Re: more on my ITunes 8.1 experienced lockups:

2009-03-19 Thread David Poehlman
The veil has now been lifted on my ITunes lockup issue. This was not an ITunes issue at all and has been solved. Thanks! On Mar 16, 2009, at 2:54 PM, David Poehlman wrote: Hello all, I had reported I'd be downgrading my ITunes but decided to do one more thing before downloading. My

Re: iTunes new version

2009-03-16 Thread David Poehlman
Jacob, Thanks for the 8.0.2 link. I don't plan to get a shuffle anytime soon and am sad for those who do for if they don't fix the mess they have made of 8.1, there are going to be a lot more unhappy campers than there now are including me since I found out that I cannot play music for

Re: You can track the downloads in iTunes 8.1

2009-03-16 Thread David Poehlman
before you get there. I am sure there is a way to capture this in some fashion, but perhaps not quite yet. On Mar 16, 2009, at 8:42 AM, David Poehlman wrote: scott, found this a couple of vs back but the problem was that we could see what was being downloaded but not how much of what was being

more on my ITunes 8.1 experienced lockups:

2009-03-16 Thread David Poehlman
Hello all, I had reported I'd be downgrading my ITunes but decided to do one more thing before downloading. My reason for downgrading was because ITunes freezing after a period of playing. This happned on an early IMac both on the mac and windows sides. I've been playing music on my

Re: New spanish voices for snow leopard

2009-03-14 Thread David Poehlman
and in english? On Mar 14, 2009, at 5:54 AM, Jonathan Chacón wrote: Hello to everybody Here is good news for spanish users. Snow leopard, the next version of macOS X, will have spanish free voices for voiceOver. You can read all the notice in my blog (in spanish)

Re: New spanish voices for snow leopard

2009-03-14 Thread David Poehlman
no, you said the blog was in spannish. On Mar 14, 2009, at 8:13 AM, Jonathan Chacón wrote: -Mensaje original- De: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com ] En nombre de David Poehlman Enviado el: sábado, 14 de marzo de 2009 12:50 Para: macvisionaries

Re: details on Voiceover for iPod Shuffle?

2009-03-13 Thread David Poehlman
it is generated by ITunes. it is on the shuffle page. On Mar 13, 2009, at 9:37 AM, Jacob Schmude wrote: Hi Has anyone found information about exactly how Voiceover on the iPod Shuffle works? Does iTunes still generate the speech, or is the capability built in to the shuffle itself? The sample

Re: visio voice

2009-03-13 Thread David Poehlman
I was rong, it will go to .aiff so you will have to convert to mp3 if you want that. On Mar 13, 2009, at 10:47 AM, David Poehlman wrote: yes, but I believe you can also set it go directly to mp3. On Mar 13, 2009, at 10:40 AM, william lomas wrote: i think if I set it david and all

Re: Woohoo! More talking iPods!

2009-03-12 Thread David Poehlman
the web page explains it all. On Mar 12, 2009, at 4:53 AM, Søren Jensen wrote: Hi. Does that means that the new Ipods have a built in Voiceover? Or do we still need to make the voices using Itunes? Best regards Søren Jensen Mail MSN: s...@coolfortheblind.dk Website:

Re: The new iTunes, accessibility issues?

2009-03-12 Thread David Poehlman
. - Original Message - From: David Poehlman david.poehl...@handsontechnologeyes.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 3:56 PM Subject: Re: The new iTunes, accessibility issues? sorry, we need more. if I do as you describe, I get search, sources and songs

Re: The new iTunes, accessibility issues?

2009-03-12 Thread David Poehlman
one way to skin a cat, and this is one way that eventually needs to work. While I'm hear, Jacob, have you tried turning off genius to see if that affects anything? On 3/12/09, David Poehlman david.poehl...@handsontechnologeyes.com wrote: so they missed again, folks, relax, you can use the vo

say only works reliably when vo is turned off:

2009-03-11 Thread David Poehlman
Hi all, It seems that something has happened to the terminal say command. If I try executing it, I get no errors but nothing is spoken unless I turn off vo. this happens on at least two computers. Thanks! --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message

Re: Understanding Blind User's Needs

2009-03-09 Thread David Poehlman
we already have this in vo. On Mar 8, 2009, at 9:59 PM, Martin Pilkington wrote: Hi Tiffany, This is exactly what I'm meaning when I talk about a sort of overview giving a full text description of a window. You could bring it up at any point and have it read to you. It would be written

Re: Understanding Blind User's Needs

2009-03-09 Thread David Poehlman
The visual ways of doing things re explained but we have full access via the keyboard to the gui if it is accessible. On Mar 8, 2009, at 9:43 PM, Tiffany D wrote: I think it's wonderful what you're doing and I'm with you 100%. You're setting a great example and considering how Apple is so

Re: Understanding Blind User's Needs

2009-03-09 Thread David Poehlman
this is redundant. the clock is self voicing on the hour for those who don't need vo to take advantage of it. if I had a mind to, I'm sure I could write an app to have vo announce te time at peridocic intervals. The only reason to make an app self voicing is that it cannot fit into the

Re: Understanding Blind User's Needs

2009-03-09 Thread David Poehlman
it is not possible to do braille display detection for your purposes on the mac os. On Mar 8, 2009, at 9:09 PM, Martin Pilkington wrote: Hi Chris, I'm not 100% sure whether it is possible to detect whether the user is using a braille display or not, but I'll definitely look into it. If

Re: Understanding Blind User's Needs

2009-03-09 Thread David Poehlman
You should be talking to greg kearny. On Mar 8, 2009, at 9:06 PM, Ryan Dour wrote: As a great example, an app like Boxee would be amazing with self voicing menus. Boxee is a media center app like FrontRow, but able to do much more. However, that doesn't help any of us, as it doesn't have

Re: Understanding Blind User's Needs

2009-03-09 Thread David Poehlman
self voicing should never be needed and in all 3rd party cases I've seen it implemented for the mac os it is disasterous. you only need look at firevox to understand this. On Mar 8, 2009, at 8:41 PM, Michael Babcock wrote: very good points chris, i agree. Though the self voicing option

Re: Understanding Blind User's Needs

2009-03-09 Thread David Poehlman
Martin, I'd be happy to test any vo compatible apps you develop or that you know of that are developped. this is 100 ercent accessibility. I don't know what software you write or have written but would encourage youto stick to apple accessibility apis and work with apple if something

self voicing apps and voiceover:

2009-03-09 Thread David Poehlman
Hi all, we've been discussing self voicing/voice over accessible apps in another thread but I thought this might be a more compatible subject line for that discussion. I wanted to mention an excellent package demonstrating what can be done on the mac os with regard to vo compatibility and

Re: using JAWS on my Mac

2009-03-09 Thread David Poehlman
to upgrade JAWS so I guess I'll just have to figure out how to uses my Mac for everything. Alena Blog: http://blind-gal.blogspot.com david poehlman wrote: set jaws to laptop mode nd use the capslock. that is what I am doing and others as well. - Original Message - From

Re: Understanding Blind User's Needs

2009-03-09 Thread David Poehlman
, I'll look into filing a bug with Apple to see if they will look into this for a future OS version. Thanks - Martin Pilkington Writer of Weird Symbols pi...@mcubedsw.com On 9 Mar 2009, at 6:26 am, David Poehlman wrote: we already have this in vo. On Mar 8

braille:Re: Understanding Blind User's Needs

2009-03-09 Thread David Poehlman
- Martin Pilkington Writer of Weird Symbols pi...@mcubedsw.com On 9 Mar 2009, at 8:07 pm, David Poehlman wrote: this is not a bug. apple write drivers for displays themselves. the display is handled through the driver and tightly integrated into voiceover. the only thing you could

Re: mail problem with voiceover.

2009-03-03 Thread David Poehlman
I'm not having this problem or any other new issue in mail but I did have to restart my system to get the end of screen boundary audibility back. On Mar 3, 2009, at 5:25 AM, Thomas McMahan wrote: I think that is the problem. Just uninstalled it as well, and now on reply it just says html

Re: Possible Cure for Safari Interaction Losing

2009-03-02 Thread David Poehlman
this is not the case for me. I regularly hold down my vo keys and it only happens on certain sites. On Mar 2, 2009, at 2:31 AM, Alex Jurgensen wrote: Hi, Diagnosis: Safari randomly causes Voiceover to lose interaction with web pages. Recommended Treatment: Lock the VO Keys. CTRL + OPT +