Re: making a website on the mac?

2011-09-12 Thread Anouk Radix
Thanks a great deal. I will try it. I basically need some kind of wizard interface which allows you to create a webpage even when you dont know html. Thanks, Greetings, Anouk, On Sep 12, 2011, at 4:13 AM, Jon Cohn wrote: Sorry for the additional post, my last one was a bit unclear. There is

Re: reading unprotected pubs on the mac?

2011-09-12 Thread Anouk Radix
Hi, thats a pity that it doesnt work well with braille. I will have to see if I cant find a converter to convert epub to html instead. Greetings, Anouk,On Sep 11, 2011, at 11:32 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: Hello Anouk, Here's the link to download Adobe Digital Editions. I like it much better

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-12 Thread Adie
Guys, I am fed up of audio captcha. My Member of Parliament currently has a question in to the UK Prime Minister about use of audio capcha on government websites. I know it's a drag, but we need to challenge these things every time we come across them. I was on a site the other day which had a

To the List Administrator

2011-09-12 Thread Gordon Atkinson
Hello, As I do not have a direct link for the administrator, I hope I might be forgiven for contacting you via the list. A subscriber from another list I am on is having some difficulty trying to subscribe to Macvisionaries. Could you possibly subscribe him automatically or write to him.

getting pictures from iPhone to mac

2011-09-12 Thread Anouk Radix
Hello, I am not too familiar or wellversed in itunes. On the pc I let someone make pictures with my iphone and transported them to the pc with the scanner and camera wizard htat could put them all in a folder with your desired name of choice. Is something like this also possible with the mac or

getting pictures from iPhone to mac

2011-09-12 Thread Anouk Radix
Hello, I am not too familiar or wellversed in itunes. On the pc I let someone make pictures with my iphone and transported them to the pc with the scanner and camera wizard htat could put them all in a folder with your desired name of choice. Is something like this also possible with the mac or

Re: getting pictures from iPhone to mac

2011-09-12 Thread james Walton
you will have to use image capture just do a spotlight search for it -- 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: help with itunes

2011-09-12 Thread Rachel magario
Awesome, thanks Anne! My library is back! youhoo! Now could you help me making playlists and I also don't figure out yet how to put play lists to my iPod touch. I want to put music and daisy files, but I don't get how. every time it tells me if I want to sink it will replace eevery thing, i

reading pdfs in preview

2011-09-12 Thread Anouk Radix
Hi everyone, I just tried reading a pdf in preview but had little success. I can copy the whole document and past it in pages to read but i was wondering if its possible to read a multipage document in preview or if I can only copy the whole text? Thanks, Greetings, Anouk, -- You received

going to beginning or end of document in pages

2011-09-12 Thread Anouk Radix
Hi everyone, How can i go to the beginning or the end of a document in pages, i thought fn+left and right arrow would do it but htat doesnt get me there. Thanks in advance Greetings, Anouk, -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To

Re: Amazon Subscribe and Save Weirdness

2011-09-12 Thread Rachel magario
dan, I am not sure if this will work, but when I run in to this problems, usually it is two links that is set up at the same level and vo cannot focus in either. What works for me, is instead of just navigating through the vo u rotor or the regular navigation. I turn on the quick nav key and

Re: making a website on the mac?

2011-09-12 Thread Rachel magario
Anouk, Are you going to be changing your content in a regular bases? Most pages now do, so if you are, I suggest you use word press. Even though it is a bloging platform, can also be used as a regular web page builder. In addition, the learning curve to learn the system is not big at all. It

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-12 Thread Rachel magario
Eric and all following this thread, I am not sure why they think that. Perhaps, because it is claimed to be the most accessible for jaws and for orca too? Also it is not owned my apple or Microsoft. The volunteers who work for open source, usually dislike the oppressive proprietary companies.

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-12 Thread Maxwell Ivey Jr.
recently while submitting my rss feed to a new directory i ran across a captcha i had never heard of before. it gave you a list of six check boxes and asked you to check which ones were birds. I liked it so much i went back to see what would happen. the next time it asked which of the

porting mail base to new system

2011-09-12 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi all, I installed something that I cannot get rid of. What I want to do now, is backup my system entirely, then reinstall lion fresh, which I've done before, and then restoring my email database with all messages, contacts, rules in place. Is this possible? How do I do this? Paul. -- You

Re: Java Script message boxes cause VoiceOver to say busy

2011-09-12 Thread Esther
Hi Ryan, I'm not sure whether this is Snow Leopard directly, or Safari 5.1, which I suspect is the culprit. I've read that Safari 5.03 and 5.05 work in Lion, so some people have restored those versions from Time Machine backups and use it instead. The other alternative is to download Webkit

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-12 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Now, seems to me that's one very correct approach to take to the matter. I trust you commended them for there forward thinking on the captcha matter? Seems to me such providers, site developers ETC deserve to be emulated. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now a very proud and happy

Re: Pages

2011-09-12 Thread Greg Aikens
Hi Ezzie, The header section is where you put anything you want at the top of the page, especially recurring text such as your last name. This is a great place for your name and it is where the page number will go. Footers are for things like footnotes. Add page numbers by going into

is this a script guys?

2011-09-12 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi list, I was once using a usb dongle modem to connect to 3g to have wireless internet. But no more. However, I would like to uninstall the driver for this modem. I got a text file with it, but can I run this, or what should I do with this one? Here is the file. Interested to see if you know

Re: making a website on the mac?

2011-09-12 Thread Anouk Radix
Hey, thanks a lot, i think i will indeed end up doing somehting like wordpress. I would not like though having a blogging name in the website url, still its probbably the easiest. Greetings, Anouk, On Sep 12, 2011, at 2:41 PM, Rachel magario wrote: Anouk, Are you going to be changing your

Re: making a website on the mac?

2011-09-12 Thread Rachel magario
Anouk, You don't need to have a blog name on the web site, it can look just like a web site, no body will even know that word press is hosting it. Do you have a domain and a server? If you want more info on this, I can help you, just write to me off list, since I don't want to make huge

Re: going to beginning or end of document in pages

2011-09-12 Thread Rachel magario
Interact with the body of the document and then use fn vo shift plus left or right arrow, depending upon if you want the start or the end. this is for laptop key board, not desk top I believe just vo plus home and end does it? Not sure on that though. Rachel. On Sep 12, 2011, at 6:47 AM, Anouk

pages and websites

2011-09-12 Thread Anouk Radix
Hey, thanks this is really cool news, i will write you off list once i found where i can see osmones email address in mail. Oh i remembered how to do the hting in pages command-up and i presume ocmmand-down is for end of document. Once i started reading documents it came back to me. At first i

Re: Weather / Temperature Apple Script

2011-09-12 Thread Teresa Cochran
Rate argument works fine in Lion. I've adjusted it to various values and it's great. Teresa On Sep 11, 2011, at 2:43 PM, Keith Watson wrote: Ester, I did not know that the rate switch was not available in earlier versions of OSX. I actually found it by…wait for it…RTFMing. Grin. Doing a

Re: Apple to the core: episode 4. selecting text on webpages

2011-09-12 Thread Jürgen Fleger
And sometimes it doesn't work propperly. That's at least my personal experience. Jürgen Am 11.09.2011 um 23:13 schrieb Ricardo Walker: Yeah, That works. The problem with this method is, you can only select what is in the voiceover cursor. It can get tedious jumping from spot to spot

Re: grade 2 Braille files

2011-09-12 Thread Teresa Cochran
Sorry for the confusion. I do not read grade 2 files on my IPod. You can read content in contracted Braille view on the IPod, but not translated grade 2 files, i.e. brf and brl files. They will not display properly in Mac OS X or IOS 4. I only read contracted Braille files on my Braille Lite

Re: Apple to the core: episode 4. selecting text on webpages

2011-09-12 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Ricardo, Is there a way to subscribe to any future podcasts you do in itunes? On Sep 11, 2011, at 11:13 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote: Yeah, That works. The problem with this method is, you can only select what is in the voiceover cursor. It can get tedious jumping from spot to spot

Re: Difficulty reading a pdf manual in the viewer

2011-09-12 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Hi Paul, you'll find the Amadeus documentation in Macintosh HD / Library / Application Support / Amadeus. Wen I open that file with Preview I have no difficulties reading it line by line. Just interact with the text area and use VO + arrow up and down. Play with the viw options a little bit and

Re: reading pdfs in preview

2011-09-12 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Hi Anouk, play with the view options. Here you can adjust single pages. Find out what works for you. All the best Jürgen Am 12.09.2011 um 13:46 schrieb Anouk Radix: Hi everyone, I just tried reading a pdf in preview but had little success. I can copy the whole document and past it in pages

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-12 Thread Teresa Cochran
Yes, Wordpress uses the equations for capchas on their sites. I love this kind of solution, being accessible to all, or at least more folks. Teresa On Sep 12, 2011, at 1:04 AM, Adie wrote: Guys, I am fed up of audio captcha. My Member of Parliament currently has a question in to the UK

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-12 Thread Teresa Cochran
That's so great. :) More of those, please! :) Teresa On Sep 12, 2011, at 6:58 AM, Maxwell Ivey Jr. wrote: recently while submitting my rss feed to a new directory i ran across a captcha i had never heard of before. it gave you a list of six check boxes and asked you to check which ones

Re: pages and websites

2011-09-12 Thread Rachel magario
Excellent, let me know if you need hosting too, I can probably guide you to the most accessible one. Cheers, Rachel. On Sep 12, 2011, at 10:14 AM, Anouk Radix wrote: Hey, thanks this is really cool news, i will write you off list once i found where i can see osmones email address in mail.

Re: Apple to the core: episode 4. selecting text on webpages

2011-09-12 Thread Ricardo Walker
Sure, Here you go. pcast://feeds.feedburner.com/MAChat hth Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter Skype: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On Sep 12, 2011, at 11:45 AM, Paul Erkens wrote: Hi Ricardo, Is there a way to subscribe to any future podcasts you do in itunes? On Sep 11,

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Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-12 Thread Chris Blouch
Just downloaded and tried Opera 11.51 and didn't get very far. On really simple test pages I could navigate to some items but on others I got busy, VO crash or seemed to get stuck or just say empty web area when it should have been reading content. So that was a waste of time. WebAIM describes

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-12 Thread Chris Blouch
As I had mentioned in previous emails, the root issue is a philisophical one. Good app developers want to write their code once. So when it came to accessibility the Mozilla folks went to the open standard IAccessible2 APIs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAccessible2 That way any platform

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-12 Thread Rachel magario
Agree Chris, I work with developers every day, as well ass with the business side. the true is that there is always things to implement. but I really think the matter is philosophical, if in matter of principal accessibility was there as a principal from the start of RND and in the business

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-12 Thread Rachel magario
same of what happened to me. going to try crom next. thanks, Rachel On Sep 12, 2011, at 2:04 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: Just downloaded and tried Opera 11.51 and didn't get very far. On really simple test pages I could navigate to some items but on others I got busy, VO crash or seemed to get

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-12 Thread Chris Blouch
It all comes down to the purpose of captcha. It is a cognitive test by supplying a puzzle that would be difficult for a computer to solve to try and prove you're not a bot. Today there are very few of those kinds of puzzles. Image and audio recognition are about the only two that haven't been

Re: Weather / Temperature Apple Script

2011-09-12 Thread Chris Blouch
Just tried is on Snow Leopard and got an error on the -r argument so it must be new to Lion. For non-lion users I managed to prepending the rate command to the text using sed which worked fine: curl -s http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=33617 | grep -A 2

Re: is this a script guys?

2011-09-12 Thread Chris Blouch
Looks like a shell script. You should be able to run it from the terminal. Mmight have to set permissions on it before it will let you. So if the file is on your desktop and named uninstall.txt then from terminal you would do something like: cd Desktop chmod a+x uninstall.txt ./uninstall.txt

Re: Tax Program

2011-09-12 Thread Chris Blouch
Anyone try taxact.com? It's web based (no download/install) so it might work well. CB On 9/11/11 10:07 PM, Jon Cohn wrote: I reviewed some of our taxes in Turbo Tax last year using VoiceOver. I did very little data entry, so I am not sure about how well that works, but TurboTax 2010

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-12 Thread Rachel magario
I second that. We cannot nearly request that security be lowered for our sake. I believe your explanations are very educative, specially to those who are not aware of the difficulties developers face. However, I feel there is a place also for the expression of the frustrations with in reason,

Re: Weather / Temperature Apple Script

2011-09-12 Thread Esther
Hi Chris and Keith, Chris, that was a clever use of sed and regular expressions to prepend the rate argument to the beginning of the text being piped to the say command. Keith, if you want to play around more with the other embedded commands for speech, you'll find them in the Apple Developer

Re: Tax Program

2011-09-12 Thread Dan
Hello, Yep. TaxAct, the web based system really does work extremely well. We've been using it for the last few years. Dan On Sep 12, 2011, at 2:27 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: Anyone try taxact.com? It's web based (no download/install) so it might work well. CB On 9/11/11 10:07 PM, Jon

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-12 Thread Teresa Cochran
I'm looking forward to a Safari extension that will solve these capchas. I don't currently have enough knowledge of the situation to know how to do it myself, but appreciate any effort anyone can offer. Perhaps I may learn to provide accessibility solutions one day myself. We shall see. :)

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-12 Thread Francisco Salvador Crespo
Hi Teresa, I'm very interested in test this extension. How can i get it? Thanks, Francisco El 12/09/2011, a las 19:28, Teresa Cochran escribió: I'm looking forward to a Safari extension that will solve these capchas. I don't currently have enough knowledge of the situation to know how to do

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-12 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
Personally, I don't think that audio captchas aren't that bad. For example, when I used the OS whose name we can't say, when I wanted to demo the Acapela voices, they gave me both a visual and audio captcha to choose from. The Audio Captcha used Acapela Heather to speak the numbers so I could

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2011-09-12 Thread louie
So is that OS CPM? On Sep 12, 2011, at 8:05 PM, Shawn Krasniuk wrote: Personally, I don't think that audio captchas aren't that bad. For example, when I used the OS whose name we can't say, when I wanted to demo the Acapela voices, they gave me both a visual and audio captcha to choose

simulating double mouselcick (doubleclick)

2011-09-12 Thread Anouk Radix
Hi, I need to copy some text from an application that does not reside within an edit field. The application tells me the text will be copied to the clipboard if I doubleclick with the mouse on it. I have all my cursors routed together so I know when my cursor is on the right place but how do I

Re: Amazon Subscribe and Save Weirdness

2011-09-12 Thread Dan Roy
I tried quick nab but, I don't understand the arrow up and down thing? clicking the links with quicknav on had no effect at all. On Sep 12, 2011, at 7:19 AM, Rachel magario wrote: dan, I am not sure if this will work, but when I run in to this problems, usually it is two links that is

Pronunciation and punctuation issues

2011-09-12 Thread Sunshine
Hi there, I am having problems entering some words into the VO dictionary under Speech - Pronunciation. If I add other words, I have no problem. However, when I try a word with a punctuation symbol, it is not used. While I try a word like C# to be pronounced as C Sharp, reviewing this in the