Time machine and VoiceOver

2013-04-07 Thread George Cham
I was happly playing with time machine, restoring files I'd deleted last month. Then I got to wondering, are their VoiceOver commands to use to move back in time with time machine? Typed with Fleksy reply://george.c...@outlook.com George, Sent from my iPad --- Mac Access At Mac Access

Showing hidden files in itunes

2013-04-07 Thread George Cham
I've hidden files that I created using spoken as itunes tracks, and I want them to show up in itunes. How is this done? Typed with Fleksy reply://george.c...@outlook.com George, Sent from my iPad --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your

Re: Yet Another, Question, About Xcode

2013-04-07 Thread Harmony Neil
Fair enough. I've been on a few apple lists since last night, and apparently you don't have much of a choice but to use objective c. Anyway, I've found a tutorial thing with some examples, so I can post the ink if anyone wants. Mind you, this is not a programming list so I guess that would be

Re: Showing hidden files in itunes

2013-04-07 Thread Esther
Hello George, I think you mean that you have files that you are having difficulty finding in iTunes, and that were created with Add to iTunes as a Spoken Track service, rather than that you made those tracks as hidden files. A good way to locate files that you have added to iTunes, is to

Re: Time machine and VoiceOver

2013-04-07 Thread Will
I think we just have to sue the slider as you are already doing but if i am wrong, would like to be notified On 7 Apr 2013, at 08:30, George Cham george.c...@outlook.com wrote: I was happly playing with time machine, restoring files I'd deleted last month. Then I got to wondering, are

crosswords?

2013-04-07 Thread William Lomas
hello to all do accessible crosswords for the mac, exist? --- 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: crosswords?

2013-04-07 Thread Harmony Neil
I haven't heard of any, but it doesn't mean they don't. I haven't really looked to be honest, but there aren't all that many accessible games/puzzles etc for the mac out there which is annoying. On 7 Apr 2013, at 12:53, William Lomas will.d.lo...@gmail.com wrote: hello to all do accessible

How to Open link in new window?

2013-04-07 Thread Eric Caron
Hi listers, I thought there was a way to open a link in a new window so that you could then return to the original web page and be in the same position. I can't seem to find that command. Here is what I'm trying to do. I am in the NLS BARD and land on a book I want to add to

Re: How to Open link in new window?

2013-04-07 Thread Harmony Neil
You should just be able to do voiceover shift m on the link you want to open in a new window then go down to the appropriate option. Then you can use voiceover f2 to go between the windows in safari or whatever browser you're using on the mac. On 7 Apr 2013, at 14:21, Eric Caron

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 Will
Anne so if we have been given lettres for clues they are given to us for easy completion? On 7 Apr 2013, at 14:35, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk wrote: Hello Will, The Guardian crosswords are completely accessible. Go to the Guardian's crossword page and select either quick or

Re: crosswords?

2013-04-07 Thread Will
these sound great will take a look On 7 Apr 2013, at 14:35, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk wrote: 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

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: How to Open link in new window?

2013-04-07 Thread Eric Caron
Hi Harmony, Sadly that did not work for me. I made sure all my Voice Over cursers were on the link and when opening the context menu I got 9 options but open in new window was not one of them. I got thinks like Back reload page Open in dashboard Save Page as... Block add and

Re: How to Open link in new window?

2013-04-07 Thread Travis Siegel
Harmony is right though. If you have the link highlighted, vo-shift- m will give you a list of options. If it's a regular link, open in new window will be one of those options. If on the other hand, it's a javascript link (honestly, I don't understand why so many page creators waste time

Re: crosswords?

2013-04-07 Thread Travis Siegel
On Apr 7, 2013, at 8:58 AM, Harmony Neil wrote: there aren't all that many accessible games/puzzles etc for the mac out there which is annoying. As I keep pointing out, and as folks keep ignoring. I have games on my mac pages, located at http://www.softcon.com/mac/ You'll find a yahtzee

Re: How to Open link in new window?

2013-04-07 Thread Esther
Hi Eric, Travis, and Others, What happens if you temporarily change your Safari preferences so that under the tab category the pop up for Open pages in tabs instead of windows is set to never? Would that work to force the link to open in a new window? Esther On Apr 7, 2013, at 4:45 AM,

Re: Yet Another, Question, About Xcode

2013-04-07 Thread Travis Siegel
Objective c is the language of choice for apple, but Xcode supports other languages as well. I (for instance) have pascal, python, java, ruby, and probably a few others installed, and they do work, but honestly, apple isn't real gunho for other languages it seems, and the whole gui

Re: How to Open link in new window?

2013-04-07 Thread Phil Halton
This is the one big failing of Safari in my opinion. I don't know why they don't fix this so that returning from a link positions you back at the same spot on the webpage. I'll be watching this thread with interest. - Original Message - From: Eric Caron eric_ca...@mac-access.net To:

Re: How to Open link in new window?

2013-04-07 Thread Sarah k Alawami
If you hit cmd option shift enter it normally opens in a new window, at least for me. There is a safari extension to do this but I forgot what it was called and I uninstalled it as safari freezes when I install extensions and i can't get to the install dialogue. or button quick enough. Take

Re: How to Open link in new window?

2013-04-07 Thread Josh Gregory
Out of curiosity, could Google Chrome do it? Sent from my iPhone On Apr 7, 2013, at 12:00 PM, Phil Halton philh...@comcast.net wrote: This is the one big failing of Safari in my opinion. I don't know why they don't fix this so that returning from a link positions you back at the same spot

Re: Time machine and VoiceOver

2013-04-07 Thread Sarah k Alawami
Why not just copy paste from the drive to the real directory? I've used both methods and I love the copy paste thing better lol! Take care. On Apr 7, 2013, at 4:40 AM, Will will.d.lo...@gmail.com wrote: I think we just have to sue the slider as you are already doing but if i am wrong,

Re: How to Open link in new window?

2013-04-07 Thread Travis Siegel
Esther, good suggestion. Unfortunately, I've tried this, and it doesn't help in this case, because the link is tied into javascript code that is rujnnning on the current page, and often, if you try to copy the link, all you get is a void(0) chunk of code, because until the link is

Re: How to Open link in new window?

2013-04-07 Thread Eric Caron
Hi Sarah, Esther, and others, I tried Esther's and Sarah's suggestions and Sarah's worked! Command, Option, Shift, Enter pressed when on the link of the book title opened the link in a window that when closed left me back in my original location on the web site. This will be a huge time

Re: How to Open link in new window?

2013-04-07 Thread Esther
Hi Travis, Eric, and Others, OK, if setting Safari preferences to force opening pages in a new window won't work, here's another suggestion: if you're focused on the link, try turning mouse keys on by pressing the option key 5 times, then do a Control-click on the link. You should see the

Re: How to Open link in new window?

2013-04-07 Thread Esther
Hi Eric, That's great! Ignore my post about using mouse keys. Cheers, Esther On 7 Apr 2013, at 06:43, Eric Caron wrote: Hi Sarah, Esther, and others, I tried Esther's and Sarah's suggestions and Sarah's worked! Command, Option, Shift, Enter pressed when on the link of the book title

Re: How to Open link in new window?

2013-04-07 Thread Esther
Hi Eric, Now I'm feeling senile and forgetful. The keyboard shortcut options are actually listed on the tab preferences pane of Safari, if you read down past the pop up menu that for opening pages in tabs or windows, and use enter instead of click. Cheers, Esther On 7 Apr 2013, at 06:43,

Opening Word Attachments in Mail

2013-04-07 Thread Matthew Chao
Hi, Folks. How do I open an attachment in Mail. I have a Word document that's an attachment. Thanks in advance for your help. Matthew Chao --- 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

Re: How to Open link in new window?

2013-04-07 Thread Sarah k Alawami
You can also I learned just a few hours ago set a web spot or what ever it is called with vo l right bracket on the link where ou want to be dropped the next time you visit that page. the left bracket key with vo removes the web spot. good luck. On Apr 7, 2013, at 9:43 AM, Eric Caron

Re: Opening Word Attachments in Mail

2013-04-07 Thread Josh Gregory
When you're on the attachment, Wittrell say embedded and then the name, Press voice over shift m to open the context menu, and then arrow Down to open and press enter. Sent from my iPhone On Apr 7, 2013, at 2:02 PM, Matthew Chao mattc...@verizon.net wrote: Hi, Folks. How do I open an

Re: Opening Word Attachments in Mail

2013-04-07 Thread Matthew Chao
Hi, Josh. Thanks for the info. Matthew Chao At 02:35 PM 4/7/2013, Josh Gregory wrote: When you're on the attachment, Wittrell say embedded and then the name, Press voice over shift m to open the context menu, and then arrow Down to open and press enter. Sent from my iPhone On Apr 7,

Re: Opening Word Attachments in Mail

2013-04-07 Thread Sarah k Alawami
You can either hit cmd y so it will quick look, or you can control click on the attachment and click open. take care. On Apr 7, 2013, at 11:02 AM, Matthew Chao mattc...@verizon.net wrote: Hi, Folks. How do I open an attachment in Mail. I have a Word document that's an attachment. Thanks

Re: Opening Word Attachments in Mail

2013-04-07 Thread Josh Gregory
No problem, I'm glad I was able to help. Sent from my iPhone On Apr 7, 2013, at 2:49 PM, Matthew Chao mattc...@verizon.net wrote: Hi, Josh. Thanks for the info. Matthew Chao At 02:35 PM 4/7/2013, Josh Gregory wrote: When you're on the attachment, Wittrell say embedded and then the

Re: Showing hidden files in itunes

2013-04-07 Thread George Cham
I see by my post , that I did not go into the whole story . I deleted the file from iTunes , and also hid it from iCloud . I want to reenable this file so I can download it from iCloud again. George Cham george.c...@outlook.com On 07/04/2013, at 7:43 PM, Esther mori...@mac-access.net wrote:

Re: How to Open link in new window?

2013-04-07 Thread Eric Caron
Hi Esther and others, I found the short cuts where you indicated but I would not have known to substitute enter for click. One more interesting detail. I believe I did try command, Option, Enter on the link and nothing happened several times. I went back to the NLS BARD site and

Re: How to Open link in new window?

2013-04-07 Thread Josh Gregory
Hi, how does one change these commands? From perusing the settings, it's not quite apparent how to do this. Sent from my iPhone On Apr 7, 2013, at 6:41 PM, Eric Caron eric_ca...@mac-access.net wrote: Hi Esther and others, I found the short cuts where you indicated but I would not have

Re: A Recent Example Of Messages to multiple destinations

2013-04-07 Thread Bryan Smart
I've tried and tried, but can not unsubscribe. I've used your web form, linked at the bottom of list messages, but the confirmation message never comes. I've written to the contact address, but no response. If I promise to repeatedly crosspost, would I get removed then? Please please please?

Looking to buy a mac

2013-04-07 Thread Matthew C
Hello all. I am needing to buy a new computer. I was planning on buying a mac and doing some kind of partition or running windows virtually on it for windows stuff I still wanted to use. The newer macs may be a little bit pricy for me and I did see on amazon they had some of the older mac book

Re: Looking to buy a mac

2013-04-07 Thread Travis Siegel
Mac aren't like windows pcs, there is no buying parts, andhaving someone put them together. What you buy from apple is all there is. There'sveral places you can purchase used/older macs, my favorite is powermax.com. They even have some of the old minimacs that are ppc based. Good

I need some advice regarding the purchase of a new Macintosh system

2013-04-07 Thread Chris Gilland
I know it's not May as of yet, so I have a bit still yet to financially save, but I do want to be at least going ahead and doing my homework on things. I myself am a huge Apple fanatic. By now, you all should know that. I have IPhones here, IPads, a mac mini, a Mac book, a few apple TV's,

Re: I need some advice regarding the purchase of a new Macintosh system

2013-04-07 Thread Sarah k Alawami
I think but I'm not sure that the mini comes with an apple bt keyboard. so you might be fine there. If not you can get her the apple usb full size keyboard. The specs look good and maybe get her a monitor from wally world on clearance. and maybe the magic track pad of the 1 button mouse won't

Re: Looking to buy a mac

2013-04-07 Thread Sarah k Alawami
Thanks I'll have to look in to that. as well should I need a new machine as this now will die in about a year or two. On Apr 7, 2013, at 6:28 PM, Travis Siegel tsie...@softcon.com wrote: Mac aren't like windows pcs, there is no buying parts, andhaving someone put them together. What you buy

Re: How to Open link in new window?

2013-04-07 Thread Esther
Hi Eric, Thanks for reporting back. I think the shortcuts listed on the Safari preference pane for tabs did work more reliably in earlier versions of Safari, and there was at least one web page that I found where using a control+mouse click on a link -- not just a mouse click alone -- worked

Re: I need some advice regarding the purchase of a new Macintoshsystem

2013-04-07 Thread Chris Gilland
Sarah, you are mistaking on thinking the mini comes with a Bluetooth keyboard. You're thinking of the IMac. I know this based on both my internet research, and the fact that I bought a brand new mini for myself last February, as stated in my initial e-mail, and it didn't have any sort of

Re: Looking to buy a mac

2013-04-07 Thread Chris Gilland
Hush! Don't give your poor machine any ideas. the last thing we need's for it to hear you and croke. LOL! Chris. - Original Message - From: Sarah k Alawami marri...@gmail.com To: Mac OSX iOS Accessibility mac-access@mac-access.net Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2013 11:48 PM Subject:

odd things happening with mail

2013-04-07 Thread Sarah Alawami
Ok. this is going to be an odd one. I for some reason today have been having mail go out through my university account even though it's disabled under my mail prefs both for sending and receiving mail. I removed that account and all seems well now, I hope, how ever once I add that account I

Re: How to Open link in new window?

2013-04-07 Thread Michael Marshall
hey all, i did command option shift enter to open a link in a new window it worked like a charm. thanks for that shortcut. Michael On 08/04/2013, at 1:49 PM, Esther mori...@mac-access.net wrote: Hi Eric, Thanks for reporting back. I think the shortcuts listed on the Safari preference pane

Re: How to Open link in new window?

2013-04-07 Thread Sarah Alawami
Yeh I have mine set to never. but even on google's pages I have to vo left and right or away from and back to the link to open it in a new window and have the key strokes talked about work. It's annoying, but it works. Take care. On Apr 7, 2013, at 8:49 PM, Esther mori...@mac-access.net

Re: I need some advice regarding the purchase of a new Macintoshsystem

2013-04-07 Thread Sarah Alawami
Oops? Hmm my friend's mini came with a keyboard, or maybe he bought it. Oops? Well, Ok. there's my thousandth mistake for the day. lol. JK. but seriously if ou want to have a full keyboard try the usb keyboard for your mom as she might be used to that kind of lay out. Good luck. and if anyone