Re: A Time Machine Restore Question

2009-03-06 Thread Justin Harford
If memory serves you can use the items menu to find the restore button. I haven't used that in a long time though so I'm not exactly sure. I would recommend that you just access all the backups through the finder. J Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already

Re: Understanding Blind User's Needs

2009-03-09 Thread Justin Harford
El 08/03/2009, a las 23:34, David Poehlman escribió: look at firevox to understand this. Or katie player. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: Understanding Blind User's Needs

2009-03-09 Thread Justin Harford
who knows maybe it'll catch on. Maybe if you sort of incorperated this description as a sort of user guide, as alternative to, say, a video which would show a sighted user the interface. Regards Justin Harford Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow

Re: Understanding Blind User's Needs

2009-03-09 Thread Justin Harford
the keyboard commands would be extremely useful to all users so I'll definitely look into it. Thanks for all the feedback - Martin Pilkington Writer of Weird Symbols pi...@mcubedsw.com On 9 Mar 2009, at 9:41 pm, Justin Harford wrote: I wouldn't rely

Re: The new iTunes, accessibility issues?

2009-03-11 Thread Justin Harford
This problem happens to me at times but its not consistent. I was not able to produce it here actually but I have seen it before. I don't really know how I could produce it consistently. Usually just reseting VO does the trick. J Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's

Re: details on Voiceover for iPod Shuffle?

2009-03-13 Thread Justin Harford
This is good clarification. I had no idea how Alex was going to speak other languages. It would be nice to see apple incorperate this new synthesized speech into their operating system particularly in the installation of the OS so that non-english speaking blinks can set up their

Re: details on Voiceover for iPod Shuffle?

2009-03-13 Thread Justin Harford
If you guys would look at that URL that was posted you would know that the voice that sounds like a robot is actually part of the voiceover component in iTunes itself and unless you are using a mac, it will revert to that voice. There was no mention of it reverting to your default voice

Re: iTunes new version

2009-03-15 Thread Justin Harford
, etc. Very annoying on top of all the accessibility problems this version has given me, and I've basically exhausted my patience with 8.1 On Mar 15, 2009, at 15:03, Justin Harford wrote: Hi all Since downloading the new version of iTunes I have immediately found that bug

Re: About the new snowleopard Spanish voices in english

2009-03-16 Thread Justin Harford
...@googlegroups.com] En nombre de Justin Harford Enviado el: domingo, 15 de marzo de 2009 5:37 Para: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Asunto: Re: About the new snowleopard Spanish voices in english Thanks Dan As well I forgot to mention, in response to John's question, the URL where the voice samples

Re: Just waht is off topic here

2009-03-25 Thread Justin Harford
We had a poll where we could vote between letting this list go unmoderated or keep it moderated, and there were a majority who voted to moderate it. So its curious that now suddenly there are people coming out of the woodwork saying that they would like it unmoderated. It's one or the

iniciate links menu causes VO to crash

2009-03-25 Thread Justin Harford
Strage thing for you guys to try. Go to http://www.universia.net/ Interact with the HTML content and press VO U to bring the links menu up and VO crashes. I'm using the latest build of webkit. Regards Justin Harford Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already

Re: Tables in Pages

2009-03-26 Thread Justin Harford
That would be treu. Though it is not a matter of tables in pages, but a matter of tables in wordprocessors in general with VO. I had emailed developers about this before. J Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. Charles Schultz, creator

Re: Tables in Pages

2009-03-26 Thread Justin Harford
of good support for tables in word processors and the lack of support for the Firefox web- browser. I really cannot understand how Apple can get away with not supporting tables. Everett On 27-Mar-09, at 12:52 AM, Justin Harford wrote: That would be treu. Though it is not a matter

Re: Key Identfication

2009-04-04 Thread Justin Harford
Pardon but is this a netbook? J Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. Charles Schultz, creator of the Peanuts comic strip. On 04/04/2009, at 18:44, Tiffany D wrote: Okay. It's the function key that I'm missing on this new keyboard.

Re: Installing Leopard on a Netbook

2009-04-04 Thread Justin Harford
Probably shouldn't put it on a virtual machine, those require a lot of physical resources which I bet a netbook would be pressed for. Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. Charles Schultz, creator of the Peanuts comic strip. On 04/04/2009,

Re: iTunes un_resolved, looking for another...

2009-04-05 Thread Justin Harford
I remember a whole bunch of people were complaining about this version which suggests that apple might fix it in future. Why not just download the prior version. That's what I did and it works much much better. J Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already

Re: iPod Shuffle with Voiceover

2009-04-16 Thread Justin Harford
I went to the apple store to look at one of those. Very small, with apple earbuds and a little control thing of about 3 buttons that hangs on the wire. Hold the cener button, and VO reads the list of playlists, when you hear it say the one you want press the middle button again. Top and

Re: iPod Shuffle with Voiceover

2009-04-17 Thread Justin Harford
On 17-Apr-09, at 2:51 AM, Justin Harford wrote: I went to the apple store to look at one of those. Very small, with apple earbuds and a little control thing of about 3 buttons that hangs on the wire. Hold the cener button, and VO reads the list of playlists, when you hear it say the one

Re: vo crashes and answers to Re: oldschool mac nostalgia

2009-04-19 Thread Justin Harford
Wow back in my day it was like 40 US. Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. Charles Schultz, creator of the Peanuts comic strip. El 19/04/2009, a las 17:42, Jessi Rathwell escribió: hmm. maybe I'll look into it!! peace and positivity

Re: introduction

2009-04-22 Thread Justin Harford
Probably should add more ram to it. Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. Charles Schultz, creator of the Peanuts comic strip. On 19/04/2009, at 15:54, Andrea, Zeta Vale and Trudy bell! wrote: Hi there Mark, wow thanks for that. I'm not

Re: installing readiris help

2009-04-23 Thread Justin Harford
of prodding to make it go but you only have to do it once thank goodness. Regards Justin Harford Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. Charles Schultz, creator of the Peanuts comic strip. On 22/04/2009, at 15:08, christos hux wrote: Hi out

Re: readiris help

2009-04-24 Thread Justin Harford
He just said he can't scroll down and its because he's trying to use the VO keys to do it. If he uses the mouse keys it will work. With a laptop running two fingers down the mouse pad, on a regular computer holding the button of the mouse and moving it down. J Don't worry about the

Re: readiris ocr installed

2009-04-25 Thread Justin Harford
From here I had to have my mom's help when I purchased readiris because I can't read the number on the package, what you're thinking perhaps? I actually went and downloaded readiris off of a torrent… gimme a break I had purchased it legally already. Anyway, those illegal downloads are

Re: rss

2009-04-28 Thread Justin Harford
I think you can adjust that in the itunes prefs. Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. Charles Schultz, creator of the Peanuts comic strip. On 28/04/2009, at 3:58, Søren Jensen wrote: I don't like the podcast feature in Itunes. I wanna

Re: Can one email account be used on 2 Macs?

2009-05-06 Thread Justin Harford
Howdy there If I already have a gmail account as pop and smtp could I switch it over to imap? J Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. Charles Schultz, creator of the Peanuts comic strip. On 06/05/2009, at 13:53, Jesper Holten wrote:

Re: CAPTCHA solution service for Mac users

2009-05-08 Thread Justin Harford
looks like he beat you to the punch. Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. Charles Schultz, creator of the Peanuts comic strip. On 07/05/2009, at 23:06, Alex Jurgensen wrote: Hi, My name i Alex to those of you who don't know. We are

Re: 10.5.7

2009-05-13 Thread Justin Harford
Same old probs so far as I can see with ical. and it pronounces my name strangely now. J Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. Charles Schultz, creator of the Peanuts comic strip. On 13/05/2009, at 8:48, Chris Blouch wrote: It took me

Re: sendspace

2009-05-25 Thread Justin Harford
download or anything. One thing you might do is open the items menu and search for download since there is some text near the download link which says as much. Regards Justin Harford On May 25, 2009, at 9:08 AM, william lomas wrote: hi do any list members on here use send space

Re: college, video game music, and the mac?

2009-05-27 Thread Justin Harford
Hi answers below First, what programs would be good for someone in college, where mostly word processing, and some spreadsheets are used? I guess either iwork, or open office is the way to go, here. LaTeX with TeXShop/TexLive which can be all installed through the mactex installer

Re: Clarification of legal agreements related to VoiceOver

2009-05-27 Thread Justin Harford
Well they certainly will if you go out and tell them what our people are doing. J On May 27, 2009, at 5:47 PM, Alex Jurgensen wrote: Hi, Believe me Apple will persue legal action. Regards, Alex, On 27-May-09, at 11:35 AM, Sean Tikkun wrote: I think folks don't need to worry about

Re: Yes, another iTunes/iPod question

2009-05-30 Thread Justin Harford
email back. I remember I did this once upon a time when my iPod used to work, its definitely possible with a little googling. Regards Justin Harford On May 30, 2009, at 1:07 PM, rayna424 wrote: Hmmm, don't know the program? So this does exist though. Does anyone know how to do

Re: Yes, another iTunes/iPod question

2009-05-30 Thread Justin Harford
Providing information to a process like copying music from the ipod to the computer is essentially an endorsement in itself. You have already dirtied your hands. Have a good day Justin Harford On May 30, 2009, at 1:38 PM, Alex Jurgensen wrote: Hi, I was wrong. YOu just need Finder

Re: French Braille

2009-05-30 Thread Justin Harford
Didn't you just declare that such meddling is illegal, and yet you are now admitting that you have been engaged in it? J On May 30, 2009, at 2:13 PM, Alex Jurgensen wrote: Hi, We are curently working with Aple on the same project, so the boat has floated. Come join us. E-mail me

Re: French Braille

2009-05-30 Thread Justin Harford
OH ok I'm sorry. You said aple not apple. Then we had a missunderstanding. J On May 30, 2009, at 2:39 PM, Alex Jurgensen wrote: Hi, No. I'm working with *Apple*. If Apple does it, it is different. Regards, Alex, On 30-May-09, at 2:35 PM, Justin Harford wrote: Didn't you just

Re: time

2009-06-01 Thread Justin Harford
key management program installed. Thanks much this looks fun Justin Harford On Jun 1, 2009, at 9:51 PM, Alex Jurgensen wrote: Hi, I'm including the Beta of VO Time here. 1. Paste the following into Text edit. #!/usr/bin/perl -w ($second, $minute, $hour, $dayOfMonth, $month, $yearOffset

Re: need a program

2009-06-03 Thread Justin Harford
OOh or option+tab also will write a tab. On Jun 3, 2009, at 1:01 PM, louie wrote: Thanks to those who replied to me. How do I put a tab in the replace edit field of find and replace? louie louiem...@wavecable.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received

Re: Dynamic html and Safari in group mode

2009-06-04 Thread Justin Harford
for that is a bug probably in apple's webkit which needs to be fixed. Regards Justin Harford On Jun 4, 2009, at 4:19 PM, Mike Arrigo wrote: first off, dom mode will generally give you more information, that's the setting I would advise you to use. Second, if you can get the mouse on the right spot

Re: sendspace

2009-06-05 Thread Justin Harford
I tried the wizard a year ago and it did not work for me. Has that changed? On Jun 5, 2009, at 7:41 AM, Kevin Reeves wrote: You could also use the sendspace wizard to download fles. Create a premium account, and you shouldn't have to have a max payment plan running to use the

Re: Group or dom, was Re: Dynamic html and Safari in group mode

2009-06-06 Thread Justin Harford
tell me how to switch between DOM and Group Modes? Thanks. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Justin Harford Sent: Friday, 05 June, 2009 04:26 To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Dynamic html

Re: voice over comes to the I phone

2009-06-09 Thread Justin Harford
wdodles http://www.apple.com/accessibility/iphone/vision.html OK serious question if someone could answer me off list though since not quite on topic. Where might I go to sell my mobilespeak pocket license? I'm ready to turn in my win mobile for an iPhone! Justin On Jun 8,

assistive tech store marketing mac

2009-06-09 Thread Justin Harford
I find this both Scandalous that they would make blind people pay them to customize an imac, and flattering that they would consider marketing an imac at all. http://www.rla.com/ Click on the store link, and there is another link request quote for mac systems Regards Justin Harford

assistive tech store marketing mac

2009-06-09 Thread Justin Harford
I find this both Scandalous that they would make blind people pay them to customize an imac, and flattering that they would consider marketing an imac at all. http://www.rla.com/ Cl --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: voice over comes to the I phone

2009-06-09 Thread Justin Harford
It is actually very clear. Just google it and you will find that the ATT Apple contract expires in 2010. On Jun 9, 2009, at 6:29 PM, Larry Wanger wrote: Scott, In a couple of previous messages you've said that the iPhone will be on the Verizon network. I'm not sure about the validity of

Re: Macbook numpad

2009-06-09 Thread Justin Harford
Not sure if it has but you should send a message about this to apple. Ask them and let them know that you would like it back. That is how things get moving, when customers tell the provider what they want. On Jun 9, 2009, at 8:28 PM, E.J. Zufelt wrote: Good evening, Does anyone know if

Re: Apple is shrugging off Responsibility for Accessibility

2009-06-09 Thread Justin Harford
The subject line here is complete nonsense. On Jun 9, 2009, at 9:11 PM, Brent Harding wrote: Hmmm, I don't think this is necessarily the case. What I'd say it is is that it is their terminology for a graphics labeler so that we can label things we find in apps that haven't been fixed

Re: Multi finger jestures and desktop Macs

2009-06-10 Thread Justin Harford
Or for that matter, will older macbook and macbook pro models be left out. I'm pretty sure that the newer notebooks use different touch pad technology. Regards Justin Harford On Jun 10, 2009, at 3:10 PM, Dean Wilcox wrote: Hi, I've been on this list for what feels like a long time, I

Re: voice over comes to the I phone

2009-06-10 Thread Justin Harford
Dude all you have to do is go read tech news. They are all talking about it. On Jun 10, 2009, at 4:43 PM, Scott Howell wrote: Yes, if you call them that is what they will tell you because they don't even know. The person I spoke to has contacts far beyond the sales staff. So, am I right

Re: The iphone and gps

2009-06-11 Thread Justin Harford
be the responsiveness. I'd like it to be instant as I put my finger over it. A bigger objection is the 2-year plan with data that they make you commit to. Since I can neither conceive of the utility nor the money to agree to this, I probably will have to skip the iphone for now. Regards Justin

Re: New IPhone 3GS list regarding accessibility

2009-06-12 Thread Justin Harford
Hi there Simon Cavendish wrote Has there been a request for a separate list for IPhone? There has now. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: looking for world clock that work with vo?

2009-06-13 Thread Justin Harford
No On Jun 13, 2009, at 4:06 PM, Alex Jurgensen wrote: Hi, Won't the widget wrok? Regards, alex, On 13-Jun-09, at 3:37 PM, Maurice Mines wrote: hi I am looking for a world clock that will with vo I need to know what time it is in diferent time zonesboth here in the us and in japan.

Re: Mac-cessibility Quick Tip #24

2009-06-14 Thread Justin Harford
Cool. Hey you guys should post a tip about changing your facebook status with adium. It would be worth mentioning that you can chat over facebook too. I have never been able to find a win program that can do this. Justin On Jun 13, 2009, at 6:37 PM, Cara Quinn wrote: Mac-cessibility

Re: Podcast about VO in Snow Leopard

2009-06-14 Thread Justin Harford
Arhrhrhrhrhrhrhrhrhrrhrhrhrhr On Jun 14, 2009, at 10:44 AM, Buddy Brannan wrote: On Jun 14, 2009, at 1:29 PM, Jessi and Goldina wrote: yeah, I don't know how this can be snow leopard since it's not out yet, unless maybe they got a developer copy? but I'm listening to it anyway lol Three

Re: website audio question

2009-06-17 Thread Justin Harford
Just turn off the java and plugins under security On Jun 17, 2009, at 7:46 AM, Alex Jurgensen wrote: Hi, I know that Webkit can detect if VO is running, so you may just request this as a feature. I'm sure non-VO users will approve as well. It has to come from Apple/The Webkit crew.

Re: daisy player for IPhone

2009-06-30 Thread Justin Harford
No On Jun 30, 2009, at 1:03 PM, Jane Jordan (Gmail) wrote: That reminds me of something. Is it true you can buy an iPhone G3 without the plan download new software for it, and it will talk like the new ones? Or basically an iPod touch and get the new software and it will talk like

Re: daisy player for IPhone

2009-06-30 Thread Justin Harford
I'm curious when we are going to see the other apps that he has been writing about. They must have one heck of a development team to be focused on so many different programs simultaneously. J On Jun 30, 2009, at 2:42 PM, Scott Howell wrote: Alex, how do you plan to work with the issue of

Re: brf reader

2009-07-04 Thread Justin Harford
Lol am I the only one on here who misses hardcopy braille? Justin On Jul 4, 2009, at 3:35 PM, Simon Cavendish wrote: SCott, Braille is very important to me too. There are some small displays which perfectly adequate. Blazie have some small displays of 18 to 20 cells and they are quite

Re: Turning off MacBook screens?

2009-07-06 Thread Justin Harford
Dimming the screen down will at least completely turn off the illumination, a far cry fromm what most computers will let you do. On Jul 6, 2009, at 5:43 AM, James Nash wrote: Thanks Scott, That is a real shame I think. Take care James - Original Message - From: Scott Howell

Re: Turning off MacBook screens?

2009-07-06 Thread Justin Harford
Yes it turns off the backlighth completely, but the pixels are still showing your desktop, making it discernable if for example you are sitting out in the sun. On Jul 6, 2009, at 7:40 AM, James Nash wrote: No I don't think you are Scott. However, I did read someone that turning down the

Re: Turning off MacBook screens?

2009-07-06 Thread Justin Harford
for the keyboard on the MacBook Pro as well. There is an option in System Preferences under Keyboard for this and it is to disable keyboard backlight. Illuminate keyboard in low light conditions and unchecking as far as I know will disable this feature. On Jul 6, 2009, at 1:02 PM, Justin Harford

Re: Voice Over in Snow Leopard

2009-07-07 Thread Justin Harford
It will. On Jul 7, 2009, at 10:13 AM, william lomas wrote: what I meant to say was I am not sure if voice over itself will ship with voices in italian, greek, arabic, russian polish, etc. or whether we are still locked down to using acapella On 7 Jul 2009, at 18:07, Koumanova Rostislava

Re: Voice Over in Snow Leopard

2009-07-07 Thread Justin Harford
. Granted it won't be as nice as Alex. It certainly would be crazy to think that Alex is going to be speaking anything more than English. The synthesizers will be like those on the iPhone. Regards Justin Harford On Jul 7, 2009, at 11:24 AM, James Nash wrote: If that does happen, that's

Re: Word Processing on Mac OS X

2009-07-07 Thread Justin Harford
If you use LaTeX you are doing quite well. LaTeX is far nicer under Mac OS X than Windows. Justin On Jul 7, 2009, at 1:36 PM, James Nash wrote: Hi Simon, Yes I do. i feel sure that if we were to contact them, they would be more than helpful. They are now at version 1.3 for Pro. You

Re: Voice Over in Snow Leopard

2009-07-07 Thread Justin Harford
in this error. Best regards Justin Harford On Jul 7, 2009, at 12:21 PM, Scott Howell wrote: Oh, no, you as a blind person do not have a right to know anything different than anyone else. You are not entitled to know any more than your sighted counterpart. WHen Apple releases the information about

Re: Voice Over in Snow Leopard

2009-07-07 Thread Justin Harford
Alex wrote: There was Snow Leopard and Leopard accessibility demonstrations at WWDC both years according to Apple. They just weren't in the main keynote I guess. You guess? I just watched a WWDC on snowleopard and saw zero (0) accessibility demonstration. Sure they mentioned it

Re: Voice Over in Snow Leopard

2009-07-07 Thread Justin Harford
Alex wrote: What I meant is that I felt that someone made a comment of something that only insiders would know. It was not something that Apple made public. OK OK fair enough. I suppose there is a marginal possibility that apple will defy all logic and not introduce the synthesizer

Re: Voice Over in Snow Leopard

2009-07-08 Thread Justin Harford
Alex wrote: anyways in the ipod iand the IPhone, t is that of nuance Umm… is this English that you are writing to me? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this

Re: Safari 4.0.3

2009-08-16 Thread Justin Harford
LOL I didn't really notice this until now that you guys have pointed it out. I personally would prefer that it say the completed addresses but there you go. It does seem to read the options if you arrow up and down. Justin On Aug 16, 2009, at 1:19 PM, Marie Howarth wrote: It only says

snowleopard student discount

2009-08-24 Thread Justin Harford
Hello all Does anyone know if they will offer a student discount for snowleopard as they did with leopard? Regards Justin Harford --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post

Re: say it's not so apple

2009-08-24 Thread Justin Harford
I think it's a preference hopefully. Justin On Aug 24, 2009, at 1:28 PM, Marie Howarth wrote: one feature I just read they have in snow leopard is voice over will now read the whole website to you. I cannot say I'm happy about this, the one thing about VO I love is it does what I want it

Re: skype and the chat frame

2009-08-24 Thread Justin Harford
be useful too. Depends on the key command to which you are adjusted. Regards Justin Harford On Aug 24, 2009, at 3:08 PM, Chantel Cuddemi wrote: Vo shift function right arrow will fix this. It'll bring you to the end of the chat. On Aug 24, 2009, at 5:46 PM, Yuma Antoine Decaux wrote: Hi

Re: voices on os x

2009-08-25 Thread Justin Harford
and Alex. I used to use Fred, which worked just fine before apple broke it, but truly, if it is a choice between having low-quality language support vs no language support whatsoever, I would have to go with the former. Regards Justin Harford

Re: unnecissary voices/foreign language synthesis

2009-08-25 Thread Justin Harford
. At least this way, myself and others needn't be left so dumbfounded at the fact that they would include such clever integration of foreign speech synthesis and localization in their iPhone, and not in their computers. It really just doesn't make since. Regards Justin Harford On Aug 25

Re: i wait to upgrade

2009-08-25 Thread Justin Harford
I sure would like to upgrade but since I depend on Acapela infovox ivox, as well as LaTeX, I think I will have to wait till both of those are fixed with SnowLeopard. Regards Justin Harford On Aug 25, 2009, at 12:29 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: Hmm. I bet getting rid of a lot of legacy

Re: Turning off screensaver in Leopard

2009-08-25 Thread Justin Harford
Interesting. If I press VO right arrow it definitely won't go past 83%, but if I just press right arrow, it pushes it the rest of the way to 100%. Hope this helps Justin On Aug 25, 2009, at 12:32 PM, Daniel K. Gartmann wrote: Hi, I can't push the slider to never on the screensaver tab.

Re: unnecissary voices/foreign language synthesis

2009-08-25 Thread Justin Harford
of people making their wishes known. So, send your suggestion to accessibil...@apple.com and keep reminding them from time to time. If you think about it, this is how many features find their ways into many products. On Aug 25, 2009, at 3:22 PM, Justin Harford wrote: I've been thinking more

Re: unnecissary voices/foreign language synthesis

2009-08-25 Thread Justin Harford
do wrong. I try to do this in as civil a way as I know. If you don't agree with this, then let me know. Regards Justin Harford On Aug 25, 2009, at 1:14 PM, william lomas wrote: Justin and all, they told me that they would consider it in the future it is as though they had not even known

infovox ivox beta

2009-08-28 Thread Justin Harford
Hi all Would any one here happen to have tried the infovox ivox voices with snow leopard? How do they work? J --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send

Re: Braille tables for other languages

2009-08-28 Thread Justin Harford
I would love to also see someone help them get braille tables in Spanish. I would more love to do it myself but I don't have the necessary resources to send them, I.E access to a windows or linux computer with such tables. Regards Justin Harford On 28/08/2009, at 12:02, Anne Robertson

Re: As unreliable as Windows

2009-08-30 Thread Justin Harford
, but then they go and break things that worked really well in the prior system which leaves one wondering if it is really a step forward. I guess ultimately it might be a step forward. I like the new antonio voice in the castellian spanish package from acapela. Regards Justin Harford On Aug 29

Re: As unreliable as Windows

2009-08-30 Thread Justin Harford
something here. once I played around with some of the settings in VO, everything worked great, if not better. On Aug 30, 2009, at 7:24 AM, Justin Harford wrote: I found it went faster, about 30 mins, when I did a clean install. It's sort of more accessible. I mean they improved the internet

Re: Snowleopard, Safari, and Voiceover

2009-08-30 Thread Justin Harford
as great since the beginning of vo. Regards Justin Harford El Aug 30, 2009, a las 2:07 PM, Marie Howarth escribió: I'm not having this issue at all I'm afraid. On Aug 30, 2009, at 9:58 PM, Jessi and Goldina wrote: hmm, this is odd. cuz didn't it say somewhere that VO was supposed to act faster

snow leopard and rom

2009-08-31 Thread Justin Harford
Hi all So I was using 1 gb of ram with my macbook running snow leopard. I upgraded it to 4 gb yesterday and am finding that it works noticably better. So I recommend a a ram upgrade if you are using less than 2 gb lol. Justin --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You

insertion point solution for windows users

2009-08-31 Thread Justin Harford
keyboard cursor. Interesting Justin Harford --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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

tables in text documents

2009-09-01 Thread Justin Harford
be really cool to be able to save a doc as HTML, code the tables, and save it back as doc. Regards Justin Harford --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email

turning pages in PDF

2009-09-01 Thread Justin Harford
was curious if anyone might have discovered these commands at all? I generaly like to view my PDFs page by page so I get a sense of the size of each page and the number of pages in a document. Regards Justin Harford --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because

Re: turning pages in PDF

2009-09-01 Thread Justin Harford
Awesome thanks. El Sep 1, 2009, a las 2:05 PM, Barry Hadder escribió: You use page- up or page down. If you are using a Macbook, those keys will be fn-up or fn-down. On Sep 1, 2009, at 3:38 PM, Justin Harford wrote: Hi all I was looking at a PDF print preview in the preview program

Re: copying text from mail?

2009-09-02 Thread Justin Harford
Hey there Yep the vo command for select is broken when you are reading a message, but that interestingly does not mean we can't highlight text. Just use the conventional word doc commands, shift right/left arrow, shift option right/left arrow, shift up/down arrow etc. Works fine.

going to white on black

2009-09-02 Thread Justin Harford
+ cmd + 8. VO will announce the change. Interestingly enough you can keep pressing the command toggling back and forth without having to do pass through, but when you inact another VO command, then it goes back to the usual condition of not working. Regards Justin Harford

interesting bug with the save dialog

2009-09-02 Thread Justin Harford
with the keyboard cursor. Let me know what you all find. Justin Harford --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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

alva 544 traveler not connecting

2009-09-02 Thread Justin Harford
it. Is anyone else noticing this unfortunate dispute between their braille display and their mac? What could we do to help them settle their differences without giving each other and their owners the silent treatment? ;) Regards Justin Harford

Re: can't control-click on misspelled words

2009-09-03 Thread Justin Harford
Howdy This really depends on where you are talking about. It has never worked under email since the days of Leopard (not tiger). I find it still works under textedit. In safari, has anyone tried that? Justin El Sep 3, 2009, a las 8:23 AM, James Nash escribió: I can't comment right

Re: can't control-click on misspelled words

2009-09-03 Thread Justin Harford
She was using the context menu. It is true that we can still use the spelling dialog which is what we may have to do. I personally have been more partial to the way without the dialog though. Justin El Sep 3, 2009, a las 10:32 AM, James Nash escribió: I thought you could use the

Re: can't control-click on misspelled words

2009-09-03 Thread Justin Harford
That maybe so but the old ones still work. El Sep 3, 2009, a las 12:35 PM, Robert Carter escribió: Hi, I am not at home so can't test it but there are new commands for moving to the next and previous misspelled word. They are vo-e and vo-shift-e Robert Carter - Original Message

Re: Letting Apple Accessibility know when they've done a good job

2009-09-04 Thread Justin Harford
Howdy El Sep 4, 2009, a las 1:10 AM, James Nash escribió: Also, Lets be grateful that NFB et al havne't written a review yet of SL. Oh heavens no, we wouldn't want them to discover these bugs! Justin --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because

Re: safari sluggish and slow

2009-09-04 Thread Justin Harford
I just did this with wikipedia and google opened at the same time and had no problem. El Sep 4, 2009, a las 12:53 PM, william lomas escribió: all the more reason to wait for updates, everyone dives in to quickly On 4 Sep 2009, at 20:06, anouk radix wrote: HEllo, yeah so first it crashed

Re: cool google feature accessible in snow leopard

2009-09-04 Thread Justin Harford
humm this does not work for me. I actually feel like this worked in Leopard, and probably better. El Sep 4, 2009, a las 4:43 PM, John J Herzog escribió: Hi listers, If you go to google.com, and type in some search terms, you can now hit the down arrow to cycle through a list of suggested

Re: A VO Bug: IP addresses

2009-09-04 Thread Justin Harford
Howdy Maybe give us more details on what to do. I typed 192.1.8.1.1 in textedit and had no prob. Justin El Sep 4, 2009, a las 5:02 PM, Buddy Brannan escribió: Hi all, Wonder who can replicate this? It's sort of important: Just type in an IP address. Perhaps any IP address, but for

Re: Difficulties with preview and long documents.

2009-09-04 Thread Justin Harford
Yep go to view and set it to show single pages rather than single continuous pages. El Sep 4, 2009, a las 1:49 PM, kaare dehard escribió: Was wondering if I could get some tips from you folks. I am reading a large document in preview, and I am having difficulties getting it to read from a

Re: Macintosh Word Processor Software by Mariner Software

2009-09-04 Thread Justin Harford
I stoped holding my breath with Mariner a couple years ago. I remember they were going to make accessible software but the years went by and the versions went by and nothing happened. I think I'll continue to breathe normally. Justin El Sep 4, 2009, a las 7:16 AM, James Nash escribió: Oh

Re: A VO Bug: IP addresses

2009-09-05 Thread Justin Harford
Yep I reproduced it but it is not in just any old text field like you said it would be. J El Sep 4, 2009, a las 8:27 PM, Chris Polk escribió: I can also produce this. weird for sure! On Sep 4, 2009, at 8:25 PM, Mike Arrigo wrote: Yep, can reproduce this one for sure, very strange. On

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