Re: Growl Helper App and Vo?

2010-07-23 Thread Michael Thurman
ok now if growl would actually read stuff right it won't read adium for example and no ammount of messing fixes it so far I'm using the new beta adium so I can do irc with the mac as the common irc program is useless to me I even had sighted assistance setting up adium and growl is th enew

Braille display or voice pack for reading E-mails in Spanish

2010-07-23 Thread Allison Manzino
Hi all, I know this has been discussed on prior threads, so I apologize for the repost. I just wanted to ask what you would recommend to read Spanish E-mails. A Braille display or one of the voice packs from Infovox? I have used Ester's post I think it is to copy down some of the commands for a

LinkedIn Accessible and a Good site for Networking.

2010-07-23 Thread Pete Nalda
Much better than Facebook and even MySpace. Very Cordial and Professional, and it seems to be fully accessible with the Mac and VoiceOver. Don't know about their portable portal as I don't currently have an iDevice to try it. Egun On, Lagunak! (Basque for G'day, Mates) Pete Nalda http://www.my

RE: Growl Helper App and Vo?

2010-07-23 Thread Al Puzzuoli
Thanks, That does help. Off to explore growl settings now. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Darcy Burnard Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 11:31 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Growl Helper App an

Re: Growl Helper App and Vo?

2010-07-23 Thread Darcy Burnard
Hi Al. This doesn't directly answer your question, but what I do is set growl to use the Speech display style. This will cause all notifications to be spoken by growl itself. I use the zarvox voice to differentiate growl messages from anything that VO might say. Darcy On 2010-07-23, at 11:20

Growl Helper App and Vo?

2010-07-23 Thread Al Puzzuoli
Are messages from the growl Helper App readable with VO? I'm using several apps which generate growl messages. When they occur, VO voices the fact that a Growl Helper App Dialog is present, but I can't see any way to interact with it and read it. Thanks, --Al -- You received this message becaus

Re: introduction and questions about switching to mac

2010-07-23 Thread Greg Aikens
Thanks everyone for your responses. I will check out those podcasts everyone has recommended. I feel much better with the decision to switch to mac now, especially after Kevin's experience as a graduate student. I'm sure I will have more questions as I go but thanks for the start. -Greg On 7/23/

Re: Alert: Do not update to new version of Dragon Dictation app -- accessibility issues

2010-07-23 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
Darn! I updated. Sarai Bucciarelli Personal Come join me on www.swagbucks.com/refer/sdbuccia On Jul 22, 2010, at 10:53 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: > Thanks for the alert. I'm asuming you already told the dev about this? Keep > us posted on this please. > > thanks. > > S > On Jul 22, 2010, at 8:50

Re: introduction and questions about switching to mac

2010-07-23 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
Hi: I'm a new Mac user, and will never go back to Windows. The things to keep in mind. This isn't Windows, don't learn it as such. VO isn't Jaws, don't learn it as such. I can chat on Googletalk, I do it for work. I use Adium to IM. I use iWork for all word processing, spreadsheet, and presenta

vm fusion question

2010-07-23 Thread joseph
hi listers i installed windows7 virtual machine with vm fusion but when i go in windows, i have to keep holding the control key down while i'm using the arrow keys. is there a way to change this please to be able to use the keyboard as normal? thank you in advance best -- You received this me

Re: Alert: Do not update to new version of Dragon Dictation app -- accessibility issues

2010-07-23 Thread Keith Watson
On Jul 22, 2010, at 11:50 PM, Esther wrote: > Hi all, > > A new version of the Dragon Dictation app just showed up in the app store. > Do not update to this version; nearly all the buttons are now announced as > "Var mobile applicat". Further, although it is possible to still dictate > text

Re: A new mac accessory

2010-07-23 Thread louie
This all sounds good. If you learn apple script you can get the same thing with out putting out any bucks. On Jul 23, 2010, at 3:43 PM, .dan. wrote: I have attached to my imac a dos computer. I use it to perform tasks in terminal and on the internet. Why you ask do that? It is my exper

A new mac accessory

2010-07-23 Thread .dan.
I have attached to my imac a dos computer. I use it to perform tasks in terminal and on the internet. Why you ask do that? It is my experience that not since the high level times of dos screen access have blind people had as much fine grained control and power to read screens in the way th

Re: an archiver that will do 7z and other formats

2010-07-23 Thread Sarah Alawami
Oh and i have the unarchiver btw. great app. and I recomend it for decompressing rar and othe rformats given to you. On Jul 23, 2010, at 7:43 AM, Kaare Dehard wrote: > try the unarchiever... You'll still have to google;:). > On 2010-07-22, at 11:39 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: > >> I use a mac. Is t

Re: an archiver that will do 7z and other formats

2010-07-23 Thread Sarah Alawami
No no no! the unarchiver unarchives. I want to archive not unarchive. I want to compress to 7zip not decompress. Take care. S On Jul 23, 2010, at 7:43 AM, Kaare Dehard wrote: > try the unarchiever... You'll still have to google;:). > On 2010-07-22, at 11:39 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: > >> I use

Voiceover volume vs. MVWare Jaws volume

2010-07-23 Thread Chris Blouch
For some reason Jaws is very soft relative to Voiceover such that I have to set the VO speech volume to about 20% to get them roughly matched. Is there anything else I should be checking? I poked at a number of things on the VMWare and Windows side and they are all set to max or 100%. Having VO

Re: Show hidden files?

2010-07-23 Thread Hypnotic Consulting
a related question, I want to shorten the verbage that vo announces when moving through the files. I unchecked show extention, but that had no effect. kind of weird. Jorge -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this grou

Re: show hidden files?

2010-07-23 Thread Chris Blouch
Makes sense. You could also use "Go To Folder" under the Go menu and type the path, including the hidden folder, into the prompt which would then open it in the finder. Then you don't need to hide and unhide the dot files. CB erik burggraaf wrote: Hi CB, In this case, a friend asked me if h

Re: an archiver that will do 7z and other formats

2010-07-23 Thread Kaare Dehard
try the unarchiever... You'll still have to google;:). On 2010-07-22, at 11:39 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: > I use a mac. Is that even compatable? I'll google when I have th energy but > for now I don't. lol! > On Jul 22, 2010, at 7:08 PM, Portia wrote: > >> >> Hi, >> >> There is 7zip. >> >> Por

Re: Alert: Do not update to new version of Dragon Dictation app -- accessibility issues

2010-07-23 Thread Jeff Berwick
I think there was a problem with the last version too. I used to be able to dictate but, now when I try, it capturs some weird text. Perhaps I have forgotten how to use it since it has been a while. Jeff On 2010-07-22, at 11:50 PM, Esther wrote: > Hi all, > > A new version of the Dragon Dict

Re: show hidden files?

2010-07-23 Thread erik burggraaf
Hi CB, In this case, a friend asked me if he could have the voice file from my rockboxed sansa E200 series. The .rockbox directory where that file resides was hidden, so I needed to unhide that folder to get the voice file. Then of course, I hid the files again because to be honest they are in

Re: Show hidden files?

2010-07-23 Thread erik burggraaf
Thanks David, That was what the doctor ordered. Best, Erik Burggraaf User support consultant, Website: http://www.erik-burggraaf.com Toll-free: 888-255-5194 On 2010-07-22, at 6:31 PM, David Hathaway (JBL ICT) wrote: > Hello everyone. > >> erik burggraaf asked: > >> How do I show hidden files

RE: -- SPAM -- MacVisionaries disappearing Act

2010-07-23 Thread Dave Taylor
There is also a problem with Google Groups. Sometimes, when you join a list, however you set it, it will not send you any email. I'm afraid I think they could be the problem. I have spam set to be delivered so I can check it myself! -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.co