Re: Watching live TV on a Mac.

2011-12-06 Thread Garth Humphreys
Hi Can you please explain what a smart guide is and what they let you do Thanks Garth Sent from my iPhone On 07/12/2011, at 11:43 AM, Randy Stegall wrote: > I tried doing that and the unknowns aren't buttons. If you use the tab key > you will hear, Action button pop up button. Tab again

Re: ringtone creation on the Mac.

2011-12-06 Thread Ricardo Walker
Yes. Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter & Skype: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On Dec 6, 2011, at 11:08 PM, Traci wrote: > Hey Ricardo thanks for that. > > Do you discuss editing an existing mp3 or m4a, into a ringtone? > > Traci > Sent by Macbook Air Mail > > On Dec 5, 2011, at 11

Re: ringtone creation on the Mac.

2011-12-06 Thread Traci
Hey Ricardo thanks for that. Do you discuss editing an existing mp3 or m4a, into a ringtone? Traci Sent by Macbook Air Mail On Dec 5, 2011, at 11:32 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Your in luck. lol. I did such a podcast. Go to www.mobileaccess.org and > type garageband into the search field.

thanks for help with word count script and for Sparks

2011-12-06 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Hi, I just used Sparks to solve an issue which has been bothering me now for a little while. Download Spark for Mac - Hotkey shortcuts manager. MacUpdate.com Just wondered what others of y'all thought of it. You may recall that, back a week or two ago, I was fussing with the Word Count scri

Re: Question about iPads

2011-12-06 Thread Alex Hall
There is no USB port on the iPad 2, only bluetooth displays will work. Maybe you heard a rumor that the iPad 3, supposedly scheduled for release next year, will have a USB port? I haven't heard that one, but we know little about it and people are speculating everything. On 12/6/11, Gigi wrote: >

Question about iPads

2011-12-06 Thread Gigi
Hi guys. I have a question about iPads and braille displays. I thought I had this straight, but then I figured that maybe I had something wrong here. If you get the latest iPad there is, do you have to have a Bluetooth display, or can you run one from USB? I thought iPads didn't have USB ports,

Blog Talk Radio Accessibility

2011-12-06 Thread Brandon Olivares
Hi, I created a station on blogtalkradio.com. However, I've found that parts of it are inaccessible. For one, it seems impossible to upload files, since it uses some sort of flash uploader. Secondly, I have several problems in the "studio," to control the show. It's hard to put callers live or

Re: fastforward or jumping through audiobook in itunes possible?

2011-12-06 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, the control you added to skip to previous or next chapters is not necessary. Just command shift left or right arrow will do the trick. hth Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter & Skype: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On Dec 6, 2011, at 7:50 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > Hi, > > If it

Re: Watching live TV on a Mac.

2011-12-06 Thread Randy Stegall
I tried doing that and the unknowns aren't buttons. If you use the tab key you will hear, Action button pop up button. Tab again and you will hear unknown. Interact and vo down arrow and you will hear, LIBRARY radio button. These radio buttons act much like the iTunes sidebar with its playli

Re: changing the language spelling

2011-12-06 Thread Rachel Magario
Thanks Anne. Idid that, but it does not seem to work! Do you change your keyboard layout when you start writing in a different language? Cause I usually just leave it on my us english keyboard. I don't know how to change the key board lay out in the fly on the macbook only on the iPhone and have

Re: fastforward or jumping through audiobook in itunes possible?

2011-12-06 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, If it is a properly marked AudioBook, you can do the Next/Previous Chapter by pressing cmd-control-shift right or left arrow. You could also move forward quicker by pressing cmd-option-right arrow. There is also a script available on my somewhat old web-site at: http://web.me.com/kilburn

Re: Watching live TV on a Mac.

2011-12-06 Thread Hank Smith
Hello can't the unknown buttons and stuff be labeled with vo? Hank On 12/6/2011 7:15 AM, Randy Stegall wrote: You can set smart guides so eye tv is not a total loss as one may believe at first. It takes just a bit of effort. I have 22 smart guides set up. You have to interact with the unknown

Re: changing the language spelling

2011-12-06 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Rachel, For me, the Mac detects the language without me having to do anything. In System Preferences, in the Language&Text pane, under Text, I have it set to Automatic by language. Cheers, Anne On 6 Dec 2011, at 05:24, Rachel Magario wrote: > This question is for Anne, but anyone who

Re: Watching live TV on a Mac.

2011-12-06 Thread Red.Falcon
Hi there! Although it is not only on the Mac over here is a company [Sky] and there sat boxes do have accessible menus and channels and you can set things to record [but I think ] you have to do that online! And I'm not sure if the Iphone app for them is vo friendly but if it is then you can als

Re: Watching live TV on a Mac.

2011-12-06 Thread Goodin, Donna
Yeah, I've heard those rumors too, but I always take a wait and see attitude toward rumors. :) Cheers, Donna On Dec 6, 2011, at 1:52 PM, Daniel Miller wrote: > Hi, > > You're welcome. Unfortunately, a truly accessible television isn't a reality > yet, but if the rumors and speculation I'm hearin

spelling command not always working for me.

2011-12-06 Thread Ioana Gandrabur
Hi all, Sometimes I am finished writing a mail message and press command coma to go to first misspelled word. VO says the highlighted word but pressing vo shift m does not do anything. Cannot always reproduse so do not know what causes this intermitent behavior. Anyone else noticed this? Th

fastforward or jumping through audiobook in itunes possible?

2011-12-06 Thread Ioana Gandrabur
Hi, Guess the subject kind of says it all. Thanks, Ioana Sent from my iPhone -- 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

Re: Watching live TV on a Mac.

2011-12-06 Thread Mr. L. Alexander
quite a few of the products (elgato) are straight forward using the cursor keys. I used to have one of the TV mini's and it was a decent bit of kit. loved it but as I don't travel and have a fairly accessible hard drive recorder, etc I don't have any need. but I'd be happy to help anyone and su

Re: changing the language spelling

2011-12-06 Thread Ioana Gandrabur
As far as I thought, if you change keyboard layout it switches, assuming you have that language spelling info available. Not 100$% sure so don't quite take my word for it. Best, Ioana On Dec 5, 2011, at 11:24 PM, Rachel Magario wrote: > This question is for Anne, but anyone who might know the

Re: Watching live TV on a Mac.

2011-12-06 Thread Chris Blouch
I was referring to a physical remote that came bundled with the HD USB tuner and eyeTV. Uses infrared to a receiver built into the USB thingy which sometimes makes it awkward to use. http://support.elgato.com/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=2709 CB On 12/6/11 11:42 AM, R

RE: Watching live TV on a Mac.

2011-12-06 Thread Daniel Miller
Hi, You're welcome. Unfortunately, a truly accessible television isn't a reality yet, but if the rumors and speculation I'm hearing are true, that could change sooner than we think. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf

Re: Watching live TV on a Mac.

2011-12-06 Thread Goodin, Donna
Hi Daniel, Thanks for the explanation. I avoid using Windows whenever possible, so was hoping this might be an alternative. Cheers, Donna On Dec 6, 2011, at 1:35 PM, Daniel Miller wrote: > Hi Donna, > > It's an app, but it requires hardware as well. I'm currently looking into a > solution with

RE: Watching live TV on a Mac.

2011-12-06 Thread Daniel Miller
Hi Donna, It's an app, but it requires hardware as well. I'm currently looking into a solution with Eye TV, but am on the fence currently. As far as watching TV on my actual TV, I loved having a somewhat accessible guide with windows Media center, which is why I wanted to find a similar solution o

RE: Watching live TV on a Mac.

2011-12-06 Thread Daniel Miller
So the iPhone app is more accessible than the mac software? I really don't want to spend money on a product from them if I can't at least do basic functions. I'm not so much concerned with the guide since apparently you can set up smart guides, which is what I'd want to do anyway. -Original M

Re: Watching live TV on a Mac.

2011-12-06 Thread Goodin, Donna
Hi all, Though mostly I agree with Ricardo that I'd rather watch TV on my TV, I hate how inaccessible Charter is. So an thinking that EyeTV might be an interesting option, at least when I'm watching TV by myself. But I'm confused about one thing. Is this an app, or does it also involve hardw

Re: Watching live TV on a Mac.

2011-12-06 Thread Jim Fettgather
I really enjoy using the Eye TV app with the iPhone because of the good accessibility in IOS 5, but I will sure be happy in encouraging El Gato Systems to consider accessibility in an upcoming release. On 12/6/11, Mr. L. Alexander wrote: > a thought on this. > > If anyone is going to contact the

Re: Reading Chat History in Adium

2011-12-06 Thread Jessica
Ok, do you have msn? I haven't had any luck signing into either/or, so don't know what to make of that. When I try to sign into msn, it just asks like I didn't enter my password correctly, and the same with fb, only with that, if it happens too many times, it then takes me to a varification pa

Re: Watching live TV on a Mac.

2011-12-06 Thread Mr. L. Alexander
a thought on this. If anyone is going to contact the developers, point them to mac access and if anything, compile a list of names of those who grant their permissions to support your contact to the developer. this would give extra weight to the case. they can contact each person if they wish f

RE: Watching live TV on a Mac.

2011-12-06 Thread Daniel Miller
I'm contacting them about it now, actually. Is the iPhone app just as inaccessible? Or is that more accessible than the mac software. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Randy Stegall Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2011 11:43 AM To: macvision

Re: Watching live TV on a Mac.

2011-12-06 Thread Randy Stegall
I use eye tv everyday and I do think that if more of us talked with them about accessibility and show that there is demand for it Elgato might be interested and even motivated enough to do something about vo accessibility Randy Stegall kc4...@aol.com Sent from my Mac Mini. On Dec 6, 2011, at 11

Re: Watching live TV on a Mac.

2011-12-06 Thread Mr. L. Alexander
Hi, I'd contacted the company last year about this and they told me at the time they weren't interested in adapting it. it meant adapting the program from the ground up. It may be worth getting in touch with them again though and trying once more. I always believe in trying until it happens.

RE: Watching live TV on a Mac.

2011-12-06 Thread Daniel Miller
Awesome. I wonder if Elgato would be open to accessibility suggestions? Or would you say minus the guide, the app is accessible enough to use it on a regular basis. I really want to get rid of this Winblows box and completely switch to the mac, but watching TV was my last hurdle to jump over.

Re: Watching live TV on a Mac.

2011-12-06 Thread Randy Stegall
Command r starts recording. Randy Stegall kc4...@aol.com Sent from my Mac Mini. On Dec 6, 2011, at 11:37 AM, Daniel Miller wrote: > Thanks for all the input, guys. So the only thing that’s’ not accessible is > the guide, yet you can set up smart guides with some effort? Is there a > hotkey to

Re: Watching live TV on a Mac.

2011-12-06 Thread Randy Stegall
That remote window kept getting my way so I closed it. I think that one can use the Apple remote control but I haven't tried it yet. I use the tab key to move through the unknowns and interact with each until I find the one I want. Randy Stegall kc4...@aol.com Sent from my Mac Mini. On Dec 6,

RE: Watching live TV on a Mac.

2011-12-06 Thread Daniel Miller
Thanks for all the input, guys. So the only thing that's' not accessible is the guide, yet you can set up smart guides with some effort? Is there a hotkey to record whatever you're watching at any given moment? From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On

Re: accessible youtube to mp3 converter

2011-12-06 Thread Esther
Hi Gerry, I'm still running Snow Leopard on my Mac, but if you want to try a web site that converts to mp3, you might try dirpy: http://dirpy.com/ You can either paste in the URL of a YouTube video into the text box, or type in search terms to locate a video for conversion at the YouTube site. On

Re: Watching live TV on a Mac.

2011-12-06 Thread Chris Blouch
Eye TV comes with a remote control which lets you do some functions that way. No feedback from VO to let you know what channel you're on but I guess that's no different than most cable boxes. CB On 12/6/11 9:15 AM, Randy Stegall wrote: You can set smart guides so eye tv is not a total loss as

Re: learning how to copy text on Safari

2011-12-06 Thread Matt Dierckens
What I do, is just find the text I want to cop and hit ctrl option c and it will cop the last spoken text to the pasteboard, then open up textedit and paste. Matt Sent from my macbook pro On 2011-12-06, at 11:52 AM, Jessica wrote: > I'm a little curious about that myself. I tried that when I

Re: Watching live TV on a Mac.

2011-12-06 Thread Randy Stegall
You can set smart guides so eye tv is not a total loss as one may believe at first. It takes just a bit of effort. I have 22 smart guides set up. You have to interact with the unknowns but it is doable. Is ity perfect? No, but it can work. Randy Stegall kc4...@aol.com Sent from my Mac Min

Re: Reading Chat History in Adium

2011-12-06 Thread Deb Lewis
I don't have AIM so can't comment on that. someone else asked me about FB and signing in so I've agreed to try that and see what happens. Meanwhile, I've answered my own question about the chat history quite by accident. On Dec 6, 2011, at 8:44 AM, Jessica wrote: > Can we chat off list? I'm s

Re: learning how to copy text on Safari

2011-12-06 Thread Jessica
I'm a little curious about that myself. I tried that when I tried to copy the serial number for my Mac, and the Phrase that ended up copying instead was the notification that I was on a button, instead of the serial number.- Original Message - From: Traci To: macvisionaries@google

Re: Reading Chat History in Adium

2011-12-06 Thread Jessica
Can we chat off list? I'm still a new Atium user, and am having a hard time setting it up, so could use some pointers. I can get it to sign me onto Aim, but have put in my password for fb and msn multiple times and it refuses to sign in, and apparently thinks it's incorrect. - Original Mes

becoming member of v i phone

2011-12-06 Thread Paul Erkens
Hi listers, When attempting to subscribe to the v i phone list, I get a message saying I need to be invited. I suppose they are doing this to prevent a constant member stream of folks joining leaving joining leaving all the time. Would anyone mind sending me an invitation for viphone so I can su

Re: Watching live TV on a Mac.

2011-12-06 Thread Larry Skutchan
You can easily change channels, volume, and much more with hot keys or through the menu, but the built-in guide that lets you set up recordings is not accessible. On Dec 5, 2011, at 7:21 PM, Hank Smith wrote: > On 12/5/2011 4:46 PM, Vaughn Bennison wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I use eyetv, which fr

Re: Macbook Air microphone

2011-12-06 Thread Mr. L. Alexander
simply doesn't. they way around it is to use a USB mic or the inbuilt mic on the mac. lew On 6 Dec 2011, at 00:17, Hank Smith wrote: > Hello how does that work if you want to hook up some speakers, and a line > input device at the same time if there is only 1 audio plug? > Hank > On 12/5/2011