Re: How to stop DVD player from opening on insert disk?

The controls for deciding what happens when you insert optical media should, unless something whacky is going on with your setup, be in System Preferences, under CDs and DVDs. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or

Re: How to stop DVD player from opening on insert disk?

Hi Sabahattin, Ah thanks so much. Never thought about that! It's solved my problem. Have a great Christmas break. Andrew > On 23 Dec 2015, at 11:25, Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote: > > The controls for deciding what happens when you insert optical media should, > unless

Re: how to know when the mac has shut down

Could you put a light meter on the Apple logo on the back of the lid? I believe that is linked to the backlight in Jonathan Cohn > On Dec 23, 2015, at 8:42 AM, Rhonda Partain wrote: > > Thanks for your answer. So how do I know when the screen is locked? > >

RE: how to know when the mac has shut down

Thanks for your answer. So how do I know when the screen is locked? -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of M. Taylor Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2015 2:58 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: how to

Re: merging old Audible.com account with Amazon account on the Mac?

You're not kidding. I usually access Amazon from my PC, and now I know why. This is awful! Thanks for the pointers, Donna > On Dec 23, 2015, at 10:23 AM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote: > > My advice is to ignore the unhelpful messages the Audible web app is giving > you, and

Two quick Apple Watch questions

1. When in the Mail app, I know I can read/reply to e-mail, but, can I compose a new e-mail from scratch? Also, can I forward an e-mail to another recippient? 2. Yesterday, I was playing around with my watch, and I somehow got into a heartbeat measurer. I cannot for the life of me figure

merging old Audible.com account with Amazon account on the Mac?

Hi all, Just wondering if anyone else has been able to do this, and if so, how? I've googled it but am not having much luck. I keep getting a message to enter the pass key through and then space. Anyone know what that means? Thanks, Donna -- The following information is important for all

Re: merging old Audible.com account with Amazon account on the Mac?

My advice is to ignore the unhelpful messages the Audible web app is giving you, and either browse the mobile site from your iPhone or just to continue to use standard VoiceOver navigation commands as you normally would. As with all Amazon websites, the trick is to try very hard not to notice

Re: merging old Audible.com account with Amazon account on the Mac?

I get the same message on audible website when I access it from my mac in Safari. This allows some of the menu items like Library, to expand so that you can see the table of your purchases. I use the pass-through VoiceOver key combination vo+spacebar on the link which gives you the message

Re: Converting MKV to DVD

Hey John, Not sure of the format you are looking to convert from but pretty sure Mac DVD Ripper Pro could do it as they list a ton of formats and I know you can rip to DVDs although I have only ripped from DVDs check it out as it seems to be fully accessible and the developer is very

Re: How to stop DVD player from opening on insert disk?

One thing as I have been ripping all my DVDs with Mac DVD Ripper Pro and I switched from DVD Player to Mac DVD to launch, and noticed that DVDs being recognized really slowed down if the DVD Player does not launch. This could be because I am dealing with DVDr and not DVDs that I bought at the

First impressions of my new Apple Watch

So, I figured I'd lay this message out systematically by heading. This way you can jump to the section you want to read about more quickly. NO, I won't make this terribly long, but just for your convenience... So, go ahead and navigate with heading navigation if you wish. The Sales Rep

Re: merging old Audible.com account with Amazon account on the Mac?

I just hit space by itself and that usually does the trick. Remember, that site was most likely set up with blind windows usewrs in mind. There is a pass through for voice over, but, if you use just the space key by itself, that makes it a moot point. Good advice though to just navigate it

Re: merging old Audible.com account with Amazon account on the Mac?

Uh, actuallly, VO+space is the command used to activate an item. The actual Voice OVer pass through key is VO+tab. ! Sent from my Mac, The Only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray, Still a very happy Comcast XFinity Voice

Converting MKV to DVD

Hi folks, Does anyone know of an accessible video converter for the Mac that will take an MKV file and turn it into a DVD. I’ve found a few applications, but all have proven to be inaccessible enough that they do require a pair of eyes to use. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Take

Re: merging old Audible.com account with Amazon account on the Mac?

Oh, thank you! I did notice that VO+Space sometimes resulted in changes but hadn't yet figured out the pattern. Thanks for the explanation. Best, Donna > On Dec 23, 2015, at 10:46 AM, Andrew Lamanche wrote: > > I get the same message on audible website when I access it from

Re: First impressions of my new Apple Watch

Hi Chris and list, I love the Apple Watch and am thrilled that you got one. If you are having trouble with the two finger swipe, you may be making the mistake that I made at first. To do the gesture,place two fingers on the screen near the crown so that the fingers are pointing toward the left

Re: First impressions of my new Apple Watch

That's exactly what I'm doing. I think the issue is more that my fingers are a little bit big, and that 38MM screen is so tiny, that the two are just not playing nicely together with that gesture. I can get it to work, just not consistently. Chris. - Original Message - From:

Re: merging old Audible.com account with Amazon account on the Mac?

One trick I use for making a lot of sites like this with dynamic drop-down controls more accessible is to set VoiceOver to move the mouse pointer to the VO cursor. In this way, merely navigating onto a submenu is usually sufficient to open it, and as long as you are moving forward you will see

Amazon's website

Hi all, Could you tell me if maybe I have tweaked some safari setting & don’t realize it. Amazon’s website lately, is difficult to navigate. I’m not finding the usual headings to jump to descriptions or reviews, or what other customers might have purchased. When I find the link to read

Re: How to stop DVD player from opening on insert disk?

The positive benefit of allowing DVD player to run at least once when a disc is inserted is that drive authentication is performed. Once the drive has authenticated the disc, the encrypted sectors will come straight off without any read failures. You can then invoke your favourite ripper

Re: Amazon's website

Yes, I know who the principal accessibility guy at Amazon is. That is such a huge company, and he is one guy. I wonder how big his team is. Unfortunately, Amazon has a long history of having a screwed up website. There are so many things they need to fix with respect to accessibility. I wonder

Re: Amazon's website

If I had a dollar for every letter I have sent to Amazon over the years regarding various accessibility issues, I wouldn't be rich. But I would certainly be able to go out with my husband to a very very nice dinner. Mary Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 23, 2015, at 4:50 PM, Karen Lewellen

Re: Amazon's website

Wait, Someone knows the individual responsible for accessibility at amazon? do tell! I could not determine who you meant from that post. In their defense after my last post, I can say that at least once or twice I have reached individuals in a position to test then repair an issue I brought

Re: Problem starting VoiceOver

Kevin Chao wrote: > It may be required to add function key to CMD-F5. As I remember, there's an option that you need to change in order for function keys pressed without the FN key to be recognized as funciton keys, if you're using a laptop keyboard. -- The following

Re: upgrade to El Capitan successful

Have you tried contenteditables with VoiceOver? It's badly broken. Some examples are Wordpress textarea, Gmail composite field, and Google Docs contenteditables On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 4:52 PM Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote: > I expect you’ll run into the delightful bugs, sooner or

Re: Amazon's website

May i suggest you voice your very rich stance to a supervisor at amazon via phone? 1-866-216-1072. The new accessible site is even worse than the old one. As they made a very expensive charge mistake for me this week, I would sue if i were in a position to do as much. Still if they do not

Re: Problem starting VoiceOver

It may be required to add function key to CMD-F5. On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 2:51 PM Christopher-Mark Gilland < clgillan...@gmail.com> wrote: > You can, yeah, but once disabled, how're you gonna re-enable it through > there if you don't have speech to guide you? That would be kind of a > chore. > >

Re: interesting problem with word counter wigit

Let me test and see. Here's what it's doing. I typed exactly what you see on the next line. How many words is this? Now, that's five words, obviously. It tells me that there are six words and 19 characters. Now, How many words is this? Actually, that's twenty two characters counting the

Re: Amazon's website

And you reach them directly how exactly? On Thu, 24 Dec 2015, Kevin Chao wrote: He has various PM, engineer, and QA on the team. Best to let the accessibility folks at Amazon know of all the issues, so they can prioritize. On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 4:56 PM Mary Otten wrote:

Re: Safari repeattedly says percentage of web page loaded since last El Capitan upgrade

I prefer having web progress as sound to reduce this kind of verbosity On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 5:57 PM george b wrote: > Hi there why don't you have the email your responding to / replying to in > the message so we know what the heck your replying to, please. > > thanks > >

Re: Problem reading tables

Do you have link to example? Thanks! On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 2:23 PM Kristeen Hughes wrote: > Does anyone know what causes voiceover to stop reading information after a > certain number of rows in a table? This table is 45 rows or more and after > row 18, voiceover stops

Re: interesting problem with word counter wigit

Is it counting a space character after last word as the seventh word? On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 6:28 PM Raymond Foret Jr wrote: > I never saw anything like this before. When I type a phrase in to text > edit, for example, "How many words did I type?", (which is so

Re: google drive mac os10 problems please help.

Drive.google.com is also accessible in Chrome or Safari with ChromeVox or VoiceOver. I use it all of the time On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 10:28 PM Andrew Lamanche wrote: > I have to go to work shortly but I've just opened google drive app on my > mac. It has no windows as such to

Re: Amazon's website

Principal Accessibility @Amazon is pkorn@ On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 2:21 PM Mary Otten wrote: > Both the access site and the mobile site don't show full reviews. If you > want to see a review, you have to click a link. I sort of understand it for > the mobile site, but not for

Re: Amazon's website

He has various PM, engineer, and QA on the team. Best to let the accessibility folks at Amazon know of all the issues, so they can prioritize. On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 4:56 PM Mary Otten wrote: > If I had a dollar for every letter I have sent to Amazon over the years >

Re: Amazon's website

Peter Korn. I provided his ldap in my initial reply, so email address can be completed by appending Amazon.com On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 5:03 PM Karen Lewellen wrote: > Wait, Someone knows the individual responsible for accessibility at > amazon? > do tell! > I could not

Re: Amazon's website

Oh okay. took me a second to realize how you were writing that one. On Thu, 24 Dec 2015, Kevin Chao wrote: Peter Korn. I provided his ldap in my initial reply, so email address can be completed by appending Amazon.com On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 5:03 PM Karen Lewellen

Re: Automatic language switching on the Mac?

This has been requested by many for years on Mac OS X, but has not been prioritized by Apple. When IOS VoiceOver gets it wrong, it's due to web authors having wrong Lang attribute set. For example, Lang="en" for English. On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 6:58 AM Alex Hall wrote: > Yep,

interesting problem with word counter wigit

I never saw anything like this before. When I type a phrase in to text edit, for example, "How many words did I type?", (which is so obviously six words it ain't even funny.), the word counter wigit informed me that there were seven words. Now, I wonder. How ever can that be? And, given

Re: Web Browsers

Google Chrome is really accessible with VoiceOver and it has option of ChromeVox extension too On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 7:51 PM Keith Hinton wrote: > Hi folks, > I was just curious, but what web browsers on the Mac platform tend to > be the most accessible these days? > I

Re: Problem reading tables

It’s not on the Internet. It’s how an application displays messages in a news group. It uses a large table and then can’t read it past a certain row. I suppose the answer is that it’s inaccessible, but I was hoping. Kristeen > On Dec 23, 2015, at 7:39 PM, Kevin Chao

Re: Multiple documents open in iOS

Unfortunately, windowing does not exist in mobile apps, so what I have done in cases like this is app switch between Apple Pages, Google Docs, and Microsoft Word. On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 12:32 PM Phil Halton wrote: > Is it possible to have Multiple documents open in either

Re: Amazon's website

Have you tried the http://www.amazon.com/access site? It works a little better than the main site. Jim > On Dec 23, 2015, at 12:49 PM, Traci Duncan wrote: > > Hi all, > > Could you tell me if maybe I have tweaked some safari setting & don’t realize > it. Amazon’s website

Problem reading tables

Does anyone know what causes voiceover to stop reading information after a certain number of rows in a table? This table is 45 rows or more and after row 18, voiceover stops reading the contents of any column and just says row repeatedly. Thanks. Kristeen -- The following information is

Re: Amazon's website

Hi, Try this. www.amazon.com/access. I find that the mane site is a mess. Matthew > On Dec 23, 2015, at 1:49 PM, Traci Duncan wrote: > > Hi all, > > Could you tell me if maybe I have tweaked some safari setting & don’t realize > it. Amazon’s website lately, is

Re: Converting MKV to DVD

Hi Brian, I have it, but I can’t figure out how you burn a DVD disk. I can rip from a DVD, but hell if I can figure out how you take a file and burn it to DVD. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website,

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Accessibility UX of Web Google+

http://www.applevis.com/forum/accessibility-advocacy/accessibility-ux-web-google It would be great to have discussion with Mac VoiceOver (ANY assistive technology) users who have used accessible redesign of https://plus.google.com/ 1. What is your experience with keyboard shortcut (press question

Re: Amazon's website

Hello, it turns out, I think that was the problem. I have a feeling I was on the access site. I signed out of Amazon & closed Safari. When I opened it up again to do a search, the layout was more familiar with headings & such. Thanks, Traci > On Dec 23, 2015, at 1:00 PM, Jim Gatteys

Re: Amazon's website

Both the access site and the mobile site don't show full reviews. If you want to see a review, you have to click a link. I sort of understand it for the mobile site, but not for the so-called access site. That thing is a travesty and an abomination. They should've got rid of it along time ago

Re: merging old Audible.com account with Amazon account on the Mac?

The problem I had was that I needed to edit some of my account settings. I couldn't find a way to do that on the mobile site. BTW, in case it's helpful to anyone else, one thing I've learned is that you don't have to merge your Audible and Amazon accounts unless you want to be able to use

Re: help with deleting alias

Thanks for this. I have already read this but when I look for the delete button to delete any Alias there is no delete button. Kawal. > On 22 Dec 2015, at 22:32, E.T. wrote: > > Go to this link to find out how to delete an alias. > >

Re: Seeking Referral for PDF

AFAIK, there isn't a VoiceOver accessible way of filling out pdf forms or navigating tagged structured PDFs On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 6:04 PM Bill Gallik wrote: > Thank you Sadam! > > > Bill & Leader Dog Holland > > wfgal...@icloud.com > > > > > -- > The following

Re: Mac Calendar with Google account

Seems like Mac Calendar isn't linked to Google account and have you tried iOS Google Calendar app. Suspect why Apple calendars are synchronized is due to it using iCloud. On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 12:25 PM Marc wrote: > Wanted to get help with Google calendar > > > > Mac OS

Re: Amazon's website

personally, I think it's a bad idea to begin subscribing to alternative so called accessible websites. Why? It takes no mor effort to make a mainstream website accessible than it does an alternative site. Altermative sites may have all features of the main site but may not. Alternative sites

Re: Amazon's website

I agree, That was frightfully obscure. The entire message appeared to be in short hand and I was far too lazie to decode it. Not that I'm complaining, just reiterating that the point didn't come across. Best, Erik Burggraaf > On Dec 23, 2015, at 8:10 PM, Kevin Chao

Re: interesting problem with word counter wigit

Looks like the character count doesn't include spaces and word count includes punctuation. A bit odd ? is considered a word and space isn't considered a character. On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 7:43 PM Raymond Foret Jr wrote: > Let me test and see. > Here's what it's doing. I

Re: Numbers formulas help again please

The sum function is simply one of potentially many terms in an arithmetic expression. All you would need to do here is to tack/60 at the end of the formula after the closing parenthesis for the sum function. That would look like the following Sum(B5:B30)/60 Now it has become a two-term

Re: 6S versus 6S plus

Thanks, I noticed the sound improvement as well when I was at the Apple store yesterday. I'm going back this morning and picking up the 6S +64 gig model. Sent from my IPhone > On Dec 22, 2015, at 6:41 PM, Sandy Finley wrote: > > I find two additional advantages; it is

How to stop DVD player from opening on insert disk?

Hi, Whenever I insert a dvd into my superdrive, DVD player opens up. I actually want to open mac dvd ripper in order to rip the dvd. But the two apps interfere with each other and I get asked by mac dvd ripper to reinsert my dvd only to encounter the same loop of events. I can't seem to find