Re: turning speech on and off

2012-02-26 Thread Dean Adams
Hi Esther and Gigi and others, The person that I know that somehow turned of her speech use the tracklpad to get the speech back on again she has just started using an macbook air I have sent her the voice over users guide to get her started and will work from there I do love my new mac

Re: Play/Pause YouTube Videos

2012-02-26 Thread Emrah
Hey Mike, You will have much better accessibility if you enable the HTML5 feature of Youtube. Go to http://www.youtube.com/html5 and just click the link that will allow you to join the HTML5 beta program. It will save a Cookie in your browser and that will be all. After that, all videos that ca

Re: turning speech on and off

2012-02-26 Thread Garth Humphreys
Hi Just to add to what others have said. I would try toggling VO off and back on again, may be a couple of times. I find that if I have muted VO accidentally, when it is toggled back on it will say something like "Voice Over On speech muted" or similar. In any case you then know what the probl

Re: turning speech on and off

2012-02-26 Thread Esther
Hi Dean and Gigi, Actually, couldn't your friend try using the three-finger double tap on the TrackPad to un-mute VoiceOver? That was my first thought, but I assumed that you had tried to have him do that first. Gigi is correct, it helps to keep your fingers slightly curved as well as separat

Re: turning speech on and off

2012-02-26 Thread Eugenia Firth
Sorry, Dean, I didn't see your original message before I sent mine. I have had this happen, too, but before I knew about the keyboard command I was able to get it to work with the trackpad by doing it again. I found that my fingers had to be curved. I agree that the trackpad on the Mac doesn't r

Re: turning speech on and off

2012-02-26 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi guys. I also use the track pad. It's the same command as on the iPhone. With the trackpad on, you can tap the trackpad twice with two fingers, just like on the iPhone. Regards, Gigi On Feb 26, 2012, at 11:05 PM, Esther wrote: > Hi Dean, > > There's the "Mute" button is on the F10 key. I

Re: turning speech on and off

2012-02-26 Thread Esther
Hi Dean, There's the "Mute" button is on the F10 key. I toggle this on and off by pressing FN+F10, but that's because under System Preferences > Keyboard on the Keyboard tab I have the box checked for "Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys". If this box is not checked, you would

turning speech on and off

2012-02-26 Thread Dean Adams
Hi Everyone, Can anyone please tell me how I can turn speech on and Off with the keyboard I know you can mute voice over with the trackpad commander with a three finger double tap but I have a friend that has turned off speech somehow and can't get speech to come back on again any help w

Re: Braille Touch: please help get Apple onboard

2012-02-26 Thread Alex Hall
It is not. There is an app called TypeInBraille, which is not the same thing as the upcoming app at all; don't confuse the two, or you may decide that input will not work. TypeInBraille uses a concept where you enter a cell one row at a time; tap the left side for dot 1, the right for dot 4, tap tw

Re: Ical question

2012-02-26 Thread Marc Sutton
Hi Kawal, No problem. I suspected you might be referring to the addressbook. It seems like there is a lot of interacting necessary in order to browse a calendar. I will see if the iphone app is more efficient. On Feb 26, 2012, at 1:19 PM, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: > Oh Mark, > > I just realise th

Re: Braille Touch: please help get Apple onboard

2012-02-26 Thread James Mannion
I see your point about hoping to incorporate it as a keyboard option similar to a language keyboard. Braille is kind of a "language". I agree that making it an additional option and not taking anything away is an extremely important point to stress. Is the stand alone app available in the US yet? I

Re: Braille Touch: please help get Apple onboard

2012-02-26 Thread erik burggraaf
You guys are all crazy. :) the code is already written, tested, and working. No one is saying you have to use it just because it's implemented. We're just saying it should be a choice for people who want it. Apple could do this by taking the code that's already been tested and implementing

Play/Pause YouTube Videos

2012-02-26 Thread Michael Malarsie
Hey guys I have a question of my own. To this day I can't figure out how to pause and resume playing YouTube videos. I have always had to just let them play and I listen to the Voice Over. Any info for me? I am hoping there is an wasy solution that I have just overlooked like I have with

Re: more on status not being read in Mail

2012-02-26 Thread M. Taylor
Hello, I did, indeed, report this bug to Apple. Mark On Feb 25, 2012, at 2:53 PM, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: > Hello Donna. > > If you are usimg the latest update in Lion, what you experience is a bug or > problem as Mark Taylor brought this to the list's attention when he installed > the latest

Re: Two More Silly Questions

2012-02-26 Thread Michael Malarsie
Ok here is the link. Let me know if you need me to clarify anything. It should be clear enough if my memory hasn't failed me. Enjoy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKxWbBuDSSI On Feb 26, 2012, at 8:56 PM, Ezzie Bueno wrote: > Hello Mike, > > I do use Lion. Could you please send a link to the tu

Re: Two More Silly Questions

2012-02-26 Thread Ezzie Bueno
Hello Mike, I do use Lion. Could you please send a link to the tutorial on YouTube? Thank you, Ezzie Bueno Sent from my Macbook Pro ezziebu...@gmail.com (323) 448-0757 Check out daily jokes and more! www.SillyEz.com Facebook: http://facebook.com/SillyEz Twitter: http://twitter.com/SillyEz On

Re: Two More Silly Questions

2012-02-26 Thread Michael Malarsie
This is what I do for signatures. There is a built in text expander in Lion that you can turn on. Then you can type whatever your signature is and choose that letters will expand to it the hardest part is turning on the expander. I have a YouTube tytorial on it if you are interseted. Aga

Two More Silly Questions

2012-02-26 Thread Ezzie Bueno
> Hello again, > > Here are two more silly questions for y'all: > > 1) How exactly can I get signatures to be pasted at the bottom of each email? > I've created signatures, but do not see them in the option in which I would > normally select a signature. > 2) Where are photos and movie clips fr

Two More Silly Questions

2012-02-26 Thread Ezzie Buenito
Hello again, Here are two more silly questions for y'all: 1) How exactly can I get signatures to be pasted at the bottom of each email? I've created signatures, but do not see them in the option in which I would normally select a signature. 2) Where are photos and movie clips from Photo Booth n

Re: Braille Touch: please help get Apple onboard

2012-02-26 Thread Becky Knaub
I see what you mean. There is a difference in something being accessible and being easy and quick for people to use in an equal fashion to sighted people. Yes we can type on the keyboard but it is not quick, or that easy. It takes time and can be frustrating. I hope they at least think it over.

Re: Moing Emails To A Different Mailbox

2012-02-26 Thread Esther
Hi Gigi and Ezzie, Is Ezzie using Snow Leopard? Under Lion my Inbox got installed as a "Favorite Mailbox", so I can automatically move selected messages, including "junk" emails to my Inbox by pressing Command-Control-1, which is listed under the options of the "Mailbox" menu on Mail's menu bar

Re: Braille Touch: please help get Apple onboard

2012-02-26 Thread Alex Hall
Once more, though, I don't want apple to change anything. I want them to take this concept, now that they have seen the interest (and showing them the interest is my reason for starting this thread) and put it into iOS themselves. This requires no change to the TOS for developers, since the keyboar

Re: Mail Mail and spell check

2012-02-26 Thread Red.Falcon
sorry Bill! No I did not! I was going to write the solution at the end if they worked! So change to manual checking if you prefer that! Colin On 27 Feb 2012, at 01:53, Bill Holton wrote: > Confused by your messages. Were you able to stop the message from going > out? > > > -Original Messag

Re: Moing Emails To A Different Mailbox

2012-02-26 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi Ezzie. I don't know if this work with snow kitty, but in Lion, If you go to the table of your messages, you should be able to select them with shift down arrow. Then press command X to cut them. Then go to the folder title where you want them to go and press command V. Regards Gigi On Feb

Re: Braille Touch: please help get Apple onboard

2012-02-26 Thread Mike Arrigo
Here is one reason among many why android is much more flexible, adding this functionality will not have any restrictions. Yes, Apple does not allow adding other keyboards, or input methods as they might be called. The thing is, if Apple allows this one, other developers will want to do the same

RE: Mail Mail and spell check

2012-02-26 Thread Bill Holton
Confused by your messages. Were you able to stop the message from going out? -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Red.Falcon Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2012 8:16 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re:

Re: Braille Touch: please help get Apple onboard

2012-02-26 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi guys. Well, I can't imagine how this would be an advantage, but then, this is no flat screen, no way, for the year 2010 speaking here. Back in 2010, I couldn't imagine how we could do flat screens. When I hear about flat screens these days, I think, does it work like the iPhone, and if it doe

Re: Mail Mail and spell check

2012-02-26 Thread Red.Falcon
So I tried closing it from the top menu and within vo+shift+m and using the close button in the spell check window and as you saw the message was sent every time! I use the same check before sending! I saw in the top menu something and will try that now! if it works I'll say next! :] On 27 Feb 20

Re: Mail Mail and spell check

2012-02-26 Thread Red.Falcon
At this rate someone else will just tell us! So will it be 3rd time lucky! Colin Lets see! On 27 Feb 2012, at 01:07, Bill Holton wrote: > Hi. > I set my spell check to go off before the message is sent. But just > discovered that if I decide the go back and look at the sentence I put the > wor

Re: Mail Mail and spell check

2012-02-26 Thread Red.Falcon
Hi again well that did not work!I'll try again I'm sure there is a way! And like before I'll say after this! On 27 Feb 2012, at 01:07, Bill Holton wrote: > Hi. > I set my spell check to go off before the message is sent. But just > discovered that if I decide the go back and look at the sentenc

Re: Mail Mail and spell check

2012-02-26 Thread Red.Falcon
Hi Bill! I will check this before sending this one and if it still works I will say after this word! On 27 Feb 2012, at 01:07, Bill Holton wrote: > Hi. > I set my spell check to go off before the message is sent. But just > discovered that if I decide the go back and look at the sentence I put

Mail Mail and spell check

2012-02-26 Thread Bill Holton
Hi. I set my spell check to go off before the message is sent. But just discovered that if I decide the go back and look at the sentence I put the word in there doesn't seem to be a way out. Pressing escape on the spell check causes the spell check to end and the message to be sent. Did I ma

Re: Braille Touch: please help get Apple onboard

2012-02-26 Thread John Sanfilippo
Hi Alex, Thank you for taking the time to be so articulate and informative about this matter. I really appreciate your effort. Best regards, John Sanfilippo -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Gr

Re: Braille Touch: please help get Apple onboard

2012-02-26 Thread Alex Hall
Again, I don't want them to change their guidelines to let any app developer add keyboards. What I want is for them to take the code and use it as a keyboard in iOS, not an app in any way. So, when you unpack an iPhone running a version of iOS with the keyboard in it (probably 6 as 5.1 is already i

Re: Braille Touch: please help get Apple onboard

2012-02-26 Thread Scott Howell
Alex, With all do respect and coming from a Braille user; I think this is going to be a very difficult road. You are essentially asking APple to allow any developer of such the ability to have the same acces. There is already a Braille entry app out there and despite the fact it is not quite th

Re: Braille Touch: please help get Apple onboard

2012-02-26 Thread Alex Hall
Of course. I never said they should remove the other keyboard, and it should not be the default when vo is on. Rather, it needs to be one keyboard option, whether accessed through the rotor or in keyboard settings (and hence via the "next keyboard" button). After all, a good part of iOS' appeal is

Re: Braille Touch: please help get Apple onboard

2012-02-26 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Hi. Just one thing with what you propose,we don't want to say that the current screen keyboard should be taken out as users need choice and perhaps Apple can put the choice in and not limit the choice otherwise it'll become like other companies who just concentrate on blindness features of the

Braille Touch: please help get Apple onboard

2012-02-26 Thread Alex Hall
Hello all, There has been much discussion about the new Braille Touch app lately. For anyone who missed it, this is an app coming out sometime this year that lets users type in braille on an iOS or Android device. Basically, you hold the device sideways, the home button to your right or left. You t

Moing Emails To A Different Mailbox

2012-02-26 Thread Ezzie Bueno
> Hello list, > > Several of my emails have been marked "JUNK" and are in my junk folder. How > can I move these emails to my regular inbox? > > Thanks, > Ezzie Bueno > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this gro

Re: Continuous Reading in Ibooks on iPhone 4S

2012-02-26 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Just flick down with two fingers and you should get continuous reading. On 26 Feb 2012, at 07:41 PM, Mike Busboom wrote: > Hello everyone, > > A couple of weeks ago, I downloaded the book on Siri and have started to read > it. The navigation works reasonably well, i.e. I can go to specific pa

Re: Ical question

2012-02-26 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Oh Mark, I just realise that I have been talking about the address book. Please forgive me for that as I must have been very tired when I wrote that first message and I had been in my address book yesterday and thought it was the calendar for no good reason. But yes, interact with the entries

Re: using the keypad on the IPhone while on a call.

2012-02-26 Thread Ricardo Walker
You get it from the app store. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Feb 26, 2012, at 3:51 PM, Jessica wrote: > Oh really? Where do you get that ap from? > I had no idea there was such a thing. > - Original Message - From: "Ricardo

Re: Continuous Reading in Ibooks on iPhone 4S

2012-02-26 Thread Esther
Hi Mike, Just to expand on my comment about issuing the two-finger flick down from the text area of the book to get continuous reading going in iBooks. Since this gesture is meant to "read all" on the current page, starting from your present position, if you wanted to find out about the page ch

Re: using the keypad on the IPhone while on a call.

2012-02-26 Thread Jessica
Oh really? Where do you get that ap from? I had no idea there was such a thing. - Original Message - From: "Ricardo Walker" To: Cc: "The Accessible Phones Discussion List" Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2012 12:40 PM Subject: Re: using the keypad on the IPhone while on a call. Hi, The

Re: using the keypad on the IPhone while on a call.

2012-02-26 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, There really is no way to get around this but to use headphones when needing to use an automated system while on a call. Sure, you can take the phone from your face bringing the call on speaker phone but, Voiceover is way too low in my opinion for this to be practical. But, when using hea

Re: Continuous Reading in Ibooks on iPhone 4S

2012-02-26 Thread Ricardo Walker
Interesting, This usually works. Have you tried doing a 2 finger swipe up? Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Feb 26, 2012, at 3:31 PM, Mike Busboom wrote: > Hello Jane, > > That's the problem. A two-finger flick down reads the curren

Re: Continuous Reading in Ibooks on iPhone 4S

2012-02-26 Thread Esther
Hi Mike, Try doing the two-finger flick down from the middle of the text page. For example, if you're reading in the page, do a two-finger tap to stop. Then do a two-finger flick down. Usually when you're in the text area this will work for continuous reading. Or you can try to touch the cen

Re: Continuous Reading in Ibooks on iPhone 4S

2012-02-26 Thread Mike Busboom
Hello Jane, That's the problem. A two-finger flick down reads the current page, but reading is halted at the end of the page. I have been unsuccessful at having continuous read to work. I am read the current page from start to finish, but then VO stops reading, i.e. the next page isn't turned

re: apple tv question:

2012-02-26 Thread Chenelle Hancock
hi all, i just only purchased an apple tv about three months ago. furthermore, i did not have any problems with setting it up. i i have an h.d.l.c..d tv thus all i had to do is to get another h.d.m.i. caple and connect it to the back of the apple tv and then hook the other piece to the

Re: Continuous Reading in Ibooks on iPhone 4S

2012-02-26 Thread Jane
Hi. Tru a two-finger-flick-down. That'll start it reading and will turn pages. Jane On Feb 26, 2012, at 2:41 PM, Mike Busboom wrote: > Hello everyone, > > A couple of weeks ago, I downloaded the book on Siri and have started to read > it. The navigation works reasonably well, i.e. I can go

Continuous Reading in Ibooks on iPhone 4S

2012-02-26 Thread Mike Busboom
Hello everyone, A couple of weeks ago, I downloaded the book on Siri and have started to read it. The navigation works reasonably well, i.e. I can go to specific pages and read a page in its entirety. Where I am having a problem, however, is getting VoiceOver to read continuously. At present

Re: YouTube Tutorials

2012-02-26 Thread Emrah
Wow, what a story! Mike, I dearly admire your capacity of adaptation, 2 years is a short timeframe. I will definitely check out your Youtube videos. I will keep an ear on the list and do my best to answer any of your questions as well. Thank you for your service, and wishing you all the best in

Re: Ical question

2012-02-26 Thread Marc Sutton
Hi Kawal, I don't find any tables in ical. I am just wondering what you mean vy contacts. Do you mean events? I am using ical under lion and there are dates listed but not in any table view. Thanks. Marc On Feb 25, 2012, at 11:51 PM, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: > I found that choice by accident when

Re: Interesting accessibility experience yesterday

2012-02-26 Thread Mr. L. Alexander
the beauty for me regarding this is not only being able to walk in and road test newer apple hardware but also being able to demonstrate voiceover to apple staff or reseller staff as well as requests from companies who have been made aware that V.I. clients are coming to consider investing in a

Re: Interesting accessibility experience yesterday

2012-02-26 Thread Scott Howell
Now ain't that the damnedest thing? Imagine that you would actually want to use a computer like everyone else. All kidding aside, is that cool or what? I did this in Best Buy where they have a small APple store inside and I even had a chance to play with the iPad and iPhone in the same way. I w

Re: Typing Tutorial for the Mac

2012-02-26 Thread erik burggraaf
Naw, that's what we're all on the hunt for. I will hit the app store eventually, but I have to have a client who needs it before I can justify the time and expense. I'm sure something is out there, but all of my introductary level users so far have been coming in to windows where talking typer

Interesting accessibility experience yesterday

2012-02-26 Thread Gigi
> Hi guys Yesterday, I had a little interesting experience with accessibility. I was in the store that, among other things, sells computers. There's a whole bunch of windows computers, and Mac computers I wanted to look up something on the Internet, and I couldn't use the iPhone, but I was stand

Re: How do I select all on the I pone?

2012-02-26 Thread Gigi
Hi Jenny I have another suggestion about how to speed up the selecting of messages on your iPhone. If you go into settings, and then go to mail can't remember exactly where it is an on settings you can find deselect by conversation. That way you can go into edit when you bring up your inbox, and

Re: editing cell contents in numbers?

2012-02-26 Thread Gigi
Hi guys Do not remember that somebody on this list said that you should interact with the sale in numbers also in order to edit it once you've done VO option enter question mark I ask because I had some trouble imaging in the middle of a sale in numbers Regards Gigi Sent from my iPhone On Feb

Abbyy Finereader express

2012-02-26 Thread Becky Knaub
Hi All, So I am getting this program as a birthday present, can anyone tell me how it works? Can it do things similar to Kurzweil on the PC? Can it take PDF's from school that are blank as far as VO is concerned into readable images? I wonder if it could work with bookshare books in converting t

Re: I can't figure out Dash Board

2012-02-26 Thread Esther
Hi Ray, Dashboard navigation seems very different in Lion, and I didn't use it a lot before. However, try bringing up window chooser menu VO-F2-F2 and going to the dashboard menu. You should be able to navigate to the weather widget, and also go to the widget bar. This seems to be correctly s

Re: How do I select all on the I pone?

2012-02-26 Thread Jenny Keller
Thanks. I was afraid of that. Jenny Sent from my iPhone On Feb 25, 2012, at 8:20 PM, Alex Hall wrote: > I hate to say this... but you can't select all messages at once. Sorry. > > You can, however, delete a message while reading it. Just find the > "move" button at the bottom of the screen, s

Re: How do I select all on the I pone?

2012-02-26 Thread Jenny Keller
Thanks. Jenny Sent from my iPhone On Feb 25, 2012, at 8:31 PM, Michael Malarsie wrote: > The only way I know to delete multiple messages is to press the edit button > at the upper right of the corner. Then select the messages you want to move > then press the move button and select the tras

Re: How do I select all on the I pone?

2012-02-26 Thread Jenny Keller
Do I have to delete everything one at a time or is there a delete all option? Also,how do I get my messages oldest to newest? Thanks for your help. Jenny and my goofy guide Brooks Sent from my iPhone On Feb 25, 2012, at 9:40 PM, Eugenia Firth wrote: > Hi Jenny. > When I delete things from

Re: I can't figure out Dash Board

2012-02-26 Thread Matt Dierckens
Hi Ray. I think if you hit VO f2, you can see what all the widgets. I have the weather one set to open when I open dashboard. Hth. Matt Sent from my macbook pro On 2012-02-26, at 8:26 AM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > Anbody here ever use Dashboard? I can't figure it out. Every time I launch > it, I

I can't figure out Dash Board

2012-02-26 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Anbody here ever use Dashboard? I can't figure it out. Every time I launch it, I land in the Calculator app and can't seem to move out of it. I thought perhaps there might be a weather wigit in Dashboard somewhere, but, I'm blasted if I can figure out how this thing works. Thanks. Sincerel

Re: Type In Braille

2012-02-26 Thread chris hallsworth
I haven't seen the one done by Code Factory. Christopher H On 25/02/2012 23:43, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: Hi Chris. What you speak about was done by Code Factory on their Last release of Windows Mobile and the current versions of Mobile Speak. If you have seen the one's done by Code Factory, i

Re: Type In Braille

2012-02-26 Thread chris hallsworth
You will once you get the nack of it. Christopher H On 26/02/2012 05:22, Aser Tolentino wrote: It looks to be limited to Grade 1, letters and basic punctuation. I've tried it and am atrociously slow; hopefully I'll get better with practice. Respectfully, Aser Tolentino, Esq. On 25/02/2012,

Re: editing cell contents in numbers?

2012-02-26 Thread Jürgen Fleger
VO + Spacebar also works. Regards Jürgen Am 26.02.2012 um 04:21 schrieb Greg Aikens: > Option + Enter should put your cursor in the cell to edit. > > -Greg > On Feb 25, 2012, at 5:37 AM, erik burggraaf wrote: > >> Hi, is there a key to edit cell contents in numbers? The standard f2 >> doesn