Re: Need hot spot help

2012-01-13 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Hi Bill, same happens to me and I've got the feeling hotspots are not reliable. But for your purposes you could use CMD + Option + f to go to the search field and CMD + 1 in the numbers row above the character keys to choose Inbox. Presumed you use Mail in Snow Leopard or Lion. All the best

Demonstrating the iPhone to a larger audience

2012-01-13 Thread Michael Busboom
Dear listers, In two months, I will be visiting my family in the U.S. While there, I will be doing a demonstration of access technology for blind people. While it won't be difficult to demo screen reader techniques on a Mac, I am still not sure how to demo VO on an iPhone. Most of the

Re: Demonstrating the iPhone to a larger audience

2012-01-13 Thread erik burggraaf
Hi Mike, You need an IPhone dock to HDMI cable. The cost is about $40 and you can get them online or from a third party apple reseller. The apple store might have it, but of course they'd really prefer you bought an apple TV, laughs. Best, Erik Burggraaf Ebony Consulting toll-free:

Re: Blackboard Accessible

2012-01-13 Thread Becky Knaub
Hi Ezzie, Its totally accessible, right? Thanks Becky and C On Jan 13, 2012, at 12:43 AM, ezzie bueno wrote: Hi Becky, I just googled the app. LOL. It's free. HTH, Ezzie - Original Message - From: Becky Knaub becnc...@embarqmail.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

Re: Demonstrating the iPhone to a larger audience

2012-01-13 Thread Gigi
Hi Michael. I am about to do this tomorrow here in Dallas to the Apple Corps of Dallas. I am also going to show the Mac. The Apple ?Corps has its own big screens and its own Wi-Fi. Almost all of them have iPhones and iPads. Only one other person in the room besides me is blind. Although it

Re: Demonstrating the iPhone to a larger audience

2012-01-13 Thread Michael Busboom
Thank you, Erik. I will try to get a third-party cable, if it is at all possible. Nice to know that such an animal even exists. :) So once I have this cable, I guess I'd hook it up to a standard video projector? Thanks and all the best, Mike On 13,Jan,2012, at 1:38 PM, erik burggraaf wrote:

Re: Demonstrating the iPhone to a larger audience

2012-01-13 Thread Chris Blouch
Will be doing a presentation on accessibility solutions in April and had similar issues. What I'm playing with and going to try is using a device called an ELMO. It's sort of a camera on stick with a base that outputs VGA video of whatever is underneath it. I'll probably do demos on an iPad

Re: Demonstrating the iPhone to a larger audience

2012-01-13 Thread Michael Busboom
Hello Gigi, As far as I know, I will be the only blind person in the audience. You did bring up one issue, however, that could conceivably be a show stopper. I have an iPhone 4, not a 4S. Does this mean that I won't be able to project my phone's screen onto something larger? Take care and

Re: What application out there is VoiceOver friendly for making and printing invoices

2012-01-13 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi Guys. I had to buy my Numbers for $21.64 ing Pages for the same when I got my Mac. Did they used to come with the Mac? A blind friend of mine was buying her Mac, and the lady at Apple didn't know that Microsoft Office for the Mac was not accessible. It's a good thing I knew it wasn't and

Re: Demonstrating the iPhone to a larger audience

2012-01-13 Thread Chris Blouch
From this article it seems that you have to have a jailbroken iPhone4 to get video mirroring to work: http://www.redmondpie.com/how-to-enable-hdmi-video-mirroring-on-iphone-4-ipod-touch-4g-tutorial/ CB On 1/13/12 9:37 AM, Michael Busboom wrote: Hello Gigi, As far as I know, I will be the

Re: Demonstrating the iPhone to a larger audience

2012-01-13 Thread erik burggraaf
Well, I've only used the cable with an IPad 2, but I don't see why it wouldn't work on any ios device. One of my clients is deaf blind and she uses it for signing to her friends. With her residual vision she can see what her friends are signing over skype on the large tv screen. Best, Erik

Re: What application out there is VoiceOver friendly for making and printing invoices

2012-01-13 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, no. Those apps were sold separately in the iWorks suite. Last year was the first time people were able to by each app individually from the Mac app store. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Jan 13, 2012, at 9:46 AM, Eugenia Firth

Strange dropbox behavior with Lion

2012-01-13 Thread Bill Holton
Hi. I downloaded 11 books from LOC and downloaded them into a dropbox folder called Books so I can connect my Stream to the PC and load them on there. Trouble is, whereas the Mac shows 11 files the PC dropbox only shows 4, and I noticed that as I downloaded additional files they were appearing

Re: remove items on the doc

2012-01-13 Thread Paul Mimms
FYI, another way to get to the dock is double tapping the trackpad with two fingers at the center bottom. On 1/12/2012 4:49 PM, Red.Falcon wrote: Hi again! Also you can get to the doc with! Control+f4 And the main menu control+f2 and status bar control+f8 hth Colin On 12 Jan 2012, at 22:36,

Re: mac DVD ripper pro, or DVD remaster?

2012-01-13 Thread Paul Henrichsen
Hi. Dvd remaster needs a program like fair mount in order to copy commercial dvd's. The problem with fair mount, is it isn't updated very often. Using fair mount with dvd remaster, I was unable to get a good conversion of the original star wars four for my iPhone. I had to buy mac dvd ripper

Re: remove items on the doc

2012-01-13 Thread Caitlyn Furness
Also you can drag and drop with command comma and command period. Hope I remembered that correctly! Caitlyn On Jan 12, 2012, at 11:48 PM, Joanne Chua wrote: Hi all Thanks very much for the reply. It works very well. :) On 13/01/2012, Red.Falcon velocity.focu...@virginmedia.com

Re: Blackboard Accessible

2012-01-13 Thread ezzie bueno
Hi Becky, OmniWeb is totally accessible. Ezzie - Original Message - From: Becky Knaub becnc...@embarqmail.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Date sent: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 07:42:26 -0500 Subject: Re: Blackboard Accessible Hi Ezzie, Its totally accessible, right? Thanks Becky and C

Mailbox organizing?

2012-01-13 Thread Maurice Mines
Dear list, I am having an interesting problem. I am not using my ordinary iMac, but my MacBook. Unfortunately in this review of the mailboxes I can't get to the mailboxes where I have saved messages that I put away for review later, is there anyway I can expand the tree view so that I can see

RE: mac DVD ripper pro, or DVD remaster?

2012-01-13 Thread Kliphton
How much does pipit go for, and is it in the app store, or do I google for it? From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Paul Henrichsen Sent: Friday, January 13, 2012 2:53 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: mac DVD ripper pro,

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2012-01-13 Thread Chris Blouch
So I went to try this out on the iPad today and wasn't able to get very far. Seemed like most of the ones I tried were unreadable with voiceover. Does anyone know of a particular subscription that works well? I gave up after trying eight different ones. CB -- You received this message

Re: Mailbox organizing?

2012-01-13 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Are you interacting with each table such as the mail boxes and arrowing down with VO pressed? Kawal. On 13 Jan 2012, at 09:34 PM, Maurice Mines maurice.mi...@gmail.com wrote: Dear list, I am having an interesting problem. I am not using my ordinary iMac, but my MacBook. Unfortunately in

RE: mac DVD ripper pro, or DVD remaster?

2012-01-13 Thread Daniel Miller
I think he means ripit, not pipit. Correct me if I'm wrong, though. If he does indeed mean the former, I don't like that program at all, it takes way way way to long to even compress a dvd. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Kliphton

Re: mac DVD ripper pro, or DVD remaster?

2012-01-13 Thread Paul Henrichsen
Ripir is $24.95 unless you want the family pack which lets you put it on five computers in your household. You can get a 10 percent discount by following them on twitter or liking them on Facebook. On Jan 13, 2012, at 1:38 PM, Kliphton wrote: How much does pipit go for, and is it in the app

Re: mac DVD ripper pro, or DVD remaster?

2012-01-13 Thread Paul Henrichsen
Actually, it takes less time than dvd remaster, Particularly if you do a multi-pass. On Jan 13, 2012, at 1:38 PM, Kliphton wrote: How much does pipit go for, and is it in the app store, or do I google for it? From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com]

Re: Mailbox organizing?

2012-01-13 Thread Maurice Mines
yes i am. On Jan 13, 2012, at 1:59 PM, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: Are you interacting with each table such as the mail boxes and arrowing down with VO pressed? Kawal. On 13 Jan 2012, at 09:34 PM, Maurice Mines maurice.mi...@gmail.com wrote: Dear list, I am having an interesting problem. I

Re: Mailbox organizing?

2012-01-13 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, Maurice, In your mailbox list, there should be listings for Gmail and Icloud. VO will indicate whether they are collapsed or expanded. If they're collapsed, right arrow to expand them. They should stay in that state till you change them. hTh, Teresa Nobody ever tells me anything!--James

Re: Mailbox organizing?

2012-01-13 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, just pressing the right arrow will expand folders allowing you to see whats in them. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Jan 13, 2012, at 6:15 PM, Maurice Mines wrote: yes i am. On Jan 13, 2012, at 1:59 PM, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote:

Re: Strange dropbox behavior with Lion

2012-01-13 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, I think it just takes a wile for the content to be placed on your other computer. Just give it a while. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Jan 13, 2012, at 12:17 PM, Bill Holton wrote: Hi. I downloaded 11 books from LOC and

Upgrading to Lion and my virtual machine with windows 7 and jaws

2012-01-13 Thread Kimberly thurman
HI folks: I still haven't taken the plunge and updated my MBP to Lion. I have VMware Fusion with Windows 7 in a virtual machine with JAWS. If I do a clean install, can I install the virtual machine inside Fusion from a Time machine backup? If not, what do you suggest? If I just run the

Re: Mailbox organizing?

2012-01-13 Thread Maurice Mines
Dear list, the problem exists because my Gmail, and my wild IMAP mailbox mailboxes have some boxes for instance for organizing purposes I could say I want to put the recipes in the recipes folder but that subfolder contains messages. So what my problem on my MacBook is simply this, what I want

Re: Upgrading to Lion and my virtual machine with windows 7 and jaws

2012-01-13 Thread Paul Hunt
Hello Kim. I am running Windows 7 in Vmware Fusion with Jaws. I updated to Lion with the update and didn't have any problems. I recommend that you make a known good backup and go for the upgrade. If it works you saved lots of time. If it doesn't work restore from your backup. On Jan 13, 2012,

RE: Safari bookmarks

2012-01-13 Thread Bill Holton
Hi. Thanks for the Bookmarks help. Perhaps you can answer a few more questions. I opened Audible.com and LOC.gov and used the bookmark menu to add both tabs into a folder, which I called stuff. Now I can't find that folder. I would like to add bookshare.org to the folder, put it on my bookmark