Re: Magic Trackpad and IPhone

2011-08-02 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
No, the I phone is not like the track pad as I do not have the magic one. I find the I phone less sensative and on occasions find that I have to tap the I phone twice to open things. Kawal. Sent from my iPhone On 2 Aug 2011, at 04:00 AM, Christopher Peppel chris.a.pep...@gmail.com wrote: Hi

Activities.

2011-08-02 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Hello All. I listened to Ricardo's podcast re activities and tried setting a safari activity changing the voice too. I turned Voice over off before loading Safari and turned Voice Over back on. The voice did not change so I assume the activity did not work. I wish to know what I am doing

airdrop

2011-08-02 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi listers, I think I need a bit of help getting airdrop to work. As discussed earlier on the list, drag and drop with VoiceOver, using v o comma to indicate the item to drag, and v o period to start the drag operation onto the spot where the voice over cursor is at the key press, does not work

Restoring my IPhone

2011-08-02 Thread Paul Hunt
Hello everyone. This morning my IPhone update failed so I had to restore it. I chose to restore from my IPhone backup. All is well except for my apps. My folders are app there but none of my purchased apps are. I looked in my apps tab and can see all of them. I thought I could check the apps that

Re: Restoring my IPhone

2011-08-02 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Have you tried connecting to Itunes using your Mac or computer? Kawal. Sent from my iPhone On 2 Aug 2011, at 10:38 AM, Paul Hunt prh...@suddenlink.net wrote: Hello everyone. This morning my IPhone update failed so I had to restore it. I chose to restore from my IPhone backup. All is well

Lion Mail, Conversations view and interacting

2011-08-02 Thread Neil Barnfather - TalkNav
Hi All, A hopefully quick question, I used to have my mail in Snow Leopard set up so that my forums mail, which has its own mailbox and e-mail address, would be shown in a threaded view, I would arrow down my mailbox list to the Forums mailbox, stop interacting and arrow right to the messages

Re: Lion Mail, Conversations view and interacting

2011-08-02 Thread Chris Moore
Yeah I must admit, I used to browse this way too. I have not tried it in classic mode, so have you tried to see if you can still do it that way? On 2 Aug 2011, at 10:53, Neil Barnfather - TalkNav wrote: Hi All, A hopefully quick question, I used to have my mail in Snow Leopard set up so

Re: where do the new voices go?

2011-08-02 Thread Red.Falcon
Hi Ricardo! Someone on the other list suggested that you might find them in /System/Library/Speech/Voices. And be able to delete from there! Colin On 2 Aug 2011, at 01:27, Ricardo Walker wrote: Hello list, I was wondering, when you download the new voices found in Lion, where do they go? I

Re: Lion Mail, Conversations view and interacting

2011-08-02 Thread Neil Barnfather - TalkNav
it does seem to work that way in classic view, but my opinion is that switching back to classic view is ultimately self defeating, as eventually classic view will go, and this will not be in Lion sure, but perhaps a revision or so down the line, at which time, learning all the changes from Snow

Re: Activities.

2011-08-02 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hello, Kawal, I'll see if I can spell the steps out both thoroughly and concisely. Open VO Utility and choose Activities from the categories list. Then go to the add button and press it. Follow all of the controls on the new activity screen. You must name your activity by choosing a running

Re: Lion Mail, Conversations view and interacting

2011-08-02 Thread Teresa Cochran
I find that using the favorites bar in combination with quick-keys associated with it makes the new layout very easy to navigate. Once you create aliases in the favorites bar by simply dragging the mailboxes to it, you have the keystrokes command-1, command-2, command-3, etc. depending on the

Re: Activities.

2011-08-02 Thread Teresa Cochran
I should clarify something I said. In the new activity settings, there is a place for the title. Just rename it from the default untitled. There is also a setting to associate it with an application. It's best to have the application open before you open the new activity, as all the open ones

Re: Activities.

2011-08-02 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Hello Teresa. I did as you have described, but when I opened Safari after turning Voice Over Off and on, I expected to hear Daniel but Alex was still speaking so what is wrong? I even restarted the Mac just in case. What do you and others think? Kawal. Sent from my iPhone On 2 Aug 2011, at

Re: Activities.

2011-08-02 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, Kawal, Are there other settings in the activity that you've verified to be working? Also, have you tested the downloadable voices to see if they are available on your computer? Teresa On Aug 2, 2011, at 6:47 AM, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: Hello Teresa. I did as you have described, but

Re: Activities.

2011-08-02 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Hi Teresa. I did specify other settings for safari such as quick Nav and had downloaded quite a number of voices long before I tried this. Quick Nav works. Kawal. Sent from my iPhone On 2 Aug 2011, at 03:21 PM, Teresa Cochran vegaspipistre...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Kawal, Are there other

Re: discovery between vm fusion and mac?

2011-08-02 Thread Buddy Brannan
Hi, The keys in Fusion won't remap as you expect unless you remap them in your virtual machine using Fusion. In other words, the right cmd key is also a Windows key, just as the left cmd key is; the right option key is also alt, just as the left option key is alt. You will want to remap these

Help needed on completing a survey on Safari

2011-08-02 Thread Linda Adams
Hi, I am trying to complete a survey and can't get past the first question. It does not have check boxes so I assume that I need to click on the appropriate choice. I have a laptop with a trackpad and I'm still using Snow Leopard. In all attempts I first verified that the mouse was on the

Re: where do the new voices go?

2011-08-02 Thread Ricardo Walker
Thanks for that. That's exactly where they are stored. Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter Skype: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On Aug 2, 2011, at 6:19 AM, Red.Falcon wrote: Hi Ricardo! Someone on the other list suggested that you might find them in /System/Library/Speech/Voices.

Re: Activities.

2011-08-02 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi Kawal, I think changing the voice manually when you open safari should do it. Go to Safari and press VO command Left Or right arrow until you reach the voices category then, press VO command down arrow to select Daniel. He should be the default voice for Safari now. hth Ricardo Walker

Re: Help needed on completing a survey on Safari

2011-08-02 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Linda, Having tried everything I could think of to make this work, I asked my husband to have a look. The buttons to select Yes, No, or I don't know, are inaccessible with VO. VO reads the labels, but the actual buttons are to the left, and VO skips over them. The Web rotor shows no

Re: discovery between vm fusion and mac?

2011-08-02 Thread KliphSharrie
My keys are already remapped. And like I said in my previous post, I'm able to copy something to the clip board in windows, using mac commands, and when I paste it in mac documents or email, it works. just fine Kliphton SR (twitterSkype) kliphton72 (Marriage Blog)

Calibre

2011-08-02 Thread Selena Sang
Hey guys, I just installed calibre on my Mac and have found it to be inaccessible. I know the topic has come up before here but I would like someone to point me in the right direction to command line help if possible. When I launch the application itself as you know, there are a lot of

Safari

2011-08-02 Thread Selena Sang
Hey, I don't know if it's me with the problem with the new update to safari and pages like Google, but I have been experiencing some problems with text fields. When I go to google to search, voiceover does not read anything I'm typing though it does type. After my search is complete and I want

A fission question

2011-08-02 Thread Courtney Curran
Hi, I have a question about the audio editor called fission from Rogue Amoeba. How can I select and remove chunks of a file, I was told that it's accessible? Thanks, Courtney -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this

strange dropbox problem in Lion

2011-08-02 Thread Peggy Fleischer
Hi: I have had a strange thing happen since I upgraded to Lion with dropbox. The problem is I no longer see the dropbox submenu in my context menu. How can I copy public links or share a folder without seeing this menu? Has anyone else had this problem? -- You received this message

Re: Just my thoughts regarding CCC Carbon Copy Cloner

2011-08-02 Thread Chris Blouch
Wish I had noted this before. My manager just got a new Macbook so we used CCC to migrate everything from his old Macbook to the new one by putting the new machine in target mode and then cloning it all via firewire. Worked well but we never did figure out how to get to the status thermometer

addictive drums vst in garage band?

2011-08-02 Thread Cody
Hi all, I am a musician and one of the best VST's I've found is called addictive drums. I have used it on windows under vst host and it works, but I am wondering how this would work under garage band. And if no one has tried this, what are some high quality, realistic drum kits that i can

Re: Activities.

2011-08-02 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
No Ricardo this is not working, meaning that I can select Daniel for Safari but when I quit safari and go back to finder, and change the voice back to Alex, open safari, Alex is then the default voice. On 2 Aug 2011, at 16:29, Ricardo Walker wrote: Hi Kawal, I think changing the voice

Re: Activities.

2011-08-02 Thread John Panarese
OK, I'm coming in here late, so forgive me if these questions have already been asked. Did you check the box for voices in the Activities pane in VO Utility. Also, did you select the voice you want to use for the activity in the Activities pane. You must set that there in order for the

Re: addictive drums vst in garage band?

2011-08-02 Thread Chris Moore
There are some nice drum kits included in the Apple Jam Packs for Garage Band. On 2 Aug 2011, at 19:45, Cody wrote: Hi all, I am a musician and one of the best VST's I've found is called addictive drums. I have used it on windows under vst host and it works, but I am wondering how this

Re: Activities.

2011-08-02 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
I did all of these things so now I do not understand. On 2 Aug 2011, at 20:00, John Panarese wrote: OK, I'm coming in here late, so forgive me if these questions have already been asked. Did you check the box for voices in the Activities pane in VO Utility. Also, did you select the voice

seems that Drop Box is now utterly useless with Voice Over.

2011-08-02 Thread Ray Foret Jr
To the member who noticed an issue with not seeing the Drop Box submenu, I can verify this fact. It would appear that we must either: 1. Make the people at Drop Box aware of this issue; and, maybe they will listen or not. 2. Report this to Apple. Most likely, they'll say it's on the

Re: seems that Drop Box is now utterly useless with Voice Over.

2011-08-02 Thread May McDonald
I use drop box with no problem with voiceover. May and Prince Noah On 2011-08-02, at 3:03 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: To the member who noticed an issue with not seeing the Drop Box submenu, I can verify this fact. It would appear that we must either: 1. Make the people at Drop Box aware of

Another mail question with Lion

2011-08-02 Thread carlene knight
Hi: I was going to personally reply to a list member but I can't figure out how to highlight each header. Before, I could open the message with return, shift tab to headers, vo/right arrow to the email address so that I could select it. Now I can't seem to highlight any headers and I don't

Re: Activities.

2011-08-02 Thread John Panarese
Have you tried using a different voice for the Activity just to see if the Daniel voice isn't the problem? Again, just thinking out loud here. I know when I used Daniel for an audio demo I did on the new voices, I initially had trouble getting him to stick in my activity. I had to keep

Re: seems that Drop Box is now utterly useless with Voice Over.

2011-08-02 Thread Peggy Fleischer
I will certainly file a trouble report with dropbox. Meanwhile, Do you know how to copy a public link from the web interface? On Aug 2, 2011, at 3:03 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: To the member who noticed an issue with not seeing the Drop Box submenu, I can verify this fact. It would appear

Re: seems that Drop Box is now utterly useless with Voice Over.

2011-08-02 Thread John Panarese
There is a new beta that works with Lion. You might have to grab it and then reinstall it. Take Care John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com On Aug 2, 2011, at 3:13 PM, May McDonald wrote: I use drop box with no problem with voiceover. May and Prince Noah On 2011-08-02, at 3:03 PM, Ray

Re: [Bulk] Re: seems that Drop Box is now utterly useless with Voice Over.

2011-08-02 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Are you using Lion? IF so, how do you access the Drop Box submenu now? I can no longer be done via the short cut menu. I thought perhaps I might find it in the sidebar or tool bar; but, no luck. Please, remember, the member and I are reffering to Drop box under Lion, not SL. Sincerely, The

Re: [Bulk] Re: seems that Drop Box is now utterly useless with Voice Over.

2011-08-02 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Okay. So, where is it? Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! Skype name: barefootedray Facebook: facebook.com/ray.foretjr.1 On Aug 2, 2011, at 2:16 PM, John Panarese wrote: There is a new beta that works with Lion. You might have to grab

Re: [Bulk] Re: seems that Drop Box is now utterly useless with Voice Over.

2011-08-02 Thread John Panarese
It came out a few days after Lion's release. Unfortunately, I can't find the version number. I had to get rid of the previous version and then install the new one using the same instructions that were posted on Maccessibility.net. Take Care John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com On Aug 2,

Re: Activities.

2011-08-02 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
I will try that and let you know. On 2 Aug 2011, at 20:16, John Panarese wrote: Have you tried using a different voice for the Activity just to see if the Daniel voice isn't the problem? Again, just thinking out loud here. I know when I used Daniel for an audio demo I did on the new

Re: Lion Mail, Conversations view and interacting

2011-08-02 Thread Neil Barnfather - TalkNav
Teresa, I'm sure that this works fine for any sort of mailbox management issue, but the issue to which I am referring to is a very specific one relating to interacting with columns. thanks. On 2 Aug 2011, at 14:29, Teresa Cochran wrote: I find that using the favorites bar in combination with

File associations

2011-08-02 Thread Kevin Gibbs
Guys, What is the equivalent of file associations in the Mac world. Currently, all PDFs open in an inaccessible version of Acrobat Reader. I can read things in Preview, but don't know how to make all PDFs open in Preview instead of Acrobat. How do I do this? Thanks, Kevin -- You received this

Re: [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] Re: seems that Drop Box is now utterly useless with Voice Over.

2011-08-02 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Found it. The link to it is: http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=41644 This will start the download. HTH. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! Skype name: barefootedray Facebook: facebook.com/ray.foretjr.1 On Aug 2, 2011, at 2:24 PM, John

Re: speech loss

2011-08-02 Thread carlene knight
I am glad you figured it out. I've yet to reset my pram, though I am afraid I'll let up on the keys a split second too late or something and screw things up. I think that might help my problem though. On Aug 1, 2011, at 6:08 AM, joseph wrote: hi finally with a help of a sighted friend i

Re: [Bulk] Re: seems that Drop Box is now utterly useless with Voice Over.

2011-08-02 Thread Naama Shang
Hi, The beta version will have the context menu back. Naama On 2 Aug 2011, at 22:17, Ray Foret Jr wrote: Are you using Lion? IF so, how do you access the Drop Box submenu now? I can no longer be done via the short cut menu. I thought perhaps I might find it in the sidebar or tool bar;

Re: seems that Drop Box is now utterly useless with Voice Over.

2011-08-02 Thread Geoff Shang
Hi, The new Dropbox betas solve this problem. We've been using 1.2.16 and it seems to work fine. Note that 1.2.18 is out now but we've not tried it. The thread on the Dropbox Beta forums about this release can be read at http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=42146 It's worth noting that

Re: [Bulk] Re: seems that Drop Box is now utterly useless with Voice Over.

2011-08-02 Thread May McDonald
Sorry, got an emergency phone call. Meant to send another message. Ignore my message, I remembered after I sent mine that this had to do with LIon. I don't use that yet. I've thought of trying it but haven't made the switch. Sorry for the confusion. May and Prince Noah On 2011-08-02, at 3:17

Re: seems that Drop Box is now utterly useless with Voice Over.

2011-08-02 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Thing is, I still cannot access the prefs menu for Drop box. In fact, this brings up the issue that Michael raised yesterday about the mouse and hidden items in the menu bar. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! Skype name: barefootedray

Re: File associations

2011-08-02 Thread Chris Blouch
If you select the document file and do a Get Info (Command-I) you will find a section pretty far down called Open With. This could be a collapsed disclosure triangle. If you expand it (spacebar) you'll find a pop up button to choose which app you want that document to be opened with. A little

Re: [Bulk] [Bulk] Re: seems that Drop Box is now utterly useless with Voice Over.

2011-08-02 Thread Peggy Fleischer
And it works! It wasn't easy to find that beta but I got it and installed it and it's working fine. Thank you so much. On Aug 2, 2011, at 3:34 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: Found it. The link to it is: http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=41644 This will start the download. HTH.

Re: Activities.

2011-08-02 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Activities is now doing my head in. Selected new voice Emily and still the activity does not work. On 2 Aug 2011, at 20:31, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: I will try that and let you know. On 2 Aug 2011, at 20:16, John Panarese wrote: Have you tried using a different voice for the Activity just

Re: Activities.

2011-08-02 Thread John Panarese
OK, as a last resort, try completely removing that Activity and carefully set it up again from scratch. I just changed my Safari Activity to using Daniel and it works as it should. Take Care John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com On Aug 2, 2011, at 3:57 PM, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote:

Re: seems that Drop Box is now utterly useless with Voice Over.

2011-08-02 Thread Geoff Shang
On Tue, 2 Aug 2011, Geoff Shang wrote: We were able to just copy the app into the applications folder as normal and then run. Of course, we had to force-quit the running DB in order to do this. Sorry, this is wrong. I forgot that it doesn't show up in force-quit. You need to go into

Re: Another mail question with Lion

2011-08-02 Thread Simon Cavendish
Hello, I've just tried to do this. This is what I did. I vo+left arrow to the message header area. I then interacted with it. Once you interact, I moved with vo+right once and landed on details link. Voiceover actually says here link. I pressed vo+spacebar on this link. This resulted in being

Re: Activities.

2011-08-02 Thread John Panarese
I am sitting here scratching my head. I'm not sure what is going on here. If you want, please write me off list and I can try to troubleshoot this via iChat or Skype. I've set up four Activities and I have not encountered any issues with voices or the like. Take Care John Panarese

Re: Just my thoughts regarding CCC Carbon Copy Cloner

2011-08-02 Thread Joel Zimba
Hi, I used CCC when I switched to a larger disk before installing Lion. It worked great. I'm actting because folks have said that Super Duper is accessible. I tried several times to get it to work for me, and I did read one or two screen ssuccessfully, but in general, I found myself doing

Re: Safari

2011-08-02 Thread Laura Bratton
I am having the same problem. It has happened to me on all websites where I have tried to enter text. Two of the websites are Facebook and caringbridge.org Does anyone have ideas how to correct this? Thank you, laura Selena Sang wrote: Hey, I don't know if it's me with the problem with the new

Re: discovery between vm fusion and mac?

2011-08-02 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
I knew about your method Kliph a long time ago. Not tried Fusion in Lion though. On 2 Aug 2011, at 17:31, KliphSharrie wrote: My keys are already remapped. And like I said in my previous post, I'm able to copy something to the clip board in windows, using mac commands, and when I paste it

gathering an imported audio book in Itunes

2011-08-02 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
I have an audio book whose tracks have names like 0101-0.mp3 and go all the way through 0115_0.mp3 before switching to 02-1_0.mp3, obviously ripped off the disks but not given sensible names. When I selected all five disks with 18 or so tracks each, Itunes imported them and then promptly mixed

Re: speech loss

2011-08-02 Thread carlene knight
Hi: I just used the screen saver that dimmed the screen; the default one, but suspecting that, I turned it off to no avail. I haven't had the problem today though as soon as I post this I probably will. That's usually what happens. :) I think that it was because the Log Me In program was

Re: Activities.

2011-08-02 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Can we do this tomorrow? I am based in the Uk. My Skype is kawalgucukoglu write me off list to discuss times. On 2 Aug 2011, at 21:39, John Panarese wrote: I am sitting here scratching my head. I'm not sure what is going on here. If you want, please write me off list and I can try to

Re: Another mail question with Lion

2011-08-02 Thread carlene knight
Hello Simon, and thanks for the reply. I tried doing this, just now, but the only header that shows is hide. I can't get details or anything like that to come up as I used to. I'll try it again but this is frustrating. Thanks again .On Aug 2, 2011, at 1:19 PM, Simon Cavendish wrote:

Re: Bookmarks bug in Safari?

2011-08-02 Thread André Nuno Soares
Hello Ricardo, This just happened here. What I noticed was that the VO cursor was, at the time, over a dynamic part of the page (ads, in this case). So I pressed Escape to cancel the Add bookmark window that VO wasn't seeing and moved the VO cursor to a static part of the page and tried again,

Re: Another mail question with Lion

2011-08-02 Thread Red.Falcon
Hi Carlene! OK I'm still not using Lion! But could the add to address book command help here! Or has that been removed! Just in case you do not know it, :] the command is command+shift+Y Well hth Colin On 2 Aug 2011, at 23:45, carlene knight wrote: Hello Simon, and thanks for the reply. I

Re: Another mail question with Lion

2011-08-02 Thread carlene knight
Thanks for reminding me of that command. I didn't have to put anything in addresses before, but perhaps I will have too. Thanks for the thought. On Aug 2, 2011, at 4:02 PM, Red.Falcon wrote: Hi Carlene! OK I'm still not using Lion! But could the add to address book command help here! Or

Re: Safari

2011-08-02 Thread Red.Falcon
Hi Laura and Laura! :] Yes I've inherited this problem as well! I'm still on SL and I've also got that reading misspelled words in other peoples messages! And a couple of the other things people have mentioned! Oh well we'll see if all these reports to accessibility might help! Colin I am

Re: Safari

2011-08-02 Thread André Nuno Soares
Hello, This happens with Safari 5.1 in Snow Leopard. There's no fix for it for now, except upgrading to Lion, sorry… HTH, André On Aug 2, 2011, at 10:14 PM, Laura Bratton wrote: I am having the same problem. It has happened to me on all websites where I have tried to enter text. Two of the

Re: Activities.

2011-08-02 Thread Ricardo Walker
Wow! How odd. With safari open, and daniel selected, try opening VO utilities again and go to your safari activity. Then for the Automatically use this activity for option, choose safari from the pop up menu. Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter Skype: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org

Re: seems that Drop Box is now utterly useless with Voice Over.

2011-08-02 Thread Ricardo Walker
Exactly. You have to down load the beta. It is version 1.2.16. Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter Skype: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On Aug 2, 2011, at 3:16 PM, John Panarese wrote: There is a new beta that works with Lion. You might have to grab it and then reinstall it.

Re: Safari

2011-08-02 Thread Cara Quinn
Actually there is a partial work-around. Once you've typed text into a field, interact with that field. YOu'll now at least be able to reread / edit your text. this doesn't solve the issue of the characters or words not being spoken as you type them, but it does at least improve the situation

Re: gathering an imported audio book in Itunes

2011-08-02 Thread Cara Quinn
Mark, have you tried selecting your 'Recently Added' playlist in iTunes? This will show the latest files you've added so that you can either rename them or change their classification to audio book if you choose.. HTH and have a wonderful day! Smiles, Cara :) --- View my Online Portfolio at:

Re: Another mail question with Lion

2011-08-02 Thread André Nuno Soares
Hello carlene, This still works, you just have to do a few extra steps: 1) Open the message with enter. 2) VO left arrow to move to the message headers group. 3) Interact with the message headers group. 4) VO right arrow to the link that reads details or hide. If it's details, VO space on it. 5)

RE: [Bulk] Problems with lion: dock extra and apple menu

2011-08-02 Thread Missy Hoppe
Hmm. I might have to run my external drive version of Lion a bit more. I'm still not ready to reinstall it oficially, but from what I've seen, at least on my system, com.apple.doc.extra isn't going away. Yes, I know that all I have to do to get rid of it is press command tab, but that just seems

RE: Problems with lion: dock extra and apple menu

2011-08-02 Thread Missy Hoppe
Sadly, I don't think com.apple.doc.extra has anything to do with spotlight. I've disabled spotlight to the best of my ability, and com.apple.doc.extra still shows up. My theory, for what it's worth, is that it has something to do with customizing/rearranging the programs on your doc. My doc is

first timer question!

2011-08-02 Thread craig J Dunlop
in the past I have installed windows with little to no speech and had sighted assistance. this will be my first time doing a mac install. will vo talk during the install? and is it worth it to do a clean install ore is the upgrade working for people. I am thinking that now is the time to do it

Accessing the menus in ITunes 10.4?

2011-08-02 Thread Paul Hunt
The vo commands don't work in ITunes 10.4 and neither does the commnd. How do I access the menus? On Aug 2, 2011, at 7:02 PM, craig J Dunlop craigjdun...@gmail.com wrote: in the past I have installed windows with little to no speech and had sighted assistance. this will be my first time

Re: Another mail question with Lion

2011-08-02 Thread carlene knight
Thanks. I was afraid that if I tapped the hide button it would do just that and hide something I wanted to see. I forgot that it toggles. Thanks so much. That's confusing to my wee little brain. :) On Aug 2, 2011, at 4:52 PM, André Nuno Soares wrote: Hello carlene, This still works,

Re: where do the new voices go?

2011-08-02 Thread Mike Arrigo
I just checked, the voics are definitely there. You may not want to just delete them though, if the system still thinks they are there, it may cause problems. I think if you uncheck the option for each voice, it may uninstall them, not sure on that though. The premium voices definitely use a

Re: where do the new voices go?

2011-08-02 Thread Mike Arrigo
One interesting thing I noticed, all of the compact voices are there, but I guess only the ones that you check will be available, the quality difference is huge, honesty I see no reason to use the compact voices, the quality is just too poor. On Aug 2, 2011, at 10:24 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote:

Re: File associations

2011-08-02 Thread Mike Arrigo
To get pdf files to open in preview, do the following. Highlight a PDF file, and press command i for the info window. Navigate to the extension section, you may have to expand it. You will find an option for what to use to open the file, open the pop up menu and choose preview. Right after that

RE: Safari

2011-08-02 Thread Missy Hoppe
Hi! I'm noticing that too. Even though my typing verbosity is set to characters, I almost never hear what I'm typing in saphari. In fact, the only place I'm getting reliable keyboard echo seems to be text edit. I'm still using SL, so I'm guessing this is something weird with the new Saphari. Of

Re: where do the new voices go?

2011-08-02 Thread Ricardo Walker
I couldn't agree more. Some of them are just down right unintelligible in my opinion. Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter Skype: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On Aug 2, 2011, at 8:44 PM, Mike Arrigo wrote: One interesting thing I noticed, all of the compact voices are there, but I

Re: first timer question!

2011-08-02 Thread Mike Arrigo
I would do a clean install, though others have had good luck with the upgrade, I just prefer to start fresh with a new operating system. Whether you choose the upgradeor clean install, it's totally accessible through the whole process, that's something windows can't even come close to. On Aug

Re: Safari

2011-08-02 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, I have seen this but more often than not I'm getting typing feedback. I'm not sure if this will make a difference but, maybe people who are encountering this problem often might want to consider using web kit. Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter Skype: rwalker296

RE: where do the new voices go?

2011-08-02 Thread Missy Hoppe
Agreed! I'm already not a super big fan of Nuance voices in general, so the compact versions just weren't an option. The high quality versions are actually listenable, though; I really like Karen and Lee in particular. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

RE: Safari

2011-08-02 Thread Missy Hoppe
What is web kit and how would I go about finding/installing it? I don't know if that would be too advanced for me to handle at this stage, but I really do want typing feedback back in saphari. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

Re: Safari

2011-08-02 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, Its nothing to complicated, I promise. :). Webkit is the engine running underneath safari. Its a open source project, and they are always putting out nightly builds. So you find yourself having fixes earlier. Problem is, Once in a very blue moon, a annoying bug will be introduced. In

Re: speech loss

2011-08-02 Thread joseph
hi funny enough, pressing control and arrows on my virtual machine brings up dashboard. i have no idea why this is happening since i installed lion. best On 2 Aug 2011, at 22:40, carlene knight wrote: Hi: I just used the screen saver that dimmed the screen; the default one, but

Re: where do the new voices go?

2011-08-02 Thread Matt Dierckens
Do you notice that the australian voices can't read text, but when on the IPhone Karen reads just fine. Oh well, the compact voices are nasty anyway. sent from my macbook pro On 2011-08-02, at 8:44 PM, Mike Arrigo wrote: One interesting thing I noticed, all of the compact voices are there,

Re: where do the new voices go?

2011-08-02 Thread Mike Arrigo
I actually like the nuance voices quite a bit, I like them better than acapela voices actually, speech is a very subjective thing though. On Aug 2, 2011, at 8:33 PM, Missy Hoppe wrote: Agreed! I'm already not a super big fan of Nuance voices in general, so the compact versions just weren't an

very weird and inconsistant behavior with conversations

2011-08-02 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Okay, Want another weirdness? Here you go. For at least three days now, I've been able to expand a conversation in Mail by using the right arrow key and then arrowing to each message I wish to read and pressing VO+j to interact with the text and just read. Now, starting with this session of

Re: where do the new voices go?

2011-08-02 Thread Ray Foret Jr
I know exactly what you mean Mike. I'm using the Samantha voice on my Mac, my Iphone and my Stream. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! Skype name: barefootedray Facebook: facebook.com/ray.foretjr.1 On Aug 2, 2011, at 9:22 PM, Mike Arrigo

question about viewing calendars in Ical

2011-08-02 Thread Laura Bratton
HI all, I have created two different calendars in Ical. One for home and one for work. When I create an event I choose home or work under event details so that the event I created will be under the correct calendar. When I try to view the events on one of the calendars, all events for both

Re: where do the new voices go?

2011-08-02 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
Not to mention that the compact voices sound like the voices used in iPods and iPhones, especially Samantha. Shawn -- 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

Finder and Dashboard driving me crazy

2011-08-02 Thread carlene knight
Hi: When I hit the VO keys a lot, such as in Facebook, I either get the dashboard or finder popping up as one has a hotkey of control+left arrow and the other control+right arrow. I know I'm pissing and moaning, but am I the only one with this problem? Sorry for my rant. -- You received

iPhone not locking when on call

2011-08-02 Thread Brandon Olivares
Hello, My fiancé is having a problem where her iPhone is not locking while she is on the phone. So, she ends up accidentally pressing buttons and such while she is talking, and it is quite annoying both for her and the people with whom she is talking. I've looked through the settings, but

Re: Finder and Dashboard driving me crazy

2011-08-02 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, go into system prefs/mission control. Now all the pop up menus after Keyboard and Mouse Shortcuts? Change them to dash dash to disable them. hth Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter Skype: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On Aug 2, 2011, at 10:52 PM, carlene knight wrote: Hi:

Re: very weird and inconsistant behavior with conversations

2011-08-02 Thread carlene knight
I have a menu that keeps popping up when I try to expand the conversation and that wasn't happening earlier. I think that maybe our computers are talking to each other somehow and have decided to play tricks on us. On Aug 2, 2011, at 7:29 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: Okay, Want another