Re: a Problem or bug with the I phone 4S

2012-03-18 Thread Scott Howell
Kawal, I have not experienced this particular issue myself. I would certainly send a note to accessibil...@apple.com, so they can capture the issue in the event others report such. On Mar 17, 2012, at 8:53 PM, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: Hello All. It's quite late here so I hope my message is

Re: a Problem or bug with the I phone 4S

2012-03-18 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Thanks Scott, I will do that. Kawal. On 18 Mar 2012, at 09:48 AM, Scott Howell scottn3...@gmail.com wrote: Kawal, I have not experienced this particular issue myself. I would certainly send a note to accessibil...@apple.com, so they can capture the issue in the event others report such.

Re: a Problem or bug with the I phone 4S

2012-03-18 Thread chris hallsworth
Sure spooky and I had that with some apps as well like Audioboo. Because of my hearing impairment I was completely lost until I did a quick reset of the phone. Christopher H On 18/03/2012 00:53, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: Hello All. It's quite late here so I hope my message is going to make

Re: a Problem or bug with the I phone 4S

2012-03-18 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
I have reported to Accessibility now. On 18 Mar 2012, at 10:38 AM, chris hallsworth christopher...@gmail.com wrote: Sure spooky and I had that with some apps as well like Audioboo. Because of my hearing impairment I was completely lost until I did a quick reset of the phone.

Re: air drop

2012-03-18 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Hi, you aren't doing something wrong. Drag and Drop by using VO + comma and period doesn't work reliably because the source and target window should be visible on screen. As a blind user you can't know wether it is visible. So either you use drag and drop manually as it was necessary in Snow

Re: air drop

2012-03-18 Thread Robert Carter
Hi Caitlyn, airdrop has to be running on both Macs. Your husband would need to accept the file request on his Mac for the operation to be completed. You can't control both sides of the exchange from a single Mac as far as I know. Robert Carter On Mar 17, 2012, at 7:47 AM, Caitlyn Furness

adding audio and WMA to itunes

2012-03-18 Thread Kirsten Edmondson
Hi, I have something I've downloaded to my Mac, it is an MP3 file, I would like to put it onto my iphone to listen to on the go, how do I get it from downloads into ITunes and then get it to sync to my phone? Also, I have a CD with WMA files on which someone made me, again, I want to put them

Re: air drop

2012-03-18 Thread Paul Erkens
To add to this, airdrop has to be running means, that the airdrop window should be visible on the recipients computer as well. I used to think that I could airdrop a file to my wife, and that she would get a popup, no matter what she would be doing. That's not the case. I need to tell her I

Re: Budgetting programs

2012-03-18 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi Sean. It may not be what you are looking for, but I put my banking information, both for my business and home on to Numbers. I just made the columns I needed, and it seems to be working just fine. If you're interested in printing checks, which I'm not, then I guess it won't work. Regards,

Re: air drop

2012-03-18 Thread Lewis Alexander
if I may make an observation here, air drop isn't necessarily needed here. Air drop is an added feature. a way to go about this from a more straight forward approach is to enable sharing of your husband's mac and yours on the home network through Sharing within system preferences. turn on file

Re: a Problem or bug with the I phone 4S

2012-03-18 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi guys. I don't know if this is what you are talking about or not, but I have noticed something weird, now that you mention it, about the 4s if you dial with Siri. I have noticed that, if you just move a little bit so that your face is only slightly away from the screen, it goes to the

Please help with dimmed button

2012-03-18 Thread Christine Pierce
Hello, I downloaded a game, and I want to zoom the screen so I can see the game to play it. But, somehow, the zoom button is dimmed. I can't seem to undim it. Does anyone know how to undim a button? Thank you. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: Budgetting programs

2012-03-18 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
Hi: I use Checkbook by Splasm Software. It is very accessible. On Mar 17, 2012, at 8:03 PM, Sean Murphy wrote: Hi All. I am seeking for a Budget program on the Mac. I have looked at IBank and the table of transactions were not accessible. I have looked at savings and you cannot edit

Re: Please help with dimmed button

2012-03-18 Thread Lewis Alexander
if a button is dimmed, it means that it is not assigned or supported. in the case of a zoom button, this turns the app in lion into a full screen window. most games will support full screen zoom but some do not, like applications which don't support this function. I am not aware of any

Deleting Apps

2012-03-18 Thread Christine Pierce
Hello, I downloaded a couple of games that I can't play and I would like to if someone knows how to delete the games out of launch pad, thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to

Recording Audio

2012-03-18 Thread Jamie Tachiyama
Hi All, Does anyone have a suggestion for an accessible IPhone app to record audio? Thanks -- Jamie T Twitter: jathlete76 Facebook: jathlete76 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: Recording Audio

2012-03-18 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, how about the voice memo app Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Mar 18, 2012, at 3:09 PM, Jamie Tachiyama jathlet...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Does anyone have a suggestion for an accessible IPhone app to record audio? Thanks

Re: Recording Audio

2012-03-18 Thread Eric Caron
Hi Jamie, The three options I hear most people talk about are, the Voice Recorder that comes with the phone. Voxie Recorder and my personal favorite List Recorder. List recorder is designed for the voice over user. Eric Caron On Mar 18, 2012, at 3:09 PM, Jamie Tachiyama wrote: Hi All,

Re: Recording Audio

2012-03-18 Thread Jamie Tachiyama
Doesn't that just record in mono audio? On 3/18/12, Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, how about the voice memo app Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Mar 18, 2012, at 3:09 PM, Jamie Tachiyama jathlet...@gmail.com

Re: Recording Audio

2012-03-18 Thread Jamie Tachiyama
Thank you Eric, I will give list recorder a try. On 3/18/12, Jamie Tachiyama jathlet...@gmail.com wrote: Doesn't that just record in mono audio? On 3/18/12, Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, how about the voice memo app Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info

Re: IPhone timer?

2012-03-18 Thread Hypnotic Consulting
chronology is very useful. with advanced features. Jorge -- 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: Budgetting programs

2012-03-18 Thread Sean Murphy
Hi, Thanks for that. But a spreadsheet program doesn't do it for me. I require the program to be able to set up categories or buckets. Then when I import the data, it automatically adds the transferred to the relevant category. Then I can see at a glance what category is spending what. From

Re: Please help with dimmed button

2012-03-18 Thread Gigi
Hi guys It seems to me that I remember that you can't run zoom and voice over together. If that's true I'm can you have the ability to turn voiceover off temporarily to see if you could use soon then. Regards Gigi Sent from my iPhone On Mar 18, 2012, at 1:28 PM, Christine Pierce

Can the iPhone be used as a Magnifier?

2012-03-18 Thread Mike Busboom
Hi. I am totally blind, so this wouldn't help me. I was asked by a physician whether or not there was an App for the iPhone that turned it into a magnifier. The idea is that you point the rear camera at some print that is then magnified and displayed on the front screen of the unit for

Re: Can the iPhone be used as a Magnifier?

2012-03-18 Thread Ricardo Walker
Yes indeed. There are a bunch of magnifier apps. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Mar 18, 2012, at 7:04 PM, Mike Busboom m...@busboom.at wrote: Hi. I am totally blind, so this wouldn't help me. I was asked by a physician

Re: Please help with dimmed button

2012-03-18 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, This is not the case. You can zoom windows with voiceover with no problem. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Mar 18, 2012, at 6:58 PM, Gigi gigifi...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Hi guys It seems to me that I remember that you can't run

Re: Can the iPhone be used as a Magnifier?

2012-03-18 Thread Esther
Hi Mike, Yes, there are a number of apps that will let you use the iPhone camera as a magnifier. Some of these were mentioned in discussions by low-vision users. Here's one that has gotten a lot of recent publicity (but I don't know whether it works with VoiceOver -- some of them do): •

Merging google calendar with iCal

2012-03-18 Thread Michael Malarsie
Greetings, Does anyone know how to merge google and iCal events? A friend who I am training with for a marathon has send me a calendar of our training and I have accepted it via google. I am now trying to merge this new stuff to my iCal. I tried the delegation option in

Re: Can the iPhone be used as a Magnifier?

2012-03-18 Thread David Tanner
One of the low vision folks in our tech department told me about Vision Assist. It is $3.99 and thus far everyone I have shown it to thinks it is nearly as good as Ruby, which is very popular with low vision folks. David Tanner - Host MainMenu Technology from a blindness perspective!

Re: Can the iPhone be used as a Magnifier?

2012-03-18 Thread Esther
Hi David and Others, Interesting information. Just for clarification, there are two apps with similar names in the App Store. You want to type in VisionAssist with no space between Vision and Assist. The Vision Assist app with the space between the two words is $0.99, for iPhone only, and is

Re: Can the iPhone be used as a Magnifier?

2012-03-18 Thread Chris Blouch
Oddly enough when I was at a restaurant in SanDiego three weeks ago the waiter told us about the Over 40 app because it was what he used to read receipts. So apparently it does work. Both illuminates and magnifies for $1. CB On 3/18/12 7:46 PM, Esther wrote: Hi Mike, Yes, there are a number

Re: Please help with dimmed button

2012-03-18 Thread Chris Blouch
I thought that was only on iOS devices. On the Mac you can have both turned on but I'm not sure zoom will follow the VO cursor, even if you have the mouse set to track VO. CB On 3/18/12 6:58 PM, Gigi wrote: Hi guys It seems to me that I remember that you can't run zoom and voice over

Re: Budgetting programs

2012-03-18 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
Checkbook is what you want. I use it to budget multiple accounts, and it does the math for you. On Mar 18, 2012, at 4:53 PM, Sean Murphy wrote: Hi, Thanks for that. But a spreadsheet program doesn't do it for me. I require the program to be able to set up categories or buckets. Then when I

Re: Can the iPhone be used as a Magnifier?

2012-03-18 Thread Esther
Hello all, I just realized that what we should do is have a low-vision user who has the new iPad with the camera that is as good as the iPhone 4's, and who also has the Prizmo OCR app, try using VisionAssist. They can take a screen capture by simultaneously pressing and then releasing the

Re: adding audio and WMA to itunes

2012-03-18 Thread Chris Blouch
For the first one you should be able to just cut and paste the file into iTunes. For the WMA files, you might want to try the Perian and/or Flip4Mac plugins: http://perian.org/ http://dynamic.telestream.net/downloads/download-flip4macwmv.asp?prodid=flip4macwmv These add support to QuickTime

Re: Can the iPhone be used as a Magnifier?

2012-03-18 Thread Garth Humphreys
I will give it a try but not sure when I'll have a chance. I also have zoom reader and looking forward to trying that. Just spent 3 hours with wife buying new dress for birthday dinner :( Sent from my iPhone On 19/03/2012, at 12:39 PM, Esther mori...@mac.com wrote: Hello all, I just

Something I just Learned With Skype and Growl

2012-03-18 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
Hey guys. I found out something interesting with this new version of Skype. In the overview section of the notifications preference, rather than have Skype display it's own built-in notifications, now you can configure it to use Growl to display notifications. So what I did was I set it to that

Re: Apple accessibility support phone number.

2012-03-18 Thread Emrah
Hi, Calling US Toll-Free numbers through Skype is free, to the best of my knowledge. 1-877, 1-866, 1-855, 1-888, 1-800 Emrah On Mar 17, 2012, at 11:48 AM, Mr. L. Alexander wrote: one could assume that this number can be used by any apple user throughout the world. the only downside for those

Re: Something I just Learned With Skype and Growl

2012-03-18 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
Personally, I'll thank you, because I didn't notice the option to set the display style to speech until just now, so you've helped me, if no one else. Right now I'm trying to figure out if there's a way to comment on the Facebook posts I see displayed in the Skype Home pane. I also wonder

Apple TV

2012-03-18 Thread Bejarano, Rafael P.
Hello, I just bought an Apple TV, third generation. If any of you own one, too, have you encountered any accessibility issues of which I should be aware? Thanks. Rafael Bejarano -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to