Re: 2017 Screen Reader Usage Survey
I've already taken it. It was announced on the Blind Bargains podcast that it was now open. They also said that you have until November 1st to take the survey.
URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=333863#p333863
Re: How do you make your coffee?
@DarkThe design sounds very reminiscent of the old percolaters. They are basically a tall container with a spout on one side that is where you pour the brewed coffee from, just like a piture. In side is a metal tube that's almost as tall as the container.
Re: How do you make your coffee?
What probably made the coffee bitter is either the brand and style they use, or more likely, that hot plate the carafe sits on.Back when I drank more coffee and worked in an office, I always transferred the coffee from the coffee maker's carafe to a vacuum
Re: How do you make your coffee?
Hey, Dark!Since I don't know how much or how little you know about coffee makers, I'll describe how automatic drip coffee makers work so you can compare them to what you use. If you already know this, my apologies for rehashing what you already know.First
Re: How do you make your coffee?
My coffee needs are rather simple. I buy coffee already ground, my parents, however, buy their coffee in bags of beans and grind them just before brewing. I don't know what kind of beans they buy but I buy Folger's Black Silk coffee. After that we both use
Re: has anyone got a link to these series?
I tried the Fox Go app and it was a no go for me. It wanted access to my location and wanted to know my cable provider, and wanted my account credentials for my cable TV service.While I am willing to share some information, such as who my cable TV
Re: has anyone got a link to these series?
[[wow]], I'm surprised. Although I don't watch it myself, I have heard of The Sopranos and know it's quite popular, so I was rather surprised to find that the movie vault didn't have any of it.They don't have any of Parks and Recreation either.
Re: has anyone got a link to these series?
TiVo is a DVR. Like a VCR it allows me to schedule programs to be recorded for later viewing. Unlike a VCR there's no programming, it connects to the TiVo service, which is a program guide. What this does is allow me to schedule programs by title
Re: has anyone got a link to these series?
I knew it wouldn't be in the movie vault, if it shows up there it won't be until the first season is over.I asked because I keep hearing fox advertise "catch up on demand and on these devices" which doesn't help me much since I can't see the
Re: has anyone got a link to these series?
Does anyone know where I can get the first three episodes of The Orville? It's a new series from Fox, I tried their website to stream them but the web site says it can't load the stream player.
URL:
Re: an issue with Windows Explorer and NVDA driving me insane
I have a feeling that this might be a Windows 10 issue rather than an issue with JAWS or NVDA. I'm running 32 gbit Windows 7 Home Premium and have the latest versions of both JAWS and NVDA installed and never experience any
Re: Ultimate Alexa - The Amazon Voice Assistant
There's really not much here that the default Alexa app or any other Alexa enabled device can't do.And what's this bullcrap about Alexa not being able to play music? You can play stations or play lists or individual songs from Amazon Music by
Re: I need a Windows 7 hack that modifies first letter navigation
If you are referring to Winaero Tweaker, you can get it here:http://winaero.com/
URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=331657#p331657
___
Audiogames-reflector
Re: has anyone got a link to these series?
@GrryfindoreWhile you might see nothing wrong with refusing a request that you previously stated you'd honor, I consider such behavior as rude and makes your word worthless because nobody can trust that once given, you'll keep your word.That is
Re: has anyone got a link to these series?
Beavis and Butt-Headnothing availableDarianothing availableBrickelberrynothing availableArchernothing availableBob's Burgers season 1http://www.sendspace.com/file/whfq5uBob's Burgers season 2http://www.sendspace.com/file/ma5s28Bob's Burgers season
Re: Need email advice
@turtlepower17Thank you for that tip about Pop Peeper, have some karma.I had been using GMail Notifier which is mostly accessible, some areas require that I switch to JAWS' touch curser to navigate.Pop Peeper seems to be fully accessible and does one thing GMail
Re: has anyone got a link to these series?
The mall and vault are working just fine for me.
URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=331288#p331288
___
Audiogames-reflector mailing list
Re: any replacement for BTSinc?
Personally, I have no real use for either of them.I did try Resillio Sync as a service and found it just as much of an accessibility problem as it is running from the system tray.The old version of BT Sync that ;is marginally accessible has a number of
Re: any replacement for BTSinc?
Resillio is just a commercial version of the original BT Sync, and is completely inaccessible.Syncthing appears to be a much better option going forward.
URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=331169#p331169
Re: has anyone got a link to these series?
Here you go. I included all the seasons and all the sequels just in case other people are interested in them.The Matrixhttp://www.sendspace.com/file/0zzjfkThe Matrix Reloadedhttp://www.sendspace.com/file/l623z1The Matrix
Re: has anyone got a link to these series?
You can probably thank the advent of digital audio video formats for that rarity. They don't have most of the unfortunate side effects of the old analog standards.
URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=330944#p330944
Re: Need email advice
For being notified of new emails I use GMail Notifier. It's not fully accessible, but the screen for setting up your GMail account is.http://www.gmailnotifier.com/
URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=330921#p330921
Re: has anyone got a link to these series?
Grryfindore, I'm not going to bother, not because I don't believe you, because I don't like sitcoms.It probably has a lot to do with how the original audio was captured. I'm told that some contributors do a much better job of capturing content
Re: has anyone got a link to these series?
On a whim I decided to check four other web pages of movies I have in my collection of favorites, and found one of your requests that the vault didn't have.The Amazing Sppidermanhttp://www.cheeseheadhosting.us./downlo … 0U%20S.mp3@roryI may not
Re: has anyone got a link to these series?
If I know the people at the movie vault, they have the movie, they just need to fix it, which usually takes less than 24 hours after they've been notified of the broken download. So check again tomorrow and you'll more than likely find a URL
Re: has anyone got a link to these series?
Unfortunately, the movie vault didn't have all of your requests, but what they did have are here.G I Joe rise of cobra(download error, URL when fixed)G I Joe
Re: has anyone got a link to these series?
Thank you, but all of the links I provide are from the Blind Mice Movie Vault. If anyone deserves your thanks, they do.
URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=330819#p330819
___
Re: has anyone got a link to these series?
Here is all 10 seasons plus the specials that the movie vault has. I'll leave it up to you where to begin. (big grin)Doctor Who season 01http://www.sendspace.com/file/e21upyDoctor Who season 02http://www.sendspace.com/file/nbxnskDoctor Who season
Re: has anyone got a link to these series?
Doctor Who season 01http://www.sendspace.com/file/e21upyDoctor Who season 02http://www.sendspace.com/file/nbxnskDoctor Who season 03http://www.sendspace.com/file/ttw0ipDoctor Who season 04http://www.sendspace.com/file/gowkpcDoctor Who season 04
Re: Let's talk about apple and what they came out with yesterday.
Yay! It's about time!I tried both facebook and twitter many years ago before I lost my vision and thought that they were a waste of time,so I deactivated both accounts and have never been inclined to reactivate either of
Re: has anyone got a link to these series?
@shrikeI have no idea, there was a thread called the blind mice movie vault mirror where pretty much the same thing was going on but somebody decided to make it a competition about who could post the best links and it died.There have also been
Re: has anyone got a link to these series?
Unfortunately, the only thing available from Star Trek The Next Generation is a random assortment of episodes on this web page:http://www.cheeseheadhosting.us./downlo … he%20BlindUnfortunately they are listed by episode and not all together in a
Re: has anyone got a link to these series?
Unfortunately, the only thing available from ST:TNG is a random assortment of episodes on one of these web pages:http://www.cheeseheadhosting.us./downlo … he%20Blindhttp://jeff.tdrealms.com/index.php?page … bed_MoviesUnfortunately they are listed
Re: Let's talk about apple and what they came out with yesterday.
Especially the iPhone X, there is no way in hell I'm going to pay $1,000 for a phone regardless of whether I buy it outright or over a two or more year period. The most I've ever paid for a phone was $500 and even then I
Re: Partition recovery tool?
First rule of computers:If its important, make a copy; if it's really important, make several copies!
URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=330613#p330613
___
Audiogames-reflector mailing list
Re: has anyone got a link to these series?
This is all the movie vault had.Dirty Harryhttp://www.sendspace.com/file/0aor2hThe Enforcerhttp://www.sendspace.com/file/mh2sasIn the Line of Firehttp://www.sendspace.com/file/zfdg3pRoboCop (2014)http://www.sendspace.com/file/bcgzuaRoboCop 2
Re: has anyone got a link to these series?
You are right, there are 24 movies in the official James Bond series, and a couple more from somebody else that I ignore since they aren't part of the official James Bond movie series.James Bond 01: Dr. No
Re: Let's talk about apple and what they came out with yesterday.
I don't know about anyone else but even if I was an Apple fan, I found nothing in Apple's new offerings that had a feature I couldn't live without. Over all they were all rather underwhelming if you ask me.My iPhone SE works
Re: has anyone got a link to these series?
You are right, there are 24 movies in the official James Bond series, and a couple more from somebody else that I ignore since they aren't part of the official James Bond movie series.James Bond 01: Dr. No
Re: has anyone got a link to these series?
You are right, there are about 22 movies in the official James Bond series, and one from somebody else that I ignore since it isn't an official James Bond movie.I will add the list of all the official James Bond movies to this post once it is
Re: has anyone got a link to these series?
You're welcome, and thanks for the thumbs up.Cops isn't audio described so the Movie Vault doesn't have them, and while they did have several TMNT movies, they were all from later than 2010, not the one's from the 80s you were requesting.There's
Re: has anyone got a link to these series?
You don't want much, do you.Hellboyhttp://www.sendspace.com/file/k17ms4Hellboy 2: The Golden Armyhttp://www.sendspace.com/file/xqvc8yBatmanhttp://www.sendspace.com/file/u0nu82Batman: The Dark Knight Riseshttp://www.sendspace.com/file/4vfo3mBatman
Re: The Access Stick - Get Accessible On The Fly, Everywhere On Every PC
If I need an accessibility stick, I'll just create a portable version of NVDA, that way I can put the tools I know I need, rather than the tools you think I need, on it.
URL:
Re: Let's talk about apple and what they came out with yesterday.
I don't plan to do anything, I have an iPhone 5 SE and that is already farther into the Apple econoverse than I ever wanted to be.
URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=329881#p329881
Re: Jaws eloquence crash strings
Say whatever you like, I don't care, because after this message, I'm just going to ignore this thread.
URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=329081#p329081
___
Audiogames-reflector mailing list
Re: Jaws eloquence crash strings
Whoa! This thread has turned into a full blown JAWS versus NVDA flame war.While I agree with Jimmy Dub that I will never give up JAWS, I strongly don't agree with his assessment of NVDA.Jimmy is doing the one thing that annoys me the most about NVDA users,
Re: movie vault mirror
Unfortunately, the Blinkd Mice Movie Vault doesn't have Shameless.
URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=329005#p329005
___
Audiogames-reflector mailing list
Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com
Accessible hurricane tracker?
Because I live on the gulf coast of Florida I am interested in keeping track of hurricanes, where they are and where they are going. Most hurricane tracking reports are useless unless you are a geography whiz or have an appropriate accessible map handy. To me,
Re: Lyrebird, Create your own text to speech voice with as little as a min
Other than just being a gimmick, it doesn't sound all that useful to me.Now if it could take my voice and create a TTS voice that I could use in JAWS or SAPI. That I'd consider useful and worth paying for.
URL:
Re: Jaws eloquence crash strings
@afrimYou can OCR a PDF made of scanned images of text now, you don't have to wait for version 2018. Just load the PDF into Adobe Reader, then press Inser + Space to get into layered mode, then press O to go into the OCR layer, then press D for document,
Re: Jaws eloquence crash strings
LOL! Windows + B doesn't take you straight to the system tray, it takes you to the task bar, and depending on the number of programs you have running you might have to hit the Tab key a number of times to get to the system tray, while Insert + F11 takes you
Re: Jaws eloquence crash strings
JAWS go away? That will never happen. Unlike Apple, Microsoft doesn't mind if third parties compete with them. Ever wonder why there aren't any screen readers for the Mac or iOS besides Voice Over? It's not because everybody thinks Voice Over is great, No
Re: Jaws eloquence crash strings
I never said it was, it just that NVDA allows you to set the inflection level and JAWS does not.Since much of JAWS is written in their scripting language, it wouldn't surprise me to find the inflection setting in one of the scripts that deal with the TTS
Re: Jaws eloquence crash strings
Petition or not, I don't see either one happening any time soon, so there you go.
URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=328265#p328265
___
Audiogames-reflector mailing list
Re: Monthly chat September 2017
@k_jonesIf you think this would be better off in it's own thread in another part of the forum, I can always copy my message and use it to start a thread.
URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=328227#p328227
Re: Monthly chat September 2017
Audiogames.net appears to be loosing its focus, if it ever had one.I had always thought that this sight was supposed to be about games that are accessible to the blind or visually impaired, but lately I've seen lots of threads hear about how to play games
Re: Jaws eloquence crash strings
To get built in OCR capabilities, with NVDA you either have to get some third party OCR package, or use the latest version of Windows 10 so that NVDA can use the built in OCR that Microsoft recently added. On the other hand JAWS has had built in OCR
Re: Blind Mice Movie Vault: Game Of Thrones
If what you say is true, why then dose he make it a point to mention that his links are faster than the links I provided.And no, I'm not angry, but if my contribution is going to be ignored, then why leave it up?
URL:
Re: Blind Mice Movie Vault: Game Of Thrones
Here you go:http://www.sendspace.com/file/vr0qwvhttp://www.sendspace.com/file/66f1x2http://www.sendspace.com/file/btsf0mhttps://www.sendspace.com/file/jcdsszhttps://www.sendspace.com/file/vyhe9whttps://www.sendspace.com/file/7sn4jrAs before,
Re: somebody doesn't like Donald Trump
I take George Carlin's view of the whole thing regarding how we feel about politicians.Before you put down a Politician because of what they think, say, or do, remember where they came from. Just like the rest of us, they are fathers and mothers and
Re: Fixing a cane? Help!!!
Knock on wood, so far I've never lost the elastic cord down the cane while replacing the tip.
URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=326993#p326993
___
Audiogames-reflector mailing list
Re: Fixing a cane? Help!!!
The way I'd do it is remove enough sections of the cane to expose the elastic cord. Then attach a piece of wire hanger bent into a hook that fis inside the cane sections to the elastic cord. Be sure your wire hook is longer than the cane sections. Now using the
Re: What methads do you use for cooking and cutting food?
I'll second chris's thought about learning to use the range. Thinking I would need it for cooking, I bought one of those talking infrared thermometers, but then wound up doing 99% of my cooking with a microwave, toaster oven, and a
Re: What methads do you use for cooking and cutting food?
For cooking, I use the microwave most of the time, and a toaster oven for the rest, with a few exceptions.For steaks, I use a George Foreman grill, since I live alone, I have one that a 6 inch boneless rib eye fits on nicely. If you
Re: has anyone got a link to these series?
Game of Thrones, season 7https://www.sendspace.com/file/qlyjxuFamily
Re: Accessible anti virus programs
Good for you. From experience, before I lost my vision and things were a bit easier, both McAfee and Norton anti viruses were harder to get rid of that the viruses they are supposed to protect you from.In my opinion both were the the birth of ransomware.
Re: A weather app like never before.
Although this isn't the answer you are looking for, I just felt that I needed to touch on one aspect of weather you missed. Besides the weather maps with pressures and fronts on them, the one thing I miss is being able to look at radar to determine if
Re: somebody doesn't like Donald Trump
@assault_freakThanks for telling me my mistake, I went back and edited the messege. In my own defense though, the names are so similar it's easy to confuse them.@crashmasterYou are also in the southern hemisphere. I suspect that if there ever were a
Re: somebody doesn't like Donald Trump
I found all the reasons why I wouldn't want that job when I saw how much presidents age while in office.No matter how ready they thought they were or how thick skinned they were, for every term (4 years) in office, physically they all appeared to age
Re: somebody doesn't like Donald Trump
It's possible that Trump sees North Korea as a bully, and most bullies are really cowards. As soon as their victims begin to stand up against them it turns out they aren't prepared to engage in a real fight, so they back down and go looking for easier
Re: somebody doesn't like Donald Trump
Good point, burak, the CIA and Trump haven't been on the best of terms since before the election.
URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=326480#p326480
___
Audiogames-reflector mailing list
Re: Creating grafics?
What would be nice is if you could create those graphics by simply type some characters. would produce a smiley would produce a big smile would produce a sad faceand so on.
URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=326421#p326421
Re: somebody doesn't like Donald Trump
I'm not certain that Trump being our president has anything to do with what ever North Korea does, Kim Jong Il will do whatever he wants to do regardless of who is president of who, or what ever they might say. He is just plain nutty enough to use a
Re: somebody doesn't like Donald Trump
On one hand, I agree that Trump has the constitutional right to say what he wants and no one has the right to attempt to limit his right in any way. That is what we call freedom of speech and freedom of the press.On the other hand, free speech or
Re: Is there an app like this?
I believe there is, it's called "SayPad". And I happen to have it.You can download it here:https://www.sendspace.com/file/c8i1ek
URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=326336#p326336
___
Re: Accessible anti virus programs
And even if they never stop sending it definition updates, some of thos updates might require the engine in newer versions of the program to be truly effective.Otherwise, other than fixing bugs and adding features, the detection engine would never need
Re: somebody doesn't like Donald Trump
I do recall that the person behind this is a woman.Realisticly, I think it would take way more than a Billion to gain enough control of Twitter to do what she wants. LOL!
URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=326241#p326241
Re: Accessible anti virus programs
Sheesh! You'd think by being visually impaired, this wouldn't be a problem, but you loose so much communicating this way versus face to face or even by telephone.
URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=326238#p326238
Re: Accessible anti virus programs
Maybe not, but regardless of what he meant, he was responding to one of my previous messeges, so the assumption seems pretty clear.@Dark, if I am wrong, my apologies.
URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=326204#p326204
somebody doesn't like Donald Trump
I heard on the news that somebody, sorry I don't remember who, started a go fund me campaign to raise enough money to buy enough controlling interest in twitter to ban Trump's account. The report said they were up to $30,000 of the $1,000,000,000 they are
Re: Accessible anti virus programs
You do know what you get when you assume?I don't use NVDA, so whether or not there are Malware Bytes add ins for it, would be of very little use or value to me.So do as I do and don't assume that anyone uses any particular screen reader.
URL:
Re: Accessible anti virus programs
As far as I know, to get anything like accessibility out of Malware Bytes you have to use some pretty old versions. That was another reason why I quit using it.
URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=326140#p326140
Re: Golden Cloud!
Nothing specific against this service, but I am staying with Sendspace, everything that needs to be is accessible, they are reasonably priced, having a pro account gives me high speed access to the Blind Mice Movie Vault, and they've never given me a reason to look
Re: Accessible anti virus programs
Maybe I've been lucky, or maybe it's because I still have all the Get Windows 10 from the free upgrade days disabled.Even though the free upgrade is over except for users of assistive technology, I saw no reason to enable them since I still don't want
Re: Accessible anti virus programs
Well, I am still running Windows 7 and get no error messeges like that from Windows Update.I quit using Malware byte because it was always a pain in the tail to navigate through.
URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=325904#p325904
Re: Accessible anti virus programs
If you are not using Windows 10, Windows Defender is just an anti malware program, to get anti virus protection you need to upgrade Windows Defender to Microsoft Security Essentials.You can get it here:https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/hel …
Re: OrCam MyEye?
The name is familiar, perhaps I heard it in a podcast a long time ago. I forget what it was, but do remember that as soon as I heard what it was, I deleted the podcast out of lack of interest.
URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=325758#p325758
Re: Why I left Linux and Android
Oh boy! Here we go again, yet another pointless Apple is better than everybody else thread.Why don't you Apple fan boys take it over to AppleVis? They'll love you over there.I almost got kicked off of there because I wanted to discuss an Apple product, but
Re: Accessible anti virus programs
Oh [[wow]]! A firewall? Amazing!Wait, oh yeah, Windows has one that works quite well built right in.
URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=325408#p325408
___
Audiogames-reflector mailing list
Re: Google capchas
I have tinnitus in my right ear so any kind of screwing with the sound gives me a ton of trouble. That's why I don't even bother with audio captchas and just use Captcha Be Gone on the graphic one.
URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=325194#p325194
Re: Accessible anti virus programs
I use Microsoft Security Essentials, also known as Windows Defender if you're running Windows 10, because so far it's the only fully accessible anti virus I've been able to find. That it is free isn't such a bad thing either!
URL:
Re: Google capchas
What I find more irritating than that he's ignoring his other projects that could use updates, I have yet to receive a reply from him to any of the emails I sent requesting technical assistance with QRead.Based on that alone, if there was another viable captcha solver
Re: Has anyone ever heard of these guys?
I haven't gone there, so ask daigonite what's so shady about it.
URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=324983#p324983
___
Audiogames-reflector mailing list
Re: Has anyone ever heard of these guys?
Either that or they are just starting up and don't have a portfolio yet. Still, not responding isn't a good sign.I'm having a similar problem with Blind Bargains. I posted a classified ad, paid their $5 fee, the ad was approved, it shows up on my ad
Re: Has anyone ever heard of these guys?
Nope, never heard of them until this thread, and because you said their site seemed shady, I'm not going to visit it either.
URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=324944#p324944
___
Re: Google capchas
While just playing around I wrote a text captcha in Pure Basic that generates random math problems like What is three times six. If you use your arrow keys you'll notice that there are no numbers in the text of the math question. The captcha asks that you answer in words
Re: Google capchas
While just playing around I wrote a text captcha in Pure Basic that generates random math problems like What is three times six. If you use your arrow keys you'll notice that there are no numbers in the text of the math question. The captcha asks that you answer in words
Re: Your Very Forum Post
I don't know how many they have left, but I just bought one for just pennies under 40 US dollars.
URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=324684#p324684
___
Audiogames-reflector mailing list
Re: movie vault mirror
@sebbyIf you don't get your movies and shows in time and st.mc's mirror doesn't have their links, give me a shout and I'll get the download links for you.And for what it's worth, Lee the administrator of the Vault agrees with me regarding the deleting of accounts
Re: Google capchas
I realized that after writing that message, duh. In that case, the best captcha is no captcha at all.The original idea of a captcha was to create a test that only a human could solve, but as technology improves, there will, and has, come a time when the captcha test can
501 - 600 of 784 matches
Mail list logo
