Re: How to dlwnload a file

2009-06-11 Thread Simon Cavendish
Just one more thing to this: don't you have to route your mouse to VO in order to perform the physical mouse click with vo+shift+space accurately? That is of course if you don't have your cursors tracking each other. Best wishes Simon On 10 Jun 2009, at 20:24, Chris Gilland wrote: > > Wel

Re: Safari VS Webkit explanation

2009-06-11 Thread Alex Jurgensen
HI, If it is exposed so. The Mac Alpha's are out now. Regards, Alex, On 11-Jun-09, at 7:42 PM, Mike Reiser wrote: > > In theory I'm going to guess that chrome will be accessible too sense > it's written with webkit? > > Mike > On Jun 11, 2009, at 5:10 PM, Brett Campbell wrote: > >> >> This ex

Re: Strange Itunes problem.

2009-06-11 Thread Alex Jurgensen
Hi, It is a bug. I have it as List View already. It was a known bug in iTunes 8.0.2 or somthing. Regards, Alex, On 11-Jun-09, at 7:22 PM, Justin Harford wrote: > > I highly doubt if this is a bug. Press cmd+option+3 to make it list > view. Chances are that it is showing it to you as a grid

Re: IWorks

2009-06-11 Thread Barry Hadder
Hi, It's better than it was but still has some problems. I would download the trial and see if it works for what you want it for. - Original Message - From: Kerry Painter To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 8:35 AM Subject: IWorks Hi Folks.

Re: Safari VS Webkit explanation

2009-06-11 Thread Mike Reiser
In theory I'm going to guess that chrome will be accessible too sense it's written with webkit? Mike On Jun 11, 2009, at 5:10 PM, Brett Campbell wrote: > > This explanation helps. Thank you. > > Brett > > > On Jun 11, 2009, at 8:34 AM, Alex Jurgensen wrote: > >> >> Hi, >> >> Safari 3/4 are ju

Re: mac voiceover in braille monitor

2009-06-11 Thread Mike Reiser
I was confused about the editing thing as well at first but am doing much better now I think. I still goof up sometimes but oh well. This guy obviously did not read the vo manual as I looked at it today and it's very detailed in going over the desktop orientation and all that. They don'

Re: IWorks

2009-06-11 Thread Mike Reiser
It's an office sweet that Apple produces similar to MS Office. It is quite accessible with vo for writeing documents and keynotes. I've heard of issues with tables and things in iwork along with some others but should be fine for most tasks. Mike On Jun 11, 2009, at 8:35 AM, Kerry Painter

Re: Strange Itunes problem.

2009-06-11 Thread Justin Harford
I highly doubt if this is a bug. Press cmd+option+3 to make it list view. Chances are that it is showing it to you as a grid or cover flow. Regards J On Jun 11, 2009, at 6:00 PM, Alex Jurgensen wrote: > > Hi, > > This is a bug it seems E-mail Accessibility. > > Regards, > Alex, > > > On 11-J

Re: voice over comes to the I phone

2009-06-11 Thread John Denning
Not to mention that apple would not have made any jibes against AT&T not even unintentional ones if they were happy with AT&T. I to see the writing on the wall about more U.S. carriers. Just wish it were soon, like real soon. My wife has had an iPhone since the very first one, early on. I w

Re: Hi,

2009-06-11 Thread chantel cuddemi
Hi, if I may say something, you two, I have heard Samantha and Victoria both. I say that Samantha is a pretty decent voice for the i phone. Victoria probably wouldn't be able to be understood, since i phones are very small. My brother has one, so I thin I should now how small an i phone isa. J

Re: Turning off the screen

2009-06-11 Thread chantel cuddemi
Jed, control iption shift 1 eleven will turn the screen curtain on. On Jun 10, 2009, at 3:22 PM, Jed Barton wrote: > > Hey guys, > Anyone know how to turn on the screen curtin with the macbook? > > Thanks, > Jed > > > > --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this mes

Re: How to dlwnload a file

2009-06-11 Thread Chris Gilland
Well, vo+shift+m is the equivalent of a right mouse click wherever your vo cursor is. vo+shift+space! is the same as a physical mouse click where the voice over cursor is at. Chris. - Original Message - From: "Jed Barton" To: Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 3:21 PM Subject: How to d

ITunes 8.2 and accessibility

2009-06-11 Thread Chris Gilland
I am curious to know if anyone has any clue what the scoop is on ITunes 8.2. I know it is somewhat inaccessible for some weird reason with jaws 10 on the windows side of things. I was curious if this issue ever as of yet has been addressed. I spoke to a product specialist at Apple, and he sai

Re: voice over comes to the I phone

2009-06-11 Thread Kerry Painter
Is this the case in the UK also? Kerry Painter (Independent Distributor) Save up to £600 per year on your utility bills call 0800 130 0421 or visit www.minibills.org.uk today for more information -- From: "ben mustill-rose" Sent: Monday, June 08, 2

Re: Strange Itunes problem.

2009-06-11 Thread Alex Jurgensen
Hi, This is a bug it seems E-mail Accessibility. Regards, Alex, On 11-Jun-09, at 9:33 AM, Jesse Bollinger wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm having a wierd problem with Itunes. I've subscribed to some > podcasts and want to listen to them. The sources table informs me I > have two podcasts available.

Re: adium

2009-06-11 Thread Alex Jurgensen
Hi, That isn't the time. I'm not sure what it is. Regards, Alex, On 11-Jun-09, at 10:41 AM, Wendy wrote: > > Hi, the other day i installed the update to safari and since then > the time > has been showing up on every message i type on adium. Does anyone > know how > i can change it so th

Re: voice over comes to the I phone

2009-06-11 Thread Alex Jurgensen
HI, I don't have the source off-hand. This came up on another phone Developers mailing list. But, I see things have changed. Regards, Alex, On 11-Jun-09, at 10:05 AM, Josh de Lioncourt wrote: > On Jun 9, 2009, at 8:36 PM, Alex Jurgensen wrote: >> The criteria is that TomTom wants exclusive r

Re: Safari VS Webkit explanation

2009-06-11 Thread Joan Alice Maria Gibson, Esquire
Hi, Brett and anyone else! Very interesting; but, can anyone help me out, please? Installed Safari 4.0 last night on my iMac G4 running Mac OS X 10.4.11 Tiger. This morning, discovered that the new Safari is much faster; but, now, cannot scroll web pages with my arrow keys and cannot see the mouse

Re: Safari VS Webkit explanation

2009-06-11 Thread Brett Campbell
This explanation helps. Thank you. Brett On Jun 11, 2009, at 8:34 AM, Alex Jurgensen wrote: > > Hi, > > Safari 3/4 are just the GUI which Apple places on top of Webkit. Think > of Safari as the container you put food in when you go to a fancy > container. YOu may add a Microwave feature to th

Re: mac voiceover in braille monitor

2009-06-11 Thread kaare dehard
Interesting, so I'll explore my own journey with you. My first talking computer ironicly was an apple ii e. My second was a dos machine. Neither of these gave me much trouble. Windows was my next stop, and with no prejudgement I worked for a week before I got myself grounded. Windows 95 98

Re: voice over comes to the I phone

2009-06-11 Thread Josh de Lioncourt
On Jun 11, 2009, at 1:07 PM, Brent Harding wrote: > They didn't say that in the presentation. I guess someone like > Sendero could do this as nobody said Tom Tom will be accessible for > us or even work for walking routes. Whoever takes this one on will > also likely have to make Bluetooth dr

Re: The iphone and gps

2009-06-11 Thread Justin Harford
That would be cool if you could run your finger over a map of a city and have it read the streets that your finger passes over. I could get use out of that. My biggest objection to the maps and really to the idea of running the fingers over the screen to have speech feedback would be the

Re: voice over comes to the I phone

2009-06-11 Thread Brent Harding
They didn't say that in the presentation. I guess someone like Sendero could do this as nobody said Tom Tom will be accessible for us or even work for walking routes. Whoever takes this one on will also likely have to make Bluetooth drivers for external GPS receivers since the kind in most phone

Re: voice over comes to the I phone

2009-06-11 Thread Brent Harding
Does it actually tell what streets you have to cross in the walking portion of the route after you get off the bus, how far away from the destination the bus drops off, etc? I tried the transit thingy as we have it for here, and it is only basically good for finding out which bus and what time,

Re: The iphone and gps

2009-06-11 Thread Brent Harding
Well, if it's anything like what Google Transit is, the directions are very vague at the point where you're done riding the bus. For example, it might say to take a certain bus to the transit center, transfer to another bus, get off at a given street corner, but then it just says something like

Re: The iphone and gps

2009-06-11 Thread Josh de Lioncourt
Google Maps, from what I'm told, provides walking and public transit directions. If that's the case, it should work quite well for VO users, given that the Google Maps app is supposed to be accessible. If it is not sufficient, Google Maps functionality is available to iPhone developers, so

adium

2009-06-11 Thread Wendy
Hi, the other day i installed the update to safari and since then the time has been showing up on every message i type on adium. Does anyone know how i can change it so that the time don't show up on the messages please? Thank you. >From Wendy. Member of www.tafn.org.uk --~--~-~--

Re: voice over comes to the I phone

2009-06-11 Thread Josh de Lioncourt
On Jun 9, 2009, at 5:56 AM, ben mustill-rose wrote: > Assuming of course that the developer wants to. Essentially, you'll > end up with the exact same situation you have on every other platform > where a screenreader exists, its going to be down to the developers to > make there applications access

selecting images

2009-06-11 Thread Maxwell Ivey Jr.
Hello Group; Since installing safari version 4.0, I'm not able to select images with the usual keystrokes. Could someone please tell me how to click on these links using only the keyboard. Thanks, Max --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because

Re: voice over comes to the I phone

2009-06-11 Thread Josh de Lioncourt
On Jun 9, 2009, at 8:36 PM, Alex Jurgensen wrote: > The criteria is that TomTom wants exclusive rights to Turn by Turn > directions. > > So they have them. Do you have a source for such information? I haven't seen anything that claims Tomtom has exclusive rights to turn-by-turn. Google Maps ca

Re: Voiceover on iPhone demo was Re: voice over comes to the I phone

2009-06-11 Thread Josh de Lioncourt
On Jun 9, 2009, at 8:38 PM, Alex Jurgensen wrote: > The voice on the phone is Victoria because of her great workings with > low RAM systems. She is the English US Candidate it seems. > > I saw this in a demo. Just to clarify, VoiceOver is not in the demo, though the iPhone's TTS is demonstrated.

Re: voice over comes to the I phone

2009-06-11 Thread Josh de Lioncourt
>>> On Jun 9, 2009, at 7:38 PM, Brent Harding wrote: I thought I heard that GPS like we need will never be a possibility with the maps program it comes with. I thought Apple is contractually obligated to stop short of turn by turn directions and not approve apps that do >>>

Re: voice over comes to the I phone

2009-06-11 Thread Josh de Lioncourt
On Jun 9, 2009, at 10:20 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: > As I had mentioned in the past, the non-S model of iPhone didn't > have enough power to do real text to speech so I was kinda hoping > we'd have VO with the newly released model. That also means we won't > have this migrating to iPods and suc

Re: voice over comes to the I phone

2009-06-11 Thread Josh de Lioncourt
Just to clarify some of this AT&T exclusivity contract business… On Jun 9, 2009, at 10:37 PM, Justin Harford wrote: > It is actually very clear. Just google it and you will find that the > ATT Apple contract expires in 2010. That's not really true. No one, outside the parties involved, know the

Strange Itunes problem.

2009-06-11 Thread Jesse Bollinger
Hi all, I'm having a wierd problem with Itunes. I've subscribed to some podcasts and want to listen to them. The sources table informs me I have two podcasts available. I tab over to try and get to the song table to choose them but Voiceover goes from sources to search back to sources. I

Re: Apple is shrugging off Responsibility for Accessibility

2009-06-11 Thread Mark Baxter
Why not do the work ourselves? Instead of seeing it as "shrugging off," why don't we see it as giving us the power, in addition to Apple and other developers? If scripting is coming to VO, it gives *EVERYONE* the power, and doesn't take away anything from anyone. Mark BurningHawk Skype

Safari HTML Reference: Supported Accessibility Roles

2009-06-11 Thread E.J. Zufelt
Good morning, The following document from the Apple developer's site lists the 17 ARIA roles that are supported in Safari 4. Note, that there are 59 ARIA roles in the draft ARIA recommendation. http://developer.apple.com/safari/library/documentation/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariHTMLRef

Re: itunes podcast questions

2009-06-11 Thread Mike Reiser
Yep I goofed and didn't read the intire thing so used to top posting smiles. Mike On Jun 11, 2009, at 12:52 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: > > Hello Mike, > > The whole message is there. I interposted with your questions. > > Cheers, > > Anne > > > On Jun 11, 2009, at 4:54 AM, Mike Reiser wrote: >

Safari VS Webkit explanation

2009-06-11 Thread Alex Jurgensen
Hi, Safari 3/4 are just the GUI which Apple places on top of Webkit. Think of Safari as the container you put food in when you go to a fancy container. YOu may add a Microwave feature to the container, etc. But if you leave food in it for a long time it won't taste quite as good as the la

Re: Vo doesn't read text under some radio buttons

2009-06-11 Thread Mike Reiser
Thanks figured it out, it was a little confusing as there were two save as items in the neu but I figured it out. Mike On Jun 10, 2009, at 7:54 PM, Alex Jurgensen wrote: > > Hi, > > To do this, press "CM" + "S" and then tab to "Save". > > Regards, > Alex, > > > On 10-Jun-09, at 5:48 AM, Ryan D

Re: mac voiceover in braille monitor

2009-06-11 Thread Dean Wilcox
When you first started to use Windows were you new to computers? I mean you didn't use Lunux or an older flavour of Mac before hand? I'm asking as I wonder if you found the Mac quicker to learn because you had a better grasp of computers in general when you started with the Mac, something yo

Re: Multi finger jestures and desktop Macs

2009-06-11 Thread ben mustill-rose
But is it a issue of there drivers not supporting multi touch or an actual hardware one? On 11/06/2009, Ignasi Cambra wrote: > > No, it probably won't work on older macbooks because their trackpads > don't support multi tuch. > On Jun 11, 2009, at 7:16 AM, ben mustill-rose wrote: > >> >> Surely

Re: Multi finger jestures and desktop Macs

2009-06-11 Thread Ignasi Cambra
No, it probably won't work on older macbooks because their trackpads don't support multi tuch. On Jun 11, 2009, at 7:16 AM, ben mustill-rose wrote: > > Surely its just a software thing for all the mb's and mbp's though. > > On 11/06/2009, Justin Harford wrote: >> >> Or for that matter, will ol

Re: Apple is shrugging off Responsibility for Accessibility

2009-06-11 Thread Scott Howell
Hey, I think you are getting concerned about nothing. There are a lot of folks who are very involved in the development of VO who know the good, the bad, and the ugly. The thing you need to keep in mind is although VO is a screen reader, it is not like WE or JFW. The approach although simi

Re: Multi finger jestures and desktop Macs

2009-06-11 Thread ben mustill-rose
Surely its just a software thing for all the mb's and mbp's though. On 11/06/2009, Justin Harford wrote: > > Or for that matter, will older macbook and macbook pro models be left > out. I'm pretty sure that the newer notebooks use different touch pad > technology. > > Regards > Justin Harford >

Re: voice over comes to the I phone

2009-06-11 Thread Ignasi Cambra
http://www.apple.com/accessibility/iphone/vision.html On Jun 11, 2009, at 6:44 AM, Simon Fogarty wrote: > OK, I’ve missed something here after being away from my email for a > while, what’s up with the IPhone? > > How is it been made useable? > > > > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mail

RE: voice over comes to the I phone

2009-06-11 Thread Simon Fogarty
OK, I've missed something here after being away from my email for a while, what's up with the IPhone? How is it been made useable? From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ignasi Cambra Sent: Tuesday, 9 June 2009 11:21 a.m. To: macvi

Re: Mac Mail and multiple accounts

2009-06-11 Thread Ignasi Cambra
I actually have two gmail accounts over here and they both work fine... On Jun 11, 2009, at 1:58 AM, Maxwell Ivey Jr. wrote: > > Hello; After you set up the second account, did you go to mailbox > setting and click take all accounts online? Did you go into advance > settings and make sure you c

Re: Apple is shrugging off Responsibility for Accessibility

2009-06-11 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, The way i see it is like this: It's better we do the work than that we have to rely on knowledgable access technology specialists or script programmers who can, if they so desire, make money on what they do and the fact that average blind people can't do the necessary programming. I don'

Re: Mac Mail and multiple accounts

2009-06-11 Thread Maxwell Ivey Jr.
Hey; I'm glad I could help. Its not often i have the answer or that i get to ring in with it first. I had the same thing happen to me when i was reading my mail a while back. For some reason i stopped getting mail from my primary account. I puzzled over it for two days before I notice