Re: MacSmart?

2014-10-18 Thread Maria and Joe Chapman
Hmm I just use the send space wizard to download from send space. Warm regards and blessings Maria and , Joe bubbygirl1...@gmail.com On 18 Oct 2014, at 1:04 am, Mark Baxter markbaxte...@gmail.com wrote: I was downloading a file from SendSpace the other day; they have a new downloader

Re: answering calls on the mac?

2014-10-18 Thread christopher hallsworth
You need to be on iOS 8. Looks like you're still on 7. Well I would hold off anyway until the update due out Monday. Sent from my Macbook Pro On 18 Oct 2014, at 05:26, May mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: This is what I get. face time on my apple ID I can be reached by face time at...and

Re: answering calls on the mac?

2014-10-18 Thread Nicholas Parsons
I haven't quite read every post in this thread, but to contribute my two cents to help our understanding: I am running iOS 8.0.2 on an iPHone 6 and Yosemite on a mid 2011 MacBook Air and I am able to answer and make cellular calls on my MacBook. This is a relief as I only read last night that

Re: Unlabelled Buttons in Mail 8.0

2014-10-18 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Try one more thing. I think I can get it to happen consistently now. Interact with the message, then immediately press VO-left arrow, and then press VO-right arrow. Pressing VO-left arrow first to the header area rather than the message text seems to then make the buttons appear. If you still

Re: pdf forms

2014-10-18 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Well, I thought it only did that when performing OCR, not when filling out forms, but I'm not sure. It was a little embarrassing, actually. I printed off some documents for work using the versions I had OCR-ed with the demo version of PDFPen, and my boss couldn't work out why there were smiley

Re: How to play chess on mac?

2014-10-18 Thread David Griffith
If you search on apple vis Podcasts you will find a good detailed guide to accessibly setting up and playing the chess app on the Mac. I listened to it over the summer but it should still be available. I suggest you just go to the site and search under chess. David Griffith On 18 Oct 2014,

Re: answering calls on the mac?

2014-10-18 Thread May McDonald Homuth
Hmm, that is strange. I definitely don't have that option. Thanks so much for trying to help. May and LD, Luna Moon! www.canadianlynx.ca m...@canadianlynx.ca On Oct 18, 2014, at 12:35 AM, Shawn Krasniuk bbssh...@icloud.com wrote: Hi May. I don't know what to tell you then. In my FaceTime

Re: answering calls on the mac?

2014-10-18 Thread May McDonald Homuth
I have an IPhone 6 and it has 8.02. May and LD, Luna Moon! www.canadianlynx.ca m...@canadianlynx.ca On Oct 18, 2014, at 2:17 AM, christopher hallsworth challswor...@icloud.com wrote: You need to be on iOS 8. Looks like you're still on 7. Well I would hold off anyway until the update due out

Re: answering calls on the mac?

2014-10-18 Thread May McDonald Homuth
I have to say this is rather confusing, smiles. May and LD, Luna Moon! www.canadianlynx.ca m...@canadianlynx.ca On Oct 18, 2014, at 12:05 AM, Shawn Krasniuk bbssh...@icloud.com wrote: Hi May. What iPhone are you running and are you running iOS8? In order to make and receive calls, you have

RE: Student needing assistance

2014-10-18 Thread Scott Erichsen
Hi There is a piece of software for windows that will export mail from outlook PST files to Mbox format for the mac. O2M by Little machines. http://www.littlemachines.com/ Give this a try. It certainly works. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

Re: Apple presentation seemed to offer nothing

2014-10-18 Thread Chris G
Right, my point was to sell my iPad mini 2 128gbw/ cell service and get an iPad mini 3 if it supported apple pay in the stores. I don't really care about apps. (smile) It doesn't support apple pay in the stores so I won't be buying one. Might consider an iPhone 6 though. Depends on my

Re: VO and lag on Yosemite

2014-10-18 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, i’m not noticing any lag whatsoever with VO on my 2011 IMac, and if there is one, i don’t think it’s worth whining about. /Krister 18 okt 2014 kl. 01:32 skrev Faisal newyorkyank...@gmail.com: Hi all, so I took the plunge and installed Yosemite. I’m noticing a definite lag with voice

Re: elementary question

2014-10-18 Thread Kevin Cussick
Hi, OK I can see add to doc but how to confirm the action thanks in advance very new still to the mac. On 17 Oct 2014, at 22:42, Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com wrote: Hi there Thanks it worked. The manual does not add in the control key. Gigi On Oct 17, 2014, at 4:34 PM, Alex Hall

Re: VO and lag on Yosemite

2014-10-18 Thread David Griffith
Thanks I have a 2011 iMac as well so this is reassuring to hear. I will also jump once I have got my new external drive to fully secure my time Machine backup. David Griffith On 18 Oct 2014, at 09:49, Krister Ekstrom kris...@kristersplace.com wrote: Hi, i'm not noticing any lag whatsoever

Re: VO and lag on Yosemite

2014-10-18 Thread David Griffith
When I moved from Mountain Lion to Mavericks I noticed a big improvement once I had made a clean install . This may assist you as well this time and also you may want to look to make sure you do not have activities running just in case this is an issue for Yosemite as well. When I move to

Urgent: reading PDF documents using preview in Os X 10.10

2014-10-18 Thread Venkatesh Potluri
Hi list, I just updated to Os X 10.10 a few hours ago. When I open a PDF in preview, VO says PDF Content group. When I interact with the group, VO says pdf static text and thats all! How do I get VO to read the content of the PDF file? This is a very important and urgent task for me as I have a

Re: answering calls on the mac?

2014-10-18 Thread alia robinson
not working for me, at all. On Oct 17, 2014, at 10:22 PM, Cheryl Homiak cah4...@icloud.com wrote: I wouldn't think that would be too old; it's working fine for me on my late 2012 iMac and my 11inch macbook air. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Problems with Yosemite installer

2014-10-18 Thread Matt Dierckens
Hi all. I've tried to install Yosemite twice now, and both times, it downloads the file to my machine, after its done, it makes the fan speed up and then shuts down the computer. I am running a macbook pro, early 2011. Help greatly appreciated. Matt Dierckens Macintosh Trainer Blind Access

Re: Unlabelled Buttons in Mail 8.0

2014-10-18 Thread Alex Hall
Yes, there it is! I interacted with the text, stopped interacting, and hit vo-left. Thanks, I'm glad you find the articles and podcasts useful. On Oct 18, 2014, at 2:36 AM, Nicholas Parsons mr.nicholas.pars...@gmail.com wrote: Try one more thing. I think I can get it to happen consistently

Re: How to play chess on mac?

2014-10-18 Thread Alex Hall
Here's the written guide: http://www.applevis.com/guides/gaming-mac-apps/playing-chess-mac and here's the podcast: http://www.applevis.com/podcast/episodes/demonstration-chess-application-which-comes-preloaded-all-mac-computers On Oct 18, 2014, at 3:08 AM, David Griffith daj.griff...@gmail.com

Re: elementary question

2014-10-18 Thread Alex Hall
There's no confirmation, the item is added immediately. To remove it, find it in the Dock and press control-option-shift-m, then find the Options submenu. open that with the right arrow, then press enter on the (checked) option to keep in Dock. This will uncheck it and the item should be

Re: VO and lag on Yosemite

2014-10-18 Thread Alex Hall
I've heard one or two reports of a clean install making the lag considerably worse, which is something I've never heard of a clean install doing. For my part, the lag with Alex is there but tolerable, while the lag with Nuance voices is ridiculous. I have no activities, and I'm on a 2012

Re: VO and lag on Yosemite

2014-10-18 Thread Dionipher Presas Herrera
i installed it on my other partition so there's no way there should be a luggishness. i do have a mac book pro late 2013 16 gb ram and 512 gb hard drive quad core On 18 Oct 2014, at 03:10 pm, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com wrote: I've heard one or two reports of a clean install making the lag

Re: How to play chess on mac?

2014-10-18 Thread Dionipher Presas Herrera
i already did it but the thing is some moves dont work even if its valid. i know how to play chess so i know what was the valid moves. i dont know why cant i move on the third and so so on. On 18 Oct 2014, at 03:05 pm, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com wrote: Here's the written guide:

Re: Urgent: reading PDF documents using preview in Os X 10.10

2014-10-18 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Have you been able to read that particular document before? Sounds like you might need Abby Fine reader to run OCR on it. Sincerely, the Constantly Barefooted Ray, Still a very happy Mac and iphone user! Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in and

Re: Urgent: reading PDF documents using preview in Os X 10.10

2014-10-18 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Is this a pdf document that you were previously able to read? If so, then Interact twice with the Content area then try using VO-down arrow to go through it. It's possible that the first page has nothing VO readable and VO appears to only read the document's current page if you don't

Re: Urgent: reading PDF documents using preview in Os X 10.10

2014-10-18 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi there PDF Pen Pro will also OCR pdf image files. It does it automatically when it encounters a pdf image file. I have had good results from it before. Gigi On Oct 18, 2014, at 8:38 AM, Ray Foret Jr rforet7...@comcast.net wrote: Have you been able to read that particular document

Re: elementary question

2014-10-18 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hey Alex Thanks. Actually, apparently there is some change in Yosemite on that. When I added the files to the dock, it said it was added. I took some out, too, with the vo shift m like you said. Then I did not get a confirmation that the file was gone off the dock, and I got taken back out of

Re: Urgent: reading PDF documents using preview in Os X 10.10

2014-10-18 Thread Venkatesh Potluri
Hi all, thanks for the help! Yes, it is a PDF document i have been able to read previously. There seems to be a bug in yosemite. I quit the PDF, turned off VO, opened the PDF and turned VO back on. When I interact with the PDF content, vo reads the PDF properly. Once again, thanks for the

Re: Apple presentation seemed to offer nothing

2014-10-18 Thread Eugenia Firth
I thought part of the presentation, the part where he made the call on his Mac, was funny. As for Apple Pay, I am really not pleased with ATT not letting me upgrade to a iPHone six so I can do it. I can't upgrade until next October. Yesterday, I had to sign on those irritating receipts, so if

Re: iCloud drive

2014-10-18 Thread Eugenia Firth
This wouldn't be a perfect solution, but AccessNote will read and write text files on the iPhone. So, you can change an rtf file to text on the Mac, and send it to Dropbox to go to the iPhone. That's round about, but I think it would work if you needed to do that. On Oct 17, 2014, at 9:07 PM,

garageBand 10.0.3, where are the handles?

2014-10-18 Thread Gabriele Battaglia
Hi All. I’m just testing the new GB version 10.0.3 released yesterday. The change log reports improvements for accessibility. So far I noticed that now VO says the position on the track and the start and finish position while moving between regions. But, interacting with tracks and regions, I

Going no mail

2014-10-18 Thread BrianMiller
All, Apologies, but could someone remind me how to go no mail for a spell while I'm on vacation? Thanks! Brian M -- 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

Re: at specialist

2014-10-18 Thread Esubalew Johnston
Hi all, does she also teach how to use the Mac? thanks On 10/16/14, Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com wrote: Hi there I agree with John. I took her course, and I came away with some good reference material also. Gigi Sent from my iPhone On Oct 15, 2014, at 12:03 PM, John Panarese

Re: at specialist

2014-10-18 Thread Esubalew Johnston
On 10/18/14, Esubalew Johnston esubale...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, does she also teach how to use the Mac? thanks On 10/16/14, Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com wrote: Hi there I agree with John. I took her course, and I came away with some good reference material also. Gigi Sent from my

Re: at specialist

2014-10-18 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello, I only teach Mac beginners when I can do so face to face, which limits my students to those in the Paris region of France or those who choose to come on a residential course. The Pages training requires a good knowledge of VoiceOver. Cheers, Anne On 18 Oct 2014, at 17:14, Esubalew

Having Voiceover speak on Yosemite login screen

2014-10-18 Thread Edward Green
Hi, Apologies if this has been posted before, I’ve tried to check but the Yosemite traffic has obviously been fairly busy. I’ve enabled file vault after installing Yosemite, meaning that I need to enter a password when I turn on my Macbook. However, Voiceover isn’t speaking on the login

Re: Having Voiceover speak on Yosemite login screen

2014-10-18 Thread Mark Baxter
I just now upgraded to Yosemite, and VO worked through the launcher and at the log-in screen. So far, nothing's really all that different ... * Mark BurningHawk Baxter http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries

Re: Having Voiceover speak on Yosemite login screen

2014-10-18 Thread Joseph
Hello, If you are booting with file vault the answer is no. Because VO cannot talk at that low level. When you boot, Several seconds after the startup chime, press Command F5 and you will hear a beep. Type in your account name. Note, nothing will speak. Press enter and you will hear 2 beeps.

Yosemite updating weirdness?

2014-10-18 Thread Mark Baxter
Hi, folks. I just successfully restarted and installed all software updates for my Macbook Pro15 (circa 2008). However, when I look in menu/apple/about this mac, it says Software version 8.5. ... Isn't Yosemite 10.9? However, the behavior of Safari has changed. When I try to access my bank

Re: Yosemite updating weirdness?

2014-10-18 Thread Eugenia Firth
Mine says 10.10 for Yosemite. Gigi Sent from my iPhone On Oct 18, 2014, at 10:56 AM, Mark Baxter markbaxte...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, folks. I just successfully restarted and installed all software updates for my Macbook Pro15 (circa 2008). However, when I look in menu/apple/about this

Re: Yosemite updating weirdness?

2014-10-18 Thread Mark Baxter
I ran Software Update again, and even though it said, An error has occurred, I hit the free upgrade, button, and now Appstore reports that it will take 7 hours, 15 minutes to complete the download. *shrug* it's a rainy day ... * Mark BurningHawk Baxter http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ -- You

Re: VO and lag on Yosemite

2014-10-18 Thread Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona
with that amount of ram you should not have any lag what so ever On 10/18/2014 6:17 AM, Dionipher Presas Herrera wrote: i installed it on my other partition so there's no way there should be a luggishness. i do have a mac book pro late 2013 16 gb ram and 512 gb hard drive quad core On 18 Oct

Re: Having Voiceover speak on Yosemite login screen

2014-10-18 Thread Edward Green
Hi Joseph, Thanks for this, that’s useful to know. I’m the only one using this Mac (I disabled the guest account), so I’ll probably just wait a few seconds and enter my password as I don’t have several accounts to cycle through. VO does come on when I do. Alternatively, I might turn off

Re: Help with iTunes How to Sync Now

2014-10-18 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey Jonathan, Thanks for the response. Ends up I found the sync in the new layout and it ends up I am having a more serious issue as sync is completely dimmed out. Just hung up with Apple Accessibility and they cannot figure out the issue of not being able to sync so they needed to call me

Re: Having Voiceover speak on Yosemite login screen

2014-10-18 Thread Joseph
Hello, I sure do understand that. Glad I could help a little. On Oct 18, 2014, at 9:17 AM, Edward Green ergreen1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Joseph, Thanks for this, that’s useful to know. I’m the only one using this Mac (I disabled the guest account), so I’ll probably just wait a few

RE: iBooks on Yosemite

2014-10-18 Thread wayne17a
Hello yes ibooks Is good now but how can I continuous read thanks in advance -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Joseph Sent: Friday, October 17, 2014 10:11 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: iBooks

RE: No speech

2014-10-18 Thread wayne17a
Hi don't know what is going on but I had no trouble with the install try command and f5 and see if vo comes on -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Matt Dierckens Sent: Friday, October 17, 2014 10:14 PM To:

Incorrect reporting of position of insertion point in Yosemite

2014-10-18 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello everyone, Well, the VO-F4-F4 command is still giving an incorrect position for the insertion point. So, I’ve sent another bug report to Accessibility along with a document illustrating the problem. It might be helpful if others could do the same. Apple might then realise just how serious

RE: log on with password

2014-10-18 Thread wayne17a
Thanks I think that what is my trouble is I do have file vault on so I will have to try and find out how to turn it off so again thanks -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Joseph Sent: Friday, October 17,

RE: VO and lag on Yosemite

2014-10-18 Thread wayne17a
I don’t know if this is related but since my update my vm with win7 I laggey so lets hope a fix comes soon -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Dionipher Herrera Sent: Friday, October 17, 2014 10:28 PM To:

having

2014-10-18 Thread adrian
haveing trouble with updating to yousematy for a strange reason when i try to update mmy mack book air 11 inch it says i need to enter my computer admin pass word. when i presss enter on it it wil not installl is there a way i can fi it?i wil be going to the apple store to try and fix it. wil

RE: not getting emails

2014-10-18 Thread Juan Hernandez
Thank you very much for checking this. I am glad to be back on the list. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] Sent: Friday, October 17, 2014 10:56 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: not getting emails I checked you account and

Re: No speech

2014-10-18 Thread Matt Dierckens
Hi all. I ended up figuring out what the problem was, the computer was hanging. Downloaded the app again, and it works. Matt Dierckens Macintosh Trainer Blind Access Training www.blindaccesstraining.com 1-877-774-7670 ext. 3 Work email:matt...@blindaccesstraining.com Personal email:

Re: Apple presentation seemed to offer nothing

2014-10-18 Thread Christopher Hallsworth
Next year the Apple Watch should make its debut so if you can't upgrade before the Apple Watch debut then this is something to consider. Nobody knows when exactly it will be on sale though. Sent from my laptop On 18/10/2014 14:54, Eugenia Firth wrote: I thought part of the presentation, the

Re: VO and lag on Yosemite

2014-10-18 Thread Christopher Hallsworth
Hi all I can tell you that during the developer previews and public betas the lag has been always there somewhat. I did both a clean install and an update on a secondary partition on my internal disk with the same results. This was on a late 2011 Macbook Pro 13 with 4 GB of RAM. It's

Launchbar for OS X

2014-10-18 Thread The Believer
When in Applevis the other day, I came across an article on Launchbar for OS X. It sounds like a neat app. Is anyone using it under Mavericks? From The Believer. . . . . . what if it were true? ancient.ali...@icloud.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Talking bath scale

2014-10-18 Thread The Believer
Is there a talking bath scale that can interface with either the Mac or iPhone? From The Believer. . . . . . what if it were true? ancient.ali...@icloud.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group

Re: answering calls on the mac?

2014-10-18 Thread matthew Dyer
Hi, Just tested this by calling my cell from my house phone and after doing some playing around it works just fine here. I think this great for someone who charges there phone in another room and does not want to get up to go get there phone. Matthew P.S, i am running an iMac 27 inch from

iTunes not opening under Yosemite

2014-10-18 Thread Brianna Snyder
Hi, I updated iTunes to the latest version while under Mavericks, and then upgraded my computer to Yosemite. As the subject states, I can’t open iTunes, whether I try from the dock, or the applications folder. All that happens is, VoiceOver just says “open”. Is anyone else having this

Re: Help with iTunes How to Sync Now

2014-10-18 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, If anyone else has a iTunes sync problem I figured out what to do as I have not heard back from Apple. Ends up it was not a iTunes issue yet another IOS 8 issue as I reset my settings on my iPhone and after doing that I am again able to sync my iPhone to iTunes. Note to anyone make

Re: answering calls on the mac?

2014-10-18 Thread gs
Yes, it's a nice feature. Now, if only I could get the SMS feature to work. Each time I try to send an SMS, I get an error stating that the number is not registered with iMessage. Hmm. Maybe I've missed something somewhere but I can't figure out what. On Oct 18, 2014, at 2:22 PM, matthew

Re: having

2014-10-18 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
Hi Adrian. In the future, can you please make your subject lines more specific? If you only have one word subjects like this, people might delete the message. Now as for your question, I've had this problem too. Just keep trying until it installs. I had to do it three times myself before it

Re: answering calls on the mac?

2014-10-18 Thread christopher hallsworth
Yes. This requires iOS 8.1 due out Monday. Can't say anymore at the moment as the specifics is subject to the NDA we developers all have to sign when paying the $99/year. On 18 Oct 2014, at 19:36, gs geoffsli...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, it's a nice feature. Now, if only I could get the SMS

Re: answering calls on the mac?

2014-10-18 Thread christopher hallsworth
Hi all I also think it's great for someone who wears hearing aids like me and finds there's too much interfeerence going on when using the earpiece. On 18 Oct 2014, at 19:22, matthew Dyer matthew.dy...@icloud.com wrote: Hi, Just tested this by calling my cell from my house phone and after

Re: Has Applevis Published The New VO Features Of Yosemite Yet?

2014-10-18 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
For me, Voiceover lagging with Alex doesn't bother me. What really has me going is that my computer takes forever to boot up. They fixed the problem in one of the betas, but it came back after beta 4 or 5. I have a friend whose computer isn't booting up at all, and she had to go into recovery

Re: Has Applevis Published The New VO Features Of Yosemite Yet?

2014-10-18 Thread christopher hallsworth
This is a bug I cannot duplicate. Boot up is the same as it was under Mavericks. On 18 Oct 2014, at 19:46, Shawn Krasniuk bbssh...@icloud.com wrote: For me, Voiceover lagging with Alex doesn't bother me. What really has me going is that my computer takes forever to boot up. They fixed the

About making calls from my Mac using my Iphone

2014-10-18 Thread Joseph
No Go! Hello folks. Well here’s the summery. I switched off the Wi-Fi on my iPhone. After about a minute or so, I restarted it. All items on the iPhone in FaceTime are active including using cel phone. Everything is checked in FaceTime on my iMac. When I go to make a call, the choice for cel

Re: About making calls from my Mac using my Iphone

2014-10-18 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
Hi Joseph. You have to turn off wifi on both your iPhone and your iMac. When I did this, everything worked. Shawn Sent From My White MacBook On Oct 18, 2014, at 1:54 PM, Joseph ablindvou...@icloud.com wrote: No Go! Hello folks. Well here’s the summery. I switched off the Wi-Fi on my

Re: About making calls from my Mac using my Iphone

2014-10-18 Thread Rachel Feinberg
If you go below the choice on the mac that says the iPhone is dimmed, you should see the number (if it is a number), that you've chosen to call. Rachel. On 10/18/2014 11:54 AM, Joseph wrote: No Go! Hello folks. Well here’s the summery. I switched off the Wi-Fi on my iPhone. After about a minute

Re: answering calls on the mac?

2014-10-18 Thread matthew Dyer
The sms feature will be available when iOS 8.1 is out on Monday. Matthew On Oct 18, 2014, at 2:36 PM, gs geoffsli...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, it's a nice feature. Now, if only I could get the SMS feature to work. Each time I try to send an SMS, I get an error stating that the number is not

Re: at specialist

2014-10-18 Thread esubalew
Hi, so you can teach over Skype? Esubalew Johnston Wanting it won't get it for you! You have to go get it! On Oct 18, 2014, at 9:31 AM, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk wrote: Hello, I only teach Mac beginners when I can do so face to face, which limits my students to those in the

Voice Dream Reader navigation sluggish IOS7.1.2

2014-10-18 Thread Phil Halton
All of a sudden, Voice Dream Reader is quite sluggish when trying to navigate through a document, either by sentence, paragraph, highlight, bookmark etc. It takes fully two second to move from one text unit to another in either direction. It used to be snappy as heck with absolutely no lag.

Re: Student needing assistance

2014-10-18 Thread Grant Hardy
A lot of great suggestions have already been made. I just wanted to add that I seem to recall that the Mac OS X Migration Assistant is able to migrate mail stored in a local PST file from a POP3 account into the mail app on a Mac. The feature doesn't seem to be thoroughly documented, and I

Re: About making calls from my Mac using my Iphone

2014-10-18 Thread Joseph
Hello, Yes, the number I put in is visible. On Oct 18, 2014, at 12:03 PM, Rachel Feinberg walksi...@gmail.com wrote: If you go below the choice on the mac that says the iPhone is dimmed, you should see the number (if it is a number), that you've chosen to call. Rachel. On 10/18/2014 11:54

Re: About making calls from my Mac using my Iphone

2014-10-18 Thread Joseph
Hello, I am using ethernet on my iMac but they are both on the same network. Perhaps that’s the problem. But why wouldn’t it work through ethernet over the local Wi-Fi network. Ok, I’ll switch to Wi-Fi on my Mac and see what gives. On Oct 18, 2014, at 11:58 AM, Shawn Krasniuk

Re: MacSmart?

2014-10-18 Thread Grant Hardy
Hi Mark, No worries, my comment about not providing your administrator password to untrusted apps was more a general rule of thumb. You may well have not been asked for the password in this instance. I believe you are experiencing some other issues after upgrading to Yosemite, from reading

Re: About making calls from my Mac using my Iphone

2014-10-18 Thread christopher hallsworth
My guess is once the ethernet is used on the mac then wifi is plain and simple ignored by the mac. On 18 Oct 2014, at 20:32, Joseph ablindvou...@icloud.com wrote: Hello, I am using ethernet on my iMac but they are both on the same network. Perhaps that’s the problem. But why wouldn’t it

FileVault speech services now available at startup on some computers

2014-10-18 Thread Grant Hardy
I noticed in Apple’s VoiceOver getting started guide for Yosemite, they mention that on some machines, speech services are available at the FileVault login window. Of course, it has always been reasonably easy to interact with FileVault by pressing CMD+F5 before typing in your username, and

Re: About making calls from my Mac using my Iphone

2014-10-18 Thread Joseph
Hello, Disconnected ethernet and activated Wi-Fi on the same network with the iPhone. Then restarted both devices. Still NoGo. On Oct 18, 2014, at 12:33 PM, christopher hallsworth challswor...@icloud.com wrote: My guess is once the ethernet is used on the mac then wifi is plain and

Question about MacBook Pro Activity with the Lid Closed

2014-10-18 Thread Jamie Pauls
Hello, list: After upgrading to Yosemite, I turned on File Vault for my MacBook Pro. Not sure why I did it, and I plan to turn it off, but I must wait for my files to be encrypted before I can turn File Vault off. The progress indicator says it will take several hours for the encryption

Re: FileVault speech services now available at startup on some computers

2014-10-18 Thread Joseph
Hello, How might I activate that feature. At this time all I get is the beeps and no Voice Prompts. On Oct 18, 2014, at 12:38 PM, Grant Hardy grantha...@outlook.com wrote: I noticed in Apple’s VoiceOver getting started guide for Yosemite, they mention that on some machines, speech services

Re: FileVault speech services now available at startup on some computers

2014-10-18 Thread Grant Hardy
If you are running Yosemite and are only getting the beeps, your Mac probably doesn't support this feature. The guide dozen clarify which models support these speech services. This link should take you to the relevant section of the guide:

Safari and HTML area

2014-10-18 Thread gs
I have been using Webkit up until the release of 10.10 and am now using Safari again. I am once again encountering the annoying problem of having to interact with the HTML area on a more than regular basis. This makes web browsing a headache and not ever a pleasant experience. Does anyone

Re: About making calls from my Mac using my Iphone

2014-10-18 Thread Matt Dierckens
So, Yosemite installed, working decently, tried the calling thing, it doesn't work. It's checked on iPhone and mac. What am I doing wrong? I am on wifi on both devices. Matt Dierckens Macintosh Trainer Blind Access Training www.blindaccesstraining.com 1-877-774-7670 ext. 3 Work

Hand off, anyone?

2014-10-18 Thread Brandt Steenkamp
Hi there folks, I use to have Hand off working pretty darn nice when I was running the iOS and Yosemite betas, but for some reason it is rather lacking at this point. I have hand off enabled on all 3 my devices, an iPhone 5c, iPad Mini with retina and my 2012 Mac book pro. I tried turning off

Re: FileVault speech services now available at startup on some computers

2014-10-18 Thread Joseph
Hello, I’ll read the info. Thanks. My iMac is a 27 inch mid 2010 machine and I’ll bet that’s why I don’t have the feature. But I’m going to purchase a new machine shortly. Cant wait till I get it. On Oct 18, 2014, at 12:54 PM, Grant Hardy grantha...@outlook.com wrote: If you are running

Can the fujitsu scansnap 600 sv be used of a blind person.

2014-10-18 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi all. Can a blind person use the fujitsu scansnap 600 sv, I wonder if anyone has any experience with this scanner. It is a sort of overhead scanner. I have not seen it, but I read about it and wondered if it could be used of a blind person. Best regards Annie. -- You received this message

Re: Hand off, anyone?

2014-10-18 Thread Erik Heil
Hello Well, just got your message. This is only a possibility, but I wonder if this might be related to FaceTime? The reason why I mention this is because when I had handoff working on an iPad and iPhone, for some reason, I couldn't receive any incoming calls on my iPad. However, on just a

Another strange issue

2014-10-18 Thread Matt Dierckens
Hey all. I have a couple of issues with Yosemite. 1. When I turn up and down the volume, I no longer get audible indication. 2. When attempting to use dictation, I also get no audible sound. If anyone knows how to fix this that would be great. Thanks. Matt Dierckens Macintosh Trainer Blind Access

Re: Can the fujitsu scansnap 600 sv be used of a blind person.

2014-10-18 Thread Erik Heil
Hello Well, I don't see any reason why this can't be done. The question you have to ask is whether software you want to use actually supports this device. Also, and might be helpful if you have some kind of guidance on the image. That is, how the document is oriented, assuming you want to

Re: Another strange issue

2014-10-18 Thread Brandt Steenkamp
Hi there, No idea about the dictation thing, but the clicks for the volume control is gone, why, I have no idea. It was there threw some of the beta period, but went away round about DP 4 or 5. Warm regards, Brandt Steenkamp Sent from my macbook pro Contact me: Mobile/iMessage/WatsApp:

Low VoiceOver volume during phone calls

2014-10-18 Thread David Chittenden
I could barely hear VoiceOver during phone or FaceTime calls for the past week. I thought it was a bug in iOS 8.0.2, and reported it to Apple Accessibility. They were trying to reproduce the bug. This morning, I found the problem on my iPhone, and reported everything to Apple Accessibility. A

Re: FileVault speech services now available at startup on some computers

2014-10-18 Thread Erik Heil
Hello Well, to your question, in order for this to be implemented when you press option to select the boot device, this will have to be implemented at the EFI level. That is, it will have to be baked into the actual from work which boots your device. Since the transition to Intel, all

Re: Another strange issue

2014-10-18 Thread gs
I read somewhere that this missing volume up-down sound was done intentionally. Personally, I think it is probably fine with me, once I get used to it. On Oct 18, 2014, at 4:20 PM, Brandt Steenkamp brandt.steenk...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there, No idea about the dictation thing, but the clicks

Re: Another strange issue

2014-10-18 Thread christopher hallsworth
I don't get the audible indications either. On 18 Oct 2014, at 21:15, Matt Dierckens matt.dierck...@gmail.com wrote: Hey all. I have a couple of issues with Yosemite. 1. When I turn up and down the volume, I no longer get audible indication. 2. When attempting to use dictation, I also get

Re: Another strange issue

2014-10-18 Thread Matt Dierckens
Maybe because the sound sucked? Lol in all seriousness, I got it to where dictation works. Haven't tried to do the extra commands, but hoping that will work as well. Matt Dierckens Macintosh Trainer Blind Access Training www.blindaccesstraining.com 1-877-774-7670 ext. 3 Work

Re: About making calls from my Mac using my Iphone

2014-10-18 Thread Edward Green
Hi Joseph, When you arrow or VO down Below where iPhone says call using iPhone is dimmed, do you see the number? If so, press enter on the number and the call will connect. Does that work? Cheers, Ed On 18 Oct 2014, at 20:42, Joseph ablindvou...@icloud.com wrote: Hello, Disconnected

Unread Mail in Yosemite

2014-10-18 Thread Deb Lewis
Hi!! I have the view preferences of Mail set to not mark conversations as read if I’ve read only some of the messages. But since upgrading to Yosemite, it is marking all messages as rEad if ones been read. Anyone noticing this and is there any fix I could have overlooked? My view preferences

Re: elementary question

2014-10-18 Thread Kevin Cussick
Hi, OK thanks will try again but it didn't work for me but will try again. I feel a bit daft asking questions but I suppose it's the only way you learn. thanks for any more help I might need in advance Lol. On 18 Oct 2014, at 14:07, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com wrote: There's no

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