Airmail for Mac a great replacement for Apple Mail

2014-08-15 Thread Christopher Hallsworth
Please could you check this out and report on its accessibility? Thanks! Airmail for Mac a great replacement for Apple Mail by MacDailyNews [cfsp key=adsense_336x280]After Mac OS X 10.8, Apple Mail has been going downhill by every update. It's weird because the iOS Mail app is rock solid, Jack

Slow startup.

2014-08-15 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! When i first bought my mac mini mid 2011 it was quite fast in its startup. Now a days i think it takes 2 or 3 minutes for it before voiceover comes to live. The only thing i've tried is to use onyx which helps a litle bit but not very much. Are there any other sollutions out there? Or am i

Re: iblink

2014-08-15 Thread Maria and Joe Chapman
Hi. got it and so far Im pretty impressed. no crashes or anything. I have signed up for a 14 day trial of sam net. Maria and Joe Chapman bubbygirl1...@gmail.com On 13 Aug 2014, at 10:59 pm, Jamie Pauls jamiepa...@gmail.com wrote: Yes it is. Feel free to grab it and give it a spin. Thanks.

Airmail, we're not there yet

2014-08-15 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, I took the plunge and bought Airmail just for the heck of it. Airmail has many features which i think could be good but as almost always the accessibility is quite poor. The main window contains lots of tables which appear to be empty although they probably aren’t. I’m sure someone can

Re: Airmail, we're not there yet

2014-08-15 Thread Christopher Hallsworth
Thank you or trying this for us. I encourage you to contact the app's developers and inform them of the accessibility issues you experience with this app. Hopefully they will take your concerns seriously and do something about them. Thanks again and take care. Christopher Hallsworth Student

RE: Time Machine question

2014-08-15 Thread Bill Holton
Hi. No, no longer getting backups. Getting backup failed messages, says to change disk. I would have thought it would delete old backups automatically, doesn't seem to be happening for me. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Grant

macs and braille displays

2014-08-15 Thread Jack and Becky
Greeting Folks! I am a brand spanking new Mac user. Just starting hfind my way about on it. I have a Mac book Pro. Running the latest version of Mavericks. I am using a braille edge and am finding the interface to be somewhat messy. I should add that I am a deaf person and Cannot use

Re: Airmail for Mac a great replacement for Apple Mail

2014-08-15 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I don't now remember all the details, but it wasn't accessible enough for me to use last time I tried it. -- Cheryl I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper thrown in the trash! Then God gave me a new heart and life: His joy for my despairing tears!

Re: macs and braille displays

2014-08-15 Thread erik burggraaf
Hi Jack, To reach braille settings on your mac, press control option f8 to open the voiceover utility. Then press b for braille. The dots 7 and 8 you feel at the bottom of your display indicate that the text on the display is highlighted. For example, you may be reading a paragraph on a web

Re: macs and braille displays

2014-08-15 Thread Cheryl Homiak
What Erik has written is much more thorough and clear than what I have written below but since there are a few things he didn't say and I don't want to take the time to edit, I will send this as is. If in doubt, defer to what Erik has written. Others have also perhaps posted while I was

Re: macs and braille displays

2014-08-15 Thread Caitlyn Furness
Hi Jack, You wil find the settings for braille in the voice over utility. Hit control option f8. This will take you to the vo utility. After that, go down the table til you find braille. In the braille settings, you can set things up as you like. From your description of the dots along

key assignments table for braille display

2014-08-15 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Is there a way to copy and paste or in some other way make a file of one's key assignment table in braille displays key assignments. I'd like to be able to keep a list independent of having to open the table, especially when I've changed assignments. -- Cheryl I tried and tried to turn

Reading braille in text edit: asking again

2014-08-15 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I just thought I would check this in case somebody has come up with a solution and I hadn't heard about it. I really would like to read braille files in text edit and also edit them there. I can read the files fine for the most part and can do editing as long as I remember to use the

Re: Reading braille in text edit: asking again

2014-08-15 Thread Jane
No way that I've found to not see them, unless you edit on an iDevice. Then I think you can't see them. I have the opposite problem. Jane On Aug 15, 2014, at 12:24 PM, Cheryl Homiak cah4...@icloud.com wrote: I just thought I would check this in case somebody has come up with a solution

Re: Reading braille in text edit: asking again

2014-08-15 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Yes, editing on an i-device does not show these which is nice. But I don't understand why those have to show in Text Edit and other applications on the Mac. -- Cheryl I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper thrown in the trash! Then God gave me a

Re: Reading braille in text edit: asking again

2014-08-15 Thread Jane
When editing print documents, it's great, and that's why I wish I could see them on an iDevice. But I do wish that it could be a toggle. You know, for pleasure reading, not for editing. Jane On Aug 15, 2014, at 12:37 PM, Cheryl Homiak cah4...@icloud.com wrote: Yes, editing on an i-device

Re: Reading braille in text edit: asking again

2014-08-15 Thread Joe Quinn
how do you edit brf files on an IDevice? On Aug 15, 2014, at 11:37 AM, Cheryl Homiak cah4...@icloud.com wrote: Yes, editing on an i-device does not show these which is nice. But I don't understand why those have to show in Text Edit and other applications on the Mac. -- Cheryl I

iPhone 5 and Siri question

2014-08-15 Thread Jenine Stanley
Sorry if this isn't the list to ask but I'm noticing that when I use Siri on my iPhone 5 for work, and I ask it to give me info and it then needs to speak and ask me yes or no, the speech gets cut off and I never hear whether it wants a response from me after the tone. On my 5S personal phone

Re: key assignments table for braille display

2014-08-15 Thread erik burggraaf
Hi, Press control option f8 for the voiceover utility. Press control option M for the menu bar. Arrow over to file. Arrow downd to export braille preferences and press enter. Choose where to save the file and hit the export button. You're done. You can now share your key bindings file between

Re: iPhone 5 and Siri question

2014-08-15 Thread Joe Quinn
It's most likely a voiceover problem as both me and my wife's phones do the same thing sometimes and we are using 5s's. Though it happened on our 4s's as well so I have no idea. Sent from my iPhone On Aug 15, 2014, at 11:58 AM, Jenine Stanley dragonwalke...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry if this

Re: iPhone 5 and Siri question

2014-08-15 Thread Jenine Stanley
Interesting. This only seems to happen on my 5 and not the 5S. Come to think of it, this used to happen occasionally on my 4S as well but not as often. Siri is practically useless on the 5 I have. I'm considering doing the good old reboot, Lock button and home button together for 10 seconds,

Re: iPhone 5 and Siri question

2014-08-15 Thread Joe Quinn
Try toggling voiceover offrom, asking your question and see what happens. Pretty sure that will work. Sent from my iPhone On Aug 15, 2014, at 12:09 PM, Jenine Stanley dragonwalke...@gmail.com wrote: Interesting. This only seems to happen on my 5 and not the 5S. Come to think of it, this

Re: Slow startup.

2014-08-15 Thread David Griffith
I found that after doing a clean install and literally starting from scratch, that is reinstalling all my apps manually and not using migration that my iMac boot up speed returned to normal. David Griffith On 15/08/2014 07:38, Anders Holmberg wrote: Hi! When i first bought my mac mini mid

Re: Slow startup.

2014-08-15 Thread Alex Hall
You can also make sure your startup disk isn't too full, and that apps aren't auto-starting. Apple lets you re-open apps automatically, so your Mac essentially restores itself t how it was when you shut it down. This is really convenient, but it might cause things to run slower. On Aug 15,

Opening multiple programs at once

2014-08-15 Thread Phil Halton
f There is something I do normally that requires three or four open programs. I'm a little tired of opening each one manually. Is there a way on the Mac to open all the necessary programs with one move. It has something to do with activities or desktops I think, but I'm not sure. Sent from

Re: Opening multiple programs at once

2014-08-15 Thread Alex Hall
My first thought is Applescript. Write and save the script, then run it whenever. tell application Safari to run tell application App Store to run and so forth for each app you want. The keyword might be open instead of run, but the basic idea is the same. On Aug 15, 2014, at 1:51 PM, Phil

Need help! Very frustrated with mail on the Mac!

2014-08-15 Thread Jose Lomeli
Hello; Listers, I need help! I called Apple because I am having issues with Mail on my Mac! For some odd reason I am not getting emails on my Mac! We tried everything and no go! It seems like my emails are going to the Archive folder! I am getting email on my iPhone it's just my Mac that is

Re: Need help! Very frustrated with mail on the Mac!

2014-08-15 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Well, if this is gmail, it might have something to do with your settings up on the gmail website rather than with a problem on your mac. But in order for any of us to help you, you are going to have to give more information about your setup for your mail on iphone and Mac i.e.: are they both

Re: Need help! Very frustrated with mail on the Mac!

2014-08-15 Thread Jose Lomeli
They are both set up with IMAP! Jose Lomeli Sent from my iPhone On Aug 15, 2014, at 12:32 PM, Cheryl Homiak cah4...@icloud.com wrote: Well, if this is gmail, it might have something to do with your settings up on the gmail website rather than with a problem on your mac. But in order for

good RSS reader

2014-08-15 Thread Joe Quinn
what's a good RSS reader that also opens podcasts? hopefully it'd be free? thanks! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to

Re: Airmail, we're not there yet

2014-08-15 Thread Matthew Dyer
Hi, Thanks fo0r testing this. For now, I think I will stick with thunder byrd in linux at least untill yosemity is out. If It wasn't for gmail I would use apple mail full time. Just my thoughts. Matthew On 08/15/2014 07:10 AM, Christopher Hallsworth wrote: Thank you or trying this for

ebok question

2014-08-15 Thread Jean
Jane: Thanks very much for this clarification. I assume I can also read them on my i phone since I don't have an i pad? Jean -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it,

e book question

2014-08-15 Thread Jean
Hello again: One final question. If I download either an epub or mobi book on the computer, how do I get it to i books on my i phone? Jean -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving

Re: Opening multiple programs at once

2014-08-15 Thread Phil Halton
I googled Mac opening multiple apps at onceand found several hits, one of which was a video showing how to create an automator application to do this. Although it wasn't a blind oriented video, it was relatively simple to figure out. Now I have an application on my desktop called Video project

VO Announces Authentication After Quitting An App

2014-08-15 Thread Eileen Misrahi
Hello All, I just noticed this a little while ago and VO never announced Authentication after using command-q. Is there a setting that I turned on by mistake that is causing this to happen? Please advise on where to go to get rid of this ignoring pest. Thanks in advance. Kind regards,

Re: e book question

2014-08-15 Thread Chris Moore
dropbox On Aug 15, 2014, at 5:44 PM, Jean radiofore...@gmail.com wrote: Hello again: One final question. If I download either an epub or mobi book on the computer, how do I get it to i books on my i phone? Jean -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: VO Announces Authentication After Quitting An App

2014-08-15 Thread Alex Hall
It sounds more like you have an authentication window open. Press vo-f1 twice and arrow through the list; you should be able to find the window in question and go to it to see what it is. On Aug 15, 2014, at 7:10 PM, Eileen Misrahi eileen.misr...@gmail.com wrote: Hello All, I just noticed

Re: Time Machine question

2014-08-15 Thread Gerry Cook
Hi bill in the menu bar, did you check whether enable switch was checked in time machine preferences and options? then the automatic backups should come back. That happened to me once and i also checked backup on battery power. Hope that helps. All the best. cheers gerry have a nice day Email:

Authentication Still Showing After Quitting Apps

2014-08-15 Thread Eileen Misrahi
This is an update on what I found after quitting a program with command-Q. VO continues to announce Authentication. I tried using VO-F1 twice quickly when this occurs. I get this message, User Authentication is REquired. When I try to interact with it, VO Right arrow or just right arrow to open

Reinstalling Mail!

2014-08-15 Thread Jose Lomeli
Hello; Pisters, is their a way to reinstall Mail? I am still having issues! Apparently all of my emails are going to the archive folder! Why? I don't know! Any ideas? I would gladly appreciate it a lot! I am running Mavericks on a MacBook Pro! Jose Lomeli Sent from my iPhone -- You received

Re: Reinstalling Mail!

2014-08-15 Thread Jose Lomeli
Lol I meant Listers! Oops! Lol! Jose Lomeli Sent from my iPhone On Aug 15, 2014, at 8:30 PM, Jose Lomeli jose.lome...@gmail.com wrote: Hello; Pisters, is their a way to reinstall Mail? I am still having issues! Apparently all of my emails are going to the archive folder! Why? I don't

help with updating flash player?

2014-08-15 Thread Maria and Joe Chapman
Hi. when I try to install a new version of flash player, I get a message to close the programme com apple webkit development. I quit webkit and looked in activity monitor but am unable to find the programme. the installation just gets stuck on retry. anyone have any ideas? . Warm regards

Re: help with updating flash player?

2014-08-15 Thread David Taylor
Hi, You will also have to close anything else that is using Webkit. If you have this as your default browser, this could include, for example, MenuTab Pro for Facebook, or any other app that uses HTML style interfaces. HTH Dave On 16 Aug 2014, at 06:48, Maria and Joe Chapman