[gui-talk] Yahoo!!

[William and Bernadette Jacobs]

As a matter of fact, I don't think that's extreme at all.  I've gotten 
numerous emails inviting me to join them at "Yahoo Groups" and when I check 
it out, I feel like I've entered the twighlight Zone or something; on some 
wild goose chase; then I just give up because it's not even navigable for 
whatever reason.  They're nothing but trouble!  Bill hates 'em as much as I 
do and he's fully sighted.
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>      Libraries and the Tyros 3 Keyboard (Steve Pattison)
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> Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 14:16:40 -0400
> From: "William and Bernadette Jacobs" <bandbjacobs at verizon.net>
> To: <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: [gui-talk] YAHOO!!!
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> My experience with YAHOO is that it's entirely H O P E L E S S!!!!!  For
> three weeks I had nothing but trouble with YAHOO as a portal with my 
> Verizon
> email and for that entire three weeks, Everything I sent over to the
> National Center bounced back.  For about ten days out of the three weeks,
> Verizon, the Center and I were all scrambling to figure out what the 
> problem
> was.  It took eight different calls to Verizon and still, nobody could
> figure it out.  Then I got wise and called Verizon, telling them, Gotta 
> get
> rid of that .....  YAHOO!  So, we did it and WALA... Haven't had a lick of
> trouble since!!  Good Riddens to YAHOO--Just gotta denounce them for the
> dispicableCrooks they are!!
>
> Later gang!
>
> Bern
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>> Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 16:08:08 -0500
>> From: "qubit" <lauraeaves at yahoo.com>
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>> Subject: [gui-talk] yahoo problems
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>> Hi all --
>> I have been trying to interact with one of the groups I'm subscribed to 
>> on
>> yahoo but am getting a page full of markup. I'm wondering if anyone else
>> has
>> run into similar behavior with jaws on yahoo.  Either jaws "chewed it up"
>> or
>> there is some new markup on the page that isn't getting translated right.
>> Come to think of it, I often get this on other sites as well, but I get 
>> it
>> most frequently on yahoo.
>> Any assistance is welcome.
>> Have a great weekend.
>> --le
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 2
>> Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 16:00:42 +1000
>> From: Steve Pattison <srp at internode.on.net>
>> To: Access L <access-l at access-l.com>, CUG Members <Members at bcacug.org>
>> Subject: [gui-talk] Fwd:  Article:  Karen
>> Message-ID: <20100822160041.8291.225DF185 at internode.on.net>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
>>
>> This article is about Karen Jacobsen who is the voice that the RealSpeak
>> Karen voice is based on that is used in JAWS and some other adaptive
>> technology products.  More information about Karen Jacobsen can be found
>> at www.karenjacobsen.com.  You can also hear some of her songs on her
>> home page.  -Steve.
>>
>> From:    Peter.Scanlon at justice.vic.gov.au
>> To:      vip-l at freelists.org
>>
>> Meet 'the other woman' who is always telling you where to go
>>                By: Garry Maddox
>> August 14, 2010
>> Karen Jacobsen, a Queenslander who has been living in New York for 10
>> years, is the voice of GPS units in Australia.
>> Could drivers be finding in their GPS units something more than just 
>> their
>> way home? Are American Jill or Espanol Paulina becoming ''the other
>> woman''
>> for harried males who spend hours each day on the road? Are women driving
>> to work fantasising about an evening with Irish Sean?
>> Karen Jacobsen, a little-known singer known as ''Australian Karen'' in
>> millions of TomToms, NavMans and other GPS units around the world, learnt
>> a couple
>> of years ago that she had an underground fan club of smitten drivers.
>> ''I started to be contacted by people thanking me for getting them 
>> through
>> a dark lonely road in Italy or being lost in the Black Forest in Germany
>> or
>> around Los Angeles on the freeways or taking them to school and back,'' 
>> Ms
>> Jacobsen said. ''It's increased to the point where I've realised people
>> really do have
>> an intimate relationship with the voice in their GPS system.''
>> The American writer Bruce Feiler wondered in The New York Times recently
>> whether the GPS unit was rewriting the rules of male-female relationships
>> after
>> confessing that he had fallen for the automated voice that had ''guided 
>> me
>> effortlessly through the maze of freeways and road rage like a graceful
>> hostess
>> - unflappable, efficient and with just enough sex appeal to give some
>> sizzle to my protracted absence from my wife''.
>> He quickly realised he was not alone. ''At sites like gpspassion.com and
>> pdastreet.com, the number of lewd comments about the voices of American
>> Jill or
>> Australian Karen seem more suited to a convention of 900-number [adult
>> entertainment line] users.''
>> Ms Jacobsen, who has lived in New York for 10 years, is always meeting
>> people who feel they know her already because of her voice. ''They'll 
>> want
>> to tell
>> me right away the story of the time we were travelling in this city or
>> that country and what happened,'' she said.
>> Jacobsen is not surprised that the connection matters to drivers. 
>> ''You're
>> on that dark lonely road on your own in the car, you don't know where you
>> are
>> and this voice, even though its coming from a machine, seems like your
>> companion. It's something that you're trusting.''
>> She believes the voice on the GPS unit can help relationships by stopping
>> arguments between couples about directions.
>> ''They take it out on the third-party GPS. It's kind of like a community
>> service - reducing the amount of angst between couples in the car.''
>> The chief executive of Relationships Australia NSW, psychologist Anne
>> Hollonds, agrees that GPS units are easing tension on the road between
>> couples by
>> ''outsourcing the navigation role''.
>> And Ms Hollonds is not surprised that drivers are having an emotional
>> response to the voice.
>> ''The car is actually a very intimate environment,'' she said. ''A lot of
>> people will say they have their most meaningful conversations - with 
>> their
>> partner
>> or their kids - in the car. It's like a bubble.''
>> Ms Jacobsen's new career started when she recorded almost 50 hours of
>> script for a text-to-speech system. Having now achieved a strange kind of
>> fame, she
>> is taking it for a spin.
>> Her latest CD is called Take A Little Drive. (And, no, it doesn't include
>> lyrics like ''at the next intersection, turn left''.) She also has a
>> personal
>> development podcast called Directions For Life and has shot a pilot for a
>> TV show called Travel the World With the GPS Girl.
>> ''Growing up as a little girl in Mackay in north Queensland, I always
>> wanted my songs - my voice - to be coming out of the car radio,'' 
>> Jacobsen
>> said.
>> ''Now,
>> all these years later, my voice is coming out of the GPS.''
>>
>> Regards Steve
>> Email:  srp at internode.on.net
>> MSN Messenger:  internetuser383 at hotmail.com
>> Skype:  steve1963
>> Twitter:  steve9782
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 3
>> Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 16:28:32 +1000
>> From: Steve Pattison <srp at internode.on.net>
>> To: Access L <access-l at access-l.com>, CUG Members <Members at bcacug.org>
>> Subject: [gui-talk] Fwd:  1 Password for Windows
>> Message-ID: <20100822162831.82AF.225DF185 at internode.on.net>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
>>
>> From:    Dane Trethowan grtdane at internode.on.net
>> To:      Vip-l Mailing list vip-l at freelists.org
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> So here's another auto password/auto form fill application and for 
>> Windows
>> there are
>> several, I've been using one up till now called Robo Form.
>>
>> So what's different about 1 Password? Well firstly the Windows version 
>> has
>> just been released
>> as a public beta and I'm pleased to say that everything seems to be
>> perfectly accessible however
>> if you're into beta testing products and you'd like to put the software
>> through its paces to be sure
>> its working as it should then go to http://www.1password.com and click on
>> the windows link.
>>
>> Further more if you're a Mac or an Iphone user as well as a Windows user
>> then 1 Password on
>> all your systems could make things so much easier for you, you'll be able
>> to sync all your log-in
>> info and so on to all your devices that run 1 Password.
>>
>> Regards Steve
>> Email:  srp at internode.on.net
>> MSN Messenger:  internetuser383 at hotmail.com
>> Skype:  steve1963
>> Twitter:  steve9782
>>
>>
>>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 13:08:03 -0700
> From: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com>
> To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] YAHOO!!!
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> Er, um, that's a bit extreme, dontchya think? <g>
>
> Mike
>
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> From: "William and Bernadette Jacobs" <bandbjacobs at verizon.net>
> To: <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2010 11:16 AM
> Subject: [gui-talk] YAHOO!!!
>
>
>> My experience with YAHOO is that it's entirely H O P E L E S S!!!!!  For
>> three weeks I had nothing but trouble with YAHOO as a portal with my
>> Verizon email and for that entire three weeks, Everything I sent over to
>> the National Center bounced back.  For about ten days out of the three
>> weeks, Verizon, the Center and I were all scrambling to figure out what
>> the problem was.  It took eight different calls to Verizon and still,
>> nobody could figure it out.  Then I got wise and called Verizon, telling
>> them, Gotta get rid of that .....  YAHOO!  So, we did it and WALA...
>> Haven't had a lick of trouble since!!  Good Riddens to YAHOO--Just gotta
>> denounce them for the dispicableCrooks they are!!
>>
>> Later gang!
>>
>> Bern
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>>>   2. Fwd:  Article:  Karen (Steve Pattison)
>>>   3. Fwd:  1 Password for Windows (Steve Pattison)
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>>> Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 16:08:08 -0500
>>> From: "qubit" <lauraeaves at yahoo.com>
>>> To: "Multiple recipients of NFBnet GUI-TALK Mailing List"
>>> <gui-talk at NFBnet.org>, "NFBnet NFBCS Mailing List" <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
>>> Subject: [gui-talk] yahoo problems
>>> Message-ID: <ADB6505163564231BAA8DDCC629AC713 at bassclef>
>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>>>
>>> Hi all --
>>> I have been trying to interact with one of the groups I'm subscribed to
>>> on
>>> yahoo but am getting a page full of markup. I'm wondering if anyone else
>>> has
>>> run into similar behavior with jaws on yahoo.  Either jaws "chewed it 
>>> up"
>>> or
>>> there is some new markup on the page that isn't getting translated 
>>> right.
>>> Come to think of it, I often get this on other sites as well, but I get
>>> it
>>> most frequently on yahoo.
>>> Any assistance is welcome.
>>> Have a great weekend.
>>> --le
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>>
>>> Message: 2
>>> Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 16:00:42 +1000
>>> From: Steve Pattison <srp at internode.on.net>
>>> To: Access L <access-l at access-l.com>, CUG Members <Members at bcacug.org>
>>> Subject: [gui-talk] Fwd:  Article:  Karen
>>> Message-ID: <20100822160041.8291.225DF185 at internode.on.net>
>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
>>>
>>> This article is about Karen Jacobsen who is the voice that the RealSpeak
>>> Karen voice is based on that is used in JAWS and some other adaptive
>>> technology products.  More information about Karen Jacobsen can be found
>>> at www.karenjacobsen.com.  You can also hear some of her songs on her
>>> home page.  -Steve.
>>>
>>> From:    Peter.Scanlon at justice.vic.gov.au
>>> To:      vip-l at freelists.org
>>>
>>> Meet 'the other woman' who is always telling you where to go
>>>                By: Garry Maddox
>>> August 14, 2010
>>> Karen Jacobsen, a Queenslander who has been living in New York for 10
>>> years, is the voice of GPS units in Australia.
>>> Could drivers be finding in their GPS units something more than just
>>> their
>>> way home? Are American Jill or Espanol Paulina becoming ''the other
>>> woman''
>>> for harried males who spend hours each day on the road? Are women 
>>> driving
>>> to work fantasising about an evening with Irish Sean?
>>> Karen Jacobsen, a little-known singer known as ''Australian Karen'' in
>>> millions of TomToms, NavMans and other GPS units around the world, 
>>> learnt
>>> a couple
>>> of years ago that she had an underground fan club of smitten drivers.
>>> ''I started to be contacted by people thanking me for getting them
>>> through
>>> a dark lonely road in Italy or being lost in the Black Forest in Germany
>>> or
>>> around Los Angeles on the freeways or taking them to school and back,''
>>> Ms
>>> Jacobsen said. ''It's increased to the point where I've realised people
>>> really do have
>>> an intimate relationship with the voice in their GPS system.''
>>> The American writer Bruce Feiler wondered in The New York Times recently
>>> whether the GPS unit was rewriting the rules of male-female 
>>> relationships
>>> after
>>> confessing that he had fallen for the automated voice that had ''guided
>>> me
>>> effortlessly through the maze of freeways and road rage like a graceful
>>> hostess
>>> - unflappable, efficient and with just enough sex appeal to give some
>>> sizzle to my protracted absence from my wife''.
>>> He quickly realised he was not alone. ''At sites like gpspassion.com and
>>> pdastreet.com, the number of lewd comments about the voices of American
>>> Jill or
>>> Australian Karen seem more suited to a convention of 900-number [adult
>>> entertainment line] users.''
>>> Ms Jacobsen, who has lived in New York for 10 years, is always meeting
>>> people who feel they know her already because of her voice. ''They'll
>>> want
>>> to tell
>>> me right away the story of the time we were travelling in this city or
>>> that country and what happened,'' she said.
>>> Jacobsen is not surprised that the connection matters to drivers.
>>> ''You're
>>> on that dark lonely road on your own in the car, you don't know where 
>>> you
>>> are
>>> and this voice, even though its coming from a machine, seems like your
>>> companion. It's something that you're trusting.''
>>> She believes the voice on the GPS unit can help relationships by 
>>> stopping
>>> arguments between couples about directions.
>>> ''They take it out on the third-party GPS. It's kind of like a community
>>> service - reducing the amount of angst between couples in the car.''
>>> The chief executive of Relationships Australia NSW, psychologist Anne
>>> Hollonds, agrees that GPS units are easing tension on the road between
>>> couples by
>>> ''outsourcing the navigation role''.
>>> And Ms Hollonds is not surprised that drivers are having an emotional
>>> response to the voice.
>>> ''The car is actually a very intimate environment,'' she said. ''A lot 
>>> of
>>> people will say they have their most meaningful conversations - with
>>> their
>>> partner
>>> or their kids - in the car. It's like a bubble.''
>>> Ms Jacobsen's new career started when she recorded almost 50 hours of
>>> script for a text-to-speech system. Having now achieved a strange kind 
>>> of
>>> fame, she
>>> is taking it for a spin.
>>> Her latest CD is called Take A Little Drive. (And, no, it doesn't 
>>> include
>>> lyrics like ''at the next intersection, turn left''.) She also has a
>>> personal
>>> development podcast called Directions For Life and has shot a pilot for 
>>> a
>>> TV show called Travel the World With the GPS Girl.
>>> ''Growing up as a little girl in Mackay in north Queensland, I always
>>> wanted my songs - my voice - to be coming out of the car radio,''
>>> Jacobsen
>>> said.
>>> ''Now,
>>> all these years later, my voice is coming out of the GPS.''
>>>
>>> Regards Steve
>>> Email:  srp at internode.on.net
>>> MSN Messenger:  internetuser383 at hotmail.com
>>> Skype:  steve1963
>>> Twitter:  steve9782
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>>
>>> Message: 3
>>> Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 16:28:32 +1000
>>> From: Steve Pattison <srp at internode.on.net>
>>> To: Access L <access-l at access-l.com>, CUG Members <Members at bcacug.org>
>>> Subject: [gui-talk] Fwd:  1 Password for Windows
>>> Message-ID: <20100822162831.82AF.225DF185 at internode.on.net>
>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
>>>
>>> From:    Dane Trethowan grtdane at internode.on.net
>>> To:      Vip-l Mailing list vip-l at freelists.org
>>>
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> So here's another auto password/auto form fill application and for
>>> Windows there are
>>> several, I've been using one up till now called Robo Form.
>>>
>>> So what's different about 1 Password? Well firstly the Windows version
>>> has just been released
>>> as a public beta and I'm pleased to say that everything seems to be
>>> perfectly accessible however
>>> if you're into beta testing products and you'd like to put the software
>>> through its paces to be sure
>>> its working as it should then go to http://www.1password.com and click 
>>> on
>>> the windows link.
>>>
>>> Further more if you're a Mac or an Iphone user as well as a Windows user
>>> then 1 Password on
>>> all your systems could make things so much easier for you, you'll be 
>>> able
>>> to sync all your log-in
>>> info and so on to all your devices that run 1 Password.
>>>
>>> Regards Steve
>>> Email:  srp at internode.on.net
>>> MSN Messenger:  internetuser383 at hotmail.com
>>> Skype:  steve1963
>>> Twitter:  steve9782
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>>
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>
> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:03:20 +1000
> From: Steve Pattison <srp at internode.on.net>
> To: Access L <access-l at access-l.com>, CUG Members
> <Members at bcacug.org>, VIP-L <vip-l at freelists.org>
> Cc: PC Audio <pc-audio at pc-audio.org>
> Subject: [gui-talk] Fwd:  On Innovations this Week:  Audio
> Description, Windows 7 Libraries and the Tyros 3 Keyboard
> Message-ID: <20100823100320.447E.225DF185 at internode.on.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
>
> This edition of Innovations can be downloaded from
> www.theglobalvoice.info/gallery.php?show=innovations
>
> Regards Steve.
>
> From:    Chrissie Cochrane chrissie at theglobalvoice.info
> To:      whats on whatson at theglobalvoice.info
>
> On this week's Innovations, Hank Smith tells US listeners how to watch UK
> tv, complete with audio description of those programs that have it, and 
> many
> do;  through uktv2c (website
> http://uktv2c.com
>
> Then Terry Hadley tells about using libraries in Windows 7.
> We end the program with another look at Tyros 3 instrumentation; this time
> bases, electric, acoustic and synthetic.
> Chrissie
> Managing Director; the Global Voice
> www.theglobalvoice.info
>
> I'm also now on Twitter: chrissietgv
>
> Regards Steve
> Email:  srp at internode.on.net
> MSN Messenger:  internetuser383 at hotmail.com
> Skype:  steve1963
> Twitter:  steve9782
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:53:50 +1000
> From: Steve Pattison <srp at internode.on.net>
> To: Access L <access-l at access-l.com>
> Subject: [gui-talk] Fwd:  VisionMidwest
> Message-ID: <20100823135349.99F6.225DF185 at internode.on.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
>
> From: John Heim jheim at math.wisc.edu
> To: iavicp at ultragroups.net
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> Here is more information on the convention that we are linking up with for
> our first ever national convention. Again, I am chairing a roundtable
> discussion on the biggest challenges faced by visually impaired computer
> professions today. That's the only official IAVIT event but there are a
> lot of other computer related events.
>
> From: Schneider, Katherine S. SCHNEIKS at uwec.edu
>
> Join Blind and Visually Impaired Consumers and Professionals
> Going to Madison, Wisconsin on October 22-24, 2010 for the
> Vision Midwest Conference
>
> Where can you go to a blind bowling tournament and touch a 2,000 year old
> sculpture at a museum? Where can you find professional presentations on
> VIP careers and the latest in adaptive technology, cell phones and
> computers? From stem cell research to teaching with "A Tactile Guide to
> the Solar System" the first annual Vision Midwest Conference welcomes you
> with diverse programming.  Brought to you by the new nonprofit 12 State,
> Inc., the conference features VIP sports, an Assistive Technology
> Training, an APH National Instructional Partnership on Adaptive Physical
> Education and Children with Visual Impairment, and over 120 sessions
> focused on blindness and visual impairment.
>
> So, what's it going to cost me? With hotels about $90 a night double
> occupancy (including tax) and $35 for conference registration (some
> sports, special events and ACVREP professional education credits a bit
> extra) - this is an affordable conference for you - and your family and
> friends too! You can register for the conference at
> http://www.12state.org/register
>
> Need more information? Go to www.VisionMidwest.org
> www.visionmidwest.org
>
> See you in October at the Vision Midwest Conference!
>
> Regards Steve
> Email:  srp at internode.on.net
> MSN Messenger:  internetuser383 at hotmail.com
> Skype:  steve1963
> Twitter:  steve9782
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:54:11 +1000
> From: Steve Pattison <srp at internode.on.net>
> To: Access L <access-l at access-l.com>, CUG Members
> <Members at bcacug.org>, VIP-L <vip-l at freelists.org>
> Subject: [gui-talk] Fwd:  Hardware Weather Stations and Window-Eyes
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> From: Blind Melon Chitlin funkybassplayer at dodo.com.au
> To: GW INFO gw-info at gwmicro.com
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> Hi all.
>
> In regards to a earlier post from me last week enquiring if anyone knows 
> of any hardware weather stations that will work with w.e.
>
> Ok. I had a look around, ebay mostly, and found a pro weather station, 
> that's
> what they are listed as, that uses pc software called EZ weather.
>
> The hardware is a pro weather station by Tycon
> The non touch screen model....
>
> Anyways. Bottom line is that the software works just fine with w.e. after 
> making a few user windows.
> The unit reads,
>
> Indoor temp and humidity.
> Outdoor temp, humidity, barometric pressure, wind speed gust direction 
> chill, dew point rainfall,
>
> The software also displays the min max of all the readings for the day 
> month etc.
> All works just fine..
>
> www.proweatherstation.com
>
> I did have to get my wife to give me a hand bolting the outdoor sensors 
> together,
>
> Took all of five mins to do, and then a small amount of sighted help to 
> make sure
> the user windows I was setting up were for the readings I wanted.
>
> i.e. making sure the outdoor temp was reading the current outdoor temp , 
> not the min
> or max from the last 24 hours etc.
>
> I got mine off ebay for sub 100 bux Australian delivered.
>
> Hope this is of some use to some one.
>
> J.J.
>
> Regards Steve
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