Hi all,
Just to let you all know that VO now brings up the menu of corrections for a
misspelled word when you use VO+shift+m in edit boxes in Safari, after you use
command+semicolon. This bug was fixed either in mac os X 10.6.4 or Safari 5.
I asume this will also work if you have "check spellin
It worked for me the other day then when I was on a form after I sent that
message, I tried it again and it didn't work.
hmmm
.
On 30 Jun 2010, at 17:50, Sarah Alawami wrote:
> Hmm I have never gotten that to work even in safari 5. Um?
>
> S
> On Jun 30, 2010, at 6:25 AM,
Hi all.
I took the plunge yesterday and bought the magic trackpad.
i've only used Vo with multi-touch trackpads briefly before as I have an iMac.
But because I use the iPhone I could see the benefits such an interface would
bring to Mac OS.
Having spent nearly two days with the trackpad, I perso
Hi Mike,
I have the same problem. In fact it happened to me a few seconds ago before
reading this message. Quite a coincidence really.
I think it's maybe a problem with Gmail being slow as sometimes I have it when
Mail crashes when I try to delete a load of messages at once.
Dannie
On 3 Aug
Hi Mary,
if you do a search for trackpad in VO's help system, you'll find a list of
standard gestures there.
Dannie
On 3 Aug 2010, at 04:58, Mary Otten wrote:
> Somewhere, I know I saw a list of commands that work out of the box with the
> magic trackpad and vo. Now however, I can't recall wher
Secondary clicking is Mac speak for right clicking, like to open up a
contextual menu. Press down on the trackpad with 2 fingers til it clicks.
Dannie
On 4 Aug 2010, at 07:20, Ricardo Walker wrote:
> Lol,
>
> We are wondering the same thing. I haven't a clue what it means or, how to
> do
Hi all,
has anyone else noticed that in some cases the 3 finger flick doesn't work?
I've found this particularly in tables and in the playlist browser in iTunes.
Is this a bug in VO or is there a reason why these elements can't be scrolled?
I'm using the magic trackpad but this happens on MacBook
This happened to me yesterday. Luckally I had backed up my settings a few
months earlier as it was doing it quite often. But I had changed a few more
things since then so I'll have to boot off my backup drive, export the settings
off that and import on my original installation. Most Annoying
Hi all
Has anyone successfully used Navigon to travel somewhere safely on foot?
I've yet to try to walk a route using it myself, and since I have a 3gs, I
wouldn't trust the battery in any case. I'd like to gage your responses before
I attempt it and also wait til I have an iPhone 4.
Did you f
Hi all.
Just to let you all know about this new version of Nike + that doesn't require
a censor. Instead it uses the accelerometer and gps.
It's £1.20 and is currently in the top 25 paid apps chart in the UK. I assume
that its as accessible as the previous version.
Hope this is of use to some o
Hi all.
Has anyone else noticed that when moving to the beginning or end of a text box,
VO nolonger announces the location of the insertion point? It only happens
when the box isn't empty.
Also I've just noticed that navigating in text boxes seems to be
broken.completely. I'm writing this on
Hi all.
Just to let you know that the Facebook app seems to be more stable with VO.
Whether it's something they've fixed in iOS 4.1 or Facebook itself I don't
know, bbut it hasn't crashed on me yet. Also links seem to activate more
consistently now when they are double tapped.
Dannie
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After I sent this message, I went back into the Facebook app and it's gone back
to how it usually works for me. That is, not allowing me to click on links.
How strange.
Dannie
On 9 Sep 2010, at 15:30, Daniel Rowe wrote:
> Hi all.
> Just to let you know that the Facebook app seems
Hi.
Amadeus Pro can't record midi.
Dannie
On 15 Sep 2010, at 23:29, joseph wrote:
> hello list members
>
> which is more accessible? garage band or amadeuspro? can i also use
> my usb midi controler with the latter?
>
> best
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Hi all.
Have any of you had any luck getting the last.fm scrobbler to work with VO, or
are there any 3rd party applications that are more accessible? The iPhone app
is completely accessible bar some unlabelled buttons, so it's a shame to find
that the Mac version is completely unusable.
All
Hi all.
As you might be aware, apple are holding a "Back To The Mac" event next
Wednesday at 10 eastern in Cupertino, California. There are rumours of
possible upgrades to the MacBook Air and also the unveiling of MAC OS X 10.7.
So, what would you like to see included in next version of the OS
HI all.
I got my copy of iLife 11 today and have just been playing around with
garageband.. Apple have done a wonderful job improving accessibility and it's
now a lot more intuitive to get around.
VO telling you the bar and beet you're on as well is priceless.
However I can't seem to get loops
Good idea, but you can't insert them that way unfortunately. It can only be
done by drag and drop as far as I'm aware.
Dannie
On 29 Oct 2010, at 18:31, Chris Moore wrote:
> Have you tried cutting and pasting the loop from the loop browser instead?
> On 29 Oct 2010, at 18:27, D
you will hear where you are in the song, and where
> ever you press command v, that's where the loop will drop.
> You can use left and right arrows to get to where you want in the song, then
> just paste away.
> I will try this other way though.
>
> GF
>
> On Oct 2
Hi Josh,
The tutorial is on blind cool tech. Here's a direct link to it.
http://media.libsyn.com/media/bct/bct1478LetYourVoiceBeHeard.mp3
Dannie
On 3 Nov 2010, at 22:08, Joshua Loya wrote:
> Hi all,
> I recently downloaded Audacity, and remember running across an audio tutorial
> of the progra
Hi.
I just want to add that since version 4, you can change voices without
changing the international settings.
In the voiceOver part of settings, scroll down to language rotor. Find each
voice you want and double tap it. When you selected all the voices you'd like
to use, close the settings
Hi all,
for some reason,Adium has started acting strangely.
More often than not, the vO cursor will get stuck in the message history
window. This happens when I'm moving between messages, and it'll randomly stick
on one and nothing I can do will move it. It's like it finds invisible w
Hi.
Jaws does actually have quite a few emoticons and abbreviations in the
dictionary manager file for windows live messenger, so you could use that to
find out what they are and add them to VO's pronunciation dictionary if you're
so inclined.
Dannie
On 15 Nov 2010, at 21:41, Carolyn Haas wrot
Hi all,
I've just updated my iPhone 3gs and played around with it a bit, so I thought
I'd let you all know what I've found out so far.
You can now disable the volume buttons if you like, which is actually very
handy for us VO users. With them disabled, you can control VO's volume just b
Hi all.
I'm sereously considering switching over to the mac and also will be
getting an iPhone when it becomes available on my network. I've been
following Apple's progress with voice-over since the beta of Tiger.
Apple are an amazing company for putting all this effort into making
their pr
Hi all.
As the subject says, I have a couple of questions.
How long does the battery life last? A friend of mine told me that it's
pretty poor. bair in mind that he's only going from what he's heard so
I thought I'd ask you folks who actulaly use the thing.
Also, is there an accessible wind
loaded a bit more slowly, but I did pull an app down from the app
> store in a reasonable amount of time.
> I hope this helps,
>
> On Oct 30, 2009, at 6:09 PM, Daniel Rowe wrote:
>
>
>> Hi all.
>>
>> As the subject says, I have a couple of questions.
>>
Hi all.
I have decided to take the plunge and get a mac either this or next week
and have a few questions.
I use firefox on windows, and have amassed a good number of bookmarks
over the years. Recently I've started using an extension called
xmarks, which basically syncs your bookmarks and no
eads it fine. Also the settings dialog is
> little complicated with v o. But the standard settings works fine.
> Good luck.
> Regards Tony
>
> 4 nov 2009 kl. 16.19 skrev Daniel Rowe:
>
>
>> Hi all.
>> I have decided to take the plunge and get a mac either this or nex
Hi all.
Yes, I bought an imac last friday. So far, I love it. it's amazing how
fast it is to get things done, and*most* things work fine.
I have my phone sinced with iCal and address book, been doing a bit of
web brouzing with safari, used front roe, gotten voice over saving my
settings on
so tell VoiceOver to allow itself to be controled by
> Applescript. I think you can find in the general category in
> VoiceOver utility.
>
> On Nov 8, 2009, at 5:50 PM, Daniel Rowe wrote:
>
>
>> Hi all.
>>
>> Yes, I bought an imac last friday. So far, I love
Hi all.
I've noticed that on some webpages such as Wikipedia that vO speaks both the
onscreen text and the title of the webpage when reading links. i realise you
can turn off either of those settings but then you get some links that have
only one of those attributes then you run into problems
Hi All.
i bought the iPhone yesterday. overall, I love it. I'm having problems
answering calls though. for some reason, two finger double tapping the screen
doesn't seem to work like it should and I have to flick to the answer button
and douple tap that. two finger double tapping does end the
Thanks Anne. I just tried the gesture again and it worked. I guess it is just
down to practice.
On 14 Nov 2009, at 15:35, Anne Robertson wrote:
>
> Hello Danie,
>
> On Nov 14, 2009, at 4:28 PM, Daniel Rowe wrote:
>> i bought the iPhone yesterday. overall, I love it. I
Hi all.
last night, I've started having a strange issue with Mail. for some strange
reason, messages intermittently come up as images and not text. When I hit
return on a message, voice over will just say image and will behave as though
it is an image I'm focused on. After restarting mail an
Hi. I'd like to know how you set this up as well since neither voiceover or
itunes has an obvious option to set which soundcard they come through.
Anouk, To get system sounds through your headset, there's an output list on the
sound effects tab. Select your headset there, as well as on the outp
Hi Anouk.
this isn't possible at the moment as far as i know.
I sent Apple an e-mail asking them if they could put in a sound output device
selector. I haven't had a reply yet. So, What I suggest is the more people
who e-mail them to request this feature, the more likely it will be implemented
Hi all.
I use Audiobook Builder to convert audiobooks to the bookmarkable format. For
the most part, it works great. However, if I convert something like a radio
play where tracks are seamlessly joined together, it leaves little gaps between
them.
Has anyone got any other suggestions? I don'
On 3 Dec 2009, at 18:04, Brett Campbell wrote:
> After selecting your files in Audio Book Builder, have you tried using the
> join files button?
No, i haven't yet. I'll try that later.
Thanks,
Dannie
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I tried using the join function in Audiobook Builder but it still leaves a
little gap between each track.
Any more ideas on how I could fix this?
Thanksin advance,
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On 3 Dec 2009, at 22:15, Brett Campbell wrote:
> I thought the join files option would do the trick. Another idea that comes
> to mind is going into iTunes, select your created audio book, use command I
> to get info, select options and check the box that says Part of a gapless
> album.
> .
Hi Paul.
I switched over to the mac about a month ago. It really is such a fantastic.
platform. The only things that I use windows for now are Ventrillo and
anything flash based that requires me to interact with it. I occasionally use
Sonar, too.
For me, e-mails from this list say Mac Visionar
just to add my 2 p's worth, I havethe same problem. I hope they can fix it
soon.
On 7 Dec 2009, at 10:54, Scott Howell wrote:
> Folks, I'm wondering if any of you have noticed a change in the iTunes store.
> Here is the issue.
> If you go to the iTunes store and perform a search for a song, ar
On 7 Dec 2009, at 16:35, anouk radix wrote:
> HEllo, Well for me it does not saysay macvisionaries in the subject.
Sorry, no it doesn't for me either, I was getting mixed up with another list.
Oops. I had just woke up.
> Btw, there is a version of ventrilo for the mac as well I use it regu
Nic,
I'm having the same problem you're having. I've given up playing with it now
and I just let it display what it likes. :)
Dannie
On 16 Dec 2009, at 18:44, Nicolai Svendsen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> You know, I'm having a problem where my name is not properly updated for
> people using MSN client
i use Keychane access, which is built into the Os. You can find it under
applications and utilities.
On 17 Dec 2009, at 13:45, Robert Carter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently tried using the beta of the online Roboform password manager. I
> wanted a cross platform solution. I got this sort of wor
For those of you who tried this software before, I have e-ailed the developers
and they are going to make it fully VoiceOver compatible.
CleanMyMac is a utility that basically removes junk files and removes files
left behind when you uninstall programs. It also reduces the size of universal
bi
Yep I'll keep you guy's posted.
Dannie
On 17 Dec 2009, at 19:25, Mike Babcock wrote:
> hi;
> please keep us up to date when the developer makes changes, etc.
> thanks
> mike
>
> On Dec 17, 2009, at 10:20 AM, Daniel Rowe wrote:
>
>> For those of you who
Hi all.
I'm wondering has anyone else tried Quicksilver? I have a feeling that it has
the potential to be a fantastic app for getting things done quicker. However
it's not accessible with VO.
For those who haven't heard of Quicksilver before, I'll try my best to explain
what it does. It's h
Thanks for the info Yvonne.
All I got when I tried to use it was button button button, so I just
uninstalled it.
I'll try what you suggested though. By the way I'm running snow leopard.
Dannie
On 20 Dec 2009, at 21:09, Yvonne Thomson wrote:
>
> On 20/12/2009, at 6:51 AM, D
Hi all.
just to let you know that there is a free accessible open source interactive
client available for the Mac called Spatterlight. I have literally only spent 5
minutes testing it, but apparently it can play most formats, such as AGT,
Adrift, TADS, Level 9 and Zcode games. It supports gam
Hi all.
Has anyone else noticed that on blogger, the audio captchas won't play when you
click the link? I can't understand why this might be as they work whereever
else they appear through google's products. These particular captchas play fine
in windows and they sound the same as other google
Hi all.
I was speaking to a friend last night whose friend also has an iPhone.
Somehow, he uses VoiceOver with an English male voice instead of the default
female voice.
I searched briefly for text to speech on the iTunes store and found that
Neospeech's Paul and Cate voices are available as
The onl suggestion I can give you is try pressing the left and right arrow keys
together. Sounds to me as though you have turned on quick nav by accident
which makes the arrow keys behave as though you are holdin down control and
option.
Dannie
On 8 Jan 2010, at 02:00, Eleni Vamvakari wrot
Thanks for figuring this out Ricardo.
I'll contact Apple later.
Dannie
On 28 Jun 2010, at 07:11, Ricardo Walker wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> You might not have noticed yet but in the contacts in ios 4 you can't change
> the label for phone numbers. It's just stuck on mobile. Here is an
> explanatio
I have a similar problem, but rather than it showing my e-mail address, it
displays my first name, which I believe it has gleaned from the registration
info I entered when I originally set up my mac.
Dannie
On 12 Jan 2010, at 12:32, May McDonald wrote:
> I never have that problem. Mine stays t
Hi David.
Another thing to try is, with your gmail account's trash folder selected, go to
the mailbox menu, go down to "use this mailbox for" and in that submenu hit
return on trash.
Dannie
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Hi all.
just to let you know that in the latest version of Clean my Mac, most controls
are now labeled. The table where you select each section such as logs and
universal bynaries still says "blank" when you arrow through it. However the
label of the next table changes to reflect the section
Hi Amelia.
Try fn, command and f5. The FN key is located in the bottom left corner of the
keyboard.
Dannie
On 17 Jan 2010, at 02:18, ameliadicker...@gmail.com wrote:
> I am taking a class on universal media design and it will be best for
> me to be able to use a Mac. I borrowed a Macintosh lap
Well said, Bryan
Dannie
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On 20 Jan 2010, at 22:16, Bryan Smart wrote:
> Well, William, sighted people like larger screens. A tablet can include a
> larger battery, faster processor, and more storage. A big touch screen makes
> apps possible that don't work well on small screens, such as apps t
Hi all.
For those of us in the UK at least, there is a free alternative to spotify
called WE7. Like Spotify, it is a free legal way to stream music over the
interweb. However, it is browser based, resulting in better accessibility.
It's not perfect though. When you've found what you want to
Hi all.
If my iMac does this again, I will go mad.
Over the last month or so, VoiceOver has reset nearly all its settings
spontaneously and with out any warning. Everything bar my numpad commander
customisations get reset to factory defaults. I make quite a lot of changes
mainly in the verbosit
I really must remember to use reply all when replying to an e-mail list. Oops.
Anyway, Here's my reply that I meant to sent to the whole list not just to Jim.
I completely forgot that you can save your settings to a file. thanks for
reminding me and I've just done it.
For those of you asking h
Hi all.
I'm subscribed to "Mac OS X hints" RSS feed and today they posted a great hint
that is helpful for deleting radio streams you no longer listen to.
I found that when I created a smart playlist of all the streams I imported I
couldn't delete any of them from the library from there. So aft
Regarding moving apps around on the home screen, double tap an app, hold your
finger down till VO says either "moving" on an app that came preinstalled on
the phone, or "delete" on an app you've installed.
While still keeping your finger on the screen, move it to where you'd like the
app to be.
paste it into the playlist. When I want to delete one, I simply highlight
> it and press delete. It works great. Why A a smart playlist when you
> probably want to manually choose your radio stream? Just curious.
>
> On Feb 4, 2010, at 10:43 AM, Daniel Rowe wrote:
>
>> Hi all
I'd personally hook up my mac to a decent hi-fi.
Just my opinion.
Dannie
On 16 Feb 2010, at 19:26, Scott Howell wrote:
> I gave this a quick try and I do not feel it is worth $30. This of course is
> just my opinion, but of course only the individual can determine the value.
> It does a good
I'm also interested. It sounds like a cool idea.
Dannie
On 27 Feb 2010, at 19:29, Donna Goodin wrote:
> OOOh, me too, please!!! this sounds very cool!
> Donna
> On Feb 27, 2010, at 10:51 AM, peter apgar wrote:
>
>> Good day Yuma,
>>
>> Please ad me to that list of interested
Hi all.
Ever since I've owned a mac, I've noticed that when I enter text into a single
line edit box on a web form e.g. a username or password field, the first
character I type doesn't always get entered. To use a password field as an
example, VO will click for each character, even though the
t; appears it has fixed my problem.
>
> see below:
> Entering information in text fields should be smooth and fast, with no pauses
> or delays of any kind. Despite this, some background tasks if corrupt or
> otherwise malfunctioning may interfere with typing.
> Read more…
>
&
Hi all.
I'd like to modify this script so that VO says only the time, and preferably
in 24 hour format.
Does anyone know where the script is and what I'd need to change to make it
work the way I want?
Thanks,
Dannie
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That folder seems to be missing unless it's hidden.
Dannie
On 4 Mar 2010, at 04:11, Jonathan Chacón wrote:
> Hello,
>
> the scripts for voiceOver are in /library/scripts/screenReader
>
>
>
> Regards
> Jonathan Chacón Barbero
> Accessibility, usability and new technologies consultan
Mine is at:
> /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ScreenReader.framework/Versions/A/Resources/Scripts
> I'll take a look at the script. It might be nice to have a more precise
> speaking of the time.
> Jim
> On Mar 3, 2010, at 4:08 PM, Daniel Rowe wrote:
>
>> Hi all.
>>
yep, I've noticed that, too.
All the old voiceover sounds, plus the ones unique to the iPhone and iPod touch
are in a "Sounds" directory near to the one where the VoiceOver AppleScripts
are.
Dannie
On 9 Mar 2010, at 11:08, Nicolai Svendsen wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I know there is really n
Hi Phil.
Have a look at Solona.
www.solona.com
Hope this helps,
Dannie
On 20 Mar 2010, at 08:58, phil stephenson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there a way to solve image capture on the mac using Safari? I know there
> is Web Vsm for Windows but is there an equivalent for the mac?
>
> thanks,
>
> Phil
Hi
Garage band works with Audio Units plugins and not VSTs.
On 30 Mar 2010, at 14:55, clarence griffin wrote:
> I heard that some of the stuff from logic works with GB. I haven't confirmed
> this for my self yet, but I have heard it from a couple people that you can
> get some of the soft synth
Hi all.
I accidentally came across this a few minutes ago. if you press and hold any
arrow key then press a key on the number roe, this will cause VO to trigger
the function you assigned to that key on the numpad.
For example if I press and hold the down arrow while hitting 1 on the number
ro
Thanks.
Glad you're finding it useful.
Dannie
On 8 Apr 2010, at 14:28, Anne Robertson wrote:
> Daniel, this is amazing! Thank you for finding this.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Anne
>
>
> On Apr 8, 2010, at 2:16 PM, Daniel Rowe wrote:
>
>> Hi all.
>> I acc
hi
just in case anyone's missed this already, there's now a UK version of Navigon
Movile Navigator.
Currently it's £29.49 and apparently this will only be until the 12th of april.
I'm not sure how much it will be after then.
Dannie
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