Re: Using apps to walk independently
Try this:1. Open BlindSquare.2. Look at the "Filter" button on the main screen and customise it to know what th app should announce.3. Two elements after the "Filter" button is the radius control, which you may also wish to customise.4. Find the place yo
Re: Looking for Braille display suggestions
The Braille Edge 40 is not the newest braille display from HIMS; check out the QBraille Xl, which is six years newer than the Braille Edge.
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Re: any one here ever learn esperanto?
Esperanto is a great language to learn as a sstepping stone to learning other languages, especially other European languages. Studies have shown that people who learn Esperanto as their first foreign language find it easier to learn other languages. Yo
Re: request for participation in a study
This sounds interesting. You should post details of the survey more widely though so you get more participants. Also, can't you just post the survey link publicly?
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Re: Help with maths
Another good resource for learning maths is this YouTube channel which has videos of an Australian high school teacher teaching his students maths concepts. This teacher was named the 2018 Australian Local Hero.
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Re: Jaws noob questions
I don't use Vocalizer voices, but try going into the Voice Adjustment dialog, deleting your profile, then recreating it. In the Voice Contexts combo box, only modify "All contexts".For your issue with Chrome, are you able to read pages by using the UP and DOWN ARROW
Re: Would it be possible for someone to help me buy Jaws annual licence?
I'm fairly sure that getting someone to buy the license for you isn't against the terms of the license (see section 2.2.2 of the License Agreement for the terms of the Home Annual License), but I think the reasons that
Re: Jaws noob questions
Do they work in other browsers?
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Re: Jaws noob questions
I don't know about the issue with the Mail app. The equivalent of Browse Mode (which I assume is the one which you use to read webpages) is using the JAWS Virtual PC Cursor, which is enabled by default on webpages.
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Re: Would it be possible for someone to help me buy Jaws annual licence?
I thought JAWS could announce indentation. There's probably a setting for it somewhere.
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Re: what is your favorite screen reader and why?
My favourite screen reader is JAWS. I like its customisability and extensive list of features. I can't see any compelling reasons to switch to NVDA.
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Re: on line Accessible geography quiz game?
The only accessible geography trivia game I know of is the iOS game Elementary Minute.
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Re: Touchscreen coffee machine, my mortal enemy
Maybe using a remote assistance service like Be My Eyes or Aira could be an option.
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Re: I need some reccomendations for a few different windows apps
For the weather and news apps, are the apps supplied with Windows not sufficient?
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Re: Which apple watch?
If you do decide to get an Apple Watch, make sure that you can use the GPS apps you want to. For example, Google Maps, BlindSquare and RNIB Navigator do not have Apple Watch apps.
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Re: Which apple watch?
If you do decide to get an Apple Watch, make sure that you can use the GPS apps you want to. For example, Google Maps, BlindSquare and RNIB Navigator don't have Apple Watch apps.
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Re: Which apple watch?
Dark, I am not sure what function you want from GPS. You could ask Siri "Where am I?", but beside from that, unless you want to use Apple Maps, you can't do too much with regard to GPS.Francois, you can't use GPS apps on your watch because they don't have a specific v
Re: Is it worth the money to buy a Victor Reader Stream?
The Stream isn't their newest DAISY playback device anymore. The Victor Reader Trek is newer (but also more expensive because it also includes the GPS functionality).
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Re: Is it worth the money to buy a Victor Reader Stream?
Dark, I actually find I prefer using my iPhone to play audio books and other audio files than specialised media players. I also find iTunes annoying, so I use apps like Dropbox or File Browser to transfer the files between my PC and i
Re: Questions about some of JAWS little quirks that puts me off
Most of your questions have answers that should satisfy you.1. I've only heard about this with Windows 7, maybe with Windows 8.1. What I think is occurring is that it is switching to a more "classic" view where items like the W
Re: Questions about some of JAWS little quirks that puts me off
Try different browsers. Internet Explorer is always good to test against, but it should also work in Chrome. It probably won't work in Edge, and I'm not sure if it works very well in Firefox, but didn't when I tried it briefly
Re: Questions about some of JAWS little quirks that puts me off
Remember to adjust that specific setting in each browser you test in.
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Re: The Wonders of Netflix
VoiceOver is reading the subtitles because Apple introduced this capability in iOS 11. See Settings > General > Accessibility > VoiceOver > Verbosity > Media Descriptions.I would not support using text-to-speech for audio description. Organisations of audio descri
Re: The Wonders of Netflix
I can't see computer-generated audio description happening any time soon. There are just too many things in a film, and audio describers have to skilfully choose what to describe. Many programs have to be fact-checked ("Who is this character?", "What is this objec
Re: The Wonders of Netflix
Audio description has been found to be beneficial to people with autism who might not pick up on visual cues for body language and facial expressions. As I've already said, sighted people are beginning to watch audio description while they do housework or drive, a
Re: A dialect of your language you cannot understand?
You might find this Wikipedia article on mutual unintelligibility interesting.
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Re: Why should I be interested just because its popular?
I don't want to derail the conversation, but I just thought I'd chip in to say that I actually agree with the NFB's viewpoint on the film Bird Box, which is essentially that the film doesn't portray blind people; rather, it portrays p
Re: Braille Focus 40: Worth it or not?
The Focus 40 Blue works with screen readers on Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, and probably other operating systems as well, so it doesn't exclusively work with JAWS.Most hardcopy braille is produced at forty cells per line, so reading on this display
Re: Windows Screen Reader Usage data
Webaim runs the largest screen reader survey every two years, and the results from the latest one will be released in a couple of weeks. You should check their website because their survey is completed by people with all levels of screen reader proficien
Re: People Please help
My answer: not possible. Do I get the money? Ha ha ha.Shame Mung didn't stick around.
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Re: Rubik's Cube:
I started off using this method (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/How_to_So … e/Beginner) because it is fairly detailed, though I ran into a problem at one point and could never continue, even when I consulted other methods. I think I'll check out the method Flackers posted a
Re: Windows Screen Reader Usage data
The results from the latest Webaim survey were released on Friday. To summarize some of the major points:1. JAWS is still in the lead as the most commonly used screen reader by a little more than 15% with NVDA coming second, but 60% of the respondents we
Re: any accessible offline dictionaries for windows?
Socheat, the only accessible French-English bilingual dictionary I know of is the online website www.wordreference.com.
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Re: Rubik's Touch cube speed record
If you can improve even more, you may be able to compete against other people at competitions.
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Re: Accessible bitcoin wallet question
You might also want to check this out. https://icywallet.com/
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Re: administration course?
We need to know what sort of administration. Will she be a webmaster? A secretary? Something else?
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Re: Where I can accessible board games for the blind?
Other companies that sell accessible games include MaxyAids, LS&S, Independent Living Aids and the Braille Superstore.
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Re: This doesn't make sence, audible book not availible in south africa.
If anyone did not understand the previous post, the author was trying to impersonate a person who speaks English with a foreign accent by trying to mimic a possibly Eastern European accent by saying "This is why we use
Re: Looking for private pilots in Scandinavia
Have you approached the Scandinavian airline SAS?
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Re: Looking for private pilots in Scandinavia
The reason I mentioned SAS is that they would have a very large supply of pilots, and perhaps they could find one who would want to speak to a blind aviation enthusiast. What can you lose just by asking? Also, if you spoke to a commercial pilot
Re: Where I can accessible board games for the blind?
When you buy games from 64 Oz Games, they only supply you with the braille labels. You have to purchase the cards yourselves. If you buy a packet that is not the official packet, you run the risk of low-quality cards or not having the br
Re: What Do You Guys Think About Emogies
They are a part of the visual world, and they are only gaining in popularity. Perhaps you could think of another way of screen readers reading them if you have a problem with the current implementation.
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Re: Ebook readers accesibiliti
Yes, I think the $50 one is accessible, but remember that the more expensive one has higher specifications and will probably last a little longer.
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Re: ft...@home.samtupy.com
Is this still active?I had never connected before and thought I might try, so downloaded FileZilla and entered home.samtupy.com in the port field and ftpup in the username field, but it said that it could not connect.
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Re: Should I give up?
(quote=crashmaster) The only time a blind person can stay poor and helpless is tonga where there is nothing for them to do or holland where they try to give them a life. ... And then there is norway, they put the disabled in mental hospitals and thats where you stay ti
Re: Should I give up?
crashmaster wrote: The only time a blind person can stay poor and helpless is tonga where there is nothing for them to do or holland where they try to give them a life. ... And then there is norway, they put the disabled in mental hospitals and thats where you stay til
Re: Learning British English
I was going to post the article that Dark did, but I will say instead that it is well worth reading if you have the time.For some other differences not described in the abovementioned article, check this out: https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/English_ … _varietiesA
Re: Reading books from BARD on PC
I don't live in the US and am not a US citizen, so I can't access BARD. However, from what I know, to get an authorization key for your product, you have to contact NLS. They will confirm your elligiblity and give you a key that you install into your produc
Re: Why I am 100 percent against schools for the blind
How strange, Dark. Do you think that they had good intentions--by attempting to discourage discussion of vision, they would be making people feel less sad for being blind?
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Re: Reading books from BARD on PC
But are there DAISY reading applications for the Mac?
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Re: Reading books from BARD on PC
Orko, the books are in DAISY format. DAISY is versatile because producers can have full text, full audio or both. DAISY allows for much greater navigation than Audible. If publishers invest the time, it is possible for them to allow extremely detailed level
Re: Turn Based Story Telling
You wake up, disoriented. Where are you, you think? And how did you get here?You raise yourself to a sitting position and look around. You are in a cave. You cannot imagine what led to you arriving here. Where even are you, you come to think, because you definit
Re: screen shots on windows
If you don't have Dropbox, open Paint, press CTRL+V to paste the screenshot, and save the file.I don't know what computer you are using, so can't say where the PrintScreen key is located. Try turning on your screen reader's keyboard help mode and press keys until
Re: GPD WIN Turning Off When in Sleep Mode
As far as I know, hibernation is more like turning it off than just letting it power down a little. See if changing it to sleep rather than hibernate addresses the issue.
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Re: water resistant apple watches
According to the Apple website, Apple Watch may be used in water to a depth of fifty metres with the exception of high-velocity water activities. This means that Apple Watch has been found to be perfectly usable whilst having a shower. If Apple thought some
Re: Monthly chat February 2018
Alexa can now also speak in an Australian accent.
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Re: Converting from .brf to .doc or .docx
What device are you using to create the files? Depending on the device, it may be possible to type in correct braille math and get a nice-looking print file out of it. This can be done on the BrailleNote Apex and BrailleNote Touch, and to a degree o
Re: If there would be a way for getting your sight back, would you do it?
I've counted people's responses. According to my addition, I believe that 13 people say they would like vision back, 5 are relatively neutral and 3 say that they do not want it back.There have been many stories here a
Re: If there would be a way for getting your sight back, would you do it?
JaceK, I don't know what series of books you are talking about, but my guess is that the reason the NFB wanted the author to rewrite the character is because he is not representative of blind people as a whole. When a
Re: If there would be a way for getting your sight back, would you do it?
CAE_Jones, he said those statements about independent travel at a national convention: https://nfb.org/images/nfb/publications … dres93.htmIf you were to read the book Freedom for the Blind, it would appear that there
Re: If there would be a way for getting your sight back, would you do it?
CAE_Jones, I think you are talking about this speech that Kenneth Jernigan gave at a national convention: https://nfb.org/images/nfb/publications … dres93.htmIf you were to read the book Freedom for the Blind, it woul
Re: If there would be a way for getting your sight back, would you do it?
Australian traffic signals provide audio-tactile feedback. You can hear an example of one here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0cz1XW9QvEI am not sure if you're saying that the NFB wouldn't provide you with an ampli
Re: If there would be a way for getting your sight back, would you do it?
I am going to respond to what you have said. I am not trying to change your opinion; I just want to explain what exactly the NFB is advocating, and what they mean by their statements.James Omvig wrote:(3)the physical
Re: If there would be a way for getting your sight back, would you do it?
I am going to respond to what you have said. I am not trying to change your opinion; I just want to explain what exactly the NFB is advocating, and what they mean by their statements.James Omvig wrote:(3)the physical
Re: Reading subtitles on the iPhone.
Actually, Netflix and TED support the reading of subtitles. If you can read them in Netflix and TED but not in other apps, that may be because the videos you are attempting to watch do not have the subtitles entered correctly. Perhaps you should also con
Re: Some Chrome issues
A bit off-topic, but Braille0109, I was wondering why you don't like JAWS. Most people tend to like JAWS more than NVDA, which is just why I'm wondering.
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Re: Monthly chat March 2018
Orko, that's dreadful.Well, here are 133 stories about how to deal with telemarketers for your enjoyment: https://notalwaysright.com/tag/telemarketing/
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Re: Writing app recommendation?
You can encrypt notes using the standard Notes app.
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Re: Monthly chat March 2018
Well orko, there's something even better that you can get. There's a service people in the US can subscribe to. When the phone number receives a call from a known scammer's number, it automatically goes to the answering machine, and a recording interacts with the
Re: Csun 2018?
No, but some presenters publicly upload notes from their sessions.
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Re: some bt sync secrets
Is there a way that you can see what files there are and only download certain ones? I have no need for all of this, but I could use some of it.
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Re: some bt sync secrets
So you're saying I have to choose the files on my phone and then have to buy the license for my computer which connects to my phone? How much does the license cost?
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Re: Monthly chat March 2018
Orko, did you like it? It's called the Jolly Roger Telephone Service or something like that—just Google it.
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Re: Monthly chat March 2018
Orko, you should listen to the videos and read the stories I posted. You may find them amusing.
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Re: BrailleSense Polaris out
Trenton, your post was cut.Serrebi, the reasons that one would choose to purchase a Polaris are that it offers far superior braille quality to BrailleBack, and I believe that the method it uses to connect the braille display and standard apps is superior to Talk
Re: Choice of country for life. America, England or other
Discrimination is learned. If that boy did not know what a monster was, he would have believed you to be normal, though just with rather unusual-looking eyes.
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Re: Choice of country for life. America, England or other
This is why organisations for and of the blind run public education campaigns to educate the world that blind people are not another kind of species--we do the same things that the rest of the world does, just in a different way. We
Re: Choice of country for life. America, England or other
This is why organisations for and of the blind run public education campaigns to educate the world that blind people are not another kind of species--we do the same things that the rest of the world does, just in a different way. We
Re: Really need help removing the DRM from an iBook
Aren't iBooks a proprietary format that cannot be exported to other applications? How would you get it to Voice Dream if you could remove the DRM?
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Re: Monthly chat July 2017
I remember it raining for over 48 hours nonstop in my city a couple of years ago, and for some of that time, there were quite strong winds in my area. Then, about three days after the storm subsided, there was a downpour of hail. Floods are quite common in Austral
Re: describe where your from
I live in Sydney. Although Sydney is the most populated Australian city, contrary to popular belief, it is not the capital city of Australia. Good luck finding my address—Sydney is home to about 5,000,000 people. Sydney is located in the southeastern part of Aus
Re: Really need help removing the DRM from an iBook
That application is only available for Windows. How would you remove the DRM of an iBook?
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Re: How Windows Sounds were Made
Windows XP was also my first operating system.
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Re: BrailleSense Polaris out
Even models before the Polaris could b "hacked". Go to the File Manager, select "flashdisk" and in the edit box for an address path, type flashdisk/../ Then, you can play with system files as much as you like.
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Re: Really need help removing the DRM from an iBook
Can the book be purchased on Amazon Kindle? If so, you could use Codex on that file (instructions are provided in the User Guide) and export the book to Voice Dream.
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Re: Reading maths in wikipedia
The math content is coded in MathML, which is supposed to be accessible with NVDA. I don't use NVDA, so cannot provide information on how exactly it reads MathML, but there should be information on it somewhere.
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Re: Studying the interactions of blind and sighted peers.
What is
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Re: Studying the interactions of blind and sighted peers.
What is "the interaction"? I have lots of interactions with sighted people every day. Is an interaction just saying "Hello," to someone, having a conversation with them, asking them for help with something, or something else?
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Re: Creaters of accessible games. for IOS
Go to www.applevis.com and browse their iOS app directory and iOS app recommendations. You will find hundreds of accessible iOS games there.
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Re: Your ideal Braille display
Turtlepower17, haven't Orbit Reader units been sold? I was under the impression that they could be purchased at the NFB national convention in July, and users with not-so-fast reading speeds really like it.Why could you not connect your braille display to your
Re: Your ideal Braille display
Sebby, I agree with you. Unlike most people here, I actually started using a braille display and then switched to a notetaker. I don't think I would ever take a step back.As for the 40-cell problem, I find this to be a problem as well. I really miss that 20% o
Re: Google capchas
I thought I heard that Google had come out with a new version of their CAPTCHA service that was supposed to be better for everyone, including people with disability. Can someone verify that?One CAPTCHA solving method that you could try is by using one of the remote visual
Re: Google capchas
Dark, TapTapSee resumed being entirely free of charge in early 2016. As for the other apps I mentioned, they are free, except for CrowdViz, but as I said, that one never really took off. You could also use AIRA, but that seems to only be available in the United States at
Re: Monthly chat August 2017
Why were your teeth removed?
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Re: FS comes out with a new version of the focus 40 blue
The new version is made of stronger materials and is supposed to be completely drop-proof.
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Re: The people behind TTS voices
I think this is a recording of the voice of Serena. I do not know the speaker's name though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnXq50BGiws
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Re: Accessible GED Study sites?
Not knowing what the GED is, I just looked it up. We have nothing like this in Australia.
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Re: My FreeBitco.in Referral
Bitcoin are mined through very advanced computers that are built for the sole purpose of bitcoin mining. It is supposedly a very expensive and time-consuming process. Bitcoin mining is analogous to how governments produce physical currency. If bitcoin were not m
Re: Creating grafics?
Orko, there is a setting that you can toggle that either shows the raw characters or the emoticon, so log out of your profile or change the setting and you will see the emojis in your post.
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Re: OrCam MyEye?
Orcam is intended for people with partial vision, though I suppose a blind person could use it.
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