Hello Esther and others,
I just received a copy of the manual in RTF, courtesy of the Apple
Accessibility team. I should have asked them in the first place--Smile.
Kindest regards,
Mike
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Hello Mac Hand Break Users,
As this may be a bit off-topic, if you know the solution to my question,
please send a reply off-list.
Ok, so I downloaded both VLC and Hand Break for my Mac. Yes, I can
seemingly rip commercial DVDs for playback on my Mac in .mp4 format.
However, when I store the
Hi all for those who use TNAUK, wouldn't it be better if one could
make the e-newspapers work on the mac as in windows, by converting the
paper into HTML?
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Yeah I'd agree there. Most of the Apple routers would probably be b,
g, and likely N compatible as well.
On Sep 23, 2009, at 6:09 PM, Tyler Littlefield wrote:
Hello, I'm going to say that it's b and g compatible, most newer cards
are these days. Just a guess, but I haven't seen anything
To be honest, as others have said, most routers are going to work with
11g and the older 11b, perhaps even the new 11n. Because of this it
doesn't *erally* matter which one your wireless card is. The manual
for your router might go into a bit of detail about it but trust me,
unless you've
We can't forget the comfort issue here. Many people who rely on
technologies also rely less on themselves and treat the words of these
experts as if these were direct edicts issued from God his very own
self.
I really believe that the technology has been permitted to stagnate in
part
Hi Guys,
Thanks for all your replies.
I have it up and working now, and it works just fine, even with my
wife's wg511t on her windows machine.
Cheers
Stan
On 24 Sep 2009, at 11:06 AM, ben mustill-rose wrote:
To be honest, as others have said, most routers are going to work with
11g and
Hi Frank,
If you don't care about seeing status - unread, replied, etc. - go to
the View menu with Control-F2, V, Enter. Arrow down to Columns and
press Enter. Check or uncheck columns to show or hide them by pressing
Enter.
If you want to keep status on screen but don't want to hear it
Hi Anna,
Sorry, the sort keys, will not work on my keyboard, for the shift
changes backslash to vertical line.
So how does it work.
Cheers,
Stan.
On 24 Sep 2009, at 4:17 PM, Woody Anna Dresner wrote:
Hi Frank,
If you don't care about seeing status - unread, replied, etc. - go to
the View
Hi guys,
It's tiffanitsa at gmail dot com using my new e-mail and the name I
hope to make legal one day. Anyway, I'm totally fed up with Adium.
The newer version started showing me tons of contacts all of a sudden,
including ones that I'd already deleted. I downloaded 1.3.4, hoping
it would
Hi,
I use Syrinx, and one thing I love about it is how easy it is to read
tweets in the order they were received. You can set a bookmark on the
last tweet you read, then use a Go to Bookmark command and press the
Spacebar repeatedly to move the bookmark up one tweet and hear it read.
Hi Stan,
This isn't Anna, but her instructions for sorting on a column should
work. In any table (e.g., mail messages, finder, the iTunes songs
table) you can sort the column by interacting with the table,
navigating to the column of interest, and using VO-Shift-Backslash.
And yes, on
Hi STan,
That's right, the command is VO-Vertical LIne. I just wrote it the
other way because I figured more people know where the Backslash is
then where the vertical line is.
best,
Anna
On Sep 24, 2009, at 10:14 AM, Stan wrote:
Hi Anna,
Sorry, the sort keys, will not work on my
Utorrent works very well. I love this small application.
Best regards
Søren Jensen
Mail MSN:
s...@coolfortheblind.dk
Website:
http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/
On Sep 23, 2009, at 1:13 AM, May McDonald wrote:
Hi everyone. Is there a program that works to download torrents? I
hope so, really
So is this a bug, or what has changed in Snow Leopard?
Normally, when going through my contact list on Skype, I do a VO-Shift M on
the contact with whom I wish to communicate. This then gives me several
options. I can either call that contact, send them a text message, etc.
Now, when I
What sort of thing is Adium?
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Subject: Need a Version of Adium that I Can Tolerate
Hi
Is there a limit to the number of tweets it will store? I know that on the
Windows side, where I have the misfortune to live just now, certain Twitter
clients will only hold the last 200 tweets you received. If you get a lot
of trafic over night, you might be out of luck. Is that limitation a
Hi michael,
I'm also using Snow Leopard, and I just tried pressing VO-Shift-M on a
Skype contact and got the regular menu with Call, send File, etc. You
could try pressing VO-Command-F5 to bring mouse focus to the contact
before using the command; maybe that would help. Also, are you
Adium is an instant mesaging client.
Go to
http://www.adiumx.com to download it.
On Sep 24, 2009, at 12:18 PM, Kevin Gibbs wrote:
What sort of thing is Adium?
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Hi Kevin,
I don't know of an easy way to find out how many tweets Syrinx stores.
I do know that I have several hundred tweets in it right now,
including a direct message from the end of July when I first joined
Twitter, so I think it keeps all of them.
Best,
Anna
Hi,
Is there a way to have VO redraw the screen as you can with Windows
screen readers when the screen reader and screen content get out of
sync? Or do the two not get out of sync because VO is part of the
operating system?
Thanks,
Anna
Dear All,
My name is Kevin Gibbs and I should have introduced myself. I'm new to
Mac Visionaries. My wife's interest in an iPhone, combined with the
appearance of Snow Leopard, are just two of the reasons why I've taken an
interest in switching from Windows to Mac. My wife is a long time
This is how it was once explained to me when I was wondering the same
thing: Because Windows screen readers are operating as an overlay and
not as an integral part of the OS, most of them use something called
an off-screen model. What you are hearing is actually information that
the screen reader
On Sep 23, 2009, at 4:56 AM, Yuma Antoine Decaux wrote:
Hi, thanks for the response.
I don't get why though the voice over menu options to speak more than
just artists and playlists is dimmed. Is it because i told itunes to
manually manage the music and rest?
best
Yuma
Ok, this is a
Hi Howard,
Thanks a lot. That's what I thought, but I wasn't sure.
Best,
Anna
On Sep 24, 2009, at 12:09 PM, Howard Dupuis wrote:
This is how it was once explained to me when I was wondering the same
thing: Because Windows screen readers are operating as an overlay and
not as an integral
hey all i have reasontly upgraded to snow lepard and when i first
started using it when tiped in pass words i would here a clicking
sound but today this stoped working!! does any boddie know how to solv
this problem?? please help me!!!
kind regards trahern culver.
Hi Kevin. While I've been a member of this group for only a matter of
weeks, and switched over to the Mac just nine months ago, I'd like to
make a point: I didn't make the switch casually, or easily, or without
a whole lot of thought. And after I made the move, I continued to use
my Windows
Hi Anna and Howard,
The closest thing I've had to do to the refresh screen action is
having to force web pages to reload with Command-R. However, that was
for one of two errors. In the first case, there used to be a bug in
the underlying WebKit engine for Safari where occasionally the
Howard and others,
My wife wants an iPod Touch as a stop-gap before switching to an
iPhone, which switch will be dependent on whether Apple opens the iPhone to
other providers at the end of their current ATT contract. Would anyone who
has a Touch with the 3.1 OS share their experiences
Hi Anna,
If I go up to the view menu and go to columns and expand the menu
there is no choice for the status column or the thread column. Am I
in the wrong place? Is this how it is for everyone else? Strangely
my voiceover rarely announces if a message is unread even if it has
the
Dear Kevin,
Welcome to the list. We are very glad to have you. I have been using
a Mac for a year and love it! I plan on being an Apple Macintosh user
for the rest of my life. Once you get a Mac you will never go back. I
hope you learn a lot on this list. If you have any questions for
Hi,
I also use Syrinx and love it. The only thing i wish it had is a way
to see those who follow me, not only those i follow. When this appears
i will be a really happy camper, especially if i can block people i
don't want following me directly from Syrinx.
/Krister
24 sep 2009 kl. 18.33
Welcome Kevin!
I just joined this group on Monday. I already have learn a few
tricks. I know when I get stuck I will turn to these intelligent much
more experienced Mac users to save me. I converted from windows in
June and in those three months I have moments of bewilderment and
I agree, this is something that I'd like to see as well.
On Sep 24, 2009, at 2:39 PM, Krister Ekstrom wrote:
Hi,
I also use Syrinx and love it. The only thing i wish it had is a way
to see those who follow me, not only those i follow. When this appears
i will be a really happy camper,
Hi Christina,
I'm sorry. You're right; Status isn't in the Columns menu. I found the
menu and that it controlled which columns were shown, and I assumed
Status was there without actually looking for it. You know what
happens when you assume. sorry about that.
Best,
Anna
Welcome all of you: Kevin, Israel, and Howard, and others,
Don't hesitate to ask questions on list. Also, one of the nice
features of the Mac is that you can find quite a lot of answers by
just doing a Google search of regular Mac questions -- without having
to make your queries VoiceOver
The keystrokes are vo+shift+m not command. Just thought I'd mention,
hope you don't mind. Simon
On 23 Sep 2009, at 23:21, Jessi and Goldina wrote:
hey David,
to open folders on the dock:
make sure you're on the folder you want to open
press command option shift m all at the same time to
Dear All,
I wonder whether any of you can test this and confirm. When I use
google search and bring up google text box with command+option+f, and
type my search and then press enter, and when I move vo+arrow keys to
navigate to the results, Voiceover crashes. It happens every time. Has
It's absolutely no problem. :) I just thought I was doing something
wrong. I had hoped I could find a solution to get voiceover to say
unread while going through my-messages table. :)
Christina
On Sep 24, 2009, at 11:49 AM, Woody Anna Dresner wrote:
Hi Christina,
I'm sorry. You're
It is not just you. But for me, at least, it restarts as quickly as it
crashes.
Simon Cavendish wrote:
Dear All,
I wonder whether any of you can test this and confirm. When I use
google search and bring up google text box with command+option+f, and
type my search and then press enter, and
Hi,
When I first installed sl it happen constantly. For some reason, the
crashing stopped. I have no idea why.
On Sep 24, 2009, at 2:11 PM, Simon Cavendish wrote:
Dear All,
I wonder whether any of you can test this and confirm. When I use
google search and bring up google text box
Hi,
VoiceOver doesn't crash when I use the Command-Option-F search for
Google results in Safari in Leopard. But I noticed that Safari 4
introduced some features that initially impacted the way I worked with
browsers. If it regularly happens under Snow Leopard this is a major
bug that
gah did I say command? I meant VO...sigh lol
On 2009-09-24, at 12:00 PM, Simon Cavendish wrote:
The keystrokes are vo+shift+m not command. Just thought I'd mention,
hope you don't mind. Simon
On 23 Sep 2009, at 23:21, Jessi and Goldina wrote:
hey David,
to open folders on the dock:
make
Hi Kevin,
I just purchased an iPod Touch last week and have been playing with it
off and on since last Friday. I'm not having much trouble doing basic
navigation but I'm still having trouble typing text into the iPod.
I'm slowly getting better at it. I think there was a thread on this
Yes, I do like this client when I used it with windows, but I can't
figure out how to set it up for the mac. Can you help?
On 24-Sep-09, at 8:47 AM, Søren Jensen wrote:
Utorrent works very well. I love this small application.
Best regards
Søren Jensen
Mail MSN:
s...@coolfortheblind.dk
Ooh that would be good for me as well as I'm a musician! Id love to
know about the accessibility of programs like Live or Reason, Logic
opposed to Garageband, Audacity, etc
On Sep 24, 2009, at 3:17 AM, Jean-Philippe Rykiel wrote:
Hi all,
there used to be a
macvisionaries list
So the latest version is 1.3.6.
I just google older versions of adium and there is a website from
which older versions can be downloaded. It gives you a list of them
and the dates they were released. Anyone remember when adium became
accessible?
I tried a version from Februray of 2008,
Hi has anyone else using adium noted that the facebook chat client
plugin is inaccessible?
I.e. it doesn't show the latest messages as in MsN etc?
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I use it and I see no problems with it.
what are you not seeing?
On Sep 24, 2009, at 2:22 PM, william lomas wrote:
Hi has anyone else using adium noted that the facebook chat client
plugin is inaccessible?
I.e. it doesn't show the latest messages as in MsN etc?
Anyone tried the 1.4B9 version that can be downloaded from adiumx.com/beta?
Subject: Re: Need a Version of Adium that I Can Tolerate
From: blindst...@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:21:27 -0700
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
So the latest version is 1.3.6.
I just google
I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction. For the past
2 weeks, I have been unable to receive downloads of any messages from
this group. I've tried to keep up as best as I could reading messages
on-line, but it just doesn't work as efficiently for me. When I
stopped receiving
No it isn't. There's beta version. It's version four point something I
think.
On Sep 24, 2009, at 5:21 PM, Justin Harford wrote:
So the latest version is 1.3.6.
I just google older versions of adium and there is a website from
which older versions can be downloaded. It gives you a list
Thank you, Blake, that's the one I was thinking of.
On Sep 24, 2009, at 5:30 PM, Blake Sinnett wrote:
Anyone tried the 1.4B9 version that can be downloaded from adiumx.com/beta?
Subject: Re: Need a Version of Adium that I Can Tolerate
From: blindst...@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009
Nope haven't noticed.
On Sep 24, 2009, at 2:22 PM, william lomas wrote:
Hi has anyone else using adium noted that the facebook chat client
plugin is inaccessible?
I.e. it doesn't show the latest messages as in MsN etc?
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Whatever. The latest stable release not beta. But anyway she was
asking about older versions not newer ones.
J
On Sep 24, 2009, at 2:43 PM, Chantel Cuddemi wrote:
No it isn't. There's beta version. It's version four point something I
think.
On Sep 24, 2009, at 5:21 PM, Justin Harford
All right, got it!!! Sorry, but I've got a cold.
On Sep 24, 2009, at 6:14 PM, Justin Harford wrote:
Whatever. The latest stable release not beta. But anyway she was
asking about older versions not newer ones.
J
On Sep 24, 2009, at 2:43 PM, Chantel Cuddemi wrote:
No it isn't. There's
Hi there,
my name is Jean-Philippe Rykiel, I'm a musician and I don't have a Mac yet.
I would like to hear about folks who switched from Windows to Mac and what made
them prefer the Apple. I must say I'm quite happy with my PC and the reason I
joined this list was to find out about improvements
Hi all,
Please forgive me and let me know if this is off topic. I have never
had an accessible cell phone. However, I left mine in my pants
pocket and then ran my pants through the washer. :) Oooops! My DH
teased that I did it so I could get an iphone. He he he.
Well this go around
Salut Jp,
I have recently switched to the mac, and i can tell you that i am glad
for having done it on many fronts.
First, VO, especially in Snow Leopard, is contextual, meaning that the
way you navigate is very close to a graphic based navigation. Voice
over tells you where you are on a
Kevin,
You asked about typing and WiFi on the iPod Touch. My experience with
typing -- which I think is fairly typical -- is that it seems beyond
impossible initially. It took me just less than forever to simply
enter the password for my wireless network the night I got the thing.
I'd have told
Hi,
Is there a way to copy an audio CD on the Mac with the software it
comes with? If not, what software works well for this?
Thanks,
Anna
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On Sep 24, 2009, at 2:27 PM, Howard Dupuis wrote:
It is not just you. But for me, at least, it restarts as quickly as it
crashes.
Simon Cavendish wrote:
Dear All,
I wonder whether any of you can test this and confirm. When I use
google search and bring up google text box with
hi Anna,
when you put your cd in the drive, iTunes should come up and ask if
you want to import it. you just VO space over to the import button and
click it and it'll start doing it. it works really well. I'm not sure
how to do it if you wanna put it in any program other than iTunes.
On
Hello folks.
Have any one of you had the problem of getting lots of duplicates when
syncing the address book with google contacts?
When I've synced my contacts, and go to www.google.com/contacts, and
click on the all contacts, I find more than 300 contacts there, and
lots of them are
This is curious. I just googled iPhone, so I pressed cmd+option+f to
jump to the search box in the tool bar, typed yphone pressed return,
and then waited for the page to load. Vo interacted automatically
with the html content, and I pressed vo right arrow until I found the
results and
Can you actually use gestures to alter volume and scrub? Or is that
something you're hoping for in the future?
Kevin
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Howard,
Thanks for your comments on the Touch. I'll let you all know how I
get on when I buy one.
K.
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