Vowels with Umlauts

2013-12-14 Thread Dónal Fitzpatrick
Hi folks, I wonder could someone remind me how to type a vowel with umlaut on a Mac british keyboard? cheers, Dónal Dr. Dónal Fitzpatrick, School of Computing, Dublin City University, Glasnevin, Dublin 9, Ireland Tel. +353-(0)1-700-8929 fax: +353-(0)1-700-5442 email: dfitzpat (at)

RE: Vowels with Umlauts

2013-12-14 Thread Roger Firman
Dónal, I think it is something like: Option-key u, followed by the vowel you require. Roger. --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at

Re: Vowels with Umlauts

2013-12-14 Thread Dónal Fitzpatrick
Hi Roger, That’s exactly what I thought, and thanks for confirming. However when I do option-u, I get the ú character. Thank you, Dónal On 14 Dec 2013, at 11:45, Roger Firman roger.fir...@btinternet.com wrote: Dónal, I think it is something like: Option-key u, followed by the vowel you

Re: Vowels with Umlauts

2013-12-14 Thread Esther
Hi Dónal, Roger is correct, for an English language input keyboard you should be able to type Option-key u, followed by the letter you want to be accented (e.g., a u if you want to type a u with an umlaut, or ü). Has this changed under Mavericks? Or might you have a different input language

ibooks update

2013-12-14 Thread William Lomas
hi all has any improvement been made to ibooks yet for the mac in terms of access? --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the

Re: Vowels with Umlauts

2013-12-14 Thread Dónal Fitzpatrick
Hi Esther, I just checked and the locale was in fact set to Irish where option-u presents the ú character. Switching to British did indeed produce the character as your archived post suggested. It’s interesting as this is one of the first differences between the two keyboards that I’ve

Re: Vowels with Umlauts

2013-12-14 Thread Esther
Hi Dónal, On an Irish input language keyboard you'll need to use the 8 key on the number row instead of the u key to type an umlaut. So you would press Option-key+8 and then press the key for the letter you want accented (e.g., a u if you want to type a u with an umlaut over it as in ü -- or

Re: Vowels with Umlauts

2013-12-14 Thread Dónal Fitzpatrick
Hi Esther, yes messing with those option key commands can be lots of fun :-) I didn’t know the 8 key did that. Cheers, Dónal On 14 Dec 2013, at 13:57, Esther mori...@mac-access.net wrote: Hi Dónal, On an Irish input language keyboard you'll need to use the 8 key on the number row

Anyone Using Tweetlist

2013-12-14 Thread Dane Trethowan
Sent from Dane's iPhone +613400494862 Hi! Is there anyone on list using the Tweetlist App for IOS? If so then could someone remind me how you bring up a list of followers or people you are following. --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message

tabbed browsing with voiceover on the mac

2013-12-14 Thread William Lomas
hi all when i am using tabbed browsing rather than a page in a new window how can i quickly jump between tabs? on windows it is control tab but this is not working on the mac? --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to

Re: voicestream versus read 2 go

2013-12-14 Thread Devin Prater
I personally love voice-dream, because of the many file formats it supports, and the many voices, although I really wish it supported eSpeak for other languages, such as Esperanto, which Neospeech and Acapella, to my knowledge, do not have. Sent from my braille plus 18 Ian Harrison

Re: tabbed browsing with voiceover on the mac

2013-12-14 Thread Christopher gilland
Hmm! That's weird! ctrl+Tab should definitely be working. Chris. - Original Message - From: William Lomas w.d.lo...@btinternet.com To: OS X iOS Accessibility mac-access@mac-access.net Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2013 11:27 AM Subject: tabbed browsing with voiceover on the mac hi

Re: Anyone Using Tweetlist

2013-12-14 Thread matthew stubbs
the only way I know to do it, is to go to more in the bottom left then click it then go to profile click that then move to the right till you come to followers and following On 14 Dec 2013, at 14:42, Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net wrote: Sent from Dane's

Re: Anyone Using Tweetlist

2013-12-14 Thread Sarah k Alawami
go to more tab, then go to your profile, then to either your following or followers thing. You can do this for any user by triple tapping (a sighted double tap) and choosing the user name and then viewing their profile. Tc. On Dec 14, 2013, at 6:42 AM, Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net

Renaming A contact Group On The Mac

2013-12-14 Thread Eileen Misrahi
Hello Folks, I thought I posted this a few days ago. This has been the first time that I created a contact group in the native contact app on the Air. I didn't realize that the untitled edit field could be replace to customize it. Hence, the contact group was created with no name. Is there a

Re: Renaming A contact Group On The Mac

2013-12-14 Thread Sarah k Alawami
I believe you hit enter on the group's name and type in the new one. then hit enter after you are done. Let us know if that fails. Tc. On Dec 14, 2013, at 11:16 AM, Eileen Misrahi eileen.misr...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Folks, I thought I posted this a few days ago. This has been the first

Re: trouble with bt and my iPhone 5

2013-12-14 Thread Sarah k Alawami
Ok. I think I solved it. What I had to do was pair the phone with my mac first which is contrary with the directions of type to phone, then I had to hit the connect button and it found my device. Odd that I have to do it this way but it worked, for now. We'll see if this changes in the next few

Re: Renaming A contact Group On The Mac

2013-12-14 Thread Andy Collins
Eileen - Select the name of your contact group. Interact with it [VO shift down arrow.] Hit the tab key once and you should hear the name of the group as it stands at the moment, with VO confirming it as an edit field. Just start to type the new name, and it will replace the old one. Stop

Re: trouble with bt and my iPhone 5

2013-12-14 Thread Esther
Hi Sarah, Do you mean that you went to System Preferences Bluetooth to find and pair your iPhone? I may have had to do that for the very first version release of Type2Phone I tried (would have to search the list archives, but I remember that the initial pairing was the tricky bit, and I had

Re: trouble with bt and my iPhone 5

2013-12-14 Thread Sarah k Alawami
Yeah that's what I had to do. I got a new phone as mine bit the dust. It works so far now so we'll see what happens in the next few days of testing. Take care. On Dec 14, 2013, at 12:01 PM, Esther mori...@mac-access.net wrote: Hi Sarah, Do you mean that you went to System Preferences

Re: Renaming A contact Group On The Mac

2013-12-14 Thread Sarah k Alawami
Ah. I usually just hit enter. and rename it that way. no need for the tab key, and it's quicker. Try both ways and see what happens. Goos luck. On Dec 14, 2013, at 11:54 AM, Andy Collins a...@recreation.plus.com wrote: Eileen - Select the name of your contact group. Interact with it [VO

Opening a stream from Safari

2013-12-14 Thread Deb Lewis
Hi: It seems that since upgrading to Mavericks, I can’t open a pls stream from safari. This was brought to my attention again by someone who can’t open my husband’s internet station from safari. Sure enough, I can’t either. So how to associate a .pls or .m3u file with iTunes so that safari will

Re: Renaming A contact Group On The Mac

2013-12-14 Thread Eileen Misrahi
Hello, Thanks to all. These suggestions seemed to have worked. Now another question. How do you view the contacts in that group? I just wanted to make sure that the renamed group had the correct group members. Thanks. Eileen On Dec 14, 2013, at 12:22 PM, Sarah k Alawami marri...@gmail.com

Re: Anyone Using Tweetlist

2013-12-14 Thread George Cham
The only thing is , they have not updated it for ios 7. I’m using twitterrific 5 for ios . George Cham george.c...@mac-access.net On 15 Dec 2013, at 8:26 am, Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net wrote: Ah thanks, all comes back to me now smile. Just love the Tweetlist client for IOS.

Re: Anyone Using Tweetlist

2013-12-14 Thread Esther
George, are you sure Tweetlist has not been updated for iOS 7? The version 4.0 release of the old Tweetlist app dated November 20, 2013 is described as optimized for iOS 7. They also launched a new Tweetlist 4 for Twitter app (that requires iOS 7.0) at the sale price of $2.99. Cheers,

Re: Anyone Using Tweetlist

2013-12-14 Thread Sarah k Alawami
Yes they have. You missed their blog post. they have tweet list I thunk it's 4 for some price, and they use box car for push. Tc. On Dec 14, 2013, at 5:39 PM, George Cham george.c...@mac-access.net wrote: The only thing is , they have not updated it for ios 7. I’m using twitterrific 5 for

Re: Anyone Using Tweetlist

2013-12-14 Thread Dane Trethowan
I can't comment on this myself. All I know is that Tweetlist works and I have automatic updates enabled on my iPhone. I used Twitterific for a while but didn't much like the Interface though there's no doubt its a very nice Twitter client, just personal preference so I went back to Tweetlist.

Re: Anyone Using Tweetlist

2013-12-14 Thread George Cham
Well if they have, I have not seen it. I've got it on the ipad. I've just checked my version, Ive got version, 3. 55. This has not been updated. George, Sent from my iPad On 15 Dec 2013, at 1:35 pm, Esther mori...@mac-access.net wrote: George, are you sure Tweetlist has not been

Re: Anyone Using Tweetlist

2013-12-14 Thread Esther
Hi George, If you're running the iPhone Tweetlist app on your iPad, I don't know whether the updates would show up automatically for you under iOS 7 unless you looked under iPhone apps. What happens when you check the following link (assuming this is the app that you bought)?