Re: training

2012-07-24 Thread Bryan Jones
I had an excellent training experience when I took a series of Pages lessons via Skype with Anne Archie Robertson. You can find more information about their education services at: http://cecimac.org/education.htm HTH, Bryan On Jul 24, 2012, at 6:29 AM, Rob Murthwaite wrote: I am looking for

Here is VMWare's Fusion compatibility FAQ [Was: Re: Vmware not support in mountain lion: at least not yet]

2012-07-26 Thread Bryan Jones
Below, I've pasted VMWare's brief (four question) FAQ regarding Fusion compatibility with Mountain Lion. This is copied directly from their blog at: http://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2012/07/vmware-fusion-and-os-x-mountain-lion-faq.html Does VMware Fusion 4 work with Mountain Lion? Yes, the

Bento 4 VO issue under Mountain Lion [Was: Re: Bento4 Mac]

2012-07-26 Thread Bryan Jones
Hi Lynne, Gordon and Others, Just following up on this issue. Now that I've upgraded to Mountain Lion, you can add me to the list of folks who are stuck listening to the incessant Bento busy, Bento ready issue when launching the application. Bento was nicely accessible under Lion and I've

How to reply to Sender [Was: Re: opology please read]

2012-07-30 Thread Bryan Jones
Hi Krystal, Here's the method I use when replying to the individual sender of a message on the Mac-Access list. As you pointed out, different email lists have different ways of presenting the original sender's address, and some are easier than others to work with. When I'm using my Mac to

Re: Adding and removing from Mail Favourites bar.

2012-07-30 Thread Bryan Jones
No need to apologize or make a big deal out of asking for advice. There's a big difference between asking a question that is rarely discussed, such as your question here, and asking a question that is repeatedly asked on list that could be answered with a quick google, archive or VO help

Here's one way to rearrange or remove items from Mail's Favorites Bar [Was: Re: Adding and removing from Mail Favourites bar.]

2012-07-31 Thread Bryan Jones
Hi Danny, I'm replying to your message on-list as I think this might be worth archiving for future reference The following method works for me under Mountain Lion. The following instructions assume you have Mail.app open in Mountain Lion, your Favorites Bar is showing and already contains the

Re: Drag and drop issues.

2012-07-31 Thread Bryan Jones
A couple of thoughts: 1. Make certain quicknav is turned off when you are attempting to rearrange mailboxes within the Favorites Bar. That process doesn't seem to work if quicknav is turned on. Press the left and right arrow keys at the same time to toggle quicknav. 2. Regarding Zoom, you can

Re: unlocking system preferences

2012-08-03 Thread Bryan Jones
Hi PHil, In addition to Marcy Stuart's suggestion of pressing the Enter key, also known as the Return key, you also have the option to stop interacting with the UserName / Password section of that particular dialog box by pressing VO+Shift+Up Arrow. This will allow you to navigate the rest of

Re: Apple Hot News in Mail

2012-08-10 Thread Bryan Jones
Hi Paul, The folks at Apple removed the handy RSS feature from Mail in ML. You can use a third party RSS reader or maybe try the Safari extension mentioned at this link: http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/2624/subscribe-to-feed-safari-extension Also, here's a tip if you upgraded from Lion to ML

Adobe Digital Editions 2.0 released still lacking important accessibility features

2012-09-22 Thread Bryan Jones
The folks at Adobe have released version 2.0 of their Digital Editions application, which is a free ePub / PDF reader. This version replaces the long-running public beta known as 1.8 Preview. If you're interested in downloading or learning more about the 2.0 version, here is a direct link to

Has anyone used the Mac version of Kurzweil 3000?

2012-09-24 Thread Bryan Jones
Folks, Taking into consideration the facts that the retail price of this software is exhorbitant and that it is not specifically designed for use by blind folks, I thought I'd take a chance and ask if anybody here has tried or is using K3000 on a Mac. This semester I've been given an

Re: lag when typing ios six

2012-09-24 Thread Bryan Jones
I generally have no keyboard lag with IOS6 on either my iPhone 4S or my iPad 2. Bugs are usually not called bugs until all normal troubleshooting steps have been exhausted. Perhaps you could tell us a little bit about your device, the Apps you are running, the exact steps needed to replicate

Re: Making The Most Of Your Accessible Tools; A Passionate Rant [Was so wish apple had done this]

2012-09-30 Thread Bryan Jones
I've recently been spending buckets of time learning to use various access tools that are new to me on several platforms, including Windows and Android. This is a requirement for the internship I'm fortunate to have with my University's Disabilities Services office, and while I must confess I

Re: i books author

2012-10-01 Thread Bryan Jones
I spent a bit of time poking around iBooks Author when it was first released, and I was eventually able to enter some text and even create a table. In fact, the table creation and navigation seems to have all the functionality many of us long to have in Pages and TextEdit. With regard to

Re: Problem with Facebook app and push notifications, please help!

2012-10-02 Thread Bryan Jones
Hi Chris -- I don't have an answer, sorry, but just thought I'd let you know I've been having the same issue for the past several days on my 4S running IOS6, and a quick search of the web this morning turned up several threads dedicated to the same issue that seems to have started for some

Re: learning ally troubles again

2012-10-03 Thread Bryan Jones
Hi Sarah, Jeremy and Others, I've been using their IOS App exclusively to download and play my LA books, so haven't given the mac app a look in a while. Last evening I spent some time reinstalling the bookshelf manager and attempting to use it on my MBA running 10.8.2 and can confirm that the

Re: attachments not showing up in mail (again)

2012-10-04 Thread Bryan Jones
Hi Donal Anne, -- I've also got some gripes about ML Mail, but am fortunate enough not to be experiencing the attachment issue you mention. My headers are set to default and I'm running 10.8.2. VO does announce my attachments as embedded but I also have the Save and Quick Look buttons in my

Suggestions for interacting with the Google Groups site [Was: Re: New member introduction]

2012-10-14 Thread Bryan Jones
Hello JP and welcome, I can't offer a full tutorial for accessing the Google Groups page, but I have a few suggestions that might help you get started. 1. Make sure you are configured to use the old Google Groups layout. Google is in the process of transitioning to a new groups layout and it is

Re: a Zoom and Voiceover question.

2012-10-17 Thread Bryan Jones
Hi Jim, Interesting question. If I understand you correctly, you are wanting to hear VO on your Mac speak the zoom in and zoom out levels, or to at least provide some sort of vocal indication that something is happening when you are pressing Command+Option+Plus or Minus, or that you've toggled

Re: google drive

2012-10-23 Thread Bryan Jones
Hi Courtney, The answer to your question depends on how you define accessible. While the drive.google.com website has some of google's typical accessibility issues, the Google Drive App is one of Google's more accessible offerings on several platforms. I'm using it on a Mac and two IOS devices

Re: insert key?

2012-10-24 Thread Bryan Jones
Hi David, Could you please provide a few more details about your insert key? - What make and exact model of keyboard are you using? - What is your keyboard's layout? (US, UK, France, etc) - Where on your keyboard is the insert key located? - Do you need to press any additional keys in

Re: Hearing Apple Menu when typing in ML or Lion.

2012-10-31 Thread Bryan Jones
I've experienced this issue regularly in both Lion and ML but have not been able to determine a cause.. In my case, the standard duct-tape solution (VO off, VO on) straightens it out for a while. HTH, Bryan On Oct 31, 2012, at 5:18 PM, Sean Murphy smur7...@bigpond.net.au wrote: When I type in

Navigating through iPhone App Store search results [Was: Re: The inaccessibility of the iOS 6 appstore on iPad again.]

2012-11-01 Thread Bryan Jones
[Subject line changed to reflect topic change] Try the following: 1. After performing your search, do a one-finger swipe right until you pass the screenshots for the current App. 2. You should land on an item that announces the name of the current App and it's place in the list of results. For

A tip for hearing your slide numbers during a Keynote slide show presentation

2012-11-04 Thread Bryan Jones
Hi Folks, I've grown pretty fond of Keynote on my Mac iPad, but one glaring accessibility shortcoming is the lack of VO feedback when a slide or presentation is played in Slide Show mode as is commonly done when making a large screen presentation. AFAIK there is still no way to have VO

Re: Has anyone found the need to consistently restart VoiceOver when loading webpages?

2012-11-08 Thread Bryan Jones
This happens on my i7 MBA all the time. It was SOP under Lion and seems to be a bit worse in ML with safari 6 and webkit nightlies. I'll load up a webpage, bring up the web rotor, and will either have no elements listed or just a few items, usually in the links section. If I cycle VO, the

Re: Has anyone found the need to consistently restart VoiceOver when loading webpages?

2012-11-08 Thread Bryan Jones
Interestingly, the busy, busy, busy annoyance in Safari went away when I upgraded to ML. The trade-off was that Bento has now taken over the busy, busy, busy behavior. Regarding Chrome: I've been using it with ChromeVox a lot lately as one of my classes is neck-deep into Google Docs and I've

Re: Has anyone found the need to consistently restart VoiceOver when loading webpages?

2012-11-08 Thread Bryan Jones
Hey Zack -- Funny thing is, I would agree with your statement that the Safari experience has grown more stable with every upgrade. I'm not sure I'd put this particular issue in the stability category, though. It feels more like a performance issue. Just a hunch. Almost feels like the webpage

Re: learning ally audiobook manager.

2012-11-09 Thread Bryan Jones
Hi Donal, You are correct. The current LearningAlly Audiobook Manager for Mac is not VO friendly. I think Sarah can provide more details, but I personally gave up on it and now exclusively use the nice LearningAlly IOS App to download and listen to my LA books on my iPhone.. I'd suggest

Re: Suggestion didn't work

2012-11-13 Thread Bryan Jones
Sorryif you already answered this one, but are you attempting to use your mac mini without a monitor? I ask because a number of folks have had the same symptom you are describing when they attempted to use recent mac mini models sans monitor. If this is the case, there is a hardware solution

Re: Accessible Ebooks

2012-11-21 Thread Bryan Jones
Hi Paul, In addition to the sources you and Anne mentioned, I suggest taking a look at Google's offering, which currently goes by the odd name of Google Play Books. Google's IOS App was recently updated with a number of improvements that make it relatively VO friendly. Google claims to offer

Re: Accessible Ebooks

2012-11-26 Thread Bryan Jones
Well, I never thought I'd see this day, but it seems the Barnes Noble Nook App has been made VO accessible with today's release of version 3.3.0. The What's New section of this release includes the following information: New in 3.3: - New language support for British English, French, Italian,

Re: IOS safari query.

2012-12-31 Thread Bryan Jones
Hi Donal, Not sure if this is the best or only way, but here's how I do it. 1. Launch Safari. 2. Enter the desired default URL in the address bar and go to that page. I use the standard about:blank. 3. Open the Safari Utilities menu and choose Add to Home Screen. You will be prompted to supply

Re: accessible FaceBook.

2013-01-15 Thread Bryan Jones
Hi Jim -- In my opinion, the answer to your first question will vary depending upon which FB features are important to you. I now primarily use the main FB site in the latest version of Safari and am able to access most of the features that are important to me, such as the News feed and

Re: google drive

2013-01-17 Thread Bryan Jones
Hello Ian -- I can probably help, but first need to know if you are doing this on a Mac, an IOS device, or both, and if you are using the Google Drive App or the web interface. Bryan On Jan 17, 2013, at 6:13 AM, Ian Harrison harrisonc...@harrisonclan.karoo.co.uk wrote: I am trying to upload

Re: Help with Adob Digital Editions

2013-01-17 Thread Bryan Jones
The folks at Adobe have chosen not to enable navigation by paragraph, sentence, line, word or character in the current Mac version of ADE, though those abilities are apparently available in the Windows version. On Jan 17, 2013, at 8:21 PM, Marcos Rodrigues mrodrigue...@hotmail.com wrote: When

Re: google drive

2013-01-22 Thread Bryan Jones
Hi Ian -- Yes, Google Drive can work like Dropbox. I've had no problems copying files to and from my Google Drive using the Google Drive App on my Macbook Air running Mountain Lion. You are limited to 5GB of storage unless you purchase more. I do not care to use Google's web interface for file

Re: Google Docs

2013-01-22 Thread Bryan Jones
Hi Fred -- Are you referring to VoiceOver on the Mac or on an IOS device? In my experience, it is possible to accomplish some basic document creation, reading and editing,on both platforms but the level of access to collaboration tools is limited. My first suggestion would be to install the

Re: Latest Kobo App on iPhone [Was Re: Help with Adob Digital Editions]

2013-01-22 Thread Bryan Jones
Hi Esther -- Thanks for following up on this. I did get Kobo working on my iPhone after reading Anne's response on avis. It was a simple matter of my needing to login to my kobo account. Once I did that, my library became visible to VO, and when I logged out it became invisible again. I haven't

Re: Organising the main menu on IOS 6.

2013-01-25 Thread Bryan Jones
Hi Paul, One trick I've found helpful when moving Apps into folders en masse is to place the folder in the dock. This way I can simply swipe from screen to screen and drag the desired Apps into the folder on the dock, thus eliminating the need to move Apps between screens. Also, if you're

Re: alex stuttering when reading on mountain lion

2013-02-13 Thread Bryan Jones
Not quite sure what you mean by content voice, but Alex does not stutter on my MBA. Bryan On Feb 13, 2013, at 5:48 AM, William Lomas will.d.lo...@gmail.com wrote: hi all do others find alex stutters when reading mail etc. if used as a content voice with a macbook air in particular? ---

Re: Urgent Keynote query.

2013-03-01 Thread Bryan Jones
Hello Donal, Here's an email I sent last year that might help. Cheers, Bryan Begin forwarded message: Subject: A tip for hearing your slide numbers during a Keynote slide show presentation I've grown pretty fond of Keynote on my Mac iPad, but one glaring accessibility shortcoming is

Re: Urgent Keynote query.

2013-03-01 Thread Bryan Jones
Hi Sarah, Esther, Donal, Sorry, I haven't tried doing a Keynote presentation that included audio other than the page numbers, and my solution is pretty low-tech all around. In my case I was using an original iPad, then later an iPad 2, both connected to the large screen via the Apple 30 pin

Re: Using iPhone as a notetaker/simple word processor

2013-03-07 Thread Bryan Jones
I keep coming back to the relatively low-tech note-taking solution called email. All of my email accounts are configured as IMAP or Exchange and are set to push changes automatically, thus syncing between whichever device I'm working on and whichever server is hosting that account and then

Re: Using iPhone as a notetaker/simple word processor

2013-03-07 Thread Bryan Jones
Yep, to each his or her own. I generally don't put passwords in emails and the notes I take are no more or less sensitive than other emails I might send, so fear of prying eyes isn't keeping me awake at night. With regard to copying the text, I find it easy to perform a select all, copy, and

Re: Bento busy?

2013-03-13 Thread Bryan Jones
Hi Zack, I think Bento is not compatible with VO under Mountain Lion. I haven't found a workaround. Bryan On Mar 12, 2013, at 7:05 PM, Zachary Kline zkl...@speedpost.net wrote: I recently purchased the Bento personal database program from FileMaker, and have been somewhat frustrated. My

Guides to purchasing, downloading and reading with VO in the new Kindle IOS App

2013-05-01 Thread Bryan Jones
Here is a link to the free Kindle book titled Kindle for IOS Accessibility Gestures: Quick Reference Guide. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CL5NIGU/ref=cm_cd_asin_lnk Here is a link to Amazon's webpage explaining how to purchase Kindle titles and how to get those titles into your Kindle IOS

Re: problem with VO saying bizzy and reddy all the time when using certon programs

2013-05-23 Thread Bryan Jones
Hi Michael, I experience the same issue with ABBYY FineReader Express. I suspect FineReader uses lots of CPU cycles while performing it's OCR processes. In fact, FineReader is one of the few apps guaranteed to exercise the cooling fan on my 2011 Macbook Air, which rarely breaks a sweat under

Re: VoiceOver problems with Skim was Re: Voice over mentioned in a software update?

2013-06-05 Thread Bryan Jones
Hi James, Can you provide some details of the problems you are having with Skim? I did a quick run through of a couple PDFs using Skim 1.4.3 on my MBA running OS 10.8.4 and didn't encounter any major issues. Cheers, Bryan On Jun 5, 2013, at 1:31 AM, JAMES AUSTIN james.aus...@mac-access.net

Re: IPhone and GMail

2013-06-12 Thread Bryan Jones
Hi Jim, I recently had the second issue you mentioned, the one where the iPhone would say, unable to delete message when I attempted to delete any emails from my gmail account. My other email accounts including iCloud and Exchange did not exhibit this issue. Here's what fixed it for me on my

A question for Apple TV Users: What hardware are you using for audio-out?

2013-06-13 Thread Bryan Jones
Hi Folks -- I've setup a current generation Apple TV and connected it via HDMI to my television. The speakers built into the television are pretty bad, so I've started thinking about using the Apple TV's optical digital audio-out port, AKA toslink or S/PDIF to connect to an external audio

Re: Help with mouse

2013-06-16 Thread Bryan Jones
Hi Catherine, Using the following steps, I was able to access the Dropbox menu option to View Previous Versions. This assumes Dropbox is installed and is syncing properly. This was done using a 2011 MacBook Air running OS 10.8.4 and Dropbox 2.0.22. Step 1. Using standard VO commands, navigate

Re: Numbers On IOS Devices

2013-07-03 Thread Bryan Jones
Hi Dane, Last month I took another look at Numbers and Pages on both my iPhone 4S and iPad Mini running the latest IOS and, unfortunately, both apps are still plagued by an issue where the copy / paste popup menu is constantly active while I am trying to work in a Numbers spreadsheet or a

Re: VO not speaking when I open the lid

2013-07-24 Thread Bryan Jones
Hi Andy, Does this happen every time you close/open the lid, or is it random? I've experienced this behavior on every mac I've owned but only if I've neglected to fully restart the OS or power off/on the computer once every day or so. It has been my experience that repeatedly sleeping/waking

Re: Reading tables in Safari

2013-07-30 Thread Bryan Jones
I've found Chrome with VO handles some tables better than Safari. In addition, if you install the ChromeVox extension and take an hour or two to learn the ChromeVox navigation keys, you will have an additional TTS option when attempting to navigate troublesome tables. HTH, Bryan On Jul 30,

Re: Setting a Shortcut Key in Mail

2013-08-12 Thread Bryan Jones
Assuming you are running Lion or Mountain Lion, one way to accomplish this is to use Mail's Favorites Bar. Mailbox Aliases that are placed in the Favorites Bar can be directly accessed by pressing Command+ a corresponding number. Here are the steps to follow. 1. Toggle on the Favorites Bar

Re: Setting a Shortcut Key in Mail

2013-08-14 Thread Bryan Jones
Hi Sarah, Here's one method I've used in the past. Note that this seems hit-or-miss and there might be a more reliable method I don't know about. The following method works for me under Mountain Lion. The following instructions assume you have Mail.app open in Mountain Lion, your Favorites Bar

Re: more on the favorites bar in apple mail

2013-08-24 Thread Bryan Jones
Hi Sarah, I feel your pain. The process of using VO drag and drop to add a mailbox alias to the Favorites Bar really does seem to be hit-or-miss. Last week I was able to use the old mouse-down / mouse-up method successfully, but this morning that method failed so I tried the VO+comma method

Re: facebook

2013-08-25 Thread Bryan Jones
The following steps work to log me out of FB on my macbook air running the latest versions of mountain lion and safari. 1. Press VO+I to open the item chooser menu. 2. Type account to narrow your selection and then use the up/down arrows to find the item labeled Account Settings, then press

Re: iPhone audio question.

2011-07-15 Thread Bryan Jones
Hello Jim, By any chance, are these the stock earbuds with built-in microphone that came with your iPhone? If yes, is the quieter bud the one on the end of the wire with the microphone in it? I experienced the same issue with 2 sets of these earbuds. My guess is that the wire on the microphone

Re: Is anyone having success with Lion's new method of typing special characters?

2011-07-21 Thread Bryan Jones
within the Spotlight search field. Cheers, Bryan On Jul 21, 2011, at 6:48 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: Well spotted! I find that I just have to take my time pressing Right Arrow and all the accents are spoken. On 21 Jul 2011, at 23:37, Bryan Jones wrote: When typing in Lion you can hold down

Re: calendar in Lion

2011-07-25 Thread Bryan Jones
Hello Mark, Can you list the steps you're taking to get to this point so we can try to recreate the problem? I've been able to create, view and edit Events and Reminders under Lion's iCal. Cheers, Bryan On Jul 25, 2011, at 4:24 PM, Mark Furness wrote: I can not move out of the subject field.

Re: I give up need help with ical

2011-07-25 Thread Bryan Jones
Hello Mark, As John said, pressing the Return key will move you past the initial Event entry field. In Lion's iCal, when you press Command+N to create a new event, it opens a dialog labeled Create Quick Event with the VO cursor placed in the single edit field. Before you type anything, if you

Re: Thank you all for Calendar help!

2011-07-26 Thread Bryan Jones
Hello Mark, I'm not clear on wether it's the name of the iCal application that got changed, or the name of a specific calendar within the iCal application, so here are some instructions for both. 1. If you just need to change the name of the iCal application, or any application, highlight the

Re: keystrokes?

2011-07-29 Thread Bryan Jones
To add to Ian's note, I found on my macbook air that I needed to add the Fn key to the VO+F2 combo to get this work. HTH, Bryan On Jul 29, 2011, at 9:03 AM, Ian Robinson wrote: If you want to know how many messages are in the current mail box, press VO+F2 to read the window title. For

Re: mail

2011-07-30 Thread Bryan Jones
Hello William, Another thing I'd recommend is to be patient for the first day. I'm not sure when you performed your install of Lion, but I can tell you my Mail and several other areas of Lion were slow for the first day or so. Part of it was probably related to Spotlight reindexing the drive. I

Is it possible to Move and Merge Folders in Lion?

2011-08-03 Thread Bryan Jones
Hi Zack, John, Paul and All, I'm starting this as a new thread because I have a related question but didn't want to hijack Paul's original thread. Has anyone tried merging 2 folders using just the commands in Lion? One of the things I like most about MoveAddict is it's intelligent and flexible

Re: How do I turn off IOS-style auto correct in Lion

2011-08-04 Thread Bryan Jones
Hello James, In addition to the steps you've already taken, I think there are two other things to check. 1. Make sure you've quit and restarted any applications that take advantage of the global auto-correct feature. I've read in several places that the global change won't take effect until

Re: Option key acting as a toggle for restoring windows global setting

2011-08-07 Thread Bryan Jones
Hello James, I'm not sure if it's a feature or a bug, but I'm definitely not going to report this one to Apple. grin. It's just way too convenient to want to give it up. I personally don't want applications saving their current state unless I tell them to. :-) Cheers, Bryan On Aug 7, 2011,

Re: 8 GB Ram in a Mac Book? Was:Re: new macbook

2011-08-13 Thread Bryan Jones
Hello Eric, Everything I've read seems to indicate that your macbook model can address up to either 6GB or 8GB RAM. Whether you will actually notice any performance difference between running 4GB versus 6 or 8GB of RAM is an oft-debated topic, and YMMV. My personal suggestion is to run at

Re: 8 GB Ram in a Mac Book? Was:Re: new macbook

2011-08-13 Thread Bryan Jones
Hi Geoff and All, Sorry, I can't personally speak to the benefits or drawbacks of going above 4GB of RAM or installing 1333 instead of 1067 as I've not yet done that myself. However, my personal impressions after having upgraded several macs from 2 to 4GB is that the increase has produced

Re: Public Radio Player on iPod Touch

2011-08-16 Thread Bryan Jones
Hello Desi, Firstly, are you in the US and are you referring to the NPR News App version 3.1 as found at the following US App Store link? http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/npr-news/id324906251?mt=8 If yes, I'm not sure if the following is the same issue you're experiencing, but it sounds

Re: Memory Upgrade; Is It Worth While [Just My View]

2011-08-20 Thread Bryan Jones
Hi Eric, forgive me if I'm repeating this message, but I strongly believe your macbook6,1 can handle either 6 or 8 GB of RAM. IMHO Apple is no different from many other tech companies in being conservative with their RAM recommendations. It is often left up to third party vendors to push the

Re: Memory Upgrade; Is It Worth While [Just My View]

2011-08-20 Thread Bryan Jones
Hello Eric, You wrote: Someone on this list, with a mac book, must be daring enough to give it a go! I'll wait to see what happens! Well, since you put it that way. grin. I had one of the first white macbooks, which I think was in late 2006 or early 2007. Apple's documented limit for that

Re: Mysterious toolbar appearing in mail

2011-08-25 Thread Bryan Jones
Hi Lynne and All, I also can't seem to locate any toolbars aside from Lion's standard Toolbar and Favorites Bar, Can you supply some more details about where and when this new toolbar is showing up? I'm running 10.7.1 with mail in the new standard display mode. Cheers, Bryan On Aug 25, 2011,

Re: OS X Database Software, (Was database)

2011-08-25 Thread Bryan Jones
I'd like to add a plug for Bento, assuming your needs are for a simple, basic database. I've recently begun using Bento version 4 on my Mac and am liking it more all the time. I've found it to be very accessible with VO, although I can point out a few glitches as with almost any application. A

Re: Magnification compatibility on OS X

2011-09-05 Thread Bryan Jones
Hello James, My first thought is that perhaps your neighbor could provide us with a list of the current magnification utilities and features they are using or that they desire to use, and then those of us who have used Zoom could compare and contrast the features. Do you think that'd be

Adobe Flash Player 11 RC1 released but still appears to be inaccessible

2011-09-07 Thread Bryan Jones
Subject line says it all. I wasn't really expecting much, so am not too disappointed. Here's my post to the ongoing thread in response to Adobe's proclamation 18 months ago that they would be bringing accessibility to Flash on all platforms. I've pasted some links below if you're interested in

Re: VoiceOver not seing links

2011-09-23 Thread Bryan Jones
Hello James, I'm not sure if this is the same thing, but I experience a version of this issue every time I load a new page. What generally happens is that the first time I open the rotor, it reports zero or only a few links. I'll then press escape to close the rotor, wait a few seconds, and

Re: What's the point of 1Password?

2011-09-24 Thread Bryan Jones
I am a happy convert to 1Password on my Mac, iphone ipad. I do not, however, knowingly allow any applications to pass passwords to websites or other requesters, and 1Password is no exception. If I cannot recall an ID or password, I take the extra minute to launch 1Password, listen to the info

Re: Problems with Macbook case

2011-10-10 Thread Bryan Jones
Hello Mike, If you live near an Apple store, you might want to take the Macbook in and have it looked at. At some point in the last few years Apple had apparently made some exceptions in their warranty service to cover problems related to the plastic macbook cases. I know there was an issue

Re: ChromeVox and Google Chrome

2011-10-10 Thread Bryan Jones
Hello Jane Geoff, I'm also not seeing this problem, at least not yet. I'm running Chrome version 14.0.835.202 with the ChromeVox extension 1.15.1 installed directly from the Extension Gallery / Webstore on a macbook air running OS 10.7.1. Here's a direct link to the ChromeVox extension in the

Re: MobileGeo replacement?

2011-10-14 Thread Bryan Jones
Hello John, I'm sure you'll get lots of opinions here regarding the best IOS based replacements for Geo. Three other resources you might want to check out are: 1. You can search the mail archive for this list by using the link provided at the bottom of each email. 2. You can find reviews of

Here's my stab at listing the items on the iCloud.com login screen

2011-10-16 Thread Bryan Jones
For those who are interested in knowing what the unlabeled and labeled items are on the icloud.com login screen, here's a list from top to bottom as identified on my MBA running 10.7.2 with safari 5.1.1. YMMV depending on your language, country, browser version, os version, hair color, favorite

Re: Here's my stab at listing the items on the iCloud.com login screen

2011-10-16 Thread Bryan Jones
. Would you mind if I used the list of buttons in a blog post? Thanks. On Oct 16, 2011, at 8:10 AM, Bryan Jones wrote: For those who are interested in knowing what the unlabeled and labeled items are on the icloud.com login screen, here's a list from top to bottom as identified on my MBA

Re: knowing the length of an mp3 file

2011-10-17 Thread Bryan Jones
Hi Caitlyn, One way to do this would be to open the Info page for the item by pressing Command+I and navigating down to the More Info section where you should find an item called Duration which seems to give the length in hours:minutes:seconds. I tried this on several MP3 and M4A files and was

Apple's iCloud System Status web page.

2011-10-17 Thread Bryan Jones
Thought some folks might find this useful. It's a link to Apple's VO accessible System Status page for the iCloud system. I found this yesterday while trying to figure out why I was unable to retrieve mail for a period of time http://www.apple.com/support/icloud/systemstatus/ HTH, Bryan ---

Re: knowing the length of an mp3 file

2011-10-17 Thread Bryan Jones
Hi Caitlyn, I'm not sure about that one. Can you explain a little more about what you'd like to have happen? Bryan On Oct 17, 2011, at 3:27 PM, Caitlyn Furness wrote: Thanks, Brian. do you know if you can set this for file types globally? --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply

Re: knowing the length of an mp3 file

2011-10-17 Thread Bryan Jones
Hi Cait, I see what you mean now. That would be a nice feature to have in Finder. Unfortunately, as far as I can tell that column cannot be added in Finder. That doesn't necessarily mean there isn't a way to do it, it just means I don't know how. Perhaps somebody else on the list has an idea

Re: iCloud email varification issue.

2011-10-18 Thread Bryan Jones
Hi Jim, A couple of thoughts: 1. Do you or any of your family already have an apple ID associated with the email address where you're expecting to receive the verification email? I had a similar issue and found out it was caused by my having already associated this email with another apple ID.

Re: Personal Hotspot Creation

2011-10-18 Thread Bryan Jones
Hi Gordon, I infer from your message that you are using the USB cable to tether your mac to your iphone rather than using the Wi-fi or bluetooth tethering options. If this is the case and you're not seeing a service named iPHone USB in the services list of the network preferences pane in Lion,

Re: Deauthorizing Computers

2011-10-19 Thread Bryan Jones
Hi Jane, I've used the option to deauthorize all computers twice before and had no problems re-authorizing after that. As I recall, it all happened very quickly and smoothly. Note that I have two Apple IDs: One that I use for my mobileme / icloud login, and one that I use for making purchases

Re: Attachments in mail

2011-10-19 Thread Bryan Jones
Hello Margaret, There are a number of different ways to do what you've requested, but I'll give what I believe is the most basic method. 1. To attach a file to an email that you are in the process of composing, select Attach Files from the File menu. This will open a standard file browser

Re: Muted MBP speaker.

2011-10-19 Thread Bryan Jones
Hey Geoff, Have you tried resetting the PRAM? You can read more about this in the following apple KB article. If this resolves your issue you can thank Anne Archie Robertson as they are the ones who turned me on to this nice little troubleshooting trick. http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1379

Re: Muted MBP speaker.

2011-10-20 Thread Bryan Jones
inapplicable? Will I need sighted help to go into preferences - sounds, or is there a way short of reinstalling Lion that I can recover? Thanks in advance and best regards. Geoff - Original Message - From: Bryan Jones To: Mac OSX iOS Accessibility Sent: Wednesday, October

Here are two possible ways to delete multiple text messages [Was: Re: Two iPhone 4 questions]

2011-10-23 Thread Bryan Jones
As Sarah mentioned, there's no way to do this directly from the main screen of the messages app, but here are two options that might help a bit. I'm not sure if these were available prior to IOS 5, so YMMV. if you launch the Messages App, then double-tap on a message, it will open a new window

iPod Touch IOS 5 User Guide [Was: Re: Questions Unanswered From Yesterday!]

2011-10-24 Thread Bryan Jones
Hi, The following answers were all found by going to www.google.com and searching for the words apple.com ipod touch ios 5 user guide without the quotes. Note that these are all US ENglish results. Your results may vary depending on your country and language. 1. In the iBooks app on your iPod

Here's a link to download the Adobe Digital Editions Preview version 1.8

2011-10-30 Thread Bryan Jones
With regard to reading some flavors of ebooks using Adobe Digital Editions Preview as mentioned by Anne R and others, I just wanted to make sure we're all talking about the same version here. The current released version of Adobe Digital Editions is version 1.7; However, that version is not

Re: Dock Questions

2011-11-04 Thread Bryan Jones
Hi Jane -- I'm not sure about the Finder icon, but if you don't use mission control or launchpad, you can remove them from the dock by highlighting them, pressing VO+SHift+M to bring up the shortcut menu, and then selecting to remove from dock. HTH, Bryan On Nov 4, 2011, at 1:44 PM, Jane

Re: database for i phone

2011-11-12 Thread Bryan Jones
I use Bento for iPhone and iTouch. It costs US $4.99. It is fully VO accessible and can sync with Bento for Mac and Bento for iPad if you also use those products. You can select a field and sort ascending or descending. It can also be used to manage your contacts, tasks and calendar in a

A comparison of IOS 5.01 update file size when using the traditional iTunes update versus the new OTA update method

2011-11-13 Thread Bryan Jones
Hello All, Thought I'd post these findings for any other folks who might be working with limited bandwidth. The difference in download size is significant and the reasons are well-explained on the web if you're interested in such things. The download size was 790 MB when I updated my iPhone 4

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