new mac user OmniPage verses IRIS Pro

Hello, I have never used these products and was wondering if someone can tell me which might be better for scanning! I have only used kurwzeil 1000 on my windows computer and so far I found the information on both to be equal as far as their claims to scan well. However, I read that Nuance do

RE: Receipt Requests in Mail

Exuss the spelling but yeah there is a mail client called onterarge It's the mac office version of outlook. However outlook isn't accessible for the mac yet.may be different with office 2k11. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of siste

RE: A warning about Digit-Eyes

Yeah apple have done great things, that's why they don't appear to be correcting The issue with the loss of signal on the iPhone 4, when it's is held in a left hand and the signal is lost. When they fix this issue, they'll sell a lot more. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@google

Re: Can a really cool Voice Over feature be enhanced?

In the VO utility you can set VO to either use speech to warn the user if a word is spelt incorrect or you can set VO to beep, or you can set it to simply do nothing. On 13 Jul 2010, at 00:48, Mike Arrigo wrote: > I don't think this is currently possible, though tere are commands to move to > t

Re: navigating images o websites

Some web designers are lazy and use the name of a file as a alt description too. This is why Voice Over reads out these images as .gif .jpg etc even when navigating by image with description is set. My advice is to email the webmaster of the offending website and let them know that the alt desc

Re: zoom on the IPhone Camera

Kev, Simply bring up the camera; double tap on the viewfinder and then flick to the right, three times. YOu’ll now see the zoom control. Flicking up or down on this control with a single finger will increment or decrement the value by ten percent respectively. the highest value is 100 and the l

Episode P55: Mark On iCal With VoiceOver

Now posted on CANDLE SHORE: Hello Everyone, I hope you enjoy this approximately 20 minute episode of the CANDLE SHORE PODCAST in which I demonstrate Apple's calendar application (iCal) in conjunction with VoiceOver, a software screen reading solution for the blind and low vision.

Re: new mac user OmniPage verses IRIS Pro

Forget Omnipage on the Mac. Nuence tells me it isn't accessible. Iris is better, but, has a fifty page per session limit. Abby Fine reader is by far better and has no page limit. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! E-Mail: rforetjr at comcast dot net Skype Name: barefootedray On Ju

Re: pc gaming on the mac

I assume that before you disided to clutter up a mac list with what is more or less a windows question you made sure that his games worked in windows 7 on a pc? Just saying. On 13/07/2010, Josh Kennedy wrote: > Hi > Ok with running windows7 in bootcamp I have been trying all day long and > windo

accessible cd burning cd software

Hi is there any accessible cd burning apps that are accessible? I tried burning a cd in itunes but my home cd player don't read it. I burned it as mp3. thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: accessible cd burning cd software

You could try Toast by Roxio, some CD burning tasks can also be done directly within OS X and dISK Utility too On 13 Jul 2010, at 12:12, chad baker wrote: > Hi is there any accessible cd burning apps that are accessible? > I tried burning a cd in itunes but my home cd player don't read it. > I b

Fwd: Application Issues

Hi guys: I found a really nice pedometer app for using on the treadmill to calculate your distances. There are some unlabled buttons, and I wrote to the developer. Here is his response. A very good detailed description of the application layout. I can definitely recommend this app. Sarai Bucc

Re: accessible cd burning cd software

Hi, Chad, There's Simply Burns, it's a great software, it's very easy to use. Courtney On Jul 13, 2010, at 7:12 AM, chad baker wrote: > Hi is there any accessible cd burning apps that are accessible? > I tried burning a cd in itunes but my home cd player don't read it. > I burned it as mp3. > tha

Re: use of the iphone and voice over

I don't nitice any problems with the left handedness of using the phone. I get great signel over all right handed or left handed, in or out of the case and this isn with the new phone. S On Jul 13, 2010, at 12:56 AM, Simon F wrote: > Yeah apple have done great things, that's why they don't appe

Re: accessible cd burning cd software

Hi, I also saw a program that looked accessible called Dragon burn. I think this has been mentioned way, way back. Also, to anyone who knows weren't there accessibility issues with Toast? /Krister 13 jul 2010 kl. 16.32 skrev Courtney Curran: > Hi, Chad, > There's Simply Burns, it's a great softw

Re: accessible cd burning cd software

How about Simply burns? >From what I hear, that one's supposed to be very easy and accessible and free. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! E-Mail: rforetjr at comcast dot net Skype Name: barefootedray On Jul 13, 2010, at 11:03 AM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: > Hi, > I also saw a program t

Re: Receipt Requests in Mail

Actually, I hate them, but my place of employment practically insist on them. For me personally, they are useless, and I don't blame Apple for never having implemented the feature. Nevertheless, I am stuck. On 12,Jul,2010, at 10:09 PM, Scott Howell wrote: > Not to turn this into an endless dis

Re: Can a really cool Voice Over feature be enhanced?

Anne, yes. Mine plays a tone when it encounters a mis-spelled word. I am so excited about the idea of seeing this implemented that I will write a note to the Apple accessibility people right away. Cheers, Mike On 12,Jul,2010, at 11:33 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: > Mike, > > Have you set it t

Re: Can a really cool Voice Over feature be enhanced?

Hi. I agree. I believe that just hearing the tone would do the trick. Besides, if you waited for your Mac to say the word that was mis-pronounced, you might be opening up a whole can of worms if you are working in a multilingual context. What I like about the voices I have is that when writin

iPod touch or iPhone iOS4& accented letters

Dear all, I know that few of you will be concerned with my problem as you, Lucky English speaking folks, don't have to use these à or â or é characters. But I'm having problems accessing these characters with the new touch type mode on my iPod touch. These characters are usually linked to their c

Re: Can a really cool Voice Over feature be enhanced?

I think the tone is more than sufficient to alert you to a spelling mistake. Extra speech would just be confusing. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsub

Re: new mac user OmniPage verses IRIS Pro

Hello Ray, thanks for the info! I will endeavor to purchase the last two programs. I gather something was up with Nuance just by calling their customer service department, not a company I want to deal with; reminds me way to much of Microsoft. Heather -- You received this message because y

Re: accessible cd burning cd software

Strange. When you click the Burn Disk button the popup should have three options: Audio CD (default), MP3 CD or DataCD. Sounds like you somehow got the second option selected. CB chad baker wrote: Hi is there any accessible cd burning apps that are accessible? I tried burning a cd in itunes b

BR503, braille key to voiceover and snow lepard

I found a braille manual from the light house addaptations site out of ca. I could not see any reviews, does anyone have an experiences of how well the manual is helpful? Heather -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to

Re: BR503, braille key to voiceover and snow lepard

Hi Heather, I believe there're several manuals. I have the Snow Leopard one with verson ten point six. It's two volumvs and it costs $15 and ten bucks for shipping. It describes the voiceOver commands. You can get the same manual in zipped format off the Apple website as well for free. Isaac -

Re: new mac user OmniPage verses IRIS Pro

Quite right Heather. They can get rather touchy can't they? Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! E-Mail: rforetjr at comcast dot net Skype Name: barefootedray On Jul 13, 2010, at 12:51 PM, sister Heather Albright wrote: > Hello Ray, thanks for the info! I will endeavor to purchase the

Re: Receipt Requests in Mail

Mike, I understand that, but how do they use them? Do they send them with every message or expect you to send them with each message? Sounds a little overkill, but I am sure there is a reason. Thanks, On Jul 13, 2010, at 1:36 PM, Michael Busboom wrote: > Actually, I hate them, but my place of e

Re: iPod touch or iPhone iOS4& accented letters

You could try the feedback part on Apple's website, www.apple.com/feedback and select iPhone On 13 Jul 2010, at 18:48, Jean-Philippe Rykiel wrote: > Dear all, > I know that few of you will be concerned with my problem as you, Lucky > English speaking folks, don't have to use these à or â or é c

Re: BR503, braille key to voiceover and snow lepard

Ten dollars for shipping, woe! Guess they never heard of free matter for the blind. I am a braille reader so I was just thinking I can keep hard copy at home but, forget the ten dollars for shipping! I guess I will do the zip file. Thanks for the info Isaac! Heather "blindness is a charact

Time Machine and Boot camp

Guys, While I don't yet have a Mac, I'm threatening to buy one. Because I'm a musician who uses Sonar, I'll have to use Boot camp until Logic, or something else becomes accessible. My questions are these: 1. Is it possible to install all of one's drivers and system settings from a backup th

Recording the screen with quicktime

Hi all, I've been trying to record some videos to Youtube using what Sarah had suggested durning one of her podcasts. This is recording a screen shot via quicktime, so you get the audio bt nothing inappropriate being recorded if you're not familiar with your camera angles. I'm not familiar wit

Re: Recording the screen with quicktime

OO not good. Did you try uploading the vid by hand? and make sure it plays fully in qt? I had the same issue a few weeks ago so not sure if it is youtube or me. S On Jul 13, 2010, at 1:45 PM, Allison Manzino wrote: > > Hi all, > > I've been trying to record some videos to Youtube using what S

Re: Time Machine and Boot camp

I don't use bootcamp but I do know that Time Machine backs up files, not partitions, blocks or whatever underlying structure of a storage device. Soo, if the Windows partition shows up as a folder of files on the Mac side then I would think Time Machine will back it up. Of course you'll have to

Re: Reading the Status Bar in Various Applications

In Open Office, are you sure that the line number/location is shown or do you have to turn that on in some preference. You should be able to stop interacting with the main edit window (scroll area) and then navigate to the status bar which says things like Page 1/2 or whatever. CB Rajesh wrot

Re: Recording the screen with quicktime

Hi Sarah, I will try that. I didn't try uploading by hand, but it does play fully in Quicktime so I don't understand why the videos are cutting out. Well, I'm off to try it. Allie My birds are winged blessings, they help me soar! On Jul 13, 2010, at 5:07 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: > OO not go

Re: Receipt Requests in Mail

I don't know how accessible they are but you might want to check out these other Mac mail clients. Since Thunderbird shares its codebase with Firefox I know it won't work with voiceover, but maybe some of these others will. Outlook, as part of Mac office, is also not accessible since the entire

Re: Converting text to MP3 with Automator

Not sure exactly how they did it but from the unix shell you could use the say command. So, for example, you could do say -o testfile "Now is the time" and you should get an audio file in aiff format with spoken words in the current voiceover settings. To pull the text to speak from a file cal

Re: Recording the screen with quicktime

Hey, if you do get it to work, let me know just how you recorded it and so on will yuh? Thanks. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! E-Mail: rforetjr at comcast dot net Skype Name: barefootedray On Jul 13, 2010, at 4:45 PM, Allison Manzino wrote: > Hi Sarah, > > I will try that. I di

Re: modifying the bootcamp partition?

I suggest using something like NVDA to have speech on the windows side, then just using that to get you to the point where you can delete what you need to delete from with in windows. GF On Jul 13, 2010, at 1:15 AM, Josh Kennedy wrote: > Hi > I'm having a problem with my windows bootcamp part

Re: Recording the screen with quicktime

Hi Ray and Sarah and all, Thank you so much. I submitted the video to Youtube by hand and it seems to work now. I don't know why, but the sharing feature on Quicktime doesn't work with Youtube anymore. To record a screen shot, just go in to quicktime and under the file enter on new screen shot

itunes radio is unavailable

honestly, i don't know why i try anymore, but here we go again with itune... a friend told me about a good radio station that he found in itunes radio, and since other friends and clients use itunes radio with no issues, i thought i'd brave the elements and try to make it work. you know what?

RE: A warning about Digit-Eyes

Well, I have an iPhone 4, am a left-handed person, and haven't had any problems. Of course, I'm using an extremely thin hard plastic slip-case to protect my $700, mostly glass, phone, as just about anyone reasonable would that doesn't have a bottomless bank account. Yes, it looks nice, all glass

RE: Reading the date and time with Voice Over

Mike, this works for me as well. Thanks so much. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Mike Arrigo Sent: Monday, July 12, 2010 6:46 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Cc: 'Accessibility' Subject: Re: Reading the

Re: itunes radio is unavailable

Hi, Try going to iTunes Preferences, selecting the Parental tab and make sure that Radio is not checked under the Disable options. After unchecking it, remember to go back to the General tab to make sure that Radio is checked so that it will show up. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Ca

Re: accessible cd burning cd software

Hi, Most home CD players will not play mp3 CDs. Many home DVD players will. When using iTunes, you should choose Audio CD if you wish the CD to play on most home CD players. I've burned hundreds of CDs using iTunes and they've all played on our home CD player as well as in our vehicle's play

RE: Recording the screen with quicktime

Sarai, it sounds like you have some interesting podcasts out there. Where are they located? Thanks so much. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sarah Alawami Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 4:07 PM To: macvisionarie

Re: accessible cd burning cd software

Your cd player probably can't play the mp3 disks, there are a few options on the mac. One is called simply burns, another is toast by Roxio. The last one, which I don't know much about I think is called di scribe or something like that. On Jul 13, 2010, at 6:12 AM, chad baker wrote: > Hi is the

Re: Time Machine and Boot camp

I don't think time machine backs up the boot camp partition, you may want to consider using fusion instead, in that case, time machine should back up your virtual machine file. On Jul 13, 2010, at 3:33 PM, Kevin Gibbs wrote: > Guys, > While I don't yet have a Mac, I'm threatening to buy one.

Re: accessible cd burning cd software

Just burn it in Itunes as an audio Cd. On Jul 13, 2010, at 8:49 PM, Mike Arrigo wrote: > Your cd player probably can't play the mp3 disks, there are a few options on > the mac. One is called simply burns, another is toast by Roxio. The last one, > which I don't know much about I think is called

Re: Recording the screen with quicktime

Hi Paul, Sarah does a wonderful job with the TFFP Podcast. I have been subscribed to Sarah's podcast for so long, I forget the feed. But her site is: http://www.marrie.org I have a podcast as well which is at: http://gwenna.podbean.com I hope you are having a wonderful evening. Musically, Alli

RE: Bluetooth serial port profile on iOS 4.

Because of the Braille display support, I also thought that this was possible. However, I can't tract down any information about SPP in iOS 4. Besides Braille displays (which are supported), there are GPS receivers that work, too. They have to be using a serial connection. There doesn't seem to

Re: A warning about Digit-Eyes

Hey Brian, I'm told by an Apple guy that, while the iPhone is made of glass, it's not your ordinary garden variety glass, but the glass like the kind of glass in helicopter windshields. I don't think that will shatter with normal handling and dropping and things. -- Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Eri

a download manager

Hello, I am currently using Internet Download Manager 5.1. Is iGetter the same thing for the mac as internet download manager apparently does not support mac drivers. Heather "blindness is a characteristic, not a handicap" (Dr. Kennith Jernigan) National Federation of The Blind: www.nfb.or

Re: A warning about Digit-Eyes

The iPhone does not use ordinary glass. The surfaces are a product that is called 'gorilla glass' that is made by Corning. The glass is probably tougher than the steel. For an example, look at the YouTube feature titled 'will it blend' in which a 4 is put in a blender. The glass is one of th

Re: iphone use

but it is still a goof idea to get a case. It helps distungish yoru iphone from someone elses. lol! S On Jul 13, 2010, at 6:38 PM, Buddy Brannan wrote: > Hey Brian, > > I'm told by an Apple guy that, while the iPhone is made of glass, it's not > your ordinary garden variety glass, but the glas

Re: A warning about Digit-Eyes

OO is that channel still up! I'll hav e to look and laugh. I need it today! S On Jul 13, 2010, at 7:15 PM, Nancy Miracle wrote: > The iPhone does not use ordinary glass. The surfaces are a product that is > called 'gorilla glass' that is made by Corning. The glass is probably > tougher than t

Re: accessible cd burning cd software

Yep I did thst and it saved my hide when I had to sing. Good luck to all. S On Jul 13, 2010, at 6:04 PM, David McLean wrote: > Just burn it in Itunes as an audio Cd. > On Jul 13, 2010, at 8:49 PM, Mike Arrigo wrote: > >> Your cd player probably can't play the mp3 disks, there are a few options

Re: BR503, braille key to voiceover and snow lepard

Heather: I have that braille manual. What I found is that the manual is only useful as a reference tool. Honestly, the only way I've been able to truly use the manual is to have it nearby when trying to do something on the mac. Perhaps, I'm just a lazy learner, but you can't really sit down w

Re: BR503, braille key to voiceover and snow lepard

Yes, it is strange. I paid for express shipping, and then they went on vacation for two weeks. No one was interested in my lack of express shipping either. Carolyn - Original Message - From: sister Heather Albright To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, July 13,

Re: navigating images o websites

On 13 Jul 2010, at 08:51, Chris Moore wrote: > I must admit though I do find it annoying that VO reads out vertical line, it > is a shame we can't get VO to ignore this character whilst reading HTML pages. Well, if you go to the VoiceOver Utility, select Speech, then select Pronunciation, you ca

RE: A warning about Digit-Eyes

Yeah they are a shatter proof glass as stated, like used in helicopter screens. They also have a metal band around them that is the cause of the problems people are experiencing. But as you've said a case can help them continue to work without problems. The reason for using these amterials is