Personally, I think it would be excellent to have iBooks on the Mac.
It would be great to hear Alex reading a book instead of just
Samantha. I hope they do in Lyon.
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Hello all,I have discovered that all kind of services (that where available in
al programs) are gone now, I think since the update to 10.6.7.
Now, there is only one item: construct, or something ilk that.
Does others here have also this experience?
Thanx alot for your answers,
William
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is skype accessible using VO?
Zachary Kline wrote:
Hi,
Speaking from experience, iChat is accessible, but Adium is preferable. I
have multiple accounts which iChat doesn't support. You can configure iChat
to speak in a similar manner to Adium, but overall for better functionality
the
Yes, it is extremely accessible. VO handles Skype beautifully.
On Apr 6, 2011, at 2:08 AM, bigboy529 wrote:
is skype accessible using VO?
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I have the exact same configuration and would like to do this too.
Any help will be much appreciated. And I am a Mac novice so no detail
is too minor to include. :)
Kimber
On 4/5/11, Cam cameron.ro...@gmail.com wrote:
Dear all,
I have the latest MacBook Air, with a 2.1ghz processor and 4gb
Hi.
Just joined the list again after a little break so am late on this thread. Is
this application for totally blind people too please?
Kawal.
On 5 Apr 2011, at 22:17, Charlie Bates wrote:
Hi all. Not sure how many people are aware, but aisquare, who are
responsible for the creation of
I use skype in a limited capacity, I add contacts and make voice and video
calls. I can speak to it's accessibility from that point of viiew. Yep, it
works.
I am not however a full skype feature set user, so you may wish to seek more
input from others on the list.
On 2011-04-06, at 5:08 AM,
Spending a few minutes with this app has not impressed me, I'll need some
time to arrange some lighting and maybe speak to some of the AI people and
see what they have to say. Given that it is 2am I had better get some sleep.
I will say though that when a simple address was placed in front of the
It is designed for persons with low vision.
Andy
I'm pretty good at drinkin beer.
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I use Ichat and Jabber to also get my MSN contacts. Ichat is quite accessible.
Kawal.
On 6 Apr 2011, at 01:16, Shawn Krasniuk wrote:
Regarding the Ichat application, it's ok as long as you don't have an MSN or
Facebook account. Someone can correct me on this, but I think Ichat only
Hi.
I have windows 7 32 riunning on my Macbook Pro and although I have 8 gig of RAM
I have allocated 2 gig and 40 disk space. You can run 64 bit of windows 7.
Kawal.
On 6 Apr 2011, at 12:14, Kimberly wrote:
I have the exact same configuration and would like to do this too.
Any help will
Hello All
I've been thinking of trying out a mac lately, so I got the retail version
of the snow leopard dvd so that I can test snow leopard under a vm in
windows. I wanted to see if snow leopard was worth the investment of getting
a macbook.
There are instructions on the net on how to
This is against apples eula, even *if* you have purchased snow leopard.
To get the dvd to boot, you'll first have to boot the vm using
boot132, wait for some text to appear on the screen, eject the disk,
insert snowy, complete the install potentially without voice over and
then get audio plus some
yes, you can. split it evenly, 2 GB iether side.
i'd turn off all the unwanted stuff in win7 if you're going to run it in
vmware. Especially the gadgets.
ash
On 06/04/2011 00:39, Cam wrote:
Dear all,
I have the latest MacBook Air, with a 2.1ghz processor and 4gb of ram.
Apple tells me that
the upgrade will probably be very cheap. the upgrade to snow leopard was
£25 here.
just keep checking apples site; you'll see when they appear.
ash
On 06/04/2011 03:13, KliphSharrie wrote:
Speaking of lion, and the new sandy bridge macs that are supposed to be
released soon. Is there a
Hi
On Apr 5, 2011, at 5:32 AM, bigboy529 wrote:
I'll wait for lion because I'm anyway still saving up and it's not
urgent. The reason for thinking a mini will be fine is because I'm
currently running a pc with a 2.5 GHz dual core cpu and 2 GB ram and
I'm recording fine. The mini can go up to
Hi List,
I download a lot of books, movies, and music. I want to keep them all in
one place besides my hard drive on the Mac or PC. I have been using compact
flash cards and junk drives, known as memory sticks, but they don't provide
enough space where I can fit everything all at once. I
Any usb drive should do.
ash
On 06/04/2011 18:52, Sarah May wrote:
Hi List,
I download a lot of books, movies, and music. I want to keep them all
in one place besides my hard drive on the Mac or PC. I have been
using compact flash cards and junk drives, known as memory sticks, but
they
Hi I would rather go for a firewire drive as this would give you
faster transfer rates, go for a firewire drive if your mac, pc and
other devices have firewire ports. If not you also get hard drive
enclosures which have both a firewire and usb port...
Ashley Cox wrote:
Any usb drive should do.
Hello all,
I've been reading a bit about two scanner/OCR apps for the iPhone: saytext and
prizmo. Neither sounds sufficiently well developed to meet the needs of totally
blind individuals at this time, but perhaps I'm underestimating their utility.
Has anyone on this list tried either product,
Hello Rafael,
I'm totally blind and have used both SayText and Prizmo with some success.
SayText seems to work best for reading envelopes, and Prizmo for reading a page
of a book or a sheet of A4 or the equivalent.
They both need good lighting, so I use Light Detector to gauge the level of
yeah, true.
ash
On 06/04/2011 19:51, bigboy529 wrote:
Hi I would rather go for a firewire drive as this would give you
faster transfer rates, go for a firewire drive if your mac, pc and
other devices have firewire ports. If not you also get hard drive
enclosures which have both a firewire and
Hi Anne,
It sounds as though both apps still need a bit of work, before they can replace
the traditional flat-bed scanner. I don't yet own an iPhone, although I was
considering buying one provided one or both of the aforementioned scanner/OCR
apps was truly useful. I'll probably wait a while
Rumor has it that they're working on a version of KNFB reader for the Iphone.
Sincerely,
The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!!
Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!!
Skype name:
barefootedray
Facebook:
facebook.com/ray.foretjr.1
On Apr 6, 2011, at 2:38 PM, Bejarano, Rafael P. wrote:
Hi Anne,
Hi Big Boy,
My PC, Mac, and Braille Sense Plus don't have fire wire ports that I know
off. I know that all of these devices have USB ports though. So what
external hard drive should I go for then that will give me fast spped, lots
of memory, and not cost a lot?
Thanks,
Sarah
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Hi Ashoey,
Thanks for the advice.
Sarah
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Hi All,
a friend told me VO still doesn't work with tables in text documents in Lion
beta 2 what came out these days. As you all surely know tables in text
documents are a huge issue working with VoiceOver.
I think this is awful and unworthy to VoiceOver. VO is really a great screen
reader
Hey all. I want to download a movie from a video on demand service that my
university offers. However everything is all in flash. I will install the flash
player on here but first, would someone kindly remind me what the name of that
plugin is that makes flash somewhat accessible? Thanks.
Are you referring to click to flash? That's the only plug in that
comes to mind that is like what you're talking about. It only helps
with flash in certain instances, and I still haven't reliably figured
out when those instances are and aren't. It's a good little plugin
most of the time,
Hi,
I got rid of my PC and switched completely to mac but on my PC I ran a program
call Kurtzweil 3000 and there is a mac version but I can't affod it. Is there
any other OCR programs that will work with the mac that do fairly decent at
scanning in and accurately speaking the text?
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That would be wonderful, assuming the cost were reasonable.
Rafael
On Apr 6, 2011, at 2:50 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote:
Rumor has it that they're working on a version of KNFB reader for the Iphone.
Sincerely,
The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!!
Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!!
Skype name:
Hi,
There are allot of really good solutions at http://www.macsales.com/.
On Apr 6, 2011, at 12:52 PM, Sarah May wrote:
Hi List,
I download a lot of books, movies, and music. I want to keep them all in one
place besides my hard drive on the Mac or PC. I have been using compact
flash
Hello Angel
There is a version of Abbyy Finereader for the mac. I know that this is
brilliant on the PC and quite cost affective but I am not sure how it is on the
mac as it has only been made available in the last few years. This software
will scan your documents and then transfer to
Hi All,
This is mainly a point of interest with me, as I've generally been able to get
all the information I need without recourse to this option. I was wondering if
anybody had any use for the vo-grave-accent and vo-tilde keys? One resizes
windows, the other moves them. WHile I'm impressed
Hi Angel:
You can get good scanning results with a mac, without Krzweil. The best way of
doing so is to confine two relatively inexpensive programs: One called Vuescan,
(around $40 US,) and Abbyy Fine Reader (around $100 US. Vuescan alone can do
some adequate scanning, but doesn't speak page
Cheree Heppe here:
Yah, another over-priced, under-performing gadget for which the developers can
gain more than the consumers.
Regards,
Cheree Heppe
Sent from my iPhone
On 06/04/2011, at 14:18, Bejarano, Rafael P. beja...@hsu.edu wrote:
That would be wonderful, assuming the cost were
I just love my Western digital drives, and they work just fine, with all the
devices you want. I have a my passport portable USB drive, which is 500 GB,
doesn't use a wall outlet, and is fairly affordable. I got mine for under
$100. Just format it FAT32, and that will work with all your devices,
The only issue with FAT32 is the infamous 4 GB limitation on file size. I
don't have that many files of that size or larger around, but I think the days
of its viability as a filesystem are numbered, and have been for some time. I
think there's also a limitation on total disk size, but can't
Hey yeah that was what I wanted to know. Thanks. I'll install Adobe Flash
Player right away. BTW, is it already installed or where do I go to get that
plugin? And also, I did write an email asking for them to find an alternative
to flash and their answer was that it's independent of what
Yes the Snow Leopard upgrade was under $50, but don't expect that Lion will be
that inexpensive. I have purchased every version of OS X and every other
version of X was around $140. Snow Leopard was for the visual user mostly just
a speed bump. They removed all support for PPC and optimized
I don't understand why these functions even exist for text to speech. I do not
need to resize any windows, or even move them. I can't see them, so why bother.
I can understand why someone with limited vision would need these functions.
they can still see the screen (minimally) and having
Hi there!
I've not used this feature myself!
But maybe one use for this is if a blind person is making something to show in
the visual world, could this help in a layout type thing!
I don't know just guessing! :]
Colin
Qapla!
Chegh chew jaj Vam jaj Kak
On 7 Apr 2011, at 01:11, Eric Oyen wrote:
What's I chat?
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Yes, it is extremely
Is it possible to tag someone using voiceover without sighted assistance on
either the mobile FaceBook, the regular FaceBook or Facely on my iPhone? I
know I have to type the @ symbol and then start typing the person's name and
something is supposed to pop up and I'm supposed to choose the
OK, I'm hoping there is some sort of fix but I have run repairing permissions
and that has not helped. My problem is that Safari is constantly always saying
Safari busyready on and so on and so forth. It's really really bad on
Facebook. I constantly have to shut VO off and then back on
Hi All
I need a program where I can work with midi files. As Iunderstand it, it is
also possible to use a software synth in logic.
But the big question is,can logic be used with voice-over?
Best regardsJørgen Skov Nielsen
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i used saytext on iphone 3gs. it does not work.
best
On 6 Apr 2011, at 19:52, Bejarano, Rafael P. wrote:
Hello all,
I've been reading a bit about two scanner/OCR apps for the iPhone: saytext
and prizmo. Neither sounds sufficiently well developed to meet the needs of
totally blind
Hi CHristina,
Facebook, as other people on this list will tell you, has many general
accessibility issues. This is one of many reasons I don't use it. I've heard
the mobile site is somewhat better, but can't speak to that personally. It
wouldn't surprise me if Safari had problems there, and
So, windows will slow down the mac since it's using 2 gb of it's ram?
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Hey guys,
I'm having one of the most bazaar situations with Skype on my new macbook.
Yes, for those who remember me from way back when, yes! I finally got a
macbook! Snow leo and all!
Anyway, this isn't the old skype 2.x we're dealing with. I have the newest
5.0, I think it is. It's
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