Association for the Blind of Western Australia on Twitter

2009-12-14 Thread Greg Kearney
http://twitter.com/AssocBlindWA This twitter account will update each time we finish producing a new digital talking book in DAISY format. Gregory Kearney Manager - Accessible Media Association for the Blind of Western Australia 61 Kitchener Avenue, PO Box 101 Victoria Park 6979, WA Australia

Re: Introduction

2009-12-14 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi Ricardo! Welcome to the list! Good to see you over here. Cheers, Donna On Dec 14, 2009, at 12:17 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: Hello list, My name is Ricardo and I've been a Mac user for 18 months now. I hope to learn a lot from this list and contribute if I can. Happy holidays to

Re: IWork: Announcing styles

2009-12-14 Thread Chris Hofstader
I think that in VO settings there is a read text attributes or some such thing that is off by default. I don't know if it will help you but it's probably a good feature to try. On Dec 13, 2009, at 6:01 PM, Daniel K. Gartmann wrote: Hi, I had to insert text into a fairly complex

Did I lose my network?

2009-12-14 Thread Steve Matzura
My iMac booted up fine last week--got on the network, did what I wanted, then shut it off. THree days later, I boot it up and poof, no network. The wire that goes from my iMac back to the router in the next room is well over 50 feet long, probably closer to 70. Well within the hundred-meter

Re: System access to go on a mac

2009-12-14 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, You're running this through a virtual machine, I'll assume, you'd have to. So the answer is that it will. The System Access To Go is an executable file. You don't have to toggle off VO for any Windows application, as they won't conflict unless you use the passthrough key combination. Of

Re: Thunderbird 3 for OSX not accessible

2009-12-14 Thread carlene knight
I never tried Thunderbird 2, but 3.0 is not accessible. We tried it out. Voiceover found some of the buttons but that's about it. On Dec 14, 2009, at 7:48 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: I noticed that the final 3.0 release of Thunderbird 3 for MacOSX came out last week. Last I read the betas were

Networked Fixed

2009-12-14 Thread Steve Matzura
For some reason, my wife did not see the box in the upper right corner of the screen which said it was looking for an Airport connection. Turned that off, and bingo, back to the net we went! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To

Re: Converting Mov to Mp4

2009-12-14 Thread Tiffany D
I have no idea what you're talking about but I'll try the converter. I just want youtube to stop cutting off my videos. On 09/12/2009, Jake j.schm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi MP4 is a container format, not a vieo format. Mov and MP4 are actually identical, they're the same file format though they

VO says clickable after reading every line in an article on the web

2009-12-14 Thread James Nash
Hi list, Is there some reason why Voice Over says clickable after reading every line in an article on the internet? Is there some way of turning it off or is it informing me of some information that I am unaware of? Thanks TC James -- You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: VO says clickable after reading every line in an article on the web

2009-12-14 Thread carlene knight
Hi James; Usually when that happens it is informing you that there is a link or button you can click on for more information about the particular subject of that line you just read. For instance if you were reading newspaper article about an ongoing news story, you might see this when

Re: Thunderbird 3 for OSX not accessible

2009-12-14 Thread Joel Zimba
I think Thunderbird il continue to be basically inaccessible until the Firefox accessibility issues are fixed. I would think they would trickle down to Thunderbird in time as happened on the windows side. I used to use Thunderbird and it was a great mail program. Joel On Dec 14, 2009,

Replying to the sender

2009-12-14 Thread Robert Carter
Hi All, I continue to have difficulty figuring out how to reply to the sender of an email to a list. It was easy to do in leopard but in the current snow leopard, I don't seem to be having any luck locating the address of the person who originated the message. Has anybody figured out how to do

Re: VO says clickable after reading every line in an article on the web

2009-12-14 Thread James Nash
Hi carlene Thanks so much for your reply. This makes sense, but i don't think that every line on a BBC news article would have a link attached to it would it? I will go back and check. Thanks again TC James On 14 Dec 2009, at 19:31, carlene knight wrote: Hi James; Usually when that

Re: Thunderbird 3 for OSX not accessible

2009-12-14 Thread James Nash
Hi Joel, You wrote: I think Thunderbird il continue to be basically inaccessible until the Firefox accessibility issues are fixed. I would think they would trickle down to Thunderbird in time as happened on the windows side. I think you may be right. Due to Mozilla's applications being

Re: Replying to the sender

2009-12-14 Thread carlene knight
Hi Robert: Press enter on the message you wish to reply too. then shift tab to message headers. Press shift command to highlight the address. Then VO/shift m to the context menu. Choose reply to sender. A new message addressed to the sender will open automatically Hope that helps. On

Re: VO says clickable after reading every line in an article on the web

2009-12-14 Thread carlene knight
What's the URL? Now you've got me curious. On Dec 14, 2009, at 11:45 AM, James Nash wrote: Hi carlene Thanks so much for your reply. This makes sense, but i don't think that every line on a BBC news article would have a link attached to it would it? I will go back and check. Thanks

Re: Replying to the sender

2009-12-14 Thread James Nash
Hi Robert, You wrote: I continue to have difficulty figuring out how to reply to the sender of an email to a list. It was easy to do in leopard but in the current snow leopard, I don't seem to be having any luck locating the address of the person who originated the message. Has anybody

Re: VO says clickable after reading every line in an article on the web

2009-12-14 Thread James Nash
Hi carlene, You can pick any news story on the BBC site, but here is the article I was reading. I would be curious to see if you get the same results as I did. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8411318.stm Thanks for your help TC James On 14 Dec 2009, at 19:50, carlene knight wrote:

Re: VO says clickable after reading every line in an article on the web

2009-12-14 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
HI, I see that a lot of the time on news pages. Danish ones in particular, really. Regards, Nic Skype: Kvalme MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk AIM: cincinster yahoo Messenger: cin368 Facebook Profile My Twitter On Dec 14, 2009, at 8:50 PM, carlene knight wrote: What's the URL? Now

Re: Thunderbird 3 for OSX not accessible

2009-12-14 Thread Chris Blouch
Ahh, wasn't aware of that. According to https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mac:Accessibility#How_to_build_Firefox_with_accessibility you can build a version with the VO accessibility turned on, at least to the extent they've implemented. Has anyone tried this?

Re: Thunderbird 3 for OSX not accessible

2009-12-14 Thread James Nash
Cool thanks for this Chris, I'll take a look at this. TC James On 14 Dec 2009, at 20:15, Chris Blouch wrote: Ahh, wasn't aware of that. According to https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mac:Accessibility#How_to_build_Firefox_with_accessibility you can build a version with the VO accessibility

Re: Sun VirtualBox 3.1

2009-12-14 Thread Mike Pedersen
Apparently a new version was released November 30 (I'm a bit behind) but the GUI seems no more accessible than it was before. One thing I've noticed with this application is that you can interact with the containers that call themselves unknown. If you do this, the individual controls in

Re: Sun VirtualBox 3.1

2009-12-14 Thread Jake
This is true to an extent, but some of the unknowns are not containers but lists and interacting with them will yield nothing. This is largely due to the use of QT as the GUI toolkit which has no accessibility hooks for the OS X platform despite the QT docs statement otherwise. Version 3.1 is

Re: Sun VirtualBox 3.1

2009-12-14 Thread carlene knight
It's not. On Dec 14, 2009, at 12:41 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: Apparently a new version was released November 30 (I'm a bit behind) but the GUI seems no more accessible than it was before. CB -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries

Re: questions about NVDA

2009-12-14 Thread Chris Blouch
If I recall correctly, Windows sort of stumbled into accessibility as far as keyboard controls because early Windows machines didn't have a mouse. So they had to work pretty hard at making sure every menu and widget was usable from the keyboard, at least until the user got tired of it and went

Re: VO says clickable after reading every line in an article on the web

2009-12-14 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, Yeah, that's the interesting part. Regards, Nic Skype: Kvalme MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk AIM: cincinster yahoo Messenger: cin368 Facebook Profile My Twitter On Dec 14, 2009, at 9:05 PM, James Nash wrote: Hi Nic, Generally, these instances of clickable do not seem to be

Re: VO says clickable after reading every line in an article on the web

2009-12-14 Thread carlene knight
What I do when I hear clickable and I might be interested is to click the mouse button with numbed 5 if you have the numbed commander on or Vo/shift/space if not. That seems to work the best. On Dec 14, 2009, at 1:36 PM, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: Hi, Yeah, that's the interesting part.

Re: Text-to-Speech Support on Kindle coming for Vision Impaired users

2009-12-14 Thread Chris Blouch
So maybe I missed a thread someplace but is the Kindle app for iPhone really not accessible? I download and installed it and found the framework at least to be accessible but I didn't want to purchase an actual book just to find out the act of reading was not. CB Jake wrote: But will we be

Readiris pro 12 initial setup

2009-12-14 Thread Mike Pedersen
Hi all, after reading some posts suggesting that readiris was accessible I purchased it. I'm running a Macbook pro with a fully up to date snow leopard. The install seemed to go just fine and completed successfully. WHen I launch Readiris Voiceover tells me that Readiris has no windows. I

Re: Text-to-Speech Support on Kindle coming for Vision Impaired users

2009-12-14 Thread Chris Blouch
While we're somewhat off topic, Wired had an interesting article out on Friday about how copyright owners are fighting a plan to release e-books for the blind. Could have impact on book readers of any flavor. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/12/blind_block/ CB Christina wrote: The NFB

Re: Switching Symantha to Kerin

2009-12-14 Thread Chris Blouch
My impression was this mailing list was about voiceover and Apple stuff in general. Although primarily Mac there is an obvious overlap between iPhone/Touch users and Mac Voiceover users. So I don't think it should be off topic. Of course I'm not the moderator either. That said, some folks like

Re: [Fwd: It's finally here: Google Chrome for Mac. Available today in beta!]

2009-12-14 Thread Chris Blouch
I wonder if Apple contributed back to webkit all their work hooking into the Voiceover APIs, or did they just contribute back to webkit's rendering engine? CB Jake wrote: They must have the content in a customized control that isn't exposed to Voiceover. Given that Chrome uses Webkit under

Is Google accessible with VO?

2009-12-14 Thread carlene knight
Hi: I was under the impression that VO was accessible with Google, butte lately I just get images images images, well you get the idea. I see nothing but images. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send

Re: System access to go on a mac

2009-12-14 Thread Dave Wright
Good afternoon all, System Access and any of it's variants will only work on the windows environment. There are rumors of an effort being made to give mac users access to the SA Mobile Network features in the near future. Best Regards: Dave Wright Work Phone: 347-422-7085 Email:

Re: VO says clickable after reading every line in an article on the web

2009-12-14 Thread James Nash
Hi Carlene, No, I didn't use VO A to rea the article, I used the VO navigation to read it. Thank you for all of your help. I am a long time Mac user, but have only recently come back to the Mac. TC James On 14 Dec 2009, at 21:06, carlene knight wrote: Hi James; I didn't encounter them in

Re: VO says clickable after reading every line in an article on the web

2009-12-14 Thread James Nash
Thanks Carlene, TC James On 14 Dec 2009, at 21:53, carlene knight wrote: What I do when I hear clickable and I might be interested is to click the mouse button with numbed 5 if you have the numbed commander on or Vo/shift/space if not. That seems to work the best. On Dec 14, 2009,

Google

2009-12-14 Thread carlene knight
I found out that for some reason I got on Google/images. that explains it though I don't know how that happened as it did yesterday too. I clicked on settings and then checked the URL and that's what had happened. Live and learn, I guess. -- You received this message because you are

Re: VO says clickable after reading every line in an article on the web

2009-12-14 Thread carlene knight
Maybe the VO navigation reads it differently. Come to think of it, I had a bunch of graphics or something in an article a while back so I stopped reading text that way. I had forgotten about that. I use the item chooser if I know the subject of the article that I want to read an once I get

Re: IWork: Announcing styles

2009-12-14 Thread Barry Hadder
Hi, First of all, vo doesn't see bullets if lists are done through auto formatting in word or auto correct in pages. The only way for that to work that I see is for Apple to fix it which they don't sem in any hurry to do. As far as tables, text boxes, and other objects, there are ways to work

Re: Help with Skype

2009-12-14 Thread Chantel Cuddemi
Skype doesn't read your contacts' statuses. To read the chats, you need to interact with the main frame and then in tract with the chat frame. On Dec 14, 2009, at 7:43 PM, Tony Meade wrote: I installed Skype today and I am having a little trouble which I hope someone can help me with. Is

MacBook Pro and the trackpad

2009-12-14 Thread Robert Carter
Hi All, I have a one month old MacBook Pro. Today the trackpad was not working. I restarted the computer and it worked again as expected. This evening, however, it is not working again. I really enjoy using the trackpad with VoiceOver. Does anybody have any idea how to troubleshoot this?

Re: MacBook Pro and the trackpad

2009-12-14 Thread peter apgar
it is possible that you downloaded an update and it shut off the track commander. check under VO controls, and turn it back on. I have had this exact experience happen when running updates. good luck Pete On Dec 14, 2009, at 9:22 PM, Robert Carter wrote: Hi All, I have a one month old