Re: apple tv and choppy speech

2010-12-08 Thread Chris Moore
Hmmm I can't compare my Apple TV with yours in regards to the stuttering speech, as Santa refuses to give me mine until Xmas day! On 8 Dec 2010, at 16:14, Mary Otten wrote: > Chris, > I did find apple tv listed in Itunes in the remote speakers section, and > airfoil also sees it just as it sees

Re: The iPad 2?

2010-12-08 Thread Chris Moore
I think we will see the inclusion of USB, as this will be very handy for plugging in USB game pad controllers, USB headsets for Video calls, USB keyboards and printers, and of course USB MIDI music devices which 4.2 now supports. I can't see Apple adding support for external memory. I would we

Re: going back and forward in safari

2010-12-11 Thread Chris Moore
Press command + [ to go back a page and press command + ] to go forward. On 11 Dec 2010, at 20:24, Yuma Decaux wrote: > Hi list, > > I have looked into the voice over menus and keyboard shirtcuts in system > preferences but didn't find the shortcut keys for going back and forth in > safari. >

Re: Can't eject cd

2010-12-14 Thread Chris Moore
Turn your Mac mini on and after you hear the mac startup sound, hold down the mouse button. This will perform a forced CD eject after a few seconds. Chris PS The paperclip thing does not work on slot loading drives On 14 Dec 2010, at 17:50, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > My guess is that there's usual

Re: Can't eject cd

2010-12-14 Thread Chris Moore
nds what mouse you have. >>> If you have a Mac mouse there is only one way to click the mouse just push >>> it down. >>> The left mouse button is on the left. >>> Hehe >>> >>> On Dec 14, 2010, at 10:44 AM, Courtney Curran wrote: >>> &

Re: Virtual Box

2010-12-14 Thread Chris Moore
What is it? Is it like Fusion, or Drop Box or something? On 14 Dec 2010, at 16:25, Kevin Mattingly wrote: > It may have been discussed on here before but I figure, what the heck, I'll > ask again. Is Virtual Box accessible on the Mac? > > Kev > > -- > You received this message because you ar

Re: Can't eject cd

2010-12-14 Thread Chris Moore
here's the left mouse button? > Courtney > On Dec 14, 2010, at 12:54 PM, Chris Moore wrote: > >> Turn your Mac mini on and after you hear the mac startup sound, hold down >> the mouse button. This will perform a forced CD eject after a few seconds. >> >> Ch

Re: Pairing a Phonak Icom hearing device with a Macbook Pro via Bluetooth?

2010-12-25 Thread Chris Moore
Are you guys using the latest Firmware for your iCom? As all works fine for me. On 25 Dec 2010, at 02:09, Mark BurningHawk Baxter wrote: > Sure, I'd appreciate anything. Having a Bluetooth connection to my Mac sure > would make my life a lot more fun. :) > > > • Mark BurningHawk Baxter > •

Re: Making Music on a Mac

2010-12-30 Thread Chris Moore
There is a great tracker for the PC and Mac called renoise, which let's you do mod pattern based music, very similar to OctaMED on the Amiga. Sadly though it is not accessible which I discovered after losing my sight this year. The developer has no plans to make it accessible either as the cod

Re: Making Music on a Mac

2010-12-30 Thread Chris Moore
nterface for it. > > regards > Jonathan Chacón > > El 30/12/2010, a las 14:24, Chris Moore escribió: > >> There is a great tracker for the PC and Mac called renoise, which let's you >> do mod pattern based music, very similar to OctaMED on the Ami

iTunes annoyances

2011-01-06 Thread Chris Moore
Hi I have a couple of iTunes annoyances I would like to share, maybe some of you have encountered the same or have some suggestions or advice. First of all, I could not find Tina Turner in my playlist browser (why is this called a playlist browser by VO when in fact it is just a browser to let y

Re: mac os 10.6.6 and the mac app store released

2011-01-06 Thread Chris Moore
Oh I might buy pages then! Have no need for Keynote. On 6 Jan 2011, at 14:50, Matthew Campbell wrote: > All the iLife 11 apps separately and the iWork apps separately too. Much > cheeper to buy them that way rather than buying them on a DVD. > On 2011-01-06, at 9:42 AM, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: >

Re: Playlist question

2011-01-09 Thread Chris Moore
My advice would be to create a playlist of the same name on iTunes, then go to the playlist on your iPod and do a select all on all the tracks, then copy, then go to the playlist of the same name on your iTunes library and paste. Not an ideal solution but it works On 10 Jan 2011, at 01:47, Sara

Re: Good news about VueScan 9

2011-01-11 Thread Chris Moore
I am a bit new to scanning on the Mac. Well that is a small lie, a year ago when I had sight I used my Canon MP630 to scan photos etc. But now that I have no sight I would like to get into OCR for the Mac. I have an iPal Solo which is fine for reading most things, but chuck a bank statement o

Re: Good news about VueScan 9

2011-01-11 Thread Chris Moore
go figure. Guess if all else fails I could plow through the users guide. > But, how I hate doing that!:) > > Carolyn H > > On Jan 11, 2011, at 10:00 AM, Chris Moore wrote: > >> I am a bit new to scanning on the Mac. Well that is a small lie, a year ago >> when I

Re: Good news about VueScan 9

2011-01-11 Thread Chris Moore
to name and where to save. I'm feeling particularly > dense, as I keep scanning and getting the same page ack, even when I put in > other material. > go figure. Guess if all else fails I could plow through the users guide. > But, how I hate doing that!:) > > Carolyn H > &

Re: The Verizon iPhone is not as accessible to deaf and hard of hearing as AT&T's iPhone

2011-01-12 Thread Chris Moore
Sorry for coming across a bit thick here. But firstly I am unable to open that URL to read the article and secondly we don't have CDMA over here in the UK. Why do CDMA phones cause problems for users who are hard of hearing? Would using something like a Phonak Bluetooth streamer get around th

Re: The Verizon iPhone is not as accessible to deaf and hard of hearing as AT&T's iPhone

2011-01-13 Thread Chris Moore
ve my email, my captioning program, my twitter, my > texts and my phone call running and no issues as long as the network does not > mind. lol! > > S > On Jan 12, 2011, at 11:44 PM, Chris Moore wrote: > >> Sorry for coming across a bit thick here. But firstly I am unable to op

Re: reversing import order in Itunes

2011-01-13 Thread Chris Moore
Mark, Press shift + VO + | (vertical line) next to the enter key. Perform this action on the date column. Chris On 13 Jan 2011, at 08:53, Mark BurningHawk Baxter wrote: > I've recently asked this but have forgotten the answer. Itunes is importing > my new tracks into the library in reverse

Re: Nike+ Sensors and Heart Monitors

2011-01-13 Thread Chris Moore
Sadly the Nike+ software on the iPhone does not support the heart monitor yet. It is only currently supported on the iPod nano (the latest one) On 13 Jan 2011, at 09:50, Paul Hunt wrote: > Hello everyone. I got the Nike shoes and sensor for Christmas. The manual > says that there is an optiona

Re: Nike+ Sensors and Heart Monitors

2011-01-13 Thread Chris Moore
l Hunt wrote: > Hello Chris. Thanks for getting back to me so quickly. It looks like I can > get time distance pace and calories burned. Can i get other info? > > On Jan 13, 2011, at 4:05 AM, Chris Moore wrote: > >> Sadly the Nike+ software on the iPhone does not support the h

Re: The Verizon iPhone is not as accessible to deaf and hard of hearing as AT&T's iPhone

2011-01-13 Thread Chris Moore
Ricardo Walker > rwalker...@gmail.com > Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296 > Google Voice: 1-646-450-2197 > > > > On Jan 13, 2011, at 3:41 AM, Chris Moore wrote: > >> God! sounds crap! Why the hell would anyone want CDMA then? God bless the >> french for

Re: The Verizon iPhone is not as accessible to deaf and hard of hearing as AT&T's iPhone

2011-01-13 Thread Chris Moore
Skype, and AIM: rwalker296 > Google Voice: 1-646-450-2197 > > > > On Jan 13, 2011, at 6:37 AM, Chris Moore wrote: > >> Hmmm we have pretty good GSM service over here. But we do have over 7 GSM >> providers fighting for our business on this little island. >

Re: inverting a list order

2011-01-13 Thread Chris Moore
I know I should not ask this here, but how do you do the same thing in Outlook and with JAWS for Windows. I am working back to front, have mastered VO and now learning JAWS (and I hate it). On 13 Jan 2011, at 15:44, Neil Barnfather - TalkNav wrote: > Ricardo, > > thank you so very much, been d

Re: The Verizon iPhone is not as accessible to deaf and hard of hearing as AT&T's iPhone

2011-01-13 Thread Chris Moore
CODECS are available and unlike GSM take advantage of variable bit rate > technology. Look at EVRC or SMV to learn more about this. > > It's not as cut and dry as you'd make it.:) > > On Jan 13, 2011, at 12:41 AM, Chris Moore wrote: > >> God! sounds crap! Why t

Re: iTunes question

2011-01-14 Thread Chris Moore
After hearing this podcast from Kevin, I am surprised people are still having trouble with iTunes on the Windows, seemed almost as easy as the Mac. http://media25.podbean.com/pb/15ff62ee8330b852e340e7f776c57369/4d2f7701/blogs25/321654/uploads/iTunesWindowsMythsandFacts.mp3 How big is your music l

Re: importing a cd with no song title information available???

2011-01-14 Thread Chris Moore
Yes you can, then you can upload your data so others entering the same CD will then receive the track listing data you submitted. On 14 Jan 2011, at 18:38, Christina wrote: > Hello, > > I was about to import a CD and I got a message from itunes saying no song > title information was available a

Re: Part of a compilation

2011-01-14 Thread Chris Moore
Yes it is for compilation albums like you suggested. What I have noticed from the behaviour is that if you use the playlist browser to navigate music like I do, you will find your artist name will vanish from the browser, and be listed in a artist known as compilations instead. I have reported

Re: pages export annoyance

2011-01-15 Thread Chris Moore
Can Pages not export to MS Word? I was just about to purchase this from the app store as I need to edit and save word documents. Chris On 15 Jan 2011, at 15:24, Anne Robertson wrote: > Hello Yuma, > > Why should it b possible to save Pages documents in Word format? After all, > IWork is an o

Re: pages export annoyance

2011-01-15 Thread Chris Moore
ating ePub documents to read with iBooks. > > Cheers, > > Anne > > > On 15 Jan 2011, at 16:28, Chris Moore wrote: > >> Can Pages not export to MS Word? I was just about to purchase this from the >> app store as I need to edit and save word documents. >>

Re: pages export annoyance

2011-01-15 Thread Chris Moore
Actually scrub my previous message, I understand the layout now. Excellent! On 15 Jan 2011, at 16:53, Chris Moore wrote: > Phew! Just Downloaded. > > Ok quick question, when interacting with say the toolbar or scroll area etc, > how do you get back to the page you wish to edit? S

Re: pages export annoyance

2011-01-15 Thread Chris Moore
If you want a default format to save too, and you are not happy that the default format for pages is pages, then why not use Word? Microsoft Word is the only word processor that has a default .doc type. If you were to use any other word processor you would have to either save as or export. If

Re: :pages export annoyance

2011-01-15 Thread Chris Moore
I think you have a chip on your shoulder mate, and I do not think Ann deserves to be spoken to in that way, she did not write the software. Write to Apple and suggest it, but it is probably a licence issue. On 15 Jan 2011, at 18:15, Yuma Decaux wrote: > > > Begin forwarded message: > >> From

Re: :pages export annoyance

2011-01-15 Thread Chris Moore
Take a chill pill my friend, as my gran always used to say "you catch more flies with sugar then vinegar". Now breathe with me "out with anger, in with love" lol But seriously, exporting is easy, i have only had Pages for a couple of hours and it is easy. If you use OpenOffice, WordPerfect, W

Re: Magic Track Pad

2011-01-16 Thread Chris Moore
Did you turn the track commander on in VO utility? On 16 Jan 2011, at 08:35, Christopher Peppel wrote: > Hey Everybody, > > I just rejoined the list and it is great to still see a few familiar names > here. I bought a magic track pad and wasn't able to do to much with it. I > tried changing s

Re: Magic Track Pad

2011-01-16 Thread Chris Moore
, 2011, at 3:41 AM, Chris Moore wrote: > >> Did you turn the track commander on in VO utility? >> On 16 Jan 2011, at 08:35, Christopher Peppel wrote: >> >>> Hey Everybody, >>> >>> I just rejoined the list and it is great to still see a few familiar nam

Re: :pages export annoyance

2011-01-16 Thread Chris Moore
n a misunderstanding. > > Ricardo Walker > rwalker...@gmail.com > Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296 > Google Voice: 1-646-450-2197 > > > > On Jan 15, 2011, at 2:06 PM, heather kd5cbl wrote: > >> Ah, my mawmaw said the same thing, smiles! Heather >> - Or

Re: Magic Track Pad

2011-01-16 Thread Chris Moore
utility. Chris On 16 Jan 2011, at 17:20, Christopher Peppel wrote: > Hi Chris, > > No, I haven't used any of those devices so far. I went into the track pad > settings > On Jan 16, 2011, at 4:24 AM, Chris Moore wrote: > >> Hmmm how odd, I have one too and it seems to

Re: Garageband question

2011-01-16 Thread Chris Moore
Its one of the 2 hyped up new features which are not accessible Ricardo L( borrowed from Logic 9. I would be happy with basic midi note editing. Man at the moment Reeper and Sonar really do make me drool (and that is not a pretty sight I can assure you). On 16 Jan 2011, at 18:48, Ricardo Walker

Re: shortcut for accessing the downloads folder?

2011-01-16 Thread Chris Moore
Could you not just create a shortcut in VO utility for the keyboard commander? On 16 Jan 2011, at 19:45, Jonathan Cohn wrote: > Hmm, I believe I could write a little apple script to create an alias for > the selected item on the desktop. I wonder if that would work just for file > / folders o

Re: Garageband question

2011-01-16 Thread Chris Moore
> Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296 > Google Voice: 1-646-450-2197 > > > > On Jan 16, 2011, at 2:02 PM, Chris Moore wrote: > >> Its one of the 2 hyped up new features which are not accessible Ricardo L( >> borrowed from Logic 9. >> >> I would be hap

Re: shortcut for accessing the downloads folder?

2011-01-16 Thread Chris Moore
k what about creating an apple script or an automator action to open the download folder? This could then be triggered from the keyboard commander. On 16 Jan 2011, at 21:57, Sarah Alawami wrote: > I believe I tried that but it didn't work. > > S > On Jan 16, 2011, at 11:5

Re: :pages export annoyance

2011-01-17 Thread Chris Moore
Text Edit is great for basic stuff, but the word format it supports is really only rich text format. This is fine for being able to read the contents of a word document but most formatting will be lost. On 17 Jan 2011, at 08:13, Anne Robertson wrote: > Hello Carolyn, > > While it's true that T

Re: the acsesability of the latest verssion of adium??

2011-01-17 Thread Chris Moore
That bug can still sometimes happen, but the trick is when you look at the conversation window, press VO + End and you should hear the last message that was sent, and if not Adium might say group, just hit VO and right. Of course if you have growl setup (which I don't) you could configure this

Re: Accessibility of Hotspot Shield

2011-01-17 Thread Chris Moore
Maybe this is something Brian Smart could look at with Voxkeys. In the meantime have you tried writing to the developer? Do you know if there is an iPhone version too? Could this app also be used for our american cousins to access BBC iPlayer from their side of the pond too? On 17 Jan 2011, a

Re: the acsesability of the latest verssion of adium??

2011-01-17 Thread Chris Moore
I must admit I do use group mode for certain websites where I can whizz up and down and around quicker then linear DOM mode and group mode can be very handy when you use the main Facebook site. On 17 Jan 2011, at 13:47, Oriol Gómez wrote: > Wait what? People actually browse the web in group mode

Re: group mode was Re: the acsesability of the latest verssion of adium??

2011-01-17 Thread Chris Moore
Lazy bitch lol but yeah that works on some sites too. On 17 Jan 2011, at 14:25, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Hi, > > I find that on many sites, pressing command shift R to enter the article > reader works great. > > Ricardo Walker > rwalker...@gmail.com > Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296 > Googl

Re: Garageband tutorial 3.

2011-01-18 Thread Chris Moore
I use my numeric keypad, bliss! On 18 Jan 2011, at 02:26, Christopher Peppel wrote: > Hi Rickardo, > > How about using Quick Nav. I use it all the time and don't have to worry > about locking down the VoiceOver keys. Just a thought. > > Chris > > On Jan 17, 2011, at 7:46 PM, Ricardo Walker

Re: 13 reasons why software is not free

2011-01-31 Thread Chris Moore
Riccardo, It is quite common for types of communities to adopt nicknames or phrases for themselves that might not seem acceptable outside the community. For example the black community have adopted the N word, the gay community have adopted queer or puff in the UK, and over here there are vari

VM Fusion

2011-01-31 Thread Chris Moore
Hi guys, I waswondering if there was any known issues with Fusion. Every time I open a PDF document from my documents I am prompted to select which program I should use to open the file with. I select Adobe Reader 10 and then also tick the box that says Always use this application to o

Re: VM Fusion

2011-01-31 Thread Chris Moore
Gucukoglu wrote: > Read PDF on the Mac, forget jaws! I hear that PDF isn't very accessible at > present. Might be wrong though. > On 31 Jan 2011, at 15:40, Chris Moore wrote: > >> Hi guys, >> >> I waswondering if there was any known issues with Fusion. E

VO Safari Flaw

2011-01-31 Thread Chris Moore
This is what I have just sent to Apple, and I would be interested if anyone else has experienced this or has any knowledge of why Safari and VO do this: Hi there, I have been doing some comparisons of using screen readers on a major supermarket in the UK. Tesco are huge in the UK and Europe a

Re: frustration

2011-02-09 Thread Chris Moore
No problems here. On 9 Feb 2011, at 02:48, Candie Stiles wrote: > Yes I have definitely noticed a major increase in voice over saying safari > busy. I rarely ever got a busy response before, and now I'm getting them just > about every time I'm using safari. I did repair permissions as well and i

Re: [Mac-cessibility News] Twitterific for Mac 4.0 Is Released Sans VoiceOver Accessibility

2011-02-14 Thread Chris Moore
I must admit, I totally agree with this. What is the point in directing us to only read a few extra words? This seems to happen with the majority of these postings. Why not just paste the entire article in here? On 14 Feb 2011, at 09:51, Søren Jensen wrote: > I'm tired of reading 95

Re: VMWare 3.02

2011-02-14 Thread Chris Moore
Press VO + F2 and then select view from the window chooser On 14 Feb 2011, at 22:39, Sarah Alawami wrote: > Hello. try hiding all he windows except for vmware then press cmd g. that > used to work. > > Take care. > > S > On Feb 14, 2011, at 2:15 PM, Jürgen Fleger wrote: > >> Hi Guys, >> >>

Re: request for people in the UK using Voiceover

2011-02-16 Thread Chris Moore
Liam, Try mac-access.net mailing list, although it is international, it is based in the UK and attracts a great number of UK contributors like myself. Kind regards Chris On 16 Feb 2011, at 20:08, DJ Nezumi wrote: > hi to all > i was wondering if anyone could help at all. i'm wanting to find

Re: scanning and the mac

2011-02-18 Thread Chris Moore
That seems quite odd, as I have a iMac and a 13 inch Macbook Pro, and VM Fusion is fine on the Macbook. I also have the iPal Solo (stand alone version of the iPal). I opted for this as I did not realise at the time they were working on Mac software. On 18 Feb 2011, at 01:40, David Tanner wrote

Re: anyone home?

2011-02-19 Thread Chris Moore
Steve, Check out: http://www.visionaustralia.org/info.aspx?page=2296 Chris On 19 Feb 2011, at 07:58, Steve Gladstone wrote: > Thanks Les. I’m a JAWS user and looking to get started with Voice Over. Any > suggestions where to find a good “getting started” tutorial? > Thx > Steve > > > From

Re: scanning and the mac

2011-02-19 Thread Chris Moore
he about 15 machines that I have setup with both Windows 7 and > Snow Leopard. > > > > - Original Message - From: "Chris Moore" > To: > Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 2:09 AM > Subject: Re: scanning and the mac > > > That seems quite odd,

Re: [Bulk] Re: My 2 cents about the inaccessibility of the set up of drop box

2011-02-22 Thread Chris Moore
Why not just get a mobile me account and use iDisk instead? Hit them where it hurts, their wallet and vote with your wallet On 22 Feb 2011, at 11:41, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > Look, here's how I see it. They've been telling us for about two years that > they know about the accessibility issues wit

Re: speech recognition with Voiceover

2011-02-24 Thread Chris Moore
You would need to purchase Nuance Dragon Dictate which is now accessible with VoiceOver. On 24 Feb 2011, at 17:31, Robert Nelson wrote: > Native to the Mac is Speakable Items. Speakable Items is accessible to Voice > Over. There are some work arounds required if you want to define a new > sp

Re: by way of introduction

2011-03-03 Thread Chris Moore
Welcome to the world of Mac and VoiceoVer, I am sure you will have a lot of fun. You do not have very long to wait for Mac 10.7 (Lion) either which will come with even more VoiceOver enhancements and apparently a whole host of new voices in various languages. Chris On 3 Mar 2011, at 16:06,

Re: Mac OS X Lion

2011-03-09 Thread Chris Moore
Now now boys, keep it nice. On 9 Mar 2011, at 13:06, Ben Mustill-Rose wrote: > Lets be honest though, he was probably right. > > On 09/03/2011, Michael Thurman wrote: >> I agree who the hell do you think you are accusig anyone of doing anything >> illegal I'm half a mind to leave this list jus

MobileMe Renewal Hell

2011-03-18 Thread Chris Moore
Hi gang, Do any of you have mobileme accounts? Have any of you had to renew your mobile me account and update your credit card details after your current card expires? I have just received an email from Mobileme informing me that my subscription is due for renewal and that I need to update my

Re: MobileMe Renewal Hell

2011-03-18 Thread Chris Moore
ing. > > Carolyn H > On Mar 18, 2011, at 9:59 AM, Chris Moore wrote: > >> Hi gang, >> >> Do any of you have mobileme accounts? Have any of you had to renew your >> mobile me account and update your credit card details after your current >> card expires?

Re: MobileMe Renewal Hell

2011-03-18 Thread Chris Moore
ld love to know what they tell you. Seems to me that >> somebody's gone and dropped the ball big time on this one. >> >> >> Sincerely, >> The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! >> >> Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! >> Skype name: >&g

Re: Sharing Apps Between IPhone and IPad

2011-04-05 Thread Chris Moore
Kev, One of the wonderful abilities of being locked into the iOS ecosystem is that you buy an app once and it is available to every device that uses the same iTunes account. So in answer to your question, YES! :) Hopefully one day Apple will be able to extend this to music and video too. Tha

Re: word documents on mac's?

2011-04-11 Thread Chris Moore
If you are only requiring to read the document, you can just hit the space bar and it will open in preview. VoiceOver will then read this document to you. TextEdit lets you edit RTF Word Documents. For Office 2007 and 2010 docx files you will need Pages. A new OS is due in the summer, who kn

Re: word documents on mac's?

2011-04-16 Thread Chris Moore
Sadly not, depressing eh? VO reads the menus, some of the icons and buttons, scroll bars, but sadly just can't see the document area. Not a fault of VO but a failing by Microsoft for not using the accessibility APIs On 16 Apr 2011, at 07:13, Melody wrote: > Does VO not work at all with word fo

Re: Exceedingly frustrated trying to find address bar info/link info

2011-04-20 Thread Chris Moore
Press command + L, this will move VO's focus to the address bar and highlight the URL, then hit command + c to copy. On 20 Apr 2011, at 17:02, Christine Grassman wrote: > Hello, all. I am futilely attempting to locate the links in a list of search > results on Google in order to copy and paste

Re: Safari Reader Question

2011-04-23 Thread Chris Moore
My guess is that Safari looks for a print.css version of the web page as that would provide a printer friendly version of the page with no usual page furniture. I could be wrong, but I am pretty sure it is CSS related. On 23 Apr 2011, at 21:28, Sarai Bucciarelli wrote: > All: > I just figured o

Re: imho: the cost of Mac vs others and their solutionsWas: docuscan is available

2011-04-30 Thread Chris Moore
Compare the build quality of a cheap PC laptop to a Mac and you will see that you get what you pay for. The closest in build quality to Apple is Sony. Computers are like cars, you can buy cheap ones, or you can buy luxury ones. They all have 4 wheels and get you from A to B, just some do it q

Re: MobileMe Renewal Hell

2011-04-30 Thread Chris Moore
rote: > >> I, for my part, would love to know what they tell you. Seems to me that >> somebody's gone and dropped the ball big time on this one. >> >> >> Sincerely, >> The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! >> >> Now a very proud and happy Ma

Re: MobileMe Renewal Hell

2011-05-02 Thread Chris Moore
gt;>> barefootedray >>> >>> Facebook: >>> facebook.com/ray.foretjr.1 >>> >>> On Mar 18, 2011, at 11:59 AM, Chris Moore wrote: >>> >>>> Don't worry, they were the first people I contacted, following feedback of >>>> mobileme

Campaign to get an accessible Microsoft Office for the Mac

2011-05-03 Thread Chris Moore
hi, Maybe we should start a campaign to get Office on the Mac accessible. Anyone up for it? If you know anyone who is willing to send an email requesting that Microsoft make their Office Suite accessible then point them to this web page.http://www.microsoft.com/mac/product-feedback Select the

Re: Campaign to get an accessible Microsoft Office for the Mac

2011-05-03 Thread Chris Moore
a > > Follow me on Twitter > http://twitter.com/ezufelt > > View my LinkedIn Profile > http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt > > > > On 2011-05-03, at 2:28 PM, Chris Moore wrote: > >> hi, >> >> Maybe we should start a campaign to get Office

Re: voiceover words per minute

2011-05-03 Thread Chris Moore
You can follow it at 80? Jeez! On 3 May 2011, at 20:15, Greg Aikens wrote: > Hi all, > Does anyone know the estimate of words per minute corresponding to the > different voiceover rates? If I am reading with VO at 80% how many WPM is > that? How many WPM is 55%, etc.? > > Thanks for any hel

Re: Campaign to get an accessible Microsoft Office for the Mac

2011-05-03 Thread Chris Moore
> View my LinkedIn Profile > http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt > > > > On 2011-05-03, at 3:42 PM, Chris Moore wrote: > >> That is because there is no built in screen reader for Windows, all the >> screen readers rely on scripts to work. scripting to get programs to work on

Re: voiceover words per minute

2011-05-03 Thread Chris Moore
; -Greg > On May 3, 2011, at 2:44 PM, Chris Moore wrote: > >> You can follow it at 80? Jeez! >> On 3 May 2011, at 20:15, Greg Aikens wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> Does anyone know the estimate of words per minute corresponding to the >>> different v

Re: Campaign to get an accessible Microsoft Office for the Mac

2011-05-03 Thread Chris Moore
Some excellent valid points Kevin, thank you. You have given me even more to think about. On 4 May 2011, at 01:28, Kevin Shaw wrote: > A few points from me: > > Windows comes with a screen reader called narrator. It's not as robust as > Voiceover, but Microsoft does "develop" it, much the same

Re: rules again

2011-05-03 Thread Chris Moore
Can you not just add him to your junk list? On 4 May 2011, at 02:02, Donna Goodin wrote: > Hi all, > > So, with Tim's help I set up a rule to delete messages from this guy whose > spamming me. Everything looks OK, but it doesn't seem to be working. Anyone > know what might be the problem. I'

Re: Campaign to get an accessible Microsoft Office for the Mac

2011-05-04 Thread Chris Moore
Finally someone who totally gets where I am coming from *sighs* Gordon yo might have to set up a separate office mailing list for us :) On 4 May 2011, at 15:03, Kevin Shaw wrote: > Isn't it interesting that blind people are willing to fight for access to > ProTools, Facebook and Flash, but whe

Re: Campaign to get an accessible Microsoft Office for the Mac

2011-05-04 Thread Chris Moore
going to try contacting them again. > http://blogs.msdn.com/b/accessibility/ > > Cheers, > Bryan > > On May 3, 2011, at 2:28 PM, Chris Moore wrote: >> Maybe we should start a campaign to get Office on the Mac accessible. >> Anyone up for it? If you know anyone wh

Re: Campaign to get an accessible Microsoft Office for the Mac

2011-05-04 Thread Chris Moore
If that was the case, then why have Microsoft gone to all the trouble to bring Outlook back to the Mac? Why have they gone to the trouble to make Office 2011 100% compatible with the Windows version? Clearly they are interested in the product and there is a market there. Apple don't need any

Re: Campaign to get an accessible Microsoft Office for the Mac

2011-05-04 Thread Chris Moore
Ok to be fair, they had to get something decent out of the bag quickly. Android and Apple caught Nokia and Microsoft with their pants down. Nobody in the business expected Google and Apple to topple these boys. Even RIM are running scared and finally being more creative than they have ever be

Re: Campaign to get an accessible Microsoft Office for the Mac

2011-05-04 Thread Chris Moore
the web and found the following MSDN Accessibility > Blog. It hadn't been updated in a few years and when I attempted to contact > the author my email bounced. I just looked again and see that a new post was > added by a new author last month so I'm going to try contacting them ag

Re: Campaign to get an accessible Microsoft Office for the Mac

2011-05-04 Thread Chris Moore
I totally agree, fancy dropping them a line? I have been in touch with the RNIB over here and a couple of other organisations on this side of the pond. Will keep you posted of any outcome. On 4 May 2011, at 22:49, Laura McGlynn wrote: > I think I've said this before, but what I find annoying is

Re: statement about microsoft's accessibility on the mac

2011-05-04 Thread Chris Moore
All true and very valid points. I think we all need to contact Eric Wilfred who is the General Manager of the Mac Business Unit at Microsoft. He has been part of the unit since Office 98. He was responsible for PowerPoint and recently over seeing Office 2011. I don't know a direct way of conta

Re: the installation, and uninstallation of applications to the Mac

2011-05-05 Thread Chris Moore
If you download apps from the Apple App Store, the apps are automatically installed into your Applications folder. To get an email address from the header, interact with the message header, press option + shift, and use the arrow keys, this will let you move by word and select the word at the s

Re: Campaign to get an accessible Microsoft Office for the Mac

2011-05-05 Thread Chris Moore
t and curlies, > we are mac users, we want to use office but can't, and they know it. > But as I said it is still worth a try we'll never know before we try, > maybe they surprise us so I say give it a go... > > On May 5, 1:39 am, Chris Moore wrote: >> I totall

Re: IPad II thoughts

2011-05-06 Thread Chris Moore
Kev, My old buddy, does your new case also turn into a stand like the Apple one can? Chris On 6 May 2011, at 13:05, Kevin Mattingly wrote: > Hey Scott, > > Here's the link... > > http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004UDC5OM/ref=ox_ya_os_product > > Kev > On May 5, 2011, at 10:56 PM, Scott For

Re: A jingle I recorded for a client. All done on a Mac in Pro Tools 9.

2011-05-09 Thread Chris Moore
hmmm for some reason it won't play for me On 9 May 2011, at 08:23, Kevin Reeves wrote: > Hey folks. Just got through with this jingle I wrote for a client. I was > going for that late 70's early 80's Smooth Jazz feel. Besides the fact that > the mastering bus is a tad over compressed, let me kn

Re: A jingle I recorded for a client. All done on a Mac in Pro Tools 9.

2011-05-09 Thread Chris Moore
Oh I can open the link no problem, and the play button appears etc, but nothing plays. On 9 May 2011, at 13:59, carolyn Haas wrote: > Chris: > interact with the text before attempting to open the link. Worked like a > charm here. > > > On May 9, 2011, at 2:07 AM,

Re: Okcupid.com and voiceover

2011-05-10 Thread Chris Moore
Not sure if any of you guys have tried www.manhunt.net , but I find it pretty accessible, and had some great meets off there :) On 10 May 2011, at 15:08, matthew dyer wrote: > Thanks Chris, > > Wuill take a look and see what I come up with on that front. > > Matthew > > > > On 5/10/11, Chris

Re: Say Goodbye to Skype, Microsoft just bought it for 8.5 billion

2011-05-10 Thread Chris Moore
I agree, look at the Bing app for the iPhone for example, totally accessible. I think the problem with Microsoft is based on their old coding, such as office for example which is coded using C++ and contains millions of lines of code. They have no excuse not to add accessibility to new produc

Re: Digital Distribution, was Re: macbook pro or macbook air?

2011-05-16 Thread Chris Moore
Well you could plug in an external DVD via USB, or maybe your OS could be backed up onto a memory card or a bootable portion could be available on your SSD drive. In all 10 years of having a Mac, I have never had to re-install my OS on any of my Machines. With Windows I think I used to reinsta

Re: Running Parallels with voiceover

2011-05-16 Thread Chris Moore
Sadly it is not accessible, I made the same mistake last year and now I am using VM Fusion which is fully accessible. On 17 May 2011, at 06:58, Jenny Wood wrote: > Good day all. So basically, I am just now toying with running windows inside > of OS X. We already happen to have a copy of Parall

Re: Digital Distribution, was Re: macbook pro or macbook air?

2011-05-17 Thread Chris Moore
I have a pile of blank CDs, to be honest I can't see me using them, I do not even create MP3 or Audio CDs anymore. The only thing I have on Disc are DVD or Blu-ray, but with my Apple TV I can see them being boxed up and placed in storage soon. Can anyone remember how expensive blank CD and DVD

Re: Digital Distribution, was Re: macbook pro or macbook air?

2011-05-17 Thread Chris Moore
As the thumb drive is much smaller than the retail boxers previously used for Mac OS X, money will be saved on packaging as the thumb drive is much smaller, this will also result in more copies being able to be transported at a time, saving on delivery costs too. So maybe it would be not as exp

Re: Digital Distribution, was Re: macbook pro or macbook air?

2011-05-17 Thread Chris Moore
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