Yes they are read automatically. Just go into preferences at set everything to speak.
May and the famous Prince Noah On 2011-06-29, at 9:22 AM, Missy Hoppe wrote: > Hi! Thanks for this information. I believe I've tried this: interracting with > the unknown area, but no text was revealed by doing so. So, am I > understanding correctly that conversations won't be read out automatically by > voice-over?? Seems a bit tedius. I remember the old days; we're talking 8-10 > years ago, when MSN messenger was really popular. Most of the times, Jaws > just read messages as they were received, and using the software was almost > pleasant; I was in a hogwarts RPG at the time, so used messenger even though > I didn't like it much. Then, the group disbanded, or I lost interest; can't > remember which. I started having trouble with messenger, especially once I > upgraded to xp, and now that I have win 7 and that live stuff is the only > option, I just don't want to fool with it. > Sorry for the ramble, but I'm just trying to understand. it sounds like Adium > isn't going to be quite as useable an alternative as I had hoped. I'm hoping > my need for such software is short term indeed. > If any of you want to add me on msn, you can do so using my email address: > melis...@fuse.net. > I'm on yahoo messenger under mitmee_pie, and google talk under mitmee.pie. > Facebook is also my email address: melis...@fuse.net. > I suppose you could add me to skype too. I'm mitmee_pie there as well. > Of course, my ideal for correspondance is twitter, where I'm mitmee_pie, or > just good, old-fashioned email. > But maybe if some of you techies add me on the other instant messengers, it > can help me learn it and understand it a bit better. > Missy > > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Thomas Byskov Dalgaard > Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 9:06 AM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: using adium > > Hi! > > I have used Facebook and Windows Live with Adium without any issues. Try the > following when you notice that someone wrote a message to you: > 1. Press vo-left arrow until VOiceover says: Unknown. Interact here, and > press vo-fn-shift-right arrow to go to the last message in the log... Or what > this command does is go to the bottom of the area in which you are at. > > Best regards > THomas > Mail & MSN: > t...@coolfortheblind.dk > website: > http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ > blog: > http://tbd.coolfortheblind.dk > Skype: > thomas_dalgaard > > Den 29/06/2011 kl. 14.57 skrev Missy Hoppe: > >> Hello, all. This is my first post to the group. I've only had my macbook pro >> for about 6 weeks now, and freely admit that I don't know much about it yet. >> Over all, I can get it to do what I want most of the time, but I'm writing >> because I'm having a very frustrating problem. I'm not very much into the >> social networking thing. I do, in fact, only use twitter on a regular basis >> on my PC. >> Well, for several reasons that aren't particularly relevant, I need to try >> to use some other instant messengers, at least short term. I don't want any >> of the windows live junk on my main pc, so decided that if I do any instant >> messaging at all, I'll use the mac. It will be good practice and keep >> clutter off my main computer. >> Well, I've installed the newest version of adium, and have hooked it up with >> msn, facebook, google chat and yahoo messenger. All of my contacts are >> there, but I can't actually have conversations with them. >> I was trying to test it with a friend just now, and she doesn't receive my >> messages, and I can't read her responses. At the moment, I'm just really, >> really glad Adium was free, because unless I'm missing something, which is >> entirely possible, it isn't VO-friendly at all. Still, I know a lot of >> folks, especialy on twitter swear by it, so clearly, I'm missing something. >> Are there configuration options I need to change? The menus don't work very >> well, but I can try to figure them out if I know what I'm looking for. >> Thanks in advance for any assistance you can provide, and I hope that >> everyone is having a great day! >> Missy >> >> >> -- >> 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 >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > > -- > 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 > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- > 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 > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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