[macvoiceover] Re: Is Microsoft Messenger for Mac accessible with VoiceOver?

  • From: Blind Innovator <blindinnovator@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:41:52 -0600

I greatly appreciate this.  I've owned a Mac all of six days.  It's
been a long time since I have felt so challenged learning new
technology.  I was not aware of adium, or any other workable programs
for that matter
Thanks for your response.

Brett.

On 3/25/09, E.J. Zufelt <lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I wonder if Microsoft will ever make its popular applications
> accessible on the Mac.  This would be an excellent spot to use a
> Voiceover scripting language, or AppleScript, if Apple was progressive
> enough to expose the Voiceover API.
>
> Everett
>
>
> On 25-Mar-09, at 11:55 AM, Ignasi Cambra wrote:
>
>> Yes, Microsoft Messenger doesn't work well at all, and if you
>> upgraded to Safari4 you won't be able to type at all. The only way I
>> found to do that is to command+tab out of the application and then
>> come back. It will let you type once, but once you send the message
>> you will need to repeat the thing again... Just use Adium...
>>
>> I
>> On Mar 25, 2009, at 6:15 AM, Marie Howarth wrote:
>>
>>> Hey,
>>> messenger is a bit of an obscure one to be honest. when you start
>>> typing it automatically jumps to the compose box. No typing echos
>>> are heard though and you have to interact with the HTML area in
>>> order to work with your text.
>>>
>>> I gave up on messenger and use adium now which is a cool programme,
>>> linking your accounts from all different messengers into one,
>>> including facebook.
>>>
>>> http://www.adiumx.com/
>>>
>>>
>>> Hope this helps
>>> On 25 Mar 2009, at 05:39, Blind Innovator wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am able to read a message, but can't seem to find where to write
>>>> my
>>>> message.  Is there a way to jump between the messages and the
>>>> compose
>>>> box?
>>>> I'd like to know if anyone is using Messenger with success.
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Brett
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