Re: [Mac-access]: Getting to a Link in an sms message

2014-11-19 Thread Geoff Stephens
Twist the rotor to links and then flick up and down. Be aware that once you add your phone number to Facebook, they may spam you with more text messages than you bargained for. I'm about to remove mine for this reason. Sent from mobile device On Nov 19, 2014, at 6:36 AM, Matthew Chao

Re: List Membership You need to find another method

2014-06-30 Thread Geoff Stephens
Well, it may have been a little harsh but I guess I must agree in principle. Do you mean to say that the list owners have somehow lost the ability to know who is currently subscribed? And do you really want every list member to reply to the list with something like this? I appreciate the

Re: accessible dictionary for mac OS 10.

2014-06-09 Thread Geoff Stephens
Are you looking for something like the New Oxford American Dictionary? On Jun 9, 2014, at 5:07 PM, stuart young stuartyo...@samobile.net wrote: Hi all. I am looking for an accessible dictionary for mac OS 10 mavericks other than the built in one something like the oxford dictionary!. this is

Re: WWDC From Monday, 2 June 2014

2014-05-31 Thread Geoff Stephens
Sarah, eileen - I think you are creating a slight confusion. The U.S. is on daylight time right now. The keynote is at 10 AM PDT. This is 1700 UTC. I assume this is 1800 in the UK. But I could be wrong. Nevertheless, it is 1700 UTC. On May 31, 2014, at 3:58 PM, Gordon Lynne

Re: WWDC From Monday, 2 June 2014

2014-05-31 Thread Geoff Stephens
with the automation on the iPhone. HTH. Eileen On May 31, 2014, at 2:04 PM, Geoff Stephens geoffsli...@gmail.com wrote: Sarah, eileen - I think you are creating a slight confusion. The U.S. is on daylight time right now. The keynote is at 10 AM PDT. This is 1700 UTC. I assume this is 1800

Re: Fusion; OS X Grabbing Keyboard Control

2014-05-30 Thread Geoff Stephens
Make certain quick nav is off when you switch to the fusion window. I prefer to leave VO on while using Fusion. I also do not find it necessary to use full screen mode. I enjoy having use of Mac OS and Windows simultaneously without disabling either screen reader. Sent from mobile device

Re: Caps Lock Key As A VoiceOver Key; What's The Advantage?

2014-05-26 Thread Geoff Stephens
-- On 25 May 2014, at 18:50, Geoff Stephens geoffsli...@gmail.com wrote: For me at least, recently coming to the Mac after many years of Windows use, the idea that two keys are necessary to control VO seems nonsensical. Therefore, I immediately made the change. It also

Re: Caps Lock Key As A VoiceOver Key; What's The Advantage?

2014-05-26 Thread Geoff Stephens
Follow Us On Twitter: http://twitter.com/maciosaccess Skype: skype:mac-access-dot-net?call -- On 25 May 2014, at 18:50, Geoff Stephens geoffsli...@gmail.com wrote: For me at least, recently coming to the Mac after many years of Windows use, the idea

Re: Caps Lock Key As A VoiceOver Key; What's The Advantage?

2014-05-26 Thread Geoff Stephens
: skype:mac-access-dot-net?call -- On 25 May 2014, at 18:50, Geoff Stephens geoffsli...@gmail.com wrote: For me at least, recently coming to the Mac after many years of Windows use, the idea that two keys are necessary to control VO seems nonsensical. Therefore, I

Re: Eric's Steps

2014-05-26 Thread Geoff Stephens
Hmm. I did not see any steps for installation in Eric’s description. Maybe I missed a message. On May 26, 2014, at 9:34 AM, Gordon Smith gor...@mac-access.net wrote: Hi all I think I’ve found out what was wrong with the PCKeyboard Hack and KeyboardRemap. They don’t live in system prefs,

Re: Caps Lock Key As A VoiceOver Key; What's The Advantage?

2014-05-25 Thread Geoff Stephens
For me at least, recently coming to the Mac after many years of Windows use, the idea that two keys are necessary to control VO seems nonsensical. Therefore, I immediately made the change. It also seems rather intuitive that the caps lock key would be the most logical choice since it allows

Re: Vienna reading articles help

2014-05-04 Thread Geoff Stephens
The AppleVis Blog is another example of an RSS feed where the entire article is included. On May 3, 2014, at 6:19 PM, Geoff Stephens geoffsli...@gmail.com wrote: Catherine - If, in the Vienna General Preferences, you check “Open links in external browser”, when you are arrowing through

Re: Vienna reading articles help

2014-05-04 Thread Geoff Stephens
Catherine - I just want to make sure all my replies are reaching you. Let me know if you still have questions. On May 3, 2014, at 1:18 PM, Catherine Turner catherineturner2...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi all, Ok, so now that I got all my feeds obsessively sorted and categorised I'm having a

Re: Vienna reading articles help

2014-05-03 Thread Geoff Stephens
Catherine - If, in the Vienna General Preferences, you check “Open links in external browser”, when you are arrowing through the headlines, press enter and the article will open in your default browser. You can then try to invoke the reader if your browser is Safari or WebKit, to make it more

Re: Accessibility with Simplify

2014-04-28 Thread Geoff Stephens
Judging from the lack of response, maybe you should test it for us! It’s a sad case when we can’t even access a premier music service on multiple platforms, or really reliably on even one of them! On Apr 27, 2014, at 4:16 AM, António Silva amcsi...@letras.up.pt wrote: Hello. I am interested

Re: Accessibility with Simplify

2014-04-28 Thread Geoff Stephens
Blinkbos. You could try www.blinkboxmusic.com/ -Original Message- From: mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net [mailto:mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net] On Behalf Of Geoff Stephens Sent: 28 April 2014 23:45 To: OS X iOS Accessibility Subject: Re: Accessibility with Simplify Judging from

Re: Drag and drop was Re: Vienna

2014-04-06 Thread Geoff Stephens
alphabetically. But when I create a new folder in Vienna it often doesn't put it where I want which is why I got into this drag and drop in the first place. Can anyone help? Thanks, Catherine On 4/5/14, Geoff Stephens geoffsli...@gmail.com wrote: Catherine - Yes. Use drag and drop. On Apr 5, 2014

Re: Vienna was Re: Qcast

2014-04-05 Thread Geoff Stephens
Catherine - Yes. Use drag and drop. On Apr 5, 2014, at 5:45 AM, Catherine Turner catherineturner2...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, Another question. I've created a folder and am wondering how to put certain feeds into it. I can't figure this out from the menus, help or FAQs...I'm assuming it's

Re: QFeed RE: Qcast

2014-04-02 Thread Geoff Stephens
I will check out QFeed as I am always on the lookout for an accessible RSS reader. Vienna is quite wonderful and can be downloaded from: http://www.vienna-rss.org On Apr 2, 2014, at 2:06 PM, David Griffith d.griff...@btinternet.com wrote: I post the message I sent earlier on QFeed.

Re: voice over speed hack for osx

2014-03-16 Thread Geoff Stephens
Well, I’m afraid that I have now lost my preferences in my experimentation. I have to start from ground 0 with configuring VO. Guess it’s not so bad but will certainly require some time. If anyone has any insight about how these files are stored, I would appreciate it. --- Mac Access At Mac

Re: voice over speed hack for osx

2014-03-16 Thread Geoff Stephens
you export. Rename the voiceover archive extension to .plist and then open it in xcode and follow the directions from there. Take care. On Mar 16, 2014, at 9:34 AM, Geoff Stephens geoffsli...@gmail.com wrote: Well, while I appreciate the podcast, it focuses on how to install xCode and other

Re: OCR Apps

2014-03-11 Thread Geoff Stephens
Since your question doesn’t really mention a scanner, I thought I would mention a free OCR tool that seems to at least work. I have only used it a few times for recognizing PDF files presented as images. It seems to do a passable job. It is called PDF OCR X Community Edition. I don’t know

Re: New Voice Synthsiser For OSX

2014-03-11 Thread Geoff Stephens
I would like to use Samantha at 130 percent. I currently use it at 100 percent and it seems very slow. Does anyone know how to find this hack posted on twitter? On Mar 11, 2014, at 12:49 PM, Sarah k Alawami marri...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, it's what ever floats our boat., I personally use

Re: Problem with Yorufukirou

2014-01-23 Thread Geoff Stephens
: You can use an application known as easy find, which allows you to find any files associated with any application on your system. You can find pretty much anything for that matter, even hidden things. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 22, 2014, at 6:03 PM, Geoff Stephens geoffsli...@gmail.com wrote

Problem with Yorufukirou

2014-01-22 Thread Geoff Stephens
Having a problem for the past week or so with Yorufukirou that I can’t seem to solve. Whenever I load it, there is a message that says “preparing” and a progress indicator. This never goes away and my timelines for multiple accounts do not load. In fact, nothing else happens at all. I did

Re: Problem with Yorufukirou

2014-01-22 Thread Geoff Stephens
I’m willing to entertain suggestions—in fact, I would welcome them . But what makes you think it’s a wifi problem? I don’t have a Wifi problem that I know of. Hopefully you can provide a little more specific information about how this looks like a Wifi problem. I guess it’s obvious that if I

Re: Problem with Yorufukirou

2014-01-22 Thread Geoff Stephens
wifi goes out, nothing happens and yorufukurou does not load and I also get the preparing thing. Try pinging a web site via the terminal and testing to see if you get any packet los as this is a good test to diagnose where the problem might be. Take care. On Jan 22, 2014, at 2:22 PM, Geoff

Re: Problem with Yorufukirou

2014-01-22 Thread Geoff Stephens
your accounts in there are broken and are consisting of this unusual behavior. Chris. - Original Message - From: Geoff Stephens geoffsli...@gmail.com To: Mac OSX iOS Accessibility mac-access@mac-access.net Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 4:46 PM Subject: Problem with Yorufukirou

Re: Update: Jump to top / bottom of column in Mavericks Mail message list

2013-10-30 Thread Geoff Stephens
For me, in modern view, Command Option arrows work but Option arrows does not. On Oct 30, 2013, at 12:56 PM, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk wrote: For me, both Option plus arrow key and Cmd-Option plus arrow key take me to the top or bottom of the message table in Mavericks and always in

Re: OS X Mavricks, Wait a bit

2013-10-23 Thread Geoff Stephens
I cannot duplicate any use at all for Option Up or Down Arrow in the message list. What am I missing? Is this only in classic view? I have not checked there. On Oct 22, 2013, at 7:17 PM, Esther mori...@mac-access.net wrote: Bryan, That's great news. Does this work the same way it used to?

Re: iWork positive impressions

2013-10-22 Thread Geoff Stephens
Zack - If iBooks accessibility is the only reason you are advising people to wait, I think I will go ahead. Are there other, specific reasons it might be good to wait? Are there any positive reasons to update? Does VO work better with the new Safari? On Oct 22, 2013, at 6:13 PM, Zachary

Re: More on XCode

2013-10-21 Thread Geoff Stephens
Were the sample and description posted to this list? If not, where can one obtain them? On Oct 21, 2013, at 9:59 AM, Ray Campbell ray1...@wowway.com wrote: Hi All: First, thank you to Jan for writing up a sample Xcode project to show how to connect interface elements to code, and to Josh for

RE: The New 1 Password 4, For Mac

2013-10-17 Thread Geoff Stephens
I would certainly like to try 1Password for the Mac but I need something that works on Windows and iOS as well. From what I have read, one must pay separately for all of these. Is that true? The prices seem exorbitant if that is the case. It's quite a high price even if one must only pay the

Re: The New 1 Password 4, For Mac

2013-10-17 Thread Geoff Stephens
Password data so - no matter what platform you're running - the same 1 Password data is shared if need be. Take a look at http://www.1password.com for more information, FAQ'S, Tutorials and Guides. On 18/10/2013, at 12:10 PM, Geoff Stephens geoffsli...@gmail.com wrote: I would certainly like