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

  • From: David Hilbert Poehlman <poehlman1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 08:44:16 -0400

I suspect a couple of things here.  First, are you running lion or sl?  Next, 
what is your computer model?  How much ram? how big a hard drive and how full 
is it?  What are you using for internet for instance, dsl or cable?  Have you 
contacted apple and if not, when you do, supply this information.

Sometimes, all things being equal, things become corrupted and a good system 
cleaning can resolve a lot of issues as Marcy knows.

I've not seen this in the thread so if it has come up, just ignore this but 
does turning vo off and back on resolve the issue temporarily?  also, have you 
tried reloading the page?  I found in sl that I had more issues with group than 
dom mode.

On Sep 6, 2011, at 8:18 AM, Peggy wrote:

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
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