French Braille

2009-05-27 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello everyone, For anyone who speaks French, French Braille is now available from my French site at: Installation instructions in French are in a text document in the ZIP archive. Cheers, Anne --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you a

Re: French Braille

2009-05-27 Thread william lomas
hi anne is this the french computer braille system? On 27 May 2009, at 10:50, Anne Robertson wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > For anyone who speaks French, French Braille is now available from my > French site at: > > > Installation instructions in French are in a text document in the ZIP > archi

Re: French Braille

2009-05-27 Thread David Hole
Hmmm This means, you, Anne (or someone else) has made french braille for the Mac? Am I right? If so, can this be used to translate to other languages - Norwegian in my case? william lomas skrev: > hi anne is this the french computer braille system? > > On 27 May 2009, at 10:50, Anne Robert

Re: French Braille

2009-05-27 Thread william lomas
I assume that if one complete foreign table can be done, then I assume norweigan and others can be done On 27 May 2009, at 11:04, David Hole wrote: > > Hmmm > This means, you, Anne (or someone else) has made french braille for > the > Mac? Am I right? > If so, can this be used to transla

Re: French Braille

2009-05-27 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Will, This is uncontracted Braille with all the accented letters and punctuation in accordance with the universal French Braille code. It even shows Newline characters which is useful when editing a document. Abrégé will come later if we can find an electronic version of the code. Che

Re: French Braille

2009-05-27 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello David, My husband did the coding, but if you could send us a document containing the Norwegian Braille codes, he could make one for Norwegian, too. What we need are the 8-dot Braille patterns for each character. Obviously, the basic alphabet is the same for all languages using the

setting up another user account in another language.

2009-05-27 Thread Dan Eickmeier
Hey all, I'm aware that it is possible to set up another user account in another language if you wanted to, even if you've installed MacOS in English. A friend of mine is considering possibly getting a mac, and even though she can speak English very well, I think her first language is Spa

Not another iTunes question!

2009-05-27 Thread Eliza Cooper
Hi list, Yup, sorry to torture you by adding to the persistent iTunes topic, but here goes: When I first got my Mac, I plugged in a MyBook drive that I'd been given that had a ton of music on it. Since all the songs showed up in the tables in iTunes, I assumed thay'd been im

some mailboxes have disappeared

2009-05-27 Thread Simon Cavendish
Dear Listers, I have just noticed much to my horror that some of my mailboxes have disappeared. I have for instant created a mailbox called macvisionaries and in it macvisionaries archive to which I would direct by creatting a rule or move by hand respectively my e-mails from the group. T

Clarification of legal agreements related to VoiceOver

2009-05-27 Thread A-Pro Studio
Hi, First of all, I am not posting this to "crash the party" for everyone - including myself, who would like their own localization of VoiceOver. But since none of us use to read all legal agreements included with all software we use, and since we might get into trouble by breaking such ag

Re: some mailboxes have disappeared

2009-05-27 Thread Esther
Hello Simon, What I think happened is that your mail preferences file(s) got corrupted. A check of the Apple Support archives showed that this can happen when you run out of free space for Mail to use in its temporary housekeeping when your mailbox is very large and/or your disk is very f

Re: Clarification of legal agreements related to VoiceOver

2009-05-27 Thread Søren Jensen
Hi. I'll follow these rules because I might get into trouble if I brake them, but I think it's very sad that it's not allowed to modify Voiceover and other kind of software to fix bugs or to add more features. If it was allowed, we could add a lot of nice features to Voiceover... Best rega

Re: Clarification of legal agreements related to VoiceOver

2009-05-27 Thread Dan Eickmeier
Hasn't Apple localised Mac os as a whole in multiple languages already though? On May 27, 2009, at 2:21 PM, Søren Jensen wrote: > Hi. > > I'll follow these rules because I might get into trouble if I brake > them, but I think it's very sad that it's not allowed to modify > Voiceover and othe

Re: Clarification of legal agreements related to VoiceOver

2009-05-27 Thread louie
It's is my Mac and I payed for the software, I will do whant do with them. Now if I sell the results of my affords then I am at fault. On May 27, 2009, at 11:21 AM, Søren Jensen wrote: > Hi. > > I'll follow these rules because I might get into trouble if I brake > them, but I think it's very

Re: Clarification of legal agreements related to VoiceOver

2009-05-27 Thread Sean Tikkun
I think folks don't need to worry about the preverbal ruler slap on the wrist.  The iPod was heavily modded, and the iPhone was even hacked to accept other service providers.  At this time I've never heard of Apple pursuing legal action.  In fact with the iPod hacks, most are now incorporated into

Re: wonderful news about apple care

2009-05-27 Thread Ben King
Dear Jenny, Thank you for your email. I agree with you completely. Macs are the best! Voiceover rocks! I am trying to win my Mom over to the Mac side as well and I think I have her there. If I had say in what computers went in my house, they would be all Mac! I hope everything is going

Re: French Braille

2009-05-27 Thread Koumanova Rostislava
hi ann, i am so happy that this discussion came up. i live in italy and just the other day i discussed with a tecnical man of an important structure about the braille tables. can somebody explain to me if it is possibile. this man is a pc fan , and he sostains that voice over is limited be

Re: wonderful news about apple care

2009-05-27 Thread Jessi and Goldina
man...if I had a choice every computer in the world would be a mac. lol who needs pc's anyway right? lol. peace and positivity Jessi follow me on twitter www.twitter.com/canadian_diva On 27-May-09, at 12:27 PM, Ben King wrote: > > Dear Jenny, > > Thank you for your email. I agree with you comp

Re: college, video game music, and the mac?

2009-05-27 Thread Ben King
On May Dear Arthur, My name is Ben King. I love my Mac quite a bit. I would suggest using IWork for your office application. As far as music programs go I am not sure. Some podcasts that have helped me out are the Screenlessswitchers podcast, the new Mac accessibility podcast on Lion

VmWare Fusion Help

2009-05-27 Thread Mike
Hi all: Really need some help with VmWare Fusion on routing cursor keys. Assentially, how do I get my apple keyboard to emulate a windows keyboard in every detail? Thanks: Mike --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Goog

Re: setting up another user account in another language.

2009-05-27 Thread Koumanova Rostislava
hi , i use my mac with italian operating system, i have info vox italian and english language. when i need to read in english i change vo option , in the voice menu i leave italian as a main language and change the language which reads the contents in english. vo reads all my menu and coma

Re: French Braille

2009-05-27 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Rossy, Italian Braille can be added if someone can find the 8-dot patterns for all the characters. You might like to try the French Braille to see whether the accents and punctuation are the same as in Italian. The French table certainly includes some Spanish punctuation such as the

Re: French Braille

2009-05-27 Thread Koumanova Rostislava
thanz ann, may i forward your messagge to my friend, i think he's been looking for some solutions. all he needs , perhaps some advices on how did you did in french ? rossy Il giorno 27/mag/09, alle ore 22:32, Anne Robertson ha scritto: > > Hello Rossy, > > Italian Braille can be added if some

Re: college, video game music, and the mac?

2009-05-27 Thread ben mustill-rose
I could well be wrong here, but wasn't there some discussion when ilife09 first came out about vo not working well with garageband? On 27/05/2009, Ben King wrote: > > > On May > Dear Arthur, > > My name is Ben King. I love my Mac quite a bit. I would suggest > using IWork for your office appli

Re: Clarification of legal agreements related to VoiceOver

2009-05-27 Thread Scott Howell
A simple solution is if you want some features, send a note to accessibil...@apple.com and it may find its way to the right folks. This is not open source, so obviously it can't be modified in the manner you would like. However, Apple is open to feedback and welcomes such from users. A lot

Re: Not another iTunes question!

2009-05-27 Thread Scott Howell
Sure, you can hit command+o to import. If you do an entire drive, be prepared to wait a good while. :) On May 27, 2009, at 11:42 AM, Eliza Cooper wrote: > > Hi list, > Yup, sorry to torture you by adding to the persistent iTunes topic, > but here goes: > When I first got my Mac, I p

Re: Clarification of legal agreements related to VoiceOver

2009-05-27 Thread Alex Jurgensen
Hi, I am discussing this with Apple at the momment to avoid legal reprocutions. Regards, Alex, On 27-May-09, at 10:34 AM, A-Pro Studio wrote: > Hi, > > First of all, I am not posting this to "crash the party" for > everyone - including myself, who would like their own localization > of V

Re: Clarification of legal agreements related to VoiceOver

2009-05-27 Thread Alex Jurgensen
Hi, Believe me Apple will persue legal action. Regards, Alex, On 27-May-09, at 11:35 AM, Sean Tikkun wrote: > I think folks don't need to worry about the preverbal ruler slap on > the wrist. The iPod was heavily modded, and the iPhone was even > hacked to accept other service providers.

Re: Clarification of legal agreements related to VoiceOver

2009-05-27 Thread Justin Harford
Well they certainly will if you go out and tell them what our people are doing. J On May 27, 2009, at 5:47 PM, Alex Jurgensen wrote: > Hi, > > Believe me Apple will persue legal action. > > Regards, > Alex, > > > On 27-May-09, at 11:35 AM, Sean Tikkun wrote: > >> I think folks don't need to wor

Re: Clarification of legal agreements related to VoiceOver

2009-05-27 Thread ben mustill-rose
I think, to be completely honest, you'd probably be ok doing this. Apple surely wouldn't like the articals - apple soos blind users for trying to use there products etc etc and at the end of the day, anyone except them would understand that its apples fault as if the product had been translated in

Re: Clarification of legal agreements related to VoiceOver

2009-05-27 Thread Alex Jurgensen
Hi, I am not. I'm writing from experiances here. I was under suspision by Apple and therefore saw what lengths they would go to, or at least a glimpse of it. Regards, Alex, On 27-May-09, at 5:57 PM, Justin Harford wrote: > Well they certainly will if you go out and tell them what our peopl

Re: French Braille

2009-05-27 Thread Alex Jurgensen
HI, What do you mean the eight dot codes. Kurdish only has a six dot code. I mean if we may adapt the tables in the Kurdish language (We would be within our rights as holders of the tables), we would to make them comply better. Regards, Alex, On 27-May-09, at 1:32 PM, Anne Robertson wrot

Re: Clarification of legal agreements related to VoiceOver

2009-05-27 Thread Cara Quinn
Alex, and All, please only post notes with relevant information in them. Unless we can share some actual information here that others can benefit from, then I'd ask that we consider not posting until we can?… Now, I'm a bit behind on email, so if others have done this as well, then ple

Re: Clarification of legal agreements related to VoiceOver

2009-05-27 Thread Alex Jurgensen
Hi, Cara, Meaning no disrespect. This is useful so that we don't all hale Apple with E-mails and the like and they refuse us help. Regards, Alex, On 27-May-09, at 6:28 PM, Cara Quinn wrote: > Alex, and All, please only post notes with relevant information in > them. Unless we can share s

Re: Clarification of legal agreements related to VoiceOver

2009-05-27 Thread Cara Quinn
Alex, yes, this *might* be useful however, quite honestly, (meaning no disrespect as well) No one cares whether you or anyone else has discussed whatever with whomever, unless you share something conclusive about it. Know what I mean?… If I posted something saying I'd discussed concept

Re: Clarification of legal agreements related to VoiceOver

2009-05-27 Thread ben mustill-rose
Could you give us an insite as to what they did to you if you don't mind? its just that i'm still fairly skeptical as to if anything would actually happen about this. For example, quite a few people are waking up to see an intimidating letter on there doormats from the isp or a record company the

Re: Clarification of legal agreements related to VoiceOver

2009-05-27 Thread Alex Jurgensen
Hi, I just wanted to let you know that it is in the works. Sit tight. We will be discussing further over the past few weeks. Regards, Alex, On 27-May-09, at 6:56 PM, Cara Quinn wrote: > Alex, yes, this *might* be useful however, quite honestly, > (meaning no disrespect as well) No one car

Re: Clarification of legal agreements related to VoiceOver

2009-05-27 Thread Cara Quinn
alex, this is your last warning. This is also a general public warning… I'm telling you now, DO NOT CONTINUE TO POST THIS TYPE OF NOTE HERE!… I'll explain this one last time, and from then on, please email me privately if you need clarification, and I'll be happy to chat off-list.

very nice experience at University Village Apple Store in Seattle Washington

2009-05-27 Thread Ben King
Dear Mac Friends, I am writing you to let you know about an experience I had today at the University Village Apple Store in Seattle Washington. The person that I spoke to was very nice and he asked me what I would like to see improved in regards to Voiceover. I told him that Fire Fox woul

Re: very nice experience at University Village Apple Store in Seattle Washington

2009-05-27 Thread Cara Quinn
hey Ben, thanks so much for sharing! this is exactly the kind of thing I personally love to hear. I'm glad that Apple is really stepping this great level of service up even further. For someone with or without a disability to go into a store and really be shown not only equal trea

Re: adium issue

2009-05-27 Thread Orin
Think you have to do a mouse click on the authorise button. That seemed to work for me. On May 19, 2009, at 1:13 PM, Brandon Misch wrote: > > Hey all. am using the latest version or beta of adium. for some reason > when i recieve contact authorizations, i can't accept them. when i hit > on auth

Re: Localizing Voiceover Utility as part of ISpeak

2009-05-27 Thread Andrzej Cuber
Hello with Xcode which is part of the Leopard it is possible to localize almost entire VO utility. I mean dialog boxes, menus etc. I would like to know if somebody has some experiences where are located other things like braille conversion tables or the strings being spoken by the synthesizer. I

Re: Issues with New iPod Shuffle

2009-05-27 Thread Charlie Doremus
The last post was correct. You must be running the latest version of the os to have Alex speak on your ipod. Aloha On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Jessi R wrote: > > hmmm. that doesn't seem like an inaccessibility to me, it makes sense.if > you're using tiger, you'd get the tiger voices cuz Ale

Re: Issues with New iPod Shuffle

2009-05-27 Thread Charlie Doremus
The only way you are going to get "Alax" If you want "Alex" to speak on your mac is to install Leopard. The U.S. price is around $129. We spoke with an apple employee we know and he agrees. If you are short on funds call 1-800-my-apple and ask about "bill me later". Aloha, On Thu, May 21, 2009 at

Re: CAPTCHA solution service for Mac users

2009-05-27 Thread Solona
Yeah. The reason that I don't call too much attention to that is that I cannot document the instructions fully. I do not have a GUI linux box running. All my machines are CLI only. Alex, if you would like to compose some instructions for linux, I will publish them on Solona, and give you credi

Re: French Braille

2009-05-27 Thread Andrzej Cuber
Dear Anna, Wonderful job, I was looking for that kind of information for a very long time. According to this job it is possible to prepare braille tables for many languages. I think that it may be a good idea to share the tables between all of us. Anna I would like to ask your husband to share wi