Re: Campaign to get an accessible Microsoft Office for the Mac
Good afternoon, Just as an FYI, MS Office for Windows isn't actually compatible with Windows screen-readers. There is a great deal of scripting required in order to make windows screen-readers work with MS Office products. I'm not saying that your campaign won't work. But, I just wanted to point out that MS Office isn't actually natively accessible on either platform. Everett Zufelt http://zufelt.ca Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt On 2011-05-03, at 2:28 PM, Chris Moore wrote: hi, Maybe we should start a campaign to get Office on the Mac accessible. Anyone up for it? If you know anyone who is willing to send an email requesting that Microsoft make their Office Suite accessible then point them to this web page.http://www.microsoft.com/mac/product-feedback Select the Office product you are interested in providing feedback for and say something like I am very interested in purchasing your Office Suite for the Macintosh platform. However, i understand your product is not accessible as it is not compatible with VoiceOver which is the built in screen reader for the blind for OS X. If you were to add support for VoiceOver, this would result in thousands of Sales. Money always gets their attention. Chris -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: Campaign to get an accessible Microsoft Office for the Mac
You are actually incorrect. Windows has both the MSAA and UIA accessibility APIs that allow developers to ensure that their applications are exposing information that can be used by assistive technology. Everett Zufelt http://zufelt.ca Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt On 2011-05-03, at 3:42 PM, Chris Moore wrote: That is because there is no built in screen reader for Windows, all the screen readers rely on scripts to work. scripting to get programs to work on OS X is not an option available to us, so therefore we have to apply pressure on Microsoft to become more compliant with Apple's standards. Adobe are making strides to improve accessibility on the Mac for Flash and Acrobat. ok it is not here, yet but it will be here within the next 12 months. We have to bare in mind that Microsoft does not make any of the screen readers on the Windows platform, so it is up to the vendors to get their products to work with the OS and it's applications. On 3 May 2011, at 19:40, E.J. Zufelt wrote: Good afternoon, Just as an FYI, MS Office for Windows isn't actually compatible with Windows screen-readers. There is a great deal of scripting required in order to make windows screen-readers work with MS Office products. I'm not saying that your campaign won't work. But, I just wanted to point out that MS Office isn't actually natively accessible on either platform. Everett Zufelt http://zufelt.ca Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt On 2011-05-03, at 2:28 PM, Chris Moore wrote: hi, Maybe we should start a campaign to get Office on the Mac accessible. Anyone up for it? If you know anyone who is willing to send an email requesting that Microsoft make their Office Suite accessible then point them to this web page.http://www.microsoft.com/mac/product-feedback Select the Office product you are interested in providing feedback for and say something like I am very interested in purchasing your Office Suite for the Macintosh platform. However, i understand your product is not accessible as it is not compatible with VoiceOver which is the built in screen reader for the blind for OS X. If you were to add support for VoiceOver, this would result in thousands of Sales. Money always gets their attention. Chris -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: For those who can actually afford this, DocuScan Plus is now on the mac app store.
I know nothing at all about this app. But, I suspect that a significant portion of the cost is related to licencing a OCR SDK Everett Zufelt http://zufelt.ca Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt On 2011-04-28, at 10:05 PM, Matthew Campbell wrote: Hello Listers. DocuScan is now mac compatible and can be found on the mac app store. Don't get too excited though, unless you have $299.00 to burn on it. Hope this actually benefits someone. the Infuriated Matt Campbell. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: Safari Reader Question
Interesting guess My guess is that it either looks for html5 semantic elements indicating main article content, or that it uses a heuristic to determine which portion of the page represents the article. Everett Zufelt http://zufelt.ca Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt On 2011-04-23, at 5:11 PM, Chris Moore wrote: My guess is that Safari looks for a print.css version of the web page as that would provide a printer friendly version of the page with no usual page furniture. I could be wrong, but I am pretty sure it is CSS related. On 23 Apr 2011, at 21:28, Sarai Bucciarelli wrote: All: I just figured out how to use Safari reader, command shift r. My issue is it doesn't work every time. Why won't it work on all articles? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: VMWare fusion and Windows 7 64 byt
I am using a MacBook with a Core2 2.0ghz and 4GB RAM. I give half of the memory to Windows 7 and it runs well enough for me. Windows XP is certainly snappier, but I find that Windows 7 runs reasonably well. HTH, Everett Zufelt http://zufelt.ca Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt On 2011-04-07, at 7:48 AM, Kevin Shaw wrote: I was under the impression that Windows 7 functioned optimally with 4 GB of RAM, even though its spec called for a 2 GB minimum. I've always been in the habit of doubling whatever Microsoft tells me. In this case, would it not be better to run Win 7 64 bit under Boot Camp? Especially on a DuoCore processor? Kevin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: Adding PDF files to iBooks
I didn't seem to find a way to paste into iTunes, but I was able to use File Add to Library, to accomplish the same thing. Thanks, Everett Zufelt http://zufelt.ca Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt On 2011-03-31, at 4:58 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote: hello, Everett, I simply use copy and paste. Copy from the finder, find your device in Itunes, navigate to the device Books folder and paste there. Then select PDFs after opening IBooks Teresa On Mar 31, 2011, at 12:56 PM, E.J. Zufelt wrote: Good afternoon, All of the directions I have read for adding PDFs to iBooks includes dragging and dropping the files into iTunes. Does anyone have the directions for VO users Thanks, Everett Zufelt http://zufelt.ca Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Adding PDF files to iBooks
Good afternoon, All of the directions I have read for adding PDFs to iBooks includes dragging and dropping the files into iTunes. Does anyone have the directions for VO users Thanks, Everett Zufelt http://zufelt.ca Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Navigon and GPS reception
Good morning, I found the podcast on BCT about the GPS options for iOS. It was helpful. I have been playing with Navigon on my iPhone 3G S and every time I try to start a route it tells me that GPS reception is not sufficient. It doesn't matter if I am inside, outside, or in a vehicle, reception has never been sufficient. It does seem to appropriately identify nearby POIs, so GPS must be working to some degree. Curious if anyone else has had this problem and if they know of a solution. Thanks, Everett Zufelt http://zufelt.ca Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: Navigon and GPS reception
Thanks, I find it extremely doubtful that performing a reset on the phone will actually do anything, but it's worth a try. Thanks again, Everett Zufelt http://zufelt.ca Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt On 2011-03-30, at 9:16 AM, Bryan Jones wrote: Hello Everett, Here is a link to Navigon's FAQ titled, How can I improve the GPS signal of my iPhone? http://www.navigon.com/portal/int/kundenservice/faq.html?id=11268content_identifier=faqpage=1faqTopic=iphone Before performing the 7 step process in the FAQ, make sure to try the suggestions at the bottom of the FAQ ensuring, of course, that you first have Location Services turned on in your iPhone's Settings. HTH, Bryan On Mar 30, 2011, at 7:43 AM, E.J. Zufelt wrote: I have been playing with Navigon on my iPhone 3G S and every time I try to start a route it tells me that GPS reception is not sufficient. It doesn't matter if I am inside, outside, or in a vehicle, reception has never been sufficient. It does seem to appropriately identify nearby POIs, so GPS must be working to some degree. Curious if anyone else has had this problem and if they know of a solution. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Dropbox, changing password
Good morning, Yesterday I had to change my DropBox password from DropBox.com. Can anyone tell me the best and easiest way to change the password that DropBox on OS X has saved. Thanks, Everett Zufelt http://zufelt.ca Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Navigon tutorial
Good morning, Yesterday I loaded Navigon onto my iPhone 3G S. Can anyone please tell me if there is a useful intro or tutorial on using Navigon effectively with VoiceOver. Thanks, Everett Zufelt http://zufelt.ca Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Dropbox on iPhone and text editors
Good morning, I am wondering if anyone has tested dropbox with any compatible text editors on the iPhone and if they know of any accessible solutions Thanks, Everett Zufelt http://zufelt.ca Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Jailbreak iPhone 3G S
Good morning, I'm curious if there is a reasonably accessible tool, and / or reasonably accessible instructions, for jailbreaking, but not unlocking, an iPhone 3G S. Thanks, Everett -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: Just a quick note on Apple's order process
This doesn't sound all that strange to me at all. Years ago when working for Fujitsu our recommended configurations shipped from California and our custom units shipped from Japan. That being said, if we were out of stock on recommended configurations in the U.S. they shipped from Japan as well. Everett Zufelt http://zufelt.ca Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt On 2011-02-28, at 12:57 PM, Joseph Norton wrote: Hi list: After I ordered my Mac Mini, I called the 800 number to ask a question about shipping. In the course of the conversation, the Apple rep told me that, because I had custom configured my Mini, they do the configuration in China and then ship it from there. If I had ordered one without any customization, they would, apparently, have been able to ship from their warehouse. Strange! __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5914 (20110228) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Navigon MobileNavigator
Good morning, Quick question, is it possible to use Navigon MobileNavigator without access to the Internet on your phone? I know that all of the maps come with Navigon, but I'm not sure if it requires Internet access for any other reason. Thanks, Everett Zufelt Accessibility Consultant Web Developer Web http://zufelt.ca Phone (toll free U.S. Canada) 1-877-ZUFELT-8 (1-877-983-3588) Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: Selecting a range of cells in Numbers
Good morning John, Thanks for the response. I tried this again on a new sheet and it worked. Yesterday I tried several times on more than one sheet and it did not. Do you have any experience with this working inconsistently? If so, do you know what I might be doing wrong to be causing it to not always work? Thanks again, Everett Zufelt http://zufelt.ca Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt On 2011-01-26, at 4:00 AM, John André Netland wrote: Hi E.J., Shift+arrow keys is the right way to do it. Interact once with the table, navigate using your arrow keys to where you want to start selecting, hold down the shift key and move vertically or horizontally until you have them selected. Then you can perform the action you plan to do. VO will tell you the number of cells selected while you navigate. Hope this helps! John André *** John André Netland - Voice/sms +47 971 68 794 aps.logo-72-80.jpg Visit online at www.a-pro-studio.no *** On 26. jan. 2011, at 05.40, E.J. Zufelt wrote: Good evening, I am curious if anyone has a set of instructions for selecting a range of cells in iWork '09 Numbers. It does not appear to be possible to select cells by using either shift plus arrow keys or shift + VO + arrow keys. Thanks in advance, Everett Zufelt http://zufelt.ca Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
iWork 09 - setting font colour
Good evening, I am curious if someone has instructions for setting font colour in iWork 09 apps? I have investigated the colour picker and it is very non-intuitive and would appear to be inaccessible to me. Thanks in advance, Everett Zufelt http://zufelt.ca Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Selecting a range of cells in Numbers
Good evening, I am curious if anyone has a set of instructions for selecting a range of cells in iWork '09 Numbers. It does not appear to be possible to select cells by using either shift plus arrow keys or shift + VO + arrow keys. Thanks in advance, Everett Zufelt http://zufelt.ca Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Leaving list
Good evening, I've found this list to be very helpful as I have made the transition from Windows to OS X over the past year and a half. However, I am finding that there is too much traffic at the moment and I will be leaving for at least a little while. Thanks to all who have provided such useful and helpful information and answers to questions. You can stay in touch through twitter @ezufelt, or by e-mailing me privately. Thanks again, Everett Zufelt http://zufelt.ca Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: Any blind iPhone developers out there?
Good morning Victor, I haven't successfully written an iPhone app. But, I will let you know what I learned while I was researching iPhone development. 1. XCode, the Apple IDE, is reasonably accessible with VO. 2. Interface Builder, the GUI designer for XCode is incredibly poorly accessible. I have not heard of anyone who has successfully used Interface Builder with VO to place, arrange, and connect UI controls. 3. iPhone Simulator, which comes as part of the iPhone SDK is completely inaccessible. This means that for a VO user all testing of apps must be done on the phone itself. This is likely a better way to test apps, but does require an iPhone developers account. HTH, Everett Zufelt http://zufelt.ca Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt On 2010-04-17, at 3:11 AM, Victor Tsaran wrote: Hello all, Any blind developer was able to successfully write an iPhone app? What gochas, difficulties did you have to deal with? Thanks, V -- Check out my new album on iTunes at http://ax.itunes.apple.com/us/artist/victor-tsaran/id344507896 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: Opera Mini for iPhone
Good morning, I askd about Opera Mini accessibility on Twitter a few weeks ago and Bruce Lawson (@BruceL) the Opera Standards guy told me that this version would not be accessible with VO. I am not sure if there are plans for accessibility in the future. HTH, Everett Zufelt http://zufelt.ca Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt On 2010-04-13, at 11:41 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: Hi, It is totally inaccessible with voiceover though. It also causes voiceover not to speak when trying to navigate by flicks after you close the app. After I installed it then toggled voiceover on and off, I got the flick gesture working again hth On Apr 13, 2010, at 11:36 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: Apparently Apple has approved it and you can now get it in the iTunes store. http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/04/approved-plucky-underdog-opera-now-on-iphone/ They seem to be doing some weird optimization where all your surfing goes through an Opera server which optimizes the page into special markup before handing it to your phone. It's supposed to be crazy fast but I wonder if it will mangle anything? It's free so might as well give it a try. CB -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: syrinx issue
Good afternoon, I have had this problem in the past. Try the following steps with Syrinx closed. 1. Go to Finder. 2. Go to the Applications folder (Cmd + Shift + A). 3. Go to the Utilities folder 4. Open the Keychain App. 5. Find the Syrinx keychain item and bring up the context menu (VO + Shift + M) 6. Delete the Syrinx item. Now close the Keychain app and open up Syrinx again. HTH, Everett Zufelt http://zufelt.ca Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt On 2010-04-05, at 4:53 PM, Chantel Cuddemi wrote: Hey all, I am running snow lepard 10.6.3. I just got the latest version of syrinx. It's not letting me log in and it gives me an error. It says failed to verify credentials. What do you think I should do? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: Selecting links in Syrinx
Good afternoon Phil, When on a tweet Cmd + Shift + L will open any URLs in the tweet in your default browser. Note that if the link is not a properly formatted URL starting with http:// that they may not open. HTH, Everett Zufelt http://zufelt.ca Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt On 2010-04-03, at 5:24 PM, phil stephenson wrote: Hi, Can anyone tell me how to select a link in a tweet in syrinx and then open it in safari. I have looked in the menus on syrinx and it's telling me I should press cmd L and shift but this doesn't seem to do anything. I've tried interacting with the tweet text and making sure am on the url but this again doesn't seem to do anything. All help gratefully received, cheers, Phil --- Phil Stephenson p...@thestephensons.org 07841 714931 www.twitter.com/stepphil Skype = philstephenson -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: My Mac Mini
Good evening, Has this issue been reported to accessibil...@apple.com? Perhaps there's nothing that they can do, but it might be worth sending a quick message. Everett Zufelt http://zufelt.ca Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt On 2010-03-31, at 8:31 PM, Dan Roy wrote: Yes, that's definitely true, I wish I had known that before I purchased the mini, but, live and learn. On Mar 31, 2010, at 8:35 AM, M BROWN wrote: Several months ago I bought a Mac Mini without a monitor. Everything went well until I tried to use Safari to browse the web. To say the least, it was painfully slow, and at times refused to open the web page at all. All I got was Safari busy. However, when I attached a monitor, all the above problems went away. Even though I do not have the monitor powered up, it still works perfectly. So, just a warning to anyone buying a Mac Mini who intends to browse the web, forget it unless you have a monitor attached. Kind regards Martin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: Reversing My Thinking Never Felt So Good On The iPhone 3GS
For anyone interested, anyone using an iPhone with a 1gb or greater data plan through Rogers Canada receives free tethering. Tethering has been free through Rogers Canada since the iPhone 3g s was released last July. Everett Zufelt http://zufelt.ca Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt On 2010-03-25, at 3:33 AM, Bryan Smart wrote: I guess that's interesting in sort of a theoretical tech way, but I don't really see the point. You're paying for two data plans (ATT and Verizon), which is probably costing you at least $90 a month for both of the mobile data plans, not counting your regular wireless calling charges. You can use Skype without being near a hot spot, but you must have your laptop powered up, connected to wireless data, its wireless network reconfigured to ad-hoc, and connect the iPhone to the laptop's wireless. Then, you can use Skype on the iPhone, true, but, after all of that, you might as well be running it on the laptop. Running it on the laptop would just involve starting the laptop, connecting to Verizon, and running Skype. Maybe you mean to say that you only use the iPhone's Wifi connection, but I don't see how this is so. I don't think that ATT gives you the option of not paying for a data service with the iPhone. You must pay for the $30 data. For $100, you can get unlimited iPhone data and voice calls. Then, you can talk all you want. No need for Skype. Your battery will also last longer. That isn't capable of cheap international calls, but, like I said above, if you must use the laptop to gain access to Skype for the iPhone, you might as well be running Skype on the laptop. I suppose that you're using the iPhone as a wireless modem by using the tethering profiles for download on that Austrian web site that have been passed around. Of course, Apple helpfully blocked that out for ATT in the latest OS update. Bryan -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of M. Taylor Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 6:12 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Reversing My Thinking Never Felt So Good On The iPhone 3GS Hello My Fellow iPhone and iPod Touchers, As some of you may know, later today, Wednesday, I will be trekking down to San Diego to attend the CSUN convention. As you may guess, I would never go anywhere without a reliable means of connecting to the Internet on one of my portable computers. However, since my assimilation into the Apple Orchard, it is not enough to merely have broadband access on my computer but I now insist on having it (as WiFi) on my trusty iPhone 3GS for many reasons not the least of which being that I now, almost exclusively, use it for Skype on a daily basis. Truthfully, after having use the app on my iPhone 3GS, the thought of being tethered to my computer albeit either a notebook or a Netbook in order to use Skype comfortably, is almost laughable. But Wait! Currently, one cannot use Skype, on the iPhone that is, via Edge or 3G; that is to say, it can only be used via WiFi. What to do? I'm sitting here typing this and laughing out loud at the thought, that, since the iPhone 3GS' release last July, I haven't seen any articles or received any request for assistance on the dilemma I found myself in as I prepared to go where many have gone before, until just a few days ago. (Smile) What I mean to say is that as of the date of its release, virtually everyone wanted a way to tether their computer to the iPhone, using it like a high speed broadband MODEM, an almost effortless feat to achieve on my beloved Samsung Epix Windows Mobile phone. (Big, big smile) (That was for all you Apple Koolade drinkers!!!) Not to brag, but like many, without having to jail break the device, I was able to turn my iPhone 3GS into a broadband MODEM within mere days of its purchase. You see, the trick was... But I digress. Sorry. Getting Back To The Point: Unlike previous trips, this time I wish to continue to use my mobile device (the iPhone) in the same way I use it here at home on my wireless network. Get it? You see, instead of wanting the iPhone to act as an Internet conduit for my computer, I want the computer to act as a WiFi hotspot (conduit) for my iPhone. This concept is referred to as Reverse Tethering. My Solution? In addition to being an A T T Wireless customer, I am also a Verizon Wireless customer and as such, I have a Verizon Wireless Air Card. It is generally accepted that the Verizon wireless Air Cards (via EVDO) provide noticeably faster data access than does A T T Wireless. To be honest, this is the primary reason I continue to subscribe to Verizon Wireless. Although I am blessed to have several portable computers from
Re: using facebook with safari
On 2010-03-15, at 8:49 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: Hi all, The problem with this is that the lite site, like the mobile site, won't let you interface with the apps. Personally, I really think this is something Apple needs to work on. * I think that if Facebook followed web standards, including WCAG 2.0, then the site would work fine. I don't think that there's anything that Apple needs to work on, at least not until Facebook commits to web standards. Everett -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: using facebook with safari
On 2010-03-15, at 9:05 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: Your point about Facebook and web standards is well-taken, but Facebook--whether they follow web standards or not--is a very widely used site. For me right now, this is just one more thing that my Mac can't do that my PC can. The more things like that that are out there, the less likely it is that the Mac can take the place of the PC. * Good morning Donna, I definitely understand your point of view, and I share it in part. The reason that some technologies work better with assistive technologies on Windows than on the Mac, not speaking about Facebook in particular, is because assistive technology vendors for Windows accommodate application and web development techniques that don't follow standards. The Apple approach, which has annoyed me more often than not, is to not accommodate these poorly written applications and web-sites. Arguably the owness for making an application accessible is that of the developer, and not of the assistive technology vendor, however, this means that some things will be poorly accessible, since generally speaking developers don't really tend to understand accessibility, or standards in general, very well. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: Need Twitter client suggestions
Good afternoon Lynn, I haven't tried many, but I love Syrinx. http://www.mrrsoftware.com/MRRSoftware/Syrinx.html Everett Zufelt http://zufelt.ca Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt On 2010-03-15, at 2:42 PM, Lynn Schneider wrote: I know this has come up frequently on the list, but I have recently been bitten by the Twitter bug and want to know what you all think is the best client to try. I have downloaded Tweetery for the iPod Touch, but I need something for the Mac and want to know what the latest information is regarding clients. Thanks in advance for any ideas. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: How easy would it be for a computer beginner to learn to use voiceover?
Good evening, I would say that it is likely easier for someone to learn to use an Apple with the VoiceOver screen-reader if they have never used a Windows screen-reader before, than if they had. That being said, I personally find the JAWS screen-reader for Windows a little more intuitive than VoiceOver. I have, however, been using JAWS for Windows for 5 years and VoiceOver for only one year. I think that learning either VoiceOver for Apple or JAWS for Windows are quite a reasonably accomplishable task for someone who is willing to put in the time and energy to learn. HTH, Everett Zufelt http://zufelt.ca Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt On 2010-03-15, at 8:47 PM, bilgerat wrote: I'm not blind myself but have a blind friend. She's in her fifties and has little experience of computers. She was sold a Mercury system by RNIB a couple of years back but can't get to grips with it. Nor can I. the system seems unstable and support is extremely limited. There is also no tuition available at all except audio discs which are seriously deficient in various respects. So as a macbook user myself I wonder whether that might be a suitable alternative for her. Basically she wants a computer for using the internet, for such everyday things as reading a paper, ordering groceries online, and using the BBC's I-player. But I'm really concerned that it might be too difficult to learn. There doesn't seem to be anyone at Apple UK who is actually experienced at using voiceover. I found one guy at Apple who gives one-to-one tuition to a blind user, but he told me they have given up on trying to use it to navigate web pages because it's just too complex! So I would be really grateful for advice on this - how difficult is it for a computer beginner to learn to use; what kind of support if any is available, any any other things that need thinking about. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Quicken Accessibility
Good afternoon, I received the following response from an Intuit representative in the U.S. regarding Quicken accessibility. They declined a request for a trial version for testing. *** Sorry, but we do not offer free software for testing outside of our Beta process(es). If you and/or your clients purchase Quicken Essentials and discover that it is incompatible with your application, you can return it within 60 days for a refund. Quicken Essentials was not specifically designed with VoiceOver in mind, but if VO is capable of converting text to speech regardless of what application is generating that text, then I would expect at least some of that same functionality with Quicken Mac product(s). Where I see concern is where the VO would encounter graphic images such as bank logos, scanned attachments and/or Graphs (from Reports Graphs). Hope this gives you at least a little more information. Thanks, Everett Zufelt http://zufelt.ca Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: latest Quicken apparently written in Cocoa
Good afternoon, An update on a trial version of Quicken. I got in touch with my contact with Intuit Canada. He attempted to request information about the possibility of a trial from his U.S. counterpart twise and did not receive any response. Thanks, Everett Zufelt http://zufelt.ca Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt On 2010-03-09, at 3:10 PM, Brett Campbell wrote: Has anyone tried this version of Quicken with VoiceOver? I'd like to learn about the results. Brett C. On Feb 25, 2010, at 11:00 AM, Darcy Burnard wrote: Hi everyone. I'm not interested in Quicken myself, but I'm sure there are people on here who may be interested. The latest version of Quicken has been released, and apparently it's be completely re-written from the ground up using cocoa. I don't know if this means it will be VO friendly or not, but I would guess that the possibility exists. Unfortunately they don't offer a demo, and at $69 it's a little pricy to try as an experiment, but they do offer a two month money back guarantee, so it might be worth it for someone to try it out. At any rate, here's an article from The Unofficial Apple Weblog about the new Quicken. Darcy Begin forwarded message: Date: February 25, 2010 8:00:00 AM CST Subject: Quicken Essentials for Mac now available Source: The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) Author: Michael Grothaus Filed under: Software After a four year absence, the next version of Quicken for the Mac is here. It's called Quicken Essentials for Mac and is a ground up Cocoa rewrite. I've been using the program for a few weeks now. Is it worth the wait? Well that depends what you need in your financial software. When I interviewed Aaron Patzer, VP/GM of Intuit's Personal Finance Group, he was quick to point out that it's called Quicken Essentials for a reason: It's called Essentials because it's what we consider to be essential for most users - about 80% of users. We went to people's homes and watched them use it. The majority of them just want to know: How much do I have? How much do I owe? How much do I spend on gas and food? How many times do I go to this restaurant? How many times do I go to Starbucks? What investments do I have? Let me set a budget to control my spending. If an easy overview of your financial life is the goal Intuit had in mind, they've outdone themselves. The first thing you'll notice is the completely redesigned interface. Gone is the horrible toolbar navigation with multiple windows. Quicken Essentials has got that familiar streamlined iTunes/iLife look and feel with all your accounts, reports, budgets, and tools nicely displayed in a source list. It's single window interface makes it easy for the user to get a complete snapshot of all their finances. The interactive pie charts are snappy and responsive, and the built-in reports make it easy to view your checking, savings, and investing accounts. Perhaps the most standout feature of this revamp is the improved categorization that takes a ton of work off the plate of the user. The guys at Quicken have developed a learning algorithm for Quicken Online that allows users to self-tag, with the Quicken Online software remembering those tags and then applying them to other people's data. The more people who use it, the smarter the tagging gets. In my tests, the automatic categorizing/tagging works exceedingly well. Though Quicken Essentials takes a lot of cues from Mint.com, it's method of categorization is different (and superior). Mint obtains its categorization by performing a relatively simple Yellow Pages look-up. Later in the year Intuit will be combining the two approaches and hopes to achieve 95% categorization accuracy (Intuit bought Mint in 2009). Out of the box, Quicken Essentials supports 12,000 US and Canadian banks. That will grow to 16,000 banks in the next 2-3 months. That's full coverage of every credit union and bank in the country. Transferring and converting your data from Quicken for Windows to Quicken Essentials worked pretty well in my tests. I just saved a copy of my Quicken for Windows file, moved it to my Mac, and double-clicked on it. All my data was easily imported without any errors. Keep in mind that I was only working with two years of Quicken data though. Quicken Essentials allows for conversion from previous Mac programs, Quicken for Windows 2007+, and the now defunct Microsoft Money. If you're like me and just want a simple program to view all your financial accounts, see where your money is going, and keep track of balances and upcoming bills, I highly recommend Quicken Essentials. If, however, you're a Quicken power user who needs investing and planning tools, investment buy and sell tracking, TurboTax integration, or in-app bill pay, then QEM is not for you. Think
Free and accessible video editing
Good morning, Wondering what is recommended as a free and accessible video editing application? I have a simple task to perform, to take a existing Quicktime video and to take a few clips out of the video to produced an abridged version of the video. Thanks, Everett Zufelt http://zufelt.ca Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
VoiceOver, Safari and Java applets
Good evening, Would someone please let me know if it is technically possible for a Java applet to be accessible to VoiceOver in Safari? I don't believe it is, but I'm curious if someone might be able to confirm or disconfirm. Thanks, Everett Zufelt http://zufelt.ca Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: latest Quicken apparently written in Cocoa
Good afternoon, I have a contact at Intuit, so if someone is interested in a trial license I might be able to arrange that. Thanks, Everett Zufelt http://zufelt.ca Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt On 2010-02-25, at 1:00 PM, Darcy Burnard wrote: Hi everyone. I'm not interested in Quicken myself, but I'm sure there are people on here who may be interested. The latest version of Quicken has been released, and apparently it's be completely re-written from the ground up using cocoa. I don't know if this means it will be VO friendly or not, but I would guess that the possibility exists. Unfortunately they don't offer a demo, and at $69 it's a little pricy to try as an experiment, but they do offer a two month money back guarantee, so it might be worth it for someone to try it out. At any rate, here's an article from The Unofficial Apple Weblog about the new Quicken. Darcy Begin forwarded message: Date: February 25, 2010 8:00:00 AM CST Subject: Quicken Essentials for Mac now available Source: The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) Author: Michael Grothaus Filed under: Software After a four year absence, the next version of Quicken for the Mac is here. It's called Quicken Essentials for Mac and is a ground up Cocoa rewrite. I've been using the program for a few weeks now. Is it worth the wait? Well that depends what you need in your financial software. When I interviewed Aaron Patzer, VP/GM of Intuit's Personal Finance Group, he was quick to point out that it's called Quicken Essentials for a reason: It's called Essentials because it's what we consider to be essential for most users - about 80% of users. We went to people's homes and watched them use it. The majority of them just want to know: How much do I have? How much do I owe? How much do I spend on gas and food? How many times do I go to this restaurant? How many times do I go to Starbucks? What investments do I have? Let me set a budget to control my spending. If an easy overview of your financial life is the goal Intuit had in mind, they've outdone themselves. The first thing you'll notice is the completely redesigned interface. Gone is the horrible toolbar navigation with multiple windows. Quicken Essentials has got that familiar streamlined iTunes/iLife look and feel with all your accounts, reports, budgets, and tools nicely displayed in a source list. It's single window interface makes it easy for the user to get a complete snapshot of all their finances. The interactive pie charts are snappy and responsive, and the built-in reports make it easy to view your checking, savings, and investing accounts. Perhaps the most standout feature of this revamp is the improved categorization that takes a ton of work off the plate of the user. The guys at Quicken have developed a learning algorithm for Quicken Online that allows users to self-tag, with the Quicken Online software remembering those tags and then applying them to other people's data. The more people who use it, the smarter the tagging gets. In my tests, the automatic categorizing/tagging works exceedingly well. Though Quicken Essentials takes a lot of cues from Mint.com, it's method of categorization is different (and superior). Mint obtains its categorization by performing a relatively simple Yellow Pages look-up. Later in the year Intuit will be combining the two approaches and hopes to achieve 95% categorization accuracy (Intuit bought Mint in 2009). Out of the box, Quicken Essentials supports 12,000 US and Canadian banks. That will grow to 16,000 banks in the next 2-3 months. That's full coverage of every credit union and bank in the country. Transferring and converting your data from Quicken for Windows to Quicken Essentials worked pretty well in my tests. I just saved a copy of my Quicken for Windows file, moved it to my Mac, and double-clicked on it. All my data was easily imported without any errors. Keep in mind that I was only working with two years of Quicken data though. Quicken Essentials allows for conversion from previous Mac programs, Quicken for Windows 2007+, and the now defunct Microsoft Money. If you're like me and just want a simple program to view all your financial accounts, see where your money is going, and keep track of balances and upcoming bills, I highly recommend Quicken Essentials. If, however, you're a Quicken power user who needs investing and planning tools, investment buy and sell tracking, TurboTax integration, or in-app bill pay, then QEM is not for you. Think of this edition of Quicken Essentials as iPhoto for your finances. It presents a snapshot of your finances and transactions in a simple to use interface. If you need more than that, it's best to look at iBank orQuicken Premier for Windows running under VMWare Fusion or Parallels.
VMWare Fusion 3 / Windows 7
Good evening, Curious if anyone has written about accessibility differences between VMWare Fusion 2 and 3. Would someone who has upgraded share if you are finding anything troublesome in the new version, anything new that is a benefit? Also, for anyone who has installed Windows 7 in Fusion 3, was the process easy, can it be automated like Windows XP, and which edition of Windows 7 installation media where you using? Thanks in advance for the help, Everett Zufelt http://zufelt.ca Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Looking on an article explaining the switch to VoiceOver
Good afternoon, I am writing a blog post in which I would like to reference an article or blog post that gives a good explanation of the paradigm shift between windows screen-readers and VoiceOver. All suggestions appreciated. Thanks, Everett Zufelt http://zufelt.ca Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: Looking on an article explaining the switch to VoiceOver
Good afternoon Carolyn, I think that I can safely say that most of us who have made the switch have been there, or are in some part still there. I actually do the majority of my web browsing in Firefox with JAWS running as a virtual machine on my Mac. Just to clarify though, I'm not actually writing on this topic, just would like to give a reference to an article on the topic as part of the article that I am writing on my mission to find a good word processor. Thanks, Everett Zufelt http://zufelt.ca Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt On 2010-02-21, at 2:39 PM, ch...@q.com wrote: Everett: I am trying to make the transition of which you are writ ing, and confess it's been very slow. The differences in how material is presented on the screen by a probram such as Jaws vs voice-over has me really pretty well stumped. Case in point, there is a grocery-store website, (kingsoopers.com) that I regularly peruse with my PC. I usually view items in categories, ad them to my list and keep browsing. I tried using my macbook pro with vo for this task yesterday and gave up completely in frustration. I couldn't get signed in, couldn't get the categories to read properly, nor could I get the computer to even stay in the site I was trying to work on. Then if I selected an item to add to the list, I was taken back to the beginning of the website. Or getting hung up in Safari busy,... busy ... busy ...Now, I'm not writing simply to whine, though it feels that way. What I'm expressing is that what is for some a very simple transition has for me been a love/hate relationship. And while I get lots of information tidbits, from very gracious folks who are successfully doing the Mac thing, somehow they're not assimilating into an understanding of how VO presents info and how best to interact with it. I've always been someone who could pretty much figure things out, but this computer and transition from windows with Jaws to Snowleopard and VO has me feeling very humbled. Anyway, thanks for reading. Carolyn Haas ch:)On Feb 21, 2010, at 12:12 PM, E.J. Zufelt wrote: Good afternoon, I am writing a blog post in which I would like to reference an article or blog post that gives a good explanation of the paradigm shift between windows screen-readers and VoiceOver. All suggestions appreciated. Thanks, Everett Zufelt http://zufelt.ca Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en . -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en . -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Accented characters
Good evening, Curious if there is an easy way to enter accented characters (French in my case) on a Macbook keyboard with no numpad, running Snow Leopard. Thanks in advance, Everett Zufelt http://zufelt.ca Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: Reading PowerPoint Presentations on the Mac
Good afternoon Jeffrey, I'm not sure about reading Powerpoint on the Mac. You can however save them as RTF in windows and read that on the Mac, or a better solution, ask the professor to provide you RTF, or some other more universal format, of the content. HTH, Everett Zufelt http://zufelt.ca Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt On 2010-02-14, at 5:06 PM, Jeffrey Shockley wrote: Hi, I was wondering if there was an accessible program that can be used to read PowerPoint presentations on the Mac? I am asking because one of the college classes that I am taking, one of the instructors uses PowerPoint, and it would be nice to be able to read these presentations on the Mac. I can already on Windows, but it would be cool if I could on my Mac as well. Thanks, Jeffrey -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en . -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Structured headings in Pages
Good evening, So I was trying out Pages today. I noticed that a lot of the icons below the toolbar were dimmed, not available. I also couldn't seem to find any way to create structured headings in a document. Is there a tutorial on how to create accessible documents with Pages, particularly one that explains how to do this with VoiceOver. I'm trying to find an alternative to MS Word on Windows, but seriously looking like all word processor options for OS X either have no accessibility (Office and Symphony), have poor accessibility (OpenOffice), or aren't really good products (Pages). Thanks, Everett Zufelt http://zufelt.ca Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: possible voiceover possibilities for office for mac 2011???
Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 Confirmed During MacWorld [Office For Mac Details Emerge, Availability Set For Later This Year] Posted at: http://nexus404.com/Blog/2010/02/12/microsoft-office-for-mac-2011-confirmed-during-macworld-office-for-mac-details-emerge-availability-set-for-later-this-year/ Posted February 12th 2010 by Alex under Computers At this year’s MacWorld Expo in San Francisco the folks from Microsoft have announced that Office 2011 for Mac will be released sometime later this year. Seen as the first Apple -based suites to bring a fully Mac-tailored version of Outlook (using Apple ’s Cocoa API) and web-based co-authoring, the new Office for Mac 2011 will include myriad tweaks to how users share and interact with documents. Office for Mac 2011 “You’ve told us that working together across platforms is a priority to you and that’s why we are making Office for Mac 2011 the best, most compatible productivity suite on the Mac,” says Eric Wilfrid, MacBU General Manager at Microsoft. More detailed features for the Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 include: list of 5 items • Entourage goes, here comes Outlook — hated Entourage or the web- based version of Outlook, now you’re finally getting Outlook for Mac • .PTS support — allows users to back up and open their emails outside their mail client and brings permission settings for the first time • Co-authoring — allows you and your co-workers to edit Word, PowerPoint or Excel files at the same time, regardless of time, geography or platform • Office Web Apps — lighter versions of the desktop counterparts, you’ll be able to get your work done as long as you have a machine connected to the Internet • The “Ribbon” UI — new user interface with an unique Mac-like feel, a perfect mix between the Office 2008 Elements Gallery, the classic Mac menu and Standard Toolbar Everett Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt On 2010-02-12, at 8:20 AM, Chris Hofstader wrote: I've heard the new MS Office has been rewritten for Cocoa and should be accessible but information from MS can be true and false at the same time. On Feb 11, 2010, at 11:02 PM, Scott Ballard-RidleyScott Ridley wrote: hi all I have just read on the mac world website that microsoft has announced the launch of office for mac 2011. Could this be the answer to our prayers by finally being accessible to voiceover users? Does anyone have the inside line on this? Keep your fingers crossed. Scott -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en . -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en . -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: skype and beginner guides
I'll add a Skype question to this thread. Is it possible to check skype voicemail with VoiceOver? If someone can give directions that'd be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Everett Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt On 2010-02-12, at 8:39 AM, Brian Moore wrote: HI all. Just started teaching someone the mac for the first time as she sees many advantages over learning a windows computer. ONe of the first things she wants to do is make skype calls. Got that going with little difficulty, but I wonder if there are hot keys for starting a call and hanging up. I know I can do vo m to get to the menu and go over to call and find the appropriate items but windows use has turned me into a lazy person. I had a hunt through preferences but couldn't find any place wehre Ican set up hot keys for these things. Did I miss something? Also, the getting started with vo manual which is very well done only seems to be available in an html format now as well as gade ii braille as a brf file. I know someone did a daisy version of the last one. Anyone got a direct url for that as it was a very valuable tool for a beginner and I learned a lot about using my mac from it so I would like to be able to share it as a daisy version. Thanks. Brian. follow me on twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bmoore123 follow me on twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bmoore123 follow me on twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bmoore123 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en . -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
OpenOffice Writer 3.2
Good evening, Curious if anyone on the list uses OpenOffice Writer 3.2 I tried it out today and it seems to me that the document area is composed of a text field for each line of the document. It seems to be so poorly designed as to be not ueful. However, I might be missing something, and would love to know if anyone actually has found a way to make OO Write useful with VO. Thanks in advance, Everett Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Twitter clients
Good evening, I have been using Syrinx for quite some time as my sole Twitter client. I love everything except for one thing about it, using version 2.3.1. When you interact with an individual tweet in the timeline you cannot properly navigate by word. VO reads parts of words, or multiple parts of words at a time, not a single word. 1. Does anyone know how to correct this behavior in Syrinx? 2. Can anyone recommend another accessible Twitter client, providing some reasons for the recommendation? Thanks in advance, Everett Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Drupal 7 accessibility needs your help. It only takes 2 minutes
Good evening, I spent a lot of time this summer working on Drupal accessibility. The Drupal community could use some help in squashing a bug. If you use VoiceOver and have 2 minutes to spare please visit http://zufelt.ca/article/Testing_Drupal_7_style_element-invisible All that is required is to read a short blog post, to answer a question, and to let me know your OS X and Safari versions. Thank you in advance for your help, Everett Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: Accessible PDF viewer, was weird pdf document.
Good morning, Other than Preview is there a PDF viewer / reader application that is accessible with VoiceOver? Thanks, Everett Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt On 2010-02-11, at 7:23 AM, Chris Hofstader wrote: The PDF author did not use the appropriate table tags in your problem document. You may be able to do a select all and copy and paste the table into a word processor or spreadsheet which may be able to sort out the broken table for you. Otherwise, you are SOL - Viva Adobe! On Feb 10, 2010, at 10:43 AM, erik burggraaf wrote: Hi Guys, I've got a list of contacts here in PDF format. It's a sort'a table with name, address, phone number and so on. So, no matter how I view this table in prevuew, it always gives me all the names first. After that it gives me all the addresses. Then it gives me all the phone numbers. I've tried going up and down, left and right, with and without quick nav, and the order is always the same no matter what. I'm sure it doesn't look this way on the screen. It's got to be information across the columns and contacts up and down the rows like a deacent table, but I can't get it to read that way using preview with voiceover. Any suggestions would be most appreciated. Thanks, erik burggraaf A+ certified technician and user support consultant. Phone: 888-255-5194 Email: e...@erik-burggraaf.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en . -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en . -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: Blog post: First Glance at Firefox Accessibility on OS X Snow Leopard
On 2010-02-11, at 7:48 AM, Scott Howell wrote: I think you need to take some additional time to learn how best to use Safari with VOiceOver. I've been using the Mac for five years now and although like any browser and screen reader, Safari and VO has issues, but certainly not to the degree you seem to be having. Reading line by line is no problem at all and copying information to the clipboard is again, no problem. There is lots of information on how to accomplish both tasks and perhaps a little research on your part will help. I'll give you a tip. If you interact with text, use VO-shift-return, you can initiate marking of text and use VO- cursor keys to navigate and mark that text, then use VO-shift-return to stop marking the text. FInally command-c will copy that text for you to paste where you choose. You can also interact with text and use command-a to highlight all text you can then copy. You coming from windows and using IE may find DOM mode more like your browsing experience under windows using a windows-based screen reader. If your using Groups mode, you are going to find the navigation of the page not to be linear as is provided by DOM mode. Groups mode gives a more accurate representation of how the page is laid out unlike DOM mode. * I would agree that having used JAWS and a variety of browsers for Windows for years that my first transition to a Mac left the web- browsing experience wanting. While I was using Leopard I used Safari about 1% of the time and Firefox under Windows 99% of the time. Since upgrading to Snow Leopard the balance is more like Safari 30% Firefox 70%. Definitely some much appreciated improvements. Once you have used Safari a while, I think you will find it will meet your needs just fine. I am not so sure that even if Firefox is made accessible, you will find the browsing experience significantly different. I think what you will find is some differences in browsing experience as far as how some sites behave, but assuming Mozilla leverages the accessibility hooks of VO, the navigation will likely be quite similar. * I completely agree with this point. The problem, isn't Safari, or any other browser. The problem is the paradigm shift that users, myself included, need to make between browsing a page in a virtual buffer / viewer, and browsing the web through interacting with the objects that make up the page. HTH, Everett -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: possible voiceover possibilities for office for mac 2011???
Good evening Scott, My speculation is that Microsoft Office 2011 will not be accessible with VoiceOver. I cannot imagine that Office was developed with native Cocoa user interface components. As a matter of fact for some user interface components (the ribbon) Microsoft would have to create their own custom classes. I cannot imagine that Microsoft would have put the time into ensuring that these classes were accessible. I hope to be shown to be wrong. HTH, Everett Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt On 2010-02-11, at 11:02 PM, Scott Ballard-RidleyScott Ridley wrote: hi all I have just read on the mac world website that microsoft has announced the launch of office for mac 2011. Could this be the answer to our prayers by finally being accessible to voiceover users? Does anyone have the inside line on this? Keep your fingers crossed. Scott -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en . -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Blog post: First Glance at Firefox Accessibility on OS X Snow Leopard
Good morning, This morning I posted a new blog article on my site: First Glance at Firefox Accessibility on OS X Snow Leopard, which can be accessed at http://tinyurl.com/ygkfqoj Thanks,Everett Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Word Processing
Good evening, It's been a long time since I've been subscribed to this list. I just upgraded to Snow Leopard and I am wondering what the most accessible free full featured word processor is for Snow Leopard? Thanks, Everett Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Snow Leopard Mail: Message headers
Good evening, On Leopard I could interact with the message headers in Mail and bring up a context menu on the Senders address. That functionality seems to be missing in Snow Leopard. Am I crazy, has this moved somewhere? Thanks, Everett Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: Optical character recognition for iPhone
Good evening, I did give that some thought. To the best of my knowledge the camera on the iPhone is 3 megapixel whereas the camera on the KNFB Reader (comparable device) is 5 megapixel. Thanks, Everett Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt On 14-Jun-09, at 4:11 PM, Justin Harford wrote: It's extremely doubtful that an application like this would be very useful on the latest iPhone 3gs model since it's camera isn't yet powerful enough. But perhaps the focus feature could help it make up for its low amount of pixels? Justin Harford On Jun 14, 2009, at 1:05 PM, Larry Wanger wrote: Hi, I went looking for this Raspbery application and can not find it. Its not on the app store and I don't find anything with a Google search. Do you have a link? On Jun 14, 2009, at 10:16 AM, Alex Jurgensen wrote: HI, All, Raspbery Reader is designed for such a purpose. Regards, Alex, On 14-Jun-09, at 6:42 AM, E.J. Zufelt wrote: Good morning, Curious if anyone knows if there is currently an OCR app for the iPhone? If you know of any I'd love to know their names so that I can contact their devlopers regarding making the app accessible with Voiceover as quickly as possible. With an out of the box accessible phone, with built-in camera and 3rd party accessible OCR software many peoples lives would be greatly improved. Thanks, Everett Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Mac Mail and multiple accounts
Good evening Max, Take all accounts online fixed the problem. Rather non-intuitive, but it's fixed now. Thanks again, Everett Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt On 11-Jun-09, at 1:58 AM, Maxwell Ivey Jr. wrote: Hello; After you set up the second account, did you go to mailbox setting and click take all accounts online? Did you go into advance settings and make sure you clicked for it to include the new account when checking mail. Thos are the only two things I can think of. HOpe that helps, Max On Jun 11, 2009, at 12:45 AM, E.J. Zufelt wrote: Good evening, I am trying to setup a second account in Mail. The accounts are both on the same server and only differ in settings in username and password. I have set everything up identically with this exception. The second account doesn't seem to try to access the mail server, I know because I looked at the server logs. Any suggestions? Is there a way to find error logs, etc, from Mail? Thanks, Everett Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Safari HTML Reference: Supported Accessibility Roles
Good morning, The following document from the Apple developer's site lists the 17 ARIA roles that are supported in Safari 4. Note, that there are 59 ARIA roles in the draft ARIA recommendation. http://developer.apple.com/safari/library/documentation/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariHTMLRef/Articles/AccessibilityRoles.html HTH, Everett Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Macbook numpad
Good evening, Does anyone know if the virtual numpad has returned to the new generation Macbook keyboards? Thanks, Everett Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Tabular content and Voiceover
Good morning, Is there currently a web browser or word processor in which tabular data can be accessed efficiently with voiceover? That is, in which any type of table navigation (by cell, by row, by column, can be performed. Thanks in advance, Everett Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
JAWS mouse keys and Fusion
Good afternoon, Slightly off topic, but not really as the problem only occurs when using JAWS in VMWare Fusion on my Macbook. I am able to get JAWS into JAWS Cursor mode (insert + [). But, I cannot perform a JAWS left or right click. Using a Macbook Aluminum. Does anyone know if this is a limitation of Fusion or my Macbook keyboard? Thanks, Everett Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
iPhone may feature voice control and feedback
Good evening, iPhone may feature voice control and feedback http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/04/iphone-os-30-to-feature-voice-control-and-feedback.ars HTH, Everett Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Eclipse with Cocoa
Good morning,
Interesting, I haven't tried much of this myself. Have these bugs
been filed with Eclipse? I imagine that they would get resolved if
filed.
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On 21-Apr-09, at 3:51 AM, Jonathan Chacón wrote:
Hello
I used Cocoa version for 4 days and it is better than carbon
version...
It is slower if you use macbook with batteries. I think it happends
because of Java runtime.
You can jump between views using the shortcuts and voiceOver detect
the jump.
There are a few problems in editor area. For example, when you type
( or { voiceOver stops to speak but when you type ) or ; voiceOver
starts to speak again.
You can not use control+space menu when you are in editor area.
the child windows hasn't title and you can not detect if a child
window is a editor area, a view area or the debug log window
I hope all this problems would be solve because I think Cocoa Eclipse
is a good alternative to VI developpers
regards
Jonathan Chacón
El 21/04/2009, a las 7:56, Mitchell Smith escribió:
I have been using the Eclipse 3.5 nightly builds which use a native
Cocoa UI
rather than the Carbon one used by 3.4.
They seem to be working exceptionally well with the latest build of
Snow
Leopard after a bug got resolved by Apple where screenreaderd would
keep
crashing and restarting every time you tried to switch views.
If you are looking to move away from Windows, then the (hopefully)
soon to
be released Eclipse 3.5 and the (hopefully) soon to be released Snow
Leopard
are looking extremely promising.
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Good evening,
Has anyone tried the Eclipse IDE with Cocoa support. If so can you
share your experience as it relates to VO accessibility?
http://www.eclipse.org/swt/cocoaport.php
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Re: Eclipse with Cocoa
Good morning,
The following URL lists current Eclipse Cocoa bugs. I believe that if
you sign up for a Eclipse bugzilla account you can file a bug in a
similar fashion.
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?classification=Eclipseproduct=Platformcomponent=SWTop_sys=Mac+OS+X+-+Cocoabug_status=UNCONFIRMEDbug_status=NEWbug_status=ASSIGNEDbug_status=REOPENED
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On 21-Apr-09, at 7:02 AM, Jonathan Chacón wrote:
Hello,
this is a short answer because I have to go to the doctor
I don't find any method to file these bugs in eclipse. Where can I
file these bugs?
I'll search in eclipse menu if there is any option to do this but
if there is anybody knows it
Regards
Jonathan Chacón
El 21/04/2009, a las 11:51, E.J. Zufelt escribió:
Good morning,
Interesting, I haven't tried much of this myself. Have these bugs
been filed with Eclipse? I imagine that they would get resolved if
filed.
Thanks,
Everett
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On 21-Apr-09, at 3:51 AM, Jonathan Chacón wrote:
Hello
I used Cocoa version for 4 days and it is better than carbon
version...
It is slower if you use macbook with batteries. I think it happends
because of Java runtime.
You can jump between views using the shortcuts and voiceOver detect
the jump.
There are a few problems in editor area. For example, when you type
( or { voiceOver stops to speak but when you type ) or ; voiceOver
starts to speak again.
You can not use control+space menu when you are in editor area.
the child windows hasn't title and you can not detect if a child
window is a editor area, a view area or the debug log window
I hope all this problems would be solve because I think Cocoa
Eclipse
is a good alternative to VI developpers
regards
Jonathan Chacón
El 21/04/2009, a las 7:56, Mitchell Smith escribió:
I have been using the Eclipse 3.5 nightly builds which use a native
Cocoa UI
rather than the Carbon one used by 3.4.
They seem to be working exceptionally well with the latest build of
Snow
Leopard after a bug got resolved by Apple where screenreaderd would
keep
crashing and restarting every time you tried to switch views.
If you are looking to move away from Windows, then the (hopefully)
soon to
be released Eclipse 3.5 and the (hopefully) soon to be released
Snow
Leopard
are looking extremely promising.
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Subject: Eclipse with Cocoa
Good evening,
Has anyone tried the Eclipse IDE with Cocoa support. If so can
you
share your experience as it relates to VO accessibility?
http://www.eclipse.org/swt/cocoaport.php
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Re: iPhone accessibility, was Self voicing e-mail for iPhone
Good afternoon, I haven't heard of any plans for VO support in iPhone 3.0, due out later this year. It is possible that it hasn't leaked yet, but y best gues would be that it won't be until the next update to the iPhone platform. HTH, Everett Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt On 20-Apr-09, at 7:38 PM, Tasha Raella Chemel wrote: Hi Alex, DO you have any idea when the iphone will be accessible, or do you have contact info for the rep who gave you this information? I really want to know because I'm about to get a new phone, and I'd hate to buy something now only to find out that I could have gotten an iphone if I'd waited a bit longer. - Original Message - From: Brandon Misch bmisch2...@gmail.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 5:34 PM Subject: Re: Self voicing e-mail for iPhone will these voices also be in english or will we have hte same voices in Leopard? know this may be a little late but kind of behind in e- mail so, sorry if this question has been brought up. On Apr 19, 2009, at 5:20 PM, Alex Jurgensen wrote: Hi, An Apple representative who by the sounds of stuff is also a developer told me that they are trying to make the IPhone accessible to VIPs. They also confirmed the new voices for Snow Leopard. Thanks, Alex, thanks, Alex, On 19-Apr-09, at 5:54 AM, E.J. Zufelt wrote: Good morning, I kow that the iPhone does not have a screen-reader, probably not even possible to develop unless you're Apple. But, has anyone heard of an e-mail application for the iPhone that using TTS to be self- voicing? Looking for a low vision friend. Thanks, Everett Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Self voicing e-mail for iPhone
Good morning, I kow that the iPhone does not have a screen-reader, probably not even possible to develop unless you're Apple. But, has anyone heard of an e-mail application for the iPhone that using TTS to be self-voicing? Looking for a low vision friend. Thanks, Everett Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Flash and VO alternative
On 19-Apr-09, at 6:42 PM, Greg Kearney wrote: Flash support will have to come from Adobe and not Apple, and Adobe has shown no interest, and in fact has been down right hostile to the idea of doing so. Can you support your claim of hostility by Adobe with facts? Adobe makes a great deal of software. I am frustrated that it is not all accessible, however, I know that they are currently improving support for a number of products. It is all about prioritization, and like it or not there are far more Windows users than Mac users. Shoul they devote more resources to accessibility, yes, as should all other companies, including Apple. Adobe actually provides a bug reporting mechanism through which users can vote to prioritize bugs and feature requests. This system is currently poorly accessible, but I believe that will change in the future. I am working on getting a list of Adobe accessibility bugs and will post a list of the current Mac related accessibility bugs and feature requests here when I get them with instructions on how to vote. HTH, Everett --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: iPod Shuffle with Voiceover
Good morning, I've heard that the shufle itself is just about indestructable, but I have heard other negative reports about the ruggedness of the headphones. Perhaps I'll go Nano. Thanks, Everett Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt On 17-Apr-09, at 2:51 AM, Justin Harford wrote: I went to the apple store to look at one of those. Very small, with apple earbuds and a little control thing of about 3 buttons that hangs on the wire. Hold the cener button, and VO reads the list of playlists, when you hear it say the one you want press the middle button again. Top and bottom buttons next and prior track. I can't remember ho to adjust the volume. Personally I was not feeling it with the little control on the earbuds since it restricts you to using apple earbuds. Also it seemed to be rather fragile. One of the models on demo in the store appeared to have had its little control broken. J Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. Charles Schultz, creator of the Peanuts comic strip. El 16/04/2009, a las 20:06, E.J. Zufelt escribió: Good evening, ** Correction iPod Shuffle 3g ** Considering getting an iPod shuffle 4g. Can anyone provide a brief review of the unit / voiceover on the unit? Thanks, Everett Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
iPod Shuffle with Voiceover
Good evening, Considering getting an iPod shuffle 4g. Can anyone provide a brief review of the unit / voiceover on the unit? Thanks, Everett Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: CapsLock key in virtual machine
Good morning Dave, Unfortunately it is a known problem that the caps lock key does not pass through to a vM under Fusion correctly. I believe that the key is passed, but it is passed as a single pres and not as being held down. You can try using a program like SharpKeys to remap the capslock key to another key within Windows. HTH, Everett Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt On 15-Apr-09, at 9:05 AM, Dave Wright wrote: Good morning all, I'm writing to see if any of you have advice on a possible solution for getting my capsLock key to work in a virtual machine? I noticed that after I upgraded my VM Vusion past V2.0, I'm unable to get my CapsLock key to pass through to my VM's. Any information would be much appreciated as I tend to remap this key for other functions. Best Regards: David Wright Email: dwri...@gmail.com Mobile: (832)518-0707 Webpage: http://www.knfbreader.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
IBM Lotus Symphony Accessibility
Good evening, I downloaded and installed IBM Lotus Symphony this evening. Here is what I found. 1. Installation process fully accessible. 2. User Interface and toolbars fully accessible. 3. The control / object that actually contains the document, recognized by Voiceover as Unknown. Perhaps I'm wrong, but I navigated all over that thing and the Unknown object was exactly where I would expect the document contents to be and I could not find them anywhere else. So close, but so far away (sad smiley). HTH, Everett Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
IBM Lotus Symphony
Good morning, Has anyone tried IBM Lotus Symphony and can you say if it is accessible with Voiceover? I believe from the little research that I've done that it only implements IAccessible2, like Firefox, and is likely not accessible. Wouldn't it be nice if: 1. Voiceover supported IAccessible2, or 2. Someone would write an UA to IAccessible2 bridge / wrapper. Thanks, Everett Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Copy to Clipboard in Twitteriffic
Good morning, I don't seem to be able to copy tweets to the clipboard (using VO + Shift + C) when I am focused on the first tweet in the list. Any suggestions / can this be reproduced on anyone else's system? Thanks, Everett Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Copy to Clipboard in Twitteriffic
Good afternoon, Appears that every time I was trying to copy and paste the first tweet in Twitteriffic it was to long to paste. I'm not sure that I like the behaviour of not allowing a paste of information that does not fit into the update edit field. I'd prefer some sort of message, or that as much text as fits would get pasted. HTH, Everett Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt On 14-Apr-09, at 12:04 PM, E.J. Zufelt wrote: Good morning, I don't seem to be able to copy tweets to the clipboard (using VO + Shift + C) when I am focused on the first tweet in the list. Any suggestions / can this be reproduced on anyone else's system? Thanks, Everett Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Eclipse with Cocoa
Good evening, Has anyone tried the Eclipse IDE with Cocoa support. If so can you share your experience as it relates to VO accessibility? http://www.eclipse.org/swt/cocoaport.php Everett Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Shrook accessibility
Good evening, Has anyone tried the RSS reader Shrook? If so, how accessible is this app with VO? Thanks, Everett Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Safari 4beta and ARIA
Good morning, Just briefly tested http://search.yahoo.com/ with Safari 4 beta's ARIA support. I didn't spend much time on the site, but the search suggestions were accessible. 1. Go to the site 2. Navigate to the search field 3. Type in part of a search query 4. Use VO + Up and Down arrows to read through the suggestions. I'd lov to hear others' experiences. Thanks, Everett Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Voiceover, Firevox, and Orca with Aria
Good afternoon, When did Orca get ported to the Mac (smile)? For what it's worth, the Orca development team has done a great job at working on improved aria support recently. HTH, Everett Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt On 13-Apr-09, at 1:57 PM, Alex Jurgensen wrote: Hi, All, I am working on an applicwhat is the support for the following screen readers with ARIA. - Voiceover a- Firevox - Orca Since not very many other screen readers run on the Mac, these are the ones I care about. Thanks, Alex, tion that is a virtual application, commonly know as a web app. I want to do it right the first time. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Safari 4beta and ARIA
Good afternoon, Nice to know that there is a way to cause an application to speak. But, as far as accessibility goes, it is, as Alex mentioned, a hack. It would be nice if there was a way to notify UA that an application has an updated region that requires announcement / monitoring. Thanks for the reference, Everett Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt On 13-Apr-09, at 1:56 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: I suspect they are using the mac speech synthesis manager method called SpeakString http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Carbon/Reference/Speech_Synthesis_Manager/Reference/reference.html#/ /apple_ref/c/func/SpeakString I can try to find out if you really want to know. BTW, I heard there are some bugs in the say command. For example try doing say bullfrog say bullfrogs It gets the singular and plural switched around. CB E.J. Zufelt wrote: Good afternoon, I wonder if AIM is doing this through the API, or through the system Say command. Everett Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt On 13-Apr-09, at 1:04 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: Hmm. The AOL AIM client speaks incoming text if you turn that option on in preferences so I would suspect any application can do it. The only limitation of the VO APIs I know of is that you can't detect if VO is on or not which is probably a nod to Apple's Universal Design philosophy. CB E.J. Zufelt wrote: Good afternoon, I believe, from what I have read about Firefox accessibility challenges, that implementing aria live region support in any browser will require changes to be made to the Apple accessibility API. There is currently no way for applications to alert the OS that something needs to be spoken. Maybe in Snow Leopard, not holding my breath. This change might also make it possible to tweak the accessibility problems of some applications. Imagine if instant message clients could automatically read messages that are posted or allow users to easily read back through the message log with a keystroke. HTH, Everett Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt On 13-Apr-09, at 12:52 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: The main thing I'm looking for in an ARIA enabled browser is support for live regions. This is where a spot on the page is set up such that any changes to that spot are automatically announced. This is a great way to implement web-based chat, stock tickers and other real-time data feeds. Unfortunately it appears that Safari 4 Beta does not yet support live regions. CB E.J. Zufelt wrote: Good morning, Just briefly tested http://search.yahoo.com/ with Safari 4 beta's ARIA support. I didn't spend much time on the site, but the search suggestions were accessible. 1. Go to the site 2. Navigate to the search field 3. Type in part of a search query 4. Use VO + Up and Down arrows to read through the suggestions. I'd lov to hear others' experiences. Thanks, Everett Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Twitter client
I also haven't been able to find a way to copy the text from someone elses tweet from within twitterific. Everett Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt On 12-Apr-09, at 9:38 AM, Victor Tsaran wrote: The only problem I find with Twitterrific is that you cannot use the retwitt feature. Other than that, it seems to work rather well. Victor On 4/6/2009 1:12 AM, Jessi Rathwell wrote: yes, twitteriffic is awesome!!! perfectly accessible!!! On 5-Apr-09, at 10:10 AM, E.J. Zufelt wrote: Good afternoon, This may have been discussed here in the past. But, I am looking for current recommendations for Voiceover compatible Twitter clients for Leopard. Any help appreciated, Everett Information Accessibility and Disability Rights Advocacy http://twitter.com/ezufelt LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: games for the Mac?
Second Life (SL) is a virtual world developed by Linden Lab that launched on June 23, 2003 and is accessible via the Internet. A free client program called the Second Life Viewer enables its users, called Residents, to interact with each other through avatars. Residents can explore, meet other residents, socialize, participate in individual and group activities, and create and trade virtual property and services with one another, or travel throughout the world, which residents refer to as the grid. Second Life caters for users aged over eighteen, while its sister site Teen Second Life is reserved to users aged between thirteen and seventeen. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Life Everett Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt On 11-Apr-09, at 11:36 PM, Jessi Rathwell wrote: what exactly is second life? I've heard a lot about it but don't really know what it is! it sounds interesting. On 11-Apr-09, at 7:29 PM, Mark Baxter wrote: This is great to know; thanks. I'm also looking to working with second Life to make more of their world accessible, but that's a project a ways down the tunnel. Mark BurningHawk Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com My home page: http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
TweetDeck
Good afternoon, Has anyone tried using TweetDeck with Voiceover? Could you provide your experience? http://www.tweetdeck.com/beta/ Thanks, Everett Information Accessibility and Disability Rights Advocacy http://twitter.com/ezufelt LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Twitter client
Good afternoon, This may have been discussed here in the past. But, I am looking for current recommendations for Voiceover compatible Twitter clients for Leopard. Any help appreciated, Everett Information Accessibility and Disability Rights Advocacy http://twitter.com/ezufelt LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Installing Leopard on a Netbook
Good evening, Any operating system running in a VM is slower than if it were running natively on the same machine. HTH, Everett On 5-Apr-09, at 1:06 AM, Tiffany D wrote: Will it run slower that way? I just read that even installing it directly onto the machine will result in a very slow netbook. Apparently, things with sound etc don't work that well cause the cpu is slow. Not sure if this is true. What about things like youtube or downloading songs? On 04/04/2009, E.J. Zufelt ever...@zufelt.ca wrote: Good evening, The challenges and barriers that you will face installing Leopard in a Virtual Machine are comparable to the challenges that you will face installing it onto native, non-Mac, hardware. The biggest challenge will be whether your virtualization platform can emulate devices (audio, network, etc.) for which you can find Leopard compatible drivers. HTH, Everett On 4-Apr-09, at 11:45 PM, Tiffany D wrote: Well, I don't use linux so am not interested in three operating systems on my machine. However, I am curious if I can install Leopard through a virtual machine so that if something goes wrong I can just delete the file. Btw, I asked about the speed of the netbook I'm considering at Staples and was told it's the equivalent of a Pentium III. On 04/04/2009, Simon Fogarty si...@blinky-net.com wrote: Sandy, the netbooks do actually come with linux on some of them. Also, I know that there is documentation on the net about triple boot machines, or triple boot Acer EEE netbooks. Think it's the EEE 1001 model that has been setup to take windows xp, linux of some distribution and leopard. If I'm not mistaken they call the machine the 100H model. Reading the documentation, it's not a simple process to setup the 3 os but it would be cool to have. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Chris Gilland Sent: Saturday, 4 April 2009 2:35 p.m. To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Installing Leopard on a Netbook Um, Eck skeuz? me? Sue your c***? Excuse me? I r'r'reely! hope you didn't mean the word ending with the letters, n t. I find that word obscenely! offensive! If I hear language not just from you, but anyone! on list again of this nature I? w'will! leave, no questions asked. I am on your side and agree with your feeling of stance, however, in all do respect, mam, that was extremely obscenely vile/vulgar! Please in all do respect for my sake, try to choicen your words a bit. I know you starred it out, and thank you for that, but that word r'really! did offend me honestly. No need to apologise, you didn't know, just in the future, all that I ask, in all do respect, is please be more careful with your phraising. That word is a spoiler to me based on something in my childhood that happened. I won't go into it though. Chris. Want great web hosting packages, affordable audio production support, on-site computer support, affordible audio tutorials, and more? Check us out online today. http://www.BlindPerspectives.net Chris Gilland: Admin and founder of Blind Perspectives Phone: Toll-Free: 1-877-222-0049 - Mon-Fri 8AM-5:30PM Eastern Time (Closed on holidays) Sales: sa...@blindperspectives.net Billing: bill...@blindperspectives.net Technical Support: supp...@blindperspectives.net ©2009 Blind Perspectives®: All Rights Reserved - Original Message - From: sandi sørensen sandi1...@gmail.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, April 04, 2009 3:50 AM Subject: Re: Installing Leopard on a Netbook hey. :) just for the record... keep in mind that. The law never mind if you are blind of unable to use the little cute netbook without osx on it says it is illegal to do it. Meaning that apple can at anytime and with all right law in hand and all that sue your cu***. With that said. Would i do it? Not really it is alittle like buying a chevy and laying an lycomming in it. I mean... why not go out getting a netbook and be legal and lay linux on it? It would even be able to speak greek outta the box. /sandi On Apr 3, 2009, at 5:55 PM, ben mustill-rose wrote: Wow, lots of questions, here goes: I went on Google and typed in install leopard netbook without the quotes. the first site in the results is the one to which I'm referring. I'm wondering if anyone has done this or if you think it would be successful/easy for me to do. Let's keep it hypothetical to avoid legal drama. Keep in mind that I don't have any experience with terminal or partitioning etc and the first parts of the installation probably wouldn't use sound, since the author said he installed that driver later. I would be relying on sighted assistance from someone who's not too technically-oriented but who can follow instructions if they're clear
Re: Installing Leopard on a Netbook
Good evening, I haven't followed this entire thread. But, you may wish to look up Psystar v. Apple in google. Apple is attempting to prevent Psystar from selling clone computers with retail versions of Leopard installed. Apple claims that their license only extends to Apple branded hardware. On 4-Apr-09, at 4:50 AM, sandi sørensen wrote: hey. :) just for the record... keep in mind that. The law never mind if you are blind of unable to use the little cute netbook without osx on it says it is illegal to do it. Meaning that apple can at anytime and with all right law in hand and all that sue your cu***. With that said. Would i do it? Not really it is alittle like buying a chevy and laying an lycomming in it. I mean... why not go out getting a netbook and be legal and lay linux on it? It would even be able to speak greek outta the box. /sandi On Apr 3, 2009, at 5:55 PM, ben mustill-rose wrote: Wow, lots of questions, here goes: I went on Google and typed in install leopard netbook without the quotes. the first site in the results is the one to which I'm referring. I'm wondering if anyone has done this or if you think it would be successful/easy for me to do. Let's keep it hypothetical to avoid legal drama. Keep in mind that I don't have any experience with terminal or partitioning etc and the first parts of the installation probably wouldn't use sound, since the author said he installed that driver later. I would be relying on sighted assistance from someone who's not too technically-oriented but who can follow instructions if they're clear. The first site made sense but one of the links on it got very technical so my head is spinning. The one thing I doubt I need to worry about is resolution since I can't see it anyway. Follow the instructions and you should be fine; just make sure that someones done it on the aspire before you get one so you can be sure it workss - partitions can get very messed up very quickly but again, follow the instructions; personally I think that partitioning is pretty obvious but meh, each to there own - you won't kill anything so give it a go. I have the installation disks that came with my Macbook so I'm assuming that's Leopard? What's the difference, tech-wise, between that and the other version they mentioned on the site? The one that i'm guessing they mensioned is a modified version of leopard - ie: not the disks that came with your mb. You would have to learn how to use bit torrent, download and then burn the os they are speaking about and do it like that. Can it work on any netbook with similar specs? no! as I said ^, don't be the first to try it, be sure someones done it before. Does it still have VoiceOver on it? yes, talking install might not work; on some netbooks the headphone port or the speakers might not work. what would I need to do differently if I used my copy, cause he still talked about using a modified version, even though he chose a licensed copy. He's being sneaky to try and avoid a few grey airias of the apple licencing agreement. He's not actually using original leopard disks; he's using the hacked version and purchasing a leopard licence for that hacked version; in other words, he's using a hacked version, going out and buying a set of leopard disks and then not putting the lajit disks anywhere nere his netbook. Now say I got an Acer - Aspire One Netbook with Intel® Atom™ Processor N270 (either with the 120 or 160 gb hard drive and the six-cell battery, unless there's a better one under 9 inches and under $350 tops out there). Would I need to get special drivers for the netbook? Perhaps, but if its been done before then that shouldn't be a problem. I have an external cd/dvd rom drive and am wondering if I could just hook it up to the usb port on the netbook or would I need to get a drive specifically for that brand? It did work on my desktop without me installing any drivers, so I don't see why not. Yes, should work fine in osx, windows or what ever you want to put on it. What did he mean when he talked about having to get a wireless card. The Acer would one built-in and I have broadband from Verizon. Would I still need to get a special card or would it recognise my connection like the Mac does? No, in that case, it wouldn't be able to use your wireless, you'd either have to get a different card or not use wireless at all. Unless I am mistakened, the only cards that work in this situation are mini pci ones, so you'd have to open your new pet up and void its worranty. I'd still do it; sounds like it could be fun. Thanks. On 04/04/2009, Tiffany D tiffani...@gmail.com wrote: I went on Google and typed in install leopard netbook without the quotes. the first site in the results is the one to which I'm referring. I'm wondering if anyone has done this or if you think it would be successful/easy for me to do. Let's
Re: Python programming on OSX
Good evening, No, but I did just send a message asking this exact question to accessibility-...@lists.apple.com HTH, Everett On 28-Mar-09, at 4:26 PM, Bejarano, Rafael P. wrote: Hello, Have you ever created a GUI in python? If so, what did you use-- kintr, pygui, vision egg, or what? I am just now needing to figure out how to program a GUI in python, and I don't want to invest a lot of time trying to learn to use a module that will not generate a VO- accessible GUI. Thanks. Rafael Bejarano -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com on behalf of Yvonne Thomson Sent: Fri 3/27/2009 7:42 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Python programming on OSX On 27/03/2009, at 8:13 PM, E.J. Zufelt wrote: Good morning, If there are any Mac python developers on the list I'd love to hear what editor you use and how you handle pythons indentation requirements. Thanks, Everett Hi. I've done quite a bit of programming Python on OSX, but I have to admit I stopped for a long time. Smultron was just hopeless for me, particularly reading other peoples code. The indent support just wasn'tup to it. My only solution turned out to be teaching myself to use Vim and using macvim. The learning curve was a bit steap, but it has let me start programming in a language I'd all but given up on. winmail.dat --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Audio playback with speed control
Good morning, Is there an audio playback application for OSX that will allow me to adjust the speed of playback? It would be ideal if pitch was not affected by the change in speed, but not altogether necessary. Thanks, Everett --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Python programming on OSX
Good morning, If there are any Mac python developers on the list I'd love to hear what editor you use and how you handle pythons indentation requirements. Thanks, Everett --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Reading digital braille on Mac
Good morning, Is there a utility for OSX that will allow me to convert electronic braille, brf, files to text or any other format that can be read with Voiceover? Thanks, Everett --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: reading digital braille files on mac
Good afternoon, Did the followig message cause anyone else to have voiceover crash? When I tab to the preview pane for the following message voiceover crashes and restarts itself over and over until I tab out of the preview pane. Everett On 27-Mar-09, at 1:18 PM, christos hux wrote: well you can also do this with Gregs braille translation program which is totally free and easier. I convert the brf files to text files and then either read then as they are with text edit or convert them into audio files with iSpeakIt --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: reading digital braille files on mac
Good afternoon, Yes, I am running the Safari 4 beta. Everett On 27-Mar-09, at 1:48 PM, Esther wrote: Hi, I didn't have a problem with this message. I restored my Preview pane and tried tabbing from the messages table. That worked fine. Are you both running the Safari 4 beta? I'm still using Safari 3. Cheers, Esther On Mar 27, 2009, at 6:39 AM, Eliza Cooper wrote: Hi, Yes, I had the same thing happen to me. Very odd. Eliza On Mar 27, 2009, at 12:25 PM, E.J. Zufelt wrote: Good afternoon, Did the followig message cause anyone else to have voiceover crash? When I tab to the preview pane for the following message voiceover crashes and restarts itself over and over until I tab out of the preview pane. Everett On 27-Mar-09, at 1:18 PM, christos hux wrote: well you can also do this with Gregs braille translation program which is totally free and easier. I convert the brf files to text files and then either read then as they are with text edit or convert them into audio files with iSpeakIt --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: reading digital braille files on mac
Good afternoon, The preview pane in Mail, along with many other html user interface controls in OS X are dependent on some aspects of Safari, similar to how some user interface controls in Windows are dependent on Internet Explorer. HTH, Everett On 27-Mar-09, at 1:51 PM, Greg Kearney wrote: Not sure what version of Safari one is using would have anything to do with reading an email message. Greg Kearney 535 S. Jackson St. Casper, Wyoming 82601 307-224-4022 gkear...@gmail.com On Mar 27, 2009, at 10:50 AM, E.J. Zufelt wrote: Good afternoon, Yes, I am running the Safari 4 beta. Everett On 27-Mar-09, at 1:48 PM, Esther wrote: Hi, I didn't have a problem with this message. I restored my Preview pane and tried tabbing from the messages table. That worked fine. Are you both running the Safari 4 beta? I'm still using Safari 3. Cheers, Esther On Mar 27, 2009, at 6:39 AM, Eliza Cooper wrote: Hi, Yes, I had the same thing happen to me. Very odd. Eliza On Mar 27, 2009, at 12:25 PM, E.J. Zufelt wrote: Good afternoon, Did the followig message cause anyone else to have voiceover crash? When I tab to the preview pane for the following message voiceover crashes and restarts itself over and over until I tab out of the preview pane. Everett On 27-Mar-09, at 1:18 PM, christos hux wrote: well you can also do this with Gregs braille translation program which is totally free and easier. I convert the brf files to text files and then either read then as they are with text edit or convert them into audio files with iSpeakIt --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Audio playback with speed control
Good afternoon, Thanks for the response. That was exactly what I needed to know. I didn't relize VLC ad this feature. I have an mp3 e-book and wanted to speed it up Everett On 27-Mar-09, at 3:50 PM, Esther wrote: Hi Everett, You probably need to say more about what you need in terms of adjusting playback speed, what software you generally use, and what you want to do in terms of adjusting speed in order to get a useful answer. The basic answer is, yes, you can adjust speed of playback with existing applications on the Mac, and you can even do so in a way that preserves pitch. For example, you can play faster or slower in VLC or QuickTime Player with keyboard shortcuts, but with fairly coarse adjustments of speed. If you bring up the A/V Controls Window of QuickTime Player (Command-K), you can separately interact with sliders for pitch and playback speed for finer control. These features are also supported in many sound editors like Audacity (freeware), Sound Studio, and Amadeus Pro, and also in Garageband, but at different levels of complexity and difficulty of implementation depending on exactly what level of control you need and for what purpose. If you want to control speed to learn/listen to music for performance (not likely, given the way you've asked your question), you'd be much better off looking at specialized software like the Amazing Slow Downer from Roni music (or similar products), that will easily let you slow down music to learn chord sequences with keyboard shortcuts, and also play from CDs with these features enabled. Scott has used this. On the other hand, if you want to control playback speed to listen to podcasts at a faster rate, then I just do this with QuickTime player via AppleScripts that allow me to select tracks in my iTunes library and switch player control between iTunes (which doesn't support faster playback) and QuickTime Player (which does). This lets me keep the last played position bookmarked. I think I responded to your post about this in January: http://www.mail-archive.com/disc...@macvisionaries.com/msg49448.html (Re: speed up slow down I tunes) The AppleScripts that I use for this, and their source (at the Mac OS X Hints page) are described in that archived post. The source post with the two scripts (posted by Louie) are also at the end of that post. If you want to find out how to control speed and pitch in Garageband or Audacity you'll have to ask elsewhere, although I know it's doable. Similarly, you can use options supported in third-party sound- editing software to do this, probably with more control and ease that working directly with QuickTime. Again, the best solution for you depends on what you want to do, what level of control you need, and what other software you may have on your machine. I haven't done much with sound editing software for some time, so likely you'll get better answers from other list readers. Also, since the earlier post didn't get much response, it may not be relevant to your needs. Cheers, Esther On Mar 27, 2009, at 2:10 AM, Scott Howell wrote: I don't know of one that works outside Terminal, but there is Mplayer, but you do have to run it from Terminal and in fact you have to compile it. However, I believe there is a way to use iTunes to accomplish the same task, but I only heard it was possible, I have not done it myself. On Mar 27, 2009, at 5:11 AM, E.J. Zufelt wrote: Good morning, Is there an audio playback application for OSX that will allow me to adjust the speed of playback? It would be ideal if pitch was not affected by the change in speed, but not altogether necessary. Thanks, Everett --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Tables in Pages
Yes, this one of the few reasons that I cannot switch over to te Mac for all of my day to day computer uses. The lack of good support for tables in word processors and the lack of support for the Firefox web- browser. I really cannot understand how Apple can get away with not supporting tables. Everett On 27-Mar-09, at 12:52 AM, Justin Harford wrote: That would be treu. Though it is not a matter of tables in pages, but a matter of tables in wordprocessors in general with VO. I had emailed developers about this before. J Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. Charles Schultz, creator of the Peanuts comic strip. El 26/03/2009, a las 15:43, Tom Frank escribió: I like the accessibility of Pages, that is, until I inserted a table. It seems to be totally unreadable by VO. Am I correct? Tom Frank --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Tables in Pages
Good evening Justin, Can you point us to a resource that may be a good tutorial / starting loint for latex? Thanks, Everett On 27-Mar-09, at 1:16 AM, Justin Harford wrote: Said it before and I'll say it again. I have produced the best looking documens on my mac. My work looks far better than it would have if I had stuck with windows, but this has been done with LaTeX. Tables have tended, for this reason, not to be a problem for me. J Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. Charles Schultz, creator of the Peanuts comic strip. El 26/03/2009, a las 21:10, E.J. Zufelt escribió: Yes, this one of the few reasons that I cannot switch over to te Mac for all of my day to day computer uses. The lack of good support for tables in word processors and the lack of support for the Firefox web- browser. I really cannot understand how Apple can get away with not supporting tables. Everett On 27-Mar-09, at 12:52 AM, Justin Harford wrote: That would be treu. Though it is not a matter of tables in pages, but a matter of tables in wordprocessors in general with VO. I had emailed developers about this before. J Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. Charles Schultz, creator of the Peanuts comic strip. El 26/03/2009, a las 15:43, Tom Frank escribió: I like the accessibility of Pages, that is, until I inserted a table. It seems to be totally unreadable by VO. Am I correct? Tom Frank --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Off Topic: Poll on how to make paper money accessible
The Canadian approach, also known as a waste of taxpayer money, was to put braille on the bills. One full braille cell representing $5, 2 for $10, 3 for $20, and 4 for $50. The braille flattens in no time at all and is virtually useless unless you have a new crisp bill. HTH, Everett On 24-Mar-09, at 5:45 PM, Greg Kearney wrote: I don't think this requires a technological solution. Australia has currency that is both accessible, nearly indestructible short of burning, and has never been counterfeited. Here is how theirs work: Each bill is a different color and a different length. The bills are $5, $10, $20 and $100 the $1 and $2 are coins. Blind Citizens of Australia makes a give away a small plastic device that you place any bill into and then fold the bill over the top. The device has marking to indicate the bills value based on how long the bill is. The bills themselves are made from a plastic material that can be wash, folded and can not be torn. Each bill has a little clear window in it which is a different shape and texture so even if you don't have one of the BCA devices you could still tell the bills apart by touch. Persons with color perception can just use the different colors of the bills. It's simple efective and secure. Greg Kearney 535 S. Jackson St. Casper, Wyoming 82601 307-224-4022 gkear...@gmail.com On Mar 24, 2009, at 12:12 PM, Jessi Rathwell wrote: dude, I went to that presentation too!!! very, very interesting!!! I can't wait til this becomes available! On 24-Mar-09, at 11:06 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: Well, since we're already somewhat off topic, one of the most amazing presentations I went to at CSUN was a product called SeeScan from a company called iVisit. It uses a camera image to do object recognition based on pictures. In the demo they laid out a bunch of stuff such as cereal boxes, CDs, US currency and all they did was aim the camera to have it read off what it was. They ran it on some small computer about the size of an old-school walkman tape player about 1x5x7 and a USB camera. It apparently can handle differing angles, orientations and lighting automatically and completes the acquisition and recognition about 4 times a second. So pretty much as soon as they aimed it at a $5 bill it started saying five dollar bill over and over until they aimed it at something else. It can even handle partially obscured objects such as a credit card that is partly under a piece of paper. They tested it with 10 blind users and had 100% success identifying objects. I asked them about scalability since I might want to have a whole grocery store worth of objects loaded up. They said it can handle about 10,000 images in a single database. You can swap out databases and each image takes about 10K after processing (100MB for 10,000 objects). They are hoping there will be online community swaps of databases so you can share what you've already stored. It can 'learn' a new object in about 4 seconds. You just aim it at the object and hit the learn button and then associate some text with the object. The work is being done as part of a grant from the US Veterans Admin (I think) so they said once it's out of the lab it should be cheap because the research costs don't have to be recouped by the manufacturer. They also have a client/server version working with a cell phone camera and a remote processing server. Sorry for the off-topic but this was pretty incredible and it seemed few people came to their presentation. CB alena.roberts2...@gmail.com wrote: I am taking a poll on my blog on how to make U.S. paper currency accessible to the blind. In September of last year, a judge ordered the treasury to make the money accessible. As far as I know, there has been no plans to actually change our money. Please visit my blog and vote. The poll will be open until the middle of next month. I plan to blog about the results and send them to national blindness organizations and the treasury department. I think that they need to know what the blind community needs before they make any changes. http://blind-gal.blogspot.com Alena --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Mozilla taking first step in Firefox Accessibility
Good morning, Marco Zehe has posted on his blog at http://www.marcozehe.de/ that the first step in Firefox accessibility for the Mac has been taken this week. I'm sure that the journey will be a long one, but it is good to know that efforts are being made to make Firefox accessible to Mac users of assistive technology. Great and exciting work by Mozilla. Everett --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Mozilla taking first step in Firefox Accessibility
Good morning, I suspect a beta version of Firefox that supports Mac accessibility is a while off. But, Mozilla has definitely made Mac Firefox accessibility a priority and are beginning the work necessary. Everett On 23-Mar-09, at 4:31 AM, Søren Jensen wrote: Awesome. Has this beta version ben released yet? Best regards Søren Jensen Mail MSN: s...@coolfortheblind.dk Website: http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ On 23/03/2009, at 08.20, E.J. Zufelt wrote: Good morning, Marco Zehe has posted on his blog at http://www.marcozehe.de/ that the first step in Firefox accessibility for the Mac has been taken this week. I'm sure that the journey will be a long one, but it is good to know that efforts are being made to make Firefox accessible to Mac users of assistive technology. Great and exciting work by Mozilla. Everett --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Multiple selections in Safari
Good evening, I'm using OS X 10.5.6 and Safari 4beta. Is there a way to select multiple items in a multi-select combo box on a web-site and if so, can someone please give me the keystrokes required? Thanks, Everett --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Update on Fwd: Firefox and Voiceover
Good morning, Please see the message below for an update on Firefox accessibility with Voiceover. Everett Begin forwarded message: From: Marco Zehe Date: March 6, 2009 10:32:00 AM AST To: E.J. Zufelt ever...@zufelt.ca Subject: Re: Firefox and Voiceover Hi Everett! VoiceOver support is our biggest action item for this year. Before we can get to that, we have to do some last-minute work for ARIA 1.0 compliance, though. I expect serious work for this to start shortly after CSUN, which will roughly put it at the beginning of April. I suggest to watch my blog. When we start the effort, I will call out for volunteers to help test this in my weekly accessibility update or in a separate article, and I will also post to mozilla.dev.accessibility about this. Marco On 06.03.2009 15:28, E.J. Zufelt wrote: Good morning Marcos, I am wondering if you know what the current status of Firefox accessibility in OS X is. I mean, I know that it is not currently accessible with Voiceover, but is there any work currently going on, or any work planned, to resolve the problems? Is there any way in which I could contribute to the Apple / Firefox accessibility effort? Thanks, Everett --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: jaws in a vm
Good afternoon, Try setting JAWS to use the Insert key instead of the Cas lock key and then mapping a key to be insert. 1. Under Configuration Manager for the Default configuration set JAWS key to Insert 2. Using sharpkeys set a key on your keyboard to emulate the insert key (I chose right shift). HTH, Everett On 6-Mar-09, at 12:42 PM, Maurice Mines wrote: Sharp keys is not working in a VM. I am using jaws ten in a 32bit version of windows 7 beta, running in vm ware off of a 13in mac book with a 2.4g dual processor and 2 gig of ram devoted to the vm but the mac book it self has 4 gig of ram. My vm is 75 gigs. I tried first remapping the caps lock to the fn key and failed, then tried to map caps lock to the left alt and also failed. Does anyone have any suggestions on how i can get this to work? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: jaws in a vm
Good afternoon, Open the File menu and make sure that you have the Default configuration selected. Open the Set Options menu and then select Keyboard Options. HTH, Everett On 6-Mar-09, at 12:51 PM, Maurice Mines wrote: E.J. once you go into the configuration manager where do you go from there to set the insert key default configuration? On Mar 6, 2009, at 9:44 AM, E.J. Zufelt wrote: Good afternoon, Try setting JAWS to use the Insert key instead of the Cas lock key and then mapping a key to be insert. 1. Under Configuration Manager for the Default configuration set JAWS key to Insert 2. Using sharpkeys set a key on your keyboard to emulate the insert key (I chose right shift). HTH, Everett On 6-Mar-09, at 12:42 PM, Maurice Mines wrote: Sharp keys is not working in a VM. I am using jaws ten in a 32bit version of windows 7 beta, running in vm ware off of a 13in mac book with a 2.4g dual processor and 2 gig of ram devoted to the vm but the mac book it self has 4 gig of ram. My vm is 75 gigs. I tried first remapping the caps lock to the fn key and failed, then tried to map caps lock to the left alt and also failed. Does anyone have any suggestions on how i can get this to work? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Safari 4b3 not reading linked text
Good afternoon, I wish they would change it back as well. I like to trust the text that appears on screen more than the title attribute as most people use this incorrectly to perform a tooltip function for supporting browsers. This normally means that the title attribute contains supplemental information, not an accurate / accessible description of the link. Everett On 5-Mar-09, at 2:24 PM, Jacob Schmude wrote: Seeing as how Safari 4 uses the new Webkit builds, it is going to read the same way webkit does. For whatever reason, and I'm unsure why, the Webkit developers have chosen to priorities title attributes over link text. You can still get the link text with vo+l on the link, but I wish they'd change it back. I'm wondering if they're changing the way information is exposed in preparation for a future voiceover update in 10.6 perhaps, or a similar reason. On Mar 5, 2009, at 13:20, E.J. Zufelt wrote: Good afternoon, Can anyone confirm that Safari 4beta is not reading linked text on web pages when a title attribute is available for the link? An example is the list of links under Recent Articles on http://business.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090305.wCAWtalks0305/BNStory/Business/home?cid=al_gam_mostview Thanks, Everett The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair. --Douglas Adams --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Safari 4b3 not reading linked text
Good afternoon David, Out of curiousity, did you go from Safari 3 to Safari 4 or from a recent Webkit build to Safari 4? This might explain you not seeing a difference. Or, it could be that the sites you visit don't use the title attribute for linked text. Thanks, Everett On 5-Mar-09, at 2:37 PM, David Poehlman wrote: ah, well, on sites I have visitted that I know, I've not sen this issue come up but in most other respects, beta 4 is a happy experience. On Mar 5, 2009, at 1:33 PM, E.J. Zufelt wrote: Good afternoon David, I know that thi is happening on my system because I am familiar with the site and because I checked the source for the page. I was just wondering if this might just be a problem for me, or if this is the new Safari behaviour for everyone. Thanks, Everett On 5-Mar-09, at 2:30 PM, David Poehlman wrote: how are we to know? On Mar 5, 2009, at 1:20 PM, E.J. Zufelt wrote: Good afternoon, Can anyone confirm that Safari 4beta is not reading linked text on web pages when a title attribute is available for the link? An example is the list of links under Recent Articles on http://business.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090305.wCAWtalks0305/BNStory/Business/home?cid=al_gam_mostview Thanks, Everett --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
