Re: Text boxes in Pages?

2015-07-26 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Alex, I think you’d find placeholder text a better way for entering text that changes. Just type in some typical text in the format you want, then select that text, press VO-Tab for VO to ignore next key press, then press Ctrl-Option-Cmd-t to make it placeholder text. When using your

Re: siri's sense of humor, and ability to..?

2015-07-26 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Siri is more like a Star Trek kind of computer thing whereby you can ask him/her directions, questions both real and silly, place commands like open my Music app etc. VoiceOver is audio announcements and modified gestures of visible items on the screen so that a visually impaired user can

Re: Text boxes in Pages?

2015-07-26 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Alex, I’m not sure how you’re reading the text. If you just use the arrow keys, placeholder text will be highlighted as you reach it and will be read. When you do the next right arrow, the placeholder text will be unhighlighted and any normal text will be read normally. Never use Quick

Re: Can I edit an epub file.

2015-07-26 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi Devin. I have never got it to work with pages. FInereader can easily save as an epub, and most of the chapters is marked up correctly, but it would be great if there is a program that I can edit the epub file finereader creates. Best regards Annie. Den 26/07/2015 kl. 03.03 skrev Devin

Re: Voiceover is lost for words

2015-07-26 Thread Andrew Lamanche
It’s a bug please report urgently! I’ve already done so a few times. On 26 Jul 2015, at 00:11, Devin Prater d.pra...@me.com wrote: Hi all I'm on el capitan public beta 2, and have quite a problem. So, I restarted my mac after having it install the update, and now VoiceOver always seems to

Re: Text boxes in Pages?

2015-07-26 Thread Alex Hall
I was. Oddly, switching out of, then back to, Pages seemed to get it working. One final question on placeholder text: when I read the line holding the text, I hear only the placeholder. For example: Client name: [client name placeholder] If I read that line, I hear the embedded object sound,

Re: Text boxes in Pages?

2015-07-26 Thread eileen . misrahi
Hi Ann, Before I think about diving into Pages myself, I was wondering if this is possible with Pages after all the placemarkers are set? Is there a way to place the document in protective mode and then use the tab key to jump from one place marker to another or will the keystroke VO-J

Re: A Good Youtube to Mp4 Converter for Mac

2015-07-26 Thread Emilio
Hey there, An app I use, which is fre is: MacX YouTube Downloader,. It works most of the time when I want to download Youtube video. The completed file is placed into your downloads folder. All you do is copy-n-paste the URL of a Youtube linked video, and you should be good-to-go. Hope this

Re: A Good Youtube to Mp4 Converter for Mac

2015-07-26 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Hi Shawn, When I realised that MacTube no longer worked, I did some search and found an application called WinX HD Video Converter for Mac.app I can't now remember but I think I had to buy it. You can try it for a while. It works pretty well once you learn the layout of its window. There are

Re: Text boxes in Pages?

2015-07-26 Thread Alex Hall
Thanks, this is exactly what I was after. The problem is that it only worked once. I used it successfully on one line, then tried to repeat the process on the next line. The hotkey does nothing, and my selected text is de-selected. Is there something I have to do before I can use this mode

Re: Text boxes in Pages?

2015-07-26 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Alex, You have to press the VO-Tab command before each time you use the Ctrl-Option-Cmd-t Make placeholder text command but it should work every time. I’ve been using this for years, and in Pages09 I created a different shortcut for Make placeholder text to avoid having to use the VO-Tab

Re: slightly OT: posting Youtube comments using Safari and VO on Mac?

2015-07-26 Thread Kevin Shaw
Hi Alex, I’ve noticed that the comments and comment field are not visible right away. I have a feeling that there is some scripting behind this hides the comments to visually reduce clutter on the page until you want to interact with the comments. Try the following: Find the heading for the

Re: Pros and cons of a Mac mini

2015-07-26 Thread Marie Lyons
I have been using Dell computers for years and have my keyboard and monitor. Does anyone know if you can use them with the Mac mini? I am thinking about abandoning Windows for some type of mac. Marie Fixed income, hell mine is broken Sent from my iPhone On Jul 24, 2015, at 10:14 AM, Aleeha

Re: Text boxes in Pages?

2015-07-26 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Eileen, Pages is a very different word processor from Word. You can achieve the same results but the approach is completely different. I’m very comfortable with Pages, but find Word 2016 very confusing. When asking how to achieve something in Pages, it’s better to describe the desired

Re: siri's sense of humor, and ability to..?

2015-07-26 Thread Tim Kilburn
Independent in that they are not needed to work the other. That is, not dependent on each other for anything. You can ask Siri to do things for you but not everything. For example, you could ask Siri to play a song in the Music app, but I don't believe that you could tell him/her to adjust

Re: Voiceover is lost for words

2015-07-26 Thread matthew dyer
Hi, Yes I already reported this as a bug. You may want to do the same. It is really annoying. Matthew On Jul 25, 2015, at 7:11 PM, Devin Prater d.pra...@me.com wrote: Hi all I'm on el capitan public beta 2, and have quite a problem. So, I restarted my mac after having it install the

Re: Voiceover is lost for words

2015-07-26 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! Has the feedback utility gone any better or do you report directly to the accessibility team? /A 26 juli 2015 kl. 19:04 skrev matthew dyer ilovecountrymusic...@gmail.com: Hi, Yes I already reported this as a bug. You may want to do the same. It is really annoying. Matthew

Re: Editing/Working with Pages Template

2015-07-26 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Alex, You have to add the template to your templates list to be able to open it and modify it. You can use an existing template as the basis for a new template and you can turn placeholder text back into normal text using the same command that made it placeholder text in the first place.

Re: Voiceover is lost for words

2015-07-26 Thread Daniel Miller
You use the feedback assistant for all bugs concerning the beta. I’m sure the accessibility team will tell you to do the same thing if you report an issue to them. On Jul 26, 2015, at 1:07 PM, Anders Holmberg and...@pipkrokodil.se wrote: Hi! Has the feedback utility gone any better or do

Re: Text boxes in Pages?

2015-07-26 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Eileen, On 26 Jul 2015, at 17:16, eileen.misr...@gmail.com wrote: after all the placemarkers are set? Is there a way to place the document in protective mode and then use the tab key to jump from one place marker to another or will the keystroke VO-J accomplish this action? AR

Re: Pros and cons of a Mac mini

2015-07-26 Thread Kliph
I have both the 2012 and 2014 model, and the 2012 model is not faster than the 2014 model. They just replaced the cores with doul cores, instead of quad cores, but it is much faster plus I use SSD hard drives on both, so that have something to do with the speed. On Jul 26, 2015, at 12:27 PM,

Re: Pros and cons of a Mac mini

2015-07-26 Thread Devin Prater
I'd take the keyboard and the monitor to the Apple store and try them both out on the Mac to make sure. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 26, 2015, at 10:11 AM, Marie Lyons mlyons...@gmail.com wrote: I have been using Dell computers for years and have my keyboard and monitor. Does anyone know

Doing a Keynote presentation

2015-07-26 Thread Georgina Joyce
Hello All, I will be doing a keynote presentation later this year. I hopefully will be able to take my Apple TV to hook up to their screen and I should be able to take it from there. Looking at keynote, I can start the presentation but is it easy to go back etc. I wondered if anyone who has

Re: default word processor

2015-07-26 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Stacey, You have to do this for each type of file you want to edit with TextEdit. So, normally, RTF will open with TextEdit but DOC and DOCX will have to be changed. Select a file of the type you wish to change and press Cmd-i to open the Information window. Interact with the scroll

Re: Mac without monitor, a success!

2015-07-26 Thread Devin Prater
duet-display.com i think. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 26, 2015, at 11:50 AM, Anders Holmberg and...@pipkrokodil.se wrote: Hi! Where do one download the driver you were talking about? /A 25 juli 2015 kl. 15:28 skrev Devin Prater d.pra...@me.com: Well then, you're lucky. Sent from my

default word processor

2015-07-26 Thread Stacey Robinson
Hi, Can someone tell me if there is a way to make text edit my default word processor? I don’t care for Pages at all. Blessings, Stacey Robinson and GEB dog Kirk. mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net -- You received this message because

Re: Voiceover is lost for words

2015-07-26 Thread Andrew Lamanche
I've never had much trouble with the Feedback utility on El Capitan beta apart from the fact that it seems to suggest every time that I should attach a file when actually files have already been selected and attached by default. There's a scroll area with which one has to interact but that's

Re: Doing a Keynote presentation

2015-07-26 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Hmmm. I'm not sure although I'm pretty sure it shouldn't be particularly difficult. I have used the Keynote iOS app but never for an actual presentation. I'll have to investigate a little further. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jul 26, 2015, at 14:40, Georgina Joyce

Re: Text boxes in Pages?

2015-07-26 Thread Alex Hall
Oh no, I really don't like Quick Nav and leave it off whenever I can. Odd the rest of the line doesn't read normally. Oh wait, this might be a beta thing, so ignore me. :) On Jul 26, 2015, at 10:38 AM, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk wrote: Hello Alex, I’m not sure how you’re reading

looking for a virtual machine

2015-07-26 Thread John D. Lipsey
Hi list: Not sure anyone can help me with this, as it’s kind of an unusual request, but here goes. My girlfriend has a MacBook Air, 13 inch from last year. She’s comfortable doing most things on her mac, but is going off to grad school this year. Her school’s disabilities services

Re: Mac without monitor, a success!

2015-07-26 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! Where do one download the driver you were talking about? /A 25 juli 2015 kl. 15:28 skrev Devin Prater d.pra...@me.com: Well then, you're lucky. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 25, 2015, at 7:57 AM, - dandun...@gmail.com wrote: Someone wrote: Hi all, so as plenty of you know, I am

Re: Editing/Working with Pages Template

2015-07-26 Thread Alex Hall
Pages lets you see the template to your templates list, or as a stand-alone file. I've done the latter, but how do I now go back in and modify how the template looks and what it contains? On Jul 26, 2015, at 1:19 PM, george b gbma...@gmail.com wrote: No you after starting with a blank doc.

Facebook sounds.

2015-07-26 Thread sadam . lists
Hi all, As of a few updates I'm not receiving sounds related to Facebook events. These came through fine before updating. Have adjusted sound settings in the app but has made no difference. Any suggestions? Thank you, Sadam Ahmed Sent from my iPhone -- -- You received this

Re: Doing a Keynote presentation

2015-07-26 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Once the presentation is going, you can use right arrow to move forward and left arrow to move bac. You can also use either spacebar or return to advance through slides. The Apple Remote also works in Keynote to be able to advance and go back. Test them out and see how it works for you.

Re: siri's sense of humor, and ability to..?

2015-07-26 Thread Karen Lewellen
indeed? independent of each other? Meaning you cannot use Siri to do comparative tasks, or to support voiceover tasks and vice versa? I am asking because as others point out from time to time, there are ios applications that do not exist on the mac at all. Those applications can only be used

Re: siri's sense of humor, and ability to..?

2015-07-26 Thread Jessica Moss
I was looking for the Siri voices. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 25, 2015, at 1:56 AM, Shawn Krasniuk bbssh...@icloud.com wrote: Hey Tim, just to correct you on something, if you're talking about the enhanced quality for the Siri voices, you can't download those with the steps you listed

Re: Editing/Working with Pages Template

2015-07-26 Thread Alex Hall
Thanks, I'm now able to make a new document based on my template. How do I go in and modify the template itself, though, so that documents I make in future using it will look different? It's a test, as I said, so I'll want to do more than just the three lines I have now. Do I have to just keep

Re: iPhone behaving strangely

2015-07-26 Thread E.T.
In the app switcher, close ALL apps and see if that helps. Sounds like too many are left open and hogging the resources. A reset will not wipe the data. Pressing both home and power button until the phone reboots will not harm data. But try using the app switcher first. From E.T.'s

Re: iPhone behaving strangely

2015-07-26 Thread Devin Prater
backup then restore. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 26, 2015, at 5:27 PM, Eric Oyen eric.o...@gmail.com wrote: hello everyone, I updated to iOS 8.4 about 2 months ago. everything was working fine until the last 2 weeks. Now, I am starting to see some strange behavior. Firstly, the phone

Re: Pros and cons of a Mac mini

2015-07-26 Thread percygarrett
Yes Marie. I use a Mac mini augmented with Dell periphials. Although my Mac mini doesn't require a monitor, I use aDell monitor and keyboard. I use an external CD drive and an Epson printer. Percy - Original Message - From: Marie Lyons To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

iPhone behaving strangely

2015-07-26 Thread Eric Oyen
hello everyone, I updated to iOS 8.4 about 2 months ago. everything was working fine until the last 2 weeks. Now, I am starting to see some strange behavior. Firstly, the phone seems laggy when starting applications (voiceover stops speaking for up to a minute), some apps (like Facebook) have

Re: Pros and cons of a Mac mini

2015-07-26 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! You can actually design your mac when ordering it from apple store. So you can have a similar processor or higher on the air too if you want but it will cost you more too. I don’t know how about the newer mac mini but from what i’ve learned you get less speed from the newer mac mini than

Editing/Working with Pages Template

2015-07-26 Thread Alex Hall
Hi all, My next Pages question of the day: templates. I made a basic one, and saved it so I could hang onto it and keep using it for experiments. However, when I open it, I don't see the template text at all, just an option to add it to my templates list. I want to modify the template, not make

Re: OS X bugs to test for in 10.11?

2015-07-26 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! I don’t see any discussions for voiceover in the developpers forum. So i wonder if one could mail the accessibility team for these purposes. /A 25 juli 2015 kl. 01:52 skrev matthew dyer ilovecountrymusic...@gmail.com: Hi, There are some audio problems that need to be fixed. Speech

RE: Editing/Working with Pages Template

2015-07-26 Thread george b
No you after starting with a blank doc. Make the doc. How you want it and then save it as a templet give it a name and you need to put it in your templets list or it will not save as a templet -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

Re: OS X bugs to test for in 10.11?

2015-07-26 Thread sadam . lists
Although I'm not running the beta. I believe the feedback assistant is still available. Glad I decided to stay away from running this on my primary system. Sent from my iPhone -- On 27 Jul 2015, at 2:44 am, Anders Holmberg and...@pipkrokodil.se wrote: Hi! I don’t see any

Re: Doing a Keynote presentation

2015-07-26 Thread Georgina Joyce
Hello Tim, Sorry, I should have said, I had planned on using my iPhone or iPad. Gena On 26 Jul 2015, at 20:08, Tim Kilburn kilbu...@me.com wrote: Hi, Once the presentation is going, you can use right arrow to move forward and left arrow to move bac. You can also use either spacebar or