no link in e-mail

2011-03-14 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Lately, people to whom I e-mail links are informing me that there is no link in my messages. How can I fix this? I think I must have changed something in the compose settings but not sure. Thanks. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! Skype name:

Re: apple mail and voice over issue

2011-03-14 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, It sounds to me like you've accidentally turned quick nav on. You can toggle it on and off by pressing the left and right arrow keys at the same time. Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter, Skype, & AIM: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On Mar 13, 2011, at 11:56 PM, Denise Avant wrote

Re: seriously ridiculous facebook problem

2011-03-14 Thread erik burggraaf
Hi, I've run into this. Basicly I wrote support. I explained the situation. Then I told them I wasn't getting enough out of the service to justify the grief and they could either enable my account or close it, whichever suited them best and let me know when it was done. My account was enabl

Re: apple mail and voice over issue

2011-03-14 Thread Denise Avant
hi, you were right on target. thanks. i don't know how i did it or when. well i guess i know how just the when part. On Mar 14, 2011, at 6:34 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Hi, > > It sounds to me like you've accidentally turned quick nav on. You can toggle > it on and off by pressing the left a

Re: mail in terminal

2011-03-14 Thread .dan.
Jim, You wrote: "Are you wanting to send and read email from inside a terminal, or do you want to set up your own mail server?" I want to do mail in terminal. The first choice is to have everything at the local level the second to have a mail client in terminal. I'm most interested in doin

The official twitter app not accessible. Is it just my mac?

2011-03-14 Thread Matthew Campbell
Hello mac users. I just installed the free twitter app from the mac app store. WHen I opened it, I wasn't able to navigate through the interface at all. Am I doing something wrong? I didn't see and accessibility preference or a way to change the interface at all. If this app isn't accessible I'l

Re: The official twitter app not accessible. Is it just my mac?

2011-03-14 Thread Claudio Haase
Hi Matthew, try syrinx. It's a very accessible twitter client for mac. On 3/14/11, Matthew Campbell wrote: > Hello mac users. > I just installed the free twitter app from the mac app store. WHen I opened > it, I wasn't able to navigate through the interface at all. Am I doing > something wrong? I

Re: The official twitter app not accessible. Is it just my mac?

2011-03-14 Thread Matthew Campbell
Hi. I have syrinx and love it but I wanted to try something different that's all. On 2011-03-14, at 10:11 AM, Claudio Haase wrote: > Hi Matthew, try syrinx. It's a very accessible twitter client for mac. > > On 3/14/11, Matthew Campbell wrote: >> Hello mac users. >> I just installed the free twi

Is the disappearance of Voice Over a unique problem, or do others have it, too?

2011-03-14 Thread Michael Busboom
Hi everyone, I am using Snow Leopard V 10.6.6 on a Mac Book with 4 GB/RAM. For reasons I do not understand, I occasionally lose Voice Over, especially when I am using Mail. Though the problem is not limited to Mail, Voice Over just seems to "unload itself," and the only thing I can do is repeat

Re: Is the disappearance of Voice Over a unique problem, or do others have it, too?

2011-03-14 Thread Bryan Jones
Yes, it happens to me on my mac mini, os 10.6.6. Same symptoms you are experiencing. Be sure to send a note with complete details to accessibil...@apple.com Thanks, Bryan On Mar 14, 2011, at 11:38 AM, Michael Busboom wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am using Snow Leopard V 10.6.6 on a Mac Book wit

Re: Is the disappearance of Voice Over a unique problem, or do others have it, too?

2011-03-14 Thread Matthew Elliff
oh yes this has been happening to me since I started using snowleopard in 2009. Sent from my iPhone On Mar 14, 2011, at 10:38 AM, Michael Busboom wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am using Snow Leopard V 10.6.6 on a Mac Book with 4 GB/RAM. For reasons I > do not understand, I occasionally lose Voic

Re: Is the disappearance of Voice Over a unique problem, or do others have it, too?

2011-03-14 Thread Slau
For the first time ever, today I lost VoiceOver completely, for no apparent reason, but couldn't get it back no matter what I tried. I managed to quit Mail and reboot the MacBook Pro without VoiceOver and haven't seen anything unusual for the past few hours. Very strange. Console log reported a

Re: Is the disappearance of Voice Over a unique problem, or do others have it, too?

2011-03-14 Thread John Sanfilippo
Not this exact problem, but something similar: IMac, Snow Leopard 10.6.6. I invoke sleep. When I wake it up, I must either press a number of arrows or other simple commands, or simply close and open vo with command 5. On Mar 14, 2011, at 11:38 AM, Michael Busboom wrote: Hi everyone, I am usin

Re: Is the disappearance of Voice Over a unique problem, or do others have it, too?

2011-03-14 Thread Robert Carter
Hi Mike, I have this problem on my MacBook as well. I find that the easiest way to get VoiceOver restarted is to press control+option+command+f8. This starts the VoiceOver tutorial. As soon as the tutorial starts, press escape and VoiceOver will restart. I hope this problem gets fixed soon. It

Re: Is the disappearance of Voice Over a unique problem, or do others have it, too?

2011-03-14 Thread Michael Busboom
Robert, although the problem is annoying, this approach you described might at least be a usable work-around. I will try it the next time Voice Over abandons me. Thank you very much. To all of you who wrote, thank you. Sometimes, the only way to recover has been to just hit the Power key, wa

Re: Is the disappearance of Voice Over a unique problem, or do others have it, too?

2011-03-14 Thread Scott Howell
I am not experiencing this on any of the Macs I am using. Two MBPs and an iMac. THis is an interesting problem. On Mar 14, 2011, at 11:50 AM, Robert Carter wrote: > Hi Mike, > > I have this problem on my MacBook as well. I find that the easiest way to get > VoiceOver restarted is to press contr

Fwd: Re: Two questions about the accessible Audacity for the Mac

2011-03-14 Thread Johchi
Forgive me if you get a double post from me. I don't think it was sent to this list the first time I sent it. Original Message Subject:Re: Two questions about the accessible Audacity for the Mac Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 12:51:09 -0400 From: Johchi To: macvisiona

Re: Is the disappearance of Voice Over a unique problem, or do others have it, too?

2011-03-14 Thread Eric Oyen
this has been a known problem since the inception of snow leopard. I have seen it on all versions 10.6.x and it hasn't gotten any better with time. it appears that it may be a memory leak or a broken library. in any case, it is annoying as hell. I have sent many notices to accessibility. its got

Suggested checks for using access keys and searching the list archives [was Access keys not working]

2011-03-14 Thread Esther
Hi Brandon, I'm not seeing this problem of non-working access key shortcut combinations, either in the previous version of Safari or with the newest update (version 5.0.4 released three or four days ago). A few questions about your recent Safari experience: Is it possible that either you or som

Re: Is the disappearance of Voice Over a unique problem, or do others have it, too?

2011-03-14 Thread Zachary Kline
Hi Eric, I think you're overstating the case a bit here... Yes, it's annoying, but I haven't found it that annoying. I haven't experienced it as often as others here seem to, and the times I have, a quick command-f5 or two solves it. Yes, let's email accessibility about this, but let's not lo

Re: Is the disappearance of Voice Over a unique problem, or do others have it, too?

2011-03-14 Thread joseph
hi Mike it does not happen on my 21 inch i mack. best On 14 Mar 2011, at 15:43, Bryan Jones wrote: > Yes, it happens to me on my mac mini, os 10.6.6. Same symptoms you are > experiencing. Be sure to send a note with complete details to > accessibil...@apple.com > > Thanks, > Bryan > > On Ma

Re: Is the disappearance of Voice Over a unique problem, or do others have it, too?

2011-03-14 Thread wes smith
Only happens to me two times out of the week. Sent from my iPhone On Mar 14, 2011, at 11:37 AM, joseph wrote: > hi Mike > > it does not happen on my 21 inch i mack. > > best > On 14 Mar 2011, at 15:43, Bryan Jones wrote: > >> Yes, it happens to me on my mac mini, os 10.6.6. Same symptoms you ar

accessibility of box.net

2011-03-14 Thread Matthew Campbell
Hello again listers. Since Dropbox has decided to ignore accessibility, I'm interested in trying box.net. Have any of you tried any of they're services with the mac and or iPhone? If anyone could give me some more info, that'd be great. Thanks. Matthew Campbell. -- You received this message beca

Re: Is the disappearance of Voice Over a unique problem, or do others have it, too?

2011-03-14 Thread Michael Busboom
Hello again everyone, While it is good to know that I'm not the only one experiencing the problem, I wish that there were a way to duplicate it at will. Being able to do so would certainly make it easier for programmers to squish the bug. The problem of lost speech sometimes occurs when I rapi

Re: Is the disappearance of Voice Over a unique problem, or do others have it, too?

2011-03-14 Thread M. Taylor
Hello Mike. I encounter this same problem virtually every time I use Mail. In fact,, just now, while composing this reply to you, VoiceOver just stopped speaking and I had to issue Command+F5 several times to get it speaking again. VoiceOver also dies when entering information into Forms on the

Re: Is the disappearance of Voice Over a unique problem, or do others have it, too?

2011-03-14 Thread Christopher Peppel
Hi Everybody, This is indeed a strange problem. I haven't had this problem at all. Of course, this doesn't mean that others haven't had it. I hope it can be resolved. Chris On Mar 14, 2011, at 1:22 PM, Zachary Kline wrote: > Hi Eric, > I think you're overstating the case a bit here... Yes,

Re: Is the disappearance of Voice Over a unique problem, or do others have it, too?

2011-03-14 Thread carolyn Haas
Hi guys: I'm finding this interesting, and surprising. I've been using an 13 inch mbp for over a year, and never had this happen. I have had one thing whereby voiceover says Voiceover on/speech off. But, fixed it by playing the trackpad and mute and unmuting Vo, then doing the command f5 thin

Re: Suggested checks for using access keys and searching the list archives [was Access keys not working]

2011-03-14 Thread Brandon Olivares
Hi, Thank you. Restarting Safari helped. Brandon On Mar 14, 2011, at 1:10 PM, Esther wrote: > Hi Brandon, > > I'm not seeing this problem of non-working access key shortcut combinations, > either in the previous version of Safari or with the newest update (version > 5.0.4 released three or f

Re: Is the disappearance of Voice Over a unique problem, or do others have it, too?

2011-03-14 Thread louie
Same thing happing here. Four presses of command F5 fixs the trouble. On Mar 14, 2011, at 11:23 AM, carolyn Haas wrote: > Hi guys: > I'm finding this interesting, and surprising. I've been using an 13 inch mbp > for over a year, and never had this happen. I have had one thing whereby > voiceo

Re: Is the disappearance of Voice Over a unique problem, or do others have it, too?

2011-03-14 Thread Eric Oyen
zack, I am definitely NOT overstating the problem here. I get random failures, and not just in mail either. It happens so often that I am seriously considering dumping OS X and installing VINUX. This problem has been occurring with such frequency that I might as well keep my machine off then use

Re: Is the disappearance of Voice Over a unique problem, or do others have it, too?

2011-03-14 Thread carolyn Haas
Hi Eric Have you tried some of the general maintenance things such as utilities first aid, verifying and repairing permissions, or doing any re-installs? It would seem to me that if this problem is occurring that often, you could get it to reproduce for one of the geniuses at your Apple store

Re: Is the disappearance of Voice Over a unique problem, or do others have it, too?

2011-03-14 Thread Ricardo Walker
Yup, Spot on Mark. I also encounter this when navigating quickly through files and folders in the finder. Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter, Skype, & AIM: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On Mar 14, 2011, at 2:07 PM, M. Taylor wrote: > Hello Mike. > > I encounter this same problem v

Re: Is the disappearance of Voice Over a unique problem, or do others have it, too?

2011-03-14 Thread Matthew Campbell
Also, another amazing utility is called onyx. It'll do everything accept clean my house and do the laundry. Lol. Just do a google search for onyx. On 2011-03-14, at 2:54 PM, carolyn Haas wrote: > Hi Eric > > Have you tried some of the general maintenance things such as utilities first > aid, ve

Re: Is the disappearance of Voice Over a unique problem, or do others have it, too?

2011-03-14 Thread Michael Busboom
Hello Carolyn, Alas, were I a fast typist (and truthfully, I'm average, I guess) your question would be right on target. Unfortunately, on a couple of instances, VO has simply stopped talking when just reading a mail aloud. VO most frequently dies when I am typing in the mail program, though

Re: Is the disappearance of Voice Over a unique problem, or do others have it, too?

2011-03-14 Thread Michael Busboom
Mark and Ricardo, sometimes, I have to keep hitting the Command F5 combo for two or three minutes before VO kicks in. While I truly sympathize with everyone who regularly encounters this problem, I also take a little bit of comfort in the fact that (1) I'm not doing anything wrong and (2) miser

Re: Is the disappearance of Voice Over a unique problem, or do others have it, too?

2011-03-14 Thread Geoff Waaler
Like others I cannot reproduce the problem. Some times it happens every couple minutes, or I can go a day with only one or two occurrences. Since I recently reformatted my partition and reinstalled snowLeopard, I doubt that repairing permissions would have any affect. I don't recall this bein

Re: Is the disappearance of Voice Over a unique problem, or do others have it, too?

2011-03-14 Thread Zachary Kline
Hi Jeff, It's interesting you mention Safari. I don't run into this exact problem often while using it, but occasionally I do have instances where VO will suddenly restart itself for no apparent reason. This isn't something I can reliably reproduce either, nor does it happen often enough to be

Is CopyPaste Pro 3.0 accessible?

2011-03-14 Thread Geoff Waaler
The subject says it all. Macupdate has CopyPaste Pro 3.0 on sale. I used a Windows counterpart called Clipmate for years and found it indispensable. I'll probably try this app unless someone already has and advises that it doesn't play nice with voiceOver. Best regards. Geoff -- You receive

Re: Is the disappearance of Voice Over a unique problem, or do others have it, too?

2011-03-14 Thread carolyn Haas
Hi Mike: Are you running windows along side snowleopard? Are you telling too many corny jokes?:) Ok, not called for.! I wonder if the usual first aid utility stuff could help, or the Onyx utility app Matthew suggested? I know nothing about Onyx. But perhaps I should apply for that houseclean

Apple script for battery status

2011-03-14 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Hi, a few weeks ago someone posted an apple script to get the current battery status of a MacBook. Unfortunately I didn't save that helpful script. Could anyone please post it again. Would be really great. :) Thanks and best regards Jürgen -- You received this message because you are subscrib

Re: apple mail and voice over issue

2011-03-14 Thread Johchi
On 3/14/2011 9:01 AM, Denise Avant wrote: hi, you were right on target. thanks. i don't know how i did it or when. well i guess i know how just the when part. On Mar 14, 2011, at 6:34 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: Hi, It sounds to me like you've accidentally turned quick nav on. You can toggle

Re: Is the disappearance of Voice Over a unique problem, or do others have it, too?

2011-03-14 Thread Eric Oyen
the problems appear at random but with increasing frequency. I'd take a trip to my local apple store, but its like 40 miles across town and I don't venture out much during the day (my eyes hurt too damned much). I have run all the maintenance tools here. so far, nothing is detected as being wron

RE: seriously ridiculous facebook problem

2011-03-14 Thread Brian Miller
Hi Yuma, I had this problem when I tried to log in to my account owhen I was traveling overseas. The photo jeopardy thing is absolutely impossible for a blind guy -- heck, it's practically impossible for a totally sighted person for all the reasons you described. It seems to me there was anoth

Re: apple mail and voice over issue

2011-03-14 Thread Colin M
Hi Johchi! Quick nav means you can just use the arrows to nav! to switch it on just press left and right arrows at the same time! vo will say quick nav on or off! So when it is on you will not have to hold vo keys and just press up down and so on to nav you can also select with up and down arrow

Re: Make a portuguese epub with Pages

2011-03-14 Thread Jorge Fernandes
Hello Anne, I did all your suggested steps. They seems me very logic. In iPhone when I enter in the shelf for the first time, VO announced the title of the document that I made again to test correctly in Portuguese. When I enter in the document, VO start to speak in English. When I return to the s

Re: The official twitter app not accessible. Is it just my mac?

2011-03-14 Thread matthew Dyer
Matthew, You are not aloan in this one. I tried this a few weeks ago and like you found it to be totaly unaccessible. I was going to write to the devekluper, but didn't have a way to contact them about it. Matthew On Mar 14, 2011, at 9:57 AM, Matthew Campbell wrote: > Hello mac users. > I

Quick nav idea! :]

2011-03-14 Thread Colin M
Hi all! So I quite like quick nav and was wondering if people think this might be a good idea! [or not] Using q. nav in mail [ for example] I can get to which mail box I want then interact with the messages, then just open with enter and delete with just one hand! but if I want to keep the messa

Re: Make a portuguese epub with Pages

2011-03-14 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Jorge, I'm sorry it didn't work. You'll just have to select the Portuguese voice on your iPhone rather than the default voice. A nuisance, I agree, but at least it makes the document readable. Cheers, Anne On 15 Mar 2011, at 00:36, Jorge Fernandes wrote: > Hello Anne, > > I did all y

Re: interesting issue reading the time and date

2011-03-14 Thread erik burggraaf
Hi Esther, Thanks for this. It was the allow scripts checkbox that was missing. Much appreciated. Erik Burggraaf User support consultant, Now posting occasionally on twitter at eburggraaf, 1-888-255-5194 http://www.erik-burggraaf.com On 2011-03-13, at 9:32 PM, Esther wrote: > Hi Erik, > > Wha

Re: Quick nav idea! :]

2011-03-14 Thread joseph
hi to delete a mail message, i simply press the backspace key. just my thought. best On 14 Mar 2011, at 23:40, Colin M wrote: > Hi all! > So I quite like quick nav and was wondering if people think this might be a > good idea! [or not] > Using q. nav in mail [ for example] I can get to which m

Problem in the address book

2011-03-14 Thread Cheok Cheng Ann
Hi, I am experiencing problem in the address book in that the Mac voice does not say the number when I typed the phone number. How does one resolve this? Thank you Regards, Cheok Cheng Ann cheokcheng...@gmail.com http://www.chengann.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribe

Re: Is the disappearance of Voice Over a unique problem, or do others have it, too?

2011-03-14 Thread David Tanner
I haven't seen that in the year and a half I have been using VoiceOver, but Jaws does it on an average of at least once a day... Is that good enough to qualify for top screen reader in the world? - Original Message - From: "Michael Busboom" To: Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 10:38 AM

Re: Problem in the address book

2011-03-14 Thread Brett Campbell
It's been my experience that there is no resolution. I type the phone number without feedback, move out of the edit box, then move back. The number should then be read. You most likely will be able to interact with the edit box to make any corrections. Brett C. On Mar 14, 2011, at 7:51 P

Re: Quick nav idea! :]

2011-03-14 Thread Colin M
Hi Joseph! Yes I use the same key! I use enter to open them as well! But the key strokes I suggested are available to use for something and opened this for discussion! And if enough people like it and maybe come up with better ideas then they could be suggested to Apple! :] ColinQapla! Chegh che

Re: apple mail and voice over issue

2011-03-14 Thread Johchi
Hi, Thank you for the kind reply. I don't yet have a Mac but one is in te mix shortly. As for now I'm just learning how a Mac will better serve me - that is better choice for me then a standard Windows only based system. Any proof I can come up with to support my acquisition of a Mac to my

Sharing my contact via mms

2011-03-14 Thread Dean Adams
Hey Everyone, I need to be able to share my contact to someone via mms messenging but how does the recipient save my contact to his or her contacts when it has been send via a mms message, keeping in mind the person is new to the Iphone and Voice Over but he is doing well so far. Re

Question about Twitterrific for iPhone

2011-03-14 Thread Amber Pearcy
Hello list, I have begun using Twitterific for iPhone as a result of Icon Factry's accessibility improvements. I've encountered a problem when trying to open links that have been tweeted. Some links will open via the in-app browser while double tapping other links pulls up an actions menu, whi