Re: Spell check while typing?

2010-10-17 Thread Carolyn Haas
Hi Geoff: Looking back over my settings, I notice that under the "edit" menu, my spell eheck options are dimmed. I originally set "spellcheck while typing" from VO utilities under compose. Don't know why that would matter, but it's something to check out. Take care Carolyn Haas chaas0...@gma

Re: Screen Readers on the Mac

2010-10-17 Thread Scott Granados
I have the same experience. ITunes on the PC was god awful slow more to do with ITunes and Windows itself, not JFW. ITunes just runs better on the Mac or at least it ahs for me. On Oct 17, 2010, at 3:00 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Hi, > > I guess this is a mileage will vary kind of thing.

Re: vm ware fusion and key mapping

2010-10-17 Thread Scott Granados
I haven't tried virtual box but I have noticed that VM FUsion is faster than parallels. Since I've started using fusion at work m other coworkers have been switching over. Virtual Box if memory serves is a Sun product, I wouldn't be surprised if it's pretty good. I'll definitely have to give

Re: Spell check while typing?

2010-10-17 Thread GEOFF WAALER
Hi Ann, Thanks much for the reply. I wonder what could account for the disparity? When I misspell a word it is necessary to read the line in order to be informed. I can't find an applicable setting, though your post suggests that one does exist. Thanks again and take care. Geoff On Oct 17,

Re: Voice mail on Skype for Mac and the Iphone 4.

2010-10-17 Thread Sarah Alawami
You double click the voicemail thing in history and find the play button. Each voicemail will be in the list but it will look like a contact missed call or what not. Take care. S On Oct 17, 2010, at 4:23 PM, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: > Dear All. > > I had a voicemail on my Skype application whic

Re: battery low message freezing VoiceOver

2010-10-17 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, It can happen that way as well. turning VO off then back on will work in this case as well. As I mentioned though, you may need to press VO-f5 more than twice to get it speaking once again. Later... On 2010-10-17, at 4:20 PM, Justin Ekis wrote: > I have this problem as well, and my spok

Voice mail on Skype for Mac and the Iphone 4.

2010-10-17 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Dear All. I had a voicemail on my Skype application which I managed to listen to in the end after playing with the History items on the Mac. My problems are these on the Mac Book Pro and my Iphone 4. First of all, even though my Voice Mail is active on my I Phone 4, I cannot play messages left

Fwd: let's make QuickOffice VO compatible

2010-10-17 Thread William Windels
Hi Daniel, I have done it and , like you can see, it's forwarded to the viphone mailinglist. I hope they will work on it. cheers, William Begin doorgestuurd bericht: > Van: "Daniel K. Gartmann" > Datum: 17 oktober 2010 23:12:41 GMT+02:00 > Onderwerp: let's make QuickOffice VO compatible > Ant

Re: battery low message freezing VoiceOver

2010-10-17 Thread Justin Ekis
I have this problem as well, and my spoken alerts are turned off so that is not the issue here. For me,VO reads the message and I am able to close the dialog, but about 30 seconds later I lose all voiceover feedback. I have sited assistance take a look and there are still at least 10 minutes wor

Re: battery low message freezing VoiceOver

2010-10-17 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, You can determine what this message says by turning VO off then back on again. As Anne mentioned, there ends up being a conflict between the Spoken Alerts and VO, and VO loses that battle. Just press VO-f5 to turn VO off then wait a couple of seconds, and VO-f5 to turn it back on and the

Re: Screen Readers on the Mac

2010-10-17 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, I guess this is a mileage will vary kind of thing. i hate using iTunes of windows. it has more to do with iTunes on windows than it does with any screenreader. It's just slow and clunky on a PC in my experience. It was like that for me even when I had sight, and used no screenreader at

Mysterious second Mail Account

2010-10-17 Thread Linda Adams
Hi folks, When I set up my Mail account, I set up only one Imap Gmail account and it has been working fine. Yesterday, I suddenly began getting a dialog message asking for the password to an account with the user name Null. The only thing that occured which may have caused this was my husban

Re: battery low message freezing VoiceOver

2010-10-17 Thread gwennacast
Hi all, I have this problem as well. I will. try pressing command f5 quickly. Thank you for this info. Bave a great day. Musically, Allison Sent from my iPhone On 17/10/2010, at 3:15 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: > I have no issues with that. I hear system UI server you are running on blah > bla

Re: Apple's event next wednesday

2010-10-17 Thread Scott Granados
Them's fighting words. Don't mess with the brooklyn accentt! On Oct 16, 2010, at 6:30 PM, Donna Goodin wrote: > I have to say that I liked Heather when I heard her on my Winmo phone, but > when I downloaded the Asistiveware voices, her Brooklyn accent drove me > absolutely nuts!! (No offense t

let's make QuickOffice VO compatible

2010-10-17 Thread Daniel K. Gartmann
Hi, I just bought the Quickoffice app for my IPod Touch but discovered it was largely incompatible with VoiceOver. here is a link to a place on the company's idea page where we can express our wish for this to change. Imagine having this word processor with an external bluetooth keyboard...

Re: Spell check while typing?

2010-10-17 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Geoff, On 17 Oct 2010, at 14:47, GEOFF WAALER wrote: > In Apple Mail under edit -> spelling and grammar -> check spelling, I > specified "while typing". In VO utility I set verbosity -> spelling to > announce atributes. > > Am I suppose to be informed as soon as I misspell a word, Yes,

Re: battery low message freezing VoiceOver

2010-10-17 Thread Sarah Alawami
I have that turned off. I think that's why I cannot reproduct the issue. lol! Tale care. S On Oct 17, 2010, at 1:43 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: > You can stop this happening by turning off spoken alerts in the speech pane > of System Preferences. I suspect it's worse on older MacBooks, it certain

Re: battery low message freezing VoiceOver

2010-10-17 Thread Anne Robertson
You can stop this happening by turning off spoken alerts in the speech pane of System Preferences. I suspect it's worse on older MacBooks, it certainly happens to me with my 2007 and 2006 MacBooks. Cheers, Anne On 17 Oct 2010, at 21:03, Shen wrote: > Hello everyone, > Wondering if anyone is h

mac cast: a broadcasting tool for the mac

2010-10-17 Thread Sarah Alawami
Hello. I'm looking something similar to odcast or edcast for windows. I heard of maccast but googling brought up a podcast. I don't know if it is accessible but it is open source. If anyone can shed some info I'd be grateful. Thanks. Sarah Alawami MSN: marri...@gmail.com aim: marri...@gmail.c

Re: making mail show new mails only

2010-10-17 Thread Sarah Alawami
OH and i just did that and it is showing messages I already read including the one I'm replying too. Take care. S On Oct 17, 2010, at 11:48 AM, Eric Oyen wrote: > how long ago was this. it appears that this function is now working. > > -Eric > > On Oct 17, 2010, at 11:35 AM, Sarah Alawami wro

Re: making mail show new mails only

2010-10-17 Thread Sarah Alawami
This was about a month ago or so when I tried it last. I have since reinstalled apple mail to fix another issue I was having. On Oct 17, 2010, at 11:48 AM, Eric Oyen wrote: > how long ago was this. it appears that this function is now working. > > -Eric > > On Oct 17, 2010, at 11:35 AM, Sarah A

Re: battery low message freezing VoiceOver

2010-10-17 Thread Sarah Alawami
I have no issues with that. I hear system UI server you are running on blah blah blah and I just hit ok and that's it. VO does not freeze On Oct 17, 2010, at 12:10 PM, Courtney Curran wrote: > Hi, > Try pressing command f5 4 times quickly. Don't know why, but when any popup > boxes come up, spee

Re: battery low message freezing VoiceOver

2010-10-17 Thread louie
I bet if you press return the dialog will go away. The default is OK. On Oct 17, 2010, at 12:03 PM, Shen wrote: > Hello everyone, > Wondering if anyone is having the same problem with VoiceOver using their > MacBook. If the battery gets below a certain level, a message will popup. It > says, "S

Re: battery low message freezing VoiceOver

2010-10-17 Thread Courtney Curran
Hi, Try pressing command f5 4 times quickly. Don't know why, but when any popup boxes come up, speech stops, and that seems to work. HTh, 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 Oct 17, 2010, at 3:03 PM

battery low message freezing VoiceOver

2010-10-17 Thread Shen
Hello everyone, Wondering if anyone is having the same problem with VoiceOver using their MacBook. If the battery gets below a certain level, a message will popup. It says, "System Wide Server: You are running on reserved power ...", blah blah blah. Everrytime when this message comes up, VoiceOv

Re: making mail show new mails only

2010-10-17 Thread Eric Oyen
how long ago was this. it appears that this function is now working. -Eric On Oct 17, 2010, at 11:35 AM, Sarah Alawami wrote: > but if you mark a message as read in the smart mail box will it effect the > messages in the real folders? I found this not to be the case when I was > trying to do

Re: making mail show new mails only

2010-10-17 Thread Sarah Alawami
but if you mark a message as read in the smart mail box will it effect the messages in the real folders? I found this not to be the case when I was trying to do a message clean up one day. On Oct 17, 2010, at 2:05 AM, John André Netland wrote: > Hi Eric, > > This is not a problem. Make a coupl

Re: ways of tagging sections in a document

2010-10-17 Thread Linda Adams
Jude, I've been using asterisks for years, so I'll just keep it up. Thanks, Linda On Oct 16, 2010, at 5:14 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote: > The first thing to do is to come up with your own standard way of marking out > section headings and stick to that. Then since you know what your own > standa

Re: Conversations View

2010-10-17 Thread Linda Adams
Tim and all, Thanks much for your help. Tim's instructions worked perfectly. I have to remember that if I can't find something in the regular App's menu, I need to check out the Tool Bar and preferences. Linda On Oct 15, 2010, at 6:41 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > Hi Linda, > > It is in the M

Re: Accessible Ulternative browzer?

2010-10-17 Thread Jude DaShiell
I believe I installed lynx using fink. On Wed, 13 Oct 2010, Mike wrote: Hi all: I'm wondering if there's an alternative accessible web browser? I'm getting tired of Safari crashes and lock ups and then having to use web kit. If this thing is so grate, how come apple doesn't update it weekly wit

Re: Different voices for iPhone?

2010-10-17 Thread heather kd5cbl
Are you talking about paul and kate? Or the microsoft as well as ATNT voices. I like paul and kate which i use in k12. Heather -- 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: Different voices for iPhone?

2010-10-17 Thread Cheree Heppe
Cheree Heppe here: Who's the one that Kurzweil uses? They're pretty good. Regards, Cheree Heppe - Original Message - From: "James Malone" To: Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2010 4:36 AM Subject: Different voices for iPhone? > Hi all. I was wondering if you can get different voices for

RE: Screen Readers on the Mac

2010-10-17 Thread Jude DaShiell
Most of the jaws using population will never have Stevie Wunder's income levels either so Jaws upgrades and Window-Eyes upgrades don't always happen quickly or sometimes at all. People tend to have more important things on which to spend money like mortgage payments or rent. Funding from stat

Re: accessible games for Iphone

2010-10-17 Thread Jude DaShiell
Has anyone checked out the gaming center on the iPhone yet for voiceover friendly games and if so what did you find? Also, do any voiceover friendly mud clients exist for the iphone yet? On Thu, 14 Oct 2010, Donna Goodin wrote: It's really fun!!! I hope you get to play it some time. Donna On

Re: Is there a way to document VO crashes?

2010-10-17 Thread Jude DaShiell
You know what I think would be really neat? If Apple was to do what GwMicro did with Window-Eyes; make the operating system self-healing. This concept for GwMicro involved collecting crash logs from people's machines when they rebooted; the Window-Eyes software phoned home and sent the crash l

RE: Screen Readers on the Mac

2010-10-17 Thread Neil Barnfather - TalkNav
Paul, I just wanted to say, as it's a popular miss conception, I've got no issues using iTunes on a PC with JAWS. your comments, and many others were right in the old days. days when we needed things like jTunes and things like that. but using JAWS 11 and iTunes 9 or preferably 10, there's no i

Spell check while typing?

2010-10-17 Thread GEOFF WAALER
Greetings, I accidentally posted this question to the wrong list -- maybe that accounts for my lack of response :). In Apple Mail under edit -> spelling and grammar -> check spelling, I specified "while typing". In VO utility I set verbosity -> spelling to announce atributes. Am I suppose to

copy question

2010-10-17 Thread William Windels
Hi all, I would like to make a little copy script that sync all data on specific locations. I mean: I have scool materials that are stored by default on my usbdisc and a backup on my harddrive. There is also a copy in my dropbox-folder and a external person is also working on materials. So, It

Different voices for iPhone?

2010-10-17 Thread James Malone
Hi all. I was wondering if you can get different voices for iPhone rather than the realspeak ones? realspeak is possibly one of the most irratating things imaginable -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send

Re: making mail show new mails only

2010-10-17 Thread Eric Oyen
john, I made one box for strictly unread messages. it has the appearance (sic) of what I am used to. I even have set to newest messages at the top, organized by thread and the filter is "unread messages". this solved a lot of headaches. frankly, I didn't know mail could do it this way. guess I l

Re: making mail show new mails only

2010-10-17 Thread John André Netland
Hi Eric, This is not a problem. Make a couple of smart folders, set them to only show unread messages in the smart mail box rules, and add which mailbox they should work for. This way, you could for example have one smart mailbox that only shows unread private mail, and another to show only unr

different voices - was Re: Apple's event next wednesday

2010-10-17 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hello, I actually like the realspeak voices even better than the Acapella ones, and i say this even though Acapella once was Swedish and was named Infovox. Realspeak, believe it or not has better swedish than both Elin and Erik, at least in my opinnion. Inflection is a bit better on the acapella

Re: making mail show new mails only

2010-10-17 Thread Eric Oyen
that is what I was afraid of. I am used to the mozilla thunderbird approach (I used to use it before my sight completely failed). I found the "organize by thread" then I had to interact with the bar immediately above the messages window to get to the proper column and set it to newest first. it

Re: making mail show new mails only

2010-10-17 Thread Sarah Alawami
Hello. sort by thread and then sort by newest first. I don't think there is a way to do what you are asking. I've been looking myself. Sorry. Sarah Alawami MSN: marri...@gmail.com aim: marri...@gmail.com: website: http://music.marrie.org face book: facebook.com/marrie youtube: http://youtube.c

vm fusion key mapping

2010-10-17 Thread chad baker
Hi simon same here its sluggish i'm running xp i tried virtualbox but not accessible. I know there's a command line interface but i'm not comfortable with it. Also parallels needs voice over support not sure if its faster or not. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Goo

RE: vm ware fusion and key mapping

2010-10-17 Thread Simon Fogarty
I want to see VM fusion, get faster. I find that virtual box is a lot faster when using the vm Has anyone else gotten this impression? From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Scott Granados Sent: Saturday, 16 October 2010 8:38 a.m. To: m

making mail show new mails only

2010-10-17 Thread Eric Oyen
ok, I would like mail to show only new messages (make the read ones invisible). so far, I haven't found a setting that will do that. the reason for this, I have nearly 400 read messages in my inbox and sometimes mail puts me right at the beginning and I have to spend the next 5 minutes trying to

Re: Help with reading mails in threats needed

2010-10-17 Thread GEOFF WAALER
Hi Annie, My suggestion varies greatly from the advice you've been given so far, but IMHO is much more deficient; Here in the US in the 1960s there was an expression: "different strokes for different folks", so I'll offer this for your consideration. First, In the VO utility go into the navig