IMPORTANT REMINDER ANNOUNCEMENT With An Audio Link: Talking About iOS With VoiceOver Part 1

2011-07-15 Thread M. Taylor
Since we've had a few new users join us, who may not as yet have joined the v iPhone list, I am cross-posting this message at the bottom of which you will find a direct link to the audio announcement: Hello Everyone, Sometimes when I read the questions that are posted to the list I wish

Migrating Outlook folders to apple Mail

2011-07-15 Thread Paul Hunt
Hello everyone. I have a bunch of folders that I would like to move from Microsoft Outlook to Apple mail. Fortunately, I don't have to migrate any contacts or calendar items. I have tried o2m from littlemachines.com but it's not accessible so exporting with reliability is not guaranteed. Do any of

Re: Network problems

2011-07-15 Thread carolyn Haas
Hello Mark and Geoff: With all due respect to both of you, Please take this discussion off list. It really is kind of off topic, and not conducive to the resourcefulness we're striving for. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation. Friendly, Carolyn On Jul 14, 2011, at 2:56 PM, M.

Re: One of the Best Voiceover Experiences Ever!

2011-07-15 Thread Justin Thornton
the problem with the dm-420 recorder is not stared in the manual this recorder can not: record inwav disable autogain control no manual level control you can do all this with the upgraded model the dm-520 for like 170 on amazon On Jul 2, 2011, at 1:13 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: I have

Re: roomer has it that lion won't be released today?

2011-07-15 Thread James Malone
Exactly. I mean sure it will be quite different in Apple, but I'm not always full of excitement everytime something like that happens. I mean hey, look at Windows Vista! Everyone rushed out, then within a day were using XP again. I mean hey, great! On 7/15/11, Shen goalb...@gmail.com wrote: I

Re: mp3 to txt?

2011-07-15 Thread Jon Cohn
I believe the folks at MacSpeech had an application for this. Jonathan On Jul 13, 2011, at 6:34 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: Hi all, does anyone know if there's an app that will convert an mp3 file to txt? I know it's probably a long-shot, but I figured that if it exists, someone on this

Re: complex networking question (double nating)

2011-07-15 Thread Jon Cohn
Scott, I would suggest using the bridge mode on the Apple routers. Generally only tunnelling will cause you issues, but any VPN will probably use tunneling. You should still be able to block MAC addresses in one of the manual airport controls even with DHCP turned off. My problem with NAT

quick mac mini question

2011-07-15 Thread Joe Paton
good afternoon all, Just 1 quick question, which I can't find out the answer from the spec sheets. Does the mac Mini have an onboard loud speaker? Many thanks. Joe -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group,

Re: quick mac mini question

2011-07-15 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, Joe, Yes, the Mac Mini has a single speaker. It's not meant to be used for anything other than glorious living mono sound, and it's a little tinny, but it works. HTH, Teresa On Jul 15, 2011, at 7:19 AM, Joe Paton wrote: good afternoon all, Just 1 quick question, which I can't find

Re: Stop Using Headset Annoying.

2011-07-15 Thread Jon Cohn
In the blue tooth system settings you will find a table of known devices. Select your headset and hit the delete key. I usually get to the blue tooth system settings by going to the bluetooth status menu and selecting the last item in the menu. Jonathan Just for completeness there is another

Re: quick mac mini question

2011-07-15 Thread matthew Dyer
Yes the mini does have an inturnal speaker, but it is not go fro llistening to music so you would want eather headphones or external speakers foor better sounds. Matthew On Jul 15, 2011, at 10:19 AM, Joe Paton wrote: good afternoon all, Just 1 quick question, which I can't find out the

Prizmo on the Mac!

2011-07-15 Thread Red.Falcon
Hi all! Sorry to bring up OCR again! But I've seen on the discussions people talking about vu scan and that one beginning with D and Abby fine reader! Then people really like Prizmo on the Iphone! But Prizmo is also available for the Mac and I was wondering why that is not mentioned! Is the Mac

Re: quick mac mini question

2011-07-15 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Joe, All Macs have onboard speakers and the Mini is no different. Cheers, Anne On 15 Jul 2011, at 16:19, Joe Paton wrote: good afternoon all, Just 1 quick question, which I can't find out the answer from the spec sheets. Does the mac Mini have an onboard loud speaker? Many

Re: Prizmo on the Mac!

2011-07-15 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Colin, I've tried Prizmo on the Mac and wish I hadn't wasted my money. It's totally unusable. Even for a sighted person it's messy to use as you have to select the block of text you wish to OCR. I was really disappointed since I love Prizmo for the iPhone. I would recommend VueScan as

Screenreader for old mac

2011-07-15 Thread Ashley Cox
Hi all, Am looking for a screenreader for an old iMac g3 (first gen bondi blue). I know of outspoken, but can't find anywhere to download it, not even a demo I know these machines can run 10.4, but have tried and it's slow on this one, as it's only 233 mhz with 160mb ram does anybody know of a

Exporting a project in Garage Band

2011-07-15 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
OK, so here's the deal, I have a project I recorded in Garage band that consists of about 8 or so software instruments. There are absolutely no loops or real instruments in this file. It's totally 100 percent software instruments. Some of the instruments I used like my base and drums were

Moderating advice - was network problems.

2011-07-15 Thread Geoff Waaler
With all due respect, Carolyn, since it was obvious after over 17 hours that I intended to let Mark have the last word, what was your post intended to accomplish other than an attempt to go on your typical power trip and publicly embarrass Mark and me? As Mark implicitly stated in his

Re: Stop Using Headset Annoying.

2011-07-15 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
Is there a way to speed up or lessen the keystrokes necessary to activate a Bluetooth device? I have the streamer paired with my MBP to provide audio to my hearing aids; works like a headset, and in order to activate it, I have to do as previously stated; O M twice, over to Bluetooth, down to

Re: Prizmo on the Mac!

2011-07-15 Thread carolyn Haas
Hey Colin: I had no idea it was available for the Mac. So, I have no other input except thanks for pointing this out.:) Carolyn On Jul 15, 2011, at 9:14 AM, Red.Falcon wrote: Hi all! Sorry to bring up OCR again! But I've seen on the discussions people talking about vu scan and that one

Resignation of Moderator

2011-07-15 Thread carolyn Haas
Hello listers: I'm just writing to let everyone know I am no longer moderating for this group or the ViPhone group. I thnk Cara for the opportunity to be a part of something so useful and regret having to give in to the suggestion that my being here was a power issue. I'm not interested in

Figured out my Garage Band problem

2011-07-15 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Guys, I figured out how to export my song to mp3 as I was asking how to do, so I really don't need any further help regarding that question. for those wonderring, what you gotta do is, once in your project, go to your menu bar with vo+M. Once there, vo+right arrow over to the share menu.

flash why is it such a pain?

2011-07-15 Thread Karen Lewellen
Hi all, Can anyone send me a simple source that explains why flash is such a major closed door? I am *trying* to get access to an on line course, where the audio for the class would be just as good, especially with what one must pay. even their order page triggers a forbidden error, so i want

Re: Exporting a project in Garage Band

2011-07-15 Thread Thomas Byskov Dalgaard
Hi Chris! you can export the project by going to the share menu and here select export to disk. Best regards THomas Mail MSN: t...@coolfortheblind.dk website: http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ blog: http://tbd.coolfortheblind.dk Skype: thomas_dalgaard Den 15/07/2011 kl. 18.18 skrev

Re: Resignation of Moderator

2011-07-15 Thread Eric Oyen
I never saw anything wrong with what you were doing. sorry to see you go. -Eric On Jul 15, 2011, at 11:06 AM, carolyn Haas wrote: Hello listers: I'm just writing to let everyone know I am no longer moderating for this group or the ViPhone group. I thnk Cara for the opportunity to be a part

Remote support on the Mac

2011-07-15 Thread Thomas Byskov Dalgaard
Hello! Is it possible to share another person's screen while Voiceover is running so e.g. one can try to figure out a problem on another Mac-computer? I found something in the Mainmenu archives but haven't seen or found any other information regarding this topic. So: Is it possible and if it is

Re: flash why is it such a pain?

2011-07-15 Thread Eric Oyen
flash is such a pain mostly because the company never bothered to make it accessible. unfortunately, there is no screen reader that can readit. as for apple support, you are correct. one point, the place you are taking the course from may be violating the US ADA and you might have legal

Re: Resignation of Moderator

2011-07-15 Thread Yuma Decaux
Hi Carolyn, I don't have any memory of you being on a power trip. Being a moderator is definetely a hard job as it can turn to be repetitive and unquestionably stressful if some individuals stand up against what you suggest. But your choice is one which in the end will make you feel better for

Re: Prizmo on the Mac!

2011-07-15 Thread Red.Falcon
Hi Anne! Well what a Bummer! So at least Me and any others will not have to find out the hard way! Thank you for letting us know! :] Colin! On 15 Jul 2011, at 16:44, Anne Robertson wrote: Hello Colin, I've tried Prizmo on the Mac and wish I hadn't wasted my money. It's totally unusable.

Re: Screenreader for old mac

2011-07-15 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, Ash, According to this post from earlier in the year,http://macintoshgarden.org/forum/request-outspoken-92 you can phone and request it from visioncue.com . This is just a googlefest on my part, and I don't have firsthand experience with it, so I do hope it helps. Teresa On Jul 15, 2011,

Big step of Amadeus Pro 2 in terms of accessibility

2011-07-15 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Hi All, recently there was an update of Amadeus Pro to version 2. I just want to inform anyone who don't know that this version of Amadeus took a big step in terms of accessibility: 1. It's now possible to read the volume level in the record window. Now there are two level metres. The normal

Re: roomer has it that lion won't be released today?

2011-07-15 Thread Ricardo Walker
I don't think you can compare this to vista. lol. Apple isn't building it up like the next coming like windows did. And we pretty much know what we're getting here. And for $30, it won't break many peoples budget. And unlike Vista, Lion will have significant accessibility upgrades and

Re: quick mac mini question

2011-07-15 Thread Ricardo Walker
Yes, It sounds like crap. lol. Its one of the worse speakers you will hear. I've heard more bass out of a talking watch. Headphones or, other speakers are a must with a mac mini in my opinion. Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter, Skype, AIM: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On

Re: flash why is it such a pain?

2011-07-15 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, Apple not supporting Flash, at least on the Mac, is not true. Its just that Adobe Flash is no longer pre installed on Macs. hth Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter, Skype, AIM: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On Jul 15, 2011, at 3:08 PM, Eric Oyen wrote: flash is such a

Re: Screenreader for old mac

2011-07-15 Thread Ashley Cox
Hi Teresa, Thanks for your response. I did consider them, but when I contacted them they wanted $195 for the product, and there is no way i'm paying that for a 10 year old screenreader, when all I want it for is for a bit of fun playing around with a mac I got for nothing in the first place.

RE: Migrating Outlook folders to apple Mail

2011-07-15 Thread M. Taylor
Hello Paul, You Wrote: Hello everyone. I have a bunch of folders that I would like to move from Microsoft Outlook to Apple mail. Fortunately, I don't have to migrate any contacts or calendar items. I have tried o2m from littlemachines.com but it's not accessible so exporting with reliability

Re: Network problems

2011-07-15 Thread Ed Worrell
Hello Mark. Thank you for thee offer to help. 1-406-231-6822 Great Falls, Mt 11am to 2pm please check out my music at http://soundcloud.com/blinded Follow me on twitter at http://twitter.com/#!/blindworrell -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

RE: nas storage finally connected, and a USB speaker question

2011-07-15 Thread M. Taylor
You Wrote: Can one backup a bootcamp partition and get same results? Answer: No, you cannot treat a BootCamp partition as if it were a VM Ware Fusion virtual machine. Some have recently asked if it is possible to create a bootable Bootcamp DVD that would allow one to perform a partition restore;

Re: flash why is it such a pain?

2011-07-15 Thread David Eagle
It should be noted that Flash is accessible on Windows with a Screenreader. I thought I better mention this because someone inferred that it wasn't accessible at all with screen readers. In fact, it is accessible with NVDA screenreader which is free. Lack of Flash accessibility is one thing that

Re: MacBook questions

2011-07-15 Thread Esther
Hi Richard, You're asking a slightly different question than Becky did, but this should really go on the macvisionaries list. Yes, you can write and format college papers or professional papers on a Mac. If you need to write technical professional papers with detailed equations or math (of

Re: flash why is it such a pain?

2011-07-15 Thread Eric Oyen
ok, I stand corrected. still, it such a pain in the butt to have to deal with websites that have nothing but flash. take my cell provider: t-mobile. they use flash to display plan info, billing details and payment input fields. I have repeatedly notified them of the problem over the last year,

Re: flash why is it such a pain?

2011-07-15 Thread Eric Oyen
I think NVDA is the only one then. I just called a jaws user here in town to ask about his experience and he reported that jaws was unable to read any text embedded inside flash graphics and he only had minimal access to the player controls. still, it is worth investigating to see if jaws can

Re: flash why is it such a pain?

2011-07-15 Thread Teresa Cochran
Even Orca for linux has more flash accessibility than VO. However, I hope to see flash phased out soon and replaced by the leaner and meaner HTML5. Flash is inefficient, proprietary, and a resource hog compared to the concept of building the player into the HTML markup. Just saying. :) I hope

RE: Network problems

2011-07-15 Thread M. Taylor
Hi Ed, OK, my cell number is: 714-868-6275. I'm glad you're up and running. Mark -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ed Worrell Sent: Friday, July 15, 2011 2:20 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject:

Re: Flash to HTML5; Can it be done?

2011-07-15 Thread Andre Nuno Soares
Hello Doug, Google has made available a flash to HTML converter called Swiffy: http://swiffy.googlelabs.com/ I saw a reference to it in daringfireball.net, but never used it :-) Hope it's useful... André On Jul 14, 2011, at 11:17 PM, Doug Lawlor wrote: Hello list: I am looking for either

Re: flash why is it such a pain?

2011-07-15 Thread Karen Lewellen
Funny you would mention html5, w3c the web accessibility people are seeking an engineer to work specifically on html5 access policy. I have the job description details, so if anyone is interested, I will share them privately. not sure it is topical enough for a post. What will motivate

Re: flash why is it such a pain?

2011-07-15 Thread Eric Oyen
same here. I already use html 5 on youtube. those videos that are html 5 generally are a lot more accessible, especially in safari. -Eric On Jul 15, 2011, at 3:03 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote: Even Orca for linux has more flash accessibility than VO. However, I hope to see flash phased out soon

Thanks to Mark Taylor, for helping with networking problems

2011-07-15 Thread Ed Worrell
Hello Listers, I would just like to say thank you to Mark for helping resolving my not so simple networking problems. He was great to deal with, and very very nice to talk with. Very knowledgeable wiht the networking issues. Thanks again Mark. ED Worrell please check out my music at

Re: Big step of Amadeus Pro 2 in terms of accessibility

2011-07-15 Thread Matt Dierckens
How much is this program? I've heard its a great program for audio. Thanks Matt On 2011-07-15, at 4:01 PM, Jürgen Fleger wrote: Hi All, recently there was an update of Amadeus Pro to version 2. I just want to inform anyone who don't know that this version of Amadeus took a big step in

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2011-07-15 Thread Steve Vandecar
Hello, The like and comment buttons have disappeared from my facebook. Any ideas would be appreciated. Steve -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To

Re: complex networking question (double nating)

2011-07-15 Thread Scott Howell
Hi Jonathan, THanks for the info. I was going to try bridge mode and have the gateway handout the DHCP addresses, but of course this means I loose my DHCP reservations. That isn't a big deal really and I could probably set the lease time to something really long if it were necessary. As long

getting back old emails

2011-07-15 Thread Matt Dierckens
Hi all. I accidentally deleted all of my untrashed emails on apple mail, but apparently they are still on the gmail servor. How can i get these back? There are some important college stuff that I need to get back. Thanks. Matt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: Big step of Amadeus Pro 2 in terms of accessibility

2011-07-15 Thread David McLean
$59. On Jul 15, 2011, at 7:47 PM, Matt Dierckens wrote: How much is this program? I've heard its a great program for audio. Thanks Matt On 2011-07-15, at 4:01 PM, Jürgen Fleger wrote: Hi All, recently there was an update of Amadeus Pro to version 2. I just want to inform anyone

Auto start of bt sound devices.

2011-07-15 Thread Jon Cohn
Mark, My blue tooth headset has decided to stop working on me, so I have nothing to test with right now. My memory however is that there is a helper program of some kind that is started when you select a bluetooth audio device. Some possibilities 1. The volume / sound status bar item will

can't get my macbook to stay shut down

2011-07-15 Thread Christina
Hi all, Every time I shutdown my macbook it won't stay off. No, I am not hitting restart instead of shut down. A couple of months ago I had to take my mac book to the genius bar so I kept shutting down the computer and it kept restarting. I wanted to turn the computer off before I put it

Re: flash why is it such a pain?

2011-07-15 Thread Chris Blouch
Thought I just posted this in another thread so I'll post again with a bit more detail. Flash can be accessible on platforms that use the MSAA (Microsoft Active Accessibility) APIs which means not on the Mac. Adobe also supports the newer cross platform IAccessible2 accessibility APIs so it

Re: Remote support on the Mac

2011-07-15 Thread Chris Blouch
This comes up every now and then and last I heard there wasn't a way that also transmits the audio. Lots of solutions which send over the visuals and give remote mouse/keyboard control. Maybe I missed it in the thread last time. I've done it with somebody running a concurrent speakerphone

Re: flash why is it such a pain?

2011-07-15 Thread Teresa Cochran
Thanks for that exposition, Chris. It should really be in a blog or wiki. Much appreciated. Teresa On Jul 15, 2011, at 9:52 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: Thought I just posted this in another thread so I'll post again with a bit more detail. Flash can be accessible on platforms that use the