Yes, sorry about that. Preferences and that you want the events tab. Select it and all the settings will show up.
May and the famous Prince Noah On 2011-06-29, at 9:42 AM, Missy Hoppe wrote: > Hi! where in preferences is that an option: setting everything to speak? I've > looked under events, and just got totally confused. I couldn't find any > preferences like that, and navigating the preferences window in adium is a > lot tougher than it seems to be in most other applications. I've got a lot of > free time now, so will start looking for that option again. > Thanks! > Missy > > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of May McDonald > Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 9:33 AM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: using adium > > 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. > 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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