Re: Is the HomePod really worth it?
Your local music just has to be accessible on your network, IE on a NAS. In my case I just have a hard drive hooked up to a raspberry pi running Samba and have my music and other audio like books on there. Then in the Sonos app you just add any folders
Re: Does Anyone Know Where I Can Find an Accessible Speakandspell Imulator
New MameUI builds are still being released along with regular mame. You should be able to find them further down the downloads page, though unless you want to start a huge collection of games that you'd want to
Re: Is the HomePod really worth it?
I just invested a a bunch of money into a Sonos systwem, because it sounds good, can play both local music as well as connect to pretty much every external service, adjust its sound with a little help and can integrate with voice assistants.Siri is a
Re: Problem with vocaliser and 5.1 speakers
@Dark look again. The word Silenzio should be a link.
URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=355380#p355380
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Re: Problem with vocaliser and 5.1 speakers
The reason for this problem was already explained by others. One way you can fix it with something like Silenzio From Stefan Kiss of Eurofly faim. This is a tiny program that hides in your system tray whose only job is to keep your soundcards
Re: AMD against Intel?
I was pretty well into the Intel camp for the last few years, up to my main Core-I7-6700 desktop which I built 2 years ago. But if I was building a new one now, I'd go for one of the AMD ryzens instead, because they seem to be more power efficient and cheaper for the
Re: What Do You Guys Think About Emogies
I personally like Emoji, because they make the visual side of communication more accessible to us because they're so common. People will often choose to send an emoji rather than a sticker, and then you don't have to feel left out or like you're
Re: winamp woes, please help
I switched to Foobar from Winap a few years ago and like it. Not saying you should switch now that you got your winamp problem fixed. That being said if you ever decide to try it out it can do everything you want. For playing game music, you have the fooGEP
Re: my computer is driving me crazy, any help apreciated
It's actually related to innoetics. I think the option has something to do with the greek voices converting english text or not, but I never completely figured out what it does. That hotkey is tied to a start menu shortcut for
Re: What TV show/movie are you watching aka recommendation and reviews
I don't watch all that much TV right now, though I really should because my list of things I need to catch up on is getting quite long. Red Dwarf seasons 11 and 12, probably wanna finish Doctor Who, The Punnisher on
Re: First signs of IE becoming unusable?
Microsoft Edge already more or less works with screen readers. Both NVAccess and Freedom Scientific are working with Microsoft on Edge accessibility (they literarly have meetings every few months to discuss Windows Accessibility). The reason it's
Re: First signs of IE becoming unusable?
@bookrage consider either updating your JAWS if possible, or using NVDA. Then you'll find both Chrome and Firefox to work quite well (I use Chrome with JAWS 18 on occasion, so I know for a fact it works)Microsoft has basically put IE on life support
Re: Trying out google chrome and Nvda
For combo boxes, try going into focus mode with nvda+space, then tabbing away from and back onto the list. This is a bit flaky. I also just tried this again and now it looks as though they now work much better, so I would also suggest you try out the
Re: You find yourself in the year 1800. What do you do?
Living in Poland in 1800 would suck... For starters, Poland didn't even exist in 1800 after literarly getting torn into 3 pieces occupied by Prussia, Austria and Russia respectively in prior years. So, I would predict that someone
Re: why can't you use asio with a screen reader?
What it comes down to is that Windows Audio sucks. It especially did on older versions, anything up to XP was limited and normally had a lot of delay. So a bunch of audio hardware manufacturers came up with their own standard, ASIO. Which is
Re: computer help please
For YouTube, I don't think uninstalling Flash would cause it to not load like that. YouTube now defaults to HTML 5 video playback anyway if it can, so if anything it should work better and be more accessible without flash.For your search engine, focus the search
Re: Anybody using USB keyboards here?
If you use a USB keyboard made for Windows, you won't have to use Sharpkeys to remap the modifiers. The Alt and Windows keys will be in their correct places in Windows. In fact you'll probably have to undo the modifications you made using SharpKeys for
PSA: NVDA is dropping XP support
As described in this NVAccess blog post NVDA 2017.3 will be the last version to support older versions of Windows (that is Windows XP, Vista, and 7 before SP1). So, if you're using an older computer or chose not to upgrade Windows, now might be a good time
Re: earpod alternatives
Fwiw iOS 11 is partially going to solve this problem as you will be able to remap what tapping/double-tapping the left or right AirPods do. You will be Able to pause, skip tracks, or summon Siri. I don't think this will give you a volume control which is why I said
Re: Does Anyone Know How To Compile Liquid Soap
If you have Windows 10 you could try using the Ubuntu that comes in WSL, which is much easier to set up and probably ends up being smaller.All that being said, yes, we stream from residential internet just like most amateur internet radio
Re: Has anyone known or had a clone of the Famicom / NES console?
My sister had one, but I didn't know it at the time. It wasn't even a typical famicom, it was a dance mat which just had 2 sets of drawn arrows on it that I guess represented a dPad. It had the dancing game obviously, with I
Re: Skype on Ios
The new Skype is a mixed bag in terms of whether it's better or worse. Accessibility wise, I miss the rotor actions, but other than that the interface feels much faster especially if scrolling through large, busy chats.Visually, the new Skype is trying to kind of be like
Re: A Rumor About Hims Note Takers
If you mean the old note takers that are Windows Based, as far as I know yes, there is an SDK. But it was only available on request and you first had to demonstrate that you know how to program to obtain it. I read this. years ago on a Polish site
Re: Is there something unusual about Using Audio Games in IEon Windows 10?
UIA stands for UI automation. It's basically the successor to MSAA, Microsoft Active Accessibility. If you don't know what that is, it's the part of the operating system that applications like Screen Readers can use
Re: Is Audio Games Forum Compatible with IE on Windows 10
Whatever this is, it seems to be related to responsive design of this forum somehow. What your describing is something I get when accessing the forum on iOS. While I haven't been able to see the additional user info, I can expand
Re: Where is this music from?
The track in Beep is made by Andre louis. I believe it was called "Bouncing round the classroom". I think you can get it for free from his website, but I don't have the link handy. There were 2 versions there was a fuller one with more instruments as well as
Re: usb mike muting computer
That might be very well what's happening, and Windows has the tendency of switching to a new sound device if it finds one. The good news is that once you tell it to use something else, it will remember that choice and as long as the microphone will be plugged
Re: Is iExplorer accessible?
I've used this app before on the mac. There, it's very accessible, I think it may have had some unlabeled buttons in the tool bar but those only duplicated options that are also available in menus. I also recently tried it on Windows and sadly it doesn't work
Re: Foobar 2000 Question
While I don't use Foobar this way, try selecting Minimize from the system (alt+space) menu instead of pressing Alt+F4. For some app that's how you get them to the system tray so Foobar might be one of those.
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Re: Any Red Dwarf fans out there?
Yeah, Season 7 wasn't too memorable for me either, though it definitely had its moments like the Pipe thing Dark described or when Kriten crashed a holographic tea party with a World War 2 tank to announce dinner was ready.In regards to British Humor, I
Re: The Reading Order Of A Few Books
Reading Witcher in English in the correct chronological Order isn't completely possible, as not every book has been translated. But anyway, you first need to read the shortstories, starting with "the last wish" which was actually released later but
Re: Any Red Dwarf fans out there?
Oh yesz Red Dwarf. I first listened to the Dectalk transcripts, and then watched the actual series, at least up to Season 10. It and Star Trek were the first 2 SCI-Fi series that I really got into and what made me love the genre so much.My favourite
Re: Is deliveroo accessible?
Seeing I don't live anywhere close to the UK I haven't tried the app, but I would suggest you give it a try as there isn't much of a risk of accidentaly placing an unwanted order. If it's anything like similar apps/websites in Poland, and any shop for that
Re: Google mail and security to stupid levels!
This is definitely an incredibly useful feature, one that many companies now implement. You will get a similar situation with Microsoft and Facebook. So I definitely have to disagree with this being a waist of time.As for your comment that you
Re: A track duration problem with Foobar2000
I was going to try to answer your question, but since you figured it out, I'll just add that the GME plugin has a similar setting for some files that it can't figure out IE NSF where some famicompo entries are definitely longer than 3 minutes.
Re: any Code Lyoko fans out there?
Oh yeah, that's a show from my childhood...I first watched it on TV years ago in Polish, and recently watched it again in English after introducing it to friends. Things can get kinda repeatetive at points, though it's good that every episode, and
Re: Battery life on an MBP with Bootcamp
With my Early 2013 15-inch macbook Pro I also get about 4 hours on Windows. But that's if I'm not doing anything. Usually, it's more like 2 and a half to 3 hours. It's really obvious that Windows is terrible at power managing the mac, as on Mac OS I
Re: my virtual machines
The archives have been created using the 7-Zip self extract feature, which means that most archiving software including ones made for the Mac should be able to read it, IE "the unarchiver" which is free. Installl it and try to open the file. If it still doesn't know
Re: Supernova disappointments
This probably makes the achievements of NVAccess all the more impressive which has been only funded through community support and the occasional grant to do X and Y (this is why you see NVDA versions for long amounts of time concentrating on fixing one thing,
Re: Supernova disappointments
To an extent, the Dolphin rep was right. Windows 10 does use the new web rendering engine that was developed for Microsoft Edge, though it's really not too much of an excuse.One thing that could definitely trip up older screen readers in Windows 8 and newer is
Re: Dual sin on iPhone?
What the last 2 posts said. I'll just add that no, there aren't any accessories to add a second SIM to an iPhone, and there won't be any simply because iOS was never designed for this so no API's exist for this purpose. That being said Apple has proposed an
Re: I need a new headset for computer work, any tips?
While i don't use these personally, a bunch of my friends including Ghorthalon recently picked up the Sades 903's which are called "surround gaming headphones" by the company. In actuality they don't offer virtual surround. They're a
Re: calender sharing, what possibilitys are there?
I'm pretty sure you can. I haven't done this myself but I saw websites making available public google calendars that, after following a link, would then give you an option to subscribe to it. I would imagine that you can make a private
Re: What voice you use with NVDA?
I also use Eloquence, though I'm using one of the older add-ons not modified by Jake. I tried them and although they can go much faster and you have more voice options, they have some big problems when indexing or spelling which often results in text
Re: Facebook Accessibility Really Sucks
Got a bunch of things to talk about here so let's see if I can organize them in some fassion.First of all, I'm surprised no one here mentioned any of the keyboard shortcuts on the facebook page (I believe pressing the question mark key opens a list).
Re: Windows 10, hopefully a decision I won't regret
Absolutely. No one is stopping you from going into Program Files, or installing applications under different folders (in fact, if you do then Windows won't block programs from writing to them.Program Files is considered to be a system
Re: Windows 10, hopefully a decision I won't regret
I believe so. My guess is Dolphin is just keeping it working for the few people that still use it who in term don't need or possibly don't know any better. I know 3 people that use Super Nova now. Dark is one, then there's Andre Louis who
Re: Windows 10, hopefully a decision I won't regret
At this point, UAC really isn't an issue. And for the occasional program where it is you can just go into the properties for the file and tell it to always run as administrator on the compatibility tab. There's 2 ways of turning off UAC.
Re: eloquence with narrator on windows 10 64 bit. Is that even possible?
Yes. The code factory Eloquence does have a 64-bit version and it gets installed automatically. If you're using the unofficial Eloquence hosted on Grossgang, that one's 32-bit only. Even if it had a 64-bit version I
Re: What kind of server would you recommend?
Ubuntu Server does not even include the files required for a GUI and I suspect the debian images offered by the VPS providers don't, either. So no, you won't have to worry about GUI processes using up any resources and you'll be exclusively
Re: What kind of server would you recommend?
I would personally recommend Ubuntu server over debian, mostly because Debian has really old and out of date packages. Using either won't be very different at all as they both use apt for packages and when it comes down to it is Linux, so what
Re: What kind of server would you recommend?
Windows VPS's will be considerably more expensive than a linux VPS. Not because you need higher system requirements, but because of the ridiculous licensing requirements imposed by Microsoft, the cost of which are transferred to customers by the
Re: Some IOS app recommendations needed.
Hi there, here's my responses in no particular order.Kindle is completely proprietary and can only open kindle formatted books. As for iBooks, it does have its own store that has books with DRM, but it can also open any .Epub or PDF books without
Re: some very quick questions for dark and others
To burn a working ISO I used a program called CD burner XP (which actually works on modern Windows as well and is still maintained). Another option may be to use Rufus to put the ISO on a USB drive.One thing to consider before you jump in
Re: Anyone know if Rockbox still exists, and what players support it?
The sequel to the clip Plus is called the sansa clip zip. Perhaps they're still selling that one.
URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=279101#p279101
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Re: LG, what's your experience?
LG accessibility on Android used to suck, however starting with the G2 onward LG started putting in effort to make it a lot nicer. LG and Samsung are the only companies that give you a tripple-click home option to toggle accessibility, plus additional hints
Re: LG, what's your experience?
LG accessibility on Android used to suck, however starting with the G2 onward LG started putting in effort to make it a lot nicer. LG and Samsung are the only companies that give you a tripple-click home option to toggle accessibility, plus additional hints
Re: Your favorite youtube series?
Most of my YT subscriptions are gaming or tech related. It looks like we have a lot of common interests @ammericandad, because I also follow cygnus destroyer and equally like his LJN defender and inicent until proven guilty series. I also like the AVGN,
Re: Your favorite youtube series?
Most of my YT subscriptions are gaming or tech related. It looks like we have a lot of common interests @ammericandad, because I also follow cygnus destroyer and equally like his LJN defender and inicent until proven guilty series. I also like the AVGN,
Re: Scanning and OCR tools
As far as comparing Omnipage and Finereader there's no competition, this is why both K1000 and OpenBook use it so you'd be getting very similar recognition results, maybe slightly better with K1000 if it really does use a newer Finereader. The difference will be
Re: Scanning and OCR tools
Going back to Windows OCR, both OpenBook and Kurzweil are powered by FineReader, with Kurzweil running the latest Finereader 12. I haven't used OpenBook in a while but I think it's using an older version of FR, though people can correct me on this. I personally
Re: Installing mak on my computer: how to go about it?
@mohamed the hardware, as was previously said, is for the most part standard off the shelf PC components. Many parts of it, like the intel processors and their graphics, the nvidia discrete graphics cards or the broadcom
Re: your thoughts about this laptop?
Oh yeah, that laptop should definitely do everything that you brought up. In fact you can probably play most games on higher settings than the lowest. It might not let you play games in Ultra settings as it's a mobile version of the GPU but it should
Re: adding text to index of pages
Look atthis pageYou probably won't need everything they explain in this guide, but it does talk about how to bring back the old view with the different columns, and change the header and footer text which is what you want.``One thing to keep in mind if
Re: new version of vocalizer voices
You've officially peaked my curiosity. Which version of Vocalizer exactly is it? Is it either of the NVDA drivers or is it for another screen reader?
URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=256107#p256107
Re: The oddity of "Reverse Sales"
This kind of strategy is now quite popular thanks to things like Steam Early access (for those unaware it's basically a section of Steam where developers put up pre-release, alpha/beta games for purchase). Quite often these games cost less while in this
Re: Reasons for getting a Raspberry Pi
I have a PI2 for a year now and I'm also mostly using it as a file server. I run both samba (Windows SMB) and Netatalk (Mac AFP to get time machine backups). I also put the latest BTSync on it, which is really convenient as the pi is always on so I
Re: REquesting Window eyes assistance
The way Window-eyes does punctuation is slightly different to how it works usually. Instead of having options for none, some, most and all, it has 3 groups that can be controlled separately - textual, math, and miscellaneous. Go into the control panel,
Re: a problem with IOS 9 voice over
I get this problem, but only if iOS switches voices on its own. I have my phone in English and my "default language" option is set to use Alex, but I also have the Polish voice and keyboard set up. If I switch to the Polish keyboard but still use the
Re: Classic home computers and the blind. Your experiences
Technically, the RC8650 chip that the DoubleTalk and Millennium note takers used had more configuration options - there was pitch, volume and frequency like with the Votrax SC02/artek SSI263 chip of the older blazie note takers,
Re: text to wav converter for windows 3.1 or 95
A workaround of sorts is to use the dosbox capture audio command, which by default is ctrl+f6. Of course you'll need to then trim the resulting recordings with a sound editor, but I'm not aware of anything that would give you wav files of
Re: REquesting Window eyes assistance
If the hotkeys don't do what the manual says, I think you have the insert key layout turned on. The new window-eyes versions, starting with I think either 8 or 9, ship with a whole bunch of scripts installed. One of them is a setup wizard that, on
Re: REquesting Window eyes assistance
Control shift W reads the whole window top to bottom, which is only really useful in message boxes that ask you a question. As for mouse movement, with the previously mentioned insert layout turned on, moving the Window-Eyes mouse works a lot like the
Re: looking for ideas to help me with my independence
As far as credit cards go, I have my info written down and stored in a few places, though not on physical paper. There are password managers and things of that sort that can keep this information encrypted. One thing I just thought of
Re: SSH Client for Windows
Freedom Scientific broke terminal support in JAWS a few versions ago. I have also heard that someone made some scripts to fix this, but I can't tell you any more than that as I no longer use JAWS myself.
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Re: Question about two different processors
You can actually get away with playing mainstream games on a laptop if you want, though as people said don't expect it then to remain quiet or cool. For games, you're gonna want something with dedicated graphics. My 2013 MacBook pro with it's
Re: Question about two different processors
There are many factors that could be a reason for the speed difference you say you are noticing. It could be other hardware in the computer, like the hard drive or even the software on the operating systems. Preinstalled Windows from OEM's can
Re: hal 5.11
Hal 5 is designed to work on windows 2000 and XP, which probably means that the bundled version of Orpheus is probably normal 32-bit DLL's, so it shouldn't be impossible to extract it and run it on more modern Windows. I'm not sure how much both the Sam and Orpheus API's
Re: A question about ssd and harddrives
Reports of how much less reliable SSD's are compared to mechanical drives are definitely exadurated. Look onthis site. The takeaway from this is quite simple, you'd have to write a rediculous amount of data before the drive would fail. If you decide
Re: need help from someone who knows their way around computer issues
Heat could be a very good explanation for major lag. Most CPU's reduce the clock frequency to prevent the computer from overheating completely, which of course results in a massive drop of performance. I had a laptop
Re: slight catostraphie with my external hd
If you unplug a drive without first ejecting it, OS X gets quite annoyed with you. More importantly to this discussion the next time you connect the drive it runs a scan to see if it has any errors, but while this scan is running the drive shows
Re: usb device not installed successfullly .
You say that the iPhone is "constantly beeping" while this is happening. This leads me to think that this may have something to do with either the cable or the port on the phone. Apple's 30-pin cables have questionable quality sometimes, so it's
Re: virtual mac on a windows machine?
I personally use both, as there are times when a VM will simply not be fast enough for some tasks in Windows, I'm mostly thinking here of Windows mainstream games. My Mac has the hardware to play something like MK10 very well, but I would not want to
Re: Best Approved Portable Eloquence-NVDA Strategy
Well, technically there have been new voices from Ivona coming out, but only for Amazon. Case and point being the voice used in the amazon echo, which is available nowhere else. On that note the Android app has been pulled, but you can
Re: FF: your favorite addons
uBlock is actually a good replacement to adblock plus. They both use the same filters like easy list. uBlock is much better optimised though and uses a lot less RAM. I'll freely admit to not having switched to uBlock in my Firefox, but only because I now mostly
Re: i want softvoice tts for n v d a
Make sure you have turned language switching off. There was a version for a while circulating that was completely broken, but if you now get it either from Jake's site, jeff's site or My dropbox it definitely works fine.
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Re: No Flash player installed
I have also went to the page you linked to, and it worked perfectly fine with Firefox and NVDA on Windows 7. I ran it first with adblock, and then I turned it off because ads are very script heavy these days. That caused NVDA to lag while moving, but not
Re: Best Approved Portable Eloquence-NVDA Strategy
So I have tried both the "official" and "unofficial" versions of Eloquence and I can tell you the "official" one has some slight problems that the unofficial one doesn't. Nothing that would be a showstopper mind you, but there's a few
Re: Sapi5 core gone
There are key finder utilities that allow you to extract the key from a windows installation. One thing to keep in mind when you go to reinstall it is that the edition on your windows install disk has to match the product key. That is, for example if your computer came
Re: Repeat songs with Youtube!
Might as well mention some shortcut keys here. Some, like j, k, l, and m, will work anywhere, for others you ill need to first focus the player controls.J: rewindK: play/pauseL: fast forwardM: toggle mute1 through 0: jump to 10, 20, 30, etc percent of the
Re: Monthly chat October
@dark, One thing I can definitely recommend to your friend is that she upgrade to Window-Eyes 9 if she's not running it already. Saying the web support in that version got updated would be a huge understatement. It can now finally work properly with webpages that
Re: Integrating korean, japanese and chinese into NVDA's eloquence addon?
Hi Jake,Your add-on has a bug in the way it handles encoding. If you want it to work, you'll need to set your entire system locale to whatever language you want to work with. Otherwise even proper unicode text isn't
Re: the old versions of jaws are gaun
As far as I know the actual files are still up on FS's ftp site. If you bring up an old version of freedom scientific.com on archive.org, the download links should still work.
URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=232422#p232422
Re: Install windows xp on a VM without sited assistance, does it possible?
Most likely you won't even need an answer file, vmware's easy install feature can set you up most of the way to the point that all you will need to do is wait for the startup sound, hit windows+U to get narrator up
Re: Is there anywhere I can download IE6?
Well, considering we recently had someone complain they got some nasty fake anti virus after attempting to get an old version of Skype, maybe you almost ran into this yourself.Internet explorer is very deeply integrated into windows, even though it
Re: Monthly chat September 2015
@Cae mosquitoes suck. As I once told one person, I'd rather have 20 spiders on my ceiling rather than a single mosquito flying around. I'm probably more afraid of wasps though, simply because when one stings me I seem to have a very allergic reaction to it,
Re: knfb alternative?
Take a look at text detective. It doesn't have all of KNFB's features like field of view or recognizing PDF's, but other than that it's very good. It's free, both on iOS and Android.
URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=231781#p231781
Re: how to remove 360 total security
If it's really that intrusive, try running a scan with malwarebytes, preferably in safe mode so that it will be able to remove its files for you.On the topic of the uninstaller, you can try using NVDA's OCR plugin though whether said installer can be
Re: Monthly chat September 2015
I am writing this post at a time that I should probably be in bed, but I'm not. Go figureSo for the passed week and the upcoming one, I am having work practice at a hospital as part of school. Speaking of therapy, I am studying to be a Massage therapist, and
Re: Monthly chat August 2015
I havent posted in one of these monthly chat topics in a few months, mostly because there wasnt much to talk about on my side. Right now, I just finished my second coffee of the day and Im trying to figure out what Ill be doing today. On Tuesday, as its usually
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