Re: New to Mac

2013-12-07 Thread Ray Foret Jr
The Voice OVer information at: www.apple.com/accessibility.com should be a good place to get started. Also, when you get your new Mac, and voice Over is turned on, if you press cmd+H twice, you’ll be brought right in to the list of all the Voice OVer commands. Sent from my Mac, the only comp

Re: New to Mac

2013-12-07 Thread Hope Paulos
I am going to be speaking with the president of Fedora on Monday. Thank you very much for the document! Smiles Hope Paulos > On Dec 7, 2013, at 3:30 PM, Scott Rumery wrote: > > Hi Hope > > This is Scott from the All In Access podcast which by the way you haven’t > made your debut on yet. I

Re: New to Mac

2013-12-07 Thread Scott Rumery
I definitely agree with your comment about the similarities and when I teach someone that is having trouble getting comfortable on the Mac I will always make comparisons to Windows because this is what they know. Have a great day, Scott On Dec 7, 2013, at 1:30 PM, Eugenia Firth wrote: > Hi

Re: New to Mac

2013-12-07 Thread Scott Rumery
Hi Hope This is Scott from the All In Access podcast which by the way you haven’t made your debut on yet. I have a document with all of the VoiceOver keystrokes I will put this in my public DropBox folder for anyone who might want it. If when you get your new Mac you find that you are having a

Re: New to Mac

2013-12-07 Thread Hope Paulos
I would love the files. Thank you so much for the offer. Hope Paulos > On Dec 7, 2013, at 1:30 PM, Eugenia Firth wrote: > > Hi Hope > Congratulations on such a nice Christmas present. > > There are two types of keystrokes you will want. One type is Macintosh > keyboard commands. the other

Re: New to Mac

2013-12-07 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi Hope Congratulations on such a nice Christmas present. There are two types of keystrokes you will want. One type is Macintosh keyboard commands. the other type is VoiceOver commands. I have two files, one for each type. do you want them? It only took me about two weeks to change from the

Re: new to mac gaming need help

2011-01-20 Thread Jude DaShiell
It would help if you saved the getgames.sh script from this message. It'll be between the two cut here lines. What it does is to use rsync to download the whole ifarchive game set and keep it up to date when run again. It makes an ifarchive folder tree in your user directory and under the ifa

Re: new to mac gaming need help

2011-01-19 Thread Carolyn Haas
Hi Ed: Welcome. You may want to check out maccessibility.net, and I think another possibility is applevis.com HTH Carolyn H On Jan 19, 2011, at 1:33 PM, Ed Worrell wrote: > Hello my name is Ed, > > I got a macbook pro not to long ago. I was wondering if you guys could help > me find some good

Re: New to mac

2010-05-03 Thread carlene knight
; > -Original Message- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John J Herzog > Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2010 9:13 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: New to mac > > Edward, > For a great demo

Re: New to mac

2010-05-03 Thread marie Howarth
t; the kersor within both documents and websites. >> But hay no, it doesn't work that way. >> >> -Original Message- >> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Scott Howell >> Sent: Sunday, 2 May

Re: New to mac

2010-05-03 Thread marie Howarth
> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: New to mac > > Nic I think the one thing we need to enforce here is do not bring your > windows and windows-based screen reading concepts to the Mac. If you try to > think of the Mac in windows terms or how things work with a wind

Re: New to mac

2010-05-03 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
rom: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Scott Howell > Sent: Sunday, 2 May 2010 9:29 p.m. > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: New to mac > > Nic I think the one thing we need to enforce here is do not bring your > windows

RE: New to mac

2010-05-03 Thread Simon Fogarty
groups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Scott Howell Sent: Sunday, 2 May 2010 9:29 p.m. To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: New to mac Nic I think the one thing we need to enforce here is do not bring your windows and windows-based screen reading concepts to the Mac. If you tr

RE: New to mac

2010-05-02 Thread Kerie doyle
mmend highly enough, I'm learning more and more all the time, and have no -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Scott Howell Sent: 02 May 2010 12:49 To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: New to mac N

Re: New to mac

2010-05-02 Thread Scott Howell
Nic, I was agreeing and responding to what you were saying as well as presenting my own point of view. This is how your name got associated with the message. Btw, my point of course was not to call out the advantages or disadvantages of one screen reader over another or OS. My point simply to Ed

Re: New to mac

2010-05-02 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
body of text on a webpage with few >>> keystrokes? >>> >>> Thanks >>> Edward >>> >>> >>> -Original Message- >>> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >>> [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf O

Re: New to mac

2010-05-02 Thread marie Howarth
possible. Is all of the >>> mac OS accessible? >>> >>> Finally, can you easily navigate to a body of text on a webpage with few >>> keystrokes? >>> >>> Thanks >>> Edward >>> >>> >>> -Orig

Re: New to mac

2010-05-02 Thread marie Howarth
Hey Olivia, Webspots are awesome. You set one on a page using vo-cmd-shift-right bracket. You can remove a webspot by using vo-cmd-shift-left bracket at any area on a webpage. For example, if a page doesn't have a lot of navigation, and i need to jump to an area quickly, I'll set up a webspot an

Re: New to mac

2010-05-02 Thread Scott Howell
nal Message- >> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Nicolai Svendsen >> Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2010 8:45 PM >> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> Subject: Re: New to mac >> >> Hi, >> >&g

Re: New to mac

2010-05-01 Thread Courtney Curran
Hi, I've been using a Mack for about a month and a half now. It didn't take me very long to get used to, but it is way different than Windows. From what I've seen, there's nothing bad about the Mack, I love it. Courtney On 01/05/2010, at 9:36 in the Afternoon, Kaare Dehard wrote: > it is good

Re: New to mac

2010-05-01 Thread Kaare Dehard
it is good indeed, however, it may take some getting used to. Intuitive yeppers, but it took me a bit of time to get through the learning curve. It was worth it, but ya got to hang in there while you get used to the different ways of navigation. On 2010-05-01, at 8:45 PM, Nicolai Svendsen wrote:

RE: New to mac

2010-05-01 Thread Edward
Subject: Re: New to mac Edward, For a great demo of voiceover and the mac's web browser, head over to the blind cool tech web site. Then, search for the words mac demo. I don't want to spoil it, but one of the really cool things about no buffers is that you get to see information change o

Re: New to mac

2010-05-01 Thread olivia norman
I've never understood web spots and how they work. Can someone point me in the right direction here? Thanks, Olivia On May 1, 2010, at 8:45 PM, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: > Hi, > > There are good alternatives to MS Office. MS Office is not fully accessible > yet, but it is said that it will be wri

Re: New to mac

2010-05-01 Thread John J Herzog
> > > -Original Message- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Nicolai Svendsen > Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2010 8:45 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: New to mac > > Hi, > > There are goo

Re: New to mac

2010-05-01 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
ies@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Nicolai Svendsen > Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2010 8:45 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: New to mac > > Hi, > > There are good alternatives to MS Office. MS Office is not fully

RE: New to mac

2010-05-01 Thread Edward
aries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Nicolai Svendsen Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2010 8:45 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: New to mac Hi, There are good alternatives to MS Office. MS Office is not fully accessible yet, but it is said that it wi

Re: New to mac

2010-05-01 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, There are good alternatives to MS Office. MS Office is not fully accessible yet, but it is said that it will be written in Cocoa, most likely making it accessible. The Mac has a basic Text Editor called Text Edit, which is a lot better than Wordpad and Notepad on Windows. You have suites su

Re: New to mac

2009-03-06 Thread David Poehlman
update the time that is. On Mar 6, 2009, at 10:54 PM, JP Isaac wrote: Hi all, Though I've my mac for a year or so now, I'm only getting into it now. I've spent most of my time using Windows XP with Boot Camp. One thing I'm noticing is a disparity between the mac os and the windows time. I

Re: New to mac

2009-03-06 Thread David Poehlman
hmm, have you got all your mac updates? there was an update a while back that I think fixed this issue. in any event, if you leave one or another of them on long enough you may have force windows to do it, but the mac should update automatically. On Mar 6, 2009, at 10:54 PM, JP Isaac wrot