the same time as the function key. Have you
tried just F1? (See System Preferences, then Keyboard, then the "Use
all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys" checkbox for your
settings.)
Failing that, go to System Preferences, then Displays, and change the
Brightness slider to
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For dictation, you want one of Nuance's products for the Mac:
http://www.nuance.com/for-individuals/by-product/dragon-for-mac/index.htm
They use the same engine as Dragon.
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his?
How about using TextEdit in plain text mode (select Make Plain Text
from the Format menu)?
Another option (not free, but fairly cheap from the Apps Store) would
be Smultron:
http://www.peterborgapps.com/smultron/
You've also got vim and emacs in your Terminal.
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I don't understand why the process with TextEdit requires you to save,
close and reopen.
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http://brettterpstra.com/project/nvalt/
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uot;alt text." This option is useful because many websites use images for
> links.
So with "Never" set, I'd expect no images to be included in the menu, with
"With Descriptions" set I'd expect only images with "alt" text specified to be
included,
iation, you can map the vertical line character (|) to a shorter name
like "pipe", or to similar punctuation like the space character (in which case
VO reads nothing when it's focused). The mapping can be Safari-specific.
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t;Topic" column header, you end up in the sticky
announcement column before eventually hitting the "read" indicator in the
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WebKit is a nightly release of code committed yesterday, so it's more
likely to have show-stopper bugs alongside the latest improvements.
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On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Scott Howell wrote:
> Just my thoughts, but as far as I know Adobe has no plans to make anything
> accessible for the Mac despite any petition.
Correction:
http://blogs.adobe.com/accessibility/2010/03/flash_player_and_flex_support.html
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Voiceover), so Voiceover won't read anything useful.
Adobe have committed to fixing that in a future release.
http://blogs.adobe.com/accessibility/2010/03/flash_player_and_flex_support.html
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their own colors". This is not foolproof as it turns of background
images, which are erroneously used as content images by some websites.
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>Regarding your question about browsing, currently the way you are
> doing it is the only way, there is no say all for web pages.
How about:
http://atmac.org/simple-speak-selected-text/
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the arrow keys to select text? Seems to
work for me.
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What do other applications and platforms do with cells that are merged
between or split within columns and rows?
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of a simple word processor.
http://www.tuppis.com/smultron/
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Adobe, I think Gnash remains the best
current hope for Flash accessibility on the Mac and other Unix platforms.
This RFE remains open:
http://savannah.gnu.org/support/?105660
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Safari make use
open source components). Brett didn't say anything about Sungard's
software being open source either.
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You could run a Linux virtual machine, using Firefox with the Orca
screen reader.
3. If you have a spare copy of Windows, you could run a Windows virtual
machine, using Firefox or Internet Explorer with the free NVDA screen
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Apparently you can script Caffeine with AppleScript. That might be an
alternative.
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ARIA draft specification:
http://www.opera.com/docs/specs/presto22/#aria
As the draft is rather unclear, implementations in Firefox, Internet
Explorer, Opera, and Safari are likely to differ, so your mileage may vary.
You may (or may not) find the "glacial performance" you mentioned
support/bin/answer.py?answer=13275
If so, which step failed and how?
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ts folder in iTunes I could just press podc
> and then enter and it would take me straight there without having to
> go into Music, ITunes, ITunes Media, podcasts. Now I know it's for
> file paths.
Yes. Spotlight is the quick tool for finding stuff.
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> and very quickly gave up and booted up the old Netbook.
Eh what? Command + A then Command + C selects then copies the entire
page, same as in MSIE or Firefox.
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ng wasn't working well for him.
I'm not saying VO-Shift-Return works, but Geoff was comparing it with
"pressing control-a -> control-c in MSIE or FireFox", which does not
"copy something like an article or column of text". My point is
Command-A Command-C works e
t's happen though.
If it's not working, or if VO is not communicating what's happening, I
think that a bug.
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follows insertion point", and "Navigate
webpages by DOM order". If you're experiencing radically different
results, it may well reflect differing configuration.
As each line or character is highlighted, VoiceOver reads the text
then "highlighted". If you contract the
On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 1:13 AM, Marlaina Lieberg <1guide...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ok I'm sorry, but what is group mode, how do I switch to it and how do I know
> when I want to switch to it?
See http://www.apple.com/voiceover/info/guide/_1134.html#mchlp2711
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keys" part of the manual:
http://www.apple.com/voiceover/info/guide/_1136.html#vo14096
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On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 8:56 PM, Chris Moore wrote:
> i am aware of that, and it offers very basic support
This was true of the original MSAA API.
But the newer UI Automation API is comparable to the Apple
Accessibility API and the Gnome AT-SPI API.
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