Re: installing espeak?

2009-12-04 Thread erik burggraaf
Hum, I installed that package and it doesn't seem to do much other than speak text that you type into a box. I went looking at the manual and hunting for all the stuff it says you need, but none of it was to be had, so I'm not sure but the installer package obviously has it's own adjenda. Int

Re: -- Re: -- Re: mac mini

2009-12-04 Thread David Denne
Wow. Thank you for all that information. All I was told was that they did indeed drop the anilog output. I didn't know the rest. It was a very brief call though because we both had to be doing other things but we both wanted to find out what was up with that. On 12/4/09, Kieren wrote: > Here is a

Introduction and Newby Questions

2009-12-04 Thread Donna Smith
Hi all. I am a long-time, frustrated Windows/Microsoft Office/JAWS user, and I have recently become very intrigued with the possibility of switching to a Mac, at least for personal use. My work duties are too tied to being able to share files with colleagues in PowerPoint, Excel and Word, and we'

Re: Introduction and Newby Questions

2009-12-04 Thread Ryan Mann
Hello. Yes, a macbook is accessible out of the box with Voiceover. The newer macbooks come with the trackpad that you mentioned. For spreadsheets, some people use a program called Tables and others use a program called Numbers that comes with the Iwork office suite. For the most part, you sh

RE: Introduction and Newby Questions

2009-12-04 Thread Kevin Gibbs
I don't own a Mac, myself, but you've got it basically right. The only big problem I see from your perspective is that there doesn't seem to be a really useable spreadsheet program in the Mac world. Numbers is not quite VO compatible yet. That will probably change, but who knows when and how wel

Will the ipod Touch Announce the time somehow?

2009-12-04 Thread Pete Nalda
Heard someone having VO anounce the time on the iphone today and wondered if the ipod touch could do the same? If so nice feature. Egun On, Lagunak! (Basque for G'day, Mates) Pete Nalda http://www.myspace.com/musikonalda -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google G

Re: Introduction and Newby Questions

2009-12-04 Thread Ben King
Dear Donna, My name is Ben King. I have been using the Mac for a year and love it! The Apple Macintosh laptops have accessibility out of the box. I was able to set mine up and start using it right away. The new Mac Book Pros and Mac Books have multi touch track pads. I switched from Jaws a

vmware again

2009-12-04 Thread anouk radix
Hello everyone, I am awake again. I just started vmware with win7 myself the first time. It goes fairly quickly. I npotice though that if I do alt-tab when I am inside win7 it brings me back to the finder and voicover (which is now still running correctly at least). But control-command does not

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