Don't get a kindle stand alone. Just use the ios app. Navigation is better with
the ios app than with any other means of reading Kindle books, short of
stripping drm and reading in iBooks. No Kindle device has accessibility equal
to the i-device app.
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and quits reading, and I have to two finger flick down to start again. But
another book on the iPad doesn't do that. It seems quite strange, rather like
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Well, since I don't have an iPhone 5, I can't say about the flicking issue.
Hopefully somebody with a 5 will come along and put in their 2 cent's. I wonder
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ry drain hasn't been a problem, why bother? If
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that Apple has approved, such as the two that Cara mentioned.
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No, there is no way to read ibooks on the Mac so far as I am aware.
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I have a subscription to sky.fm premium and decided to import some of their
stations into itunes. They offer 128kb aac and 256kb mp3 as the highest quality
feeds. I'm not familiar with 128kb aac. Does anybody have a thought on which of
these formats is highest quality?
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by using industry standard frameworks, so the customer and use the application
as she/he chooses. Are you listening Amazon? No, probably not.
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meant that they'll use what's
built in to provide accessibility, rather than making you use a clunky
nonintuitive, half-baked piece of junk aka kindle for pc with accessibility
plug in, which can't be used with a screen reader and is thus missing all the
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If you are talking about the ability to move down to the next line while
reading continuously, then the answer is no, you can't do that with Voice Over
so far as I am aware. It would be a nice thing to be able to do. Makes skimming
articles sort of possible.
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not have to restart the continuous reading.
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I had such bum luck trying
to search it out and look at its specs and price.
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reviews all say its a monster, so I guess you need a big lot of desk real
estate to put it on..
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No, for what you want to do, skip over a bunch of links and get to the next
line or block of text, try the control, option command plus p that somebody
suggested earlier. That should take you to the next text that isn't a link on
your webpage.
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filled out the form,
which was certainly public, in that it was on a public website and had been
advertised. That's it. Nothing further. So either they didn't need my and
others' applications, or they haven't started the beta or whatever. No nda here.
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older to be restored, then opened tm and went from there. I am
fuzzy as to the steps. So if you can give a bit more step by step on how you
did the restore, it would be helpful.
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there between MS and Apple either. Indeed, when it comes to access-related
documentation, Apple has it all over MS these days IMHO.
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a windows screen reader. But
there are productivity tradeoffs involving forms mode and loading of the
virtual buffer.
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ing the Windows app still does not have unless you use a screen
>reader's braille support. But k1000 is a small fish in the pond of the company
>that bought KESI some while back. and so it goes.
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ted to add something, I'd
like to see them go there and never mind Samantha. they have to pay for Nuance
voices, so might as well pay for something that is worth the money.
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of publishers owned by Random House and the numbers of books etc.
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I believe I read here earlier that the braillino is not supported in IOS.
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on reading without me
needing to press vo-a again after each page is completed. Is there some setting
I can change in text edit to make that happen?
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I did interact with my multi-page text document. If I didn't do that, it
wouldn't read at all.
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Anne was correct. Changing from wrap to page to wrap to window did the job, and
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Thanks, Geoff and Jenny. Not sure what you mean about copying the preferences
application, Geoff, but I guess I'll find out when I check out the files. I
wonder if this is one of those menus that you can't see with the keyboard but
can if you fiddle with the magic trackpad.
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sible icons, gives me no speech at all. Is there something
in the track pad preferences that needs to be set in a certain way to enable
one to do this?
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like the apple keyboards use to
before they started making the little thin metal ones they have now.
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Has anybody had experience with a program called mackeeper pro? mac update
promo is offering it for 50% off during the next less than 24 hours. It offers
various utilities, back up etc all in one package. Sounds nice, but has anybody
tried it with vo?
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ck to flash. This extension is
suppose to have things you can adjust, but where can I find it?
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th keyboard and the IPad mirrored yours.
What keyboard were you using? Did you say you got the air with just 64gb of
storage? Or did you upgrade? the price goes up mighty fast when you do that,
but 64gb doesn't seem sufficient.
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I am actually not vo arrowing, because I have quicknav on. I love, love love
quicknav.
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Marlaina, when you hear it say tab, don't vo right. Vo down. You will get to
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how its suppose to be? Makes no sense, since
navigating using the "navigation" setting works to move line by line in such
texts for instance.
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? $22 seems like a
decent price if this product is really accessible.
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pick up at, say show 3 if
you wanted to do that. If this is possible, what application do you use?
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reference to the app being accessible on the IPad. Definitely beats rentals on
ITunes.
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I have no idea what they'd do regarding the price if you've already got the
camera. But their tech support person, the one and only, is out for the long
weekend, so finding anything beyond whatever is offered on the site could be
problematic.
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The app store now has the tomtom usa app for the above noted price.
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is system.
The speed and portability with a macbook air and this device would be wonderful
for students or busy professionals. The website didn't list a return policy; I
wish it did, since today seems to be the only day for this seriously discounted
price.
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he's used both.
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plish this browsing?
And wouldn't you have to have a hot key for every element in each and every
menu? Or maybe I'm missing the point. Are you saying the menus and all are self
voicing like they are with the windows applications like Openbook?
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Macupdate promo for today has a bundle of 5 apps, most of which didn't interest
me. But there is one called musicality that is a desktop client for pandora
and last.fm services. Has anybody tried this app with vo on their Mac?
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I got this from a Windows screen reader list, but since they're looking for all
screen reader user input, definitely including VoiceOver, it seemed appropriate
to pass the link to this list.
Greetings,
There is a short survey out to collect various information regarding screen
readers. I wo
random, hit and miss. So how do you work with dvds reliably?
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ou've gotten to with the tab,
and since the window I was in wasn't saying anything through vo, it just never
occurred to me that pressing enter would actually do something useful. So
thanks a lot.
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Pandora is the application I most want to get access to through Musicality,
precisely because it is so incredibly inaccessible on the web with all that
flash.
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when entering alpha
numeric data in searches, but maybe for other things too? I am curious if folks
have used that remote app with the A tv and what you think about it in terms of
efficiency and ease of use compared with the remote that comes with the tv.
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So I assume you had to use the remote at first when the a tv was being set up.
And then after you got vo installed and sharing turned on, you switched over to
using the remote app? Is that right?
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I am about to get a Mac after years of watching VO develop. Subscribed
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coming to my inbox although I'm seeing new things post if I look on the
web interface. I didn't see a link there to send directly to the list
manager, so am writi
Hi all,
I just downloaded the vlc media player. The instructions in the read me file
say you are suppose to drag and drop the .app file to the folder where you want
to put it. I know there is a drag and drop process for voiceover, and I'd
rather not go there just yet, as a rather new Mac user. C
I have noticed that when you browse the web in dom mode using the rotor, say,
set to headings, if you then press the tab key to try to get to the first link
after the heading where the vo cursor is located, you are instead taken back to
the first link at the top of the page. Keyboard focus does
I hope this isn't considered off topic. I thought people with older Macbooks
who have been looking for an excuse to get a newer one would find this
interesting. The apple store has the base model on sale for $728. And if you're
a university student, you can take another hundred off that. I saw t
This is the link to the page where you see the sale price. Its very long, so I
hope it works.
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Hi folks,
I recall hearing about a utility from Index called Ibraille. I went looking for
info on it, because I own an Index embosser that I've been using on a Windows
box, but was interested to learn about Ibraille. The Index website is not the
most easily navigated in the world. I didn't find
Hello all, and I hope the New Year has started off well for you all. I have
subscribed to a few free podcasts in the Itunes store, and I see that there
appear to be back episodes available in the table that lists all episodes for
each podcast. These are undownloaded, and I would like to downloa
Thank you, Dan, for that answer. I could have sworn I tried the solution you
suggested and didn't see what I wanted. But this morning, there it was, big as
life in the context menu, "download all podcasts". I must not have been in the
right place last evening when I tried the context menu with v
I think it is a vo problem. I had this problem a few days ago, and I thought I
was just messing up because I'm a new Mac user. I couldn't get the settings to
stick, but my sighted husband informed me that they were reading properly, but
vo was reporting them incorrectly.
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I am in the process of putting a large cd collection onto itunes as mp3 files.
One of the things I'd like to do when I'm done is to selectively copy some of
these onto an sd card for use in a player that isn't Itunes compatible, that
is, its not an ipod or iphone. So to do that, I'm fi
Thanks for the tip on where to find all that music I'm wripping. Putting an
alias to it on the desktop should make it a tad more convenient to quickly
access. Now for another elementary question that I know I've seen the answer to
in a podcast but can't remember and haven't found after poking ar
Thanks so much, Esther, for all that great info. And yes, get info. That is
what I remember hearing for how to change the default app to open a file.
Thanks to the list for your collective patience.
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move to the next text that is not a link or a form control on a web page. Its
great for finding the actual start of an article on sites where you get a bunch
of links between the title and the main body of the article
Hi Les,
Thanks for the tip on vo command p to find the next plain text. I looked in the
web section of the vo help menu and didn't see it there. Just double checked
and didn't see it. Where should I have looked to find this one?
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Hi Matt,
I was really looking forward to auto web spots as a sort of quick and dirty way
of having the best of group nav but still being in dom mode, if that makes any
sense. I've found, however, that the auto web spots on the pages I've tried are
really not helpful. Must be just the sites I vis
Thanks, Nick. Find menu. I had seen all those commands, but just filed them
away in some mental compartment that relates to finding text in word
processing, not on the web. I'll definitely try this option and hope it does
the trick.
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When I bought my Mac mini recently, I purchased a bluetooth keyboard with it,
because it was the best keyboard they had in the store, in terms of the over
all feel etc. Its nice not being tied to a desk, but it would be really cool if
it would be possible to take this keyboard into ano
Hi Les,
Yes, I do read braille, and I saw that about the braille manual from the
Lighthouse. It looked like that was referring to the Leopard manual, but
perhaps I misunderstood.
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Yes, I know about wireless headphones. I worked using headphones for 8 hours a
day for 30 years, so I try to avoid them when possible. It could be a
cheap way to find out just how far the keyboard will work reliably, though. 30
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Thanks for all the ideas. I think airfoil looks interesting, although its not
the cheapest way to go. Oddly enough, my stereo has no fm tuner, the old one I
had having broken, and commercial programming being so devoid of meaningful
content that I never replaced it. So I suppose the transmitter
Hi Esther,
Thanks for this detailed description. I've been into that dialogue with the
unlabeled fields that you described, and as you note, I am set for dhcp. What
isn't clear to me, and forgive the question is, where am I suppose to find
these 5 entries that I am to copy into the fields under
Hello all,
Mac Mall is running a special on Fusion 3 today. One thing that intrigued me
about the description of this product is the statement that you can import your
entire windows pc to your Mac wirelessly or via a lan connection. It claims you
can use your windows devices and software, which
Hi all,
I have a lot of mp3 files that I really don't want going into my music library,
since they aren't music. I want eventually to get them onto my ipod, and the
only way I know to do that is via Itunes. Thee are old time radio programs and
lectures and all sorts of other nonmusical sound rec
Hi Eric,
Your point about not doubling up on existing Mac keyboard shortcuts makes a lot
of sense. So, the obvious question, is there a list of such shortcuts in one
place? I found one once, but it has a lot of truly esoteric stuff in it that
I'd never heard of, much less that I would use. No, I
Control f2 did not take me to the dock when I just tried it. It took me to the
menu bar. And command option d does nothing at all. So to get to the dock, the
vo command is what is working. I am going to check out that list of commands
that the accessibility folks posted, though, to see if there
Hi all,
I just got fusion version 3 installed on my mac. there is the 3.1 update
available, but I have followed the thread on this list talking about the low
volume. So I am thinking there is no good reason to get that update. I won't be
using windows 7. I'm porting over my xp machine. Can anyb
Does webkit have the Safari reader in it? Or is that an Apple add on? also,
some time back, I went to the webkit site, which I don't remember the url for
any more and got confused as to how to get it and replace Safari with it. I
gather it uses the Safari interface. Heard that on one of the Mac-
Hi all,
Its been a while since I installed an app from a downloaded disk image. I just
got the new version of onyx and ended up running it from within the disk image,
which is on my desktop. I thought there was a way to have the app inside the
image go directly to the apps folder. Am I crazy? O
Hi all,
When I enter the downloads folder from the dock and go to an item I want to
delete, I can't send it to the trash. That item is dimmed. I'm sure this didn't
use to be the case. I know I've deleted things from my download folder. What am
I missing? Also, I have noticed that now when I ope
thanks, Esther. How ironic that people in the UK can't get this app!
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I found that resetting safari worked with Audible until I signed in and then I
got the crashing again. I had to clear cookies in order to be able to access
the page at all. but as soon as I signed in, thus setting a cooky, the crashing
started again, rendering the site essentially unusable. Here
Hi Barry,
Can you describe what you mean by initially signing and then coming back to the
site and having no problems? I reset safari, including letting it get rid of
cookies. then I went to the site and it was fine. I signed in and it crashed. I
went to another site, Amazon.com and then came ba
Hi all,
I thought time machine was suppose to let you role back an app or whatever else
you need to do. I did that with Safari, going back to June 6 back up. But even
though the get info command shows I have the old safari installed, I still
can't access audible and my Ichat is broken, just as o
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