Re: mail question

2011-07-23 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, Chad, If you're using Lion, just arrow to the conversation in the list that you want to read, then press tab. VO and arrow up and down, and you'll hear numbers followed by the messages in the conversation. Teresa On Jul 22, 2011, at 11:52 PM, chad baker wrote: > hi guys in mail how do i ge

Question About Laptop Keyboards.

2011-07-23 Thread Thomas McMahan
When using a stand Apple keyboard a person can do vo shift end key to get to the bottom of a list window or text, and to the top with vo shift home key. How does a person do that with a laptop keyboard? A friend of mine has such a machine and I have not clue as to how he can do this same

Re: Activity Examples?

2011-07-23 Thread David Taylor
Hi, I think I'll end up with 3 or 4 basic activities. One will be the default settings with one or two things changed that I have all the time. One will be for navigation, where I'll have quick nav turned on, single letter enabled, and so on, which will run by default in all browsers and in all

Re: conversations in new mail

2011-07-23 Thread Shen
There is still the question about sorting your messages. If you sort your messages by date in 1 order, messages in conversations are sorted in reverse. For example, if all your messages are sorted in ascending order, expand a conversation and the messages in that conversation are sorted in desce

Re: Inputting with grade two braille on the Mac.

2011-07-23 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Does grade two input work with Lion? My download of Lion is proving a little difficult yet. On 23 Jul 2011, at 02:11, carolyn Haas wrote: > Hey David: > Had no idea! Wonderful! Thank you. > > Carolyn > On Jul 22, 2011, at 6:31 PM, David Tanner wrote: > >> Well, go to your settings for Braille

Great new features in Lion

2011-07-23 Thread David Taylor
Hi, I thought it worth commenting on a couple of the new features in Lion. Firstly, I haven't seen much coverage of the new support for ARIA Landmarks and live regions. These additions give us two extra really powerful features on many newer websites and web apps. Safari seems to support these

uninstalling a voice

2011-07-23 Thread chad baker
hi how do you uninstall a voice i went back to the vo utility i unchecked the voice it still shows up thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe f

Re: lion and braille input

2011-07-23 Thread Scott Howell
I wonder if this was actually intentional. Chord-g will let you switch between either contracted or uncontracted braille. This allows people to use contractions, but in the end it just seems to over complicate things if you have to switch between the two while typing. On Jul 22, 2011, at 1:22 PM

Re: Totally bizarre finding with Safari 5.1 in Lion

2011-07-23 Thread Scott Howell
If you want to go back to SL, you will have to reinstall and you will (I'm quite certain) loose that recovery partition. Of course since you purchased Lion, you could always download it again in the future. It is unfortunate some are having problems, but for me things have been pretty smooth. I

Re: Question About Laptop Keyboards.

2011-07-23 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, its VO shift FN left arrow to go to the top and VO shift FN right arrow to go to the bottom of a window. Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter & Skype: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On Jul 23, 2011, at 3:43 AM, Thomas McMahan wrote: > When using a stand Apple keyboard a person can

Re: conversations in new mail

2011-07-23 Thread Chris Westbrook
YOu can change that in the viewing tab of mail preferences, and yes I like it the previous way also. On Jul 23, 2011, at 4:14 AM, Shen wrote: > There is still the question about sorting your messages. > If you sort your messages by date in 1 order, messages in conversations are > sorted in rever

Re: Totally bizarre finding with Safari 5.1 in Lion

2011-07-23 Thread Krister Ekstrom
I wholeheartedly agree with Chris here. Calm down, folks. If there's an issue, first check if there's a solution or workaround for the thing, if not, ask a question here, after the frustration has settled, and if that doesn't help, write a polite letter to Apples Accessibility team. I've got a c

Re: conversations in new mail

2011-07-23 Thread Zachary Kline
Hi Shen and all, The sorting of conversations can be toggled in Preferences, actually. Look at the bottom of the view tab for "Show Most Recent Message at the Top." Uncheck that and you'll get the old behavior. Best, Zack. On Jul 23, 2011, at 1:14 AM, Shen wrote: > There is still the question

Re: Activity Examples?

2011-07-23 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi there. Currently, i only have one activity set up and that is for social networking apps that are in English and where i know i will only write in English, such as Skype and Yorufukurou. Here i have an activity with an english voice as a default instead of a swedish one. This makes use of di

Re: Voice over lag and other lion issues

2011-07-23 Thread Christopher Peppel
Yes, the one thing that I have noticed is that it keeps saying Safari Busy when I go to logoff of my banking website. I didn't have this problem before. Chris On Jul 22, 2011, at 9:06 PM, Quinn Haberl wrote: > Just wondering if anyone else out there notice that there are a lot of > witches with

Re: Voice over lag and other lion issues

2011-07-23 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, Let me also add that for every major upgrade of a program or an operating system, especially if you add a lot of new features, there's bound to be new bugs as well. I wouldn't dream of ever downgrading, despite the fact that i can see some bugs, or things that are different from the way i wo

Re: Acapela voices and Lion

2011-07-23 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Allison, Any voices that are not showing up can be reactivated by going into VoiceOver Utility, Speech, and clicking on the Default Voice popup menu. Select Customise, and you'll find a table with all the voices. I think you'll find that your missing voices have become unchecked in the ta

Re: Question About Laptop Keyboards.

2011-07-23 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Thomas, On a laptop keyboard, you get the missing Home End, Page Up and Page down by using the FN key with the arrow keys. Cheers, Anne On 23 Jul 2011, at 09:43, Thomas McMahan wrote: > When using a stand Apple keyboard a person can do vo shift end key to get to > the bottom of a list

Re: Voice over lag and other lion issues

2011-07-23 Thread Krister Ekstrom
On the other hand, if we didn't pounce on a new operating system the day it came out, but rather waited until som bug fixes came along, how would we know what bugs needed to be fixed? How would we know how the system worked in practice? Maybe we should demand that there were public betas of the

Re: Activity Examples?

2011-07-23 Thread Luca
agree activities are good, but pealse dont joke... jaws scripts are extremely more powerful than that! look at what is possible to do in word excell with jaws command and compare what yuou cannot do in number and pages... vo has a lot more to catchup... On 23 Lug, 03:56, Zachary Kline wrote: > Hi

Live regions what are they - was Re: Voice over lag and other lion issues

2011-07-23 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hello. This whole discussion about live regions and the like starts to make me wonder a bit. What are live regions and what are they supposed to do for us? I know they are a part of the "area" or how it's spelled thing, but what are they doing and why would we want them. This doesn't apply only

setting boot options before restart?

2011-07-23 Thread William Windels
Hello, Since Apple has introduced install apps and os-updates from the internet, we don't need a dvd. This is good but , gives sometimes problems about accessibility. I mean: we can't decide before restart, with vo-support, what to do after reboot. We also can't hear when it's time to press the

best way to handle mail in the new layout?

2011-07-23 Thread johns.kary
Hi guys, I've been forced to admit defeat and ask for help! I'm finally starting to get my head around lion, well.. I think anyway. lol. The 1 area I can not! get strait in my head is mail, I just seam to go in circles with it. much to my self disgust I've had to switch back to classic view fo

RE: setting boot options before restart?

2011-07-23 Thread Daniel Miller
William, The mac does make a sound every time it starts, so there is that queue so you can know when to hold down certain commands to boot from CD's, external drives, etc. I don't see any need to make another VO command, especially since there's the startup disc option in system Preferences.

Really nice implementation in Lion

2011-07-23 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
OK, this is totally awesome. Have any of you all who use external USB drives to store your Time Machine backups noticed what Lion now no longer does? Remember how before if the drive wasn't plugged in how it would every so often keep nagging you, saying it couldn't complete the backup? Well n

Re: setting boot options before restart?

2011-07-23 Thread erik burggraaf
Or Why not just make them options in the standard shutdown dialog? Maybe they could put in an advanced button that opens up a dialog with the options so that some one doesn't press one by accident and reck their computer. Best, Erik Burggraaf Introducing the Ebony consulting announcements list

moving from the top to the bottom of inbox in mail

2011-07-23 Thread Ahmed Alomran
Hi all before I upgrade to mac o s x 10.7 I used to press the option key with up and down arrow to move from top to botom and versversa. But this comand seems no longer available. Is there an alternitive? kind regards. ahmed. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: VMWare Fusion and Lion

2011-07-23 Thread Gary Readfern-Gray
Does Anyone know why I'm not getting the usual "connect to windows or mac" message when I connect an external drive to fusion under lion? does this work for anyone else? whenever I connect an external drive via usb, it automatically connects to my mac. I'm not sure if that's because fusion has

lion

2011-07-23 Thread Hayri Tulumcu
how can i find lion in the appstore? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.c

Re: lion

2011-07-23 Thread Gary Readfern-Gray
Go to the mac app store, not the app store in iTunes. then do a search for osx lion, that's what I did. You'll need to have snow leopard 10.6.8 downloaded before you can get get it, so make sure you do a software update before you install it. On 23 Jul 2011, at 13:56, Hayri Tulumcu wrote: > ho

Speaking of Skype

2011-07-23 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi all, Speaking of Skype, in SL, when someone called, I was immediately taken to the answer button and thus able to quickly answer a call. In Lion, I find that I hear VO say "Answer window" but cannot actually find the answer button, so have been unable to answer calls. Have others experienc

Re: moving from the top to the bottom of inbox in mail

2011-07-23 Thread Gary Readfern-Gray
Hi Ahmed, you can press control+option with home to go to the first item in the table and end to go to the last option. If you're using a MacBook, you'll need to use fn+left arrow for home and fn+right arrow for end. On 23 Jul 2011, at 13:51, Ahmed Alomran wrote: > Hi all > before I upgrade to

Re: setting boot options before restart?

2011-07-23 Thread William Windels
He daniel, erik and others, Daniel, perhaps you are right, sounds logic but, why if you need to choice an option at startup with the arrow keys (without vo-support)? e.g if you want to install linux/windows on a external partition or you want to boot a linux live-cd? I don't know if this kind of

Re: Speaking of Skype

2011-07-23 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
That could be part of your issue. You didn't upgrade. I would wonder if the version you're running of Skype is fully Lion ready. I actually upgraded and don't know why so many say they're having issues. I personally don't mind the new interface at all. It takes a little getting used to, but

Re: Speaking of Skype

2011-07-23 Thread Zachary Kline
Hi Donna, In all seriousness, I would recommend upgrading to Skype 5.x. 2.8 is or soon will be obsolete, and the problems can be worked around and aren't as frustrating as some people make them out to be. Unfortunately, I've been using Skype 5 for months, so don't have an answer for you as far

Re: VMWare Fusion and Lion

2011-07-23 Thread Zachary Kline
Hi, Are you using FUsion 3.1.3? If so, this is indeed the newest version, and I don't know why your USB drives should be acting up. Mine haven't since the upgrade, and I've used them successfully with both my mac and VM. Best, Zack. On Jul 23, 2011, at 5:53 AM, Gary Readfern-Gray wrote: > Does

RE: setting boot options before restart?

2011-07-23 Thread Daniel Miller
William, Holding down the letter C at startup will always boot from a CD, and the list that appears when you hold down the option key always starts with your actual internal hard drive, just to give you a starting point to memorize so you can boot from things with VO support. -Original Mess

Re: VMWare Fusion and Lion

2011-07-23 Thread Gary Readfern-Gray
Hi Zack, Yeh, I'm using 3.1.2 so that's probably it. Is there a way to update in the program or do I get 3.1.3 from their website? On 23 Jul 2011, at 14:14, Zachary Kline wrote: > Hi, > Are you using FUsion 3.1.3? If so, this is indeed the newest version, and I > don't know why your USB drive

Re: VMWare Fusion and Lion

2011-07-23 Thread Zachary Kline
Hi Gary, I would check for updates under the VmWare FUsion menu, though I'm surprised automatic updates haven't already asked you about 3.1.3. Did you perhaps turn those off? I don't myself, so updated when it first came out. Hope this helps, Zack. On Jul 23, 2011, at 6:21 AM, Gary Readfern-Gra

Re: Voice over lag and other lion issues

2011-07-23 Thread Massimo
In data Sabato 23 Luglio 2011 6.13.35, David Tanner ha scritto: How much of the problems that people are having is caused because the OS is new, and things are done a bit different and it is too soon to have learned the new ways of doing things in the new OS. There a large majority of those w

Re: Speaking of Skype

2011-07-23 Thread Donna Goodin
Actually, whether I should upgrade was one of the things I've been wondering. Good to hear that someone likes the current version, I had heard mostly about people having problems. And, if I can't answer calls, I may have no other choice. :) Thanks for the feedback. Donna On Jul 23, 2011, at

Re: Speaking of Skype

2011-07-23 Thread Donna Goodin
Thanks, Zack. What you're saying makes sense. I actually didn't realize how old my version was until I checked the number before posting my message. Again, it's good to hear a positive user experience for the current Skype. Best, Donna On Jul 23, 2011, at 9:09 AM, Zachary Kline wrote: > Hi D

Re: VMWare Fusion and Lion

2011-07-23 Thread Gary Readfern-Gray
Zack, Thanks a bunch. I don't specifically remember turning automatic updates off, but I'm now downloading the latest update. Here's hoping that my usb support comes back. On 23 Jul 2011, at 14:23, Zachary Kline wrote: > Hi Gary, > I would check for updates under the VmWare FUsion menu, though

Re: Voice over lag and other lion issues

2011-07-23 Thread Donna Goodin
Well said, massimo. Donna On Jul 23, 2011, at 9:24 AM, Massimo wrote: > In data Sabato 23 Luglio 2011 6.13.35, David Tanner > ha scritto: >> How much of the problems that people are having is caused because the OS is >> new, and things are done a bit different and it is too soon to have learne

Acapela voices

2011-07-23 Thread Allison Manzino
Hi all, I don't believe that Acapela is available in the App Store. I purchased it from Origin Instruments. I have had to reinstall Acapela multiple times due to my Mac crashing. I hope I won't have to do that again. I'm not even sure how to do that. Any ideas? Thank you for any assistance you

updated Skype,

2011-07-23 Thread Donna Goodin
Wow, Haven't used it yet, but personally I like the look of the new Skype. Thanks Chris and Zack for suggesting the upgrade. Cheers Donna -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@goo

Disappearing apps?

2011-07-23 Thread Naama Shang
Hi all, I've noticed that when I start an app in Lion it kind of disappears after a few second, and I have to go to the doc to get it back. Any idea why this is happening and how to keep apps that I'm working on open so that I can command tab between them? Thanks, Naama -- You received this me

Re: best way to handle mail in the new layout?

2011-07-23 Thread Gary Readfern-Gray
Hi Kari, Well, like you, this has been bugging me but here's what I'm doing at the moment. In 3-column layout, you've got your mailbox table on the left, Your messages table in the middle and a table containing all the messages in a conversation on the right. 1. find the mailboxes table. I no

Re: Question About Laptop Keyboards.

2011-07-23 Thread Thomas McMahan
Cool, thanks, I knew it was a function key involved somewhere, now will relay it to him if he hasn't already figured out. On Jul 23, 2011, at 5:49 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: Hi, its VO shift FN left arrow to go to the top and VO shift FN right arrow to go to the bottom of a window. Ricard

Re: graule question

2011-07-23 Thread joseph
no, i mean turning the volume up or down without effecting voiceover or other system sounds. cheers On 23 Jul 2011, at 03:52, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: > You mean like turn up voiceover without turhning up the rest of the system, > or vice versa? Please be a teeny bit more specific. >

Re: Disappearing apps?

2011-07-23 Thread Zachary Kline
Hi Naama, I have no idea what is going on here. My apps always stay open the same way as they did in SL. I can't even begin to speculate on what might be going on, I'm afraid. Can you try and describe the symptoms in more detail, please? What happens when you command-tab for instance? ARe y

Re: Question About Laptop Keyboards.

2011-07-23 Thread Thomas McMahan
Thank you, will relay this along then, maybe one day he'll get in here and can ask questions of his own. Not only is he a new Mac user, he's never played with a computer since the 80s. Things have changed since then slightly. On Jul 23, 2011, at 7:04 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: Hello Thoma

Re: lion question

2011-07-23 Thread joseph
aha, unfortunately, after going to input sources tab and interacting with the table, i see a list of languages but they are not lab led. cheers On 23 Jul 2011, at 04:02, Braille wrote: > It requires several steps. > > 1. add a new language input.: by going to preference, language and text, and

Re: lion question

2011-07-23 Thread Zachary Kline
Hi Joseph, I'm not sure what's going on here either. In my Input Sources tab the table contains two columns, one for checkboxes and the other for sources. All the languages have labels, starting with Afghan. Best, Zack. On Jul 23, 2011, at 7:21 AM, joseph wrote: > aha, unfortunately, after goi

Re: Totally bizarre finding with Safari 5.1 in Lion

2011-07-23 Thread David Taylor
Hi, Well, I must admit, I'm tending to leave a load of pages I check regularly in Safari open all the time now and quite like the feature. I think cmd-w is a keystroke we might need to get into the habit of using in Safari. I'm sure the option will be there soon if it isn't now, but cmd-w will

Re: Disappearing apps?

2011-07-23 Thread Naama Shang
Hello, Ok, I shall try to be more specific. I generally have mail, yorufukurou and finder open and I can command tab between those. Until I upgraded, any other app that I opened, could be also command tabbed to. Now, no matter which app I open, disappears after even a second of me not being focu

Re: Speaking of Skype

2011-07-23 Thread David Taylor
Hi, I must admit it took me a while to come to terms with the new Skype, but think I'm there now. The trackpad is definitely my friend on this one! On 23 Jul 2011, at 14:31, Donna Goodin wrote: > Actually, whether I should upgrade was one of the things I've been wondering. > Good to hear that

Re: Speaking of Skype

2011-07-23 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi David, Glad to hear this. Can you say more about how you use the trackpad in Skype? TIA, Donna On Jul 23, 2011, at 10:33 AM, David Taylor wrote: > Hi, > > I must admit it took me a while to come to terms with the new Skype, but > think I'm there now. The trackpad is definitely my friend on

Re: Speaking of Skype

2011-07-23 Thread David Taylor
Hi, Qyite simple really. I touch on the left hand side of the trackpad to get to the source list, and interact with it. I can then look at what I have in there and select whatever I want. I then stop interacting and touch on the right hand trackpad to get either to the HTML area or the contact

Re: CCC seems to be stuck copying

2011-07-23 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Same here. Had to force quit then reformat the source volume then it went well. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! Skype name: barefootedray Facebook: facebook.com/ray.foretjr.1 On Jul 22, 2011, at 10:27 PM, louie wrote: > Ray I had the same

Difference with syrinx

2011-07-23 Thread Kevin Mattingly
Lion is different but I'm getting used to it. It seems to read more in some cases and less in others. In Syrinx, I used to be able to move up and down the messages table and it would just speak what had been written. Now VO announces that it is a mention, retweet and so on. Thats a little anoyin

For Those WHo Don't Want Window Restoration

2011-07-23 Thread Zachary Kline
Hi All, I've read some posts on list from people here who don't really want their windows restored to the way they were, particularly in Safari. While I don't know of a way to stop individual apps from acting this way, there is a global preference to do so for all of them. The new General pane

Re: For Those WHo Don't Want Window Restoration

2011-07-23 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
This check box is broken. I've tried it, and it doesn't have any baring. Chris. - Original Message - From: "Zachary Kline" To: Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2011 10:47 AM Subject: For Those WHo Don't Want Window Restoration Hi All, I've read some posts on list from people here who don'

Re: For Those WHo Don't Want Window Restoration

2011-07-23 Thread Zachary Kline
Hi Chris and All, Very odd. I just tried a test with Safari, opening and quitting and reopening again, and the checkbox worked as intended, and the homepage came up with no extra tabs or windows open. Best, Zack. On Jul 23, 2011, at 7:51 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: > This check box is b

Adding voices

2011-07-23 Thread Kaare Dehard
Okay, where in the voiceover utility do you go to get the additional voices? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to m

Re: Acapela voices

2011-07-23 Thread Kevin Gibbs
Are you using Acapela under Snowleopard? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegrou

Re: For Those WHo Don't Want Window Restoration

2011-07-23 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, I don't particularly care for this behaviour either so I did some research. The method Zack mentioned in the General System Pref works great although the first time I unchecked that box, it did not do what it was supposed to. I had to also change the number of Recent Applications in the G

Re: For Those WHo Don't Want Window Restoration

2011-07-23 Thread Zachary Kline
Hi Tim, I'm not sure why you'd need to make that sort of recent items change. I didn't, and all it took was an initial launch, quit, and relaunch of Safari for it to work as intended. Best, Zack. On Jul 23, 2011, at 8:05 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > Hi, > > I don't particularly care for this behav

Re: For Those WHo Don't Want Window Restoration

2011-07-23 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi Zack, I'm not sure either. As mentioned by someone else here though, that checkbox does not always apply the change. There is a thread in Apple Discussions where sighted users have noted similar inconsistency with that option. I just mentioned it as an option for those whose didn't work t

Re: conversations in mail

2011-07-23 Thread Caitlyn Furness
I haven't upgraded yet, but when you want to delete an entire conversation, can you just hit delete on it, even if it's not expanded? Thanks, Caitlyn On Jul 21, 2011, at 8:36 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: > No no no no no. Hit right arrow and left arrow to expand or collapse. Not > vo+

Re: conversations in mail

2011-07-23 Thread Teresa Cochran
Yes, you can hit the delete key, and the conversation is gone. Also, you can delete individual messages within a conversation, even within the preview area. Teresa On Jul 23, 2011, at 8:21 AM, Caitlyn Furness wrote: > I haven't upgraded yet, but when you want to delete an entire conversation, >

Re: Difference with syrinx

2011-07-23 Thread Shameless FanGirl
On my end, it sees everything as a mention, regardless of tweet-type. I've switched back to the night owl accordingly. Also, it seems to be up to its old DM quirk again. On Jul 23, 2011, at 10:44 AM, Kevin Mattingly wrote: > Lion is different but I'm getting used to it. It seems to read more in

Re: Adding voices

2011-07-23 Thread Shameless FanGirl
Open the VO utility, find the Speech tab and tab over to voices popup. VO space on that, and arrow down to custom… select that, and you're presented with a list of all voices available, including those from Apple proper. Arrow up and down through the list, until you locate one you like, tab ove

Re: For Those WHo Don't Want Window Restoration

2011-07-23 Thread Brianna Snyder
Hi all, In the menu bar while in safari, go to the history menu. In there, there is an item that says reopen all windows from last session. Uncheck that, and Safari will no longer reopen windows when you quit it. Brianna On Jul 23, 2011, at 11:10 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > Hi Zack, > > I'm

Re: Adding voices

2011-07-23 Thread Kaare Dehard
Thanks, Shameless. there are times when I'm just not tuned in to it. Will give it a go. On 2011-07-23, at 11:51 AM, Shameless FanGirl wrote: > Open the VO utility, find the Speech tab and tab over to voices popup. VO > space on that, and arrow down to custom… select that, and you're presented

Re: Disappearing apps?

2011-07-23 Thread Chris Westbrook
That is really odd. I would call apple and see if they have any suggestions. after you reboot your machine at first and maybe repair disk permissions although I'm not sure how that would have anything to do with it. Let us know what happens. On Jul 23, 2011, at 10:26 AM, Naama Shang wrote: >

Re: best way to handle mail in the new layout?

2011-07-23 Thread Chris Westbrook
I do it a little differently now and I think easier. First of all, I have created hotspots for the mailboxes table and messages table, that makes it easier to find them. Secondly, when you are on a conversation, simply hit tab. This will bring you into a content area and you can use vo+up and

Adding voices

2011-07-23 Thread Allison Manzino
Hi everyone, I just tried to add voices and it worked. I'm downloading the Spanish voice Monica since the AAcapela voices have gone on the blink. To add more voices just follow these steps. I cannot take credit for this. I read this on this list from someone. 1. Open System Preferences and tab

Re: Difference with syrinx

2011-07-23 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
Chadic in the "accessibility," section of the General pane in Syrinx' preferences. I believe there are check boxes there which allow date and type of tweet to be read or not. • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com • My home p

Re: Difference with syrinx

2011-07-23 Thread Kevin Mattingly
I never look for accessibility in application preferences but I think I'm going to have to start. The suggestion you made worked out fine. I unchecked the tweet type and whala, it was just like it used to be. Does anyone know of any other default apps that come on the Mac that has accessibility

Re: Great new features in Lion

2011-07-23 Thread Mary Otten
Dave, somebody reported on this list that having "live regions" checked in the vo utility web navigation area caused them to have "safari busy" messages all the time. At least, that is what I thought they said. Are you finding then, that this is not the case? Mary Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com

Re: Adding voices

2011-07-23 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Allison, If you have to reinstall your Acapela voices, you'll probably have to change the permissions on the Preferences folder at root level. I had to change them all to be Read and Write so that I could activate the Acapela voices. The next time I repaired permissions, they were changed

Re: [Bulk] Re: best way to handle mail in the new layout?

2011-07-23 Thread Ray Foret Jr
How bout when you are in a list of messages, (say the sent folder), and need to select from the second message down or the second to last message up? I'm told that the command+shift+up and down we're used to using to do that doesn't work anymore. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! N

Re: Great new features in Lion

2011-07-23 Thread Shameless FanGirl
I'm not the person you're responding to, but it's checked here with no discernible issues as well. On Jul 23, 2011, at 12:45 PM, Mary Otten wrote: > Dave, somebody reported on this list that having "live regions" checked in > the vo utility web navigation area caused them to have "safari busy" m

Re: [Bulk] Re: best way to handle mail in the new layout?

2011-07-23 Thread Chris Westbrook
vo+shift+home and end work just fine. On Jul 23, 2011, at 12:50 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > How bout when you are in a list of messages, (say the sent folder), and need > to select from the second message down or the second to last message up? I'm > told that the command+shift+up and down we're u

Re: Speaking of Skype

2011-07-23 Thread Donna Goodin
That's helpful. I haven't been a big trackpad user in the past, so I probably wouldn't have thought to do that. Best, Donna On Jul 23, 2011, at 10:38 AM, David Taylor wrote: > Hi, > > Qyite simple really. I touch on the left hand side of the trackpad to get to > the source list, and interact

Re: [Bulk] best way to handle mail in the new layout?

2011-07-23 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, Ray, You can hold down shift and up and down arrows to do this kind of selecting. That's the only way I've found. Teresa On Jul 23, 2011, at 10:06 AM, Chris Westbrook wrote: > vo+shift+home and end work just fine. > On Jul 23, 2011, at 12:50 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > >> How bout when you

Re: Item Chooser Problem

2011-07-23 Thread Austin Seraphin
I think you hit on the problem, and I still have messages to read, so perhaps someone said this. Visibility seems to affect what shows up in the item chooser. Go to the top of a problem page and try it. Remember the number of items and some of the itemsthe in the list. Then go to the bottom and

Not Able to Assign Braille Keys in Lion

2011-07-23 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, all, Has anyone worked with assigning Braille keys yet in Lion? I was able to assign a few keys, but the command-b option for inputting the Braille keys doesn't seem to recognize most of my key-presses on the Focus 40 Blue. Any ideas? I'll be emailing this to accessibility at Apple, I'm afr

Re: Activity Examples?

2011-07-23 Thread Austin Seraphin
Hey. Check out my post a day and a half ago about using mail with activities, I provide a good example there. Basically, you can set up hot spots to take you to the different parts of the mail view, and thanks to activities those hot spots only work within mail, making hot spots much more useful

Re: Activity Examples?

2011-07-23 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, I wonder if activities are exportable? Also i wonder where they get saved and if the operation of VO could be sluggish if you had many activities. /Krister 23 jul 2011 kl. 19:33 skrev Austin Seraphin: > Hey. Check out my post a day and a half ago about using mail with activities, > I provid

Re: Not Able to Assign Braille Keys in Lion

2011-07-23 Thread Anne Robertson
I'm having the same problem with my Braillino. I've let Apple know about this because it's driving me insane. Cheers, Anne On 23 Jul 2011, at 19:31, Teresa Cochran wrote: > Hi, all, > > Has anyone worked with assigning Braille keys yet in Lion? I was able to > assign a few keys, but the com

Truncating Lines in Terminal

2011-07-23 Thread Austin Seraphin
I've noticed that terminal has begun truncating lines. If I use Vo-L I can hear the line, or if in an editor I can arrow up and down and hear it sometimes, but I wondered if anyone else has experienced this. I made sure I have the window at full size, and the program not in full screen. has anyo

Re: Totally bizarre finding with Safari 5.1 in Lion

2011-07-23 Thread Shen
Hello, Yes, you and I are having the same issue. Whenever I open Safari, I prefer to have only my hope page open. But for some reason, it is now opening all the pages I had open the last time I quite Safari. As far as I can find, there is no setting to change that. The other little quirk I have

Re: Truncating Lines in Terminal

2011-07-23 Thread Zachary Kline
Dear AUstin, Can you provide a concrete example of what happens when a line is truncated? It's easier to understand if I know what you're hearing, so to speak. I haven't noticed much odd in Terminal myself, but I don't use it all that regularly. Best, Zack. On Jul 23, 2011, at 10:45 AM, Austin

SuperDuper Versus Carbon Copy Cloner

2011-07-23 Thread Paul Henrichsen
Hi, Guys. I am wondering if there is any significance between Carbon Copy Cloner and SuperDuper. Obviously, one is free and one costs $26. But do both have the smart backup feature? I'm trying to figure which to get, but I really want the smart backup feature so my backups to a USB drive won't t

Re: all these issues

2011-07-23 Thread Caitlyn Furness
I'm waiting, too. For now, at least. My husband downloaded Lion yesterday. It looks tempting, but I'm still undecided myself. The new voices look nice, some of them, anyway, single letter nav looks nice, too, and some other stuff, but mail seems nightmarish. Think I'll wait til the update m

Re: one bad thing I've found in mail

2011-07-23 Thread Paul Henrichsen
Could you just use Shift up arrow with numpad commander turned on? That's what I do now with snow leopard. On Jul 20, 2011, at 1:03 PM, Donna Goodin wrote: > Hi all, > > Well, I'm sad to say that the Option Down arrow command that used to move you > to the top and bottom of the message list is

Re: all these issues

2011-07-23 Thread Chris Westbrook
I wouldn't call mail nightmarish at all. It took some time getting used to but now it is quite manageable. But there is no harm in waiting either. On Jul 23, 2011, at 2:12 PM, Caitlyn Furness wrote: > I'm waiting, too. For now, at least. My husband downloaded Lion yesterday. > It looks temp

Re: Activity Examples?

2011-07-23 Thread Dan
Hello Austin, Where can I liston to your podcast regarding activities? TIA! Dan On Jul 23, 2011, at 10:33 AM, Austin Seraphin wrote: > Hey. Check out my post a day and a half ago about using mail with activities, > I provide a good example there. Basically, you can set up hot spots to take > y

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