HI. interesting voice over read secret if I read by turning the roter to words
Cheers
Maria
sent from mac mini
email, & fb bubbygirl1...@gmail.com
skype bubbygirl1972 twitter same as skype without the numbers.
On 2 May 2014, at 11:56 pm, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
wrote:
> I
HI. I haven't worked with a macbook air, but I have a macbook pro and love it.
I can use vmware fusion without any problems. I hope this helps
Blessings!
maria and Joe chapman
Email, iMessage & fb: bubbygirl1...@gmail.com
twitter: bubbygirl
On 3 May 2014, at 9:13 am, Tristan wrote:
> Hell
Hi. I am not a blind ham but am willing to throw my voice in there in order to
make the software accessible for someone that wants to use it.
Maria and Joe Chapman
bubbygirl1...@gmail.com
On 3 May 2014, at 2:07 pm, Eric Oyen wrote:
> I have been trying to get the developer of chirp to add so
I have been trying to get the developer of chirp to add some accessibility to
the app (considering that those class objects are included in python, there
shouldn't be an excuse not to). However, I have either been ignored (for the
most part) or had one of the other users on that mailing list try
I have used Prompt to connect to a telnetable server and VoiceOver read the
screen automatically.
Sent from my iPhone
> On May 2, 2014, at 12:50 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
>
> iSsh does appear to work. It connects with no problems and I can read what is
> on the screen/in the terminal with bra
Without much reason to vote, i want to point out something. Apple
announced a couple of days back that they are changing the air line.
Especially since longevity is a motivation, the macbook pro may be best?
Kare from her chair in the corner.
On Fri, 2 May 2014, Feliciano G wrote:
I would
Hi there
At a recent meeting where I was recently, somebody asked what would be the
difference between the MacBook air and the MacBook Pro. They wanted to know how
you would choose. It was explained to them that it depends on what processing
you need, and the person that told this said that the
Hi there
I have called that 877-204-3930 number several times. I have had excellent
results with that number. When you call that number, you get a recording that
says that this number is four visually impaired or hearing-impaired customers.
You are talking to the senior advisers.
Sincerely,
Gigi
I would get the MacBook Pro. I am not a fan of the air lineup.
Regards, Feliciano
Sent from the Super-iPhone
> On May 2, 2014, at 4:13 PM, "Tristan" wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I've been a part of this group for some time now, and have enjoyed the
> wealth of information that I've gleaned
8772043930
Sent from my iPhone
> On May 2, 2014, at 8:05 PM, don bishop wrote:
>
>
>
> - Forwarded Message -
> From: don bishop
> To: macvisionarr...@googlegroups.com
> Date: Friday, May 2, 2014 5:01 pm
> Subject: VO KNOWLEDGABLE TECH AT APPLE SUPPORT
>
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>> I'm havin
hi, all,
I'm trying to add a server to favorites, but this option is dimmed. I'm keeping
my connections panel open for now, but is there something I might not have set
right? Are the favorites servers or chatrooms or both?
Thanks,
teresa
"We're made of star stuff."--Carl Sagan
- Forwarded Message -
From: don bishop
To: macvisionarr...@googlegroups.com
Date: Friday, May 2, 2014 5:01 pm
Subject: VO KNOWLEDGABLE TECH AT APPLE SUPPORT
>
>
> Hi,
> I'm having a problem with a setting in mavericks mail. Does anyone know of a
> person I could contact in apple sup
Hello,
I've been a part of this group for some time now, and have enjoyed the
wealth of information that I've gleaned from observing. I've finally
come to the decision on switching from Windows to Mac. I'll either be
getting a MacBook Air, or MacBook Pro.
One of the big things for me, however, is
Yes, I have added the printer to the Mac. That was easy. I am trying to connect
it wirelessly to our network so as we can have the printer some ware else in
the house.
Max
On 3 May 2014, at 8:48 am, Caitlyn and Maggie wrote:
> Did you try adding the printer in the printers and fax section of
Did you try adding the printer in the printers and fax section of system
preferences?
I think you should be able to do everything from there..
Good luck!
We just did the adding a printer thing ourselves.
Cait
On May 2, 2014, at 6:39 PM, Agent086b wrote:
> Hi,
> we have just purchased an Epson
Hi,
we have just purchased an Epson 710 printer. The printer is not as accessible
as I thought it would be. These blessid touch screens! Is there a way to enter
the network settings from the Mac instead of the printer itself? My sited wife
could do this but our password is 63 characters long. No
So, let me get this here straight.
1. Press control+8 or VO+m twice in quick succession to access the menu extras.
2. Now, use VO right or left to access the blue tooth menu.
3. Now, hold down the option key alone for a few seconds,
4. Now, press control+space to enter the menu. Is that ri
Got the link to where you found this? Sounds interesting.
Quote of the nanosecond . . .
I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.
Robert & Annie Yanni ke7nwn
E-mail-
gone.to.da...@gmail.com
On 5/2/2014 2:34 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
It hadn't occurred to me before either. I did some
It hadn't occurred to me before either. I did some googling and found an
article telling you how to monitor your device's signal strength which is also
revealed with option and that is why I tried it.
> --
> Cheryl
> I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf.
> I got crumpled wads of tear-sta
The options are getting really good these days. I would stay away from hp.
They are going touch for their multifunctions. The web imterface is pretty
accessivle but you may need help to get set up.
I was avle to set my samsung up all by myself usimg my mac to add the wifi
settings via usb.
Hey, Cheryl, thanks. It seems obvious now that we know it, because using option
with click visually shows more menu options, but this didn't occur to me
before. This worked. I did everything slowly.
Teresa
Slow down; you'll get there faster.
On May 2, 2014, at 1:32 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
>
I know there was a thread about this a while back and I have been trying to
figure it out ever since. I just found it in case nobody has yet discovered
this and posted it.
Make sure that you have checked the box in system Preferences > bluetooth to
show bluetooth in menu bar. Then go into menu
Thanks, that's exactly it. This way, I could have a technical passage at a
slower rate than a passage from a novel, say.
Teresa
“Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too
dark to read.”—Groucho Marx
On May 2, 2014, at 12:17 PM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Ok I will have to see what the command o did as I did realize it was
a zip so did not get the expected response. Looked at the zip file in
Windows and there are 2 or 3 nested folders. Just took another look in
it and did not see what might be the installer so will work with it on
the Mac. Th
Supposedly voiceover support was add some time ago. I don't use Eclipse
but since it is free, give it a whirl.
CB
On 4/4/14, 6:50 PM, Sean Muprhy wrote:
Hello all.
Does Eclips work with Voice-Over?
Is there a Mac Blind Programming group?
Sean
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Usually no different than otherwise. In the zip file there will either be a
package installer. If so open it as usual and the installer will run. Sometimes
the application itself is in the zip file, then you can just move it to the
Applications folder.
On May 2, 2014, at 3:44 PM, Robert C wrote
Depends a bit on what it is but the first step is to unzip it. That's
done by selecting the file and then opening it (Command-O). That should
create an uncompressed version. It might be the full app to go in your
applications folder or it might be an installer.
CB
On 5/2/14, 3:44 PM, Robert C
Another new thing for me. How to install an app that is in a zip
file? Thanks.
Quote of the nanosecond . . .
A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall. The police are
looking into it.
Robert & Annie Yanni ke7nwn
E-mail-
gone.to.da...@gmail.com
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You received this message because you are
Are you saying you want the output of the say command stored as an mp3?
Apples embedded speech commands are described in the documentation here:
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/userexperience/conceptual/SpeechSynthesisProgrammingGuide/FineTuning/FineTuning.html#//apple_ref/
So could you append a file that would be spoken as an mp3 file with one of
these speech commands? Just curious.
Teresa
“We’re made of star stuff.”—Carl Sagan
On May 2, 2014, at 10:45 AM, Cara Quinn wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have also seen this for years.
>
> this is not quite a bug
At an office supply store near me. It's called Beatty's Basics.
Any ideas as to my question?
Cait
On May 2, 2014, at 2:14 PM, Isaac Hebert wrote:
> Wheir did you get the keyboard from?
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On May 2, 2014, at 12:31 PM, Caitlyn and Maggie
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> I ju
Interesting. I even did a search for the word 'report'. Nothing. I
wonder if its invisible. Will try later to see if I can find that. :)
Quote of the nanosecond . . .
Even when I was saying I was Agnostic and trying to figure out my
thoughts, I felt God was allowing me to do that.
--Alfre
Hi Robert, its right after the amount billed.
Matt Dierckens
Macintosh Trainer
Blind Access Training
www.blindaccesstraining.com
1-877-774-7670 ext. 4
On May 2, 2014, at 2:30 PM, Robert C wrote:
> I looked and looked and do not see a report a problem link in the emails.
>
> Quote of the na
I looked and looked and do not see a report a problem link in the
emails.
Quote of the nanosecond . . .
Last week, I stated this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I
have since been visited by her sister . and now wish to withdraw that
statement.
--Mark Twain
Robert & Annie Yann
Wheir did you get the keyboard from?
Sent from my iPhone
> On May 2, 2014, at 12:31 PM, Caitlyn and Maggie
> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I just bought an ergonomic keyboard that's supposed to work with my i mac.
> the tech guy tried it out on his mac at the store and it worked.
>
> when I got it home
Vienna, the RSS feed reader is open source and available here:
http://www.vienna-rss.org
CB
On 4/7/14, 1:52 PM, Mary Otten wrote:
I thought I read that the podcatcher app Vienna was on the app store. I just
searched for it and came up empty. Am I nuts or what? On second thought, don't
answer
Seems to be working for me. Which particular part was not working? What
version of Safari were you on?
CB
On 4/7/14, 2:04 PM, Dionipher Presas Herrera wrote:
here it is http://www.piano-play-it.com/piano-exercises.html
On 07 Apr 2014, at 01:18 pm, Catherine Turner
wrote:
Hi,
Apologies if
I didn't notice a followup to this. After you rotate the video in
QuickTime Player you need to export the video. The exported file will
have the rotation changed.
CB
On 4/7/14, 3:02 PM, Maxwell Ivey wrote:
hi group; is there a way to rotate a video and then save it in quick time or
imovie? I
You can. I've done it multiple times.
Sent from my iPhone
> On May 2, 2014, at 1:48 PM, Robert C wrote:
>
> You cannot do this from those emails. You need to go to iTunes suppprt. I
> need to do this myself but have not gone thru the process yet.
>
> Quote of the nanosecond . . .
> Got milk
You cannot do this from those emails. You need to go to iTunes
suppprt. I need to do this myself but have not gone thru the process yet.
Quote of the nanosecond . . .
Got milk?
--California Milk Processor Board
Robert & Annie Yanni ke7nwn
E-mail-
gone.to.da...@gmail.com
On 5/2/2014 6:04 AM,
Hi,
I have also seen this for years.
this is not quite a bug in the sense that it is the structure for a speech
command which you can see in action by doing the following.
I will not put these commands in this text as I'd rather not make people's
speech go wonky! lol! :)
1 open a text file wi
Hi,
I just bought an ergonomic keyboard that's supposed to work with my i mac. the
tech guy tried it out on his mac at the store and it worked.
when I got it home and plugged it into my machine, my machine acted like
nothing was plugged into it at all.
I restareted my mac and stil l nothing.
Oh yes! I can use the braille edge in bluetooth terminal mode with the ipad,
start brltty after starting screen once connected to my computer with iSSH, and
then just switch back and forth with my braille edge between the ipad
(bluetooth) and the computer with brltty (usb). Could probably do the
I think its a macintalk problem.
Devin Prater
Sent from my iPod 5.
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email: d.pra...@me.com
Google Talk/keychat: r.d.t.pra...@gmail.com
> On May 2, 2014, at 9:29, Tim Kilburn wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I believe that this has been around for quite
Okay, this is exciting! I sshed with iSSH on to my computer in terminal. Then I
started screen-4.0.1 and brailletty starting brailletty up with my
refreshabraille since I was using the braille edge on the ipad. Using the
refreshabraille and my bluetooth keyboard I was able to navigate, edit and
Really odd results Alex. I wonder if it has to do with the brackets? Whatever
the case it shouldn't do that.
Jim
On May 2, 2014, at 8:26 AM, Alex Hall wrote:
> Hi all,
> I've noticed something really odd lately, and I'd like to see if anyone can
> confirm it. Below is a line of code. You d
iSsh does appear to work. It connects with no problems and I can read what is
on the screen/in the terminal with braille and by flicking on the ipad. But it
is kind of clunky because all the terminal lines are numbered and when I opened
an editor in terminal it worked but it was hard to tell whe
Interestingly, when navigating right by word using Option-right-Arrow, the word
Secret was not read, but when navigating left it was.
Cheers,
Anne
On 2 May 2014, at 16:29, Tim Kilburn wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I believe that this has been around for quite a while actually. I thought
> that it had
I didn't notice any replies to this. I don't know if the Mac version is
accessible although IBM is known for making accessible software, at
least on other platforms. You can download a free trial of their app
which works for two weeks here:
https://www14.software.ibm.com/download/data/web/en_U
Okay,
I am soon going to be in the market for a printer. I'd prefer a
printer/faxer/scanner. Do any of y'all out there know which three-in-1
printers would be the most accessible to Voice Over? I'd want a printer where
I could adjust the fax settings, scanner settings with Abby Fine Reader
This might work, thanks for the link.
On May 2, 2014, at 11:20 AM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
wrote:
> PacketPeeper is close:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/packetpeeper/
>
> You can set it up to record all traffic going in/out of a network connection
> and then check all the meta
PacketPeeper is close:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/packetpeeper/
You can set it up to record all traffic going in/out of a network
connection and then check all the metadata about each packet. The hole
right now is the actual payload of the packet is displayed in an 'empty
scroll area' wh
Chirp is already deleted. And no, I have not heard of any other
solutions, other than running the Kenwood sodtware in Windows.
My rigs, except for the handheld, have the speech chip so I can
manage with that.
Quote of the nanosecond . . .
Can you cry under water?
Robert & Annie Yanni ke
Dunno about that one but I can tell you TouchTerm is not accessible. I
could get connected and even log into the remote host but once there,
the entire text display was not accessible.
CB
On 5/2/14, 10:52 AM, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
I would like to be able to ssh into my MAC computers from my iPa
My thinking is nope. Developers aren't interested inWindows/Mac screen readers.
Direct from the FAQ of the Chirp site
http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/FAQ#Im-a-blind-ham-Can-I-use-CHIRP-with-a-screen-reader
I'm a blind ham. Can I use CHIRP with a screen reader?
CHIRP uses a graphical
I would like to be able to ssh into my MAC computers from my iPad. I found iSSH
but don't know if it is accessible and will allow me to ssh to my computers.
Has anybody used this or another ssh app, without jailbreaking, and found it
accessible? I want to ssh from my iPad to my computer NOT into
So much for that idea. You saved me some grief. Got this from a
blind hams list so what were they thinking?
Are the developers interested in making Chirp compatible?
Quote of the nanosecond . . .
A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live.
--Bob Hope
Robert & Annie
I'm not a Ham but I did find this article with links to various Ham OSX
programs and voiceover:
http://www.hamradioandvision.com/mac-osx-page-hamradioandvision/
CB
On 5/2/14, 7:16 AM, Buddy Brannan wrote:
I can guarantee you that Chirp is *not* accessible with Voiceover. For that
matter, it
Hi,
I believe that this has been around for quite a while actually. I thought that
it had something to do with what VO considers punctuation and what it does with
that consideration. But, after reading your message and changing VO’s
punctuation reading to “All," it did read some of the bracke
Hi,
This seems like something that is configurable. Not that I can figure out what
it is though. It just seems like something in a plist file is set to
descending instead of ascending. It shouldn't have been this problematic.
Sorry I couldn't be more help.
Later...
Tim Kilburn
Fort McMurr
You know what's weird? The word "secret" was read in say-all and line-by-line
reading. When I find code snippets that won't read, they don't appear to work
anywhere, not just in Mail or Xcode, but I haven't figured out the rules that
cause this to happen. Still, I'm glad it isn't just me. Thanks
I even tried it in another editor (SubEtha Edit) and it did the same
thing. So VO is getting confused consistently. Apparently it's the
triple-bracket that makes VO silent. The following is a simpler example
that also fails:
This is some [[[secret]]] text.
I have the word "secret" in triple b
That's weird, but it makes sense that VO is confused. I can verify it. I can
read character by character and it shows up, though.
Teresa
"Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough."--Richard P. Feynman
On May 2, 2014, at 6:26 AM, Alex Hall wrote:
> Hi all,
> I've noticed somet
I use all my apps in full-screen mode, so this hasn't been an issue for me. I
just make sure this is the case in safari, and LastPass works fine. I suspect
it might be an incompatibility issue with VO and LastPass in Safari.
Teresa
On the other hand, there are different fingers.
On May 2, 2014
Hi all,
I've noticed something really odd lately, and I'd like to see if anyone can
confirm it. Below is a line of code. You don't need to know Objective-C or
anything; the oddity is that VO is skipping text. Specifically, the bit that
says [[self solitaireModel] isDiscardStackRole] is omitted e
Find your iTunes receipt in your email, click the report a problem link, and
fill in the information that it requires.
Sent from my iPhone
> On May 2, 2014, at 8:51 AM, Scott Berry wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> I ought a program that I thought would work for coring PDFs to Docx format
> but I fou
Hi there,
I ought a program that I thought would work for coring PDFs to Docx format but
I found out I don't like the way it does it's conversions and it's recognition
is great. So I want to get my money back. How do I do this?
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Makes perfect sense. I used the shell to do the whole thing. I quit mail.app
first, then did the rename of .mboxCache.plist and all, but when I restarted
mail.app, the list of mail folders was rebuilt but the alpha order is still
reversed. I guess my machine does not know her ABC's:).
I suppose
I can guarantee you that Chirp is *not* accessible with Voiceover. For that
matter, it can only be used with lots of mouse keys navigation under Windows,
and most easily with Window-Eyes, in my experience.
On May 2, 2014, at 12:51 AM, Robert C wrote:
> This is free software and it should be
I like to use a program called id3 edit. I don’t remember the original source
right off top of my head; they aren’t in the app store. I use that all the time
before placing tracks into iTunes. that way iTunes can store them in their
proper places in the library.
On Apr 30, 2014, at 1:05 PM, 'Ch
I wasn't sure who the culprit was. When I started seeing this problem, Safari
had just been upgraded and LastPass had been upgraded fairly recently too. I
will have to try the maximize trick next time I need to use it. I'm surprised
this doesn't affect people not using VO as it seems to grab key
Yeah, I had a lot of performance issues shortly after a Mavericks update too
last month. I wasn’t aware of spotlight index rebuilds or any of that but the
only real outstanding issue here now is Mail still seems sluggish at times but
over all, the machine is quite workable now. Another thing tha
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