Re: iWork Accessibility

2011-08-31 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Garth, When you're used to Windows, everything on the Mac seems awkward. I've never used Windows, so everything on the Mac seems normal to me. I use iWork all the time in my job as a translator. In general, it's simple enough to use once you understand it. There are some problems,

Re: Multilingual Braille tables under Lion

2011-08-31 Thread Geoff Shang
On Tue, 30 Aug 2011, Simon Cavendish wrote: Under Snow Leopard, we had Braille tables provided by Archie Robertson from Cecimac - free gift from this generous person. It had a unicode Braille table as well as many other language tables, and this problem did not arise there. The unicode

Re: mail question

2011-08-31 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Colin, I'm having the same problem, that all choices are dimmed, so I can't turn on message numbers. Hope someone who knows this will add to the thread. Paul. On Aug 31, 2011, at 1:06 AM, Red.Falcon wrote: Hi Johnny! OK you've got me! On mine I can check or uncheck all bar one which is

Re: Multilingual Braille tables under Lion

2011-08-31 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi. I am using danish and english, I have the same problem. Why do apple not include a function so you can choose to add a braille table to a specific voice, when my braille table would change when I change voice/language. In a way that works better on the IPhone. I wonder where apple has got

Re: Multilingual Braille tables under Lion

2011-08-31 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Annie, The Braille tables in Lion are from Duxbury and are out of date. Cheers, Anne On 31 Aug 2011, at 12:06, Annie Skov Nielsen wrote: Hi. I am using danish and english, I have the same problem. Why do apple not include a function so you can choose to add a braille table to a

Re: Multilingual Braille tables under Lion

2011-08-31 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi Anne, How are these Apple braille tables out of date? Where does their out of dateness show? Paul. On Aug 31, 2011, at 12:41 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: Hello Annie, The Braille tables in Lion are from Duxbury and are out of date. Cheers, Anne On 31 Aug 2011, at 12:06, Annie

Re: Searching Lion mail with VoiceOver

2011-08-31 Thread John André Netland
Robert, You have to first focus on the mailbox you want to search, either a main folder or a sub folder. Then press command-option-F to enter the search box in the toolbar, enter your search, and use the up/down arrow keys to choose a result. Press enter on the result you would like to

Re: Searching Lion mail with VoiceOver

2011-08-31 Thread Robert Carter
Hi John, This was very helpful. I see how to search in an individual mailbox but am not finding a checkbox to search all. Can you say a bit more about where to find the search all checkbox? Thanks, Robert Carter On Aug 31, 2011, at 7:00 AM, John André Netland wrote: Robert, You have to

Re: iWork Accessibility

2011-08-31 Thread Garth Humphreys
Hi Anne Thanks for your response. I knew a lot of my concerns were based on my initial impressions which were likely to be incomplete. I have heard a lot of people on this list say that it is not fair to compareVO on the Mac with Windows and one of its screen readers as they are so

Re: Searching Lion mail with VoiceOver

2011-08-31 Thread John André Netland
Hi Robert, You'll find it in the Favorites Bar, right after the Show/hide mailbox table button. Cheers, John André *** John André Netland - Voice/SMS/MMS (+47) 971 68 794 Visit online at www.a-pro-studio.no *** On 31. aug. 2011, at 14:49, Robert Carter wrote: Hi John, This was very

Re: Multilingual Braille tables under Lion

2011-08-31 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Paul, The information about the Braille tables is in the System Library. The tables used are Duxbury from 2007 and do not comply with the French worldwide standard, which is what I'm most familiar with. Cheers, Anne On 31 Aug 2011, at 13:50, Paul Erkens wrote: Hi Anne, How are

Re: iWork Accessibility

2011-08-31 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Garth, On 31 Aug 2011, at 16:28, Garth Humphreys wrote: A typical task for me would be a fairly simple document where I have a number of headings at various levels, ie 1, 2 and 3 with bodies of plain text in between. Starting from the desktop could you let me know how I would

Translating VO

2011-08-31 Thread Traci
Hi all, I was playing around in dashboard, I think it is called. Inside the translation widget. Is there a way for VO to switch to the translated language automatically? If I'm translating something from English to Italian, then vo could switch to the italian voice. Thanks, Traci -- You

Re: Convert video formats

2011-08-31 Thread Chris Blouch
Well, this is what iMovie and iDVD are supposed to do but accessibility is unknown. The iMovie VPAT shows some accessibility but not complete: http://images.apple.com/accessibility/pdf/iMovie_VPAT.pdf and the iDVD vpat seems to be about the same:

Re: Looking for an accessible audio converter

2011-08-31 Thread Chris Blouch
I'm curious. Why not use iTunes to do the conversion. Did the Ogg import plugins previously mentioned on this list stop working? I haven't tried this for a long time. CB On 8/30/11 11:52 AM, Esther wrote: Hi Paul, If you're looking for simple conversion of ogg to mp3 on the Mac, Erik's

Re: Help: GarageBand constantly busy, almost unusable!

2011-08-31 Thread Chris Blouch
Assuming things haven't changed much, the problem in the past was that the mini attempts to detect the monitor relentlessly when not present causing general system slowdowns, stalls and VO busy messages. So for a real-time recording and effects app like Garage Band I suspect you'll always have

Re: nice desktop youtube viewer?

2011-08-31 Thread Chris Blouch
Just go to http://www.youtube.com/html5 and find the Join the HTML5 Trial link. CB On 8/30/11 5:46 AM, Nektarios Mallas wrote: Hi. How do you enable the HTML5 support on youtube? Is this available on the main site? Nektarios. On Aug 30, 2011, at 9:26 AM, Yuma Decaux wrote: Hi list, After

Re: Safari help sorly needed

2011-08-31 Thread Chris Blouch
Assuming you haven't changed any preferences, the downloaded files should be in your Downloads folder. Downloads folder can be found a number of ways but one quick way is in your dock which is VO-D. Then do a VO-Shift-M for the contextual menu and choose open Donwloads by hitting the up arrow

twitter on the mac?

2011-08-31 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi all, I just downloaded twitter from the mac app store, but the main window seems to be invisible to voiceover. Can any of you confirm this or is there a way to get it working? I'd be interested to use twitter on the mac beside using tweetlist on my iPhone. Anyone experience with the twitter

Re: Convert video formats

2011-08-31 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi, Someone called Gwenna, or Allison I don't remember well, once pointed us to a program called prism. I used it on windows and it was an accessible video file converter, but I don't know if it does what you want in particular: having a movie file, burn it to dvd, or maybe just convert it to a

Re: Multilingual Braille tables under Lion

2011-08-31 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi Anne. Why has apple not asked some of us braille users for help in the process of creating the braille. It is annoying now, and a heavy work for us and for apple with all the corrections. I have really many in danish braille. I would have loved to helped apple to avoid all these bugs.

Manage the topsides list in safari

2011-08-31 Thread Daniel
Hello everyone: My question is how to manage the topsites list in safari for OSX Lion. When I press the Edit button I see no erase, delete or anything. Have you tried that? Is there anything I can read to obtain information? Thanks a lot! -- You received this message because you are

listening to and using loops in Garage Band?

2011-08-31 Thread Alex Hall
Hi all, I recently downloaded the 1.2gb pack of Apple instruments and loops and all that. I then enabled the loop browser and was looking at the table of drum loops (in column view). The help tag says to click a loop to hear it, or drag it to use it in the project. However, selecting a

Subscribe to Vision Australia podcasts [was Re: How do you use autocorrect/fix a mispelled word]

2011-08-31 Thread Esther
Hello Alfredo, Vision Australia has also been releasing their podcasts through iTunes, and you can subscribe to: • Apple and Other Accessible technology By David Woodbridge http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/apple-accessibility/id423121261 The two podcast episodes describing Using Auto Spelling

Re: listening to and using loops in Garage Band?

2011-08-31 Thread chad baker
hi when your on a loop do cmd shift l hth On Aug 31, 2011, at 2:53 PM, Alex Hall wrote: Hi all, I recently downloaded the 1.2gb pack of Apple instruments and loops and all that. I then enabled the loop browser and was looking at the table of drum loops (in column view). The help tag says

Re: Manage the topsides list in safari

2011-08-31 Thread Esther
Hi Daniel, I personally never use the top sites list in my Safari Bookmarks, and went to pains to also disable its ability to store images (wasting memory resources, since I don't need images of the sites) in earlier versions of Safari. If you want to get rid of these, bring up your Safari

Re: listening to and using loops in Garage Band?

2011-08-31 Thread Alex Hall
Thanks, that lets me hear the samples. Now, how do I use one in my actual project? I've never used drag and drop before at all. On 8/31/11, chad baker baker3...@gmail.com wrote: hi when your on a loop do cmd shift l hth On Aug 31, 2011, at 2:53 PM, Alex Hall wrote: Hi all, I recently

Re: twitter on the mac?

2011-08-31 Thread Jessica and Goldina
hey Paul try using yorufukurou. it's the twitter client of choice for most of us using VO. you can get it from the mac app store as well. it works very well and it has lots of great features. you can sign into multiple accounts, manage lists, follow hashtags etc. it's very powerful and great

printing PPT files in Lion

2011-08-31 Thread Dan
Hello List, I have some Powerpoint handouts and I cannot get them to open under Lion. We do not have any MS office stuff on this machine. Furthermore the PPT files will not open with Keynote. We are using VoiceOver, so if anyone has any applications to suggest, I'd hope they will be accessible

Re: listening to and using loops in Garage Band?

2011-08-31 Thread chad baker
hi when you have one selected do cmd option coma then stop interacting with the loop browser then go to the instrument scroll area press return to go to the beginning then do cmd option period to drop it hth On Aug 31, 2011, at 3:13 PM, Alex Hall wrote: Thanks, that lets me hear the samples.

Re: listening to and using loops in Garage Band?

2011-08-31 Thread Alex Hall
Oddly, I can't find the tracks scroll area. I selected song writer from the templates for this project, so I have a bunch of tracks. I want to assign this loop to the drum track, then, eventually, record acoustic, electric, and bass tracks through the line in and put the whole thing together.

Fwd: Apple is working on a television for 2012, sources say | VentureBeat

2011-08-31 Thread Dan Roy
I don't need to explain to anyone what this could mean for those of us who are blind! Begin forwarded message: From: andy andyr4...@gmail.com Subject: Apple is working on a television for 2012, sources say | VentureBeat Date: August 31, 2011 3:28:09 AM CDT To: Dan roy d...@theroyhouse.com

Re: Safari help sorly needed

2011-08-31 Thread Johnny Angel!
Chris, Thanks so much for this! Everything went smoothly except for copying the program into my applications folder. Vo reports the copy process with a command C, but after then going to the applications folder, command V does nothing, Vo is silent, and nothing is copied. Any ideas on this

Page Up/Down

2011-08-31 Thread Mark Colman
Hi all, Is there a keyboard shortcut to page up and page down through the contents of a mailbox in Apple Mail? On a full-sized keyboard I know there'd be Page Up/Down keys but I'm using an MBP that doesn't seem to have the equivalent. Sure this is a really simple question but I've been using a

Re: Safari help sorly needed

2011-08-31 Thread Simon Cavendish
Hello, Please do not feel offended by these basic questions but make sure, when copying n application from the downloads folder, that it has the extension .app after its name. Then - and I think only then - will the application be pasted into your application folder. If - once you have located

Re: Page Up/Down

2011-08-31 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Mark, The Page Up and Page Down keys are achieved with FN-Up Arrow and FN-Down Arrow on a laptop keyboard. However, these won't help you since these commands only have a visual effect. Even sighted users have to bring the mouse to the location before being able to open or do anything

Re: question about downloading in Saphari

2011-08-31 Thread Simon Cavendish
When you encounter a link which is to download a file, focus on it and press vo+shift+m to get contextual menu and arrow down to hear download linked file and / or download linked file as. This will give you a choice to download the file or the latter will give you a choice a specify where to

Re: Multilingual Braille tables under Lion

2011-08-31 Thread Simon Cavendish
Hello Paul, I really do not know the technical details apart from the fact that under Snow Leopard, I use the US Unicode braille table written by Archie Robertson from Cecimac.org, and it handles both Greek and English beautifully using computer 8 dot braille. You might try and contact Archie

Re: Safari help sorly needed

2011-08-31 Thread Johnny Angel!
Simon, Thank you very much. You are a wonderful help to the list! I will certainly follow your instructions here. Thanks! johnny On Aug 31, 2011, at 4:04 PM, Simon Cavendish wrote: Hello, Please do not feel offended by these basic questions but make sure, when copying n application

Re: nice desktop youtube viewer?

2011-08-31 Thread Yuma Decaux
Hi Chris, Thanks for the info, but that's still in beta stage, and i got the html5 extension which replaces flash on youtube vimeo and other sites. What i really want is an easy to use desktop version of a youtube viewer which also has better playlist and favorite sorting features. There's

downloading youtube videos

2011-08-31 Thread chad baker
hi i'm having trouble downloading videos from youtube i use to right click the link and it would say copy link i don't get any option for that any suggestions thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send

Re: Safari help sorly needed

2011-08-31 Thread Johnny Angel!
Hi Simon and all, Well I am still having trouble placing the VLC application into the applications folder. After cmd downarrowingon the VLC folder on my desktop, there is a file called VLC application. This file will not be copied into the applications folder. Someone on the list posted a

Mac not recognizing VR Stream

2011-08-31 Thread Lindsay Yazzolino
Hi, I am attempting to connect my Victor Stream to my Mac after a long period of not doing so, and although the Stream announces that the player is connected, the Mac does not seem to recognize the Stream as a drive. Is there any way of fixing this issue? Thanks. Lindsay -- You received this

Re: Mac not recognizing VR Stream

2011-08-31 Thread chad baker
hi i had the same issue on the vr stream format the sd card that's what i did and it showed up hth On Aug 31, 2011, at 5:45 PM, Lindsay Yazzolino wrote: Hi, I am attempting to connect my Victor Stream to my Mac after a long period of not doing so, and although the Stream announces that the

Re: twitter on the mac?

2011-08-31 Thread Adie
You could try Mobile Twitter, there should be a link in the web item rotor. A On Aug 31, 8:13 pm, Jessica and Goldina sanginsista3...@gmail.com wrote: hey Paul try using yorufukurou. it's the twitter client of choice for most of us using VO. you can get it from the mac app store as well.

Re: Multilingual Braille tables under Lion

2011-08-31 Thread Geoff Shang
On Tue, 30 Aug 2011, Paul Erkens wrote: But what I never understood was the unicode thing you mention. Is unicode sort of an extended version of ascii? Unicode is the idea that all possible symbols can be represented in the same character set. As you identified in your message, there are

Recieving a refund for an app that doesn't work with VO

2011-08-31 Thread Dawn Benbow
Hi everyone, I heard someone mention on another list that wasn't actually Apple related in any way, that you can get a refund if you purchase an app and aren't able to access it with VO. Is this true? If so, how do you do this? Thanks very much. Dawn Benbow email:

Re: Multilingual Braille tables under Lion

2011-08-31 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi Geoff. But as I understand, you would get difficulties if you wants to use grade two translation, there you can not use an unicode table. Best regards Annie. Den Sep 1, 2011 kl. 12:10 AM skrev Geoff Shang: On Tue, 30 Aug 2011, Paul Erkens wrote: But what I never understood was the

A Prismo question I didn't see an answer for

2011-08-31 Thread Dawn Benbow
Hi everyone, I have another question. This time I was wondering if Prismo works on the ipod touch. It seems to only talk about the IPhone, so thought I would check with you guys to see if any one knew. I went through previous posts on Prismo, but wasn't able to find one that answered this

Re: all these issues

2011-08-31 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, couldn't it just have been user error? I know plenty of people who were able to redeem their free upgrade to Lion with no problems at all. They just clicked a link, filled out the information needed, and were given a redemption code for the Mac app store. Ricardo Walker

Re: listening to and using loops in Garage Band?

2011-08-31 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, you should check out the audio tutorials I did on Garageband. I cover this and a whole lot more. Go to www.mobileaccess.org and on the site, do a search for garageband. Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter Skype: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On Aug 31, 2011, at 2:53 PM, Alex

Re: A Prismo question I didn't see an answer for

2011-08-31 Thread Traci
From what I've read over on viPhone, the camera may not be strong enough on the touch for good results. Traci - Original Message - From: Dawn Benbow d-ben...@live.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 5:13 PM Subject: A Prismo question I didn't see

Re: Apple is working on a television for 2012, sources say | VentureBeat

2011-08-31 Thread Ricardo Walker
I think it would be cool but, if you use a dish or cable which most do, it won't matter too much in my opinion. What most want is access to the menus of their cable box not necessarily the TV settings. Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter Skype: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On Aug

Re: question about downloading in Saphari

2011-08-31 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, Option enter does the same thing. hth Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter Skype: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On Aug 31, 2011, at 4:31 PM, Simon Cavendish wrote: When you encounter a link which is to download a file, focus on it and press vo+shift+m to get contextual menu

Re: Apple is working on a television for 2012, sources say | VentureBeat

2011-08-31 Thread james walton
Wasn't there some about talking cable boxes in the uk? On Aug 31, 2011, at 8:49 PM, Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com wrote: I think it would be cool but, if you use a dish or cable which most do, it won't matter too much in my opinion. What most want is access to the menus of their

Skype conferences

2011-08-31 Thread Francisco Salvador Crespo
Hi, When i'm talking by Skype, i usually receive a call from an other person. I can answer the second call wile the firs is waiting , but i don't find the option to add him to a conference. What can i do? Where is the option that i need press to do this? thanks in advanced, Francisco -- You

itune cync

2011-08-31 Thread Joanne Chua
hi there is there a way to un cync something from the phone to itune? in another word, is ttat a way to delete some playlist or some songs from iphone but does not effect itune on the desttop? thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries

Re: question about downloading in Saphari

2011-08-31 Thread Denise Barajas
Thanks a lot, I'll try these options. Blessings to all! On Aug 31, 2011, at 1:31 PM, Simon Cavendish wrote: When you encounter a link which is to download a file, focus on it and press vo+shift+m to get contextual menu and arrow down to hear download linked file and / or download linked

Re: question about downloading in Saphari

2011-08-31 Thread Shen
Hello, I'm sorry. What is Option Enter suppose to do? I opened Safari to a podcast page and moved over to a link that says download today's podcast. Most of the time, VO-Shift-M will open the correct menu and let me download it. But whatever Option Enter is suppose to do, it does nothing for me.

Re: listening to and using loops in Garage Band?

2011-08-31 Thread CJ Daniel
Riccardo, By find the place you want to copy the loop, do you mean by playing it? I.E. how could you find not leave the loop table? Please forgive my ignorence, but I didn't quite follow your answer. CJ On Aug 31, 2011, at 5:46 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote: Hi, all this works but, is

Re: Looking for an accessible audio converter

2011-08-31 Thread Paul Henrichsen
Hi, Esther. I thought of Amadeus pro, but $60 is a bit more than I want to pay since I am just converting files; not editing them. Will Max allow batch conversion? Thanks. On Aug 30, 2011, at 8:52 AM, Esther wrote: Hi Paul, If you're looking for simple conversion of ogg to mp3 on the Mac,

Re: Looking for an accessible audio converter

2011-08-31 Thread Paul Henrichsen
Hi. I don't want the resulting conversions to end up in iTunes. I just want conversion from ogg to mp3 without iTunes trying to import anything into the library. I wasn't sure if this was possible. On Aug 31, 2011, at 9:35 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: I'm curious. Why not use iTunes to do the

Re: Looking for an accessible audio converter

2011-08-31 Thread Paul Henrichsen
Yes. I thought of Switch. It is very accessible on the windows platform. I did have some trouble with it, though, when converting large files, but that was quite a while ago. Is switch accessible on the Mac? I also don't like that you can't put switch on more than one machine and if you lose

Re: Looking for an accessible audio converter

2011-08-31 Thread Paul Henrichsen
Thanks, Eric. I'll have to see how much Amadeus pro lite would cost. Sixty dollars is a bit much just for converting files. On Aug 30, 2011, at 6:51 AM, Eric Caron wrote: Hi Paul, It is not free but Amadeus Pro or Amadeus Pro lite does a great job with conversions and also is a nice

Re: Multilingual Braille tables under Lion

2011-08-31 Thread Georges Zaynoun
Would like to know how Naama managed to install the cecimac tables using lion, I tried them and they destroyed the existing Duxbery ones, does installing the cecimac tables to a different folder solve the issue? I use Arabic and Swedish alongside English and this is important to me. Original

Batch conversion in Amadeus?

2011-08-31 Thread Paul Henrichsen
Hi. Does amadeus lite do batch conversions; or is that only found in the pro version? Sent from my iPhone -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe

Re: Looking for an accessible audio converter

2011-08-31 Thread Oriol Gómez
It is accessible on the mac. I have used it, but I still need to buy a license. On 9/1/11, Paul Henrichsen pfhj2...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, Eric. I'll have to see how much Amadeus pro lite would cost. Sixty dollars is a bit much just for converting files. On Aug 30, 2011, at 6:51 AM, Eric

Re: Audio conversion program

2011-08-31 Thread Oriol Gómez
Nice. Does it convert files to m4a/m4r? On 9/1/11, Greg Kearney gkear...@gmail.com wrote: I wrote this a while back and made some modification to make it more accessible. It will convert most common audio formats including ogg files to MP3 format. Run it select your file of files and let it