Re: Apple App Store Refunds for inaccessible Apps

2013-09-12 Thread Nicholas Parsons
I agree that providing refunds for inaccessible apps would be a good policy, but I accept that there would have to be some limitations. Firstly, sometimes what one person says is inaccessible, another person claims is accessible. Sometimes things are only accessible once you learn how to use

Re: Apple App Store Refunds for inaccessible Apps

2013-09-12 Thread Scott Berry
Nick, I didn't think about the process this way but you made some darn good points. I'd like to see the middle of the road approach you suggest. On 09/12/13 05:40, Nicholas Parsons wrote: I agree that providing refunds for inaccessible apps would be a good policy, but I accept that there

Re: Getting to Disk Utilities in 10.84

2013-09-12 Thread Chris Blouch
From the finder the shortcut to the utilities folder is command-shift-U. Apps is command-shift-A. You can find these and many others by exploring the Go item in the Finder menubar. As Daniel said, you shouldn't need the utility to get a properly formatted thumb drive to mount. Should just pop

Re: Sharing VO Speech over a Skype or VOIP Call

2013-09-12 Thread Chris Blouch
I'm sure there is a digital way but in the past I did this with a small external mixer. I ran the audio out from the Mac to the mixer and ran my mic to the mixer and then ran the mixer output back to the line in on the Mac. I set up Skype to then use the line in as it's audio input. This

Re: File locked or write protected

2013-09-12 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, You can determine how the drive is formatted by navigating to it while in the Finder, then press cmd-i to Get Info on it. It will tell you everything you need to know and more. If you do a Google search on writing to NTFS from a Mac, you'll get a number of responses that can help. If

Any dashboard fans?

2013-09-12 Thread Traci Duncan
Hi all, Are there any fans users of dashboard? If you aren't a user, have you gone as far as killing it? I found instructions the other day on opening up terminal killing dashboard. Just curious. I've tried to like it, but it just hasn't happened. Lol! Traci -- You received this

Re: Mavericks

2013-09-12 Thread Daniel Miller
Mid october. On Sep 12, 2013, at 5:35 PM, Krysti happypuppy...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone know the release date for apples new OS Sent from my iPhone -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group

Mavericks

2013-09-12 Thread Krysti
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Re: Mavericks

2013-09-12 Thread Matt Dierckens
Apparently late october. Matt Dierckens matt.dierck...@gmail.com IOS and Macintosh User support, Windsor area Sight Substitution Centre On 2013-09-12, at 6:35 PM, Krysti happypuppy...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone know the release date for apples new OS Sent from my iPhone -- You

Activities now switching well

2013-09-12 Thread Traci Duncan
Hi all, Is there some sort of bug with VoiceOver activities? I have set up a couple and most of the time they don't switch properly. For example, when VO should switch back to my default activity default voice, it often sounds like it is switching to Austrailian Lee. I like Lee, but that is

Re: Apple App Store Refunds for inaccessible Apps

2013-09-12 Thread Alex Hall
Nick does make some good points, but in my email to Apple Accessibility and in my phone call, I was sure to mention this. I explained that the accessibility would be required where possible, so visual games and other apps would not have to be made vo-friendly. Apps that use Apple's UI elements, or

Re: filter Finder list by file type?

2013-09-12 Thread Alex Hall
Not at all, I am familiar with command line commands but often forget they exist. :) Still, I was hoping to take action on each file individually (move some to one place and some to another) so I wanted just a list of .epub files (or any other file type). I could use the ls command, but it gets

Re: Any dashboard fans?

2013-09-12 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, I use dashboard multiple times a day. I find it to be the easiest way to quickly access sports scores and the local weather on the Mac. I even found nice metronome widget. hth Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Sep 12, 2013, at

OS10.8.5 is out

2013-09-12 Thread Alex Hall
Hi all, Apple released OS10.8.5 today. I have not yet installed it, but if anyone has (or when you do), I'm wondering if they slipped any accessibility fixes in. The release notest make no mention of any such changes, but they sometimes fix things without saying anything about it. So, if you

Re: Any dashboard fans?

2013-09-12 Thread Alex Hall
I've never gotten into it. You have to bring it up, then vo-f2 twice just to list your tiles, then open your tile and try to use it. I have not yet found good tiles, though I admit I did not look too hard. Am I missing something? On 9/12/13, Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I use

Re: Apple App Store Refunds for inaccessible Apps

2013-09-12 Thread Joanne Chua
If visual games does not need to be accessible, i wonder how manuy people will crying over Solara not being accessible then? Solara is a visual game, with accessibility build in on it. Perhaps, some foolish thinking that developer develop Solara for only the vips and the blind community, however,

Re: Apple App Store Refunds for inaccessible Apps

2013-09-12 Thread Chris Blouch
Would be nice to have a way to give an accessibility 'star rating' for apps that would get aggregated. So I could then search/sort apps from most to least accessible from user feedback just like any other kind of rating system. That covers the issue around accessible being just a true/false