Re: Using the say command?

2013-07-22 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Gena, Yes, I've used the Say command with VoiceOver. I have it set to Cmd-F9 and I just tested it with your message. Cheers, Anne On 22 Jul 2013, at 22:19, Georgina Joyce g...@gena-j.me.uk wrote: Hello All, I wondered if anyone had successfully used the say command while using

Re: Sharing calendars.

2013-07-22 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Dónal, We've been using BusySync to syncronise our calendars for years. It's a preference pane and you can select which calendars to sync. The publisher is: http://www.busymac.com/ They also do BusyCal which apparently replaces the Calendar app but we haven't tried that. Cheers, Anne

Re: Saving favourite links

2013-07-20 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Andy, The Copy link option in the contextual menu doesn't always work. It all depends on how the page was coded. However, when on a link, VO-Shift-u will read the actual link and VO-Shift-c will copy it to the clipboard. It was the Copy link command that failed when I tried to give you

Re: BBC IPlayer revisited

2013-07-18 Thread Anne Robertson
. As there are other iplayer flavours mentioned too, such as iPlayer plus, I'm not clear on quite what it is i'm looking for? - Andy - Original Message - From: Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk To: Mac OSX iOS Accessibility mac-access@mac-access.net Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2013 9:18 PM

Re: Mail busy message

2013-07-18 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Andy and Carol, I really don't have this problem with Mail and I receive hundreds of messages every day. However, I have some suggestions. Whenever applications are behaving unreasonably, I find it useful to repair permissions. You do this by opening the Utilities folder (Cmd-Shift-u)

Re: BBC IPlayer revisited

2013-07-18 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Andy, Try this link. It should start the download directly: https://www.macupdate.com/download/39019/GetiPlayerAutomator_1.5.3.zip Cheers, Anne On 18 Jul 2013, at 18:21, ANDY COLLINS a...@recreation.plus.com wrote: Anne - This isn't a clickable link. Also, if I use the link from your

Re: Mail busy message

2013-07-18 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Carol, Often, when you're not allowed to shut down or quit an application, it's because there's a dialogue box open. Use the Window chooser (VO-F2-F2) to see what's there. Have you looked for someone to give you some basic Mac and VoiceOver training? It might help you get up and

Re: BBC IPlayer revisited

2013-07-17 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Andy, If you're talking about BBC television, then your only option is Get iPlayer Automator. Cheers, Anne On 17 Jul 2013, at 18:54, Andy Collins a...@recreation.plus.com wrote: Hi all - Sorry to revisit this, but need some more help from a UK resident. This time, I was trying

Re: BBC IPlayer revisited

2013-07-17 Thread Anne Robertson
wanted to catch up on. So, looks like I'll have to get the get iPlayer automator after all. Sounds a bit of a nightmare from what little I've read, but we'll see - Andy On 17 Jul 2013, at 19:41, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk wrote: Hello Andy, If you're talking about BBC

Re: BBC IPlayer revisited

2013-07-17 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Andy, Here's the link: https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/39019/get-iplayer-automator Here's how to use GetIplayerAutomator. You need to press Return after entering the programme name in the search box. You then select the one you want from the Results table and click Add to queue. Then

Re: get iplayer automator (was Accessible Internet Browsers) For theMack and Voiceover withMountain Lion

2013-07-12 Thread Anne Robertson
wawsxx I have just published On 8 Jul 2013, at 11:59, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk wrote: Hello Andy, Don't despair! There's a solution. The app you need is Get iPlayer Automator https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/39019/get-iplayer-automator It works even

Re: Accessible Internet Browsers For the Mack and Voiceover withMountain Lion

2013-07-08 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Andy, Don't despair! There's a solution. The app you need is Get iPlayer Automator https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/39019/get-iplayer-automator It works even outside the UK. Cheers, Anne On 8 Jul 2013, at 12:05, ANDY COLLINS a...@recreation.plus.com wrote: Hi all - New to the

Re: Accessible Internet Browsers For the Mack andVoiceoverwithMountain Lion

2013-07-08 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Andy, I can listen again to radio programmes by going to the appropriate BBC web page and clicking on the Listen now button. I can't pause the stream, but it does play straight through. Use the Item chooser (VO-i) to find the Listen now button quickly. Cheers, Anne On 8 Jul 2013, at

Re: Listening to BBC radio with a Mac

2013-07-08 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Andy, First of all, you need to install Flash player if you haven't done so already. On the BBC 5 Live page, type Victoria Derbyshire into the search box and press Return. When the page has loaded, use the Web rotor to find the heading with iPlayer and the number of results. When you

Re: getting there

2013-07-08 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello John, I clicked on your link and it started streaming immediately. I only have Safari on my Mac, so I suspect you need to install both Flash player and Flip4Mac. Cheers, Anne On 8 Jul 2013, at 21:44, John Gallagher j...@pianotuner.plus.com wrote: Hi all Well after a hard day's

Re: no joy with my new mac

2013-07-07 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello John, Have you tried pressing Command-F5 to turn VoiceOver on? Also, did the shop set up the computer for you? Cheers, Anne On 7 Jul 2013, at 18:50, John Gallagher j...@pianotuner.plus.com wrote: Hi there it's brand new from laptops direct in Huddersfield. apparently when I switch

Re: no joy with my new mac

2013-07-07 Thread Anne Robertson
To reset the PRAM, you have to hold down Command, Option, p and r, then press the Power key and keep holding down the four keys until you hear the chime four times. Release the four keys and the machine will boot normally. Also, having done updates, it's a good idea to repair permissions.

Re: Rookie Safari questions

2013-07-06 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Stan, To be able to return to the spot on a webpage that you just left, you need to open the link in a new window by getting a contextual menu (VO-Shift-m). The first option is Open Link in New Window. You can then just close that window and you'll be back where you started. Cheers,

Re: working with MS word documents.

2013-06-22 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Shaun, I use Pages to handle MS Word documents. This works fine unless there are lots of text boxes which do not display correctly in Pages when they come from Word. There can also be problems with missing fonts, but this is true even if you have Office for Mac and can also be true

Re: Questions regarding Nisus Writer Pro

2013-06-22 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Christian, You can do everything you mentioned in Pages. You can calculate the position of any item on the page using the Metrics inspector, and you can create and manipulate tables. You just have to set Floating in the Wrap inspector while you work on the table, then set it back to

Re: preview in oSX 10.8.4

2013-06-20 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Dónal, The only improvement I'm aware of is that Preview now renders accented letters correctly. Before, it used to separate the accent sign from the letter making VO read French very strangely. Cheers, Anne On 20 Jun 2013, at 16:12, Dónal Fitzpatrick dfitz...@computing.dcu.ie wrote:

Re: can't quit my aps

2013-06-17 Thread Anne Robertson
Have you, by any chance, been adding shortcuts in System Preferences then pressed Cmd-q to quit? You could, accidentally, have used Cmd-q for a different shortcut and this would prevent it from working normally. Check in the application menu that Quit is not dimmed. Cheers, Anne --- Mac

Re: voiceover voices

2013-06-15 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Amy, You need to go back to VoiceOver Utility and show all the other voice options, then set them all to Default. After that, the default voice will speak everything. Cheers, Anne On 15 Jun 2013, at 13:51, amy gilbert we.are.born.innoc...@googlemail.com wrote: hi all, i’m having a

Re: Mail verbosity, improving productivity

2013-06-15 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Mary, In ML, threads are called conversations, but they're still there in classic view. Cheers, Anne On 15 Jun 2013, at 21:35, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Am I correct in assuming that the only way to get threaded mail is with the new mail view? I'm still on snow leopard

Re: scanning and ocr app for mac

2013-06-09 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Courtney, ABBYY FineReader is the best scanning and OCR app for the Mac. It's easy to use and does a very good job. Prizmo for Mac is accessible but horrible to use and doesn't correct the orientation, which is not good for us. Cheers, Anne On 9 Jun 2013, at 04:02, Moop Curran

Re: scanning and ocr app for mac

2013-06-09 Thread Anne Robertson
? Courtney Sent from my iPhone On Jun 9, 2013, at 10:12 AM, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk wrote: Hello Courtney, ABBYY FineReader is the best scanning and OCR app for the Mac. It's easy to use and does a very good job. Prizmo for Mac is accessible but horrible to use and doesn't

Re: batch converting documents using fine reader on the mac can it bedone?

2013-05-27 Thread Anne Robertson
-Original Message- From: mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net [mailto:mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net] On Behalf Of Anne Robertson Sent: 26 May 2013 21:53 To: Mac OSX iOS Accessibility Subject: Re: batch converting documents using fine reader on the mac can it bedone? Hello Michael

Re: Using finder in date view

2013-05-27 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello David, I always use the Finder in List view which allows sorting by date or anything else. To open a folder in List view, you can either do Cmd-Down Arrow or Cmd-o. Cmd-Up arrow takes you back to the parent folder. I'm sorry, I can't relate this to Windows as I've never used Windows.

Re: Using finder in date view

2013-05-27 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello David, On a British keyboard, the vertical line character is shift on the key two to the right of semicolon. That's the key just to the left of the long bit of the Return key. So, to sort the column, press VO-Shift-backslash, then VO-Space, then VO-Shift-Backslash again. Cheers, Anne

Re: Those Who Edit Word Documents on the Mac

2013-05-26 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Gordon, It all depends on what you mean by Handle. Pages can open DOCX files just fine but it can't export to that format. Cheers, Anne --- 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

Re: batch converting documents using fine reader on the mac can it be done?

2013-05-26 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Michael, Have you tried going to each file in the Finder and opening the file with FineReader? I can't see why this wouldn't work. As long as you close FineReader after processing a document, it will not put them all into one file. Cheers, Anne On 24 May 2013, at 08:51, Michael

Re: batch converting documents using fine reader on the mac can it be done?

2013-05-26 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Michael, ABBYY FineReader for Mac is an express version and does not have the feature you're looking for. I've never used Windows so was not aware of how FineReader works on that platform. Cheers, Anne On 26 May 2013, at 22:41, Michael Marshall mightymaggie...@gmail.com wrote: hey,

Re: Urgent Help Infovox has made voiceover Unusable.

2013-05-22 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello David, Try this: VO-F8 to open VO Utility; Type the letter s for Speech; Navigate 5 times to the right, then once down, and you're on the default voice menu button; Press VO-Space then do up arrow once and press Return. Cheers, Anne On 22 May 2013, at 17:50, David Griffith

Re: Urgent Help Infovox has made voiceover Unusable.

2013-05-22 Thread Anne Robertson
that This is an evaluation copy of Infovox. Would it be possible for you to describe some key sequences to restore Voiceover to factory defaults? David Griffith -Original Message- From: mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net [mailto:mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net] On Behalf Of Anne Robertson

Re: anyone on list use ABBYY fine reader for mac?

2013-05-12 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Michael, I'm not sure what you mean by scanning in this context. If you have PDFs, they are already scanned or created from text files. If they've been scanned, just go to the PDF file, do VO-Shift-m to get a contextual menu, then navigate down to Open with then right to the list of

Re: mac OCR scanning software for use with voice over.

2013-05-05 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Stuart, ABBYY FineReader Express is your best option for scanning on the Mac. I use it with a cheap Canon portable scanner, the Canoscan Lide 110 and the results are excellent. If you need to scan multiple pages, it can be a bit tedious as you have to return to the scanner window each

Re: Kindle now accessible on iOS.

2013-05-01 Thread Anne Robertson
This is great! As soon as I logged in, I saw all the books we've bought in Kindle format. By the way, Bad Science has been available from Kobo for some time so I've already been able to read it. Cheers, Anne --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your

Re: Filling Out PDF's On The Mac

2013-04-25 Thread Anne Robertson
If someone could point me to a PDF form that I could use, someone has posted on another list a method for doing this. I'd just like to try it myself before making any claims. Cheers, Anne --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to

Re: Filling Out PDF's On The Mac

2013-04-25 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Isaac, Here's the method described on the other list, but it doesn't work for me. Using Preview on the Mac, Interact with the Toolbar, press the Edit button, Stop Interacting with the Toolbar, navigate right to the Edit Toolbar, Interact with it, then select the Text tool. Now, when you

Re: Best Braille Display To Use With iOS

2013-04-23 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Isaac, I've had no success connecting my Handytech Braillino with my iPhone despite the fact that it is one that is supposed to work. I asked Apple about it and they sent me to Handytech who suggested I should get the Bluetooth chip changed. My Braillino works fine with my MacBook Air

Re: Lost Say all on Text Edit

2013-04-16 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello David, Try switching from Wrap to Page to Wrap to window (Cmd-Shift-W). Cheers, Anne On 16 Apr 2013, at 14:24, David Griffith d.griff...@btinternet.com wrote: On Lion I had set Text edit up to be my default Microsoft word viewer as it, unlike Nisus Writer pro and pages, allowed a Say

Re: Lost Say all on Text Edit

2013-04-16 Thread Anne Robertson
for formatting. David Griffith d.griff...@btinternet.com On 16 Apr 2013, at 13:47, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk wrote: Hello David, Try switching from Wrap to Page to Wrap to window (Cmd-Shift-W). Cheers, Anne On 16 Apr 2013, at 14:24, David Griffith d.griff

Re: hilighting blocks of text with VO on the internet

2013-04-11 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello David, First of all, for lines to appear in the rotor of Quick Nav, which I assume is what Michael is talking about, you need to have Lines checked in the Web Rotor options in VoiceOver Utility. Then, I think the additional options only show up if you have Single Key navigation enabled.

Re: Talking Goggles for IOS

2013-04-10 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Brenda, I use an iPhone 5 and the StandScan Pro is a foldable box with interior lighting and a hole in the centre of the top. You place a smart phone, in my case the iPhone 5, with its camera pointing down through the hole, and take a picture of a document that you place in the bottom of

Re: Talking Goggles for IOS

2013-04-09 Thread Anne Robertson
that at one time, in files, but my computer crashed and am looking for a way to rebuild what I lost. I could do that, if one of these apps could read my inserts. All were typed on my computer. Take care, Brenda mailto:meadowlar...@cox.net - Original Message - From: Anne Robertson

Re: Talking Goggles for IOS

2013-04-09 Thread Anne Robertson
. Chris. - Original Message - From: Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk To: Mac iOS Accessibility OSX mac-access@mac-access.net Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2013 1:46 AM Subject: Talking Goggles for IOS Hello everyone, I haven't seen any mention of this app on this list and I

Talking Goggles for IOS

2013-04-08 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello everyone, I haven't seen any mention of this app on this list and I should hate for anyone to missout on it. Talking Goggles is an app that uses the IOS device's camera to identify common objects, pictures and all kinds of text. It offers a vast number of languages although it is not

Re: crosswords?

2013-04-07 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Will, The Guardian crosswords are completely accessible. Go to the Guardian's crossword page and select either quick or cryptic, then choose the Standard version. On the crossword page, the clues are lists under level 4 headings. Use Hotspots to mark your place in the list of clues,

Re: crosswords?

2013-04-07 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Will, The letters I'm talking about are the ones you've put in yourself earlier when doing, say, the across clues. I go through the cryptic crossword as quickly as possible putting in the answers I can get easily, then I go through it again seeing what letters I already have for the

Re: Red Laser app

2013-04-05 Thread Anne Robertson
Red Laser finds bar codes on cans and boxes just fine, but its database is sorely lacking for those of us in continental Europe. Digit-Eyes, on the other hand, has a very extensive database. Cheers, Anne On 5 Apr 2013, at 02:02, Phil Halton philh...@comcast.net wrote: I use it to read

Re: Airport Extreme has two IPs.

2013-04-03 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Dónal, Here's the situation in our set up. The Airport Express has two IP addresses, 192.168.01.80 and 169.254.02.110 both of which are local to our own network. Our base station also has the address 192.168.01.05 in addition, to the address on the subnet of 169.254.76.236. The Mybook

Re: Stand Scan

2013-04-02 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Geoff, So far so good. The lefthand section has to be folded along the tactile lines to create two elongated triangles, one along the front edge and the other along the back edge. Fold these with the shiny side out. You'll find the same arrangement in the third section along. These

Re: wifi help please.

2013-03-30 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Dónal, We've had similar problems with a similar setup. Here's what we did: 1) Change the channel from the default of 11 to the new value of 13 using the Airport Utility. 2) Activate the 802.11n (5GHz) network on both devices and use dragdrop in the Network pane of System Preferences to

Re: wifi help please.

2013-03-30 Thread Anne Robertson
...@computing.dcu.ie wrote: Hi Anne, Can you ask him what he means by using drag and drop in the network pane to make it the preferred network? I've done everything else you have (which makes me feel better). Thanks, Dónal On 30 Mar 2013, at 22:09, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk wrote: Hello

Re: wifi help please.

2013-03-30 Thread Anne Robertson
I just left it there but further down the list. We have two older Airport devices elsewhere in the house which can't handle 802.11n. Cheers, Anne On 30 Mar 2013, at 23:54, Dónal Fitzpatrick dfitz...@computing.dcu.ie wrote: Hi Anne, Did you keep the 2.4GHZ network in there as well or did

Re: Stand Scan

2013-03-23 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello dónal, I have the StandScan Pro which has 15 Leds to provide good lighting. Yes, it's flimsy, but it folds flat, weighs next to nothing, and works great with my iPhone 5. I've tested the StandScan Pro with a double-page from a pretty complexe book using Prizmo in English with brilliant

Re: Help with web navigation please

2013-03-23 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Catherine, If you're navigating the Web in DOM mode, then with Quick Nav on, just the right arrow will take you to the next element which probably corresponds to a line or a sentence. Without Quick Nav, this would be VO-Right Arrow. In Groups mode, you'd have to interact with the group,

Re: Tracking changes in Pages

2013-03-17 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Janet, In general, a Braille display doesn't make Pages more accessible, but in this case, it helps hugely. I mainly use my Braille display when translating or proofreading a text as it's quicker to see capitalisation and so on. This is true for any word-processing application. Cheers,

Re: OCR with Prizmo on iPhone using StandScan Pro

2013-03-14 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Claude, The StandScan Pro is a foldable box with interior lighting and one open side, into which you put a document you want to OCR. There's a round hole in the centre of the top over which you place the camera of your smart phone. This ensures that the document is well lit and the

OCR with Prizmo on iPhone using StandScan Pro

2013-03-13 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello everyone, Last week, I received my StandScan Pro, a kind of fold-away box with interior lighting, designed to be used with smart phones. Here are the results of two scans, one done using the mains adaptor, and the other using the portable battery pack. The scans are double pages from a

Re: Pages questions.

2013-03-09 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello, I can't test this with Word 97 documents created on a PC, but with those created on a Mac, it works fine. Anything earlier, however, doesn't open with Pages. Cheers, Anne On 9 Mar 2013, at 14:18, sadam ahmed sadamahmed1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I recently purchased Pages for

Re: Pages questions.

2013-03-09 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello everyone, Where do you get the idea that docx files cannot be opened with pages? I'm currently working on just such a file in Pages, and do so regularly. I suspect it all depends on the complexity of the file. I'm dealing with fairly straightforward stuff and rarely have any problems

Re: iWork programs and accessibility

2013-03-06 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Phil, I wish you luck with the one-to-one training, but I fear the trainer will not be familiar enough with VoiceOver to understand how to manage iWork. You have to do a lot of interacting and bringing the mouse to the VoiceOver cursor and doing a simulated mouse click. It all sounds

Re: MAC Air opinions?

2013-03-06 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Phil, I have a MacBook Air with similar specifications, except that mine has an older processor and dates from 2011. It's a lovely fast little machine and my favourite of all the Macs I've owned. Cheers, Anne On 6 Mar 2013, at 18:37, Phil Halton philh...@comcast.net wrote: I'm

Re: MAC Air opinions?

2013-03-06 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Phil, ML takes up only about 14 gb. Cheers, Anne --- 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 list's own dedicated web

Re: download window in safari.

2013-02-25 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Ian, The Safari downloads window is only there when a download is in progress or if you haven't removed completed downloads. In any case, why tab around? Just press Cmd-Option-l and you'll be in the downloads window. Cheers, Anne On 25 Feb 2013, at 11:08, Ian McNamara

Re: ABBYY fine reader express.

2013-02-18 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Dónal, ABBYY FineReader is definitely worth it. It's the best OCR for Mac and can handle three languages in one document. It's also really simple to use. Cheers, Anne On 18 Feb 2013, at 15:27, Dónal Fitzpatrick dfitz...@computing.dcu.ie wrote: HI all, THis is on sale on MacUpdate

Re: ABBYY fine reader express.

2013-02-18 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Dónal, You can now scan multiple pages into one file with ABBYY FineReader. However, if you have a lot to scan, it's quicker to use VueScan for the scanning part as it can be set to scan multiple pages automatically. With FineReader, you have to click the Resume button then switch

Re: ABBYY fine reader express.

2013-02-18 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Josh, You need a scanner or a very good camera for ABBYY FineReader or any other OCR program for the Mac unless you're getting image PDFs that need OCR. If you're looking for an OCR app for the iPhone, I'd strongly recommend Prizmo or Perfect OCR although other people also recommend Text

Re: ABBYY fine reader express.

2013-02-18 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Josh, Theoretically, the FaceTime camera can be used, but for a blind person to get a good image is really difficult, and considering how cheap a portable flatbed scanner is, it really isn't worth the hassle. Cheers, Anne On 19 Feb 2013, at 00:40, josh gregory joshkar...@gmail.com

Re: Questions about pages-urgent

2013-02-10 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Marcos, To check on the line spacing, select all (Cmd-a) and open the inspector. Make sure you're on the Text inspector with the Text option selected. Navigate right until you hear Color Alignment, then navigate down to Line. Below this you'll find a percentage and to the right of that,

Searching in Numbers

2013-02-09 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello everyone, I just discovered this trick for searching for specific content in Numbers. • Set a hotspot on the table without interacting with it; • Press Cmd-f to open the Search field; • Stop interacting until you've stopped interacting with the scroll area; • Navigate down to the next

Re: Searching in Numbers

2013-02-09 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello David, I'm glad you find my little trick useful. I don't use Numbers much, but we're teaching iWork to a student at the moment, so I've been brushing up on it. I'd love to be able to write the kind of guide you're talking about, but it takes a lot of time and concentration. I'd also have

Re: Navigating pages with VoiceOver

2013-02-08 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello George, Here's a description of how to use Pages on the iPhone. This is information I put together from various sources but I haven't used it much myself. Cheers, Anne Pages on IOS You can read and type text. Be aware, however, that rather than showing the entire document in one edit

Re: Word processing software

2013-02-01 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello George, You can open MS Word documents with TextEdit or Pages. I work with Word documents all the time as a freelance translator and I use Pages since it keeps most of the formatting correct. The only problems I have are with missing fonts and a few anomlies in the way text boxes and

Re: Word processing software

2013-02-01 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Phil, I'm currently working in Pages on a .docx document. Perhaps Pages doesn't handle all the features of .docx but it certainly does open the documents. Cheers, Anne On 1 Feb 2013, at 15:31, Phil Halton philh...@comcast.net wrote: I believe Pages will open word documents with the

Re: Word processing software

2013-01-31 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello George, Between Pages and TextEdit, you should have no trouble opening text documents. If you have spreadsheets or PowerPoint presentations, then Numbers and Keynote would be necessary. Cheers, Anne On 1 Feb 2013, at 05:42, George Cham george.c...@outlook.com wrote: Hi list, I'm

Re: navigati messages in mail

2013-01-24 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Michael, You need to interact with the table of messages and use the VO-Shift-Home and VO-Shift-End commands to get to the top or bottom of the table. On a laptop, Home = FN-Left Arrow and End = FN-Right Arrow. Cheers, Anne --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this

Re: Using a second language on the Mac

2013-01-20 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Hatch, If all you want to do is be able to read in French, you just need to download one of the French voices that are available free with OS x. You have a choice of Virginie, Audrey, Thomas and Sébastien. To get them, you open VoiceOver Utility (VO-F8) and go to the Speech category.

Re: Help with Adob Digital Editions

2013-01-17 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Marcos, To select a chapter in the Table of contents, just press Space bar on the chapter name. Right arrow takes you to the next page and, as Esther explained, as soon as you turn the page, you can press VO-Shift-c and then paste the contents of that page into a TextEdit document should

Re: iTunes 11

2013-01-06 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Gordon, I find that the search box is only useful if I'm looking for a song and don't know the title except for a word or two. Otherwise, I click the Songs button and navigate down to where the Browser is. There, I interact and navigate to the column that interests me (Genre, Artist or

Re: VoiceOver memory usage query

2013-01-05 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello James, On my 2010 MacBook air with 4 gb of memory and using Fred, VoiceOver is using 120.0 MB. Cheers, Anne On 5 Jan 2013, at 19:49, JAMES AUSTIN james.aus...@mac-access.net wrote: Hi folks, I haven't done any research on this yet, but I'm curious. On this 2009 MacBook (though

Re: pages questions

2013-01-02 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Cathy, My responses are below. Cheers, Anne On 2 Jan 2013, at 06:51, Cathy flowersandhe...@gmail.com wrote: 1. I am in pages and have created a new document. I now want to save it. I press command-D to save and interact with the text to create the file name. then I stop

Re: pages questions

2013-01-02 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Josh, Pages is an advanced word-processing application. However, if all you want in the way of formatting is bold, italic, indentation and so on, TextEdit would be good enough. In Pages, you can use the templates that are provided, or create your own templates including placeholder

Re: pages questions

2013-01-02 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Josh, In my previous message, I failed to mention that you can indeed write college papers using Pages. I have templates for both APA and MLA formats. Around $20 sounds right for Pages, but I wouldn't know for sure as I'm in France so prices are in euros. I've been using Pages as a

Re: IOS safari query.

2012-12-31 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Dónal, Although Safari always opens to the last page used, what you can do is select Utilities when in Safari and add the page you want to the home screen. Cheers, Anne On 31 Dec 2012, at 13:21, Dónal Fitzpatrick dfitz...@computing.dcu.ie wrote: Folks, I'm setting up a new iPad

Re: Kobo accessibility.

2012-12-28 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello everyone, My husband got hold of Kobo 5.9 from the UK appstore and signed in with my Kobo ID. He then turned VoiceOver on and handed it to me. On the Home screen, I tapped the Library button and on the Library screen, I selected All from the bottom toolbar. I could read the titles and

Re: Kobo accessibility.

2012-12-18 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Orin, When you first open the Kobo app, assuming you've already bought a book from the Kobo website, you'll find the Library button at the bottom left of the screen. The button is just above the label saying Library. Tap this button and you'll be on a screen containing, at the top, the

Re: Kobo accessibility.

2012-12-18 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Paula, I'm afraid my version of Kobo may be different from yours as I'm in France and have the Kobo by FNAC version, which is the only one I can get here. You could try having someone sighted look at it with VoiceOver off, but I see that Jane hasn't had much luck with that approach. It

Re: Kobo accessibility.

2012-12-17 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Dónal, I've been using the Kobo app on my iPhone for almost three years now and once set up correctly, it's thoroughly accessible. Kobo books can also be read on the Mac with Adobe Digital Editions. I can't remember the authorisation process on the Mac as it's a long time since I did

Re: kindle app for the mac and voiceover

2012-12-16 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Michael, Here's the link to the book you're looking for in its Kobo version: http://www.kobobooks.com/ebook/The-Master/book-mlsW-WXlj0e4mP9sAvjH7w/page1.html?s=R5kyLjWul0mS0_XDXb1wqwr=3 The Kobo app is accessible on idevices and Kobo books can be read on the Mac using Adobe Digital

Re: Numbers, new accessibility?

2012-12-16 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Phil, The problem with Numbers used to be its sluggishness rather than its inaccessibility. It now seems to be much more responsive, even with large tables containing over 300 lines. I must admit, I use the trackpad without the trackpad commander to scroll quickly down a table as there

Re: pages question

2012-12-01 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Steph, There isn't a Save As option as such in Pages, but Cmd-Shift-s will duplicate the file adding the word Copy to the name. you can then rename it as you wish. Cheers, Anne --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to

Re: playing bbc programmes on the mac

2012-12-01 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Paul, To get audio-described content, do you have to check the Verbose box or is it somewhere else? Cheers, Anne On 29 Nov 2012, at 11:11, Paul Hopewell hopew...@hopewell.org.uk wrote: Hello Michael, Look at the free App get itplayer automator. I don't think it is in the App

Re: playing bbc programmes on the mac

2012-12-01 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Jane, The app is free and the content is free. The BBC Website is: www.bbc.co.uk Look down the headings and you'll get an idea of what's available. Cheers, Anne On 1 Dec 2012, at 19:17, Jane juanitatig...@gmail.com wrote: Does it cost to get this content? What exaclty can I look for

Re: playing bbc programmes on the mac

2012-12-01 Thread Anne Robertson
OK, I've found the checkbox in the General tab of the Preferences. Cheers, Anne On 29 Nov 2012, at 11:11, Paul Hopewell hopew...@hopewell.org.uk wrote: Hello Michael, Look at the free App get itplayer automator. I don't think it is in the App store so you will have to google it. YOu can

Re: OCR Question again.

2012-11-23 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Jim, Sorry it's taken me so long to reply to this question. What do you find cumbersome about ABBYY Fine Reader? The latest version of this program allows for scanning multiple pages. It also handles double pages very well. To scan multiple pages: • Open ABBYY Fine Reader; • Select your

Re: Accessible Ebooks

2012-11-22 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Travis, I don't know about accessibility of Nook books on IOS devices, but they are accessible on the Mac using Adobe Digital Editions. Cheers, Anne On 22 Nov 2012, at 17:25, Travis Siegel tsie...@softcon.com wrote: I must retract my recomendation for fictionwise.com. It appears

Re: Accessible Ebooks

2012-11-21 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Paul, iBooks can only be read on IOS devices. Kobo books can be read on IOS devices using the Kobo app and on the Mac using Adobe Digital Editions. Barnes and Noble Nook books can be read on the Mac using Adobe Digital Editions. CS Books from Wiley can be read on the Mac using Adobe

Re: click mouse keystroke

2012-11-13 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Sean, Control-click is the standard shortcut to get a contextual menu. So, you can try VO-Shift-m, but if that doesn't work, just bring the mouse with VO-Cmd-F5, hold down the Control key and click with the mouse or trackpad. You do not have to turn VO off. Cheers, Anne On 13 Nov

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