-a. Enter on app management. Enter again on add or remove apps. Arrow to the app that gave you an error and uninstall it. IE select it in the list and tab to remove. Press ent

RE: BECKY!: html emails

2016-01-11 Thread Chris Grabowski via Talk
This is correct, turn that setting on and Browse mode will come on for HTML emails. Chris Window-Eyes Product Support Ai Squared 725 Airport North Office Park Fort Wayne, IN 46825 (802) 362-3612 www.aisquared.com   -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+cgrabowski=aisquared

Re: UofMich Developing New Braille Display

2016-01-11 Thread Eden Kizer via Talk
Yes this is correct for braille as well. If I use autoscroll, which I did not know worked in mail, then it works fine which is whatI will do from now on but not everyone is comfortable with autoscroll. - Original Message - From: Matthew Chao via Talk To: Rick Thomas ,Window-Eyes Discu

Re: Firefox and Thunderbird are now mouse accessible

2016-01-11 Thread Kevin Huber via Talk
Hi Many: How were you able to get Firefox to go into About:config mode? Kevin Huber On 1/9/16, manny via Talk wrote: > Hi, > Finally WE9.3 reads the screen with the numpad in firefox and Thunderbird. > I no longer need to use firefox 3.0. > > However, I needed sighted help to get this accomplis

Re: Firefox and Thunderbird are now mouse accessible

2016-01-11 Thread Reg Webb via Talk
Hi Kevin Turn autoload and browse mode off, and type "about:config" into the address bar. -- Reg On Mon, 11 Jan 2016 09:57:00 -0500 Kevin Huber via Talk wrote: > Hi Many: > > How were you able to get Firefox to go into About:config mode? > Kevin Huber > > > On 1/9/16, manny via Talk wrot

RE: Firefox and Thunderbird are now mouse accessible

2016-01-11 Thread Chris Grabowski via Talk
Hi, Turn off autoload of browse mode with insert-a. Turn off browse mode with control-shift-a. Press control-l and type about:config and press enter. Chris Window-Eyes Product Support Ai Squared 725 Airport North Office Park Fort Wayne, IN 46825 (802) 362-3612 www.aisquared.com   -Original

RE: Firefox and Thunderbird are now mouse accessible

2016-01-11 Thread Chris Grabowski via Talk
Hi Don, No, I was answering the question on how to get into about:config with Window-eyes. Looks like these changes are working for some and not others. I have never gotten them to work past Windows 8.1. Thanks, Chris Window-Eyes Product Support Ai Squared 725 Airport North Office Park Fort Wa

Re: Firefox and Thunderbird are now mouse accessible

2016-01-11 Thread Kevin Huber via Talk
Hi: I just followed the instrufctions and the mouse pointer now works in Firefox. Thanks to the people who provided them. Kevin Huber On 1/11/16, Chris Grabowski via Talk wrote: > Hi Don, > No, > I was answering the question on how to get into about:config with > Window-eyes. > Looks like these c

Re: Firefox and Thunderbird are now mouse accessible

2016-01-11 Thread Brice Mijares via Talk
Then What do you do to enable mouse pointer functions? - Original Message - From: "Chris Grabowski via Talk" To: "Kevin Huber" ; "Window-Eyes Discussion List" Sent: Monday, January 11, 2016 7:25 AM Subject: RE: Firefox and Thunderbird are now mouse accessible Hi, Turn off autoload o

Re: Firefox and Thunderbird are now mouse accessible

2016-01-11 Thread Kevin Huber via Talk
bbHi Bryce: The first thing you have to do when you get to the config page is you have to activate the I Promise button, which tells Firefox that you won't screw something up. Then you tab to a list of options, then you set the options that were discribed in the message that was sent earlier. The p

Re: Firefox and Thunderbird are now mouse accessible

2016-01-11 Thread Mike Rogers via Talk
Hi Chris. I used your mystic address, but don't know if you are using it anymore. Becky is leaving out some words, at the end of messages, when I read them. If I hit the systems key, then "X" it reads correctly. Do you know what is causing this? It's a new problem. Mike **

Re: Firefox and Thunderbird are now mouse accessible

2016-01-11 Thread net bat via Talk
but what is this mod suppose to do? no one is saying so i don't know if the mod did anything on my win7 computer. -Original Message- From: Kevin Huber via Talk Sent: Monday, January 11, 2016 8:24 AM To: Brice Mijares ; Window-Eyes Discussion List Subject: Re: Firefox and Thunderbird are

RE: UofMich Developing New Braille Display

2016-01-11 Thread Don Mauck via Talk
Where did you come across this? -Original Message- From: Rick Thomas via Talk [mailto:talk@lists.window-eyes.com] Sent: Monday, January 11, 2016 1:21 AM To: Window-Eyes Discussion List Subject: UofMich Developing New Braille Display Hi: Nicole Casal Moore out of the University of Michig

Interesting fb post

2016-01-11 Thread Terry Bartlett via Talk
Today, blind people fluent in Braille can read computer screens s through refreshable displays that convert words to raised dots – but only one line at a time. For the sighted, imagine a Kindle that presents just 40 characters per page, says Sile O’Modhrain, an associate professor of Music,

RE: Firefox and Thunderbird are now mouse accessible

2016-01-11 Thread Chris Grabowski via Talk
According to some, it is supposed to give you the ability to mouse around like version 30 and below. Chris Window-Eyes Product Support Ai Squared 725 Airport North Office Park Fort Wayne, IN 46825 (802) 362-3612 www.aisquared.com   -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+cg

RE: auto language switching is window eyes 9.3.1

2016-01-11 Thread Afik Sofir via Talk
Hi, Did auto-language switching work with VEX? I'm working with carmit, and I need auto-language-switching Afik Sofir Support for Window-Eyes users Highsight asisteve technology for blind and visually impaired -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+as=highsight.co...@lis

RE: Interesting fb post

2016-01-11 Thread Van Lant, Robin via Talk
Fascinating. I'm not proficient enough of a Braille reader to use Braille displays in lieu of speech, but I am a complete proponent of the literacy Braille brings to people in lieu of seeing the letters. I cannot be profductive without Window-Eyes on my PC, but I still relish my ability to mak

Re: Interesting fb post

2016-01-11 Thread bj colt via Talk
Hi Terry, While I did read braille, speech has overtaken that method of reading. When I did my Hon BA Social science course. I read hundreds of books. I mean hundreds. I scanned in every single one of them. Reading them in braille would have taken me abgout 40 years. My fingertip senses have r

Re: Interesting fb post

2016-01-11 Thread via Talk
hmmm, you can't do poetry or a play in synthesized speech, Braille is essential for that or hearing a dramatic reading, but sometimes you need both. I would not be without Braille. I have read it for more than 60 years. bj colt via Talk wrote: > Hi Terry, > > While I did read braille, speech

Re: Interesting fb post

2016-01-11 Thread Pamela Dominguez via Talk
I've read it since 1958. Pam. -Original Message- From: via Talk Sent: Monday, January 11, 2016 2:05 PM To: bj colt ; Window-Eyes Discussion List Subject: Re: Interesting fb post hmmm, you can't do poetry or a play in synthesized speech, Braille is essential for that or hearing a drama

RE: App Get

2016-01-11 Thread Smith, Veronica via Talk
Speaking of App Get, on my computer at home, no such beast exists. How can I get it? V -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+veronica.smith=aps@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of Michael Massey via Talk Sent: Thursday, December 24, 2015 4:56 AM To: 'Window-Eyes Discuss

Re: Interesting fb post

2016-01-11 Thread Matthew Chao via Talk
I've read it since 1960, and still love it.--Matt. On 1/11/2016 2:58 PM, Pamela Dominguez via Talk wrote: I've read it since 1958. Pam. -Original Message- From: via Talk Sent: Monday, January 11, 2016 2:05 PM To: bj colt ; Window-Eyes Discussion List Subject: Re: Interesting fb post

RE: App Get

2016-01-11 Thread Chris Grabowski via Talk
Press windows-r and type: %wineyes%\appget.wepm And press enter. Tab to install and press enter again. Chris Window-Eyes Product Support Ai Squared 725 Airport North Office Park Fort Wayne, IN 46825 (802) 362-3612 www.aisquared.com   -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+cg

Re: Interesting fb post

2016-01-11 Thread Reeva Webb via Talk
This is like the 800th attempt at someone trying to do a lower cost braille display. It'll probably go nowhere. I stop reading braille 15 years ago, after being forced despite being low vision to learn it. Vision is worse now but you will not get me to stop reading print and speech is my best frien

Windows 10: Calculator

2016-01-11 Thread Martha Reaney via Talk
Hi, folks. What is the trick to using the calculator? In XP, with Window-Eyes 8.4, I could just type a formula and press enter and Window-Eyes would announce the answer. Example: to multiply 3 times 8, I would enter 3 spacebar star spacebar 8 enter and Window-Eyes would announce 24 For enter

Bible Seeker

2016-01-11 Thread Tom Fairhurst via Talk
I thought I remembered a lister writing about the Bible Seeker program. If so, is it accessible with Window-Eyes? ___ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. Fo

RE: UofMich Developing New Braille Display

2016-01-11 Thread Rick Thomas via Talk
I was e-mailed the article from a former UofM grad. Rick USA -Original Message- From: Don Mauck [mailto:don.ma...@oracle.com] Sent: Monday, January 11, 2016 12:16 PM To: Rick Thomas ; Window-Eyes Discussion List Subject: RE: UofMich Developing New Braille Display Where did you come acro

RE: Windows 10: Calculator

2016-01-11 Thread Rod Hutton via Talk
Hi Martha, It works if you don't use any spaces, and if you tab around you'll hear the result in one of the fields. Hth, Rod -Original Message- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+rod_hutton=hotmail@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of Martha Reaney via Talk Sent: January 11, 2016 6:01 P

Re: Interesting fb post

2016-01-11 Thread Jim via Talk
Reeva, I am a braille reader as well as a print reader. Of course I need a print enlarger to read print, but I can read it. I strongly feel that the more avenues I have open to me as a blind reader the better off I am! For some reason I have never been willing to set back and allow others t

frustrations with we 9.3

2016-01-11 Thread Jed Barton via Talk
Guys, I have to be 100 percent honest, having just installed we 9.3, this is by far the slowest version of we i have ever used. To say it's slow is a huge under-statement. I literally have a web page, that is all text based, and we isn't even reading it propperly. I'm literally arrowing up

Re: frustrations with we 9.3

2016-01-11 Thread kitty hevener via Talk
not having that issue. Am using windows 7, office 2013. R u using 32 or 64 bit? -Original Message- From: Jed Barton via Talk Sent: Monday, January 11, 2016 10:37 PM To: Window-Eyes Discussion List Subject: frustrations with we 9.3 Guys, I have to be 100 percent honest, having just i

Re: frustrations with we 9.3

2016-01-11 Thread michaels mail via Talk
Hi Jed i get this happen all the time with windows 10 and WE 9.3. I think other folk are having same problem. I can tab on a web page and we stops talking and as you say arrows stop working as well. Cheers Michael. -Original Message- From: Jed Barton via Talk Sent: Tuesday, January 12