Does this mean a sighted person culd not have the Documents folder on the
Doc?
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From: Kliphton Senior m.kliph...@icloud.com
To: 'OS X iOS Accessibility' mac-access@mac-access.net
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2014 2:45 AM
Subject: RE: Documents Folder On Doc
Not
Hello Andy,
Your keyboard is already British English. The Mac keyboard is different from a
PC keyboard so the @ sign is where it should be, over the 2. Just use VO-k to
find where all the keys are.
If you’re typing in another language, you can add the keyboard layout for that
language in
Hello Isaac,
It’s a very bad idea to have VoiceOver announce when a modifier key is pressed
as it prevents the use of the command “Copy last phrase to clipboard”.
Cheers,
Anne
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Sounds like you have an activity set for Finder. So open the VoiceOver
Utility with vo-f8, press command-0 to select activities in the
categories table. Now I'm not sure how you remove these so rather than
guessing will stop there and let others chime in.
On 22/07/2014 22:07, Eleanor Burke
Not Isaac but thanks for that Anne as it means I need to uncheck that key
then.
Eleanor
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From: Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk
To: OS X iOS Accessibility mac-access@mac-access.net
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2014 7:57 AM
Subject: Re: Mac Keyboard Key and Word
Eleanor Martha Burke eleanormarthabu...@gmail.com wrote:
I have Bit Torrant Sinc running and I want to remove it but I cannot remove
it from the Applications folder as it is open.
http://www.wikihow.com/Force-Quit-an-Application-in-Mac-OS-X
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OK Chris, I will await other responses. I obviously just accidentally
changed something.
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From: Christopher Hallsworth challswor...@icloud.com
To: OS X iOS Accessibility mac-access@mac-access.net
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2014 8:34 AM
Subject: Re: Mac Keyboard Key
In Menus vo is not announcing the shortcut commands and I thought this was
announced when going through a menu. Might this be a verbosity issue? I
know I did set verbosity in Pages to Minimum but perhaps I need to adjust my
verbosity.
In the VIP folder on the Mac I find all my Sent
Removing activities is easy.
Go to voiceover utility VO F8
Interact with the Utility Table.
Cursor down to Activities
Tab out of the Utility Table into the Activity dialogue.
Interact with the Activity Table shown there.
Cursor through the table until you have selected the activity you want to
I use Clean my Mac for all these sorts of tasks. Removing programs like
this which load at start up is one of its specialities.
You do have to pay for it after the trial has expired.
David Griffith
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From: mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net
Well I am not so sure this is what I want though I am not doubting your
instruction. I did not set up an activity, just that vo is saying finder
activity and when I open Mail vo says mail activity. This is why I thought it
might be a verbosity issue.
Eleanor
On 23 Jul 2014, at 10:55, David
Again this is not the issue the programme is meant to be running in the
background, just as Dropbox runs in the background. All I want is to know how
to close it before removing it.
Eleanor
On 23 Jul 2014, at 11:06, David Griffith d.griff...@btinternet.com wrote:
I use Clean my Mac for all
Sorry for all questions, it is just I am trying to wean myself off Windows
and using Mac more rather than concentrating on training lessons. It is
only with more use that the issues are arising.
Now in Mail, I thought if I want to reply to a message and to use dictation,
I could press the Fn
The last time I have tried to use dictation on this mac book pro in the early
months when I got this mac it was working fine. Now when I have tried dictation
I start it with the fn key and stop it with the fn key.
Now this was happening before my recent clean install of mavericks so I
I guess what I am trying to tell you is this is a bug in mavericks.
On Jul 23, 2014, at 5:16 AM, Eleanor Martha Burke
eleanormarthabu...@gmail.com wrote:
Sorry for all questions, it is just I am trying to wean myself off Windows
and using Mac more rather than concentrating on training
Ah but you have to hit the Fn key twice to start it and you do not say that
below.
I think from a later message response you are saying to me that the vo
saying misspelt continuously is a bug, have I understood that correctly?
Haven't you been trying the new operating system, is the same
Thanks Bryan - that's working for me now, I didn't know about holding down the
letter key -
Andy
On 23 Jul 2014, at 03:05, Bryan Jones openses...@me.com wrote:
Hello Andy,
Here’s the method I usually use to enter variants of a character in Mac. I
select from the list of alternative
Thanks Anne - Great help, and a quicker way of getting the accents I need -
Andy
On 23 Jul 2014, at 07:55, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk wrote:
Hello Andy,
Your keyboard is already British English. The Mac keyboard is different from
a PC keyboard so the @ sign is where it should be,
No I said that I did press the fn key twice to start dictation and to stop
dictation.
I also said that even when you press it twice to start it speak you’re text and
press it twice to stop it.
For me earlier this year it was working fine but later in the year it didn’t
work.
That is why I
Hello Eleanor,
VoiceOver saying “Misspelt” is an option. You need to spend some time going
through the VoiceOver Utility and looking at all the settings. Pay particular
attention to the Verbosity category, especially the Text tab.
Cheers,
Anne
On 23 Jul 2014, at 12:27, Eleanor Martha Burke
Hi all
While on the subject, I didn't even know you could do this on the mac. I
know all about the possibility under iOS but not OS X. I know a bit of
French and achieved a C grade overall at school, so least I can write
and read a bit of French. Thanks to those sharing the information very
OK thanks but I am surprised for me it stopped as I tried it out with you.
Eleanor
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From: isaac.heb...@gmail.com
To: OS X iOS Accessibility mac-access@mac-access.net
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2014 11:34 AM
Subject: Re: More E-mail Questions
No I said that I did
Exeellent thanks David.
Eleanor
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From: David Griffith d.griff...@btinternet.com
To: 'OS X iOS Accessibility' mac-access@mac-access.net
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2014 12:22 PM
Subject: RE: ] More E-mail Questions
1. In terms of dictation it should work in all
Anne and David that is brilliant.
Eleanor
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From: David Griffith d.griff...@btinternet.com
To: 'OS X iOS Accessibility' mac-access@mac-access.net
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2014 12:22 PM
Subject: RE: ] More E-mail Questions
1. In terms of dictation it should work
If I discard an e-mail and close the Window, I get a Save dialogue button
but I find myself going vo right arrow round to not save, are there any
shortcut keys to save or to disgard when closing a newly created e-mail?
Eleanor
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This is precisely the issue.
Clean my Mac will close the program automatically for you before removing
it.
David Griffith
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From: mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net
[mailto:mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net] On Behalf Of Eleanor Burke
Sent: 23 July 2014 11:10
To: OS X
Ah well yes I accept that thanks David, I just needed to highlight the
programme in the Applications folder, open it and then quit it and I was
good to go but I am making a note of all excellent support here.
Eleanor
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From: David Griffith d.griff...@btinternet.com
If you get the alert dialog when closing a new created email or email that has
unsaved changes you can simply tab to the save and don’t save buttons and then
vo space bar on them.
On Jul 23, 2014, at 6:53 AM, Eleanor Martha Burke
eleanormarthabu...@gmail.com wrote:
If I discard an e-mail and
The quick way around a dialogue is normally to press shift tab which gets
you to the business end rather than tabbing around the whole dialogue.
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From: mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net
[mailto:mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net] On Behalf Of Eleanor Martha Burke
Sent:
Thanks David duly noted
Eleanor Martha Burke
On 23 Jul 2014, at 13:41, David Griffith d.griff...@btinternet.com wrote:
The quick way around a dialogue is normally to press shift tab which gets
you to the business end rather than tabbing around the whole dialogue.
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Try command S, that is the default save method on mac in pretty much all
applications.
Are you a Christian? Looking for a convenient bible study? Do you have
Skype? Well I host a fun, easy to follow bible study on skype. If you'd
like to join us, just contact me.
[iMessageEmail]
Are you trying to do this using VoiceOver? You must add the display in the
VoiceOver utility, not in the general Bluetooth configuration preference pane.
Kindest regards
--- Gordon Smith ---
gor...@mac-access.net
Information Technology Accessibility Consultant;
Proudly Providing Braille And
I managed to do that now thanks Gordon
Eleanor Martha Burke
On 23 Jul 2014, at 14:24, Gordon Smith gor...@mac-access.net wrote:
Are you trying to do this using VoiceOver? You must add the display in the
VoiceOver utility, not in the general Bluetooth configuration preference pane.
Hi Jim
Thanks, thought that’s probably how you were doing it. We have had occasion to
use TeamView in a commercial environment recently and when I tried, as
expected, no screen-reader worked on either platform. Not at all surprising as
the output is essentially a dynamic image.
Kindest
I have changed that shortcut to send mail
Eleanor Martha Burke
On 23 Jul 2014, at 14:14, Kliphton Senior m.kliph...@icloud.com wrote:
Try command S, that is the default save method on mac in pretty much all
applications.
Are you a Christian? Looking for a convenient bible study? Do you
Well, I read messages a little different from most. I press enter on the
messages thread. This on pens the message in another window. Then I do VO e
for edit and arrow down to speech and hit enter on start speaking. This will
read you the message without anything being spoken besides the
I think it might be Option Escape or whatever other combination you wish to
set up on keyboard but sorry if I am wrong, I may be referring to speak text
under mouse.
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From: Jimmy Podsim jp.kd5...@att.net
To: OS X iOS Accessibility mac-access@mac-access.net
Sent:
Hi All, now that I have successfully changed that very irritating voice over
saying misspelt every time it comes across a word not in its dictionary, I
am wondering if there is any way of changing same for the iOS devices.
I suppose someone will come back and say the Mac OSx is a much more
Hi
At this point in time, I see absolutely no reason why the move to Mavericks
shouldn’t be across the board, to be honest. Keep in mind that Apple has
released 4 major updates since the initial release of Mavericks and most of the
little quirks have been ironed out. Also, when Apple
Only thing is that I still don't find it very helpful for reading iBooks.
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From: Gordon Smith gor...@mac-access.net
To: OS X iOS Accessibility mac-access@mac-access.net
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2014 3:17 PM
Subject: Re: Should I move to Mavericks?
Hi
At this
perhaps Yosemite will fix this.
Devin Prater
d.pra...@me.com
On Jul 23, 2014, at 9:21 AM, Eleanor Martha Burke
eleanormarthabu...@gmail.com wrote:
Only thing is that I still don't find it very helpful for reading iBooks.
- Original Message - From: Gordon Smith gor...@mac-access.net
Somebody did say to me that thought that would be the case let us hope so
Sent from my iPad
On 23 Jul 2014, at 15:21, Devin Prater d.pra...@me.com wrote:
perhaps Yosemite will fix this.
Devin Prater
d.pra...@me.com
On Jul 23, 2014, at 9:21 AM, Eleanor Martha Burke
Hi all. So I downloaded adium, and have my accounts set up with it. I have it
set to speak the events. However, the when the system voice speaks, voiceover
cannot speak over it unless I press control, which only has the voice skip to
the next message in its queue. Is there a better way to do
Hi All, I guess this is a labour of love, if I want to put all my addresses
in to my contacts on the Mac, must I input each individually. Will they
then show up on my iPhone and iPad Mini?
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There are accessibility issues with iBooks, that is true. On that subject,
does anybody know where books are downloaded too? I bought one in he iBooks
store for my employer the other day and I can’t find the darn thing anywhere!
Kindest regards
--- Gordon Smith ---
gor...@mac-access.net
Hopefully. But we really must avoid playing guessing games. Apple has
traditionally come up with surprises with almost every release. Also be
mindful of the price of Mavericks in comparison to Windows 8.1 or 8. The
Windows 7 to 8 or 7 to 8.1 upgrade was a paid upgrade and it was quite
If you use iCloud your contact will synch across all your Apple Devices.
If you install ICloud on Windows you can not only synch contacts but also
synch your Internet Explorer or Firefox Favourites to Safari on the |Mac
and iOS.
David Griffith
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From:
To be able to access folders on the dock you need to bring up the context
menu shift vo M on the item and make sure that the option to view as both
list and folder are checked. You need to have both checked for this to work.
From memory one is show as and the other is view by. but However if you
I tried this last night from another list but I still cannot have the text
of the book read out to me, I seem to be all the time on page numbers.
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From: David Griffith d.griff...@btinternet.com
To: 'OS X iOS Accessibility' mac-access@mac-access.net
Sent: Wednesday,
Thanks David, I will stick to the Mac shortcut then.
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From: David Griffith d.griff...@btinternet.com
To: 'OS X iOS Accessibility' mac-access@mac-access.net
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2014 4:39 PM
Subject: RE: [Bulk] Re: Documents Folder On Doc
To be able to
Well I will say that to try and be as nice as possible. But you can try
turning off spell checker under settings, general and then keyboard.
On 23/07/2014 15:16, Eleanor Martha Burke wrote:
Hi All, now that I have successfully changed that very irritating voice
over saying misspelt every time
Ar nice! So what does this speak command actually do? Sorry; never used
it since I rely on VoiceOver speaking text.
On 23/07/2014 14:49, Jimmy Podsim wrote:
Well, I read messages a little different from most. I press enter on the
messages thread. This on pens the message in another window.
Ah nice one Chris, I will try that.
Eleanor
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From: Christopher Hallsworth challswor...@icloud.com
To: OS X iOS Accessibility mac-access@mac-access.net
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2014 5:06 PM
Subject: Re: Mac Related iOS Question
Well I will say that to try and be
Hi all. I just found a flashdrive I'd used for quite some time. I put it in the
mac, and it isn’t showing up in finder or disk util. Is there something wrong
that I’m doing, or is something I can do to have it show up?
Devin Prater
d.pra...@me.com
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Hi,
I would wonder if it was a bad drive. Do you have another machine you can test
it with?
The odds of it being a mac-specific problem are slim, though I guess we can’t
firmly rule it out.
Best,
Zack.
On Jul 23, 2014, at 9:57 AM, Devin Prater d.pra...@me.com wrote:
Hi all. I just found a
No, I don’t. although I do wish I could save a few files from it. I have
archived 2 cd’s from optasia Bible-study stuff, and don’t want to have to ask
for a whole new CD. But I guess drives can die out sometimes.
Devin Prater
d.pra...@me.com
On Jul 23, 2014, at 12:16 PM, Zachary Kline
How do I change that on the Mac?
Orin
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Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/orinks
Skype: orin1112
On Jul 23, 2014, at 10:16 AM, Eleanor Martha Burke
eleanormarthabu...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi All, now that I have successfully changed that very irritating voice over
saying
Hello Gordon,
Your iBooks are stored here:
~/Library/Containers/com.apple.BKAgentService/Data/Documents/iBooks/
As for everyone moving to Mavericks, there are features of iWork09 that are
still missing from the new versions of the apps and you can’t install iWork09
under Mavericks from the
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