Re: Where do you get your music?
Sebby,I agree that real pulldown menus would be best of all the couices we are given. As much as it help, I have found that not only does the "Use Ribbons" option rearrange the ribbons into some semplance of pulldown menus, but it also removes some choices
Re: Where do you get your music?
Dark,I agree, the classic pulldown menus are better, with the menus lined up horizontaly, left and right arrows, then the submenus verticle, up and down arrows. When the "Use Ribbins" is turned off, the ribbons are a pain, but when it is turned on, the
Re: Future coltures of people?
It's not even a valid internet address. http colon slash slash coltures slash
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Re: Where do you get your music?
Sebbby, Thanks for that on iTunes, it will get my iPhone backup files out of my music folder.That may be true when using NVDA, but in JAWS, if you turn on the "Use Ribbons" option, the perception to the user is that they are navigating through classic pull
Re: Fav User Agent Strings
I would like to switch, but I use the Windows favorites too much and there doesn't seem to be any easy way to integrate Firefox into that like IE is.Sure I could set Firefox as the default browser and the favorites would launch it instead of IE, but there's no
Re: Where do you get your music?
iTunes creates a folder in your music folder called iTunes, in it iTunes puts media files added to your library by ripping, purchase, or manually. Why they do that instead of just putting the file directly in your library, I don't know. the Microsoft Zune
Re: Where do you get your music?
Sebby,After what happened with Media Monkey, I don't trust software that comes with tag alongs.Unlike with most such programs, where you have a chance to opt out before the tag alongs are installed, with Media Monkey you are required to allow the tag alongs
Re: Future coltures of people?
I don't think humanity has a future, we seem to enjoy killing each other so much, that I think it's inevitable that we will one day, exterminate ourselves. If you think that's a bleak outlook, consider that, ever since mankind invented or learned how to use
Re: Where do you get your music?
Dark,Yeah, I know all about Apple fan boys for whom Apple is a god and can do no wrong. Sounds like Sebby is one with that last post about how wonderful iTunes is.There are also plenty of Apple fan boys over at Applevis.com. Their general chat section says
Re: Windows 10 upgrade
OK, if I understand this correctly, to avoid the comm error, I need to close NVDA before starting Windows setup?Doesn't that mean I have to navigate blind to start the Windows setup, then once setup is started navigate blind to a command prompt and start nvda?Sounds
Re: Where do you get your music?
@DarkNice, so by careful use of folders, I could eliminate the need for playlists, I can adapt to that.At present I have my music organized in folders by artist, then within each artist by album, then the file names are a two digit track number, a space, a
Re: Samsung 50 inchaccessible TV
What I'm really hoping for is that TiVo will make their DVRs accessible.It was really convenient to load it up with the names of programs I liked and let it record them when ever they are aired, then when I want to watch TV, just go look through all the
Re: Where do you get your music?
That was one of the other reasons that turned me off on that rockbox based mp3 player for the blind, besides the tedium of having to record all those folder and track names, you also had to waste space on the player to hold all those files.
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Re: Where do you get your music?
Brailsoft's Music Categorizer didn't last long here.I followed their instructions for setting it up and starting the mp3 scan for files. It gave me an error about a file not having an m3e header or something like that without telling me what file it was.
Re: Where do you get your music?
WARNING!Disregard my previous message here and avoid Media Monkey at all costs!The web site turns out to be a shameless bait and switch money grab and if you can figure out how to download it, it installs malware behind your back.I can thank got System
Re: Where do you get your music?
WARNING!Disregard my previous message here and avoid Media Monkey at all costs!The web site turns out to be a shameless bait and switch money grab and if you can figure out how to download it, it installs malware behind your back.I can thank my lucky stars
Re: Where do you get your music?
@Jack, yeah, mp3va.com is in the Ukraine, so they aren't within the jurisdiction of the idiot law that says the minimum price for a track is $0.99 or whatever. I wonder how many polititians the music industry bribed to get that passed?One thing I don't like
Re: Very disappointed by some people
We have agencies like that, but instead of being listed as in home assistants, they are listed as in home spam.Dark, like you, I try to do most of my own cleaning, but realizing that I can't see everything, I have this monthly housekeeping service to
Re: Fav User Agent Strings
Hmmm... IE has a developers menu option that I have been just ignoring, maybe I'll have to take a look at it to see what's there.I don't think the dividing line between HTML5 or Flash is that cleanly defined, when I was running IE8, which is HTML4, while running
Re: Where do you get your music?
Yeah, after a while I pretty much figured out iTunes as well, though not to the level Sebby has, as I'm still tabbing around.I suspect that making iTunes accessible on Macs gets a much higher priority than it does for the Windows version. Which only proves
Re: Where do you get your music?
No thanks, that sounds too much like piracy for my tastes.By paying for my nusic through a reputable source, I know the music in my library has been legally acquired and the artists have been paid for their work.
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Re: Where do you get your music?
@DarkAbove each results table there is usually a link to see all results, did you try any of those?You're probably right about the sidebar. When I first got the iPod and was trying to load my music library on it, I found it so frustrating that I eventually
Re: Where do you get your music?
@Dark, I see what you mean now, I tried the search for "John Williams" and noticed that many of the albums that were movie soundtracks were classified as easy listening or orchestral when they really should have been classified as soundtracks. It just means
Re: Fav User Agent Strings
I tried ad block plus for Internet Explorer, but it slowed down the browser so much that listening to ads was preferable to how slow the browser was, so I removed it.
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Re: Any suggestions for a pdf reader?
I second the vote for QRead, A short while back, I was also looking for an alternative to Adobe Reader and had it recommended to me by two people. I tried it and liked it, so I bought a license.You can get QRead here:http://q-continuum.net/I tried
Re: Where do you get your music?
Sebby;Ah, but that is where you are wrong. If you want to load media on your iOS device, your only choice is iTunes. Apple could have been people friendly and simply made their devices look like external mass storage devices with preset folders for where to
Re: Future coltures of people?
Maybe, but the USA and the UK can be the greatest of allies, and still get wiped off the face of the planet as collateral damage when a couple of crazies in the middle east decide to duke it out with nuclear weapons or some other form of mass destruction.And
Re: Brailsoft?
Well, still no response to emails and apparently nobody here knows anything either.Better grab their free games if you want them while they are still available, because it looks to me like they are not long for this world.
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Re: Where do you get your music?
Dark,For me, the number of games there are doesn't mean any thing, to me, my phone is a communication and information device, not an entertainment device.I said I would look at Android, not that I would switch. I may not care for iOS and Apple's controlling
Re: book suggestion for someone who was blown away by wheel of time and th
If you like Dragon Riders of Pern, you might like the Inheritance series by Christopher Paolini, it contains 4 books, Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, and Inheritance. It is also a story about dragon riders.
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Re: Fav User Agent Strings
I'm not sure yet because I haven't gotten up enough ambition to look into it, but for IE, I suspect it's one or more system registry entries.
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Re: Very disappointed by some people
From my perspective, that's what I thought I was doing when I told my brother how I wanted my videos arranged. His response was basically, forget it, I'll put them on the shelf for you, if you want them a specific way, that's your problem.Reading mail
Re: New GPlus Acccessibility Community, Now Open!
G+ is google's version of facebook.This accessibility community sounds interesting, except I don't do social media, from my experience with facebook, it's mostly very boring and a big time waster.
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Re: Very disappointed by some people
Because the grocery store next door to me closed its doors, I decided to move to another apartment in a complex just behind a shopping center with a bunch of stores I could get to without having to cross any major highways or roads.To make getting
Re: Where do you get your music?
Yeah, I confirmed my email address, that's where I got the $0.30 I wanted to use to do a test purchase before filling the account with real money. Apparently a trend developed that people would register, then confirm, then spend the $0.30 for registering
Re: Very disappointed by some people
@Dark, my brother tends to over think things. My folks occasionally hire him to do some tasks around their house. My Dad says his over thinking everything looking for hidden meanings can get really annoying. My impression is that he feels like he has to
Re: Where do you get your music?
Well, If I haven't found anything better the next time I want to buy music, I'll consider them.If they accepted PayPal before, they don't now, in fact they only take Visa credit cards now. Is this a sign of scaling back? Could they be not doing as well as
Re: Where do you get your music?
They do, or at least soundtracks is one of the entries in their list of genres.
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Re: From the TalkBack team: TalkBack 4.4.0.2 released!
Just out of curiosity, how is Android's accessibility these days compared to iOS?The last time I used Android, about two years ago, there was simply no contest, iOS was simply far superior., for people who needed assistance to access
Re: Fav User Agent Strings
Maybe I'm dense, but, is there a point to this?All a user agent string does is tell the web servers that host the web site you are visiting the configuration of your web browsing platform, just in case it matters to the web site's code.Yawn!
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Re: Where do you get your music?
@bucklee12 Yeah, I can't wait for my Victor Reader Stream to arrive, Tuesday the 8th, so I can reset the iPod, clean it up as needed, probably just fingerprints, and put it back in it's box, so I can sell it.You should be able to get a Victor Reader Stream
Re: Fav User Agent Strings
Ah, now I can see where faking your user agent string could be useful. Thanks! I might have to look into changing my user agent string for IE and Firefox and what to change to force mobile web sites to be presented, while leaving as much of the original agent
Re: New GPlus Acccessibility Community, Now Open!
I find it really sad that with all the discrimination blind or visually impaired people have to endure from a sighted world, that some people within the blind or visually impaired community feel the need to be disdainful of a particular
Re: New GPlus Acccessibility Community, Now Open!
I find it really sad that with all the discrimination blind or visually impaired people have to endure from a sighted world, that some people within the blind or visually impaired community feel the need to be disdainful of a particular
Re: From the TalkBack team: TalkBack 4.4.0.2 released!
It does, for now I'll keep using iOS even though I am no fan of Apple. But will definitely keep a closer eye (so to speak) on Android as I prefer its openness compared to Apple's walled garden.Apple simply refuses to learn that, no
Brailsoft?
Does anybody know the status of Brailsoft?I'm trying out their music categorizer program and running into a problem with it. So I sent a couple of emails over the past several days and am not getting any response.And, just in case:When it is first started it asks for a file,
Re: Where do you get your music?
Yup, I was always the same way to a degree even before I lost my vision. My thought was, if I create a place for it, I'll know where it is when I need it.So even in mMy Documents, I had lots of sub folders to categorize things.I did allow games to install
Re: Where do you get your music?
I agree with Wanderrer regarding The web site promoting MP3 players for the blind. They are just taking advantage of handicapped people and how few products are made for them to turn a quick buck.@Dark, my introduction to digital music ,other than CDs, was
Re: Where do you get your music?
Has anyone looked at Media Monkey? It sounds like a nice media organizer and player, among other things. Is it accessible? Here's a challenge for you, go to their web site at http://www.mediamonkey.com and see if you can figure out how to download the free
Re: From the TalkBack team: TalkBack 4.4.0.2 released!
That is one way to look at it.Yeah, Android is so open that carriers can really put their own spin on it, where with iOS, carriers are very limited to the amount of customization they can do,. So iPhones look like iPhones, no matter
Re: From the TalkBack team: TalkBack 4.4.0.2 released!
That is one way to look at it.Yeah, Android is so open that carriers can really put their own spin on it, where with iOS, carriers are very limited to the amount of customization they can do,. So iPhones look like iPhones, no matter
Re: New GPlus Acccessibility Community, Now Open!
Since Trenton decided to discriminate against us JAWS user by not including key stroke instructions for it, I will.If you turn it on, JAWS can detect web application keystrokes and use them instead of the normal quick navigation keys. The
Re: Where do you get your music?
Personally, it's my feeling that until they have an accessible way to deliver digital content, they should still be not allowing digital purchases from the accessible site.I took a quick look at mp3va.com and it looks promising. I'll probably give them a
Re: Where do you get your music?
I don't know, but it must be a recent change because I think I remember seing a line that said "digital purchases are not supported from this site" within the last six months to a year.It's probably just as well, Amazon's price per track used to be $0.99,
Re: Where do you get your music?
I don't know, but it must be a recent change because I think I remember seing a line that said "digital purchases are not supported from this site" within the last six months to a year.
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Re: Where do you get your music?
Dark,100 GB? How big an SD card will the Victor Reader Stream accept? I thought it was 32 GB.Thats good news that the Victor Reader Stream supports m3u playlists, because the Brailsoft Music Categorizer can make them.I'm not that big on play lists, but I do
Re: Where do you get your music?
Dark,100 GB? How big an SD card will the Victor Reader Stream accept? I thought it was 32 GB.Thats good news that the Victor Reader Stream supports m3u playlists, because the Brailsoft Music Categorizer can make them.I'm not that big on play lists, but I do
Re: Future coltures of people?
As much as it is nice to hope for such things in our future, if we ever become a space faring race, I don't see anything like Star Trek or Star Wars evolving. Instead I see something more like Babylon 5, where there is relative pease, but it is something we
Re: Where do you get your music?
Sebby, Why should I have to change my habbits just to suit Apple, as far as I'm concerned, Apple can pound sand.When I first tried to get Media Monkey from their site, all their download links did was bounce me between two pages that tried to sell me the
Re: Brailsoft?
I checked the file date of the executable and found it was eight years old, that plus no response from emails kind of tells me that not only is music categorizer dead, but it looks like Brailsoft is too. So without further ado, I deleted it.
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Re: Brailsoft?
What got me about the program is that when you first started it, it apparently wants to know where your music is, so you are told to point it to any arbitrary file from the root path where you store your music. Very strange, Windows has API functions that allow a user to
Re: Where do you get your music?
If I recall what I learned about CD technology what seems like a lifetime ago, though it must have been only yesterday, to get CD and track titles from a CD requires that the CD drive support CD text and that the CD have the CD text on it. Most CDs don't
Bar code scanning apps for iOS?
Dark wrote:@Figment, I thought there was a better product scanner than either of the ones you mention, though perhaps ask in a fresh topic.Dark, if there is, I haven't found it yet and would love to hear about it.For almost two years, I've been using Red
Re: Brailsoft?
Well, this time it finished scanning for MP3s, but no list of tracks. Apparently the program doesn't present your tracks collection until you tell it you want to do something with them. Not what I was expecting.It also appears that every time you start it, it has to scan for
Re: Where do you get your music?
No, I'm not that naive. But if I buy music from a reputable music store, the artists have a better chance of being paid than if I ripped it from a youtube video.
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Re: Best Bookshare app for Windows?
For QRead, I believe is that the trial version is the full verson that will quit working after something like 30 days.
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Re: Best Bookshare app for Windows?
For QRead, I believe that the trial is the full version that quits working after something like 30 days.
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Re: Where do you get your music?
I feel the same way regarding how I'll listen to the Victor Reader Stream, if its just talking books or podcasts, the built in speaker is more than adequate for the job. For music, I have a pair of J4 JBuds that I really like that have excellent sound
Re: Best Bookshare app for Windows?
OK, I stand corrected then. Where did you find that? I looked on the web site and couldn't find any list of trial version limitations, which gave me the impression that there weren't any, so I just assumed that they were using the most common trial
Re: Bar code scanning apps for iOS?
But, what does your room mate use?
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Re: Best Bookshare app for Windows?
I'd recommend taking a look at QRead. It's a nice and very accessible file reader, that can be configured to access your Book Share account directly to get books. I'm not shure what it's entire list of features are because I primarily got it to read PDF
Re: Best Bookshare app for Windows?
I'd recommend taking a look at QRead. It's a nice and very accessible file reader, that can be configured to access your Book Share account directly to get books. I'm not shure what it's entire list of features are because I primarily got it to read PDF
Re: Where do you get your music?
Whew! My 32 GB SD card for the Victor Reader Stream arrived yesterday, so I spent the whole day rearranging my music collection so I could use folders instead of having to create playlists. Its the same method Dark uses, he told me about it, and I liked it.
Re: Victor Reader Stream New Generation Firmware 4.6 Released
I just got my Victor Reader Stream so I have the model with 6 GB of internal storage. After the update to 4.6, I know I've downloaded some podcasts with no problems. I haven't tried downloading from BARD or Book Share yet. I
Re: Where do you get your music?
Jack, absolutely. And that's one of the things that technology like the Internet is doing for artists. Back in the day, you either got a contract with a record label or nobody knew who the heck you were.Now a days, artists can make their own recordings, and
Re: Victor Reader Stream New Generation Firmware 4.6 Released
I'll just say this. Man! I wish I'd bought one of these instead of an iPod two years ago!After thinking about it a short while, I've decided to leave the wireless on, as I do my iPhone, unless I'm somewhere, like an airplane,
Re: Bar code scanning apps for iOS?
Ooops! Never mind then. Strange that I never considered that his room mates might be sighted.
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Re: Where do you get your music?
Dark,Years ago when I was using a Zune media player, I wanted better quality earphones than what came with the Zune. While shopping I ran across the J4 JBuds, they were described as being ruggedized with metal bodies and tangle proof cords. They came with a
Re: Where do you get your music?
I held off my weekly backup of my system until the work with the music library was completed, then after it was copied to the Victor Reader Stream, I did the system backup.After the system back up was done, I uninstalled iTunes, Apple application support,
Re: Victor Reader Stream New Generation Firmware 4.6 Released
The Victor Reader Stream does download as a background task, where your computer does it as a foreground task. Foreground tasks have a higher priority than background tasks so they run faster.That said, I've not found the Victor
Re: Brailsoft?
Well, this time it finished scanning for MP3s, but no list of tracks. Apparently the program doesn't present your tracks collection until you tell it you want to do something with them. Not what I was looking for.It also appears that every time you start it, it has to scan
Re: Where do you get your music?
Dark,If I switch, I'm not going backwards, Android will have to show that it's accessibility is at least as good as iOS's.The only really good bar code scanner was Red Laser, but it's turning out to be just a demo app to show off the developers bar code
Re: Any suggestions for a pdf reader?
LOL! They tried that back in the 90s in a couple of PDAs (Personal Digital Assistant). Let's just say the experience was rather underwhelming.Unless you were careful to form the letters properly, it fell apart rather quickly and spectacularly.The one
Re: Brailsoft?
Surprise, I finally heard from them last night. He said he had stopped development of the program because there was very little demand for it. There is another email address, it in Music Categorizer's read me, and that is the email address he's emailing me from.
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Re: Future coltures of people?
Maybe, but the USA and the UK can be the greatest of allies, and still get wiped off the face of the planet as collateral damage when a couple of crazies in the middle east decide to duke it out with nuclear weapons or some other form of mass destruction.
Re: Where do you get your music?
Sebby, Again you completely missed my point, I believe intentionally, because your blind love of all things Apple have blinded you to alternative possibilities, so we'll just agree to disagree.
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Re: Brailsoft?
According to Music Categorizzer's trial reminder, you only get five runs before you have to buy it to keep using it. I think this will be my last attempt, then my five runs will be used up.When I tried it again last night, it stated scanning, this time there was no error
Re: Is instantbird dead yet?
It probably should be.I've never heard of instantbird before and wondered what it was so I went to their web site to find out.They must not care if anybody cares about the project or not because no where on their home page was even the smallest attempt made to
Re: a new site for all of us
I'm sorry but I need to be able to see if the web site has anything I want before I'll give up any personal information to create an account. For all I know, the site could be just an email harvester gathering email addresses to sell to who knows who.Pass,
Re: Accessible Windows Image restore?
I had to do this a couple of months ago when some malware got into my system.I used a talking Windows PE environment and used the backup and restore in it to do the image restore.I don't recall if there were portions of the process without voice
Re: FF: your favorite addons
I second the motion. I've had FF installed for about 6 months now and use it for some web sites.The only things that keep me from switching to FF entirely and making it my default browser are IE's integration with Windows. With IE I can browse to one of my
Re: FF: your favorite addons
I second the motion. I've had FF installed for about 6 months now and use it for some web sites.The only things that keep me from switching to FF entirely and making it my default browser are IE's integration with Windows. With IE I can browse to one of my
Re: Windows 10 upgrade
While just browsing around on the internet I ran across this and thought I'd share it. I'm pretty sure some of you will already know about this, but it is news to me, and very welcome news at that!It is now possible to download iso images of Windows 10 without
Re: Windows 10 upgrade
While just browsing around on the internet I ran across this and thought I'd share it. I'm pretty sure some of you will already know about this, but it is news to me, and very welcome news at that!It is now possible to download iso images of Windows 10 without
Re: Windows 10 upgrade
If I understand that correctly, does that mean that if NVDA has to be closed to avoid the com error, that installing Windows 10 isn't blind accessible?
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Re: This isn't for attention
Just keep looking, there are enough honest and loving people in the world that, before long, you'll find someone else, and just might be better off for it.And remember, suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.
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Re: FF: your favorite addons
I tried Ad Block Plus for IE, it slowed IE way down to the point that having to deal with ads was preferable to how sluggish it made IE.
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Re: Samsung 50 inchaccessible TV
Well, Samsung appears to have a ways yet to go before they'll have an accessible TV.It turns out that Sebby may have been right about accessibility being added on to an existing product, though I have no idea if that is the case with this TV.What I do know
Re: Samsung 50 inchaccessible TV
I'm not so sure that Samsung is adding accessibility to their products out of the goodness of their hearts.In 2010 the US government passed the 21st century Communications and Video Accessibility Act. Among other things this law requires that manufacturers
Re: Samsung 50 inchaccessible TV
Well, Samsung finally had me contact their remote support department to have one of their technitians access the TV remotely and troubleshoot it.After he did his thing, the conclusion was that the accessibility software is interfering with the TV's normal
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