No, it doesn't, but there is an SDK that may enable external developers
to build one.
Vic
On 7/18/2009 12:01 AM, william lomas wrote:
hi does anyone know if the palm pre has builtin speech support like
the iphone 3gs?
WIll
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Built in? Hell no. But for an additional fee you've got it.
On Jul 18, 2009, at 1:01 AM, william lomas wrote:
hi does anyone know if the palm pre has builtin speech support like
the iphone 3gs?
WIll
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Beware, however, that even though you can lock control and option keys,
you will find yourself in frequent situations where you need to unlock
them, e.g. when browsing the web or trying to interact with various
objects (tables, HTML CONTENT areas etc).
It does get a little annoying to use
Hello Anowk,
Omnipage is virtually obsolete for the Mac. It hasn't been updated for
around 8 years! Readiris does an excellent job. It handles page
orientation and can automatically open the processed document in
whatever text editor you like. I use VueScan with Readiris as VueScan
It rarely is Josh. Than you for allowing this article to be posted.
Take care
James
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From: Josh de Lioncourt
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2009 12:23 AM
Subject: Re: Apple plans to blick rival smart phones
I don't
Alex,
Yeah the 16 is all I need but hay when you can double your storage for 200
dollars, y buy the smaller sized one.
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[mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Alex Jurgensen
Sent: Saturday, 18 July 2009 11:56
Hello Josh,
Could you please explain a bit more about how exactly it is more powerful?
Everytime I've used it Item Chooser seemed to be just a smart search that was
clever enough to only show results which contained certain letters.
Thanks
James
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Any access technology developer who thinks that way so far as I'm
concerned has nothing of any worth left to offer.
On Mon, 13 Jul 2009, Larry Wanger wrote:
Who cares if we win them over. We talk with our pocket books and, if enough
of us stop paying thousands for their products and
Hi folks,
Just wondering how many of you that are now using the Ipone 3gs, are
totally blind rather than the partially / Visually impaired users.
The device to me sounds more like it's for a VI person than a totally blind
person.
I'm total and I'm trying to compare this for useage /
Hello James and all:
Well, I can give an example of the power of the item chooser which
might shed some light.
When using facebook in the beginning I was completely lost.
Specifically, as you know, there is a feature on facebook which allows
you to send a private message to someone. For
I too would like to read this article. However, competition is a good
thing. We should rmember that Apple is first and foremost a commercial
vender and accessibility is not necessarily at the top of their list
although they have done, and I am sure will continue to do a fantastic job.
simon which s sixty phone do you use?
On 18 Jul 2009, at 12:10, Simon Fogarty wrote:
Hi folks,
Just wondering how many of you that are now using the Ipone 3gs, are
totally blind rather than the partially / Visually impaired users.
The device to me sounds more like it's for a VI person
Hello Simon,
I'm totally blind and no longer young, but I'm gettng on great with my
iPhone. I can read mail, compose and send mail, check the weather,
surf the Net using Safari, get directions to where I want to go using
either Maps or Navigon, listen to music and audio books, read and
Hello,
Thank you anne for this info. Maybe I am being prejudiced here (quite
possible) bu tI havent heard that much about readiris at all as an ocr
package in comparison with finereader and omnipage. As I said I always need
to scan books for school and also lots of articles which often are not
Hi, Do you actually need the numeric keypad to use voicover? I thought it
was optional. If it is optional then there is not much difference imo
between using it on a laptop or a pc...
Greetings, Anouk,
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To:
Hi thank you (and Alex too) for all your quick responses and info. I am still
not sure, I am going to read the vo manual today, bu tI will look around in nl
(on the web that is) if I import from the usa there will be HUGE vat and
customs charges, customs are really strict here so after some
My main complaint with item chooser is that it does not work properly
if VO lock is enabled. The find command accespts letter keys as
letters when in VO-lock while the item chooser just beeps and won't
even let you turn off vo-lock. Since I am running on a 5 year old
Macintosh this is a
Hello Anowk,
A numeric keypad is not necessary for VoiceOver, it's just another
option. I prefer not to use one but I suspect I'm in the minority there.
With VoiceOver, there is very rarely just one way of doing something.
Very few of us have had any formal training in VoiceOver, so we tend
Hello Jonathan and all:
It would appear your complaint is with vo lock and not with item
chooser. with vo lock enabled, there are many things you cannot do.
For example, if I wanted to type this email with vo locked that would
not work either because of the reality of vo being locked and
Hello Simon had a good question. Now, I would like to add to it.
Would the totally blind iphone users also tell us which of the
features they are using. I'm especially wanting to hear about emails
or any feature where you have to type. My brother tells me the two
finger system that it
I, too, like the items chooser, but I find that if I try to use it to
navigate in Mail to a certain spot in the message, it won't work.
Here's my scenario:
I have an E-mail with a bunch of links in it or downloading material.
I want to download from a link which is almost at the end, and
Mr. Macky; that's funny, nnkay? :) But if it's stuttering like that,
try doing software update to the newest version. Otherwise, you might
have to rename your computer to Ms. Chokes on disks. ...
Mark BurningHawk
Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969
MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com
My
Mark,
I'll have to give software update a go.
LOL! Ms. Chokes on disks. LOL That's great! I nearly spit out the
mouth full of tea all over the place when I read that :-) That's
really good!
Best Wishes
Jenny Kennedy (Howard)
blueskyes9112...@gmail.com
Olathe, Kansas USA
Join me on
I've noticed this as well, ever since maybe iTunes 8.2? It started
after one of the updates to iTunes, since we've had access to the
store. It's not the amount of ram in this Mac, as I've got 4 gigs in
it. Not sure what it could be.
On Jul 18, 2009, at 9:56 AM, Scott Howell wrote:
Can you get it custom built? I'm asking cause I want to get it with 4
gigs of ram and a 500 gig drive.
Mike
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Hello all.
I have a couple of books from bookshare that I would liike to unzip,
but when doing so I receive a message the it is unable to unarcive to
this folder downloads. How do I get around this problem? I have no
problems with anything else. Is there another problem I need to use
Hum, I think you're way off base on most of this stuff. I've never
had any trouble with the dock no matter what configuration my cursers
are being tracked in. I can replicate the issue where the control
option lock won't turn off in the item chooser though, that's almost
sertainly a
Hi all:
Is it possible to export purchased music from ITune to MP3?
Thanks,
Kamal
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Unfortunately not. You can only buy what thy've got in stock it would
appear.
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To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2009 4:20 PM
Subject: Re: Buying from Amazon
Can you get it custom built? I'm
Hello Jonathan and all:
Mark. I just attempted to send a reply to this via your hotmail
account. It comes back as undeliverable regardless of which mail I
send it from.
Is it still operative?
Attempted to send a tip or two using the item chooser. In short, the
item chooser located your
That's amazing. Wonderful example of intuitional / experiential
problem solving. I didn't think of using VO F to find the item; I've
only had my mac six months and I'm still in the wonderment stage at
how powerful and right-feeling this intuitional OS thing really is. :)
Mark BurningHawk
Games? i'm glad to hear of everyone's success. Since my falling out
with sprint over their converting my unlimited data plan to a soft cap
and then cancelling me all together, I've been looking for my next
mobile internet solution. I was thinking the iphone might just do
it. On the 32
Hi, I was told by an apple tech that I only had 90 days to get the
apple care plan. I am not sure if that is the case or not, but that
is only what I was told when I called to try to resaulve a mail problem.
Matthew
On Jul 17, 2009, at 7:51 PM, Alex Jurgensen wrote:
Hi,
According to a
hi all a friend of mine has the new iphone 3gs
he wants to get to the contacts tab of the mail, calendars and
contacts page ins ettings, how do we move please, from page to page
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Hi, Will give this a shot and see what happehns. It only happens
with bookshare books. I have not had any problems with anything else.
Matthew
On Jul 18, 2009, at 12:04 PM, Dan wrote:
Hello,
Are you talking about The Unarchiver? If so, This is how I have mine
set.
Command Comma to
I am totally blind and have no trouble using my iPhone.
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Hi all. I went into the prefrences and made a changes as whare to the
files and still no luck will keep playing around with it but if there
are any ideas on how to get around this thanks. I know that in
windows if unziping something and it is password protected it would
ask you for the
Honest opinion? You can definitely use IPhone because everything you
touch is spoken to you. So there is really no inherent reason why a
totally blind person cannot use it. Whether it's efficient is a
different question. I think this will depend on how good your spatial
imagination is and how
I actually find that using IPhone's keyboard is easier for a blind
person than for sighted guys. The reason is that sighted people have to
look at the keys and, with their fingers covering every key they have to
hit, it becomes a bit of an annoyance. Since we are used to the layout
of the
Max,
Keep in mind that Apple/ATT gang lock you into a monthly data plan. But
this is OK since you are not buying IPhone just to call your grandma;
for that there are other phones on the market.
The only bummer, and correct me if I am wrong, is that you cannot swap
sim cards if you are
Hello Patrick,
On Jul 18, 2009, at 2:36 PM, patrickneazer wrote:
I have a question. Does Navigon cover all of Europe and is there
noise about when it is heading towards North America?
It covers most of Europe apart from Russia and Ukraine, and it's
supposed to be heading for North
Hello Anne:
Thank you for your response.
Another question if I may ... do you happen to know how many languages
navagon takes advantage of and in your opinion how well do the
languages function.
Thank you again.
On Jul 18, 2009, at 2:20 PM, Anne Robertson wrote:
Hello Patrick,
On Jul
hi is unison the only accessible newsreader available for the mac?
or is there one i can buy with paypal?
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Honestly given what I have heard/read, because this interface is so
very different from what we have grown accustomed to, it's probably
tough to get fixed on it right away. it's probably a let's forget
about the old wisdom or at least set it aside while looking in to this
and start from
Hi everyone,
How do the blind users on this list find typing on the IPhone when they
can't see the screen? How is it achieved?
Also, how are IPhone users finding the GPS? Is it accurate? Is it usable?
Thank you for any info.
Take care
James
Have you tried Vienna? It's on
www.opensourcemac.org
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To: General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by
the blind disc...@macvisionaries.com
Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2009 7:43 PM
Subject:
That has been very informative. But I think the reason behind why Noia ahs
not yet done anything like Apple is tht Apple caught them off guard when
they released IPhone. Since then Nokia have been playing catch-up.
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From: Victor Tsaran vtsa...@gmail.com
To:
Might be worth you taking a read of the thread entitled iPhone
accessibility James. There's been 19 messages in the last day or so
all around these same questions. There's also been more than a few
podcasts and demos and suchlike, might be worth having a quick poke in
the list archives for
I've had very little look working with tables in pages. If i insert a
table into the layout area, I can see and edit it. If i insert it
into the body, I have had no luck in working with it in any way.
On Jul 17, 2009, at 8:56 PM, Simon Cavendish wrote:
Dear Listers,
Has anyone
Hi:
I'm totally blind and use the Iphone 3gs. I use the mail, the phone,
the notes and the voice recorder. I love the Ipod and reading books
from audible and playing games when sitting around for a few minutes.
I find it easier to use twitter and facebook with my phone than with
my
Hi, I can't imagine wanting anything but unison for binaries. For
text groups it's a different matter but I tried several solutions on
windows, and none of them gave me the insane rush that unison on the
mac did. It's a file junkie's best friend.
Best,
erik burggraaf
A+ sertified
Hello Patrick,
On Jul 18, 2009, at 8:44 PM, patrickneazer wrote:
Another question if I may ... do you happen to know how many
languages navagon takes advantage of and in your opinion how well do
the languages function.
Navigon is available in the languages of the iPhone and also,
Hi,
The talbes in the layout area is where they belong. The layout area is
the whole document, the Body is just ment for text. Thanks for giving
me this lead.
Regards,
Alex,
On 18-Jul-09, at 1:18 PM, Barry Hadder wrote:
I've had very little look working with tables in pages. If i
HI,
That is for phone support only. Ninety days of phone support are free
and then you do need AppleCare, but that can come any time in the
first 11 months.
Regards,
Alex,
On 18-Jul-09, at 9:37 AM, matthew T dyer wrote:
Hi, I was told by an apple tech that I only had 90 days to get the
Hi,
It is optional with a numpad, but it enhances it.
Regards,
Alex,
On 18-Jul-09, at 5:02 AM, a radix wrote:
Hi, Do you actually need the numeric keypad to use voicover? I
thought it
was optional. If it is optional then there is not much difference imo
between using it on a laptop or
Hi,
The older ones had them built in. But from what apple wrote on their
site, plublically, they have made advances with the Trackpad and VO.
REgards,
Alex,
On 18-Jul-09, at 5:34 AM, a radix wrote:
Hey Erik, So there are no macbooks with numpad? Cant you buy an
external
one? I myself
Hi,
When I create a document in word with a table and open it in Pages,
the table is embedded in the document. When I create a document in
Pages with a table in the lay-out area, I can't find it when I export
to and open in Word. So something is different.
It seems to me that
Thanks again, I'm getting a good feeling about this device, I wish I could
use one for a week before actually purchasing it
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[mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Anne Robertson
Sent: Saturday, 18 July 2009 11:59
I should also point out that in many of the document templates, I hear
hi-lighted as I move the insertion point over the document body.
That tells me that there are things embedded. Of course I have no
idea what they are as high-lited doesn't tell me a heck of allot.
On Jul 18, 2009, at
But will it allow you to do everything.
Sms
mms,
email,
documents
surfing the webb.
And the other features that the device has.
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[mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of patrickneazer
Sent: Saturday, 18 July 2009 11:58 p.m.
To:
I don't know the cause other than perhaps a bunch of stuff is updating
on the screen. It has nothing to do with the amount of ram etc. I've
seen this on a machine with 2Gb and 4Gb. It's annoying, but isn't so
bad that one can't put up with it for now, but something that needs to
be
Hello Anne and all:
Thank you so much for your responses. You have done it again (smile).
Take good care.
On Jul 18, 2009, at 5:22 PM, Anne Robertson wrote:
Hello Patrick,
On Jul 18, 2009, at 8:44 PM, patrickneazer wrote:
Another question if I may ... do you happen to know how many
Is anyone out there doing medical transcription on the Mac? I have a
USB foot pedal, but wonder about word predictors and medical
dictionaries and the like. With the Mac's better sound card, I might
try transcription again...
Curiously,
Mark BurningHawk
Skype and Twitter:
Eric I agree, but I sure wish they'd get html support in there. I've
bugged them about this, but guess I need to get back to bugging
again. I'm forced to use outlook express for one specific situation
that html support in Unison would take care of.
On Jul 18, 2009, at 4:52 PM, erik
Hi,
For free or how much?
Regards,
Alex,
On 18-Jul-09, at 6:59 PM, Amber Boggs wrote:
i HAVE ONE AVAILABLE AS WELL IF ANYONE WANTS IT.
Amber Boggs
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From: May and Wynter
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 12:36 PM
Subject: Re:
I'm also a totally blind iPhone user. It works great, and is far more
accessible and efficient than MobileSpeak with Windows Mobile, which I
used previously. I recommend joining the VIPhone list at the below
link if you want a really good idea of how access is for the totally
blind. There
Hi,
I probalbly will in Snow Leopard given what Apple has made public
about it.
Regards,
Alex,
On 18-Jul-09, at 5:05 PM, peter Apgar wrote:
Does the I phone's two finger flick read all command work on the
new mbps?
Thanks in advance.
Pete
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From:
Typing takes some getting used to on the iPHone, but it works very
well once you get comfortable with it. I'm texting, Twittering,
emailing, and all the rest just fine.
My most used apps, as far as those which come with the phone, are, in
no particular order:
Text Messaging
Calendar
Email
Actually the link is:
http://groups.google.com/group/VIPhone
lol not as intuitive as Josh's. Hth
Sent from my iPhone
On Jul 18, 2009, at 7:19 PM, Josh de Lioncourt
overl...@lioncourt.com wrote:
And go me! I forgot to include the link to the VIPhone list.
Brilliant, I am. Here it is.
Hi Anouk,
You don't need to use a numeric keypad with VoiceOver, but with
Leopard you have another option of customizing your frequently used
VoiceOver commands with the NumPad Commander. I did get a USB keypad,
the Lenovo 33L3225 Numeric Keypad, so I could learn the NumPad
Commander
Hello; How dificult was it to set up the first time you used it?
Were you able to transfer your existing address book folders and
such? Glad to hear you like it. Take care, Max
On Jul 18, 2009, at 9:23 PM, Josh de Lioncourt wrote:
Typing takes some getting used to on the iPHone, but it
Thanks very much. I keep this plus other messages regarding this for future
reference.
May, I'm ready for the stress to end. Off to Edmonton on the 25th.
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To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2009 9:12 PM
Ok, I will keep this as well. I'm sure I'll need lots of help once I get my
mac since I've always been a windows user. Looking forward to the change
though.
I want windows on the machine just until I completely get use to mac and not
so afraid I'll blow something up, lol.
Also, one site I
Aargh! Yes, Mike is correct. The program you want in Spark to remap
your keys. I've been answering too many different list questions
lately. I mentioned Sharp Keys to answer a different question about
how to bind a command to announce the time to a hot key. Too many
different threads
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