Hi ,
Just to add to what scott has said about using vlc player to play your
music movies etc you can change the default player for the music if you wish by
going to a music file and press command I to get the info for the file navigate
to the open with disclosure triangle press the space
At the risk of upsetting you Jenny, let me pose this question. If you do not
work for whatever reason, why do you need adaptive technology? In fact if you
cannot pay for your technology I get the impression that you feel the
"GOvernment" (state or Federal) should provide such. So, are you saying
Hi,
In my quest for new sound solutions that will enable the computer to act as the
music source, i have come across a speaker system that i have fallen in love
with. It's called Libratone Live. It's an airplay speaker, which makes it
possible to stream music from an IDevice or computer directly
Hello.
Please do not take what I'm about to say wrongly (I know I do not moderate the
list) but past experiences on many lists have shown me that people can get very
upset about these kind of issues (espically when we talk about getting
technology and how it should be acquired). It would be ve
All.
I would raise a different slant on the whole discussion. No one took this up
before in one of my prior posts. This is a concept and please treat it as an
idea. If people want to discuss this off line to see if it could be actually
adopted. Then please let me know. I am more then happy to d
Hi Guys,
thanks for the tips. But I need to keep the password active on the screen
saver. I did find the solution after all. There is a post on Mac World showing
the methods. Basically you have to put the screen saver app on to the doc.
Disable the screen saver from preference. Then you can ac
sean, I agree with you on this idea. from an international standpoint, not just
from a US standpoint, a huge change could happen with this kind of process.
what this effectively would do is open doors to international programming
companies, developers, etc to engineer their software to blind and
Thanks, I'll give that a try.
On Apr 29, 2012, at 8:09 PM, Jonathan C. Cohn wrote:
> With a bit of effort I was able to create a signature in Snow Leopard, but
> then it is even more effort to associate the signature with an email accout.
> Try turning off cursor tracking Vo-Shift-F3 and you m
How, on both counts? arrowing, even in text areas, never has seemed
very consistent; I find myself guessing until I find what I want.
Maybe quick nav complicates things, I don't know. I didn't know you
could lock the vo keys, that sounds useful. I think I need to find a
complete keyboard reference
Hello Alex,
All the VO commands are shown in the commands menus which you get to by
pressing VO-h-h.
When in a text area, you need to interact for VO commands to work. However,
usually, you can navigate using just the arrow keys. As for editing text, the
insertion point is always between two c
Hi,
Where can you buy vlc player, and how much is it?
I didn't see it in the app store.
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Hi all,
How do you use garageband to make ringtones. I have a lot of music and would
like to make ringtones out of some of it, but can't figure it out in Garageband.
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VLC Media Player is free.
http://www.videolan.org/
HTH
On Apr 30, 2012, at 8:37 AM, Stacey Robinson wrote:
> Hi,
> Where can you buy vlc player, and how much is it?
> I didn't see it in the app store.
>
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Thanks very much. I'll check this out.
On Apr 30, 2012, at 7:46 AM, Jeffrey Shockley wrote:
> VLC Media Player is free.
> http://www.videolan.org/
> HTH
> On Apr 30, 2012, at 8:37 AM, Stacey Robinson wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> Where can you buy vlc player, and how much is it?
>> I didn't see it in the a
Can you rip cd's with this player?
On Apr 30, 2012, at 7:46 AM, Jeffrey Shockley wrote:
> VLC Media Player is free.
> http://www.videolan.org/
> HTH
> On Apr 30, 2012, at 8:37 AM, Stacey Robinson wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> Where can you buy vlc player, and how much is it?
>> I didn't see it in the app s
Hello, you don't necessarily
have to use Garage Band to make ringtones out of your own music. You can very
easily do this with iTunes. I recently did a presentation on this very topic
last Wednesday night for an iPhone Discussion conference that my friend Beverly
Hunter and I have on the Conv
Lawal, I know that is not your intent. You are right that the questions have
been discussed here in the past and my point is to get Jenny thinking about the
things that she is saying and understand they really do not fit into the
context of accessibility of the Mac. Although the only context is
Hi,
M4V's will play in iTunes as m4v is the default format for most iTunes movie
files. You could try using Handbrake if you really need it converted to an mp4
or something similar.
Later...
On 2012-04-28, at 7:30 PM, Maxwell Ivey wrote:
> Hello List; A fellow just sent me a .m4v file. I c
Yes, it's worked for me using VO drag and drop.
Later...
On 2012-04-29, at 3:31 PM, Daniela Rubio wrote:
> Hello:
> This is just what I would like to know. Is Airdrop in Lyon accessible with vo?
> Thanks!
>
> SALUDOS, DANIELA R.T.
> MACNETICOS, APPLE Y ACCESIBILIDAD A TU ALCANCE.
> EN TWITTER:
Hi John,
Thanks a lot for letting me know about the way of changing the settings.
However, in ESPN, nothing happens when I press VO- space or return on the
'info' button.
In the weather app, I am able to enter my location correctly, but then nothing
happens when I press the 'done' button.
Am I d
Scott, Is there anywhere where I could download this demonstration?
On Apr 30, 2012, at 8:52 AM, Scott Rumery wrote:
> Hello, you don't necessarily
> have to use Garage Band to make ringtones out of your own music. You can
> very easily do this with iTunes. I recently did a presentation on thi
When I had growl installed on my mini, I would open growl and it would say
growl launched in the background. When i would try to open menues, it would
kick me completely out of growl.
I haven't had the time to reinstall it so I'll try and do it today.
Wish me luck.
Jenny
On Apr 29, 2012, at 1
No, unfortunately there isn't. I didn't record it myself, it was recorded by
the Coversation Station system, and as far as I know the only way to hear it is
to call the line and go into recordings and enter the recording code of 17379.
This was the first time I did a presentation like this and
Thanks scott.
On Apr 30, 2012, at 9:36 AM, Scott Rumery wrote:
> No, unfortunately there isn't. I didn't record it myself, it was recorded by
> the Coversation Station system, and as far as I know the only way to hear it
> is to call the line and go into recordings and enter the recording code
Greetings!
I had the same issues when trying to change my weather options. I
couldn't get it to work at all. I ended up just closing it and trying it later
and it just decided to work all the sudden.
sorry my response took so long.
Mike Malarsie
On Apr 30, 2012, at 9:19 AM, Rahu
Well,
Most things are not accessible without a computer, cell phone, etc. It is
easier and sometimes necessary for you to apply online for things.
I do feel that computers should be provided for those who qualify for them due
to income restrictions. Just because I don't work doesn't mean I
Probably, as I've heard of others doing it, but iTunes is probably the
default way most people rip CDs on the Mac. You might want to change the
encoder on iTunes to default to a high-bitrate mp3 if you don't want AAC
encoding.
CB
On 4/30/12 9:17 AM, Stacey Robinson wrote:
Can you rip cd's wi
Greetings!
Can someone tell me how to find the word count in pages? Also, is there
a shortcut to start the spell check?
Lastly, is there a way to change the program itself to Spanish instead
of English?
Thanks ya'll!
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Hi.
To access the menubar you can do two things:
Press ctrl f2 instead. If that doesn't work you can press ctrl cmd return and
then access the menubar by pressing VO m.
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Mail & MSN:
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Neither will I.
Jenny
On Apr 30, 2012, at 9:06 AM, Scott Howell wrote:
> Lawal, I know that is not your intent. You are right that the questions have
> been discussed here in the past and my point is to get Jenny thinking about
> the things that she is saying and understand they really do not f
Oh, I didn't know you could do that.
Where do I find that setting?
On Apr 30, 2012, at 9:49 AM, Chris Blouch wrote:
> Probably, as I've heard of others doing it, but iTunes is probably the
> default way most people rip CDs on the Mac. You might want to change the
> encoder on iTunes to default
Hi there!
This might help!
>From Esther a while ago!
use an AppleScript called "Make Ringable" that you can get from Doug Adams'
"AppleScripts for iTunes" web site:
http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=makeringable
This is a Mac-only solution. You can read the short description of the
Command-Comma while in iTunes to bring up preferences. Then in the
toolbar select General and then navigate down through the General
preferences. Right after the setting for what to do when you insert a CD
is an Import Settings button. VO-space on that and you'll finda popup
menu for what encod
Thanks so much.
People on this list are very helpful.
On Apr 30, 2012, at 10:36 AM, Chris Blouch wrote:
> Command-Comma while in iTunes to bring up preferences. Then in the toolbar
> select General and then navigate down through the General preferences. Right
> after the setting for wha
Hi,
This sounds like a very interesting concept and one much worth investigating
further, however, i want to put in my own 2 cents. I am not going to go into my
view of the whole access/disability situation, because it's so politically
incorrect and cynical that i don't think it will do good to
Hello Sean. This is a great idea and I would be interested in discussing it
further. I had thought that we could impose an accessibility tax to be levied
on everyone who buys a piece of electronic equipment. The money could be put
into a fund and grants be given to companies that agree to develo
Mike,
In pages, go to edit, then Writing Tools, then Show Statistics and then a box
will open, I use the swipe on the trackpad to get to the wordcount area after
title and name and comments etc.
For spell check, do CMD+colon I think. CMD+semi-colon just checks that word I
think, while Cmd+colo
Hello Mike,
On 30 Apr 2012, at 16:56, Michael Malarsie wrote:
> Can someone tell me how to find the word count in pages?
It's in the Document inspector under the Info tab.
> Also, is there a shortcut to start the spell check?
Have you tried Cmd-colon? I use Cmd-semicolon and correct as I go throu
Hi all,
I am wondering if anyone who is an experienced mac user might be willing to
volunteer some time to meet with me on Skype? It seems that every time I get
something figured out, the mac decides to show me how wrong I am. Example: I
was writing a tweet just now and moved to the character co
the most accurate way of sound reproduction is to avoid MP3 altogether and use
AIFF format. OK it means that the CD in size may equal to AIFF in size but if
y're really serious about the quality of your audio, use AIFF and it's
supported on all ipods.
lew
On 30 Apr 2012, at 16:16, Stacey Robin
If you're not averse to the unix shell I've been playing a good bit with
the Sox package:
http://sox.sourceforge.net/
which I installed using MacPorts:
http://www.macports.org/
Once setup you can do commands like
sox originalfile.aif convertedfile.mp3
to covert one format into another. Of c
Hi,
Ok, I'm having problems with vm fusion 4. I think there's a conflict with
mission control and my arrow keys or something. Some time ago, somebody on one
of these lists told how to resolve this, but I've fogotten how. The basic
problem is that my arrow keys aren't working properly for me
As a side note, be sure that you are backing up to a separate partition
on that NAS because time machine will keep growing until it fills the
entire drive. Once full it prunes the oldest stuff.
CB
On 4/29/12 12:00 AM, Kliphton wrote:
Okay, I created a time machine backup on an network attach
HEY! Can I get something like that to convert WMA to MP3?
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I think you are referring to the thread about YouTube using Flash video
players and how Flash is generally not usable with Voiceover. YouTube
also supports using the html5 player for much of its content. You can
join that trial by going to
youtube.com/html5
and follow the "Join the HTML5 Tria
Hello, all. I'm hoping this isn't an inappropriate question for the list, but
I'm trying to find out something on behalf of a
friend. He's got an older macboo. It isn't capable of running OSX 10.6, but he
thinks it might be able to run 10.5.
Unfortunately, when he bought the macbook, it didn't co
hi missy,
please could you find out for me what spec macbook this is and it's date /
model?
macbooks by their very nature are capable of running snow leopard but will
struggle on lion. as OS X 10.6 is intel based, the macbooks were intel chips,
the reason your disks won't work on his machine i
Hi! This is most definitely not an intel based macbook. It's currently running
osx 10.4.1. I found a 10.5.6 download on the
apple site, but don't know if that will do my friend any good. As for the
machine specs, I don't think the individual in
question is capable of finding out that information.
That sounds complex. I'll stick with iTunes.
On Apr 30, 2012, at 12:45 PM, Chris Blouch wrote:
> If you're not averse to the unix shell I've been playing a good bit with the
> Sox package:
>
> http://sox.sourceforge.net/
>
> which I installed using MacPorts:
>
> http://www.macports.org/
>
> O
wow, This sounds helpful.
I'll save this message.
On Apr 30, 2012, at 10:21 AM, Red.Falcon wrote:
> Hi there!
> This might help!
> From Esther a while ago!
> use an AppleScript called "Make Ringable" that you can get from Doug Adams'
> "AppleScripts for iTunes" web site:
> http://dougscripts.com
an iBook G4 is not a macbook. let's not confuse names here for technical
reasons. the ibook G4 will run up to the latest 10.5 update, however the info
you have mentioned about the download of os x 10.5.6 is just an update and not
a full installer. you need to find a full os x leopard DVD to do t
OK. Sorry about confusion. I figured 10.5 was the newest he could run. Are you
aware of anywhere I might be able to find a
disc of it at a reasonable price?
Thanks again!
Missy
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Hi,
ok, any ideas why mail can't move deleted items to the trash? and, what can I
do about this? It seems like mail requres me to actually open every dratted
message!
thanks,
Caitlyn
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Webkit is the engine behind several browsers including Safari and
Chrome. What most people are referring to when they talk about webkit is
the 'nightly build' which has all the latest fixes and features that
will appear later in Chrome or Safari. It also has all the latest bugs,
so your mileage
Thanks, Maybe I'll just keep using safari.
On Apr 30, 2012, at 2:44 PM, Chris Blouch wrote:
> Webkit is the engine behind several browsers including Safari and Chrome.
> What most people are referring to when they talk about webkit is the 'nightly
> build' which has all the latest fixes and feat
Chris, so is there no way round general flash then? So many use it! Is HTML5
going to replace flash soon totally? Or is HTML5 just an Apple thing?
Kirsten.
On 30 Apr 2012, at 18:56, Chris Blouch wrote:
> I think you are referring to the thread about YouTube using Flash video
> players and how
Look through the flury of messages and particularly those concerning
Mail Wierdness. Robert Carter posted a link in his reply detailing
out how to configure Apple Mail and gmail to work beautifully with
organization of folders and deletion of messages. Take a look there.
I can't explain all that
True enough. If you've got the disk space AIFF is as good as it gets
since it is pretty much a bit for bit dump of what's on the CD. You can
choose AIFF as the encoder the same way you pick mp3 except that there
is no bitrate selection since it should be the 44.1Khz that the original
CD was rec
Lots of debate on this topic but in general Flash is fading and HTML5 is
rising. Many things that could only be done in Flash can now be done
with standard HTML. A big part of that push came from Apple excluding
flash from iOS devices, so anyone wanting to play in that rich field has
to do it w
If it's an iBook G4 then this really is an old laptop since the last one
was discontinued in 2006, making it at least 6 years old and up to nine.
Most laptops start creaking at 3 years. That said, the G4 was the last
PowerPC chip used in Apple's laptops before they went to Intel and OSX
10.5 wa
This message is for Kevin Chow if he is working with Skype on the Mac with
Skype Team.
Hi Kevin.
I have been using Skype on the Mac for a long time and when Google had the
program, it worked beautifully with the Mac. However since Microsoft have
bought it, it has not been very good on the Mac
Hi! Thank you very much for your response. It really helps a lot. My friend
doesn't even have a 10.4 disc, so it sounds like
upgrading might not even be possible. He says it's wifi capable, and I know
it's got a dvd drive, but that's honestly all I
know about the system. I appreciate all the info
Hi there! Thank you so much for starting this topic thread. Hopefully, this is
the appropriate place to bring up my number 1
complaint with skype on the mac.
When I first got my mac and installed Skype; I believe this was version 5.1 or
so, the program always started in the contacts
list. Ever si
I looked at that when the question came up earlier but wma is about the
only format it doesn't support. Here are the ones it does:
8svx aif aifc aiff aiffc al amb amr-nb amr-wb anb au avr awb caf cdda
cdr cvs cvsd cvu dat dvms f32 f4 f64 f8 fap flac fssd gsm gsrt hcom htk
ima ircam la lpc lpc1
What's even weirder is that, if you compare the Skype home pane's information
to that available on the main site, many status changes simply don't show up on
the Skype home page. Maybe it only reports status changes for Skype and
Facebook users, but that seems a bit limited. In point of fact,
I'm using Skype 5.7 and having no dial pad accessibility issues at all. Voice
mail still does not work howevre. I have a custom greeting and that should not
make a difference.
Sincerely,
The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!!
Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!!
Skype name:
barefootedray
Faceb
thanks steve.. guess I'll either have to go archive diving or hope I come
across them as I go through this mountain of mail that just won't die! The
really weird thing about this whole thing is, everything was working great
until I had to do a complete wipe of my system and reinstall lion a cou
Ok.
I have found that I can dial numbers again using the keyboard on my Mac but
there is no edit field as there use to be when I first acquired the mac. Can
this be brought back?
Kawal.
On 30 Apr 2012, at 10:16 PM, Missy Hoppe wrote:
> Hi there! Thank you so much for starting this topic thr
It does disppoint me some to hear that people are having to format and
reinstall Lion. I figured Macs to be lots more stable than that. I
would have figured them to be more like linux systems where the OS
doesn't have to be reinstalled all the time like Windows.
On 4/30/12, Caitlyn M Furness wro
In addition to Skype, are there any good SIP phone clients for the Mac
which are accessible? I've used Linphone on Linux from the command
line but would be interested in a Mac solution if there is one. Skype
may be popular but the protocol is proprietary and SIP is more
universal. SIP is probably
I raised this issue wiht Skype beta team a while ago and I was toldwas that
this is by design. If you wish to not have Skype not start at Home, rather your
contacts, it's required to purchase Skype Premium.
FYI: eBay (not Google owned Skype before) and now Microsoft has it
Sent from my iPhone
What do you mean voice mail doesn't work? Can you please provide more details
and steps to reproduce? Is the issue finding voicemails people left for you,
playing them, and/or leaving them?
Sent from my iPhone
On Apr 30, 2012, at 5:31 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote:
> I'm using Skype 5.7 and having n
So, are there any major problems with skype on the mac? I've thought
about downloading it, but it works so well on my iPod, and I had so
many frustrations with it on Windows, that I hesitate to waste the
time. Is it inaccessible, or just harder than it should be, or do only
some features not work?
That doesn't sound at all right or fair. How much is this skype premium. If
it's cheap, and there isn't a monthly fee, I
might consider it, but it never used to be that way, and if that's the case,
how is it possible that at least 1 person I've
talked to who is also using the free version is able
I guess I'd classify it as just being a lot harder than it should be. Since I'm
not a huge skype fan anyway, I rarely bother
because I don't like fighting with it, but over all, it's accessible provided
you're patient enough to do all the tedius
navigation it makes you do.
-Original Message-
Which edit field are out talking about? In Dial Pad? How would that work?
When you're dialing numbers, the touch tones are generated and go out like a
telephone. Which edit field do you need back?
• Mark BurningHawk Baxter
• AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969
• MSN: burninghawk1..
It is navigation intensive at times, especially if you don't turn cursor
tracking off and stay in the message window. One thing I am hoping to find out
is whether they have fixed the bug that silences the "message received," sound
when your focus is in the message window--I wanna hear the sound
There use to be an edit field so that you could copy numbers and paste It use
to be edit field, then 1 to 0
I have the skype Free version and it starts in the contacts.
Skype is a fiddly program to use with all the interaction and you can't easily
get to the missed events to see who and what th
This was a change made in Skype 5.X. It's possible that your friend is running
an earlier version of Skype, e.g. V2.X. Please Skype.com for pricing details.
Sent from my iPhone
On Apr 30, 2012, at 6:11 PM, "Missy Hoppe" wrote:
> That doesn't sound at all right or fair. How much is this skype p
Yep. It's simply called Telephone.
> Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:03:15 -0700
> Subject: Re: Skype on the Mac made accessible?
> From: steve.holme...@gmail.com
> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
>
> In addition to Skype, are there any good SIP phone clients for the Mac
> which are accessible? I'
Hi! The person who claims not to have the problem I'm having is on this list
and is supposedly running 5.7 the same as I am.
Is there still a way to run the old versions? In the mean time, I guess I will
look at the skype prices, but the last time I
was on the site, I found it to be rather confus
Hello,
OK, with the ESPN widget, after you hit VO space on the Info button, VO
left and you will find a popup button to change the current sport. Just VO
space on that and VO down arrow to pick the sport you want and then VO space
again. Navigate to the done button and VO space on that.
I just tried copying and pasting into the dial pad, and that still works. As
for telling who or what an event is, I just select them in the table, read the
last few entries in the HTML message window, then close the conversation if I
don't want to deal with them.
• Mark BurningHawk Baxter
•
Here' the problem.
1. I have a custom greeting. When people say they leave me voice mail, I
interact with the HTML area where the voice messages should be found, but, no
messages show up?
3. I used the fix suggested by the Skype people; namely, delete the
C/Users/Ray/Library/App Support/Skyp
I have been suggesting this for the last 10 years or so and it seems that no
one wants to talk about it. there are also the excuses that it is someone elses
problem, they are too broke, etc. I have suggested having a number of people
invest in a firm, assign a voting proxy and force the issue at
has anyone used the mentioned above programme on the mac? all i get is
"clownfish has no window". any thoughts?
thank you in advance.
best
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Perhaps Sean should be the point man and anyone interested should write him
off-list; we start a mailing list, start discussing this, then use social media
to go out there and do this thing. Sign me up.
On Apr 30, 2012, at 8:00 PM, Eric Oyen wrote:
> I have been suggesting this for the last 10 y
Skuype for the mac works fine for me, press command 2 to access the dial pad,
then just type the numbers you want.
On Apr 30, 2012, at 4:06 PM, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote:
> This message is for Kevin Chow if he is working with Skype on the Mac with
> Skype Team.
>
> Hi Kevin.
>
> I have been using
Sorry if this has already been addressed but I came in on the middle of the
thread, but I would like it if skype just had a general message window that
when you got the message alert tone that someone has sent you a message, it
would just give you a list of messages with the senders name beside
What is dashboard, what does it do, and how do you get to it and work it?
Jenny
On Apr 30, 2012, at 5:53 PM, John Panarese wrote:
> Hello,
> OK, with the ESPN widget, after you hit VO space on the Info button, VO
> left and you will find a popup button to change the current sport. Just VO
Wait, how do you get it to start in contacts? I have the free version and can't
get it to do that either.
May and Prince Noah
On 2012-04-30, at 6:21 PM, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote:
> There use to be an edit field so that you could copy numbers and paste It use
> to be edit field, then 1 to 0
>
> I
Hi listers.
Can the looktel recognizer also be used as a money reader? despite the
existence of a money reader, I am asking this question as it doesn't
recognize indian currency, at least to my knowledge. I wrote to
looktel a couple of times asking them about currency support for india
and got no r
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