Sarah that is not accurate. NLS in fact could develop an app and you can bet
this is being quietly explored. NLS may not publicly saying little or nothing,
but there has been messages posted that would suggest different. So, never say
never and here is something else to consider. It would be
Sorry, Sarah, that was my bad. I get so used to writing VO that i wasn't
paying attention.
Donna
On Mar 2, 2011, at 1:37 AM, Sarah Alawami wrote:
Ah! Thanks! I didn't even think of trying that. I guess Im still a bit
stupid when it comes to this beast I'm still learning after a year! lol!
So, yesterday for the first time since getting my MacBook a week and a half
ago, I authorized and attempted to sync my iPhone. I removed some albums from
my sync list, and attempted to sync. While I was making the changes, itunes
was horribly slow and kept giving me the message iTunes busy.
I used to use FileMaker back in the early nineties and it was fully accessible.
I'm sorry to say that, as of my most recent check of the demo version,
FileMaker isn't accessible with voiceOver. Their Bento product is quite
accessible and is considerably less expensive. It takes some
hi ,
can you confirm that file maker 11 is not accessible con vo ?
thank you in advance .
rossy
Il giorno 02/mar/2011, alle ore 14.54, Slau ha scritto:
I used to use FileMaker back in the early nineties and it was fully
accessible. I'm sorry to say that, as of my most recent check of the
If you install Windows on your Mac, using Bootcamp, then you can use System
Access to Go (SA to Go) for your screen reader. SA to go is free and quite easy
to learn. This is how I solved my problem.
Good luck to you.
Rafael
On Mar 1, 2011, at 4:18 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote:
Ah. I wonder whgy
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According to the article found at
http://www.tuaw.com/
Mac OS 10 offers high quality multi-lingual voices,
There are going to be a whole lot of high quality voices, in a variety of
languages, available for download in the next iteration of Apple's os. For me,
the one possible sour note was the
Random House Titles Come to iBooks
The last significant hold out from Apple's iBooks store, Random House, has
decided to shift to the agency model now used by Apple and others and make their
titles available.
This is a fantastic development for visually impaired book lovers, providing
Hi Mary,
I highly doubt Apple will retire Alex. They invested a great deal of time and
money into producing a high quality voice. It would seem wasted to remove it
now.
Best,
Zack.
On Mar 2, 2011, at 8:46 AM, Mary Otten wrote:
According to the article found at
http://www.tuaw.com/
Mac OS
Hi Mary:
I recently wrote to Apple Accessibility regarding voicing. I inquired about
the possibility of the Alex voice being made available for the iPad. The
response I got was encouraging in that Accessibility indicated they had gotten
a lot of good feedback about Alex, and they couldn't
I am not a mac user, but I, too, emailed apple about porting Alex over
to the iOS platform since he sounds so much better than Karen or
Samantha. I hope they do not get rid of him, and I doubt they will. I
heard a rumor (a tweet, actually) that he has been improved in the
newest 10.7 beta; not
Oh come on, the scansoft voices ain't so bad, be thankful it isn't espeak or
Orpheus. I for one think that the swedish scansoft voices are way way better in
terms of language treatment than the Infovox ones.
/Krister
2 mar 2011 kl. 17.46 skrev Mary Otten:
According to the article found at
Well, voices are totally subjective, and I can't speak for other languages, but
I'd much rather have US espeak than tom or samantha. To me those voices sound
like complete garbage.
Every ear is different though. Some of my clients love those voices.
Personally I think it will be a grand day
Guys relax. I heard a sample of the voices and sorry I should have posted the
article, but someone will. I have to say the new voices sound great and
certainly no worse than Alex. So, I think we're going to be in for a real
treat. In fact the voices will be a download option as well, so you
Hi Scott,
I looked for the links for the voice samples and did not find them. The tuaw
article has a link to the source, and that source supposedly had links for
samples. I went there, found the article and the link to comments but not the
voice links. Where did I go wrong?
Mary
Mary Otten
yeagh I had a chance to hear the voice in action and all I have to say is wow.
they some how made the samantha voice very crisp and bright. She sounds better
then on the ios device. Alex also sounds more bright as well.
On Mar 2, 2011, at 10:17 AM, Scott Howell wrote:
Guys relax. I heard a
YOu can get it from the app store. it is $0.99.
On Mar 2, 2011, at 7:31 AM, Søren Jensen wrote:
Hi.
Where can I get Facetime?
Best regards:
Søren Jensen
mail MSN:
s...@coolfortheblind.dk
Website:
http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/
Den 02/03/2011 kl. 08.55 skrev Sarah Alawami:
Here's a
Hey don't worry about it. We're all on this list to learn and teach. Once again
thanks for the tip and I'll burn it to my brain or teach it in a podcast.
Lol!
On Mar 2, 2011, at 4:37 AM, Donna Goodin wrote:
Sorry, Sarah, that was my bad. I get so used to writing VO that i wasn't
paying
Yeah that's true. Well we'll see. In my head why not just combine 3 three
technologies in to 1 app? but maybe in the future that might happen to.
Yeha the big boss though thought did tell us that it was not possibil to do
this but maybe they have some tuff up there slevs lol!
Take care all
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Hey there
1. Open the application.
2. Either his vo m or hit command o. THen browse to the program e.g
applicationsskype.
3. Navigate to open, do vo space. This should bring you to a window with all
the info about what is being delted, the option to delete it, etc. There it a
zap button at the
For what it's worth, I failed to find the samples as well. I saw the
article text, but nothing about flash or samples, just advertisements
above the article and unrelated information below.
On 3/2/11, Scott Howell scottn3...@gmail.com wrote:
Mary I stumble over it as a set of video controls.
Hey there.
Any idea where exactly you can get memory other than apple? I'd like to upgrade
to 8 gb, but can't find the specified ram, and apples prices here in Canada are
too crazy.
thanks
On 2011-03-01, at 6:24 AM, Scott Howell wrote:
Mike,
You do not need to change anything on your Mac
I agree with the below statement.
And not that I've seen this a lot, but you would think that, considering the
volume of the list, the one liner messages could be avoided, if at all possible
- imho, it is common sense.
Again this is just me. It will complicate more than it would solve.
On
Going to work on mine tonight. Funny it should work on my extenral backup
drive...lol.
Watch it be something simple, lol.
On 2011-03-01, at 3:00 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote:
Maybe you had a corupt pref file someware. tha'ts my thinking.
Glad you got it working.
Take care.
Sarah Alawami
Rogers and att share the same towers, or at least rogers in Canada bought them
from the US.
No wonder signal, overall network speed suck here, though I'm not getting any
dropped calls.
I must say though, I can't wait to move to the us and go on vz. From what my
partner tells me (he has the
Heres another point of view.
I want elequence when I read - booksense, stream, etc. No, stop with those real
sounding voices, I want doubletalk, I want voices that don't pause at random. I
want doubletalk or elequence. Good thing I have 4 book ports...oh, and 60 hours
of battery life.
Sorry
I agree. Sometimes I'd rather have her reading something to me. And I'm sure
they'll improve her on the mac.
On 2011-03-02, at 12:17 PM, Scott Howell wrote:
Guys relax. I heard a sample of the voices and sorry I should have posted the
article, but someone will. I have to say the new voices
Click to flash? What is that.
Speaking of flash on the mac...how do you use it, or can you, with vo?
thanks...
On 2011-03-02, at 2:29 PM, Justin Ekis wrote:
Hi all,
For one thing, the voices on the mac will be of a higher quality than on iOS.
Apple insider has samples of the voices. I
Nothing about fixing bluetooth braille display connections which is upsetting.
Best,
Erik Burggraaf
User support consultant,
Now posting occasionally on twitter at eburggraaf,
1-888-255-5194
http://www.erik-burggraaf.com
On 2011-03-02, at 3:00 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote:
What will the new update
the hello, I'm just curious you mention that they been deal with Bluetooth
Trail, from what I understand it varies by display you support to an IOS when
it comes to Bluetooth braille. So my question is what kind of braille display
you have? Just curious. Cheers Maurice. Note this message has
I use Amadeus to do podcasts. So I have a track with my voice. Then ideally I
will have another track with the intro and outro music. I think I've figured
about expanding and collapsing the boxes in the scroll area to tell it the
track(s) on which you wish to work, do I have that right? Anyway,
HI, I've got a braille connect here. I've also got access to other devices on
occasion, but I haven't tested any on my ITouch yet. Braille connect is far
and away my favourite of all the displays I teach.
Best,
Erik Burggraaf
User support consultant,
Now posting occasionally on twitter at
What, exactly, is broken about bluetooth braille? I have a BrailleNote
Apex and use it several times a week. Aside from the initial pairing
process, which I have only had to do a couple times, things could not
be easier. The one major problem I have is lack of computer braille
and/or a better
Just because it was not mentioned does not mean it's there. ornot there? I
think? We'll see. I don't remember bt and braile beeing an issue but I don't
use it so ehre ya go.
S
On Mar 2, 2011, at 2:12 PM, erik burggraaf wrote:
Nothing about fixing bluetooth braille display connections which
Actually I do everythign in one track. 1. load yoru podcast track. 2. past in
yoru intro at the begining. 3. past your outtro at the end. I add silences to
mine and stuff but you do not have to do that.
On Mar 2, 2011, at 2:26 PM, Austin Seraphin wrote:
I use Amadeus to do podcasts. So I have
When my ITouch goes to sleep it juncks the connection to my braille connect and
I have to manually reconnect it. It's a known issue with IOS4 and some
displays.
Best,
Erik Burggraaf
User support consultant,
Now posting occasionally on twitter at eburggraaf,
1-888-255-5194
Same goes here - though not as good of experience, only did it a few times with
an alva bc640.
On 2011-03-02, at 4:38 PM, Alex Hall wrote:
What, exactly, is broken about bluetooth braille? I have a BrailleNote
Apex and use it several times a week. Aside from the initial pairing
process,
Right,
And I'm assuming the voices on the Mac would be at a significantly higher bit
rate than those found on IOS. So you can't really say they will sound worse
just based on how they sound on the IOS platform.
Ricardo Walker
rwalker...@gmail.com
Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296
On Mar
to me if a one liner can explain something and explain it well then go for it,
but if it is just simply, yes then no.
example number 1: Yes
example 2:
Yes the feature you suggested does work very well with voice over and is very
accessible. All you need to do is tap tap hold and flick to the
I see. I did not realize there was a problem with some displays; my
Apex does not do it, and I had not seen it on the aiphone list. Well,
hopefully that gets fixed; pairing is such a painful process,
especially with the time limit of about two seconds!
On 3/2/11, Tyler wood tcwoo...@gmail.com
I agree.
sometimes one line responses are all thats necessary. Example, does the Mac
have an option for a blue ray player? NO it doesn't. I mean, how much could
you say about it? lol. :)
Ricardo Walker
rwalker...@gmail.com
Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296
On Mar 2, 2011, at 5:58 PM,
If you find out the type speed of ram that your macbook has, you can
just buy any ram that is the same specs.
Bear in mind that if you want to go to 8GB it could get a bit
expencive depending on your current configuration - e.g. if you don't
have a 4GB stick, you'll have to get rid of all of your
crucial.com
On Mar 2, 2011, at 1:50 PM, Tyler wood wrote:
Hey there.
Any idea where exactly you can get memory other than apple? I'd like to
upgrade to 8 gb, but can't find the specified ram, and apples prices here in
Canada are too crazy.
thanks
On 2011-03-01, at 6:24 AM, Scott
Actually, lets discuss this a little there are some interesting points here.
The largest limiter is spectrum. Each tower only has so much bandwidth
(literal bandwidth) that it can use. This means you can only push so many
megabits over all for everyone on a given facility. The more spectrum
Hi Joe,
It will be an experience alright, one that you will cherish for years to come.
I am going to do a podcast for blind cool tech on how to use hot spots in voice
over, which is somewhat of an advanced topic but it is one that no other screen
reader offers. I'll leave you in suspense until
I must admit I am no further ahead with your description. Do you mean that I
should be opening the applications folder in step 1 or the application I wish
to Zap?
In step 2, what am I hitting vo m or command o on?
In step 3, where is this open that I need to navigate to?
Thank you for any
Hi all,
Just got a note from Apple that the iPad 2 will be released on March 11 in the
US. The new iPad is thinner, lighter, faster processor and has both a front and
back facing camera. They've even kept the battery life at 10 hours.
Learn more at and watch the really cool keynote at:
Hi all,
Just got a note from Apple that the iPad 2 will be released on March 11 in the
US. The new iPad is thinner, lighter, faster processor and has both a front and
back facing camera. They've even kept the battery life at 10 hours.
Learn more at and watch the really cool keynote at:
I doubt ole alex is getting the elbow from apple. They have novelty voices and
other stuff like fred that is still about from the 80s, so given the way they
like to keep stuff alex has a long way to go before getting a divorce from
apple.
On 2011-03-02, at 12:11 PM, carolyn Haas wrote:
Hi
You bring up some goodpoints. If you were referring to me making it
cut and dry and advising to try both, I have tried both side by side
where I live. My comments were based on that experience as well as
what I have heard to be generally true right now. It definitely does
depend on the area and
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