Yes, I saw that, after looking further down my inbox. Sorry about that.
Chris.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Jurgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 6:57 PM
Subject: Re: Lot's a questions, please forgive me.
Hi,
Mentioned here earlier today was Night Shift, a program that does that
for you.
Thanks for listening,
Alex,
On 24-Oct-08, at 3:53 PM, Chris Gilland wrote:
OK Jacob, good enough. Can you please give me a link to get the nightly
builds of Webkit? Also, does anyone know if I could set up a kron job
that would automatically download a nightly build each night?
Chris.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jacob Schmude" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X
by theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 5:15 PM
Subject: Re: Lot's a questions, please forgive me.
Hi Chris
Ok, here's a few answers, but I don't have all of them.
First, regarding Linux. This is off topic, but here's the jist of the
situation. Your older Mac runs a PowerPC processor. This is
substantially different from the processors in PCs or newer Macs which
are compatible with PC architecture--the newer Macs use the same
processors in fact. Ubuntu does not have an edition for these
processors, so you'll have to pick another distribution if you wish to
try Linux on it. The subject of Linux goes way beyond the bounds of
this list, though, as it has nothing to do with OS X or the
accessibility of Macs at all. You'll want to check out the speakup
list and the orca list for Linux-related questions.
In mail you can, of course, get to a link simply by finding it in the
message and clicking it, as Voiceover will identify it as a link when
you get to it. VO+space will open the link as you'd expect.
Regarding the ctrl-clicking issue, grab a webkit nightly build. As of
very recently, VO+shift+m is supported, so no routing or ctrl- clicking
is needed anymore.
Well, those're the ones I can answer, hth.
On Oct 24, 2008, at 14:02, Chris Gilland wrote:
Slau has strictly said, please don't consolidate lots of questions
into one e-mail, so I really hope she'll forgive me this one time,
and one time only, as I have enough questions, I feel making
different posts for all of 'em, really would be very impracticle and
would waiste a lotta inbox space.
I'm gonna try to keep this list as brief and to the point as I can,
but I do have a few things that need addressing. I've been meaning
to ask these things, but I've been so lazy, I just haven't.
Anyway, please read down the whole list, as if you don't know the
answer to one a these, you may know the answer to another one of them.
k: here we go.
1. In Mail, under Leopard, if I get an e-mail which has a link in
it, or several links for that mind, I have been using the item
chooser list to get to them. Is there an easier way to click them
aside that or the vo+U links list?
2. If I wanna send a link to someone, but rather than in the e- mail,
it showing the URL as the link text, I'd rather it say something
like: click here to go to the site, is there a way to make that
happen? I tried using html markup, but it didn't work.
3. In Leopard, I know I can go to universal access in system prefs,
and turn high contrast on, and I also know that under system prefs,
in appearance, I can change the highlight color from blue, to
whatever, like now I set it to red, but, that is only changing the
highlight within a program. so let's say I am at the desktop on my
finder, and I hit vo m, then down arrow in the Apple menu. Even
though I turned it to red, that! highlight in the menu on the menu
bar's still a light sky blue color. I was wonderring if I could
change that to red, or dark purple, or something like that a my
choice.
4. I do not have a mouse on this machine, as I don't have room on my
desk for one. If I go to a link on a web page in Safari, and then
vo+command+F5, I then can't do vo+shift+M. I wonder aside hitting
control and then clicking the physical mouse, being I don't have the
resources of desk room to put a mouse up there to do that, is there
another way, or am I kind a screwed as faras that goes.
5. My final question is: I have that old Mac system that I got back
in July that came with Tiger on it. I'm not talking my quick silver
running Leopard, I mean that other older one. Anyway, I wanted to
wipe it, and put Ubuntu Hartsy on it. my only issue is, when I pop
the CD in the drive, and reboot, and hold down the C key to boot to
CD, it won't boot. Yes the disc is bootable, as when I put it in a
windows based machine and try booting to it, it works flawlessly.
I'm just wonderring if installing Linux on a Mac is a little more
tricky than I think, and if so, what've I gotta do?
OK, I'm done. That's all for now. Sorry for the huge list. I feel
I should a written a novel. LOL! Sorry bout that. Hey! I did? warn
ya though, did I not? LOL!
Chris.
