Re: 3 features that hmm?

2009-08-31 Thread Dan Eickmeier
Well said John. When Vista came out, I wasn't impressed with it either, based on what I was hearing from people that were running it. I'd heard so many good things about the Mac, and the fact that I would have access to the mac right out of the box, without having to pay extra costs f

Re: A nice keystroke that we have now to add folders do the doc

2009-08-31 Thread william lomas
can you send the manual to me off list? On 31 Aug 2009, at 07:37, Dan Eickmeier wrote: > > Hi all, found this in the VO getting started manual for Snow Leopard, > which you can request from Apple accessibility, that we can now add > folders to the doc, at the press of a keystroke, when we're foc

Re: Preview navigation and Adobe Reader with VoiceOver [was Re: quickly junping from page to page in preview]

2009-08-31 Thread Simon Cavendish
It's true that you cannot save/export files into text but you can easily highlight the entire document with command+A and copy with command+c and then paste into textedit and save it this way. I regularly do this. Best wishes, Simon On 30 Aug 2009, at 23:50, Maurice Mines wrote: > > the pr

Question: V M Ware Fusion or Parallels Desktop

2009-08-31 Thread M. Taylor
Hello Everyone, What a wealth of information I have learned from this list, today. I have found answers to questins I haven't even asked, yet. (Smile) Today, I decided to delete my Windows 7 Bootcamp partition. Windows 7 ran beautifully along with Jaws but there was a minor glitch in some

Re: A nice keystroke that we have now to add folders do the doc

2009-08-31 Thread Simon Cavendish
Does one have to request the manual for snowleopard from accessibility directly, or is it available on the accessibility page? On 31 Aug 2009, at 08:22, william lomas wrote: > > can you send the manual to me off list? > > On 31 Aug 2009, at 07:37, Dan Eickmeier wrote: > >> >> Hi all, found this

Re: Question: V M Ware Fusion or Parallels Desktop

2009-08-31 Thread JC Helary
Le 31 août 2009 à 16:36, M. Taylor a écrit : > Based on anecdotal evidence, I think I'm leaning towards V M Ware > but I > realize that Parallels has been around much longer and I tend to > favor those > companies that have been on the proverbial scene longer. I'd try the free Virtual Box f

Getting Started Manual

2009-08-31 Thread Les Kriegler
AS of yesterday, I didn't see it posted on the Apple site. I did contact Apple about a braille version. It is being translated and should be available in about 3 weeks according to the e-mail I received. Also, we'll have a different phone number to request it as opposed to the AppleCare number.

Re: Question: V M Ware Fusion or Parallels Desktop

2009-08-31 Thread Tony Bernedal
Hi. I have tried vmware fusion with windows xp as a virtual machine with jaws 9 and it works very well. I can use jaws in widnows and voice over together but voice over takes control over some keys so to get most commands out of jaws I focused on the virtual machine and when it is running and jaws

To Jonathan: Setting Up A Cross Platform Home Network

2009-08-31 Thread M. Taylor
Hello Jonathan, Windows 7 makes use of a file sharing system unfortunately referred to as Libraries. I say "unfortunately" because the word Libraries can mean so many things and new users have an understandably difficult time learning how Windows 7 uses them. For example, these Libraries are

Re: Amadeus Pro: Marking

2009-08-31 Thread hank smith
so you mark the stuff you want to work with? - Original Message - From: Dane Trethowan To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2009 4:40 PM Subject: Re: Amadeus Pro: Marking The markers by default form the boundaries of your selection, once you have th

Re: Amadeus Pro: Marking

2009-08-31 Thread Dane Trethowan
That's right! On 31/08/2009, at 6:23 PM, hank smith wrote: > so you mark the stuff you want to work with? > - Original Message - > From: Dane Trethowan > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2009 4:40 PM > Subject: Re: Amadeus Pro: Marking > > The markers by def

Re: Question: V M Ware Fusion or Parallels Desktop

2009-08-31 Thread hank smith
how do you use that with vo? I couldn't get it to work last I tried that - Original Message - From: "JC Helary" To: Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 12:41 AM Subject: Re: Question: V M Ware Fusion or Parallels Desktop Le 31 août 2009 à 16:36, M. Taylor a écrit : > Based on anecdotal e

Re: Amadeus Pro: Marking

2009-08-31 Thread hank smith
how do you back and forward threw markers? - Original Message - From: Dane Trethowan To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 1:35 AM Subject: Re: Amadeus Pro: Marking That's right! On 31/08/2009, at 6:23 PM, hank smith wrote: so you mar

Re: Amadeus Pro: Marking

2009-08-31 Thread Dane Trethowan
Us option-left and right arrows to move your insertion point between them, use command-left and right arrows to extend selection from current marker to previous or next marker. On 31/08/2009, at 6:39 PM, hank smith wrote: > how do you back and forward threw markers? > - Original Message

Re: Question: V M Ware Fusion or Parallels Desktop

2009-08-31 Thread JC Helary
Le 31 août 2009 à 17:37, hank smith a écrit : > > how do you use that with vo? > I couldn't get it to work last I tried that Apologies. It was just a virtual machine suggestion. I did not intend to say it worked with VO. In fact I am pretty sure you'll only be able to use VO to access the V

Re: Question: V M Ware Fusion or Parallels Desktop

2009-08-31 Thread Scott Chesworth
Hi Mark, You'll be wanting to give Vmware Fusion a try I think. Virtual Box is free, and fairly usable true, but Vmware Fusion is by far the most accessible and well rounded product out of these 3. With your email address being what it is it's safe for me to assume you're in education of some s

welcome dialog

2009-08-31 Thread william lomas
Hi for the person who did not want to be told to learn voiceover, at startup each time, turn it off in the general utilities settings of voice over --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVis

Re: voiceover getting stuck in submenus?

2009-08-31 Thread Scott Howell
Please be sure to report this, so it can be addressed. Send a note to accessibil...@apple.com . I have noticed some odd behavior, but not exactly as you are experiencing, but yet behavior that should not be occurring. tnx, On Aug 30, 2009, at 8:41 PM, John J Herzog wrote: > > Hi listers, >

Re: choppy reading in mail

2009-08-31 Thread Scott Howell
Thanks Anne, I think I did indeed. On Aug 30, 2009, at 5:38 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: > > Hello Scott, > > I think you must have missed my earlier post on this subject. > > The pauses are caused by new line characters. I think this was > introduced to make the reading of documents, containing li

Re: Snow leopard - bug, feature or something inbetween?

2009-08-31 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Yeah, i could do that, problem is then that if i have to navigate with the mouse, i don't get any feedback. I've reported this to Apple a11y team, let's see what they say. I have solved the problem by setting mouse pointer to move vo cursor. /Krister 31 aug 2009 kl. 02.37 skrev Steven M. Sa

Re: One more Question: Followers in Syrinx?

2009-08-31 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hey. I also want to know this and if there's a way to block those following me directly from the syrinx client. Would be great if that could be done. /Krister 31 aug 2009 kl. 07.22 skrev terre...@terrencevak.net: > One other question if I may: does anyone know of a way to view > followers

spaces in snowleopard?

2009-08-31 Thread william lomas
Hi all, In snowleopard, can one set up spaces and then press command tab to switch between applications running in the current space? I heard that in leopard if one attempted this, and they had say 2 aps in space 1 and three in space 2, that command tab would cycle through all the a

Re: for the price

2009-08-31 Thread Chris Hofstader
the nice thing about the touch is that if you are generally around WiFi networks you do not need to pay AT&T for the 3G service which, as a monthly fee, adds up to be a bundle for a year. Recently, I had a very peculiar experience with At&T. I was making a few changes in my account, most p

built-in scanner and printer drivers

2009-08-31 Thread a radix
Hello, in my effort to switch over to the mc i today tried to print a.doc form on the mac because ms-word is not installed on my pc yet (it was just reinstalled before I got the mac and i did not do it yet). So I went to the hp site to get my printer driver for the hp5590, since it had heading i

Re: why is openoffice accessible and neoofficeenot

2009-08-31 Thread Chris Hofstader
I just found out yesterday that I'll be traveling to South India for an NGO to open an office, hire a handful of blind programmers, a driver for them and get them started working on free software projects of all kinds. With so many US based hackers out of work, I feel a little bad about br

Re: spaces in snowleopard?

2009-08-31 Thread Scott Howell
WIll opening the seed to more folks would not necessarily catch more issues. Apple has a very diverse team of testers. As to your other question, no at this time it is not possible and I strongly encourage you to write to Apple about this. Trust me, a lot of folks would like this to cha

RE: ipod touch

2009-08-31 Thread Blake Sinnett
Count me in for the Touch also. > From: ho...@thedividingline.com > Subject: Re: ipod touch > Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 14:27:46 -0500 > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > > > Hi. I'm definitely planning to buy the ipod touch if it has speech. > I'm really really really hoping it does actuall

Re: spaces in snowleopard?

2009-08-31 Thread Marie Howarth
can I point out not all of us are experiencing these bugs if the cursors have been sorted. I can navigate just as I did, if not better now in SL than I did in leopard. People should maybe test their settings as some of these have certainly changed. On Aug 31, 2009, at 11:51 AM, william loma

Re: spaces in snowleopard?

2009-08-31 Thread kaare dehard
always a good idea. also I read your blog entry, good stuff. That business with the insertion point, is it a toggleable option? I've gotten more comfortable with the way apple does this and would like to see it remain if the nanny-state feature could be turned off. On 31-Aug-09, at 8:18 AM,

testing settings

2009-08-31 Thread Marie Howarth
just a word of warning guys. Before you report something as a "bug", please please check your vo settings. I have experienced navigating issues when first installing sl, with sub menus and such, and I also had an issue when editing text yesterday but after changing settings in vo SL is wor

Re: spaces in snowleopard?

2009-08-31 Thread Marie Howarth
yes it is toggable and thank you. good thing with apple, I still say this, they give us choice. I too prefer the apple way :) On Aug 31, 2009, at 1:27 PM, kaare dehard wrote: > > always a good idea. > > also I read your blog entry, good stuff. That business with the > insertion point, is it a

Re: spaces in snowleopard?

2009-08-31 Thread James & Nash
Hi Scott, Although I do not have my new Mac yet - I am using Windows at the moment as my old Mac broke and I had other reasons for moving away from Mac befoer coming back. Anyway... I have written to Apple in the past about this, and you may be correct that it may not be a widely used featur

Copying Voice Over preferences

2009-08-31 Thread James & Nash
Hi folks, I remember reading that in Leopard, you could keep a copy of your Voice Over settings. So would it be possible for someone to find them and copy them to Snow Leopard so that they may not have to do as much tinkering? Just curious. Thanks for any help Take care James --~--~

RE: 3 features that hmm?

2009-08-31 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi All, First, a couple of points to provide some context. I have never used Windows vista. I never understood why anyone installed that OS, it got bad reviews before it was ever released. My PC's sstill running XP. I also have never had any affiliation with NFB, and I have no desire to do

beginning of document (textedit)

2009-08-31 Thread a radix
Hello, I need to jump and search through documents a lot, how can i go back to the beginning of a document in textedit? I tried vo-home command-home and option-home but this does not seem tow ork and I really need this function. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received t

Anti-virus on the Mac

2009-08-31 Thread James & Nash
Hi folks, Does anyone have any suggestions for AV software on the Mac please? Also, how can I find out which of the AV applications are actually any good? Thank you for any advice. Take care James --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you

text-files and openoffice?

2009-08-31 Thread a radix
Hello, I opened a text-file in openoffice and while it did open and i think it showed righton the screen i got no brialle and it just said soemthinglike sheet, as if it was a table. I couldnt figure out how to navigate it, i could open it in textedit but i wonder why i cant open it normally in o

Re: beginning of document (textedit)

2009-08-31 Thread Dan Eickmeier
Hi, command-up arrow should do what you want. On Aug 31, 2009, at 9:06 AM, a radix wrote: > Hello, I need to jump and search through documents a lot, how can i > go back to the beginning of a document in textedit? I tried vo-home > command-home and option-home but this does not seem tow ork an

Re: beginning of document (textedit)

2009-08-31 Thread a radix
Thanks a lot, i was getting worried there! i thought cmd-up was to get up one line but yes it brings you to the beginning of the document! Thanks! Greetings, Anouk - Original Message - From: Dan Eickmeier To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 3:10 PM

shuffle in vlc

2009-08-31 Thread a radix
I love vlc, thanks to everyone who suggested it, i especially love it that it is so easy to just select a directory and play the whole thing (although i am not sure if it plays subdirectories too but i suppose it does), i was wondering though is it possible to shuffle stuff once you play a direc

Re: text-files and openoffice?

2009-08-31 Thread JC Helary
Le 31 août 2009 à 22:07, a radix a écrit : > Hello, I opened a text-file in openoffice and while it did open and > i think it showed righton the screen i got no brialle and it just > said soemthinglike sheet, as if it was a table. It sounds like your document was open as a spreadsheet. > I

Re: spaces in snowleopard?

2009-08-31 Thread Scott Howell
James, you bet I've been lobbying for this now on and off. Well okay more on, but the point is I would actually use it and I think the important thing is to show Apple that not everyone is a mouser and there are those sightlings out there who use the keyboard and thus are keyboarders. :)

Re: testing settings

2009-08-31 Thread Scott Howell
Marie, if you don't mind, it may help to share some of your settings that you found to work well. I am generally not experiencing issues and your right that reporting bugs is fine, but only if it really is a bug and not some setting. I for example have found some problems in iTunes and I

What is Spaces and ...

2009-08-31 Thread M. Taylor
Hello Everyone, While I am sure this has been posted many times over, I'm afraid I can't find the answer and so I ask, what is Spaces? Also, what is Exposay? Thank you. Mark -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Be

RE: Question: V M Ware Fusion or Parallels Desktop

2009-08-31 Thread M. Taylor
Hello Scott, First let me thank you and others for kindly responding to my question. I will go with V M Ware's Fusion. Yes, you are correct, my email addressed is based on my employment at UCLA. Again, many thanks. Most Sincerely, Mark -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@goog

Re: testing settings

2009-08-31 Thread Marie Howarth
Scot, what issues are you having in mail? I also found a bug in itunes, in regard to the lcd area, that I did report. Other than that itunes has been working OK, although admittedly i haven't really played with it extensively as yet. I'd be happy to share my settings. I have verbosity set t

RE: testing settings

2009-08-31 Thread Donna Goodin
Thanks for posting these Marie. I'm still waiting for my copy of SL, so appreciate having the info on the front end. Best, Donna > -Original Message- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Marie Howarth > Sent: Monday, August 31, 2

Re: beginning of document (textedit)

2009-08-31 Thread Esther
Hello Anouk, These movement commands (like Command-Up arrow to go to the beginning of a document, and Command-Down arrow to move to the end) are general Mac OS X shortcuts that work in all Cocoa apps (e.g., the common utilities like TextEdit, Mail, etc.). For many of these commands, you c

Re: What is Spaces and ...

2009-08-31 Thread Fonzie
Hi there Mark. I hope your well. To answer your question, I will give the following explanation. Spaces Spaces, like inLinux, called Workspaces, are simply put, new desktops. So, consider this. Your in a office, and you have four work desks at your disposal. You use each work desk to hou

Re: spaces in snowleopard?

2009-08-31 Thread James & Nash
You are right Scott, Whenever I help my parents with their PC or I help other sighted people with their Pcs, I always get them to use the keyboard. My mum for one uses the keyboard and knows quite a few of the keystrokes in Windows. I will continue to write to Apple about this. Take care Jam

itunes and resuming downloads

2009-08-31 Thread Yuma Antoine Decaux
Hi everyone, I have been downloading some videos from the itunes u and at some point i couldn't go anywhere, this ping sound telling me that i was going nowhere. not the limit sound. so i quit itunes and restarted it. Now my downloads source isn't in the sources table anymore. i tried che

Re: Question: V M Ware Fusion or Parallels Desktop

2009-08-31 Thread Woody Anna Dresner
Hi Scott, I've been using Fusion and Windows XP for a little over a month. I had never heard of the Command-G command before. What does it do? When I Command-Tab to Fusion, that command is treated as Windows-G. If I move out of the Windows scroll area with VO-Right Arrow and then press co

Re: welcome dialog

2009-08-31 Thread Marshall Scott
Also, I think pressing v will stop this feature Marshall On Aug 31, 2009, at 3:00 AM, william lomas wrote: > > Hi for the person who did not want to be told to learn voiceover, at > startup each time, turn it off in the general utilities settings of > voice over > > > > --~--~-~

Re: What is Spaces and ...

2009-08-31 Thread James & Nash
Hi Mark, I can't tell you what Exposé is, but here is my explaination of Spaces. But I'm sure others will also add better info for you. Spaces was introduced in Leopard and the ability it should give on Mac OS X has been a standard feature in many - if not all Linux/Unix based systems for a w

Getting stuff done!

2009-08-31 Thread Howard Dupuis
Hello to all. Just wanted to note that I'm loving the ease with which I can move around on the Web (and elsewhere) using VO's new features in Snow Leopard. I just now paid a few bills -- yes, it's that time of the month -- and I was in in, around, over, and out in no time at all. And like everyone

Re: shuffle in vlc

2009-08-31 Thread erik burggraaf
Hi, yes the option is command Z or random from the playback menu. VLC's shuffle is truely cool in that it rerandomizes your playlist every time a song finishes or you change, then it removes the already played songs from the pool so you won't have the same song coming up at random over and

Re: Question: V M Ware Fusion or Parallels Desktop

2009-08-31 Thread Simon Cavendish
Anna, a side question here but what is the Voiceover command for ignoring the next key combination? Thanks, Simon On 31 Aug 2009, at 15:55, Woody Anna Dresner wrote: > > Hi Scott, > > I've been using Fusion and Windows XP for a little over a month. I had > never heard of the Command-G command b

function keys in virtual Windows

2009-08-31 Thread Woody Anna Dresner
Hi, I have a Mac Mini with a full keyboard, complete with numpad. If VoiceOver is off, pressing Command-F5 turns it on, so I apparently have it set so the software actions of the function keys are activated by default. If I'm running Windows XP in Fusion, the function keys work as expecte

accessibleMovie editing software

2009-08-31 Thread Jorgen Skov Nielsen
hi Can blind use iMovie with VoiceOver. I'm looking for some video editing software that blind people can use. I need to cut edit the video, i have recorded on a video camera. Best regards Jorgen --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subsc

Re: testing settings

2009-08-31 Thread Scott Howell
Marie, you are correct in thatMouse cursor ignores VoiceOver was the problem in Mail. Initially it is set to Mouse cursor follows VO cursor and that was causing some submenus to jump around. In other words, if set to have the mouse cursor follow the VO cursor, the submenu in Mail used to

Re: function keys in virtual Windows

2009-08-31 Thread Buddy Brannan
There are two things you should do here: 1) In keyboard preferences, check to be sure the box is checked to make function keys act as normal. They're set not to by default, at least, on my Macbook. It won't hurt anything to check nor to change the state of this check box. 2) In system pref

Re: testing settings

2009-08-31 Thread Simon Cavendish
Could you just clarify again please whether "mouse cursor ignores voiceover cursor" is checked or unchecked in your settings? It is not clear from your very helpful description. Thanks, Simon On 31 Aug 2009, at 16:46, Scott Howell wrote: > > Marie, you are correct in thatMouse cursor ignores

Re: 3 features that hmm?

2009-08-31 Thread Brent Harding
I suppose things will come up to where what happens if people who used macs had to go for Windows one day for work or something. Whether we like it or not, none of the Windows screen readers let you switch it so you'd have to learn how windows speaks the insertion point even though for sighted

Re: 3 features that hmm?

2009-08-31 Thread Brent Harding
In Windows, the character it speaks seems to be the one the insertion point is before in both directions. So if you type Brent and arrow back to the B and hit forward delete, you delete the B. If you hit backspace, which is all the Macbooks have and it was running Windows, you delete the space

Re: testing settings

2009-08-31 Thread Marie Howarth
The mail issue, I'm going to test this one. but let me clarify itunes, the browser as you put it, is this the grid view? I am having no problems here. checked all of the options, artists, albums, etc, the only thing I see that's different which is an 8.2 issue I beleive as I believe it sto

Re: testing settings

2009-08-31 Thread Marie Howarth
ignore should be checked simon. On Aug 31, 2009, at 4:57 PM, Simon Cavendish wrote: > > Could you just clarify again please whether "mouse cursor ignores > voiceover cursor" is checked or unchecked in your settings? It is not > clear from your very helpful description. Thanks, Simon > On 31 Aug

Re: Baby Steps with the White Cat and, Mark Has A Question

2009-08-31 Thread Brent Harding
How does 7 end up installing with Boot Camp? Can one even get it yet any more? Do you still need the dreaded sighted help that's impossible to find when you need it? - Original Message - From: "M. Taylor" To: Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2009 4:23 AM Subject: Baby Steps with the White Ca

Re: Baby Steps with the White Cat and, Mark Has A Question

2009-08-31 Thread william lomas
if windows seven is easy to install may get it On 31 Aug 2009, at 17:08, Brent Harding wrote: > > How does 7 end up installing with Boot Camp? Can one even get it yet > any > more? Do you still need the dreaded sighted help that's impossible > to find > when you need it? > > - Original M

apple script and vo

2009-08-31 Thread Marie Howarth
OK, I want to use apple script to set up some options on the keyboard commander. But how do I do that? apple script is a folder that no matter what I do, I canot get to open. it takes me back to the devices in sidebar for some odd reason, no matter how I try to open it. any help would be g

Re: Question: V M Ware Fusion or Parallels Desktop

2009-08-31 Thread Scott Chesworth
Hi Anna, Hmmm, well it used to be the case that command-g grabbed keyboard input, stopped it from controlling Mac OS and started it controlling Windows in other words. This could be redundant now, from what you just described it sounds to me like Fusion is grabbing input automatically when you co

annoying issue in Amadeus Pro

2009-08-31 Thread Søren Jensen
Hi. I have two sound files, which I wanna copy into one file. When I try to copy the audio together in one file, Amadeus choose for some reason to paste the audio in only the left or only the right speaker. Yesterday, it pasted the audio so the sound came in only the left speaker, and a f

going quickly between windows in a program

2009-08-31 Thread a radix
Hello, i took my macbook pro to school today and it went well for the most part, although apparently one of the fkeys or other keys in the top row freezes the keyboard which i found out by accident. I wonder though, i know there is the window chooser and the application chooser but is there a co

Re: shuffle in vlc

2009-08-31 Thread a radix
Hi Erik Oh ok! i did notice that random item but i thought it would jus tplay a random song and then go back to its normal list. cool to know! do you know if you select a folder if vlc indeed also plays the subfolders? Greetings, Anouk, - Original Message - From: erik burggraaf To

Re: beginning of document (textedit)

2009-08-31 Thread a radix
Thanks that is VERY much appreciated, i dont know many of the mac commands yet. Greetings, Anouk, - Original Message - From: Esther To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 4:01 PM Subject: Re: beginning of document (textedit) Hello Anouk, These

RE: going quickly between windows in a program

2009-08-31 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi Anouk, Try Command-Accent. I know this works in Finder, not sure about other programs. Donna From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of a radix Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 12:46 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: going qui

Re: testing settings

2009-08-31 Thread Scott Howell
Marie, no. The browser is brought up with command-b, but it seems you have to be in the text view I gather since grid view behaves differently. The browser allows you to select a particular genre, album, or artist. On Aug 31, 2009, at 12:06 PM, Marie Howarth wrote: > > The mail issue, I'm

Re: going quickly between windows in a program

2009-08-31 Thread Scott Howell
Yes there is, you can use command-~, which works on the US keyboard, but I gather you may be using a different keyboard layout, so not sure if that will work. This will switch between the windows of that particular program. On Aug 31, 2009, at 12:46 PM, a radix wrote: > Hello, i took my mac

Swedish Braille available for SL

2009-08-31 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello everyone, Swedish Braille is now available as a beta release for Snow Leopard. If anyone on this list would like to try it and give us feedback, please e-mail us at: Swedish Braille is part of the multilingual Braille package which also includes: Danish, French, German, Greek, Hebre

Re: annoying issue in Amadeus Pro

2009-08-31 Thread Woody Anna Dresner
Hi Soren, I had no problems copying one file into another using the procedure you describe. There was one time when I selected some audio and hit Delete, and only one channel was deleted for some reason. So any tips anyone has on making sure both channels are used would be welcome. Best, A

Re: 3 features that hmm?

2009-08-31 Thread Rich Ring
Well said. Operating systems are simply a choice we make. In my case, I can choose the Mac as a home computer, but my employer is not going to suddenly go to the Mac, nor will my employer suddenly decide thaat we should stop teaching students Windows and switch to the Mac, it ain't gonna happ

Re: Question: V M Ware Fusion or Parallels Desktop

2009-08-31 Thread Woody Anna Dresner
Hi Simon, The command to get VO to ignore the next keystroke is VO-Tab. Best, anna --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@google

RSS Section of mail

2009-08-31 Thread Mike
Hi all: I want all the msgs that I receive from this list to go to the RSS Section of my Mail instead of my main inbox. How do I accomplish this? I don't wish to un_subscribe from the list but the volume of mail from this list is getting really high as of late so I'd rather it be moved to my Rss

Re: going quickly between windows in a program

2009-08-31 Thread Scott Howell
Thanks Donna, command-` I just realize I hit the shift key. On Aug 31, 2009, at 1:10 PM, Donna Goodin wrote: > Hi Anouk, > > Try Command-Accent. I know this works in Finder, not sure about > other programs. > Donna > > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegrou

my kitten is born!!!

2009-08-31 Thread Chantel Cuddemi
Hi all, My new kitten is born I am going to have to be trained on it, since it's a new os, but I think I will make it. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this gr

Re: annoying issue in Amadeus Pro

2009-08-31 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi there. Is the position where the sound from one file important or can you just put one file at the end of the other one? If position isn't important, why don't you try merging the files together? Can't remember off hand now where this menu choise is, but it opens a dialog with an empty

Re: testing settings

2009-08-31 Thread Marie Howarth
wow, never even knew this feature existed. sorry. :) On Aug 31, 2009, at 6:11 PM, Scott Howell wrote: > > Marie, no. The browser is brought up with command-b, but it seems you > have to be in the text view I gather since grid view behaves > differently. > The browser allows you to select a par

Re: watching (analog) tv on the mac?

2009-08-31 Thread Chris Blouch
Many TV cable boxes have a pair of audio outputs RCA (left/right) audio outputs which you can then hook to anything that takes a standard line-in. I have mine connected to my home stereo which sounds much better than the little speakers in the TV. Actually, I should say that I used to have it

Re: going quickly between windows in a program

2009-08-31 Thread Marie Howarth
don't think it matters which command key btw, command accent indeed works in most apps. On Aug 31, 2009, at 6:21 PM, Scott Howell wrote: > Thanks Donna, command-` I just realize I hit the shift key. > > On Aug 31, 2009, at 1:10 PM, Donna Goodin wrote: > >> Hi Anouk, >> >> Try Command-Accent.

RE: What is Spaces and ...

2009-08-31 Thread M. Taylor
Thank you, Fonzie. An excellent explanation. I understand. Mark -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Fonzie Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 7:46 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: What is Spaces

Re: 3 features that hmm?

2009-08-31 Thread Scott Howell
My recollection is the way the windows-based screen readers handle the cursor is from the DOS days and has not changed, even though for sighted windows users it has . Now of course your testing my memory from a very long time ago. :) On Aug 31, 2009, at 11:58 AM, Brent Harding wrote: > > I

Re: Mic not working in Garage Band, and simple recording program?

2009-08-31 Thread Chris Blouch
I don't recall reading the beginning of this thread but in general Mac's don't have pre-amplifiers built in so a plain old mic will need to go through an external preamp before connecting to the Mac's line in. This could either be a dedicated box or the output from a mixer. USB mics, while lim

RE: What is Spaces and ...

2009-08-31 Thread M. Taylor
Thank you, James. I understand. I'm glad you mentioned the bug as this would most certainly have confused me when I attempted to use the Command+Alt key combination. Mark -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of

What is Exposé, and how to use its assigned keys in Fusion [was Re: What is Spaces and ...}

2009-08-31 Thread Esther
Hi Mark and Others, M. Taylor wrote: > Also, what is Exposay? I'm pasting in a post I made to the mac-access list a few months ago, and I'll add some comments about why you want to disable (or at least reassign) the Exposé keys (F9, F10, and F11) so you can use them freely in Fusion. I al

snow leopard and rom

2009-08-31 Thread Justin Harford
Hi all So I was using 1 gb of ram with my macbook running snow leopard. I upgraded it to 4 gb yesterday and am finding that it works noticably better. So I recommend a a ram upgrade if you are using less than 2 gb lol. Justin --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You re

Re: 3 features that hmm?

2009-08-31 Thread John Panarese
Hi Donna, I use XP myself and will continue to do so for the time being. I had tried Vista for the sake of knowledge and curiosity and I'll probably give Windows 7 a shot as far as the desire to know what that is like as well. However, when it comes to using Windows when I have a ne

Re: going quickly between windows in a program

2009-08-31 Thread a radix
Hello, i know this is dumb but where is this key located on my keyboard? Thanks, Greetings, Anouk, - Original Message - From: Donna Goodin To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 7:10 PM Subject: RE: going quickly between windows in a program Hi An

RE: Baby Steps with the White Cat and, Mark Has A Question

2009-08-31 Thread M. Taylor
Hello Brent, I was a private beta tester for Windows 7 so I have the final version that will be released to the public next month. It installs perfectly. Yes, one still needs sighted assistance to install Windows 7. This is very heart breaking considering the fact that in the first beta re

keyboard layout?

2009-08-31 Thread a radix
Hello, as a follow up to my last message, where can i see what keyboard layout i use? i looked in system preferences/keyboard and mouse but cant find it there. Thanks, Greetings, Anouk, --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to th

Re: going quickly between windows in a program

2009-08-31 Thread Scott Chesworth
Hi Anouk, you should find the key you're looking for to the left of z. Might be different on your keyboard layout, but try command with that first and let us know how you get on. hth Scott On 8/31/09, a radix wrote: > Hello, i know this is dumb but where is this key located on my keyboard? >

Re: Baby Steps with the White Cat and, Mark Has A Question

2009-08-31 Thread a radix
Wow, i cant udnerstand that either! i mean i can udnerstand it wont work with all soundcards but I bet most blind people would not mind at all having to buy an usb headset and i bet many already have one. I was able to install windows xp myself with a dos braille display to format and partition

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