Re: iPad, iPhone, Mac for the blind

2012-03-29 Thread Eric Oyen
well, if it comes down to doing that, I might have to. its getting ridiculously expensive to do anything here in Arizona. besides, the pay is probably better there as well. -eric On Mar 28, 2012, at 10:06 PM, Pam Mathers wrote: > Hi Eric. I have been listening to your situasionand I know you

Re: Lion or snow leperd

2012-03-29 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, I would upgrade. If you don't like it, you can always go back after all. Just plug in an external drive and creat a time machine backup of snow leopard before upgrading. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Mar 28, 2012, at 11:41 PM

Re: Lion or snow leperd

2012-03-29 Thread Lewis Alexander
You can upgrade but please be aware that if your system is current, a downgrade is REFUSED as the firmware is upgraded on install of 10.7 and the drive partitioning behaviour also changed. if you run into difficulties with an installation, use ONLY your recovery media to reset the system as reta

Re: Lion or snow leperd

2012-03-29 Thread Scott Howell
Nancy, personally I do not regret upgrading to Lion and at some point you will regret not keeping up with the JOneses. :) There are many reasons to consider upgrading and if you were to wait until Mountain Lion you would be fine. On Mar 28, 2012, at 11:41 PM, Nancy Wyman wrote: > Hi everyone,

Re: Questions about switching from PC to Mac

2012-03-29 Thread Gigi
Hi Mark I would like to say that the two biggest problems, and it's not a problem for everybody, our tables and PDF files if you need to fill out forms. I have gotten around this by telling one of my customers that tables were not an option right now. That is a choice I had. Not everybody has th

QT applications

2012-03-29 Thread Jacob Schmude
Hi all, So, I'm back on Mac (finally) now that Lion has fixed all of the bugs I considered show stoppers in Snow Leopard. It's good to be back, however, I'm having a rather strange problem that I can't account for. No applications based on QT seem to be accessible anymore. These include TeamTalk

Accessible Excel for the mac or something not as hard to use and confusing as Numbers

2012-03-29 Thread Becky Knaub
Hi All, So I am writing because I need to use excel for one of my classes and I just can't seem to get a good grasp on numbers not to mention I can't seem to find the statistical functions I need. So does anyone have any good suggestions for an Excel like program that is not so confusing and do

Re: MacBook pro description of connecters

2012-03-29 Thread Chris Blouch
Do you know what vintage? The connectors down the left edge have changed over the years. Easiest thing is to do About This Mac under the Apple menu. If it is running OSX 10.7 there is a More Info button to get details. On mine, after the "computer icon image" it says MacBook Pro 16-inch, Mid 20

RE: Accessible Excel for the mac or something not as hard to use and confusing as Numbers

2012-03-29 Thread Marcia Yale
Have you tried Tables? I am not an expert on the math functions it contains, but it is very accessible in terms of moving around and you can even import Excel (XLS) files into it. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of

Re: Accessible Excel for the mac or something not as hard to use and confusing as Numbers

2012-03-29 Thread erik burggraaf
Hi, Open office calc is not the most stable thing ever, but it's very close to excel in how it works. Best, Erik Burggraaf Currently on ebony promos: Ebony consulting on android accessibility, New drive imaging services available. To read more and subscribe, visit http://www.erik-burggraaf.c

AirFoil and Option-Clicking

2012-03-29 Thread Austin Seraphin
I've started playing with AirFoil. It rocks. It lets you pipe an application's audio through AirPlay. This also lets you select your audio source, giving a way to make iTunes use a different audio output. I want to ditch iTunes for music playing of course, and if possible would like to use the M

Re: importing vo-preffereces in osx-lion

2012-03-29 Thread accessibility
Please include the line below in follow-up emails for this request. Follow-up: 196742241 Hello, Thank you for your email. We appreciate the feedback and wanted to let you know that the problem you describe was recently reported to Apple, and we are currently investigating this issue. Unfortun

Re: QT applications

2012-03-29 Thread Esther
Hi Jacob, Is it possible that most of these applications ran QuickTime 7? If Rockbox was built for the earlier versions, it almost certainly ran QuickTime 7. In Snow Leopard QuickTime 7 was still distributed on the system DVDs -- it just wasn't loaded by default. In Lion you're going to have

Re: baffled in lion 3 column mail layout help please!

2012-03-29 Thread Ioana Gandrabur
Thanks Mark, I did all the suggested steps but nothing worked until I entered full screen. Don't know if this was the trigger of tins clarifying but it certainly appears so. Great tips though! Ioana Please check out my cd on www.ioanagandrabur.com on iTunes and most online stores. On Mar 28

Calling All Focus 40 Blue Users

2012-03-29 Thread M. Taylor
Hello Listers, I am cross-posting this to both the V iPhone and Mac Visionaries mailing lists. I am delighted to inform you that I am now the proud owner of a brand-spanking new Freedom Scientific Focus 40 Blue Braille display. I will go pick it up from the post office sometime within the next 4

Re: QT applications

2012-03-29 Thread Jacob Schmude
Hi QT, not quicktime. QT, the GUI toolkit. Rockbox, for example, has absolutely zero to do with quicktime at all. Perhaps I should have specified that, but I guess I thought the names of apps would have made that clear. On Mar 29, 2012, at 11:50 AM, Esther wrote: > Hi Jacob, > > Is it possible

Re: baffled in lion 3 column mail layout help please!

2012-03-29 Thread Ioana Gandrabur
Hello again, I love not having to hear header info. HOwever, can I with header info turned off still reply to a message on message list to sender only? I suppose the question is if one can view header details on occasion for specific message? THanks for your help! Ioana Please check out my cd

Re: Accessible Excel for the mac or something not as hard to use and confusing as Numbers

2012-03-29 Thread Esther
Hi Becky, You might want to try Tables by Daniel Schwill: http://www.x-tables.eu/ Most people find this to have a more intuitive interface than Numbers. It will support most of the standard spreadsheet operations, but not all the features that an Excel power user might want. You can get the 3

How can I check if reply was sent in lion mail layout

2012-03-29 Thread Ioana Gandrabur
HI all, An other mail question from a newly with lion mail layout: IS there a way to see the status of reply being sent or not in this view? In classic layout you would have a column that would say if reply was sent. Thanks, Ioana Please check out my cd on www.ioanagandrabur.com on iTunes and

App to amplify sound in local vicinity

2012-03-29 Thread chris hallsworth
Hello all. I have heard of apps that can amplify the sound around you. Please can I ask, what do you all use? Asking as I may need this as a backup due to hearing aid problems. Yes, I am hearing impaired. This is on an iPhone 4 running iOS 5.1. Thanks! -- Christopher Hallsworth -- You receiv

Re: AppleWorks Conversion to something more modern?

2012-03-29 Thread Esther
Hi Mike, Teresa is correct; you can open the later version, individual cwk files in iWorks -- most likely in Pages from your description. However, probably an easier way to deal with these files is to batch convert them from AppleWorks format to Pages format using an AppleScript. You can do

Re: importing vo-preffereces in osx-lion

2012-03-29 Thread Simon Cavendish
Please note, that this message had not originated from me and therefore should not have been sent to me either. This is not the first time that this has happened. This is a worrying trend in the way you track messages. With best regards Simon Cavendish On 29 Mar 2012, at 19:45, accessibil...@ap

Re: baffled in lion 3 column mail layout help please!

2012-03-29 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Hi Ioana. If you want to reply to a message, press enter on it and do command R or Command shift R reply to all. If you want to see the headers of the message? Press command shift H and if you do that twice you either get the short header or the long header as VO will tell you which is displa

Re: How can I check if reply was sent in lion mail layout

2012-03-29 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Hi Ioana again. Normally the new reply gets attached to the end of the conversation if you are viewing the conversation left to right with VO. Or the new message will appear first if you have deleted the other messages from the conversations. I hope this is not too confusing for you and other

Re: Calling All Focus 40 Blue Users

2012-03-29 Thread Teresa Cochran
The only problem I've had on the Mac specifically is that my display goes to sleep for about ten minutes when I first plug it in via USB and does the same when I restart VO in USB mode. I stumped three levels of Apple help folks with this one, including someone purported to be an engineer, so I'

Replying to only one person on list with a Mac

2012-03-29 Thread Jenny Perdue Keller
I have tried to reply to only 1 person in a list but it replies to everyone no matter what command I use. Help. Jenny and my goofy guide Brooks On Mar 29, 2012, at 3:06 PM, chris hallsworth wrote: > Hello all. > I have heard of apps that can amplify the sound around you. Please can I ask, >

Re: Replying to only one person on list with a Mac

2012-03-29 Thread Scott Howell
If you are replying to someone on the list then that is where your message will go. In order to reply directly to someone you will need to put their address in the "To:" field. On Mar 29, 2012, at 5:57 PM, Jenny Perdue Keller wrote: > I have tried to reply to only 1 person in a list but it repl

Re: Replying to only one person on list with a Mac

2012-03-29 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, Jenny, Which layout for your mail are you using? The short answer to this is that you will need to get to your message headers and interact with them. Find the email address from which the email originates and copy it. I most often use VO-shift-c to copy the last spoken phrase to the clipbo

Re: Replying to only one person on list with a Mac

2012-03-29 Thread Jenny Perdue Keller
What a pain. It's hard for me to do that. is there any way to copy and paste the addresses? Jenny and my goofy guide Brooks On Mar 29, 2012, at 5:05 PM, Scott Howell wrote: > If you are replying to someone on the list then that is where your message > will go. In order to reply directly to

Re: Replying to only one person on list with a Mac

2012-03-29 Thread Maxwell Ivey
hello; don't know about snow leopard or lion, but in leopard i can reply to the email's sender by finding their email address, clicking on it, and then arrowing down to reply to sender in the menu. good luck, max On Mar 29, 2012, at 5:12 PM, Jenny Perdue Keller wrote: What a pain. It's har

Re: Replying to only one person on list with a Mac

2012-03-29 Thread Teresa Cochran
Here's something that makes things a little easier. In Lion, I went into the headers and found the email address. Then I brought up the contextual menu with VO-shift-m. In that menu is an item: "Reply to sender". This is a bit shorter than copying and pasting. HtH, Teresa "We are made of star-

Re: Replying to only one person on list with a Mac

2012-03-29 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Quite correct. In Lion, you need to interact with the message header group then focus on the e-mail of the sender, then, for some reason, VO+left just once. Now, the reply to sender apears in the context menu. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!!

Possible Script?, Was Re: Replying to only one person on list with a Mac

2012-03-29 Thread Teresa Cochran
> I was just thinking: would this be a good task for an apple script? I am just > beginning to learn scripting. I'm thinking of at least recording the > keystrokes used for this process. > > Teresa > > "Man is matter's ability to contemplate itself."--Albert Einstein > > On Mar 29, 2012, at 3:

Possible script?, Was Re: Replying to only one person on list with a Mac

2012-03-29 Thread Teresa Cochran
I was just thinking: would this be a good task for an apple script? I am just beginning to learn scripting. I'm thinking of at least recording the keystrokes used for this process. Teresa "We are made of star-stuff"--Carl Sagan, Cosmos On Mar 29, 2012, at 3:25 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote: > Here

cycling through mail windows in full screen

2012-03-29 Thread Ioana Gandrabur
Hello again, THanks to all the useful tips in mattering the lion mail layout. I have now one more question for you helpful soles. As I said earlier, I can only use the ctrl tab etc in full screen mode. I find however that if I have several open messages I cannot cycle throughout he windows wi

Re: QT applications

2012-03-29 Thread Mike Arrigo
I remember trying virtual box in snow leppard, it didn't work at all, the qt applications can also give windows screen readers problems. This is why developers should use the native controls for their applicatioons and not take short cuts like using these nonstandard tool kits. On Mar 29, 2012,

Re: Accessible Excel for the mac or something not as hard to use and confusing as Numbers

2012-03-29 Thread Becky Knaub
No, Is this program accessible. I know Open office Word needs a lot of improvement. Thanks for the suggestion if this program is accessible I will definitely try it. Becky On Mar 29, 2012, at 1:56 PM, erik burggraaf wrote: > Hi, Open office calc is not the most stable thing ever, but it's very

Re: Calling All Focus 40 Blue Users

2012-03-29 Thread Moses Choo
Hi Mark, Good for you. If you have not done so, do listen to the Freedom Scientific Cast episode 60. Jonathan has done quite a good explanation on the device. Regards, Moses. - Original Message - From: "M. Taylor" To: Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 3:01 AM Subject: Calling All Foc

Re: Accessible Excel for the mac or something not as hard to use and confusing as Numbers

2012-03-29 Thread erik burggraaf
I use calc to handle all my company accounts. I track receivables, expenses, hours worked, billed, collected and remaining. the open office word processer leaves a bit to be desired, but the spreadsheeting componant is really super. Best, Erik Burggraaf Currently on ebony promos: Ebony consu

Re: App to amplify sound in local vicinity

2012-03-29 Thread Moses Choo
Hello, Speech Amp is presently free. Give it a try. You have to be on headphones though. Regards, Moses. - Original Message - From: "chris hallsworth" To: Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 4:06 AM Subject: App to amplify sound in local vicinity Hello all. I have heard of apps that c

Re: Replying to only one person on list with a Mac

2012-03-29 Thread Jenny Perdue Keller
Thanks. I use the nob classic versio Jenny and my goofy guide Brooks On Mar 29, 2012, at 5:09 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote: > Hi, Jenny, > > Which layout for your mail are you using? The short answer to this is that > you will need to get to your message headers and interact with them. Find the

Re: Replying to only one person on list with a Mac

2012-03-29 Thread Jenny Perdue Keller
Thanks. Jenny and my goofy guide Brooks On Mar 29, 2012, at 5:25 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote: > Here's something that makes things a little easier. In Lion, I went into the > headers and found the email address. Then I brought up the contextual menu > with VO-shift-m. In that menu is an item:

Re: Calling All Focus 40 Blue Users

2012-03-29 Thread Kristyn Leigh
What version of the Focus firmware are you running? I use the Focus with my Mac Mini running SL and have not experienced any problems with the USB connection. I use it through bluetooth with my Macbook Air running Lion. Kristyn On Mar 29, 2012, at 2:55 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote: > The only pr

Re: Replying to only one person on list with a Mac

2012-03-29 Thread Karen Lewellen
What an interesting question. Does anyone know if there is a version of pine or Alpine for the mac? we have both at shellworld, and as I was writing this one for example, I am given the following option , "use reply to address instead off from address? lets me choose which I want to do. You mean

Re: Replying to only one person on list with a Mac

2012-03-29 Thread Chris Blouch
Since OSX is Unix underneath, there is always MacPorts which has a nice little installer system to bring all those unix tools you might be familiar with to a terminal app near you. http://www.macports.org/ They currently maintain a library of 13758 ports and both Alpine and Pine is in there u

Re: QT applications

2012-03-29 Thread Chris Blouch
Ahh, so you meant this one: http://qt-project.org/ Rockbox sure sounded like something AV that might make use of QuickTime. At least with VirtualBox pretty much everything could be done via the command line so the inaccessible UI was less of a show stopper. Most folks have ponied up the cash

RE: Calling All Focus 40 Blue Users

2012-03-29 Thread Scott Erichsen
Upgrade the firmware to V4.57. that fixes the problem. Contact me if you need the instructions. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Teresa Cochran Sent: Friday, 30 March 2012 8:56 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups

RE: Calling All Focus 40 Blue Users

2012-03-29 Thread Kolby
Hello Scott, I have a focus 40 blue running firmware version 4.53. How do I go about updating the firmware to the latest version? Thank you, Kolby -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar

Re: AppleWorks Conversion to something more modern?

2012-03-29 Thread Daniela Rubio
Hello! For this purpose, you suggested a page with several scripts or zip files where the scripts could be downloaded. I can't download anything from is, and would you mind explaining for what other things can we find scripts and where to find them? Than you so much! SALUDOS, DANIELA R.T. MACNE

Re: Replying to only one person on list with a Mac

2012-03-29 Thread Eric Oyen
what I would like to do is replace the java that OS X installs with the command line version in macports (its newer and can do more). I am just not sure how. -eric On Mar 29, 2012, at 8:32 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: > Since OSX is Unix underneath, there is always MacPorts which has a nice > litt

Re: Calling All Focus 40 Blue Users

2012-03-29 Thread Teresa Cochran
Can you please post it here? I am going to take a gander that this is definitely on topic, since it relates to using Braille with Lion. It hadn't occurred to me to do this. (slapping my forehead several times) LOL Thanks, Teresa I'm a pantheist; I worship Pan. On Mar 29, 2012, at 9:59 PM, Kolb

Re: importing vo-preffereces in osx-lion

2012-03-29 Thread Jürgen Fleger
The issue is quite annoying. I wished, Apple at first fixed all the issues in VO and added then new features. Sometimes I have the feeling, they are beginning to do the same mistakes like Freedom Scientific. Including new features but ignoring the major bugs like settings import, tables in text