Re: listening to and using loops in Garage Band?

2011-09-01 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, just fast forward through the project using the left, right, and option left and right arrows like you normally do anywhere in garageband. It won't effect your place in the loop table at all. Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter Skype: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On Aug 31,

Re: Multilingual Braille tables under Lion

2011-09-01 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Jeff, So, given the 4-byte representation of characters in utf8 unicode, a braille table could easily be made up based on that character set. This would of course imply that some braille dot patterns would occur more than once in unicode, because an accented letter in Polish, looks the same

reason to get a mac

2011-09-01 Thread Paul Erkens
Dear list, I have a question for us mac users. If anyone thinks it is off topic, if you have an idea where to better ask this, please let me know. Shortly, I will attend a discussion with one of our national funds that help blind people buy a computer. If a blind person living in the

Re: Looking for an accessible audio converter

2011-09-01 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Paul Henrichsen, Well if you use max, which is free, then you can either rip cd's, or convert a bunch of audio files from within the finder using max. Hth, Paul. On Sep 1, 2011, at 6:00 AM, Paul Henrichsen wrote: Thanks, Eric. I'll have to see how much Amadeus pro lite would cost. Sixty

Re: Safari help sorly needed

2011-09-01 Thread Paul Erkens
Johny Angel, You can turn on extensions in the finder presences. In finder, press vo comma. On Aug 31, 2011, at 11:05 PM, Johnny Angel! wrote: Hi Simon and all, Well I am still having trouble placing the VLC application into the applications folder. After cmd downarrowingon the VLC folder

Re: Skype conferences

2011-09-01 Thread Cody
The option is in the call window you need to press the add people button which tends to disappear. The table on that screen works a little funky but I must warn you, I'm not sure if it is only me, but when I try to conference in more than one person into a call, the audio just breaks up so bad

Re: reason to get a mac

2011-09-01 Thread erik burggraaf
Hi, see my comments below. Best, Erik Burggraaf This month in Ebony Promos: Two new gps systems for demo. Mac OS Lion When will it be supported? Ebony Consulting at accessibility Unconference Toronto. To read more and subscribe, Visit:

Re: Safari help sorly needed

2011-09-01 Thread Esther
Hello Johnny and Paul, Paul is correct that you can turn on viewing of file extensions in the Finder preferences menu. In FInder, first bring up the Preferences menu with Command+comma. Then navigate to the Advanced pane in the FInder Toolbar of the Preferences menu. You can either interact

Re: reason to get a mac

2011-09-01 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Paul, I would just like to add that for people who use several languages, the Mac comes with voices and Braille for quite a number of different languages. Cheers, Anne On 1 Sep 2011, at 12:56, Paul Erkens wrote: Dear list, I have a question for us mac users. If anyone thinks it is

RE: reason to get a mac

2011-09-01 Thread Bill Holton
To put it in financial terms, besides being a free screenreader, there will not be upgrade costs for a Windows screen reader so the recipient will not get further and further behind if they cannot afford the yearly charges for upgrades. Bill -Original Message- From:

Re: iWork Accessibility

2011-09-01 Thread Garth Humphreys
Hi Anne I haven't had a chance yet to try this. Do all the hotkeys and hot spots you mention needing to set up remain between sessions? Or would you need to set these sort of things up each time? If they are just a once off sort of customizing then I can see that you could be relatively

Re: iWork Accessibility

2011-09-01 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Anne, Can the same thing be achieved in text edit as well? Garth posed an interesting question that I'd also like to know about, but if this can be done in text edit, that would suffice for me. Can it be done the same way? Paul. On Aug 31, 2011, at 5:01 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: Hello

Re: Subscribe to Vision Australia podcasts [was Re: How do you use autocorrect/fix a mispelled word]

2011-09-01 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Esther, Regarding podcast feeds. If I want to subscribe to a given podcast, of which I know there is a feed for it, do I always do that in iTunes? I don't suppose that all podcasts on the web can also be found in itunes. So my next question is, like you have juice on windows as a

Re: reason to get a mac

2011-09-01 Thread Alex Hall
Not to mention the cost of upgrading Mac OS has been $30 for the last two upgrades, while Vista and Win7 cost over $100 for the most basic package (Home Basic). Also, remember the problems when Jaws didn't work right with Vista, so users couldn't upgrade? Not so in Mac world. Also, there is no

difference quicklook and preview?

2011-09-01 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi list, What is the difference between quick look in finder and preview? Isn't it true that these are actually the same thing? That once you open a file in finder with the spacebar, finder calls it quicklook, while in fact preview is being started? I'm a bit confused because from the super

Re: difference quicklook and preview?

2011-09-01 Thread erik burggraaf
Quicklook is for thumbnailing any kind of file in finder. It's like a finder feature, not a program. I mainly use Preview for viewing adobe documents. If it is useful for anything else, I'm not aware of it, but for viewing and printing PDF's it's really good. Best, Erik Burggraaf This month

iPhone accessibility engineer opening at Apple

2011-09-01 Thread Chris Blouch
In case anyone has the skills to do the job, Apple is hiring. http://jobs.apple.com/index.ajs?BID=1method=mExternal.showJobRID=80373CurrentPage=1 CB -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: iWork Accessibility

2011-09-01 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Garth, If you create a template with all the settings you normally use along with the hot keys, you can just open the template and Pages will be launched and you'll be in the document. No setting up to do anymore. Cheers, Anne On 1 Sep 2011, at 14:41, Garth Humphreys wrote: Hi Anne

finding the url of a youtube video

2011-09-01 Thread chad baker
hi does anyone know how to find a url of a youtube video i use to right click and get copy link but not in this version of safari thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: iWork Accessibility

2011-09-01 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Paul, I really don't use TextEdit very much, but I doubt that it would do the job. Cheers, Anne On 1 Sep 2011, at 15:11, Paul Erkens wrote: Hi Anne, Can the same thing be achieved in text edit as well? Garth posed an interesting question that I'd also like to know about, but if

Re: Apple is working on a television for 2012, sources say | VentureBeat

2011-09-01 Thread Dan Roy
KYes, I agree with you, but, I am assuming this would not be a regular TV, hopefully, it will also be a settop box, I can hope, can't I? On Aug 31, 2011, at 7:49 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote: I think it would be cool but, if you use a dish or cable which most do, it won't matter too much in my

Voice Input, Braille Output under Lion

2011-09-01 Thread Michael Busboom
Hello everyone, For a lot of health-related reasons that I won't go into, I need to slowly explore alternatives to keyboard input. My thinking is that I would use Nuance products; a recommendation for what to order would be needed. I would also like to use my BrailleNote Apex for Braille

Flash vs jQuery

2011-09-01 Thread Chris Blouch
For those into web development an interesting crossover point has been reached. httparchive.org surveyed 17,982 web sites and found 48% use jQuery while 47% now use Flash. For Mac users Flash is a known accessibility black hole rendering any content within unusable. Over the past 9 months

Re: finding the url of a youtube video

2011-09-01 Thread Traci
Hi, I'm new to the Mac, but wouldn't it work to hit command-L to get to the address bar, then command-C to copy the url? A bit of a guess, but it sounds right. :) Traci Sent from my iPad On Sep 1, 2011, at 7:23 AM, chad baker baker3...@gmail.com wrote: hi does anyone know how to find a url

Re: Apple is working on a television for 2012, sources say | VentureBeat

2011-09-01 Thread Chris Blouch
Apple already makes a settop box called AppleTV. I'm assuming if they make an actual TV ( iTV ?) it would simply be a merging of AppleTV and a screen since the currently manufacture both as separate products. Only new bit would be some kind of tuner since the current box is just a streaming

Re: finding the url of a youtube video

2011-09-01 Thread Ricardo Walker
Yup, You hit the nail on the head. :) Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter Skype: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On Sep 1, 2011, at 10:47 AM, Traci wrote: Hi, I'm new to the Mac, but wouldn't it work to hit command-L to get to the address bar, then command-C to copy the url? A

re-finding a url on youtube

2011-09-01 Thread chad baker
hi guys thanks for the help works great -- 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 unsubscribe from this group, send email to

Re: Voice Input, Braille Output under Lion

2011-09-01 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Mike, I've just been looking at Dragon Dictate for you, but it doesn't seem to work with German. I can find French and English, but nothing else. Have you contacted Nuance to ask them about it? As for your Braille display, I'm afraid I can't help there, either. Cheers, Anne On 1 Sep

Re: Batch conversion in Amadeus?

2011-09-01 Thread Eric Caron
Hi Paul, I have the first version of Amadeus lite and to my surprise when I looked under file I did not find the Batch Conversion option. So it looks like this is part of the Pro edition. Eric Caron On Sep 1, 2011, at 12:50 AM, Paul Henrichsen wrote: Hi. Does amadeus lite do

Re: Voice Input, Braille Output under Lion

2011-09-01 Thread Alex Hall
The apex under Lion acts very oddly; letters expand to their grade 2 words immediately, backspace and enter don't work, and you can't assign commands. I have contacted Apple about this and they said they would contact Humanware for an updated driver. However, Humanware says that it is up to Apple,

Re: difference quicklook and preview?

2011-09-01 Thread Jon Cohn
Quicklook can also be used to listen to audio files... When you quicklook an audio file the playback will be paused if you switch to a different application on the Mac and then will resume when you jump back to the finder. Quicklook can also be used for HTML files in exactly the same way as

Re: Safari help sorly needed

2011-09-01 Thread Chris Blouch
Should also note that OSX won't prevent you from putting in any file you want in the Appllications folder. While it might not make sense to drop a PDF or whatever in there, you can do it. Not sure why copy paste was not working for you. I opened the applications folder with Command-shift-a.

Re: iWork Accessibility

2011-09-01 Thread Jon Cohn
It is fairly straight forward in textedit to do non-stylized changes ie there are shortcuts to Bold, Underline, Italic, Center, Justify, increase font and decrease font. (Most of these shortcuts work in any richtext based Macintosh application) What pages does is set up or allow you to setup

Re: Looking for an accessible audio converter

2011-09-01 Thread Chris Blouch
Ahh, wasn't aware that was a requirement. Of course you can always just bring it in, convert it and take it back out. Maybe too much rigamarole. CB On 8/31/11 11:54 PM, Paul Henrichsen wrote: Hi. I don't want the resulting conversions to end up in iTunes. I just want conversion from ogg to

VO, what I have written?

2011-09-01 Thread Traci
Hi all, What is the keyboard command to read what I have written? Say I'm filling out a form, and want to check what I wrote inside an edit field? Or say I'm posting my status in Facebook, and want to double check what I just wrote? Is there a way to do this? Thank you, Traci -- You

Re: VO, what I have written?

2011-09-01 Thread Paul Erkens
Could it be that you want the vo f3 command? This reads you the contents of the voiceover cursor. Hth, Paul. On Sep 1, 2011, at 7:56 PM, Traci wrote: Hi all, What is the keyboard command to read what I have written? Say I'm filling out a form, and want to check what I wrote inside an

Re: VO, what I have written?

2011-09-01 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
you can use regular cursor keys--arrows--to read through any text field, and you can always tab-shift-tab out of and back into a forms field to hear its contents. Is this what you need? • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com

Re: Skype conferences

2011-09-01 Thread Francisco Salvador Crespo
Yes, but if the person is calling me, this doesn't appear on the table that there is in the Add people dialog 2011/9/1, Cody cdog2...@gmail.com: The option is in the call window you need to press the add people button which tends to disappear. The table on that screen works a little funky but

Re: OS X Lion and VoiceOver issues

2011-09-01 Thread Paul Erkens
Christopher Mark Zack, I think you may already know this because the message I'm replying to is a bit old, but you can install growl and then install growl safari, so that you get a spoken message, once a download is complete. If you want to know whether a download is in progress, just check if

Re: Subscribe to Vision Australia podcasts [was Re: How do you use autocorrect/fix a mispelled word]

2011-09-01 Thread Jon Cohn
There are a few options. The easiest is to use the Subscribe to podcast in the advanced menu of iTunes. If you goto the feed: url in Safari, then you should be able to review the podcast there. there will also be a subscribe in mail button on the Safari page. If you subscribe in mail then

Re: printing PPT files in Lion

2011-09-01 Thread Chris Blouch
Give Open Office or LibreOffice a try. They are free and somewhat accessible. CB On 8/31/11 3:16 PM, Dan wrote: Hello List, I have some Powerpoint handouts and I cannot get them to open under Lion. We do not have any MS office stuff on this machine. Furthermore the PPT files will not open

Re: reason to get a mac

2011-09-01 Thread Mary Otten
To add a different perspective on the screen reader cost issue, depending on the needs of the end user, the mac is cheaper in the long run argument may not hold, because there are now perfectly adequate low or no cost screen reading solutions for Windows, namely NVDA and System Access. In the

multiple e-mail deleting after being gone for a while

2011-09-01 Thread Jennifer Perdue
Hi, I just got married and was gone for a while. I tried to delete multiple e-mails and they came back the next day. Help. Jenny and her Goofy Guide Brooks On Aug 27, 2011, at 1:15 PM, Donna Goodin wrote: Hi Mary, You can get the 256 of storage on the 11-inch, and that's what I got. And

Problem installing VM Fusion tools

2011-09-01 Thread Bill Holton
Hi. I got a Windows 7 installation completed on VM Fusion. I am trying to install the tools, but when I click the install tools link in the menu there's a bit of disk activity, then nothing, and it keeps telling me VM tools have not been installed. I'm sure it's operator error, if someone can

Re: reason to get a mac

2011-09-01 Thread Alex Hall
True. However, the cost of operating system upgrades is still less on the Mac than on Windows. Besides which, most agencies buy Jaws because it is, or was, the gold standard and is still the biggest name in screen reading today, and no one considers alternatives like SAToGo or NVDA. On 9/1/11,

Re: VO, what I have written?

2011-09-01 Thread Jon Cohn
I generally use VO-L (read line) some of what you want to use will depend on if you are interacting with the input field. If you are not-interacting with the input field then VO-F3 should work. If you are interacting then the commands to read from beginning will give you the entire field.

Radis treaming on Macintos

2011-09-01 Thread Francisco Salvador Crespo
Hi, Does someone know what app can i use to do a radio stream? Also, i've an external sound card. Is there stereo mix on mac for the internal sound card? Thanks in advanzed, Francisco -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post

Re: Voice Input, Braille Output under Lion

2011-09-01 Thread Michael Busboom
Hello Alex, This is helpful indeed. I don't believe that pairing the Apex with the Mac is all that straightforward, and I believe that the problem lies with Humanware. For as expensive as the Apex is, I can't help but be disappointed in its software. That's a different story for a different

Re: Voice Input, Braille Output under Lion

2011-09-01 Thread Michael Busboom
Hello Anne, As usual, your insights are helpful. I am sure that a German version is available, but I will check with Nuance, just to be sure. I have two questions for you: 1. Did English and French come bundled, or did you have to buy each language separately? 2. What kind, if any headset

Re: nice desktop youtube viewer?

2011-09-01 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Hi Yuma did you try a you tube widget for Dashboard? I use one and it's pretty easy to use. All the best Jürgen Am 31.08.2011 um 22:49 schrieb Yuma Decaux: Yuma -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send

Re: nice desktop youtube viewer?

2011-09-01 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Hi Yuma did you try a you tube widget for Dashboard? I use one and it's pretty easy to use. All the best Jürgen Am 31.08.2011 um 22:49 schrieb Yuma Decaux: Yuma -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send

Re: Voice Input, Braille Output under Lion

2011-09-01 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Mike, I'm afraid I don't use Dragon Dictate. I just looked it up for you. They only have German for Mac OS X up to Snow Leopard because it uses Rosetta. They couldn't tell us when a Lion version for German would be available. I'm never likely to use any dictation software as I was

Re: Voice Input, Braille Output under Lion

2011-09-01 Thread Alex Hall
Sure. My email is mehg...@gmail.com. It is actually a pretty easy process, but is not done how you might expect. On 9/1/11, Michael Busboom m...@busboom.at wrote: Hello Alex, This is helpful indeed. I don't believe that pairing the Apex with the Mac is all that straightforward, and I believe

Re: iWork Accessibility

2011-09-01 Thread Garth Humphreys
Sounds like what I was wanting . Thanks. I guess that now that activities are available in OS X this would also help. Sent from my iPhone On 02/09/2011, at 12:21 AM, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk wrote: Hello Garth, If you create a template with all the settings you normally use

Re: Skype conferences

2011-09-01 Thread Cody
Oh, if someone is calling you it will open a window which you can click the accept button On Sep 1, 2011, at 2:03 PM, Francisco Salvador Crespo wrote: Yes, but if the person is calling me, this doesn't appear on the table that there is in the Add people dialog 2011/9/1, Cody

Re: Skype conferences

2011-09-01 Thread Krister Ekstrom
But what happens then is that the current conference is put on hold, you can't seem to add incoming calls to a conference, only those you put there yourself or am i wrong? /Krister 1 sep 2011 kl. 23:21 skrev Cody: Oh, if someone is calling you it will open a window which you can click the

Re: Skype conferences

2011-09-01 Thread Francisco Salvador Crespo
Yes, but if I press the accept button the firs call doesn't add to a conference, El 01/09/2011, a las 18:21, Cody escribió: Oh, if someone is calling you it will open a window which you can click the accept button On Sep 1, 2011, at 2:03 PM, Francisco Salvador Crespo wrote: Yes, but if the

Re: Skype conferences

2011-09-01 Thread Francisco Salvador Crespo
No, i believe that you don't understand me. If i'm talking with only a person and a second person calls me, how can i make a conference with this people? El 01/09/2011, a las 18:25, Krister Ekstrom escribió: But what happens then is that the current conference is put on hold, you can't seem

Re: VO, what I have written?

2011-09-01 Thread Traci
Thank you guys, I'll try some of these and see what works in my situation. :) Traci - Original Message - From: Jon Cohn To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2011 12:37 PM Subject: Re: VO, what I have written? I generally use VO-L (read line)

Re: nice desktop youtube viewer?

2011-09-01 Thread Yuma Decaux
I'll try that one, thanks for the suggestion. Best regards, Yuma On 2/09/2011, at 8:34 AM, Jürgen Fleger wrote: Hi Yuma did you try a you tube widget for Dashboard? I use one and it's pretty easy to use. All the best Jürgen Am 31.08.2011 um 22:49 schrieb Yuma Decaux: Yuma --

Re: Skype conferences

2011-09-01 Thread Red.Falcon
Hi! The way I understand it is that you have to hang up on the one you want to add, then go to your conversations window and add them from there! And I think that you can only do this if you started the conversation if the other person your in a conversation had started the call then only they

Alpine and the Mac

2011-09-01 Thread Joseph Norton
Hi list: Since I successfully compiled frotz on my Mac, I thought I'd try compiling the alpine mail program from ftp.cac.washington.edu. I could not get it to compile, getting several errors. At first, I thought it was because I did not have openssl, but, I tried to compile without ssl

Re: listening to and using loops in Garage Band?

2011-09-01 Thread CJ Daniel
Thanks, CJ On Sep 1, 2011, at 1:53 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: Hi, just fast forward through the project using the left, right, and option left and right arrows like you normally do anywhere in garageband. It won't effect your place in the loop table at all. Ricardo Walker

Re: Safari help sorly needed

2011-09-01 Thread Johnny Angel!
Thanks Esther and Paul. That does it! Johnny On Sep 1, 2011, at 8:16 AM, Esther wrote: Hello Johnny and Paul, Paul is correct that you can turn on viewing of file extensions in the Finder preferences menu. In FInder, first bring up the Preferences menu with Command+comma. Then

Re: Subscribe to Vision Australia podcasts [was Re: How do you use autocorrect/fix a mispelled word]

2011-09-01 Thread David Tanner
Hi John, I am using iCatcher. What is the best way to subscribe to this podcast using iCatcher? Maybe the official podcast name would help since there is the ability to search for podcasts. Does anyone know the official name of the podcast? - Original Message - From: Jon Cohn

Can't open bookshare XML files anymore

2011-09-01 Thread johns.kary
Hi guys, I used to read and convert Bookshare books by, opening the XML file in safari , and converting from there. I tried this today and now when I open the XML file it gives me some page about twitter. I tried it with a book I'd downloaded some weeks ago, and got the same thing. Anyone

Re: Problem installing VM Fusion tools

2011-09-01 Thread KliphSharrie
No error at all. This is the part of vm fusion that requires sited help. Once you click install, and then continue, there are 2 more except and continue buttons that voice over doesn't need. So for this task you will need some help HTH Kliphton SR (twitterSkype) kliphton72 (Marriage Blog)

Re: Can't open bookshare XML files anymore

2011-09-01 Thread Shannon Dyer
I don't get any page about twitter, but it won't open the file. It shows me the list of top sites, a checkbox about bookmarks, etc., but no book. I was wondering why this was, and wrote a similar email to yours a few days ago. Shannon Are you a fan of women's music? If so, join me each Thursday

Re: Audio conversion program

2011-09-01 Thread Paul Henrichsen
Thanks, Greg. Tnat's very kind of you. Why didn't you develop it further regarding the error trapping, etc? It's always a good thing to have guys write apps which are accessible and add one more good app to the pile. On Aug 31, 2011, at 10:05 PM, Greg Kearney wrote: I wrote this a while back

Re: Audio conversion program

2011-09-01 Thread james Walton
hi i would like this program i see it in the message body but can't download it could some one email me off list with it attached? thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: Batch conversion in Amadeus?

2011-09-01 Thread Paul Henrichsen
Yes. When you look at the app store description of the lite version, it doesn't mention batch conversion. But, you know, I paid $40 for gold wave a few years ago and never used anything in it except for the batch conversion. I guess I always figured I'd get around to doing more complicated

Re: Looking for an accessible audio converter

2011-09-01 Thread Paul Henrichsen
Hi. What's the link for max again? I deleted the message with the link accidentally. Thanks. On Sep 1, 2011, at 4:08 AM, Paul Erkens wrote: Hi Paul Henrichsen, Well if you use max, which is free, then you can either rip cd's, or convert a bunch of audio files from within the finder using

Re: reason to get a mac

2011-09-01 Thread Paul Henrichsen
Yes; but you can't really count system access. It isn't as powerful as Jaws or Window-eyes. I own system access to go and it's really a good enough screenreader, but lacks many of the powerful features of the other two such as set files or scripts. I don't know about NVDA. On Sep 1, 2011, at

Re: Tunesque

2011-09-01 Thread james Walton
i will bet you that it put the search box away from where voiceover can see it. remember many things are hidden from voiceover like dropbox! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to

RE: Tunesque

2011-09-01 Thread Jeff Bishop
Grrr, probably right. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of james Walton Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2011 10:06 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Tunesque i will bet you that it put the search

Re: Tunesque

2011-09-01 Thread james Walton
there was one app that i found called menu meters it actually worked! only for the memory menu meter but all of the other meters were inaccessible -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to