Re: question about Yofukoru

Hi Juliet. There's an app called Growl you can purchase from the Mac App store that will read tweets automatically without interruptions. You can purchase it for $1.99. HTH. Shawn Sent From My White MacBook > On Dec 1, 2014, at 10:11 AM, Juliette Swiler wrote: > > I use Yufukoru as my twitter

Re: question about Yofukoru

uced in Mountain Lion I haven't bothered with Growl since and at the > time I don't think it met my needs, but then I was a new mac user at the time. > > On 01/12/2014 22:14, Shawn Krasniuk wrote: >> Hi Juliet. There's an app called Growl you can purchase from the

Re: question about Growl

Hi Julet. For me, Growl just automatically recognized that there was an app capable of using it so it added it automatically. Is Yorofukurou not showing up in the list of apps? Shawn Sent From My White MacBook > On Dec 2, 2014, at 6:07 AM, Juliette Swiler wrote: > > I was able to download gro

Re: my experience with apple's technical support service.

Hi Adrian. Glad to hear that you had a good experience. Does your about this Mac work properly now? Shawn Sent From My White MacBook > On Dec 3, 2014, at 10:40 AM, adrian wrote: > > > > > I had a great first time experience with apples technical support > yesterday.They were really paycien

Re: my day with yosemite

Hi Jeff. Is this Trim an app? If so, and if it's an app from the app store, maybe they haven't released an update that's Yosemite compatible. This is just a guess. Shawn Sent From My White MacBook > On Dec 10, 2014, at 2:13 PM, jeffrey greene wrote: > > Hi, I’ll probably give yosemite another

Re: apps to listen to radio and tv

I'd like to know this as well. I go on a website to watch ESPN 2 and the site has proven to be unreliable due to the stream going down frequently. Also, I'm having problems with Adobe Flash Player, but I'll save that for a different post. Shawn Sent From My White MacBook > On Dec 15, 2014, at

Adobe Flash Player Not Installing

Hi all. I'm posting this on two different lists to get a little more feedback from people. This morning I went on a site to watch TV, time4tv.com to be exact, and it's saying that I need to update my Adobe Flash Player. Ok, no problem, I download the dmg for the update, ope

Re: Checking battery status

Hi Janine. I have an Apple Script I could give you that designates right option+B as a hotkey to read battery status. Other than that, there's nothing I know of. If you want it, email me off list and I'll gladly send it. Shawn Sent From My White MacBook > On Dec 16, 2014, at 8:50 PM, Janine Smi

Re: How do I shut down my macbook pro using the keyboard?

Wow. I'm learning a lot of ways to shut down my Mac which I rarely have to do. The only time I shut down is if I'm going somewhere with it. Other than that, it's always on. Shawn Sent From My White MacBook > On Dec 20, 2014, at 4:31 AM, Anders Holmberg wrote: > > Hi! > You can also press cont

Question To Beta Testers *Please* Answer Off List

Hi all beta testers of Yosemite. I'm not sure if this is breaking any rules so as the subject line says, please reply off list. I know the Feedback Assistant app was introduced when we first beta tested OS X Yosemite. So my question is, can we still use the app to report problems to Apple for fu

Re: Trading up for my MBP

Hi Janine. If a smaller Mac is what you want, perhaps a MacBook Air would do you. Shawn Sent From My White MacBook > On Dec 27, 2014, at 3:18 PM, Jenine Stanley wrote: > > I received the current MBP I’m using from my sister-in-law. It’s circa mid > 2012, is a 15-inch non-retina display and so

Re: finding your iPhone/iPod from your Mac?

Most of iCloud.com is accessible. However, if you want to use Find my iPhone, you'll need sighted help as the map isn't accessible with Voiceover. Shawn Sent From My White MacBook > On Dec 27, 2014, at 2:58 PM, Joe Quinn wrote: > > The question then becomes is iCloud.com accessible? > > Sent

RE: Hand off

Hi Lisette. How old is your Mac? Apparently hand off only works on 2012 or later Macs. If it's older than that, the only thing you'll be able to do is phone calls and text messages. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Beh

Re: 2 quick questions about IPhones as looking to upgrade

At any rate, Eleanor, if you want to subscribe to an iPhone list, there's ViPhone. you can subscribe at viphone+subscr...@googlegroups.com . Also, Klyphton's mailing list is pretty good. It talks about both iPhone and Mac. You can subscribe at peel-the

Re: shutting down a Mac Mini

I've said it before and I'll say it again. I never shut down my MacBook unless I take it somewhere. I don't see the reason to. I don't know if this is the same thing with newer Mac models, but I heard from a trusted computer technician that turning off and on a computer damages a hard drive afte

Re: shutting down a Mac Mini

topic. > > http://www.dyminsystems.com/2012/10/04/turn-off-computer/ > > hth > > Ricardo Walker > rica...@appletothecore.info > Twitter:@apple2thecore > www.appletothecore.info > >> On Jan 3, 2015, at 11:42 PM, Shawn Krasniuk wrote: >> >> I

Re: safari or chromeVox?

Hi. Yes, Chromevox indeed has its pros and cons. One annoying thing you'll find with Chromevox is if you have a website where it refreshes itself in the background, speech interrupts itself. Shawn Sent From My White MacBook > On Jan 4, 2015, at 2:08 AM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: > > Hi, > To me

Re: Aspects of VoiceOver not working - Read All, Read down, VOJ and Scroll

April, I've given you countless offers to add me on Skype or FaceTime to help you fix these issues. It could be several things but without hearing what's going on on your end, these are just wild guesses. The offer is still there. Skype ID is bbstheblindrapper and FaceTime is the same as this em

Re: Google Chrome doesn't perform well under Yosemite

Hi Andrew. There is a googlegroup called Access Chrome Discuss. You can subscribe to that list by sending an email to axs-chrome-discuss+subscr...@googlegroups.com HTH. Shawn Sent From My White MacBook > On Jan 4, 2015, at 9:17 AM, Andrew

Re: The switch from Microsoft to Apple

Me neither. I still like some voices that you can't get on the Mac like Ivona and Neospeech, particularly James. Though Ivona keeps promising that they are working on bringing their voices to the Mac, I'll believe it when I see it. I think that all of us who like their voices should keep botheri

Re: Aspects of VoiceOver not working - Read All, Read down, VOJ and Scroll

Suit yourself. Although You won't get any help if you won't let us help you one on one. We're just as confused as you are but unless you add us on Skype or at least call us on FaceTime, we're as stuck as you are. Shawn Sent From My White MacBook > On Jan 5, 2015, at 5:08 AM, April wrote: > >

Re: disabling voiceover in vmware fusion

That's a good suggestion. Adding to this, it would be nice if we could do that for other apps such as the RS Games Client. Perhaps it would be best to write to accessibil...@apple.com and request this. Shawn Sent From My White MacBook > On Jan 8, 2015, at 11:07

Re: iMac versus MBA?

Hi. I actually had to get rid of all my vocalizer voices because Voiceover was slow even when changing to something else. As a suggestion to people who still want or need multilingual voices, I recommend a few voices from Acapela and a few from Cereproc. The web address to check out the Cereproc

Re: New to the List

Yes, I like Radium too, although I wish since the Australian Open tennis tournament is now on that they have the radio station for it. For that I have to go to Tunein's website to listen to it. It would be nice if I could listen to it outside Safari if I wanted to listen to it on my Mac but oh w

Re: New to the List

Hey Matthew. How do you import a URL into Radium? That would be nice to do. Shawn Sent From My White MacBook > On Jan 22, 2015, at 3:39 PM, Matthew Dierckens wrote: > > Hi Eric, > Many of the Tune In radio stations can be played on the Radium app if you > know what you're looking for. > You ca

Re: New to the List

> Personal email: > matt.dierck...@me.com <mailto:matt.dierck...@me.com> >> On Jan 22, 2015, at 17:03, Shawn Krasniuk > <mailto:bbssh...@icloud.com>> wrote: >> >> Hey Matthew. How do you import a URL into Radium? That would be nice to do. >> >

Re: New to the List

ist > Macintosh Trainer > Blind Access Training > www.blindaccesstraining.com <http://www.blindaccesstraining.com/> > 1-877-774-7670, extension 3 > work email: > matt...@blindaccesstraining.com <mailto:matt...@blindaccesstraining.com> > Personal email: >

Re: New to the List

3 > work email: > matt...@blindaccesstraining.com <mailto:matt...@blindaccesstraining.com> > Personal email: > matt.dierck...@me.com <mailto:matt.dierck...@me.com> >> On Jan 22, 2015, at 20:39, Shawn Krasniuk > <mailto:bbssh...@icloud.com>> wrote: >&

Re: New to the List

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Re: help using SiriusXM

Hi. Why not use Radium for Sirius XM? I use it on both my Mac and my iPhone and it's far more accessible than the website or iPhone app combined. I know on the Mac that it's $9.99 and I think the iPhone version of the app is free. Shawn Sent From My White MacBook > On Jan 22, 2015, at 8:36 PM,

Very Urgent, Please Respond ASAP, Various MacBook Problems

Hi all. I need some help right away. I came back to the computer with the battery drained. I plug it in and I thought it would resume to where I was in it. But instead, it rebooted completely, Apple screen and all. The first problem is that when it's booting up, the screen is very bright. It see

Re: Infovox iVox Voices

Hi. I'm not too fond about the new Infovox voices. In my opinion, they've replaced quality for features like making exclamations and such. I've reported to this to them and hopefully they'll make better quality voices in the future. Don't get me wrong, I like that ability to get more expressive

Re: my experience upgrading to yosemite 10.10.2

Hi Vivianna. First off, to your comment that VmWare fusion 6.2 won't work with Yosemite, that isn't true. I have the latest versions of Yosemite and Fusion 6 and Fusion 6 works great for me with Yosemite. Secondly, have you done a permissions repair lately? I find that when you do this, most of

Re: my experience upgrading to yosemite 10.10.2

For me, I repair permissions every software update, more so nowadays because I'm a part of the public beta program. As for Fusion, there's no work around. If you have Fusion version 6.0.5 or higher, it should work for Yosemite. If I'm not mistaken, the release notes for 6.0.5 stated that it was

Re: Hello everyone

I haven't heard about ESpeak being available for iOS 8 unless you jailbreak it and you find a tweak for it. Other than that, there's no way of installing other synthesizers. Shawn Sent From My White MacBook > On Feb 7, 2015, at 10:24 AM, Hossein Ourangy wrote: > > I want to ask a question abo

Re: Making mobile calls from Mac

Hi. Did you allow cellular calls from FaceTime on both your Mac and iPhone? You have to have the latest version of iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite in order to do this. Shawn Sent From My White MacBook > On Feb 8, 2015, at 7:58 PM, David Taylor wrote: > > Hi, > > Can anybody tell me what it is I need

Re: Am I nuts, or is Alex way better now?

Hey guys. I agree with you about Alex, he's awesome. And I agree with Ray in the sense that Acapela has taken steps backwards. In my opinion, they've replaced quality with features that aren't really necessary. That's why I even use Alex on my iPhone. One thing about the vocalizer voices, Alex,

Re: Am I nuts, or is Alex way better now?

Hey. Noticed that no one else replied to this so to delete a voice, go to the Mackintosh HD in your finder, then go to system, library, speech, then voices. There you can delete any voice you wish. HTH. Shawn Sent From My White MacBook > On Feb 9, 2015, at 11:23 AM, Faisal ali wrote: > > Hi,

Re: Am I nuts, or is Alex way better now?

I'm with you about not using Fred. It's very hard to understand him. He's too quiet, even though Voiceover's volume is at 100%. As for Alex going back to the way he was in Snow Leopard, I wouldn't go that far. He does sound a lot better though. He's an upgrade to Eloquence or eSpeak, the two mos

Re: urgent, lost all speach

Also, I've noticed with Yosemite that if you delete a voice and that certain voice is checked when you go to the customize menu under speech, the voice will redownload until you uncheck it. I know it does this with Alex and the Nuance voices but not sure with the other built-in voices. Shawn Se

Re: Am I nuts, or is Alex way better now?

Happy Will or normal Will? I find that normal Will sounds too much like Paul from Neospeech. Shawn Sent From My White MacBook > On Feb 12, 2015, at 2:23 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > > I do use Alex on my i-devices though I also use Karen and Daniel and > occasionally Samantha. I still don't rea

Some External Hard Drive Questions

Hey all. Today I bought an external hard drive because of that freak accident with my Mac a few weeks ago. So I got a few questions about it. 1. I want to do a time machine backup of my entire HD. However, I have a whole bunch of youtube videos I copied onto another system other than my Mac. Can

Re: Pronunciation Dictionary

Hi. What voice are you using? I'm using Alex and he says iPad just fine. Shawn Sent From My White MacBook > On Feb 16, 2015, at 9:41 PM, The Believer wrote: > > When I connected my iPad to iTunes and found the button to select the > device, I almost could not hear the label. iPad is not pron

Re: twitter for Mac and iPHone?

Hey Alex. When did YoruFukurou become available in the Mac App Store? When I downloaded it last year I went to the developer website and downloaded it there. Should I delete the version that I downloaded through the website and install it through the app store? Faisal, I'm not sure why you say t

Re: Digest for macvisionaries@googlegroups.com - 25 Messages in 5 Topics

Another reason why ESpeak doesn't need to be ported on the Mac is that most people on here, not everyone, can't stand robotic voices. I for one hate both Eloquence and ESpeak because they're too robotic. DECTalk I can handle, but I would rather have a human sounding voice like Samantha from Nuan

Re: Tune In Radio for Mac?

Hi Max. Unfortunately there is no Tune-In Radio for Mac that I know of but Itunes has a radio section and most of Tune-In's radio stations are there. HTH. Shawn Sent from my white Mac Book On 2012-08-26, at 3:18 PM, macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote: -- You received this message because y

Re:

Hi Max and others. I know there are some apps in the app store that have radio stations in there. Also, if you live in the US or Canada, check out thestreamcenter.com. It has radio stations that you can download to work with Itunes. Shawn Sent from my white Mac Book On 2012-08-27, at 7:28 AM,

Re: Tune In Radio for Mac?

When I looked in the app store, I did see an app that claimed that it was Voiceover friendly. However, I couldn't get access to the controls. I don't know what it was called, but it's in the App store. Shawn Sent from my white Mac Book On 2012-08-27, at 4:59 PM, macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

Re: Possible bug with Messages under ML, can you duplicate?

Hi. Unfortunately, Daniel is right. My friend had sent a bug about the Messages app to Accessibility and they basically told her to contact the actual technical support department. The bug is, if anyone can duplicate it, IMessages aren't going to our Macs when we use the program to send them. Th

Re: Possible bug with Messages under ML, can you duplicate?

Hi Chris. She tried sending an email to that address, but she got a return to sender message. Shawn Sent from my white Mac Book On 2012-08-31, at 9:58 AM, macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote: > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" g

Re: Introducing myself

Hello newbies. Yes this is an awesome list, I've learned a heck of a lot of stuff on here. Yeah I've used pretty much all the screen readers on Windows, and I must say that nothing can top Voiceover. I remember when I got my Mac 2 years ago, I was pretty excited. I don't know how I figured out h

Re: American HQ voice not working

Hi. Did you try plugging your iPhone to a power source and connect to Wifi? That's how I got my HQ voices to download. HTH. Shawn Sent from my white Mac Book On 2012-09-01, at 3:54 PM, macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote: -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: New to Group

Hey Ben. Welcome to the list. I've had my Mac for 2 years this November and I really like it. Even though I have a little vision, it's not enough to see the screen so I only use Voiceover. And contrary to what Paul was saying, I've used a combination of Iwork and Textedit and I've had no problem

Re: Updating to ML

Hi Shannon. As long as you have a 2010 Mac Book or later, you should have no problems upgrading to ML. This OS is the bomb, I really like the new features. Shawn Sent from my white Mac Book On 2012-09-03, at 2:18 PM, macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote: -- You received this message because

Re: New to Group

Hi Paul. If you would've read my email more carefully, I said that Pages works fine for what I need it to do. I don't mess around with tables or paragraph labels. I just use it for what I need to use it for. I'm not in University anymore so my Mac is pretty much used for pleasure purposes. I mig

Skype keeps crashing when using dial pad in a call

Hi guys. I've noticed this a few weeks ago when I bought my Skype credit but didn't do anything because I thought it wouldn't crash so much. But now that it's crashing more, this is ridiculous. Skype keeps crashing when I use the dialpad in a call. For example, I use Skype to call my bank. When

Re: Skype keeps crashing when using dial pad in a call

Hi Brandon and Jurgen. I'm running the latest version of Skype on Mountain Lion. I'll try reinstalling it when it crashes again. Thanks. Shawn Sent from my white Mac Book On 2012-09-06, at 3:20 PM, macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote: > -- You received this message because you are subscr

What's Going On With The Mac App Store?

Hi guys. I heard there was an update to Itunes and I was about to download it but when I go to Software Updates and it takes me to the Mac App Store, I get a domain error message. Is anyone else experiencing this? Shawn Sent from my white Mac Book -- You received this message because you are s

Chrome Has Become Unusable for Me At Least

Hi guys. I just launched my Chrome browser after a month and for some reason, it has become inaccessible with VO. Even Chromevox isn't working and because VO isn't working with it, I can't see if it is enabled in extensions. Any help would be appreciated. Shawn Sent from my white Mac Book --

Re: i o s and visually impaired users

Hi Ed and others. I actually answered my own dumb A** question last night. I went into the App Store, changed the roter to headings, and sure enough, I was able to navigate the search results properly. Before I did this, I used to press and or hold down either side of the screen to navigate it,

Re: fan running all the time

Hi Eric. This is a well-known issue in Lion. When Lion was first released, someone posted on here about turning the back light off and that fixed the problem. Give that a try and let us know if the result is different. I'm running Mountain Lion on this thing and my fan works as normal. HTH. Sha

Re: siriusxm

Hi. I too am having problems with Sirius XM. One of them, which is a stupid policy in my opinion, is that you need a credit card to subscribe. That's not good if a company wants to attract more customers. And even though they're giving me the run around in order to subscribe, I will be subscribi

Re: siriusxm

Hi Scott. If you did like the Internet service a lot, and this is what I plan to do when I subscribe, you could buy a radio and just use the Iphone app to listen to the stations. Sure, it'll cost you $20 a month, but it's worth it. This is my only way I can listen to Sirius XM when my trial expi

Re: siriusxm

Hi Pam. They've stopped letting people subscribe to only the Internet service as of October 1. Shawn Sent from my white Mac Book -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups

Is there a Way to Convert WMA's Into A Format that iTunes can use?

Hi guys. Last night I downloaded a bunch of songs from a torrent site. Unfortunately, they're all in WMA format. Is there an app that I can use to convert the songs into MP3 format or some way I can play them on Itunes? Shawn Sent from my white Mac Book -- You received this message because you

Re: Is there a Way to Convert WMA's Into A Format that iTunes can use?

Hi. I tried using the built-in encoder and I got an encoder error 2700 message. I transferred the songs to a USB drive. Can I encode WMA's from a USB drive or do I have to copy them back onto my hard drive in order to encode them? Shawn Sent from my white Mac Book -- You received this message

Re: samnet on a Mac?

Mary, you can do SamNet on the Mac if you have Chrome. That was me that sends the messages on the Viphone list that say "Sent From My White MacBook using SamNet." That is a signature that I programmed into it. I would write to this list using SamNet, but for some reason, and I don't know why it'

Re: samnet on a Mac?

Hi Cheryl. I know that I can use SamNet with Safari but I prefer using the Socializer as opposed to Adium or Trillion so I have to use Chrome. I actually found a pretty good voice for the Chromevox extension, she never crashes the program at all. Oh, geting back to my socializer comment, the rea

Re: IOS6 and iPhone4?

Hi Kliphton. I have the iPhone 4 running Voiceover and even though it does lag sometimes when I send text messages, I don't notice any other performance issues. Usually when I text people nowadays I just use an app called Voice Answer or as I like to call it, the iPhone 4's version of Siri. Also

Re: IOS6 and iPhone4?

Hi Kliphton. Oh, in that case, if your friend doesn't use Voiceover, then they shouldn't experience any performance issues at all. Shawn Sent from my white Mac Book -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send

Re: VoiceOver and YOutube

Hi Alison and Alex. I also experience this, and I thought it was just me that is getting these progress indicator messages but thank god that it's not just me. I was thinking of downloading Mactubes but I heard there were some unlabelled buttons. I've never labelled buttons before so what are th

Re: VoiceOver and YOutube

Hi Alex. I was able to download Mactubes. Is there a way that I could convert files to not just MP4 but to MP3 as well? I'd like to listen to videos on Itunes. Shawn Sent from my white Mac Book -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group

Discovered New Voices For Mac

Hi guys. Well, it's been two years now with my Mac and I've loved every moment of it, including the frustrating ones. Lol. But that's not what my subject is about. Last night, as I was catching up on almost 100 forum posts on SamNet, I read one of Mike Arrigo's forum posts about his Android Chat

Re: Speaking of New Voices...

Hi Chris. Unfortunately, at this time, Apple has restricted third-party developers from making voices for IOS. You can get apps that have the voices in them, but as of right now, they're restricted to that app. I know, it's stupid. Shawn Sent from my white Mac Book -- You received this message

Re: Discovered New Voices For Mac

Hi Chris. Yes, torrents are illegal, but as they say in wrestling, it's only illegal if you get caught, and the law is too concerned about other things to deal with people downloading software or movies. I shouldn't say anymore but you get the picture. Shawn Sent from my white Mac Book -- You

Re: Discovered New Voices For Mac

Hi Scott. I don't think there is a way to purchase voice [ackages. I think you have to buy them individually. Shawn Sent from my white Mac Book -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionari

New Voices Giving Me Demo Messages

Hi guys. I just installed the new Infovox Ivox voice Will a while ago and for some reason, here and there I keep getting the message "This is an evaluation version of Acapela Group's Text To Speech synthesizer." I am on the internet which is one of the requirements of any demo voice so I don't k

Re: Warning about infovox demos

Hi Cheryl. I've written to Assistiveware that we're all experiencing this issue. I'll keep you posted if they can reproduce it or not. Until then, I encourage anyone on this list to write to supp...@assistiveware.com and tell them the issue. The more people do this, the faster they'll fix it. An

An Update From Assistiveware Regarding Infovox Ivox Demo Voices

Hello everyone. As promised, here is what Assistiveware says about the issue we're experiencing. From: AssistiveWare (Martijn) To: bigbigshawn@gmail.com Subject: AW {37345} RE: New Voices Giving Me Demo Messages ## Reply ABOVE THIS LINE to add a note to this request ## Request update View

Re: Infovox iVox adds genuine children's voices to OS X

Besides, the chipmunk glitch with the Nuance voices in Mountain Lion has been fixed. Now, it just sounds like a chipmunk when it comes across data detectors or if you have it set to do a pitch change for capital letters. They sound like a giant when you go to an edit field or again, if you have

Another Update About Infovox Demo Voices

Hi guys. I've received another email about the Infovox voices. It appears that the problem occurs when using the voices with more than 1 app. See below. Dear Shawn, We've traced back the problem with the demo voices. It happens to occur when two different application use the same voice in demo m

Re: Infovox iVox adds genuine children's voices to OS X

Hi Traci. In the VO utility, go to verbosity and select the text tab. You should be able to find settings that let you change how it reads capital letters and deleting text. In those pop up buttons, your choices are change pitch, play a tone, or do nothing. HTH. Shawn Sent from my white Mac Boo

Re: Newbie needing help, how to set up my Wireless networkHello, I've just purchased a Macbook, May 2009, running Lion off of ebay. I've owned a mac mini, for a couple of months but consider myself a

Hi Gale. Just so you know, you put your message body into your subject line. In any event, when you first got your Mac and turned it on, you should've been able to see the wifi networks that were available to you. If you didn't, press VO+M, or ctrl+option+M twice to go to the secondary menu. VO+

Re: Facebook on the Mac

Hi Richard. Another site to use Facebook is m.facebook.com. I find it far more accessible than the regular Facebook site and that combo box you speak of to search for contacts isn't there. A normal edit box is there. You may find it a little inaccessible but there is a remedy to that. Go to your

Re: 10.7.1 is out everyone

So if there's no updates to Voice Over, I guess the Nuance voices are still going to have those freaky pitch changes? That sucks, but I'll update anyway. Shawn -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email

How Do I Check Missed Events In Skype

Hey all. How do I view missed events in Skype? Everytime I want to quit Skype or I shut down my computer I get a message saying that all calls and stuff will be lost. I recently blocked a contact from my list and I'm thinking that it's from this person. Do I have to add her again in order to che

Re: Direct links for downloading Voices

Hey Sunshine. Unfortunately, I don't think there's a direct link to download the Nuance voices. In order to download voices, your only option is to go to VO utilities and under the speech utilities go into the pop up menu button thingy that has all your voices and select customize. From there yo

Sidebar and First Letter Navigation Broken in Lion

Hey all. I've noticed in Lion when trying to open a file or whatever and you want to use the sidebar, I can't use first letter navigation to go to my USB drive. If I want to go to my USB drive, I have to use the arrow keys. That works ok but when I try to go to my USB drive with my arrow keys, I

Where Is The User Library folder in Lion?

Hi I'm having a problem finding my user library. I'm in my user folder which is my name, but unlike Snow Leopard, there's no Library folder and I have to move something into my Application Support folder which has a specific App not found in other App support folders. Has anyone found their user

Re: Avout flash Player

Hey Francisco and Paul. Unfortunately, one of the drawbacks of using a Mac is that flash isn't accessible with VO. Adobe has talked about it, but I'm afraid that odds are nothing will happen. I hear HTML5 is pretty good with Youtube though so give it a try. Shawn -- You received this message

Re: Playroom

Hey Francisco. Unfortunately, you can only play games in the Playroom with a PC. Hopefully, since I think the Playroom is developed by the same guy that did RS Games, maybe there will be versions of it for other OS's but for now it's only available for Windows. Have you tried RS Games? HTH. Sha

Re: accessible games and lion?

Hi Anouk. Have you tried the RS Games client. The RS Games client is free and contains games like Monopoly, Uno, Blackjack, Yatzee, 1000 Miles and Battleship. Unfortunately Monopoly and Yatzee don't work in Lion yet and I don't know if they ever will. I sent an email to them asking when they'll

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

Personally, I don't think that audio captchas aren't that bad. For example, when I used the OS whose name we can't say, when I wanted to demo the Acapela voices, they gave me both a visual and audio captcha to choose from. The Audio Captcha used Acapela Heather to speak the numbers so I could ea

Accessible Ebook Apps Accessible with Voice Over

Hey everyone. I have to read a few plays for school, Tough by George F. Walker, and Othello by Shakespeare. I'm looking for a free app that can find and read ebooks and is accessible with Voice Over. Has anyone got any ideas? Shawn -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: Samantha Settings

Hey Tracy. The reason why you hear some shrillness or freaky pitch changes with the nuance voices, not just Samantha is because there's a bug with the voices that hasn't been fixed yet. Hopefully it'll be fixed in the next update of Lion because I want her to read my emails and stuff. I've used

Re: Voices

Hey Gigi. I'm not sure what you meant by "Voices that sighted people like to put on the Mac sometimes." Usually if a sighted person uses a computer, they don't need Voice Over or other screen readers. But if I had to guess, would you be referring to the Acapela voices? If so, go to assistiveware

Re: Voices

Yes the Nuance voices such as Daniel and Samantha are only available for Lion. Shawn -- 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 from this group, send em

Setting An Activity for Dashboard

Hey everyone. Has anyone tried to set an activity for Dashboard? I'm trying to set it so that when I open Dashboard to read the weather, I would like Tom to read the weather for my city? Can this be done? Shawn -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacV

Re: Countdown timer - found it

Hey great app. I like the sound effects when the timer is almost up. I would recommend it to anyone that needs a good countdown timer. Shawn -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@

Hidden Dialog in Text Edit in Lion

Hey all. Sometimes when I say that I want to save a file or not with Text Edit, it doesn't let me close the dialog. Today I ran into the same problem and my sighted tutor said that another dialog appeared saying that there was no file to save. I tried to use the Window Chooser command to close i

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