Re: Audio description app for IOS

2014-06-01 Thread Steve Holmes
The Movie Reading app is the one you're looking for. You have already found it though, based on your earlier messages in this thread. Problem now is Solo DX, the original developers of this app have gone belly up. the better news is that apparently another group is going to offer a similar servi

Re: Audio description app for IOS

2014-06-01 Thread Lisette Wesseling
Hi, Thanks for letting me know the company is no more. I'm glad I didn't spend money buying the audio description track. It did seem odd there was only one film there which was making me suspicious. Thanks to all who answered my original question. Lisette On 1/06/2014, at 7:31 pm, Steve Holmes

Re: OT does anyone no of a blind linux or Orca List

2014-06-01 Thread Karen Lewellen
Good morning, Just as before I am writing privately with an email that includes the list information. hth, Kare On Sat, 31 May 2014, dooie13 wrote: Hello Karen, May I Please get this information also? Thank you, Very Much, Dooie 100% Blind USN Vet Portland, Oegon - Original Message

Re: Audio description app for IOS

2014-06-01 Thread Jessica
The application is still in the App Store. The audio description used to be free. Why would they start charging us now? Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 1, 2014, at 3:43 AM, Lisette Wesseling > wrote: > > Hi, > Thanks for letting me know the company is no more. I'm glad I didn't spend > money bu

Interesting Tablet Comparison

2014-06-01 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi All, FYI. Came across this article on the Internet regarding tablet setup for blind users. http://www.incobs.de/tests-english/items/tablettest-blind-en-initial-set-up.html Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: Audio description app for IOS

2014-06-01 Thread Steve Holmes
I don't know if or how much would be charged for the description, but somebody may have to pay for the on-going app development, servers, etc. These other guys offered it for free and guess what happened. they went broke! That's right, they're broke. You have to have a viable business model to k

Re: LastPass and Safari - Major Problem!

2014-06-01 Thread Steve Holmes
Hello folks, I've been using Safari in full screen mode lately and that has kept LastPass from grabbing focus all the time but now I'm running into another problem. I can't seem to open up the vault anymore. When I go into the LastPass screen, I hit Return or VO-Space on the link to access "My

Re: LastPass and Safari - Major Problem!

2014-06-01 Thread Teresa Cochran
Try Safari preferences, tabs and windows tab. The option is "when a new tab or window is open, make it active". the vault opens in a new tab or window, depending on how you have your Safari set up. HtH, Teresa Slow down; you'll get there faster. On Jun 1, 2014, at 8:52 AM, Steve Holmes wrote:

Money Management

2014-06-01 Thread Tristan
Hi, What is a fairly accessible app that I can use with the Mac for banking? Thanks in advance. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macv

Status of audio description

2014-06-01 Thread DD
We owe this golden age of media audio description to the nfb. XB -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com

iMud

2014-06-01 Thread Tyler
Hello Everybody, I spent some time posting about iMud the accessible MUD client for OSX. Unfortunately due to a new (and very demanding) job I haven’t had the chance to work on it in the past nine months. It’s a good program and I feel like it’s needed so I’ve put up a dummy website for pe

Re: Audio description app for IOS

2014-06-01 Thread Kevin Shaw
Hi list, If it's all right with the moderator, I'd like to weigh in on this. I've posted here before about my startup, Zagga Entertainment We're creating a fully accessible VOD service featuring movies and TV shows with described video. I started the company when I didn't want to have to put

Re: Money Management

2014-06-01 Thread Phil Halton
if you can develop your own spreadsheet banking registers, then Numbers is excellent. I do all my personal accounting on home-grown spreadsheets, bank registers, etc. On Jun 1, 2014, at 12:08 PM, Tristan wrote: > Hi, > > What is a fairly accessible app that I can use with the Mac for banking

Extreme iTunes Frustration: Someone please Assist

2014-06-01 Thread Christine Grassman
I wrote about this several days ago, and either did not get, or missed, responses. I have been slogging through the heaps of iTunes issues posts and cannot find anything helpful either. I have a ton of songs that are syncing to my iPHone which I do not want. I have them all unchecked in artists

Re: OT does anyone no of a blind linux or Orca List

2014-06-01 Thread Georgina Joyce
Hello, Well I received a message from the speakup list recently but it is not as active as it used to be. http://www.linux-speakup.org There was a blinux list at one time, I can't remember the orca was it gnome-access I'm sure these lists wouldn't be too difficult to find. I don't know what h

iTunes cannot import CDs

2014-06-01 Thread Kristeen Hughes
When I put a CD in my Mac Mini, it appears in Finder and iTunes. I have iTunes set to import and eject. No matter what CD I try, it finishes importing them and it ejects them. THe problem is, all it has imported is the title of each song on the CD. They are all about 3 KB in size and have no aud

Re: Extreme iTunes Frustration: Someone please Assist

2014-06-01 Thread Jessica
In iTunes options, do you have "sync only checked songs" checked? Sent from my iPad > On Jun 1, 2014, at 6:46 PM, Christine Grassman > wrote: > > I wrote about this several days ago, and either did not get, or missed, > responses. I have been slogging through the heaps of iTunes issues posts

Re: Extreme iTunes Frustration: Someone please Assist

2014-06-01 Thread Christine Grassman
Yes. On Jun 1, 2014, at 8:01 PM, Jessica wrote: > In iTunes options, do you have "sync only checked songs" checked? > > > Sent from my iPad > >> On Jun 1, 2014, at 6:46 PM, Christine Grassman >> wrote: >> >> I wrote about this several days ago, and either did not get, or missed, >> respons

Re: iMud

2014-06-01 Thread Shannon Dyer
Hi, Tyler. I tried to open the app, but it told me I couldn't because the classic environment was no longer supported. Any thoughts on why this might occur? Shannon On Jun 1, 2014, at 3:41 PM, Tyler wrote: > Hello Everybody, > > > > I spent some time posting about iMud the accessible MUD cl

RE: iMud

2014-06-01 Thread Tristan
I'm getting the same error as well. The app was probably compiled for an earlier version of OS X or different architecture (I'm running it on 10.9.3 on a MacBook air). From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Shannon Dyer Sent: Sunday, June 01

RE: iMud

2014-06-01 Thread Tristan
To give further clarification: yes, this is the case. Classic support was dropped in Leopard. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Shannon Dyer Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2014 9:08 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: iMud Hi

mp3 splitter and mp3 to m4b converter?

2014-06-01 Thread Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona
any one know of a mp3 splitter, and mp3 to m4b converter on the mac? Hank -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegrou

Re: LastPass and Safari - Major Problem!

2014-06-01 Thread Steve Holmes
OK, I see it now. Still, I wish the vault was a table or something; then I could skip all the links for each site and just navigate up and down the column of site names. See, I love table navigation in screen readers. I found the vault tab but I had to keep Safari maximized because the LastPass

Re: Money Management

2014-06-01 Thread Steve Holmes
Checkbook Pro is a nice app too. it can be found in the Mac App store. On Jun 1, 2014, at 3:23 PM, Phil Halton wrote: > if you can develop your own spreadsheet banking registers, then Numbers is > excellent. I do all my personal accounting on home-grown spreadsheets, bank > registers, etc. >

Re: iTunes cannot import CDs

2014-06-01 Thread Steve Holmes
I don't know. I just ripped a CD a week or so ago and it worked OK for me. I encoded into MP3 at 192 KB stereo. I didn't encounter any problems except I had to manually tag the files because this CD was an artist demo and that disc was never submitted to Grace Notes. On Jun 1, 2014, at 4:59 PM,

Re: mp3 splitter and mp3 to m4b converter?

2014-06-01 Thread Steve Holmes
I would go to Rogue Ameba's website and look for Fision. It can split and merge MP3s. Not sure about transcoding. Might have to use Amadeus pro to do that. I need to spend more time with these apps to give better answers in the future. On Jun 1, 2014, at 8:04 PM, Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog I

Re: iMud

2014-06-01 Thread Tyler Thompson
https://sites.google.com/site/imudforosx/iMud.app?attredirects=0&d=1 there's a fresh download link, this one should work just fine. On Jun 1, 2014, at 7:24 PM, Tristan wrote: > To give further clarification: yes, this is the case. Classic support was > dropped in Leopard. > > From: macvision

iMud Status

2014-06-01 Thread Tyler Thompson
Hello Everybody, I spent some time posting about iMud the accessible MUD client for OSX. Unfortunately due to a new (and very demanding) job I haven't had the chance to work on it in the past nine months. It's a good program and I feel like it's needed so I've put up a dummy website for

Re: iMud

2014-06-01 Thread Tyler Thompson
Alright, I'll post a different version, it should work for everybody On Jun 1, 2014, at 7:22 PM, Tristan wrote: > I'm getting the same error as well. > The app was probably compiled for an earlier version of OS X or different > architecture (I'm running it on 10.9.3 on a MacBook air). > > From

space bar on a macbook pro using voice over

2014-06-01 Thread Brent Harbolt
Hi all. I just got a new MacBook pro a couple of months ago. it seems that sometimes when I am doing VO plus space bar it doesn't always register my press. Sometimes I have to do it a couple of times before it registers. I am wondering if anyone else has this problem or not. I am trying to figur

Re: iMud

2014-06-01 Thread Tyler Thompson
Yes, this is due to the fact you aren't running OSX 10.8+ I can send you a private email with a version that works from 10.6+ but I cannot guarantee it will function at 100% (it's all dependent on your OS version) On Jun 1, 2014, at 7:07 PM, Shannon Dyer wrote: > Hi, Tyler. > > I tried to ope

Re: question about VM ware fusion and using windows on a mac book pro

2014-06-01 Thread Brent Harbolt
Hi Jonathan. Well, when I went into windows explorer like you said, sure enough all my network computers were there. Now, when I go to network, they are showing up there so whatever happened it is working now. Thanks. :) Brent Harbolt - Original Message - From: Jonathan Mosen To: m

Re: space bar on a macbook pro using voice over

2014-06-01 Thread Alex Hall
That was a random issue in Mountain Lion, I believe. I haven't noticed it at all in Mavericks, but then I rarely use vo-space. Most times, with buttons in dialogs or web forms, you can press space by itself. Links, default buttons, and menu items can be activated with enter. On May 30, 2014, at

RE: space bar on a macbook pro using voice over

2014-06-01 Thread Tristan
I've consistently had this problem under Mavericks on my MacBook Air, if that reassures you any. Going into key help I can press it repeatedly fine, but some buttons don't take it the first press. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Alex

Re: Extreme iTunes Frustration: Someone please Assist

2014-06-01 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, On your iPhone, in the iTunes & AppStore section of your Settings, is Music set to "Off" under the Automatic Downloads area? If this is set to "On", then all new purchases done on other devices, including your Mac, will automatically be downloaded to your iPhone as soon as they are purchas

Fwd: Extreme iTunes Frustration: Someone please Assist

2014-06-01 Thread Red.Falcon
Begin forwarded message: > From: "Red.Falcon" > Subject: Re: Extreme iTunes Frustration: Someone please Assist > Date: 2 June 2014 05:38:45 BST > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Bcc: "Red.Falcon" > > Hi! > I did not hear you mention this so was just wondering! > When your iPhone is conn

Re: mp3 splitter and mp3 to m4b converter?

2014-06-01 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Fission will certainly do the job for splitting and is VO friendly. Do you mean to change to m4b as in "Book" or m4a for "Audio"? If you are talking about books, then you may wish to try AudioBook Builder. If you meant audio, this is easily done within iTunes itself. Later... Tim Kilbu