Okay, I have this working, but it's very intermittent. While I like the
concept, it doesn't seem practical to use it right now: if I'm missing
something, let me know. What are other's results getting this to work reliably?
Les
On Jul 31, 2012, at 12:43 PM, Eugenia Firth wrote:
> Hi Neil
> Wh
Mine works maybe 70% of the time. However, I have a cheap desktop microphone
feeding into a $3 USB sound card, plus a fan in the background. I'm sure that,
with a better microphone, I'd get much better results. As with any speech
recognition, the microphone makes a lot of difference I'd expect.
Hi Les,
I'm getting it to work pretty reliably, but it doesn't work all the time. Also,
I spent a lot of time calibrating the microphone. I do think it's worth using,
but it doesn't work 100% of the time. If you want better results, my best
advice would be to practice.
Best,
Donna
On Jul 31, 2
Just to help, if you wish to paste a piece of text from a web page into Text
Edit and not have the formatting or links present, once you've pasted the text,
press command+shift+t to convert to text. All the formatting and links or
images will be gotten rid of and you have your plain text to save
Les hi.
Have you tried just using the escape key and not command escape? You're right
about the sound being the recognition signal, so I don't get either why it
isn't working.
Ricardo, you mentioned earlier reporting things to Apple. Although I have done
this, I suspect some poor person has b
Hi guys
I don't know if I want to do this, but does anybody know how to set up the
automatic update that you can do in Mountain lion these days?
Eugenia Firth
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I wonder if anybody has any thoughts on this problem with Speakable items:
I have set it up and made sure that "on" is selected. I have selected my
activation key and restarted my computer. When I go to calibrate and press my
chosen button, I get the default Mac error bump sound. When I am no
HI,
I had turned verbosity to low and did not get that info. Will try tip with last
button in dialogue box. Might suggest aple to add a shortcut to have the
default button announced.
Thanks,
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stores.
On Jul 31,
Hi Jeff,
Not sure if this is your problem, but all keys don't seem to work. For
example, I wanted to use the accent key, but had no success with it, so changed
to Esc, which has brought much better results.
Cheers,
Donna
On Jul 31, 2012, at 4:16 PM, Jeff Berwick wrote:
> I wonder if anybody h
I haven't done this but I doubt using the contextual menu from the
desktop will get you what you want. I think you'll end up with a DVD
that has a directory with one giant dmg file in it. I'm sure there are
tutorials around but I suspect using Disk Utility from your utilities
folder will get yo
Hi there.
Mine works I think about 95% of the time. I am using the microphone that is
within the Mac.
Eugenia Firth
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On Jul 31, 2012, at 4:00 PM, Alex Hall wrote:
> Mine works maybe 70% of the time. However, I have a cheap desktop microphone
> feeding into a $3 USB s
Hey, and hat exactly do you do to calibrate the microphone? In the screen that
appears I can only see the volume control that one can move up and down but I
see no other thing that warns us about whether the calibration has been
successful or not. How have you proceeded with the calibration?
Hello David,
Option+Return on a link to force downloading is actually a Mac OS X shortcut
with a VoiceOver twist to it. Mac users, whether visually impaired or not, can
use Option+Click on a link to force downloading of a file. But if the link is
highlighted, pressing the Return key together
Also, those additional steps are a feature, in my opinion. If I want
formatting, I have it, so I could save part of a page ocmplete with images,
headings, and so on, a great feature. If I don't, I choose plaintext. Or, I
make sure I'm in a .txt file first, and that conversion should be automatic
Hi Daniel,
That thing you're calling the volume control is actually the slider that you
move up and down to calibrate the mic. You have to speak the phrases as they
are written, and if the Mac recognizes the command, you'll hear a little "whit"
sound. You want to get to the point where you're
Okay, mine works about 20% of the time at best. What calibration level did you
settle on? I'm also using the internal microphone on the Mac. Thanks.
Les
On Jul 31, 2012, at 5:32 PM, Eugenia Firth wrote:
> Hi there.
> Mine works I think about 95% of the time. I am using the microphone that i
Hi Donna,
Well, you were right, it wasn't on at first, it is now. I'll play with other
keys to see if I can get better results. Thanks.
Les
On Jul 31, 2012, at 4:43 PM, Donna Goodin wrote:
> Hi Lisette and Les,
>
> Are you guys sure you have the on button pressed in the Speakable items
> s
I have tried [escape], [f10] and [option][escape]…Just had it work twice in a
row and was able to open Mail…However, once Mail was open the speakable items
stopped working again. Very temperamental.
Jeff
On 2012-07-31, at 5:21 PM, Donna Goodin wrote:
> Hi Jeff,
>
> Not sure if this is your
Hi David,
I'm confused as to many of your issues here as they appear to work much
differently than you've expressed below. Are you, perhaps, still speaking from
a OS Lion prospective? Within Mountain Lion, you will note the following:
1. Highlighting stuff in Safari is totally normal. That
Hello all.
Good news. Depending on how things go, I may be in acquisition of a second
hand 13 inch Macbook running Lion, upgraded from Snow Leopard. I have been
told it's a 2008 model.
So here is my first of no doubt many questions. How do I bring up a document
of keyboard shortcuts, such as th
Hi,
You may be able to change what is announced with respect to buttons in the
Custom Verbosity area of the VO Utility. If you prefer most things on Low, you
are able to specifically set the button attributes to be announced differently
within that area. Also, as Alex mentioned, the default b
Donna,
As you express, to each his /her own to be sure.
karen
On Tue, 31 Jul 2012, Donna Goodin wrote:
Well, I confess I'm astounded. I went kicking and screaming into Windows 95,
but I had to switch for my job, so switch I did. I've never had much love for
Windows, but you couldn't pay me
Hi again
I didn't do the calibration at all.
Sent from my iPhone
On Jul 31, 2012, at 4:59 PM, Les Kriegler wrote:
> Okay, mine works about 20% of the time at best. What calibration level did
> you settle on? I'm also using the internal microphone on the Mac. Thanks.
>
> Les
> On Jul 31, 2
I am interacting with the text and have tried pressing Vo space to open; have
tried Enter; have moved about the message content table and tabbed through the
choices; looked in message headers. I cannot figure out either how to download
or open the attachment.
Christine
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Glad to hear you may be joining the world of the mac!
For application shortcuts, just look in the menus (ctrl-option-m) and note the
ones you will use. Once you memorize those, go back and look for more. There
are a lot in some applications, but, just like Windows, you will eventually
find them
For selecting text, try interacting with said text first. then pressing
vo+enter and it will say: "start selecting." You can navigate word by word, or
however you choose to do it, and press vo+enter when you've finished selecting,
and vo will say: "Stop selecting." Press command+C to copy the te
On my mac, I use the FB mobile site. you have to configure a few things though
in Safari to make it work correctly. Let me outline those things below. Being
I'm an avid mac user, and almost never use my windows box anymore, I figured I
could chime in here and help you out.
1. First of all,
Not everyone can aford Bookshare though.
Chris.
On Jul 31, 2012, at 10:17 AM, "David Tanner" wrote:
> I would definately agree, but if you remember, last year when Lion came out
> we went through this same complaint cycle. People want all the new stuff,
> but they want it to all work the sa
Agreed, and If you're outside the US, like I am, bookshare in my opinion,
isn't really any use.
On 2012-07-31, at 7:54 PM, Chris Gilland wrote:
> Not everyone can aford Bookshare though.
>
> Chris.
>
> On Jul 31, 2012, at 10:17 AM, "David Tanner"
> wrote:
>
>> I would definately agree,
Hi,
You'll either need to press VO-shift-m to bring up the Contextual menu which
will give you the options you wish or Interact with the Message Header one
level down where you'll find either the QuickLook button to open it right away
or the Save pop-up to save it wherever you'd like.
HTH.
La
For programming with a simple text editer like Notepad, as you made mention,
could you not just use Text Edit?
Chris.
On Jul 31, 2012, at 11:09 AM, David Eagle wrote:
> For me, mountain Lion is much faster, and much more reliable; says me
> who's writing this email on a PC.
>
> Incidentaly, s
There used to be a command: vo+return.
Basically, you'd hit it once to mark the beginning, then you'd move to the end
and hit it again, and that would select all the text between the two markers.
I haven't gotten this reliably to work since OSX 10.5 no, that wasn't a typo,
10.5, not 6, Leopard.
Thanks very much for this, Chris. It works well for the most part! Except for
links being all .php, and i found you had to choose firefox for windows, and
not the mac version. The number was 11.0.
Again, I've been wondering how to set this up for awhile, so thanks so much for
taking the time to
If I want to to just copy the text in a webpage in windows,
then I will just select what I want and then paste it into notepad. If
I do this in Text Edit then it inserts all the formatting of the page
including links, making it impossible to just save as a text file.
OK, instead of pasting into
You can also choose internet explorer 8 or 9 to and it works pretty well.
On Jul 31, 2012, at 8:08 PM, Rachel Feinberg wrote:
> Thanks very much for this, Chris. It works well for the most part! Except for
> links being all .php, and i found you had to choose firefox for windows, and
> not t
Try VO Shift M on the attachment; if that doesn't work, look in the File menu.
Also, there should be a popup button to manage saving attachments.
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Hi all, iTunes keeps prompting me for my ID and password over and over. I only
want to practice my music that is on the desk top. I am wanting a hammer.
What to do? Mel
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Again,
is your keyboard focus following your voiceover cursor?
If not, that may be why you're getting the menu you're getting with vo shift m
instead of the one for the actual link.
Chris.
On Jul 31, 2012, at 2:33 PM, David Eagle wrote:
> Hi, thanks for that. I've now turned quicknav off but
Excellent! Thanks for that tip.
Chris.
On Jul 31, 2012, at 2:48 PM, Anne Robertson wrote:
> Hello David,
>
> To force a file to download rather than play, hold down the Option key and
> press Return.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Anne
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Thanks all. So there's no app that works well then? I was never a huge fan of
the site no matter the platform I was using, so was hoping to find a better
interface.
On Jul 31, 2012, at 8:15 PM, Kimberly thurman wrote:
> You can also choose internet explorer 8 or 9 to and it works pretty well.
When you say the automatic update, are you talking about Software Update? It
should already be set to alert you. Remember though, it isn't going to pop up
another window like it did before to alert you. It'll put a notification
inside your Notification Center.
To verify the settings though,
Chris,
Selection on a webpage worked with VO+return then VO+arrows to select then
VO+return to stop selecting. I have not tried it under Mountain Lion since the
shift and arrow keys work great for me, but it definitely worked under Lion.
Harry
On Jul 31, 2012, at 6:20 PM, Chris Gilland wrote:
Hello; This is for mike or anyone else with experience using iMovie. i just
received three small videos that i would like to merge into one video before
uploading to youtube. can i just import them to the events section and then
copy all three to the project area and then use the export featur
Hi Chris.
I don't know if we're talking about the same thing. Maybe, but maybe not. I'm
talking about the new one in Mountain Lion where you can tell your computer to
update itself when you're not using it. I'll try what you said and see what
happens. when I heard about this, I heard that in a
I decided to change the title of this subject, because it is now turning into a
different thing.
Thanks Rachel for your tip, and I just did it to see if it would work. As soon
as I can, I'll try it out in Safari. I love this VO enter command, and it does
work in Mountain Lion, at least it work
Hi again Sharon.
I have been so frustrated with the VO space command not working the way I'm
used to that I got desperate and double tapped the track pad to see what would
happen. It was not turned on, but I may consider turning it on if no other
reason than it will take the place of this thing.
okay. Now, I feel incredibly humiliated, not to mention utterly embarrassed!
the very email thread that may have answered this question, I deleted thinking
was completely irrelevant to me at the current time. I am currently using the
Standard view of mail. I am 100% certain that I am not set to
Hi Christine,
When your on the e-mail in the messages table, press VO M then go to file. In
file, arrow down to Save attachment.
hth
Ricardo Walker
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On Jul 31, 2012, at 7:05 PM, Christine Grassman wrote:
> I am intera
Hi,
to quicklook the attachment, you can also press command Y on the message in the
messages table.
hth
Ricardo Walker
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On Jul 31, 2012, at 8:02 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote:
> Hi,
>
> You'll either need to press VO-shift-m
I use right arrow just fine. I know this is basic, but have you tried a
restart? Maybe start with closing and re-opening mail?
On Jul 31, 2012, at 9:43 PM, Chris Gilland wrote:
> okay. Now, I feel incredibly humiliated, not to mention utterly embarrassed!
>
> the very email thread that may have
I am on sure of there being a way to have it automatically update. I know that
you can have it automatically download updates, but I do not believe that it
will literally installed them.
I stand to be corrected however. If anyone knows away, biome means, please let
me know. I suppose that you c
yes, I most certainly have. Remember, we are not talking lion, nor snow leopard
here. We are speaking specifically 10.8 Mountain lion. also, remember, I first
am not interacting with the message list table. I simply VO right arrow over to
it, and then use my up and down arrow keys to move throug
I, too, use ML in standard view. I interact with the table, but I close mail so
rarely that this is not a hastle. You mentioned disclosure triangles. Have you
tried vo-backslash yet? It seems unnecessary since the right arrow should work,
but it may help in the meantime.
On Jul 31, 2012, at 9:55
I have a friend who just tried reformatting his hard drive, due to a system
crash. he needs to reinstall Adium, however the problem is, he is going to then
have to go back in reconfigure all of the spoken events that he originally had
set up. not that this is a problem per se, however it is a ma
as I stated in my initial message, yes. I have tried this as well. I have tried
VO\, right arrow, VO right arrow, the oh space I have literally tried
everything. Nothing seems to be doing the trick. Even closing and reopening
mail, restarting voiceover, and even going as far as to restart my ent
Actually, I was able to mess with the size sliders a while back when I
partitioned a 2 TB external drive . I'm trying to remember exactly what I did
but I believe I interacted with the slider itself. It may have been awkward
but I was able to manipulate it just the same.
On Jul 9, 2012, at 9:
A few tips for your difficulties:
To keep textedit from formatting the text, first change to plain text mode by
pressing command-shift-T. I use this to save web pages, pdf documents and the
like all the time, and it works perfectly.
View source is accessible, it just includes the entire source
I find it is better to paste the formatted text after TextEdit is converted to
plain text, a then it properly converts paragraph breaks and such. Just an
additional thought.
On Jul 31, 2012, at 5:06 PM, Andrew Lamanche wrote:
> Just to help, if you wish to paste a piece of text from a web page
Hi all,
I wonder if anything can be done about this annoyance. Let's use mail as an
example: move up and down the messages table, cmd-tab away form mail and do
something else, then cmd-tab back. You must up or down arrow, then do it again
before vo reads anything, no matter how long you wait. Th
Look in the, ~/library/application support folder. There is a whole Adium
folder where that is kept.
Take Care
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Thanks John.
By ~/Library, I'm assuming that you're refering to the user library, not the
system wide library. Right?
Chris.
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To:
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 10:37 PM
Subject: Re: Where on earth does Adium put event preferences?
Look
My favorite solution is to use track pad commander and make selections or press
buttons with a one finger double tap. Pressing VO + space one key at a time
and releasing them at the same time works, but it is awkward and slower.
I have the Apple wireless keyboard with my Mac Mini. Are there a
Yes, the user library.
Take Care
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Hello,
I sent a message last week about my wife trying to subscribe, but I don't think
I ever got a response.
I don't know how to contact the owner of the group, but my wife really wants to
be a part of this group, but her membership has been pending for weeks now.
Does anyone know what we can
I converted from POP to IMAP quite some time ago as gmail implemented IMAP a
while after POP was going. Any messages you have on gmail's server will remain
probably in the All mail folder on gmail. I'm not quite sure on the computer
side; you might wanna backup that mail folder(s) separately.
Hi,
I'll give you a bit of info on how iTunes works and hopefully it helps you to
work within iTunes easier.
1. By default, iTunes will copy music from wherever you're playing it from
into the iTunes Library so that iTunes can play it easier in the future. If
you don't care for this behaviou
Hi, guys,
I've never changed my Mail preferences at all from when Mail came with my
computer on Snow Leopard, and I haven't changed it for Mountain Lion, either.
When I move to a message or a message thread, the message I am focused on
becomes read, so that VoiceOver will read something like,
Hi, guys,
Has anyone else wanted to be able to schedule mail for future delivery? I
thought this would come in handy for those times when I'm up in the middle of
the night, but prefer to have messages sent at &:00 or 8:00 in the morning --
so that it is a more normal time to send mail, or if I
Another approach I often use when there is a bunch of windows open like in the
finder, is to press VO-F2 twice and just move up and down the list of windows
and open the one I want. Sometimes I find this to be faster than rotoring
around with Command-` key.
On Jul 11, 2012, at 10:12 PM, Simon
You don't have to do all that press return stuff, just simply use the arrow
keys and shift, that is how it is done in mountain lion. You can also do a
special paste in text edit by pressing command option shift and v which will
match the current style.
On 1 Aug 2012, at 00:13, Rachel Feinber
Hi, everybody,
I share a calendar with someone, and somehow one of my events got changed to a
different date, so she changed it back for me. Google Calendar sent me an
e-mail and it was updated in my iCal, but I go to the event, and it says "needs
action." I noticed the time was set to UTC, s
I've used both Yorufukurou on the mac and Tweetlist on the iPod. I like
tweetlist better because it supports twit longer and tweet marker and
instapaper. These three features are missing from Yorofukurou. I really wish
the developer would integrate these. Presently, if I switch back and fort
Excellent deal. I will check that out.
So I guess I just need to have him copy all that stuff back over to his user
library, then go in to the app's preferences, and remove all my accounts.
Right?
Chris.
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To:
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Have you tried pressing the zoom button?
On 1/08/2012, at 2:12 PM, Chris Gilland wrote:
> as I stated in my initial message, yes. I have tried this as well. I have
> tried VO\, right arrow, VO right arrow, the oh space I have literally tried
> everything. Nothing seems to be doing the trick. Ev
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