Hello all,
Is there a way to edit PDF files on the Mac? For example, many of the tax forms
on the IRS web site are editable electronic forms. Do we have a way of editing
those kinds of documents?
Thanks for any ideas.
Victor
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Hello listers,
Has anyone figured out how to select various options during the installation of
products on Mac OS? For example, say, I want to select a different
"destination" or "installation type".
I just can't figure out how to do it.
Thanks for any advice.
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Has anyone figured out how to use Spotify for the Mac with VoiceOver? I can get
to the search field but nothing beyond that.
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Hey guys,
FWIW, here is a list of 30 open source applications for the Mac:
http://mac.appstorm.net/roundups/utilities-roundups/30-great-open-source-mac-apps/
In particular, Transmission, a torrent app, is quite accessible. You will find
other cools tuff there.
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Hello all,
Has anyone figured out how to manage bookmarks in Safari? Once I show all
bookmarks, I can operate on up to three bookmarks via the context menu, but I
am not sure how to edit/delete those that are hiding under "more bookmarks"
menu.
Thanks for any tips.
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Hey guys,
Does anyone know if there is a software that will let me catalog my CD
collection when the CD/DVD is inserted in the drive? Of course, I'd like for it
to be automated and accessible. I also would like to be able to export the
catalog int other formats.
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Does anybody here use iMovie with Mountain Lion?
For some reason, I am no longer able to drag and drop titles and audio clips
into Events Timeline with VoiceOver.
Am I doing something wrong?
Thanks for any ideas.
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Hey guys,
Did anyone figure out how to record the output from VoiceOver directly into
Garage Band? I tried using SoundFlower but their controlling app is not
accessible with VoiceOver even though outputs are.
I also tried the utility called LineIn but not sure if it is of any help for
this scena
Hello all,
Is there anyone reading Google Groups in digest mode with VoiceOver, e.g.
VIPhone or MacVisionaries group lists?
I find that VoiceOver is very spotty with HTML inside email messages and was
wondering if you had any tips/tricks on improving the productivity with those
kinds of message
Hello "VoiceOver On" guys and everyone else on the list,
First of all, I'll start by saying that I am not a Mac fan or anything-one
else's, for that matter. I am only a fan of myself, .
I just wanted to share a couple of my thoughts regarding the latest "VoiceOver
On" podcast because, unfortunate
Hello GB users,
Is there any one who owns this jam pack? Is it worth the money?
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Hello listers,
Wanted to probe for your opinion regarding the two Mac Mini computers below as
far as media applications are concerned.
First is the 2.5GHZ dual-core Intel I5 (can be configured to I7). Its built-in
SATA drives can also be exchanged for solid-state drives if desired.
Second is the
Thought some may enjoy this tip.
When you are reading messages in Apple Mail, you can switch between available
alternative formats, like HTML and plain text or a hybrid of both, by pressing
CMD+OPT+left or right brackets while inside the message.
I find this especially useful with complex HTML me
Hey guys,
I saw this app in the Mac store. I was wondering if its level of accessibility
warrants the price they're asking for it?
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Hello all,
I am trying to use the Remote Dictate for the iPhone with Mobile Mouse server
running on the Mac. While the speech recognition is really awesome, I am
noticing that the characters appear on the Mac, they are either misplaced or
typed in the wrong places.
Anyone has seen this behavior?
Hello GB users,
I think Flex pointers are not accessible to us in GB but I thought I'd ask here
in case someone figured work-arounds. Anyone?
Flex pointers allow the user to stretch and compress a particular region, both
MIDI and audio.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
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Hey guys,
I thought their was a way to rearrange the apps on the home screens using
iTunes. Does this feature still exist in iTunes 11 and, if yes, is it
accessible with VoiceOver?
Thanks for any ideas.
Victor
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Can anybody recommend an app for the Mac that would allow me to modify id3 tags
in MP3 files? Would like something other than iTunes.
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Hello all,
Has anyone ever reached out to the developers of VLC Player for the Mac
regarding the accessibility of their application with VoiceOver?
It's manageable but could certainly be improved further.
Just curious so as not to double efforts.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3149
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Hi all,
Trying to install Win7 on a Bootcamp partition on my Mac Mini, however,
understand that the sighted assistance may be required.
I've gotten as far as partitioning the disk using the Bootcamp Assistant. My
Mac restarted and then I am not sure what the sequence should be after this. I
trie
Hi all,
So, I looked through discussions on Mac-visionaries and know this topic has
come up on multiple occasions.
Option-click seemed to work for me just about a year ago. However, when I tried
it today wanting to restore from the psw file, no matter what I did, the
option-click would not pull
browse" dialog,
but can't get it to work neither on the Mac of Windows.
Any help would be much appreciated.
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It's N82's Flash that does the real trick and not so much the 5MPX camera.
On 10/12/2009 7:56 AM, Chris Blouch wrote:
> Not sure the camera really does the OCR function. That's probably
> software after the photo is taken. That said, KNFB runs in the Nokia N82
> which has a 5 megapixel camera whil
Hello all,
Is Garage Band a more accessible software in Snow Leopard than it was in
Leopard? If yes, the nhow?
Thanks,
Vic
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I don't think it is fair to compare Voiceover to Orca or NVDA.
Voiceover is a proprietary product, the other two are not. Orca runs
on Linux, on which none of the MS products are available. NVDA runs on
Windows and supports IE, Firefox, Outlook, Word and Excel. What else
do you need?
I agree with C
> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
>
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Hi Randy,
Sorry, I missed the beginning of this thread. Are you trying to install
Yahoo! Messenger?
Vic
On 2/28/2009 5:21 PM, Fonzie wrote:
> Hey there, how goes it?
>
> I hope all i well.
>
> Hmm, perhaps VO has lost focus on where your supposed to be?
>
> Try the following.
>
> Application Cho
Feel free to drop me a line. Yahoo! Messenger is pretty usable and there
are lot of shortcut keys. Here are some tips:
COMMAND+1-10 -- conversation windows. So when you hear someone ping you,
simply pick one of those windows.
By default, you will be dropped into the text field where you can type
Hi,
Can you please describe the problem you are having? I am not sure how to
help otherwise.
Thanks,
Victor
On 3/21/2009 4:24 PM, Brandon Misch wrote:
> Hey all. sorry for the repeat. am still trying to get yahoo to
> recognize the mail program. was getting help from richie but, it's so
> far ba
for premium members.
> same goes for smpt as well.
>
> On Mar 21, 2009, at 8:03 PM, Victor Tsaran wrote:
>
>
>> Hi,
>> Can you please describe the problem you are having? I am not sure
>> how to
>> help otherwise.
>> Thanks,
>> Victor
>>
&
Yahoo premium member, I can only suggest you lookup the proper
>> servers. As an example, people who get their email with an
>> @sbcglobal.net use pop.att.yahoo.com as their pop server.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ryan
>>
>> On Mar 21, 2009, at 7:58 PM, Brandon Misch wrote:
I don't think so.
Vic
On 3/21/2009 7:16 PM, Brandon Misch wrote:
> o i see. is there a way for yahoo to use imap to access mail?
>
> On Mar 21, 2009, at 10:11 PM, Victor Tsaran wrote:
>
>
>> If you live in the U.S., then you cannot use POP to retrieve your
>
Hey guys,
Can anyone give me some ideas on what free code editors are accessible
with Voiceover? I tried TextMate and, for the most part, it works fine
except for the editing area itself. Unfortunately, Voiceover does not
see any text in the text area. For simple thing I, of course, can use
te
PM, Barry Hadder wrote:
> Hi,
>
> You don't want to use TextEdit as a code editor.
>
> You all ready have several good code editors on your system. Just
> open Terminal and type emacs, vi, or pico.
>
>
> On Apr 10, 2009, at 3:21 AM, Victor Tsaran wrote:
>
>
The only problem I find with Twitterrific is that you cannot use the
retwitt feature. Other than that, it seems to work rather well.
Victor
On 4/6/2009 1:12 AM, Jessi Rathwell wrote:
> yes, twitteriffic is awesome!!! perfectly accessible!!!
> On 5-Apr-09, at 10:10 AM, E.J. Zufelt wrote:
>
>
Hey guys,
I know that Voiceover is not very good when it comes to navigating
HTML tables. Anybody figured out a way to do this more or less
efficiently or are we left to suffer unti lthe next version of the OS
comes out?
Thanks,
Victor
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Hello all,
The actual support for ARIA in Yahoo! Search at www.ysearch.com is on
the search results page. However, as Chris already pointed out,
Safari4 does nto support live regions so you will not be able to fully
enjoy the sweetness of web 2.0 interaction. You can still enjoy
shortcut keys that
Is there a shortcut to toggle betwee nthe two modes or should I always
do this through Voiceover pannel?
On 4/14/2009 11:46 PM, Søren Jensen wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Tables works fine if you switch to group mode.
> Best regards
> Søren Jensen
> Mail& MSN:
> s...@coolfortheblind.dk
> Website:
> http://ww
Much appreciate the tip about VO Copy to Clipboard feature -- every day
I learn something new about this screen reader. Can't wait to see what
these guys introduce into Snow Leopard.
On 4/12/2009 8:53 PM, Mark Baxter wrote:
> Easiest way I've found to do this is VO shift C, copy last phase to
>
This is indeed a great news. Thanks for passing it along.
On 6/23/2009 4:01 PM, Scott McCormack wrote:
>
> I sent an email to Apple today asking about support for bluetooth
> braille displays in OS X and was told that support for bluetooth
> connections to braille displays is coming in Snow Leopa
Hello all,
It may not be a strictly Mac-related question, so feel free to send me
away.
I was trying hard to figure out if there is a way to delete some content
from IPod without having to delete it from the ITunes library. Anyone
knows i there is a way?
Thx,
Victor
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I think IPhone 3GS is a wonderful tool for low vision people -- it is
the first truly accessible phone where everything is magnified. I cannot
say that I would cash out for IPhone as a blind user though. But I truly
appreciate Apple's pushing envelope with technology -- this is something
I'd l
ned to deal with them in a way
> that permitted me to continue productivity.
>
> On 24-Jun-09, at 11:28 PM, Victor Tsaran wrote:
>
>>
>> I think IPhone 3GS is a wonderful tool for low vision people -- it is
>> the first truly accessible phone where everything is magnified.
Hi John,
You need to upgrade to the latest version of Adium. Yahoo! Messenger
updated their protocols and for supporting them you need the latest
version of Adium.
HTH,
Victor
On 7/2/2009 4:37 PM, John Panarese wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
> I'm just curious to know if anyone who is using a Yahoo
No, it doesn't, but there is an SDK that may enable external developers
to build one.
Vic
On 7/18/2009 12:01 AM, william lomas wrote:
>
> hi does anyone know if the palm pre has builtin speech support like
> the iphone 3gs?
> WIll
>
>
> >
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Beware, however, that even though you can lock control and option keys,
you will find yourself in frequent situations where you need to unlock
them, e.g. when browsing the web or trying to interact with various
objects (tables, HTML CONTENT areas etc).
It does get a little annoying to use voice
Honest opinion? You can definitely use IPhone because everything you
touch is spoken to you. So there is really no inherent reason why a
totally blind person cannot use it. Whether it's efficient is a
different question. I think this will depend on how good your spatial
imagination is and how
I actually find that using IPhone's keyboard is easier for a blind
person than for sighted guys. The reason is that sighted people have to
look at the keys and, with their fingers covering every key they have to
hit, it becomes a bit of an annoyance. Since we are used to the layout
of the keyb
Max,
Keep in mind that Apple/AT&T gang lock you into a monthly data plan. But
this is OK since you are not buying IPhone just to call your grandma;
for that there are other phones on the market.
The only bummer, and correct me if I am wrong, is that you cannot swap
sim cards if you are travelin
Apple is tht Apple caught them off guard when
> they released IPhone. Since then Nokia have been playing catch-up.
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>
>
>
Hello all,
I am sorry for asking this silly question, but I can't figure out how to
switch between multiple cities in the "weather" widget on the IPhone.
I've added several of them but can only access the last one. I've tried
all the gestures I could think of, but nothing works.
Thanks for any
>>>
>>> Hey Vic. You need to do a three finger swipe left or right to go
>>> through the pages that display each city.
>>> Hope this helps?
>>>
>>> Thuy
>>>
>>>
>>> On 26/08/2009, Victor Tsaran wrote:
>>>&g
go
> through the pages that display each city.
> Hope this helps?
>
> Thuy
>
>
> On 26/08/2009, Victor Tsaran wrote:
>>
>> Hello all,
>> I am sorry for asking this silly question, but I can't figure out how to
>> switch between multiple cities in the &qu
This is all thanks to the powerful Unix kernel behind the scenes.
On 8/28/2009 8:18 AM, Søren Jensen wrote:
> Yeah. System Profiler is awesome. It contains a lot of great information
> about your Mac. I got pretty surprised then I found out how much
> information it gives. I can give you an examp
Hello all,
The new version of the Yahoo! Messenger for IPhone has just been
released and it is much more accessible than its predecessor, with new
features such as push notifications etc.
Find it here: http://messenger.yahoo.com/iphone
Enjoy,
Victor
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I really would suggest reading manual. I totally understand your
frustration, I went through it myself, but not after I read the manual.
Vic
On 9/25/2009 5:05 AM, Jean-Philippe Rykiel wrote:
> Dear May,
> it's just a mechanical matter. How can you know which key you press
> before you pressed it
Hello all,
Some applications ,like Dropbox and a newly-discovered Tunesque,
http://tunesque.afkstudio.com/, place themselves in the menu bar. However, they
seem to be completely inaccessible to VoiceOver.
The question is, are these the applications to blame or is it VoiceOver that
does not deal
Hello all,
Does anybody know how to delete spaces/desktops in Lion with Voiceover?
Thanks for any advice.
Victor
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Hello all,
Can you please check out the nightly snapshot of Webkit for the Mac? It seems
that "busy" messages are gone. It could be that I am lucky but I could not get
to "busy" on me for the last half-an-hour.
Additionally, those of you who encounter "busy" messages often, can you please
send
say that Safari
is pretty fast on its own.
Any thoughts about this situation? I must say though that it's been like
this for over a year now.
Thanks,
Vic
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Hello all,
I was just playing with graphics labeler with Voiceover in XCode and
noticed that after I reopened the program, all the labels were gone.
Is that how this feature of Voiceover supposed to work? Is there a
shortcut key I am missing to save those labels or is XCode perhaps
changing the gra
Hello all,
I found out a way to fast forward or rewind the clip in iTunes by
first routing the mouse pointer to either "fast forward" or "rewind"
button with CTRL+CMD+OPT+F5, and then holding the mouse's left button;
release to stop either of the actions.
The question is whether there is a mouse-do
s... I am using one of those Apple headsets that
come with iPhone.
Thanks for any advice.
Vic
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Hello all,
Apologies if this is not any kind of news to some Garage Band users,
but I wanted to bring to the attention of those who are just starting
using this software, that it is possible to utilize the Item Chooser
feature of Voiceover (Control+Option+I) to find things on the screen.
This is es
the steps to drag an item from one table into
another?
Thanks for any help.
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ot accessible at all.
Thanks for any advice.
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Hello coders,
While there are many more things accessible about the new version of the XCode4
IDE, the one thing that I am still not able to accomplish is connecting objects
to outlets and actions via the Interface Builder. Of course, there are tricks
to accomplish a lot of this from inside the
Hello all,
What accessible Twitter clients do people use these days on their
Macs? I am using Nambu but was wondering if there was a client I am
missing?
Thanks,
Vic
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Hello all,
Am I missing something or the in-page links do not really work in Snow Leopard
with Voiceover? It seems that VO detects such links as links, however, does not
do anything when you click on them.
Any idea on what's going on here?
Thanks,
Vic
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Hello guys,
I reckon the answer to my question would be "this is currently
impossible", but I thought I'd risk asking the list anyway...
Oftentimes I come across the heading or a line of text where each
letter is capitalized. In these instances Voiceover spells each letter
which ,as you can imagine
Hello all,
Can anybody recommend an accessible converter that would allow me save MP4
video files into AVI for Windows?
I need to share some files on Tuesday and have no way of exporting them from my
Mac.
Thanks,
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Hello all,
Has anyone here played with iMovie? I seem to have difficulties adding titles
to movies. Any advice?
Thanks,
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