Re: NLS Books

2010-03-10 Thread Slau Halatyn
1. They need to log in to the NLS BARD site, assuming they're already registered with the library. 2. Find the book using the search facility of the site. 3. Simply click on the link that says "Download (book title, whatever that might be." By default, the zipped file will download to the speci

Re: vo scripts fore garage band?

2010-03-11 Thread Slau Halatyn
Scripts? On Mar 11, 2010, at 2:57 AM, hank smith wrote: > hello where can I get vo scripts fore garage band? > also how do I install them? > Hank > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to

Re: A question about sskype and answer a call

2010-03-11 Thread Slau Halatyn
l was coming in. Slau On Mar 11, 2010, at 5:15 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: > Hello Annie, > > Unfortunately, you can't create a shortcut key for answering a call in Skype > as there is no menu item to do this. > > You have two choices: either to set your preferences to answer a

Re: vo scripts fore garage band?

2010-03-11 Thread Slau Halatyn
My point, exactly. On Mar 11, 2010, at 8:32 AM, Cody wrote: > no scripts, this is not win-world. Vo works with gb, just a pain > - Original Message - > From: Slau Halatyn > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 8:30 AM > Subject: Re: vo s

Re: A question about sskype and answer a call

2010-03-11 Thread Slau Halatyn
Thanks, but I'm not sure to which interview you're referring? On Mar 11, 2010, at 10:33 AM, Sarah Alawami wrote: > No all I see is hang up int he menu now when someone calls. It is very odd. > > Oh btw nice job on the interview. > > S > On Mar 11, 2010, at

Re: vo scripts fore garage band?

2010-03-11 Thread Slau Halatyn
rd me, you should have simply followed your own advice to not clutter the list with "pointless traffic" and sent me a private message. Slau On Mar 11, 2010, at 2:13 PM, Carolyn wrote: > Slau: > If you're asking a question, it makes no sense and creates pointless traffic. >

Re: vo scripts fore garage band?

2010-03-11 Thread Slau Halatyn
oderate this list anymore because that would truly be pointless traffic. Have a wonderful day! Slau On Mar 11, 2010, at 3:42 PM, Carolyn wrote: > Ok, Slau, point taken. However, since you've moderated a list, you might > understand the pointlessness of one word question

Re: Moving to the top of the tweet list in Syrinx

2010-03-11 Thread Slau Halatyn
Phil, If you don't mind bookmarking the most recent tweet, simply press Command-b which is the shortcut. HTH On Mar 11, 2010, at 4:57 PM, phil stephenson wrote: > Hi, > > continuing to get used to the world of macdom but have a question about using > Syrinx. > > when I open the app I seem

Re: vo scripts fore garage band?

2010-03-11 Thread Slau Halatyn
rwise, I won't respond on list no matter what. It's a waste of time and who has the time? Done. Onward. Slau -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@goo

Re: vo scripts fore garage band?

2010-03-11 Thread Slau Halatyn
No sweat, Carolyn. to be honest, I've had a pretty bad day myself. I think we're all good. :) Slau On Mar 11, 2010, at 7:20 PM, Carolyn wrote: > Hi Slau: > Thanks for clarifying. I'm not interested in being difficult. I just didn't > understand the presenta

Re: airport extra?

2010-03-12 Thread Slau Halatyn
menu (or whatever is your default), hold down the Option key and press left arrow until you reach the Airport menu. Release the Option key and just go down the list with the down arrow. You'll notice extra information about the type of security, transfer rate, signal strength, etc. HTH

Re: Figured out away to use the arrows to navigate the web

2010-03-12 Thread Slau Halatyn
ately display menu choices in the menu bar. One will often find that, with tracking on, they might see only two or three choices in a menu whereas, with tracking off, there are actually five or six choices there. Having the routing command makes it easy to just move the mouse when necessary.

Re: Current audio formats have a maximum number of samples [was Re: iTunes and lengthy audio files]

2010-03-12 Thread Slau Halatyn
hat's changed in 64-bit systems though. I'll have to double check. Slau On Mar 12, 2010, at 4:52 PM, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: > Hi, > > Definitely a good post, thank you. > > I was pondering that possibility, though I had a look at two similar files, > one longer than

Re: airport extra?

2010-03-12 Thread Slau Halatyn
> Bryan > > Original Message- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Slau Halatyn > Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 9:56 AM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: airport extra? > > If one

Re: Figured out away to use the arrows to navigate the web

2010-03-13 Thread Slau Halatyn
NP, it's just something of which to be aware. Sometimes tethering the mouse can help if an app requires a lot of mouse presses and doesn't respond to VoiceOver default operations. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to t

Re: Current audio formats have a maximum number of samples [was Re: iTunes and lengthy audio files]

2010-03-14 Thread Slau Halatyn
CD quality even though it's mp3 and that's far from 16-bit/44.1 kHz. Slau On Mar 14, 2010, at 7:58 AM, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: > Hi, > > So you're saying the bottom line is that it has to be within the 2GB > limit? It's only a 232MB MP3 file, so to me, that sho

Re: apple trap: removing programs and all the related components

2010-03-15 Thread Slau Halatyn
I seem to remember an application called App zapper that removes application droppings fairly well, apparently. I haven't used it myself but I recall hearing good things about it. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to th

Re: need help entering dates in address book

2010-03-16 Thread Slau Halatyn
When you get to the date field, interact with it by pressing Control-Option-Shift-down arrow. Now use Control-Option-left or right arrow to move between the month, day, hours and minutes fields. Pressing Control-Option-up and down arrows will increment or decrement the values. When you're done

Re: need help entering dates in address book

2010-03-16 Thread Slau Halatyn
e can be no specific time associated with it. Slau On Mar 16, 2010, at 6:02 PM, Christina wrote: > Thanks so much. That helped a lot. For some reason in the past when I tried > to intereact with it, it would interact but I could not do anything after > that but it seems to be working n

Re: Problems with logging into latest version of Skype

2010-03-17 Thread Slau Halatyn
Hi Phil, Try launching Skype and, when it launches, rather than interacting with anything, simply try to tab to a field. This seemed to work for me in an earlier version of Skype and VoiceOver. Worth at least a try. HTH On Mar 17, 2010, at 5:42 PM, phil stephenson wrote: > Hi, > > Have just

Re: cannot send wit the smtp server nul?

2010-03-18 Thread Slau Halatyn
It's a problem with gmail rather than Mail, specifically. Sometimes taking all accounts offline, restarting and taking all accounts online again solves this problem. I've seen it on multiple machines with other people using gmail accounts. On Mar 18, 2010, at 11:13 AM, Sarah Alawami wrote: > H

Re: still having difficulties with dates

2010-03-18 Thread Slau Halatyn
asily accessible and it sounds complicated but, once you're used to the process, it's certainly doable. Hopefully that helps. Slau as On Mar 18, 2010, at 2:27 PM, Christina wrote: > I apologize for writing again about this issue. Is I am very frustrated > trying to enter dates

Re: still having difficulties with dates

2010-03-18 Thread Slau Halatyn
Christina, Remember, in Address Book, don't use Control-Option-up or down arrow. That's only for iCal. Again, in Address Book, just use the up and down arrow keys by themselves once you've interacted. Follow the instructions carefully. HTH Slau On Mar 18, 2010, at 5:55 PM,

Re: home & end keys on a macbook pro

2010-03-24 Thread Slau Halatyn
with just page at a time scrolling. Slau -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr

Re: Fn+Arrow keys for Home, End, Page Up and Page Down on Mac Laptops [was Re: home & end keys on a macbook pro]

2010-03-24 Thread Slau Halatyn
Based on Ester's excellent advice, I just experimented a bit with Syrinx. Here's how to scroll down a page at a time: Use FN-up or down arrow to scroll the page and then use VO-FN-left arrow to read the first visible tweet or VO-FN-right arrow to read the last visible tweet. It doesn't seem to

Re: Reinstalling Snow Leopard

2010-03-29 Thread Slau Halatyn
Debra, For what it's worth, VoiceOver occasionally gets into a finicky mode and getting to the Status menus doesn't work properly. It's difficult to say what causes this behavior but restarting VoiceOver always seems to remedy the situation. There are alternate keyboard shortcuts for getting to

Re: Script for telling time. Used to be: Scripting with VO

2010-03-29 Thread Slau Halatyn
I've also noticed that this tends to draw focus away from VoiceOver. Instead of restarting VoiceOver, try using one of the Orientation commands like VO-F1 and that always seems to regain voiceOver's focus. HTH On Mar 29, 2010, at 12:19 PM, Kimberly thurman wrote: > I began using the script for

Re: Script for telling time. Used to be: Scripting with VO

2010-03-29 Thread Slau Halatyn
ppose it's worth it. On Mar 29, 2010, at 1:33 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Hello Slau and Kimberly, > > If you check "allow voiceover to be controlled by apple scripts" which is > found in Vo utilities under general, the problem should no longer exist. > > hth > O

Re: My Mac Mini

2010-04-01 Thread Slau Halatyn
Hi Joe, It may very well be your personal opinion that the Mac Mini was designed to be portable but the overwhelming majority of people would probably disagree with you. In fact, the iMac is considerably easier to move than a Mac Mini connected to a monitor and yet I doubt most people would con

Re: Query about MP3 and OGG files

2010-04-02 Thread Slau Halatyn
FYI, ogg is not lossless, it's lossey compression. Tons of information are being discarded. Some people claim it sounds better than mp3 encoding but it's just not as widely supported. More importantly, the reason why it appeals to some is that there are no licensing fees. On Apr 2, 2010, at 4:1

Re: command l doesn't work

2010-04-08 Thread Slau Halatyn
If you look in the menus, you'll see that Command-l is the command for logging into an account. What might've happened is that the command you were given sounded like Command-l but it was actually Command-Del or Command-Delete, had it been spelled out completely. Just a hunch. Further, I'm not s

Re: 3 am

2010-04-10 Thread Slau Halatyn
Do a search for Onyx. It's a free application that allows you to do tons of maintenance stuff like running scripts and customizing the system. HTH On Apr 10, 2010, at 1:11 PM, louie wrote: > Hi all, > I know that are scripts run at 3 AM every night on our Macs. These scripts > are maintenance

Re: extra voices

2010-04-11 Thread Slau Halatyn
InfoVox would probably be the best choice. I like the Cepstral voices as well but they appear not to work too well with VoiceOver, at least for me. From what I understand, AT&T has a package of voices that are supposed to be quite good but they're well over $300. Go with InfoVox. They have a 30-

Re: extra voices

2010-04-11 Thread Slau Halatyn
Well, it's a bit unusual. You see, they don't actually sell the voices, per se. They do, however, offer a software developers' toolkit for that price and that includes all of the voices. I think there are something like 27 voices, if I remember correctly. The idea is, if you were to develop soft

Re: extra voices

2010-04-11 Thread Slau Halatyn
Yep, as I said earlier, the InfoVox voices are probably the best bet. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisio

Re: Apple Airport Express Base Station

2010-04-14 Thread Slau Halatyn
should work just fine. Set up, as I recall, was a breeze. On Apr 14, 2010, at 5:22 PM, Linda Adams wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have just acquired this WI-Fi for my home computer. I will be using it for > my Macbook and a PC. This is my first experience with the Wi-Fi so I thought > I'd ask

Re: adding a application to the doc

2010-04-23 Thread Slau Halatyn
Wile the application is running, navigate to the Dock, move to the active application and use VO-Shift-m to bring up the contextual menu. Choose Options>Keep in dock. There's also a keyboard shortcut you can use from the Finder when an application has keyboard focus but I don't recall what that

Re: Recording multiple sessions at once using Audio Hijack Pro

2010-04-27 Thread Slau Halatyn
evice. Haven't tried it myself but I hear it's pretty simple. HTH Slau On Apr 27, 2010, at 12:36 PM, VaShaun Jones wrote: > Listers I want to record my voice over some tracks that are playing in I > Tunes and was using Audio Hijack Pro. I can record one or the other but not > b

Re: Walter Isaacson's book for Steve Jobs in mp3 audio format.

2011-10-30 Thread Slau Halatyn
Umm, excuse me, but you're posting mp3s of a book that is for sale? really? On Oct 29, 2011, at 7:34 PM, Nektarios Mallas wrote: > Hi. > As I promised, here are the links to download the book in audio. > Sorry for the delay. > If you need anything else, let me know. > > links to download Steve

Keyboard Maestro version 8 slated for accessibility fix

2017-10-03 Thread Slau Halatyn
lease. There was an update yesterday so the next update won't be for a little while but at least we know it's been addressed. Just an FYI. Slau -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running o

Re: Accessible hard drive recovery software

2017-12-20 Thread Slau Halatyn
I found Data Rescue versions 2 through 4 to be very accessible and I was able to recover files quite easily. I'm not sure what version they're up to but they've historically been good with accessibility. HTH, Slau > On Dec 20, 2017, at 12:20 PM, Nickus de Vos wrote: > &

where have people encountered the phrase "has alternate items" with VoiceOver

2019-02-22 Thread Slau Halatyn
is implemented. Does anybody recall where they might have also seen this? Cheers, Slau -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inapprop

Re: where have people encountered the phrase "has alternate items" with VoiceOver

2019-02-24 Thread Slau Halatyn
Thanks. I actually found just such a custom menu in the Apple Photos app. Got what I needed. Cheers, Slau. > On Feb 23, 2019, at 8:38 AM, Anders Holmberg wrote: > > Hi! > I have seen this on i think the full screen buttons in some applications. > I think they use to be in th

Re: Backblaze with voiceover?

2019-03-02 Thread Slau Halatyn
Navigate to the table and turn tracking off. Use the VoiceOver cursor to read the list. You won't get any alerts. If you VO Space on anything, that'll select it. HTH > On Feb 28, 2019, at 10:14 AM, Matt Turner wrote: > > Hi, tried that as well. > Still get the same result. > >> On Feb 27, 20

Re: pro tools

2011-01-10 Thread Slau Halatyn
Send a message to ptaccess+subscr...@googlegroups.com HTH, Slau On Jan 10, 2011, at 9:22 AM, Carolyn Haas wrote: > Hi listers: > There was once talk of a group being formed for blind pro tools users. > Anyone know if there is such a group, and where it might be found? TIA for &

Fetch, Transmit & CyberDuck

2011-01-11 Thread Slau Halatyn
find to be somewhat less accessible although probably useable. Is there any other client that anyone knows of that seems to work well with VoiceOver? Cheers, Slau -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this gr

Re: Is Voiceover supposed to automatically save graphic labels?

2011-01-23 Thread Slau Halatyn
I've noticed that labeling is inconsistent. I've certainly labeled graphics (and VoiceOver is supposed to save them automatically) and, upon reopening the program (say, after a reboot), the labels are often gone. Slau On Jan 22, 2011, at 9:58 PM, Mike Arrigo wrote: > Haven

resizing partition with VoiceOver

2011-01-27 Thread Slau Halatyn
Has anyone successfully resized a partition on a drive with voiceOver? I've deleted a partition and now there's free space but I can't figure out a way to devote that free space to the existing and only partition on the drive. Hmm… Slau -- You received this message because you

Re: resizing partition with VoiceOver

2011-01-27 Thread Slau Halatyn
Hi Courtney, Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to work for me. I had somebody take a look at the display and it appears that there isn't even a divider to visibly drag. I think I might just erase the disk. It'll be faster. Cheers, Slau On Jan 27, 2011, at 8:14 PM, Courtney Curr

Re: a bit of help partitioning again

2011-02-01 Thread Slau Halatyn
I couldn't figure out how to do this even with sighted assistance. I cloned my drive and reformatted. Slau On Jan 31, 2011, at 3:55 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: > Ok I shrunk the bootcamp partition in windows but now there is a partition > that appears to be hidden called free space.

very accessible translation software

2011-02-06 Thread Slau Halatyn
o me to check out the app Store and lo and behold, there's an app called "Translate" for $2.99 that is 100% accessible. One tenth the price. Go figure. Oh well… At any rate, whoever needs a translation app, it's fabulous. Slau -- You received this message because you are sub

Re: very accessible translation software

2011-02-06 Thread Slau Halatyn
eb 6, 2011, at 5:57 PM, Slau Halatyn wrote: > >> I've recently had a need to communicate with some folks overseas who don't >> speak english and use the Cyrillic alphabet in their email messages. Reading >> their emails with VoiceOver is impossible. Even if I di

Re: very accessible translation software

2011-02-07 Thread Slau Halatyn
Well, not in real time like a chat thing or such. It is capable of multiple translation windows but it's not automated or anything. It's still a matter of typing into one pane while the other pane translates on the fly. slau On Feb 7, 2011, at 12:29 AM, Sarah Alawami wrote: > lol

astonished to see menu extra that is visible out of the box

2011-02-11 Thread Slau Halatyn
the box?! Well, I do get the sense that Apogee and Apple have a close relationship and their software products are, after all, Mac only. Nice. Very cool. Slau -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group

Re: astonished to see menu extra that is visible out of the box

2011-02-11 Thread Slau Halatyn
It is interesting. I have to say, there's something interesting going on between Apple and Apogee—some type of symbiosis. Slau On Feb 11, 2011, at 11:19 PM, Mike Arrigo wrote: > Interesting. The operating system hasa bug where nonapple menus were not > accessible from the keyboard,

Re: unlabeled checkbox in Carbon Copy Cloner

2011-03-12 Thread Slau Halatyn
indicates that the volume will be bootable in the text area that follows the supposed checkbox. HTH, Slau On Mar 12, 2011, at 11:02 PM, Joseph Norton wrote: > Hi list: > > In using Carbon Copy Cloner, I notice a check box which I cannot account for. > > After I select source and

Re: about to take the pro tools plunge

2011-03-16 Thread Slau Halatyn
Hi Yuma, #1 recommendation is to join the P T Access list by sending a blank message to ptaccess+subscr...@googlegroups.com Slau On Mar 15, 2011, at 7:51 PM, Yuma Decaux wrote: > Hi list, > > Anyone got some extensive use of pro tools? I'm considering software only > e

Re: Part 1 of Pro Tools Tutorial Now available.

2011-04-15 Thread Slau Halatyn
metimes follows the cursor and other times, no matter what you do, it stays up at the Apple menu. Slau On Apr 15, 2011, at 2:57 PM, Colin M wrote: > Hi Kevin! > Good podcast! > Now I do not know if this will work in protools but the way people can pick > nonconsuwncial items is! >

Re: Pro Tools with VO? is it any good?

2018-02-23 Thread Slau Halatyn
to contact me off-list if you'd like more info. Cheers, Slau > On Feb 22, 2018, at 4:10 PM, Michael Marshall > wrote: > > hey all, > Apologies if this has been asked before but i'm wondering if > > Pro Tools works at all with voiceover. > I was reading some

Re: Pro Tools with VO? is it any good?

2018-02-24 Thread Slau Halatyn
lready have tested it. Is there a free trial > or do i have to renew my license which i haven’t done since v11 came out? > Also is there a list of compatible control surfaces both third party and > Avids own? > /Krister > > >> 23 feb. 2018 kl. 23:18 skrev Slau Halatyn &g

Re: Pro Tools with VO? is it any good?

2018-02-26 Thread Slau Halatyn
The basic version of Pro Tools is $99 per year as a subscription after an initial cost of $199 for the first year which includes support. While the subscription is active, all updates are free. It's actually not expensive in in general. For those who put the time in to learn it, it's the most ac

Airport Extreme replacement recommendations?

2020-01-27 Thread Slau Halatyn
I've been happily using my Airport extreme for many years now and it finally went belly up. So… Since I haven't been up on the accessibility of newer routers, any recommendations for any that play nice with VoiceOver? Cheers, Slau -- The following information is important for all

Re: Airport Extreme replacement recommendations?

2020-01-29 Thread Slau Halatyn
Hi Donna, Fantastic, thanks for the info. Cheers, Slau > On Jan 28, 2020, at 3:15 PM, 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > Hi Slau, > > We just replaced our Extreme with a Netgear Orby, and so far have been quite > happy with it. You'll want so

Re: Airport Extreme replacement recommendations?

2020-01-29 Thread Slau Halatyn
Thanks for the information, Jeff. I'll look into it. Cheers, Slau > On Jan 28, 2020, at 11:32 PM, Jeff Greene wrote: > > Hi Slau, > I currently have a Grifin Unhackable Mesh wifi router and like it a lot. It > uses an iphone app to set it up and manage the network

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