Re: the advent of audio/tactile games for the VIPs

2009-07-30 Thread Chris Hofstader
I don't know of this game or if it's on audiogames.com but I'm sure those guys would add it if it isn't already there. If you're looking for first person shooter, David Greenwood's Shades of Doom is amazing on Windows. He has some other 3D games that are masterfully crafted as well and

Re: the advent of audio/tactile games for the VIPs

2009-07-30 Thread Chris Hofstader
Including the two textbook chapters (one entirely on games and another with a portion on audio games), a couple of peer reviewed articles on the matter, a pile of blog articles (http://www.blindconfidential.blogspot.com ) and the odd item here and there, I have studied a handful of audio

Re: the advent of audio/tactile games for the VIPs

2009-07-31 Thread Chris Hofstader
. Even feedback to say what is in front of you in the direction you are pointing. Should be good things coming. CB Chris Hofstader wrote: Including the two textbook chapters (one entirely on games and another with a portion on audio games), a couple of peer reviewed articles

Re: the advent of audio/tactile games for the VIPs

2009-07-31 Thread Chris Hofstader
Hi, Would it be useful if I started a 3dau...@lists.hofstader.com? I think we have a few people interested and private communication will cause some ideas to slip through , leaving some of the gang with a different set of notions than others which can cause real confusion as

Re: the advent of audio/tactile games for the VIPs

2009-07-31 Thread Chris Hofstader
-for-iphone-does-not-support-hrtf.html Would be nice if these guys ported the Mac fmod sound system to iPhone: http://www.garagegames.com/community/blogs/view/16489 CB Chris Hofstader wrote: The most accurate spatial audio information uses a technique called Head Relative Transform

Re: the advent of audio/tactile games for the VIPs

2009-07-31 Thread Chris Hofstader
Which site? On Jul 31, 2009, at 11:48 AM, Mark Baxter wrote: I get an internal server error, with that site. Mark BurningHawk Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com My home page: http://MarkBurningHawk.net/

Re: the advent of audio/tactile games for the VIPs

2009-07-31 Thread Chris Hofstader
with Snow Leopard... grumble). Anyway I just want to get raw input. James On 7/31/09, Chris Hofstader c...@hofstader.com wrote: Which site? On Jul 31, 2009, at 11:48 AM, Mark Baxter wrote: I get an internal server error, with that site. Mark BurningHawk Skype and Twitter

Re: A question about iPhone

2009-08-01 Thread Chris Hofstader
mode, so it's easy to turn one off while enabling the other… HTH and have a terrific day / weekend!… Smiles, CQ :) --- View my Online Portfolio at: http://www.onemodelplace.com/CaraQuinn Follow me on Twitter! https://twitter.com/ModelCara On Jul 30, 2009, at 1:12 PM, Chris Hofstader

Re: nano headphones

2009-08-01 Thread Chris Hofstader
I agree with your recomendation but would add that the Shure earplug style sound great but I wouldn't walk outside with them as they block out almost all external sounds and a hybrid might be coming down the street. I got my Shure set at the Apple store in South Beach where I feel very

Re: the advent of audio/tactile games for the VIPs

2009-08-01 Thread Chris Hofstader
/CaraQuinn Follow me on Twitter! https://twitter.com/ModelCara On Jul 31, 2009, at 4:59 AM, Chris Hofstader wrote: The most accurate spatial audio information uses a technique called Head Relative Transform Functions (HRTF) which simulates relatively precise tonal qualities of sounds

Re: second life and another query

2009-08-03 Thread Chris Hofstader
When you first turn on a new Macintosh you can just wait a minute or two and VoiceOver will launch assuming that you might not know a specific keystroke before you have the Mac to read On Aug 2, 2009, at 8:45 PM, Joe Quinn wrote: does anyone know if second life is accessible on the Mac?

Re: Question about iphone maps

2009-08-06 Thread Chris Hofstader
Hi, I've had trouble getting the iPhone Maps app to work as I would want it to. I read the chapter on iPhone Maps in the documentation (chapter 13) about five times and still cannot figure out how to get it to tell me my current location as a street name or something useful but,

Re: prices gone up

2009-08-06 Thread Chris Hofstader
When iTunes dropped DRM, they let the copyright holders pick prices for songs and albums so they will probably not all be the same anymore. On Aug 6, 2009, at 7:48 AM, william lomas wrote: hi why have the itunes prices for single tracks gone up in the UK? any ideas?

Dictation Software With VO?

2009-08-06 Thread Chris Hofstader
Hi, I have a near legendary case of repetitive stress injuries in both hands, wrists, forearms and shoulders. For the work I do, I need to generate a whole lot of text. I tried MacSpeech Dictate and I find that many of its features (especially those borrowed directly from Naturally

Re: prices gone up

2009-08-07 Thread Chris Hofstader
wrote: ah damn the prices per song now are way to expensive now forget it lol On 6 Aug 2009, at 13:53, Chris Hofstader wrote: When iTunes dropped DRM, they let the copyright holders pick prices for songs and albums so they will probably not all be the same anymore. On Aug 6, 2009, at 7:48

Re: Dictation Software With VO?

2009-08-07 Thread Chris Hofstader
opening a new mail, switching to the finder and such can be done via spoken words. It's baked into the OS so give it a whirl. Hopefully somebody else has suggestions for the dictation software. CB Chris Hofstader wrote: Hi, I have a near legendary case of repetitive stress injuries in both

Re: iPhone - Task Switching?

2009-08-10 Thread Chris Hofstader
2009, at 14:09, Chris Hofstader wrote: Hi, While I have had and enjoyed my iPhone for about a month and a half, I hadn't, before yesterday, needed to switch between running tasks. Specifically, I was following directions to our local YWCA using Navigon yesterday. I received a phone call

Re: iPhone - Task Switching?

2009-08-11 Thread Chris Hofstader
are supposed to keep their state information so when you come back its as though you never left. CB Chris Hofstader wrote: Hi, While I have had and enjoyed my iPhone for about a month and a half, I hadn't, before yesterday, needed to switch between running tasks. Specifically, I

Re: iPhone - Task Switching?

2009-08-11 Thread Chris Hofstader
:01 AM, william lomas wrote: what will the update in december contain for navigon? On 10 Aug 2009, at 18:50, Chris Hofstader wrote: EI don't do podcasts. I will write some blog entries on this stuff soon (www.blindconfidential.blogspot.com). Of those available to blinks, Wayfinder

Re: Skype on Iphone

2009-08-11 Thread Chris Hofstader
I tried Skype on the iPhone and found that I could not get into the list of contacts in order to make a call. My sighted wife looked at the screen and, with VO running, she couldn't figure out how to pick a contact either. I think someone on the other VO list suggested a program that

Re: iPhone - Task Switching?

2009-08-11 Thread Chris Hofstader
, FYI Humanware Trekker is not using the Sendero SDK. Chris On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:01:26 +0100 william lomas lomaswill...@googlemail.com wrote: what will the update in december contain for navigon? On 10 Aug 2009, at 18:50, Chris Hofstader wrote: EI don't do podcasts. I will write some

Re: iPhone - Task Switching?

2009-08-11 Thread Chris Hofstader
the program that i can listen to? On 11 Aug 2009, at 13:13, Chris Hofstader wrote: there has been no official announcement of what the December update of Navigon will contain. I know of a few people in close contact with the guys who make Navigon and have heard some rumours and insider

Re: connecting victor Stream to a Mac

2009-08-12 Thread Chris Hofstader
As the Stream has exports a generic external mass storage device profile, why can't OSX just recognize it as an external hard disk and let one copy files to and from it using Finder? On Aug 11, 2009, at 6:03 PM, Woody Anna Dresner wrote: Hi Chris, Were you able to find out anything from

Re: iPhone - Task Switching?

2009-08-12 Thread Chris Hofstader
Trekker is not using the Sendero SDK. Chris On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:01:26 +0100 william lomas lomaswill...@googlemail.com wrote: what will the update in december contain for navigon? On 10 Aug 2009, at 18:50, Chris Hofstader wrote: EI don't do podcasts. I will write some blog entries

Re: iPhone - Task Switching?

2009-08-12 Thread Chris Hofstader
, Chris Hofstader wrote: EI don't do podcasts. I will write some blog entries on this stuff soon (www.blindconfidential.blogspot.com). Of those available to blinks, Wayfinder is the one I know the least about as I only used it for a month or so about a year ago. Almost all

Re: connecting victor Stream to a Mac

2009-08-13 Thread Chris Hofstader
can now connect to the mac. -- From: Chris Hofstader c...@hofstader.com Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 6:39 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: connecting victor Stream to a Mac As the Stream has exports a generic external

Re: Universal design

2009-08-13 Thread Chris Hofstader
guy who uses Voiceover on his laptop read off long reports while he is driving to work. Why not? Universal design goes both ways and I'm sure he wouldn't have sprung for Jaws just to do that. CB Chris Hofstader wrote: No! If we expect mainstream companies, like Apple for instance

Re: Universal design

2009-08-13 Thread Chris Hofstader
a company does things right. I have lots of examples of when companies do things wrong (Target, PriceLine, Ramada and recently CVS). I'd like more carrot and less stick when I do presentations to developers or at conferences. CB Chris Hofstader wrote: Hello Chris the Other, I agree

Re: Universal design

2009-08-14 Thread Chris Hofstader
, Ramada and recently CVS). I'd like more carrot and less stick when I do presentations to developers or at conferences. CB Chris Hofstader wrote: Hello Chris the Other, I agree with your thoughts on universal design. Six or seven years ago we found that a lot of rehab counselors were

Re: Greg Kearneys webpage showing how accessible different aps are on the Mac

2009-08-16 Thread Chris Hofstader
What is an EPS? On Aug 16, 2009, at 10:36 AM, graham wrote: Hi, I was looking for a piece of software and tried going to Greg Kearney's webpage which rated many aps and how they performed with Voiceover. for some reason the link appears to be broken. Voiceover resources and links

Re: TomTom GPS Navigation app for iPhone is out

2009-08-17 Thread Chris Hofstader
Hi, Tomf Tom comes up in AppStore for me. It explicitly states that it is an automobile solution. They are one of the companies who have there own UI layer to speed up ports to other systems which, as regards accessibility, is usually a disaster. I had a series of conversations with

iPhone: Utube Question

2009-08-18 Thread Chris Hofstader
Hi, This may be an RTFM but I have read the iPhone manual and have just reread the Utube section and couldn't find a suitable answer to my question. My caffeine milligrams per hour ratio is dangerously low so I may have entirely overlooked something. When I open the Utube app from the

Re: Pimp out your Mac

2010-04-16 Thread Chris Hofstader
Jeez, we have nine different Apple products in our house and collectively they don't add up to $17,000. I'd be afraid of such a beast as nothing I do with a computer could possibly warrant that much power. So, if I had that sort of money, I suppose I would keep my current stuff and put a big

Re: oopse...appologies for possible offtopic posts that I thought I was sending off list!

2010-04-16 Thread Chris Hofstader
Many years ago when the Open Software Foundation was around (now it's smaller and called Linux Foundation), a friend of mine thought he was replying only to his boss - instead, he sent the note to the entire board of directors and steering committee - which, back in those days, read like a

Re: Pimp out your Mac

2010-04-16 Thread Chris Hofstader
products at five! Olivia On Apr 16, 2010, at 7:46 AM, Chris Hofstader wrote: Jeez, we have nine different Apple products in our house and collectively they don't add up to $17,000. I'd be afraid of such a beast as nothing I do with a computer could possibly warrant that much power. So

Re: Pimp out your Mac

2010-04-16 Thread Chris Hofstader
Facebook Profile My Twitter On Apr 16, 2010, at 3:35 PM, olivia norman wrote: Nine apple products? I thought I had a lot of apple products at five! Olivia On Apr 16, 2010, at 7:46 AM, Chris Hofstader wrote: Jeez, we have nine different Apple products in our house and collectively

Re: malwear and macs

2010-04-19 Thread Chris Hofstader
I noticed that a software update that arrived last week was related to security. I don't know what it does but it could be anything from standard UNIX like crypto stuff to malware related functionality. Last I heard, though, was that there were no known virus for the Mac in the wild but some

Re: Apple regulating news and political content???

2010-04-19 Thread Chris Hofstader
jp: Well this is a law suit waiting and begging to be picked up and they will win it. This is going against the your US right as a citizen. Called Freedom of speech and Freedom of Press! So I think this is why Apple changed it mind This is like saying you can surf the internet but here is

Re: Apple regulating news and political content???

2010-04-19 Thread Chris Hofstader
rl: This is rather surprising, that they would do this. Regarding the 18+ thing, there are apps that won't download unless you consent that you are not a minor. Unfortunately, that requires a simple yes/no click, but at the same time, it's after your password, so that's some layer of

Leaving List

2010-04-26 Thread Chris Hofstader
Hi, With my new job as Director of Access Technology for Project GNU/Free Software Foundation, I am so busy that I can hardly keep up with work let alone follow these lists. I thank you all for the help you have given me over the past two years since I got my first MacBook and I hoped I

Re: commandline applications

2009-11-29 Thread Chris Hofstader
There are about a bazillion utilities that come from the UNIX base on which OSX sits that are all command line accessible. You can do a lot of stuff with htese tools which have been around for an eternity so are well tried and true. cdh On Nov 28, 2009, at 10:38 AM, .dan. wrote: I'm very

Re: Spreadsheet software was Powerpoint on the Mac

2009-11-29 Thread Chris Hofstader
Apple has a pretty flat management structure with different teams acting nearly autonomously as if they were separate companies. The iWork team is one such business unit and may or may not place a high value on accessibility. The access technology group who make VO and the other universal

Re: no mac for blind people in Belgium

2009-11-29 Thread Chris Hofstader
I would think that an appeal to the European Union section on disability would probably result in a reversal in this decision. The lawsuit in question started a long time ago and used a pretty crufty version of VO which wasn't too usable in many areas. With all of the improvements since,

Re: no mac for blind people in Belgium

2009-11-29 Thread Chris Hofstader
This should be moved to the bs list... Getting government agencies or the non-profits with whom they contract to provide such services in the US is really a hard problem to solve in the current economic climate. First off, a lot of people in the consumer services side of these organizations

Re: no mac for blind people in Belgium

2009-11-30 Thread Chris Hofstader
think we agree on many points all be it from a different point of view. :) On Nov 29, 2009, at 8:10 AM, Chris Hofstader wrote: This should be moved to the bs list... Getting government agencies or the non-profits with whom they contract to provide such services in the US is really a hard

Re: no mac for blind people in Belgium

2009-11-30 Thread Chris Hofstader
I often share the frustration but I don't think the blame is entirely with the agencies. People blind from childhood are far more likely to be independent than are those of us who, like me, went blind later in life from RP or some other degenerative disorder or accident. The kids are in the

Re: no mac for blind people in Belgium

2009-11-30 Thread Chris Hofstader
My only valuable experience with an agency was learning the little bit of braille that I know at a local Lighthouse. I've had lots of friends work at such places and I believe they do as good as they can under constant budgetary pressures and I think these people do so with hope rather than my

The vo-bs mailing list

2009-12-01 Thread Chris Hofstader
Hi, Because the viphone, MacVisionaries and MacVoiceOver lists all have specific purposes, we launched the vo-bs mailing list where conversations not appropriate to the actual meat of these other lists can go. Sometimes when a thread gets off topic, it is moved for further comment to the

Re: Economics and the Mac

2009-12-01 Thread Chris Hofstader
Senators Harkin, Hagel, the late Kennedy and Feingold (perhaps others) did discuss an access technology provision but got slapped down by both parties for adding cost to the bill. Some might argue that the ADA restoration act of 2008 (signed by President Bush in August of last year without

Re: Economics and the Mac

2009-12-01 Thread Chris Hofstader
I CC'd the bs list on this post and I think we should probably move it there... The operative phrase in your post is from your employer which points us to a chicken and egg problem - people can't get jobs until they learn to use a screen reader and they can't really get a screen reader (or

Re: no mac for blind people in Belgium

2009-12-01 Thread Chris Hofstader
you live, and of course the money factor plays a huge roll. On Nov 30, 2009, at 11:37 AM, Chris Hofstader wrote: I often share the frustration but I don't think the blame is entirely with the agencies. People blind from childhood are far more likely to be independent than are those

Re: no mac for blind people in Belgium

2009-12-01 Thread Chris Hofstader
NFB does not actually try to push people toward JAWS and Windows. Their Macintosh/VO review was a pathetic example of poor journalism but they do and say rather mean things about lots of other products from FS and elsewhere. At one NFB convention, because OpenBook had fewer features in the

Re: no mac for blind people in Belgium

2009-12-01 Thread Chris Hofstader
According to NFB numbers, there are 1.5 blind people and about 10 million low vision in the US. With a total population of over 300 million, we are an absolutely tiny fraction of the population. cdh On Nov 30, 2009, at 3:50 PM, carlene knight wrote: Unfortunately you have to be realistic

Re: no mac for blind people in Belgium

2009-12-01 Thread Chris Hofstader
I am so sick of teaching random citizens about guide dogs, blindness, that I don't need a wheelchair or assistance walking up a jet way, how I can dial a telephone, how I can pee into a urinal without missing - you name it, that I can almost explode. An anecdote: In Harvard Square, the rapid

Re: no mac for blind people in Belgium

2009-12-01 Thread Chris Hofstader
That phone, called Oasis in the US, was an entirely private venture although they did get a loan from Once in Spain on which I think they defaulted. I am good friends with one of the people who led the organization here in the US and she's using an iPhone these days. As I've said, a mass

Re: no mac for blind people in Belgium

2009-12-01 Thread Chris Hofstader
My ultimate trigger are the people who ask, does he want a braille menu? or something similar as if I wasn't actually there. This is a real zero level interrupt for me that I need to fight hard not to blow out a sequence of profanity (I am originally from New Jersey where such language is

Re: Economics and the Mac

2009-12-01 Thread Chris Hofstader
The Windows AT vendors and to a large extent some of the advocacy groups argue that MS should not try to include accessibility out of the box. The AT vendors want, of course to protect their turf, but do so with the notion that MS will screw it up and cannot be relied upon to actually make it

Re: Economics and the Mac

2009-12-02 Thread Chris Hofstader
I think VO does a poor job with spreadsheets, containing none of the semantic navigation features in JAWS or WE. It generally does a hardly adequate job in all tabular constructs and struggles with complex web 2.0 apps like googledocs. On Dec 1, 2009, at 5:47 PM, James Nash wrote: Hi, I'm

Re: Economics and the Mac

2009-12-02 Thread Chris Hofstader
not just excel. I believe web 2.0 is going to reek havoc for screen reader users for many years regardless of the screen reader. -Original Message- From: Chris Hofstader [mailto:c...@hofstader.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 8:22 AM To: macvisionaries

Re: applescript

2009-12-02 Thread Chris Hofstader
While VO works very well in most cases without scripting, I would assume that one could add the really interesting augmentations that JAWS and WE provide in a lot of programs to make their users interactions more efficient. I really want to explore doing this but I haven't had the time or

Re: Economics and the Mac

2009-12-02 Thread Chris Hofstader
improved narrator, FS and GWM are facing that same pressure as a result of voiceover and nvda anyway. - Original Message - From: Chris Hofstader c...@hofstader.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 8:10 AM Subject: Re: Economics and the Mac Ted

Re: Economics and the Mac

2009-12-02 Thread Chris Hofstader
I actually think VO provides much better support for the stuff that ships installed on a Macintosh than JAWS does with a lot of the Windows stuff. VO may miss a few things (I find TimeMachine restores pretty hard to use with VO and Spaces is far from obvious with VO) but JAWS still doesn't

Re: Economics and the Mac

2009-12-02 Thread Chris Hofstader
on another list I belong to like a program call Tables for this purpose. Currently I don't work with tables but thought this might be of interest. I may be way off the mark. On Dec 2, 2009, at 8:12 AM, Chris Hofstader wrote: If you don't like JAWS in spreadsheets then you will hate

Re: Economics and the Mac

2009-12-02 Thread Chris Hofstader
I think this argument can be nicely informed by looking at Jamal Mazrui's Dueling Operating Systems presentation at CSUN 2009. He has an expert in JAWS, VO and orca perform identical tasks and one can watch/hear how well each performs. On Dec 2, 2009, at 2:36 PM, John G. Him wrote: Well,

Re: Economics and the Mac

2009-12-02 Thread Chris Hofstader
worked as it should. TC James On 2 Dec 2009, at 19:35, Chris Hofstader wrote: I actually think VO provides much better support for the stuff that ships installed on a Macintosh than JAWS does with a lot of the Windows stuff. VO may miss a few things (I find TimeMachine restores pretty

Re: Economics and the Mac

2009-12-03 Thread Chris Hofstader
: Chris Hofstader c...@hofstader.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 1:35 PM Subject: Re: Economics and the Mac I actually think VO provides much better support for the stuff that ships installed on a Macintosh than JAWS does with a lot of the Windows

Re: Economics and the Mac

2009-12-03 Thread Chris Hofstader
and just one fairly obscure thing for jaws and windows. Plus, it would seem to me that if you can use the jaws cursor to get something done, that's a point in favor of jaws, not against it. - Original Message - From: Chris Hofstader c...@hofstader.com To: macvisionaries

Re: no mac for blind people in Belgium

2009-12-03 Thread Chris Hofstader
and all of your listed issues will be resolved. Good luck, Go nfb :( On Dec 1, 2009, at 9:44 AM, Chris Hofstader wrote: I am so sick of teaching random citizens about guide dogs, blindness, that I don't need a wheelchair or assistance walking up a jet way, how I can dial a telephone

Re: selection replaced, 0 items selected

2009-12-03 Thread Chris Hofstader
This subject line is driving me nuts as every time I hear it I think it is VO talking and not a subject for an email. On Dec 2, 2009, at 8:09 PM, carlene knight wrote: I must be doing something wrong. What do I type in the folder name? Library/preferences was not found. I feel really

Re: My Mac saying things it shouldn't

2009-12-03 Thread Chris Hofstader
but it didn't cause anyone to lose work or need to reboot. On Dec 3, 2009, at 1:59 PM, carlene knight wrote: Sorry, I'll change it. That's one of those things I didn't think about until after I had started it. On Dec 3, 2009, at 4:59 AM, Chris Hofstader wrote: This subject line is driving me

Re: Economics and the Mac

2009-12-03 Thread Chris Hofstader
that really compare to using a real track pad? There's no separate trackpad as far as i know, or am i wrong here? /Krister 3 dec 2009 kl. 13.45 skrev Chris Hofstader: The combination of the spatial information provided by object navigation and that one gets in Trackpad Commander provides

Re: database

2009-12-04 Thread Chris Hofstader
I haven't tried this at all so I am just providing a reasonably well educated guess based on what we did to get JAWS to work with MS Access: The table view was, in our case, already pretty accessible but we had to label some graphics and put in some scripts to read the column headers. We may

Re: no mac for blind people in Belgium

2009-12-04 Thread Chris Hofstader
Actually, the latest and greatest voice recognition systems are amazingly accurate after they have been adequately trained. Adequate training does thak hundreds of hours of use and being incredibly faithful to correcting the mistakes the software makes. Few people who can type are willing to

Re: no mac for blind people in Belgium

2009-12-04 Thread Chris Hofstader
I kept my IBM AT keyboard until the SPACEBAR fell of for the lst time and SuperGlue was no good anymore. I loved that keyboard. I must say, though, that I really dig the MacBook Pro keyboard even without the old IBM punch back keys. Oh... I just realized what an MBP15 is... On Dec 4, 2009,

Re: file maker pro

2009-12-05 Thread Chris Hofstader
Given some of the tricks I mentioned yesteray, you may be able to make it sort of accessible but in an entirely clunky manner. Databases are one of the application sectors, along with accounting and a few other somewhat sophisticated applications that people need to get higher paying jobs and

Re: A question about speech recognition in system preferences

2009-12-06 Thread Chris Hofstader
The Apple Speakable Items feature for voice command and control have been around for about a million years and it's very well document on the Apple site as well as from other sources. cdh On Dec 5, 2009, at 10:08 AM, .dan. wrote: Someone asked: I've looked with some curiosity at the

Re: Boy? do! I? feel? stupid!

2009-12-06 Thread Chris Hofstader
Nicolai, etc. My experience with iPhone had a lot of mistakes in the early going but now, about six months into using it, I don't know how I lived without it for so long. There are lots of things I did wrong but, from making mistakes, I found other cool features that I would use in the future.

Re: Boy? do! I? feel? stupid!

2009-12-07 Thread Chris Hofstader
I don't understand this one? On Dec 6, 2009, at 5:17 PM, Mark Gilland wrote: LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL! Chris. ? ? t?? Te?? 畫 sa?. - Original Message - From: Nicolai Svendsen chojiro1...@gmail.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, December 06, 2009 3:11 PM

Re: Boy? do! I? feel? stupid!

2009-12-07 Thread Chris Hofstader
a lot of mistakes if I get an iPhone, or the fact I was being nice. Oh well. Regards, Nic Skype: Kvalme MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk AIM: cincinster yahoo Messenger: cin368 Facebook Profile My Twitter On Dec 7, 2009, at 1:09 PM, Chris Hofstader wrote: I don't understand

Adium

2009-12-09 Thread Chris Hofstader
Hi, I have been using Adium for a while now (if you like, you can contact me on MSN at blindchrist...@live .com, I forgot my AOL name as I only used it once). Recently, I finally got to copying it from the Downloads folder and into Applications which didn't seem to make a difference. When,

Menus in Dock

2009-12-09 Thread Chris Hofstader
Hi, My wife got up and I asked to borrow her eyes for a few moments. I had mentioned that Adium and Syrinx Dock menus could no longer be reached since I moved them into the Run at Login category. I then launched Mail and I could no longer use its or any other running program's Dock menu.

Re: Adium

2009-12-09 Thread Chris Hofstader
I'll check for updates, thanks! On Dec 9, 2009, at 7:55 AM, Kaare Dehard wrote: There was something in an older version about naughty behavior with adium, Did the latest update get applied? If so they may not have gotten this behavior under control. On 2009-12-09, at 7:42 AM, Chris

More on lost dock menus...

2009-12-09 Thread Chris Hofstader
Hi, We just tried getting the Dock menus for running applications to pop up without VO running and all seemed normal. Once I restarted VO, though, the problem of the disappeared menus returned. I did check for Adium version and it said I was up to date. I'll try Syrinx now and see if it

More on Dock Problem

2009-12-09 Thread Chris Hofstader
Hi, We removed both Adium and Syrinx from the run at login feature, leaving nothing executing at start up other than VO and Finder and problem remains that I cannot get to the menus on the items associated with running programs on my dock. This is starting to really suck. cdh -- You

Re: Menus in Dock

2009-12-09 Thread Chris Hofstader
textedit alias in the dock. The only way I could get to the shortcut menu was to do VO-shift and M and then use the arrow keys to select the shortcut menus. Hope this helps cheers Thuy On 09/12/2009, Chris Hofstader c...@hofstader.com wrote: Hi, My wife got up and I asked to borrow her eyes

Re: More on Dock Problem

2009-12-09 Thread Chris Hofstader
: Chris Hofstader c...@hofstader.com To: macvoiceo...@freelists.org; macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 2:02 PM Subject: More on Dock Problem Hi, We removed both Adium and Syrinx from the run at login feature, leaving nothing executing at start up other than VO

Re: More on Dock Problem

2009-12-09 Thread Chris Hofstader
then when I command-tab, it works fine. Regards, Nic Skype: Kvalme MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk AIM: cincinster yahoo Messenger: cin368 Facebook Profile My Twitter On Dec 9, 2009, at 3:02 PM, Chris Hofstader wrote: Hi, We removed both Adium and Syrinx from the run at login

Re: moving quickly to top or end of message list?

2009-12-09 Thread Chris Hofstader
I seem to have the same problem as Donna in that these keystrokes on my MacBook Pro behave as she describes. Could it be having emails sorted into threads and collapsed? cdh On Dec 9, 2009, at 11:50 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: Hi Esther, That doesn't work either, VO-FN-Shift Up arrow takes me

Re: questions about NVDA

2009-12-10 Thread Chris Hofstader
NVDA is a usable program that, unfortunately, doesn't support very many applications yet. If you can program in Python, you can help the team move it forward. As a full time solution, though, it isn't ready for prime time yet. I know both Mick and Jamie, the top of the NVDA team, and they

Re: questions about NVDA

2009-12-10 Thread Chris Hofstader
been criticism from commercial venders and those trainers who should really be impartial - at least in my view. They believe that because NVDA is free and open source then it must automatically be a non starter. TC James TC James - Original Message - From: Chris Hofstader c

Re: questions about NVDA

2009-12-10 Thread Chris Hofstader
for the job at hand, thus like you, I am not and hopefully will never be an evangelist for one platform or piece of AT. TC James - Original Message - From: Chris Hofstader c...@hofstader.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 3:04 PM Subject

Re: questions about NVDA

2009-12-10 Thread Chris Hofstader
be a non starter. TC James TC James - Original Message - From: Chris Hofstader c...@hofstader.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 1:42 PM Subject: Re: questions about NVDA NVDA is a usable program that, unfortunately, doesn't support very

Re: questions about NVDA

2009-12-11 Thread Chris Hofstader
I mostly agree with Eric here but attribute the variations in web information/screen reader combination to a lack of acceptance on the part of web developers, browser authors and, to a big extent, screen access vendors. It is true that Apple is setting its own accessibility standards but, for

Re: It's pointless!

2009-12-11 Thread Chris Hofstader
This rant and any follow up should be referred to the BS mailing list as it is way, way off topic.To join the BS list, send an email to: vo-bs-requ...@lists.hofstader.com with the word subscribe in the subject line. To those of us who feel that screen readers will always provide second class

Re: IWork: Announcing styles

2009-12-14 Thread Chris Hofstader
I think that in VO settings there is a read text attributes or some such thing that is off by default. I don't know if it will help you but it's probably a good feature to try. On Dec 13, 2009, at 6:01 PM, Daniel K. Gartmann wrote: Hi, I had to insert text into a fairly complex

Adium/Text Messaging/MSN

2009-12-16 Thread Chris Hofstader
Hi, I have been using Adium for a while to communicate with friends who mostly use MSN or whatever it's called these days. I can see their status and send and receive text messages but my status always seems to be offline on their side. Has anyone else seen this? Also, is there another chat

Re: Accessible Password Manager

2009-12-17 Thread Chris Hofstader
This is nice but not cross platform which I think is one of the criteria. On Dec 17, 2009, at 9:42 AM, Daniel Rowe wrote: i use Keychane access, which is built into the Os. You can find it under applications and utilities. On 17 Dec 2009, at 13:45, Robert Carter wrote: Hi, I

Re: audio description

2009-12-18 Thread Chris Hofstader
If you like DS, it is really worthwhile joining the Serotek System Access Network where for a few bucks per month, you can find an excellent and ever growing catalogue of DVS movies. On Dec 17, 2009, at 1:53 PM, william lomas wrote: hi all do any movies on the itunes store have

Home - Total iTV, on-line movies and series with subtitles and audiodescription

2009-12-18 Thread Chris Hofstader
Hi, As this was a topic earlier this morning and a friend from Serotek sent out the link over twitter, I think it's probably worth a look-see by those interested in DVS. cdh http://www.totalitv.com/cont/home_en.php -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: Vmware Fusion and Windows

2009-12-19 Thread Chris Hofstader
I can't recall if SA supports Braille or not. If so, SATOGO would be a cost free solution for Windows. On Dec 18, 2009, at 11:35 PM, Joe Plummer wrote: Well she is out of luck. There is no screen readers that are free to do what she wants. Sign, JP ( Joe Plummer)

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