apple's screen reader (was New Linux PDA For Blind People)

[Jane Jordan (gmail)]

Thanks for the reminder on how to do works Cited.  He *might* accept  
them if I can't do the footnotes.

Might.

Jane


On Apr 2, 2006, at 2:57 PM, Ryan Mann wrote:

> I didn't do foot notes.  I sighted the sources at the end of each
> paragraph in APA format.  For example, if I used information from a
> book by John Walker, I would have (Walker, John, 1990, P. 6)
>
> Ryan
> Original message:
>> How did you do the footnotes?  Thee is a person on the vo list  
>> wanting to
>> know how this is done in text edit?
>
>
>> On Sun, 2 Apr 2006, Ryan Mann wrote:
>
>>> Hi.  You mentioned Microsoft Office not being accessible with Voice
>>> Over.  For word processing, you could use the editor that comes with
>>> Mac OSX called Text Edit.  You can read and save documents in  
>>> Word or
>>> rich text format.  I've recently used my new Mac Mini to do a  
>>> research
>>> paper for one of my classes.
>
>>> Original message:
>>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>>>> Hash: RIPEMD160
>
>>>> I didn't get a lot of time to really get down and use Voice Over  
>>>> heavily
>>>> but I did give Itunes a try.  Forget it! Itunes was quieter than a
>>>> church mouse! I understand applications have to be built in Coco
>>>> framework in order for Voice Over to work.  Itunes and the ports of
>>>> Microsoft Office are in Carbon; I was told that Carbon apps just  
>>>> flat
>>>> don't work in Voice Over.
>
>>>> On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 01:39:04PM -0500, Travis Siegel wrote:
>>>>> What are you talking about?
>>>>> I use the mac every day. Email, file manipulation, cd/dvd  
>>>>> playing, cd/
>>>>> dvd creating, online chatting, web browsing, word processing,  
>>>>> and to
>>>>> some degree, even programming on the mac are completely 100%
>>>>> accessible.  There's folks using it for sound editing, and podcast
>>>>> creation as well.  If there's stuff you can't do on the mac,  
>>>>> there's
>>>>> probably a third-party solution out there somewhere to do it.
>>>>> Admittedly, some of the programs aren't 100% accessible, but  
>>>>> there's
>>>>> always workarounds.  The shell prompt (they call it terminal)  
>>>>> works,
>>>>> though not automatically, but if that's the worst I have to worry
>>>>> about with a machine, then I'd say it's a pretty good machine.
>>>>> Also, the apple provided dvd player won't let you get to the video
>>>>> described sound tracks on your dvd by yourself, but the softcon  
>>>>> DVD
>>>>> player does (http://softcon.com/mac). and there's other developers
>>>>> working on things like producing audio mp3 files from text  
>>>>> using the
>>>>> apple voices, and various other little things to make macs easier/
>>>>> better to use.  I'd suggest going into your local apple store,
>>>>> sitting down with a mac, and trying it before insisting it's not
>>>>> usable.  I think you might be surprised at how much you can do  
>>>>> with it.
>
>
>>>> - --
>>>> HolmesGrown Solutions
>>>> The best solutions for the best price!
>>>> http://ld.net/?holmesgrown
>>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
>>>> Version: GnuPG v1.2.7 (GNU/Linux)
>
>>>> iD8DBQFEL5mgWSjv55S0LfERA3FfAJ0R6Ue8TWie8EDeidoFdBORXsZJ+QCfahU+
>>>> zwlPhrhiMU9DXWi6fubcNLU=
>>>> =Njcl
>>>> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
>
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> Speakup mailing list
>>>> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
>>>> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>
>>> --
>>> Email services by FreedomBox.  Surf the Net at the sound of your  
>>> voice.
>>> www.freedombox.info
>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Speakup mailing list
>>> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
>>> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>
>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Speakup mailing list
>> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
>> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>
> -- 
> Email services by FreedomBox.  Surf the Net at the sound of your  
> voice.
> www.freedombox.info
>
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup