Cara - thanks man, I'm kicking myself over the dock thing right now!
Adium looks hopeful ish from what I just saw, but its either gonna take a
bit of tinkering or be just on the wrong side of accessible from my very
brief impression. Its apparently written in cocoa though, and there's a few
tickets about VO issues being fixed on their support system, so I'm hopeful.
Cheers
Scott
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From: "Cara Quinn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 12:58 AM
Subject: Re: Questions about IM, the dock, the quicklook panel, and VO
itself
Hi Scott, I'm also interested in Adium, but haven't dl'ed it yet, so am
afraid I can't help you out on that one. <smile>
As far as adding apps to the dock, while the app is running, locate it in
the dock, and access it's menu there. There will be an option to keep in
dock...
I haven't found a way as yet, to skip through preview audio, or to stop
VO from saying the row numbers, aside from interacting with tables and
such, so it doesn't announce it, which would be the only possible way I
can think of at the moment.
I'm sure others will have suggestions too though... <smile>
Glad you have a shiny new MBP!...
Have a great weekend!...
Smiles,
Cara :)
On Nov 25, 2007, at 4:32 PM, Scott Chesworth wrote:
Hey all,
Its good to be back on mac! Had my old g4 power book stolen awhile ago
so I dropped off the face of the earth, but as of a few days ago I'm
rockin the macbook pro and lovin it. Trouble is, in that time off, I've
completely lost the knack for voiceover and sunk back into my old evil
windows mind-set ways, so I hope you don't mind me throwing a few
questions out.
1. for IM, particularly msn i guess, i used to use fire. Downloaded
version 1.5.6 just now, and either i'm losing my marbles or this thing
just isn't as accessible as it once was? I can see the menues fine, but
the preferences seem really tempramental and all i get in the accounts
window is a table which appears to be blank. Anybody else seen this and
have a solution? and, has anyone had any luck with Adium from
www.adiumx.com?
2. This one is easier i hope. how do i add an app to the dock? its
been driving me crazy.
3. The quicklook panel in leopard is neat... really handy! When you
activate it for audio files it previews them as well i was pleased to
discover, and apparently for the sighted user there's a way of skipping
through the audio. I can find a pause button, and a display for ID tags
and stuff like that, but no joy with the ability to see any sort of
slider or scroll thingy with VO. Anybody else had more luck?
4. Loads of new VO options in Leopard... very cool to see. Maybe I
missed it, but I didn't see a way to stop it announcing row numbers as
you move through tables or list view though. If it exists, could
someone nudge me toward it? Would speed things up a lot for me in some
situations.
I'm totally out of touch with the list and current topics, so if any of
this has been thrashed to death already please accept my apologies, and
feel free to contact me off list in that case if you've got a spare few
secs to help out.
Cheers...
Scott
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