Re: How to help blind people new to Mac learn it as fast and smooth as possible

2013-01-14 Thread erik burggraaf
You know, As an instructor, some times I find this advice helpful and sometimes not. While it is useful at times to torpido peoples pre-conceptions, it is true that a number of concepts are the same across the board, such as file browsing, email reading, and copying/pasting. Some users Won't

connecting to ftp servers

2013-01-14 Thread Devin Prater
Hi all. I know that finder can connect to ftp servers, because I'm on one now, but its amazingly slow when going between folders, and finder goes busy a lot, so is there an alternative app for this? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" g

Re: connecting to ftp servers

2013-01-14 Thread Matt Dierckens
Hi. Yes there is. Cyberduck and FileZilla are great free apps. Matt Sent from my mac Twitter: matt692 On 2013-01-14, at 6:50 AM, Devin Prater wrote: > Hi all. I know that finder can connect to ftp servers, because I'm on one > now, but its amazingly slow when going between folders, and finder

Re: connecting to ftp servers

2013-01-14 Thread Devin Prater
Ah, thanks a lot! I have filezilla on my pc, so it shouldn't take much to get used to the mac app, but I'll also try cyberduck. On Jan 14, 2013, at 7:55 AM, Matt Dierckens wrote: > Hi. > Yes there is. Cyberduck and FileZilla are great free apps. > > Matt > Sent from my mac > Twitter: matt692 >

Re: Draconis Entertainment Releases mini title for Mac OS X – SilverDollar

2013-01-14 Thread Søren Jensen
This is really a cool game. Keep up the good work guys. Who have done those funny voiceovers? I heard a crazy comment from the saloon while playing, and I laughed so much that I died. :) Especially the voices are really cool. Best regards: Søren Jensen Mail & MSN: s...@coolfortheblind.dk Website:

Re: garage band questions

2013-01-14 Thread Phil Halton
The instrument portion of the jampacks seem to be working fine, its just the GarageBand loop browser that is acting squirrely. I think it is the instruments that make up the greater portion of the download, with the loops only being around 4GB. - Original Message - From: "Devin Prater

Re: Draconis Entertainment Releases mini title for Mac OS X – SilverDollar

2013-01-14 Thread Michael Babcock
even though I miss spelt the name in the title, here's an audio/video demo of me playing the game if anyone wants to check it out. well worth the $1.99; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COFWNatnc2M On Jan 14, 2013, at 8:27 AM, Søren Jensen wrote: > This is really a cool game. Keep up the good wor

Moving Your Home Directory To A New Partition

2013-01-14 Thread Daniel C
Good day, Does anyone know, if in Mountain Lion, whether or not it's possible to move your home directory to a new partition? -- 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

Re: Draconis Entertainment Releases mini title for Mac OS X – SilverDollar

2013-01-14 Thread Devin Prater
I now have the game. It is good, I do wish it had more content. Sent from my iPod with iCloud On 14 Jan 2013, at 9:52 AM, Michael Babcock wrote: even though I miss spelt the name in the title, here's an audio/video demo of me playing the game if anyone wants to check it out. well worth the $1

Accessible flac player and ID3 tag editor

2013-01-14 Thread Marc Rocheleau
Hey all, Can someone suggest an accessible media player that plays flac files? I have a bunch transferred over from my PC and nothing to play them with. Also, on the subject of media files, can someone recommend a good app to edit ID3 tags? Thanks in advance for any help you can offer! -Marc --

Re: garage band questions

2013-01-14 Thread Devin Prater
Ah thanks. When I get more money I will see about getting it Sent from my iPod with iCloud On 14 Jan 2013, at 9:49 AM, Phil Halton wrote: The instrument portion of the jampacks seem to be working fine, its just the GarageBand loop browser that is acting squirrely. I think it is the instruments

Running slow with Mountain Lion

2013-01-14 Thread Allison Manzino
Hi all, I just upgrading to Mountain Lion. VoiceOver is very sluggish even after updating the sofware, and my cursor tracking is not correct. I have to hit space instead of VO space to open apps like Safari, Mail and Skype. Does anyone have any idea what is going on? I installed over Lion, didn

users/library folder

2013-01-14 Thread Phil Halton
For some reason, the Library folder is not listed under my user account in finder. Library folder is listed under my computer name, right under applications, and above system, but in my user account, there is no listing for library. I know there is a user/library folder as I can see it via

Re: users/library folder

2013-01-14 Thread Phil Halton
A simple web search gave me my answer (I'm gonna have to start googling before asking). The ~/library/ folder is hidden by default starting from Lion onwards. The following Terminal command permanently unhides this folder. chflags nohidden ~/library/ Or, you can go directly to the ~/library fo

Re: Running slow with Mountain Lion

2013-01-14 Thread Chris Bruinenberg
This sounds a little weird. I'd try a clean install and see if that fixes anything. Good luck. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 14, 2013, at 9:08 AM, Allison Manzino wrote: > Hi all, > > I just upgrading to Mountain Lion. VoiceOver is very sluggish even after > updating the sofware, and my curso

Re: Running slow with Mountain Lion

2013-01-14 Thread Cameron Strife
Hi. A clean install seems to be the ticket for many users. Also, four gigs of ram would certainly help with performance as would an ssd... Cameron. On 1/14/13, Chris Bruinenberg wrote: > This sounds a little weird. > I'd try a clean install and see if that fixes anything. > Good luck. > > Se

Accessibility of protools

2013-01-14 Thread Jed Barton
Hey guys, I just got back on the list as I am getting a mac. One of the big things I want to do and I've ehard mixed roomers about it is do some audio editing, hopefully multi track editing if possible. What's the latest accessible program? I know in the PC world, sound forge was the big thing,

Re: Accessibility of protools

2013-01-14 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
I use ProTools on the mac all the time professionally for a living! We're closed today due to situations beyond our control, but I'd be happy to discuss its accessibility with you further come tomorrow if you'd like during business hours. Choose option 1 from our phone's main menu when you ca

RE: Accessibility of protools

2013-01-14 Thread Jed Barton
Wow, you just made me smile, nice! What time works for you tomorrow, absolutely would love to talk. Let's chat. This is huge news. Glad someone understand what I mean by a full multi track editer. Cheers, Jed -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionari

Re: Running slow with Mountain Lion

2013-01-14 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Did you repair permissions after installing Mountain Lion? Also, since you say you are using space instead of vo-space, did you check to make sure you don't have vo-keys locked with control-option-semi-colon (I know it's not likely; just covering the bases). Did you make sure your computer is on

Re: Accessibility of protools

2013-01-14 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
I definitely understand. I'll send you a track that I recorded in my home studio off list to give you an idea what is possible with PT. I don't know what time zone you are on. We're on eastern time. Let's say... tomorrow right after my lunch hour, so we'll say 1:00 eastern. If this tells yo

Re: Accessible flac player and ID3 tag editor

2013-01-14 Thread Chris Blouch
FLAC opened just fine for me but I noticed I have something called FLACImporter.component in my Library/Quicktime folder and I can't recall where I got it from. Might have been part of FLUKE: http://code.google.com/p/flukeformac/ or maybe it was when I was fiddling with getting Ogg files into

Re: Accessibility of protools

2013-01-14 Thread Randy George
Hi There, I've done multi-track editing with PT and have found it to be very accessible with the exception of a few mixing plugins. This was primarily PT 10, PT 7-9 seemed to work very well with voiceover. HTH, Randy On Jan 14, 2013, at 1:25 PM, "Jed Barton" wrote: > Wow, you just made

Re: Running slow with Mountain Lion

2013-01-14 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
Alison, that's your problem right there. Mountain Lion takes up about 4 GB of memory. And you say you only have 53 gigs of memory? If I were you, I'd consider upgrading your ram plus deleting any unwanted or unused crap off your hard drive Or you're gonna be in for some major problems. Shawn Se

RE: Accessibility of protools

2013-01-14 Thread Jed Barton
This is very refreshing to hear. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Randy George Sent: Monday, January 14, 2013 1:34 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Accessibility of protools Hi There, I've

Re: Accessible flac player and ID3 tag editor

2013-01-14 Thread David McLean
Vlc will play them. On Jan 14, 2013, at 11:26 AM, Marc Rocheleau wrote: > Hey all, > > Can someone suggest an accessible media player that plays flac files? > I have a bunch transferred over from my PC and nothing to play them > with. Also, on the subject of media files, can someone recommend a

VLC. Was : Accessible flac player and ID3 tag editor

2013-01-14 Thread Danny Noonan
Just to add to this, I love vlc. It's set up as my default media player for most media formats so I can keep my iTunes library clean as theirs now no way to play items in iTunes and not add them to your library. Also, you can easily set output device and it works with the apple remote. Sent

Re: VLC. Was : Accessible flac player and ID3 tag editor

2013-01-14 Thread Maxwell Ivey
hello; do you know if vlc converts ogg to mp3? i used to use max because it was free but the most current version or at least the one for lion doesn't allow for ogg any more. thanks, max On Jan 14, 2013, at 2:21 PM, Danny Noonan wrote: > Just to add to this, I love vlc. It's set up as my defau

getting to address bar in Safari

2013-01-14 Thread Lisette Wesseling
Hi Is there a quick way to get to the address bar in Safari so you can copy the website address you're on and paste the link in an email. I can navigate to it via the toolbar. If you press command l, you get to enter a new address but you can't see the old one. Thanks. Lisette -- You receiv

Re: getting to address bar in Safari

2013-01-14 Thread Chris Bruinenberg
Hi. When i go to the address bar with command+l it highlights the current address. Then press command c to copy. Hope that helps. Chris On Jan 14, 2013, at 1:21 PM, Lisette Wesseling wrote: > Hi > Is there a quick way to get to the address bar in Safari so you can copy the > website address y

Re: Accessible flac player and ID3 tag editor

2013-01-14 Thread erik burggraaf
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Re: VLC. Was : Accessible flac player and ID3 tag editor

2013-01-14 Thread Danny Noonan
VLC as far as I know is only a media player, not converter. It certainly plays .ogg files. I use Amadeus pro for most conversions but that's an expensive tool for just doing that. I just installed a cheep app the other day called RightClickMp3 I can't remember how much it was but it wasn't much.

Re: getting to address bar in Safari

2013-01-14 Thread Lisette Wesseling
Thanks Chris. You are right. I thought it gave a blank field but the current one is in there. Thanks. Very easy really isn't it? Lisette On 15/01/2013, at 10:23 AM, Chris Bruinenberg wrote: > Hi. > When i go to the address bar with command+l it highlights the current address. > Then press comm

Re: VLC. Was : Accessible flac player and ID3 tag editor

2013-01-14 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Now that is good to know. Will it convert flac also? Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray Still a very proud and happy Mac and Iphone user! On Jan 14, 2013, at 3:52 PM, Danny Noonan wrote: > VLC as far as I know is only a media player, not converter. It certainly > plays .ogg files. I us

Re: getting to address bar in Safari

2013-01-14 Thread Chris Bruinenberg
Your welcome. I'm glad to help. On Jan 14, 2013, at 1:55 PM, Lisette Wesseling wrote: > Thanks Chris. You are right. I thought it gave a blank field but the current > one is in there. Thanks. Very easy really isn't it? > > Lisette > > On 15/01/2013, at 10:23 AM, Chris Bruinenberg wrote: >

Jumping to html area from tool bar, was Re: getting to address bar in Safari

2013-01-14 Thread Danny Noonan
I snatched a great tip from David Woodbridge in 1 of his legion of podcasts with a quick way to jump straight from the tool bar to the HTML area in Safari and I'd never herd nor thought of it before so wanted to pass it on. There is a caveat, this relies on the page having a specific thing like

Re: VLC. Was : Accessible flac player and ID3 tag editor

2013-01-14 Thread Danny Noonan
Yep, WMA, AAC, Flac, ogg and a bunch more. It isn't as cheep as I thought though. In the Australian store, it's $6.50 or so so I would guess, $5.99 in the US. Still, in my opinion, nothing for such a handy tool as this. Danny: On 15/01/2013, at 8:55 AM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > Now that is good

Re: How to help blind people new to Mac learn it as fast and smooth as possible

2013-01-14 Thread Ricardo Walker
I agree. I think instead of forgetting about windows, its more like forgetting about your screen reader for windows. In my opinion, Voiceover and Windows screen readers have more differences than the Actual OSs. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletotheco

Re: Jumping to html area from tool bar, was Re: getting to address bar in Safari

2013-01-14 Thread Ricardo Walker
Sure. Press command L or, command option F. That brings you into the address/search field in the toolbar. From there, just navigate to the element you want in the toolbar. hth Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Jan 14, 2013, at 5:01 P

Re: Jumping to html area from tool bar, was Re: getting to address bar in Safari

2013-01-14 Thread Danny Noonan
Brain fart. I use command l and know that the search field is in the tool bar but for what ever reason, the 2 disparate facts didn't combine. Danny: On 15/01/2013, at 9:15 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Sure. Press command L or, command option F. That brings you into the > address/search field

Re: VLC. Was : Accessible flac player and ID3 tag editor

2013-01-14 Thread Ray Foret Jr
You are in Australia? Wow! Must be hot this time of year. Perfect barefoot weather and all. Anyhow, might write off list. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray Still a very proud and happy Mac and Iphone user! On Jan 14, 2013, at 4:10 PM, Danny Noonan wrote: > Yep, WMA, AAC, Flac, ogg

Pandora apps aside from PianoPub?

2013-01-14 Thread Daniel Miller
Hello, i'm wondering if there are any accessible Pandora apps aside from PianoPub? I'm not a big fan of that one at all, and am looking for others that may be around. Any suggestions would be great. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" g

Re: VLC. Was : Accessible flac player and ID3 tag editor

2013-01-14 Thread Maxwell Ivey
hi danny; that right click mp3 sounds just like what i need. its a shame real player or iTunes doesn't play ogg files. take care, max On Jan 14, 2013, at 3:52 PM, Danny Noonan wrote: > VLC as far as I know is only a media player, not converter. It certainly > plays .ogg files. I use Amadeus p

Re: VLC. Was : Accessible flac player and ID3 tag editor

2013-01-14 Thread Chris Blouch
You should be able to convert them to mp3 once you pull them into iTunes. I put some stuff up on this list about how to do that back in 2009. Let me paste it again here: The XiphQT only gives flac playback capability. I added the flac_import component and was able to open and play a flac file.

Re: VLC. Was : Accessible flac player and ID3 tag editor

2013-01-14 Thread Danny Noonan
Honestly, I like VLC more than most other media players. It's so much better on Mac than on PC. The cost is brilliant as well. :-) I really don't like programs that forcibly add anything I listen to to my library. There's stuff I want to listen to and then discard or keep archived so add this

Re: VLC. Was : Accessible flac player and ID3 tag editor

2013-01-14 Thread Danny Noonan
Wow, that's a convoluted process but great info to have. I'll save it for iTunes lovers I know. Thanks. On 15/01/2013, at 9:31 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: > You should be able to convert them to mp3 once you pull them into iTunes. I > put some stuff up on this list about how to do that back in 2

Re: VLC. Was : Accessible flac player and ID3 tag editor

2013-01-14 Thread Ray Foret Jr
You and I agree completely. Have you looked at Cog as a player? It's pretty cool actually. I wish, though, that they would add cross fading to Cog's functionality. Now that would be nice-especially since Cog allows ENQUEUE. I wish VLc did ENQUEUE. It doesn't seem to do that though. I fric

Re: VLC. Was : Accessible flac player and ID3 tag editor

2013-01-14 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Actually, vlc does some converting but I've never completely figured it out. I've used switch to do some converting and it can convert whole directories, etc. I think I got it online rather than on the mac store but not sure. If I have some time I'll go look for the info. -- Cheryl May the wor

Re: How to help blind people new to Mac learn it as fast and smooth as possible

2013-01-14 Thread Kerri
I have to say that this is true when I became a mac user. What I found tough was that blasted interacting, I still detest it vehemently. But forgetting windows completely for me, was not a huge help because of the concepts that are the same across the board. On 2013-01-14, at 4:51 AM, erik burgg

Re: How to help blind people new to Mac learn it as fast and smooth as possible

2013-01-14 Thread Harry Hogue
Interacting, once you get used to it, is actually a wonderful thing. It allows me to quickly skip across frames in web pages and groups of buttons, tables, etc. Harry On Jan 14, 2013, at 4:12 PM, Kerri wrote: > I have to say that this is true when I became a mac user. What I found tough > w

GarageBand loop browser problem revisited

2013-01-14 Thread Phil Halton
Okay, you're all probably a little tired of this subject by now, but I have found what I think is the problem and its solution, and think I should detail it here for future reference. It seems that a project must be in 4/4 time signature for the loop browser to work. My project was in cut time

Re: VLC. Was : Accessible flac player and ID3 tag editor

2013-01-14 Thread Danny Noonan
Switch? Is this the mac version of the windows audio conversion tool? I never new it was on mac or accessible. If there was a usable version of there video conversion software prism video converter on mac, I'd be putting up my cash this second. So far, hand break is the only way I know of to co

RE: inviting somebody to join the list

2013-01-14 Thread M. Taylor
Hello Chris, I just read your comments regarding my moderation of the list and wish to thank you, from the bottom of my heart. Your words touched me in a way I would not have thought possible. Thank you so very much. Most Sincerely, Mark Chris Wrote: For a while, Mark Taylor (Dono if y

Re: How to help blind people new to Mac learn it as fast and smooth as possible

2013-01-14 Thread Danny Noonan
Concepts do go across both platforms but then those little inconsistencies bug me. In text editors and the like, you have your good old command x cut but in finder, you have to use copy command c and then move at the other end with command option v. Why?! As far as I know Command X isn't used. W

Re: Audio or written tutorials on Amadeus Pro from a blind perspective?

2013-01-14 Thread Maurice Mines
Hello, as far as I know the documentation is in a PDF form and I don't know if there is a way to convert it on the Mac? Perhaps one suggestion, is to use your virtual machine and converted in Windows. Barring that, I don't know if any of the conversion services are still in existence where you c

Re: How to help blind people new to Mac learn it as fast and smooth as possible

2013-01-14 Thread Danny Noonan
When the concept works, it's great but all the times it's broken, it sux. Some times, VO J doesn't move you between all areas you want access too. You can't always jump to a table unless your interacting with another table or similar area. Unless I don't know a cool command, there's no way to qu

Re: Jumping to html area from tool bar, was Re: getting to address bar in Safari

2013-01-14 Thread Red.Falcon
Hi there! Also there is the Mac command Control+f5 that will take you straight to the tool bar! Standard Mac command! hth Colin On 14 Jan 2013, at 22:18, Danny Noonan wrote: > Brain fart. I use command l and know that the search field is in the tool bar > but for what ever reason, the 2 dispar

Love! this voice, but which one is it!?

2013-01-14 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
OK, I just had something kind of weird happen, but I'd love! to know which voice it is that is doing this, as I love it! I switched my voice in mountain Lion over to Samantha. I used to have it on Alex. Now, I'm finding something interesting. If I go into contacts, then go to create another

Re: Love! this voice, but which one is it!?

2013-01-14 Thread Rachel Feinberg
I think it's having pitch change enabled. And all the voices will do this lower pitch thing, kind of like on the iPhone when you encounter a text field, and you have pitch change on. I'm not sure how to disable it, or if it's possible to get the lower variation of your chosen voice to be the pri

Re: Jumping to html area from tool bar, was Re: getting to address bar in Safari

2013-01-14 Thread Ricardo Walker
wow! I didn't know about this. I see it works in other apps like Mail as well. Thanks Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Jan 14, 2013, at 6:50 PM, "Red.Falcon" wrote: > Hi there! > Also there is the Mac command Control+f5 that will t

Re: Love! this voice, but which one is it!?

2013-01-14 Thread John Panarese
Are you sure you don't have a system voice turned on or you haven't selected another voice in verbosity settings in the VO Utility? I did that a long time ago and discovered it when I started hearing a Scottish voice every once in a while in background. I must have been messing with verbosi

Re: How to help blind people new to Mac learn it as fast and smooth as possible

2013-01-14 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, I can honestly say, I've encountered similar things on windows using Jaws. Certain commands will work in one application, or in a certain instance, but not in another. I honestly can't say if VO on the Mac does this more or less. I guess thats pretty subjective. But, I don't think its s

Re: inviting somebody to join the list

2013-01-14 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
No problem. It was the honest truth. You should give me a call some time. I'll e-mail you my number off list. Chris Gilland. Founder of CLG Productions http://www.clgproductions.com E-mail: ch...@clgproductions.com Phone: 803-760-7136 Toll-Free: 1-888-405-3185 Mon-Fri 8A.M-5P.M Eastern Standar

Re: Love! this voice, but which one is it!?

2013-01-14 Thread Kerri
it it tom? On 2013-01-14, at 3:51 PM, "Christopher-Mark Gilland" wrote: > OK, I just had something kind of weird happen, but I'd love! to know which > voice it is that is doing this, as I love it! I switched my voice in > mountain Lion over to Samantha. I used to have it on Alex. Now, I'm f

request receipts

2013-01-14 Thread Kerri
Hello, all. It it possible to send read receipts in email? I don't use them much but just wanted to know. -- 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 fr

Re: How to help blind people new to Mac learn it as fast and smooth as possible

2013-01-14 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hello, I'd like to point out something about interacting. I've noticed that many people interact when it is totally unnecessary. Not saying your doing this mind you but, it is something I noticed many new users or, those who use a Mac occasionally do. For example, I've seen people interact w

Re: How to help blind people new to Mac learn it as fast and smooth as possible

2013-01-14 Thread Danny Noonan
I agree it's not just the mac. In windows it's fairly standard in the OS and core software like mail ie windows explorer etc. I also understand my using windows for so long means I'm some what blinkered to its inconsistencies and a life long mac user would likely have as many problems moving to

Re: How to help blind people new to Mac learn it as fast and smooth as possible

2013-01-14 Thread Kerri
Hi, I used to interact a lot when I was new, though I never did wight he finder. However, I have a nutty question so feel free to run me out of here. Do people who have or used to have sight find it easier because they can visualize the window and what it looked like? I have become better since

Re: How to help blind people new to Mac learn it as fast and smooth as possible

2013-01-14 Thread Danny Noonan
If though you had a command to move to the top of a list with out having to interact each time I'd be much happier vo shift home is painful if you forget to interact first. Apparently before lion this was much easier. I do long for home, end, page up and down to work a tad more like in windows.

A Wonderfully VoiceOver Accessible eBook Creator and a Shameless Plug for my new Book Now Available in the iTunes Store

2013-01-14 Thread M. Taylor
Hello Everyone, I use a wonderfully VoiceOver accessible eBook creator called Storyist, on my Mac. The developer has taken every consideration into account with regard to blind and low vision users. The thing I like most is that Storyist, assuming that you have used heading levels in your docu

Re: How to help blind people new to Mac learn it as fast and smooth as possible

2013-01-14 Thread Devin Prater
What helped me the most was my dealings with iOs. I got used to most of the keyboard commands with my bluetooth keyboard, so I was pretty prepared to take on the mac when I got it. Sent from my iPod with iCloud On 14 Jan 2013, at 6:30 PM, Danny Noonan wrote: If though you had a command to mov

Re: inviting somebody to join the list

2013-01-14 Thread Ray Foret Jr
I should like to second what Chris has indicated here. First rate job Mark. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray Still a very proud and happy Mac and Iphone user! On Jan 14, 2013, at 6:05 PM, "Christopher-Mark Gilland" wrote: > No problem. It was the honest truth. You should give me a

Re: request receipts

2013-01-14 Thread Ray Foret Jr
>From what I can tell, it seems not to be possible. A shame I suppose. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray Still a very proud and happy Mac and Iphone user! On Jan 14, 2013, at 6:12 PM, Kerri wrote: > Hello, all. It it possible to send read receipts in email? I don't use them > much but

Re: Audio or written tutorials on Amadeus Pro from a blind perspective?

2013-01-14 Thread John Sanfilippo
Uhm, maybe this can help: 1, in Preview, save as text. 2, simply email the pdf to conv...@robobraille.org You will get back plain text. HTH, John S - Original Message - From: Maurice Mines To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, January 14, 2013 6:38 PM Subject

Re: Love! this voice, but which one is it!?

2013-01-14 Thread Devin Prater
Ah, that is the disgustingly pitchshifted Samantha. Just record her and change the pitch with whatever audio editor you use and you'll at some point come to the sound of that cool voice of yours, unless for're using some other voice for text fields, but I'm pretty sure its Samantha just pitched

Re: How to help blind people new to Mac learn it as fast and smooth as possible

2013-01-14 Thread Richard Ring
I firmly believe that my computer knowledge has greatly assisted me in learning the Mac. I started out back in the dark ages as a DOS user. Then I moved to Windows and used it through version 7. What I think both operating systems have in common is that both run computers. In other words, in bot

Re: How to help blind people new to Mac learn it as fast and smooth as possible

2013-01-14 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, This often depends on the list. Option up/down arrow works in many situations. For example, in the finder and YoruFukurou. I've also made a shortcut with the keyboard commander and my trackpad commander to lesson the keystrokes for when option up/down arrow doesn't work. Ricardo Walke

Re: Jumping to html area from tool bar, was Re: getting to address bar in Safari

2013-01-14 Thread Danny Noonan
And it's a toggle command I found to my joy. I keep finding great mac commands that work better or more easily than VO commands lately. This, the apple and extra menu commands etc are making my life so much easier. Many thanks. Danny: On 15/01/2013, at 10:50 AM, Red.Falcon wrote: > Hi there

Re: Jumping to html area from tool bar, was Re: getting to address bar in Safari

2013-01-14 Thread Estelita
Can you please share to us what you have found? It is very helpful especially for us new Mac users. Thank you. - Original Message - From: "Danny Noonan" To: Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 1:34 AM Subject: Re: Jumping to html area from tool bar, was Re: getting to address bar in Safa

Re: request receipts

2013-01-14 Thread Danny Noonan
Which is ironic and sadly funny as you can do it with iMessages on the iPhone even. :-0 Danny: On 15/01/2013, at 12:15 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > From what I can tell, it seems not to be possible. A shame I suppose. > > > Sincerely, > The Constantly Barefooted Ray > Still a very proud and ha

Re: How to help blind people new to Mac learn it as fast and smooth as possible

2013-01-14 Thread Danny Noonan
That's very helpful. I new option up and down used to work in mail but never new it worked else ware. That will simplify finder etc quite a lot. Danny: Always learning, never shutting up. On 15/01/2013, at 12:26 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Hi, > > This often depends on the list. Option up/do

Re: Love! this voice, but which one is it!?

2013-01-14 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Really? As it honestly doesn't sound like Samantha in a lower voice, and the odd thing is, why though is she! doing it, but not Alex? Chris Gilland. Founder of CLG Productions http://www.clgproductions.com E-mail: ch...@clgproductions.com Phone: 803-760-7136 Toll-Free: 1-888-405-3185 Mon-Fri 8A.

Re: Love! this voice, but which one is it!?

2013-01-14 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
My system voice is Alex which this is definitely not, and all the bverbosity things are definitely set to default. Chris Gilland. Founder of CLG Productions http://www.clgproductions.com E-mail: ch...@clgproductions.com Phone: 803-760-7136 Toll-Free: 1-888-405-3185 Mon-Fri 8A.M-5P.M Eastern Stan

RS Games client question

2013-01-14 Thread Dave
I have 2 questions. 1. In the current client, is there a way to use the voice clips feature?] 2. Since the client uses the system voice rather than Voice Over, is there a way to quickly silence the speech? Thanks in advance. Dave -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: Love! this voice, but which one is it!?

2013-01-14 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
We thought it may a been, but upon closer listenning, no, it's definitely not. It almost sounds like Bruce, but not totally sure. We also have confirmed it's not something I set wrong, as the guy I spoke with at Apple Accessibility was able to reproduce the exact behavior. Chris Gilland. Fou

Re: Love! this voice, but which one is it!?

2013-01-14 Thread Chris Bruinenberg
Chris, can you give us a demo of the voice? That way we might be able to help. On Jan 14, 2013, at 6:02 PM, "Christopher-Mark Gilland" wrote: > My system voice is Alex which this is definitely not, and all the bverbosity > things are definitely set to default. > > Chris Gilland. > Founder o

Re: RS Games client question

2013-01-14 Thread Chris Bruinenberg
Hi Dave. With the client, press control+r to record. Then again to stop recording. If you want to listen to a cording, press command l. The only way i have found to quickly silence speech is to keep hitting control. On Jan 14, 2013, at 6:03 PM, "Dave" wrote: > I have 2 questions. > > 1. In the

Re: Love! this voice, but which one is it!?

2013-01-14 Thread John Panarese
OK, then it could be the pitch change as earlier suggested. Samantha and some of the other voices have this odd pitch change at times. I was told by a sighted person that Samantha almost sounds "demonic" when the pitch shifts down low. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blin

Re: Jumping to html area from tool bar, was Re: getting to address bar in Safari

2013-01-14 Thread Danny Noonan
Combining some control mac keyboard commands. If I've gotten any wrong, or someone has a better description, please let us know. If I use the word toggle, it means pressing once will do the action and pressing again will reverse it. IE, Ctrl f2, toggle between current application and apple men

Re: Jumping to html area from tool bar, was Re: getting to address bar in Safari

2013-01-14 Thread Esther
Hello Estelita, What Danny means is that the Control+F5 command sequence moves you between the title bar and the pane, depending on where your current focus is. Just as an example, if you have brought up the Preferences pane for an application with Command+comma, pressing Control+F5 will jump

Accessible iOS sound editor

2013-01-14 Thread Eric Heil
Hello everyone How are you? I am new to do list, and so far, it seems to me that everybody is very knowledgeable about various Mac, and iOS devices. I was wondering if any of you could recommend an accessible iOS app that is for sound editing. Hopefully, this'll be a native iPad app, so I won't

Re: Jumping to html area from tool bar, was Re: getting to address bar in Safari

2013-01-14 Thread Estelita
Thanks a lot for this valuable tips, you've done a good job of finding these keystrokes, keep up the good work! - Original Message - From: "Danny Noonan" To: Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 2:12 AM Subject: Re: Jumping to html area from tool bar, was Re: getting to address bar in Sa

Re: Accessible iOS sound editor

2013-01-14 Thread Michael Babcock
I don't know about accessibility, however Apple has a reputation of making most of their default applications accessible. Therefore, it was worth trying GarageBand. I believe it's a five dollar application. Or, for free audio editing, there is, hokusi Of which I've met as spelt it. Therefore, pl

Re: request receipts

2013-01-14 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Oddly enough, I was just wonderring this earlier today. Let me do some research. Chris Gilland. Founder of CLG Productions http://www.clgproductions.com E-mail: ch...@clgproductions.com Phone: 803-760-7136 Toll-Free: 1-888-405-3185 Mon-Fri 8A.M-5P.M Eastern Standard Time except weekends and holi

Re: Accessible iOS sound editor

2013-01-14 Thread Esther
Hello Eric, Try Hokusai Audio Editor, which is a free app and also universal, so it will work on your iPad without having to be scaled up. It will also work in either portrait or landscape orientation. There's an AppleVis podcast on "Getting Started With Hokusai, a Free and Fully Accessible M

Re: GarageBand loop browser problem revisited

2013-01-14 Thread Scott Berry
Phil, This is also the way it is on the Ipad as well. I didn't even think to lay that out for you when I found this out. On 01/14/2013 16:18, Phil Halton wrote: Okay, you're all probably a little tired of this subject by now, but I have found what I think is the problem and its solution, a

Re: GarageBand loop browser problem revisited

2013-01-14 Thread CJ Daniel
Phil, Indeed, all of the "included" loops in Garageband are in 4/4 time. When you purchase Main Stage, Apple's live performance tool for $29.00, you can download all of the additional Apple Loops. It's a very good deal, as all of the packs used to cost something in the neighborhood of $129 a

Sorry iTunes again

2013-01-14 Thread Lisette Wesseling
Hi How do you locate specific albums in the albums grid in iTunes 11. I've turned on the side bar so I get to the music table. I've checked the albums radio button and see the album grid. The albums are not even arranged alphabetically, but somehow randomly. How do you find anything in there

Re: Jumping to html area from tool bar, was Re: getting to address bar in Safari

2013-01-14 Thread Phil Halton
yes, the command is command-L. it'll put you in the toolbar in the address field. - Original Message - From: "Danny Noonan" To: Sent: Monday, January 14, 2013 5:01 PM Subject: Jumping to html area from tool bar, was Re: getting to address bar in Safari I snatched a great tip fro

Re: Jumping to html area from tool bar, was Re: getting to address bar in Safari

2013-01-14 Thread Phil Halton
control F5 isn't working for me in safari. I've known about this command, and used alot in other apps, but it only seems to work when there is a "back" button in the toolbar. In safari, there is a back/forward group, and control F5 ain't doing nothin' - Original Message - From: "Danny

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