[mac4theblind] Re: [macbledtheblind] 3rd party browser and email accessibility, as well as some other thoughts. was Re: Firefox compatibility with Voiceover

  • From: Peggy <nocyou@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 05:18:51 -0700 (PDT)

Hi, my computer does the same thing with Safari. A lot of times I have to 
unplug my computer and take the battery out to get it to stop.
Peggy and Patty

On Mon Sep 5th, 2011 11:51 PM EDT Valiant8086 wrote:

>Hi.
>After reading about it I tried Lightning, and I think it's somewhat 
>nice. I'm hoping I find something I really like sometime, because on my 
>mac, Safari is very busy most of the time, and as it is right now I'm 
>much better off just using internet explorer on my other computers or 
>the web browser on my Nokia E5 rofl! Does anybody know if there is 
>something I can do to have safari not be so busy? Sometimes it will even 
>do this thing where it will say safari, busy, then it will say busy 3 or 
>4 times, then it will say safari, ready. About 3 seconds later, it will 
>repeat the whole process and it will continue this indefinitely until I 
>turn voice over off and back on.
>
>Speaking of voice over working with non built in alternatives like 
>Firefox as aposed to safari, I sure wish Thunderbird worked on the mac, 
>or does it, and I just couldn't figure it out when I tried it. Does 
>anyone know of a simpler mail client than mail that works with imap and 
>might be a little quicker to use? I get lots of email, and could use any 
>chance I could get to speed up my reading of emails. Hmm, if Voice over 
>works somewhat with Opera, I wonder if that means it works with Opera's 
>email too? I just might have to give that a try. What little tiny bit I 
>got to see of Opera on windows really impressed me, but about all I 
>could learn about it was that it started like way fast.
>
>Right now I can only speed myself up so much, because I can't seem to 
>understand any synthesizers that are sped up very much at all except for 
>eloquence. Ironically, I do much better with Scan soft tom on my mac 
>than with Alex, but that's not saying much. I know people can use Alex 
>pretty fast, I've heard them over Skype, but I'm just like, huh?
>
>Oh, I have another question born out of curiosity. On my 11 inch mac 
>book air, the late 2010 model with the 1.4ghz core2duo and a 60gb ssd, I 
>found that when I updated to lion, instead of improving performance, it 
>actually worsened. That is to say, Alex was noticeably less responsive 
>in every way when I navigated around my mac. But I happily discovered 
>when I got my realSpeak voices installed and going that they were 
>actually more responsive than Alex ever was on my Macbook air. But a 
>friend of mine with his Macbook pro says Tom on his is actually rather 
>slow compared to Alex in terms of responsiveness. I wondered if anybody 
>knows why that is? I'm thinking maybe it has something to do with the 
>fact his mac book pro has a standard hard drive, while mine has a solid 
>state. Maybe Tom is more reliant on the hardware's ability to quickly 
>read the speech database from the disk than Alex is.
>
>Anyway, I realize this message is off topic mostly from the discussion 
>to which I replied, so I'll go ahead and give it my own subject. I don't 
>usually write like this, but I wanted to get my thoughts off in one 
>shot  so I can go to bed without having to write several emails.
>
>
>Sent with Thunderbird 3.1.13 portable.
>
>On 9/4/2011 12:54 PM, Daniel McGee wrote:
>> Hi all, thanks for all your comments I find it's a shame that firefox 
>> doesn't work with voiceover but that's how it is I suppose. Hopefully 
>> one day It will though!
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> From: "John Panarese" <jpanarese@xxxxxx>
>> Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2011 3:18 AM
>> To: <mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Subject: [mac4theblind] Re: Firefox compatibility with Voiceover
>>
>>>    I've only used Lightning browser.  It's very fast.  The interface 
>>> is a little different than Safari, but it is a nice browser.  I am 
>>> gong to try Omni Web soon.
>>>
>>>
>>> Take Care
>>>
>>> John D. Panarese
>>> Director
>>> Mac for the Blind
>>> john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> http://www.macfortheblind.com
>>>
>>> AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE
>>> MAC VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sep 2, 2011, at 10:07 PM, Bubba wrote:
>>>
>>>> The last one I have heard of . yes, what is your input on the other 
>>>> ones?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Bubba
>>>> bubbathegeek@xxxxxxxxx
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: mac4theblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> [mailto:mac4theblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John G
>>>> Sent: Friday, September 02, 2011 9:26 PM
>>>> To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> Subject: [mac4theblind] Re: Firefox compatibility with Voiceover
>>>>
>>>> Have you any more info on the opera situation, John?
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> John
>>>>
>>>> At 02:18 03/09/2011, you wrote:
>>>>>     Lightning Browser and Omni Web from the App store.  I hear Opera
>>>>> is on its way to being accessible.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Take Care
>>>>>
>>>>> John D. Panarese
>>>>> Director
>>>>> Mac for the Blind
>>>>> john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>> http://www.macfortheblind.com
>>>>>
>>>>> AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE MAC VOICEOVER TRAINING AND
>>>>> SUPPORT
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sep 2, 2011, at 6:56 PM, Bubba wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Is there any other browser other than Safari that works with Vo?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Bubba
>>>>>> bubbathegeek@xxxxxxxxx
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>> From: mac4theblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>>> [mailto:mac4theblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David
>>>>>> Hilbert Poehlman
>>>>>> Sent: Friday, September 02, 2011 5:57 PM
>>>>>> To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>>> Subject: [mac4theblind] Re: Firefox compatabilty with Voiceover
>>>>>>
>>>>>> not.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sep 2, 2011, at 5:48 PM, Daniel McGee wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi all, as my subject says, I was just wondering about the
>>>>>> accessibility of Voiceover with firefox on the Mac OS X. By this I
>>>>>> mean can VO users use Firefox instead of using safari and if not,
>>>>>> what's the news on
>>>>> building this
>>>>>> into firefox and VO Users?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I realise that this might be old news to VO Users or it might of
>>>>>> been covered loads of time before but I don't own a Mac and I am
>>>>> interested in if
>>>>>> there has been any development in this Web Browser with
>>>>> Voiceover. What with
>>>>>> the new Mac OS Lion just recently out. Is there any hope for Vo
>>>>> Users in the
>>>>>> future to be able to use the Firefox Web Browser? I also ask
>>>>> because I don't
>>>>>> own a Mac and am keane to know what choices I have should the
>>>>> time come when
>>>>>> I might get one.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Many Thanks
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Daniel
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -- 
>>>>>> Jonnie Appleseed
>>>>>> with his
>>>>>> Hands-On Technolog(eye)s
>>>>>> reducing technology's disabilities
>>>>>> one byte at a time
>>>>>>
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