This question may actually belong in the techno-chat discussion
since accessibility only comes in because I needed Voiceover to
access the Mac and it was a perfect example of why Apple's
design for accessibility is really useful.
The Mac in question is an older G5 Imac so upgrading to
Lion is out of the question. My teen-age nephew downloaded two
games to it and my dad began launching "Marble Blast Gold" and
possibly "Yoda Star Wars" every time he wanted to look at some
Powerpoint aviation-related videos. He is, to put it mildly, not amused.
I went to his house yesterday and he demonstrated the
issue. I had turned VO on and heard "Marble Blast Gold" fire up
when he clicked on one of the Powerpoint videos.
Job #1. Find that marble maze game and vanquish it. That
was easy. I just opened Macintosh-hd/applications, typed in
Marble in the link chooser menu and it went right to it which
turned out to be a folder.
I had some trouble moving it to trash but that turned
out to be because Mail, textedit and safari were all running, for
some reason, in the background. After a restart call, I
successfully trashed "Marble Blast Gold" and "Yoda Star Wars."
Now, here's the part I am not sure of. When Dad clicked
on one of his videos to watch, we no longer had the marble game
but the video failed to launch with a message that boils down to
there was no application that could play .pps files.
The complaint came from an application called iwork and
my father said he had downloaded a trial copy but didn't want to
buy it so, could I please remove that also?
I did, but wonder if that was his engine for viewing the
videos?
So, what do I need to do to restore the ability to play
the Microsoft Powerpoint videos? At one time, they did play
correctly.
Voiceover has sure come a long way since Tiger, but even
so, things feel mostly familiar and it sure is nice to be able
to just turn it on when needed.
Dad plans to buy a new Mac as soon as a house he owns
sells so the goal is not to spend any more dough on this one,
but to restore it to proper operation so he can watch several
.pps files.
Thanks, and I can certainly take this to the techno-chat
list if that would be better.
Martin
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