How do you get to the top of a list of emails in mail?
I have tried various Voiceover commands after looking at what they do in the
keyboard help but can't find the ones I need and end up just in the middle of
my list of emails.
There doesn't seem to be one that goes to the start of a table in
I don't seem to have this problem with my BT account as far as I know but with
my Google accout, it seems like I get the same messages downloaded sso I think
I am still having a large number of messages in my Google account.
It is like my email is adding to the account all the time so I have
i have emails from mailing lists in my google account.
how do i delete emails that i am not interested in or have read?
i ask because every time i go into mail, i look at my google
account and i have the same several hundred emails i thought i
had deleted.
i have tried to find a button or
how do you remove files and directories in the terminal on the
mac?
i am going to see if i can remove the musicmanager preference
file using the terminal as no other way i have found that will
remove the thing from the system preferences and the apps i have
found you have to purchase which may
i can locate what i want to remove in the terminal but i keep
being told it is a directory and it just won't remove. i tried
rm ininddinin and rf ininddinin in the directory itself.
deleting the annoying musicmanager pane in system preferences
might be easier to do in mac osx rather than the
you remove files and directories in
terminal.
Good luck and go slowly and methodically. It is not
difficult but it is easy to delete more than you want and as I
said, there is no undelete function, only recovery from backups.
Martin
michael weaver writes:
how do you remove files
does kindle for the mac work with voiceover?
i ask because i have a paperback book and i am having problems
scanning it with my scanner which is an old photocopy type
device, the scan r.
the book i was trying to read with my scanner is called the
master by guy n smith which is a horror story.
download get itplayer which has been refered to on this list.
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From: Ian Harrison harrisonc...@harrisonclan.karoo.co.uk
To: Mac OSX iOS Accessibility mac-access@mac-access.net
Date sent: Sat, 1 Dec 2012 13:42:31 +
Subject: bbc iplayer
Hello everyone,
I am
i got the name slightly wrong. get itplayer automator was the
one paul recommended to me only recently.
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From: Paul Hopewell hopew...@hopewell.org.uk
To: Mac OSX iOS Accessibility mac-access@mac-access.net
Date sent: Sat, 1 Dec 2012 16:28:31 +
Subject: Re: bbc
audio description can be got to from the toolbar. interact with
it and vo right arrow to get to preferences button. vo space to
open preferences, vo right arrow which should take you through
the options. you should find audio description just before its
checkbox. hit vo spacebar to check
no. the download content appears to be free.
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find where it says toolbar, interact with it and use the
voiceover arrow keys, go to where it says favourites, and inside
that menu there are different options and checkboxes and audio
description is mentioned before an unchecked checkbox. check it
with vo space before you download your tv
favourites in the toolbar
On 30 Nov 2012, at 11:03, michael weaver
weavermi...@googlemail.com wrote:
find where it says toolbar, interact with it and use the
voiceover arrow keys, go to where it says favourites, and inside
that menu there are different options and checkboxes and audio
is there a way to play bbc programmes etc on the mac?
there is a tv drama on at the moment, based on a horror novel i
have both heard and read the book of only i cannot seem to be
able to watch it on the mac.
i can view it on my phone which isn't an i-phone, only i have not
been able to get
i found the link for get itplayer automator.
however for some reason the download link is not responding.
i have tried both safari and google chrome but my download folder
remains empty.
i have even tried shift enter on the download link but still no
joy and also the context menu option as
sorry for my previous post.
i seem to have two download folders on my mac so i may have found
where it has downloaded 'to.
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i have managed to find my copy of get itplayer automator.
how do i choose the audio description option for a tv program if
available?
i went into preferences only i couldn't find the option unless
the audio description setting only shows up when you add the
programmes to the queue or download
i had a problem with using the get itplayer.
i didn't realise that some of the options were hidden in a
toolbar for example i was having a problem actually starting the
download of my programme for a start.
i also found the audio description as a checkbox under the
preferences when i accessed
i go to updates on my mac and i am told there are two updates for
safari only i keep getting some server error.
is anyone else having this problem while trying to download the
latest updates for the mac software?
i thought it might have had something to do with me not using my
ac adapter for my
i have just been having a look at see finance which i downloaded
yesterday as i have had access issues with i-bank when trying to
download financial information from my bank.
see finance seems faily accessible but for some reason when i try
to import my data from my bank, the statement that
to help.
Sent from my iPhone
On Sep 4, 2012, at 2:19 PM, michael weaver
weavermi...@googlemail.com wrote:
i have just been having a look at see finance which i downloaded
yesterday as i have had access issues with i-bank when trying to
download financial information from my bank.
see
when using multiple maps on the i-phone with navigon, do the map
countries change automatically?
for example if you live in the uk and go to say spain and have
the map for spain, does the map for spain automatically load when
you are in spain?
if not how do you change maps of countries?
---
how do i check to see if my copy of sophos antivirus application
is working?
do i use system monitor under utilities?
i launched that particular app and looking down my list of
information, i see something like sophos antivirus and something
like 0,1 percent and some of the other information i
could someone explain what a thumb drive is?
i presume they are not the same as sd cards and that they don't
just fit in the slot on the macbook pro which is just above the
headphone socket.
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To: Mac OSX iOS Accessibility
every those the same as usb sticks like the things that sometimes
get used as keyrings?
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To: Mac OSX iOS Accessibility mac-access@mac-access.net
Date sent: Thu, 2 Aug 2012 21:12:53 +0100
Subject: Re: can not burn ml
Josh
this may be a horses for courses question so to speak but is it
best to do a clean installation of the new mac osx rather than
just do an upgrade from the previous version?
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i have just bought mountain lion only for some reason it wants to
run the installation rather than me being able to locate the
files to burn it to dvd.
i wonder if i have downloaded the wrong file from the app store
as mountain lion seems to be read several times when i first
enter the app
is there a way of easily navigating eppisodes of a video on the
i-phone 4?
i ask because i have managed to find some classic doctor who on
i-tunes only the eppisode numbers and years are read out so i
have to go through the videos in order to find the next eppisode
to a story.
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do external gps receivers such as the i-blue work with the
i-phone?
i ask because i am wondering if i should perhaps use an external
receiver when using navigon as i am not sure if the internal one
in the i-phone 4 works in a pocket and it is a bit of a pain and
looks a bit silly with me
what are the correct settings for the awareness app?
i ask because the defaults seem not to work and settings i have
changed some work but also voiceover seems to be affected ie when
i remove my headphones i get an extremely quiet sounding
voiceover on my i-phone 4.
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i would agree with sarah about using sophos.
i have just started using it so i can't say anything about the
quarantene option as i have not had to use that option yet.
rnib's access it had an article about antivirus apps i think
and the author said something about using antivirus with systems
i seem to be having a problem with bluetooth on the i-phone 4.
this doesn't happen always but when i have my bluetooth headset
connected to my i-phone 4, i sometimes find it has disconnected
after dialing calls on the phone.
what happens is that i hear a bleep or two bleeps after i dial a
i tried the book where i believe there is a problem and i still
get that horrible noise, even without wearing a headset while
listening to that particular story.
how do i download the book again without being charged?
i purchased it using the i-phone itself.
what i am worried about is deleting
...@gmail.com
To: Mac OSX iOS Accessibility mac-access@mac-access.net
Date sent: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 10:19:31 -0700
Subject: Re: repeat download of audio book
No I think you can go to yoru perchaces tab and find it and then
download it.
Take care.
On Jun 10, 2012, at 12:04 AM, michael weaver wrote
i tried to download some podcasts last night but got error
messages saying that the podcast couldn't be downloaded.
now i have two downloads that i can't seem to get rid of.
how do i clear unsuccessful downloads from the i-phone 4?
i can't seem to find an edit button that will allow me to access
i often listen to audio books on my i-phone and none of my other
files do this but on one audio book which is a collection of
short horror stories, i get a very loud buzzing sound coming
through the headset.
has anyone else had this problem? is it a headset prroblem or a
problem with the
since i have last updated lion, i seem to notice fewer mailboxes
in mail.
i thought this update had fixed the problem with email vanishing
from my inbox but it hasn't and i have not yet been able to work
out where it has gone because all i see under the mailbox menus
when i go to favourite
i seem to be having problems transfering files to my i-phone 4.
i have a lot of audio books etc and i think my library is too big
because i am getting an eror about not being able to sync the
items or whatever.
when i delete files from the books under sources, do i have to
say yes to keep them
i seem to be having a problem with my i-phone 4 which is running
the latest ios and it is a bit worse than when first unlocking
the screen and getting two apps like phone and messages read
together.
for some reason the home button now seems to require two presses
when in applications to get
i have quite a few things like books in my i-tunes library.
is there a way of burning audio books to cd when they have been
downloaded in i-tunes either on the mac or after they have been
downloaded and transffered to the mac from the i-phone?
i have noticed some books i am thinking of
i seem to be having a problem with pages.
what happens when i load a text document is that i sometimes end
up in some sort of problem where i can navigate a document kind
of but cannot edit it for some strange reason.
it is like it goes into some kind of review only mode and i have
tried doing
have you tried command plus f5?
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From: Catherine G fit...@centurylink.net
To: 'Mac OSX iOS Accessibility' mac-access@mac-access.net
Date sent: Thu, 3 May 2012 14:57:34 -0700
Subject: VoiceOver not on
Somehow VO is not coming on when I turn on my Mac. How do I fix
yes i have.
i think it wanted me to do this when i bought a tv series for
some reason. i was never asked for that information before, just
my password and mac id.
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To: Mac OSX iOS Accessibility mac-access@mac-access.net
Date
yes i get that a lot when trying to navigate the source list for
example to find my i-phone when it is connected like it can't
cope unless you scroll down very slowly to select a source from
the table.
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To: Mac OSX iOS
i have noticed that in the later versions of ios, for some reason
i can't get my headset to control my music ie the volume control
and changing tracks doesn't appear to work using the control on
the wire on the i-phone 4.
i have been through the settings but can't appear to find one
that is
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Date sent: Sun, 1 Apr 2012 06:23:07 -0700
Subject: Re: control on headset
Are you positive the headset is not broken? I can get mine to
work, or I did until it broke lol!
Take care.
On Mar 31, 2012, at 11:37 PM, michael weaver wrote:
i have noticed that in the later versions of ios
i tried the spare headset which i bought when i lost the original
one and that worked with the controls.
i switched back to the old headset or old earpieces and it now
works for some reason which it didn't do when i tried them on
wednesday.
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is there a way of adding a song track into a voice message?
i am thinking of recording a message for my girlfriend which i
can do but for some reason if i were to play a music track in the
recording the volume alters when i play the thing through the
headphones.
what i do at the moment is use
i have had to bin my old headset.
it must be slightly damaged because sometimes the control works
and sometimes it doesn't so i have just got the replacement i
bought for the i-phone.
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Subject: Re: keyboard chatting in skype
I just hit enter on the contact I want to chat with and it
starts
an im. There probably is another way but if so I don't know it.
Take care.
On Mar 30, 2012, at 10:23 PM, michael weaver wrote:
how do you initiate a keyboard chat in skype
Subject: Re: keyboard chatting in skype
I just hit enter on the contact I want to chat with and it starts
an im. There probably is another way but if so I don't know it.
Take care.
On Mar 30, 2012, at 10:23 PM, michael weaver wrote:
how do you initiate a keyboard chat in skype on the mac when
i have a question about these notification settings on the
i-phone.
what are the best settings for some of these notifications?
i have examined and changed some of the notification settings.
should i set important ones such as messaging, twitter and skype
to alerts when i enter the notification
is there a way to be notified when contacts are available on
skype on the i-phone?
the only ways i have found so far are either just to go to the
online contacts tab which doesn't appear when you first open the
app or go into the contact name and see if that person is on-line
or whatever which
i may have got a possible girlfriend and i am wondering if i
could create a video on youtube for her as she lives east of
moscow and verbal communication appears to be possibly remote so
the only contact with her has been via email from an internet
cafe when she is working.
is there a way of
when sending a tweet to someone or when following someone on
twitter or even a group, am i supposed to put hash tags at the
beginning and end of names of individuals and groups i am
following?
at the moment i am trying to get going with twitter on the
i-phone and i have requested to follow
what would be the recommended settings for the awareness app?
i have just downloaded it to my i-phone but some of the options
inside the app are not clear what they are.
hope someone can give me some advice on this app.
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how do i change from a call to a video call with skype on the
mac?
i know that pressing vo plus space calls a contact but how do i
choose between standard and video call if a call goes straight
through when i press the vo and space?
i only need to do video calls with trusted friends and
at the moment i am currently running get off now on my i-phone 4
but i am having a few issues with it.
one issue is that it seems to want to trigger the alarm for my
programmed bus stop while i am at home. to get round this issue
i switched off the destination for my stop and re enabled it
could anyone tell me what the difference is between the macbook
air and the macbook pro?
i have the macbook pro but is the air more portable and the mac
equivalent of a netbook?
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if i have done a fresh installation of lion and i want to restore
my audio books etc that i have downloaded via i-tunes, do i just
go to the folder on my backup drive and just copy all the folders
where i have the files i want and just paste them into the
i-tunes media folder so i can find
i have just upgraded my i-phone to the latest ios version.
when i unlock my phone it says phone, messages when i am sure
that in the earlier releases it just says messages when the
phone is unlocked.
am i supposed to have the phone read two items when i unlock the
phone?
i thought it might
i have managed to fix my problem with my name appearing in cc
field of emails i sent.
i went into preferences and found a checkbox next to a popup
button where the sender name can either be put in the cc or bcc
fields so i unchecked this and did a test message and it no
longther writes me a
i think i might know why my email keeps being moved in mail on my
macbook only i can't seem to be able to resolve the problem.
if i delete my account in mail and do a setup from scratch i end
up with 12 mailboxes, one of them is a bulk mail folder which bt
uses by default and i also seem to get
how do you delete contacts in mac mail?
i think i have done this a while back but can't remember how to
do it.
i go into the contacts panel via the windows menu on my macbook,
choose the contact, go into edit, delete, press enter and nothing
happens at all.
i tried opening the context menu but
i am running version 5 of skype on my macbook.
however i appear to get a cluttered screen when i launch it like
all the important stuff seems to be hidden like it is bringing up
html pages on launch so it is like i keep having to stop
interacting, try and locate the table and interact with
also away. I can't remember but I think availiable is online.
Take care.
On Feb 4, 2012, at 1:35 PM, michael weaver wrote:
i am using the latest version of skype.
am i best setting the popup button under preferences and
notifications to contact is available from the list of buttons?
i
i am using the latest version of skype.
am i best setting the popup button under preferences and
notifications to contact is available from the list of buttons?
i wonder if this has been my problem as regards monitoring when
my contacts are on-line etc.
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i am trying to set up my bank accounts using i-bank.
if i download the transactions for an account when i enter my
banks website and use the export link or button to download the
statement in the recognised format, i think it may be qif, what
is the dialogue i get before my entries are
i have got growl installed only i can't seem to be able to add
skype to my list of applications.
at the moment it just shows the growl menue in the application
list and even when i type skype in the search field it doesn't
seem to be able to locate it for me to add it.
it is the latest version
i think there is a strange thing with the latest version of skype
and i am wondering if this might be my problem when trying to get
notification when someone in my contacts list comes on line
without me having to do voiceover keys plus left or right cursor
to find out if someone is on-line,
i think i resolved my problem of mail being moved from my inbox
on my mac when i first installed lion.
i deleted my bt account, set it up again and it just resolved the
issue i was having i think without me changing settings.
i tried changing to pop3 rather than imap only i couldn't get
pop3
when pictures are stored on the i-phone is the higher number the
latest picture stored when you go into the photos and choose
camera role to show the album?
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where in i-tunes are podcasts stored?
i ask because i have just downloaded the latest i-tunes and there
are eppisodes of a podcast i wish to remove only i can't seem to
be able to find them in i-tunes on the mac to be able to remove
them and search either doesn't search or comes up with the
does anyone know how to set up the tv guide on the i-phone?
for some reason i can't seem to access certain information like
channel numbers and don't know what view to use for being able to
read the information with voiceover on the i-phone.
i am also not sure if i have downloaded the right app
i have just resolved my i-tunes problem and i think it was the
same solution as with a problem where videos i had watched kept
being executed.
i closed the window with a couple of command plus w, rebooted my
mac and it is no longer trying to bring up i-tunes while i am
running safari.
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i am thinking of purchasing the i-phone 4 s sometime this year.
i think if i don't want to be penalised for upgrading, the
earliest i can upgrade is august this year i think.
is the 4 s better at dealing with calls while running voiceover?
i don't know if this only happens with voiceover users
can i burn a folder of photos on the mac to a cd just from the
menu or do i need extra software?
i have some photos from a possible girlfriend and i want to burn
them to cd or dvd.
i have them in a sub folder under my pictures folder under her
name so they don't get mixed up with other photos i
how do i burn photos to cd or dvd?
they are all under a folder in my pictures folder under the name
of the person who sent me the photos.
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does anyone know where movies that have been purchased are
located on the i-phone or how to get to them?
i have just downloaded a movie and it doesn't appear to be
showing up in the options i have tried in both i-tunes and music?
i am using the latest ios 5 on the i-phone 4 if that helps.
my
is there a way of getting the options and words in the dictionary
on the i-phone when a word is queried when texting?
i have tried the rota and swiping and i cannot seem to be able to
access words or the options and you cannot seem to be able to
press space or enter on a word you wish to accept
i have just installed audacity on my macbook.
however although it worked the first time when i was exploring
the app, for some reason an unknown dialogue keeps popping up
and i am sure this is preventing me from making a recording
because i have tried lower and capital r, command r and control
is there an equivalent of sound recorder for the mac for being
able to do voice recordings?
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until i can conveniently upgrade to the 4 s, i am having a
problem with my i-phone 4.
when i go into emails, if i have a few messages in a thread for
example my i-phone seems to be very sluggish while scrolling
through emails.
i cannot understand why my i-phone 4 has become so slow when
doing
, and let us
know if that
helps.
Glenn
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To: mac-access@mac-access.net
Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2011 2:25 PM
Subject: an i-phone 4 problem
until i can conveniently upgrade to the 4 s, i am having a
problem with my i
is there a way to add a contact from the recent calls list on the
i-phone 4?
i ask because someone called my mobile so their number showed up
in my calls list only when i try to add a contact this way it
prefers to dial the number rather than to give me the option to
add it to my contacts
does the i-phone 4 s have the same hardware design as the i-phone
4, meaning the power button at the top right hand corner, the
volume and mute buttons on the left edge when the earpiece is
facing up at the top?
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is there a way of retrieving attachments in emails on the i-phone
4?
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i notice when texting when i read a text by touching the screen
to read my text, some of the text isn't read like it is missing.
it is like lines are being chopped.
is there a maximum line length and if not what is causing this
problem and how do i resolve this?
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is it possible to do programming on a mac and if so where could i
start?
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i seem to be having a problem with my i-phone 4 using ios 5 and
i-tunes.
i have deleted a lot of stuff off my phone but i keep getting the
error about not being able to sync a certain amount of items
every time i connect my i-phone to my macbook.
i thought that after deleting my items and that
i can remove apps from my i-phone but for some reason i cannot
remove music and photos?
i selected my music library in i-tunes, selected all the songs,
pressed delete and when i exited i-tunes all the music i wanted
rid of was still under music on the i-phone.
i tried going into my i-phone as a
what is this business of the battery drain on ios for there to
have been an update?
i ask because i have the i-phone 4 and have not noticed any
battery drain so was the problem only affecting the i-phone 3 and
the 4 s?
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can anyone help me on this one.
i showed someone my i-phone yesterday as they offered to keep in
contact with me.
however voiceover said muting when she turned it in a certain way
so i thought that my whole speech had stopped.
voiceover is still working but i don't get any feedback anymore
sorry for my previous posting.
i feel a bit of a fool.
just after checking all my settings i thought i would check my
mute switch on the side of my phone and it was in the wrong
position so that is why i wasn't getting any audible feedback
while navigating my i-phone.
i have ended up wasting
in skype under notifications there is a checkbox called speak
text which is unchecked.
is this option where i get spoken notifications?
at the moment i only get the bubbble sound or whatever when
someone comes on-line.
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is there an alternative email application to mac mail for the
mac?
i looked through my sent folder to try and locate email that i
had received which disappeared from my inbox after a few days and
i still couldn't find my lost email so i am left wondering if i
should use a different email app
functions
from the server side. Can you set the ability to see Sent
messages from there?
TC :)
J
On 3 Nov 2011, at 18:37, michael weaver wrote:
is there an alternative email application to mac mail for the
mac?
i looked through my sent folder to try and locate email that i
had received
email keeps disappearing from my inbox since i have upgraded to
lion.
i tend to keep email for a while in my inbox just in case i need
to refer to it for example.
however i don't know why messages i keep for a few days which
have been read end up disappearing without me even pressing
delete.
i downgraded growl to a less current version but all i can see in
the apps under settings is the growl app itself.
no other app appears to show up and i can't find a single way of
adding apps such as skype.
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: michael weaver weavermi...@googlemail.com
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2011 13:50:55 +
To: mac-access@mac-access.net
Subject: applications in growl
i downgraded growl to a less current version but all i can see in
the apps under settings is the growl app itself.
no other app appears to show up and i can't
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