Re: anyone got experience with searching for tet within a webpage

2009-08-28 Thread Mark Baxter
Ah yes, the obvious keystroke that would be the one that I miss. :) Thanks much. Mark BurningHawk Baxter Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com My home page: http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this me

Re: Web Navigation Commands in VoiceOver [was Re: anyone got experience with searching for tet within a webpage]

2009-08-28 Thread Mark Baxter
Thanks so much! There's a lot of useful stuff here that I didn't know; and I thought I was handy with web navigation. :) Mark BurningHawk Baxter Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com My home page: http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ --~--~-~--~~--

Re: anyone tried quicknav?

2009-08-28 Thread John André Netland
A little correction Scott; when QuickNav is enabled, up and down takes you between the items that matches the category you have set with the rotor. Left and right takes you left or right on the screen. It works similar as on an iPHone. Left and right is like flicking left and right with on

Re: slick!

2009-08-28 Thread James & Nash
But I presume you can if you want to and then you can if you want to as I do - start a clean erase and install? How lonbg did the installation tkae - Original Message - From: "william lomas" To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by the blind" Sent: F

Re: [Mac-cessibility News] Review - Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard With VoiceOver

2009-08-28 Thread Marshall Scott
Hi Josh et. al. I agree on both counts. Marshall On Aug 28, 2009, at 8:48 AM, Scott Chesworth wrote: > > Cheers Josh, really well written review, seems to be pretty thorough. > > I must, must, must make it to an Apple store today. This is the > excuse I've needed to buy a book on Apple Script a

First thing that I noticed in SL that I like

2009-08-28 Thread VaShaun Jones
Is the new indicator that allows for some type of audio feedback when entering passwords. THis was long awaited. VaShaun Jones (President) Cobb County Empowerment Chapter of the National Federation of the Blind of Georgia Inc. Office Phone: 678.603.4881 Cell:678.662.7481 Web URL: ccecnfb.org

[Mac-cessibility News] Assistiveware Releases Public Beta of the Infovox iVox Voices

2009-08-28 Thread Maccessibility
Assistiveware Releases Public Beta of the Infovox iVox Voices AssistiveWare today announced a public beta of Infovox iVox v2.0. Version 2.0 brings Snow Leopard compatibility, significant improvements to performance and responsiveness, and adds a number of new voices including Arabic, French, Germ

Braille tables for other languages

2009-08-28 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello everyone, My husband has created Braille tables for Snow Leopard in the following languages: Danish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Norwegian, Russian and Swedish. He would like to provide any other languages for which the Braille codes can be provided. He would particularly like to

Re: voiceover in snowleopard thanks to josh!

2009-08-28 Thread Søren Jensen
I totally agree. This review is totally awesome and very well written. Especially when it's written on the first release day. Best regards: Søren Jensen Mail & MSN: s...@coolfortheblind.dk Website: http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ On 28/08/2009, at 16.29, william lomas wrote: > > h

Re: quick start?

2009-08-28 Thread John André Netland
Hi, This works different in Snow Leopard, press VO-H to get a menu with help options, and if you want the Quick Guide directly, press VO- command-F8 to start it. The online help under VO-H also contains overview with all new features. Thanks, John André Den 28. aug. 2009 kl. 22.27 skrev

Weird number issue: decimals

2009-08-28 Thread Blake Sinnett
Hi folks, I'm loving Snow Leopard so far! This is the best version of VoiceOver yet. However, there is a slight problem I'm having. I ran into an issue when I went to fill in my static IP address. When I enter 192.168.1.1, VoiceOver says 1 9 2 point 1 point 8 point 1 point 1. This happen

Re: Braille tables for other languages

2009-08-28 Thread william lomas
hi anne this is fabulous news. I obtained the french table off you which I assume is unmodified in the snowleopard one? I may look at purchasing a braille display. I assume then that no language tables were included with SL? WIll On 28 Aug 2009, at 20:02, Anne Robertson wrote: > > Hello ever

Re: slick!

2009-08-28 Thread william lomas
took fifty mins. You can erase and install from disc utility On 28 Aug 2009, at 17:47, James & Nash wrote: > > But I presume you can if you want to and then you can if you want to > as I > do - start a clean erase and install? > > How lonbg did the installation tkae > > - Original Message

Re: Correction about Braille tables

2009-08-28 Thread william lomas
can we import the tables from orca i wonder? like chinese? On 28 Aug 2009, at 21:19, Chris Hofstader wrote: > > Hi, > > I think you can probably get a whole bunch of braille tables for > different languages if you look at the orca project which seems to > support about a zillion languages and di

Re: anyone tried quicknav?

2009-08-28 Thread william lomas
ah wow thanks for this now it does sound appealing! lol On 28 Aug 2009, at 20:43, John André Netland wrote: > > Hi Will, > > There is a huge difference between having the VO keys locked, and > using the QuickNav feature. > > When VO keys are locked, you do not have access to the keyboard for >

Re: Snow leopard just arrived

2009-08-28 Thread Brent Harding
If you did that, you wouldn't have feedback once it reboots. - Original Message - From: "william lomas" To: Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 1:59 PM Subject: Re: Snow leopard just arrived > > i will just install from within leopard > > > > > --~--~-~--~~~-

quick start in SL

2009-08-28 Thread william lomas
Hi in snow leopard does quick start teach quick nav, table navigation web navigation with the new advanced features, etc? Will --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To pos

Re: flac to alac converter, max from sbooth

2009-08-28 Thread Maxwell Ivey Jr.
Hello; I use aprogram called max for converting ogg to mp3 files. Is this what you are asking about? it was a little tricky to get it set up, but once you do it will process as many files as you cue up. It works in the background and will announce when all encoding tasks are done. I h

Re: Braille tables for other languages

2009-08-28 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Will, On Aug 28, 2009, at 11:11 PM, william lomas wrote: > this is fabulous news. I obtained the french table off you > which I assume is unmodified in the snowleopard one? As far as the user is concerned, there have been no modifications to the French Braille table. > I may look at purc

Re: Snow leopard just arrived

2009-08-28 Thread VaShaun Jones
Yeah I just got my cat too. On Aug 28, 2009, at 8:48 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: > > Shipped from Jonestown PA and just arrived here in VA. Starting the > drive format and install now. > > CB > > > VaShaun Jones (President) Cobb County Empowerment Chapter of the National Federation of the Blind of

Problem accessing menue bar.

2009-08-28 Thread Jesse Bollinger
Hi all, Not sure if this is my fault or not. In Leopard if I pressed control and F8, I was given the menu bar I think it was called. The place where you could check the battery status and the time. Now when I press this command I'm not given this menu. Do I need to turn something on? Jes

Re: Snow leopard just arrived

2009-08-28 Thread Joan Alice Maria Gibson, Esquire
I believe the voice is 'Alex". Please correct me if i'm wrong. JG On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:01 PM, James & Nash < james.austin1...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > What voice was used? Just curious. Also what type of Mac do you have? > > Thanks > > Take care --~--~-~--~~~-

Re: [Mac-cessibility News] Review - Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard With VoiceOver

2009-08-28 Thread Esther
Hi Krister, Which menu of keyboard commands are you referring to? Is this on the of the menus that shows up under the VoiceOver menu (VO-F7)? Or do you mean the list of commands: http://www.icanworkthisthing.com/docs/mac_with_voiceover/voiceoverkeys.shtml I also keep a copy of the VoiceOv

Re: clean install or upgrade?

2009-08-28 Thread Chris G
My upgrade went fine. Chris On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:30:15 -0400 Chantel Cuddemi wrote: > > I am doing an upgrade as well. > On Aug 28, 2009, at 5:28 AM, Chris G wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > I'm planning on doing an upgrade. So we will see how that goes. > > Chris > > > > > > > > On Fri, 28 Aug

Re: [Mac-cessibility News] Review - Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard With VoiceOver

2009-08-28 Thread Marie Howarth
great article, can't wait to try my kitty tomorrow, been way too busy today lol. and Josh I feel your pain the lacking of a track pad. :) On Aug 28, 2009, at 6:27 PM, John Panarese wrote: > > Hi Josh, > This is a fantastic overview of Snow Leopard. Great job and > thanks for the informat

Re: Problem accessing menue bar.

2009-08-28 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Jesse, On Aug 28, 2009, at 11:55 PM, Jesse Bollinger wrote: > > Not sure if this is my fault or not. In Leopard if I pressed control > and F8, I was given the menu bar I think it was called. The place > where you could check the battery status and the time. It's the Status menu. > Now when

10 findings in Finder

2009-08-28 Thread John André Netland
Hi all, Would just like to share the small but nice changes from Leopard I have found in Finder so far, the ones that you find one by one in Snow Leopard.. •You do not need to interact at all when entering info windows in Finder anymore. •In Finder copy windows, you do not need to inte

Re: Correction about Braille tables

2009-08-28 Thread James & Nash
First off, I think Anne and Archie are doing a fantastic job compling and distributing these tables so keep up the good work both of you smile. This is a fantastic thing you are doing for the community so thank you both very much. Secondly, Orca is written in Python, so if you want to try and

Re: Weird number issue: decimals

2009-08-28 Thread James & Nash
This might be a silly suggestion but do you have punctuation turned on? I can't test this out for you as I dont have a Mac to hand right now. Sorry if you've tried this - Original Message - From: Blake Sinnett To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com ; macvoiceo...@freelists.org S

Re: Problem accessing menue bar.

2009-08-28 Thread Jesse Bollinger
Thank you for the help. For the life of me I couldn't figure that one out. On Aug 28, 2009, at 6:29 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: > Hello Jesse, > > On Aug 28, 2009, at 11:55 PM, Jesse Bollinger wrote: >> >> Not sure if this is my fault or not. In Leopard if I pressed control >> and F8, I was given

Re: Snow leopard just arrived

2009-08-28 Thread VaShaun Jones
What part of Virginia are you in? On Aug 28, 2009, at 8:48 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: > > Shipped from Jonestown PA and just arrived here in VA. Starting the > drive format and install now. > > CB > > > VaShaun Jones --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message

Re: anyone tried quicknav?

2009-08-28 Thread Josh de Lioncourt
Obviously, you can't have every VO command available via just he arrow keys. :) However, you can assign any VO commands to the Numpad, Trackpad, or Keyboard commands in SL. On Aug 28, 2009, at 9:29 AM, william lomas wrote: > > hi josh but as stated in article, its limitations are present so

Re: anyone tried quicknav?

2009-08-28 Thread Scott Chesworth
Just finished installing our snowy buddy here, quick nav has been the first thing I've toyed with, and Josh is so right to be as enthusiastic as he is in the review. This is probably the neatest peace of usability I've seen from Apple so far! Totally simple to learn, and faster to navigate and e

Re: Correction about Braille tables

2009-08-28 Thread Greg Kearney
I know swedish and could do them. Sent from my iPhone On 29/08/2009, at 3:10 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > I made a mistake about Swedish. This is another language for which we > still need the Braille codes. > > Cheers, > > Anne > > > > --~--~-~--~~---

Re: Braille tables for other languages

2009-08-28 Thread Justin Harford
I would love to also see someone help them get braille tables in Spanish. I would more love to do it myself but I don't have the necessary resources to send them, I.E access to a windows or linux computer with such tables. Regards Justin Harford On 28/08/2009, at 12:02, Anne Robertson wro

hotspots in vo

2009-08-28 Thread a radix
Hello everyone, i have been working with the mac os x this evening, what disconcerted me, however is that if i go to another page or just another window with cmd-tab, then my focus will be lost in the webpage i am using (i use a lot of text pages with few links but lots of texr). I wonder if th

Voiceover Manual

2009-08-28 Thread Dane Trethowan
Hi! I'm not a user of Snow Leopard yet but I should be in the next week. Just wondering if the Voiceover manuals and documentation have been updated yet? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacV

Voice Over Menu

2009-08-28 Thread Alfonzo Cuellar
Hey there everyone. I am really liking VoiceOver in its new iteration One thing I have noticed though, I am unable to go to the VoiceOver Menu. I am not even able to bring up the VoiceOver quick start if I wanted too. Anyone have an idea of how to solve this? I liked the VO menu, since it

Re: System Profiler, something I wasn't aware of

2009-08-28 Thread Victor Tsaran
This is all thanks to the powerful Unix kernel behind the scenes. On 8/28/2009 8:18 AM, Søren Jensen wrote: > Yeah. System Profiler is awesome. It contains a lot of great information > about your Mac. I got pretty surprised then I found out how much > information it gives. I can give you an examp

Yahoo! Messenger for IPhone, now with accessibility features

2009-08-28 Thread Victor Tsaran
Hello all, The new version of the Yahoo! Messenger for IPhone has just been released and it is much more accessible than its predecessor, with new features such as push notifications etc. Find it here: http://messenger.yahoo.com/iphone Enjoy, Victor --- I tweet about music and accessibility a

Tip for Snow Leopard: When Moving the Cursor

2009-08-28 Thread Blake Sinnett
Hello all, For you ex-Windows users, Snow leopard has a feature that just might make your lives a little easier. If you're used to editing a document in Windows, you'll be used to the screen readers for that platform speaking everything to the right of the insertion point. VoiceOver's d

Re: Voice Over Menu

2009-08-28 Thread Ryan Mann
Hello. Did you try control+option+h? On Aug 28, 2009, at 8:49 PM, Alfonzo Cuellar wrote: > > Hey there everyone. > > I am really liking VoiceOver in its new iteration > > One thing I have noticed though, I am unable to go to the VoiceOver > Menu. I am not even able to bring up the VoiceOver qu

RE: Voice Over Menu

2009-08-28 Thread Blake Sinnett
For the VoiceOver Quickstart, try VO-command-F8. For the command help, Try VO-H-H. HTH, Blake > Subject: Voice Over Menu > From: sunrisings...@aim.com > Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:49:46 -0500 > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > > > Hey there everyone. > > I am really liking VoiceOver

Re: using Shazam on the Iphone

2009-08-28 Thread Cara Quinn
Actually you don't need to re-launch. Simply press and hold 'home, as if you were activating speech recognition, and then, once you hear the double beep to indicate that it's active, simply cancel with another press of 'home' and then you're back in Shazam with speech. HOpe this helps.

Re: Voice Over Menu

2009-08-28 Thread Mac Cougar
Hello, Try this. system preferances,keyboard, and set to default. Hope this works Steve On Aug 28, 2009, at 5:49 PM, Alfonzo Cuellar wrote: > > Hey there everyone. > > I am really liking VoiceOver in its new iteration > > One thing I have noticed though, I am unable to go to the VoiceOver >

Re: 2 Questions: Dialogs and SMTP

2009-08-28 Thread Terrence
I tried typing "snoop" in the terminal, but it didn't seem to be a valid command. Do I have to get it from somewhere? Thanks, Terrence Jonathan C. Cohn wrote: > Hmm, Apple has gotten a little better in this regard, but diagnosis of > sending failures is still tricky. > > There is a entire conve

the kitty is about to pounce

2009-08-28 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
Hi everyone, I haven't been able to preorder snow leopard and receive it in time as i live in asia, but from what the closest apple store told me, it will arrive next wednesday. I'mm pretty excited after having read the maccessibility review, and really look forward to getting it. I just

Re: status menu?

2009-08-28 Thread JEFFREY SHOCKLEY
Hi, To get to that, press VO M twice. HTH, Jeffrey On Aug 27, 2009, at 11:37 AM, a radix wrote: > Hello, my brother tried my mac today and apparently, to the right of > the apple menu there is a status menu where you can see your airport > status, the time and the battery status. Can anyone te

Re: the kitty is about to pounce

2009-08-28 Thread JC Helary
Le 29 août 2009 à 12:53, Yuma Antoine Decaux a écrit : > I have all my data files backed up on my external drive, and all i > actually need is to preserve my mail settings. Is that automatically > done when upgrading? Think of Snow Leopard as a "normal" software update. The OS retains all you

I've Entered MacLand

2009-08-28 Thread Les Kriegler
h looking forward to some hands-on experience and using VoiceOver! Les __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4378 (20090828) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com --~--~-~--~~~

Re: Braille tables for other languages

2009-08-28 Thread william lomas
which braille display would you recommend, I assume still the Syncbraille? On 28 Aug 2009, at 22:43, Anne Robertson wrote: > > Hello Will, > > On Aug 28, 2009, at 11:11 PM, william lomas wrote: >> this is fabulous news. I obtained the french table off you >> which I assume is unmodified in the

Re: Snow leopard just arrived

2009-08-28 Thread william lomas
when my friend tried it and his mac rebooted voiceover just came right up again On 28 Aug 2009, at 22:26, Brent Harding wrote: > > If you did that, you wouldn't have feedback once it reboots. > > - Original Message - > From: "william lomas" > To: > Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 1:59

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