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[macvoiceover] Re: Problems using Skype with the iPod Touch 3rd generation (Ignasi Cambra)

Well, when you click on them you basically call them, but if you hang up before it actually rings it still stays in your history. It works even if the contact is offline. On Nov 22, 2009, at 1:07 AM, Neal Ewers wrote: Hi, I have noticed that the history contacts are read. I didn't think of simply having someone click on them because I figured I had to call them. It's not the best work around, but I think you're on to something. Thanks for your help. ...

[macvoiceover] Sorry, subject didn't get deleted (carlene knight)

what strange mail behavior. Sorry guys On Nov 21, 2009, at 10:40 PM, carlene knight wrote: Hi: I hope that we found the issue causing my focus problems. it appears that even though my husband had given the go ahead for the firewall to allow the log-me-in program to run, , it was popping with a dialog asking and for some strange reason Voiceover wasn't seeing it at all. We had to disable the firewall. thankfully Airport Express seems to still work ok. Sometimes I ...

[macvoiceover] focus problem might be resolvedRe: Problems using Skype with the iPod Touch 3rd generation (carlene knight)

Hi: I hope that we found the issue causing my focus problems. it appears that even though my husband had given the go ahead for the firewall to allow the log-me-in program to run, , it was popping with a dialog asking and for some strange reason Voiceover wasn't seeing it at all. We had to disable the firewall. thankfully Airport Express seems to still work ok. Sometimes I still have to tab back and forth a couple times to change mailboxes, but so far everything else is working ok. I can tell you that a sighted person around can be handy. :) ...

[macvoiceover] Re: Problems using Skype with the iPod Touch 3rd generation (Neal Ewers)

Hi, I have noticed that the history contacts are read. I didn't think of simply having someone click on them because I figured I had to call them. It's not the best work around, but I think you're on to something. Thanks for your help. Neal -----Original Message----- ...

[macvoiceover] Re: Terminal? (Dan)

Hello, I'd like to contribute a few suggestions for changing a few settings in terminal to make it work a little better. After launching Terminal, change the following settings. Command Comma to open preferences. Tab to settings and press enter. Under the Text tab, make sure cursor is blinking and that it is set to Block cursor. Under the Advance tab,bring up the xTERM-Color and switch it to VT100. Then exit prefs. ...

[macvoiceover] Re: Dashboard widgets. (Keith Reedy)

You are quite correct, I think I have 3 open all of the time. Keith Reedy Click the link below to download MP3's of Keith Reedy's music as a gift from Bibles For The Blind. God gives His best to those who leave the choice with Him. J Hudson Taylor. ...

[macvoiceover] Re: mail crashing (Keith Reedy)

Well, not today, my hands have been unusually busy for a Saturday. Keith Reedy On Nov 21, 2009, at 9:14 PM, Marcy Weinberg wrote: Hi, Keith, I take it you tested this out again today? Marcy On Nov 21, 2009, at 9:08 PM, Keith Reedy wrote: Marcy, ...

[macvoiceover] Amazon mp3 downloader (Sam Troia)

Just letting everyone know that the Amazon mp3 downloader for the Mac works very well with voiceover. Click on the link below to go to our homepage. Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below. ...

[macvoiceover] Re: Terminal? (Ignasi Cambra)

Hello, In Snow Leopard, the terminal actually works very well. Just interact with the shell area and read the contents with VO up and down arrows. Whenever you need to type, just type and press enter just like you would do on any other unix system. I can tell you for sure that ssh and sftp work well. Ignasi On Nov 18, 2009, at 10:35 AM, Chris Hofstader wrote: ...

[macvoiceover] Re: Copying files to a shared folder? (Ignasi Cambra)

Chris, What procedure did you follow to share the folder? I've done this many times, and never had this kind of problems... Ignasi On Nov 19, 2009, at 8:15 AM, Chris Hofstader wrote: Hi, I'm moving off of my old MacBook 13 and onto my new MacBook Pro 13. I shared ...

[macvoiceover] Re: Dashboard widgets. (Ignasi Cambra)

Widgets really don't take much memory anyway, unless you are using many many of them, or just widgets that happen to use many system resources. I always have my weather opened, and two or three more and it doesn't do anything bad to me. Everyone who hasen't experimented with these should really get to it... They are great! On Nov 21, 2009, at 7:32 AM, Keith Reedy wrote: Widgets are really working well in Leopard and SnowLeopard. I have checked out ESPN and have it set up for football, so I can keep track of my Colts, I ...

[macvoiceover] Re: Problems using Skype with the iPod Touch 3rd generation (Ignasi Cambra)

If you can get some sighted help, a solution for this is to have someone click on each contact for you just as if you were going to call them, and they will appear in your call history. Then, you can just call them from there with no problems at all. I use Skype every day and it works really well. On Nov 21, 2009, at 7:59 AM, Marcy Weinberg wrote: Hi, Neil, I have Skype on my iPhone, and VO alsowill not read the contacts, just the alphabet. Marcy On Nov 20, 2009, at 1:18 PM, Neal Ewers wrote: ...

[macvoiceover] Re: mail crashing (Marcy Weinberg)

Hi, Keith, I take it you tested this out again today? Marcy On Nov 21, 2009, at 9:08 PM, Keith Reedy wrote: Marcy, I have never had this happen, hmmm. Do you have the instructions that Cheryl sent out. ...

[macvoiceover] Re: mail crashing (Keith Reedy)

Marcy, I have never had this happen, hmmm. Do you have the instructions that Cheryl sent out. Keith Reedy On Nov 21, 2009, at 1:41 PM, Marcy Weinberg wrote: ...

[macvoiceover] Re: Safari busy again (Keith Reedy)

Hi Amanda, The question I ask most often when some one has a mini and has the busy problem is, do you have a monitor on your mini? If you do not have a monitor and the new software update had something to do with graphics, it mite be enough to upset the balance. Keith Reedy On Nov 21, 2009, at 6:01 PM, Amanda wrote: ...

[macvoiceover] Re: Safari busy again (Amanda)

Hi, I have a mac mini and I'm running the latest update of snow leopard. On 21/11/2009, at 4:43 PM, Keith Reedy wrote: Hi amanda, Which computer do you have and are you running SnowLeopard? Keith Reedy ...

[macvoiceover] Re: How do you send to some one off list? (Russell Solowoniuk)

This works on my system as well! Russell On 2009-11-20, at 5:07 AM, John Hess wrote: keith, hate to say this doesn't work in snow leopard or perhaps on my machine. I can highlight the address but control-option-shift-m does absolutely nothing. This did work in Leopard. I think they broke it. On Nov 20, 2009, at 4:03 AM, Keith Reedy wrote: ...

[macvoiceover] mail crashing (Marcy Weinberg)

Hi, all! I tried to create a signature in mail earlier. I was able to choose the email client in the signatures table, and hit the new signature button. I named the signature in the edit field, but when I stopped interacting, which was necessary, and used vo to get to the next thing to do, mail crashed. This happened every time I tried, and I chose to send a report to Apple. Has anyone else experienced this? Marcy Click on the link below to go to our homepage. ...

[macvoiceover] Long lines when scanning (Cheryl Homiak)

Hi all. When I scan using vuescan and readers, my output pages end up with long lines: at least they seem longer to me than I think would actually be in a book but I'm not sure about this. Since voiceover does read them in text edit, and since i often end up converting to audio, this isn't necessarily a huge problem and I have the same problem with Abbyy finereader in Windows but it is annoying. Is there a way to get documents, especially books, to actually output with the line length they had in the print or are the print lines in a book really that long? ...

[macvoiceover] Re: Problems using Skype with the iPod Touch 3rd generation (Marcy Weinberg)

Hi, Neil, I have Skype on my iPhone, and VO alsowill not read the contacts, just the alphabet. Marcy On Nov 20, 2009, at 1:18 PM, Neal Ewers wrote: Sorry if this has been covered. My friends can access the contact list in Skype with voiceover off, but when I turn it on, all I get is the alphabetical index. A, B, C, etc. No contact names appear. Am I doing something wrong, or does this just not work? ...

[macvoiceover] Dashboard widgets. (Keith Reedy)

Widgets are really working well in Leopard and SnowLeopard. I have checked out ESPN and have it set up for football, so I can keep track of my Colts, I have been able to look at a word in dictionary and the list goes on. Remember to close your widgets when you are done with them, in other words, don't leave a bunch of them open at one time, because they take system resources. You can bring up a list of commands by pressing, VO keys-h twice. Here are ...

[macvoiceover] Shortcut to display Dashboard widgets (Robin Kipp)

Hi all! So far I've never done a lot with the Dashboard yet but now I'm getting kind of curious about its possibilities... However, when I open it I just get a calculator and that's it. I know it's somehow possible to open a list of all available widgets, but I haven't found anything about that in the VO help or the keyboard command settings. Please, could someone who knows more tell me the shortcut? Thanks! Robin Click on the link below to go to our homepage. ...

[macvoiceover] Re: Safari busy again (Keith Reedy)

Hi amanda, Which computer do you have and are you running SnowLeopard? Keith Reedy On Nov 20, 2009, at 11:11 PM, Amanda wrote: Hi, ...

[macvoiceover] Re: Safari busy again (Amanda)

Hi, I've tried repairing permissions, and have restarted the mac but it safari is still busy. I've even downloaded and installed the update combo and it is still happening. On 19/11/2009, at 11:28 PM, Chantel Cuddemi wrote: Try repairing permissions. On Nov 19, 2009, at 12:38 AM, Amanda wrote: ...

[macvoiceover] Re: E-mail and iTunes and other focus issues for Carlene and others. (carlene knight)

When I tried that I could only see two choices in the tabs and it was way worse. My mac has a mind of its own to the point where it's almost scary. On Nov 20, 2009, at 1:45 PM, Keith Reedy wrote: On the other hand, Just for fun I set this button talked about below to, moves Voiceover curser and at this time, I am having no issues of any kind. Mail seems to work much as it did in Leopard, your mileage may very. Keith Reedy ...

[macvoiceover] Re: E-mail and iTunes and other focus issues for Carlene and others. (carlene knight)

Thanks Keith: I've got the mouse cursor set to ignore the voiceover one, already, but I don't think I am using vo/command/f5 often enough. I never used to have this problem. I mainly did the last upgrade to correct the Vo problem I had when waking up the computer, and now it seems to be back anyway. Urgg! Thanks for the tip. I used that command a while back to no avail but it has worked today. On Nov 20, 2009, at 1:19 PM, Keith Reedy wrote: Folks, ...

[macvoiceover] Re: E-mail and iTunes and other focus issues for Carlene and others. (Keith Reedy)

On the other hand, Just for fun I set this button talked about below to, moves Voiceover curser and at this time, I am having no issues of any kind. Mail seems to work much as it did in Leopard, your mileage may very. Keith Reedy Folks, The popup button in Navigation, in Voiceover utilities has 3 choices, moves Voiceover curser, ...

[macvoiceover] Re: E-mail and iTunes and other focus issues for Carlene and others. (Keith Reedy)

Folks, The popup button in Navigation, in Voiceover utilities has 3 choices, moves Voiceover curser, ignores Voiceover curser, follows Voiceover curser, Which tells the mouse how to act deserves a special look if you are having focus issues. Right now, I have it set to ignores Voiceover curser and life is pretty good. ...

[macvoiceover] Re: E-mail and iTunes for Carlene. (carlene knight)

thanks so much Keith. I think I am going to shut my computer down at night instead of letting it sleep as it sometimes acts strangely when I wake it up. I have a feeling that will help. If it doesn't, I will certainly let you know. I've already tried the key strokes you suggested to no avail. It doesn't seem to link the cursors. I will play with it some more. It's behaving ok at the moment, but in 5 seconds it could start again. Thanks again for your concern, On Nov 19, 2009, at 10:51 PM, Keith Reedy wrote: ...

[macvoiceover] Problems using Skype with the iPod Touch 3rd generation (Neal Ewers)

Sorry if this has been covered. My friends can access the contact list in Skype with voiceover off, but when I turn it on, all I get is the alphabetical index. A, B, C, etc. No contact names appear. Am I doing something wrong, or does this just not work? Thanks much for your help. Neal Click on the link below to go to our homepage. ...

[macvoiceover] Re: MacSpeech Dictate (Chris Hofstader)

MacSpeech Dictate is a port of portions of the Dragon product. It's authors licensed the engine and some of the UI code from Nuance and putit onto the Mac. It's recognition is very good, pretty much what one would expect from the Dragon product. The UI, however, is a nightmare with VoiceOver. As far as I know, there are no other dictation programs for the Mac which pretty much sucks. Vista and Windows 7 have very good dictation built into the OS and System Access and probably other Windows screen readers work with it out of the box. ...

[macvoiceover] MacSpeech Dictate (Kristyn Leigh)

Has anyone used MacSpeech Dictate? My new Mac should arrive next week. Kristyn Click on the link below to go to our homepage. ...

[macvoiceover] Banking software for the Mac (Robin Kipp)

Hi all, I'm looking for an online banking software for Mac os 10.6 that is Vo compatible. Does anyone here know an app I could use? Thanks for any hints! Robin Click on the link below to go to our homepage. Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below. ...

[macvoiceover] Re: Guides! Please keep this message. (WandaAdmin)

This link is a great resource for newbies in mac: if someone is doing programing using JAVA in Eclipse please let me know. wanda Wanda Diaz-Merced Department of Computer Science University of Glasgow ...

[macvoiceover] Re: Guides! Please keep this message. (Keith Reedy)

Hey Eddy, Thanks and we will try to be a help to you. Keith Reedy Click the link below to download MP3's of Keith Reedy's music as a gift from Bibles For The Blind. ...

[macvoiceover] Re: How do you send to some one off list? (Keith Reedy)

Works fine on my computer and others. Try routing your mouse. Keith Reedy Click the link below to download MP3's of Keith Reedy's music as a gift from Bibles For The Blind. ...

[macvoiceover] Re: Guides! Please keep this message. (Eddy Stephens)

Hi Keith: I am new to the list and am going to be getting a Mac Miney soon. This is a great message! I am Verry glad I found this list. Thank You for all of Your Excelent help and advice. Eddy Stephens ----- Original Message ----- From: Keith Reedy wa9dro@xxxxxxxxx ...

[macvoiceover] Re: How do you send to some one off list? (John Hess)

keith, hate to say this doesn't work in snow leopard or perhaps on my machine. I can highlight the address but control-option-shift-m does absolutely nothing. This did work in Leopard. I think they broke it. On Nov 20, 2009, at 4:03 AM, Keith Reedy wrote: Stan suggested telling every one how to mail to some one off list, so, here is the way I do it. 1: Press enter on the message that you want to reply to, 2: Shift-tab to the message header, ...

[macvoiceover] How do you send to some one off list? (Keith Reedy)

Stan suggested telling every one how to mail to some one off list, so, here is the way I do it. 1: Press enter on the message that you want to reply to, 2: Shift-tab to the message header, 3: Option-shift-right arrow twice to the e-mail address, VO will say highlighted, 4: Press, VO keys-shift-m to bring up a context menu. 5: arrow down to reply to sender and press enter. ...

[macvoiceover] E-mail and iTunes for Carlene. (Keith Reedy)

Carlene, If you feel that you are having focus problems, check where your mouse is located with VO keys-F5 and rout the mouse with voKeys-command-f5. This seems to take care of my focus issues. And if we need to get together on skype, iChat, or, the phone we will do that in order to find the answer to the problem. Keith Reedy Click the link below to download MP3's of Keith Reedy's music as a gift from ...

[macvoiceover] Welcome new list members. (Keith Reedy)

Hello every one and a special welcome to new list members. At this time, we have 207 list members and with the new Voiceover just out a few weeks ago , a very busy list. This list is moderated, so, if we are a little slow in answering, just hang in there, grin smile. The topic for this list is the Voiceover screenreader, on the MAC, or, on the iPhone. ...

[macvoiceover] Guides! Please keep this message. (Keith Reedy)

Good morning folks, Some times, we just need to know how to do something with an application and Voiceover that we just don't know how to do. At those times there may be a guide for that, grin. Lots of guides here, and here, ...

[macvoiceover] Have you ever gotten a helpful message? Recycle, that, message. (Keith Reedy)

I, over the last few years have gotten many helpful messages. Messages that have given me the answer on how to do something with Voiceover that I just did not know how to do and for which I could not find the answer. I have put these messages in mailboxes with names like, learning Tiger, or, Learning Leopard, Or, Learning SnowLeopard. ...

[macvoiceover] The list from the admin. (Keith Reedy)

Hi folks, Now that I am back and so glad to be back, I thought it mite be a good time to restate some things that we have talked about over the last 4 years. This list has been set aside for learning and teaching the screenreader Voiceover with the MAC and with the iPhone. If some one would like to take some one off list to talk about something unrelated, please feel free to do so. ...

[macvoiceover] Re: vo commands: (Keith Reedy)

Hi Rick, My name is Keith Reedy and I am the mod, You will not be treated badly here and we will do the best we can to answer your questions. The topic for this list is the screen reader Voiceover, on the MAC and on the iPhone. ...

[macvoiceover] Re: vo commands: (Keith Reedy)

Ricardo, I would tend to agree. I think we have all gotten a little too touchey. Keith Reedy On Nov 19, 2009, at 2:44 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote: No need to get upset. lol. I find someone writing a message telling someone they ask too many questions a bit of a waste of time. Like I said. She asked 3 questions, and they where very short. The reason I bring this up is ...

[macvoiceover] Re: vo commands: (Keith Reedy)

Ricardo, I think we will be getting back on track now. Now that I am bback the list will go back in to moderation again, so I will be able to filter the messages a little better. Keith Reedy On Nov 19, 2009, at 2:33 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote: lol. How many questions is too much? There was only 3. lol. And they were ...

[macvoiceover] Re: vo commands: (Keith Reedy)

Sam, Thank you for taking these questions and putting the answers in the post, very nicely done. I have been out of the loop for about a week, however I am back, I have missed you all. Keith Reedy On Nov 19, 2009, at 1:35 PM, David Poehlman wrote: ...

[macvoiceover] Re: problem with VO and edit fields (David Poehlman)

yes, vo cursor follows keyboard cursor, keyboard cursor follows vo cursor, vo follows insertion point and vice versa, you can also investigate this in the vo utility. On Nov 19, 2009, at 5:23 PM, Joel Zimba wrote: I'm am glad to know it's not just me. I will try to pull up my nanowrimo document later on tonight. I knew I ought not try to write a book and learn a new computing environment all at the same ...

[macvoiceover] Re: problem with VO and edit fields (Joel Zimba)

I'm am glad to know it's not just me. I will try to pull up my nanowrimo document later on tonight. I knew I ought not try to write a book and learn a new computing environment all at the same time. but hey, I work well under pressure. I have now noticed that in some large multi-page documents, (at least in Pages) I can interract with different pages of the document.) ...