Re: My thoughts regarding the latest "VoiceOver On" podcast

2011-12-24 Thread Massimo Vettoretti
In data Sabato 24 Dicembre 2011 21.42.45, Mike Arrigo 
 ha scritto:

However, for my every day tasks, using itunes, web surfing, email, word 
processing, it's mac all the way. There are several accessible word processing 
choices, text edit works well. Pages is also useable, there is another one 
called nesus writer, not sure if I am spelling that right, and open office also 
works, although it takes some getting used to.
Mike, I wouldn't talk about "accessible word processing choice". A 
better statement might be "basic word pprocessing choice". Advanced word 
processing involves tables, footnotes and end notes management and many 
other things that, right now, there is no way to do under MacOSX. It's 
sad, but it is just the way it is right now.


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Re: My thoughts regarding the latest "VoiceOver On" podcast

2011-12-25 Thread Massimo Vettoretti
In data Domenica 25 Dicembre 2011 15.56.36, Anne Robertson 
 ha scritto:
I have to disagree with you there. So far, the only thing I can't do 
with Pages is use the change tracking facility. I can find what the 
changes are but not where they are within a given page.
And what's about notes and headings? If I am reading a document using 
the Say All command, how can I know if a given paragraph contains a note 
or is an heading? And, if I know a note is present, is there a method to 
have its content read out without leaving the actual position in the 
document body? I am not talking about interacting and de-interacting, 
I'm talking about something easy to use and quick, something I can use 
in a productive environment.


As for handling tables, there is a command to turn them into text so 
that they can be read. You can also work on them by copying them into 
Numbers, then copying them back into Pages once you're done.
Have a table translated into text is not working with tables, is working 
with text. Apple produces Voice Over. Apple produces Pages. Apple's 
philosophy about accessibility is that are the developper themselves 
that have to make theyr application accessible. So, the Apple's 
Applications do have to be accessible to set a standard, and an high 
one. Copy, paste, work, copy and re-paste a table is not a solution, it 
is a work around. But we are in 2012, aren't we? JAWS for Windows, 
Windows Eyes, and NVDA also do have a good support for table editing in 
word processing programs like Openoffice (NVDA) or Microsoft Office. 
Apple says MacOSX Lion is the most advanced Operating system on the 
market and Voice Over is part of that system. So why, after 2 or 3 years 
of mails sent to accessibil...@apple.com, after dozens of bugs submitted 
during the beta testing,  are we here discussing about a feature present 
in other Screen reading software since 7 or 8 years?


Merry Christmas!


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Re: My thoughts regarding the latest "VoiceOver On" podcast

2011-12-26 Thread Massimo Vettoretti
In data Domenica 25 Dicembre 2011 21.02.32, Anne Robertson 
 ha scritto:
First of all, I wouldn't use Pages to simply read through a document. 
TextEdit works much better for this.
Pages is a word processing application. It means, at least to me, it is 
something I must be able to use to write a document, but also to read 
it. Why in 2011-2012 should I use 2 different applications to accomplish 
2 very related task (writing and reading)? It is a non-sense, at least 
for me.

As for knowing whether a note is present, if you interact with a page, VO says "3 items" 
normally, for header, body and footer, but if there's a text box present, it says "4 
items".
Too complicated. What is needed is a way to know if in a given paragraph 
a note reference is present and, if it is, I have to be able to read its 
content without leaving the text area. In Microsoft Word, using JAWS, if 
I am reading a text paragraph by paragraph, the screen reader says "X 
reference present"; the same if I am reading line by line. If I want, I 
can have the notes read out or I can skip them if I do not care about 
them. The same for heading. I do not want to go around the screen to 
discover relevant informations, I want the screen reader to report them 
to me, when and if I need. We are not talking about Plato's dialogs, 
about philosophy, we are talking about software and features. I do 
really welcome differences in ways a task can be accomplished, but 
efficence should be the most important criteria to be considered.


As I said before, simply reading through a document is better done using 
TextEdit.
And as I said before, Pages must be a confortable work environment for 
writing and editing, and for reading. My mother, wich is sighted, 
doesn't switch between Pages and text edit: she just open the document 
she wants, and she uses it. The same result is possible for me when I 
work under Windows. The same must be possible for all of us when working 
under MacOSX.

Also, what do you call a productive environment? I work as a professional 
translator and Pages works fine for me.
I am working with a collegue and friend on a very long and complex book 
about science history. He works under Windows, I would like to work 
under MacOSX. The book will contain  many many notes, some pics, a 
number of cross references and tables. I need to read his work to check 
out if the notes are in the correct place and to be sure the formatting  
is consistent. Of course, i need to add my parts to his work. I need to 
be sure the titles and subtitles have the correct hierarchical level and 
are properly formatted. I need to be sure the lists are properly marked 
and formatted. And I want the screen reader to give me those information 
while scanning the text, I do not want to be forced to scan the text to 
glean what I need going around the Pages' interface. Those features are 
very possible to implement and, if they are, they will not change your 
way to accomplish your work, but tey'll make mine easier. I sent many 
many request to Apple Accessibility and reported bugs over and over. But 
nothing has changed. Voice Over Braille support remains absolutely 
insufficient, advanced word processing is poorly supported, minimaly 
advanced spreadsheet manipulation is problematicaly complicated and the 
new fantastic and long awaited international voices are in need of a 
intense and deep psychoanalytic support, 'cause they are having some 
gender difficulties. Let's wait and hope, because, as we say in Italy, 
hope is the last to die! :)


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Re: Collective reports of VoiceOver issues

2012-01-17 Thread Massimo Vettoretti
In data Martedì 17 Gennaio 2012 17.19.34, Emrah  ha 
scritto:

What do you think?
I think I'm tired of sending feed-backs and never find a bug solved. 
It's been years I'm reporting problems about selecting contents in 
Safari and the problem is still there. I'm reporting problems with the 
new "high quality" Nuance's voices, but no answer at all and the bugs 
are still there. The italian blind Mac Users community at 
http://www.universalaccess.it sent some documents regarding Voice Over 
bugs and requests of new features, including the selection issue in 
Safari, but here we are. And what about the accessibility of third party 
applications icon in the status bar? I ask to myself if someone is 
listening. I'm tired to send reports to accessibil...@apple.com and 
receiving back the standard message "Oh thanks! We appreciate the 
feedback and we will pass"... etc... etc... etc...


But after all, why not? We have nothing to loose but our time.

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Re: Right clicking links on a web page?

2012-01-29 Thread Massimo Vettoretti
In data Domenica 29 Gennaio 2012 11.47.28, Doug Lawlor 
 ha scritto:

When I press VO-shift-m I get the context menu for the page, not  the current 
link I am focused on.
You can try interacting with the link itself. This should solve your 
problem and bring up the contextual menu. But, unfortunately, it is not 
a very reliable work around. This is a bug Apple is aware of. Just wait 
and hope. Some day they'll solve the bug... maybe. :)


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Re: Anyone Using Google Chrome with VO?

2012-02-07 Thread Massimo Vettoretti
In data Martedì 7 Febbraio 2012 12.48.56, roberto burceni 
 ha scritto:

Hi all, yes  google Chrome works fine, bbut in sites with frames it is not 
working. I'm trying version 17 beta and it seems better than 16.0, but in 
frames you can move only with tab and not with voiceover cursor.

I Confirm.

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Re: Mountain lion and what we would love to be changed.

2012-02-17 Thread Massimo Vettoretti


Il giorno 18/feb/2012, alle ore 01:35, Yuma Decaux  ha 
scritto:

> Hi,
> 
> I think this is more the case of what people hope to see in the new release, 
> not what they want to change in a product they haven't tried yet. It seems 
> pretty obvious doesn't it?

Hello Yuma.

Unfortunately, since now, there no evidences of work on voice over under macosx 
10.8.

The Braille is still in sufficiently implemented, being the best thing we can 
say about this feature that… it is there. The multi-thread js not there. The 
busy busy busy message is still with us and isn't it reassuring? It helps 
remember that, while the world changes everyday, still there are things which 
stability is something you can always count on. And, yes, the Nuance's voices 
bugs are still in place. 

> 
Best regards. 

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Re: Mountain lion and what we would love to be changed.

2012-02-18 Thread Massimo Vettoretti


Inviato da iPhone

Il giorno 18/feb/2012, alle ore 16:46,   

Arrigo  ha scritto:

> I also have no problems navigating tables. The one place where this can be a 
> problem is in word processor documents, but these can easily be read by 
> converting them to plain text.
> Mike mike, the point is not there and you are smart enough to understend it 
> by yourself  work with tables in an word processing environment, working 
> productively with tables i mean, doesn't involve just reading them, but the 
> ability to recognize the presence of a table without knowing preventively 
> that a table is present and its positition  i need to be able to inspect the 
> table's contents and, if necessary, I must be in condition to edit data  i 
> must be able to check on table's formatting and change them if so I decide. 

> 

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Re: Mountain lion and what we would love to be changed.

2012-02-18 Thread Massimo Vettoretti
In data Sabato 18 Febbraio 2012 2.47.35, John Panarese 
 ha scritto:

I have no idea what this means.  OS 10.8 is not out yet, and what are you 
basing your speculation on that there will be no improvements to VoiceOver.
I am not speculating. I have that beta installed on my MBPro and, while 
I am writing this message on my windows machine, it is running on my 
laptop.

   Also, for me, Braille support works just fine, and the "busy" signals that 
occasionally appear in Safari are manageable and tolerable.
Braille, right now, is just a mirror of the voice Output. And this is 
insufficient. My braille display costs 5000€ and I want to be able to do 
more with
it than reading in braille that Alex or Silvia Says. I want to be able 
to define my own braille tables, if I need. Or, for GUI controls, in 
exampe, in
italian if I encounter a checked Check box, what VO outputs on my 40 
cells braille display is "selezionato casella di spunta" or, if the 
checkbox is unchecked,
"non selezionato casella di spunta". It is more than 30 characters, on a 
40 characters display. And there is no way to customize that thing. And 
this problem
is there since braille support has been implemented. And since then, 
many users and I are requesting a solution. And since then, we all are 
receiving the
usual mail from Apple... They know the problem, they are investigating 
it (what an hard and difficult investigation!) and they are working to 
solve the

problem.


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Re: voice quirks was Re: Mountain lion and what we would love to be changed.

2012-02-20 Thread Massimo Vettoretti
In data Domenica 19 Febbraio 2012 17.42.59, Annie Skov Nielsen 
 ha scritto:

I have also problems with some danish letters the 3 last æ ø and å. I have also 
reported these bugs to apple, but they have not solved the problems yet.
There are problems with the italian voices too. The premium voices in 
particular are so buggy, that many of us italian users are forced to use 
the compact  Paolo and Silvia. The list of mispronunciation is too long 
to be reported here, but many many mails have been sent to 
accessibility


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Re: Voice over lag and other lion issues

2011-07-27 Thread Massimo Vettoretti

Il giorno 26/lug/2011, alle ore 05:07, Mike Arrigo ha scritto:

> I would also ask, what does voiceover not do that you need it to do? I would 
> say it does most things the windows screen readers do, and in some ways does 
> many of them better.
Hello Mike.

I usually like your podcasts and I find your explanations and demos very 
interesting. But, in this case, I disagree with you. I am not interested in 
making comparisons between various screen readers, but I prefer a task-related 
point of view.  In other words, the questions I ask to myself wen I am  testing 
a new work environment, is: Can I do the same things I was used to do with the 
old tools, even if in a different way?  And then, is the new way more or less 
efficient? Is it possible for me, after an appropriate treating period,  to 
accomplish the same work in the same given time using the new operating set and 
the new assistive technology?

Let me say, I love Apple's operating system and I think Voice Over is an 
awesome accomplishment.  But, when it comes to MacOSX Voice Over 
implementation, in my Humble opinion, there are many many things VO  should do 
better. First of  all, Braille implementation is… less  then insufficient. 
After two years, what Braille support  under MacOSX Voice Over  does, is a poor 
TTS mirroring. Advanced word processing is another huge problem. How can I work 
easily with tables, nested lists, end notes, footnotes, headings?  Spreadsheets 
is the same thing. Ok, I can populate a spreadsheet, but when it comes to work 
with merged cells, formulas, graphics and all that sort of stuff, well, there 
is a problem, and it is not a very very little problem. 

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cutting video on MACOSX

2013-06-26 Thread Massimo Vettoretti
hello  guys.

I'm wandering if anyone of you knows an accessible application under MacOSX 
that allows easy selecting, copyng and cutting of a video MP4 file. I was 
trying MPEG Streamclip, but it freezes to much.

Any suggestion?

Thanks in advance.

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Re: questions

2013-09-19 Thread Massimo Vettoretti
In data Giovedě 19 Settembre 2013 17.46.00, Rebecca Sabo 
 ha scritto:

Hi all,
I updated my mack pro .

Well done.

  Now my iTunes is corrupted .  How do I fix the problem ?

You shoul'd download iTunes from www.apple.com and re-install it.

   When will you be able to read ibooks on the mack computer?
I allready am, cause I installed the beta version of Mavericks, witch 
includes iBooks for MacOSX. When it will be released, you'll be able 
too. :-)


My bests.

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Re: questions

2013-09-19 Thread Massimo Vettoretti
In data Giovedě 19 Settembre 2013 17.58.39, Maria and Joe Chapman 
 ha scritto:

HI.  I didn't think the update for the mac was out yet?
Indeed, it isn't, if you're referring to MacOSX 10.9 Mavericks. Maybe 
October.


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IOS 7: bug in contact manager

2013-09-25 Thread Massimo Vettoretti
Hello  folks..


Here I am  to report some accessibility issues under IOS 7 and contact manager.

1. It is impossible to use the VO rotor to edit some contact information, such 
as name,  family name, salutation etc... Notes, phone number, e-mail address, 
web site fields are not affected.  using a bluetooth keyboard with quicknav off 
doesn't solve the problem.

2. In the edit  field affected by the bug reported above, when performing a 
single finger double tap to move VO cursor to the beginning or to the end of 
the field's content,  causes Voice Over to announce  "Insertion pointed start" 
even if the cursor is at the end of the text. The cursor position changes, but 
this is not reported by Voice Over.

3. It's impossible to add an address field to an existing contact. Trying to do 
that causes the Phone application to crash. The only way to do that is tapping 
the button with Voice Over turned off.

Can you confirm?

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MacOSX: Daisy reader

2013-03-25 Thread Massimo Vettoretti
Hello.

On my iPhone I use InDaisy as Daisy book reader. My question is: is there an 
application to properly read Daisy books under MacOSX?

Thanks in advance.

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Re: MacOSX: Daisy reader

2013-03-25 Thread Massimo Vettoretti

Il giorno 25/mar/2013, alle ore 14:04, Maria & Joe Chapman 
 ha scritto:

> Hi try olearia
Downloaded and installed, but it doesn't work. I can only get to the "check 
automatically for updates" dialogs, but, whatever button I click on, the 
application suddenly closes.

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Re: Apple accessibility email

2013-03-25 Thread Massimo Vettoretti

Il giorno 25/mar/2013, alle ore 17:10, ROD SKENE  ha 
scritto:

> I forgot the email address for Apple accessibility. Anyone have it? I want to 
> report VoiceOver can't read the available air play speakers on the Apple Tv.
accessibil...@apple.com.

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Re: MacOSX: Daisy reader

2013-03-26 Thread Massimo Vettoretti

Il giorno 25/mar/2013, alle ore 22:49, Devin Prater  ha 
scritto:

> I could never get this app to work. And can it do text only daisy books?
> 
Yes, there is text-only daisy books support... Unfortunately the App itself 
seems not to work :-(

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Is there an accessible Usenet client

2010-12-01 Thread Massimo Vettoretti
Hi all.

I am looking for an accessible NNTP usenet client. I was trying four of them, 
but none is usable.

I tried Nemo. It seemed very very promising; the configuration wizard was fully 
accessible, but... the table containing the subscribed groups looks empty to 
Voice Over. I mean, it can see the table but all rows and columns are empty for 
VO. Of course, the control containing the message itself is a standard HTML 
content that VO can read with no  problem... :-) Menu bar cannot be accessed by 
pressing VO+m, but they respond to ctrl+f2. Voice Over will not read them. :-) 

Ok, uninstalled Nemo, I instal thunderbird. Just for fun. As you already know, 
no accessibility at all there.

Thoth was m third attempt. Another disaster. I was not able to access the 
preferences dialog.

The last usenet client I tried is Unisom. Preferences are accessible and so are 
the menus and other pars of the application.   But the overall accessibility is 
less then pore. Some controls do respond to VO+space, others need the simulated 
mouse click, and some are triggered only by  a physical mouse click. The  
message list is not easy to find, and the threaded view is not a list or a 
table but some kind of text area... I am not sure... :-)

Any help?

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Re: Is there an accessible Usenet client

2010-12-02 Thread Massimo Vettoretti

Il giorno 02/dic/2010, alle ore 06.34, Jude DaShiell ha scritto:
> Pine can do nntp if configured properly.  So can alpine.
Maybe I have to be more specific. What I need and I am looking for is an 
accessible Usenet client with accessible graphical user Interface. The woman I 
am helping is making her switch from Windows to MacOsX; under windows she was 
used to manage e-mails, RSS Feeds and usenet with mozilla Thunderbird. Playing 
with terminal windows may not be very advisable, right now! :-)

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Re: Glitch with Nuance Voices In Lion Getting Worse

2011-10-16 Thread Massimo Vettoretti
In data Domenica 16 Ottobre 2011 12.27.55, Shawn Krasniuk 
 ha scritto:

Hey guys. I don't know if any of you guys noticed but when using the Nuance 
voices with Voice Over in Lion 10.72, the bug with the freaky pitch changes has 
gotten worse. I like using Samantha a lot and it would be too bad if I had to 
use Alex for everything because of this bug. So I'd like to encourage everyone 
to get on Apple Accessibilities aces and tell them to fix this stupid bug once 
and for all.
I'm a registered developer and I'm sending bug-repors about this problem 
since the first pubblic release of Lion, but no one is listening...


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IOS: accessible VO cloent

2011-10-24 Thread Massimo Vettoretti
Hello guys.

I am looking for an accessible Facebook client under IOS5. I Tried the official 
FB App and Facely HD too, but  it was a very frustrating experience. Facely HD 
refreshers very frequently the screen, causing VO to loose focus. Write a note 
becomes a very challenging task and even reading posts is not a piece of cake. 
The link/button/control to comment a post or to say that I like it is missing: 
I mean, it is visible on the screen and it is displayed as a plus sign ("+"), 
but for VO it is as if it was not there. 

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Re: IOS: accessible VO cloent

2011-10-24 Thread Massimo Vettoretti
In data Lunedě 24 Ottobre 2011 13.23.56, Doug Lawlor 
 ha scritto:

Check out Focus for Facebook in the app store.
Thanks Doug, donwloaded, installed and tried out. It... works... in some 
way. Of course, it doesn't fully support FB features. You cannot Add or 
edit notes, you cannot access "Places" or Check-in, but, at least, you 
can read feeds, status messages and say if you do like them or not and 
you can post comment. What I would like to have is the ufficial FB app 
made accessible. But :)


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Re: impossible anymore to like or comment on people's Facebook posts

2011-11-05 Thread Massimo Vettoretti
In data Sabato 5 Novembre 2011 18.53.29, Ray Foret Jr  
ha scritto:
But that's what I mean.  IF there isn't a comment already you cannot 
do it.  that sucks now.
Agreed. I noticed it 2 or 3 weeks ago. The HTML code sent to the browser 
is user-agent dependent. If you emulate Internet Explorer or Firefox, no 
problem at all: what you get from FB is the old and working code, if 
your browser sensd Safari as user-agent, well, it's a mess. Just for 
information, if you emulate Safari with Firefox under Windows with NVDA 
or JAWS as  screen readers or Orca under linux, you'll have the same 
problem. But, since iesterday, the problem was present only at 
http://m.facebook.com.


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Re: impossible anymore to like or comment on people's Facebook posts

2011-11-06 Thread Massimo Vettoretti
In data Domenica 6 Novembre 2011 9.45.56, Rahul Bajaj 
 ha scritto:

What do you actually get by emulating?
Emulating is not a solution, it is only a work around. And it is not 
possible under IOS, I think. :-(



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Three little problems with Mail and VO

2010-12-19 Thread Massimo Vettoretti
Hello.

When I am reading a newly created mail message that contains lists (especially 
numbered ones) VO behaves strangely. If one of the list items is longer than 
one line, VO reads the item and repeats the item number at the begin of every 
line. It is very disturbing.  below you can find an example of what I mean:

This list item is ok;
This is not. This item is longer than just one line and, if I try to read it 
with VO, the screen reader speaks out numbers that do not exist in the real 
message, making me think I made a mistake and making difficult to read a 
message to proofread it or for any other reason;
This is the third item and VO reads it right.

Problem number  two. When I am  reading a message, I can  find no way to have 
VO   telling me if some text is quoted or not. And that is true even in HTML 
messages in witch quoted text is properly tagged.

Problem number Three: if viewing the message list in threaded mode, I mean with 
messages grouped by discussion, there is no way to know the nesting level of a 
given message. I mean:
I post this message to the mailing list and this is the... root message of the 
thread, nesting 0 if you wish;
Now, Joe answer my message and this is nesting level 1;
I answer back to Joe and this is nesting level 2;

In big, long and crowded  threads this make a little bit difficult to figure 
out who is responding to whom.
>> 
Any help?

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