Hi there!
Yes there is a con flicked! But it is with the Hotspots that command if you
have a hotspot set at number 8 or any other will Describes the item at that hot
spot!
Also I have found that the command to switch from one to the other is unchecked
in Keyboard shortcuts in the main Keyboard s
Hi a.m.
Actually, it hasn't been happening for me either if I decide not to save
changes to do command W if I have already saved the file with Phylbeck. I
noticed that if I haven't yet saved it and I do command W, then I do get the
option to save or not. Is it I have something in system press pr
Hi Veronica
Pages does something different then TextEdit. Pages makes a backup file that
actually says back up before the name of your file in it. This has saved me a
few times.
I also got myself a drive that would work with Time Machine. Time machine is a
program that does automatic backups eve
Yes the Refreshabraille 18 is working with iOS 5.1. I use it very frequently.
On Apr 4, 2012, at 9:57 PM, James Mannion wrote:
> Does anyone know for sure if the refreshabraille is currently working
> with IOS 5.1? I remember reading about some displays not currently
> working under 5.1 and can't
Hi guys
It made me laugh to hear you guys talking about carrying those braille displays
around, and the laptops. This is because, I used to carry around and Kappel
Apple 2E in a backpack, together with the two disk drives. My dog and I used it
to go zapping down Gaston Avenue carrying a backpack
Hi again guys.
Forgot to ask another question, and maybe you guys don't know. Does anybody
know how I could get an iPad and a Focus 40 Blue in the same room at the same
time without spending $2800 first? The Federation is coming to Dallas this
year, and I am thinking about going to Louisville. I
Just go and raid a Bank! Then acquire what you need. Then if questions are
asked, pretend you are rather retarded and after all that, lie down and take
your tavlet! Lol. If that does not produce a laugh, then I don't know what
I'm going to say next in order you laugh!
On 5 Apr 2012, at 11:5
Hi, I suggest contacting your nearest reseller or rehab service provider.
They should have a demo unit and sometimes they are generous in lending it. Or
they may have a demo bluetooth braille display and and IPad so you can walk in
and see it. I would do the demo myself if you were local, bu
hi guys,
I didn't ever have the lap top just the old apple 2 e and I just had to cary
the perkins from class to class in middle and high school until I went to
overbook. Then I had the computer and the braille window, I loved that display
even though it was big and the braille lite 40 which I re
First press VO+tab which is the command for "ignore next key press." Then the
command for high contrast will work.
Kristyn
On Apr 5, 2012, at 1:13 AM, Red.Falcon wrote:
> Hi there!
> Yes there is a con flicked! But it is with the Hotspots that command if you
> have a hotspot set at number 8 or
Hi Becky
I currently has a focus 40, not a blue, and I use TextEdit to read in braille
when I want to use the computer. Right now, I have a PacMate I did like the
Brailles light40, better than I like my pet late now
Regards
Gigi Sent from my iPhone
On Apr 5, 2012, at 7:17 AM, Becky Knaub w
Hi Erik.
On the Mac, I can't figure out how, if there is a way, to turn off and on the
displaying of control characters and still remain in computer braille. If you
turn off dots 7 and 8, then you're not in computer braille any more. You're
either in grade 1 or grade 2. This is an option I would
You can use Safari to read Braille files, although they're displayed in
eight-dot Braille. I've gotten used to the uppercase characters. Filer also
works for downloading files from NLS Web Braille. It uses webkit as Safari
does, although it kind of has a tricky learning curve.
Teresa
"Nobody e
hey Becky, there are a lot of different ways to read braille, on the mac, using
lion or snow leopard which I use at work, so it's a matter of personal
preference. I use a refreshabraille on both my Ipad and now my mac, since it is
interchangeable, but i have a focus 40 blue that I use on occasio
I would be very interested in learning how to take the BRF files and make them
epubs. It would make reading them on my iPad much easier.
Jane
On Apr 5, 2012, at 11:14 AM, Timothy Emmons wrote:
> hey Becky, there are a lot of different ways to read braille, on the mac,
> using lion or snow le
Is the ViPhone list gone Tried to send an email but it didn't get sent, so
I'll ask my question here.
I have a sighted friend who we are trying to convince to get an iPhone, but
this is what he needs: An app that will automagically sync all of his Google
calendars onto the phone--he should no
Hi,
I'm learning Sanskrit, but it'd be a lot easier if Voiceover could actually
read the Sanskrit. For instance, the following:
गच्छति
Does not read at all in Voiceover. I can read the individual characters, but
not the word itself.
Are there any voices that can do this?
Brandon
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Hello Listers,
This is probably more appropriate for the viPhone list, but I'm not
sure my messages are getting through over there. Can't see my messages or
replies for the past 3 days or so.
Below is a ;podcast that lives at applevis.com. It is a short review of the
new features in
No signature seen here.
Iona, I also have this same problem. Having the checkbox unchecked
for threaded mail does help but you're right; it still marks them as
read when you cursor by the single messages. I have number of preview
lines set to None but still have the problem. When I asked about
Hey there. Can someone send me the steps on how to get ITunes to convert a file
to mp3 from AAC?
Thanks,
May and Prince Noah
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I suppose, the only real personal loan is the credit card, unless one could put
it on another home mortgage, but renters don't have that option. I was looking
into it once, and at around $100 to $150 a month, one would probably still pay
close to the old prices for a braille display. For some, s
Hi,
open iTunes preferences and under general, press the import settings button.
choose mp3 as the file type for conversion, and press ok. Press ok again, and
then select the songs you wish to convert. then go to the advance menu and
select convert to mp3.
hth
Ricardo Walker
rica...@apple
Hi,
I've been trying to get Stanza for the Mac with no dice. When I try to get it
directly from there site, I get a safari can't connect with the server message.
I downloaded it from download.com but, it crashes with out even opening. I
have to force quit it. Can someone send me the Stanza
hello list; well, i solved my ftp problem by finally finding and installing a
mac pro version of cute. but now I'm having trouble with showing videos.
people send me videos, or i search them out on youtube to help promote sales of
amusement rides that are no longer operating. i usually show t
Thanks very much. I was leaving out a step.
May and Prince Noah
On 2012-04-05, at 12:54 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote:
> Hi,
>
> open iTunes preferences and under general, press the import settings button.
> choose mp3 as the file type for conversion, and press ok. Press ok again,
> and then sel
Hi Anne!
I will check the setting in the voiceOver utility to see how they're
set. But I am talking about opening a file within TextEdit. I'm just
following along with the mp3 tutorials that David Woodbridge did,
although Lion wasn't out yet when he did them. In his demo, when he
finished writ
Hi Veronica.
I can tebbl you that I been glad more than once that my computer saved things
for my own good. I was a little bit used to it because I had a braille Lite 40
for nine years that sa"ed utomatically.
Hang there. You'll get there.
Regards,
Gigi
Eugenia Firth
gigifi...@sbcglobal.
hello; finally figured it out. the default for universal access on here is
white text on a black background which reverses all images. changed the select
box and everything is working fine. thanks, max hello list; well, i solved my
ftp problem by finally finding and installing a mac pro vers
Hi all. I am in the midst of a complicated move, and am finding that alll I
have time to do for the most part is delete group email. I do not wish to
unsubscribe, and went to the web page to look for a suspend option but did not
find one. Can anyone assist?
Many thanks,
Marlaina
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Hello; but if you are editing html its another reason to create a back up file
or folder of your website before working in the new text edit. we will all get
there, max
On Apr 5, 2012, at 12:18 PM, Eugenia Firth wrote:
> Hi Veronica.
> I can tebbl you that I been glad more than once that my
Hi Veronica.
The reason that text edit isn't bringing up the save dialog when you quit it,
is because of versions.
If you want this to come up, press command S or close the window containing the
document.
This is a feature to help people who have a bad habit of closing things and not
saving them
Hello Veronica,
Quite a lot has changed from Snow Leopard to Lion. One of the most annoying is
that, by default, windows left open are not closed when you quit an
application. You can change this behaviour in System Preferences. Go to the
General pane and look for the check box labelled Restore
Thanks Matt, Anne and all of you for the Lion education. Now if only
I could change the default state of that check box in the shut down
the computer dialog. Oh well, progress, eh?
Thanks again.
Veronica
Watch and hear The Guide Dog Glee Club sing The Star-spangled Banner
at http://www.youtub
I have an Iphone 3GS and I upgraded to 5.1. Is it me or does it slow the
Iphone down a lot when you upgrade cause that's what's happening to mine.
Thanks for your patience.
Jenny and my goofy guide BrooksHello Listers,
This is probably more appropriate for the viPhone list, but I'm no
Hi, Ezzie,
Go to the person's profile and find the "more actions" button. Press it, then
find "unfriend." I just use VO-F to search for these things, since the
contextual menus seem to pop up all over the page, and it's hard to find them.
HTH,
Teresa
I'm a pantheist; I worship Pan.
On Apr 4,
yep that's right. bear in mind that the 4 and 4s have faster processors and
more ram to handle instructions. you can still use the 3GS but one or two
processes are bogged down.
lew
On 5 Apr 2012, at 19:09, Jennifer Perdue wrote:
> I have an Iphone 3GS and I upgraded to 5.1. Is it me or does i
Okay, continuing.
First, I did double-check my settings in the navis indeesection of
the VoiceOver utility and it is indeed set to keyboard focus.
Here's what happens when I open a file in Text edit. First I open the
application. I'm beginning to think I should just go in through the
documents
Hi! This is 1 of the many reasons I still keep an external HD running Snow
Leopard. I've gotten used to most of Lion's
differences/quirks, but word processing with lion just isn't something I'll
ever get comfortable with, so I'm happy that I
still have Snowy Kitty available.
-Original Messag
Sounds like you still have high contrast mode or inverse colors turned
on when playing video. Unlike Windows, Mac HC mode is implemented on the
video card so everything gets treated the same way, including whatever
video you are playing. Take a poke at the Universal Access section of
Preference
Hi,
this is because text edit is opening with no document. So, if you want a new
document, press command N. If you want to brows and open an existing document,
at launch of text edit, you should be placed into the browser. if you press
the down arrow, this should be confirmed.
Ricardo Walke
Hi Ricardo,
Are you sure that you're using the correct download link on the CNet download
page? Try going to:
http://download.cnet.com/Stanza/3000-2056_4-198177.html
Then make sure you use the link that VoiceOver identifies as "Download Now CNET
Secure Download" to start your download. One of
Hello Veronica,
It's best to start from the document rather than the application. Find your
document and press Cmd-o and when VoiceOver says "Edit text", interact and all
the VoiceOver commands will work.
However, before trying that, open System Preferences and go to the General pane
and unche
Hi Esther,
Yup.
I did. Are you running Stanza on snow leopard or Lion? I'm starting to think
their is a compatibility issue with Lion.
Thanks for any further assistance you can provide.
Ricardo Walker
rica...@appletothecore.info
Twitter:@apple2thecore
www.appletothecore.info
On Apr 5, 2012,
Yeah, if I ask it to do just about anything it takes an act of congress.
Oh well, it sucks to be poor:)
Jenny and my goofy guide Brooks
On Apr 5, 2012, at 1:27 PM, Lewis Alexander wrote:
> yep that's right. bear in mind that the 4 and 4s have faster processors and
> more ram to handle instruc
Hi,
I just picked up Numbers for the Mac today and I was wondering, how can you
jump to different cells?
Ricardo Walker
rica...@appletothecore.info
Twitter:@apple2thecore
www.appletothecore.info
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hahahahaha that's brilliant.
for me, when 5.0 came out, I thought my phone was powered by gerbils. bloomin
slow at that.
now it's a heck of a lot faster. now it's powered by jack russels on crack lol.
vroom!
but there are areas where it's more intensive in terms of performance drops.
usually
Hello Paul,
I applaud your desire to assist others in their journey.
You ask a very good question that I will attempt to answer in multiple
parts.
1.
Yes, you can copy the folders you mentioned in your original post, to a
Windows computer; doing this will allow the Windows version of iTunes,
ass
Hello Michael,
You've gotten some great replies on this thread.
All I will add is that my solution to resolving the key-conflict between
High-Contrast and HotSpot 8 is to simply change the High-Contract Hotkey
combo to Control+Command+8.
Mark
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From: macvisionaries
Hey guys!
I know this has come up before but I can't track it down.
What is a good anti virus program? Preferably free but still good. I
have tried a few in the app store but I am not having luck with accessibility.
Thanks for the help!
Mike Malarsie
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Hi!
I use Clamsav for antivirus. Its pretty accessible from what I can tell.
Jim
On Apr 5, 2012, at 4:23 PM, Michael Malarsie wrote:
> Hey guys!
> I know this has come up before but I can't track it down.
> What is a good anti virus program? Preferably free but still good. I
> have
Folks,
Our organization is still mainly windows-bound and a number of my coworkers use
Microsoft Messenger (I think that is what it is called) some instant chat
client that is bundled with the Office 2007 suite. I wanted to find something
that would work on the Mac platform. The clowns at our I
Hi Ricardo,
OK, here's the link to the Stanza.dmg file that I used to install Stanza
desktop on a 13" MacBook Air running Lion, OS X 10.7.3:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/460554/Stanza.dmg
It shows up under Mission Control right after my Dropbox installation, which I
think was done in mid-February. H
Thanks again, Anne, Ricardo and everyone for the help. And yes, that
silly check box that would reopen all windows in any application was
unchecked the first time I snooped around in the general tab of
system preferences.
Is there one place where the Lion changes or differences are
described? T
Hi Ann,
The problem is that regardless of whether the box is checked or not in System
Preferences, when you go to shut down or restart under Lion, the Windows
checkbox is checked. I confirmed this behavior after speaking with an Apple
rep. He stated, and it is apparently the case, that one ha
Hi Ricardo and others.
I realize, Ricardo, that you were asking a somewhat different question, one I
would like to know myself. But I thought I would share some information that
you might run into. I did.
For those of y'all who are using Numbers, I just turned in an little bug to
Apple, and I
I usually have to alt-tab to my desktop when I first boot up.
Sometimes VO talks and sometimes it doesn't.
Veronica
At 03:16 PM 4/5/2012, you wrote:
Hi Ann,
The problem is that regardless of whether the box is checked or not
in System Preferences, when you go to shut down or restart under
L
I am so glad to hear that I'm not the only 1 with that problem. It drives me
bananas! Wish Apple would figure out what's
causing that and fix it.
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On Behalf Of Veronica Elsea
Sent: Thursday,
You got it. Mine is being powered by tortoises. Oh well, The 4S is calling my
name, I have an upgrade in August and another upgrade eligible now so hopefully
I can use them both to get it for free.
I know, probably not but we can hope right?
Jenny and my goofy guide Brooks
On Apr 5, 2012, a
Thanks Esther,
Now I'm at a complete loss. The app still won't open. The first time I ran
the app, it said I needed to download Java run time, so I did. The
installation was successful. Then the app wouldn't launch. It doesn't show up
in the app switcher. When I press command tab, I hear
Hi Veronica,
Well, if I have the restore Windows at startup option checked, I'm now getting
speech. Since it's going to remain checked anyway, I figure I might as well
now leave it at that setting; it was unchecked before. Unless I cannot
re-boot, I close programs before a re-start or shut do
I realize it isn't like trying it yourself, but I can tell you that I was just
using my Focus 40 Blue from my desk at work with the iPad in our technology
resource center today, and even demoed using it with a deaf-blind client. It
works very well.
I have to tell you as a totally blind perso
Hmmm, I gave up on unchecking that box every time I shut down quite
awhile ago. Most of the time I'll hear finder is running in the
background, and then I can alt-tab to the desktop. But sometimes it's
just silent and I haven't quite been at this long enough to know how
fast a MacBook air shoul
Hello,
Has anyone figured out how to use Spotify for the Mac with VoiceOver? I can get
to the search field but nothing beyond that.
Thanks for any ideas.
Vic
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Hi Ricardo,
I've come up with something else for you to try. Some time in Snow Leopard,
Apple stopped supplying the default Java libraries. I've checked under my
System Information, and I have a separate installation of Java Preferences
(version 14.1.0) installed on my Mac. I installed this
Doubtless, by now, y'all have heard of the Flash Back Trojan and the fact that
6000 Macs were most likely infected by this thing! I found that the removal
process for this bugger is quite complex and is done mainly from terminal.
All I can tell you here is that you type in the following code in
unfortunately,
spotify isn't very voiceover compatible. I ran into this problem a while ago
and have since reported it as a bug to the company. now, this was a year ago
and since I am still on snow leopard, there probably haven't been any changes
that will work for me.
your best bet is to go to
complicated?
I found the directions over at F-Prot to be very uncomplicated. btw, I was not
infected, but a room mate was.
Sophos for OS X is pretty accessible (except for the system tray icon that sits
left of the apple scripts icon. I can't seem to gain access to that (or
soundflower for th
I too was lucky to to avoid infection and found the process to check very
uncomplicated.
Here are the instructions:
Disinfection
Manual Removal
Caution: Manual disinfection is a risky process; it is recommended only for
advanced users. Otherwise, please seek professional technical assistance.
The slow startup without speech is a separate problem. Someone posted on the
list that it's a bug, and the results are the same for me whether I checked
that box or not.
Most of the time I just close everything before logging out.
Teresa
"Slow down; you'll get there faster."
On Apr 5, 2012, a
Daniela, first off, a big congratulations to you!
Have you thought of contacting Apple accessibility? Perhaps they may actually
have some of their own documents or material from their own site prepared into
a presentational format that they'd be willing to share with you. -It may be a
longshot
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