Re: Apple ID issues on the IPhone.

2012-03-13 Thread Jude DaShiell
Have you tried filling it out at http://id.apple.com yet?On Tue, 28 Feb 2012, Jessica wrote: > I've just recently tried to fill in the info for my Apple ID in order to > download the Viz Wiz ap, filled in every field I could possibly find on there > from my name down to my phone number, and it

Re: iOS browsers

2015-05-25 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Wednesday, April 8, 2015, Phil Halton wrote: > What browsers can I use on iOS other than Safari? I have a particularly > tricky website I need to use that Safari with voiceover just can't handle. > Thanks, > > > Sent from my IPhone > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: iPhone signal loss

2010-07-24 Thread Jude DaShiell
When I bought my iPhone, I bought a case with it and haven't had any of these signal loss problems. The signal loss problems can effect any cell phone if it's held wrong without a case from what I understand. So now we get to find out how many people decided not to buy proper cases. Sometimes

Re: Using a Mac Mini without a monitor

2010-08-17 Thread Jude DaShiell
http://www.smartco-inc.org/ has many cheap used VGA displays available. Buyer is responsible for packaging and shipping costs though. On Fri, 16 Jul 2010, Chris Blouch wrote: I had written up a lot of detail on this some time back which you can find in the mail archives. Short version is that

Re: introduction and questions about switching to mac

2010-08-21 Thread Jude DaShiell
Actually, command-f5 isn't necessary to use when doing a Mac installation. Just put the disk in the drive and turn on the computer and wait a few seconds then VoiceOver comes on automatically and starts asking questions.On Thu, 22 Jul 2010, Chris Moore wrote: You could also consider Nisus Wri

Re: DVD ripper

2010-08-21 Thread Jude DaShiell
For the record, what's the podcast subscription url? Maybe better yet, what's the podcast called in the ITunes store? Lots of stuff on that site so this wasn't obvious to me. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this

Re: Is Vo and Mac for everyone!

2010-08-21 Thread Jude DaShiell
First you got to get windows installed on that PC to use satogo or jfw or window-eyes or nvda. In order to placate sighted friends I'm about to install a legacy sound card on a pc so screen narrator will have a chance to work while installing windows XPSP2 since the computer came equipped with

Re: -- installing windows media player

2010-08-22 Thread Jude DaShiell
I suggest you search for mpg321 for the mac. You may have to run that from a terminal session and if not in apple software, it may be in the fink or macports repositories.On Thu, 26 Nov 2009, Joan Alice Maria Gibson, Esquire wrote: On my iMac G4 Desktop I installed Windows Media Player in 20

Re: Need Mac User's advice on which Windows screen reader to purchase and learn

2010-08-28 Thread Jude DaShiell
Thunder screen reader may be an option, though it costs rather much less than jaws or window-eyes.On Sat, 28 Aug 2010, Donna Goodin wrote: I use Victoria as well. Prefer her over Alex. Donna On Aug 28, 2010, at 6:13 AM, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: Hi! Haha! Victoria scares me, man. I actually h

Re: Description of the Finder and how to best understand VO method of navigating on the screen

2010-08-28 Thread Jude DaShiell
What aApple refers to as elements or items are referred to as controls in Windows, but usually only the more technical descriptions of windows interfaces ever mention that term. Everyone both Microsoft and Apple used the set of controls from universal computer interface design which I.B.M. had

Re: the unix shell and mac terminal

2010-08-28 Thread Jude DaShiell
Even easier, use script. First run script typescript.tmp . Next run your job. Next type exit . Next type col -bx < typescript.tmp typescript next type rm typescript.tmp finally type less typescript and find out what happened in your job. I usually just interact with the scroll area in t

Re: What is RSS and Usenet

2010-08-30 Thread Jude DaShiell
The rss information was a little incomplete because rss can also contain enclosures to podcasts as well as articles. Podcasts people subscribe to with rss as part of their url are actually carried by the rss protocol through enclosures.On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, Chris Blouch wrote: The site panix.co

Re: Help forcing Mac to recognize a USB device

2010-09-11 Thread Jude DaShiell
On some systems, a command called update-usb-ids exists and has to be run by root in terminal mode. That command when run goes out to a web site and gets a current copy of a file that has all industry-standard usb ids information in it. If the manufacturer of the device hasn't got their infor

Re: tracpad question

2010-09-12 Thread Jude DaShiell
I did a search in the app store and while a track pal app is available for download, there is no track pad app available for download.On Sat, 11 Sep 2010, Carolyn wrote: Ah, Ricardo: Thanks for getting back to me. I found out it's double-tap on the left side of the screen in the middle. Thi

Re: Apps going inaccessible with Retina 4 updates? -- Speedtest for network connections

2010-09-16 Thread Jude DaShiell
Around here, I use http://speedtest.net and as soon as you connect to the page you read down and search for MB and that'll be the first line of your report.On Thu, 16 Sep 2010, Chris Blouch wrote: I used this one: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/speedtest/id286356274?mt=8 which seems fairly

Re: Unintentional Aliases and getting rid of them

2010-09-19 Thread Jude DaShiell
Well from a security perspective, one person's unintentional alias might become a hacker's intentional alias in the unfortunate event of unauthorized computer access. For that reason it might prove helpful if Apple in one of its future releases would arrange for an alias cleaning tool which wo

Re: Getting applications out of the command-tab order?

2010-09-25 Thread Jude DaShiell
Has anyone tried enclosing a search string in quotes either single or double to see if a search with spaces in it can be done that way yet?On Sat, 25 Sep 2010, Anne Robertson wrote: Hello Justin, The feature you are looking for would be available if Spaces worked with VoiceOver. Other peopl

Re: Useful hint for terminal users "open -f"

2010-09-27 Thread Jude DaShiell
Interact with the text window then try reading, that sometimes works in cases like these.On Mon, 27 Sep 2010, Sarah Alawami wrote: Yeah I tried that and it opeend a blank document with a n odd title in text edit. lol! On Sep 27, 2010, at 8:29 AM, Jonathan Cohn wrote: Sarah, Did you get it t

Re: Useful hint for terminal users "open -f"

2010-09-28 Thread Jude DaShiell
4:56 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote: Interact with the text window then try reading, that sometimes works in cases like these.On Mon, 27 Sep 2010, Sarah Alawami wrote: Yeah I tried that and it opeend a blank document with a n odd title in text edit. lol! On Sep 27, 2010, at 8:29 AM, Jonathan Cohn

Re: *free* accessible FTP for the Mac?

2013-07-01 Thread Jude DaShiell
ncftp will work in the terminal and may have a graphical user interface too. On 6/30/13, Alex Hall wrote: > Hi all, > I know everyone recommends Transmit when the subject of ftp programs for the > mac comes up, but it's over $30! On Windows, Filezilla works great with > screen readers and is free

Re: The cammel's back has been broken!

2013-07-01 Thread Jude DaShiell
Hi Chris, Unfortunate about the blog, but don't let that stop you since it's not necessary. Several free revision control packages are available. If you haven't yet studied revision control, you could try a google search on man ci and another one on man co and a third on man rcs as a beginning.

Re: The cammel's back has been broken!

2013-07-01 Thread Jude DaShiell
On 7/1/13, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Hi Chris, > > Unfortunate about the blog, but don't let that stop you since it's not > necessary. Several free revision control packages are available. If > you haven't yet studied revision control, you could try a google > se

Re: Washington Post articles?

2010-10-04 Thread Jude DaShiell
The link I put in here is broken. To fix it remember the last word in the link is distribution and you'll get there okay.On Mon, 4 Oct 2010, Colin M wrote: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/rss/index.html?hpid=distrib ution Hi Jonathan! Here I am in little UK! I opened the Washi

Re: Not able to sign into itunes

2010-10-04 Thread Jude DaShiell
Don't hit enter, hit tab onto okay field then hit space and see if that works. Why itunes should be going into busy mode like that even under these circumstances though for me is a puzzle. If you can get to a local mac users group meeting you may get lots more support there. Have you got a w

Re: XCode compile.

2010-10-04 Thread Jude DaShiell
Once you install the xcode and the appbuilder packages from your snow leopard disk, start looking inside the /developer/ tree.On Fri, 1 Oct 2010, GEOFF WAALER wrote: Greetings, I wanted to compile a "helloWorld" program in either objective C or C++ and apparently am not looking in the right

Re: Recommendations for FTP blient for the mac?

2010-10-05 Thread Jude DaShiell
The mac already comes with sftp which is part of openssh package and if you're at all concerned about on line security, you'll do well to get acquainted.On Sat, 2 Oct 2010, Jenny Wood wrote: Greetings again! So basically, I am wondering what recommendations, if any, might be out there for FTP

Re: voice over guide

2010-10-07 Thread Jude DaShiell
Here's the way things work with bookshare.org and I know since I've used their service already. If a book has daisy format and brf format available, it's still under copyright and you have to have a current password to open it and read it whether you download daisy or brf formats. If the book

Re: I think I may have made a $99 mistake...

2010-10-09 Thread Jude DaShiell
If I remember correctly, it's possible to use an Apple computer with VoiceOver turned on to control an Apple TV box. You might send email to accessibil...@apple.com and ask if this is the case or if an iPhone can be used to do that just in case you haven't got an Apple computer. I'm pretty su

Re: Hebrew Braille user needed (fwd)

2010-10-09 Thread Jude DaShiell
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 15:08:39 From: Arlene Carol To: Jude DaShiell Subject: Re: Hebrew Braille user needed (fwd) someone should contact the Library for the Blind in Israel. I believe it's in Netanya. in 1995-96 i knew the head of the library. a

RE: Can keyboard only navigation ever be...

2010-10-10 Thread Jude DaShiell
Universal keyboard navigation like f1 for help and all the other keystrokes came from I.B.M. among others, Microsoft just complied with an already existing and published standard. Same deal with file formats in Microsoft Office, they're all in the ISO standards.On Sun, 10 Oct 2010, Neil Barnfa

Re: mud clients

2010-10-10 Thread Jude DaShiell
Have you tried tiny-fugue yet? That works well on Linux. You can test it once you get it installed with tf ancientanguish.org too.On Sun, 10 Oct 2010, May McDonald wrote: Hi there everyone. I'm not having much luck here and figured I'd ask here on the list again. Is there a client that work

RE: Noise in the Apple store

2010-10-11 Thread Jude DaShiell
Not at all correct. A proper application of technology can eliminate the background noise and add value to the training sessions. The trainer will need a mask microphone. The trainee will need two sets of headphones one smaller than the other. One of those the trainer speaks on. The other

Re: Noise in the Apple store

2010-10-11 Thread Jude DaShiell
provide so much in the way of correction. Quite honestly, I think it's a lucky break for me that the Apple store team has been so good about working with me in spite of the hearing issues. Carolyn On Oct 11, 2010, at 8:55 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote: Not at all correct. A proper applicati

Re: messengers

2010-10-16 Thread Jude DaShiell
You have ichat to check out since that's a dedicated messenger program.On Wed, 13 Oct 2010, Damon Fibraio wrote: OK, so I realize that I can do mail on my mac, but what can I do about accessing aol or msn messengers on the Mac. Here's my deal. Been using a MacBook pro for a while, mostly boo

Re: general Mac questions / Captchas

2010-10-16 Thread Jude DaShiell
http://www.solona.net supported Windows before it supported the Mac with no invitations necessary like webvisum.com.On Wed, 13 Oct 2010, Ray Foret Jr wrote: For me, the answer is this: www.solona.net There's a handy tool you can install and run via termin.app which will really help wi the c

Re: ways of tagging sections in a document

2010-10-16 Thread Jude DaShiell
The first thing to do is to come up with your own standard way of marking out section headings and stick to that. Then since you know what your own standard is, you'll know how and what to search for. I'm on the treasurescroll list with blindtreasures.com and just above each new product listi

Re: Is there a way to document VO crashes?

2010-10-17 Thread Jude DaShiell
You know what I think would be really neat? If Apple was to do what GwMicro did with Window-Eyes; make the operating system self-healing. This concept for GwMicro involved collecting crash logs from people's machines when they rebooted; the Window-Eyes software phoned home and sent the crash l

Re: accessible games for Iphone

2010-10-17 Thread Jude DaShiell
Has anyone checked out the gaming center on the iPhone yet for voiceover friendly games and if so what did you find? Also, do any voiceover friendly mud clients exist for the iphone yet? On Thu, 14 Oct 2010, Donna Goodin wrote: It's really fun!!! I hope you get to play it some time. Donna On

RE: Screen Readers on the Mac

2010-10-17 Thread Jude DaShiell
Most of the jaws using population will never have Stevie Wunder's income levels either so Jaws upgrades and Window-Eyes upgrades don't always happen quickly or sometimes at all. People tend to have more important things on which to spend money like mortgage payments or rent. Funding from stat

Re: Accessible Ulternative browzer?

2010-10-17 Thread Jude DaShiell
I believe I installed lynx using fink. On Wed, 13 Oct 2010, Mike wrote: Hi all: I'm wondering if there's an alternative accessible web browser? I'm getting tired of Safari crashes and lock ups and then having to use web kit. If this thing is so grate, how come apple doesn't update it weekly wit

Re: Microsoft Office 2011 period

2010-10-26 Thread Jude DaShiell
Am I writing to a puzzle freak? Because if you really enjoy puzzles I'll make a couple suggestions which will enable you to stick a fork in that counsellor. The ruby scripting language is available for the mac probably in the development tree. I installed the development tree but the mac isn

Re: Microsoft Office 2011 period

2010-10-27 Thread Jude DaShiell
The huge problem with rehab departments is that many of them spend way under expected percentages on actual rehab. Lots of management ends up going to Conferences in aweful places like Honolulu Hawaii. Texas as an example could only provide slates styluses and braille paper for students since

Re: Spreadsheet Problem

2010-10-29 Thread Jude DaShiell
Can't tell you any of that, but I may be able to help you stop the crashing. Check in openoffice calc settings and see if automatic calculation is turned on and if so, turn it off. Then try opening that spreadsheet and moving between columns.On Fri, 29 Oct 2010, David Taylor wrote: Hi all,

Re: Happy Halloween!!! "OT?"

2010-10-31 Thread Jude DaShiell
Ever hear of bobbing for apples?On Sun, 31 Oct 2010, Chuck Reichel wrote: Hi Cara, Am I missing something here? What does "Halloween" have to do with using a Mac??? OT? Talk soon Chuck On Oct 31, 2010, at 7:34 PM, Cara Quinn wrote: Hey All; -Just wanted to send along a quickie note to wish

Re: GMail filters and Apple Mail

2010-11-01 Thread Jude DaShiell
This is well-known technology in terms of procmail so my suggestion for you in terminal mode see if there's a procmailex man page, man procmailex and it should show you some example recipes. Also possibly man procmail-lib and man procmail. If nothing comes up on any of that, Apple has install

Re: iTunes?

2010-11-16 Thread Jude DaShiell
Once vlc is installed, provided you're not afraid of the terminal, it might be worth checking out what happens when you type cvlc followed by a particular site you'd like to hear. That way there's no need messing around with checkboxes for some of vlc's functionality. On Tue, 9 Nov 2010, Jason

Re: Chat clients: Was Telnet

2010-11-18 Thread Jude DaShiell
Why not download tiny fugue for the mac? I think it's on fink. To start that you run the tf command in the terminal. I don't know how well ichat works, but that's supposed to have irc capabilities. As for telnet, it's poison. Better to use stelnet. On Wed, 17 Nov 2010, Michael Thurman wrot

Re: Doing a put in the land of ftp

2010-11-21 Thread Jude DaShiell
I suggest you learn to use curl. It can do uploads and downloads though from terminal mode command line or from a bash script if you know how to build one of those. r A command like: curl -a url/filename should get the job started. On Mon, 15 Nov 2010, Marlaina Lieberg wrote: I am trying to

Re: [macvoiceover] Trying to update firm wear in a APH device, but....

2010-11-21 Thread Jude DaShiell
I don't know if you have a mac computer, but if you do, I suggest you do a which file and see if that utility is present. If it is, run file filename where filename is your mystery file and the file utility may be able to tell you what kind of file you have there.On Thu, 11 Nov 2010, VaShaun

Re: alternative e mail clients

2010-11-21 Thread Jude DaShiell
Others do exist. pine and mutt can both be run from the terminal. Both can be downloaded from a fink repository.On Sun, 14 Nov 2010, Chantel Cuddemi wrote: Chad, I am not sure if there are any other. email clients. I believe Apple mail is the only one. Someone please correct me if I am wron

Re: Searching in Mail?

2010-11-22 Thread Jude DaShiell
You have at least a few options. The standard G.U.I. option would be spotlight. A terminal alternative would be grep. Of course you have to know how Apple saves its inbox in order to know what to search with grep. A single file is different from searching multiple files for instance. If mult

Re: selecting to end of document

2010-11-26 Thread Jude DaShiell
wget is your friend.On Thu, 25 Nov 2010, Teresa Cochran wrote: Hi Carolyn and all, You can use the VO-return on web pages, but it doesn't work well when you have a lot of different elements like headings and links. You'd have to interact with each one and that can become tedious. I simply sel

Re: Is there an accessible Usenet client

2010-12-01 Thread Jude DaShiell
Pine can do nntp if configured properly. So can alpine. On Wed, 1 Dec 2010, Eric Oyen wrote: hmmm. I thought it had an nntp functionality built in somewhere. I know pine can do nntp, but it gets picky one some groups, especially the binaries groups. -Eric On Dec 1, 2010, at 5:39 PM, Jim Bar

Re: Is there an accessible Usenet client

2010-12-01 Thread Jude DaShiell
A package called gnus which runs under emacs can handle both usenet and email once set up correctly. Mutt never did anything with nntp, mutt only does email.On Wed, 1 Dec 2010, erik burggraaf wrote: It's really unfortunate. Older versions of unison were amazing, but they have really broken

Re: Recording for the blind and dyslexic, reader that runs on the Mac?

2010-12-01 Thread Jude DaShiell
Have a look at http://www.blindbargains.com/ for some details. On Wed, 1 Dec 2010, heather kd5cbl wrote: Good luck! Heather - Original Message - From: "Michael Thurman" To: Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 9:34 AM Subject: Re: Recording for the blind and dyslexic, reader that runs o

Re: Yelp on the IPhone

2010-12-01 Thread Jude DaShiell
The difference is yelp puts reviews next to those restaurants and stores.On Wed, 1 Dec 2010, Courtney Curran wrote: Hi, Yelp lets you look up resturants and stores and stuff, almost like a little directory of sorts, as I understand it. HTH, Courtney Listen to The Wonderful World of Doo-wop wit

Re: The Resetting of Prams

2010-12-01 Thread Jude DaShiell
Sometimes a little scotch tape can help. Tape the command and option keys down first then it's a three finger operation.On Wed, 1 Dec 2010, Les Kriegler wrote: Hi Ann, A couple of comments/questions here. First, this is a very difficult keystroke to execute. You're talking about typing fi

Re: copying from 1 usb card to another

2010-12-01 Thread Jude DaShiell
Hmmm, my suggestion would be to only attach one usb drive to the computer at first. Then locate it with finder and edit its name to source. Once done leave the source drive in the computer. Next put the other usb drive into the computer and locate that with finder and edit the drive name to

Re: copying from 1 usb card to another

2010-12-01 Thread Jude DaShiell
e is taken up with the keyboard unless one gets a bluetooth one I think. You seem to be a night owl! Isaac - Original Message ----- From: "Jude DaShiell" To: Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 1:08 AM Subject: Re: copying from 1 usb card to another Hmmm, my suggestion would b

Re: copying from 1 usb card to another

2010-12-02 Thread Jude DaShiell
n it as I do a file name I wish to change? Marlaina On Dec 1, 2010, at 10:08 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote: Hmmm, my suggestion would be to only attach one usb drive to the computer at first. Then locate it with finder and edit its name to source. Once done leave the source drive in the computer

Re: Is there an accessible Usenet client

2010-12-02 Thread Jude DaShiell
, which Mail handles very nicely. Teresa On Dec 2, 2010, at 12:55 AM, Massimo Vettoretti wrote: Il giorno 02/dic/2010, alle ore 06.34, Jude DaShiell ha scritto: Pine can do nntp if configured properly. So can alpine. Maybe I have to be more specific. What I need and I am looking for is an

Re: can't get voiceover going after an installation

2010-12-02 Thread Jude DaShiell
Might it be that it makes no difference how you insert a DVD into the mac mini it will try an installation with the right side up or down? If that's the case, the label on the top side of the DVD could interfere with the reading and installation and in that way leave you with an unuseable comp

Re: Is there an accessible Usenet client

2010-12-02 Thread Jude DaShiell
No, rss feeds are an infant technology as compared to usenet. On Thu, 2 Dec 2010, Teresa Cochran wrote: I believe Usenet has RSS feeds, which Mail handles very nicely. Teresa On Dec 2, 2010, at 12:55 AM, Massimo Vettoretti wrote: Il giorno 02/dic/2010, alle ore 06.34, Jude DaShiell ha

RE: trouble creating an account in itunes

2010-12-03 Thread Jude DaShiell
My guess is you need to interact with the password field before typing anything into it. On Fri, 3 Dec 2010, RvR wrote: I have the exact same problem. Wonder if there is a solution. Regards, Ronald -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@goo

Re: apple tv and voiceover

2010-12-04 Thread Jude DaShiell
It may be a good idea for Apple to do for Apple TV what it did for the IPhone inside of ITunes. If a computer detects Apple Tv and VoiceOver is running on the computer, then the computer automatically enables VoiceOver on Apple Tv for the user.On Sat, 4 Dec 2010, Marlaina Lieberg wrote: Per

Re: Another way to burn audio CDs

2010-12-04 Thread Jude DaShiell
ITunes is really strange. At first I had an ITunes library. Then a version upgrade of ITunes didn't like that library so made me a new one and called ITunes1. After that, with each version upgrade ITunes can't figure out which library to use so what I was told in the smmug meeting was to hi

Re: can I make audio cd's of iTunes purchased music

2010-12-04 Thread Jude DaShiell
Have you tried enabling album view?On Sat, 4 Dec 2010, Marlaina Lieberg wrote: Hurrah I did it! I tried Tim's steps below and they worked; I am now going to try Colin's steps in a previous message. One thing though: I see all my songs, I don't get a list of albums; so I have to scroll thro

Re: the adobe flash accessibility petition

2010-12-04 Thread Jude DaShiell
Events are rapidly overtaking adobe and flash in terms of html 5.0. Very probably once that comes out adobe flash will be able to be put in the junk software museum and left there as a particularly bad relic for the future. Another problem for web petitions is those are often used by spam arti

Re: the adobe flash accessibility petition

2010-12-04 Thread Jude DaShiell
It doesn't matter whether any site dealing in petitions is honorable or not. Most of the times when hackers get that information, the sites themselves don't even know that it's been done let alone profit from any arrangement with criminals. The criminals break into the sites and grab what the

Re: the adobe flash accessibility petition

2010-12-05 Thread Jude DaShiell
Another case in point. The navy which is covered by Section 508 uses flash to make all of its mandatory training. Same problem you experience with facebook all screen reader users that use jfw are confronted with for this reason. The alternate form of the training uses powerpoint and sometim

Re: Need a Spreadsheet Program

2009-10-22 Thread Jude DaShiell
If the Microsoft accessibility manager and team can't realign another division's products that makes that team highly useless and goes a long way toward explaining many persisting problems.On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Chris Blouch wrote: > My understanding is that if the developer uses standard user i

RE: Word Processing/Spreadsheet software

2009-10-22 Thread Jude DaShiell
try searching http://www.versiontracker.com/ and http://www.macupdates.com/ for sc; and slsc for spreadsheets and emacs probably aqua edition for wordprocessing. Emacs also has calc in it although how good that is is a research project for me now.On Mon, 16 Feb 2009, Bejarano, Rafael P. wrote

Re: Blind Cool Tech Podcast

2009-12-11 Thread Jude DaShiell
probably itunes runs on mirrored servers and at least one of them is way out of sync.On Sun, 6 Sep 2009, Dane Trethowan wrote: > That's very odd! I'm getting everything as its updated here. > > > On 06/09/2009, at 8:40 AM, Scott Howell wrote: > >> >> Folks, if any of you subscribe to the BLind Co

Re: podcasts transfer procedure question

2009-12-11 Thread Jude DaShiell
k Utility >> to burn the same files, quite apart from the cross-platform support. >> In Tiger, if I added instructional videos to my PowerBook's iTunes >> library, created a playlist, and burned a CD or DVD using iTunes, the >> task would complete at least two times faster

Re: is the busy, ready, busy, ready, bug gone?

2009-12-11 Thread Jude DaShiell
That problem also happens with safari on snow leopard. What we found out over at one s.m.m.u.g. meeting was that a monitor needs to be attached and turned on. Apparently the mac software waits for video updates and when it doesn't get them effectively hangs. It's like windows without a mouse

http://www.solona.net/ mac support

2010-05-11 Thread Jude DaShiell
theresa.f...@gmail.com and me had time to get together at our Southern Maryland Mac User's Group meeting earlier this week and try out her script for grabbing capttas from web pages and submitting them to solona.net. There is or will be a new release of the script available for download which f

Re: files and folders

2010-05-30 Thread Jude DaShiell
Probably what's meant is something like fd-clone, or pilot part of the alpine suite, these perform functions similar to mc without all the windows. The fink project may have some of these file managers available in it. Another utility I think I ran into over on debian is vsweep which also is

Re: solona

2010-06-08 Thread Jude DaShiell
There's an application for mac computers to use solona.net over on http://cattail.nu which can make use of solona.net easier. The programmer that wrote it tested it on my mac mini and discovered and fixed a couple bugs as a result too. The programmer is known to the solona.net site too. Stuff

Re: Economics and the Mac

2010-06-22 Thread Jude DaShiell
The largest contract available to the blindness industry is the Veterans Administration; then on second tier come state agencies. On third tier are all of the educational establishments that end up having to comply with Section 508 and other Sections like 504 and finally After that are the sel

Re: CAPTCHA solution service for Mac users

2010-01-10 Thread Jude DaShiell
Let's make the job a little easier. A utility command line users of linux can use to copy screens of information into images is fb-grab.On Fri, 22 May 2009, Solona wrote: Yeah. The reason that I don't call too much attention to that is that I cannot document the instructions fully. I do no

Re: IPhone accessibility

2010-03-27 Thread Jude DaShiell
I just ordered an IPhone 3gs and what decided me finally was hearing a podcast about android accessibility on the Blindcooltech feed. The two big advantages the IPhone 3gs has over Android and this is as of March 27, 2010 are that both email and browsing are accessible. Those two parts of And

iphone tap interval question

2010-04-22 Thread Jude DaShiell
On the iphone 3gs is there a way to lengthen the tap interval on the phone so that a user has a little more time to do a double tap or tripple tap? If this doesn't yet exist, including a feature like this would enable people with cerebral palsy to use this model of phone better. -- You receiv

VoiceOver doing the deep six

2009-03-12 Thread Jude DaShiell
I've been doing software updates on Leopard regularly and apparently this last one has an undesireable leopard feature included. VoiceOver starts up fine on boot up but leave it alone for a few minutes then VoiceOver goes away. Only way I've been able to wake voiceover up again was with a sh

Re: Another Cell Phone and Synching question

2009-03-15 Thread Jude DaShiell
The whole syncing industry regularly gets messed up by Apple software updates. Everytime iSync gets updated changes usually subtractions of support for phone models happens and new phone models don't get added. One useful thing Apple might do with iSync would be to have iSync locate known goo

Re: Understanding Blind User's Needs

2009-03-18 Thread Jude DaShiell
I can think of two additional accessibility objectives but both only apply in special cases. For a case of a program in which a user has the opportunity to choose colors which will be used as part of the program's hard copy output (stuff sighted co-workers or managers or clients) will review a

Re: iPod has gone corrupted

2009-04-17 Thread Jude DaShiell
The chips for all of those have made a trip to China before you ever bought the iPod. It's likely malware the Chinese installed on your iPod chip has gone active. Unfortunately for the computer users of America and other countries all computer chips make the same journey to China for malware

Re: firefox, mozilla and voiceover:

2009-05-14 Thread Jude DaShiell
The google chrome browser is under development so on some date, it will work on Linux as well as the Mac. Right now, google chrome is the most secure of the browsers out of the box. On Sun, 28 Dec 2008, David Poehlman wrote: > yes, if... so why not just use what is there and ask apple for g

mobileme is a mess!

2009-05-22 Thread Jude DaShiell
I had been trying to update my billing information with all of Apple and have failed even using safari and VoiceOver. Even after I log in with my jdash...@mac.com original apple id and password and my name comes up correctly, the page nowhere shows an account button I can find and I haven't g

podcasts transfer procedure question

2009-05-23 Thread Jude DaShiell
I ended up with a disk that got too full so had to toss over 5,000 podcasts into the trash then empty the trash so iTunes could work normally again. The iTunes would not permit me to do anything else with them; I tried several times to copy and paste those to a zip disk and even a CD but was

what's the gui equivalent of "ls -h *"

2009-05-23 Thread Jude DaShiell
That -h switch for ls provides human useful output. If you have more than 1 meg and less than 2 megs, you get 1.x megs of files. Of course with iTunes making that go recursive into any lower folders and hierarchies might also be useful. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~

iTunes was killed for cause

2009-05-24 Thread Jude DaShiell
The iTunes store decided to disable my id for security reasons. No process exists on apple's website to resolve this problem that I can find. For that reason I have disabled iTunes on this machine and will not reinstall it or allow it to be reinstalled for very long. With the ID that was dis

mac protection plan

2009-05-24 Thread Jude DaShiell
Take it off line and keep it in a closet until snow leopard has been released and then if I have enough money buy snow leopard and install it. Why? Because the hacker community is specifically targeting leopard exploiting two critical vulnerabilities that are widely embedded in Leopard and it

mobileme and VoiceOver

2009-06-01 Thread Jude DaShiell
I tried to get to the place where you can change your billing information in mobileme and couldn't do it with VoiceOver. According to the website, you're supposed first to login then hit the account link, then type your password again, then there's supposed to be a side bar you enter and move

Re: News reader using Unison

2009-06-06 Thread Jude DaShiell
The alpine package is the open source version of pine and is available from http://www.uwashington.edu/ for download in source and binaries. The alpine package does handle usenet newsgroups and as far as I know, doesn't really complain about downloading binaries. Also, you can tell alpine to

Re: Home Theater +Mac...

2009-06-06 Thread Jude DaShiell
apple hot news rss feed had an article on this subject. You'll find it by searching for mac mini though because people have discovered they can hook their hdtv's up to mac mini's and do some other things and get their home theater's up and running with better picture quality than is normally

Re: Itunes radio, step by step?

2009-06-19 Thread Jude DaShiell
1) once iTunes starts select sources tab then select radio then hit enter. That should start iTunes radio up. 2) Interact with the table on which you land. 3) hit command-shift-right bracket to expand what you've interacted with. then wait a little while you should hear the table expand to somet

Re: New Safari update

2009-06-19 Thread Jude DaShiell
There's at least one fix the new version needs. I ran into the problem while trying to change my mobileme billing information and so did accessibil...@apple.com. Seems it's possible to get onto the sidebar with item chooser and even highlight change my billing information but that's as far a

Re: which movies

2009-06-19 Thread Jude DaShiell
Well, there's the blindmice.com movie vault with at least 900 described movies available but that's not iTunes though. On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, Will Lomas wrote: > hi can anyone point me to a movie on the i tunes store that has > description? > none of the ones i know that have it are AD a

Re: More on Mobile Me

2009-06-19 Thread Jude DaShiell
You're about to be attacked by a threaded metal fastener. Ajax came out lots faster than any of its accessibility tools and those taking mandatory training required by the federal government get exposed to it regularly. If a contractor claims they used ajax and that it's section 508 compliant

Re: Accessibility of RealBasic

2009-06-26 Thread Jude DaShiell
I have the files for mono development system on my mac and probably will get around to building them for use later this summer. A google search on man vbnc will give you some idea what that's all about. The mono project web page has the files for anyone interested. A successful build of vbnc

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