Re: Setting up the weather app [was Re: iphone 4g and 3gs]

2010-11-08 Thread Mike Arrigo
Here's another clue that might help you go through email faster, perhaps ou already do this, but, in the inbox, interact with the messages table, and place the voice over cursor on the subject column. Now you can just arrow up and down and hear the subject of each message without all the extra i

Re: accessibility of MacBook Air

2010-11-08 Thread Mike Arrigo
d I go about sharing the drive on my > macbook, so that an air could use it to install its OS? > - Original Message - From: "Mike Arrigo" > To: > Sent: Monday, November 08, 2010 4:31 AM > Subject: Re: accessibility of MacBook Air > > > You can share the

Re: Some Apple Mail Questions using voiceover

2010-11-09 Thread Mike Arrigo
ne and have my air right with me. > > Marlaina > On Nov 8, 2010, at 4:22 PM, Mike Arrigo wrote: > > If you're still having problems, perhaps we can hop on skype, and I'll see > what I can do to help you. > On Nov 7, 2010, at 10:03 PM, Marlaina Lieberg wrote: &g

Re: iTUnes?

2010-11-09 Thread Mike Arrigo
One thing I would suggest, if you're just wanting to play songs, don't use itunes. Download the VLC player. On Nov 8, 2010, at 9:27 PM, Jason SW wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm pretty new to this list, but not new to owning a Mac. I bought my iMac in > May, and since then I have also bought an iPod

Re: accessibility of MacBook Air

2010-11-09 Thread Mike Arrigo
ard >>> 8Gb which has the OS on it for reinstall purposes. >>> On 8 Nov 2010, at 09:12, Paul Erkens wrote: >>> >>> Hi Mike, >>> >>> This sounds very interesting. How would I go about sharing the drive on my >>> macbook, so that an

Re: Virtual cursor of some sort in OS X

2010-11-09 Thread Mike Arrigo
The voice over cursor does this, when you navigate, you move to all the items voiceover can detect. On Nov 9, 2010, at 6:04 AM, RvR wrote: > Hi everyone, > Tried to search the archives for this, probably didn’t choose the correct > keywords cause I couldn’t find what I needed. So I try my luck w

Re: how do I click a link in an email message

2010-11-09 Thread Mike Arrigo
Hi, interact with the text of the message, and when you get to the link, activate it in the usual way. On Nov 9, 2010, at 11:32 AM, Marlaina Lieberg wrote: > Yesterday I was able to click a link found in an email message. Today I > don't know why I can't do it. I make certain I am interacting

Re: how to send an brf file to my juliet:

2010-11-09 Thread Mike Arrigo
Hopefully they will do this, more and more blind people are using the mac. On Nov 9, 2010, at 12:09 PM, Chenelle Hancock wrote: > hi eric, marlin, sara and alison: > > I wanted to let you all know that i just got off of the phone with a db > consultant and they had explained to e in no uncertai

Re: read to end of doc

2010-11-09 Thread Mike Arrigo
Interact with the text, then press control option a, this reads from the cursor to the end, or until you press another key. On Nov 9, 2010, at 5:44 PM, Nancy Badger wrote: > When I used a PC, with jaws, the command insert down arrow would always read > from the curser position to the end of the

Re: OS 10.65 is available for download

2010-11-10 Thread Mike Arrigo
Yes, looks like bluetooth braille displays are more reliable, ad they mention fixing an issue with safari, probably the crash that continuously was happening with some pages. Installed it on my first mac mini and it's working well, now I need to do my other mini and my macbook. On Nov 10, 2010,

Re: Victor Stream with Windows 7 under vmware.

2010-11-10 Thread Mike Arrigo
I think it might be vmware, since I had the same thing happen with windows XP. My suggestion for audible is to simply use a card reader, and liet itunes handle the downloading of the audible content. On Nov 10, 2010, at 10:30 PM, Kevin Reeves wrote: > Hey folks. A friend of mine has an MBP 13-in

Re: Victor Stream with Windows 7 under vmware.

2010-11-11 Thread Mike Arrigo
the downloaded audible > files to the card manually through the finder? WOuld that work? Thanks again. > > Kevin > On Nov 10, 2010, at 11:19 PM, Mike Arrigo wrote: > >> I think it might be vmware, since I had the same thing happen with windows >> XP. My suggestion f

Re: OS 10.65 is available for download

2010-11-11 Thread Mike Arrigo
Took about 3 minutes here for each mac, and I have 3 of them. On Nov 11, 2010, at 10:12 AM, Mark BurningHawk Baxter wrote: > Well aren't *YOU* just the bees' meow. :) I have basic Charter cable > Internet here, and it took under 20 minutes to download--in fact, the whole > install probably only

Re: Mac Mini and lack of display

2010-11-11 Thread Mike Arrigo
Unless something has changed, connecting a display will make a difference, it doesn't have to be turned on, just connected. The 2008 model could be fooled in to thinking there was a monitor connected by connecting an adapter that would allow it to be connected to a TV, it was the DVI to Video ad

Re: where do you go to get international voices for your mb pro?

2010-11-14 Thread Mike Arrigo
Check out the acapela voices, www.assistiveware.com On Nov 13, 2010, at 3:57 PM, Chenelle Hancock wrote: > > hi all: > i wanted to know where would i go to be able to get international voices > such an austraillian voice, an e brittish english voice, etc for my mb pro? > chenelle > > Sent from

Re: moving to a computer-based entertainment system

2010-11-14 Thread Mike Arrigo
If you get something like the mac mini, or really any mac for that matter, there's no need even to import anything. Just use the dvd player app that the mac provides. On Nov 13, 2010, at 9:01 PM, Donna Goodin wrote: > Hi all, > > tonight my husband and i have been talking about moving to a comp

Re: accessibility of chrome updated?

2010-11-15 Thread Mike Arrigo
I think the newest builds have some access, but it's still on going, give it a try and see what you think. On Nov 15, 2010, at 1:54 AM, Yuma Decaux wrote: > Is it navigable now or has the blind community still been shunned on the > latest 4 or 5 releases since last year? > > > Best regards, >

Re: macbook pro battery.

2010-11-15 Thread Mike Arrigo
You should get muchmore than 3 hours, especially if the brightness is 0, are you remembering to turn it down to zero each time? The mac assmes that if you shut down with a brightness of 0 and you might forget and think your display is not working the next time you power up. So, if you shut down

Re: Doing a put in the land of ftp

2010-11-16 Thread Mike Arrigo
terminal is the unix shell prompt. On Nov 15, 2010, at 6:51 PM, Marlaina Lieberg wrote: > Transmit works great. I don't know what you guys mean by terminal. > On Nov 15, 2010, at 12:23 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: > > Yeah the is no upolad in safari. Yo will need to use trasnmit or terminal. > > Go

Re: macbook pro battery.

2010-11-16 Thread Mike Arrigo
Go into the utilities folder and open system profiler. That will give you all the info about your computer. On Nov 15, 2010, at 9:20 PM, Nektarios Mallas wrote: > Hello. > How can I tel which macbook model I have? Is it possible that I purchased an > earlier model? > It reports core2 duo 2.66

Re: office for the mack vs i works:

2010-11-16 Thread Mike Arrigo
Go with iwork, Microsoft Office is not voice over accessible. On Nov 16, 2010, at 12:20 PM, Chenelle Hancock wrote: > > hi everyone!, > i wanted to know does it matter really if you have either i-works but not > office for the mb pro or do you need both to operate your mb pro? > chenelle >

Re: office for the mack vs i works:

2010-11-16 Thread Mike Arrigo
You could also try open office which is free. On Nov 16, 2010, at 12:39 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: > Hello Chenelle, > > Unfortunately, Office for Mac is not accessible to VO users so there really > is no choice. > > In any case, iWork09 is very good and can read and produce documents in the >

Re: join a windows network from my macbook.

2010-11-16 Thread Mike Arrigo
You shouldn't need to use this to set the work group. To do this, open network preferences, and click advanced. Click the wins tab, here you can indicate the name of your work group. On Nov 16, 2010, at 3:49 PM, Nektarios Mallas wrote: > Hello list. > I am trying to join my home network from my

Re: join a windows network from my macbook.

2010-11-17 Thread Mike Arrigo
I did that. Now, how do I access my network resources? The list under network is still empty. Nektarios. On Nov 17, 2010, at 4:04 AM, Mike Arrigo wrote: You shouldn't need to use this to set the work group. To do this, open network preferences, and click advanced. Click the wins tab, her

Re: cd drives going out of style:

2010-11-18 Thread Mike Arrigo
The only thing you can redownload I think is apps for iphone and ipod touch devices. TV shows, music, ETC can only be downloaded once. On Nov 17, 2010, at 10:26 PM, Michael Thurman wrote: > I thought that i tunes let you download as many times as you want once you > pay for a track... my annoyan

Re: macbook pro battery.

2010-11-18 Thread Mike Arrigo
I try to remember to change it to 5 percent before shutting down, but as soon as it's booted, I change it to 0 percent, no sense wasting any battery power on a display I can't read. On Nov 18, 2010, at 3:17 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Hi, > > If the brigtness is set to 0, it indeed goes back to

Re: macbook pro battery.

2010-11-18 Thread Mike Arrigo
You might try pressing F1 or function F1 a couple times to make sure it's totally at 0 percent. On Nov 18, 2010, at 3:42 AM, Les Kriegler wrote: > Hi Sarah and Mike, > > I was expecting to have to turn brightness down every time, I should have > someone check. All I know is that VO reports the

Re: Today's Safari update says it includes "Improved stability when using VoiceOver with Safari."

2010-11-18 Thread Mike Arrigo
If it uses a newer webkit, hopefully it fixes the issue of text not reading in a multiline edit box, I've been using the nightly webkit builds to get around that for a while, will download it as soon as I finish my email. On Nov 18, 2010, at 12:25 PM, Bryan Jones wrote: > FYI - Today Apple rele

Re: safari 5.0.3 , macosx 10.6.5 and braille

2010-11-18 Thread Mike Arrigo
If you use the nightly webkit builds, do you still have the problem? I'm thinking this is the same problem that reveals itself with being unable to read the current line with speech in a multiline edit box. On Nov 18, 2010, at 3:35 PM, William Windels wrote: > Hello all, > I have just installed

Re: Altered VoiceOver Behavior in the New Safari

2010-11-20 Thread Mike Arrigo
Sounds like the VO part of the commads are not being recognized, I'm not seeing that behavior here at all. On Nov 20, 2010, at 6:20 AM, Les Kriegler wrote: > Since installing the new version of Safari, some of the keystrokes used to > navigate the web no longer work. Command-VO H hides Safari r

Re: using a headsite mike lon the mac mini

2010-11-20 Thread Mike Arrigo
A microphone will fit this connector, but it doesn't provide any amplification, it's line in level which won't be enough for voice communication. You have 2 choices, connect an amplifier, or get a USB headset microphone, they're not that expensive and work quite well. On Nov 20, 2010, at 2:32 PM

tables in Word files

2010-11-21 Thread Mike Arrigo
Hi everyone, I'm actually writing for a friend of mine, she needs to know if there is any way to read tables and forms in Word documents. She sent me one, and we tried it in pages, text edit, and open office. Open office seemed to work the best, though it would still be very difficult to work wi

Re: tables in Word files

2010-11-21 Thread Mike Arrigo
to an email first! How and why this should be who > knows! > > Cheers > Dave > > On 21 Nov 2010, at 17:06, Mike Arrigo wrote: > >> Hi everyone, I'm actually writing for a friend of mine, she needs to know if >> there is any way to read tables and forms in

Re: Screen Curtain on / off

2010-11-22 Thread Mike Arrigo
I have an iphone 3gs, and the screen curtain stays on for me unless I turn it off, same thing for the ipod touch. On Nov 22, 2010, at 3:35 AM, Neil Barnfather - TalkNav wrote: > Hi All, > > I've seen this come up a few times before, but not sure if a resolution was > offered or not. On my previ

Re: sirius and xm radio

2010-11-28 Thread Mike Arrigo
Yes, I use the on line version on my mac, and the iphone app is also accessible. Unfortunately on the Android platform, it's currently a different story, none of the options are labeled. On Nov 27, 2010, at 10:03 PM, Nancy Badger wrote: > Is anyone using the on line version of sirius and sm? A

Re: YouTube videos

2010-11-28 Thread Mike Arrigo
Do you have flash installed? It's needed for most youtube videos to work. On Nov 28, 2010, at 5:56 PM, Kimberly thurman wrote: > I don't seem to be able to listen to YouTube videos. Anybody have any ideas > why and instructions how to fix this? Thanks in advance! :) > > -- > You received thi

Re: Reading bookshare books on the mac

2010-11-30 Thread Mike Arrigo
The way I do it is, use a program like the unarchiver which will unzip password protected zip files. One of the files will have an xml extension, just open that in safari and off you go. On Nov 29, 2010, at 10:59 PM, brandt wrote: > Hi there folks, > > Are there any way of reading a bookshare

Re: the mac and productivity

2010-11-30 Thread Mike Arrigo
You can also try open office, it's free and works fairly well. On Nov 30, 2010, at 12:49 PM, Jim Barbour wrote: > I don't believe any of the Microsoft programs written for the mac are > accessible using voiceover. The mac equivalents - pages, numbers, etc - > are accessible, but you need to figu

Re: question on how to move the mouse

2010-11-30 Thread Mike Arrigo
This depends on how you want to move it. Pressing control option command F5 will move the mouse to the item the voice over cursor is on. You can also set the mouse to follow the voice over cursor, this is a setting in voice over utility. On Nov 30, 2010, at 6:00 PM, Marlaina Lieberg wrote: > An

Re: question on how to move the mouse

2010-12-01 Thread Mike Arrigo
xplore a page or a document using the mouse, how do I do > that? > On Nov 30, 2010, at 6:56 PM, Mike Arrigo wrote: > > This depends on how you want to move it. Pressing control option command F5 > will move the mouse to the item the voice over cursor is on. You can also set &g

Re: question on how to move the mouse

2010-12-02 Thread Mike Arrigo
ple button > on audible to hear book samples. I should have been more clear that I want > to know how to do that sort of thing. > > Marlaina > On Dec 1, 2010, at 6:34 PM, Mike Arrigo wrote: > > You would use the voiceover cursor for that, there's no need to involve

Re: dvd play on the mac

2010-12-03 Thread Mike Arrigo
Usually you don't need to use the menus, after you start to play the disk, press enter. From there, you can use the go menu to navigate the chapters and titles. On Dec 2, 2010, at 5:33 PM, Mary Otten wrote: > Hello all, > > A few days back, I asked about playing dvds on the Mac and somebody hel

Re: bootcamp windows xp

2010-12-03 Thread Mike Arrigo
Other than an answer file, there is no way to install windows without sighted help using boot camp, at that point, it boots from the windows disk, and works just like a PC does. On Dec 3, 2010, at 12:32 AM, Oriol Gómez wrote: > Hi all, > Has any of you found an accessible way to install windows

Re: mac vs jfw

2010-12-03 Thread Mike Arrigo
The mac should work well for all of those things, and you won't need to pay extra to keep the screen reader up to date. And, since you use voiceover on the iphone, you'll have a head start with using a mac. On Dec 3, 2010, at 2:03 PM, richard watson wrote: > Good afternoon, > my name is rick wat

Re: iTunes: is there a good tutorial out there?

2010-12-04 Thread Mike Arrigo
One of my pod casts on blindcooltech deals with itunes, it's an older version, but a lot of the information still applies. On Dec 4, 2010, at 2:02 PM, Marlaina Lieberg wrote: > Sorry, the Mac not Windows. It's very sluggish in Windows and as I'm hardly > using Windows at all, I want it for the

Re: Running Windows

2010-06-27 Thread Mike Arrigo
Voiceover does not work well with paralels, if you're going to run windows in a virtual machine, fusion is the way to go. On Jun 26, 2010, at 9:37 AM, Chris Moore wrote: > I recently bought parallels desktop 5 with the view to run a demo version of > JAWS. I already have Windows XP installed vi

accessing programs that display a status menu icon

2010-06-27 Thread Mike Arrigo
Hi everyone. Has anyone seen programs that, when they run, place an icon in the status menu, I'm assuming this is the area on the top right of the desktop? I've tried 2 different programs, one to control the minimum fan speed, and a java application, both of these claim that they place themselve

Re: Running Windows

2010-06-27 Thread Mike Arrigo
decision had no idea what they were doing. On Jun 27, 2010, at 9:03 AM, Chris Moore wrote: > I wish I had of known this before I bought Parallels! Wonder if they will let > me trade in? Currently downloading the 30 day trail of Fusion ... > On 27 Jun 2010, at 14:58, Mike Arr

Re: iMac and USB Headset

2009-02-28 Thread Mike Arrigo
Hey Robert. Yes, go in to system preferences and choose sound, in the output tab, select the head set, that should work. - Original Message - From: "Robert Carter" To: Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 4:39 PM Subject: iMac and USB Headset > > Hi, > > I have a logitech USB headset th

Re: A Couple Basic Browsing and Mail Questions

2009-03-01 Thread Mike Arrigo
Hi. Regarding your question about browsing, currently the way you are doing it is the only way, there is no say all for web pages. There is a command for this in an edit or scroll area though, and that is control option a Regarding your mail question, yes, if you open the voice over utility,

Re: Questions about bootcamp

2009-03-03 Thread Mike Arrigo
One advantage of fusion is that it will allow you to install windows without sighted help. It also allows you to run wwindows and the mac OS at the same time. It's not quite as responsive as running windows natively, but quite snappy for a virtual machine. - Original Message - From: "C

Re: Questions about bootcamp

2009-03-03 Thread Mike Arrigo
Boot camp will be a bit faster, since windows has all of the processor power and memory to itself, the responsiveness of fusion is quite good though, that's what I use and I have no plans to switch to boot camp because of speed issues. - Original Message - From: "Bejarano, Rafael P."

Re: Safari 4b3 not reading linked text

2009-03-05 Thread Mike Arrigo
I also like the way links worked previously, but thanks for the tip about using vo + l to get the link text, didn't know about that one. - Original Message - From: "Jacob Schmude" To: Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 12:24 PM Subject: Re: Safari 4b3 not reading linked text > > Seeing a

Re: Understanding Blind User's Needs

2009-03-09 Thread Mike Arrigo
I also agree with this, voice over is a great screen reader, and apple has provided the tools to make an application completely accessible. A self voicing program normally should not be needed. - Original Message - From: "Jacob Schmude" To: Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 5:12 AM Subject

Re: flash and VO

2009-03-09 Thread Mike Arrigo
Unfortunately, Adobe does not currently expose flash elements in a way that voice over can use, and last I heard, they didn't think there was enough mac users to spend resources on this. - Original Message - From: To: "MacVisionaries" Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 1:55 PM Subject: flas

Re: The new iTunes, accessibility issues?

2009-03-14 Thread Mike Arrigo
Same here, my visualizer isnot shown because the view menu says show visualizer, but the tab key only goes to the search box, it's easy to get around since you can just use the voice over keys, but definitely different than the previous version. On Mar 14, 2009, at 12:16 AM, David Poehlman w

Re: iTunes new version

2009-03-15 Thread Mike Arrigo
Actually you don't need to go back to the older version, just use the voice over navigation keys instead, that will work fine. On Mar 15, 2009, at 2:03 PM, Justin Harford wrote: > > Hi all > > Since downloading the new version of iTunes I have immediately found > that bug that was mentioned whe

Re: reading pdf files on the mac usingvo?

2009-03-17 Thread Mike Arrigo
Usually, you can just open the PDF file in preview, then interact with the scroll area and read away. On Mar 17, 2009, at 3:49 PM, Maurice Mines wrote: > > hi how dos one read a pdf file on the mac using vo? eny thoughts on > this? > > > --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Y

Re: ipod v3.0 software

2009-03-20 Thread Mike Arrigo
Alex wouldn't even have to run on these devices, I would gladly settle for something like the Fred voice or the old macintalk voice that Outspoken used, anyone remember that? On Mar 20, 2009, at 6:58 PM, Martin Pilkington wrote: > I think it isn't as much a case of the processor not being up

Re: new mac

2009-03-23 Thread Mike Arrigo
Hi, welcome to the list, I'm sure you will enjoy your mac. The first thing I would probably read is the voice over user's guide, that should get you started. - Original Message - From: Wendy To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 4:36 PM Subject: ne

Re: VO and Toast Titanium or others...

2009-04-02 Thread Mike Arrigo
You might try simply burns, it works well. Toast does have some issues, a lot of the controls are just described as unknown. Apparently the same thing happens with version 10 as well. - Original Message - From: "Mike" To: "MacVisionaries" Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 8:48 AM Subject

Re: Software Update Problems - Please help

2009-04-04 Thread Mike Arrigo
If you did not set a password, you should just be able to press enter at this prompt and the install should continue. On Apr 3, 2009, at 3:34 PM, rayna424 wrote: > > Hi Guys. I keep getting a message that software updates are available. > But it asks me for a password, and I don't remember sett

Re: Mac mini

2009-04-12 Thread Mike Arrigo
If you don'tneed to use batteries, the mac mini is a good choice, especially with the new models that are out. All current macs are intel based, so that wouldn't be an issue. I have a mac mini and really like mine, this way you're not paying for a display, but you can connect one if you wi

Re: Mac mini

2009-04-13 Thread Mike Arrigo
If you don't need to use battery power, the mini will work fine. As long as you have a usb keyboard and USB mouse, they will work fine with the mac mini, though some of the keys will be slightly different. In particular, the windows key is the command key, and the alt key is the option key

Re: webkit vs. safari beta?

2009-04-14 Thread Mike Arrigo
I think the newest official release of safari is 3.2, not completely sure on that though. I would use software update and get the newest official release of everything first. I use the nightly builds of webkit and several issues have been fixed since the last release of safari, so I would

Re: Accessible Version Of Office

2009-04-20 Thread Mike Arrigo
Hi, there are actually 2 office products that are accessible, open office which is free, and apple's office suite, called i work version 9. From what I have heard, i work actually works a bit better, but you can get a 30 day trial and compare the 2. On Apr 20, 2009, at 3:43 AM, M AUSTEN wrot

Re: colapsing and expanding taibles in itunes

2009-05-01 Thread Mike Arrigo
Hi, yes, press control option backslash - Original Message - From: "sound warrior" To: "MacVisionaries" Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 8:36 AM Subject: colapsing and expanding taibles in itunes > > hie all i was wurndering if any boddie knows the key bord shortcuts to > expand and cola

Re: Installing mobile speak on nokia 6210 using mac

2009-05-02 Thread Mike Arrigo
Unfortunately, Nokia doesn't currently produce a mac version of PC suite that I know of, they have a Sync plug in I think, but that won't help with installing applications. There are 2 ways that I can think of to do this. You could install using bluetooth, though this will require sighted

Re: Installing mobile speak on nokia 6210 using mac

2009-05-03 Thread Mike Arrigo
The 6210 is a series 60 phone and works with mobile speak. On May 3, 2009, at 4:31 AM, Simon Fogarty wrote: > > Simon, > > yes there is a pc suite type application for the mac platform. > As for mobile speak onto the nokia 6210, is that a series 60 phone? > > If the phone isn't a nokia series 60

Re: VMWare Fusion, Voice Over and setting up keys

2009-05-16 Thread Mike Arrigo
Since you have a mac book, I'm not sure how to get around the insert key issue, but I can help you with the right mouse issue. First, I would go in to the keyboard and mouse part of system preferences, and choose the keyboard commands tab. Turn off the expose and dash board keys. Once this

Re: Why Should I keep Fusion?

2009-05-25 Thread Mike Arrigo
If you don't use windows, there is no reason to use fusion. Unfortunately I still need to use windows for a few things, but it's not an every day thing. Just curious, what do you find so frustrating about voice over? On May 25, 2009, at 4:55 PM, Renee M Zelickson wrote: > Hello All: > I do

Re: Got a new mac mini but have some questions.

2009-06-03 Thread Mike Arrigo
Not sure about importing contacts since I really don't store those on my computer but I can heolp with the keyboard question. A usb windows keyboard will work fine. When you connect it, the mac will probably ask you to press certain keys so that it can determine what type of keyboard you a

Re: Dynamic html and Safari in group mode

2009-06-04 Thread Mike Arrigo
first off, dom mode will generally give you more information, that's the setting I would advise you to use. Second, if you can get the mouse on the right spot, you could then turn off cursor tracking and see if you could read the menus. On Jun 4, 2009, at 7:22 AM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: > >

Re: first effect of safari 4

2009-06-09 Thread Mike Arrigo
I wonder if there is any advantage to using web kit with regard to accessibility now instead of safari 4? - Original Message - From: "Maxwell Ivey Jr." To: Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 4:16 PM Subject: first effect of safari 4 > > Hello group; I too just installed safari 4. I am al

Re: mac voiceover in braille monitor

2009-06-09 Thread Mike Arrigo
o long blind users > have been spoon fed by the screen readers on Windows and they no > longer do what there designed to do in allot of cases. With scripts > and all that, this incourages windows devs not to develope for > access. Thanks, > > Mike > On Jun 9, 2009, a

Re: mac voiceover in braille monitor

2009-06-09 Thread Mike Arrigo
y will actually do > this - blind services buy computers and software for working blind > people. That means Microsoft Windows and JAWS (or window-eyes I guess) > because that's what workplaces use. Apple seems to have accepted and > embraced it's market position as the c

Re: Apple is shrugging off Responsibility for Accessibility

2009-06-10 Thread Mike Arrigo
While I agree that this should not be the final solution I don't think the feature should be removed from voice over. Like it or not, there are going to be some elements that we come across that are not labeled properly. For those times, the ability to label elements is a good thing. I don

Re: mac voiceover in braille monitor

2009-06-10 Thread Mike Arrigo
Buddy, you should and I will help if you need it. This is one of those times when you need to say, set aside what you know about windows because they were clearly expecting it to be like windows, and when they found it wasn't, then it's a bad thing in their view and a bad thing. On Jun 10,

strange issue with adium

2009-06-12 Thread Mike Arrigo
Hi all. Has anyone else had problems with adium recently? I have the newest version, and am using the default server, I think it's hot mail. Anyway, it some times takes a really long time to connect, and some times doesn't connect at all. It was working fine before this started, and I have

Re: The iphone and gps

2009-06-12 Thread Mike Arrigo
I wonder if the folks at way finder will develop a program for the Iphone, they already have Way Finder on several other platforms. On Jun 12, 2009, at 9:58 AM, Josh de Lioncourt wrote: > > The iPhone has GPS. GPS is separate from the Google Maps application > that ships on the iPhone, which

my pod cast on the braille monitor review of voice over

2009-06-15 Thread Mike Arrigo
Hi all. Well, my pod cast on this is not on blind cool tech yet, however, it is on another site for those who are interested. This is my 8th mac pod cast, and my goal is to talk about and demonstrate that many of the tasks this review says are difficult actually are quite simple and work v

Re: Recognizing a heading which is also a link

2009-06-15 Thread Mike Arrigo
Hi. When you're on the heading, interact with it, and the link will appear. It can then be selected as usual. On Jun 15, 2009, at 2:54 AM, constantlyvaria...@gmail.com wrote: > > Hi! > Now this may just be me not getting a concept right. Probably is. But > here goes, anyway. > Can somebody plea

Re: Voice over and web surfing,

2009-06-24 Thread Mike Arrigo
Acording to the new features, yes it does. On Jun 24, 2009, at 12:47 PM, Justin Harford wrote: > > Hi > > I bet that voiceover has a working say-all function for webbrowsing in > snowleopard. > > Regards > Justin Harford > On Jun 24, 2009, at 6:16 AM, Scott Bresnahan wrote: > >> >> Hi, >> >> Actu

Re: Vmware Fusion and Snow Leopard

2009-07-01 Thread Mike Arrigo
I would say that means, it may work, but we're still testing and perhaps fixing issues with it. We don't support it yet. Once snow leppard is released, we will probably have a more definite answer. On Jul 1, 2009, at 5:09 PM, Simon Cavendish wrote: > > Hello Listers, > > I have e-mailed Vmwar

carbon copy cloner question

2009-07-05 Thread Mike Arrigo
Hi everyone, had a question about carbon copy cloner for those who may have used this backup program. After choosing the source and target volumes, there is a check box to choose whether to erase files that don't exist on the source drive. The next item is an unlabeled check box, does anyo

Re: skype question

2009-07-05 Thread Mike Arrigo
Hi, sure, for the pound sign, hold the shift key and press number 3, for the star key, hold shift and press number 8 On Jul 5, 2009, at 1:15 PM, Nigel Rhodes wrote: > > Does anyone know how to use the pound key or star keys when making an > outgoing call on Skype? > > > > --~--~-~--~-

Re: Word Processing on Mac OS X

2009-07-07 Thread Mike Arrigo
Text edit comes with the mac, and it works well, the newest version of pages is also very accessible. On Jul 7, 2009, at 2:48 PM, James & Nash wrote: > > Hi folks, > > Does anyone use Pages or Nisus Writer Pro on Mac OS X or indeed any > other > Mac word processor please? If so, what is the a

Re: [GW-Booksense] Disappointed

2009-07-07 Thread Mike Arrigo
The victor reader is the same way I think. A card reader is actually faster, so it's not a big deal for me. The only time it would be a problem is for audible books, because they use the player's serial number. On Jul 7, 2009, at 2:53 PM, Buddy Brannan wrote: > > Well-- > > The Mac doesn't

Re: Fusion accessibility?

2009-07-13 Thread Mike Arrigo
Yes, fusion works great, I use it here to run windows xp, it's very accessible. On Jul 12, 2009, at 8:19 PM, Garry Turkington wrote: > > Hi all, > > After some playing around with a Mac Pro at work last year I'm about > to > buy a MacBook Pro for personal use -- if the model I want is ever in

Re: made the decision

2009-07-15 Thread Mike Arrigo
You could always get the mac mini, it's the cheapest one, but they work great. On Jul 15, 2009, at 2:41 PM, May and Wynter wrote: > Ok everyone. I have made my decision. got to play the mac > computers today and I absolutely fel in love with them. Of course > when I actually get one it

Re: Question about downloading audio files linked from web pages in safari

2009-07-24 Thread Mike Arrigo
Hi, you can do this quite easily. Press control option shift m on the link, and choose download linked file from the menu. On Jul 23, 2009, at 8:15 PM, James Mannion wrote: > > Hi, > Is there a way to configure things so that when you click on a link on > a page such as blindcooltech.com or ser

Re: selecting text you are interacting with

2009-07-24 Thread Mike Arrigo
Hi, yes. Move to the start of the text, then press control option enter. Now move to the end of the text you want to select and press control option enter again. The text should now be selected, you can confirm this by pressing control option f6. You can now press command c to copy it. On

Re: tables on websites

2009-07-24 Thread Mike Arrigo
Voice over does not have a table navigation mode as the windows screen readers do, so you would simply navigate it item by item. Usually this works fine. On Jul 24, 2009, at 10:26 AM, Woody Anna Dresner wrote: > > Hi, > > I just went to a banking site with Safari that presents information in

Re: Purchasing Acapela Heather Voice

2009-07-24 Thread Mike Arrigo
She is actually part of the u.s. or u.k. english package. You would need to purchase infovox ivox, which includes one language, and you can add other languages if you want. I have the u.s. and U.K. voices, and they work great with voiceover. On Jul 24, 2009, at 2:20 PM, Robert Carter wrote:

Re: mike for a Mac Mini

2009-07-24 Thread Mike Arrigo
Hi, this is surprising. Most usb headsets should work fine on the mac. Once you connect it to a usb port, are you able to select it under sound in system preferences? Also, be sure you are connecting it directly to the mac and not using a usb hub. On Jul 24, 2009, at 3:33 PM, Woody Anna Dres

Re: mike for a Mac Mini

2009-07-24 Thread Mike Arrigo
Usually, the mac does not need external drivers, like apple says, usually, it just works. On Jul 24, 2009, at 5:15 PM, Woody Anna Dresner wrote: > > Hi Robert, > > Thanks so very much! When I plugged the mike in this morning and > nothing happened, and it came with a CD with Windows drivers and

pod cast number 9

2009-07-26 Thread Mike Arrigo
Hi everyone. Just wanted to let everyone know that my 9th pod cast is now on blind cool tech. In this one, I look at the instant messaging client adium, also we take a look at a program called pzizz which will create relaxation sound files, and I look at a great backup program for the mac

Re: connecting victor Stream to a Mac

2009-07-27 Thread Mike Arrigo
Hi, there is a setting in fusion to determine whether usb devices are automatically connected, or if you must manually select to connect them from the menu, you can change this in the usb device settings. On Jul 26, 2009, at 9:56 PM, Woody Anna Dresner wrote: > > Hello, > > I have installed S

Re: mac mini without monitor and set up

2009-07-27 Thread Mike Arrigo
Hi, I had no problems setting up my mac mini, even without a monitor connected. What probably happened with your laptop was, the function keys were set for hardware functions instead of software. In that case, command function f5 will start voice over. The mac mini defaults to software functio

Re: pre order snow leopard

2009-08-01 Thread Mike Arrigo
I had thought about doing that, but wasn't sure if I could get it faster by just going to the apple store once it's released. On Aug 1, 2009, at 5:38 AM, Chris G wrote: > > Hi, > > I woke up this morning and received an email from amazon.com giving me > the offer to pre order the upgrade to sno

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