RE: hilighting blocks of text with VO on the internet

2013-04-11 Thread David Griffith
Selecting text and copying with Voiceover on the web is not great but the following techniques may work. 1. Command A to copy all the page and command V to paste into Text edit. The text should all be available easily then to copy and paste in the normal way. I wish this is what happens in

Re: hilighting blocks of text with VO on the internet

2013-04-11 Thread Michael Marshall
hey, thanks for all your info. i will have a play with all of this stuff and figger out something. thanks again. Michael On 11/04/2013, at 4:00 PM, David Griffith d.griff...@btinternet.com wrote: Selecting text and copying with Voiceover on the web is not great but the following techniques may

RE: hilighting blocks of text with VO on the internet

2013-04-11 Thread David Griffith
Of course in technique 1 I forgot to insert command c to copy in-between command A to select all and command V to paste. Also I find in practice technique 2 copies elements that technique 3 struggles with. For some reason I struggle to copy headings with technique 3 for example. Shift VO C

Re: hilighting blocks of text with VO on the internet

2013-04-11 Thread Michael Marshall
hey, i have found another method to try. setting my web roter to lines i can just hit shift and down arro and i can copy many lines of text this way. to me it seems to be the best unless there is tuns of text that wouldn't be so good but i would try command A for that. it's something i will play

Re: Terminal Question

2013-04-11 Thread Dónal Fitzpatrick
Not sure if you got an answer to this but the command to move a file is: mv (sourcefile) destination. To check permissions on a file just use ls -l Dónal On 10 Apr 2013, at 22:03, Harmony Neil harmony.n...@gmail.com wrote: Hellow, Does anyone know how to move a file from one location to

Re: hilighting blocks of text with VO on the internet

2013-04-11 Thread David Griffith
David Griffith d.griff...@btinternet.com Could you give an example of a page where this works? I have been trying to out and I cannot find any option to select lines in the web rota on pages such as BBC news. The only text based rota options are for words and characters. David Griffith

Re: hilighting blocks of text with VO on the internet

2013-04-11 Thread David Griffith
David Griffith d.griff...@btinternet.com Specifically I have tried out the following page http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-22103753 On this page for example I can only set rota elements to words and characters. I am using Mountain Lion. Can you set lines on the rota to select with on

Re: hilighting blocks of text with VO on the internet

2013-04-11 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello David, First of all, for lines to appear in the rotor of Quick Nav, which I assume is what Michael is talking about, you need to have Lines checked in the Web Rotor options in VoiceOver Utility. Then, I think the additional options only show up if you have Single Key navigation enabled.

Re: hilighting blocks of text with VO on the internet

2013-04-11 Thread David Griffith
I have managed to sort this out. Going to Voiceover utility I managed to set up lines in the web rota. You go to web and then web rota and then check lines as the available item on the rota. You are right that with lines enabled on the rota this becomes a far better method for slecting and

Re: Using VoiceOver in the terminal

2013-04-11 Thread Christian Schoepplein
Hi Ester and Travis, On Mi, Apr 10, 2013 at 11:56:38 -1000, Esther wrote: Travis has already replied to you about searching the archives for posts on using terminal. I'll give you a direct link to one of his archived posts that gives a pretty complete explanation of how to configure terminal,

Using a usb braille device in a virtual machine

2013-04-11 Thread Christian Schoepplein
Hi, has anyone had success to use a USB braille device in a virtual machine running in VMWare Fusion? I tried to setup my braille device in a virtual machine with Debian linux but I was not able to connect the device with the VM. I do not know what the problem is, sometimes a error message

Re: Using a usb braille device in a virtual machine

2013-04-11 Thread Isaac Hebert
On 4/11/13, Christian Schoepplein ch...@schoeppi.net wrote: Hi, has anyone had success to use a USB braille device in a virtual machine running in VMWare Fusion? I tried to setup my braille device in a virtual machine with Debian linux but I was not able to connect the device with the VM. I

Re: hilighting blocks of text with VO on the internet

2013-04-11 Thread Michael Marshall
hey, you have to go into VO prefs go to web and the roter tab. in these preffs you can tell VO what you want in the roter. Michael On 12/04/2013, at 12:30 AM, David Griffith d.griff...@btinternet.com wrote: David Griffith d.griff...@btinternet.com Could you give an example of a page where

Re: Using a usb braille device in a virtual machine

2013-04-11 Thread Christian Schoepplein
Hi Isaac, Am 11.04.2013 um 18:02 schrieb Isaac Hebert isaac.heb...@gmail.com: In VMware Fusion you have to manually edit the .vmx configuration file for the target Virtual Machine adding the following parameter and value. usb.generic.allowHID = TRUE In VMware Workstation and VMware Player

Mail, technical reminder required please

2013-04-11 Thread Gordon Smith
Hi all OK, after a very traumatic couple of days with computers dying as a result of what I now know to be a very ugly incompatibility between Mountain Lion and a piece of software, (more on that shortly), I now need to know a couple of things regarding copying Mail the easy way between

Re: Mail, technical reminder required please

2013-04-11 Thread Esther
Hi Gordon, From the Take Control of Apple Mail in Mountain Lion section on Back Up and Restore Your Email, you can use any backup program to restore your email, provided it backs up: • ~/Library/Mail: This folder contains all your mailboxes, rules, RSS feeds, junk mail settings and most

US app question please

2013-04-11 Thread Laurie Mehta
Do any of you know of a good user-friendly iPhone app that is intended to provide notifications to alert of weather warnings in the user's local area? I would like to have alerts when the area that I am in is under a tornado warning or severe storm warning, for example. Thanks, Laurie ---

Re: US app question please

2013-04-11 Thread Glenn
Hi Laurie, My iPhone came with a weather app already in it, and there must be something that does this automatically, because a couple of months ago, a bunch of my co-workers and myself were working at a kid's camp, and everyone with an iPhone was woke up at 4 AM with a blizzard warning. This

Re: US app question please

2013-04-11 Thread Sarah k Alawami
Those are government alerts. but the app you might want to get is IMap weather radio. as it does these kinds of things. On Apr 11, 2013, at 6:34 PM, Glenn glenner...@cableone.net wrote: Hi Laurie, My iPhone came with a weather app already in it, and there must be something that does this

Re: US app question please

2013-04-11 Thread Desi Noller
Hi Laurie, Check out WeatherBug. It may do everything you're looking for. I know it has an alerts section which I believe you can get to from the App's home screen. Cheers! Desi - Original Message - From: Laurie Mehta laurieme...@yahoo.com To: Mac OSX iOS Accessibility

Re: US app question please

2013-04-11 Thread Esther
Hi Sarah, Laurie, and Others, There are two apps that I know of that give extreme weather warnings for the U.S., and that have been recommended by VoiceOver users. One of them is iMap Weather Radio, as Sarah suggested. The other is Weather Alert USA. At one time, last July, I read a number

Re: US app question please

2013-04-11 Thread Sarah k Alawami
yeah and I got awakened a few times by flood warnings the day of a funeral. or shall I say the night before. the app works well and that alarm will get your attention. I only wish it could be an exception to the do not disturb one as I do want to be notified so I can get to where I'm going

Re: US app question please

2013-04-11 Thread Esther
Hi Desi and Laurie, WeatherBug is a nice app, and I think the Elite version of the app has Dangerous Thunderstorm Alerts (DTAs) which monitors high winds, hail, tornadoes and large volume rain rates. But I believe that you may have to subscribe to their mobile alerts service ($2.99/month) to

Re: US app question please

2013-04-11 Thread Esther
Yes, iMap Weather Radio definitely woke me up a few times both for flood warnings and high winds. I have this set to also monitor my father's location, so I've had alerts for both areas, including during the period of Hurricane Sandy. On Apr 11, 2013, at 6:54 PM, Sarah k Alawami wrote: yeah