Accessible video editor for Mac

2012-07-02 Thread Allison Manzino
Hi all, I was wondering do you know an accessible video editor for Mac? I used to use Video Redo on my Windows machine, but it has not been developed for the Mac yet. It's a shame, such a great program. I don't have Ilfie 11 and I'm wondering if anyone here does. If so, have you tried it with

Mail Issue

2012-07-02 Thread Richard Ring
I have created an account in Mail that has erroneus port data. I subsequently attempted to send a message using the incorrect values. and now, when I open Mail, I receive an error message advising me that the server cannot send the message using the port I selected. However, all the options I mi

please help with the space key

2012-07-02 Thread CKR
hi all sorry to ask it again. I wrote yesterday but it hasn't been replied yet. I did something wrong and my space key doesn't work now. actually it works when I press vo+space or vo+shiftr+space etc. but ıt doesn't work when I press just space. when I press option+space the space works and make a

Re: please help with the space key

2012-07-02 Thread Søren Jensen
Hi. Oh, I miss understood your last mail. Sounds like you've turned the VO keys on by pressing VO semikolon. Try to press that again and your VO keys should be turned off. I hope that'll make your keboard to react normal again. Best regards: Søren Jensen Mail & MSN: s...@coolfortheblind.dk Website

Re: Accessible video editor for Mac

2012-07-02 Thread Blinkin
I use iMovie to trim and edit my videos. I can insert titles, transitions, credits, and music and sound effects. If you want me to teach you how I can. Email me off list at blinkin4...@gmail.com if you are interested. Mike On Jul 2, 2012, at 3:53 AM, Allison Manzino wrote

Re: Mail Issue

2012-07-02 Thread John Panarese
Can you use Mail preferences to remove the account at all? At least, you should be allowed to just get rid of the entire thing from there. If not, you could try to remove the actual account info from your Mail preferences in your user library. I haven't tried it that way, but in theory,

what Voiceover bugs people want or are hoping will be fixed or squashed in Mountain Lion?

2012-07-02 Thread Daniel McGee
Hi all, a while ago on this list I saw someone mention that they would like so and so bug to be fixed in Mountain Lion. I would just really like to start a discussion on if there are not many enhancements to Voiceover in the next OS, then what bugs would you like fixed and hope Apple has done t

Success in tagging on Facebook

2012-07-02 Thread Traci
Hey all, I know there has been some discussion on this topic, so I'd thought I'd post my steps. I was in the edit field that says something like what are you doing? It is for updating your status. I had quick nav off and I interacted with the edit field. When I was ready to tag a friend, I

Re: Success in tagging on Facebook

2012-07-02 Thread Christina
Was this on the main FaceBook site? I have only had success tagging on the main FB site by hitting the return after typing the at sign plus the friend's name. I have not been able to tag on the mobile site. On Jul 2, 2012, at 12:16 PM, Traci wrote: > Hey all, > > I know there has been some di

Re: what Voiceover bugs people want or are hoping will be fixed or squashed in Mountain Lion?

2012-07-02 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, besides the busy thing in Safari, I honestly can't thing of anything as far as bugs go. I'm sure there is a couple more but, I probably run into them infrequently. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Jul 2, 2012, at 2:16 PM, Daniel

RE: what Voiceover bugs people want or are hoping will be fixed or squashed in Mountain Lion?

2012-07-02 Thread Missy Hoppe
Hi there! All I'm hoping they fix is startup. For me, it's still hit or miss, and VO never starts up on the desktop as it did under Snow Leopard. In the beginning, this was that hateful com.doc.apple.extra thing, and now, it's TM launch agent and a virety of other things. True, pressing command t

Re: what Voiceover bugs people want or are hoping will be fixed or squashed in Mountain Lion?

2012-07-02 Thread Blinkin
I hope they fix Quicktime when starting the screen recorder. In snow leopard when you pressed start recording you got a pop up telling you how to stop it and then pressed a second start recording button to begin. Now, I have to turn off trackpad commander, click the record button,

RE: what Voiceover bugs people want or are hoping will be fixed or squashed in Mountain Lion?

2012-07-02 Thread Bill Holton
I would like them to fix the bug that if you go to an empty drive in table mode you will never get out without a reboot. BILL HOLTON Email: b...@bholton.com Direct: 386-624-6309 Homepage: www.bholton.com Home Office:1520 Loughton ST DeLa

Re: what Voiceover bugs people want or are hoping will be fixed or squashed in Mountain Lion?

2012-07-02 Thread shamelessfangirl
Yep, for me, the biggest annoyance is the safari busy bug as well. Wish it behaved more like chrome, sans the table weirdness. Also, and this is far from a deal breaker, but VO at login would also rock, along with the whole of the menu bar being available to us. Have fun everyone. Sent from

Re: what Voiceover bugs people want or are hoping will be fixed or squashed in Mountain Lion?

2012-07-02 Thread Pete Nalda
The "I" as 1 bug Kieth And Russell were talking about? Egun On, Lagunak! Basque for G'day, Mates Louie P. (Pete) Nalda Http://www.myspace.com/lpnalda Http://www.facebook.com/lpnalda Http://www.linkedin.com/in/lpnalda Twitter @lpnalda On Jul 2, 2012, at 1:33 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Hi, >

Re: what Voiceover bugs people want or are hoping will be fixed or squashed in Mountain Lion?

2012-07-02 Thread Matthew Campbell
Hi. As for me, I'd like to see a few things fixed. I wouldn't however, call them bugs, more accessibility issues. I'd like to see table's in textedit and other word processors become accessible to VoiceOver. The connect as button in the network view of finder isn't accessible while using column

Re: what Voiceover bugs people want or are hoping will be fixed or squashed in Mountain Lion?

2012-07-02 Thread Becky Knaub
I wish they would fix the Safari busy issue. and update iWork's especially pages so it would read the whole document without constantly stopping at the end of every pager. It disrupts reading. Other than that I don't really have any issues with Mac or VO. Becky On Jul 2, 2012, at 2:37 PM, Blink

RE: what Voiceover bugs people want or are hoping will be fixed or squashed in Mountain Lion?

2012-07-02 Thread Daniel Miller
What exactly is table mode? And emptry drives? Do explain? -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Matthew Campbell Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 1:43 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: what Voiceover bu

Re: what Voiceover bugs people want or are hoping will be fixed or squashed in Mountain Lion?

2012-07-02 Thread Matthew Campbell
Hi. You can use VO at the login screen. Go in to users in system preferences, unlock so you can change options, then go back to near the top of the window and find login options under all of the user accounts. Once in there, you will find a check box to use VO at the login screen. HTH, Matthew C

Re: what Voiceover bugs people want or are hoping will be fixed or squashed in Mountain Lion?

2012-07-02 Thread Matthew Campbell
Hi. I think "List view," is what is meant. This happens when you connect an empty drive and you try to go in to the empty drive in the finder. That actually happened to me this weekend with my new flash drive. I had to boot up my Windows VM in order to get all of my stuff on it. On 2012-07-02, a

RE: what Voiceover bugs people want or are hoping will be fixed or squashed in Mountain Lion?

2012-07-02 Thread Daniel Miller
Hi, Oh, right. That's odd, however, I've never seen that in my 2 years of using a mac, from snow Leopard to Lion. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Matthew Campbell Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 1:49 PM To: macvisi

Re: what Voiceover bugs people want or are hoping will be fixed or squashed in Mountain Lion?

2012-07-02 Thread Matthew Campbell
Hi. Neither have I, until this weekend. Verry weird. On 2012-07-02, at 2:50 PM, Daniel Miller wrote: > Hi, > > Oh, right. That's odd, however, I've never seen that in my 2 years of using > a mac, from snow Leopard to Lion. > > -Original Message- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >

Re: what Voiceover bugs people want or are hoping will be fixed or squashed in Mountain Lion?

2012-07-02 Thread shamelessfangirl
I'll be purchasing a new USB external drive shortly, usually run in list mode, so will see if this duplicates. Either way, will keep you posted, as I've never seen this either. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 2, 2012, at 2:53 PM, Matthew Campbell wrote: > Hi. > Neither have I, until this weekend.

Re: what Voiceover bugs people want or are hoping will be fixed or squashed in Mountain Lion?

2012-07-02 Thread shamelessfangirl
I meant VO speaking at reboot, rather than at login. Sorry for not being more clear. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 2, 2012, at 2:53 PM, Matthew Campbell wrote: > Hi. > Neither have I, until this weekend. > Verry weird. > On 2012-07-02, at 2:50 PM, Daniel Miller wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Oh, right.

Re: please help with the space key

2012-07-02 Thread CKR
many thanks  for your reply. unfortunately  VO  keys are turned off already. any suggestions? just space key has a problem.The other keys work properly. regards Søren Jensen wrote: > Hi. > Oh, I miss understood your last mail. > Sounds like you've turned the VO keys on by pressing VO semikolon. Tr

Re: please help with the space key

2012-07-02 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
Could you possibly have assigned the space key some other function, either through a Commander (keyboard?) or through something in System Prefs? This is intriguing and puzzling and, I know, very frustrating. • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burnin

Re: please help with the space key

2012-07-02 Thread CKR
maybe. I restored default settings.  can i check that it? The funny thing is the space key works with option key. if I  assigned a commender how can I  cancel it? thanks Mark BurningHawk Baxter wrote: > Could you possibly have assigned the space key some other function, either > through a Comman

Re: Success in tagging on Facebook

2012-07-02 Thread Traci
Yes, the main fb site. Sent by Macbook Air Mail On Jul 2, 2012, at 11:26 AM, Christina wrote: > Was this on the main FaceBook site? I have only had success tagging on the > main FB site by hitting the return after typing the at sign plus the friend's > name. I have not been able to tag on th

Re: please help with the space key

2012-07-02 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
The space key working with the option key makes me wonder if it's a Keyboard Commander thing. Is it either option key, or just the left or right option key, with the space bar, to make it space? Does Command Space bring up the Spotlight search box? And, if it if a keyboard commander thing, th

Re: Success in tagging on Facebook

2012-07-02 Thread Rahul Bajaj
Hi, Thank you very much for sharing your experience. Even I've tried that method a couple of times, but I usually don't have to tag people a lot of times anyway, so I really haven't tried it much. BTW, I was wondering, can you tag friends using apps like Focus for Facebook, etc on the iPhone? C

Re: please help with the space key

2012-07-02 Thread CKR
hi again thanks mark. I've tried it but it doesn't work again. I suppose it is not about voice over. I turned off voice over and see that the space key still doesn't work without option key. I don't know how did I do it. :( any help would be apprishiated. Mark BurningHawk Baxter yazdı: > The

Re: please help with the space key

2012-07-02 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
Oh how very intriguing! You've restored keyboard defaults, eliminated VoiceOver as the culprit... is this a MacBook, or an Imac? Have you tried unplugging and re-plugging-in the keyboard, if it's external, and a complete shut-down and reboot after all this? Is there a mouse somewhere in this

Re: please help with the space key

2012-07-02 Thread CKR
I'm using mac book pro 13 inch. I haven't got any external key board though I couldn't try any external one.:) the track pad looks working well. also I'm using track pad commender on. regards Mark BurningHawk Baxter yazdı: > Oh how very intriguing! You've restored keyboard defaults, eliminated

Re: Success in tagging on Facebook

2012-07-02 Thread Rachel Feinberg
This is great to hear, that tagging is so easily done, on the main site at least. When I go to the mobile site on the mac, however, it seems to look a lot more like the main site. Is there something I should be doing differently? Or does m.facebook.com really display that much differently? Than

Re: please help with the space key

2012-07-02 Thread Mark BurningHawk Baxter
Too bad; trying an external keyboard was a great troubleshooting idea. Does the same thing happen to the space bar when you turn track pad commander off? • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com • My home page: • http://Mar

Re: what Voiceover bugs people want or are hoping will be fixed or squashed in Mountain Lion?

2012-07-02 Thread Rachel Feinberg
You can set VO to start when you log in: Go to system preferences, users and groups button. Click the boxthat says "click the lock to make changes." Interact with the thing that says users, groups, and log in options. " So you do that, and then if you're going through the login options portion, t

Re: what Voiceover bugs people want or are hoping will be fixed or squashed in Mountain Lion?

2012-07-02 Thread Rachel Feinberg
When the drive shows in the finder, I usually press Vo+shift+m and then open. And if the drive is empty or full, it will open up and you're left in the browser as normal. HTH, Rachel On Jul 2, 2012, at 11:49 AM, Matthew Campbell wrote: > Hi. > I think "List view," is what is meant. > This happen

Calander Appointment Notification Verification Question

2012-07-02 Thread Emilio Hernandez
Hello folks, Sorry for the lengthy title, but it accurately summarizes my question. When creating an event in iCal, I insert an e-mail address into the invitations field, and send the event once it is created. How can I be notified when an invitee either accepts or rejects a calendar event? Tha

RE: what Voiceover bugs people want or are hoping will be fixed or squashed in Mountain Lion?

2012-07-02 Thread Bill Holton
There's another quick fix. If you have any empty drive, take a jfile, any file, and use the right click option to copy to that drive from the desktop. Once it has even a single file on it the drive will open fine from that point on. BILL HOLTON Email: b...@bholton.com Direct:

Re: ABBYY fine reader

2012-07-02 Thread Kirsten Edmondson
Wow, I can't believe how well this conversion works. Hardly any mistakes, and certainly none that hinder understanding! I've had experience of FR on Windows but I don't think I ever converted JPEG, just PDF, but this is great! I love Fine Reader and I love the versitility of the Mac Thanks

Re: ABBYY fine reader

2012-07-02 Thread Alex Hall
Is this a mac app from the app store, or from a third party? What is the cost? Will it work with scanners? I didn't realize the mac had an OCR option, and I'd love to know more. On 7/2/12, Kirsten Edmondson wrote: > Wow, I can't believe how well this conversion works. Hardly any mistakes, > and

Re: ABBYY fine reader

2012-07-02 Thread irid domnori
Hi, Yes it works with scanners as well and you can find this application in the app store. It costs 100$. Il giorno 03/lug/2012, alle ore 00:12, Alex Hall ha scritto: > Is this a mac app from the app store, or from a third party? What is > the cost? Will it work with scanners? I didn't realize

Re: ABBYY fine reader

2012-07-02 Thread Alex Hall
Great, thanks. Too bad there's no way to demo an app before you actually buy it. Still, good to know it's there; this is one more thing Windows no longer has to itself with Open Book or Kurzweil. On 7/2/12, irid domnori wrote: > Hi, > Yes it works with scanners as well and you can find this appli

Re: ABBYY fine reader

2012-07-02 Thread irid domnori
Hi, you can look in the abbyyfinereader web site; maybe through it you can download a demo but I'm not sure. Il giorno 03/lug/2012, alle ore 00:20, Alex Hall ha scritto: > Great, thanks. Too bad there's no way to demo an app before you > actually buy it. Still, good to know it's there; this is

Re: ABBYY fine reader

2012-07-02 Thread Kirsten Edmondson
You can demo this one. It's called abbyyfine reader express. That's the app I mean. But you can download a demo, I think from their website, which allows you either 15 days, I think or 15 tries, whichever comes first. It only allows you to do a page at the time for this, but it gives you a good

Re: what Voiceover bugs people want or are hoping will be fixed or squashed in Mountain Lion?

2012-07-02 Thread Chris Moore
Hmmm I remember a while back putting a list of 15 improvements. I can't remember them all now, so perhaps I have just learnt to live without them. I did report them to Apple though as bugs and feature enhancements. The VoiceOver busy is the biggest annoyance which is caused by the pathetic s

Re: ABBYY fine reader

2012-07-02 Thread Esther
Hi Alex, As Kirsten said, if you visit the web site you can download a trial demo. I'll paste in the information in a post from April, which would also come up immediately if you did a search of the Mail Archive site for this list, and type into the text box something like: ABBYY Finereader tr

how to subscribe to this list?

2012-07-02 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Hi there, An individual is seeking to subscribe to this list and is having a good deal of trouble learning her new Mac and is, quite frankly, about to give up I think. How can she subscribe? Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! Skype name: baref

Re: what Voiceover bugs people want or are hoping will be fixed or squashed in Mountain Lion?

2012-07-02 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
Hey guys. One of the bugs I'd like them to fix is the whole pitch change thing with the Nuance voices. Even though I use the Acapela voices, sometimes I help people with their Macs and they use Samantha or other Nuance voice and it scares the crap out of me when she changes pitch. Now that we're

RE: what Voiceover bugs people want or are hoping will be fixed or squashed in Mountain Lion?

2012-07-02 Thread Jesus Garcia
So, long as we are talking about fixes one would like to see I would also like to see a little easier navigation of headings on web pages. Perhaps as a relative new user to the mac I am missing something, but I find it easier to navigate HTML headings in web pages with windows screen readers then w

Re: what Voiceover bugs people want or are hoping will be fixed or squashed in Mountain Lion?

2012-07-02 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, pressing VO command H brings you to the next heading. Adding shift to that goes to the previous heading. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Jul 2, 2012, at 6:53 PM, Jesus Garcia wrote: > So, long as we are talking about fixes one

RE: what Voiceover bugs people want or are hoping will be fixed or squashed in Mountain Lion?

2012-07-02 Thread Jesus Garcia
thank you very much, as I said new user this is good very good. Never saw that in the documentation or the tutorials. I hope someone soon does a high end tutorial from beginning to end on voice over with the common apps such as safari, the email and text editor. I certainly would be prepared to pay

Re: what Voiceover bugs people want or are hoping will be fixed or squashed in Mountain Lion?

2012-07-02 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, I doubt you will see the reading by line with the down arrow. That would radically change the way VO navigates the web, and I'm not sure it would be for the better. It would be selecting text easier though. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletotheco

Re: what Voiceover bugs people want or are hoping will be fixed or squashed in Mountain Lion?

2012-07-02 Thread Daniel McGee
yeah, in my personal opinion, I think selecting text in safari could be improved. Sure you can select text bu interacting with it and using the VO enter to start the selection and do the same command to highlight it and CMD C to copy it but what if you wanted to copy more than one thing on a web

Re: what Voiceover bugs people want or are hoping will be fixed or squashed in Mountain Lion?

2012-07-02 Thread Red.Falcon
Hi there! I do not know if this is something you might find useful! But open VO+H+H will bring up vo commands and in the first option general there is add pronunciation in which you can put in the first field the word you want to change then in the second field write it so it sounds the way you

Re: what Voiceover bugs people want or are hoping will be fixed or squashed in Mountain Lion?

2012-07-02 Thread Mike Arrigo
Yes, the safari busy thing is annoying, as a work around, you can use google chrome, doesn't have that problem. On Jul 2, 2012, at 1:43 PM, Becky Knaub wrote: > I wish they would fix the Safari busy issue. and update iWork's especially > pages so it would read the whole document without constant

Re: what Voiceover bugs people want or are hoping will be fixed or squashed in Mountain Lion?

2012-07-02 Thread Rachel Feinberg
If you don't already have this set, you can go into voiceover utility, to the commanders area, and then to the quick nav tab. And check the box that says 'enable single key webpage navigation when using quick nav." then you can use H for heading, b for button, and so on. HTH, Rachel On Jul 2, 201

Re: what Voiceover bugs people want or are hoping will be fixed or squashed in Mountain Lion?

2012-07-02 Thread Ricardo Walker
Thats true. But chrome has problems as well. In certain instances, even more annoying than the busy. For example, not being able to jump to elements that are in tables. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Jul 2, 2012, at 7:45 PM, Mike

Re: what Voiceover bugs people want or are hoping will be fixed or squashed in Mountain Lion?

2012-07-02 Thread Red.Falcon
Hi there! Of course this is with Lion! Not in snowy kitty! Colin On 3 Jul 2012, at 00:53, Rachel Feinberg wrote: > If you don't already have this set, you can go into voiceover utility, to the > commanders area, and then to the quick nav tab. And check the box that says > 'enable single key web

Re: what Voiceover bugs people want or are hoping will be fixed or squashed in Mountain Lion?

2012-07-02 Thread Matthew Campbell
Hi. It worked that way in SL with Safari 5.0. As soon as 5.1 came out, that ability broke. On 2012-07-02, at 7:11 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Hi, > > I doubt you will see the reading by line with the down arrow. That would > radically change the way VO navigates the web, and I'm not sure it w

Re: what Voiceover bugs people want or are hoping will be fixed or squashed in Mountain Lion?

2012-07-02 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, I think work is being kind. lol. It sorted worked, some of the time. I did actually figure out a way to get consistent results with that though. But, there was so many steps, it wasn't really worth the trouble. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.applet

Re: what Voiceover bugs people want or are hoping will be fixed or squashed in Mountain Lion?

2012-07-02 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, you can also press command O to open the drive. I find this either than going through a context menu. hth Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Jul 2, 2012, at 5:17 PM, Rachel Feinberg wrote: > When the drive shows in the finder, I u

RE: what Voiceover bugs people want or are hoping will be fixed or squashed in Mountain Lion?

2012-07-02 Thread Jesus Garcia
Man this is a great list with great folks. Cool will be doing that. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Red.Falcon Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 19:41 To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: what Voiceover bu

Re: how to subscribe to this list?

2012-07-02 Thread Raul A. Gallegos
Hello all. While Cara is out at the NFB convention she asked me to step in and help moderate the list to deal with issues which may come up. If you send me her email address privately off list, I can send your friend and invite. There is another way to subscribe to the list by using a link with

podcast app

2012-07-02 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
Hi: Anyone having issues with the Podcast app? Mine is freezing, and VO stops. I have the iPhone 4. -- 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

Re: podcast app

2012-07-02 Thread Cheree Heppe
Cheree Heppe here: I'm using Downcast and haven't had a problem yet. Regards, Cheree Heppe - Original Message - From: "Sarai Bucciarelli" To: Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 19:17 Subject: podcast app > Hi: > Anyone having issues with the Podcast app? Mine is freezing, and VO stops. I

Re: ABBYY fine reader

2012-07-02 Thread Alex Hall
Thanks all, I'll give the demo a try. I don't have a webcam, so I'll have to get some images of text to try out, or see if I can get the scanner hooked up and working. Should be an adventure, and one I can't start for a few weeks (not until I get home). Did I ever mention what a bad idea getting a

Re: is a paid screenreader for the mac a option?

2012-07-02 Thread Mike Arrigo
I agree that Apple's model is better because the issue is addressed where it should be, at the application level. A screen reader developer making scripts removes the responsibility from the app developer. Of course, some developers just are unwilling to fix the accessibility issues with their

Re: is a paid screenreader for the mac a option?

2012-07-02 Thread Mike Arrigo
There is o paid screen reader for the mac, nor is there really a need for one. I will address a few of your concerns. Not sure what you mean about browser support, I have no problems searching for fields or navigating tables on the web. Regarding the issues with Microsoft office programs, this

Re: is a paid screenreader for the mac a option?

2012-07-02 Thread Mike Arrigo
Agreed, we should not have to pay any more to access a device than a sightedperson does, and accessibility should not have to be developed by third parties, the company that makes the products should be responsible for making it universally accessible and that's what apple has done. Original m

Re: podcast app

2012-07-02 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
Hi: I'm using the Podcast app from Apple. On Jul 2, 2012, at 9:22 PM, Cheree Heppe wrote: > Cheree Heppe here: > > I'm using Downcast and haven't had a problem yet. > > > Regards, > Cheree Heppe > > - Original Message - > From: "Sarai Bucciarelli" > To: > Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012

found scanning program for the Mac

2012-07-02 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi guys. I wanted to tell y'all about the scanning program that I saw at the exhibits at NFB today. True, it costs $1200, but it comes with a camera sort of like the Purl camera. I had to get it going for them because the guy that knew about it wasn't at the table at the time I showed up. He

Re: found scanning program for the Mac

2012-07-02 Thread Eugenia Firth
Forgot to put the name of the program I talked about. It is from Abisee at abisee.com. They had it working on a Macbook Pro. Eugenia Firth gigifi...@sbcglobal.net On Jul 2, 2012, at 9:54 PM, Eugenia Firth wrote: > Hi guys. > I wanted to tell y'all about the scanning program that I saw at the

Re: iTunesmatch How to get High Quality versions?

2012-07-02 Thread Eric Caron
Esther, tim, and others, I wanted to give a update to those who followed this thread. After following Esther and Tim Kilburn's directions I was able to successfully use the iTunes match service to vastly improve my listening experience. The article reference in Esther's post made this

Re: podcast app

2012-07-02 Thread Tim Emmons
Hey guys, just to chime in, I'm using downcast as well. the Podcast app, seems clunky at best compared to downcast. Podcasts app freezes on me when I played with it and I promptly deleted it and went back to downcast and have had no problems. Now if I can just figure out how to save podcasts and

Re: ABBYY fine reader

2012-07-02 Thread Johnny Angel!
Hi! What quick and speedy scanners are you guys using with ABBYY? Also, has anyone heard of a wireless, portable solution? johnny On Jul 2, 2012, at 6:28 PM, Kirsten Edmondson wrote: > You can demo this one. It's called abbyyfine reader express. That's the app I > mean. But you can download a