Re: [Techno-Chat]: Tevo Box

2016-10-25 Thread Chris Moore MBE
iPhone App. > So how do you find the Tevo Box and exactly what is it capable of. > I believe that the box contains a Free-To-Air tuner for watching and > recording Free-To-Air channels, can this be accessed? > >> On 25 Oct. 2016, at 9:36 pm, Chris Moore MBE <moor...@blueyonder.co

Re: [Techno-Chat]: Using the power line for my home network

2016-10-25 Thread Chris Moore MBE
I use these so I can control my TIVO box via my iPhone app. For this to happen I have to connect my cable router to the back of my TIVO box. Router is upstairs and cable box is in the lounge downstairs, so they have been connected via Belkin powerline adapters instead of running ethernet cables

Re: [Techno-Chat]: Amazon Echo

2016-10-17 Thread Chris Moore
; <gor...@mac-access.net> >> >> Accessibility & Information Technology Support Specialist. >> Mobile/SMS: >> +44 (0)7907 823971 >> >> >> >> >> >>> On 16 Oct 2016, at 18:27, Chris Moore <moor.

Re: Roxio Makes A Dramatic Return To The Accessible World Of Windows Software

2012-08-15 Thread Chris Moore
Gordon, Did you ever come back to us with the findings for Toast? Is it accessible? Apologies if you did. Also, how does Roxio compare on Windows and Mac in terms of accessibility and usability? On 15 Aug 2012, at 19:30, Gordon Smith gor...@mac-access.net wrote: Hello everybody I'm

Re: Integration

2012-08-14 Thread Chris Moore
You are not actually disabling the voice over cursor, just visually hiding it. To do this, you press control + option + command + F11 (you might have to press FN too depending on how your function keys are set up). I wonder why VO reads out the key as option key, as on the keyboard it is

Re: Jaws Progress

2012-08-13 Thread Chris Moore
Gordon, You don't need to hold down insert to move around the screen, you only need to use the arrow keys. If you click on the help menu within JAWS, you will see a link for Real Speak Voices. You can download any of the voices for free which are designed to work specifically with JAWS.

Re: Downloading Jaws 13 Demo

2012-08-03 Thread Chris Moore
Gordon, Are you downloading via Mac or Windows? I just tried this link: http://www.freedomscientific.com/downloads/http/http-downloads.asp You have to remember if you are using Safari on your Mac, it does not alert you when a file starts downloading. Also check you have got Gate Keeper set

Re: Downloading Jaws 13 Demo

2012-08-03 Thread Chris Moore
On 3 Aug 2012, at 11:49, Chris Moore moor...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: • Are you downloading via Mac or Windows? Mac OS X and Safari 6. • I just tried this link: So did I. I can download the full version fine, the problem is the demo version. I'm aware of the download alerts or lack

Re: One more Jaws website query

2012-08-03 Thread Chris Moore
Gordon, JAWS (and NVDA too for that matter) have the ability to scrape a page and look for content that is not usually accessible to the screen reader and then makes it become accessible. For example you have a application which has labelled buttons, and I mean a sighted person can see the

Re: Windows, Jaws And Dongle!

2012-08-02 Thread Chris Moore
Gordon, If the dongle is authorised to work with version 13 of JAWS, then yes. Just plug it in, fire up JAWS and you are good to go. Chris On 2 Aug 2012, at 20:25, Gordon Smith gor...@mac-access.net wrote: Hello everybody OK, I am now in temporary possession of a dongle which will, I

Re: Jaws for Windows

2012-07-31 Thread Chris Moore
Jaws on all of their Windows machines so I need to learn how to use it so that I can hit the ground running. Gordon On 31 Jul 2012, at 08:57, Chris Moore moor...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: Gordon, It all depends where you intend to use JAWS. If you are a simple end user and only require

Re: GB; [Was: Computer Sound]

2012-06-01 Thread Chris Moore
GarageBand :) On 1 Jun 2012, at 13:09, Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith wrote: Hello Chris At the risk of appearing woefully ignorant, what is GB? Lynne On 31 May 2012, at 13:56, Chris Moore moor...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: Ah yes the good old digitizers with their waveform editing

Re: C64 and Other Neat Stuff Was the good old days of TV

2012-05-31 Thread Chris Moore
ASCII and ANSI to draw their graphics gave me a huge problem because the synth would just speek nonsense when it encountered those. Gordon On 30 May 2012, at 17:19, Chris Moore moor...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: I used to have Currah speech for the c64. It was a cartridge that had a din

Re: Computer Sound

2012-05-31 Thread Chris Moore
, at 09:06, Chris Moore moor...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: The currah was a speech synth and spoke everything you typed and of course could be included within applications that supported it. From memory I think some text based adventures supported it. At the time I was sighted and had never

Re: C64 and Other Neat Stuff Was the good old days of TV

2012-05-30 Thread Chris Moore
I used to have Currah speech for the c64. It was a cartridge that had a din cable coming out the back of it which you plugged into the audio 5 pin audio in socket next to the cartridge slot of the C64. I think it cost £29 at the time (1984) and you used the say command within your C64 basic

Re: Closed Captions Was the good old days of TV

2012-05-26 Thread Chris Moore
Can you believe Ceefax actually came out in 1974? and then Oracle ITV adopted the same standard in 1976? It is a shame our digital services which are available via the red button on our TVs are not accessible. I used to own a Commodore 64, man I loved that beast. The SID sound chip was

Re: TVonics DTR HD Recorder

2012-05-20 Thread Chris Moore
Lynne, You should be able to receive it by Sep/Oct when the Tyne Tees analogue transmitter is switched off. Chris On 20 May 2012, at 10:33, Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith wrote: Hello Chris On 19 May 2012, at 19:30, chris hallsworth chris.hallswo...@techno-chat.net wrote: • Hello all

Re: Phonak ComPilot, Initial Impressions

2012-05-18 Thread Chris Moore
Gordon, Glad you are enjoying your new purchase. Have you got voice prompts enables? That might have to be set by your audiologist too, its quite useful actually. You are right, the sound quality is better than the iCom and basically includes almost everything I kept pestering Phonak about.

Re: Phonak ComPilot

2012-05-15 Thread Chris Moore
The compilot is a bluetooth/audio jack streaming device and remote control all in one for hearing aids. On 15 May 2012, at 04:00, Hank Smith wrote: Hello what is the compilot? On 5/14/2012 7:59 PM, Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith wrote: Hello OK, I see that the ComPilot is much more than just

Re: OnYix-TV DTR-HD500 Talking Freeview Recorder

2012-05-14 Thread Chris Moore
Gordon, Yes please, did you ever treat yourself to a Phonak Compilot to replace your iCom? Chris On 14 May 2012, at 15:35, Gordon Smith wrote: Hi all I'm going to buy one of these and if anybody is interested I'll do a podcast. I'm going to buy it main stream I think because the RNIB

Phonak Compilot

2012-01-10 Thread Chris Moore
Lynne, i must admit I have never heard of these either. You can get white canes with the roller ball which you use as described earlier without tapping, but they don't talk. Something Gordon might be interested in for his hearing aids though is the new Compilot from Phonak. It basically

Re: NVDA Query

2011-10-13 Thread Chris Moore
Gordon, Just thought I would chime in here. I am trying to catch up on everything after getting back from 2 weeks away overseas. I think you will find these podcasts informative and exactly what you are looking for: http://www.blindtechsupport.net/podcasts/sr/nvda/ Chris On 13 Oct 2011, at

Re: The Price of specialist equipment

2011-09-22 Thread Chris Moore
I am talking about the SmartLink and not the ZoomLink. The SmartLink is worn around the neck or can be placed on the table. It has 3 different microphone settings for the internal mic and also allows external microphones to be plugged in. I am not sure if it would need to be set to work with

Re: HP Officejet Pro 8500+

2011-09-17 Thread Chris Moore
Sadly it is not very accessible on the Mac On 17 Sep 2011, at 09:09, Dane Trethowan wrote: Hi! Been playing with the device a little more and discovered that a basic version of the Read Iris Pro OCR software is included with the HP 8500 software you get quite a big discount with the