Hi Yuma,
Thanks much for your post, but please forgive a few follow up questions.
I understand that I need to locate errors by searching for color changes
(vo-command-k), but have not yet determined how to configure colors such that
errors will be unique.. The closest applicable VO configurat
Greetings,
I wonder if this problem is unique to me -- I presume so since Googling didn't
shed much light on it.
For the past several days when I attempt to check for webkit updates, it
presents a progress dialog for about 30 seconds and then shows the following:
text Update Error! An error occ
Greetings y'all,
Some may be familiar with George Carlon's routine discussing the seven words
you can't say on television (at least here in the US). Recent posts have
prompted us to remind you that this list conforms to those rules.
We have subscribers of all faiths and ages, hence one can not
Greetings,
I'm having varied symptoms browsing on my MBP. Perhaps the two are related --
I'm guessing so. It all started when Webkit randomly hung up. I would press
the submit button in a form and then Voiceover would repeatidly announce
"safari busy" and "safari ready". Pressing a key did
Greetings,
VO+shift+m is equivalent to the right mouse button in windows, and you'll find
a "copy link" option.
HTH.
Geoff
On Jan 13, 2011, at 1:48 PM, AZ wrote:
> Hi.
>
> How can i copy a url of a link on a page? With Windows and Jaws it was not a
> problem, i just made a right mouse button
as I
know, only the webkit download and update check sites are affected. Any
suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
Geoff
On Jan 13, 2011, at 1:03 PM, Geoff Waaler wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I'm having varied symptoms browsing on my MBP. Perhaps the two are related
> -- I'
12 AM, Andre Nuno Soares wrote:
> Hello Geoff ,
>
> Check your DNS configuration.
> Did you set it manually? If so, change it to DHCP and see if it helps.
>
> Also, what happens if you do a telnet to the webkit address from the terminal?
>
>
> HTH,
> André
>
>
80 after the telnet so something like
>
> telnet mycompany.org 80
>
> the 80 gives you the correct port number.
>
>
> On Jan 19, 2011, at 1:48 PM, Geoff Waaler wrote:
>
>> Thanks much for the suggestion Andre,
>>
>> I reset my DLink 655 to factory d
d to end so it's some sort of
> application / firewall issue.
> Just a guess.
>
> On Jan 19, 2011, at 7:16 PM, Geoff Waaler wrote:
>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Adding the port number results in a connection, but how does this info help
>> me trouble shoot?
Greetings,
After reinstalling SnowLeopard I receive the following upon system startup:
Insecure startup item disabled.
“/Library/StartupItems/HP Trap Monitor” has not been started because it does
not have the proper security settings.
According to my friendly search engin, similar problems were
een locking down programs that could allow malware to get into
>> the system. Startup items are a good place for this to happen. I suggest
>> trying to run the Repair permissions in the Disk Utility.
>>
>> Let me know if you need some more help.
>>
>>
Jan 21, 2011, at 5:30 PM, Jon Cohn wrote:
> Yes this is associated with HP printers.
>
> I looked at a startup item I had and besides the permissions you need to have
> the User as system and the group as wheel...
>
>
> On Jan 21, 2011, at 1:14 PM, Geoff Waaler wrote:
&
Greetings all,
I'm sure I'm overlooking something because up till now moveAddict's only
function (on my machine anyway) is to render it impossible to traverse files
and folders in finder. I've been through all options in the prefferences app
and have not yet found anything applicable. None of
ems with the app for that matter. I have
> cursor tracking on, and my mouse cursor is set to follow my voiceover cursor.
> I am also using column view in the finder.
>
> Ricardo Walker
> rwalker...@gmail.com
> Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296
> Google Voice: 1-646-450-2197
Greetings,
I just installed ABBYY's trial version and reinstalled the software/driver for
my HP c7250 AllInOne printer. (Reinstalling cured my insecure startup item
problem BTW, but I digress.).
I can scan using the HP app, however upon pressing the convert to text button,
VO emits the follow
group stumped. BTW
I'm not impressed -- at least they can reply that they received my emails?
TIA and best regards.
Geoff
On Jan 22, 2011, at 10:34 AM, Geoff Waaler wrote:
> Interesting,
>
> The VO configuration items you referenced match, and I switched to column
> view.
>From what I've seen recently about Soolona's up time I'd advise installing
>Firefox on a Windows machine so that you can use the Webvisum plug-in. I have
>the impression that Firefox won't be accessible on the Mac any time soon, but
>then you probably knew all this before you posted?
Geoff
O
Greetings Frank and others,
I went into voiceOver utility -> navigation and unchecked:"automatically
interact when using tab key". Now I can use the right and left arrowkeys to
expand and contract threads respectivly, and since I retained my preview pane,
the tab key usually causes VO to read
Greetings,
Since the moveAddict support group is apparently ignoring my notes, I decided
after reading Esther's post to reinstall moveAddict version 2.24. To that end
I deleted both files from the apps folder and the prefferences file
"com.kapeli.moveaddict.plist" from directory "/Library/Pref
It's always amusing when people admonish the group while committing the vary
offense being b#*ched about :) -- After all, anyone can change a subject line,
ya know?
On Jan 27, 2011, at 11:31 AM, Colin M wrote:
> Hi there!
> The subject heading should be changed on this!
> Thanks
> Colin
> Qap
the hide checkbox in the login
> items tab in the accounts system preferences. I did not have to change any
> of the defaults to get moveaddict to work.
>
> Randy Stegall
> kc4...@aol.com
> Sent from my Mac Mini.
>
> On Jan 27, 2011, at 10:15 AM, Geoff Waaler wrote:
>
Hi Steph,
I too am using tthe tryal version of FineReader express and have never gotten
it to work, so this suggestion may be worth every penny you paid for it :).
Disclaimer aside, I believe you need to select your scanner in the menu
associated with "get images from". If your only choice is
Some disk images, however do not include an install program. In such cases,
copy the file with an extention of .app to your applications folder. You can
then go into finder, press control-shift-c, locate the volume of the disk image
and press command-e to eject it. You can then delete the dis
eyboard shortcut unknown"
> when I asked how I enter a key command for cut and paste they said that the
> default is the standard mac commands! They could at least make these visible
> using VoiceOver!
>
> Talk soon
>
> On Jan 27, 2011, at 10:15 AM, Geoff Waaler wrot
Greetings Ann and others,
Okay, so I gather the reason to get both VUEScan and FineReader is that the
former will run the scanner and the latter provides a much better OCR result.
Does finereader resolve the orientation? There are eight ways to put a page on
the scanner and only one is correc
>> Greetings y'all,
>>
>> Last week I reinstalled SnowLeopard and immediately updated to 10.6.6.
>> Since then my Safari history is not maintained; the most recent entry is
>> from he day before I reinstalled. I was kind of surprised that all my files
>> were retained. I don't recall seeing
Hi Teresa,
Using IMAP and filtering list messages into a "label" I receive all posts
(including my own) I assume POP would be applicable at least in terms of the
web interface -- since you're not synchronizing labels (aka folders) with your
iPhone and/or other computers, however I'm not sure
is checked, your
> surfing history will not be saved.
>
> HTH
> CH
> On Jan 28, 2011, at 1:12 PM, Geoff Waaler wrote:
>
>>>> Greetings y'all,
>>>>
>>>> Last week I reinstalled SnowLeopard and immediately updated to 10.6.6.
>>>>
:
>
>> Glad you have it working!
>>
>> Randy Stegall
>> kc4...@aol.com
>> Sent from my Mac Mini.
>>
>> On Jan 28, 2011, at 3:09 AM, Geoff Waaler wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks Randy, Esther, and Chuck,
>>>
>>> I now have it
27;s to say I wouldn't just get the same .app file instead of the dmg
> I'm supposed to be getting? I'm still a bit lost.
> Sorry!
> Rose
> On Jan 29, 2011, at 7:00 AM, Geoff Waaler wrote:
>
>> Hi Rose,
>>
>> The file you should have downloaded
Hi Lindsay,
Not sure if this would also be applicable for VMWare fusion, but if you've not
already done so, you might want to go into system preferences -> keyboard and
check the box labeled: "Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys".
HTH.
Geoff
On Feb 7, 2011, at 4:50 AM, Lindsay
Hi Karen,
The merger is not Germane to the topic being discussed in this thread.
Sarah, thanks for your avocation efforts -- if you know of a contact person
pperhaps you can share that here if it would help illustrate to management how
Sirius's change to a flashed based page renders it impossib
Greetings y'all,
This seems like an apt moment to request everyone's help to please keep posts
on topic. Sadly, this list has reached the level of subscriber ship (639 at
this writing) where we don't have the flexibility to welcome off topic
messages. Marking a post as "OT" does not render it
e blind
> guide dog and marriage counseling discussion board is likel to be so full of
> drama that a meaning ful rsonse could be impossible to find
>
> On Feb 9, 2011, at 4:14 PM, GEOFF WAALER wrote:
>
>> Greetings y'all,
>>
>> This seems like an apt momen
Greetings Scott G,
Since you mentioned business location I thought I'd mention the $3.00 app named
"WhereTo?" by future tap. It has a list of categories and results which IMHO
absolutely puts geo to shame and more over, the business can be seamlessly
passed to either Navigon, TomTom or the bui
contrast the two apps a bit? Around me is free and I find it to be pretty
>> good. I was wondering what one would get for their $3 for where to.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Ricardo Walker
>> rwalker...@gmail.com
>> Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296
>>
Greetings,
Perhaps those who believe Navigon's interface to be overly abstruse might
consider posting which tasks they would like to perform and what steps they
tried rather than a general statement lacking specifics that might scare off
people who might otherwise find this app very useful.
M
Actually, when using a client such as MSOE, receipts are sent upon opening when
a header shows a read receipt. By default it presents a dialog box where one
can optionally blow off sending the receipt. This, IMHO adversely impacts the
utility of the read receipt feature. More over, in OE (and
h my house adress is in
> there.
>
> Kawal.
>
> Sent From My I Phone
>
> On 14 Feb 2011, at 12:29 AM, Geoff Waaler wrote:
>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> Perhaps those who believe Navigon's interface to be overly abstruse might
>> consider po
Greetings y'all,
RogueAmoeba recently updated AudioHijack and Pulsar. During my preliminary
testing it would appear that they did a great job. I can now stream from my XM
account once again and the accessibility is great. Sadly with the flash it's
probably the only game in town since the Win
While attempting to reproduce Ricardo's problem I discovered that I can not
figure out how to record from the built-in mic on my MBP.
I see my built in internal microphone under system preferences -> sound ->
input but can only adjust the input volume and whether I want: to check the box
labele
doesn't seem to include the mic while
> hijacking system audio. Even if you have the mic hijacked with another
> session, and have it's output going through default system output, instant on
> doesn't seem to grab it.
> Darcy
>
> On 2011-02-19, at 5:59 PM,
tell session1 to start recording
tell session2 to start recording
end tell
On Feb 19, 2011, at 10:10 PM, Geoff Waaler wrote:
> Hi Darcy,
>
> Thanks much for the info. I gather then that Sarah, Allison and everyone
> else who can record from the Mic have an older version. Both I
Greetings y'all,
I understand how to move the play head in small increments with the arrow keys
and select via "i" and "o", but thought I'd ask whether the faster head
movement/selection techniques are accessible in a manner that I missed.
When I select tools -> select play head I can not locat
I too can confirm this. More over, voiceOver is hanging up several times a day
and I need to press command-f5 four times to recover. Lastly the Safari busy
problem abounds. So, IMHO 10.6.6 is the least stable in my short time running
MacOS.
Geoff
On Feb 21, 2011, at 5:32 PM, Kawal Gucukoglu
Greetings all,
Following up my previous post regarding the apparent inaccessibility of
Fission's selection and set play head dialogs, I reported the issue to
RogueAmoeba's support group. I wanted to provide documentation from Apple
discussing accessibility of Snow Leopard apps, but must have b
Hi Kimberly,
It's the same one appended to the end of all posts, here but substitute the
name of the other list ( http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en ).
See you there.
Geoff
On Feb 22, 2011, at 11:55 AM, Kimberly thurman wrote:
> HI folks:
>
> Would one of you lovely people be so kin
ction window.
Hope this helps someone.
Geoff
On Feb 20, 2011, at 12:22 AM, Geoff Waaler wrote:
> Greetings y'all,
>
> I understand how to move the play head in small increments with the arrow
> keys and select via "i" and "o", but thought I'd as
Hi David,
When I did this recently, I filled out the form correctly, but it didn't accept
the fields until I disabled VO. I reported this but presumibly they've not
addressed it yet.
Best regards.
Geoff
On Feb 28, 2011, at 1:11 PM, David Hole wrote:
> Hi.
> I try to register as an Apple Deve
Greetings,
I suspect I'll be embarrassed when I learn the solution but I've tried all
manners of interacting and exploring for context menus and cannot find a way to
quickly skip to a dictionary, or a specific command within.
For example, while skype.sdef is open, I interact with the table and
Greetings y'all,
Not to worry Donna -- I believe this subject came up earlier and long before I
began assisting Cara as a mod it was decided for many reasons sited earlier in
this thread that the list would function as it presently does.
Please take up any/all concerns on individual vs list rep
And this is mac related because?!?!
On Mar 11, 2011, at 2:56 AM, Cheree Heppe wrote:
> Cheree Heppe here:
>
> I was up late and happened to turn on the BBC .
>
> There was an 8.6 or 7 earthquake in the ocean and is causing flooding and
> damage to Japan.
>
> There is a tsunami headed towar
When I registered as a developer a couple months ago, I tried physically
clicking the continue button, but that didn't help. The only way I found to
move to the next screen was to disable VO and have someone select it for me.
Hope they fix this eventually.
Geoff
On Mar 12, 2011, at 4:00 PM, Br
Like others I cannot reproduce the problem. Some times it happens every couple
minutes, or I can go a day with only one or two occurrences. Since I recently
reformatted my partition and reinstalled snowLeopard, I doubt that repairing
permissions would have any affect.
I don't recall this bein
The subject says it all. Macupdate has CopyPaste Pro 3.0 on sale. I used a
Windows counterpart called Clipmate for years and found it indispensable.
I'll probably try this app unless someone already has and advises that it
doesn't play nice with voiceOver.
Best regards.
Geoff
--
You receive
> Greetings,
I have the latest Safari update installed on my MBP running 10.6.6. When
attempting to read this column via a two finger flick on the trackpad (VO-a on
the keyboard), VoiceOver consistently hangs after reading the word: "wrangler".
I can reproduce this in either group or DOM mode
wrote:
> Hi Geoff,
>
> It didn't hang for me when reaching the "gnarled ol' wrangler" reference.
> Perhaps VO on your Macbook is offended by the term? ,
> Like Esther, I too have Click to Flash installed with the latest Safari and
> OS.
>
> HTH,
>
Greetings y'all,
I've not been able to get off square one with CopyPaste Pro. VO repeatedly
says: "system dialog. Interact" and no keys have any discernible affect. I
turned off all voiceOver verbosity, automatic interaction and cursor/mouse
linkage features that I could find, to no avail.
I
Hi Yuma,
Perhaps you can clarify your requirement? The way I've used hotspots, closing
the associated app renders them inapplicable. When I reopen the app my hotspot
again becomes active.
Only way I know to save them is via the "export preferences" menu item in the
voiceOver utility. Perhap
Hi Mike,
I believe a more objective user might put it differently. The sentence I have
in mind is that the JFW virtual viewer handles this infinitely better than
VO/Safari. I fear that the all too ubiquitous Pollyannaish attitude often
seen on this list that voiceOver can do no wrong will re
Greetings all,
Recently a friend found a 500 GB Passport at the Apple store for twice what I
paid for my 1TB drive last year. It said that it was for MacOS, but since my
MBP has no trouble finding or reading my drive, I didn't see this deal as a
bargin exactly.
This afternoon I searched the U
Simon,
I'm not clear on how your post varies from what Colin already said? If you are
attempting to add new information, you may want to rephrase it. If your intent
was to rehashColin's answer, I would suggest that you consider responding
privately so as to help minimize the time required for
Hi Sarai and others,
Thanks so much for bringing this app to our attention. One last follow-up
question if I may.
On the other list I mentioned the WeatherAlert app which will wake you up.
That's a good thing, but then it repeats identical warnings such as a
thunderstorm or tornado watch eve
Greetings y'all,
I was going to write Sarai off list to express appreciation for her excellent
review and thanksgiving that she got through the recent turbulence that
recently reigned supreme here in the SouthEastern United States.
I started asking so many follow-up questions, however that I c
Hi Shameless,
Can't improve on Jes's excellent description of app installation, but in terms
of pulling an email address from a header, there are other ways to skin the
cat. In fact I seldom interact with anything in e-mail. Instead, I went into
vo utility (VO-f8) -> navigation and unchecked
that using the arrow keys to expand
threads is much cleaner than pressing enter and opening windows for all the
children, but that's a matter of preference.
On Oct 17, 2010, at 3:13 AM, Geoff Waaler wrote:
> Hi Annie,
>
> My suggestion varies greatly from the advice you've bee
To clarify, Sandy posted to the viphone list. I haven't verified, but don't
believe she's subscribed to Macvisionaries. I will copy one of her posts below
which should help any interested party to get started.
Supplemental to Ann's comments, I have no light perception and can report
getting
Greetings,
When I read code examples from URL:
http://www.switchonthecode.com/tutorials/an-absolute-beginners-guide-to-iphone-development
via JFW and FireFox/MSIE, the lines appear correctly in Jaws's virtual viewer.
When I navigate via Safari in OSX 10.6.7, however there is no easy way to
cop
be evil. (Ecclesiastes 12:13-14)
>
> -Original Message-
> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
> [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Geoff Waaler
> Sent: Friday, May 13, 2011 12:17 PM
> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
> Subject: Virtual viewer in Safari?
>
>
Hi Zack,
Thanks for your post. It's reassuring that you use the
braille.wunderground.com site daily, but here again perhaps it depends on what
you want to read there. How, for example can you quickly ascertain the normal
and record temperatures In the JFW virtual viewer I can read the entire
Greetings,
Sadly it seems that a reminder is in order that the number of subscribers and
volume of list traffic is not conducive to off topic chat group messages.
The discussion of recordings in computer readable format and/or distribution
of media playable on the MacOS and IOS platforms are c
Greetings y'all,
To quote Shameless, the subject says it all. I'm considering acquiring a tv
receiver box. I got one several years ago before the US switch over to the
digital frequencies, but the required companion software was marginally usable
with JFW.
I therefore thought it wouldn't hur
Hi Steph,
Threads are in a tree view, hence the arrow keys expand them and then you can
arrow down to specific messages and tab into the preview pane.
Best regards,
Geoff
On May 26, 2011, at 7:40 AM, Stephanie Mitchell wrote:
> Hi all.
> I have just set up my gmail account with my imac. On t
Thanks Ed for bringing this to our attention. Is the app itself slow, or just
the answers to your queries. The latter would be expected since it's bound to
always involve human intervention (presumably from a volunteer staff).
How long does it take on average to get an answer, or does that dep
I suspect Denise was already aware of this prior to posting. The problem is
that I have yet to determine how to play an album in it's intended order. This
could really matter for instance in the case of a comedy that was broken into
tracks. When listing album contents as you and Ricardo sugge
Greetings all,
For those of you on the VIPhone list, this will be an entry from the DORD
(department of redundancy department). After having read two posts sent to
this list earlier today which I will quote below, I decided that this list
might also need a reminder.
At this writing, 6
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