Google Docs

2013-01-22 Thread Fred Smith
I'm interested in using Google Docs with Voiceover -- mainly because it might be a good way for several people to collaborate on editing a document. Can anyone tell me: How compatible with Voiceover is Google Docs? Thanks, Fred Smith --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this

Re: Reading title of window?

2013-01-22 Thread Catherine Turner
Thank you James, yes this helps, and I should remember to look in the VO commands menu next time... Thanks, Catherine On 1/21/13, JAMES AUSTIN james.aus...@mac-access.net wrote: Good morning Catherine, As you navigate with Command+Tab, VoiceOver will tel you which application you are moving

Re: reading

2013-01-22 Thread Jamie Coady
with the macbook how do you read from current place on? i know with windows it is insert down arrow. -Original Message- From: Catherine Turner Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 8:30 AM To: Mac OSX iOS Accessibility Subject: Re: Reading title of window? Thank you James, yes this

RE: reading

2013-01-22 Thread David Griffith
VO A to start reading from current place. VO B to read from beginning. You may have to interact with text for this to work properly in all circumstances. David Griffith -Original Message- From: mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net [mailto:mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net] On Behalf Of

Problems eptying trash

2013-01-22 Thread chris h (sky)
Good afternoon all. I am having a problem eptying the trash. This has been happening for a while now. Here is what I do. 1. I press command-shift-delete in the Finder. 2. I am asked if I want to securely erase the trash. This is my personal preference so I let it go ahead. 3. I then get a

Re: Using a second language on the Mac

2013-01-22 Thread H Erraji
Hi Anne, Thank you very much for your help. I'll follow your instructions and hopefully my access to French literature will be open again. Very best wishes for a happy new year 2013. Hatch. - Original Message - From: Anne Robertson To: Mac OSX iOS Accessibility Sent:

Windows Fusion questions

2013-01-22 Thread Catherine Turner
Hi, I want to do what I think some others on this list do and have the option of running Windows on my Mac so that for certain tasks I can switch to Windows and use my screen reader there. I just googled windows fusion and came up with a site talking about another product, Parallels Desktop. My

Re: reading

2013-01-22 Thread Jamie Coady
thanks for that. am just starting out on the mac and it is just finding ways to do what i did with windows. is there anyone that knows about mudder? -Original Message- From: David Griffith Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 10:53 AM To: 'Mac OSX iOS Accessibility' Subject: RE: reading

Re: reading

2013-01-22 Thread Sarah k Alawami
Oh cool. I've been using a mac for 3 years now and never saw that key stroke in the manual unless they changed it or I missed it. lol! Take care everyone. On Jan 22, 2013, at 2:53 AM, David Griffith d.griff...@btinternet.com wrote: VO A to start reading from current place. VO B to read from

Re: Windows Fusion questions

2013-01-22 Thread Red.Falcon
Hi there! Parallels is not accessible And most people use fusion! On 22 Jan 2013, at 13:05, Catherine Turner catherineturner2...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, I want to do what I think some others on this list do and have the option of running Windows on my Mac so that for certain tasks I can

Re: Windows Fusion questions

2013-01-22 Thread Jamie Coady
so paralel is not accessible at all? was going to get it. so what is fucune and anyone know how much it is? -Original Message- From: Red.Falcon Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 4:02 PM To: Mac OSX iOS Accessibility Subject: Re: Windows Fusion questions Hi there! Parallels is not

Re: Problems eptying trash

2013-01-22 Thread Phil Halton
that seems kind of drastic. All your settings and apps installed since the OS was last installed will be lost and need resetting and reinstalling, to say nothing of your data files if you don't first back them up. - Original Message - From: chris h (sky) challswor...@sky.com To: Mac

Memory allocation for VMware.

2013-01-22 Thread Sadam Ahmed
Greetings and salutations to all, For those of you using VMware on the Mac Approximately how much memory should be allocated to the virtual machine? Thank you, Kind regards, Sadam. Mobile: 0435892944 Skype: Sadamahmed1992 -- Sent from my iPhone. --- Mac Access At Mac Access

Locking files?

2013-01-22 Thread Josh Gregory
Hi there, the previous thread about the problem emptying the trash and the locking and unlocking of files thing got me curious, what is the purpose of locking and unlocking files, and how is it done? Thanks. Sent from my iPhone --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post,

Re: Locking files?

2013-01-22 Thread John Panarese
It's used to prevent any editing of a file or the like. Some apps, like Text Edit and Pages, will allow you to do that within the app. Otherwise, you can do so in the Finder using the Get Infor window. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email,

Re: Windows Fusion questions

2013-01-22 Thread cait furness
Fusion is a program which lets you run a copy of windows on your mac as a virtual machine. I think it costs around $50, well, $49.95 for the latest version. I also think they have a trial version which you can try out for 30 days for free. You can go to www.vmware.com and take a look, but be

Re: Memory allocation for VMware.

2013-01-22 Thread cait furness
I have 8 g total on my i mac and I gave 4 g of memory of it for my virtual machine. I could've given it less, but I figure, the more ram windows has, the happier it'll be! hth, Caitlyn On 2013-01-22, at 1:17 PM, Sadam Ahmed sadamahmed1...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings and salutations to all,

Re: Windows Fusion questions

2013-01-22 Thread Jamie Coady
can you use nvda with fusune? -Original Message- From: cait furness Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 7:06 PM To: Mac OSX iOS Accessibility Subject: Re: Windows Fusion questions Fusion is a program which lets you run a copy of windows on your mac as a virtual machine. I think it

Re: Windows Fusion questions

2013-01-22 Thread cait furness
fusion is easy to set up. Either purchase the dvd from a retailer or download the file from their site and install it onto your mac and follow the prompts. You can then install the other OS independently as a blind person, which is beyond all coolness imho! Everything is accessible on the

Re: Windows Fusion questions

2013-01-22 Thread cait furness
Yyes, you can use NVDA under fusion. You will need a copy of windows as well, remember. Caitlyn On 2013-01-22, at 2:25 PM, Jamie Coady darklordja...@ntlworld.com wrote: can you use nvda with fusune? -Original Message- From: cait furness Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 7:06 PM

Re: Windows Fusion questions

2013-01-22 Thread Orin
Yes, you can use NVDA. I do it all the time. Orin orin8...@gmail.com Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/orinks Skype: orin1112 On Jan 22, 2013, at 2:25 PM, Jamie Coady darklordja...@ntlworld.com wrote: can you use nvda with fusune? -Original Message- From: cait furness Sent:

Re: Windows Fusion questions

2013-01-22 Thread jamie coady
thanks for this. -Original Message- From: cait furness Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 7:20 PM To: Mac OSX iOS Accessibility Subject: Re: Windows Fusion questions fusion is easy to set up. Either purchase the dvd from a retailer or download the file from their site and install it

Re: Windows Fusion questions

2013-01-22 Thread jamie coady
someone menchent bootcamp or something like that what is that. sorry about all the questions. -Original Message- From: cait furness Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 7:20 PM To: Mac OSX iOS Accessibility Subject: Re: Windows Fusion questions fusion is easy to set up. Either purchase

Re: Windows Fusion questions

2013-01-22 Thread jamie coady
so we buy fusion and then we buy windows so i would say that is quite expensive. -Original Message- From: Orin Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 7:26 PM To: Mac OSX iOS Accessibility Subject: Re: Windows Fusion questions Yes, you can use NVDA. I do it all the time. Orin

Re: Locking files?

2013-01-22 Thread Josh Gregory
I see, and if it is possible within an app, it's in the menus? Sent from my iPhone On Jan 22, 2013, at 2:00 PM, John Panarese jpanar...@mac-access.net wrote: It's used to prevent any editing of a file or the like. Some apps, like Text Edit and Pages, will allow you to do that within the

Re: Windows Fusion questions

2013-01-22 Thread cait furness
Um, well, what did you expect? Really, it's pretty good, you get two different operating systems on one machine without having to switch machines. and you can load the other OS without sighted assistance. Try that with a straight windows machine. anyway, it's totally doable, money

Re: Windows Fusion questions

2013-01-22 Thread cait furness
boot camp is a way to divide your mac into partitions so you can run a copy of windows on your mac. again, u you will need a copy of windows to run on this other partition. If you run boot camp, you can't switch between mac and windows on the fly, or share files between OS's as you can with

Re: Windows Fusion questions

2013-01-22 Thread jamie coady
no i think it is pritty good i just can't do it now cause i am moving house but i will do it. i might see if it is possible to get my hands on an old coppy of windows which will reduce the price. -Original Message- From: cait furness Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 8:28 PM To: Mac

Re: Windows Fusion questions

2013-01-22 Thread cait furness
Hey, np, it's how we all learn! Cait On 2013-01-22, at 3:11 PM, jamie coady darklordja...@ntlworld.com wrote: thanks for this. -Original Message- From: cait furness Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 7:20 PM To: Mac OSX iOS Accessibility Subject: Re: Windows Fusion questions

Re: Locking files?

2013-01-22 Thread John Panarese
It depends on the App, but usually, yes. 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 LION AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE MAC

Re: Locking files?

2013-01-22 Thread Josh Gregory
I see, thank you very much. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 22, 2013, at 6:20 PM, John Panarese jpanar...@mac-access.net wrote: It depends on the App, but usually, yes. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website,

Re: google drive

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

Re: Google Docs

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

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

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

Re: numbers on the Mac

2013-01-22 Thread Josh Gregory
Hi, command plus? Should get you to the help menu in which should be numbers help. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 22, 2013, at 8:31 PM, Cathy flowersandhe...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, Does anyone know of a good resource to learn the numbers program with VO? Do any of you folks use

RE: numbers on the Mac

2013-01-22 Thread Cathy
Hi Josh and others, Well, I suppose shift-command-equals is a command to make the font larger! So that didn't work, but I did manage to get into the menus this time with the usual vo-M and found a link to two online manuals for the numbers program. So I am on my way at last. Sure have a lot of