Re: [AI] Dining Experience in the dark

2014-01-14 Thread Doris and Chris
Amen! Doris At 04:13 PM 2014/01/14 +0530, you wrote: Hey, that was a good experience your friend had but I have a message I would like you to convey to him/her. Sometimes, these experiences make sighted people display sympathy towards the visually challenged which is something unendurable for

Re: [AI] urgently in need of gw connect

2013-11-27 Thread Doris and Chris
it is freely downloadable from gw micro's website. hth Doris At 02:31 PM 11/27/2013 +0530, you wrote: hai friends, if anybody is having gw connect latest version or atleast above 2.0, please give it to me. I'm badly in need of it. Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing

Re: [AI] Feeling verry sad. Friends, please read my mail, and reply back.

2013-11-23 Thread Doris and Chris
More t than 15 years ago when I had sight still, a monitor my husband and I bought gave out a poof! and little clouds of smoke when we first connected it The voltage here is very stable and I do not think there was anything wrong except that the monitor must have been defective. We tried to

Re: [AI] (AI) Help required to convert ebooks from epub to word or other convenient formats

2013-10-27 Thread Doris and Chris
Use Calibre either from the command line or in conmbination with the ebook convert gui frontend. hth Doris At 01:39 AM 10/28/2013 +0530, you wrote: Dear all, As the subject line reads, I have some ebooks in epub, html, mobi formats. I am not in a position to access them freely or to convert

Re: [AI] required jaws skripts for skype 6.9

2013-10-22 Thread Doris and Chris
the updated version? On 10/22/13, Doris and Chris chipmu...@gmx.net wrote: Is skype 7.0 in beta still? I am subscribed to the skype garage blog but have not received notice of there being a new major update to skype. Thanks much. Doris At 08:30 AM 10/22/2013 +0530, you wrote: Here is the link

Re: [AI] required jaws skripts for skype 6.9

2013-10-21 Thread Doris and Chris
Is skype 7.0 in beta still? I am subscribed to the skype garage blog but have not received notice of there being a new major update to skype. Thanks much. Doris At 08:30 AM 10/22/2013 +0530, you wrote: Here is the link for jaws latest script for skype 6.9. I'm using and it's accessible for

[AI] skype.exe of skype 7.0 Anyone?

2013-10-21 Thread Doris and Chris
Can anyone please share the skype.exe (program executable) of the current skype 7.0 beta? Since hearing it can be used without scripts, I would like to try it out portably but the program executable doesn't extract. I am on windows xp here and running skype 3.8 for my installed version still.

Re: [AI] strainge problem about uninstallation avast

2013-09-29 Thread Doris and Chris
enable sound in safe mode and then use the Avast Removal tool to remove the remaining parts of Avast. hth Doris At 05:59 AM 9/29/2013 +, you wrote: dear all. recently I removed avast with revo uninstaller. the icons have been disappeared from desktop, start menu as well as control

Re: [AI] Jaws Script for Skype.

2013-09-28 Thread Doris and Chris
At 04:58 PM 9/28/2013 -1200, you wrote: Dear Friends, I need latest Jaws script for skype. So please send me its link if possible. Thank you. Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on:

Re: [AI] Why Can Some Blind People Process Speech Far Faster Than Sighted Persons?

2013-09-25 Thread Doris and Chris
I am not blind from birth nor a strictly auditory learner but read very quickly with speech, faster than my sighted husband can follow on screen. I found that in my case it was largely a matter of practice in that I wanted to read as fast as I had in my sighted days. Additionally, when I

Re: [AI] Hello friends! Join this new social network site galaxy2go4.com! Specially for visually impaired.

2013-09-13 Thread Doris and Chris
Is this going to be similar to inclusive Planet? I was wondering about that one and hesitant to join a site I did not know anything about Thanks bunches, Doris At 07:23 PM 9/13/2013 +0530, you wrote: hi. Please create your acount there. And navigate to the website features hope you like

[AI] NVDA Tutorial Low bitrate Single File Downloads

2013-08-23 Thread Doris and Chris
Someone the other day said they could not download Joseph's tutorials because of the large file sizes. I converted Joseph's tutorial to 24 kbit as we sed to do in the dialup days. I posted each file separately. the content of these is exactly the same as Joseph's files. Remember that the

Re: [AI] conversion of e book

2013-08-04 Thread Doris and Chris
Use Finereader to do ocr on it. Doris At 12:25 AM 8/5/2013 +0530, you wrote: Dear all, Greetings. I have downloaded a book and it is in djvu format. cant find anything appropriate on the net to convert it into one of our accessible formats. Can anyone help me with it? Also, do any of you

Re: [AI] Blind student learns to read Braille with lips - CNN.com

2013-07-17 Thread Doris and Chris
Page not found error. would have made an intersting read. Doris At 05:19 AM 7/18/2013 +0530, you wrote: Hi all, Some of you may find the story at the below link interesting. http://edition.cnn.com/2013/07/17/world/asia/hong-kong-blind-student-braille -lips Pranav Register at the dedicated

Re: [AI] Fwd: KB scanning using finereader 12

2013-07-08 Thread Doris and Chris
I find that Finereader at the default settings is sufficient for most of my scanning and reading needs. There is no way really of telling you what settings to use. Just experiment and go with what gives the best results. Even the free sprint version that comes with some scanners gives better

Re: [AI] Fwd: KB scanning using finereader 12

2013-07-08 Thread Doris and Chris
I find that Finereader at the default settings is sufficient for most of my scanning and reading needs. There is no way really of telling you what settings to use. Just experiment and go with what gives the best results. Even the free sprint version that comes with some scanners gives better

Re: [AI] Required material for IBM Lotus Symfany with Jaws

2013-06-14 Thread Doris and Chris
Lotus symphony is free and - other than Open/Libra office - does not require the java accessibility bridge. Just download Lotus symphony and you should be good to go using nvda or jaws. hth Doris At 10:01 PM 6/14/2013 +0530, you wrote: Dear friends, Is there any material for IBM Lotus

Re: [AI] urgent, jaws escaping various edit boxes while filling form

2013-03-28 Thread Doris and Chris
It sounds as if the webpage you are trying to work with keeps refreshing itself at certain intervals and hence causes jaws to lose focus. try to set jaws to ignore the page refreshes and see if this helps. you will have to reenable the refreshes to submit your form, though. hth Doris At

Re: [AI] problem with latest version of skype help need arjently!!!!!!!!

2013-03-13 Thread Doris and Chris
Hi, Have you had a look at GW Connect from GW Micro? this is a skype clone that is build with accessibility in mind and gives you the same functionality as skype except for video calling. It will give audio-ads every half hour if you are not either a window eyes user or pay a subscription

Re: [AI] I am unable to resume download on sendspace.com in my mobile.

2013-02-26 Thread Doris and Chris
Hi, Not supporting resumption of interupted downloads is one way sendspace is trying to motivate users to buy a pro account by which the sendspace wizard will be used that can resume downloads.Try the free filehost download manager Mipony from www.mipony.net This will resume sendspace

Re: [AI] REDUCING BIT RATE ON SKYPE

2013-02-24 Thread Doris and Chris
Hi, There is no way i know of to reduce the bandwidth used from within skype itself. However, there are 3rd party programs that allow you to do this indivisually for applications. Look for a program called Netlimiter for windows; if you are using linux, you should be able to configure this

Re: [AI] firefox needed

2013-02-22 Thread Doris and Chris
I have used Firefox with jaws over several years and versions without any issues. I am currently using the Extended Release version of Firefox whose interface and features do not change quite as often as the regular Firefox's and are therefore not as likely to require adaptations made in the

Re: [AI] I want to learn hindi!

2013-02-19 Thread Doris and Chris
Dear friend, are you comfortable enough with the English language to use a Hindi tutorial whose source language is English? The Pimsleur program is very good especially for beginners and offers at least the first level, i.e. the first 30 lessons for Hindi. Since the Pimsleur program can be

Re: [AI] skype

2013-02-04 Thread Doris and Chris
You may alternatively want to consider GW Connect, a skype clone by the makers of Window Eyes. This is made to be accessible and can be gotten from www.gwmicro.com hth Doris At 12:38 PM 2/4/2013 +0530, you wrote: hello friends, i am also getting this probledm. last weak , only i

Re: [AI] skype not being closed by alt f4

2013-01-16 Thread Doris and Chris
This is normal behavior for skype. alt+f4 minimizes skype to the system tray. you shutdown skype from the system tray or can create a command line batch that you can assign a hotkey to. If you are a jaws user, you could get Mr. Doug Lee's scripts for jaws taht have a hotkey to shutdown skype,

Re: [AI] Regarding skype 8.3

2013-01-16 Thread Doris and Chris
There is no skype 8.3. the latest version is 6.0. If you get the jaws scritps for it you should be fine with skype 10. I thik even older versions are support still - and also work without scripts with jaws or other screenreaders. If you are using skype 3.8, I have used that with jaws as

Re: [AI] jaws find command not working

2013-01-12 Thread Doris and Chris
If this is happening to you with the latest build of jaws 14, downgrade to the previous build if you kept the installer. I am not running jaws 14 myself but have heard of strange things happening with the latest build. Cheers, Doris At 12:38 PM 1/13/2013 +0530, you wrote: Hi All:

Re: [AI] jaws 13 64 bit

2013-01-05 Thread Doris and Chris
If you are having problems with the ftp downloads, use the html option on fs's page rather. hth Doris At 01:39 PM 1/5/2013 +0530, you wrote: please send me jaws 13 64bit setup. On 1/4/13, accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in wrote: Send

Re: [AI] Video intersept in jaws.

2012-12-27 Thread Doris and Chris
The videio intercept in jaws is a way jaws getstextual information from the system that the system does not so easily provide by msaa and some other means. jaws sort of slips its video intercept between system and its video driver (for the graphics card) and gets some of that information

Re: [AI] need english guru

2012-11-21 Thread Doris and Chris
I am just catching this by chance. I am not familiar with the program but will see what I can find. For Advanced level English, look at courses and text books for the Cambridge Certificate of Advanced English or the Proficiency exam. A while back, a guy created an email forum for English. it

Re: [AI] Dropbox doesn't have the Public folder

2012-11-04 Thread Doris and Chris
Is there still a limit on public traffic as there was with the public folder? also, I've been to the file sharing site and find the site not very accessible as there are several unlabled fields. thanks much. doris At 09:07 AM 11/5/2012 +0530, you wrote: This will not work. Dropbox has

Re: [AI] no start button in windows 8is a problem?

2012-10-28 Thread Doris and Chris
hi, go to www.ninite.com and pick classic Shell for Windows 8. This free open source add-on, that also worked with win 7, gives you a classic start Menu and a few other classic options. And you should be able to switch between the Classic Shell setup and win 8's native style with a hotkey.

Re: [AI] Type dash in excel cell

2012-10-02 Thread Doris and Chris
Hi, My favorite - and quite self-explanatory - is FS Reader from Freedom Scientific. Originally a commercial product, it now comes free bundled with jaws. You can download and install the jaws demo and it will stay behind even when you uninstal jaws. Amos is another free and open source

Re: [AI] Fwd: WANTED People To Work From Home

2012-06-08 Thread Doris and Chris
Hi, IN general, if an advertising comes with a Yahoo, hotmail or other similar address, it is usually not genuine. I do not know anything about this particular offering but have heard other people going for similar opportunities and ending up getting a lot of spam but no or very little if

Re: [AI] Activating audio in safe mode

2012-05-07 Thread Doris and Chris
Maybe in vista and up. In trusted old xp, the registry hack is needed for doing so. cheers, Doris At 06:01 PM 5/7/2012 +0530, you wrote: I guess audio should work in safe mode by default in the newer moddles of sound cards without modifying the registry?? ☺! - Original Message

Re: [AI] need audio to text converter

2012-02-22 Thread Doris and Chris
OK, if your friend is not blind, then definitely do try window's own speech recognition. an on-screen keyboard will not help as this replaces a physical keyboard attached to the computer and allows you to point and click on the characters to be typed into a document. windows Vista and windows

Re: [AI] need audio to text converter.

2012-02-21 Thread Doris and Chris
Waht you want is voice recognition software such as Dragon Naturally speaking. If Dragon is to be used in combination with a screenreader, some middleware software is required or at least recommended but this is a quite costly combination. While I am still on windows xp myself, I hear that

Re: [AI] is there any way to have sound in safe mode

2012-02-08 Thread Doris and Chris
google for exactly this and you should find relevant information. Your best bet to get sound in safemode is with an usb sound device that uses windows native usb sound drivers. There is a registry hack floating around the net that enables sound in safemode and it works down to windows xp

Re: [AI] can we define the application key with the help of the jaws?

2012-01-25 Thread Doris and Chris
no. you wil need to use the jaws laptop keyboard layout or get yourself an external numpad. These days these usually connect to the usb port. hth Doris At 12:34 AM 1/26/2012 +0530, you wrote: I think you can not set your keypad to give u jaws curser by pressing caps+a and pc curser by

Re: [AI] quraan for the visually impaired

2012-01-25 Thread Doris and Chris
Is an English version available in daisy format? I have an audio copy but daisy would surely make things a bit easier. Thanks much. Doris At 08:30 PM 1/25/2012 -0800, you wrote: you can down load daisy player and the holy quraan with translation and tapseer in daisy format here search

Re: [AI] can we define the application key with the help of the jaws?

2012-01-22 Thread Doris and Chris
Not, to my knowledge, in jaws's keyboard mananger but there are utility programs out there that allow for remapping of the keyboard. A free such utility that I know people have used is called keytweak. I do not have a url for it but Google is your friend as usual. Also, are you aware that

Re: [AI] Skype Scripts

2012-01-07 Thread Doris and Chris
Hi, Actually there are. get the zip archive of the llatest scripts for skype 3.8 from the skype scripts homepage and install and compile manualy. If you want or need skypewatch, you will have to follow the instructions on site to install this manually also or find the skypewatch installer

Re: [AI] Help sought regarding for the people forum

2011-12-20 Thread Doris and Chris
Actually, if the forum is www.-for-the-people.com their chat client is not java based but a browser activated chat client. It does not use java but does require an active x component to be installed. Try making firefox your default browser - I would recommend Firefox 3.6 -and see if it

[AI] Wanted: Jaws Reader program - Interface program o work with JAWS for DOS

2011-11-28 Thread Doris and Chris
HI, I am new on here - I'll send a proper introduction at a later time . I am hoping you guys might be able to help me to find the jaws reader interface program that allows jaws for dos to run in a dos box under windows using software speech. I used to have this program years and years ago

[AI] quick Intro

2011-11-28 Thread Doris and Chris
I have been lurking on this list for a week or two. I came upon a subscription link for this list during a google search. I have seen a few familiar names on here but I am new and want to introduce myself for those whose paths I have not crossed. My name is Doris and my husband Chris and I

Re: [AI] Wanted: Jaws Reader program - Interface program o work with JAWS for DOS

2011-11-28 Thread Doris and Chris
, Please Contact technical support of Freedom Scientific available at, http://www.freedomscientific.com/forms/Contact_Us.asp?ID=TECHNICAL-SUPPORT - Original Message - From: Doris and Chris chipmu...@gmx.net To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 10:25 PM Subject: [AI