RE: log me in

2010-08-16 Thread Simon Fogarty
Nancy, We use it at my work also, but it's not accessible with vo or any other screen readers. Problem is that it opens a web browser window on the client machine which your screen reader can not read. I'd love this to be different but it's not. Log me in, is great for sighted people, not I'm

Re: Skype users vo suggestions

2010-08-16 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, Sarah, just hit COntrol-enter to send off your SMS. Regards, Nic Mobile Me: nic2...@me.com GoogleTalk: chojiro1...@gmail.com Facebook Twitter Skype: Kvalme MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk Yahoo! Messenger: cin368 AIM: cincinster On Aug 17, 2010, at 3:42 AM, Sarah Alawami wrote: > Oh

RE: Teaching Mac to sighted people

2010-08-16 Thread Simon Fogarty
Esther, Much thanks for this, You're a wiz. Cheers Simon f -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Esther Sent: Saturday, 14 August 2010 8:48 p.m. To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Teaching Mac to

RE: alternative vm software

2010-08-16 Thread Simon Fogarty
What, you setup parallels with the help of someone sighted and you can now use it with jaws or window eyes? Really? I thought parallels was inaccessible? And that jaws wouldn't work with it?! -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.co

Re: Infovox

2010-08-16 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, When you first purcahse a language pack from Infovox iVox, choosing your license, you will get two e-mails. One contains the activation code for the Infovox iVox application, the other contains a license code for your particular language. Depending on which link you clicked, you might hav

Re: pop up windows

2010-08-16 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
Thats a solution, but for fast interaction when writing serious content, it'd be better to have immediate response via the pop up, and i believe this should be implemented. Thanks for the tip though just used it for those system dialogs i was never able to access directly cheers "Light has

Re: Infovox

2010-08-16 Thread Justin Kauflin
You might want to contact the folks you got Infovox from. If your code is for the language pack, it will not unlock the program. You have to get a single user license in order to use it. Good luck, Justin On Aug 16, 2010, at 10:11 PM, Allison Manzino wrote: > Hi all, > > THis might be a bit o

Re: Great workaround for Mac Laptops who want a Control ke ont he right side

2010-08-16 Thread Sarah Alawami
Actaully a freind of mine went in to dvorak layout. Although I won't use it as it looks confusng that might makeing stuff easier to do. S On Aug 16, 2010, at 6:37 PM, Carolyn wrote: > Hi Alfredo: > This sounds like something really cool. although I doubt I'd be able to copy > it. I've often f

Infovox

2010-08-16 Thread Allison Manzino
Hi all, THis might be a bit off topic so I apologize in advance to the moderators if it is. Has anyone used Infovox and does anyone know how to unlock it? Every time I try, it says the code I have entered is for the language pack and I have to unlock infovox first to use it. Does anyone know w

Re: Skype users vo suggestions

2010-08-16 Thread Sarah Alawami
Oh and in sending sms there is no send button as far as I can see. Hitting enter causes a new line to be entered. This has got to change! S On Aug 16, 2010, at 4:17 PM, focus wrote: > Hi all! > I'm thankful for all the suggestions that you have contributed and will pass > them on to Skype! > Co

Re: Great workaround for Mac Laptops who want a Control ke ont he right side

2010-08-16 Thread Carolyn
Hi Alfredo: This sounds like something really cool. although I doubt I'd be able to copy it. I've often felt like wining about that need for a 6th finger to work with Vo on the left side and letters on the left side. I may have to play with this. Thanks. Carolyn - Original Message

Re: Skype users vo suggestions

2010-08-16 Thread focus
Hi all! I'm thankful for all the suggestions that you have contributed and will pass them on to Skype! Colin skype focus_66 On 16 Aug 2010, at 23:02, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: > Thanks Nick. > > Can you do me a favour and send me the link to subscribe to the iphone list? > I just want the e-mail

Re: Skype users vo suggestions

2010-08-16 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Thanks Nick. Can you do me a favour and send me the link to subscribe to the iphone list? I just want the e-mail address please? Kawal. On 16 Aug 2010, at 18:30, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: > Hello Kawal, > > The way tracking works is simply that it leaves all the cursors where they > are. If it

Re: mobile me

2010-08-16 Thread Linda Adams
Sarah, That's a good rule of thumb, I'll keep it in mind. Linda On Aug 16, 2010, at 5:41 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: > My rule of thumb is interact wiht everything eventhough some info might not > be there. lol! > > Take care. > > S > On Aug 16, 2010, at 2:34 PM, Linda Adams wrote: > >> Kevin,

Re: Great workaround for Mac Laptops who want a Control ke ont he right side

2010-08-16 Thread Sarah Alawami
I might save for ome myself. Don't get me wrong I love my laptop keyboard but sometimes it feels good to have afull sized keybboard at your fingers. On Aug 16, 2010, at 2:24 PM, Kevin Shaw wrote: > When I bought my Macbook Pro, I just bought an Apple keyboard for those times > I need a fully fun

Re: mobile me

2010-08-16 Thread Sarah Alawami
My rule of thumb is interact wiht everything eventhough some info might not be there. lol! Take care. S On Aug 16, 2010, at 2:34 PM, Linda Adams wrote: > Kevin, > > Thanks so much. There are so many layers to certain items. I don't think I > would have thought to interact with the tool bar

Re: mobile me

2010-08-16 Thread Linda Adams
Kevin, Thanks so much. There are so many layers to certain items. I don't think I would have thought to interact with the tool bar if you hadn't sent me in that direction. I unchecked Idisk so that pesky mobile me message should be gone. Thanks again, Linda On Aug 16, 2010, at 5:14 PM, Kevi

Re: Great workaround for Mac Laptops who want a Control ke ont he right side

2010-08-16 Thread Kevin Shaw
When I bought my Macbook Pro, I just bought an Apple keyboard for those times I need a fully functional keyboard with control and option on the right side. Makes a little more sense than modifying the caps lock key, which I use quite often while typing. Kevin -- You received this message beca

Re: insert plus f11 key with vm fusion

2010-08-16 Thread Sarah Alawami
Oh I disabled tihem to the dash key which in effect set it to none in the combo box. S On Aug 16, 2010, at 5:13 AM, erik burggraaf wrote: > These particular ones are in system preferences, expose and spaces, under the > expose tab. I needed to switch these from the standard f9 through f12 to

Re: Skype users vo suggestions

2010-08-16 Thread Sarah Alawami
It is easier to locate. Just vo shift end and vo left wtice. I can do it when the call comes in on 1 ring. Take care. On Aug 16, 2010, at 9:01 AM, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: > Hi. > > I'd like the chat feature on Skype to be designed so that it's like windows > messenger so that you have the same

Re: pop up windows

2010-08-16 Thread Sarah Alawami
Does the system dialogue work? that is vo f1 f1? S On Aug 16, 2010, at 10:34 AM, Yuma Antoine Decaux wrote: > Hi list, > > I have had this annoyance for a while and sent the following message to > accessibility at apple for their next iteration: > > > There are quite a few instances when leav

Re: Converting .ape files on the mac?

2010-08-16 Thread Sarah Alawami
Can amadeus do it? I can convert aif files. but I dont' know about aip. Also switch can or might do it as well. S On Aug 16, 2010, at 1:02 PM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: > Hello there. I would like to know if there's some app you know of out there > that can convert .ape files to .mp3 or other form

Re: Great workaround for Mac Laptops who want a Control ke ont he right side

2010-08-16 Thread Sarah Alawami
Thanks for the tip. I'm used to navagating with both hands and crossing as I had one keyboard with 1 ctrl key before. On Aug 16, 2010, at 1:10 PM, Alfredo wrote: > I have found a great way to make a Laptop more user friendly to VO > users. I have had a problem of having to awkwardly maneuver my

Re: mobile me

2010-08-16 Thread Kevin Shaw
HI Linda, You need to be under the sidebar tab in the toolbar. You'll probably want to keep hard disks checked under the General tab as this is what allows Macintosh HD to show up on your desktop. Kevin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionar

Re: Auto tab interaction and mac wide shortcuts -> was Navigating the Mail Messages Table [was Re: Navigating to the top or bottom of a table.]

2010-08-16 Thread Sarah Alawami
Actually there is. go to http://www.danrodney.com/mac/ and http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1343 On Aug 16, 2010, at 1:59 PM, Mary Otten wrote: > Geoff, > I don't think there is a list like what you're looking for that has all the > system-wide shortcuts in one place. If there is, I'd like to have

Re: Auto tab interaction and mac wide shortcuts -> was Navigating the Mail Messages Table [was Re: Navigating to the top or bottom of a table.]

2010-08-16 Thread Mary Otten
Geoff, I don't think there is a list like what you're looking for that has all the system-wide shortcuts in one place. If there is, I'd like to have it too. While it is true that you can go through menus in applications and find a lot of shortcuts that way, including the finder menus, lists can

Re: mobile me

2010-08-16 Thread Linda Adams
Kevin, I also wanted to disable this feature and appreciate your response. I just need to confirm one thing and ask you to overlook my ignorance. Under the finder preferences I saw that hard disk is already unchecked but external disk is not. There is no I disk listed. So, is external disk t

Re: Great workaround for Mac Laptops who want a Control ke ont he right side

2010-08-16 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hello! Sounds like an interesting workaround. Personally, I always just either use the trackpad commander, or simply use both option and command keys depending on what combination I need to use. Sometimes, though, my hands just use COntrol and Option on the left at the same time with no problem

Great workaround for Mac Laptops who want a Control ke ont he right side

2010-08-16 Thread Alfredo
I have found a great way to make a Laptop more user friendly to VO users. I have had a problem of having to awkwardly maneuver my right hand above my left hand when typing VO commands requiring Control +Option along with any key not he left side of the Keyboard. For example, to execute the Comman

Converting .ape files on the mac?

2010-08-16 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hello there. I would like to know if there's some app you know of out there that can convert .ape files to .mp3 or other format on the mac or is this a windows job? I guess i could use a virtual machine if need be but i hoped one could convert .ape files on the mac. .ape files, btw is an audio f

Auto tab interaction and mac wide shortcuts -> was Navigating the Mail Messages Table [was Re: Navigating to the top or bottom of a table.]

2010-08-16 Thread Geoff Waaler
Thanks so much Carolyn Esther and everyone else who posted suggestions! Your posts enabled me to solve my problem and finally understand what Kevin was trying to communicate, though I still have a couple questions. Under voiceOver Utilities -> navigation -> the "automatically interact when us

More comments on navigating the Mail Messages table [was Re: Navigating to the top or bottom of a table.]

2010-08-16 Thread Esther
Hi Max and Geoff, Max's note about his searching method reminds me: uou can also use the search field in Mail to filter the messages that are displayed. For example, if I only want to view the messages from Geoff in my Inbox, I can use Command-Option-F to move to the search text box for ma

Navigating the Mail Messages Table [was Re: Navigating to the top or bottom of a table.]

2010-08-16 Thread Esther
Hi Geoff, First of all, Mary's description of VO Shift Home and and VO Shift End should work for you as Fn VO Shift Left Arrow and Fn VO Shift Right Arrow, where "Home" is Fn Left Arrow and "End" is Fn Right Arrow" on a laptop keyboard. Without the Shift key you move to the top or bottom

pop up windows

2010-08-16 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
Hi list, I have had this annoyance for a while and sent the following message to accessibility at apple for their next iteration: There are quite a few instances when leaving vo on a navigation item calls "x application" has a new window. This in general means that a pop up has appeared with

Re: Skype users vo suggestions

2010-08-16 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hello Kawal, The way tracking works is simply that it leaves all the cursors where they are. If it is turned off, the cursor settings in the VoiceOver Utility are simply ignored, and a good example of this is Skype. It will only work on an application basis, however, which means that you have

Re: Skype users vo suggestions

2010-08-16 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, Yes, true, but this should never be a VoiceOver feature. Simply ask them to add incoming chat messages to the already existing notifications. Regards, Nic Mobile Me: nic2...@me.com GoogleTalk: chojiro1...@gmail.com Facebook Twitter Skype: Kvalme MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk Yahoo!

Re: Navigating to the top or bottom of a table.

2010-08-16 Thread Maxwell Ivey Jr.
hello; how is your email displayed? I'm asking because I can't get the go to top or go to end working either. I like to keep my active emails in my inbox, so sometimes i have over a hundred messages in there. so, what i do sometimes is when in the list press a letter like a for the top o

Re: Skype users vo suggestions

2010-08-16 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
How do you turn off the voice over tracking, and can you do this in different applications so you can turn off tracking for one applications and it's turned on for something else? Kawal. On 16 Aug 2010, at 17:08, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: > Hi, > > Why not just turn off cursor tracking? That wa

Re: Skype users vo suggestions

2010-08-16 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
That's right, they appear next to each other, on the left the history of the conversation and on the right your replies, you type to reply. On 16 Aug 2010, at 17:07, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: > Hi, > > I'm curious about something. > > Designed like Windows Messenger? I don't think I follow this

log me in

2010-08-16 Thread Nancy Badger
Has anyone ever used a program called "log me in" on their mac? My work is starting to use it in order to view work stuff at home or out of the office. If you are familiar with it, could you tell me if it's accessible? Also, is there another accessible program that will do the same thing? Tha

Re: Navigating to the top or bottom of a table.

2010-08-16 Thread Carolyn
GEoff: Welcome to Mac woes. I would try command w to close window, This should put you back into your messages. If not, command Q to get out of mail totally. Open mail. Interact with your mailbox list, and check out what mailboxes you have. Now, arrow back upto inbox. Stopp interacting wit

Re: Navigating to the top or bottom of a table.

2010-08-16 Thread Geoff Waaler
Hmmm, When I press voShift-End (Control+Option+function+Shift+RightArrow) I'm taken to the MailBox Actions menu. I probably didn't understand Kevin's suggestion that came in right after your post, but I thought I already tried that. BTW I turned on wrapping in the VO utilities menu but this

Re: mobile me

2010-08-16 Thread Geoff Waaler
Hi Nancy, I got rid of that by going into Preferences under the finder menu and unchecking "idisks". Alternatively you can go into the view menu and hide the side bar. Take care. Geoff - Original Message - From: Nancy Badger To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday,

Re: mobile me

2010-08-16 Thread Kevin Shaw
If you're talking about iDisk, you can disable looking for iDisks in Finder Preferences. Go to the fFinder and press Command-comma. Kevin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@goo

Re: Navigating to the top or bottom of a table.

2010-08-16 Thread Kevin Shaw
Geoff, You need to interact with the message table with VO-Shift-down arrow. You should be able to navigate with VO-right/left arrow and hear the column fields. Start the jump with VO-shift-J. VO-down arrow will take you to the bottom of the list. This works on a Macbook Pro's keyboard with

Re: Navigating to the top or bottom of a table.

2010-08-16 Thread Mary Otten
Hi Geoff, What works for me is to hit vo shift home to go to the top and vo shift end to go to the bottom. I'm using a full keyboard that actually has home and end keys, so I don't know what funky key combo you'll use to do that on a notebook that lacks a home and end key. But I just did this in

mobile me

2010-08-16 Thread Nancy Badger
Can someone tell me if there is a way to disable the mobile me prompt that always comes up when you arrow down the side bar in finder? Jeff referred to it in his email regarding how to find his skype. It is a big nuisance for me. BTW: what is it anyway? Thanks Nancy -- You received this mess

Re: Navigating to the top or bottom of a table.

2010-08-16 Thread Geoff Waaler
Thanks to Anne, Kevin and Carolyn who sent me a private note, but I remain stuck in the middle of my in-box with no quick way out. From the finder I point to mail.app and press command+o -- among other things vo says that I'm in my in-box and row 582 of 3,832 has keyboard focus. The up and do

Re: Skype users vo suggestions

2010-08-16 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
You can do that with growl notifications but its still not perfect -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisio

Re: Skype users vo suggestions

2010-08-16 Thread Courtney Curran
Hi, I think it would be nice if it would just read the chat messages automatically as they come in, then once it's read, you can just type it without having to travel to the message, so to speak. Courtney Listen to The Wonderful World of Doo-wop with me, Moopie Curran on Fridays at 08:00 UTC on

Re: Skype users vo suggestions

2010-08-16 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
Its a macro creator that registers your movements and lists them as actions you bind to keys, combinations and trackpad gestures. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroup

Re: Skype users vo suggestions

2010-08-16 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, Why not just turn off cursor tracking? That way, you can leave the VoiceOVer cursor in the HTML area, type a message, send it and when a reply is received, simply go to the last visible item in the HTML area without having to reinteract. Regards, Nic Mobile Me: nic2...@me.com GoogleTalk: c

Re: Skype users vo suggestions

2010-08-16 Thread Courtney Curran
Hi, Sorry to be off-topic, but what's Keyboard Meistro? Courtney Listen to The Wonderful World of Doo-wop with me, Moopie Curran on Fridays at 08:00 UTC on http://www.theglobalvoice.info On Aug 16, 2010, at 12:04 PM, Yuma Antoine Decaux wrote: > Hi, > > I currently use keyboard maestro to au

Re: Skype users vo suggestions

2010-08-16 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, I'm curious about something. Designed like Windows Messenger? I don't think I follow this one. DO you mean so they just appear right next to the edit field? If that's the case, e. lol Regards, Nic Mobile Me: nic2...@me.com GoogleTalk: chojiro1...@gmail.com Facebook Twitter Skype: Kval

Re: Skype users vo suggestions

2010-08-16 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
Hi, I currently use keyboard maestro to automate the interacting part and to get to the last dialogue but i agree, skype can do better with a later version for which the user doesn't need to always go in and out of the convo. I used to like the ctrl 1 2 3 in JAWS for that matter, and i adopted

Re: Skype users vo suggestions

2010-08-16 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Hi. I'd like the chat feature on Skype to be designed so that it's like windows messenger so that you have the same conversation in one message rather than interacting with the html all the time. I hope this makes sense. Also, the answer button when a call comes in could be made easier to loca

Problem with 3 finger flick on trackpad

2010-08-16 Thread Daniel Rowe
Hi all, has anyone else noticed that in some cases the 3 finger flick doesn't work? I've found this particularly in tables and in the playlist browser in iTunes. Is this a bug in VO or is there a reason why these elements can't be scrolled? I'm using the magic trackpad but this happens on MacBook

Re: changing mp3 bitrates in Max

2010-08-16 Thread erik burggraaf
Howdy, The understanding of bitrates in max requires a little bit of imagination. Visualize a dial with a big arrow painted on it. Around the dial are numbers. The numbers don't move, only the dial and the arrow move. When the arrow is pointing at one of the numbers, that's where the settin

changing mp3 bitrates in Max

2010-08-16 Thread Shen
Hello, Awhile back, people have said the Max program is a good program for converting various audio types. I tried it a few days ago and discovered I cannot change the bitrate when setting a custom setting for mp3. I see the various bitrates, but they are just numbers. I can't click on them. The

Re: Navigating to the top or bottom of a table.

2010-08-16 Thread Kevin Shaw
Use the VO jump command to jump to the bottom or top of your message view. Press VO-Shift-J to start the jump. Then, press VO-down arrow. HTH, Kevin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisi

Re: insert plus f11 key with vm fusion

2010-08-16 Thread erik burggraaf
These particular ones are in system preferences, expose and spaces, under the expose tab. I needed to switch these from the standard f9 through f12 to command f9 through command f12 so that I could use all the function keys in my windows virtual machine. Best, Erik Burggraaf Check out my firs

Re: insert plus f11 key with vm fusion

2010-08-16 Thread joseph
hi, how to re assign keys? i have an i mac and i use a wireless keyboard to control the virtual machine. erik burggraaf wrote: > Hi, You might also need to reassign the f9 through f12 keys. On my mac they > did some proprietary stuff to the dashboard widgits or something and I had to > remov

Re: insert plus f11 key with vm fusion

2010-08-16 Thread erik burggraaf
Hi, You might also need to reassign the f9 through f12 keys. On my mac they did some proprietary stuff to the dashboard widgits or something and I had to remove those assignments so that I could press f9 on my apple keyboard to start a kurzweil scan. hope this helps, Erik Burggraaf Check out

Re: Skype users vo suggestions

2010-08-16 Thread Sarah Alawami
There are 3 images that are not labeled.I believe those tell the status of a contact but not sure. Sure I use click to determain the status of the contact but I don't always want to pull up an application to do that. On Aug 16, 2010, at 2:55 AM, focus wrote: > Hi all! > I've started to talk to S

Re: boot camp

2010-08-16 Thread Sarah Alawami
No you can't. and if you set up an answer file to set up on partition 3 in my case, you should be able to in theory use an unattended install. Take care. S On Aug 16, 2010, at 3:00 AM, chad baker wrote: > Hi i know i'll need sighted assistance to install boot camp is there a work > around. > I

Re: boot camp

2010-08-16 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi Chad, You cannot install a Bootcamp partition via VMWare FUsion. While you can actually convert a Bootcamp partition into a virtual machine, it is not possible to reverse the process. You cannot convert a virtual machine to a Bootcamp partition. I know how to create an unattended installati

Re: Skype users vo suggestions

2010-08-16 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, Make the images that appear actually have text other than in the images that refer to the same thing. One example would be the SMS sending. The rate appears, but you can't see it because it is within an image that obviously VoiceOVer is unable to read. I tried getting in touch with Skype a

boot camp

2010-08-16 Thread chad baker
Hi i know i'll need sighted assistance to install boot camp is there a work around. I don't have any sighted help around. vm fusion is sluggish. I'm using a trial. Also can you install boot camp via a vm fusion image? thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google G

Skype users vo suggestions

2010-08-16 Thread focus
Hi all! I've started to talk to Skype in regard to fix a couple of things for vo users! I do not know how much [ if anything ] will get done. I'm suggesting that they make a better job of labelling buttons! So I thought I would ask you all if you have any other suggestions!! Colin Skype focus_66 -

Re: insert plus f11 key with vm fusion

2010-08-16 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Hi. You need (if you have a mac book pro) to assign the insert key to the accent key just above the tab as special caps lock using sharp keys if that is what you are using. Then the insert key followed by F11 together should work. Kawal. On 15 Aug 2010, at 23:39, joseph wrote: > hi listers,

Re: NIKE+

2010-08-16 Thread Chris Moore
Hello, Thanks for that, I have OS 4 on my iPhone and I can assure you the application works absolutely fine. I have been using it for over a week now twice a day without a hiccup. Kind regards Chris On 16 Aug 2010, at 00:55, arthur gindin wrote: > Chris: > > > I monitor this group for my