Re: Help me recover from a scam so I can buy a PS5
Absolutely, they will. I know. It's called solidarity. Thought my country was not all that stellar in many ways, but perhaps there is at least one way in which it is.If you thought of putting up a campaign just because "I'd love to get a
Re: Help me recover from a scam so I can buy a PS5
Absolutely, they will. I know. It's called solidarity. Thought my country was not all that stellar in many ways, but perhaps there is at least one way in which it is.If you thought of putting up a campaign just because "I'd love to get a
Re: Help me recover from a scam so I can buy a PS5
At post 18: Even though I am the first to acknowledge that the campaign was totally bold and daring and unprecendented and whatnot, your post was also uncalled for, unnecessarily confrontational, and above all absolutely not true. I don't
Re: Help me recover from a scam so I can buy a PS5
Hi all,thanks for all your posts so far, and especially thanks to those who do not sympathize for expressing this fact in a civil way. I can definitely understand where you are coming from.1. I didn't think of the .online TLD possibly
Help me recover from a scam so I can buy a PS5
Hi all,I know this is really out of the blue but I would like to ask everyone to please check the following fundraiser page if you can. All the details are explained there. I am not asking for fellow blind gamers to donate to my cause, that
Re: I feel I am ready to publish my poems, but I need some help first
Thanks a lot. Yeah, I have actually considered that quite a bit, the only thing that seems daunting to me at the moment is finding, and learning to use, a decent software to produce the ebook with. Although I'm on a
Re: I feel I am ready to publish my poems, but I need some help first
I Don't Want to Love YouIt was one hell of a dance,Anger leads to acceptance.Strong and sweet and painful, too,the story of me and you.Same person and not a chance,it is hard to stay as friends.I got less but wanted
I feel I am ready to publish my poems, but I need some help first
Hi all,this is an unusual favor I'd like to ask you for, I know. But of course, nobody is obliged to do anything about this if they don't want to. The thing is that I am about to start reaching out to a couple publishers in
Re: I feel I am ready to publish my poems, but I need some help first
Stood My GroundIt all started in a snap,She laid me a nasty trap.Didn't ask for what I found,Hurt like hell but stood my ground.She forced me her desperate hand,My world shattered into sand.I was speechless, I was
Re: iOS 14 after two days. My thoughts and things I've noticed
I think the active call window is actually still supposed to take up the entire screen. You can always just move out of it with the home button or gesture and do other things. The idea was to redesign the incoming call
Re: question about playstation 4
Yeah, that's actually a cool and useful tip. Good to know about the additional capabilities of the app as well. Thanks.Lukas
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Re: question about playstation 4
Unfortunately, the TTS on the PS 4 only works if you have your language set to English (US). Not only that, but it only works in a few parts of the base UI, and the whole Store is one of the places where it doesn't work at all, so you have to purchase
Re: Seriously considering getting a PS4 just because of The Last of Us 2
All right, folks, got the game to my brother's account! Man, I can't wait until I am able to come over to his place and try it out for myself! I also got him the original The Last of Us remastered for the PS 4, so
Re: Seriously considering getting a PS4 just because of The Last of Us 2
Okay, everyone, thanks for the tips, especially Jessie's video. Man, I had no idea there were that many parts of the UI where the TTS didn't actually work. Thought it was just a matter of the store, which is
Seriously considering getting a PS4 just because of The Last of Us 2
Hi folks,firstly, I'm not sure if this topic is better suited for the off-topic or the general discussion room, so I'm sorry if this is the wrong one, and anyone with the power to do so, feel free to move it if that is
Re: Help needed with my research
Hi everyone,I've started receiving answers (already got two sets) to the survey even though noone has answered here yet. I would like to thank everyone a great deal, and I appreciate the constructive feedback about the survey I received in its final
Help needed with my research
Dear community,I would very much appreciate your help by filling out the Google form the link to which can be found below.https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIp … sp=sf_linkLet me also directly paste the form description as it best describes its purpose and
Re: Any fello transgender people on here?
Yeah, I noticed many people tend to write the way they would speak in person. In these cases, you can afford even sarcastic jokes or whatever as it's much more apparent, from the tone of your voice, your facial _expression_ if one can see that and
Re: What's up with the Coronavirus?
I rather believe factual, checked news than hysterical kids on Facebook or conspiracy theories.Yeah, a pal of a pal of a pal of mine said that on FB. It's gota be truth cus pal said on FB, ya know, cus nobody bother check news, that's boring stuff
Re: Any fello transgender people on here?
Who forces you to be trans, date a trans or live with a trans yourself?And I'm Czech, by the way. Citizenship is not a reason to be or not to be civilized. That's like the nature or nurture debate.Lukas
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Re: For what to live?
Such clear signs usually manifest themselves only after the disorder has been developing quietly for a longer time. I'm not saying it does have to be schizophrenia specifically, just that it sounded quite a lot like it. It can be anything else. If you felt pressure on
Re: For what to live?
Such clear signs usually manifest themselves only after the disorder has been developing quietly for a longer time. I'm not saying it does have to be schizophrenia specifically, just that it sounded quite a lot like it. It can be anything else. If you felt pressure on
Re: Any fello transgender people on here?
Deathstar, can I ask where you live?Lord Lundin, do you know the best way to cause a blinkie claustrophobia? Simple, put their cane in a bucket. Muahahahaha, isn't that so very funny to an average Joe? Maybe even to yourself, cause I myself did it
Re: For what to live?
Wing of Eternity, sorry to say this but this sounds like a very high probability of schizophrenia, dude. My brother is schizophrenic, fortunately is being treated by the human institutions that just want to control the crowd or whatever, and your description and other
Re: What's the Story Behind your Forum Username
Well, I was born with this name. :-D In Czech, it just has two diacritical characters that most people wouldn't know how to read or pronounce anyway, so I omit them.I used to go by stupid nicks like Blindgamer or Neo way back. Now that I've
Re: For what to live?
@30: True, I do agree with that. However, I think that might be the very point of our existence in the long run. I'm not the universe or the architect of the universe to count or prove this reliably, but maybe mankind as a whole just leads to more entropy and chaos
Re: For what to live?
Oh yeah, I think I can say I found a purpose. To spend my time procrastinating here on the forum. :-DSeriously though, I do a lot of that recently, but that's just really a way to pass the time with relatively little effort. That's the thing that's getting me worried
Re: For what to live?
I'm not sure we're that low entropy, though. Whenever we take a single step, we leave thousands of dead cells and bacteria behind. Whenever we use the toilet, we leave tons of waste behind that can decompose and decay down in the sewers and further beyond. Whenever we
Re: For what to live?
As for why the human race exists, I actually believe in the ancient astronauts theory and the many things that seem to prove it pretty solidly, although they are being denied or discarded by many mainstream scientists. Just look up the theory or the series called
Re: Any fello transgender people on here?
At post 46, exactly my thoughts! I agree with every single word of that, being another non-trans. I would just like to add that the loud mouths problem is very apparent in all communities I've encountered so far, including the blind, other
Re: For what to live?
As for why the human race exists, I actually believe in the ancient astronauts theory and the many things that seem to prove it pretty solidly, although they are being denied or discarded by many mainstream scientists. Just look up the theory or the series called
Re: Any fello transgender people on here?
All right, I do have to admit being gender-fluid or bigender is much more difficult to imagine for me than simply being MTF or FTM, maybe partly because I've never heard of these states before. But yeah, even though this makes me slightly
Re: Any fello transgender people on here?
At post 23 and everyone: I'm not trans myself, I do identify as a perfectly happy male, nor do I know anyone who is trans in person, but this attitude saddens me.I was born totally blind and there is no way for the current science to fix my
Re: Any fello transgender people on here?
Sure, absolutely. I just thought comparing a soul trapped in a wrong body to a medical condition would be a more understandable example at several levels.Lukas
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Re: Any fello transgender people on here?
Daigonite, looks like we were thinking along similar lines. :-)Lukas
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Re: Any fello transgender people on here?
At post 23 and everyone: I'm not trans myself, I do identify as a perfectly happy male, nor do I know anyone who is trans in person, but this attitude saddens me.I was born totally blind and there is no way for the current science to fix my
Re: should i dare the windows 10 upgrade using media creation tool
The automatic update always has a greater chance of errors due to corrupted files etc. Not that it happens very often, but the media creation tool is more likely to succeed. Plus, in case the upgrade fails, you won't have
Re: Behind the Curve on iPhone and Seeking Experience
As far as I understand it, even if you put the phone in recovery mode and connect it to iTunes, you still need to enter your Apple ID password and whatnot to proceed. There should be no way to wipe it without these credentials as far as
Re: Behind the Curve on iPhone and Seeking Experience
Exactly, posts 18 and 19 nailed it. I also think blind people are exagerating this possibility way too much. The thief would still have to know how to turn VO off and turn brightness back to a visible level, essentially doing this all
Question on the accessibility of a combined washer and drier
Hi all,sorry to be bothering with this question here but unfortunately several local discussion sites and eshops themselves yielded no response at all so far.I've been strongly considering the AEG L9WBC61B washer drier. I had
Re: How accurate are espeaks languages and dialects?
Czech is quite good. Of course, Espeak is always going to be robotic, but that's one of its main points, I would say, to be lightweight, fast as hell and more responsive than any other synthesizer. Some phonemes, like the r, the z or the
Re: Looking for a new windows pc.
Just open up the addons website through the Manage addons item in NVDA's tool menu, and then click on addons under development. While you're at it, you should also really get the addon updater from there. That's the best thing that could ever have happened
Re: searching for a specific kind of tool, does something like that exist?
Aprone has a neat little utility on his site that might be worth checking out. I can't remember the exact name off the top of my head but it definitely has something to do with sound review, so you should have no
Re: Bye bye, firefox
Well, Orko, the latest ESR is actually 52, not 56, so I see why some people might be concerned about using that instead of more recent versions if you are not a big enterprise or something.In any case, as soon as I read about the whole accessibility situation with
Re: Accessible key remapper
Hi,thanks for the tips, but unfortunately no, I'm not on the Insider builds. I've had this since September, i.e. as soon as I installed bootcamped Windows 10 on this machine. I've tried both the official build of NVDA as well as the development snapshots, both
Re: Accessible key remapper
All right, so I decided to give Sharp Keys another go based on your recommendations. The main program screen is accessible for the most part, except for one control that NVDA just reads as pannel, but the trouble starts when I click the add button. There are two
Accessible key remapper
Hi folks,does anyone know an accessible program to remap keys on the keyboard that works reliably on Windows 10? I'm using bootcamped Windows on a macBook Pro with Apple's Magic Keyboard. At the bare minimum, I at least need to switch the left Windows and alt keys
Re: Question to native speakers
Thanks for the fast response, Theo. That was really useful information. I've always wondered what the difference between these was and when either one was used, that's why I asked. :-)Lukas
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Question to native speakers
Hi everyone,can any native speaker please tell me what's the best, commonly used and preferably short proper English _expression_ for the usually toll free line where you as a customer call, interact with an automated system and then can possibly be connected to
Re: How to turn off screen in windows 10?
I believe Jack meant the disable driver option, not uninstall it completely. In that case, Windows Update shouldn't have a reason to update them as though they had been completely removed, or to switch to a Microsoft fallback if there is even a
Re: email clients: TB is making me a rather mad mad man
Thunderbird is not sluggish for me at all on Windows 10 Creators Update, 64-bit, the Pro edition. I believe if you have a decent computer (anything with more than 4 GB of RAM and preferably an SSD, although Thunderbird also worked
Employment ad
Hello everyone,this is going to be pretty unusual, so I would like to apologize in advance to anyone who is not interested in this kind of stuff at all or down right sees it as spam. The truth is, though, that I have been actively looking for a regular job for ages now, and
Re: Solved: Serious issue with Bootcamp audio drivers
Hi Joseph,thank you for such a fast reply. Actually, I was sure since the very beginning that it was not happening when running on speakers and that the headphones worked fine on other hardware. That's why I was confident enough to
Serious issue with Bootcamp audio drivers
Hi everyone,I hope someone is going to be able to provide an answer to this question as quickly as possible, as it's having quite a serious impact on my productivity and ability to even use the computer at all, right now and the whole time. :-)I
Re: a NVDA question
Not to mention that you are not limited to just the first letter when using this way of navigation. Simply open the folder in question without a screen reader, if you can do that confidently and reliably, type out "nvda" literally, and press enter. I find that to be the
Re: Battery life on an MBP with Bootcamp
I've read that those Macs with both an integrated and a dedicated graphics card are unable to switch between the two automatically in bootcamped Windows and are always using the dedicated one, so that might be one reason for getting lower battery
Re: the Helen Keller Conspiracy
Ÿou could hardly prove that nowadays, one way or the other. However, since she has written stuff with more content than that later on in her life, which is obviously attributed to herself alone, i.e. without aid, and she is said to be a genius by some
Re: the iPhone's home button
At post 43, either get yourself the lightning dock by Bellkin or wireless headphones. I know this arrangement is just inconvenient, greedy, stupid, forced and anything, and I'm not saying I agree with it or am happy about it, but I'm just saying that it's not
Re: the iPhone's home button
Regarding Bluetooth audio latency, I'm really curious to see the actual performance of the new Apple chip in their Airpods, when these finally start shipping that is. I'm not interested in any marketing talk, I just want to see the actual results. I do tend to
Re: I phone problem while typing.
Ah, right. Thanks a lot for the addition, TJT.Lukas
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Re: I phone problem while typing.
No, this option is not in the Settings app.1. Double tap on an edit field. In English, VoiceOver will say "is editing" after that.2. Use the two finger gesture called the rotor, as if you were turning an old phone dial, to locate the "typing mode"
Re: Awesome news and asking for your help
Nikola, the approach suggested in post 12 seems a pretty reasonable compromise to me. I see where you are coming from in your last post, and why that might be a problem, so if you do include gifts, digital gifts would certainly be a much more
Re: Awesome news and asking for your help
Thanks for the explanation, Nikola. I see now, that makes good sense. Well, like I said, I'm not against a campaign or anything, so not too much of an issue for me either way. :-)Lukas
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Re: Awesome news and asking for your help
Hi Nikola,congratulations on the new library. I'm glad to hear of it and will certainly be buying it when money permits, no matter the payment method, although I would prefer standard payment for this kind of project myself. Even the previous
Re: McAfee remover
I agree, if use a captcha, then provide an audio or another accessible alternative such as Recaptcha. A lot of modern websites are already doing that using at least two or three different API's from different vendors as far as I know.And I also agree in that I'm using
Re: McAfee remover
I do think that in the case of antiviruses, securing the uninstall with a captcha is actually a smart idea for most general mainstream users. A potential virus won't be able to just remove the antivirus in its way, you know. :-) But, of course, it's an accessibility
Re: Becoming fed up with Linux
Ah, all right, I haven't noticed any performance issues when I only want to hear formatting information on request, and I haven't probably worked with that long Word documents yet, so that does make sense if the experience is like that for you.Lukas
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Re: Becoming fed up with Linux
Well, I don't know what version of NVDA you last tried to use, but it definitely can announce this kind of things. Yes, it does have to be turned on (or off in a few cases, respectively), but I personally see that as an advantage. I wouldn't like to be
Re: some very quick questions for dark and others
The problem starts occurring not when you install and start using Jaws but rather when you try to uninstall it. That's not the only reason I consider JFW and FS a pile of crap but one of the most important ones. I've seen it happen on
Re: some very quick questions for dark and others
I didn't get it from anywhere, I experienced it several different times on different machines going all the way from xP and Jaws 8 or some low version like that all the way up to 7, 8 and 10 and Jaws 14 or 15 or whatever it was. I'm not
Re: If The Gov Cared About Disabled People
I'm not for a 24/7 available driver, in fact I am even against some countries where they resolve the situation of blind people by providing them several taxi rides a month for free, as that faintly supports laziness and has a great potential to
Re: If The Gov Cared About Disabled People
Yeah, I agree Braille on banknotes could actually help a lot. It would eliminate the need for all the various mechanical recognition devices.That's good to know about the US money. I haven't seen any yet and it sounds pretty bad. :-)Fortunately,
Re: some very quick questions for dark and others
Great, glad it worked to your liking.Don't forget to use Ccleaner and Mydefrag/Defraggler every now and then, too, to keep it running smooth.Lukas
URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=280383#p280383
Re: If The Gov Cared About Disabled People
Don't you have tactile, mechanical money reading devices in the western world? )True, they're still a bit slow at times, but at least if you check your money say under the table or lean over your hands or something, it's much more difficult for
Re: Becoming fed up with Linux
I also tried Linux, Vinux in particular, a few times in the past, but like many others, I didn't like it enough to get too far. I even gave up sooner than most of you, probably. :-) I do see its potential and admire it for its philosophy and for what it means
Re: urgent help with NVDA
Are you sure you deleted all NVDA's folders and files in the app data?Lukas
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Re: Becoming fed up with Linux
Figment, what exact issues do you have with Windows 10? I'm curious as I might be able to give you a hint on fixing some of these. I upgraded my laptop to Windows 10 from 7 a few weeks ago, and within a few hours of customizing I hardly ever notice any
Re: some very quick questions for dark and others
Well, maybe it is said to be incompatible by the Windows 10 upgrade assistant that forces the upgrade on 7/8 systems, and maybe it does get flagged as incompatible if you try to install it on a running 10 in some cases, but this has not
Re: OT: Hillary Clinton and Mentally Challenged Children
Well, I can't see how a bot could not be programmed to write its topic titles with the OT: prefix. In any case, whether this is a spam bot or a troll paid from the money people donated to the campaigns, I see no difference in
Re: i'm really scared, damn scared.
Well, Dark, you could actually move the backup manually once it has been created in iTunes. The only problem is that the software wouldn't see it then, and I'm not sure if you can manually specify a file path to a backup to restore from anywhere.
Re: IOS 10, who's going for it? How buggy? Who likes it and why?
Grif, do you know the control called table index which is placed to the right of the actual contacts column, very close to the edge of the screen? It used to be possible to locate that by directly touching it and then swipe
Re: IOS 10, who's going for it? How buggy? Who likes it and why?
Just press the power button twice in quick succesion. The first press will silence the ringtone and the second one will reject the call.I've been using this ever since I got my iPhone 4S which I need to be upgrading shortly,
Re: New IPhone september 16 2016
@Nocturnus, that's a very interesting approach I haven't considered before but it definitely makes a lot of sense when looked at from this point of view. I'm still not entirely certain whether the removal of the headphone jack is a good or bad thing in
Re: something for the audio pros: file looping issues?
Raygrote is unfortunately right, I've heard this before, too. If Goldwave and other programs can see the gapless headers, then they can't probably (re)create them on save, which was probably the source of your issue. :-)Lukas
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Re: Cloud OCR Add-on
Okay, in that case I don't know what's going on but the most recent available addon package works just fine for me, with the latest NVDA snapshot of the next branch.Lukas
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Re: What is the best IOs file management software?
As I said, I had moved the location of my iTunes media folder a long time ago, so I can't remember the exact default location any more. It's somewhere in your app data, but I'm not sure if it was local or roaming.Just open iTunes, find
Re: Cloud OCR Add-on
In any case, thanks for the information, Serrebi. I had no idea the first release of the addon was not provided in the NVDA addon format.Lukas
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Re: Cloud OCR Add-on
RTR_assassin, Socheat is right. It almost sounds to me like the instructions you were given on Twitter were valid for a version of NVDA that was outdated ages ago. Since the introduction of the addon manager, you should never touch the internal NVDA folders such as
Re: Cloud OCR Add-on
RTR_assassin, it almost sounds to me like the instructions you were given on Twitter were valid for a version of NVDA that was outdated ages ago. Since the introduction of the addon manager, you should never touch the internal NVDA folders such as global plugins
Re: What is the best IOs file management software?
On my computer, I have moved the main iTunes folder to my D partition which I use for most data I can fit on there. This option is located in the iTunes preferences dialog, the appropriate tab is most likely called library. If you don't
Re: What is the best IOs file management software?
I've once worked around the 40 seconds ringtone limit, although I yet have to see if I'm gonna succeed another time.1. Google a Windows app called Iringer and create your ringtone with it.2. Choose where to save it. It will contain the
Re: Windows 10 Anniversary Update Accessibility
Turtlepower, ah, good to know. Thanks for that clarification.I've been considering switching to 10 sometimes in the near future, but apparently I should still hold on for a while and be grateful for the solid state that 7 is already in over
Re: Windows 10 Anniversary Update Accessibility
And, by the way, I've been using Total Commander rather than the native Explorer for several years already, anyway, and Explorer has felt slow to me since I first started using Windows 7, my current OS, a few years back, so I personally
Re: Windows 10 Anniversary Update Accessibility
By the way, you might want to know that the next branch of the NVDA development snapshots already includes a fix for the UAC dialogs not being read bug. It's apparently going to appear in the 2016.3 release. As far as I know, this currently
Re: Looking for an accessible CMS
I know this might not be ideal for your purposes as any non-standard custom functionality requires a bit of a learning curve, and this particular CMS tries to be as lightweight as possible by design, so it lacks some of the more advanced features of the
Re: windows 10
thanks for answering, Shaun.Lukas
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Re: windows 10
Hi,does anyone know whats the difference between the Pro and Pro N editions?Currently I am using Windows 7 pro. Which of the two should I choose?Thanks,Lukas
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Re: Any advice on cane problems?
Hi,I havent experienced this. Either the terrain in the Czech Republic is generally less destructive to canes even in Winter, or I walk less often, or I move the cane more gently and lightly. It might also be possible that the cane manufacturers in your
Piwik seriously lagging
Hi all,does anyone have personal experience with the Piwik web analytics platform?Recently I installed it on my domain as well as the domain of my girlfriends blog, as we both use the same local shared webhosting service. We use PHP 5.6.5 with 128 mb memory limit,
Re: new kickstarter project: smart 3D headset
Havent looked at the project itself yet but doesnt the description you provided sound just like Aprones Seemunkey gadget? :-)Lukas
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