Re: music notation software

2011-09-19 Thread David Hole
Hi. Yes, Sibelius is available for the Mac, but it anin't accessible. I sent them a mail regarding that right after the 7.0-release, and they said accessibility could be added in the future, but it isn't right now. -David On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 07:44, Yuma Decaux jamy...@gmail.com wrote: Hi

re: music notation software

2011-09-19 Thread musiclady
I dont think there is any software yet. Steph - Original Message - From: Yuma Decaux jamy...@gmail.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Date sent: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 17:44:16 +1200 Subject: music notation software Hi all, I've started some intermediate bass lessons, and my teacher

Re: Question regarding home networking.

2011-09-19 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Rachel, Interesting. What is AFT? Where can one set it up? Paul. On Sep 19, 2011, at 5:14 AM, Rachel magario wrote: Alison, I hope to be helpful. However, I am no network expert. I have only seen others setting it up. To share with mac users on your net work, you need to choose AFT

Re: Your contacts

2011-09-19 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Eric Burgraaf, Very interested to learn about this as well. I would like to know what you need to do in order to have your mac address book synch with google contacts. Paul. On Sep 19, 2011, at 4:45 AM, Rachel magario wrote: Eric, how do you sink contacts? Thanks, Rachel. My phone does

Re: List of mail recipients in Snow Leopard?

2011-09-19 Thread Red.Falcon
Hi Kevin! OK the only thing I can suggest is to open the previous recipients and go through them that way! The fastest way I know is control+f2 for main menu, then type W for the window menu and just arrow down to previous [or just type P R ] and once on there vo+space! In that window you can

Re: Mail questions

2011-09-19 Thread Jon Cohn
Are you running Snow Leopard? I don't know theconfiguration of signatures for Lion. To create a folder there is a button at the bottom of the list of folders. Clicking this button is the easiest way to create a folder. I believe you can also create one using a contextual menu on any

Re: List of mail recipients in Snow Leopard?

2011-09-19 Thread Jon Cohn
Kevin, What I do is the following: After typing a bit of a name I stop. Voice over then announces new window I then make sure quick nav is turned off and just use the down arrow key. Also, if the name mentioned is the one you want, then it will be completed by typing a comma. Best wishes,

Re: Your contacts

2011-09-19 Thread erik burggraaf
It's not difficult, but it took me a little while because I had to look up the procedure for each of my three devices. I won't be able to do a step-by-step until the end of the week if it's still wanted. My work schedule is really heavy until thursday. Mark Taylor did a podcast on it last

Re: music notation software

2011-09-19 Thread Ricardo Walker
Wow! thats a pretty vague comment. lol. Accessibility could be added in the future? Sure, and the world could stop spinning tomorrow or, the sun decides not to rise in the east. :). That doesn't sound encouraging. Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter Skype: rwalker296

Re: music notation software

2011-09-19 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi Guys. I know I'm not an expert on braille music, but I can read some of it. I think you would need a computer braille option for VoiceOver if you're reading braille music. Do I understand it right that you want braille music software? Regards, Gigi On Sep 19, 2011, at 2:23 AM, musiclady

Battery life on Macbook pro if running Windows

2011-09-19 Thread Jared
I'm considering buying a Macbook pro and dule booting it. I will probably use it half mac and half windows. I've heard that the battery life with Windows is poor, but all the articles I've found stating this are from 2009. I'm curious what people have found battery life is like when running

Scanning software like Kurzweil for the Mac?

2011-09-19 Thread Becky Knaub
Hi all, I was wandering if there are any scanning programs like Kurzweil for the Mac? If so does anyone know how much they are? Thank you for answering all my other questions Do RFBD books work on the mac? Are there any websites that tell you what apps work for the mac when voice over is on

New release of pages soon???

2011-09-19 Thread Christina
Hello Macvisionaries, I am very behind on the latest apple news. Are there any rumors of a new release of Pages soon? I am considering purchasing Pages from the mac app store but I'd hate to do that and then apple releases a new version in a few weeks. I need to be able to open and read a

RE: Scanning software like Kurzweil for the Mac?

2011-09-19 Thread Allison Mervis
Hi Becky. I believe that RFB (or learning ally as they're now called) has a downloader and book reading software for the mac. I would double check at they're website www.learningally.com Allison -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

Re: Scanning software like Kurzweil for the Mac?

2011-09-19 Thread Greg Aikens
Learning Ally's Read Here software and book downloader work on the mac. On Sep 19, 2011, at 12:31 PM, Allison Mervis wrote: Hi Becky. I believe that RFB (or learning ally as they're now called) has a downloader and book reading software for the mac. I would double check at they're website

Google working to improve its accessibility (fwd)

2011-09-19 Thread Karen Lewellen
Sharing here in case others have not seen this. Google should know how diverse access is these days, and that keeping the baseline access in place helps everyone. Share far and wide, Karen -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 10:59:18 -0700 Subject: Google working

Bootcamp or fusion and open office?

2011-09-19 Thread Ioana Gandrabur
Hi all, Starting out with the mac I am turning to you with some question I hep you can help me with: 1. I have mid 2010 mac mini with 2 gb of ram with lion. I have windows xp and jaws 11. Should I go with bootcamp or fusion? I suppose I will have to upgrade ram in case 2? Could I start out

Re: Question regarding home networking.

2011-09-19 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Allison, One way to share files between windows 7, is what I think you have, and a mac, can be done, but it is a 2-way configuration. I haven't played much with accessing mac files from a windows computer, because I always work on my mac since I have it. Because once you go mac, you'll never

Re: good (un)rar/(un)zip prog for os x lion

2011-09-19 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Anouk, You can have the unarchiver from app store to unzip unrar etc. But if you also want to create your own archives, an option is to install better zip from the app store. It does cost a little. But with better zip and with the command line rar tools in place, you can easily create your

Re: how to uninstall old version of fusion

2011-09-19 Thread Paul Erkens
In the disk image that you download fusion in, there's an app called uninstall fusion, or something similar. It should do the job, at least for version 3. Hth, Paul. On Sep 14, 2011, at 7:10 PM, Anouk Radix wrote: Hi, I have a demo of vmware fusion 3. I want to buy vmware 4 now, can i just

Re: Scanning software like Kurzweil for the Mac?

2011-09-19 Thread Rachel magario
RFBD has a book reader for the mac free for the first year, and an app for the iphone, ipad and ipod touch for $19. There is a Kurzweil for the mac. But I am not sure how it works, I have not tried it yet. Also I believe a very popular one in the list is the Express finder reader or something

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2011-09-19 Thread Red.Falcon
Begin forwarded message: From: News Wire listserv...@accessibleworld.org Date: 14 September 2011 15:12:47 GMT+01:00 To: velocity.focu...@virginmedia.com Subject: ACCESSIBLE WORLD TEK TALK PRESENTS PETER CANTISANI, IOS APPS, SEPT. 19, 2011 ACCESSIBLE WORLD TEK TALK PRESENTS PETER

Re: Fusion 4 and Window-Eyes

2011-09-19 Thread Caitlyn Furness
I'm interested in this as well, especially as I'm also stuck back in xp days. I have WE 7.5, but if it's not going to play nice with version 4 of fusion, I'm totally happy to stick with version 3. Heck, it took me long enough to get everything there happy together! lol! Thanks, Caitlyn On

Re: Scanning software like Kurzweil for the Mac?

2011-09-19 Thread Mary Otten
There is no Kurzweil1000 for the Mac. So far as I am aware, the kurzweil3000, which is their program geared for people whose difficulty with hard copy print doesn't involve blindness, is old and out of date. There are applications for the Mac that will let you scan and read, such as abbyy's

Re: Scanning software like Kurzweil for the Mac?

2011-09-19 Thread Caitlyn Furness
Mary is right. There is Docuscan plus, too, but it doesn't even come close to what k1000 can do, especially if you're already used to k1000. You also need to be aware that you need an internet connection to scan with docuscan, which might be important. On the other hand, if you can get it to

Re: Bootcamp or fusion and open office?

2011-09-19 Thread Rachel magario
;, I started first with bootcamp and then switched to fusion. So that is possible. Now, I did like fusion better so I don't have to go through all the restart all the time. Of course, the greatest thing for me in bootcamp was the fact none of my short cut keys conflicted. So, there are

Re: Fusion 4 and Window-Eyes

2011-09-19 Thread Keith Watson
Ok, So I just had VMware tell me to uninstall my screen reader and reinstall. It seems that they think that because I am running JFW 11 and 12 on the same machine that it is conflicting with their video driver. I told the guy that I would do it and return the results, but that I was 100% sure

Re: music notation software

2011-09-19 Thread musiclady
We were refering to a programme for us to write print music. Steph - Original Message - From: Eugenia Firth gigifi...@sbcglobal.net To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Date sent: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 08:33:08 -0500 Subject: Re: music notation software Hi Guys. I know I'm not an expert on

Re: music notation software

2011-09-19 Thread Karen Lewellen
Speaking of which. Music publisher is supposed to work for mac, not sure as to accessibility though as it is somewhat vague. As for the program in question, I recall the company is rather cozy with freedom scientific / jaws. Perhaps someone or several someone's should document to them how

Re: ACCESSIBLE WORLD TEK TALK PRESENTS PETER CANTISANI, IOS APPS, SEPT. 19, 2011

2011-09-19 Thread Esther
Hi All, For those who want to subscribe to the Accessible World Tek Talk podcasts, such as the upcoming one on iOS Apps that Colin (aka Red.Flacon)  just forwarded,   either through iTunes or through iOS podcatching apps, here's the feed URL: • Accessible World Tek Talk:

help needed on organizing mail accounts

2011-09-19 Thread Denise Avant
hi all, i have a second account which is a gmail account. it appears that my messages go to the inbox of my primary account? what i would like to know is whether the gmail messages should go in a separate mailbox? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: music notation software

2011-09-19 Thread Yuma Decaux
Hi All, Thanks for the suggestions. Will check out music publisher but in the worse case i'll have to learn braille notes to get through with my class. Best regards, Yuma On 20/09/2011, at 11:50 AM, Karen Lewellen wrote: Speaking of which. Music publisher is supposed to work for mac, not

Re: Scanning software like Kurzweil for the Mac?

2011-09-19 Thread Mike Arrigo
Yes, there is docuscan plus, I think it costs around $299 On Sep 19, 2011, at 11:38 AM, Becky Knaub wrote: Hi all, I was wandering if there are any scanning programs like Kurzweil for the Mac? If so does anyone know how much they are? Thank you for answering all my other questions Do RFBD

Re: Scanning software like Kurzweil for the Mac?

2011-09-19 Thread Mary Otten
Mike's and my responses to the question of whether there is a scanning program for the Mac that is like k1000 points out how important it is if the person asking the question has an idea what uses they want to make of the program or what their requirements are. For instance, as has been

Re: Scanning software like Kurzweil for the Mac?

2011-09-19 Thread Rachel magario
This is for Mary and any k1000 mac users, I am guessing you use the k1000? Is it really good with math, code and highly graphic text scanning? Thanks for any info. I am using right now abode acrobat pro, but I need something more accessible and that it is really good for complicated text

Drag and Drop

2011-09-19 Thread Dean Adams
Hey Everyone, I have an old Power Book G4 with Leopard 10.5.8 and can anyone tell me if the feature of drag and drop with VO comma and VO period is a feature that is supposed to work in Leopard or is it just a new feature of Lion, As I have tried this and it doesn't work in Leopard.

skype growl menu bar apps

2011-09-19 Thread Dean Adams
Hey Everyone, Can anyone tell me how to get to the growl item on the menu bar it doesn't come up when I use VO M only the normal menus . Regards Dean !!!Thoughts become things so choose the good ones because Life's to short to be a grumble bum !!! * Email: d...@internode.on.net

how accessable is Audacity??

2011-09-19 Thread trahern culver
hey all i've hurd that the new Audacity for mac os10 iss accessable but how accessable is it? your help with this question would be most welcom kind regards trahern. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send

Re: Scanning software like Kurzweil for the Mac?

2011-09-19 Thread Mary Otten
HI RACHEL, I DO NOT HAVE MUCH OF A NEED TO SCAN THE MATH AND HIGHLY GRAPHICAL TEXTS YOU WANT TO SCAN. I HAVE HAD SOME SUCCESS WITH COOKBOOKS, WHICH HAVE A LOT OF NUMBERS AND FRACTIONS; SOME SCAN BETTER THAN OTHERS. BUT HAVING HAD ADVANCED MATH DESCRIBED TO ME, I DOUBT THAT KURZWEIL OR ANY

sorting the order of message in mail with the most reasont message at the top of the list?

2011-09-19 Thread trahern culver
hey all what's the voice over mail short cut to put the most reasontly reseved message at the top of the message list i think i remember the process but i've foregotten the short cut. your help with this question would be most welcom! kind regards trahern. -- You received this message because

Re: Voices

2011-09-19 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
Yes the Nuance voices such as Daniel and Samantha are only available for Lion. 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 unsubscribe from this group, send

Re: Drag and Drop

2011-09-19 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, Sorry. The new drag and drop is only in Lion 10.7 hth Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter Skype: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On Sep 19, 2011, at 9:03 PM, Dean Adams wrote: Hey Everyone, I have an old Power Book G4 with Leopard 10.5.8 and can anyone tell me if the