Re: reading with voice over in text edit

2011-11-14 Thread sandi sørensen
hi, before you start reading, are you interacting with the textedit? if not, that could be the golden thing as for why it don't work. i believe i use the mouse, or as we call it the trackpad, i flick down with 2 fingers, and it start reading. When I'm done, i stop and press ctrl-option-f3 too hear

Re: reading with voice over in text edit

2011-11-14 Thread Aser Tolentino
Hi Ahmed, How are you pausing VoiceOver? I find that by pressing control, pressing VO+A resumes at the place where reading stopped, as does pressing control again. Sent from my iPad On 14/11/2011, at 12:48 AM, sandi sørensen sandi1...@gmail.com wrote: hi, before you start reading, are you

Re: importing vo-prefferences was: Pianopub issues was: Preparing for clean lion install

2011-11-14 Thread William Windels
Hello all, about doing a clean install, I have noticed that I can't import all my vo-settings , saved in a .voprefs file into a clean install of Lion. Specially, I discover that the commander-settings are not imported. I have also tried to import only the trackpad-commands of a sl-install but

Re: help! tables and pages

2011-11-14 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Gigi, Any layout problems need to be handled in Numbers, not Pages. You then have to copy just the portion of the table that you need. So if you have a blank column at the left, some blank columns to the right, and some blank rows below, you should not copy these back into Pages. To

RE: importing vo-prefferences was: Pianopub issues was: Preparing for clean lion install

2011-11-14 Thread Daniel Miller
Hi, Since they're settings that you made in SL, no, they won't be completely imported in Lion. However, if you remake the .voprefs file from within Lion, they'll work fine. This is how it's intended to be, I'd guess, but I could be wrong. -Original Message- From:

Re: for those who love the siri feature

2011-11-14 Thread Goodin, Donna
Wondering if anyone's gotten this video to play. I couldn't, so if you did could you pass along some instructions? TIA, Donna On Nov 13, 2011, at 11:31 PM, Yuma Decaux wrote: Check the video

Re: for those who love the siri feature

2011-11-14 Thread Yuma Decaux
Hi Donna, I use a safari extension called youtube which turns a lot of flash videos into html 5 format videos. Don't know how you watch your flash videos but i've been using this extension for a while and it works great. No need to update it either as its done automatically through the safari

having fun with speech recognition on the mac

2011-11-14 Thread Yuma Decaux
Ok so following that video link i posted, i went and tried some psycho babble on my macbook air, and save a few quirks with the settings which took most of the obvious newbie shroud away, this thing is pretty nifty, as there are a few points that relates this feature to siri, and how one can

Re: for those who love the siri feature

2011-11-14 Thread Goodin, Donna
Hi Yuma, thanks. Hope this isn't a dumb question, but I've never used a Safari extension. How does one go about setting this up? TIA, Donna On Nov 14, 2011, at 7:17 AM, Yuma Decaux wrote: Hi Donna, I use a safari extension called youtube which turns a lot of flash videos into html 5

Unable to eject cd

2011-11-14 Thread Manohar Singaram
Hi, I have two problems. First I am unable to eject my cd, neither the eject button or command shift T is able to eject the cd out. Second problem is In the mail I can read by date, subject and so on but I am unable to get voice over to read all the columns in one go and also downwards to the

RE: for those who love the siri feature

2011-11-14 Thread Daniel Miller
Indeed, I was just about to ask that same question. You beat me to it, Donna. *smiles* -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Goodin, Donna Sent: Monday, November 14, 2011 6:34 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

RE: Unable to eject cd

2011-11-14 Thread Daniel Miller
Hi, You have to hold the eject button for a few seconds. And I don't think it's command shift t to eject, but I could be wrong. Then again, I never use keyboard commands to eject discs. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Manohar

Re: Dragon Express Introductory pricing

2011-11-14 Thread Garth Humphreys
It is for the computer On 14/11/2011, at 9:31 AM, Maurice Mines wrote: The question of God, is in this application for an IOS device, or actual computer? If it is foreign IOS device this may, or may not be usable with voiceover. If it's for the computer, half lead it will be usable by us.

Re: Unable to eject cd

2011-11-14 Thread Chad King
Hi. To eject a disk, use command E. That also works when you have other things connected like external hard drives and such. Sent from my MBP On Nov 14, 2011, at 6:41 AM, Daniel Miller wrote: Hi, You have to hold the eject button for a few seconds. And I don’t think it’s command shift t

Re: for those who love the siri feature

2011-11-14 Thread Yuma Decaux
You can google safari extensions or in this case youtube safari extension. They just install on your computer and appear in the extensions tab in your safari preferences. There you can either turn the extension on oroff, as well as change some paremeters if available. Cheers On

Re: for those who love the siri feature

2011-11-14 Thread Goodin, Donna
Well, good, glad I'm not the only one who needed an answer there. :) Cheers,donna On Nov 14, 2011, at 7:39 AM, Daniel Miller wrote: Indeed, I was just about to ask that same question. You beat me to it, Donna. *smiles* -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

Re: for those who love the siri feature

2011-11-14 Thread Goodin, Donna
Oh, cool. Thanks. Donna On Nov 14, 2011, at 7:53 AM, Yuma Decaux wrote: You can google safari extensions or in this case youtube safari extension. They just install on your computer and appear in the extensions tab in your safari preferences. There you can either turn the extension on

Re: help! tables and pages

2011-11-14 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi Anne. Let me make sure I have it straight. I have been doing the layout in Numbers, but what I have been doing is pasting all of the text after I get it done. Also, I finally figured out I had to take out all the extra columns and rows before pasting the text. Are you saying that I should

Re: Strange behavior in Finder and VoiceOver

2011-11-14 Thread Chad King
hi. Do you have automatic login enabled? You may need to go to system preferences, then users and groups, then interact with, users, accounts, and login options. Navigate down to where it says, login options group. Stop interacting with users, accounts and login options. right arrow over, and

Re: A question.

2011-11-14 Thread Chad King
hi. Depending on what file format the book is in, you may need an app that supports the format. If it is a PDF, preview may work. But I'm not sure if it will work if the book is DRM protected. Sent from my MBP On Nov 13, 2011, at 1:22 AM, Rahul Bajaj wrote: Hi all, I just downloaded a book

Time Capsuel and External DVD drive

2011-11-14 Thread Jeff Berwick
Hi all, I have a Time capsule 3rd generation and it appears to have a usb port on the back Does anybody know whether I could get an external DVD drive and access it on the network through the Time Capsule? If so, what would be a really good external DVD drive to get? I want it to read an

RE: Time Capsule and External DVD drive

2011-11-14 Thread Daniel Miller
Jeff, I know you can plug in external hard drives to access over the network, but I'm not sure about DVD drives. My guess is no. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Berwick Sent: Monday, November 14, 2011

Re: Unable to eject cd

2011-11-14 Thread Les Kriegler
It's command-E. On Nov 14, 2011, at 7:41 AM, Daniel Miller wrote: Hi, You have to hold the eject button for a few seconds. And I don’t think it’s command shift t to eject, but I could be wrong. Then again, I never use keyboard commands to eject discs. From:

RE: Unable to eject cd

2011-11-14 Thread Daniel Miller
Oh, right. I knew that. Lol. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Les Kriegler Sent: Monday, November 14, 2011 10:18 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Unable to eject cd It's command-E. On Nov 14, 2011, at 7:41

Re: for those who love the siri feature

2011-11-14 Thread Greg Aikens
Good how-to video and thanks for the tip on the youtube5 extension. I like the interface a lot better than click to flash. -Greg On Nov 13, 2011, at 10:31 PM, Yuma Decaux wrote: Check the video

Re: help! tables and pages

2011-11-14 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Hi Anne, could you please tell me, what's the advantedge of your methode? What I normally do is just hold down shift and press arro keys to select either columns or rows. I can also highlight a row and go downwards to select the next row. Thanks for your hints and all the best Jürgen Am

Re: for those who love the siri feature

2011-11-14 Thread Goodin, Donna
So, I'm really confused. I googled Safari Youtube Extension. there were several, but I found one that seemed lke a likely candidate. I downloaded it and installed it, but still the video doesn't play. What am I doing wrong? TIA, Donna On Nov 13, 2011, at 11:31 PM, Yuma Decaux wrote: Check

Re: for those who love the siri feature

2011-11-14 Thread Greg Aikens
If you downloaded one of the html5 converters, you will need to navigate to the html5 player on the page to start the video. In the youtube5 extension, this is contained in a frame. -Greg On Nov 14, 2011, at 10:51 AM, Goodin, Donna wrote: So, I'm really confused. I googled Safari

Re: for those who love the siri feature

2011-11-14 Thread Goodin, Donna
Thanks. I did that, but I went to the wrong frame. Got it now! Best, Donna On Nov 13, 2011, at 11:31 PM, Yuma Decaux wrote: Check the video http://www.cultofmac.com/129575/use-speakable-items-to-bring-siris-functionality-to-your-mac-video-how-to/ Very good too -- You

Re: help! tables and pages

2011-11-14 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Gigi, On 14 Nov 2011, at 15:07, Eugenia Firth wrote: Let me make sure I have it straight. I have been doing the layout in Numbers, but what I have been doing is pasting all of the text after I get it done. Also, I finally figured out I had to take out all the extra columns and rows

Re: help! tables and pages

2011-11-14 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Jürgen, Using your method, can you select a portion of a table or are you stuck with entire columns and entire rows? My method allows you to select just the part you want. Cheers, Anne On 14 Nov 2011, at 17:48, Jürgen Fleger wrote: Hi Anne, could you please tell me, what's the

Re: Lion, a lemon?

2011-11-14 Thread Jessica
That's what I've done several times, and all it does is ask me to verify the certificate, which I'm only going to assume is correct, sense to my understanding the servername for this, naturally would be, pop.gmail.com. So I just tell it to connect, in which case, it refuses to cooperate with me

Re: help! tables and pages

2011-11-14 Thread Kirsten Edmondson
Hi, Tables is something which majorly bothers me about Pages too. I couldn't understand why it wouldn't read them. Now I am enlightened! Thanks. What is the command to convert text to table and table to text which was mentioned? Or if I read right, how do you create a command like this? Also,

Re: Dropbox accessibility

2011-11-14 Thread Kirsten Edmondson
Well, if people could keep to topic and tell me how to access it, if it's useable. I'm fairly sure I've done what Becky suggested in the dropbox thread, though I will try again. I would really like to be able to access my files and use Dropbox! Help. Thanks. Kirsten. On 13 Nov 2011, at

Re: for those who love the siri feature

2011-11-14 Thread Jessica
Oh really? How do you go about finding that? I've been wanting to watch them with Hannah, sense she loves the laughing babies and talking dogs, but it of course wants me to update my flash player, go figure. - Original Message - From: Yuma Decaux jamy...@gmail.com To:

Re: Unable to eject cd

2011-11-14 Thread Jessica
I think command E usually does it. - Original Message - From: Daniel Miller To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, November 14, 2011 4:41 AM Subject: RE: Unable to eject cd Hi, You have to hold the eject button for a few seconds. And I don't think it's

RE: Dropbox accessibility

2011-11-14 Thread Daniel Miller
Hi, You can access your files through the Finder. Go to your user folder and there's a dropbox folder in there. There's where your dropbox stuff is. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Kirsten Edmondson Sent:

Re: for those who love the siri feature

2011-11-14 Thread Red.Falcon
Hi all! Someone posted about this! On another planet far far away! hahahaha But also looks interesting for those of you with Siri! As they say on there sight Have fun! Colin Qapla! Wiesbaden, Germany – iOS developer Spielhaus today is pleased to introduce Dictabulus: Speech - Text - Mac. The

noncontiguous selecting of files in finder question

2011-11-14 Thread Ioana Gandrabur
Hi all, I am able to select messages in mail with vo command space after turning cursor tracking off. Have no luck in finder though. I am using list view. Any help with steps to take will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Ioana -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: help! tables and pages

2011-11-14 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Kirsten, On 14 Nov 2011, at 19:20, Kirsten Edmondson wrote: What is the command to convert text to table and table to text which was mentioned? Or if I read right, how do you create a command like this? The commands are in the Format menu, under Table. In the submenu, quite a way down,

Re: noncontiguous selecting of files in finder question

2011-11-14 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Ioana, You need to interact with the table and there's no need to turn cursor tracking off. Press VO-Cmd-Space twice on the first file (the first time deselects it), then use VO to navigate to the next one you want and press VO-Cmd-Space on that, and so on. Pressing some other command,

JetBlue vs Chrome

2011-11-14 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Hello, I was having some difficulty with the popup choices presented by the JetBlue website when using Webkit, and since I have heard wonderful praises from Kevin about chrome, I decided to give it a chance to make the site work. I got to the first edit box, entered IAD (for Washington

Re: JetBlue vs Chrome

2011-11-14 Thread Mika Pyyhkala
Hi, There are known accessibility issues with the main JetBlue web site. You may be able to get parts of it to work with various browser and screen reader combinations, but other features may not work at all. One feature where there is no work around is the flash based check in. JetBlue is

Re: A question.

2011-11-14 Thread Rahul Bajaj
Chad, How can I select the app that I want to use for reading the document? -- 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 from this group, send email to

Re: importing vo-prefferences was: Pianopub issues was: Preparing for clean lion install

2011-11-14 Thread William Windels
Hello Daniel and others, The situation is that I have adjusted the settings of vo on sl after doing a upgrade to Lion So, the lion-functions where included. Then I exported this vo-settings to a file , under the upgraded Lion. When I was importing that file in a clean install of Lion, none of

Re: iPod to Mac?

2011-11-14 Thread Traci
In case this helps out others, I thought I'd report… I downloaded DeTunes from macUpdate. It did just want I wanted, and now the music from the old Nano is in my Mac. HTH, Traci Sent by Macbook Air Mail On Nov 13, 2011, at 5:12 PM, lpna...@gmail.com wrote: What ever happend to Senuti? That

Re: for those who love the siri feature

2011-11-14 Thread Chris Blouch
You can also go to the original video on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrkst67ZlVI which autoplays. CB On 11/14/11 6:50 AM, Goodin, Donna wrote: Wondering if anyone's gotten this video to play. I couldn't, so if you did could you pass along some instructions? TIA, Donna On Nov

RE: using gmail as a pop email: was Lion, a lemon?

2011-11-14 Thread Missy Hoppe
I'm having this same problem. I don't use web based email at all, so how would I go about telling gmail that I want to use pop instead of Imap? I'm trying to get a brand new clean lion install up and running, and so far, I honestly don't think it was worth the trouble. Over all, I still agree

pogoplug cloud

2011-11-14 Thread Matthew Campbell
Hi everyone. Sorry first of all fore cross posting. PogoPlug has announced a cloud service where you can get 5 GB for free. I've signed up for it and it looks somewhat promising. The app at least is accessible on the Mac side of things and I am told that the IOS App is accessible although I

Re: A question about Dropbox and Flash-player

2011-11-14 Thread Chris Blouch
That question goes to one of the root issues. Flash swf files are compiled binaries so it's really hard to pick apart any human readable data without Adobe passing data to the host machines accessibility API. As a closed standard nobody else can do it either. I've been working with an

Booting from an external HD in lion

2011-11-14 Thread Missy Hoppe
Hello again, all! When I was running SL and wanted to boot into Lion from my external drive, it was fairly simple. I just held down the option key as I turned on my macbook, waited about 15 seconds, released the option key, pressed right arrow and enter. Now that I have done a clean install of

RE: using gmail as a pop email: was Lion, a lemon?

2011-11-14 Thread Jasmine Kotsay
Hi, What you have to do to get Gmail to go to Pop is go to the Gmail website and log in, then go to your Settings menu. After that, you go to Pop/Forwarding and Imap. From there, you should be able to read the settings and change the ones you want. Hope this helps! Sincerely, Jasmine

Re: Unable to eject cd

2011-11-14 Thread Manohar Singaram
Sorry Chad, it is command shift E and not T. It is my typing error. - Original Message - From: Chad King To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, November 14, 2011 8:48 PM Subject: Re: Unable to eject cd Hi. To eject a disk, use command E. That also works

Re: A question.

2011-11-14 Thread Chad King
Hi. Select the file you wish to open. Press the key combination, VO shift m. Right arrow on the, Open with sub menu. Select the, 'other' option. You will see a window that is presented like an open file window. Near the bottom of that window, you should see a file table, that lists the apps you

Re: Booting from an external HD in lion

2011-11-14 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Yep. Try pressing the left arrow rather than the right one. Works all the time. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! Skype name: barefootedray Facebook: facebook.com/ray.foretjr.1 On Nov 14, 2011, at 4:39 PM, Missy Hoppe wrote: Hello

RE: Booting from an external HD in lion

2011-11-14 Thread Missy Hoppe
ah. Thank you very much! I will give that a try. I think I can adjust to 1 keypress being different. Now, if only all my other lion issues could be solved so easily. (grin) Thanks! _ From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ray Foret

Re: Booting from an external HD in lion

2011-11-14 Thread Mike Arrigo
The right arrow will boot in to the lion recovery, try the left arrow instead, that's what I use and it works. On Nov 14, 2011, at 4:39 PM, Missy Hoppe wrote: Hello again, all! When I was running SL and wanted to boot into Lion from my external drive, it was fairly simple. I just held down

RE: Booting from an external HD in lion

2011-11-14 Thread Missy Hoppe
Thank you! I'll be testing it shortly. Next challenge is reinstalling my acapella voices, but I might wait on that for a few days. I'm guessing I just run the installs from the DVDs again and reenter my licence info, but I seem to recall that someone said that those voices had issues on clean

more mail issues.

2011-11-14 Thread Jessica
I've tried removing and reconfiguring my gmail acount according to a set of instructions I found on google, only to not find a place to select a server type when it comes to imap or pop3. I've typed in pop.gmail.com, but under the advanced tab, it still says something about setting a path for

videos on the mac

2011-11-14 Thread Stephanie Mitchell
Hi all, I am currently undertaking an online course. Over all it seems accessible, except I can't play the 2 part video it has. There's just no link to the videos at all, which makes me think it could be flash perhaps. Any ideas of a way around this issue, or what I should tell the staff

Money back for inaccessible iPhone app.

2011-11-14 Thread Wes Smith
Hey. I searched the archives, but couldn't find anything. Anyway, so I bought Status Shuffle for the iPhone. I can get as far as use this status button, then it wants me to drag the text. I can drag text just fine….but….VO doesn't see it….I was wondering if theres a way to get my money back

Re: JetBlue vs Chrome

2011-11-14 Thread Les Kriegler
Hi Jonathan, JetBlue's site is definitely problematic. My son works there, and he's taken accessibility concerns to the higher-ups for hopeful resolution. On Nov 14, 2011, at 2:46 PM, Jonathan C. Cohn wrote: Hello, I was having some difficulty with the popup choices presented by the

Re: JetBlue vs Chrome

2011-11-14 Thread Stephanie Mitchell
How do I download files? Thanks. Steph -- 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 from this group, send email to