Re: screen curtain

2010-07-30 Thread Michael Thurman
if you hit f1 or function f1 you can turn the baclight completely off and then do the screen curtain you have to do them in that order. if you do screen curtain first and then turn down the backlight it will turn screen curtain back off. the backlight is completely off when it says zero

latest iTunes

2010-07-30 Thread Shen
It's quite interesting. I just updated to the latest iTunes, presumably version 9.2.1. Now, the About iTunes window is no longer accessible. It just says empty unknown. I cannot even verify that I have version 9.2.1. This version obviously did not go through a thorough accessibility test before

Re: Accessible piano apps for iPhone

2010-07-30 Thread Chris Snyder
There is also an app called Accordio. It's a piano style accordion, but it isn't VO accessible. If you triple click, it will work nicely though. I have it, and I play the little accordion on my iPod Touch all the time. I'm also totally blind, and it doesn't present too much of a problem. If you

changing the email to which the email for ical events are changed

2010-07-30 Thread Sarah Alawami
Ok I want to try and schedule an outgoing message in ical and the 2 mb scripts in mail fail constantly. Is there something i can do on my own for this? S -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to

Vo no longer reading characters

2010-07-30 Thread kary johns
Hoping someone can help hear. I'm not shore what's happening, so I'll try to explain as best I can. I turned my Mac on this morning to find that voiceover won't read by letter's when I use the left and right arrow keys, it will only read by words. Also using tables seamsbe acting

Re: screen curtain

2010-07-30 Thread Sarah Alawami
How can we actualy that it is actualy off, my sight aint what it used to be and I don't have a light probe, not that it matters but I don't want anyone looking over my sholder in the classroom or something. On Jul 29, 2010, at 11:29 PM, Michael Thurman wrote: if you hit f1 or function f1 you

Re: Vo no longer reading characters

2010-07-30 Thread Sarah Alawami
I don't have a solution but I have a few guesses. 1. hit left and right arrow and see if quick nav is on. if it is on you will hear quick nav off when you press the keystroke. 2. Try hitting vo semicolon. That locks the vo keys for most functions. You will hear control option loch on or off

track pad gesture questions

2010-07-30 Thread Mary Otten
Hello all, In anticipation of the arrival of my magic track pad some time next week, I had a look at the article on the Apple website that gives a list of voice over gestures in snow leopard. I didn't exactly understand what one of them does, or at least, when you'd use it. It is the one to

Re: track pad gesture questions

2010-07-30 Thread Chris Moore
I can answer one of these, yes you can add more functionality, you use the existing gestures but with a modifier key pressed (such as control, or whatever you wish) and then you assign an action to a gesture. This is all done within the Voice Over utility under commanders, trackpad. No

status menus messed up

2010-07-30 Thread Josh Kennedy
Hi Somehow I messed up voiceover. when I'm in mail and press arrow keys to edit my message up and down arrow move me by character and left and right move me up and down lines. Also in the status menu control f8 menus I cannot hit left arrow over to clock. it just beeps at me. I wonder what I

Re: Accessible piano apps for iPhone

2010-07-30 Thread Ben Mustill-Rose
Most, infact all of these instrument apps require vo to be off, unless you tripple tap to emulate a normal single tap. I'm a fan of morphwiz atm, plus the dev is in the process of making it fully accessible. On 30/07/2010, Chris Snyder ch...@chris-snyder.com wrote: There is also an app called

working with text question

2010-07-30 Thread Josh Kennedy
Hi also in text edit I interact with the edit area type some text and left and right arrow are no longer moving me by character. also the control f8 status menu if I hit control f8 then left arrow it should go to the clock, but instead it just beeps and I have to right arrow a bunch of times to

Re: working with text question

2010-07-30 Thread Chris Moore
Josh, it sounds like to me you have quick nav activated (easy mistake, done it loads of times). Press the left and right arrow keys together once to turn it off. On 30 Jul 2010, at 15:51, Josh Kennedy wrote: Hi also in text edit I interact with the edit area type some text and left and

Re: latest iTunes

2010-07-30 Thread Barry Hadder
I've been aware of this several versions back. I don't know when it started. I let Apple accessibility know about this several months ago. On Jul 30, 2010, at 1:44 AM, Shen wrote: It's quite interesting. I just updated to the latest iTunes, presumably version 9.2.1. Now, the About iTunes

Re: questions about skype

2010-07-30 Thread Jonathan Cohn
One question that did not get answered was how do I see what contacts are online?. My macintosh is not available for me to verify, but there should be a menu that lets you select predefined groups of contacts and one of these is Online contacts. If you have not found this by Monday, you can

Re: status menus messed up

2010-07-30 Thread Jonathan Cohn
There are three major modes for the arrow keys. 1. VO lock. 2. Standard arrows 3. QuickNav. I am assuming you have quickNav on? If this is the case try typing the left arrow and the up arrow at the same time until VoiceOver says Navigation. See if that solves your problem. Also, I have on

Re: track pad gesture questions

2010-07-30 Thread Jonathan Cohn
The function you were talking about is for navigating tables. If you wantto scan through the Subject of your e-mail's and not accidently start reading the sender, then you could hold down this key and the VoiceOver cursor will remain in the column you currently are in. (much like using the down

Re: questions about skype

2010-07-30 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
Hi, Press command shift o and it will toggle between showing online contacts only and all contacts Light has no value without darkness blog: http://www.theblindsamurai.com twitter: http://www.twitter.com/triple7 Tel: +64 210 22 77 190 -- You received this message because you are

Re: changing the email to which the email for ical events are changed

2010-07-30 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Do you et any error messages? Are you trying to do this with AppleScript, or with the notifications section of iCal? Best regards, Jon On 30/07/2010, Sarah Alawami marri...@gmail.com wrote: Ok I want to try and schedule an outgoing message in ical and the 2 mb scripts in mail fail

my mistake with arrow keys

2010-07-30 Thread Josh Kennedy
hey guys well it worked. all is back to normal. I turned quick nav off and its working fine again thanks for your help. Josh Kennedy jkenn...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: Mail Navigation Tips and Take Control Books 50% off till August 3rd {was Re: mail navigation questions]

2010-07-30 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Gmail and IMAP are a strange combination when working together. GMAILusually has the philosophy of keeping every message in a everything message. There is a document on the Google web site that says something to the extent... Do not check the box to move deleted messages to the trash as this

Re: Mail Navigation Tips and Take Control Books 50% off till August 3rd {was Re: mail navigation questions]

2010-07-30 Thread Jonathan Cohn
On 30/07/2010, Jonathan Cohn jon.c.c...@gmail.com wrote: Gmail and IMAP are a strange combination when working together. GMAILusually has the philosophy of keeping every message in a everything message. There is a document on the Google web site that says something to the extent... Do not

Re: latest iTunes

2010-07-30 Thread Thomas
Dimmedunknow is all I hear. Also it lost everything I had before, not sure where too find all the stuff I had before but it's not there It's gotta be in the computer somwhere, but not showing there now including what podcasts I had been subscribed too. Not sure if I care for this version

RE: word processing and spred sheets on ipad

2010-07-30 Thread Bryan Smart
Simon, it is usable, but you may not actually want to use it. I had an iPad, and I tried this stuff, but I didn't do it a lot, and I haven't tried it in a while, so I'll probably make some mistakes in my description. There will undoubtedly be some iPad people that tell me that I overlooked

Re: Accessible piano apps for iPhone

2010-07-30 Thread Scott Howell
Benn, How accessible is this currently and how soon does he plan on making it fully accessible? I'm really curious about this and I just might drop the $10. I'm a bassist and probably more a hack then a real musician, :), but this sounds like something I could use for entertainment and

Re: questions about skype

2010-07-30 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, Even though you have that solution, however, you still don't see the specific status. You could use Clisk for this, though, but you have to access that through Terminal. Regards, Nic Mobile Me: nic2...@me.com GoogleTalk: chojiro1...@gmail.com Facebook Twitter Skype: Kvalme MSN Messenger:

Re: Window Eyes under Fusion

2010-07-30 Thread Michael Busboom
Hi. I use Window-Eyes under Fusion all the time and have had absolutely no problems. A couple of keys are reversed, but it's not really a problem. Mike Aureco (spelling) did a fantastic job covering this topic on a Blind Cool Tech podcast. Best regards, Mike On 19,Jul,2010, at 10:40 PM,

Re: screen curtain

2010-07-30 Thread Michael Thurman
well i had my girlfriend verify visually that with the brightness turned all the way down you can barely read the screen and only in bright light, and with the streen curtain turned on after you turn the brightness down to zero the back light is off and no one can n read it On Jul 30, 2010, at

VMWare issue

2010-07-30 Thread John D . Lipsey
Hi list. I recently installed VMWare fusion on my MacBook so I can run Windows XP if I ever need to. Installing VMWare was easy enough. I then located an XP install CD in my basement. I'm not sure how long we've had it kicking around here, but from all I could tell the disk was in working

Re: screen curtain

2010-07-30 Thread Sarah Alawami
Hmm interesting. I wodner if the iphone's screen curtains work the same? S On Jul 30, 2010, at 11:27 AM, Michael Thurman wrote: well i had my girlfriend verify visually that with the brightness turned all the way down you can barely read the screen and only in bright light, and with the

Re: questions about skype

2010-07-30 Thread Sarah Alawami
some of the buttons are labeled in my case. but the 3 images are statuses for contacts. Sadly we cannot see them. but try clisk at http://dlee.org/skype an click on the clisk link. It is a command line interface for skype that will let you do everything you can do from the skype interface and a

Re: changing the email to which the email for ical events are changed

2010-07-30 Thread Sarah Alawami
I'm trying to do this with the notifications sectionof ical but my main goal is to schedual let's say a happy burthday message to a contact, or a twitter message, or an email reminder to someone's cell phone. I used the script solution at version tracker but it fails every single time unless

OT Help from a windows 7 user

2010-07-30 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi all, Sorry for this, but I know some of you here are using Windows 7. If you could email me off-list, I could really use some help with configuring Outlook 2010. You can email me privately at goodi...@msu.edu. TIA, Donna -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: Mail Navigation Tips and Take Control Books 50% off till August 3rd {was Re: mail navigation questions]

2010-07-30 Thread Thomas
It depends on your gmail settings. If you have archiving turned off on the given gmail acount you should be able to go to acounts in preferences select the given acount in the table if you have more than one acount, then I believe click the Advanced tab and there is a remove from server

Re: New Tech Doctor podcast

2010-07-30 Thread Chris Blouch
If you want just the Sad Song Long tv commercial you can find it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFygMFjiK2c CB Kimberly thurman wrote: Dr. Carter, thanks for the trip down memory lane. The Apple 2 was the first computer I ever had my hands on back in the mid 80's. I used one of the

Re: blue tooth on iPad

2010-07-30 Thread Esther
Hi Simon, I'm not sure why the BlueAnt V1 isn't picked up by the iPad; the BlueAnt Q1 can pair to the iPad and also relay VoiceOver (with the Firmware upgrade support of A2DP). A Jawbone Icon without the Firmware upgrade to support A2DP wasn't seen by the iPad, so maybe the iPad

RE: blue tooth on iPad

2010-07-30 Thread Simon Fogarty
Hi Esther, Yeah it's weird I've just run the ipad updates and will try again but can't figure it. The iphone works fine with the blueant v1 and that's ios 4.01. so will have to do some more trying. Thanks for the thoughts I might have to look at the q1 as an alternate. Cheers simon

Re: Mail Navigation Tips and Take Control Books 50% off till August 3rd {was Re: mail navigation questions]

2010-07-30 Thread annelie robledo
Thank you for this info. I do have one more question. Will the information you provided work if I have my account sent as a pop account? Thanks On Jul 30, 2010, at 11:16 AM, Jonathan Cohn wrote: Gmail and IMAP are a strange combination when working together. GMAILusually has the philosophy of

OLd School ClarisWorks Translator

2010-07-30 Thread Kevin Shaw
Hello there, Way back in the day, I used to use a productivity package called ClarisWorks. I have a few hundred files still left in that format and am wondering if there is some type of extension or application that will allow me to convert or read these files. Any help would be appreciated.

Gamer Chat Seven Central tomorrow.

2010-07-30 Thread Orin
Hello everyone, Me and a friend decided to have a gamer chat over the phone via a conference system. Topics can be anything related to gaming for the blind as well as general games you've played. You can talk about console games you've played or have played in the passed, audio games, arcade

RE: blue tooth on iPad

2010-07-30 Thread Simon Fogarty
Esther, is the q1, also a single ear head phone, or is it both ears? -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Esther Sent: Saturday, 31 July 2010 9:31 a.m. To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: blue tooth

RE: Thoughts on Magic Trackpad

2010-07-30 Thread Simon Fogarty
So using one of these magic track pads, will allow you to use an IMac in the same way as the vo interface on the iPhone? -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Daniel Rowe Sent: Friday, 30 July 2010 7:40 a.m. To:

RE: Vo no longer reading characters

2010-07-30 Thread Linda Adams
Carrie, In case you didn't see Chris' response to Josh on the same issue, you probably have Quick Nav turned on. To turn it off, press the left and right arrows at the same time. I am uncertain if this will also solve your problem with Tables. If not,, you can re-post. HTH, Linda

RE: Thoughts on Magic Trackpad

2010-07-30 Thread Chantelle Griffiths
Hi Simon, Yes, you can use it in a very similar way to VO on the iPhone. I received my magic trackpad yesterday and it works brilliantly from what I can tell so far. It's extremely responsive and there's plenty of room to carry out the gestures. Plus, with the option to add customised gestures

RE: status menus messed up

2010-07-30 Thread Linda Adams
Josh, Here is a setting that will let you check the time and date with a simple 2 key command instead of using the Status Menu. I got this from a posting from Ricardo Walker. It works great. Open up Voiceover utility with VO F8. Interact, arrow down to commanders, then stop interacting. VO

Accessible App - Meet Me

2010-07-30 Thread Cara Quinn
Hi All; I wanted to post about a very cool and accessible app called Meet Me. With it you can enter two locations and find places to meet in between. The app is 0.99 USD and I'll describe it in a bit more detail after the linkie! http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/meetme/id322956966?mt=8 To

Time Capsule Software Compatibility

2010-07-30 Thread Debra Turner
Hi All, I have a MacBook Pro and a couple of Pcs one running Windows 7 and the other system running Vista. How well does the software that comes with time capsule work with Voiceover for the mac and Pcs with Jaws? Could I backup my Pcs to the system? Debra -- You received this message

blueant headsets

2010-07-30 Thread Simon Fogarty
Does anyone know if the blueant devices can be firmware updated And also, has anyone used a blueant device to make a skype call on an iPad or iphone? Also, can anyone tell me if there is an apple site that will recommend Bluetooth devices for the pad or phones? I've looked on the apple

RE: blueant headsets

2010-07-30 Thread Kolby Garrison
I have the blueant q1, and the blueant Bluetooth headset firmware is updatable via the blueant updater. I see no reason why the blueant headsets would not work with apple devices, but I do not have any apple devices. Kolby -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google