Re: Drive encryption
@LivroboWell, that's good news that that is accessible now. Color changing progress bars look fancy, but aren't very hard to create. VeraCript's randomness indicator probably only goes from red to green which is easy because only two of the three primary colors is
Re: Drive encryption
@livroboOh! So the randomness indicator is just a color changing progress bar? JAWS will read that! The VeraCrypt manual gives the impression that it was just a graphic that turned green.The closest thing JAWS has to NVDA's mouse simulator is their touch cursor which
Re: Drive encryption
I would think an OCR app would be better than TapTapSee for reading computer screens. I have tried using TapTapSee to read displays on things like a thermostat and my sleep number bed's remote. Sometimes you get what the display says, sometimes you don't. Frustrating
KNFB Reader on sale!
For those of you that might be interested in buying a copy of KNFB Reader, I just got an email from the NFB Newsline that said that from July 1st to the 7th, KNFB Reader would be on sale for $64.99, a savings of $35.Unfortunately I doubt this sale is available outside
Re: removing desktop from alt tab setting
I have absolutely no clue. I did something that made it disappear, but didn't realize it until some time later when I went looking for it.
URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=266182#p266182
Re: Building your own machine
For what it's worth, the reason mainboards are so similar is because none of the manufacturers actually design a mainboard from scratch. Instead they start with the chip set manufacturer's reference design and tweak it a little just to make it unique.Graphics
Re: removing desktop from alt tab setting
Ah, Ok, my mistake. I'm still interested because on my system "Desktop" used to show up in the alt tab list, now it doesn't and I'd like to get it back.
URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=266174#p266174
Re: Drive encryption
I realize that speech on the log in screen would gbe imposible, but audio cues with the PC speaker would be. The problem with PC speaker beeps is that most computers these days don't come with one.So knowing exactly how the log in screen behaves would help. For
Re: Building your own machine
Before I lost my vision I worked for 15 years building custom PCs for customers both businesses and individuals.Now that I am blind, the only part of building a PC I'd imagine having trouble with is connecting the mainboard to the case's front panel switches,
Re: Building your own machine
Before I lost my vision I worked for 15 years building custom PCs for customers both businesses and individuals.Now that I am blind, the only part of building a PC I'd imagine having trouble with is connecting the mainboard to the case's front panel switches,
Re: removing desktop from alt tab setting
Ok, but where is the show desktop button?
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Re: Drive encryption
As I understand it, in whole drive encryption like TrueCrypt, encryption is done during writes to the drive and decryption is done during reads, making the encryption and decryption invisible to the user.My concern is that the log in screen that is presented before
Drive encryption
I will be traveling over the next couple of months, so my computer won't always be in a secure location as it is when I'm at home.My Windows account is password protected, but as most of us know, Windows isn't all that secure.Before I lost my vision and was still working,
Re: JAWS Home for £99
1. Unless you take the time to follow the link, the topic title and message, gives one the impression that this is a permanent change to the price of JAWS, when its not.You may have missed it, I did contribute to the discussion by clarifying that this was event
Re: JAWS Home for £99
LOL! All this is, is Freedom Scientific offering some of their products at reduced prices, if you attend the event they, or one of their partners is participating in. If you read all the steps needed to get JAWS at that reduced price, you'll notice that you have to go
Re: JAWS Home for £99
1. Unless you take the time to follow the link, the topic title and message, gives one the impression that this is a permanent change to the price of JAWS, when its not.2. Maybe you don't pay any attention to events or conventions in the US but for the past several
Re: JAWS Home for £99
LOL! All this is, is Freedom Scientific offering some of their products at reduced prices, if you attend the event they, or one of their partners is participating in. If you read all the steps needed to get JAWS at that reduced price, you'll notice that you have to go
Printer recommendations
Well, all my ink cartridges are at 25%. I decided over a year ago that instead of buying more ink for this printer, that I'd buy a personal laser printer.Reasons:1. Even before I lost my vision, I don't need color, the only thing I'd need color for would be to print
Re: Some bad and unfortunate news
One thing to consider, even though encryption method used would be readily accessible if Remote encrypted the key, such an attack would be specifically targeted at NVDA Remote users using auto connect. For general attacks an encrypted key would look like
Re: Accessible way to remove unwanted files on an IPhone?
It seems to that the only iCloud management options you can do from an iPhone is what apps are allowed to use it and whether to use it to backup your iPhone. Appls that allowed to use iCloud show how much storage they are using.. As
Re: for a friend, looking for all star wars films with audio description
It's been a while since I listened to them, but I believe they are the original theater releases. But don't quote me on that.
URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=265362#p265362
Re: for a friend, looking for all star wars films with audio description
You could also try this page:http://jeff.tdrealms.com/Described_Movies.htmIt has all seven of the star Wars movies plus "The Clone Wars". There's no login to forget a password and the movies aren't hosted on a storage
Printer ink levels
I have an HP Officejet Pro 8000 that I bought back before I lost my vision.Back then it was easy to check the amount of ink I had left in the cartridges. But now that I'm blind, the all graphic ink level indicators don't work so well, and after doing some searching,
Re: Accessible way to remove unwanted files on an IPhone?
Good point, and in fact, I'm the same way. Storage costs on a PC are pretty low when compared to mobile devices, so while I'm quick to delete data I know I no longer need on my mobile devices, I tend to not delete data on my PC.
Re: PDF to text using OCR
I found a small program for $10 that removes all the security restrictions from PDF files. I used the 15 day trial to unlock the 2 product manuals and was able to use Open Book to OCR them into text.I was so pleased at how well the program worked and how easy it
Re: iOS 10 Will Allow Many First-Party Apps To Be Removed
I do something similar, apps I use frequently go on page 1, how frequently I might use other apps determines whether they end up on page 2 or 3. At present, page 3 is apps I never use.
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Re: Scanning and OCR tools
I chose Open Book because I liked how uncomplicated it was, and with it being a Freedom Scientific product, I thought it would get along with JAWS.At the time I bought Open Book, I thought that Kurzweil was a device, and all I needed was software.
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Re: Accessible way to remove unwanted files on an IPhone?
On my phone, I never keep anything once I know I don't need it anymore.I know some people who are pack rats and never delete anything. [Shudders]
URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=265069#p265069
Re: Recommendations for accessible Windows mail clients, please.
Even before I lost my vision, whenever possible, I always disabled splash screens, I always considered them unnecessary, and now that I can't see them, they are doubly unnecessary.
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Re: Scanning and OCR tools
@PitermachYou could be right about Open Book using an older version of Abby Fine Reader, Open Book has been at v9.0 for quite a while. I tried to find out which version Open Book is using but couldn't find an executable to get the version number from.Still, it
Re: iOS 10 Will Allow Many First-Party Apps To Be Removed
@TJTI'll consider upgrading my iPhone when my current one dies.@TurtlePower17LOL! Health, Watch, Wallet and Passbook can all go too. And if I think about it some more, I'm sure I can find plenty of other crapps that can be dumped
Re: Accessible way to remove unwanted files on an IPhone?
I don't know if this will be more or less work than deleting the podcasts one at a time, but it is a way to remove tham all at once.Uninstall Overcast, which will remove all the apps data including all those unwanted podcasts, then
Re: VFO Consumes Ai Squared
Instead of predicting doom and gloom, I prefer to keep an open mind and wait for events to unfold before I pass judgement on them.
URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=265028#p265028
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Re: VFO Consumes Ai Squared
Well, I guess the difference between us is that instead of predicting doom and gloom, I prefer to keep an open mind and wait for events to unfold before I pass judgement on them.
URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=265028#p265028
Re: Accessible way to remove unwanted files on an IPhone?
Deleting unwanted podcasts wouldn't be in the app settings, but would be in the apps user interface as an action you can do with a podcast just as play is an action.Similarly, for text messages, deleting them is also an action, just
Re: Recommendations for accessible Windows mail clients, please.
I used to use Outlook from Office 2007, but I really didn't need all the extra baggage that comes with it, so last summer I switched to Mozilla Thunderbird and have yet to find a feature I needed in it that I couldn't access.
Re: Accessible way to remove unwanted files on an IPhone?
Doesn't Overcast give you a way to delete unwanted or already heard podcasts? My experience with my iPhone is that most apps have ways for you to remove no longer wanted data. I have a 16 GB iPhone and still have over 10 GB free
Re: VFO Consumes Ai Squared
How has any visually impaired or blind person been hurt by the Freedom Scientific and Optelec merger last year?While both companies now operate under the same VFO Group banner, they are still separate businesses, each with its own product line that has remained
Re: VFO Consumes Ai Squared
It's a fact of life, and there's nothing wrong with it. One way companies expand their product lines, customer bases and aquire new talent, is for larger companies to aquire smaller companies. It goes on in all industries, not just the assistive technology
Re: iOS 10 Will Allow Many First-Party Apps To Be Removed
One thing to remember, especially with phones. Until recently, most people bot their phones as part of a contract which was usually two years long. As as not to leave those customers in the lurch, Apple had to maintain some kind of
Re: Scanning and OCR tools
For me KNFB reader is pretty much like most other OCR apps. Sometimes it does a really good job, other times it returns complete gibberish.The one thing I do like about KNFB Reader is that all the processing is done on your device. Many of the other OCR app,
Re: iOS 10 Will Allow Many First-Party Apps To Be Removed
It's about time somebody came out and allowed users to remove preloaded apps they don't want.This should allow me to reduce the number of apps in my phone to just what will fit on one home screen.The big question of me is whether my
Re: VFO Consumes Ai Squared
I have a question, why does VFO acquiring AI Squared have to be a bad thing? Let's be honest, you all universaly think it's a bad thing because it is VFO and not Apple that is doing the acquiring. With a bias like that, why should I give your comments any
Re: Copy movie to the pc
Unfortunately the method Socheat recommended won't work for most DVDs because they are protected and encrypted. If you have a program that can bypass the protection and decrypt the DVD, then what Socheat says will work.
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Re: The Windows 10 New World Order
@Sebby, probably so, but that forced hardware upgrade isn't for another 3 to 4 years when support for Windows 7 ends.Apple is no better, instead of spying on you, which is easily avoided by not using Visual Studio, Apple actively restricts your choice to
Re: VFO Consumes Ai Squared
For now, this is nothing more than AI Squared getting new owners. Freedom scientific and Optelec were both acquired by a financial holdings company, and for the most part they both still operate independently of each other, after some adjustments to the product
Re: The Windows 10 New World Order
I believe the attempts to force Windows 10 on users will cease after the free upgrade offer is over.But with Microsoft planning to extend the free upgrade offer for people using assistive technology, I wonder if they'll start trying to detect the
Re: The Windows 10 New World Order
Just like Apple, right, Sebby?I was willing to upgrade to Windows 10 as long as I thought my computer could run it. But as soon as it became clear that I'd have to spend money on a newer computer to run it, I decided that I didn't want it. My feeling was
Re: Worst Mass Shooting In American History
@Afrim and CWHow are you two different from the news media? This is a tread about the Orlando Terrorist attack and both of you try to hijack to promote your own agendas of hate against the news media?The way I see it, both of you are no different
Re: Android tablet versus Kindle Fire
Thanks everyone. I'll probably ggo with the Kindle Fire. For $50 versus $400, I'll accept Amazon's limitations. There are ways around most, if not all, of them.
URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=264217#p264217
Re: Android tablet versus Kindle Fire
The last time I used Android was on an LG Spirit cell phone running Android 4.
URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=264150#p264150
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Re: talking windows pe four 64 bit installation of windows now available.
You should be able to run the Windows 8.1 install from the Windows 7 PE environment.If you need it, you can get the Windows 8.1 ISO images from Microsoft's web site.
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Re: Worst Mass Shooting In American History
Yeah, this is very sad, it's been the only story on CNN all day long.Thoughts and prayers to all the affected families.
URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=264148#p264148
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Re: how do you manage your time?
My response to that would be, unless they work in the games industry, playing games while on their job doesn't really sound like they are managing their time very well.I simply have a list of things that need doing, and review it each hour.
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Re: PDF to text using OCR
Thanks, I'll try the JAWS OCR on it.I might still have the paper documentation, if I do I'll ultimately scan it.Still, I have to wonder what these people were thinking when they decided to secure a product manual. Seems kind of silly to me.Remember the thread
Re: talking windows pe four 64 bit installation of windows now available.
This is the link I have for a variety of talking Windows PE images:http://opopanax.net/download/hth
URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=264133#p264133
Re: how do you manage your time?
The problem I had after I lost my vision was loosing track of time. Now I have a clock that announces each hour, it makes keeping track of the time easier and thus helps me to manage it.
URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=264094#p264094
Re: PDF to text using OCR
As it turns out, the company must have been really paranoid that someone would steal their product manuals because they have the PDF secured, the only thing you can do with the manual is look at it.I haven't yet found a PDF to test this with but apparently Open
PDF to text using OCR
I have run across several product manuals in PDF format. Unfortunately, instead of making a real PDF file with text and graphics, these files were made by simply scanning the manual pages as images into the PDF file.I tried loading the file into Adobe reader, but
Re: accessible backup tools
Whew! Thanks to having backups, I was saved from a developer with some bad ideas.Some of the audio described movies I get are in OGG format instead of MP3. As far as I know, the Victor Reader Stream doesn't support OGG, so I have to convert them to MP3. For this
Re: Some bad and unfortunate news
If RoboForm or something like it didn't exist, so I had to keep my passwords in a file, I'd either store the file encrypted, or store it on offline media like a flash drive, or both.That way the file is only readable when you need it. Otherwise it's either
Re: Some bad and unfortunate news
I had that happen to me about 13 years ago. I was notified by a web site I had an account on that they had been hacked and that they were recommending that anyone who used the same password at other sites, change the passwords at those other sites.I was
Re: Some bad and unfortunate news
I had that happen to me about 13 years ago. I was notified by a web site I had an account on that they had been hacked and that they were recommending that anyone who used the same password at other sites, change the passwords at those other sites.I was
Android tables versus Kindle Fire
Lately, I've been considering getting either a tablet or an Amazon Echo.After doing some research, I decided against the Amazon Echo because there is no way to load my music library on it without having to subscribe to some cloud service.So now I'm trying
Re: Scanning and OCR tools
For a scanner, I use a Canon Canoscan LiDe 200 I bought back before I lost my vision. except for the part where you select the area to scan, I found the user interface fully accessible. This wasn't a problem because it defaults to scanning the whole 11 by 8.5
Re: Going back to Windows 7, a good or a bad idea?
Are you using a SSD or a hard drive? I changed out my hard drive for a SSD last summer and cut my Windows 7 with JAWS startup time in half. I now only takes about 45 seconds.
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Re: Disabling touchpad on windows 7
On my Dell Latitude laptop the short cut to disable the touchpad is Fn + F8, and the nice thing is, the setting is sticky, it survives rebooting and powering off.If you can't find a short cut to disable the touchpad, or the setting isn't sticky, you can
Re: Going back to Windows 7, a good or a bad idea?
crashmaster wrote:though from time to time gwx fixes itself and I have to get rid of it again.It for that reason that I use Get Windows 10 Control Panel's monitor mode. This causes the Get Windows 10 Control Pannel to load into memory and
Re: I'm looking for a new iPhone
I currently have a 16 GB iPhone 5s and so far haven't had any problems with doing over the air updates to iOS.Since I too like the smaller form of the 5s, I never upgraded to any of the 6 series.But when I started encountering problems with the 5s, I
Re: Going back to Windows 7, a good or a bad idea?
Unless there is a problem that keeps Windows 10 from working properly, such as driver availability or compatibility issues, I wouldn't bother downgrading.
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Re: Installing mak on my computer: how to go about it?
jack wrote:keep in mind that it won't be a licensed copy of mac OSXApple's contention that a copy of OSX isn't properly licensed unless it is running on Mac hardware even if it is legitimately purchased is totally ridiculous!.As long
Re: Installing mak on my computer: how to go about it?
Microsoft has nothing over Apple. Apple is the most anti-competitoive company there is.Instead of competing against companies cloning their computers, Apple just sues them out of business.And you think that's the way to go?
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Re: kindle with nvda
According to the scholes web site:1. The Kindle for Windows program with the accessibility pack isn't any more accessible than the one without.2. You need both the Kindle for Windows program and both codecs.The Kindle for Windows program is used to download your Kindle
Re: I'm looking for a site with audio described movies.
I need to clarify that, I shop Blind Mice Mega Mall first when I am looking for something intended for the blind or visually impaired. Since the stores at the mall are all owned by visually impaired people, and since the unemployment
Re: I'm looking for a site with audio described movies.
Hmmm, that might be why I don't have a problem, since they only send one or two emails each month, I never bothered to unsubscribe, it's simple enough to just hit delete.I don't know how many episodes of TNG there are, I know there
Re: I'm looking for a site with audio described movies.
Hmmm, that might be why I don't have a problem, since they only send one or two emails each month, I never bothered to unsubscribe, it's simple enough to just hit delete.
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Re: kindle with nvda
Unfortunately, no, the Kindle for Windows program has been, and still remains inaccessible with no apparent interest by Amazon to correct this.So, with that in mind your best bet is to convert the Kindle books to another format that is supported by an accessible ebook
Re: I'm looking for a site with audio described movies.
@speederYes, yes, yes, yes!Thank you, thank you thank you!In Ray Starr's descriptive videos for the blind vault 1, which was linked to on that site, I found a bunch of Star Trek The Next Generation episodes! That is my favorite TV
Re: A warning about iTunes for Windows version 12.04
According to Brian Hartgen on the Leasey support list, iTunes 12.04.1 is out and appears to have fixed the accessibility problems 12.04 introduced.
URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=262767#p262767
Re: A warning about iTunes for Windows version 12.04
According to Brian Hartgen on the Leasy ey support list, iTunes 12.4.1 is out and appears to have fixed the accessibility problems 12.4 introduced.
URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=262767#p262767
Re: I'm looking for a site with audio described movies.
simba wrote:Hi.If you don't mind creating an account, you can go to blindmicemegamall.com, they have about 2000 movies in their movie vault as they call it, and the collection is steadily growing.The movies are for free, as far as I
Re: I'm looking for a site with audio described movies.
And that's not all, each store in Blind Mice Mega Mall is owned by a blind or visually impaired person. I shop there first when I'm looking for something.
URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=262766#p262766
Re: The Windows 10 New World Order
@WandererI just tried it today and the applications list is now visible, maybe I didn't know how to access it earlier. I noticed that you often had to activate an option to find out whether it was set or not.In the settings section there are either toggle
Re: The Windows 10 New World Order
@WandererHere's an example:In the clean up section of CCleaner, there is a long list of things to clean that you can check to have cleaned or uncheck to have left alone. There are two tabs, the first, you could call system as those cleanup tasks were
Re: What Are Your Favorite Lighters
I would think that after a while, muscle memory would put the lighter in the right place to properly light the cigarette.
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Re: What Are Your Favorite Lighters
I've heard of those but never had one, and since I quit smoking over seven years ago, I probably never will.
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Re: New computer,what should I go for,mac,windows etc
If I am correct, shared memory refers to the area of main memory that is shared with the built in display adapter to provide memory to hold the image being displayed.Unlike stand alone display adapters that have their own on board
Re: The Windows 10 New World Order
@WandererHow do you deal with CCleaner's inaccessible parts? The last time I tried it, about 6 to 8 months ago, I found many parts of the user interface inaccessible. I knew those parts were there because CCleaner was one of those indispensable programs I
Re: The Windows 10 New World Order
Let's face it, both Microsoft and Apple have their share of problems, and at the end of the day, neither one is any better than the other, it's just a personal choice.Let's just all agree to disagree and bury the argument. Each side is always going to
Re: What Are Your Favorite Lighters
@Ironcross, I know this is late but my apologies, I didn't mean to imply that you didn't know that safety tip, it was more directed at anyone just starting out using gas grills.
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Re: accessible backup tools
I assume it was Microsoft's image restoration tool, because it was already part of the PE environment. I didn't install anything, nor did I run it from an external media.
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Re: The Windows 10 New World Order
wanderer wrote:I'm just going to point out that consistently calling a company by a childish name with no irony over and over again does not make you come across as someone to be taken seriously.Everybody else does it, for example, M$ plus all the other
Re: Reading kindle books
The approach I took was to use Codec to remove the DRM from the kindle books and convert them to ePub format which my Victor Reader Stream can read.Codec and instructions on using it to convert Kindle to ePub can be found here:http://jscholes.net/project/codex/
Re: The Windows 10 New World Order
Objective? Just reading any of your messages is proof enough of your bias. You gloss over Crapple's misdeeds as if they were nothing, but take Microsoft to task for even the smallest of perceived slights.I generally don't have any of Crapple's or
Re: Hey apple, i want my personal music back
@SebbyIf you do hourly backups, one wonders where you find the time to get anything done.@RossYeah, Crapple doesn't give you any choice, they want to control you by keeping you in their walled garden. Do what I did, I abandoned Crapple's iPod
Re: The Windows 10 New World Order
Don't you just love all these people bitching about Microsoft , of course we know why they do it, they're all mostly Crapple fan boys that think Microsoft is evil and that Crapple can do no wrong. The funny part is, we all know how so very wrong they are.
Re: The Windows 10 New World Order
Don't you just love all these people bitching about Microsoft If the Get Windows 10 app causes you some much pain because it isn't from Crapple, get rid of it! How? Go over to grc.com, go to their free software page, and download their program called
Re: Hey apple, i want my personal music back
@JaybirdYou would be right except that to do that you'd have to keep every backup you make. Most people can't afford to keep buying backup media to store all those backups on. My backup system has a two month windows where I only have the last
Re: Hey apple, i want my personal music back
I did have a backup of my music library, but it was a backup made by a backup program rather than simply a copy of my music folder. So once the tracks were removed, they disappeared from the backups too.I now keep manual copies of certain
Re: Hey apple, i want my personal music back
Ah! So that is probably what happened.Even though I didn't really want to use it, my iPod touch gave me no options, it was either iTunes or nothing. I eventually got fed up with iTunes and abandoned the iPod in favor of a Victer Reader Stream.
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