Paul, I have found vo-F to be not so accurate. I search for things I know are
there, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. However, I can work between
the rotor and vo-F to almost duplicate item chooser, but, not nearly as smooth.
Well, it is what it is until there's a fix.
On Sep 24,
Yes, VO works almost like it did when using a startup disk with SL.
On Sep 24, 2011, at 5:01 PM, Anouk Radix wrote:
Hi
I am just slightly curious, if you need to use the recovery partition of your
mac when running lion with pressing cmd+r while booting, will vo work there?
I hear you can
Hey paul,
Thanks for the explenation. Its great that vo works to begin with but it sucks
that it does not work with wifi because thats the only connection to the
internet i have (macbook air).
Hopefully this issue will be addressed soon.
Greetings, Anouk,
On Sep 25, 2011, at 12:15 AM, Paul
Hi Chris, I have heard that it is also possible to do ftp through apache.
Greetings, Anouk,
On Sep 25, 2011, at 5:03 AM, Chris Blouch wrote:
Yup. Sounds like you need to use ftp outside the GUI or add on a third part
one. Years ago I used Rumpus but I have no idea if they are still good. If
Hi, I have microsoft silverlight installed. Does this not allow for listening
to drm-protected material?
Greetings, Anouk,
On Sep 25, 2011, at 4:29 AM, Chris Blouch wrote:
Last I checked Microsoft had still not released the algorithms, source code
or compiled codecs for their proprietary DRM
Yeah, I asked the seem question on hte list earlier but then some fooling
around with yoru gave me the answer I needed. I now jus thave my followers list
in one window and the timeline in another and it works great.
Greetings, Anouk,
On Sep 25, 2011, at 12:34 AM, Caitlyn Furness wrote:
Hey,
Hi guys,
I'm in the market for a new scanner, it has to work with docuScan though.
Has anyone tried and liked the Hovercam T5V?
What quality of scan do you get compared to a flatbed scaner?
It's a little more pricy then I was looking to pay, but if it's worth it I'd
consider it.
I'd like
Hi everyone,
I have a hp scanjet 5590 here. I have had this scanner for at least 7 years and
am relatively happy with it. It can scan about 30 pages at once through its
sheetfeader and it can mechanically turn the pages so you get both sides
scanned. It works nicely in windows xp (havent tried
Hi everyone,
I am ging to apply for a new braille display and might also be able to get a
windows screenreader as well. I sometimes still use windows7 64bit through
vmware although i do most stuff on the mac.
I am planning to get window-eyes 8 when it is officially released.
I did read that
I mapped my forward slash key to be the right control key since I don't use the
left one that much, and never use the forward slash key. That's how I avoid
using it. HTH
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Hi Paul,
To add to this, if the sorting is by name but it is in reverse order, you can
correct that by clicking the column header for name, with the mouse. We,
voiceover users, have a shortcut to do the same thing. Moving the vo cursor to
the column to reverse, you then press vo shift
I believe it does.
On Sep 24, 2011, at 11:32 PM, David Tanner wrote:
So, do you think it has to do with the Fusion 4 video driver?
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Hi Edzy,
There is a new drag and drop method in voiceover now. To drag, hit vo comma,
and to drop, hit vo period. Just in case you ever need it. You will certainly
have questions, but that's what the list is for. All of us having experienced
the move to lion now know a lot about little issues
Hi all,
This is the one instance where the MBA is somewhat at a disadvantage. when I
ran into this problem a couple of weeks ago with my MBP, I was very happy that
I had an ethernet connection. Annouk, you can purchase a USB ethernet
connector. I'm actually considering this since my MBP
Hi, With pages and textedit apple now autosaves changes, especially if a file
already exists.
But what do i have to do if i make changes in a document and decide i dont want
to save them?
Is it possible to disable this autosave feature alltogether?
Thanks,
Greetings, Anouk,
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Hi,
to turn this off, go to system preferences and you will find it in general.
But, to close a document without saving, press command W and select don't save.
Then press command Q to quit the application all together.
hth
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Braille displays are very personal much like speech synthesizer preferences. I
strongly suggest that you feel a couple for comparison before agreeing to buy
one.
For me, any paperish feeling my fingertips notice when I use a focus or
packmate is dispelled by the fact that when one of the
You find the T5V expensive at 320 bucks? I suggest you shop around and look at
the price of the pearl camera and the Eyepal. I plan on adding one of these to
my company demo equipment within the next couple of months and would also
appreciate hearing some user experiences.
Best,
Erik
Using max you press command shift O or choose file menu, convert files.
Browse to the files you want.
Highlight them all and open them.
They will appear in the table and you will have an opportunity to change the
basic information such as title and artist.
Press the convert button and then go for
There's no way to totally disable the feature, though I wish there was.
However, if you press command w to close the window, you will usually get the
dialog asking if you want to save the changes, at that point you can indicate
that you don't want to save them. Also, when quitting applications,
Hi,
I use the HoverCam with my Mac Book Pro and DocuScan Plus. As long as the
lighting is good and the material is properly placed for the camera to clearly
image, the HoverCam works quite well.
Robert Carter
On Sep 25, 2011, at 9:48 AM, erik burggraaf wrote:
You find the T5V expensive at
Hello Paul,
On 24 Sep 2011, at 21:21, Paul Erkens wrote:
I have a text document that has a return, newline, announced by voiceover,
after each and every line. While reading this text from top to bottom, it
being more than one megabyte in size, this gets very annoying. I'm wondering.
1.
Hello Johnny,
VueScan is an application that you buy from:
www.hamrick.com
It costs $39 for one year's support, or $79 for lifetime support.
Cheers,
Anne
On 24 Sep 2011, at 23:46, Johnny Angel! wrote:
Hi all!
Please forgive my ignorance, but, is vuScan a software or hardware solution?
How is the quality of the video with max? I used adapter, and the quality was
horrible! I know that might not matter to most, since some of us are totally
blind. But I have a wife and kids who also watch these movies, and the quality
matters to them. So if anyone knows how good it is with
Does max handle video conversion? That's news to me.
Best,
Erik Burggraaf
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Depending on the format of your document it may be even simpler than that. If
the material's not sensative, send me the document and I'll have a look.
Best,
Erik Burggraaf
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hey all how do you open iso files in disk utility so you can burn them
to cd or dvd?
thanks for your help
kind regards trahern.
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When the do you want to save, dialog comes up, just hit the space bar. This
will accept the non-default choice of don't save. It's the quickest way I've
found to exit this.
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Actually if you are going to set it up as a key stroke, you might want to go a
little more complicated.
property RunState
if RunState is equal to stop then
tell application AUdio Hijack ... .. to run
set runState to running
else
tell application Audio Hijack to stop recording ..
set
Paul,
I would be glad to help you with APpleScript. I learned by tearing apart a few
applescript's and also by reading the Apple help documents available in the
Applescript editor help menu.
Best wishes,
Jonathan
On Sep 24, 2011, at 3:06 PM, Paul Erkens wrote:
Hi Colin and Darcy,
Will give that a try. Called Apple last night and the service guy checked
with his supervisor who said you can't connect to a fat32 usb drive
partition from a PC. Doesn't sound right to me, though.
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Adding to Mike's answer: what option command q does, is make the application
discard its current state of its windows. Next time you open this app, it won't
auto load a dozen things you happened to have open. To read where I got this:
Hi, if you have a document that has not been saved before then command+w will
indeed bring up this dialog. But if you open an already existing document and
edit somehting in it and then do command+w then it does not sk you wether or
not you want to save it just does.
I think i will just turn
Hi all,
I just synced my Touch for the first time with my MBA, and got an error message
that some files couldn't be synced because the computer was not authorized to
play Audible files. I haven't done this on the Mac since I first purchased my
MBP, and now I can't remember how I did it.. I
Hi Anouk,
1. Open a beautiful document to edit.
2. Edit it and make a mess.
3. You don't want to save the mess of course, so:
4. Hit the file menu, and choose: revert to saved.
5. Then choose the last opened version, button, from the dialog that came when
you hit revert to saved. Now you got what
Hi An,
Wonderful and simple solution. While trying it out, I notice I have trouble
selecting the return plus linefeed combination. How can you do this? Or am I
missing something? Thank you for your kind help.
On Sep 25, 2011, at 5:04 PM, Anne Robertson wrote:
Hello Paul,
On 24 Sep 2011,
Hi all,
A while ago, I think I remember reading a message on this list that explained
how to accelerate the speed at which files are being played in iTunes, using
an Apple script that invoked QuickTime to perform this function.
Although I did keep the script, when I try to run it under
The Focus 40 Blue is quite portable. It's smaller than most notetakers, and
about the same weight.
HTH,
Teresa
On Sep 24, 2011, at 6:57 PM, Eugenia Firth wrote:
Hi Priscilla.
I can't answer all your questions, but I'll see what I can offer about
braille displays. I have a Focus 40. Mine is
Hi Paul,
One way to make sure you have it selected is to start selecting one
character before and then one character after (or even two if
voiceover's output isn't clear as to what has been selected). Then
when you paste this into the find field, just erase the leading and
trailing character to
Hi Donna,
If you try to play an Audible book on your MBA, you should get a dialog asking
if you want to authorize your MBA to play Audible files. To deauthorize a
computer to play Audible files, navigate to the Advanced menu on your iTunes
menu bar and select the Deauthorize Audible account
Thanks, Esther, worked like a charm. I knew how to deauthorize, just didn't
remember how to authorize. :)
Cheers,
Donna
On Sep 25, 2011, at 1:29 PM, Esther wrote:
Hi Donna,
If you try to play an Audible book on your MBA, you should get a dialog
asking if you want to authorize your MBA to
Hi, all. I wanted to know if anyone is experiencing, or has experienced, either
of the following:
1. Lately, I try to use Spotlight, and it simply doesn't come up. In order for
it to work, I must restart. It has happened several times over the past few
days. Is there another way to get to
this is kinda neat.. Can more widgets be gotten from someplace, like the app
store?
thanks,
Caitlyn
On Sep 25, 2011, at 1:57 AM, Mark BurningHawk Baxter wrote:
Once you open Dashboard, press VO F2 (or VO Function F2, depending on how
your keyboard is set), and use VO down arrow to get to a
Does it sometimes show up as an actual tweet for you? It does for me! When I
used a slash in front of th word follow, it didn't though, but I don't know if
it took..
Weird!
Thanks,
Caitlyn, feeling quite dumb!
On Sep 25, 2011, at 2:46 AM, Anouk Radix wrote:
Yeah, I asked the seem question
You can do a google search for Dashboard Widgets for OS10 and you'll find scads
of them. However, some of them, even some of the ones included with OS10, are
not VO friendly, unfortunately.
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Hi Johnny.
I know if my MBP did all that, I would try to get myself a Genius appointment
at the Apple store. That's what they call them, and that's when a tech person
takes a look at your computer. I did that once for my iPhone, but it turned out
simple, and in my case, something I did.
HEy, for me they never show up as tweets.
You can check if it worked by viewing your followers/following tab
(cmd+l from timeline).
Greetings, Anouk,
On Sep 25, 2011, at 8:59 PM, Caitlyn Furness wrote:
Does it sometimes show up as an actual tweet for you? It does for me! When
I used a slash
Hi Guys.
I think it makes a difference what you need your braille display for. In my
case, I can't use an 18 cell display because I'm doing braille proofreading.
Also, although I used to have a 20 cell VersaBraille, I wouldn't want an 18
cell display if I were doing a lot of reading with the
Hi Guys.
I noticed that VoiceOver seems to talk more than I'm used to, I guess because
of saving the file when you make changes. I thought about turning off this
feature, and I'm glad I didn't. It saved me more than once when I messed up my
file and then proceeded to save out the bad changes.
Hi Christine.
The other command for spotlight is command-spacebar. I was told this one by the
person at Apple who has worked with me. I didn't even know about the other one.
I know I'm fairly new, but is your VoiceOver set for to interact when tab is
pressed? Maybe changing that would help.
you could also press option plus enter key
to make a call on the selected contact in the contacts table
thanks
On Sep 24, 2011, at 5:27 PM, Mark BurningHawk Baxter wrote:
VO Shift M will bring up a context menu, but VO M to the menu bar will also
accomplish this eventually, if you arrow over
thank you very much for your imput.
Jenny and her goofy guide Brooks
On Sep 24, 2011, at 11:55 AM, Cody wrote:
It will be the right time when you are ready
On Sep 24, 2011, at 11:34 AM, Jennifer Perdue wrote:
OK, so what you're saying is now is not the best time for me to upgrade
because
WHen you went back into the applescript editor from the dialog it should have
told you that Movie was highlighted. The editor is not recognizing movie as a
class of quicktime player and so it is assuming the word movie is actually a
variable (identifier) but in syntactically a class is
OK, changing movie to document prevents the error. I am not sure you need the
rate information. Below appeared to work for me, though you might want to set
the volume from iTunes much the way you got the position from iTunes.
tell application iTunes
pause
set my_track to
Hello Ricardo,
Lion is cool. The only thing I can't figure out is how to move
from one folder to the next in mail. Can you help with that
please?
Ezzie
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thanks for the Drag and Drop compands, Paul! Will it work well in
WordPress when I add widgets to my blog?
Ezzie
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Hi
hi Caitlyn,
Yes! Go to the dashboard and open the widget bar. To the right
of the widgess you already have, there will be a button that will
let you get more widgets. There are loads of cool ones!
HTH,
Ezzie
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To:
Hi,
Has anyone any experience of using the Stickies widget in the Lion Dashboard
with VoiceOver? I can get the widgets menu through VO-F2-F2 and get the Sticky
option from the menu, but as far as I can tell this just has a single text
field and and Info button. I'm assuming it's possible to
Hello Paul. I tried sorting and it didn't work. I put the VO Cursor on a name
and typed VO+shift+backslash. I got the error tone. I don't know how to put the
VO cursor on a column header. Am I missing a step?
Thanks so much.
On Sep 25, 2011, at 4:30 AM, Paul Erkens wrote:
Hi Paul,
To add to
Hello Paul,
When selecting characters such as New Line, I start to the left of the string I
wish to select and hold down the Shift key while moving right with just the
right arrow.
Cheers,
Anne
On 25 Sep 2011, at 19:19, Paul Erkens wrote:
Hi An,
Wonderful and simple solution. While
Window-eyes supports 50 displays or some silliness. I think some of those have
to be so legacy that no one owns them any more and probably couldn't use them
if they did because of 64 bit compatibility. Absolutely every modern display
that I have ever heard of is supported by window-eyes
hi
could some people recommend cool wigits to use so we can download them
would be nice
thanks
On Sep 25, 2011, at 4:59 PM, ezzie bueno wrote:
hi Caitlyn,
Yes! Go to the dashboard and open the widget bar. To the right of the
widgess you already have, there will be a button that will let
Hi all,
Unbelievable but true!
I am using my Brailliant display and it appears to display good old computer
braille in English.
even opened a word 97 document where I had stored music braille and everything
appears to display correctly. The table loaded is english unified. It was not
working
Hello. Does anybody know of a countdown timer that works with VoiceOver? I
know I could search on the Mac App store, but I wanted to ask here to see if
somebody knew of one that is accessible. If I'm going to put something in the
oven, I want to be able to put a number of minutes in and the
HI all,
How does one input text in different languages and have spelling suggestions in
that language?
I have changed keyboard layout and selected the voice for that language but
spelling does not appear to be checked the same way.
What am I missing?
Thanks,
Ioana
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The ESPN widget works for me. I also downloaded the Quote of the
Day widget and it is awesome. DO NOT download the Roller Coaster
widget. I accidentally got it last night and it was really hard
to hear voiceover to try and turn it off. Although I would close
the dashboard, the roller
I have not used stickies in the dashboard, but the stickies app is accessible
with VoiceOver.
Kristyn
On Sep 25, 2011, at 5:02 PM, Mark Colman wrote:
Hi,
Has anyone any experience of using the Stickies widget in the Lion Dashboard
with VoiceOver? I can get the widgets menu through
Since I found a free one in the App store, I tried it and it is accessible. It
is called Howler. It is very easy to use. You just put the
hours/minutes/seconds into the edit boxes and activate the start button.
Ryan Mann
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How did you get computer braille to work? I only saw two choices, unless they
were added later and I didn't see it. The English Braille choices I saw were
contracted and uncontracted, which on my display is showing as grade one and
grade 2.
Regards,
Gigi is who is going to check again
On Sep
Help! I was working on a file and it got corrupted. I'm a dope and
obliterated all other traces because it was a huge file. Are there any
accessible data recovery tools for the mac that could potentially rescue the
original file from the flash card? I am not expecting it to do this for
Theresa Ford wrote me a great countdown/loop timer script; I can send it to you
as an attachment.
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Hi Eric,
I got a program called Data Rescue 3 as part of this fall's Mac Update bundle.
I have not had occasion to use it yet, but when I just opened it, I found that
everything was nicely labelled. It looks accessible to me. I also bought the
Mac Legion bundle and received a program called
I had high hopes for Account Edge. But as soon as I started the demo I started
running into non-readable fields. I understand that Money Guru is a standard
accounting package and not a checkbook program, so perhaps that is accessable
and has the features you need.
Let us know, and also let
Hi,
Since I last posted abut this I did notice differences in displaying characters
from different languages than English. Since I brailled the music using english
characters it worked fie.
Well, I just went in the vo utility under Braille and made sure that 8 dot is
checked and contractions
Hi,
I was wondering if it is possible to attach multiple files at once to an email
message from within mac mail? Or is it the easiest to just rar them (they are
small files, just multiple of them that i want to mail to the seem person).
Greetings, Anouk,
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Hi all,
Is there a command to read all from cursor like 2 finger flick down on trackpad?
I thought of adding it as a braille display command but could not find it in
the list of available commands.
Thanks,
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Hi,
Is there a way to quickly jump from one section of itunes to an other
equivalent to the f6 in windows itunes?
thanks a million for your answers.Ioana
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