RE: Microsoft Office 2011 and VoiceOver

2010-09-28 Thread Dave Taylor
Excellent info thanks. There is actually quite a move in the UK for people to use styled Word documents as a means of delivering accessible information. These do have some very good features. I was entirely happy with them in Word 2003, which is a brilliant word processor, but I really can't work

RE: Word Service, an excellent addition to any word processing application (was Re: Microsoft Office 2011 and VoiceOver)

2010-09-28 Thread M. Taylor
Bravo, Rose. This is excellent information that will surely benefit us all. I love the idea of simply adding functionality to Text Edit, a marvelous program in its own right. Thank you again. Mark From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

Assigning keys in keyboard commander

2010-09-28 Thread Justin Ekis
Hi All, I was attempting to create some more custom key assignments in the keyboard commander, and I believe I may have come across an interesting limitation. At first glance, it appears that you cannot assign commands to special keys, such as the function or arrow keys. If the key does not

RE: Microsoft Office 2011 and VoiceOver

2010-09-28 Thread Simon Fogarty
It's made by apple and it's useable on the ipad and it's able to import / export documents from / to word and other ms office products. There is also numbers, the spred sheet program and keynote which is the apple version of powerpoint, pages is the iworks version of word. -Original

Re: wayfinder access compensation

2010-09-28 Thread Colin M
Hi Kevin! I do not know how long it would take! I do not have wayfinder myself but heard about vodafone's paying out! And I remember someone on the list saying something about wayfinder, so I just thought I'd mention it! Colin On 28 Sep 2010, at 01:01, Kevin Reeves wrote: How long from when our

test, no need to read

2010-09-28 Thread Paul Erkens
Seems like I don't receive any more messages. Just a test to see if it comes through, right back to myself via this group. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To

Re: Alerts causes loss voice

2010-09-28 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Shaun, For me, alerts seem only to stop VoiceOver from speaking when I use an Infovox iVox voice as my system voice. Could this be your problem? Cheers, Anne -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send

Re: Alerts causes loss voice

2010-09-28 Thread Claudio Haase
Hi Anne, I have this problem to. Even if I'am using the Alex voice. On 9/28/10, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk wrote: Hello Shaun, For me, alerts seem only to stop VoiceOver from speaking when I use an Infovox iVox voice as my system voice. Could this be your problem? Cheers, Anne

Re: Alerts causes loss voice

2010-09-28 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Claudio, If this happens often, you should report it to Apple: accessibil...@apple.com They really should know about it. Cheers, Anne On 28 Sep 2010, at 16:21, Claudio Haase wrote: Hi Anne, I have this problem to. Even if I'am using the Alex voice. On 9/28/10, Anne Robertson

Adobe Reader or Firefox

2010-09-28 Thread marcelo
Hello everybody! I am testing Voice Over, and have a lot of questions! ... 1) Anybody knows where can I find a serious report about testing this application? ... 2) I think Firefox is not accessible with Voice Over, but what about Adobe Reader to read PDF files with Voice Over? ... or must I

Cursor tracking problems with ITunes update

2010-09-28 Thread carlene knight
Hi all: I just wondered if anybody else has had tracking problems since the new ITunes update? Sometimes even pressing vo/command/f5 doesn't do the trick either. I seem to have probloems others don't, but this is really getting annoying. I checked my cursor tracking options in the Vo

Re: Adobe Reader or Firefox

2010-09-28 Thread Scott Howell
Firefox is not accessible at this time. I believe there is someone working on this, but for now it is Safari pretty much. I believe there are other browsers such as Opera, but I am not sure how well that works and others can comment. Preview is your only option for PDFs at this time. Adobe has

Re: Adobe Reader or Firefox

2010-09-28 Thread Esther
Hello Marcelo, Although it is possible to use Adobe Reader to read PDF files under VoiceOver control, I don't know of any VoiceOver user who prefers to use Adobe Reader over Preview (or another third party software called Skim that goes beyond Preview's capabilities by adding annotation

Re: Cursor tracking problems with ITunes update

2010-09-28 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, I have noticed no problems. Could you give some examples of the cursor behavior your experiencing? Thanks On Sep 28, 2010, at 12:54 PM, carlene knight wrote: Hi all: I just wondered if anybody else has had tracking problems since the new ITunes update? Sometimes even pressing

New Apple TV runs IOS 4.1

2010-09-28 Thread RvR
Hello all, For all interested I read the new Apple TV will run on IOS 4.1, so hopefully Voice Over is also included. Best, Ronald -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: New Apple TV runs IOS 4.1

2010-09-28 Thread Ricardo Walker
cool! Do you have a link for the article you found this at? Thanks Ricardo On Sep 28, 2010, at 4:43 PM, RvR wrote: Hello all, For all interested I read the new Apple TV will run on IOS 4.1, so hopefully Voice Over is also included. Best, Ronald -- You received this message because you

Re: New Apple TV runs IOS 4.1

2010-09-28 Thread Sarah Alawami
It was alsojailboken. Read more. http://bit.ly/a15QBa. On Sep 28, 2010, at 2:19 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote: cool! Do you have a link for the article you found this at? Thanks Ricardo On Sep 28, 2010, at 4:43 PM, RvR wrote: Hello all, For all interested I read the new Apple TV will run

Re: New Apple TV runs IOS 4.1

2010-09-28 Thread Ben Mustill-Rose
It won't come with voiceover; all that we have learnt is that it's running a customised version of ios which can be jailbroken, although this almost surtainly does not translate to us getting vo. What we'll see is 3rd party addons to the front row type application that enable services that the

Re: Adobe Reader or Firefox

2010-09-28 Thread Scott Howell
Esther, Thanks that is what I intended and stated incorrectly. I did try the voice in the reader and it was pretty much a drag, so I just stuck with Preview. It works for most my purposes, but for DRM content where you have to enter a user ID and/or password, it is incredibly painful and as

Announcing the Historical Access Preservation Project

2010-09-28 Thread Tyler Spivey
Hello, I have started a new project, the Historical Access Preservation Project, or HAPP. The website is at: http://allinaccess.com/happ The goal of this project is to preserve the software needed to access older systems that are no longer in wide mainstream use, such as DOS, Macintosh

Re: New Apple TV runs IOS 4.1

2010-09-28 Thread Sarah Alawami
Ahh darn. Well I still contacted apple about voice over on the new apple tvs and they said they would of corse forward it. I dunno if this one will be able to be pulled through this time. S On Sep 28, 2010, at 2:59 PM, Ben Mustill-Rose wrote: It won't come with voiceover; all that we have

Re: Useful hint for terminal users open -f

2010-09-28 Thread Jude DaShiell
Okay, interact with the text window then hit enter once, and then try hitting up arrow once and listen to what happens.On Mon, 27 Sep 2010, Sarah Alawami wrote: I did. nothing. I heard the sound meaning there's nothing there, the hollow pop sound as I call it. lol! On Sep 27, 2010, at 4:56

Re: New Apple TV runs IOS 4.1

2010-09-28 Thread Goldfinga Productions
Can't one, in Theory, use the iPhone as a remote for it though? There is a remote app for the iPhone. GF On Sep 28, 2010, at 5:59 PM, Ben Mustill-Rose wrote: It won't come with voiceover; all that we have learnt is that it's running a customised version of ios which can be jailbroken,

Fonts and line spacing in Text Edit

2010-09-28 Thread Kimberly thurman
Hello folks: I would really love to use text edit to write essays for school, but most instructors like Times New Roman font and double spacing. I've checked the fonts out in text edit, but it seems very confusing. Does anyone have experience with this? If so, could you give me a pointer

Re: Fonts and line spacing in Text Edit

2010-09-28 Thread Sarah Alawami
I did a podcast on text edit, and open office but you can stop whenI cover that. http://www.podbean.com/podcast-download?b=200745f=http://marrie.podbean.com/mf/web/p7vub/a_look_at_editing_on_the_mac.mp3 It covers just this subject. S On Sep 28, 2010, at 7:27 PM, Kimberly thurman wrote: Hello

Re: New Apple TV runs IOS 4.1

2010-09-28 Thread Sarah Alawami
I believe so but I dunno how well it works. Oh no now that I think about it how are you going ot enter in the code for the paring of these devices? S On Sep 28, 2010, at 6:54 PM, Goldfinga Productions wrote: Can't one, in Theory, use the iPhone as a remote for it though? There is a remote

Re: Useful hint for terminal users open -f

2010-09-28 Thread Sarah Alawami
Ok I'll redo the command later when I have more energy. lol! S On Sep 28, 2010, at 5:40 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote: Okay, interact with the text window then hit enter once, and then try hitting up arrow once and listen to what happens.On Mon, 27 Sep 2010, Sarah Alawami wrote: I did.

Re: New Apple TV runs IOS 4.1

2010-09-28 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, The remote app for IOS is accessible. I would assume there will be a place to type a code into Apple tv just like you type in a code on iTunes. I guess you could just ask someone to do it for you? A little inconvenient, but not a show stopper for most I would think. hth On Sep 28,

Re: Fonts and line spacing in Text Edit

2010-09-28 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi Kimberly, 1. To set the line spacing in TextEdit: • Stop Interacting with the Edit field. • Navigate to the Ruler and Interact With it. • Navigate to the Paragraph and Line Spacing menu and press it with VO-space. • choose your desired line spacing. 2. To

Re: Fonts and line spacing in Text Edit

2010-09-28 Thread Sarah Alawami
The thing I don't understand is why does that ruler not appear some time when I create an document? I have a theory and it's pretty dumb but here goes. It might have something to do if I'm starting out in plain text or not right? S On Sep 28, 2010, at 8:08 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote: Hi Kimberly,

Re: New Apple TV runs IOS 4.1

2010-09-28 Thread Sarah Alawami
Actually the code for itunes for the remote is changed. I can now no longer do it. I come across an unknown and can't do anything more with it. This was going to be a podcast but I had to quit in the middle of it. http://db.tt/1FFbC8v I'm really hoping this is operator error as I have not done

Using Voiceover with Itunes USB File Sharing

2010-09-28 Thread Rose Morales
Hi all, My apologies if this has been covered before, but I don't see any mention of this in the archives. A number of iPhone apps support transferring files from Itunes on your Mac or PC to the iPhone via USB. Am I correct in thinking that this feature is not accessible from the Mac side? From

Re: Using Voiceover with Itunes USB File Sharing

2010-09-28 Thread Sarah Alawami
Nope you can do it. Just sleect the app, which won't read in that particular table. it's the table after the main apps table, then hit the add button and it will be added to your phone. I've done it. On Sep 28, 2010, at 9:15 PM, Rose Morales wrote: Hi all, My apologies if this has been

Re: Fonts and line spacing in Text Edit

2010-09-28 Thread Justin Ekis
Hi tim, This is helpful to me as well. I have one question about the VO-t command for hearing the current text attributes. For some reason, this command works fine for me when I open existing documents but all I get is one of the voiceover sounds when I use it in a newly created document. This

Re: Fonts and line spacing in Text Edit

2010-09-28 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi Justin, Does your document have any text in it at all? If the document is empty then pressing VO-t will yield a muffled ding noise because there's nothing there for it to take the text attributes of. Simply type one letter and then press the VO-t command and you'll hear the text

Re: Using Voiceover with Itunes USB File Sharing

2010-09-28 Thread Rose Morales
Wow. I was fiddling with this for what felt like forever in Itunes 9, and I could get it to work. But with your instructions, it works. Thanks. On Sep 29, 2010, at 12:25 AM, Sarah Alawami wrote: Nope you can do it. Just sleect the app, which won't read in that particular table. it's the table

Re: Fonts and line spacing in Text Edit

2010-09-28 Thread Justin Ekis
Hi tim, LOL. Nope, I wouldn't try to get the attributes of non-existent text. Don't think you'd get terribly far with that one. Seriously though, I usually write a paragraph or two, then I feel like I need to make sure it's formatted correctly even though I know that I changed the settings.

Re: Fonts and line spacing in Text Edit

2010-09-28 Thread Teresa Cochran
Justin, try interacting with your text once you've typed it. this has seemed to work in my case. Teresa On Sep 28, 2010, at 10:12 PM, Justin Ekis wrote: Hi tim, LOL. Nope, I wouldn't try to get the attributes of non-existent text. Don't think you'd get terribly far with that one.

Re: Fonts and line spacing in Text Edit

2010-09-28 Thread Rose Morales
Sarah, I just tried the latest Open Office last night. When I hit a command-comma, OO crashes. Any idea how to fix this? If it's in your podcast, I'll happily download it. Rose On Sep 28, 2010, at 10:56 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: I did a podcast on text edit, and open office but you can stop

Re: New Apple TV runs IOS 4.1

2010-09-28 Thread Ricardo Walker
It works just fine. I just did it on the first try. I would suggest being in the sources table before hitting add anew library on the remote app. Then remember if your devices is connect to your computer that you will see 2 names. For example, Ricardo's iPhone followed by the battery

Operation Could Not Be Completed; File exists

2010-09-28 Thread Teresa Cochran
I get this error message when I attempt to delete messages or empty the mail trash folder. How can I resolve this problem? Thanks, Teresa -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: New Apple TV runs IOS 4.1

2010-09-28 Thread Sarah Alawami
I did and hit enter and nothing happened. Take care. S On Sep 28, 2010, at 10:29 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote: It works just fine. I just did it on the first try. I would suggest being in the sources table before hitting add anew library on the remote app. Then remember if your devices is