Re: Voice Over in Snow Leopard

2009-07-07 Thread Justin Harford
It will. On Jul 7, 2009, at 10:13 AM, william lomas wrote: > > what I meant to say was I am not sure if voice over itself will ship > with voices in italian, greek, arabic, russian polish, etc. or whether > we are still locked down to using acapella > > On 7 Jul 2009, at 18:07, Koumanova Rostisla

Re: Voice Over in Snow Leopard

2009-07-07 Thread Justin Harford
. Granted it won't be as nice as Alex. It certainly would be crazy to think that Alex is going to be speaking anything more than English. The synthesizers will be like those on the iPhone. Regards Justin Harford On Jul 7, 2009, at 11:24 AM, James & Nash wrote: > > If that does

Re: Word Processing on Mac OS X

2009-07-07 Thread Justin Harford
If you use LaTeX you are doing quite well. LaTeX is far nicer under Mac OS X than Windows. Justin On Jul 7, 2009, at 1:36 PM, James & Nash wrote: > > Hi Simon, > > Yes I do. i feel sure that if we were to contact them, they would be > more > than helpful. They are now at version 1.3 for Pro

Re: Voice Over in Snow Leopard

2009-07-07 Thread Justin Harford
ange in perspective for me and the others who ignorantly continue in this error. Best regards Justin Harford On Jul 7, 2009, at 12:21 PM, Scott Howell wrote: > > Oh, no, you as a blind person do not have a right to know anything > different than anyone else. You are not entitled to kno

Re: Voice Over in Snow Leopard

2009-07-07 Thread Justin Harford
he days of the Tiger would make. Regards Justin Harford On Jul 7, 2009, at 3:41 PM, Barry Hadder wrote: > > Well, you make some valid and well articulated points. However, I > personally am not ready to feel discriminated against because they're > not showing accessibility feat

Re: Voice Over in Snow Leopard

2009-07-07 Thread Justin Harford
Alex wrote: > There was Snow Leopard and Leopard accessibility > demonstrations at WWDC both years according to Apple. They just > weren't in the main keynote I guess. You guess? I just watched a WWDC on snowleopard and saw zero (0) accessibility demonstration. Sure they mentioned it regard

Re: Voice Over in Snow Leopard

2009-07-07 Thread Justin Harford
Alex wrote: > What I meant is that I felt that someone made a comment of something > that only insiders would know. It was not something that Apple made > public. OK OK fair enough. I suppose there is a marginal possibility that apple will defy all logic and not introduce the synthesizer tec

Re: Voice Over in Snow Leopard

2009-07-08 Thread Justin Harford
Alex wrote: > anyways in the > ipod iand the IPhone, t is that of nuance Umm… is this English that you are writing to me? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this

Re: Safari 4.0.3

2009-08-16 Thread Justin Harford
LOL I didn't really notice this until now that you guys have pointed it out. I personally would prefer that it say the completed addresses but there you go. It does seem to read the options if you arrow up and down. Justin On Aug 16, 2009, at 1:19 PM, Marie Howarth wrote: > > It only say

snowleopard student discount

2009-08-24 Thread Justin Harford
Hello all Does anyone know if they will offer a student discount for snowleopard as they did with leopard? Regards Justin Harford --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" grou

Re: say it's not so apple

2009-08-24 Thread Justin Harford
I think it's a preference hopefully. Justin On Aug 24, 2009, at 1:28 PM, Marie Howarth wrote: > > one feature I just read they have in snow leopard is voice over will > now read the whole website to you. I cannot say I'm happy about this, > the one thing about VO I love is it does what I want it

Re: skype and the chat frame

2009-08-24 Thread Justin Harford
w can be useful too. Depends on the key command to which you are adjusted. Regards Justin Harford On Aug 24, 2009, at 3:08 PM, Chantel Cuddemi wrote: > > Vo shift function right arrow will fix this. It'll bring you to the > end of the chat. > On Aug 24, 2009, at 5:46 PM, Yum

Re: unnecissary voices?

2009-08-25 Thread Justin Harford
Good point. I think apple could stand to replace like 15 of those voices with 15 different language synthesizers. Justin On Aug 25, 2009, at 7:16 AM, william lomas wrote: > > hi all I know bad news, bells etc. are commical voices but aren't > they a waste of space in the OS, really? > T

Re: voices on os x

2009-08-25 Thread Justin Harford
high quality" has only come up since the days of Leopard and Alex. I used to use Fred, which worked just fine before apple broke it, but truly, if it is a choice between having "low-quality" language support vs no language support whatso

Re: unnecissary voices/foreign language synthesis

2009-08-25 Thread Justin Harford
they refuse to do so. At least this way, myself and others needn't be left so dumbfounded at the fact that they would include such clever integration of foreign speech synthesis and localization in their iPhone, and not in their computers. It really just doesn't make since. Re

Re: i wait to upgrade

2009-08-25 Thread Justin Harford
I sure would like to upgrade but since I depend on Acapela infovox ivox, as well as LaTeX, I think I will have to wait till both of those are fixed with SnowLeopard. Regards Justin Harford On Aug 25, 2009, at 12:29 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: > Hmm. I bet getting rid of a lot of legacy

Re: Turning off screensaver in Leopard

2009-08-25 Thread Justin Harford
Interesting. If I press VO right arrow it definitely won't go past 83%, but if I just press right arrow, it pushes it the rest of the way to 100%. Hope this helps Justin On Aug 25, 2009, at 12:32 PM, Daniel K. Gartmann wrote: > > Hi, > > I can't push the slider to "never" on the screensaver

Re: unnecissary voices/foreign language synthesis

2009-08-25 Thread Justin Harford
pard as a direct result > of people making their wishes known. So, send your suggestion to > accessibil...@apple.com > and keep reminding them from time to time. If you think about it, > this is how many features find their ways into many products. > On Aug 25, 2009, at 3:22 PM, J

Re: unnecissary voices/foreign language synthesis

2009-08-25 Thread Justin Harford
ut when they do do wrong. I try to do this in as civil a way as I know. If you don't agree with this, then let me know. Regards Justin Harford On Aug 25, 2009, at 1:14 PM, william lomas wrote: > > Justin and all, they told me that they would consider it in the future > it i

infovox ivox beta

2009-08-28 Thread Justin Harford
Hi all Would any one here happen to have tried the infovox ivox voices with snow leopard? How do they work? J --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send e

Re: Braille tables for other languages

2009-08-28 Thread Justin Harford
I would love to also see someone help them get braille tables in Spanish. I would more love to do it myself but I don't have the necessary resources to send them, I.E access to a windows or linux computer with such tables. Regards Justin Harford On 28/08/2009, at 12:02, Anne Robe

Re: As unreliable as Windows

2009-08-29 Thread Justin Harford
rward, but then they go and break things that worked really well in the prior system which leaves one wondering if it is really a step forward. I guess ultimately it might be a step forward. I like the new antonio voice in the castellian spanish package from acapela. Regards Justin Harford

Re: As unreliable as Windows

2009-08-30 Thread Justin Harford
nder and itunes? maybe I'm > missing something here. once I played around with some of the settings > in VO, everything worked great, if not better. > > On Aug 30, 2009, at 7:24 AM, Justin Harford wrote: > >> >> I found it went faster, about 30 mins, when I did a clea

adium empty notifications in contacts

2009-08-30 Thread Justin Harford
Hi all Something strange, in adium, before each contact name it says "empty". I suspect that this is an issue for verbosity, would any one have an idea of what element the list items in the adium contacts would be? Maybe we could tweak somehing to make that stop? Justi --~--~-~

Re: Snowleopard, Safari, and Voiceover

2009-08-30 Thread Justin Harford
te as great since the beginning of vo. Regards Justin Harford El Aug 30, 2009, a las 2:07 PM, Marie Howarth escribió: > > I'm not having this issue at all I'm afraid. > > On Aug 30, 2009, at 9:58 PM, Jessi and Goldina wrote: > >> >> hmm, this is odd. cuz didn&

Re: Bugs in Snow Leopard?

2009-08-30 Thread Justin Harford
Hey there I just made the screen go white on black. Turn off vo, press the cmd vo 8, and turn vo back on. I can't help you with the second one. Justin El Aug 30, 2009, a las 3:42 PM, Larry Wanger escribió: > > Hi, > > I've noticed that you can't change the screen contrast from black on > wh

snow leopard and rom

2009-08-31 Thread Justin Harford
Hi all So I was using 1 gb of ram with my macbook running snow leopard. I upgraded it to 4 gb yesterday and am finding that it works noticably better. So I recommend a a ram upgrade if you are using less than 2 gb lol. Justin --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You re

snow leopard and rom

2009-08-31 Thread Justin Harford
Hi all So I was using 1 gb of ram with my macbook running snow leopard. I upgraded it to 4 gb yesterday and am finding that it works noticably better. So I recommend a a ram upgrade if you are using less than 2 gb lol. Justin --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You rec

Re: testing settings

2009-08-31 Thread Justin Harford
It's the list view. cmd option 3 El Aug 31, 2009, a las 9:06 AM, Marie Howarth escribió: > > The mail issue, I'm going to test this one. but let me clarify itunes, > the browser as you put it, is this the grid view? I am having no > problems here. checked all of the options, artists, albums, etc

insertion point solution for windows users

2009-08-31 Thread Justin Harford
your keyboard cursor. Interesting Justin Harford --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe

tables in text documents

2009-09-01 Thread Justin Harford
t would be really cool to be able to save a doc as HTML, code the tables, and save it back as doc. Regards Justin Harford --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this

turning pages in PDF

2009-09-01 Thread Justin Harford
mands. I was curious if anyone might have discovered these commands at all? I generaly like to view my PDFs page by page so I get a sense of the size of each page and the number of pages in a document. Regards Justin Harford --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You receiv

Re: turning pages in PDF

2009-09-01 Thread Justin Harford
Awesome thanks. El Sep 1, 2009, a las 2:05 PM, Barry Hadder escribió: > > You use page- up or page down. If you are using a Macbook, those keys > will be fn-up or fn-down. > > > On Sep 1, 2009, at 3:38 PM, Justin Harford wrote: > >> >> Hi all >> >>

Re: copying text from mail?

2009-09-02 Thread Justin Harford
Hey there Yep the vo command for select is broken when you are reading a message, but that interestingly does not mean we can't highlight text. Just use the conventional word doc commands, shift right/left arrow, shift option right/left arrow, shift up/down arrow etc. Works fine. Justi

going to white on black

2009-09-02 Thread Justin Harford
+ cmd + 8. VO will announce the change. Interestingly enough you can keep pressing the command toggling back and forth without having to do pass through, but when you inact another VO command, then it goes back to the usual condition of not working. Regards Justin Harford

interesting bug with the save dialog

2009-09-02 Thread Justin Harford
e with the keyboard cursor. Let me know what you all find. Justin Harford --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroup

alva 544 traveler not connecting

2009-09-02 Thread Justin Harford
recognize it. Is anyone else noticing this unfortunate dispute between their braille display and their mac? What could we do to help them settle their differences without giving each other and their owners the silent treatment? ;) Regards Just

Re: can't control-click on misspelled words

2009-09-03 Thread Justin Harford
Howdy This really depends on where you are talking about. It has never worked under email since the days of Leopard (not tiger). I find it still works under textedit. In safari, has anyone tried that? Justin El Sep 3, 2009, a las 8:23 AM, James & Nash escribió: > > I can't comment right

Re: interesting bug with the save dialog

2009-09-03 Thread Justin Harford
to do something. I was not interested in an alternative solution, I was interested to see if people have experienced the same thing as to know if it could be reported. Thank you Justin Harford El Sep 3, 2009, a las 1:49 AM, Marie Howarth escribió: > > use vo, works fine. > > On Sep 3,

Re: can't control-click on misspelled words

2009-09-03 Thread Justin Harford
She was using the context menu. It is true that we can still use the spelling dialog which is what we may have to do. I personally have been more partial to the way without the dialog though. Justin El Sep 3, 2009, a las 10:32 AM, James & Nash escribió: > > I thought you could use the appl

Re: can't control-click on misspelled words

2009-09-03 Thread Justin Harford
That maybe so but the old ones still work. El Sep 3, 2009, a las 12:35 PM, Robert Carter escribió: > > Hi, > > I am not at home so can't test it but there are new commands for > moving to the next and previous misspelled word. They are vo-e and > vo-shift-e > > Robert Carter > > - Origina

Re: Problems with Wal-Mart web site.

2009-09-03 Thread Justin Harford
Hey there Yeah the only thing here is that it just says "group". It doesn't really tell you that you are in an edit field, but you can just type your search term and press tab once again to go to the search button. J El Sep 3, 2009, a las 1:28 PM, Dan escribió: > > Hi, > I'll give that a t

Re: Letting Apple Accessibility know when they've done a good job

2009-09-04 Thread Justin Harford
Howdy El Sep 4, 2009, a las 1:10 AM, James & Nash escribió: > Also, Lets be grateful that > NFB et al havne't written a review yet of SL. Oh heavens no, we wouldn't want them to discover these bugs! Justin --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because

Re: safari sluggish and slow

2009-09-04 Thread Justin Harford
I just did this with wikipedia and google opened at the same time and had no problem. El Sep 4, 2009, a las 12:53 PM, william lomas escribió: > > all the more reason to wait for updates, everyone dives in to quickly > > On 4 Sep 2009, at 20:06, anouk radix wrote: > >> >> HEllo, yeah so first it

Re: cool google feature accessible in snow leopard

2009-09-04 Thread Justin Harford
humm this does not work for me. I actually feel like this worked in Leopard, and probably better. El Sep 4, 2009, a las 4:43 PM, John J Herzog escribió: > > Hi listers, > If you go to google.com, and type in some search terms, you can now > hit the down arrow to cycle through a list of suggest

Re: A VO Bug: IP addresses

2009-09-04 Thread Justin Harford
Howdy Maybe give us more details on what to do. I typed 192.1.8.1.1 in textedit and had no prob. Justin El Sep 4, 2009, a las 5:02 PM, Buddy Brannan escribió: > > Hi all, > > Wonder who can replicate this? It's sort of important: > > Just type in an IP address. Perhaps any IP address, but fo

Re: Difficulties with preview and long documents.

2009-09-04 Thread Justin Harford
Yep go to view and set it to show single pages rather than single continuous pages. El Sep 4, 2009, a las 1:49 PM, kaare dehard escribió: > > Was wondering if I could get some tips from you folks. I am reading a > large document in preview, and I am having difficulties getting it to > read fro

Re: Macintosh Word Processor Software by Mariner Software

2009-09-04 Thread Justin Harford
I stoped holding my breath with Mariner a couple years ago. I remember they were going to make accessible software but the years went by and the versions went by and nothing happened. I think I'll continue to breathe normally. Justin El Sep 4, 2009, a las 7:16 AM, James & Nash escribió: > O

Re: A VO Bug: IP addresses

2009-09-05 Thread Justin Harford
Yep I reproduced it but it is not in just any old text field like you said it would be. J El Sep 4, 2009, a las 8:27 PM, Chris Polk escribió: > > I can also produce this. weird for sure! > > On Sep 4, 2009, at 8:25 PM, Mike Arrigo wrote: > >> >> Yep, can reproduce this one for sure, very stran

Re: Macintosh Word Processor Software by Mariner Software

2009-09-05 Thread Justin Harford
issed a brace or typed something incorrectly > lol > - Original Message - > From: Justin Harford > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Sent: Saturday, September 05, 2009 3:42 AM > Subject: Re: Macintosh Word Processor Software by Mariner Software > > I stop

Re: Clickable

2009-09-05 Thread Justin Harford
but it basically calls things clickable that really are not clickable. J El Sep 5, 2009, a las 10:45 AM, Krister Ekstrom escribió: > > I think it's a wonderful thing that it says "clickable". This means > that VO in fact recognizes those kinds of new links that don't look > like links. It had tr

Re: Vo-shift-space bar is broken

2009-09-06 Thread Justin Harford
Works fine here. On Sep 5, 2009, at 4:58 PM, M. Taylor wrote: > > Hello, > > As yet, I have not been able to get the VO+Shift+Space Bar to work > on my > MacBook Pro in any Finder window or Mac application. > > Several times have tried to do the following: > > 1. > Route the Mouse pointer to th

Re: Clickable

2009-09-06 Thread Justin Harford
Hello On Sep 6, 2009, at 2:28 AM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: > Those things that VO has > reported as being clickable have in fact been clickable OK very well. So in this article http://www.examiner.com/x-6741-SF-Family-Examiner~y2009m9d6-Boy-11-stabbed-on-SF-bus-Friday-nearly-dies pretty much ev

Re: using macbook with closed lid?

2009-09-07 Thread Justin Harford
wake the computer from sleep. The thing about this is that you run the risk of overheating your computer, especially if you have it cooped up in a backpack on top of being closed. Let us know how it works. Justin Harford On Sep 7, 2009, at 4:04 AM, anouk radix wrote: > > Hi everyo

Re: Clickable

2009-09-07 Thread Justin Harford
icated but > you needn't be so snotty about it. > > Happy Alexander Berkman Day, > cdh > On Sep 7, 2009, at 12:33 AM, Justin Harford wrote: > >> >> Hello >> On Sep 6, 2009, at 2:28 AM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: >> >>> Those things that VO has >

Re: audio higjack pro

2009-09-07 Thread Justin Harford
I used audio hijack today and it worked great. On Sep 7, 2009, at 12:36 PM, James & Nash wrote: > > I'm not sure but I thought sound flower was part of the instant hijack > althoug not directly connected. > - Original Message - > From: "Dan Eickmeier" > To: > Sent: Monday, September 07,

Re: applescript idea

2009-09-07 Thread Justin Harford
That would be neat. J On Sep 7, 2009, at 2:35 PM, Yuma Antoine Decaux wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I was just hacing a milkshake and thought of a possible script to help > polyglotts in this list? > > I believe this should be possible, bbut since i am not acquainted > enough with applescript, ple

Re: Victor Reader Soft Macintosh

2009-09-08 Thread Justin Harford
Haha you *are pretty naive. We have to remember that RFBD don't just serve the blind, but also people with other print disabilities. J On Sep 8, 2009, at 3:51 PM, Chris Gilland wrote: > If RFB&D made it, and it's for the blind and disabled, wouldn't that > naturally probably mean it's access

Re: A solution for stopping voiceover from saying empty in the contacts table in Adium

2009-09-08 Thread Justin Harford
Awesome thank you so much. J On Sep 8, 2009, at 8:37 PM, Dan Eickmeier wrote: > > Hi all,a friend of mine who's not on this list, was playing with > verbosity settings, and we found that if you go under list, and > customise it so that the status isn't spoken, this will fix the > problem of vo

Re: so slow

2009-09-10 Thread Justin Harford
Nope its not the ram. My mac has 4 gb of ram and it is still quite slow. it is the quicknav. Turn it off and it works better. Justin On Sep 10, 2009, at 6:42 AM, Jessi and Goldina wrote: > > I find voiceover to be a tad bit more sluggish when arrowing through > when quicknav is on, but mayb

Re: Multi-language spell checking in Snow Leopard [was Re: About nisus writer and spell checking]

2009-09-10 Thread Justin Harford
So that's what it is. I love being able to write in Spanish and English now without having to change languages for spell check. If anything, SL has been an improvement for bilingual people. J On Sep 10, 2009, at 10:34 AM, Esther wrote: > > Hello James and Annie, > > I don't use Nisus Write

Re: iPhone 3GS iPod Application Extended Playback Features Now Accessible With VoiceOver Screen Reader

2009-09-10 Thread Justin Harford
Hey there Mark This is not new with 3.1. We have had this since the original release back in June. Regards Justin On Sep 10, 2009, at 11:33 AM, M. Taylor wrote: > > [As Posted on the Candleshore BLOG] > > iPhone 3GS iPod Application Extended Playback Features Now > Accessible With > VoiceO

Re: iTunes is Buggy?

2009-09-11 Thread Justin Harford
Hello One thing I can say is that the tab key sort of works under the mac. The thing about it is that it is not disabled, but that it is just not working with vo. This goes back to the issue of the broken cursor tracking in iTunes. The keyboard cursor is moving through the lists, its j

Re: upgrading.

2009-09-11 Thread Justin Harford
That's right. It is set to automatically install as an upgrade to what you have. You won't lose anything. Justin On Sep 11, 2009, at 11:54 AM, erik burggraaf wrote: > > Hi guys, I'm pretty sure I won't break anything heren but... Sighs > when I went to install snowleppard today I got an ins

Re: VLC does not work on Snow Leopard at the moment

2009-09-12 Thread Justin Harford
I'm listening to VLC right now. Justin On Sep 12, 2009, at 7:11 AM, James & Nash wrote: > > Hi folks, > > From what i've been reading http://www.jbkempf.com/blog/ VLC does not > currently seem to work on Snow Leopard. Just thought I'd pass this > on. I > apologize if this is out of date news.

Re: Voice Over and Arabic?

2009-09-12 Thread Justin Harford
I think another good question here might be, how is the localization in Arabic. Certainly assistivewear have had an arabic voice for the last 6 months, but can the system localize in Arabic? Justin On Sep 12, 2009, at 8:12 AM, Yuma Antoine Decaux wrote: > > Hi, > > There is an infovox ivox

Re: Localization was Voice Over and Arabic?

2009-09-12 Thread Justin Harford
abic by VO. Justin Harford On Sep 12, 2009, at 1:27 PM, william lomas wrote: > > yes > > On 12 Sep 2009, at 20:36, James & Nash wrote: > >> >> When we want the system localized, presumeably we have to install the >> language packs for that language in the instal

Re: awesome new keyboard command in itunes 9

2009-09-14 Thread Justin Harford
Lol that command has been around since iTunes 4 or 5 probably. I used it all the time when iTunes wasn't "accessible". Yep that's old news. J On Sep 14, 2009, at 8:36 AM, BlindMacMan wrote: > > Hello! > > Just as an add-on to your Command-Option-F "find" in iTunes, after you > enter your sea

Re: Turning off Maiol preview pane

2009-09-14 Thread Justin Harford
if you imagine an embetted number pad on the laptop. Hmm, I should think that on a desktop this would just be numpad 5. I hope that works. Justin Harford On Sep 14, 2009, at 11:23 AM, Brett Campbell wrote: > > Hello, > > I visited the archives and believe I followed the instructio

Re: kill application command

2009-09-14 Thread Justin Harford
Howdy Press cmd+option+esc to bring up the force quit apps dialog. I believe that cmd+option+shift+esc is supposed to just force quit the app in focus but I have never done that before. J On Sep 14, 2009, at 4:57 PM, anouk radix wrote: > > Hello, A bit disturbingly to me although os x itse

Re: preventing adium from reading message history

2009-09-14 Thread Justin Harford
After interacting with the unknown, press vo+cmd+shift+left arrow to wrap to the bottom. Conversely, press vo+shift+end to go to the bottom of the window. Justin On Sep 14, 2009, at 6:09 PM, anouk radix wrote: > > Hmm i did turn off message history and still i get this. > > On Sep 15, 2009,

Re: MacOS RFB&D Downloader

2009-09-14 Thread Justin Harford
Right I was about to say the same thing. This is great that we have a way to download RFBD books to our macs, but still annoying that we haven't got a way to play them. Do you have any suggestions Greg? This is a really great idea. Justin Harford On Sep 14, 2009, at 10:19 PM, mich

Re: MacOS RFB&D Downloader

2009-09-15 Thread Justin Harford
Except one problem, I don't want to buy a victor stream or booksense. :) Regards Justin On Sep 15, 2009, at 6:25 AM, Woody Anna Dresner wrote: > > Hi justin, > > RFB&D offers their books in DAISY as well as protected WMA, and you > can connect a Victor Stream or Book Sense to the Mac, so you can

lowering the verbosity of the finder column view

2009-09-16 Thread Justin Harford
since I already know that I'm in a list. That's all the column view is. Could anyone direct me to the correct verbosity settings that need to be tampered with to get rid of this? Regards Justin Harford --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this mess

Re: Spanish Braille tables

2009-09-16 Thread Justin Harford
Hi Lindsay If you can find any Spanish braille tables that show the different symbols for Spanish braille, there is a couple on this list who can make Spanish braille tables available. For example, you could find the tables in JAWS and send them out to Anne Robertson, who is on this list

Re: a few questions about Iphone OS 3.1

2009-09-16 Thread Justin Harford
I would say its a bug. I just tried it on my iPhone and I didn't even get three items when I tried to flick down through headers, but I looked at it with my mac first and I certainly know as well as you do that there are quite a few headings on the page. What are other people finding? Jus

Re: A possible solution to the Voice Over not responding when using certain options in Keyboard Commander

2009-09-17 Thread Justin Harford
I don't use my system voice though for the time and unread messages commands though. J On Sep 17, 2009, at 6:16 AM, James & Nash wrote: > > Hi folks, > > Firstly, thank you to Anna for telling me how to enable the option for > hearing how many unread messages are in Mail via Keyboard commander

Re: Typing Spanish characters

2009-09-17 Thread Justin Harford
Another thing worth mentioning if you don't want to change back and forth between keyboard layouts is that you can use the option key. option+e then type a vowel and it puts an accent over it option+n and then type the n and it putes a tilde over it option+u and then type u and it puts a diali

Re: Changing level of description in the Finder's Column view

2009-09-18 Thread Justin Harford
That is peculiar. If you go to set a custom setting for the column view, it simply ignores your preference and sets it back to default. I just set mine to low and that worked. J On Sep 18, 2009, at 2:25 PM, James & Nash wrote: > > Hi folks, > I've found the listing in the Verbosity table f

writing accents in LaTeX

2009-09-18 Thread Justin Harford
[utf8]{inputenc} Then yu must save your document in a utf8 encoding and then you can have your accents show up in your document output without having to do code. Much better if you want to spellcheck and listen to the docs read out to you with the beautiful infovox ivox voices. Regards Justin

Re: Using voice over during a call on iphone.

2009-09-20 Thread Justin Harford
Send your opinions to accessibil...@apple.com. I had an extensive correspondence over this with them a while back. The more people they see with that opinion, the more likely it is that we will get a fix. J D On Sep 19, 2009, at 11:37 AM, Tony Bernedal wrote: > > Hi Donna. > aha, you need

Re: Typing special characters

2009-09-20 Thread Justin Harford
Lindsay You should consider asking your linguistics teachers what they know about LaTeX and unicode. J On Sep 18, 2009, at 2:35 PM, Lindsay Yazzolino wrote: > > Hi, > > I am currently taking a linguistics course, and am wondering if it is > possible to type Unicode characters using the Mac. M

Re: windows 7

2009-09-21 Thread Justin Harford
Boot camp is actually pretty accessible now. You now have the ability to set the size of the partition that boot camp makes with snow leopard. You can install windows 7 just fine, or at least I was able to anyway. I don't use it much though and I don't know if there are drivers I'm unaw

Re: reading from links that just expand question

2009-09-21 Thread Justin Harford
Do you use groups mode? It could be that VO is not detecting the dynamically changing HTML content which is a weakness of groups mode. Why don't you send us the URL so we could varify what you are talking about. J On Sep 21, 2009, at 7:20 PM, Christina wrote: > > Hi list, > > I am tryi

Re: windows 7

2009-09-21 Thread Justin Harford
turn up the system volume. Justin Harford On Sep 21, 2009, at 7:51 PM, chris polk wrote: > > Hi: > just my observations here. > In windows xp/vista/7 on the new mackbook pros that came out in june, > there are audio issues. > the volume is really low and can not be adjusted.

Re: windows 7

2009-09-21 Thread Justin Harford
I did this on a macbook pro original purchased in april of 2006. On Sep 21, 2009, at 8:10 PM, chris polk wrote: > > what version of the macbook are you using? > > On Sep 21, 2009, at 8:04 PM, Justin Harford wrote: > >> >> It does not exactly mean you can't do it w

Re: windows 7

2009-09-21 Thread Justin Harford
Hello On Sep 21, 2009, at 9:30 PM, chris polk wrote: > you can fix the caps lock easy enough with fusion How do you do this? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this

Re: Safari - is there a way to stop the address bar from completing websites please?

2009-09-23 Thread Justin Harford
Press the spacebar once before typing the address. On Sep 23, 2009, at 11:46 AM, James & Nash wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > Is there a way to stop the Safari address bar from completing web site > addresses please? > > Thank you > > Take care > > James > > > --~--~-~--~~~-

Re: Need a Version of Adium that I Can Tolerate

2009-09-24 Thread Justin Harford
So the latest version is 1.3.6. I just google "older versions of adium" and there is a website from which older versions can be downloaded. It gives you a list of them and the dates they were released. Anyone remember when adium became "accessible"? I tried a version from Februray of 200

Re: facebook chat

2009-09-24 Thread Justin Harford
Nope haven't noticed. On Sep 24, 2009, at 2:22 PM, william lomas wrote: > > Hi has anyone else using adium noted that the facebook chat client > plugin is inaccessible? > I.e. it doesn't show the latest messages as in MsN etc? > > > > --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~

Re: Need a Version of Adium that I Can Tolerate

2009-09-24 Thread Justin Harford
Whatever. The latest stable release not beta. But anyway she was asking about older versions not newer ones. J On Sep 24, 2009, at 2:43 PM, Chantel Cuddemi wrote: > > No it isn't. There's beta version. It's version four point something I > think. > On Sep 2

Re: Voiceover crashing when Using google search

2009-09-24 Thread Justin Harford
esults and had no problem. What are your web settings? Justin Harford On Sep 24, 2009, at 9:39 PM, Pete Nalda wrote: > > > On Sep 24, 2009, at 2:27 PM, Howard Dupuis wrote: > >> >> It is not just you. But for me, at least, it restarts as quickly as >> it >>

notes in mail

2009-09-25 Thread Justin Harford
Has anyone noticed that you can't read notes anymore in mail? Or has someone figured out how to do it? Justin Harford --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To pos

Re: VO and screenwriting software

2009-09-25 Thread Justin Harford
anual screenplay.pdf file and it looks as though the package was written with the Academy of of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in mind. Justin Harford On Sep 25, 2009, at 10:32 AM, Israel wrote: > > Hi Everyone! > > I am wondering does anyone use a screenwriting software with VO? &g

Re: iPhone honored by NFB

2009-09-25 Thread Justin Harford
Sweet. On Sep 25, 2009, at 11:53 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: > > I didn't notice this mentioned on the list previously. I was one of > the > speakers at the NFB Web Accessibility Day in Baltimore MD on Tuesday > and > during the lunch Marc Maurer, President of the NFB, gave out some > awards >

Re: iPhone honored by NFB

2009-09-25 Thread Justin Harford
Uh yeah. On Sep 25, 2009, at 2:59 PM, Jean-Philippe Rykiel wrote: > Sorry for a very down-to-earth question, but does the IPhone come > with V O as well? > JPR > http://myspace.com/jeanphilipperykiel > - Original Message - > From: Chris Blouch > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Sent

Re: load of rubbish!

2009-09-25 Thread Justin Harford
Wow just listened. Well I would have to say that apple made a mistake. They designed their phone for competent blind people. Regards Justin Harford On Sep 25, 2009, at 2:55 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: > > For those curious, the audio can be found here: > > http://www.bbc.co.u

Re: How to go to a new website in Safari

2009-09-25 Thread Justin Harford
cmd+l takes you to the address bar. On Sep 25, 2009, at 10:53 PM, Kevin Gibbs wrote: > Guys, > AS some of you may know, I'm a guy who doesn't yet own a Mac but > wishes to learn as much as I can before buying one. If I open > Safari and want to go to a new website using a link

Automator

2009-09-26 Thread Justin Harford
Has anyone tried to use automator since upgrading to SL? I find I get an access of busy signals which at times renders the app nearly impossible to use. Justin Harford --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: unzipping password-protected archives

2009-09-26 Thread Justin Harford
unzip ~/file.zip This is what I use to unzip my bookshare files. Regards Justin Harford On Sep 26, 2009, at 10:30 PM, Esther wrote: > > Hi Anna, > > You need to get the Unarchiver from: > > http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/unarchiver.html > > or else use Stuffit Expander. This

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