Great. That helps. I'll have to explore to see if I can get everything I need
in there.
Thanks,
Greg
On Sep 8, 2010, at 6:48 PM, Kevin Shaw wrote:
> Hi,
>
> You'll need to use the Inspector to change some attributes. Highlight the
> area you want modified, press command-option-I to bring up t
I have used this site on a PC and the steps I used were very similar to what
Colin described. I haven't looked at it on the mac yet.
Greg
On Sep 14, 2010, at 1:55 PM, Colin M wrote:
> Hi Mary!
> I've just had a look at that site from the link in your part of this message!
> I do not know where
Hi Robert,
Last time I checked with RFB and D, which was a few weeks ago, there is not a
solution for mac. But they told me that they should have something coming out
in september. I haven't heard anything about it yet though. I would try calling
them.
Greg
On Sep 15, 2010, at 11:23 AM, Robert
Hi everyone,
I'm wondering if there is a way to generate a text outline from a power point
presentation using keynote. I loved this feature in microsoft office so I can
type notes on the actual slides. It also helps since my prof sends ridiculously
long presentations and navigating through 80+ s
Hi everyone,
Is there something I can set so that I do not lose my place in Preview every
time I shift away from the Priview window? Whenever I CMD+Tab back It takes me
to the top of the page or document. I put Priview in 2 page mode so that at the
worst I'm only 2 pages away from where I want t
You mean set the hot spot every time I want to switch windows?
On Sep 22, 2010, at 10:32 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote:
> I think you have to set a hotspot but other then that I don't know as I have
> the same trouble.
>
> S
> On Sep 22, 2010, at 8:21 PM, Greg Aikens wrot
Hey people,
Does anyone know about a way to keep track of time like a stopwatch on the mac?
Any help is appreciated.
Greg
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Hi all,
In pages, how do I move from a comment or a change into the body of the text?
Is there a way to get VO to announce these things as I am reading the text? I
can see the list of changes and comments, just have no idea where they go in
the document.
Any tips are appreciated.
Greg
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I have been fairly satisfied with tintin for mac, but I would be interested in
testing your client as well.
-Greg
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Hello all,
It's been a while since I tried to read a brf on my mac using a braille
display. I thought that I should be able to open it in text edit and turn off
braille contractions and be good to go, but for some reason that isn't working
right.
For some reason VO isn't representing the brail
-case, so you may want to go to edit/transformations once
> you highlight all the text and make it lower-case.
>
> HtH,
> Teresa
>
> On Aug 3, 2013, at 9:05 AM, Greg Aikens wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>> It's been a while since I tried to read a brf on my mac usi
Could you use Command+L to get to the address bar and copy the URL from there?
On Aug 18, 2013, at 9:21 AM, Rahul Bajaj wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have to cite the URL of an article in a research paper.
> However, I can't figure out how to determine the URL.
> I generally access that article by se
I can't speak to the accessibility from an instructor's point of view, but both
my grad school and current employer use blackboard as a way of posting info.
Most things are accessible, even though some may be cumbersome. Finding files
to download and announcements are fairly simple to do. Pos
on the mac is to close the spell check
window and find where the cursor is in the document, which is only sometimes
reliable. Maybe I'm not doing it right though…
Greg Aikens, M. Ed.
Teacher of students who are blind and visually impaired
Cobb County School District
gpaik...@gmail.com
O
window that allows you to make
changes there as well.
Let us know if you have more specific questions.
-Greg
Greg Aikens, M. Ed.
Teacher of students who are blind and visually impaired
Cobb County School District
gpaik...@gmail.com
On Sep 8, 2013, at 10:56 AM, Robin wrote:
> Is it possi
. Both of these apps are available from the learning ally website. The
process can be a little cumbersome, but it is definitely doable.
Good luck. Let us know if you have more questions.
-Greg
Greg Aikens, M. Ed.
Teacher of students who are blind and visually impaired
Cobb County School
Why not just hit VO+Shift+End (VO+Shift+ FN+Right Arrow on my Macbook Pro)? As
long as you don't interact with the To and CC fields, this should take you
straight to the body. Just interact with it and start typing.
-Greg
Greg Aikens, M. Ed.
Teacher of students who are blind and vis
Hi Phil,
My mistake if I misunderstand you, but when you use chromevox, you do not use
the standard VO commands or even need to interact with a web page. I would use
safari to look up the Chrome Vox commands to learn how to navigate using
chromevox. It takes some getting used to.
Greg
I am also using Piano Pub on ML with no problems.
-Greg
On Aug 29, 2012, at 5:22 PM, brianna Snyder wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I should have clarified. I use PianoPub, and I run Mountain Lion. It works as
> good as it ever did. Make sure you've got the latest version.
>
> Brianna
>
> On Aug 29, 2
Hi all,
I know there have been a few threads on accessing bookshare books in xml format
over the last month or so, but I wanted to follow up to see if anyone had found
a solution to the problem I am encountering.
I can read bookshare books that I downloaded months ago just fine in the xml
for
Harry, this is genius. This worked perfectly. I still don't know why Safari
only blocks new bookshare files but now I can read them.
To show the develop menu in the menu bar, go to the Preferences dialog from the
Safari menu. Select the Advanced tab and you will find the option to show the
Hi Robert,
Two tips to help you out:
Use command+T in Pages to pull up the font dialog box. You can then change any
of your font attributes from here.
Use Command+Option+I to open the inspector window for your document. The
inspector has a number of layered tabs you can use to navigate throug
Hi all,
Does anyone know how to do a hanging indent in pages? I can't seem to find the
option in the inspector. I would think it would be on the page marked "tabs"
under text but don't see the option there.
Thanks for any help.
Greg
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Kevin, thanks for this. This is much better than just hitting tab on each
consecutive line.
-Greg
On Sep 29, 2010, at 7:28 PM, Kevin Shaw wrote:
> HI Greg,
>
> the hanging indent feature is in Pages. Unfortunately, it's not labelled as
> such, so it's a little hard to find.
>
> You'll want t
Hey people,
I asked this question before but got no response. I'm still trying to figure
out how to make use of the track changes and comment features in pages. I have
a document which my professor has marked up with corrections and I need to
figure out where each correction goes. Any help is ap
I am producing and editing with track changes all the time and can only
> be successful with the use of MS word on Boot camp side.
> I know that this is not the answer that you want to hear but for now, that is
> the way it is as far as I know.
>
> On Oct 4, 2010, at 7:27 PM,
Hi all,
I feel like this has been covered before but I didn't see it in the archives.
How can I get mail to display all the recipients in a message I have received?
I would like to know who I am sending messages to before hitting "reply all."
Right now it will list the first two recipients and t
Thanks for your response Martin. When I arrow up to the header section it reads
everything out loud just fine. For some reason mail has abbreviated the list of
recipients so that it only shows the first two and then says something like
"and 3 more..." I'm not sure how to get mail to display thos
The Bible app from youversion.com is free and very accessible. I really like it
because it has tons of reading plans you can choose from and you can access it
from a computer as ewll.
Greg
On Oct 28, 2010, at 7:23 AM, Paul Hunt wrote:
> Hwello Martin. I don't know about Bible Reader. I can tel
Hi,
I have only started to work with keyote as well and you're right that it does
seem complicated. To move from slide to slide I hit page up and page down. That
moves you consecutively through the slides. Hittin home or end will take you to
the first and last slide. There must be a way to jump
Anyone know if RFB and D has a program to download their books for the mac
yet?
Thanks,
Greg
On Oct 29, 2010, at 4:34 AM, Scott Howell wrote:
> I am sharing this information since some of you might not be aware.
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> Date: October 28, 2010 10:50:01 PM EDT
>> Subj
I get a lot of studdering in numbers as well. I'm using a mac book pro that is
3 months old. I think it is just the way VO and numbers work together
unfortunately.
Greg
On Nov 10, 2010, at 10:48 AM, Chris McCausland wrote:
> Hi everyone.
>
> When using Numbers on a fairly high spec IMac I
Hi all,
Is there a way to edit the contents of a cell in numbers without overwriting
the whole cell? I have tried interacting and moving the cursor to the point in
the cell I want to edit, but whenever I start typing it deletes everything that
was there. Also, the VO cursor curiously moves two
The Last FM page does work. I can't get the interfaces for pandora and
grooveshark to work though. It comes with a 14 day demo but not sure I would
pay the $10 unless I could use all 3 services.
-Greg
On Nov 29, 2010, at 3:42 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote:
> I've been playing with it a bit. The
Hi Brandt,
Check the archives for more suggestions but the method I use right now is to
open the xml version of the book in safari. There is a free daisy player
called Olearia but I couldn't get it to read from one chapter to the next
without manually telling the program to move on. The safari
The Bible app from youversion.com works well, is free, and has a large variety
of translations and reading plans available.
Greg
On Nov 30, 2010, at 10:48 AM, Jim Barbour wrote:
> On the iphone list (subscribe at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone)
>
> several folks have talked about usi
;ll come on board soon
> too.
>
> Jason
>
> On Nov 30, 8:54 am, Greg Aikens wrote:
>> The Last FM page does work. I can't get the interfaces for pandora and
>> grooveshark to work though. It comes with a 14 day demo but not sure I
>> would pay the $10 unless
Try a three finger double tap on the track pad with the track pad commander on.
On Aug 24, 2011, at 1:55 PM, Bill Holton wrote:
> Hi.My cat crawled on my keyboard and turned VO off. I can turn it on again
> with command f 5, but it says “Voiceover on, speech off,” and then goes
> silent. I
Hi Ezzie,
The header section is where you put anything you want at the top of the page,
especially recurring text such as your last name. This is a great place for
your name and it is where the page number will go. Footers are for things like
footnotes.
Add page numbers by going into Insert
The text page of the inspector has three tabs. The one with spacing is also
called text.
-Greg
On Sep 14, 2011, at 2:29 PM, Shannon Dyer wrote:
> So, I found the inspector, but I can't figure out where double spacing is. I
> looked in document, in text, and in layout. It didn't list double spa
Learning Ally's Read Here software and book downloader work on the mac.
On Sep 19, 2011, at 12:31 PM, Allison Mervis wrote:
> Hi Becky.
> I believe that RFB (or learning ally as they're now called) has a downloader
> and book reading software for the mac. I would double check at they're
> websit
I thought the Siri app already existed for iPhone. How is this different?
On Oct 5, 2011, at 3:06 PM, Maxwell Ivey Jr. wrote:
> the only thing i read that sounded definite is that the seri digital
> assistant will only be available on the iphone 4's. take care, max
> On Oct 5, 2011, at 12:41
Even without self-voicing, I find apps like Adium and Skype quite accessible.
It might be less convenient but I wouldn't call it less accessible.
On Oct 7, 2011, at 12:06 PM, Chris Blouch wrote:
> I guess I'm looking at it as an equal access question. If I want a chat
> communications app t
Hi Christene,
Once you have opened the edit info dialogue, you want to get to the options
tab. There is a list of several tabs at the top of the window. Once on the
options tab there is a pop up box labelled "Media kind". If you want your
files to show up somewhere else, this is where you wou
first, but here's
> the page which comes up when I've logged in and clicked on "Blind Mice Movie
> Vault":
> https://www.blindmicemegamall.com/bmm/shop/Movie_Vault?recentlyAdded=true
> On Nov 6, 2011, at 6:38 PM, Greg Aikens wrote:
>
>> Hi Christene,
>
Yes, free and completely accessible using VO.
On Nov 6, 2011, at 10:06 PM, Kliphton wrote:
> Is this free?
>
> -Original Message-
> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
> [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Greg Aikens
> Sent: Sunday, November 06,
#x27;s going on? am I missing something?
> It's been an exceptionally long frustrating day, so it's entirely possible
> the problem's all me, and I'm missing something very obvious. :)
>
> Kari.
> On 07/11/2011, at 2:30 PM, Greg Aikens wrote:
>
>> Yes
Good how-to video and thanks for the tip on the youtube5 extension. I like the
interface a lot better than click to flash.
-Greg
On Nov 13, 2011, at 10:31 PM, Yuma Decaux wrote:
> Check the video
>
> http://www.cultofmac.com/129575/use-speakable-items-to-bring-siris-functionality-to-your-ma
If you downloaded one of the html5 converters, you will need to navigate to the
html5 player on the page to start the video. In the youtube5 extension, this
is contained in a frame.
-Greg
On Nov 14, 2011, at 10:51 AM, Goodin, Donna wrote:
> So, I'm really confused.
>
> I googled Safari Yout
Hi all,
I know that under the free trial I can't export more than the first page of a
document I have converted. Is there still a way to view the other pages in the
document, such as viewing them within Abby Fine Reader?
Thanks for your help.
Greg
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Hi Chenelle,
To change font options I first select the text I want to work with and then hit
command + T to bring up the fonts menu. This lets you change fonts, style,
size.
Similarly, to change other setting with your text you can select it and then
press command + option + i to bring up th
Yes, definitely keep us updated on this.
Greg
On Dec 20, 2010, at 7:36 PM, Les Kriegler wrote:
> Hi Marlaina,
>
> I received an e-mail last Friday indicating there would be a delay in the
> next release until early this week. Nothing yet, I'm thinking after
> Christmas, but we'll see.
>
>
Thanks for the tips. Now growl is usable. Is there a way to adjust the rate of
speech for notifications?
Greg
On Dec 24, 2010, at 2:41 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 1st, go into VO utilities and under navigation, select mouse cursor moves
> voiceover cursor from the pop up menu. Now t
Hi all,
I'm looking at getting a new phone because my current one is dying. I love my
ipod touch and think that an iphone would be great, but I'm a stingy student
and need to be able to justify the $200 for the phone and the additional $15 a
month on the phone bill. If there are ways that havi
#x27;s not where you set the speech option...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Nick
> On 25 Dec 2010, at 07:15, Oriol Gómez wrote:
>
>> Yeah there is a rate slidedr I think, in the same place wehre you set
>> the speech option.
>>
>> On 12/25/10, Greg Aikens wrote:
>&
Hi Zack,
Lots of people ask this question but I have not seen many responses. I have
been playing around with Tintin for the past few days. The biggest problem I
have found is that VO constantly interrupts itself whenever something new comes
up, so reading everything takes a good deal of scrolli
Hi Joshua,
The easiest way I have found to make a bulleted list is to first type your list
and then use the inspector to add the bullets.
To do this, select the text you want to be in the list. Press CMD+Option+I for
the inspector. Make sure the text radio button at the top of the dialog is
s
Hi Maurice,
To do this in pages you need to bring up the inspector using Cmd+Option+I. So,
first select the text you want to change the spacing for, then bring up the
inspector. Make sure the Text radio button is selected in the inspector and
then select the Text tab as well. Spacing is one o
Pretty cool. I'm looking forward to this. Hope its worth the $20.
Greg
On Jan 27, 2011, at 10:12 AM, Carolyn Haas wrote:
>>> Hi everyone:
>
> Since we've been talking about bookshare, I thought perhaps some might be
> interested in this information I received about this app.
> Carolyn H
>
Google talk works fine with adium or ichat.
On Feb 7, 2011, at 9:26 PM, dyer matthew wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Yes it works fine here on my mac whch is sitting just on the other side of
> the room. HTH.
>
> Matthew
>
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
> [ma
Hello all,
Is there any way to check the progress of a file conversion in Abby Fine Reader
Express? I am converting some large files and it would be helpful to know how
much time is left or if Abby is still really working. I have had it get stuck
before but because I can't get any valuable inf
Or after hitting VO+M to get to the menu, hit f for file, e for edit, etc. and
hit down arrow to open the menu. Just start typing the one you want and it
should move you there quickly. Not quite as streamline as alt+f at first, but
its not a major inconvenience.
Greg
On Feb 24, 2011, at 1:0
Hi,
I have been using the newest version of blackboard for the last several months.
I'm not an expert but I do feel fairly comfortable with it. The only real
problem I have encountered is downloading pdf's that have been uploaded. I
still haven't solved that.
I would be happy to help anyon
VO + Shift + right arrow does not select the from field for me.
ButCtrl+shift+right arrow does. Once it is Highlighted, the context menu comes
up fine.
Greg
On Mar 1, 2011, at 5:48 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote:
> I did. I vo arrowed to it then routed to it with vo cmd f5 and clicked on it
> and
Hi Jane,
Could you provide more info about Nuntius? The version I found online is 1.0
and looks like it has been around since 2003 or so. It is also shareware with
a 30 day trial. After that it costs $10.
Upon loading this software I also had to install Rosetta, which apparently it
needed
Yes, just bought it. Works very fast for me as well.
Greg
On Mar 8, 2011, at 2:37 PM, Kevin Mattingly wrote:
> I saw the discussion, bought it for my IPhone 3GS and tried it on a 1 and 5
> dollar bill. It was really fast.
>
> Kev
> On Mar 8, 2011, at 3:18 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote:
>
>> I gues
Good work with the demo. Just not sure where you got the idea that it only
scans the bills longwise. It seems to work in just about any configuration,
even folded at a weird angle.
-Greg
On Mar 8, 2011, at 7:24 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote:
> Hey you all I just pot a podcast up on a look at mone
VO says the word "text" when I use VO+J to move from the message table to a
message. Is this what you are referring to?
On Mar 18, 2011, at 12:59 PM, Pete Nalda wrote:
> Anyone else noticing this? I'm running 10.6.6 on an MBP late '08 model
> 2.42ghz if that helps anyone. Tia.
>
> Egun On,
Many times Safari will open a pdf in its own window. It will be a scroll area.
If the pdf has not been OCR'd it will appear blank. At this point you can go
to the file menu and click save as and it will give you the option to save the
pef to your computer.
Hope this helps.
Greg
On Mar 1
The left and right arrows by themselves should move you by character. Another
option is VO+Shift+ left or right arrow.
Hope this helps.
On Mar 20, 2011, at 12:26 PM, Scott Howell wrote:
> Christine,
>
> Editing on a Mac using VoiceOver is different than using Windows and a
> windows scr
There is no ok button in the inspector. Just change what you need and close
the inspector and it will be done automatically. You can reopen the inspector
to check and see if the changes stayed.
-Greg
On Mar 25, 2011, at 7:34 PM, Ezzy Bueno wrote:
> Hello List:
>
> I'm trying to adjust the
Hello all,
This morning I discovered that under preferences you can designate a startup
station. As far as I can tell, doing this and restarting the program is the
only way to change stations with PianoPub. I'm excited to have an accessible
Pandora client but it would be nice to do this withou
eep in mind the last step isn't necessary if you have your mouse cursor set
> to follow your VO cursor in VO utilities under navigation.
>
> hth
>
> Ricardo Walker
> rwalker...@gmail.com
> Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296
> www.mobileaccess.org
>
>
>
Unarchiver works well with daisy books too. The built-in archive utility does
not work for bookshare books. Someone else could probably explain why but I
don't know. I just know that the unarchiver works great and is free.
-Greg
On Apr 17, 2011, at 12:58 PM, Brianna Snyder wrote:
> Hi,
>
I have used it. I had no problems downloading my books.
-Greg
On Apr 19, 2011, at 7:02 AM, Joseph Norton wrote:
> Hi list:
>
> Any of you have experience with RFBD's Download Manager software? Are there
> any things I might need to be aware of?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Joseph Norton
> joseph.nor..
Hello all,
I am attempting to make my first presentation in keynote and I have a question.
When I am editing a slide, after typing one or two lines of text, my mac makes
the noise that it makes when I type onto the next page in Pages. It does this
continuously as long as I type or move around
> -Original Message-
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> [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Greg Aikens
> Sent: 19 April 2011 21:29
> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
> Subject: creating presentations in keynote
>
> Hello all,
> I am attempting to
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 help.
-Greg
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For some tasks yes. I generally adjust it between 55 and 80, depending on what
I am doing.
-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 estimat
Hi Ricardo,
I had this problem as well. For some reason, the update screen for piano pub
seems to be completely inaccessible from within the app. I had to get sighted
assistance to click on the update button and now it works fine again.
Installing the newest version would fix this as well.
I have been able to click with the trackpad. Make sure the trackpad commander
is turned off and that the mouse cursor follows the VO cursor. Also, be sure
to give it a double click.
-Greg
On Jun 6, 2011, at 5:13 AM, Rose Morales wrote:
> Hi Brianna,
> Your third choice was the correct one.
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> Phone:(972) 989-3894
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>
>
>
>
> On Jun 6, 2011, at 7:35 AM, Greg Aikens wrote:
>
>> I have been able to click with the trackpad. Make sure the trackpad
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