Re: Assigning a Keystroke to Open Spoken Content Options?
Hi, Herbie, Sorry for the confusion. this doesn't have to do with Voiceover; it is the system text to speech I would like to adjust, such as the voice that announces the clock, etc. Thanks, Teresa > On Dec 2, 2022, at 1:32 PM, Herbie Allen wrote: > > If it’s just adjusting voices, you can do that with a VO Command Left and > Right Arrow to go through the options like Rate, voices, Etc, and VO command > up and down to make changes. You can also create activities that would assign > different voices to apps. > >> On Dec 2, 2022, at 14:45, 'Teresa Cochran' via MacVisionaries >> wrote: >> >> Hi, all. I use several apps that use the system voice for speech. Rather >> than wending my way through System Settings to Accessibility, Spoken >> Content, etc., I'd like to make a shortcut or use scripting or automation to >> jump into the Spoken Content settings to adjust voices. What's the best way >> to do this? I'm a little confused about where to start. >> >> Thanks, >> Teresa >> >> -- >> The following information is important for all members of the Mac >> Visionaries list. >> >> If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if >> you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or >> moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. >> >> Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: >> mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at >> caraqu...@caraquinn.com >> >> The archives for this list can be searched at: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> <mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/28642762-6f33-42f4-b94b-cd6713f2e005n%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/28642762-6f33-42f4-b94b-cd6713f2e005n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email_source=footer>. > > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: > mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the Google > Groups "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/macvisionaries/JOUwNAADXFg/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/833067E5-595D-4C6D-8774-1C8DA24A9C2E%40gmail.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/833067E5-595D-4C6D-8774-1C8DA24A9C2E%40gmail.com?utm_medium=email_source=footer>. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/9262DDB4-F883-4079-9BEA-352B0095C6A8%40gmail.com.
Assigning a Keystroke to Open Spoken Content Options?
Hi, all. I use several apps that use the system voice for speech. Rather than wending my way through System Settings to Accessibility, Spoken Content, etc., I'd like to make a shortcut or use scripting or automation to jump into the Spoken Content settings to adjust voices. What's the best way to do this? I'm a little confused about where to start. Thanks, Teresa -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/28642762-6f33-42f4-b94b-cd6713f2e005n%40googlegroups.com.
Utorrent and Yahoo Toolbar With the Latest Update?
Hi, guys, I have not had a computer for a few weeks now, but my husband has a Windows laptop. He found Yahoo Toolbar malware, which seems to have installed with the latest update of UTorrent. I have no idea if the installer had an option to skip this software. I just thought I'd let everyone know, in case you're using a virtual machine or Bootcamp.. I'm also ot sure if this applies to OS X. The toolbar gets installed on any browser you have automatically, and the only way to get rid of it in Windows is to use a malware removal tool and/or reset your cache. HtH, Teresa -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: I No Longer Have A Mac
Christopher, not to worry; your fears were totally unfounded. :) I very much prefer Mac to Windows. If it means I have to use iPods for financial reasons, so be it. I think I'll be able to get something else soon, though. Teresa Twinkle, twinkle, little bat How I wonder what you're at --Lewis Carroll On Jun 22, 2014, at 11:50 PM, Christopher Hallsworth christopher...@gmail.com wrote: Oh Phew! Thought you were going back to the other platform then! And no that's not iOS! Glad to hear you will either get another mac or an iPad. They are both great. Good luck in whatever you acquire. Christopher Hallsworth Student at the Hadley School for the Blind www.hadley.edu On 23/06/2014 05:01, Teresa Cochran wrote: Hi, all, I had the Apple Store put my late 2009 Mac in line for recycling today. It's logic board was dying. It'll be a few months before I replace it. Meanwhile, I've bought a cheap bluetooth keyboard to use with my iPod. I'm not sure if I'm going to go with another Mac or an iPad. I'm still thinking and considering. I just want to say thanks to you all for your help. I've had a lot of fun assisting and being assisted. This is really a great list. At some point I may go no mail. I can't quite bring myself to unsubscribe from this list. I may not be posting as often, however. I'd be entirely willing to help out where I can with iOS devices. Whatever happens, please know that I've reallY appreciated the knowledge and support I've gotten here. I'll be recommending this list whenever possible. Thanks and take care, Teresa Twinkle, twinkle, little bat How I wonder what you're at --Lewis Carroll -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: My clean install so far
I remember being able to work with WIFI networks from recovery mode. Now I'm just trying to remember how I did it. I know it's possible to use the window and application choosers once you get VO running. Sorry I can't be of more help, but I distinctly remember doing an Internet install. My network was hidden, so I had to enter the name and password. This was from within the install utilities. HtH, Teresa Twinkle, twinkle, little bat How I wonder what you're at --Lewis Carroll On Jun 22, 2014, at 11:57 PM, Christopher Hallsworth christopher...@gmail.com wrote: Think wifi is supported for internet recovery but I imagine the first screen to choose a wifi network would be completely inaccessible as nothing is loaded at the time. Christopher Hallsworth Student at the Hadley School for the Blind www.hadley.edu On 22/06/2014 16:20, Tim Kilburn wrote: Hi, If one does as you've mentioned and somehow wiped the entire drive including the Recovery Partition, then you would need to use cmd-shift-r in order to access the Internet startup and do your install from there. Things to note: * an entire wipe is more or less impossible unless you are first in a separate startup system or within the Recovery Partition as you can't format the drive of a running system. * I'm fairly sure that you need an ethernet connection to run the Internet startup system, although, I could be corrected on this one. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jun 22, 2014, at 7:32 AM, Daniel McGee danielmcgee...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello Chris, am glad to hear that by performing a clean install you are experiencing lots of improvements. Out of interest, before you did the clean install did you upgrade from any previous version or versions of OSX? As for myself, for the clean install folks this may sound crazy but I've been doing straight updates from Lion and as of yet, I haven't experienced any problems with any upgrade. If it aint broken, don't fix it. I guess that's my motto. lol However, I may consider performing one when the new OSX comes out in the Autumn. Partly, I'm keen to experience it myself without any sighted help and because well to get rid of some of the rubbish that my system may of accumulated since 2011 when I brought my MBP. Like Chris, I could do with a bit of a speed boost myself and so think I'll give it a shot come autumn! . Chris, and others I have a question about clean installs. Sure, I know why it is a good idea to create the installer on a flash drive but my question is this: If one was in a situation where they didn't have a flash drive for whatever reason and they erased/wiped and reformatted the hard drive that is on there system and restarted the Mac computer and held down command R to bring up the recovery partition, Would it be possible to install OSX from the recovery partition by obviously having an internet connection to download the OS and go from there to setup there new system. Basically, what I am trying to say is that without any backup media of an installer would it still be possible to clean install OSX with just the recovery partition and an internet connection without nothing else. As a side note: obviously you wouldn't do this but what would happen if a novist completely wiped there Mac OS restarted, heard the chine sound and waited. Would it just simply be well... broken? Hence, why a backup media of the installer would certainly be a life saver. Thanks for any answers in advance. Daniel On 22 Jun 2014, at 11:21, Christopher Hallsworth christopher...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everybody Well my clean install of Os X 10.9 Mavericks is going very well. My startup time has been dramatically improved thanks to the clean install from over a minute to about half that time maybe less. It certainly can help to do a clean install if you have issues like that. And when I say clean install I mean that. Restructure your disc and reinstall the operating system from scratch. As you have seen from my note the other day I used my USB flash drive with the Mavericks Installer created with Diskmakerx rather than the recovery partition. I like to have my installer on file in case my internet is out of action which would be required if installing from the recovery partition since the installer base image isn't actually stored on the partition. -- Christopher Hallsworth Student at the Hadley School for the Blind www.hadley.edu -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. --
Re: My clean install so far
Having a drive to install from saves a whole lot of time. It takes awhile sometimes to download the installer from the Internet. Teresa Twinkle, twinkle, little bat How I wonder what you're at --Lewis Carroll On Jun 22, 2014, at 6:32 AM, Daniel McGee danielmcgee...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello Chris, am glad to hear that by performing a clean install you are experiencing lots of improvements. Out of interest, before you did the clean install did you upgrade from any previous version or versions of OSX? As for myself, for the clean install folks this may sound crazy but I've been doing straight updates from Lion and as of yet, I haven't experienced any problems with any upgrade. If it aint broken, don't fix it. I guess that's my motto. lol However, I may consider performing one when the new OSX comes out in the Autumn. Partly, I'm keen to experience it myself without any sighted help and because well to get rid of some of the rubbish that my system may of accumulated since 2011 when I brought my MBP. Like Chris, I could do with a bit of a speed boost myself and so think I'll give it a shot come autumn! . Chris, and others I have a question about clean installs. Sure, I know why it is a good idea to create the installer on a flash drive but my question is this: If one was in a situation where they didn't have a flash drive for whatever reason and they erased/wiped and reformatted the hard drive that is on there system and restarted the Mac computer and held down command R to bring up the recovery partition, Would it be possible to install OSX from the recovery partition by obviously having an internet connection to download the OS and go from there to setup there new system. Basically, what I am trying to say is that without any backup media of an installer would it still be possible to clean install OSX with just the recovery partition and an internet connection without nothing else. As a side note: obviously you wouldn't do this but what would happen if a novist completely wiped there Mac OS restarted, heard the chine sound and waited. Would it just simply be well... broken? Hence, why a backup media of the installer would certainly be a life saver. Thanks for any answers in advance. Daniel On 22 Jun 2014, at 11:21, Christopher Hallsworth christopher...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everybody Well my clean install of Os X 10.9 Mavericks is going very well. My startup time has been dramatically improved thanks to the clean install from over a minute to about half that time maybe less. It certainly can help to do a clean install if you have issues like that. And when I say clean install I mean that. Restructure your disc and reinstall the operating system from scratch. As you have seen from my note the other day I used my USB flash drive with the Mavericks Installer created with Diskmakerx rather than the recovery partition. I like to have my installer on file in case my internet is out of action which would be required if installing from the recovery partition since the installer base image isn't actually stored on the partition. -- Christopher Hallsworth Student at the Hadley School for the Blind www.hadley.edu -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
I No Longer Have A Mac
Hi, all, I had the Apple Store put my late 2009 Mac in line for recycling today. It's logic board was dying. It'll be a few months before I replace it. Meanwhile, I've bought a cheap bluetooth keyboard to use with my iPod. I'm not sure if I'm going to go with another Mac or an iPad. I'm still thinking and considering. I just want to say thanks to you all for your help. I've had a lot of fun assisting and being assisted. This is really a great list. At some point I may go no mail. I can't quite bring myself to unsubscribe from this list. I may not be posting as often, however. I'd be entirely willing to help out where I can with iOS devices. Whatever happens, please know that I've reallY appreciated the knowledge and support I've gotten here. I'll be recommending this list whenever possible. Thanks and take care, Teresa Twinkle, twinkle, little bat How I wonder what you're at --Lewis Carroll -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: I No Longer Have A Mac
Hi, Pam, Thanks for the kind words. I really have no idea about the recycling program as such. It's possible they would pay if the computer still worked to some extent. I wouldn't even wish a fried logic board on my worst enemy. I don't think. LOL Anyway, I admit I was in a little bit of shock, and he offered to recycle it. This is good for me, as it eliminates a lot of hassle. Teresa Twinkle, twinkle, little bat How I wonder what you're at --Lewis Carroll On Jun 22, 2014, at 9:44 PM, Pamela Francis gypsykitt...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Teresa, Your posts have always been well thought out and much appreciated. Am very curious; how does the recycling program work? Did they pay you anything for your Mac given the fact it was being recycled? Personally, I'm going to hang onto this one as long as I can. The newer ones are not upgradable. Thanks again for all of your help and wisdom. Pam Francis On Jun 22, 2014, at 11:01 PM, Teresa Cochran batsfly...@me.com wrote: Hi, all, I had the Apple Store put my late 2009 Mac in line for recycling today. It's logic board was dying. It'll be a few months before I replace it. Meanwhile, I've bought a cheap bluetooth keyboard to use with my iPod. I'm not sure if I'm going to go with another Mac or an iPad. I'm still thinking and considering. I just want to say thanks to you all for your help. I've had a lot of fun assisting and being assisted. This is really a great list. At some point I may go no mail. I can't quite bring myself to unsubscribe from this list. I may not be posting as often, however. I'd be entirely willing to help out where I can with iOS devices. Whatever happens, please know that I've reallY appreciated the knowledge and support I've gotten here. I'll be recommending this list whenever possible. Thanks and take care, Teresa Twinkle, twinkle, little bat How I wonder what you're at --Lewis Carroll -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Text edit problem
Unfortunately, you won't be able to do this by default, but you can press command-n in the dialog to bring up a blank document. HtH, Teresa Twinkle, twinkle, little bat How I wonder what you're at --Lewis Carroll On Jun 20, 2014, at 10:52 PM, George Cham george.c...@outlook.com wrote: I'm having a problem with text edit on the Mac. When I open it, it seems to want to open the documents folder. How do I fix it, so that when I open it, it presemts me with the option of creating a new document. George Sent from my iPhone -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: more questions about braille displays
I much prefer Braille for reading over audio. And now, hearing loss has made Braille even more important for me. I wish displays didn't have so many moving parts, but since they do, and Braille is very important to me, the hassle is worth it. Using Braille with OS X and iOS is different from Windows, naturally. I guess it's simply a matter of personal preference. If you rely heavily on Braille, then the current technology is useable, if not ideal. You might find out from dealers and manufacturers what their repair and maintenance policies are. Freedom Scientific has a flat repair program, which allows you to have the most common repairs done for a flat fee. I don't remember what that fee is at this point, but I paid $250 US several years ago for a cleaning and battery replacement. Or you can get a display that has easily replaceable batteries. Think about the ways you would use a display. Do you want one with a book reader and storage card? Do you want portability? I'm sorry I can't help you with the specific model you're considering, as I don't have any experience with it. HtH, Teresa Twinkle, twinkle, little bat How I wonder what you're at --Lewis Carroll On Jun 21, 2014, at 4:00 AM, alia robinson ali...@gmail.com wrote: I like to research thoroughly before any purchase. I have asked about certain displays etc, and think I am decided on a braille edge. My question is general for those who have opinions pro or con. braille displays are expensive, and have a lot of moving parts. I worry about reliability. Is it worth it? I am also a fairly medium speed braille reader. I can do significantly more and go faster with voiceover. for those who use a lot of braille how do you feel about how productive it is? is it slower for you? I love braille, but my big question is do I want to go to something that is slower than voiceover. I guess I am looking for a pro/con list of getting a display from those who use one. thanks all. alia -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: more questions about braille displays
I read lots of books with my Braille display using Kindle, iBooks, and Bard. I only read audio books when I can't get them in Braille or I don't want to pay. (or can't pay). I'm such a Braille fanatic that I use my Focus 40 Blue with my iPod. I was never sure I wanted to scroll a whole bunch with a small Braille display. So carrying around a 40-cell one is no big deal for me, as it might be with others. Of course, I'm still used to carrying around my Braille Lite 40, which is much heavier than a Focus 40 Blue. If there's a way you can try reading books with a display, or working with it otherwise, you might get a better idea of what you want to do by doing so. Teresa Twinkle, twinkle, little bat How I wonder what you're at --Lewis Carroll On Jun 21, 2014, at 6:12 AM, alia robinson ali...@gmail.com wrote: I do too, although I am liking audio more lately with the bard app. I just don't know about having an expensive specialized piece of equipment. I am so torn, and I know voiceover isn't supporting braille as much as they do the audio part of voiceover. Alia On Jun 21, 2014, at 7:55 AM, Teresa Cochran batsfly...@me.com wrote: I much prefer Braille for reading over audio. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Alex on IOS 8
Yes, I would love that. My hearing impairment is such that I understand male voices much better than female ones. Currently, I use Daniel, but I'd much rather use Alex. Teresa Twinkle, twinkle, little bat How I wonder what you're at --Lewis Carroll On Jun 20, 2014, at 10:42 AM, Jessica Moss junglebookfa...@gmail.com wrote: Oh wow, that will be amazing, I always wondered when/if that would ever happen. On Jun 19, 2014, at 5:23 PM, Christopher Hallsworth christopher...@gmail.com wrote: We're all curious at this moment so let's be patient. Christopher Hallsworth Student at the Hadley School for the Blind www.hadley.edu On 19/06/2014 19:33, Jessica D wrote: I would be curious to know if he would work on my iPhone 5 and iPad fourth-generation. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 19, 2014, at 2:24 PM, Chris G jedik...@mysticaccesspodcast.com wrote: Hi, I'm pretty excited about having Alex speaking under ios 8. Will he work on the iPad 3rd generation as well as the latest iPad mini? Thanks Chris -- Chris G jedik...@mysticaccesspodcast.com Mystic Access Where the magic is in learning. 733 Delaware Rd 341 Buffalo, NY 14223 Email: jedik...@mysticaccesspodcast.com Phone: 888-678-1433 Ext 101 Fax: 888-766-7985 Direct: (716) 965-5717 web: www.mysticaccess.com twitter: JediKent -- Chris G jedik...@mysticaccesspodcast.com Mystic Access Where the magic is in learning. 733 Delaware Rd 341 Buffalo, NY 14223 Email: jedik...@mysticaccesspodcast.com Phone: 888-678-1433 Ext 101 Fax: 888-766-7985 Direct: (716) 965-5717 web: www.mysticaccess.com twitter: JediKent -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: My first clean install of Os X
Yes, I don't find myself biting my knuckles with Os X installs. It's quite nice. There is Braille support for USB only in recovery mode and with the installer. HtH, Teresa Twinkle, twinkle, little bat How I wonder what you're at --Lewis Carroll On Jun 20, 2014, at 12:15 PM, Christopher Hallsworth christopher...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all I was frustrated with the stuttering speech at startup on my late 2011 Macbook Pro 13 inch. I contemplated doing a clean install and finally got round to doing this today. I thought I would share my experience after years of reinstalling Windows countless times. Fortunately the stuttering has gone away for now. Note I was using a flash drive to boot into the Os X Installer which I made thanks to a free program called Diskmakerx formally Lion Disc Maker. Let me stress that the entire process can be done completely independent of sight thanks to VoiceOver or be it a temporary copy if you like shipping with Os X Installer. The Fred voice is used which will remind you of Dectalk. Sure VoiceOver does not start automatically, never does, but pressing command-f5 is all you need to do to get the installer to talk. I believe Braille support is even included so even a deafblind person can do this. I got a bit lost in translation when it came to rebuilding my disk which I personally wanted to do so could really start fresh. Turned out all I had to do was choose 1 from the partition layout pop-up button, click apply and it does the rest including formatting the entire partition in this case. So intuitive! Because I was so used to Windows ways of reinstalling I thought I had to remove all partitions first. No wonder I wasn't getting anywhere as Os X doesn't work like that. The installation process was very straightforward indeed. Although for some reason it got stuck right at the end of preparing to install. I was on the landline at the time when the mac suddenly rebooted into the installer loaded on the newly created partition. Os X Installer took care of the rest. Finally I set up my new install again completely independent of sight as by this time you are in the actual Os X installation. You do not need to do anything at this point as after about a minute a prerecorded voice lets you know about VoiceOver and how to get started. All Macs do this whether just bought or after a clean install. So just follow the verbal propts and set up your mac. Hope you find this valuable. Enjoy! -- Christopher Hallsworth Student at the Hadley School for the Blind www.hadley.edu -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Comparing VO Keystrokes in OS X and iOS?
Hi, Kawal, Many common file types will open in iOS. If it's sent either as a link or an attachment, such as pdf, etc., I will be able to open it. The publications I write for are pdf. Teresa Winging its way from my iPod On Jun 19, 2014, at 12:56 AM, Kawal Gucukoglu kawa...@me.com wrote: Morning Teresa. I have one question for you. How will you handel downloads if you just use an I Pad? What will you do if someone sent you a download? Kawal. On 19 Jun 2014, at 02:43 am, Teresa Cochran batsfly...@me.com wrote: Thanks, Alex. My thought is that the touch-screen feedback will for the most part make up for the lack of window information. Between the touch-screen, Braille display, and keyboard, it seems like I'd be comfortable with the amount of feedback I would get. Thanks, Teresa Winging its way from my iPod On Jun 18, 2014, at 6:36 PM, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com wrote: Many do, and the non-VO keystrokes for navigating and manipulating text are identical. Basic navigation (vo-left/right/space) and reading (vo-a/w/c) are the same, but the iOS platform lacks many advanced keystrokes. For instance, hotspots/webstpots, vi-key lock, focus/cursor/window information, etc. On Jun 18, 2014, at 6:39 PM, Teresa Cochran batsfly...@me.com wrote: Hi, all, If my poor old late 2009 Mac Mini doesn't have a fried logic board, I'll replace the hard drive so it can limp along for another year. If it's destined for the scrap heap, I'm going to get an iPad. I'll probably use a keyboard with it. I use a Braille display and the virtual keyboard with my iPod 5th gen and iOS currently. I'm wondering if a lot of the basic VO functions work the same with the same keystrokes, such as opening apps, text selection, etc.? Thanks, Teresa Winging its way from my iPod -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Have a great day, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Next Public Apple Event?
Hi, all, It seems I should remember this from past events, but what is the usual fall event at which new Apple products are announced? Thanks, Teresa Winging its way from my iPod -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Comparing VO Keystrokes in OS X and iOS?
I actually have a set of computer speakers with a subwoofer that sound and work great with my iPod. I haven't heard the iPad built-in speakers yet. They'll probably come in handy as a backup. Teresa Winging its way from my iPod On Jun 19, 2014, at 10:45 AM, Christopher Hallsworth christopher...@gmail.com wrote: Don't forget the sound quality which is superior on the iPad than any other iOS device. Recent iPads come with stereo speakers as well. Christopher Hallsworth Student at the Hadley School for the Blind www.hadley.edu On 19/06/2014 03:03, Alex Hall wrote: One consideration is that, aside from battery life and a few iPad-only apps, the iPad offers no significant advantages (that I can think of) over the iPod. At the least, they are identical in terms of VO keystrokes, so hook a keyboard to the iPod and see what you think. I believe you said you have an iPod - if not, ignore me. smile No, command-tab won't work, but go-h is your home button; press h twice while holding down the vo keys and you are in the App Switcher. It is kind of similar to the Application Chooser on the Mac. Certainly it is far less convenient, but the option is there. I like having a full computer for apps the iOS platform can't run (Xcode, some nice Youtube apps, etc) but those aren't a concern for you. However, someone mentioned external drives, and that's a great point. Also, iOS lacks commanders, so no assigning frequently used actions or even ApleScripts to gestures or keystrokes. Overall, because of the shortcut key support in apps Not necessarily in VO) I find the Mac or a Windows machine more efficient to use. That's just me though. Finally, the new Macbook Airs, and even the Pros from the brief times I've felt them, have very little in the way of vents or other holes. They use solid state drives, so have no moving internal parts except for some amazingly quiet fans you really can't access (the Airs seem to have no fans, but I could be wrong). Debris, then, is really not as much of a concern, and of course they make a myriad of cases for all these devices. On Jun 18, 2014, at 9:44 PM, Ryan Mann rmann0...@gmail.com wrote: A lot of the IOS key strokes are similar. For example, you can hit Left and Right Arrow together to turn Quick Nav on and Off. You can hit Left and Up Arrow together to switch between rotor settings then Up/Down Arrow to move to the next or previous rotor item. One thing you can't do on IOS is hit Command+Tab to switchbetween open applications. If you are in an edit box, you can hit Option+Shift+Arrow key to select text just like on Mac OS. Ryan Follow me on Twitter @progressivecat. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 18, 2014, at 6:39 PM, Teresa Cochran batsfly...@me.com wrote: Hi, all, If my poor old late 2009 Mac Mini doesn't have a fried logic board, I'll replace the hard drive so it can limp along for another year. If it's destined for the scrap heap, I'm going to get an iPad. I'll probably use a keyboard with it. I use a Braille display and the virtual keyboard with my iPod 5th gen and iOS currently. I'm wondering if a lot of the basic VO functions work the same with the same keystrokes, such as opening apps, text selection, etc.? Thanks, Teresa Winging its way from my iPod -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Have a great day, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email
Accessing iCloud Web Mail on iOS?
Hi, all, I'd like to create a global sign'ture for my iCloud devices. I know how to change it on each device, but is there a way to set one up in iCloud itself that I can access with my iPod? I don't have a computer at the moment. Thanks in advance, Teresa Winging its way from my iPod -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Accessing iCloud Web Mail on iOS?
Hi, Alex, That's odd. When I went to icloud.com on my Mac, I went to the mail section and saw a way to change the signature there. In the help for iCloud, it says there's a web mail link, but my iPod doesn't show a page when I click it. It may not have been implemented yet, I guess. Thanks, Teresa Winging its way from my iPod On Jun 19, 2014, at 11:27 AM, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com wrote: I don't think so. As far as I can tell, signatures don't sync at all, and are meant to be device-specific. This is annoying, but I have found no way around it yet. On Jun 19, 2014, at 2:25 PM, Teresa Cochran batsfly...@me.com wrote: Hi, all, I'd like to create a global sign'ture for my iCloud devices. I know how to change it on each device, but is there a way to set one up in iCloud itself that I can access with my iPod? I don't have a computer at the moment. Thanks in advance, Teresa Winging its way from my iPod -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Have a great day, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Accessing iCloud Web Mail on iOS?
Right, it would make sense that Apple is pushing for mobile app use. Ok, changing signatures on the device is easy, though. Thanks, Teresa Twinkle, twinkle, little bat How I wonder what you're at --Lewis Carroll On Jun 19, 2014, at 11:55 AM, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com wrote: You can change signatures on iCloud.com, but that is only going to affect mail sent from that website, not your other devices. Unfortunately, I don't think iOS devices can fully access iCloud.com; Apple wants them to use the mobile apps instead. This may have changed, but last I checked, that is how it worked. On Jun 19, 2014, at 2:31 PM, Teresa Cochran batsfly...@me.com wrote: Hi, Alex, That's odd. When I went to icloud.com on my Mac, I went to the mail section and saw a way to change the signature there. In the help for iCloud, it says there's a web mail link, but my iPod doesn't show a page when I click it. It may not have been implemented yet, I guess. Thanks, Teresa Winging its way from my iPod On Jun 19, 2014, at 11:27 AM, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com wrote: I don't think so. As far as I can tell, signatures don't sync at all, and are meant to be device-specific. This is annoying, but I have found no way around it yet. On Jun 19, 2014, at 2:25 PM, Teresa Cochran batsfly...@me.com wrote: Hi, all, I'd like to create a global sign'ture for my iCloud devices. I know how to change it on each device, but is there a way to set one up in iCloud itself that I can access with my iPod? I don't have a computer at the moment. Thanks in advance, Teresa Winging its way from my iPod -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Have a great day, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Have a great day, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Introduction From New List Member
Hi, David, Welcome to the list. I did a double-take, because I just realized you've posted to another list I'm on, and thought you were already a member of this one for a while. In any case, my confusion is cleared up. I switched to the Mac in 2010 and just jumped right in. I wasn't doing Assistive Tech work anymore, so I was able to do the full immerssion bit. I've used my husband's Windows computer a few times, but basically, it's been all Apple for me. If my computer decides it's toast and doesn't just simply need a hard-drive replacemen, I may be going to mobile devices for good. I'll think about it. Anyhow, welcome and look forward to hearing from you. Teresa Twinkle, twinkle, little bat How I wonder what you're at --Lewis Carroll On Jun 19, 2014, at 12:06 PM, 'David Goldfield' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote: Hello. I have just been approved as a new member on this list and wanted to write a quick intro message. I'm an assistive technology specialist and I've been in the field for over 20 years. I am a long-time user of windows and, a few years ago, my employer purchased an iMac for our classroom. I'll admit that, for a couple of years, I truly hated using the Mac, which I think was more due to my 20-year windows bias. After listening to a lot of tutorials and rummaging through a lot of Web sites, I've gotten to the point where I absolutely love using the Mac and would be quite pleased if I could get one for my next computer. I'm on this list to ask questions as they arise and I also just want to do a lot of reading and try and catch up on gaps in my knowledge which I need to fill. I'll tell you that even when I despised the Mac I clearly saw its benefits and I probably could have given a talk to 100 people and might have been able to convince most of them to at least consider switching from Windows to the Mac, even while I was going through my own love-hate relationship with it. I think that my recent purchase of an iPhone also helped me to warm up to Apple and I'm particularly excited at the integration we're going to see between iOS and Yosemite this fall. thanks for being there and I'm glad this list is available. -- David Goldfield, Founder and Peer Coordinator, Philadelphia Computer Users' Group for the Blind and Visually Impaired Feel free to visit my new Web site http://www.davidgoldfield.info/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Probably a Basic Question About Browsing folders in the Finder
Hi, David, The finder has three basic views: list view, column view, and icon browser. List view and column view are the most accessible. The list view has a table with fairly detailed information about each file. You can expand the folders from the table or use option-down-arrow to go into the focused folder and remain there while manipulating files. Column view is kind of like a tree view in Windows. Icon view is, I think, a grid that shows icons for your folders and files. So the table is for your list view, and the browser is either for column view or icon view. To get to these views on the fly, there are keyboard shortcuts: command-1 for icon view, command-2 for listview, and command-3 for column view. You can adjust a folders default view or the default view for all folders with command-J. I hope this helps. Teresa Twinkle, twinkle, little bat How I wonder what you're at --Lewis Carroll On Jun 19, 2014, at 12:59 PM, 'David Goldfield' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote: I won't waste any time as I have a question. I've gotten very comfortable at using the finder. In the past, when I enter my Mac HD drive I right arrow past the toolbar and I'm told there is a table. When I interact with the table, I can then get to my various files and folders. As of yesterday, everything still works but instead of being told that I'm in a table I'm told that I'm in the browser voiceover says browser, 1 item selected. If I interact with the browser, I am still able to access my folders. I'm just curious as to how things changed from a table to a browser and what the differences actually are between the two. -- David Goldfield, Founder and Peer Coordinator, Philadelphia Computer Users' Group for the Blind and Visually Impaired Feel free to visit my new Web site http://www.davidgoldfield.info/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Kudos to Apple Accessibility
Yes, I've felt comfortable enough with Apple Accessibility that I called and asked a curious question about editing Braille commands. The guy was interested enough that he had us do a screen-sharing session, because he didn't have access to a Braille display. We concluded that the only way to edit Braille commands was by using command-b first, but he offered to put in my suggestion for using the Braille display to edit commands as a feature request. I definitely wouldn't have felt comfortable initiating this with most other companies. This is the main reason I have Apple products. Teresa Winging its way from my iPod On Jun 18, 2014, at 5:46 AM, Jenine Stanley dragonwalke...@gmail.com wrote: For those who don't think anything ever happens with Apple Accessibility, here's a happy story. I recently decided to stop complaining about a couple issues and take them to Apple Accessibility. One issue in IOS is the speaking of the word selected before some but not all picker items. This is maddening in long lists of items like times. They responded immediately asking for an example of an app in which this occurs. It's easy to find in the calendar app. I reported such and got a very nice note back stating that the issue has been documented and passed to the appropriate department. Yeah, I know, that sounds like lip service but I don't think so. I think it actually got done. I also received detailed instructions for how to report the problem of VO losing focus on some IOS apps. I thought at first it was just the Amazon app but the more I explored the issue, it seems to happen to a lesser degree in other apps as well. I'll have more time this weekend to try the instructions and send a report. Have I ever heard from Dell when reporting things? Microsoft? rarely and then it is a cnned response. Yay Apple. Jenine Stanley dragonwalke...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Kudos to Apple Accessibility
Tyler, maybe some messages found their way to the spam folder? Just a thought. Teresa Winging its way from my iPod On Jun 18, 2014, at 9:22 AM, Jenine Stanley dragonwalke...@gmail.com wrote: Wow, yes, I did use the email address and had a response within 12 hours. Even when I just reported something I’ve always gotten a response, if not a personal one. These last two interactions were more specific and definitely personal. Jenine Stanley dragonwalke...@gmail.com On Jun 18, 2014, at 12:04 PM, Littlefield, Tyler ty...@tysdomain.com wrote: Hello: How did you get in touch with apple accessibility? Was it via theaccessibil...@apple.com email address? All of my bug reports there have gone unanswered. On 6/18/2014 11:59 AM, Teresa Cochran wrote: Yes, I've felt comfortable enough with Apple Accessibility that I called and asked a curious question about editing Braille commands. The guy was interested enough that he had us do a screen-sharing session, because he didn't have access to a Braille display. We concluded that the only way to edit Braille commands was by using command-b first, but he offered to put in my suggestion for using the Braille display to edit commands as a feature request. I definitely wouldn't have felt comfortable initiating this with most other companies. This is the main reason I have Apple products. Teresa Winging its way from my iPod On Jun 18, 2014, at 5:46 AM, Jenine Stanley dragonwalke...@gmail.com wrote: For those who don't think anything ever happens with Apple Accessibility, here's a happy story. I recently decided to stop complaining about a couple issues and take them to Apple Accessibility. One issue in IOS is the speaking of the word selected before some but not all picker items. This is maddening in long lists of items like times. They responded immediately asking for an example of an app in which this occurs. It's easy to find in the calendar app. I reported such and got a very nice note back stating that the issue has been documented and passed to the appropriate department. Yeah, I know, that sounds like lip service but I don't think so. I think it actually got done. I also received detailed instructions for how to report the problem of VO losing focus on some IOS apps. I thought at first it was just the Amazon app but the more I explored the issue, it seems to happen to a lesser degree in other apps as well. I'll have more time this weekend to try the instructions and send a report. Have I ever heard from Dell when reporting things? Microsoft? rarely and then it is a cnned response. Yay Apple. Jenine Stanley dragonwalke...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Take care, Ty http://tds-solutions.net He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he that dares not reason is a slave. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: command+o won't open folders on external drives anymore.
Which folder view are you using. With list view, you can go into the folder with command-down-arrow and back into the enclosing folder with command-up-arrow. HtH, Teresa Winging its way from my iPod On Jun 18, 2014, at 10:15 AM, Jessica Moss junglebookfa...@gmail.com wrote: I've just noticed recently that for some weird reason, command+o won't open the folders on my external drive as well as my flash drive anymore, and have to expand the folders I want to open if I want to see anything in them, which can get annoying at times. Has anyone else had this issue? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: over drive books
I don't know which converter to use, but most Overdrive books are wma Windows Media files, so you'll need one that will convert from that format. Also, there is some sort of DRM protection on them that makes them time-limited. HtH, Teresa Winging its way from my iPod On Jun 18, 2014, at 2:04 PM, May McDonald Homuth m...@canadianlynx.ca wrote: Hi there everyone. I have a program called Macsome Audiobook Converter that works great for audible books, but from what I can tell it doesn't work for over drive books. That is unless I'm overlooking something. Does anyone know of a program that can convert these books like Macsome Audiobook Converter can do for audible books? May, still waiting to hear from GDB *slow pokes* www.canadianlynx.ca m...@canadianlynx.ca -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: command+o won't open folders on external drives anymore.
I made a mistake when posting the command for opening folders. It's option-down-arrow and option-up-arrow. To open a single file, it's command-down-arrow. HtH, Teresa Winging its way from my iPod On Jun 18, 2014, at 12:51 PM, David Taylor e.david.tay...@icloud.com wrote: I've suddnely found that isn't working for me either. In list view, it always did, now I have to open a folder with right arrow. Cheers Dave On 18 Jun 2014, at 19:08, Teresa Cochran batsfly...@me.com wrote: Which folder view are you using. With list view, you can go into the folder with command-down-arrow and back into the enclosing folder with command-up-arrow. HtH, Teresa Winging its way from my iPod On Jun 18, 2014, at 10:15 AM, Jessica Moss junglebookfa...@gmail.com wrote: I've just noticed recently that for some weird reason, command+o won't open the folders on my external drive as well as my flash drive anymore, and have to expand the folders I want to open if I want to see anything in them, which can get annoying at times. Has anyone else had this issue? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: over drive books
As I recall, you can burn them onto a CD, but that makes it an audio CD, or should I say *many CDS, because audio CDS take up much more room than mp3 ones. HtH, Teresa Winging its way from my iPod On Jun 18, 2014, at 2:41 PM, May McDonald Homuth m...@canadianlynx.ca wrote: Oh, right I forgot about the darn time limit part. I'm assuming if you burn the books to a cd if I can get it in mp3 format or something that it kills that too? May, still waiting to hear from GDB *slow pokes* www.canadianlynx.ca m...@canadianlynx.ca On Jun 18, 2014, at 5:32 PM, Teresa Cochran batsfly...@me.com wrote: I don't know which converter to use, but most Overdrive books are wma Windows Media files, so you'll need one that will convert from that format. Also, there is some sort of DRM protection on them that makes them time-limited. HtH, Teresa Winging its way from my iPod On Jun 18, 2014, at 2:04 PM, May McDonald Homuth m...@canadianlynx.ca wrote: Hi there everyone. I have a program called Macsome Audiobook Converter that works great for audible books, but from what I can tell it doesn't work for over drive books. That is unless I'm overlooking something. Does anyone know of a program that can convert these books like Macsome Audiobook Converter can do for audible books? May, still waiting to hear from GDB *slow pokes* www.canadianlynx.ca m...@canadianlynx.ca -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Comparing VO Keystrokes in OS X and iOS?
Hi, all, If my poor old late 2009 Mac Mini doesn't have a fried logic board, I'll replace the hard drive so it can limp along for another year. If it's destined for the scrap heap, I'm going to get an iPad. I'll probably use a keyboard with it. I use a Braille display and the virtual keyboard with my iPod 5th gen and iOS currently. I'm wondering if a lot of the basic VO functions work the same with the same keystrokes, such as opening apps, text selection, etc.? Thanks, Teresa Winging its way from my iPod -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: over drive books
Yes, I know what you mean. Even Audible would be an imfrovement. It would be great if they could coordinate with the public library systems. Teresa Winging its way from my iPod On Jun 18, 2014, at 4:03 PM, May McDonald Homuth m...@canadianlynx.ca wrote: *grumbles* Darn overdrive books. They should be as easy to work with as audible, lol. Thanks, I'll definitely see what I can figure out. May, still waiting to hear from GDB *slow pokes* www.canadianlynx.ca m...@canadianlynx.ca On Jun 18, 2014, at 6:28 PM, Teresa Cochran batsfly...@me.com wrote: As I recall, you can burn them onto a CD, but that makes it an audio CD, or should I say *many CDS, because audio CDS take up much more room than mp3 ones. HtH, Teresa Winging its way from my iPod On Jun 18, 2014, at 2:41 PM, May McDonald Homuth m...@canadianlynx.ca wrote: Oh, right I forgot about the darn time limit part. I'm assuming if you burn the books to a cd if I can get it in mp3 format or something that it kills that too? May, still waiting to hear from GDB *slow pokes* www.canadianlynx.ca m...@canadianlynx.ca On Jun 18, 2014, at 5:32 PM, Teresa Cochran batsfly...@me.com wrote: I don't know which converter to use, but most Overdrive books are wma Windows Media files, so you'll need one that will convert from that format. Also, there is some sort of DRM protection on them that makes them time-limited. HtH, Teresa Winging its way from my iPod On Jun 18, 2014, at 2:04 PM, May McDonald Homuth m...@canadianlynx.ca wrote: Hi there everyone. I have a program called Macsome Audiobook Converter that works great for audible books, but from what I can tell it doesn't work for over drive books. That is unless I'm overlooking something. Does anyone know of a program that can convert these books like Macsome Audiobook Converter can do for audible books? May, still waiting to hear from GDB *slow pokes* www.canadianlynx.ca m...@canadianlynx.ca -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Comparing VO Keystrokes in OS X and iOS?
Thanks, Alex. My thought is that the touch-screen feedback will for the most part make up for the lack of window information. Between the touch-screen, Braille display, and keyboard, it seems like I'd be comfortable with the amount of feedback I would get. Thanks, Teresa Winging its way from my iPod On Jun 18, 2014, at 6:36 PM, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com wrote: Many do, and the non-VO keystrokes for navigating and manipulating text are identical. Basic navigation (vo-left/right/space) and reading (vo-a/w/c) are the same, but the iOS platform lacks many advanced keystrokes. For instance, hotspots/webstpots, vi-key lock, focus/cursor/window information, etc. On Jun 18, 2014, at 6:39 PM, Teresa Cochran batsfly...@me.com wrote: Hi, all, If my poor old late 2009 Mac Mini doesn't have a fried logic board, I'll replace the hard drive so it can limp along for another year. If it's destined for the scrap heap, I'm going to get an iPad. I'll probably use a keyboard with it. I use a Braille display and the virtual keyboard with my iPod 5th gen and iOS currently. I'm wondering if a lot of the basic VO functions work the same with the same keystrokes, such as opening apps, text selection, etc.? Thanks, Teresa Winging its way from my iPod -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Have a great day, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Comparing VO Keystrokes in OS X and iOS?
Hmmm, thanks, Alex, that's an excellent suggestion. Teresa Winging its way from my iPod On Jun 18, 2014, at 7:03 PM, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com wrote: One consideration is that, aside from battery life and a few iPad-only apps, the iPad offers no significant advantages (that I can think of) over the iPod. At the least, they are identical in terms of VO keystrokes, so hook a keyboard to the iPod and see what you think. I believe you said you have an iPod - if not, ignore me. smile No, command-tab won't work, but go-h is your home button; press h twice while holding down the vo keys and you are in the App Switcher. It is kind of similar to the Application Chooser on the Mac. Certainly it is far less convenient, but the option is there. I like having a full computer for apps the iOS platform can't run (Xcode, some nice Youtube apps, etc) but those aren't a concern for you. However, someone mentioned external drives, and that's a great point. Also, iOS lacks commanders, so no assigning frequently used actions or even ApleScripts to gestures or keystrokes. Overall, because of the shortcut key support in apps Not necessarily in VO) I find the Mac or a Windows machine more efficient to use. That's just me though. Finally, the new Macbook Airs, and even the Pros from the brief times I've felt them, have very little in the way of vents or other holes. They use solid state drives, so have no moving internal parts except for some amazingly quiet fans you really can't access (the Airs seem to have no fans, but I could be wrong). Debris, then, is really not as much of a concern, and of course they make a myriad of cases for all these devices. On Jun 18, 2014, at 9:44 PM, Ryan Mann rmann0...@gmail.com wrote: A lot of the IOS key strokes are similar. For example, you can hit Left and Right Arrow together to turn Quick Nav on and Off. You can hit Left and Up Arrow together to switch between rotor settings then Up/Down Arrow to move to the next or previous rotor item. One thing you can't do on IOS is hit Command+Tab to switch between open applications. If you are in an edit box, you can hit Option+Shift+Arrow key to select text just like on Mac OS. Ryan Follow me on Twitter @progressivecat. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 18, 2014, at 6:39 PM, Teresa Cochran batsfly...@me.com wrote: Hi, all, If my poor old late 2009 Mac Mini doesn't have a fried logic board, I'll replace the hard drive so it can limp along for another year. If it's destined for the scrap heap, I'm going to get an iPad. I'll probably use a keyboard with it. I use a Braille display and the virtual keyboard with my iPod 5th gen and iOS currently. I'm wondering if a lot of the basic VO functions work the same with the same keystrokes, such as opening apps, text selection, etc.? Thanks, Teresa Winging its way from my iPod -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Have a great day, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: iPod question
Oddly enough, I think that putting them on your wish list and then downloading them using your -puter would be the easiest way to go about this. HtH, Teresa Winging its way from my iPod On Jun 17, 2014, at 5:14 PM, Stacey Robinson stacey...@bellsouth.net wrote: Hi all, I have an iPod fourth generation that I really like. I have several books on it in the Bard Mobile app. I would like to take these books and move them to my white macbook then put them on my vr stream. How can I do this? Blessings, Stacey Robinson mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Focus 40 Blue and Maverix
I'll echo what Rich says. My Focus 40 Blue works great with Mavericks. Teresa Winging its way from my iPod On Jun 16, 2014, at 8:00 AM, Rich Ring richr...@gmail.com wrote: I can use my Focus 40 blue via bluetooth within Mavericks, without any problems. You can have an off day, but you can't have a day off! ---The Art of Fielding Sent from my Mac Book Pro richr...@gmail.com On Jun 16, 2014, at 9:54 AM, Les Kriegler kriegle...@gmail.com wrote: Our state wishes to purchase a Focus 40 Blue with a new Mac computer. I have paired the Focus with Mountain Lion. I am wondering if anyone has successfully paired and connected/used the Focus 40 Blue from within Maverix? Thanksfor the info. Les -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Messages and Mail / One Row Added -was- Re: VO won't shut up when downloading files if Downloads folder is open
I do something similar to hiding apps: I use full screen on each one. I don't have those Mail message verbosity problems. Of course, it's possible to create an activity for an app and change the verbosity within that activity. I have it ses to high for some applications and low for others. Teresa Winging its way from my iPod On Jun 16, 2014, at 8:11 AM, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk wrote: Hello Cara, I only hear the One row added when I'm actually in Mail. However, I always hide the apps I'm not currently using, so this could explain why I'm never bothered by this. Cheers, Anne On 16 Jun 2014, at 16:52, Cara Quinn caraqu...@caraquinn.com wrote: Hi Anne, Thanks so much for the suggestion, but I actually have completely disabled Notification Center and removed it from my status menus so it absolutely never comes up or bothers me with anything at all! :) I'm wondering though, in the method you are mentioning, when Notification Center is active and you have disabled announcements as you have, are the 'one row added' shenanigans in Mail and other apps mercifully prevented or do they still go on? Thank you so much Anne! Do have a lovely day / evening! Cara :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Audio Hijack Pro
Welcome, Anders. Once you get the Audio Hijack application, you can set each kind of recording up in it. You can record streams while playing others. You would have to take a look at all of your settings for recording, etc. within the app. By default, Audio Hijack will exclude Voiceover from being recorded. HtH, Teresa Winging its way from my iPod On Jun 16, 2014, at 11:09 AM, Anders Holmberg and...@pipkrokodil.se wrote: Hi! My name is Anders Holmberg and i am from Sweden. I am ttotaly blind and 39 years. I have had my mac Mini since 2011. This is my first and only Mac for now but hopfully i will get a macbook also. Even though i am not really used to the mac. I come from both windows and Linux so maybe thats why i have ndifficulties learning or getting the grip of the mac. Of course i can navigate the web and do mail and also navigating the folder structure but i really find some things very strange. But i find mac quite good for using with most apps i work with. However lets come to my question which is audio related. Lets say i am listening to a live stream on the internet. Now i want to record another archived stream with audio hijack pro. I suppose i can do that but how? Thanks in advance. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: dev preview
My guess is that it was a typo for OS X Yosemite, the upcoming operating system upgrade. Teresa Winging its way from my iPod On Jun 15, 2014, at 10:58 AM, Justin Mann w9...@me.com wrote: Hi there, When you refer to Psx Yosemite, are you talking about the operating system, or is this something else? On Jun 15, 2014, at 11:53 AM, Krysti .Power happypuppy...@gmail.com wrote: did anyone get the email about the public beta for the download of PS X Yosemite -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Differences Between Sort By and Arrange By in Finder View Options?
Hi, all, I've arranged my downloads folder so it shows the most recently added items at the top. In the view options, accessed with command-j, I have both arrange by date added and sort by date added specified. What is the difference between these two options, if any. I'm reluctant to change these to find out, but I could try. I don't imagine it would hurt anything; I just have to remember what I need to do to reverse the setting. Thanks, Teresa Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.--Groucho Marx -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Bluetooth Braille Displays
I'm lucky in that respect that my husband uses Windows. I borrow his computer when I need to update my Focus 40 Blue Classic. This is the only thing I truly rely on Windows to do. From what I can gather, the different displays have different firmware versions from Freedom Scientific. The version number for mine is 4.59, but this is different from the newer displays. Hth, teresa We're made of star stuff.--Carl Sagan On Jun 11, 2014, at 6:07 AM, Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com wrote: I have not had problems with my Mac waking from the Braille Edge. The Focus 14, if it turns itself off because it has been too long, it has to be turned back on, and then VoiceOver will connect again automatically. As for updating, the Braille Edge updates on the Mac fine. You just save out to a SD card and follow the instructions on the Braille Edge. As for me, when it comes time to update my Focus 14, I will have to get someone else to do it since I refuse to put Windows on my Mac just for that. I don't need Windows for anything else. Regards, Gigi On Jun 10, 2014, at 5:31 PM, Brent Harding br...@hostany.net wrote: They might've screwed it up a little in IOS 7. It did work good with IOS 6 though. I would've assumed that most of them used windows-based firmware updaters, but the Braille Edge might have a way to load it by putting a file on the SD card with it. The one issue I did have is that if the phone goes to sleep, the bluetooth can't wake it, but that may be the way Apple devices are in general. - Original Message - From: Eugenia Firth To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2014 4:47 PM Subject: Re: Bluetooth Braille Displays Hi there If I had it to do over again, I would wait a while before getting any of the focuses. First of all, you have to use Windows to update them. That may not be a problem for you, but it is a pain for me. Second of all, right now some of us are experiencing really big problems. Focus display with getting the focuses to pair with the Mac. I hear that is going to be changed when next update comes around, and I sure hope so. I do not have the same problems with my Braille edge 40. I had a problem one time, and that took about two weeks to resolve. Just my two cents on the matter. Sincerely, Gigi Sent from my iPhone On Jun 10, 2014, at 2:55 PM, Brent Harding br...@hostany.net wrote: The Focus 40 Blue is a pretty good display. It does both bluetooth and USB for if yo were going to use it with the computer as well. Also, they have recently added the ability to switch between the two so you could go from the phone to the PC and back easily. I think the big issue might be whether or not voiceover supports using braille in other languages more so than the display, as I would assume all languages still use the same 6 or 8 dots of braille. - Original Message - From: Daniel Smith To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2014 1:27 PM Subject: Bluetooth Braille Displays Hi everyone, I'm in the research phase of purchasing a bluetooth braille display, and I'm looking for advice from my fellow visionaries. I've never owned a braille display, so I'm not too sure which models and brands are most reliable, popular, etc. What would you recommend for one whose primary use will be reading Braille in other languages (I'm a biblical studies student at Yale) ). I'd like it to be bluetooth so I don't need to deal with the additional wires, and I don't mind it being a bit larger, since I'll be using it primarily at home. Any and all advice is welcome. Regards, Daniel -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email tomacvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email tomacvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email tomacvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit
Re: Google chrome, ChromeVox, and VoiceOver
Voiceover does work extremely well in Chrome without Chromevox. HtH, teresa “The golden age of science fiction is twelve.”—Pete graham On Jun 10, 2014, at 11:35 AM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote: That seems to be the big drawback with ChromeVox. Not that it isn't usable and such but that it only works inside the Chrome browser. So anytime you want to do anything anywhere else in your computer you have to go back to voiceover and switch mental models of keystrokes and navigation. Not sure it's worth the hassle just for a different experience inside the Chrome browser. CB On 6/10/14, 10:26 AM, Tim Emmons wrote: Hey Phil, I use it as well. I have found that if you turn voiceover off and use the Chromevox navigation keys it's much easier, much more responsive and less of a hassle to deal with the two components fighting each other. Just my thoughts. If you need help let me know. Thanks and take care. On Jun 10, 2014, at 9:18 AM, Phil Halton philh...@gmail.com wrote: I've just started using chrome with chrome box for a video intensive site where the webmaster recommends either chrome or firefox. How are people using Chrome/chrome box? I'm leaving VO on and just use the chrome box navigation keys to get around on the page, and VO for menus and such. Any suggestions for best uses of chrome with box/VO? How about chrome settings? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Has Anyone Tried This Kids' Game, Ballyland? Where to Find Executable File in Demo?
I was poking around, and found this game: ballyland.com . It's a game for kids with print disabilities, including visual impairment. there is a free demo, but the folder seems to have an app alias with no app. Anyone else get this to work? I'm stumped. Teresa We're made of star stuff.--Carl Sagan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Any final suggestions for my Mini's hard drive?
this might sound obvious, but the best way to ensure you start up from your external drive is to go into the utilities menu, (I've temporarily blanked on the name of the utilities app that runs in the recovery partition) the one just to the right of the apple menu and choose startup disc. You can choose the thumb drive from there. Teresa Slow down; you’ll get there faster. On Jun 7, 2014, at 7:57 AM, Tim Kilburn kilbu...@me.com wrote: Hi Alex, Are you sure that it’s actually starting up from the thumb drive? It sounds like your Mini is starting up from the Recovery Partition instead. They do look and feel just the same. I think that the second item when starting up from the Recovery Partition says “Re-install MacOS X” whereas the thumb drive should say “Install MacOS X”. Not sure but, I’ll keep trying if that’s not the case. Later… Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jun 6, 2014, at 6:36 PM, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com wrote: I was going off memory earlier, so misspoke a bit. I see “current, partition format, popup button, but it is dimmed. The table is not dimmed, and neither are the five tabs, but every other control in the Partitions Tab screen is unusable for some reason. Also, don’t worry about taking a while to get back to me; I avoid all website work for just the reason you described. smile I’m just glad for the help; as I said, the nearest Apple Store is hours away, and this machine isn’t covered anyway. On Jun 6, 2014, at 1:56 PM, Tim Kilburn kilbu...@me.com wrote: Hi, What I’m asking you to do is, in Disk Utility, select your drive. That is, the thing that reads 1 TB Hitachi blah blah or whatever make your HD is, not the already partitioned volumes. Then, go to the Partition tab and partition your HD with one partition, MacOS Extended (Journaled) with name Macintosh HD. As well, press the Options button in this window and ensure that your HD will have the GUID schema. Apply this change and you’ll have one volume on your drive with name “Macintosh HD”. When you run the Mavericks Installer from your thumb drive, the Recovery Partition will be automatically created. Hope this is clearer. Sorry for any confusion. Later… Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jun 6, 2014, at 11:44 AM, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com wrote: Sorry, I just want to clarify one point. All the “clean install Mavericks” articles I’ve found say to format your disk/partition. They seem to imply that you will magically have a Macintosh HD partition, even if it is the only partition on an otherwise blank drive, or that you simply don’t erase that partition at all. In your email, did you mean that the installer will automatically create a partition of the proper size and name if one does not already exist? I’d rather not go through this multiple times, so I want to do everything right on the first try if I can. Thanks for your patience. On Jun 6, 2014, at 12:25 PM, Tim Kilburn kilbu...@me.com wrote: Hi Alex, Yes, I’m saying that you should totally wipe the HD. That is, after starting up from the thumb drive, go to Disk Utility and re-partition your drive to one partition named Macintosh HD. Any subsequent partitions should be done later on the live drive. This will ensure that the Recovery Partition is created properly. Not sure where the other individual got there info but this is sound practice. If you used DiskMaker X to create your bootable Mavericks Installer, on the thumb drive or the built-in “Create Install Media” utility of the Mavericks Installer, then a proper Recovery Partition will be automatically created. If you used the Disk Utility method, then the Recovery Partition must have already existed in order to create a proper installation. The problem in your case is that you need to do a total re-format, so, using the existing Recovery Partition is not of any benefit. Refer to http://www.macworld.com/article/2056561/how-to-make-a-bootable-mavericks-install-drive.html for info on these limitations. In addition, if you didn’t perform a complete wipe during your last clean install, these errors may have carried over thus any disk structure issues would have persisted. Hope this makes sense. Later… Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jun 6, 2014, at 9:34 AM, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com wrote: Thanks. I’m in the beta partition now, copying a few files over to my external hard drive. The problem is here too: Finder just hung for about thirty seconds, while my Mac’s HD made the sound I’ve come to dread. Still, it’s working, thankfully; my main partition won’t even boot. As to wiping, I’m still not sure what to do. I mean, I know how to format the drive from the OS X on my thumb drive and then install, the question is, what do I do with my partitions? I have two, one Macintosh HD and one OS X Beta Partition. When I did a
Re: turning off the mac
You can also do a clean shut-down by quitting all applications and then going into the Apple menu and choosing shut down. You will get a dialog asking you to confirm. Just press enter, which will press the default button, which is shut down. HtH, Teresa We're made of star stuff.--Carl Sagan On Jun 5, 2014, at 11:39 PM, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk wrote: Hello Don, I put my Mac into sleep mode at night and very rarely shut it down. However, VO-Cmd-Eject is the best way to shut it down. It's all to easy to hold down the Power key for too long and shut the Mac down brutally without it having the chance to close down tidily. Cheers, Anne On 6 Jun 2014, at 07:22, don bishop w6...@donbishop.org wrote: Hi All, I assume most people turn their mac off at night rather than just putting it into sleep mode. Right? If you do turn it off, how do you do it? I turn mine off using vo command eject. I purchased the learning the mac discussed a few days back, and in there she says to press the power button for about 3 seconds to shut down. Is one method any better than the other? Thanks, Don -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Can't find splitter to drag to close Mail preview pane
Put Mail into classic view in Mail preferences, viewing, then check use classic layout.. Then find the message list and VO-right. You should find the splitter there. HtH, teresa Visualize whirled peas. On Jun 5, 2014, at 8:27 PM, Tim Kilburn kilbu...@me.com wrote: Hi, I believe that you need to put your Mail into Classic view first. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jun 5, 2014, at 5:35 PM, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com wrote: Hi all, On my MBA (which I'm using for everything until my Mini is back), I can't find the splitter I should be able to use to close the horribly annoying preview pane in Mail. Can someone remind me where it is, in case I'm thinking of the wrong one? Thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: turning off the mac
I don't shut mine down much either, because I use BOINC software for various projects when my computer is idle. I usually shut it down when there's a close thunderstorm, or I restart it if it's acting strangely. Teresa Slow down; you'll get there faster. On Jun 6, 2014, at 7:02 AM, Tim Kilburn kilbu...@me.com wrote: Hi, I seldom, if ever shutdown my Mac. My MBP is put to sleep at night simply due to the fact that I close the lid whereas my other Desktop Macs stay on, 24-7-365. In fact, the computer is set to stay awake and only the display goes to sleep. Just makes it easier for me to access other computers when they're awake. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jun 6, 2014, at 12:39 AM, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk wrote: Hello Don, I put my Mac into sleep mode at night and very rarely shut it down. However, VO-Cmd-Eject is the best way to shut it down. It's all to easy to hold down the Power key for too long and shut the Mac down brutally without it having the chance to close down tidily. Cheers, Anne On 6 Jun 2014, at 07:22, don bishop w6...@donbishop.org wrote: Hi All, I assume most people turn their mac off at night rather than just putting it into sleep mode. Right? If you do turn it off, how do you do it? I turn mine off using vo command eject. I purchased the learning the mac discussed a few days back, and in there she says to press the power button for about 3 seconds to shut down. Is one method any better than the other? Thanks, Don -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Autoplay, wasRe: Any final suggestions for my Mini's hard drive?
Steve, just press control-home to go to your home page. Teresa Slow down; you’ll get there faster. On Jun 6, 2014, at 10:34 AM, Steve Holmes steve.holme...@gmail.com wrote: I like the article detailing how to build a bootable image but the damn site started up autoplaying other videos. How the hell do I stop them? It’s still babbling away while I’m writing this mail. I can close the window of Safari byt then I can’t read the article. I hate auto play. I can’t find any controls to stop the playback. This just sucks! On Jun 6, 2014, at 9:25 AM, Tim Kilburn kilbu...@me.com wrote: Hi Alex, Yes, I’m saying that you should totally wipe the HD. That is, after starting up from the thumb drive, go to Disk Utility and re-partition your drive to one partition named Macintosh HD. Any subsequent partitions should be done later on the live drive. This will ensure that the Recovery Partition is created properly. Not sure where the other individual got there info but this is sound practice. If you used DiskMaker X to create your bootable Mavericks Installer, on the thumb drive or the built-in “Create Install Media” utility of the Mavericks Installer, then a proper Recovery Partition will be automatically created. If you used the Disk Utility method, then the Recovery Partition must have already existed in order to create a proper installation. The problem in your case is that you need to do a total re-format, so, using the existing Recovery Partition is not of any benefit. Refer to http://www.macworld.com/article/2056561/how-to-make-a-bootable-mavericks-install-drive.html for info on these limitations. In addition, if you didn’t perform a complete wipe during your last clean install, these errors may have carried over thus any disk structure issues would have persisted. Hope this makes sense. Later… Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jun 6, 2014, at 9:34 AM, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com wrote: Thanks. I’m in the beta partition now, copying a few files over to my external hard drive. The problem is here too: Finder just hung for about thirty seconds, while my Mac’s HD made the sound I’ve come to dread. Still, it’s working, thankfully; my main partition won’t even boot. As to wiping, I’m still not sure what to do. I mean, I know how to format the drive from the OS X on my thumb drive and then install, the question is, what do I do with my partitions? I have two, one Macintosh HD and one OS X Beta Partition. When I did a clean install back in March, I had only the Macintosh HD partition and so didn’t need to worry. I reformatted that partition, but didn’t actually erase it, as people I asked told me that completely erasing the Macintosh HD partition could turn out badly. Are you saying that I should format the entire drive, wiping out both partitions? If I do that, won’t it affect the installation of the OS, or will the installer partition as necessary? On Jun 6, 2014, at 12:43 AM, Tim Kilburn kilbu...@me.com wrote: Hi, For expediency purposes, I wouldn’t worry about re-mapping partitions etc., you’re just going to wipe the drive and re-partition anyway. Regarding grabbing those files, if you startup from your thumb drive, then go under it’s Apple menu to Startup Disk, you should be able to select the 10.9.3 beta partition as your startup disk. if things are OK in that area of the HD. Once you’ve started with that version of the OS, you could quickly get the files you want and place them onto whatever media you want. You could then go ahead and do the total wipe/re-partition and re-install from your 10.9.3 thumb drive. It’s best to do it from there since it needs to be done from a external source in order to completely reformat the drive. If you’re unable to startup from your beta partition, then the drive is in fairly rough shape and you’d either need to use Terminal commands to grab those files or just give up on them. HTH. Later… Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jun 5, 2014, at 9:51 PM, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com wrote: Thanks guys. I have a thumb drive with Mavericsk that I’ve used before, and that I keep around now that we have a couple Macs in the house. I’ll use that. Before I do though, is there any way to copy off any other files I’d like to keep, ones I could recover but that it’d be easier just to have if I can get them? I could probably boot into that beta partition and copy, but I don’t know if I’ll have the permissions to do that. I’ll also need a way to erase the beta partition, if that is indeed the problem. I only tested one OS, the 10.9.3 beta a month ago, but I suppose it could have caused the problem. Anyway, can I erase that from Disk Utility on the recovery HD, and if so, how would I do that and merge its space back to Macintosh HD? On Jun 5, 2014, at 11:11 PM, Tim Kilburn kilbu...@me.com wrote: Hi, I
Correction, Autoplay, wasRe: Any final suggestions for my Mini's hard drive?
I meant to say command-home to go to the home page. Teresa “Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”—Richard P. Feynman On Jun 6, 2014, at 10:34 AM, Steve Holmes steve.holme...@gmail.com wrote: I like the article detailing how to build a bootable image but the damn site started up autoplaying other videos. How the hell do I stop them? It’s still babbling away while I’m writing this mail. I can close the window of Safari byt then I can’t read the article. I hate auto play. I can’t find any controls to stop the playback. This just sucks! On Jun 6, 2014, at 9:25 AM, Tim Kilburn kilbu...@me.com wrote: Hi Alex, Yes, I’m saying that you should totally wipe the HD. That is, after starting up from the thumb drive, go to Disk Utility and re-partition your drive to one partition named Macintosh HD. Any subsequent partitions should be done later on the live drive. This will ensure that the Recovery Partition is created properly. Not sure where the other individual got there info but this is sound practice. If you used DiskMaker X to create your bootable Mavericks Installer, on the thumb drive or the built-in “Create Install Media” utility of the Mavericks Installer, then a proper Recovery Partition will be automatically created. If you used the Disk Utility method, then the Recovery Partition must have already existed in order to create a proper installation. The problem in your case is that you need to do a total re-format, so, using the existing Recovery Partition is not of any benefit. Refer to http://www.macworld.com/article/2056561/how-to-make-a-bootable-mavericks-install-drive.html for info on these limitations. In addition, if you didn’t perform a complete wipe during your last clean install, these errors may have carried over thus any disk structure issues would have persisted. Hope this makes sense. Later… Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jun 6, 2014, at 9:34 AM, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com wrote: Thanks. I’m in the beta partition now, copying a few files over to my external hard drive. The problem is here too: Finder just hung for about thirty seconds, while my Mac’s HD made the sound I’ve come to dread. Still, it’s working, thankfully; my main partition won’t even boot. As to wiping, I’m still not sure what to do. I mean, I know how to format the drive from the OS X on my thumb drive and then install, the question is, what do I do with my partitions? I have two, one Macintosh HD and one OS X Beta Partition. When I did a clean install back in March, I had only the Macintosh HD partition and so didn’t need to worry. I reformatted that partition, but didn’t actually erase it, as people I asked told me that completely erasing the Macintosh HD partition could turn out badly. Are you saying that I should format the entire drive, wiping out both partitions? If I do that, won’t it affect the installation of the OS, or will the installer partition as necessary? On Jun 6, 2014, at 12:43 AM, Tim Kilburn kilbu...@me.com wrote: Hi, For expediency purposes, I wouldn’t worry about re-mapping partitions etc., you’re just going to wipe the drive and re-partition anyway. Regarding grabbing those files, if you startup from your thumb drive, then go under it’s Apple menu to Startup Disk, you should be able to select the 10.9.3 beta partition as your startup disk. if things are OK in that area of the HD. Once you’ve started with that version of the OS, you could quickly get the files you want and place them onto whatever media you want. You could then go ahead and do the total wipe/re-partition and re-install from your 10.9.3 thumb drive. It’s best to do it from there since it needs to be done from a external source in order to completely reformat the drive. If you’re unable to startup from your beta partition, then the drive is in fairly rough shape and you’d either need to use Terminal commands to grab those files or just give up on them. HTH. Later… Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jun 5, 2014, at 9:51 PM, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com wrote: Thanks guys. I have a thumb drive with Mavericsk that I’ve used before, and that I keep around now that we have a couple Macs in the house. I’ll use that. Before I do though, is there any way to copy off any other files I’d like to keep, ones I could recover but that it’d be easier just to have if I can get them? I could probably boot into that beta partition and copy, but I don’t know if I’ll have the permissions to do that. I’ll also need a way to erase the beta partition, if that is indeed the problem. I only tested one OS, the 10.9.3 beta a month ago, but I suppose it could have caused the problem. Anyway, can I erase that from Disk Utility on the recovery HD, and if so, how would I do that and merge its space back to Macintosh HD? On Jun 5, 2014, at 11:11 PM, Tim
Re: Amazon Cloud Player
No, it isn't. Amazon mp3 downloader is accessible, and will let you play your music. You may have to select it as the default when you play. Here's the download page: http://www.amazon.com/gp/dmusic/help/amd-bm.html?ie=UTF8*Version*=1*entries*=0 On the other hand, there are different fingers. On Jun 4, 2014, at 11:28 AM, Robert C gone.to.da...@gmail.com wrote: Is this app vouceover friendly on the Mac? I have tried it on Windows when I buy music from Amazon and want to download to my compurter. Quote of the nanosecond . . . If you don't get what you really want, it's your own fault. Robert Annie Yanni ke7nwn E-mail- gone.to.da...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
I'm Confused About iTunes Movies and Audio Description
Ok, I'll try to be as clear about this as I can, but I'm a bit mixed up. Many DVDs nowadays have an optional audio description track, which is in the dVD menu. In the iTunes store, I notice two different kinds of movies. One says DVS: for blind viewers. The other would seem to be the equivalent of the standard release. If i play one of the second type, the audio is dimmed. Have the audio tracks been disabled because of copyright restrictions, or am I using the wrong setting in iTunes? Why would we need a special type of video file to get the audio description track? I've tried bringing up audio selections in iTunes from titles I know have been described by DVS. Thanks, Teresa Slow down; you'll get there faster. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: I'm Confused About iTunes Movies and Audio Description
I just put DVS in the search field. Teresa Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.--Groucho Marx On Jun 4, 2014, at 3:23 PM, Caitlyn and Maggie caitlyn.furn...@gmail.com wrote: How did you find the dvs selections within i tunes? Curiously, Cait On Jun 4, 2014, at 5:52 PM, Teresa Cochran batsfly...@me.com wrote: Ok, I'll try to be as clear about this as I can, but I'm a bit mixed up. Many DVDs nowadays have an optional audio description track, which is in the dVD menu. In the iTunes store, I notice two different kinds of movies. One says DVS: for blind viewers. The other would seem to be the equivalent of the standard release. If i play one of the second type, the audio is dimmed. Have the audio tracks been disabled because of copyright restrictions, or am I using the wrong setting in iTunes? Why would we need a special type of video file to get the audio description track? I've tried bringing up audio selections in iTunes from titles I know have been described by DVS. Thanks, Teresa Slow down; you'll get there faster. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: I'm Confused About iTunes Movies and Audio Description
Don't get your hopes up; there are only a few DVS movies that are specifically labeled that way. My confusion comes in with commercially-available movies that already have the audio track on the dVD. Are rentals different from purchases for DVDs? Are iTunes movies not equipped with the DVS tracks? Teresa We're made of star stuff.--Carl Sagan On Jun 4, 2014, at 4:11 PM, Jessica D jldai...@gmail.com wrote: That term did not yield any results. I typed it as it was typed. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 4, 2014, at 7:02 PM, Caitlyn and Maggie caitlyn.furn...@gmail.com wrote: thanks, will give that a go. Cait On Jun 4, 2014, at 6:34 PM, Teresa Cochran batsfly...@me.com wrote: I just put DVS in the search field. Teresa Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.--Groucho Marx On Jun 4, 2014, at 3:23 PM, Caitlyn and Maggie caitlyn.furn...@gmail.com wrote: How did you find the dvs selections within i tunes? Curiously, Cait On Jun 4, 2014, at 5:52 PM, Teresa Cochran batsfly...@me.com wrote: Ok, I'll try to be as clear about this as I can, but I'm a bit mixed up. Many DVDs nowadays have an optional audio description track, which is in the dVD menu. In the iTunes store, I notice two different kinds of movies. One says DVS: for blind viewers. The other would seem to be the equivalent of the standard release. If i play one of the second type, the audio is dimmed. Have the audio tracks been disabled because of copyright restrictions, or am I using the wrong setting in iTunes? Why would we need a special type of video file to get the audio description track? I've tried bringing up audio selections in iTunes from titles I know have been described by DVS. Thanks, Teresa Slow down; you'll get there faster. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: I'm Confused About iTunes Movies and Audio Description
Thanks, tim. I posted before I saw your message. Yes, sometimes my sighted husband and I watch movies together, and he may not always want that DVS track. Teresa On the other hand, there are different fingers. On Jun 4, 2014, at 4:15 PM, Tim Kilburn kilbu...@me.com wrote: Hi, I believe that at this point in the iTunes Movie evolution, audio description is not separated out. Therefore, you either purchase a DVS copy or a standard copy of the title. The problem here is that the movie will always play with the audio description, which for me is no big deal, but for the sighted people I watch movies with, it may just be. Not sure if it's a technology thing or something else. Someone more well-read than me may be able to chime in with the rationale. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jun 4, 2014, at 5:02 PM, Caitlyn and Maggie caitlyn.furn...@gmail.com wrote: thanks, will give that a go. Cait On Jun 4, 2014, at 6:34 PM, Teresa Cochran batsfly...@me.com wrote: I just put DVS in the search field. Teresa Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.--Groucho Marx On Jun 4, 2014, at 3:23 PM, Caitlyn and Maggie caitlyn.furn...@gmail.com wrote: How did you find the dvs selections within i tunes? Curiously, Cait On Jun 4, 2014, at 5:52 PM, Teresa Cochran batsfly...@me.com wrote: Ok, I'll try to be as clear about this as I can, but I'm a bit mixed up. Many DVDs nowadays have an optional audio description track, which is in the dVD menu. In the iTunes store, I notice two different kinds of movies. One says DVS: for blind viewers. The other would seem to be the equivalent of the standard release. If i play one of the second type, the audio is dimmed. Have the audio tracks been disabled because of copyright restrictions, or am I using the wrong setting in iTunes? Why would we need a special type of video file to get the audio description track? I've tried bringing up audio selections in iTunes from titles I know have been described by DVS. Thanks, Teresa Slow down; you'll get there faster. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Can one download the beta of the new MacOS and if so how?
Hi, Gifi, No, indicating the use of VO is not an option. I do totallY agree with your secodd point, though. I'm going to bring up any VO issues to the developers if (or as?) they present themselves. Teresa We're made of star stuff.--Carl Sagan On Jun 4, 2014, at 5:01 PM, Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com wrote: Hi there Do you get to indicate if you are a voiceover user if you signed up for the public testing? I ask because we could really use some of us doing it. Gigi Sent from my iPhone On Jun 4, 2014, at 7:13 AM, Christopher Hallsworth christopher...@gmail.com wrote: Nothing wrong. You need to wait for an invite from Apple. They're only going to let the first million customers test the beta of Yosemite. Us developers can of course test it now so we may not get an invite to the public beta which makes sense. Christopher Hallsworth Student at the Hadley School for the Blind www.hadley.edu On 04/06/2014 13:02, Krister Ekstrom wrote: Hi i just wondered if it's possible to download the new MacOsX beta 10.10 and if so how? I have registered for the free beta and haven't heard from Apple as of yet, so i guess that i'm just too eager and that i should wait, but if not, what have i done wrong. I got an email confirmation that the registration was successful and that they would email me about the new beta but haven't herd anything so just wonder if i could have done something wrong, because the beta is out now for developers, isn't it? /Krister -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Adding items to the dock
go to the item in the finder, then press command-control-shift-t. HtH, teresa On the other hand, there are different fingers. On Jun 4, 2014, at 8:10 PM, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com wrote: Command-shift-t, I believe. It changed in mavericks, but I am pretty sure that is the ML keystroke. On Jun 4, 2014, at 11:06 PM, Agent086b agent0...@bigpond.com wrote: Hello, could somebody remind me of the keystrokes to ad an app to the dock? I am using latest OSX 10.8. Thanks for any help. Max -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Have a great day, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Mac OS 10.10 Yosemite system requirements?
I suddenly discovered a pairing workaround one day. I set the sounds to 'on in VO. When the pairing dialog comes up, it flashes a window, which makes a sound. As soon as I hear that sound, I turn my display off, which keeps the window in focus for some odd reason. Then I find the edit field to put the pin in and press enter. (The pin, for Focus 40 Blue, anyway, is , by the way.) then I turn the display back on. If you don't turn the display off the first time the pairing window comes up, the window keeps flashing in and out of focus. Hth, teresa “Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.”—Groucho Marx On Jun 3, 2014, at 6:30 AM, Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com wrote: Hi there It ain't easy! I had to go in for a Genius Bar appointment. Basically, voiceover is missing telling you some stuff on the screen, plus it doesn't work every time anyway. When you think you've got the Braille display up on the screen, tell voiceover to do a search for the word focus. Then you have to press return when it's time to do the Perry. Like I said, it doesn't work every time. Just keep at it. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 3, 2014, at 8:02 AM, Kawal Gucukoglu kawa...@me.com wrote: Hello Eugenia. Please tell me how you got your Focus Blue working on the Mac Via Blue Tooth as I tried it sometime ago and it would not do it and so reported it to the accessibility team who were investigating it. Not tried it since. I have the Focus Blue 40 and plan to buy the Focus blue 14 next month to use with my I phone and sell my Apple Wireless Keyboard as I have two of them. Kawal. On 3 Jun 2014, at 01:47 pm,Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com wrote: Hi Alex Are you planning to do that public beta thing? Right now while in this message I am testing my Braille Edge under Usb because now I have the situation that my little Focus 14 sort of works in Bluetooth, doesn't work very well under USB, and now I can't have both my Braille Edge 40 and my Focus 14 on the Bluetooth list at the same time. What's weird is that is was, until I took the Braille Edge off, not on the VoiceOver table but on the System Preferences list. Now that I have the Focus 14 working well enough for me to use it under Bluetooth for what what I got it for, it looks like I am going to have to use the Braille Edge 40 with USB for a while, whether I want to or not. Luckily, it is the Braille Edge 40 is working very well writing this message using Bluetooth. So, if you do the beta thing, could you see if you can put two Braille displays on the Bluetooth list and be able to switch between them? If you can't, could somebody please test this? I may decide to do it myself, but I'blind need to check with Apple first because I still have that open case on my Focus 14. Regards, Gigi On Jun 2, 2014, at 11:08 PM, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com wrote: True enough. The thing is, most developers know and will probably still use Objective-C for quite a while to come. I haven't used the Swift language yet, but I don't see how it will help avoid accessibility problems. It may offer slightly faster coding, but that is about it. I'll let you all know if my opinion changes as I get more into Swift, which won't be until Xcode6 comes out. On Jun 2, 2014, at 11:56 PM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote: They have a new language which is called Swift. Seems to eliminate a lot of the cruft required to get ObjectiveC to do what they want and also eliminates a number of constructs that were authoring errors. So it sounds like they are trying to set developers up for success more easily which should be good for everybody. CB On 6/2/14, 10:37 PM, Eugenia Firth wrote: Hi guys I just got through listening to the keynote, and I didn't hear anything that calls me to say, all know jeepers! I think we're going to be okay basically, but, as always, we will probably have some Accessibility miseries for a while. If I understand what was said, they wrote a new programming language which, if I understand what was going on there, they'll be able to figure out problems easier. Do I get that right? Sincerely, Gigi Sent from my iPhone On Jun 2, 2014, at 6:10 PM, Ray Foret Jr rforet7...@comcast.net wrote: In short, I'm okay at least for the next round. Can you just imagine how that's going to work out with accessibility? Sent from my mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in! Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray, still a very happy Mac and Iphone 5 user! On Jun 2, 2014, at 3:57 PM, Jessica D jldai...@gmail.com wrote: This page I just found use the system requirements for the next Mac update. http://www.businessinsider.com/ios-8-os-x-1010-yosemite-system-requirements-2014-6 Sent from my iPhone On Jun 2, 2014, at 4:31 PM, Teresa Cochran
How Accessible Would Getting to A Second OS X testPartition Be?
I was reading on Ars Technica about creating a test partition to try Yosemite beta. My question is: how accessible would the boot process be? Would I have to count arrow-key presses or some such similar thing? thanks, Teresa Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.--Groucho Marx -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: How Accessible Would Getting to A Second OS X testPartition Be?
A follow-up thought I had was that if I want to switch partitions, could I go into the recovery partition and choose one as the startup? This at least would be accessible with VO. Teresa The golden age of science fiction is twelve.--Pete graham On Jun 3, 2014, at 9:19 AM, Teresa Cochran batsfly...@me.com wrote: I was reading on Ars Technica about creating a test partition to try Yosemite beta. My question is: how accessible would the boot process be? Would I have to count arrow-key presses or some such similar thing? thanks, Teresa Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.--Groucho Marx -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: How Accessible Would Getting to A Second OS X testPartition Be?
Thanks, Chris. Yes, I had that concern about the option-key method as well. The startup-disk option in Disk Utility sounds like a workable method. Thanks, teresa “Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”—Richard P. Feynman On Jun 3, 2014, at 9:48 AM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote: While I haven't tried it, you should be able to partition your drive to appear as two separate disks with disk utility. Depending on how full the current drive is you might be able to shrink the existing partition enough to make room for Yosemite. Then you would install Yosemite on that new drive. As far as switching startup drives, you should be able to do that by going to System Preferences and picking which drive to start from and then reboot. While you can also do this by holding down the option key while booting, I suspect that way is not accessible since there won't be an OS running yet to host voiceover. CB On 6/3/14, 12:40 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote: A follow-up thought I had was that if I want to switch partitions, could I go into the recovery partition and choose one as the startup? This at least would be accessible with VO. Teresa “The golden age of science fiction is twelve.”—Pete graham On Jun 3, 2014, at 9:19 AM, Teresa Cochran batsfly...@me.com wrote: I was reading on Ars Technica about creating a test partition to try Yosemite beta. My question is: how accessible would the boot process be? Would I have to count arrow-key presses or some such similar thing? thanks, Teresa “Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.”—Groucho Marx -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: What does Yosemite mean?
Hi, Kawal, Yosemite is a Native American word. It is the name of a national park in California in the United States. The next versions of oS X are named after famous places in California. The last one, Mavericks, was named after a well-known surfing location on the California coast. The phone calls will be routed through your phone, if you have one. I'm not sure if you can initiate one on your Mac and complete it on your device. I don't think you'll be able to make a phone call entirely on your Mac. admittedly, I don't have an iPhone, so I'm not as familiar with this option as others might be. HtH, Teresa Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.--Groucho Marx On Jun 3, 2014, at 1:40 PM, Kawal Gucukoglu kawa...@me.com wrote: One of my questions is in the subject line. The other question is, how will you be able to make phone calls on the Mac using Yosemite when you have no credit or sim card in your Mac? Will it be to any fixed phone line or to just mobiles do you think? Kawal. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: What does Yosemite mean?
I think it's as Alex says, which makes sense to me. The Mac functions as a giant bluetooth speaker phone or headset Teresa Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough.--Richard P. Feynman On Jun 3, 2014, at 1:53 PM, Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona hank.smith...@gmail.com wrote: any idea how you would manually dial a number to use thephone fature or does it have to be with the contact list? On 6/3/2014 1:46 PM, Alex Hall wrote: Yosemite is a location in California. Starting with Mavericks, Apple began naming new releases of OS X after places in California that enspire the Apple team. Calling is still done through your iPhone. Your Mac essentially becomes a really big bluetooth speakerphone, and can display incoming call information. It can also make calls through the same mechanism, pushing the phone number from itself over to your phone. So, calling strictly from the Mac is still up to Skype and FaceTime, but cellular calls are possible if you also own an iPhone. On Jun 3, 2014, at 4:40 PM, Kawal Gucukoglu kawa...@me.com wrote: One of my questions is in the subject line. The other question is, how will you be able to make phone calls on the Mac using Yosemite when you have no credit or sim card in your Mac? Will it be to any fixed phone line or to just mobiles do you think? Kawal. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Have a great day, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
WWDC Keynote at 10:00 AM Pacific, Live Stream Link
http://www.apple.com/apple-events/june-2014/ Teresa -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: WWDC Keynote at 10:00 AM Pacific, Live Stream Link
You can download the free WWDC app. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wwdc/id640199958?mt=8 There used to be an Apple Keynotes podcast. I'm not sure if that still exists. HtH, Teresa Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.--Groucho Marx On Jun 2, 2014, at 9:45 AM, Jessica D jldai...@gmail.com wrote: Can I use the Podcasts app to view it? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Getting VO to speak at log in, where did the option
It's in Users and Groups, users, groups and login options list. Interact with that and go all the way down to login options. Stop interacting and the use Voiceover checkbox is in that dialog. htH, teresa. Slow down; you'll get there faster. On Jun 2, 2014, at 8:15 AM, Matt Dierckens matt.dierck...@gmail.com wrote: Hey all, where did the option to tell voiceover to speak at log on go in system prefs? I can't find it. Thanks. Matt Dierckens Macintosh Trainer Blind Access Training www.blindaccesstraining.com 1-877-774-7670 ext. 4 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: keynote question
Looks like iphone 4s and up, iPad 2 and up, and iPod 5th gen for iOS8. For Yosemite, the page is overloaded, so I haven't found system requirements yet. The public beta page is swamped and there's an error message to that effect. HtH, Teresa We're made of star stuff.--Carl Sagan On Jun 2, 2014, at 12:08 PM, Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona hank.smith...@gmail.com wrote: what devices will run ios8 and osx that will be released? just fineshed watching keynote and he never said Hank -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: keynote question
I wasn't aware there was a public beta test for mavericks. the page is here: https://appleseed.apple.com/betaprogram/ You may only have to sign in with your Apple ID. Teresa On the other hand, there are different fingers. On Jun 2, 2014, at 12:59 PM, Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona hank.smith...@gmail.com wrote: what is the public beta page? I am signed up as a public beta tester a while back when they first opened it up for maverick On 6/2/2014 12:22 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote: Looks like iphone 4s and up, iPad 2 and up, and iPod 5th gen for iOS8. For Yosemite, the page is overloaded, so I haven't found system requirements yet. The public beta page is swamped and there's an error message to that effect. HtH, Teresa We're made of star stuff.--Carl Sagan On Jun 2, 2014, at 12:08 PM, Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona hank.smith...@gmail.com wrote: what devices will run ios8 and osx that will be released? just fineshed watching keynote and he never said Hank -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: WWDC keynote question
One more note: they haven't released any software yet. The first million applicants will be accepted. I am a little worried, because I still haven't seen any system requirements. Not sure if my old machine is up to it, but I'll find out. Teresa Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough.--Richard P. Feynman On Jun 2, 2014, at 12:59 PM, Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona hank.smith...@gmail.com wrote: what is the public beta page? I am signed up as a public beta tester a while back when they first opened it up for maverick On 6/2/2014 12:22 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote: Looks like iphone 4s and up, iPad 2 and up, and iPod 5th gen for iOS8. For Yosemite, the page is overloaded, so I haven't found system requirements yet. The public beta page is swamped and there's an error message to that effect. HtH, Teresa We're made of star stuff.--Carl Sagan On Jun 2, 2014, at 12:08 PM, Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona hank.smith...@gmail.com wrote: what devices will run ios8 and osx that will be released? just fineshed watching keynote and he never said Hank -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Mac OS 10.10 Yosemite system requirements?
Has anyone found these? I'm wondering if my decrepit 2009 Mac Mini is up to the task. Actually, it's pretty spry for its age. :) Teresa Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.--Groucho Marx -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Mac OS 10.10 Yosemite system requirements?
Looks like I'm in luck. Thanks. Jessia, what is your Mac model? Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.--Groucho Marx On Jun 2, 2014, at 1:58 PM, Jessica jldai...@gmail.com wrote: I wonder if my mac can handle it. It is not listed for some reason. Jessica jldai...@gmail.com On Jun 2, 2014, at 4:31 PM, Teresa Cochran batsfly...@me.com wrote: Has anyone found these? I'm wondering if my decrepit 2009 Mac Mini is up to the task. Actually, it's pretty spry for its age. :) Teresa Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.--Groucho Marx -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Mac OS 10.10 Yosemite system requirements?
You should be ok, as you have a later model. There are models listed from 2008. HtH, Teresa Teresa Cochran batsfly...@me.com Facebook On Jun 2, 2014, at 2:54 PM, Jessica D jldai...@gmail.com wrote: Late 2013 I think Sent from my iPhone On Jun 2, 2014, at 5:19 PM, Teresa Cochran batsfly...@me.com wrote: Looks like I'm in luck. Thanks. Jessia, what is your Mac model? Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.--Groucho Marx On Jun 2, 2014, at 1:58 PM, Jessica jldai...@gmail.com wrote: I wonder if my mac can handle it. It is not listed for some reason. Jessica jldai...@gmail.com On Jun 2, 2014, at 4:31 PM, Teresa Cochran batsfly...@me.com wrote: Has anyone found these? I'm wondering if my decrepit 2009 Mac Mini is up to the task. Actually, it's pretty spry for its age. :) Teresa Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.--Groucho Marx -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Mac OS 10.10 Yosemite system requirements?
Well, the way I figure it, when using an off-the-shelf product, you take your chances with accessibility. I signed up for the public beta. if it doesn't work out, I know from trial and error how to erase my drive and revert to an earlier OS. It should be a piece of cake compared to some of the bleeding-edge Linux distributions I've tried. HtH, Teresa Teresa Cochran batsfly...@me.com Facebook On Jun 2, 2014, at 4:10 PM, Ray Foret Jr rforet7...@comcast.net wrote: In short, I'm okay at least for the next round. Can you just imagine how that's going to work out with accessibility? Sent from my mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in! Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray, still a very happy Mac and Iphone 5 user! On Jun 2, 2014, at 3:57 PM, Jessica D jldai...@gmail.com wrote: This page I just found use the system requirements for the next Mac update. http://www.businessinsider.com/ios-8-os-x-1010-yosemite-system-requirements-2014-6 Sent from my iPhone On Jun 2, 2014, at 4:31 PM, Teresa Cochran batsfly...@me.com wrote: Has anyone found these? I'm wondering if my decrepit 2009 Mac Mini is up to the task. Actually, it's pretty spry for its age. :) Teresa Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.--Groucho Marx -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Google help please
hi, max, Go to this urL: http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries and make sure you're signed into your account. VO-space on My Settings. Press the down-arrow key to go through the menu and find 'my membership and email settings for this group and press return. If the address you want to switch to is verified with Google, it should show in the popup menu of choices for addresses to use. If it doesn't show up, you will have to add it in your account. Then press the save button. HtH, teresa Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.--Groucho Marx On Jun 2, 2014, at 7:21 PM, Agent086b agent0...@bigpond.com wrote: Hi all, I am hoping somebody has a good knowledge of Google Groups. I am subscribed to this list but I am not receiving messages to this address. My messages are going to my gMail account instead. Where in Google Groups can I change the address where my messages go to? Thanks for any help I am getting desperate! Max -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: LastPass and Safari - Major Problem!
Try Safari preferences, tabs and windows tab. The option is when a new tab or window is open, make it active. the vault opens in a new tab or window, depending on how you have your Safari set up. HtH, Teresa Slow down; you'll get there faster. On Jun 1, 2014, at 8:52 AM, Steve Holmes steve.holme...@gmail.com wrote: Hello folks, I've been using Safari in full screen mode lately and that has kept LastPass from grabbing focus all the time but now I'm running into another problem. I can't seem to open up the vault anymore. When I go into the LastPass screen, I hit Return or VO-Space on the link to access My vault and nothing opens. Or at least VO doesn't show me anything new. I thought I was able to access the vault this way. I'll tell you, Between the difficulty in using LastPass in Firefox with Orca and Linux and now these problems on the Mac, I think I will switch to 1Password. Only problem there is they don't have a linux version. Anyone have better ideas on using LastPass on the Mac now? Sure, it recalls passwords OK and it allows you to save passwords from the pop-up frame but you can't manage the vault apparently. In fact yesterday, I was trying to get into the frame to answer the prompt to save a new password and the LastPass main panel grabbed focus and I was never able to get back to that original prompt. For me, this is a mess! On May 7, 2014, at 9:14 AM, Christina C. blindmaclo...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, I stopped using last pass a long time ago because of the focus problem. So, I appreciate this helpful info but I don't understand this full screen mode. I have avoided full screen mode in Safari because it keeps saying something about spaces and I always end up loosing that page somewhere in spaces It also seems that when I go into spaces mode and then move over to my messages app my computer does all kinds of weird things. For example, I can be typing in the message text box and suddenly, I start hearing VO make announcements about spaces and my screen completely changes to something else. :( I have looked for a setting to turn spaces off but I never found one. Anyways, I don't understand this spaces thing, I don't understand what they are for or the benefit of them, nor do I understand why full screen mode in Safari always means I go into spaces. Thanks, Christina Sent from Christina's iMac :) On May 5, 2014, at 10:41 PM, Teresa Cochran batsfly...@me.com wrote: Are you saying the menus and toolbars are hidden visually? I haven't noticed them being hidden from VO in full-screen mode. you can just press VO-m to go into the menus as usual, and the toolbar is still available as well. Teresa Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough.--Richard P. Feynman On May 5, 2014, at 5:35 PM, Steve Holmes steve.holme...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, I tried full screen mode in Safari and I had much better luck. I only tried one site due to limited time but at least focus stayed there in the right place without jumping back to last pass. I'm not used to full screen mode here because it appears to hide things like menu / tool bars but I can toggle that mode on and off easily enough with the Command-Ctrl f key. Thanks again for the suggestion. On May 2, 2014, at 6:33 AM, Teresa Cochran batsfly...@me.com wrote: I use all my apps in full-screen mode, so this hasn't been an issue for me. I just make sure this is the case in safari, and LastPass works fine. I suspect it might be an incompatibility issue with VO and LastPass in Safari. Teresa On the other hand, there are different fingers. On May 2, 2014, at 3:48 AM, Steve Holmes steve.holme...@gmail.com wrote: I wasn't sure who the culprit was. When I started seeing this problem, Safari had just been upgraded and LastPass had been upgraded fairly recently too. I will have to try the maximize trick next time I need to use it. I'm surprised this doesn't affect people not using VO as it seems to grab keyboard focus. But I have other focus issues with Safari too so why I haven't tried contacting anyone at Last Pass yet. Thanks again. On May 1, 2014, at 5:37 PM, Agent086b agent0...@bigpond.com wrote: Hi, this has been a problem for a time now. You need to maximise the screen. you can use CTRL + Command and F. Might help if you write to last pass and tell them the problem. The more that write the better. Max On 2 May 2014, at 10:26 am, Steve Holmes steve.holme...@gmail.com wrote: I noticed with some recent changes to Safari and LastPass that now whenever the LastPass plug-in is active, I can't keep focus from jumping over into the LastPass HTML pane. I never had this problem before. It makes it impossible to spend any time on a given site such as filling forms without the cursor suddenly jumping over to the LastPass page. Is anyone else seeing this? I'm running latest prod version of Mavericks
Re: Setting pdf Files to Open in Preview?
That's the odd thing. Preview is indicated as the default application to open pdf files. Safari always openens them from a link, though. Thanks forthe tips, guys. I can definitely work around it. Thanks, Teresa Winging its way from my iPod On May 31, 2014, at 3:45 AM, Adrienne Chalmers aschalm...@icloud.com wrote: You should be able to get your Mac to open all files of a particular type from the information window. If you can't see that option, try checking some disclosure triangles. Once you have found the open with bit in the information window, it's a really long way down, you choose to open the particular pdf you have selected with a choice of applications from a pop up. It will ask you if you want to open all pdf files with that application. That should be it. Best Adrienne -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Audio description app for IOS
I'm going to check it out. If they have some titles with English subtitles, I'd like to see what those are all about. Teresa Winging its way from my iPod On May 30, 2014, at 9:35 PM, Lisette Wesseling lisettewessel...@gmail.com wrote: Yes Philomena is still the only one they have. I want to watch that particular film so will use it, but it's a shame there's nothing else. On 31/05/2014, at 3:01 pm, Christina C. blindmaclo...@gmail.com wrote: I could be wrong but, the last time I looked the only movie available wit the movie reading app is Filamena. I kept looking for a long time because I felt this was a very promising app. I hoped that I would be able to use this app to listen along side without disturbing sighted folks who were not watching the described version on the DVD. On May 30, 2014, at 7:48 PM, Shawn Krasniuk bbssh...@icloud.com wrote: From what I got from a post about this app through the Viphone list, yes it does both. Shawn Sent From My White MacBook On May 30, 2014, at 5:43 PM, Teresa Cochran batsfly...@me.com wrote: sorry about that; I was in error. It was misleading, because the description of the app mentions subtitles. I admit that I'm now confused. Does it do both subtitles and audio description? Teresa The golden age of science fiction is twelve.--Pete graham On May 30, 2014, at 3:33 PM, Teresa Cochran batsfly...@me.com wrote: I don't think this app is for audio description. I think it's for reading subtitles in various languages. That is interesting to me, but not descriptive audio. Teresa Slow down; you'll get there faster. On May 30, 2014, at 2:32 PM, Jessica jldai...@gmail.com wrote: It is called movie reading Sent from my iPhone On May 30, 2014, at 5:26 PM, Lisette Wesseling lisettewessel...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, Please can somebody tell me what the app is called for iThingies which has the descriptive tracks for movies which gets triggered by the sound track to speak at the right points in the film. I've looked on Applevis under audio description, and also on Google but can't seem to find it. Many thanks. Lisette -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email
Re: Audio description app for IOS
I was doing some poking around, and noticed a lot of audio-described movies when I put DVS inthe search field on the app store. I haven't checked out tv shows yet. Teresa Winging its way from my iPod On May 31, 2014, at 9:00 AM, Jessica Moss junglebookfa...@gmail.com wrote: I wish it had the option to have audio description for tv shows instead of theater only, considering the fact that people want to know what's happening on the shows they're watching as well, and it can be a pain in the kneck to set your TV up in order to have audio description, and not everybody wants to hear it. On May 31, 2014, at 2:25 AM, Jamie Tachiyama jathlet...@gmail.com wrote: I agree, it was a disappointment. Jamie T Blind Dragon Hobbies One stop shopping for all your gaming needs. http://www.blinddragonhobbies.com/ Twitter: @BDHobbies Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/blinddragonhobbies On May 30, 2014, at 9:35 PM, Lisette Wesseling lisettewessel...@gmail.com wrote: Yes Philomena is still the only one they have. I want to watch that particular film so will use it, but it's a shame there's nothing else. On 31/05/2014, at 3:01 pm, Christina C. blindmaclo...@gmail.com wrote: I could be wrong but, the last time I looked the only movie available wit the movie reading app is Filamena. I kept looking for a long time because I felt this was a very promising app. I hoped that I would be able to use this app to listen along side without disturbing sighted folks who were not watching the described version on the DVD. On May 30, 2014, at 7:48 PM, Shawn Krasniuk bbssh...@icloud.com wrote: From what I got from a post about this app through the Viphone list, yes it does both. Shawn Sent From My White MacBook On May 30, 2014, at 5:43 PM, Teresa Cochran batsfly...@me.com wrote: sorry about that; I was in error. It was misleading, because the description of the app mentions subtitles. I admit that I'm now confused. Does it do both subtitles and audio description? Teresa The golden age of science fiction is twelve.--Pete graham On May 30, 2014, at 3:33 PM, Teresa Cochran batsfly...@me.com wrote: I don't think this app is for audio description. I think it's for reading subtitles in various languages. That is interesting to me, but not descriptive audio. Teresa Slow down; you'll get there faster. On May 30, 2014, at 2:32 PM, Jessica jldai...@gmail.com wrote: It is called movie reading Sent from my iPhone On May 30, 2014, at 5:26 PM, Lisette Wesseling lisettewessel...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, Please can somebody tell me what the app is called for iThingies which has the descriptive tracks for movies which gets triggered by the sound track to speak at the right points in the film. I've looked on Applevis under audio description, and also on Google but can't seem to find it. Many thanks. Lisette -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit
Re: Setting pdf Files to Open in Preview?
Good thought. Thanks, Tim, I'll give that a try. Teresa Winging its way from my iPod On May 31, 2014, at 8:00 AM, Tim Kilburn kilbu...@me.com wrote: Hi, This should actually have nothing to do with Mavericks. When you install Adobe Reader, it likes to take over things. Normally, you need to remove the Adobe Plugin from your /Library/Internet Plugins folder in order to stop Adobe Reader from doing this. At least in previous versions of the MacOS, this was the case. Later… Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On May 30, 2014, at 10:37 PM, Venkatesh Potluri venky...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. Starting with mavericks, opening PDFs has not been accessible for me. All the PDFs open in the adobe plugin. For this to happen, I have to click some where in the centre of the screen and tell safari to trust the website. How do I get safari to open PDFs like before? I hope I made my concern clear. Thanks, Venkatesh Potluri On 5/31/14, Teresa Cochran batsfly...@me.com wrote: Ah well, it's really no biggy. :) I was just wondering if I was missing something, and, yes, hoping the teeniest little bit. :) thanks for the pointers. Teresa Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough.--Richard P. Feynman On May 30, 2014, at 1:11 PM, Kayaker sea...@me.com wrote: Hi, The pdf file type is supported inline with Safari. Just like you don't have every image JPEG open in a graphics program, so is it with PDFs. There used to be a setting in Snow Leopard that allowed Safari to open PDF files in Preview, but that got cut with Lion, as I recall. I also miss this feature. What I tend to do, is actually have Safari open the pdf, then I use the contextual menu on the pdf to open in preview. This eliminates the need for the download and open. It's a little faster than the way you describe, and you don't have to clean up your downloads folder. If you wish to actually save the pdf locally, you can do a save as from preview and put it where ever you want. I know it's not the answer you were hoping for. Best, --k Faith doesn't give you the answers, it merely stops you from asking the questions. On May 30, 2014, at 9:42 AM, Teresa Cochran batsfly...@me.com wrote: Hi, folk, I've been looking at ways to have pdfs open in Preview instead of Safari. I can press option-enter on the link to download the file, then open it from downloads. I've looked in the info window, but it says that pdfs open with preview. I next reviewed settings in Preview preferences, but couldn't find anything related to viewing in Safari. Is there a setting I'm missing, or will I need to use the option-enter method? Thanks, Teresa On the other hand, there are different fingers. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you
Re: Setting pdf Files to Open in Preview?
I don't have access to my computer right now, but there's an option in preferences that says open safe files after downloading. You might try that. Teresa Winging its way from my iPod On May 30, 2014, at 9:37 PM, Venkatesh Potluri venky...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. Starting with mavericks, opening PDFs has not been accessible for me. All the PDFs open in the adobe plugin. For this to happen, I have to click some where in the centre of the screen and tell safari to trust the website. How do I get safari to open PDFs like before? I hope I made my concern clear. Thanks, Venkatesh Potluri On 5/31/14, Teresa Cochran batsfly...@me.com wrote: Ah well, it's really no biggy. :) I was just wondering if I was missing something, and, yes, hoping the teeniest little bit. :) thanks for the pointers. Teresa Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough.--Richard P. Feynman On May 30, 2014, at 1:11 PM, Kayaker sea...@me.com wrote: Hi, The pdf file type is supported inline with Safari. Just like you don't have every image JPEG open in a graphics program, so is it with PDFs. There used to be a setting in Snow Leopard that allowed Safari to open PDF files in Preview, but that got cut with Lion, as I recall. I also miss this feature. What I tend to do, is actually have Safari open the pdf, then I use the contextual menu on the pdf to open in preview. This eliminates the need for the download and open. It's a little faster than the way you describe, and you don't have to clean up your downloads folder. If you wish to actually save the pdf locally, you can do a save as from preview and put it where ever you want. I know it's not the answer you were hoping for. Best, --k Faith doesn't give you the answers, it merely stops you from asking the questions. On May 30, 2014, at 9:42 AM, Teresa Cochran batsfly...@me.com wrote: Hi, folk, I've been looking at ways to have pdfs open in Preview instead of Safari. I can press option-enter on the link to download the file, then open it from downloads. I've looked in the info window, but it says that pdfs open with preview. I next reviewed settings in Preview preferences, but couldn't find anything related to viewing in Safari. Is there a setting I'm missing, or will I need to use the option-enter method? Thanks, Teresa On the other hand, there are different fingers. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: how to get vo to stop saying an anoying phrase?
I don't know of any way to do this. I think it's announcing the text contained in an HtML message, but not sure. Teresa The golden age of science fiction is twelve.--Pete graham On May 30, 2014, at 1:22 AM, Kawal Gucukoglu kawa...@me.com wrote: I want to know too please. Kawal. On 30 May 2014, at 09:18 am, Kliphton --- kliph...@outlook.com wrote: Okay, every since mavericks,, when in a group or thread of messages, voice over says inbeded I have been all l threw the verbosity, settings, and announcements of voice over butcan't seem to get this to stop. It only happens when I am in a conversation, and go to the next message, and before reading the message, it says inbededHow canI stop voice over from saying this? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Setting pdf Files to Open in Preview?
Hi, folk, I've been looking at ways to have pdfs open in Preview instead of Safari. I can press option-enter on the link to download the file, then open it from downloads. I've looked in the info window, but it says that pdfs open with preview. I next reviewed settings in Preview preferences, but couldn't find anything related to viewing in Safari. Is there a setting I'm missing, or will I need to use the option-enter method? Thanks, Teresa On the other hand, there are different fingers. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Braille display and NVDA
I believe you've got the wrong list. You posted it to the Mac Visionaries List. HtH, teresa Visualize whirled peas. On May 30, 2014, at 11:52 AM, Robert C gone.to.da...@gmail.com wrote: Soon I will use the braille display connected to Windows 7 using the NVDA screen reader. I would like to know if the list of commands given for braille displays is complete or if there are any listed commands that do not work or any that are missing from the list. I ask this so that once I get going, I won't run into any problems. Thanks. Quote of the nanosecond . . . War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left. Robert Annie Yanni ke7nwn E-mail- gone.to.da...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Setting pdf Files to Open in Preview?
Ah well, it's really no biggy. :) I was just wondering if I was missing something, and, yes, hoping the teeniest little bit. :) thanks for the pointers. Teresa Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough.--Richard P. Feynman On May 30, 2014, at 1:11 PM, Kayaker sea...@me.com wrote: Hi, The pdf file type is supported inline with Safari. Just like you don't have every image JPEG open in a graphics program, so is it with PDFs. There used to be a setting in Snow Leopard that allowed Safari to open PDF files in Preview, but that got cut with Lion, as I recall. I also miss this feature. What I tend to do, is actually have Safari open the pdf, then I use the contextual menu on the pdf to open in preview. This eliminates the need for the download and open. It's a little faster than the way you describe, and you don't have to clean up your downloads folder. If you wish to actually save the pdf locally, you can do a save as from preview and put it where ever you want. I know it's not the answer you were hoping for. Best, --k Faith doesn't give you the answers, it merely stops you from asking the questions. On May 30, 2014, at 9:42 AM, Teresa Cochran batsfly...@me.com wrote: Hi, folk, I've been looking at ways to have pdfs open in Preview instead of Safari. I can press option-enter on the link to download the file, then open it from downloads. I've looked in the info window, but it says that pdfs open with preview. I next reviewed settings in Preview preferences, but couldn't find anything related to viewing in Safari. Is there a setting I'm missing, or will I need to use the option-enter method? Thanks, Teresa On the other hand, there are different fingers. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: how to get vo to stop saying an annoying phrase?
You could create a VO activity just for Mail to stop the announcement. Wouldn't that work? Teresa Slow down; you'll get there faster. On May 30, 2014, at 2:42 PM, Tim Kilburn kilbu...@me.com wrote: Hi, This one is kind of frustrating either way. The setting you need to adjust is in the Verbosity pane in the Text tab. If you have VO set to speak the word for Links and attachments, then the Embedded is announced. So, modifying that setting to Do Nothing will stop the announcement of Embedded but you'll also not know if something is a link and such when on a web-page. Setting it to Tone will stop it from saying embedded as well, but you'll hear some clicking sounds instead. The best one I've found is setting it to Change Pitch, thus when links and such are spoken, the pitch will drop down a bit to that sexy deep voiced guy, or some manly sounding girl, when links and attachments are encountered. These appear to be your choices. Pick your preference. HTH. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On May 30, 2014, at 6:30 AM, Teresa Cochran batsfly...@me.com wrote: I don't know of any way to do this. I think it's announcing the text contained in an HtML message, but not sure. Teresa The golden age of science fiction is twelve.--Pete graham On May 30, 2014, at 1:22 AM, Kawal Gucukoglu kawa...@me.com wrote: I want to know too please. Kawal. On 30 May 2014, at 09:18 am, Kliphton --- kliph...@outlook.com wrote: Okay, every since mavericks,, when in a group or thread of messages, voice over says inbeded I have been all l threw the verbosity, settings, and announcements of voice over butcan't seem to get this to stop. It only happens when I am in a conversation, and go to the next message, and before reading the message, it says inbededHow canI stop voice over from saying this? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Audio description app for IOS
I don't think this app is for audio description. I think it's for reading subtitles in various languages. That is interesting to me, but not descriptive audio. Teresa Slow down; you'll get there faster. On May 30, 2014, at 2:32 PM, Jessica jldai...@gmail.com wrote: It is called movie reading Sent from my iPhone On May 30, 2014, at 5:26 PM, Lisette Wesseling lisettewessel...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, Please can somebody tell me what the app is called for iThingies which has the descriptive tracks for movies which gets triggered by the sound track to speak at the right points in the film. I've looked on Applevis under audio description, and also on Google but can't seem to find it. Many thanks. Lisette -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Audio description app for IOS
sorry about that; I was in error. It was misleading, because the description of the app mentions subtitles. I admit that I'm now confused. Does it do both subtitles and audio description? Teresa The golden age of science fiction is twelve.--Pete graham On May 30, 2014, at 3:33 PM, Teresa Cochran batsfly...@me.com wrote: I don't think this app is for audio description. I think it's for reading subtitles in various languages. That is interesting to me, but not descriptive audio. Teresa Slow down; you'll get there faster. On May 30, 2014, at 2:32 PM, Jessica jldai...@gmail.com wrote: It is called movie reading Sent from my iPhone On May 30, 2014, at 5:26 PM, Lisette Wesseling lisettewessel...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, Please can somebody tell me what the app is called for iThingies which has the descriptive tracks for movies which gets triggered by the sound track to speak at the right points in the film. I've looked on Applevis under audio description, and also on Google but can't seem to find it. Many thanks. Lisette -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Getting my iPod to Appear Reliably in the iTunes Sources List?
Hi, all, This is a curious question prompted by something that's been nagging for awhile. I have iTunes WiFi sync turned on for my iPod Touch 5. When it's plugged into my mac, it's reliably present in the iTunes sources list. When I need to unplug it, I press command-e to eject it. At this point it disappears from the sources list and reappears randomly. Is this a bug, or is there a way to ensure that it will always be in the sources list? Thanks, Teresa We're made of star stuff.--Carl Sagan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Mail Mate
It's pretty good, but not perfect. I found that the glitches in accessibility were not something I wanted to deal with, but that's just me. I hope others find it useful. Teresa Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.--Groucho Marx On May 29, 2014, at 2:01 AM, Chris G jedik...@mysticaccesspodcast.com wrote: Hi, This might be old news for some, but I just discovered a mail client called mail mate. You can download a 30 day trial from http://dl.mailmate-app.com/MailMate.tbz From my short time playing with it, it seems to be very accessible. Chris -- Mystic Access Where the magic is in learning. 733 Delaware Rd 341 Buffalo, NY 14223 Phone: 888-678-1433 Ext 101 Fax: 888-766-7985 Direct: (716) 965-5717 web: www.mysticaccess.com Podcast: www.mysticaccesspodcast.com Twitter: MysticAccess Twitter: JediKent -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: new to the list
Welcome to the list. I've found it quite helpful, and people on the list are generally very knowledgeable. I switched in 2010 and never looked back, except for the occasional use of my husband's Windows laptop, on which I installed nVDA. It sounds like you have a lot to contribute to the list. Looking forward to hearing from you on various topics. take care, Teresa We're made of star stuff.--Carl Sagan On May 29, 2014, at 8:47 AM, Carlos Taylor cetayl...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all. My name is Carlos Taylor and I'm new to the list. I thought I would join the list to pick up any tips and tricks of VoiceOver and the Mac. However, I'm not entirely new to the Mac. I'm composing this message using a 2008 iMac at work. In fact, I was in the AppleSeed program beta testing os 10.4 tiger, so I got to see VoiceOver in its infancy. It has really grown and matured since then. I even purchased a Mac Mini, but it was soon made obsolete when Apple switched to Intel processors. I'm planning to purchase a new Mac Mini later this year. Until then, I'll keep using Macs at work whenever possible. I'm also waiting to receive a 13-inch MacBook air to replace a 6-year-old Windows XP based laptop for work. I oversee technology for students and faculty with disabilities at a mid-sized public university. I work with faculty and students using both Macs and PCs, so I am trying to keep myself up-to-date in the Apple world. I have been a long-time user of Window-Eyes and more recently, NVDA. I've been an iPhone user since the summer of 2009, when Apple first included VoiceOver on the iOS platform. Going back even further, one of the first computers I used as a child was an apple 2e at school. At home, we first had a commodor 64 then later got an apple 2gs. So that's a little about me. I look forward to learning what I can from the list. Carlos Taylor -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Apple Hardware Test and Voiceover?
Hi, all, I've had a chronic optical-drive issue and was curious if AHT would help me out. Let's just say that the drive even spits out the cleaning disk, even after many restarts and NVrAM resets, etc. Is it accessible? Any pointers you can give would be greatly appreciated. thanks, Teresa Slow down; you'll get there faster. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Apple Hardware Test and Voiceover?
I suspected as much, but thought since the installer uses voiceover, there might be a chance. Thanks. teresa Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.--Groucho Marx On May 27, 2014, at 4:12 AM, Christopher Hallsworth christopher...@gmail.com wrote: I don't think so as it runs before Os X. Christopher Hallsworth Student at the Hadley School for the Blind www.hadley.edu On 27/05/2014 08:51, Teresa Cochran wrote: Hi, all, I've had a chronic optical-drive issue and was curious if AHT would help me out. Let's just say that the drive even spits out the cleaning disk, even after many restarts and NVrAM resets, etc. Is it accessible? Any pointers you can give would be greatly appreciated. thanks, Teresa Slow down; you'll get there faster. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Typing program for blind students
Hi, alex, Basically, a program like this would introduce various sets of letters as you go from lesson to lesson. Then it would verbally tell you what to type, along with a magnified command for those with low vision. It would buzz and not let you proceed until you got it right. It would include some games, such as typing dictation or typing letters faster and faster as they appeared. Hth, teresa Visualize whirled peas. On May 27, 2014, at 10:27 AM, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com wrote: Feel free to give them my email address. I don't have a lot of experience, but I know what I'm doing with Objective-C, Xcode, and Cocoa. If nothing else, I could offer advice or prototypes. On May 27, 2014, at 1:20 PM, Katie Zodrow kzodrow...@att.net wrote: Hi, Eileen. I know it would be great if Yes Accessible had a Mac version of Typeability now. David would like to work on it, but he doesn't know how to program for the Mac. I think the only thing they need is a developer. They're looking for someone that knows how to create apps with Voiceover. Katie On May 27, 2014, at 10:11 AM, Eileen Misrahi wrote: Thanks Katie for jogging my memory. I got the first part, but not the last. This app was recommended by another AT trainer here in CA. The app is being used throughout lower and higher education. I'm glad to hear that a Mac version will be released soon. The developer previously was employed with Dancing Dots. Just some FYI. Eileen Sent from my iPhone On May 27, 2014, at 9:04 AM, Katie Zodrow kzodrow...@att.net wrote: Hi, Jeremiah. There's a program for the PC that's very fun and interactive called Typeability. Kids and adults really love it! My mom and step father David Pinto have a company called Yes Accessible that sells the typing program. You can visit their website at www.yesaccessible.com to get more info about it. They will be creating a version of this for the Mac soon. Katie On May 27, 2014, at 8:18 AM, jbeas...@wcbvi.k12.wi.us wrote: Hello all, I am looking for a typing program to use with blind students on the Mac. I am wanting something like the Talking Typing Teacher or Talking Typer from APH. If anyone knows of a program like this or a good typing program that works well with VO please let me know. I really appreciate your help! Thanks, Jeremiah _ Jeremiah Beasley Assistive Technology Specialist Wisconsin Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired jbeasley at wcbvi dot k12 dot wi dot us Web: www.wcbvi.k12.wi.us iAccess Blog: www.iaccessblog.com Phone: 608.758.6157 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Have a great day, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To
Re: Typing program for blind students
Ah yes, be careful. LOL It might be fun, though. I taught lots of people to type with the help of Talking Typer, so these are very useful applications. I've even played the games on them myself from time to time. So I'd definitely get one for the Mac to practice with myself. The tag line in this email comes from something i blurted out to a student when he was going nowhere by typing too fast in Talking Typer. We both laughed a over it. :) Teresa Slow down; you'll get there faster. On May 27, 2014, at 10:58 AM, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com wrote: Katie, I have emailed them, thanks. Teresa, that does make sense. It seems reasonably simple to make, though seems is the operative word. On May 27, 2014, at 1:45 PM, Teresa Cochran batsfly...@me.com wrote: Hi, alex, Basically, a program like this would introduce various sets of letters as you go from lesson to lesson. Then it would verbally tell you what to type, along with a magnified command for those with low vision. It would buzz and not let you proceed until you got it right. It would include some games, such as typing dictation or typing letters faster and faster as they appeared. Hth, teresa Visualize whirled peas. On May 27, 2014, at 10:27 AM, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com wrote: Feel free to give them my email address. I don't have a lot of experience, but I know what I'm doing with Objective-C, Xcode, and Cocoa. If nothing else, I could offer advice or prototypes. On May 27, 2014, at 1:20 PM, Katie Zodrow kzodrow...@att.net wrote: Hi, Eileen. I know it would be great if Yes Accessible had a Mac version of Typeability now. David would like to work on it, but he doesn't know how to program for the Mac. I think the only thing they need is a developer. They're looking for someone that knows how to create apps with Voiceover. Katie On May 27, 2014, at 10:11 AM, Eileen Misrahi wrote: Thanks Katie for jogging my memory. I got the first part, but not the last. This app was recommended by another AT trainer here in CA. The app is being used throughout lower and higher education. I'm glad to hear that a Mac version will be released soon. The developer previously was employed with Dancing Dots. Just some FYI. Eileen Sent from my iPhone On May 27, 2014, at 9:04 AM, Katie Zodrow kzodrow...@att.net wrote: Hi, Jeremiah. There's a program for the PC that's very fun and interactive called Typeability. Kids and adults really love it! My mom and step father David Pinto have a company called Yes Accessible that sells the typing program. You can visit their website at www.yesaccessible.com to get more info about it. They will be creating a version of this for the Mac soon. Katie On May 27, 2014, at 8:18 AM, jbeas...@wcbvi.k12.wi.us wrote: Hello all, I am looking for a typing program to use with blind students on the Mac. I am wanting something like the Talking Typing Teacher or Talking Typer from APH. If anyone knows of a program like this or a good typing program that works well with VO please let me know. I really appreciate your help! Thanks, Jeremiah _ Jeremiah Beasley Assistive Technology Specialist Wisconsin Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired jbeasley at wcbvi dot k12 dot wi dot us Web: www.wcbvi.k12.wi.us iAccess Blog: www.iaccessblog.com Phone: 608.758.6157 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post
Serial communication in Terminal?
Hi, all, I know I'm a dinosaur, but I can't seem to part with my trusty old braille Lite 40. I have an application on the Mac called ZTerm that uses serial communication and allows me to transfer files to and from the Braille Lite with the help of a USB-to-serial adapter. I'm looking for a backup method, just in case this app is discontinued or anything else comes up. Is there a way to do this in Terminal? Are there other apps that are still being updated that would allow me to do this? just to clarify, I do have a stand-alone Braille display that is compatible with the Mac, but doesn't have a book reader or other notetaker features. i also am looking hard at the Perkins MiniBraille, but can't buy it for the foreseeable future. Thanks, Teresa Slow down; you'll get there faster. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Serial communication in Terminal?
Thanks, Chris. I'll definitely look into this. Teresa “We’re made of star stuff.”—Carl Sagan On May 27, 2014, at 2:19 PM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote: Apparently the screen command can do this: http://serverfault.com/questions/81544/hidden-features-of-screen/81548#81548 From terminal you can do man screen for more details. That is, if the ancient ZTerm ever stops working. Been a long time since I played with PPP to get USENet feeds via UUCP for my BBS. CB On 5/27/14, 4:33 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote: Hi, all, I know I'm a dinosaur, but I can't seem to part with my trusty old braille Lite 40. I have an application on the Mac called ZTerm that uses serial communication and allows me to transfer files to and from the Braille Lite with the help of a USB-to-serial adapter. I'm looking for a backup method, just in case this app is discontinued or anything else comes up. Is there a way to do this in Terminal? Are there other apps that are still being updated that would allow me to do this? just to clarify, I do have a stand-alone Braille display that is compatible with the Mac, but doesn't have a book reader or other notetaker features. i also am looking hard at the Perkins MiniBraille, but can't buy it for the foreseeable future. Thanks, Teresa Slow down; you’ll get there faster. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Serial communication in Terminal?
Check with Freedom scientific for accessories. Otherwise, they might be sold on EBay. You'll definitely need a uSB0to-serial adapter. I think the model I use is discontinued. It's the Keyspan USAH98, I believe. I bet those will disappear in time, too Teresa. Teresa Visualize whirled peas. On May 27, 2014, at 3:51 PM, Georgina Joyce g...@gena-j.me.uk wrote: Hello, I am about to do the same. In the good old days I used minicom. I see I can still use it. There are a few choices discussed here. http://pbxbook.com/other/mac-tty.html I need a lead. Typical BrailleLite's use non standard cables. Can I still get one? If so, from where? Thanks. Gena On 27 May 2014, at 21:33, Teresa Cochran batsfly...@me.com wrote: Hi, all, I know I'm a dinosaur, but I can't seem to part with my trusty old braille Lite 40. I have an application on the Mac called ZTerm that uses serial communication and allows me to transfer files to and from the Braille Lite with the help of a USB-to-serial adapter. I'm looking for a backup method, just in case this app is discontinued or anything else comes up. Is there a way to do this in Terminal? Are there other apps that are still being updated that would allow me to do this? just to clarify, I do have a stand-alone Braille display that is compatible with the Mac, but doesn't have a book reader or other notetaker features. i also am looking hard at the Perkins MiniBraille, but can't buy it for the foreseeable future. Thanks, Teresa Slow down; you'll get there faster. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. Gena Georgina Joyce Applied Psychologist Training and Coaching. Because individuals of groups matter! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Terminal commands, wasRe: Serial communication in Terminal?
Oh, I like those. :) I'm going to have to try those to put in my tag line. I only have the same eight being randomized, so I need more. Teresa “Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”—Richard P. Feynman On May 27, 2014, at 8:27 PM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote: Back in the day there was also the 'fortune' command which I noticed is still available from MacPorts as well. Outputs old time sayings like: A computer without COBOL and Fortran is like a piece of chocolate cake without ketchup and mustard. There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result. -- Churchill It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy. -- Groucho Marx CB On 5/27/14, 7:40 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: I use the commands from the lrzsz sackage from the command line, installed via macports. As for the cable, as the end that goes into the braillelite is the non-standard part of the serial cable, the last time I checked Freedom Scientific still had them but that was a while ago. For the usb cable, I have used keyspan and prolific but the last time I checked I could install the prolific driver on the Mac but not the keyspan. Of course it attaches to the serial cable and you end up with a /dev/usbserial device name. -- Cheryl I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper thrown in the trash! Then God gave me a new heart and life: His joy for my despairing tears! And now, every day: This I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. (Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV) On May 27, 2014, at 5:51 PM, Georgina Joyce g...@gena-j.me.uk wrote: Hello, I am about to do the same. In the good old days I used minicom. I see I can still use it. There are a few choices discussed here. http://pbxbook.com/other/mac-tty.html I need a lead. Typical BrailleLite's use non standard cables. Can I still get one? If so, from where? Thanks. Gena On 27 May 2014, at 21:33, Teresa Cochran batsfly...@me.com wrote: Hi, all, I know I'm a dinosaur, but I can't seem to part with my trusty old braille Lite 40. I have an application on the Mac called ZTerm that uses serial communication and allows me to transfer files to and from the Braille Lite with the help of a USB-to-serial adapter. I'm looking for a backup method, just in case this app is discontinued or anything else comes up. Is there a way to do this in Terminal? Are there other apps that are still being updated that would allow me to do this? just to clarify, I do have a stand-alone Braille display that is compatible with the Mac, but doesn't have a book reader or other notetaker features. i also am looking hard at the Perkins MiniBraille, but can't buy it for the foreseeable future. Thanks, Teresa Slow down; you'll get there faster. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. Gena Georgina Joyce Applied Psychologist Training and Coaching. Because individuals of groups matter! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you
Keyboard Layout Different in login Screen: How to Change?
Hi, folks, I have an Amazon Basics usB keyboard, which I use with my 2009 Mac Mini. Within my user account, I switched two keys, so that the command key is next to the spacebar and the option key is next to it. They are the other way around by default. In the login screen, the keys revert to their default behavior. I'm wondering if there's a way to change the keyboard settings for the login screen. thanks, Teresa On the other hand, there are different fingers. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Typing On The IPhone's On-Screen Keyboard
I feel completely comfortable typing on my iPod with the onscreen keyboard. I don't think it's a practical way to do a lot of typing, as in editing documents, at least not for me. it will always be significantly slower than a keyboard. For most everyday uses, such as entering passwords and typing messages, it works just fine for me. I use touch typing mode. When I do a lot of editing, I use my Braille display keyboard. If I didn't have a braille display, I'd get a Bluetooth keyboard. Teresa On the other hand, there are different fingers. On May 25, 2014, at 12:12 PM, Devin Prater d.pra...@me.com wrote: I've been typing on the onscreen keyboard for months. I use it over fleksy bc I can enter anything I want. I pt the iPod on a flat surface and type with my pointer finger. I am, however, still slow. On May 25, 2014, at 14:03, Desi Noller desi.nol...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Everyone, I was recently having a discussion with a friend about how to type on the on-screen keyboard of the iPhone. Personally, I don't particularly like to use a special program for this like, for instance, mBraill or Fleksy. I just want to use the regular keyboard. Dictation can be useful, but of course, sometimes, it's just nice to be able to type something relatively privately. I have built up some speed over the past 3 years, but I would like to get faster. I generally hold my phone in my left hand, and use my right index finger to type, anchoring my thumb down where the connector is at the bottom of the phone. I'm interested to know how others who type using the regular on-screen keyboard, enter your text. I do happen to use Touch Typing mode, but I would also be interested in what typing mode you use. And, does anyone else besides me just use the regular on-screen keyboard for their typing needs? Thanks! Desi -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Changing ownership of my MBP
You can go to System Preferences in the Apple menu, then choose users and groups. Find your brother's account in the 'users, groups and login options list. If you're an administrator, at this point, you can stop interacting with this list and press VO-end to navigate all the way down to the click the lock to make changes control. This is where you'll find out if you're an administrator, because you'll have to press this button, then enter your account password to make changes. Then the delete user button should be available. HtH, Teresa The golden age of science fiction is twelve.--Pete graham On May 23, 2014, at 6:59 AM, Jenine Stanley dragonwalke...@gmail.com wrote: I inherited my MBP from my brother-in-law. He had a number of programs on it already and though I made myself the administrator, or at least I think I did, his Apple account still shows up in the app store updates. How do I get his presence totally off this computer without having to reload Mavericks? Jenine Stanley dragonwalke...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Changing ownership of my MBP
Oops, that command is VO-shift-end, not VO-end. Teresa The golden age of science fiction is twelve.--Pete graham On May 23, 2014, at 8:11 AM, Teresa Cochran batsfly...@me.com wrote: You can go to System Preferences in the Apple menu, then choose users and groups. Find your brother's account in the 'users, groups and login options list. If you're an administrator, at this point, you can stop interacting with this list and press VO-end to navigate all the way down to the click the lock to make changes control. This is where you'll find out if you're an administrator, because you'll have to press this button, then enter your account password to make changes. Then the delete user button should be available. HtH, Teresa The golden age of science fiction is twelve.--Pete graham On May 23, 2014, at 6:59 AM, Jenine Stanley dragonwalke...@gmail.com wrote: I inherited my MBP from my brother-in-law. He had a number of programs on it already and though I made myself the administrator, or at least I think I did, his Apple account still shows up in the app store updates. How do I get his presence totally off this computer without having to reload Mavericks? Jenine Stanley dragonwalke...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: capchas on osx?
Yes, it was just a little tricky to set up, but once I got it set up, I've had no problems with it. I guess I'm lucky. :) teresa Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough.--Richard P. Feynman On May 23, 2014, at 3:31 PM, John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com wrote: One thing to remember is you have to log into the account every once in a while. I've noticed that it stops working until I log into my account again. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX 10.7 LION and 10.8 Mountain Lion AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT On May 23, 2014, at 5:39 PM, Cheryl Homiak cah4...@icloud.com wrote: I have used this captcha solution with rumola for over year and have had no problems. I also had no major problem setting it up and it has maintained the setup through upgrades but since I did it that longgo maybe it is more difficult now. I am not discounting the problems people have with it, but I have been quite pleased with it. -- Cheryl I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper thrown in the trash! Then God gave me a new heart and life: His joy for my despairing tears! And now, every day: This I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. (Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV) On May 23, 2014, at 4:14 PM, Annie Skov Nielsen annieskovniel...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Alex. I am happy that I am not alone with this problem. I can not get rumola set up correct, and now it has even stopped speaking. It would be nice if we could use web visum and firefox on the mac, but firefox is slow and difficult to work with. Best regards Annie. Den 23/05/2014 kl. 00.00 skrev Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com: You get ten free solves before they want you to pay, and I am not sure how they solve captchas. However, it is really difficult to set up, at least it was for me, and the only tutorial on their website is, in a word, terrible. I had it set up once, but lost it after I reformatted my computer. Honestly, at this point, I just grab a sighted person or do a screen-sharing/remote control session with someone to solve them. On May 22, 2014, at 3:51 PM, Ray Foret Jr rforet7...@comcast.net wrote: Doesn't that option cost? And, if they use humans to solve captchas, won't it suffer the same fate as Salona? Sent from my mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in! Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray, still a very happy Mac and Iphone 5 user! On May 22, 2014, at 2:49 PM, Christopher Hallsworth christopher...@gmail.com wrote: Try Rumola at www.skipinput.com Christopher Hallsworth Student at the Hadley School for the Blind www.hadley.edu On 22/05/2014 20:43, Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona wrote: Hello what is every one using to get around capchas on osx? I have about had it with trying to use firefox with webvism on windows and am wanting to know what every one is using on the macintosh platform? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Have a great day, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to
Re: Screenshots
Also, if you have keyboard commander enabled, and use scripts to control Voiceover, you can use right-option-x to take a screen-shot of the contents of the VO cursor. this also attaches the screenshot to a new mail message, which you can send to whichever recipient you wish. HtH, teresa On the other hand, there are different fingers. On May 23, 2014, at 6:38 PM, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com wrote: Google told me a way to only capture the active window. Note that I haven't confirmed with a sighted person that this works, but it should. 1. Open the window of which you want a screenshot. This will capture only that window, not *everything* on your screen. 2. Press cmd-shift-4, then the spacebar. No other keys are held down with space. 3. Move the mouse to the window you want. I just started with the window already opened, then used vo-cmd-f5 to route the mouse there after pressing space. 4. Click the mouse (vo-shift-space) and the screenshot will appear on your desktop, labeled as the date and time it was taken. On May 23, 2014, at 9:32 PM, Red.Falcon velocity.focu...@virginmedia.com wrote: Hi! If they are already checked under keyboard shortcuts in Keyboard in system pref's! Screen shot to desk top [Command+shift+3] Screen shot to clip board [Control+command+shift+3] HTH Colin Chegh chew jaj Vam jaj Kak On 24 May 2014, at 02:23, Pamela Francis gypsykitt...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, Can someone please give me the keystrokes on my Mac to take a screenshot of a webpage in order to insert it into an email? Would appreciate any help. I'm going round and round with the company that I believe has committed fraudulent advertising. I want to show them a screenshot of their website within the body of my email. Pam Francis -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Have a great day, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
