Re: o t, dvd wripper
If, by rip, you mean copy, then I don't know of any. Copy protections on DVDs is significantly tighter than on CDs, for example, which have been easily duplicated for years.
If, by rip, you mean transferring to computer storage for later viewing, that's something else entirely. Ripping generally refers to doing this, but it's unclear here. Also, even though I'm responding, I'm going to start making a point of the fact that topics such as this one, which have nothing to do with NVDA either directly or indirectly, should be started on the chat subgroup, not here. As there is not, as yet, a move function I'm allowing these to stay, for the moment, but in the coming weeks will be locking them and asking that people initiate any topic where the answer to the question, "Is this about using NVDA to accomplish some task or about configuring NVDA?," is, "No," in the chat subgroup. We have the privilege of a community arrangement where anyone in the community can ask about anything "not NVDA" or discuss pretty much anything in a dedicated venue where other community members can choose to join if they wish. The main group needs to come back to a much tighter NVDA focus, and will. For those who have not yet subscribed to the chat subgroup here, again, are the addresses for that subgroup:
Brian - Windows 10 Home, 64-Bit, Version 1809, Build 17763 A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. ~ Saul Bellow, To Jerusalem and Back
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Re: o t, dvd wripper
Dan Beaver
Yes, but maybe someone else on here can tell you about them. I am not up to date on them.
Dan On 3/11/2019 10:19 AM, Kerryn Gunness
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Re: Zoomtext and nvda
One thing I'll point out here, and it's related to magnification in general, is that it has its limits and they get hit relatively quickly.
For anyone who's had sight and used same for reading, we do not read letter by letter or even word by word, processing tends to take place in multi-word chunks at a time and we also possess a lot of predictive ability (and that applies regardless of reading modality) based on context. I have had clients for whom magnification on a standard (and by standard I even mean large, but that would be used as a typical monitor) monitor needed to be boosted so much that by the time they could use the magnified version it robbed them of the needed linguistic context. In this age of very large screen TVs, coupled with either HDMI output from the computer itself or casting ability (though the latter is more of a pain), it is well worth considering whether using a large screen TV as a monitor is the better way to go. The can be positioned such that they're where a monitor would be, if that proves to be preferable in the first place, and everything ends up magnified by default, preserving context. Even if you have to magnify some, a tiny bit of magnification for "the normal monitor" translates into quite a bit more when it's displayed on a big-screen TV. I learned all of this when I had to get creative with a client who had macular degeneration but who still wasn't ready to give up reading with her residual vision, and for whom no amount of magnification on "the small screen" produced a result that would allow that. We ended up putting her big screen TV on an articulating wall mount, which allowed her to pull it away from the wall and down when she needed to use it as a monitor. Also a cheap UHD TV, which would be more than adequate for purpose, is far cheaper than most things in the world of accessibility are. -- Brian - Windows 10 Home, 64-Bit, Version 1809, Build 17763 A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. ~ Saul Bellow, To Jerusalem and Back
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Re: o t, dvd wripper
Kerryn Gunness <k_gunness@...>
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thanks dan, but is there any free
software?
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Re: using win 7 after january 2020
On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 08:09 AM, Brian's Mail list account wrote:
As Joseph seems to have to keep on updating the essentials add on the changes have to be significant.Joseph can (and will) certainly jump in on this himself, but what I've observed suggests that these updates were far less about Windows 10, per se, than staging for future NVDA development. The last update was at the end of last September and is noted for NVDA 2018.3 to 2019.1. Add-On Updater seems to be in constant spin as other add-ons "jump on the bandwagon" that allow it to work with it, and that's separate from Windows 10, per se, too. I'm sure I'll be corrected, and accept it, if I'm wrong. -- Brian - Windows 10 Home, 64-Bit, Version 1809, Build 17763 A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. ~ Saul Bellow, To Jerusalem and Back
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Re: o t, dvd wripper
Dan Beaver
Hi,
I use a program called freemakeVC. I bought the upgrade
version because it works faster and some of the features seem
to be more accessible. This program takes some playing with to
get used to the parts that are not quite accessible but once you
learn it it is easy to use.
I use it for DVD ripping and burning. I also use it to convert audio files to other formats.
Dan Beaver On 3/11/2019 10:04 AM, Kerryn Gunness
via Groups.Io wrote:
-- Dan Beaver (KC4DOY)
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o t, dvd wripper
Kerryn Gunness <k_gunness@...>
hi friends
do you all no of a program to wripp dvd's
?
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Re: NVDA for Android and IOS
What people need to remember here is that accessibility software, regardless of platform, has generally arisen due to a couple of factors, with different emphases:
It is no surprise that Windows, the world's most widely used computing platform, has more than its share of screen readers because all of the above have been at play with the various players in the field at one point or another. I leave it to you, the reader, to decide which were bigger factors for each product. Factor #1 is utterly lacking on iOS and Android. Whether one likes VoiceOver or TalkBack, both are fully mature products that do their job admirably. There can almost certainly be nothing as far as factors numbers one through three are concerned in these environments, and given the degree of maturity and broad acceptance of what is already available, factor number four has almost zero impact. Who's going to hail "the next VoiceOver/TalkBack"? Not many, that's for darned sure. There are limited resources for implementing accessibility software, both monetary and otherwise. It makes absolutely no sense to try to open a market that's not really a market in the first place. Choices have to be made, and the probability of an entity that has the history of NVAccess doing a radical gear shift to other platforms makes very little sense from virtually any angle. My dear departed Aunt Lila used to quote a rather salty old relative of hers when people brought up wishes such as this, that have all the odds stacked against them, and for good reason, "Wish in one hand, s*^t in the other, and see which gets full first." That sums up my thoughts about the feasibility and likelihood of NVDA leaping across computing ecosystems. -- Brian - Windows 10 Home, 64-Bit, Version 1809, Build 17763 A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. ~ Saul Bellow, To Jerusalem and Back
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Re: using win 7 after january 2020
That's why I only use Windows Defender.
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It does get the job done and don't cause me any trouble. Just wonderful I'd say. Em 11/03/2019 09:16, Shaun Everiss
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To be honest with exception of bgt, antimalware tools seem to go after a lot of blindness related programs for no reason I can see.
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Re: using win 7 after january 2020
Good points raised here!
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I, myself, actually only have updated to Win 10 because I had to take a new laptop. When I first started, I even thought of formating the toy and putting Win 7 onto it, but some features of Win 10 got me curious so I wound up staying with what I've already had. However I wouldn't hurry anyone to update to Win 10 if they don't want to, at this point I don't think they really need it. Em 11/03/2019 09:00, Shaun Everiss
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Microsoft Asks Users to Call Windows 10 Devs About ALT+TAB Feature
#adminnotice
Given how frequently community members use ALT+TAB for application switching, and given how odd this message would seem on the surface if it appeared in your notifications or action center, I thought it worth sharing this article, as it appears to be something most would wish to participate in if the opportunity presents itself:
Microsoft Asks Users to Call Windows 10 Devs About ALT+TAB Feature -- Brian - Windows 10 Home, 64-Bit, Version 1809, Build 17763 A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. ~ Saul Bellow, To Jerusalem and Back
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Re: NVDA for Android and IOS
erik burggraaf <erik@...>
Actually, talkback is built in to any device that is licenced by google. Unofficial devices still have the freedom to screw up all over the place. There also aren't that many screen readers. The, "accessibility suites", ment to supplement early android accessibility are extinct where they belong. Speil was the closest to a talkback competitor on the market and development ended at least three years ago. Development of android access has slowed down more than I would like, but The screen reader portion is fully functional. Best, Erik
On March 10, 2019 4:33:03 PM "Travis Siegel" <tsiegel@...> wrote:
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Hang ups in latest beta
Brian's Mail list account
Has anyone here using 2019.1 beta had any strange hang ups? The effect in for example explorer or even in Jarte and other bits of software seems to be that the currently highlighted or focussed word is all you can here, though it registers the keypresses, its not really clear if things are moving, I suspect not.
If anyone has had this, can they perhaps while in the problem try an nvda/f1 and post the result. Also anyone who fancies losing access to their add ons, turn them off and see if it still happens. Of course restarting nvda will fix the issue and it might not then happen for days, but I and at least one other person never had this prior to this version so if there is a bug there, it would be nice to find it. Also of course if you can see the log part containing the problem paste that as well. I am using windows 7 myself. Sods law dictated that the last time it happened when I had time to investigate it was in a program that hardly anyone will be using, so its hare to determine what was going on, but yesterday it happened twice while renaming and copying files in Explorer Note no error tones are heard. Debug should be set for the full details before it happens. . Brian bglists@... Sent via blueyonder. Please address personal E-mail to:- briang1@..., putting 'Brian Gaff' in the display name field.
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Re: using win 7 after january 2020
To be honest with exception of bgt, antimalware tools seem to go after a lot of blindness related programs for no reason I can see.
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I have excluded my entire data drive on the workstation as well as several folders on my c drive from getting scanned which itself does put my risk up a little, however its that or loose files. I don't trust security programs especially those that take over control.
On 12/03/2019 1:03 AM, Brian's Mail list account via Groups.Io wrote:
Well it is true that some anti virus solutions use techniques borrowed from malware to make themselves extremely hard to corrupt or remove, because of course they become a legitimate target for malware themselves. however there are limits to what I'd accept, and Avast has crossed this line for me, being unusable in nvda and almost unremovable even with its own uninstaller and corrupting something when it is removed.
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Re: Recently updated on accessibilitycentral.net
Pascal Lambert <coccinelle86@...>
Many thanks. Have a blessed one. Pascal
From: nvda@nvda.groups.io [mailto:nvda@nvda.groups.io] On Behalf Of hurrikennyandopo ...
Sent: Monday, March 11, 2019 1:04 AM To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: Re: [nvda] Recently updated on accessibilitycentral.net
Hi guys, The following information comes from the heading called Recently updated on my accessibilitycentral.net website... This information is for the NVDA related material. Recently updated: Added a tutorial on how to add a Humanware BrailleNote to NVDA as well as a section called Add-on updater http://www.accessibilitycentral.net/nvda%20audio%20tutorials.html. Christchurch City Library announces the installation of the NVDA screen reader on 390 of their public terminals across their network of 19 libraries. To find out which software is available on the CCL network, and how to start the NVDA screen reader, please go to the following links. Software available https://my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/faq/computers/#faq_5884 How to start the NVDA screen reader on Christchurch City Library computers https://my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/faqs/what-screen-reader-software-is-available/ Added a section called Changes to navigation of the Emoji panel in Windows 10 version 1809. How to add an emoji in Windows 10 with NVDA (on the NVDA tutorials for Windows 10 page) http://accessibilitycentral.net/nvda%20tutorials%20for%20windows%2010.html
Also, added playing your music/movies to a Google device (off the how to use the VLC media player with the NVDA screen reader page). Inputting with MuseScore; Using your Wordpress dashboard with NVDA; Added an audio tutorial for Skype for web, using the NVDA screen reader http://accessibilitycentral.net/nvda%20tutorials%20for%20other%20programs.html;
Gene NZ
On 10/10/2018 9:13 AM, David Moore wrote:
-- Check out my website for NVDA tutorials and other blindness related material at http://www.accessibilitycentral.net
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Re: using win 7 after january 2020
Well that was like that for businesses on xp. And there will probably be a crack for that to. Saying that, as long as they keep their update history updated even if their auto update servers are not updated, we can probably manually download updates.
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Re: using win 7 after january 2020
win7 and up are different beasts to xp.
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There is always a possibility that until such time as third party stuff dropps 7 may not completely stop. At any rate even if the core os updates stop, ms will continue for a time to update components for things so its not going to immediately stop. With the end of life of office 2010 and 2013 people will have to shift to 2016 which is going to drop support in the next couple years anyway or something else. All 2019 versions of ms software will not run on anything below windows 10 anyway, so businesses will govern the trend. And to be honest there is a lot of things going for 7 10 hasn't got. Using ribbon disabler I can at least get my shell back and at least microsoft put back a start menu of sorts. However bar stuff I need to use in settings, and with the acception of ear hocky, store, weather and scan, I don't use universal apps as such. Also while windows10 is a nice os, there are a few games and bits of older software it refuses to be nice with to. There is the loss of the midi mapper, and a few legacy things to. Msaa is damn stable, now we have to deal with uia which can be a bit hit and miss. Win10 is fine as long as you can rain in the ui and some of the outlandish settings for things sadly with third party hack tools but thats life. To be honest the only reason I'd quit 7 all together would be if I couldn't get another win7 machine. And due to being part of a reasonably well funded family I can afford a new box from time to time. However, I can still buy basically what I have and older if I really want it. Saying that I am quite happy with the size of this workstation with what it has.
On 11/03/2019 10:39 PM, Brian's Mail list account via Groups.Io wrote:
I don't know, but with the xp experience in the main MSSE still works on Intel machines there, and I suspect they will continue for a while.
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Re: wish.com
Mallard <mallard@...>
I contacted the devs of the Android app, which is what I tried to use. No reply. Maybe if someone here speaks chinese, they could have a go at it. Perhaps they'll be luckier than I have been up to now.
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Ciao, Ollie
Il 11/03/2019 10:30, Brian's Mail list account via Groups.Io ha scritto:
I've never used it, but with a risk of stating the obvious, has anyone ever contacted the site to find out why they cannot make at least an accessible version?
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Re: using win 7 after january 2020
Brian's Mail list account
Yes Our nhs and the folk who used into in ATMs paid for updates, and there was a registry hack to pretend to be one of the latter at the time and freeload off the back of that.
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I doubt they will be falling into that trap this time. As I say, I have no beef with windows 10, I do have the beef about the way you are forced to update it completely every six months with variable results on your installed software and accessibility with nvda. As Joseph seems to have to keep on updating the essentials add on the changes have to be significant. Brian bglists@... Sent via blueyonder. Please address personal E-mail to:- briang1@..., putting 'Brian Gaff' in the display name field.
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From: "ADRIAN POCOCK" <ampbeast@...> To: <nvda@nvda.groups.io> Sent: Monday, March 11, 2019 10:21 AM Subject: Re: [nvda] using win 7 after january 2020 Hi all
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Re: using win 7 after january 2020
Brian's Mail list account
No but the initial boot up of Firefox 52 with nvda of that vintage is rather slow.
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I tend to suggest Firefox 45 for single core processors with the older version of nvda and web sites myself. Brian bglists@... Sent via blueyonder. Please address personal E-mail to:- briang1@..., putting 'Brian Gaff' in the display name field.
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From: "zahra" <nasrinkhaksar3@...> To: <nvda@nvda.groups.io> Sent: Monday, March 11, 2019 9:46 AM Subject: Re: [nvda] using win 7 after january 2020 brian.
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