Accessible March Madness NCAA college basketball tournament brackets
For those who are in to NCAA men's college basketball, March Madness starts this week! As has been the case for several years, there's a website where you can fill out an accessible tournament bracket, then find out how it
Re: Scarry, but interesting skill in alexa
Hello, friend. I can tell you really want to know how to make the most of your Daily Five Nine experience. I must warn you, however, that proceeding will ruin the fun of discovering everything for yourself. So now you have a choice to make. Do you
Re: The night I lost my wedding ring and rediscovered love
Wow this is beautiful.On a somewhat unrelated subject, the first thing that popped into my mind when I read the title of this topic is, "The night I lost my wedding ring and rediscovered love" sounds like the title of a country song
Re: Monitoring of Google Chrome and fire fox on a school laptop
I almost hesitate to even post this but…If this is a Windows laptop and your PC also runs Windows, and you use NVDA, you could always use NVDA Remote to get around it. Bring a copy of whatever you need to the laptop on external
Re: Something of interest to Sound Audio Manipulators
I actually played with backwards audio at a young age. It was readily available to me once I had the combination of a regular tape recorder and a talking book player from the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicap
Re: Open Tween Ortherisation Issue
Isn't OpenTween the client where their API key was revoked by Twitter for no good reason? If so, there's nothing you or anyone else can do, and it's completely unusable.
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Re: finding old Google search results
I assume @1 probably downloaded these files years ago, so almost certainly wouldn't still have any record of the URLs.
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Re: We should be able to delete our own topics!
Clearly what needs to happen is that the community needs to migrate to a better maintained forum. The problems are:1. If we start anew, we need some way to preserve, and quickly access, all these years of posts.2. Someone would need to step up
Re: RIAA took down youTube-DL
For anyone who wants the code, I grabbed it last night from the following URL:https://web.archive.org/web/20201018130 … zip/masterModerators: If you feel this link should not be here, please feel free to remove it.
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Re: a bit more than usually eargent(sunshine waterfall error)
I just downloaded the new version. This is a different computer running Windows 7, since I'm not at home now. When I try to run it, I get a fatal error running the script Sunrise Waterfall. If an error log is stored anywhere, I d
Re: a bit more than usually eargent(sunshine waterfall error)
I had the same error when trying to run Sunrise Waterfall on Windows 10 at home a few weeks ago. Apparently many others are having the same problem. I'd love to try out the program.
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Re: Urgent advice needed!
Don't count on digital materials being accessible. Yes, I know, in this day and age it ought to be that any digital text out there should be accessible. Sadly, there are almost certainly still cases where digital text is locked away in some proprietary format, with
Re: Disabling hotkey that launches code factory's eloquence?
I'm assuming this is a desktop shortcut. If so, go to your desktop, and find the icon for Eloquence. Alt+Enter on it, then in the keyboard shortcut edit box, delete what's there, then hit OK. That should remove the shortcut. If Ct
Re: Strange Error Encountered
What version of Windows? What were you doing at the time the error occurred?
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Problem with Sunrise Waterfall
Hi,Sorry if this is covered elsewhere. I'm on Windows 10 home, and just downloaded and installed Sunrise Waterfall. Whenever I try to run it, I get a fatal error that says:Failed to execute script pyi_rth__tkinterThis seems to indicate that an error log should
Re: Question for music pr about sonar 8.5 with cake talking script v8.5.2.
CakeTalking is also discontinued. I haven't used it in years. Most blind Windows users I know of who do multitrack audio production are using Reaper with Osara.
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Re: computer power suplie exploded, is any thing else damaged?
@35: I agree with #36 above. You might try making sure the cord that goes from the wall outlet to the laptop charger is plugged in tight. If that doesn't fix the problem, contact the place of purchase, as you almost certainly ha
Re: Honeygain, is it actually working?
I just dug up an old post of mine on this subject. Not sure which actual application it referenced because I didn't look, but here's the post. It applies to this topic just as well.I agree with a lot of this. There's an old _expression_, TANSTAAFL. The
Re: Any data hoarders on here?
Here are my thoughts:1. Any hard drive, of any brand, any model, any production line, can and will eventually fail unless you stop using it first. Any drive, again of any brand, model, etc. can fail with absolutely no warning, taking all your data with it. I s
Re: is there a way for us to configure bios without cited help
Every manufacturer is different, which is why there has never been a program to do this.
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Re: i need a free data recovery tool
Here's my general backup strategy. In my opinion, this is very good, giving me multiple avenues for recovery.1. Everything I consider important is saved to an external hard drive, which changes constantly as I use it.2. Every few weeks or so, this extern
Re: iphone appstore payment information question
The few times I've tried, I've never had any success scanning a card. You'll probably need someone to read the information to you.All of the following assumes you're in the United States. If not, the needed information will probably be differ
Re: i need a free data recovery tool
@op: I agree with what others have said.If it's an SSD and Trim is enabled, it's probably gone forever. If it's not an SSD or Trim is not enabled, you *may* have a chance. If the file is on the C: drive you will be very lucky if you get it back. Windows
Re: Codefactory eloquence for NVDA things
One thought I had about all the links which have been removed is that some IBMTTS addon distributions sidestep the piracy issue by not including the actual IBMTTS software needed for the addon to work. I know at least one repository on GitHub works
Re: Codefactory eloquence for NVDA things
I also have to agree with #3 and others. I use an illegal version of Eloquence for NVDA, mostly because I want to be able to move it around from computer to computer without Code Factory's DRM getting in the way. I own, and use, the Code Factory SAP
Re: Codefactory eloquence for NVDA things
@18: I think you're missing the point. When we talk about one company buying another company's product, we're talking about a legal contract between the two companies wherein the purchaser will receive all rights in and to the product being purchase
Re: mack alex tts voice for windows
@15: The only way I know of would be to run OsX in a virtual machine. But:1. I don't know how to do it, so please don't ask me.2. Even if I did know, I wouldn't tell you, because…3. It's illegal, according to Apple's terms of service. Topics on this forum
Re: is there a portable software to run a mac OS software on windows?
You would need to run MacOS software in a virtual machine. Windows and MacOS are two completely different operating systems, and are not at all compatible.
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Re: how I can make a program to respond
@1: That usually means either the program is doing something really difficult and can't respond right now, or the program has crashed. If it's busy, just wait. If it's crashed, close it from task manager, you may have to reboot the computer to get it
Microsoft Open-Sources GWBasic
This just happened today. For those who know what GWBasic is and want to get it running on any modern platform in five minutes…your dreams are about to be thrown in the back of a garbage truck and compacted. The whole thing is written in 8088 Assembly, which m
Re: how to use freenom, help...
@15: Agreed totally, except that in this case, the people wanting freebies are probably in foreign countries where even if they have a billion dollars, they have no access to PayPal, no access to credit cards accepted by the services they're trying to use, et
Re: What should I do?
#18 is right, but I have one point to make. RAID is not a backup! Many people think RAID, since it has multiple drives, means everything's all wonderful and backed up and safe. Nothing could be further from the truth! True, the data is more reliably stored in case of f
Re: What should I do?
@1: I agree with #2. If there is data on that drive of which you have no backups, and this data is irreplaceable/non-recreatable, and you value the data, seek the help of professional data recovery experts. It will cost probably hundreds if not thousands of dollars to
Re: I have a mac vm?
@5: That link leads to a page in a non-English language. If it's relevant to the current discussion, please post a version in English.
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Re: vg storm is down
This reminds me of something Q9 does. Now granted, this is totally within the game, but if you played a game and used any of the official cheat codes, where you'd normally get an ending scene, Phil would come on and say something like:"Ahem! If you thought you were goin
Re: iphone 4, how to bypass icloud and find my iphone?
As far as I know, if the device is running iOS 7 or later, activation lock is probably enforced. If so, she'll have to remember her ID and password or recover it somehow. If not, the device is permanently unusable by anyone, and cannot
Re: News from Freedom Scientific
Clarification: If I understand correctly, if you do this, you don't get JAWS free and clear forever, but a timed license that expires at the end of June. This means, you can download JAWS and use it for free until the end of June, then I assume on July 1, Bo
Re: stimulus package check
From what I understand, if you didn't file taxes in 2018 or 2019 and you receive social security, your payment will arrive the same way your social security payments arrive, either by direct deposit or mailed check.
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Re: Nathon tech software error?
I'm assuming that program is written in Python, by that error message. If so, that error could mean just about anything. Assuming it saves error.log somewhere and you can find it, you'll need to paste that or send it to the developer. Without the error log, n
Re: Reliable throwaway email address service?
@1: Be warned that some sites have a list of temporary Email providers and will block attempts to sign up/subscribe/etc. with any address found on those lists. I have a VPS that handles Email, so when I'm in a situation where I must provide an E
Re: Getting a scanned image PDF into text form?
If you have a recent version of JAWS, when it sees the text document is blank, it should offer to OCR it and put the text in a virtual buffer. However, this applies to regular PDF's, I have no idea about Adobe Digital Editions. Once my mom pur
Re: Website builder by Nathan Tech
@7: That, too, is a 404 not found.
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Re: Website builder by Nathan Tech
@3: 404 not found.
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Re: an update to multi extra
For Ethen's decompilation and my thoughts about this program from when it first reared its ugly head last year, see the following topic, especially posts 36, 65, and 67.https://forum.audiogames.net/topic/29005/multi-extra/
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Re: warning about nvda remote
I've always said NVDA Remote needs a public/private key system like SSH has for logging into servers. You generate a pair of keys, one public, the other private. The system being controlled has a copy of the public key, and anyone wanting to control that system
Re: speech mode beeps for NVDA
I find the beeps mode extremely useful in several circumstances. One example is if you're doing a long backup/copy/archival operation in a console window, and you want to know when it's done, or you just want to keep tabs on the progress of the operation to ma
Re: urgent help needed!
What #6 meant is, yes, we know from the topic title that you need urgent help, but we don't have a clue without reading your first post what you need help with. Furthermore, some people have been using the word "urgent" in topic titles when what they want is not urge
Re: Lets exchange Q-read software with "A hero's call"
@11: Posting the link to the website is not against any rules, since anyone can freely download demos of his software from there.As far as I know, Hope was never available for iOS or anything other than Windows for that matter, so runni
Re: is there any kind of musical software like this?
There's a program called MidiText that does something similar. Not sure of the URL though, but there was a topic about it in this room I think a few years back.
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Re: opening protected zip file I forgot the password to?
Here are a few more thoughts which might let you solve the problem on your own. I know you've said the content is sensitive and important, but these are just some tips.Do you know/remember anything at all about the password? If not, m
Re: opening protected zip file I forgot the password to?
In my experience, anytime a company is selling an application to do something like crack passwords to archives, recover deleted files, etc. they deliberately cripple the freeware/demo version so it's not useful for the task at hand. T
Re: accessible epub reader
QRead is the only one I've ever used. It's excellent, but it is not free.
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Re: How to pay using Western Union?
I have no experience with Western Union, but please read the following before paying.Be very, very, very, very, very sure you know the person you're paying is legitimate and not a scammer of some kind. I've heard story after story after story of scammers
Re: Need help Identifying mystery USB like ports on the left side of my co
It could also be an eSATA port.
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Re: ebook converters?
It would probably help if you'd include the error message in a post so others can diagnose. Also please tell us from and to what formats you're wanting to convert.
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Re: Best program to recover erased files?
A word of warning.If you have deleted something from your system drive, do not install recovery software on that drive after the fact, since that will very likely overwrite the very thing you're trying to recover. Once something is overwritten, it'
I need urgent help understanding why people need urgent help
Okay, maybe it's just me, but recently I seem to be seeing the word "Urgent" overused way, way, way too much on this forum. As some examples of what really is urgent:If your computer has stopped working properly, and you absolutel
I need urgent help understanding why people need urgent help
Okay, maybe it's just me, but recently I seem to be seeing the word "Urgent" overused way, way, way too much on this forum. As some examples of what really is urgent:If your computer has stopped working properly, and you absolutel
Re: Free and Accessible EPub readers for windows?
There's QRead from getaccessibleapps.com, but it's not free. If you only need to read a book this once, you could get a seven-day trial. Other than that, I don't know of anything.
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Re: Has anyone used an Intel NUC?
My dad and I recently purchased Intel NUCs from SimplyNuc.com. We each purchased the newest model with 256GB SSD, 2TB mechanical hard drive and 32GB of RAM for just under $1400. The computer works great, and is really fast!
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Re: How to sign PDF documents electronically?
In some PDF documents that have proper edit fields where you can type text, you can usually just enter your name where it asks for a signature. If this is not such a document, or especially if the document is, or appears to be, one or more scann
Re: What are the Dumbest Scammers/Spambots You’ve Ever Seen
Probably the most scary, for a moment, was one my mom received a few years ago, which is pasted in its entirety.Subject, Dear Comply or Die.GOOD DAY.I am very sorry for you. It is a pity that this is how your life is going to end
Re: What are the Dumbest Scammers/Spambots You’ve Ever Seen
What I think is stupid is how many of these scammers and spammers target completely at random. Years ago I received many spam messages from what was supposed to be my bank. But the odd thing about them is, I could safely delete the
Re: Our new forum?
All I know is that short circuiting the ban process was seen as a no-no when someone did it to post a clone of one of the infamous leaked source code games produced by a previously banned member. That user got a permaban if I recall correctly.
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Re: Our new forum?
@1: That depends on the forum software being used. Read the manual, docs, help files, etc. or contact the developers of the software.
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Re: Finish the Sentence With Something Random
In fifty years time humanity is likely to die out due to a lack of psychotic electric toothbrushes.
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Re: Help me with my bios...
Each BIOS setup program is different. You'll need to check with the manufacturer, etc. Maybe keyboard commands are listed at the bottom of the screen while in Setup? Instructions on the web for changing BIOS settings tend to assume you have a working pair of eyes
Re: Is there still a chance?
@2: While I can certainly see how you might think this, I assume the op posted in the hopes that someone else from South Africa would see the topic and respond.
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Re: Our most amusing idiotic stories where we screw something up horribl
I guess one of my worst ones was while I was helping my mom put together a section of an online magazine our group of writers with disabilities publishes. This was the first issue, which was to be a collection of previ
Re: challenges we shouldn't play on the forum
The Pointless Necromancer Challenge:Not only do you post replies to years old topics, but your replies add absolutely nothing new, to the point that the topic was raised from the dead for no good reason. Examples are replies like "Sounds good!"
Re: Does anyone have any bns software they could give me?
@2: BNs = Braille 'N Speak, a note taker first released in the mid to late 1980's and developed through the early part of the 21st century. Developed by Blazie Engineering, which eventually murged with Arkenstone and Henter Joyce to
Re: broken external hard drive: anyone able to help?
Try a different USB cable or computer. If multiple computers can't see the drive, it's very likely the drive has an internal problem. If this is true, there is no software in the world that can fix it, and you'll most likely need a data r
Re: free sapi5 eloquence
DRM is digital rights management, any technique for insuring software or content can only be used under a restricted set of circumstances, to try to prevent piracy. E.G. you can only install this software on three computers, you can only play this music on a device
Re: Would you rather…
Right now I'd have to say I'd rather be able to read minds, with the proviso that I don't *have* to read everyone's mind all the time. E.G. I don't want to know ahead of time about the surprise birthday/Christmas present I'm getting.Would you rather…Be able to stop the
Re: Would you rather…
I think right now I'd take the short, happy life over the long, miserable one.Would you rather…Be able to travel in time to any point in the past or future, while your location remains the same, or…Be able to instantly teleport to any desired location, whether you've e
Re: Would you rather…
Right now, I'd probably go for the million now.Would you rather…Send a message to yourself a year ago, where that message can contain any information you wish to pass back in time,or…Receive a message from yourself a year in the future, containing any information your
Re: Would you rather…
Right now, I'd probably go for the million now.Would you rather…Send a message back in time to yourself a year ago, or…Receive a message from yourself a year in the future?
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Re: Would you rather…
Computers are too big a part of my life. Right now I'm leaning toward letting the hacker have his/her/their/its fun, assuming I can repair the most catastrophic damage.For the next question, consider every bit of data you currently have. Every song you've downloaded (l
Re: cool new speech encoder based on wavenet
Maybe it could be compiled under Cygwin? I haven't tried it though.
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Re: solving invisible captchas
What this sounds like to me is that the graphic is unlabeled, and you have JAWS set to speak only labeled graphics in the HTML settings.
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Re: Multi extra
Here's what I mean about no review being trusted. Let's say this program just came out, and people were suspicious. And let's say, just as a totally hypothetical example, that Liam put it through its paces and gave his word that it's okay, and it doesn't do anything bad. Now
Re: Multi extra
Guys, it's the principle of the thing. If I understand post 36 correctly, pretty much the first thing this program does when you run it is to download another program. That's bad enough, but again if I understand correctly, it then does absolutely no checks of what it just d
Re: Multi extra
I think the big deal here is that when people talk about stealing files, what they mean is copying without your permission.If someone breaks into your house and steals your microwave or television, you know immediately because you don't have it any more. If someone breaks in
Re: ETI-Eloquence for sapi?
The only problem is, as far as I know, if you want a stable version, it's Code Factory or nothing.
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Re: I lost everything
@23: Obviously, but it's a bit late to do that after you've reformatted.@24: It might be boring, but you'll be extremely glad you did when your computer crashes!
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Re: I lost everything
@Ethin: As far as backing up, here's my strategy. My main external with all my stuff gets used constantly. Every few weeks I back that up to another external, which is powered down when not in use. Twice a year, I copy my stuff to an off-site location, and when that's
Re: I lost everything
@1:If everything was on your system drive, you probably won't be getting much of it back without spending hundreds or even thousands of dollars on professional data recovery. In addition, just using the system normally is doubtless overwriting parts of what was there b
Re: Is there a way to manipulate my bios settings with a tool?
Unfortunately, the answer is probably no. Every manufacturer does their BIOSes differently, so there can't be any universal tool to do this. I've heard that some Dell computers have a Windows-based BIOS settings editor tool, but
Re: Roland Sound Canvas
You'll need a MIDI cable to connect from the Roland to the MIDI interface on your computer. MIDI uses its own cables, which are unlike serial, parallel or USB, it's its own standard.
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Re: Roland Sound Canvas
As far as I know, those devices are just MIDI devices. As long as you have a MIDI interface that works with your computer, you should be good to go.
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Re: You're an idiot
Well, given that the main character of the story posted in post 1 is, by his or her own admission, an idiot, you'd expect there to be speling misteaks.And speaking of mistakes, there's a small one in the gamebook I posted which I honestly didn't notice until it was alrea
Re: You're an idiot
Okay…with some reservations, I'm hereby putting my silly and stupid little gamebook in this topic as well. The SL2 gamebook inspired this as well. Enjoy, or something!https://www.dropbox.com/s/vid5m1t8v381d … .html?dl=1
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Re: Terrible, Awful, No-good, Very Bad...spelling?
One thing I've noticed over the years concerns unusual words, and goes back to the thing of never having seen it written. Years ago I heard people, probably on this forum and elsewhere, talk about solving captures. I knew they were talking
Re: What's going on with Firefox?
AFAIK you need at least Jaws 18.something or 2018 or 2019 to use modern versions of Firefox. The most recent version which will work with older screen readers is version 56, which by now is probably hopelessly out of date.
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Re: bottom of iPhone xs max not responsive
My personal thought is, the phone should still be under warranty, so get a replacement. I assume you've tried all the reboot/reset/restore/reset with no restore/etc? If none of that fixed it, there's probably a hardware problem and nothing you can
Re: Annoying dropbox popup
I can confirm that it's happening to me too, using JAWS 2019, on Windows 7 X64. Many of my Twitter friends are also having the same problem, and have contacted Dropbox about it, so they are well aware of the problem.
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Re: Skype replacement suggestions
The problem is that, not only do you need to decide on an app, but in addition, everyone you want to communicate with also needs to use whatever app you choose as your replacement. Skype has in effect become an industry standard, and you're going to have a
Re: download the skype7! hi skype!
Never mind all of what everyone's said, but just think for a moment about something. If I understand correctly, Skype is server-based, meaning it connects to servers owned and operated by Microsoft. Even if this Skype installer is perfectly safe (which I w
Re: Best laptop that is fully accessible and will last for 6 years!
In my opinion, six years is asking a bit much. Technology is always advancing, and we really don't know what will be the big thing six years from now. Six years ago I still had an iPhone 4S. At least in the circles I'm in,
Re: Does anyone know of a program that can remove one sound from another?
If I understand my sound theory correctly, here's another way of doing it.This assumes several things:1. All sound files in question are lossless, and at the same sample rate, bit rate, mono/stereo, etc.2. The unwante
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