I found some basic instructions to get this working.
http://growl.info/documentation/adium.php
I did a few extra things here, but now it speaks all chat. :)
-Eric
On Oct 15, 2010, at 4:05 PM, Colin M wrote:
> Hi Rafaela! and Eric!
> I do not know if this is of help, but under growl settings th
Hello Heather. I would encourage you to start working with vo right away.
Reading is ok but doing is great. You really don't need another screen
reader on the mac because VO is part of the OS. Any other screen reader in
Windows is a compromise at best. I'm not saying that Windows Accessibility
is b
Hello everyone. I want IWork to be accessible. While working with an Apple
advisor I expressed some frustration about how to get feedback to the IWork
team. In each application there's a feedback option on the application's
menu. For example, I type vo+M to get to the menu and arrow right once to
g
Hi is pandora accessible if not is there a source i can go to online?
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I have to concur with these comments. I seriously doubt anyone will develop
another screen reader for the Mac since there is little incentive. What is
important is to continue sending feedback and suggestions to
accessibil...@apple.com. Receiving feedback and suggestions lets APple know
users a
Yes. People, make use of the feedback tools made available to you. If you
honestly believe that feedback is ignored, it is not. COmpanies that provide
surveys and other tools for collecting information from you about your
experience with a product is interested in what you have to say. Surveys a
Hello Justin. I hear you and you're preaching to the choir. This is ok and I
suggest that you address these issues with accessibil...@apple.com. In
addition, I suggest that you submit feeback directly to the Pages team.
There's an option on the application's menu. We are here to support each
other
Pandora is more accessible on portable devices such as iPod, iPod touch and
iPad from what i hear from folks who use vo on a regular basis.
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 11:49 PM, chad baker wrote:
> Hi is pandora accessible if not is there a source i can go to online?
> thanks
>
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Hi, I got myself a nifty key remap tool for the mac, I think It's just called
key remapper. It restored the number pad functionality to my mac portable
keyboard, and now I can do mouse click with the regular numpad.
That thing made my vm experience nicer by about 1000 fold. I can't recommend
Hi all. I deleted my iTunes library by mistake. All my library is still on my
iPod. If possible I would like to avoid recreating my library, there is
probably over 30 gigs of stuff in there, so I really can't be bothered going
through all that again if I don't have to. So is there any way to get
If you are running a Mac your entire iTunes library can be found in time
machine.
Aloha,
Ellie
On Oct 16, 2010, at 1:00 AM, James Malone wrote:
> Hi all. I deleted my iTunes library by mistake. All my library is still on my
> iPod. If possible I would like to avoid recreating my library, th
You have ichat to check out since that's a dedicated messenger program.On
Wed, 13 Oct 2010, Damon Fibraio wrote:
OK, so I realize that I can do mail on my mac, but what can I do about
accessing aol or msn messengers on the Mac. Here's my deal.
Been using a MacBook pro for a while, mostly boo
Yes, Adium is your friend. You can have all your messengers in one. For
example. You can have your AOL and MSN online at the same time, as well as
facebook chat and what have you.
On 16/10/2010, at 10:15 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> You have ichat to check out since that's a dedicated messenger pr
Hmm. I didn't back it up or anything, so its not there. I guess this teaches me
a lesson. And btw, yes, I am using a mac.
On 16/10/2010, at 10:08 PM, Charlie Doremus wrote:
> If you are running a Mac your entire iTunes library can be found in time
> machine.
>
> Aloha,
>
> Ellie
>
> On Oct 1
http://www.solona.net supported Windows before it supported the Mac with
no invitations necessary like webvisum.com.On Wed, 13 Oct 2010, Ray Foret
Jr wrote:
For me, the answer is this:
www.solona.net
There's a handy tool you can install and run via termin.app which will really
help wi the c
Hi James!
I can not be certain but on my hd in the Itunes I've got previous library I
think they happened when I up graded Itunes, I never backed up my library
either but they are there so it might be worth a look, it might not have
everything but it could have a lot!
hth Colin
On 16 Oct 2010, a
Hi Colin,
What library is this please? I haven't explored Itunes yet. That's next.
Thanks.
Isaac
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Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2010 7:35 AM
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Hi James!
I can not be certain but on my hd
Hi Kevin,
just seen this thread, Blabber's tight, good job. I have PT 8 but haven't done
much with it because I've been using Logic I'll deffinately take another look
now having heard that. Can you edit MIDI accessibly in PT or at least quantize
it? from the jingles sounds like you can.
On 26
I'd like to see better html5 support. It's working more or less, but it could
be better. Improved calendar and garage band accessibility. and a female
voice just so as I could change it up once in a while. If they outsource
voices from nuance I'm going to scream. There's no reason to buy aw
try pianopub
works some what and is free for mac
On Oct 16, 2010, at 5:49 AM, chad baker wrote:
> Hi is pandora accessible if not is there a source i can go to online?
> thanks
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Hi music lovers.
What is the right version to get of protools.
I saw a lot of options on the site but I guess it's the protools software I
should get.
Do you know the cost for the software.
regards Tony
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Eric:
On the subject of voiceover voicing, how come they only give breathing
capability to Alex? Also, I wonder why the other voices they have seem so weak
by comparison? Finally, in defense of Samaantha, I like her voice. it seems
to me to be the strongest option besides Alex; at least on t
You might have to connect the Ipod and show it in Finder as a drive, then
either start Itunes and choose that drive with Itunes and rebuild the library
(I don't even know if that's possible, it's a theory), or copy the data from
your Ipod to your Mac as if from one drive to another and manually
Hi:
I believe it backs up automagically. If you try a spotlight search for
something from there, you'll very likely find it. If that doesn't work, make
sure iTunes is not set to sync automatically. Plug your ipod into the
computer, and you will be asked if you want to transfer music from you
Hi James!
I'm an idiot!
If you put something in the bin that you should not have!
You go in there and get it back, then wash your hands!
So go to trash open the list view and find your library and open vo+shift+m in
there is an option to put back, this is of course you've not emptied your trash!
Cheree Heppe here:
Samantha is pretty good when you consider that DecTalk 32 was the Windows PC
standard for years.
This Apple experience seems to me to be a great ground level place for blind
consumers to set the standard expectations.
We have access to Apple. Let's use it wisely and product
Hi. it depends on your needs and your budget. you don't just buy the
software. You need an approved piece of hardware as well to use pro tools.
There are three main flavors of pro tools. Pro tools le, pro tools m
powered, and, pro tools hd.
Pro tools le uses various avid/digidesign USB and fi
Hi, Alex is really new, and the other voices that come with mac are really
legacy. I suspect breathing wasn't even a consideration when the older voices
were being developed. I've got alex running so fast here, that I never even
notice him breathing.
As far as Samantha, she is just about the
I hear a lot of talk about no decent female voice on vo!
I've been using Victoria from since I found her!
I know that it is personal choice but I have Alex as well giving me alerts and
I think Victoria matches him easily!
So I wonder if people might be confusing Victoria with Vicky!
Who is not as
I've consistently found my Itunes Library in Music/Itunes/Itunes Library.
Teresa
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to lay off the coffee and cigs for a while, but I hear smile in her voice.
I can't do fast speech like some of you guys do. I wonder if it's a guy thing,
or if it's as I suspect a hearing thing.
Anyway, I hope VO continues to improve as did the voicing on Jaws, dectalk etc.
CarolynericK;
In
Hi:
I believe it backs up automagically. If you try a spotlight search for
something from there, you'll very likely find it. If that doesn't work, make
sure iTunes is not set to sync automatically. Plug your ipod into the
computer, and you will be asked if you want to transfer music from you
pianopub? What is it and what does it do?
On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 3:34 AM, Justin Thornton wrote:
> try pianopub
> works some what and is free for mac
>
> On Oct 16, 2010, at 5:49 AM, chad baker wrote:
>
> > Hi is pandora accessible if not is there a source i can go to online?
> > thanks
> >
> >
Hi Cameron.
Thanks for your answer. Now I know more about protools and the different
editions.
I'm new to this software, I only tried sonar with differnt accessibility
options added to it on windows, so if this solution is accessible out of the
box it sounds very good. I have a imac here from th
Hi. for audio, it's mostly accessible, although the learning curve is
steeper than it is for sonar etc. midi is pretty much a no go for the time
being though in pro tools as you can't edit individual midi events.
Cameron.
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Relaunch iTunes or reboot your machine. I find this solves problems.
5 to 10 minutes per CD sounds a little long, but with error
checking/correction, the time will be longer to account for missing or
corrupted data on the CD. CDs with scratches and smudges may read slower too.
There may be op
Ah yes, I love the mac and vo but was concerned that vo does not support
firefox yet. I use it on the windows side on my pc. I am reading up on vo
as I work on the mac. I have not used the internet,I want to be sure I get
all the other items down. I am playing with the track pad trying to ge
You know, I would not mind having the startrek computer voice on my mac!
Maybe I am being to geeky. Heather
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Hello Heather,
On 16 Oct 2010, at 20:59, heather kd5cbl wrote:
> Ah yes, I love the mac and vo but was concerned that vo does not support
> firefox yet.
It isn't so much that VoiceOver doesn't support FireFox, but that FireFox
doesn't work with VoiceOver. When applications conform to Apple's
Heather,
its not that voiceover doesn't support firefox, its the other way around
(mostly because mozilla wants more access to apples code than apple will
allow). its a fight between apple wanting to protect their works and the open
source project that wants free information.
73's from Eric
Ah, I see now. Thinks for explaining it to me! Heather
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Hi all.
i got so many mails on this list and another one too, that I need to read them
by threats. I have found out how to let the mails shown in threats, I can not
figure out the easyst way to read them. Normally I press voiceOver+j to toggle
between the content and the messages, but that is n
Hi all,
I must admit that I haven't been following the discussions about web kit very
closely as I didn't know what it was. I gather, now, that it is a good thing
for me to install. I decided to Google for it to install it but, something
seems to be wrong with my Google so, I can only type th
Press the enter key when opening a message and voice over should start reading
the message.
Kawal.
Kawal Gucukoglu
On 16 Oct 2010, at 08:24 PM, Annie Skov Nielsen
wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> i got so many mails on this list and another one too, that I need to read
> them by threats. I have found
Go to
www.webkit.org if my memory tells me right.
Regards Tony
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16 okt 2010 kl. 21.39 skrev Jeff Berwick:
> Hi all,
>
> I must admit that
http://webkit.org.
Take care.
On Oct 16, 2010, at 12:39 PM, Jeff Berwick wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I must admit that I haven't been following the discussions about web kit very
> closely as I didn't know what it was. I gather, now, that it is a good thing
> for me to install. I decided to Google
Hello. hit enter on the message thread and all of them will open. you can also
open the thread by hitting right arrow or checking the collapse expand check
box and selecting the messages by selecting the unread messages. you will know
this by a sound followed by the word unread image. then hit
Nope you can't copy data from an ipod and you can't see it as a drive eather.
at least I can't with my iphone.
Take care.
On Oct 16, 2010, at 8:38 AM, Mark BurningHawk Baxter wrote:
> You might have to connect the Ipod and show it in Finder as a drive, then
> either start Itunes and choose that
Huh? I've never been asked to do that when I connect my iphone. I realise that
these are 2 different beasts but itunes works the same. I think?
Take care.
S
On Oct 16, 2010, at 8:22 AM, Carolyn Haas wrote:
> Hi:
> I believe it backs up automagically. If you try a spotlight search for
> somet
Ok it should start reading the message is the key. if not go to view under
prefs and set the headers to none. then it should start reading the messages.
to view the long headers for any message press cmd shift h.
Good luck.
On Oct 16, 2010, at 12:47 PM, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote:
> Press the enter
Hi, i take Samantha over trinoids, boing, bad news and the other unnecessary
stuff any day.
/Krister
16 okt 2010 kl. 17.30 skrev Carolyn Haas:
> Eric:
> On the subject of voiceover voicing, how come they only give breathing
> capability to Alex? Also, I wonder why the other voices they have s
hm, yes, good suggestion.
An alternative screenreader should be nice but:
It should cost money I think,
it can't have the same features from the beginning like vo since vo is already
5 years old and had already made big improvements.
However, it should be nice to have it for situations like you
Heather, be clear on the fact that it is not VO that needs to support Firefox,
but for Firefox to be made accessible for VO. There are a number of issues for
why FireFox is not currently accessible with VO, but this is not any fault of
Apple. The folks at Mozilla are apparently going to or were
The first thing to do is to come up with your own standard way of marking
out section headings and stick to that. Then since you know what your own
standard is, you'll know how and what to search for. I'm on the
treasurescroll list with blindtreasures.com and just above each new
product listi
Here you go, Jeff.
This should be of some help.:)
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&biw=1005&bih=599&q=webkit+download&aq=f&aqi=g3g-m3g-ms1g-m1&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=C7FUDkRC6TJKyD6KyNduz5JsOqgQFT9CZ-oM
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well
lol you wanted something I assumed to work with pandora dna that is what it does
its pandora client for the mac
does not work to well but its free and ya can give it a shot
On Oct 16, 2010, at 1:23 PM, Charlie Doremus wrote:
> pianopub? What is it and what does it do?
>
> On Sat, Oct 16, 201
Hi Russ:
I went to support to get this, and thought I'd send it along for you to play
with. I'll also have a look and we can link up if you have any questions I can
confuse for you. :)
http://support.apple.com/kb/index?page=search&src=support_site.kbase.search&locale=en_US&q=import
from outlo
I found a female voice once that sounded like a hot Asian girl but I haven't
been able to find it again since.
I'm with you though, more voice plugins would be great. Alex is good though
for stock!
On Oct 16, 2010, at 9:10 AM, erik burggraaf wrote:
> Hi, Alex is really new, and the other v
Hi all,
I would like one or more .txt files to .rtf files.
Normally, in textedit, I open a txt-file in it and with save as, I should see a
option to save as rtf but I can't find it.
Does it work on another way if you start from txt and want to convert the file
to a .rtf-file?
Do do it with mor
Hi, I'm using victoria just for a change. So far she's not doing it for me.
I've played with the pitch and I think she sounds passable at a slightly higher
than normal pitch, But nowhere near on a par with alex or the female acapella
voices.
She is fast though, I have my rate set to 80 and co
Hum, maybe you should revisit NVDA. It hardly compares to Narrator. It's a
fully functioning open source scriptable screen reader with full msaa support,
braille support, sapi5 support, full web browsing capabilities, and
compadibility with other open source software. They've had 4 years to w
Hi,
Just got my iMac! Yay!!
Anyway, how do you get the time with VoiceOver? Like read the clock? I know
there is a way, I think, I just don't know how. Thanks!!
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well, you can use VO-MM and then arrow right until you hear the time. me , I
use the speak time function and have announce every 15 minutes. that works for
me most of the time.
-Eric
On Oct 16, 2010, at 6:00 PM, Westlee Smith wrote:
> Hi,
> Just got my iMac! Yay!!
> Anyway, how do you get
Hi Westley:
It's fairly easy to set VO to give you time and date. You'll need to go into
voiceover utilities with control-option-f8. use down arrow to go down to
commanders. Select this with VO (control option) spacebar. Vo-arrow right
until you hear keyboard commander and select this with v
I have to say that I liked Heather when I heard her on my Winmo phone, but when
I downloaded the Asistiveware voices, her Brooklyn accent drove me absolutely
nuts!! (No offense to anyone here). But it was a noticeable change from what I
had heard previously. Maybe guys just like her b/c they w
Hi guys,
I am looking to buy the book port plus from APH here rather soon. It
seems to be a very good device and I'm really looking forward to using
it.
I've a few questions about it and the Mac. How would you put NLS DTBs
on it? Would you just hook it up to the Mac and the Mac would just
trea
If apple were to license voices other than those they've created and put them
on the Mac, I'd rather see them license Loquendo or A capella voices. Since the
A capella once already work, its a paid add on that offers English voices as
well as a bunch of foreign languages, if Apple wanted to add
I can't speak to the Bookport specifically since I don't own one but I'd say
it's easier to copy the files to the sd card in either your Mac's card reader
or an external one connected via usb port. Any sdhc card reader should work.
You can buy one of them for less than $10 usually.
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