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Re: VO speed

That did it. Thanks much. Gabe > On Nov 14, 2017, at 9:38 PM, E.T. wrote: > > Use the speech rotor, invoked with VO-shift-command and left or right > arrows to select the category then up or down arrows to change the value. > > From E.T.'s Keyboard. . . > "God

Re: VO speed

Use the speech rotor, invoked with VO-shift-command and left or right arrows to select the category then up or down arrows to change the value. From E.T.'s Keyboard. . . "God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You

Re: How do you handle entering text in a combo boxes instead of text edit fields?

But you can type into combo boxes, type a first letter to jump to a known entry or add to the list. From E.T.'s Keyboard. . . "God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off and say God did

VO speed

Hi all, I just updated to hisierra and my VO has gone back to a very very slow speech rate. I've gone in to my VO utilities and changed the rate but the speech rate doesn't actually change. I'm using Alex on a late 2011 macbook pro. If anyone has any suggestions on what I'm missing or if

Fully Accessible Torrent Client (details inside)

Hi all, I’ve noticed that for the most part UTorrent is quite accessible on the Mac, with one notable exception. When downloading torrent files, the user is able to select which files in the torrent they’d like to download, so that if they’re downloading a particularly large file, they don’t

Re: How do you handle entering text in a combo boxes instead of text edit fields?

With a Combo box, you are not typing in, but rather selecting from a list of pre-determined choices by using the cursor up/down arrow to place the focus on the selection you want to choose. In an edit field you will type information in. Eileen From: Sharon Hooley Sent: Tuesday, November

Re: How do you handle entering text in a combo boxes instead of text edit fields?

You can type in text or select from a list of text that was already typed in previously. From E.T.'s Keyboard. . . "God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off and say God did it." --Carl

Join Me in Reporting Twitter for iOS v7.11.1 VoiceOver Bug: Search and Explore Area Continues to be Completely Inaccessible

Hello Everyone, I am cross-posting this to both the V iPhone and Mac Visionaries mailing list. As of the latest Twitter for iOS app, v7.11.1, released on Monday, October 13, 2017, the Search and Explore area continues to be completely inaccessible via VoiceOver. Please join me in reporting this

Re: Performing A Mouse Click in High Sierra Now Working As Expected

Tom, You may get your wish after all. Open VO Utility, go to the Verbosity category, arrow to "while typing speak" popup button where you can choose characters or words, or both, or do nothing. Then arrow to "when moving the cursor" popup button and select "speak text to the right of

How do you handle entering text in a combo boxes instead of text edit fields?

Hi, I’m not sure what the difference is between combo boxes for entering data and edit text fields. Is there more than just interacting? Thanks, -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of

Re: Performing A Mouse Click in High Sierra Now Working As Expected

I think its more logical to hear what the VO cursor passes over rather than what is has yet to pass over. It just makes sense. From E.T.'s Keyboard. . . "God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your

Re: Performing A Mouse Click in High Sierra Now Working As Expected

there appears to be a bug in high sierra, even if you set the mouse to follow the voiceover cursor, it does not work, at this point you have to press vo+command+F5 to move the mouse to the voice over cursor. Original message: Probably should be Follow Voiceover cursor. Speak like

Re: Performing A Mouse Click in High Sierra Now Working As Expected

Hi, I couldn't find that one anymore. I don't like the way that Jaws does it, but was looking for it for a presentation I'm doing next week. I much prefer the regular Mac way of VO reading. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Nov 14, 2017, at 14:46, Tom Frank

Re: Performing A Mouse Click in High Sierra Now Working As Expected

JAWS always speaks the letter to the right of the cursor. VO speaks the letter you just arrowed over, either to the left or to the rights. > On Nov 14, 2017, at 4:38 PM, E.T. wrote: > > Probably should be Follow Voiceover cursor. > > Speak like Jaws? Explain? >

Re: Performing A Mouse Click in High Sierra Now Working As Expected

Probably should be Follow Voiceover cursor. Speak like Jaws? Explain? From E.T.'s Keyboard. . . "God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off and say God did it." --Carl Sagan E-mail:

Re: Performing A Mouse Click in High Sierra Now Working As Expected

Hello, I have only one problem with your directions. I am running 10.13.1 and there is no “mouse pointer follows keyboard cursor.” I cannot get to the correct insertion point to edit my text in both mail and text edit. Also, I forget, where do I set VO to speak like JAWS? Thanks. > On Nov 12,

Re: Dns and vpn on mac server.

Hi Tim! I don’t know how often they refresh the IP address here but this can be lookt at. The cable modem has a firewall but i have turned that off and using my airport express as a firewall. I will check up how to acomplish the vpn. I am very very new to this but its intresting so not a

Re: Dns and vpn on mac server.

Hi, It depends on how often the dynamic is applied. If they change your IP often, then your going to need to come up with a plan to either keep changing your IP in the VPN reference, or subscribe to a host service that can account for the constant changes. My dynamic IP doesn't change often

Re: Radium and Siriusxm

Yeah but you can’t do that when you’re asleep can you? I didn’t think so. I listen to radio to help me fall asleep and stay asleep so that doesn’t work for me. Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 14, 2017, at 12:09 PM, Mike Arrigo wrote: > > Yes, if you don't do anything with

Dns and vpn on mac server.

Hi! I think my isp has a dynamic dns set up for me. I have a firewall set up from my airport express which is connected to the cable modem/router which is in bridge mode. If i set up a vpn in mac server do i have to think of something special or is it just streight forward? Thanks. /A -- The

Re: Radium and Siriusxm

Yes, if you don't do anything with the app, it checks to make sure you are still there so it's not streaming unnecessarily, just unlock your screen and lock it again, no big deal. Original message: Hi Mike. Try being inactive for at least 2 or 3 hours. You'll see it time out. Maybe they

A Question About an iMessage Activity that Uses a Specific Voice

Hello Everyone, Okay, I'm just going to put this out there, in case someone has determined the solution. So, In both El Capitan and Sierra, I created a VoiceOver Activity that would switch from my default system voice, Alex, to my beloved Samantha TTS. I did this by simply pointing the

Re: Radium and Siriusxm

The app is a very confusing app to use, I find anyway. God bless. Matthew Dierckens Certified Assistive Technology Specialist Macintosh, IOS and Windows Trainer JAWS for windows Certified - 2016 Canadian Phone: 519-962-9140 U.S. phone: 573-401-1018 Personal Email: matt.dierck...@me.com > On Nov

Re: Alex, Compact? Is this Correct?

Alex compact, from what I can tell, is a version of Alex from a few versions ago. God bless. Matthew Dierckens Certified Assistive Technology Specialist Macintosh, IOS and Windows Trainer JAWS for windows Certified - 2016 Canadian Phone: 519-962-9140 U.S. phone: 573-401-1018 Personal Email:

Re: Alex, Compact? Is this Correct?

Hi Karen, I agree and believe that Apple Accessibility has been notified. That shouldn't stop anyone from adding their voice to the problem though. Mostly, all that I was saying, was that after you know the issue, it's not a big deal of a workaround. I've certainly had much more problematic

Re: Alex, Compact? Is this Correct?

Tim, How would a user even know to look there given the label though? After all, as I understand it the voice quality on other devices is degrading, so they might think the quality is poor and cannot be fixed. So, without a clear indicator that activities, which could mean any number of

Re: Alex, Compact? Is this Correct?

Indeed and the more feedback Apple receives, the better. There is at least one other mislabeled button but its not related to this topic. From E.T.'s Keyboard. . . "God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You

Re: This simple hack using aluminium foil could improve your home Wi-Fi

HAHAHAH. took them long enough to catch up to where us real hardware hackers (ham radio operators) have long since been. :) -eric On Nov 14, 2017, at 7:37 AM, dan d. wrote: > > I do this to good effect. Read the article link below for why it works. > > Place the foil a few inches away from

Re: Alex, Compact? Is this Correct?

Hi, The "Activities", from the prospective of many, is a mislabelled scroll area. In previous versions of MacOS, this area was known as the Additional Voices area, but now is labelled as Activities. Confusing for some, but once you know what is inside that Scroll area, then immaterial.

Re: Alex, Compact? Is this Correct?

Voiceover Utility, Speech category, Voices tab, Activities scroll area. From E.T.'s Keyboard. . . "God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off and say God did it." --Carl Sagan E-mail:

Re: Alex, Compact? Is this Correct?

I think the person was asking for a little bit more direction on how to find this activity area, having in fact done the upgrade. Mary Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 14, 2017, at 7:50 AM, E.T. wrote: > > No secrecy whatsoever. Its a change in High Sierra is all. As

Re: Alex, Compact? Is this Correct?

No secrecy whatsoever. Its a change in High Sierra is all. As such, its not intuitive until you work in that area. If you have not upgraded to HS it will not matter. Just saying. (smiles) From E.T.'s Keyboard. . . "God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all

Re: Alex, Compact? Is this Correct?

So, why the veil of secrecy about this activities area? If it so on intuitive, and frankly I’ve never heard of it, maybe you could explain a little bit about it and how to get there. Just saying. Sent from my IPhone > On Nov 14, 2017, at 10:18 AM, Mike Arrigo wrote: > >

Re: A Mail Question.

Jonathan, Thanks. I have verizon, but not using Yahoo for mail processing. I use the mail app that comes on the Iphone and on my Mac book I again am using the Apple supplied Mail app. On my IPhone 6, the edit button is still at the top right corner of the screen, but the delete button does

RE: Radium and Siriusxm

Hi Mike. Try being inactive for at least 2 or 3 hours. You'll see it time out. Maybe they stopped that with the native SiriusXM app and website in the US, but here in Canada that's still an issue. Shawn Sent From My White MacBook Via Bootcamp and Windows 10 Twitter Handle: shawnk_aka_bbs

Re: Alex, Compact? Is this Correct?

I've compared the compact and high quality versions of Alex and cannot really tell a difference, can anyone else tell a difference? Original message: Hi E.T., Well, I'll say this, the process is certainly not intuitive, at least, not in my opinion. Were it not for your quick reply to my

Re: Radium and Siriusxm

I use the native app and the web site all the time and do not have time out problems, might be an issue with the connection. Original message: Hey everyone. I'm sending this to multiple lists because this effects everyone. Last night I said to one of the lists that everything seems to be

Re: Alex, Compact? Is this Correct?

Yes all the voices are present in that area. From E.T.'s Keyboard. . . "God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off and say God did it." --Carl Sagan E-mail: ancient.ali...@icloud.com On

Re: a couple of email questions

For previous recipients just VO m into the standard apple menu, go to the right to window, and then down the list that’s there, and then VO spacebar on previous recipientsm it brings up a table, you can add or remove at that point. > On Nov 8, 2017, at 07:32, Kristeen Hughes

This simple hack using aluminium foil could improve your home Wi-Fi

I do this to good effect. Read the article link below for why it works. Place the foil a few inches away from the wifi antenna oppisite the direction you wish to direct and increase the signal. If possible, put the antenna in a corner with the foil on both sides behind it in a v shape for

Re: Alex, Compact? Is this Correct?

Is that where all voice downloads are located? I have been traveling the last two weeks and have avoided upgrading my MBA until my wife has resolved her issues with mail indexing that appeared in El Capitan and still plague her in High Sierra. Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn >

Re: A Mail Question.

I remember being able to do this in IOS 8 by clicking the edit button and then immediately going down to the delete button which then said trash all. I don't believe there is a way to clear an entire mailbox in IOS 10 mail application. Since you have a verizon.net address,

Re: Invitation to closed testing round for accessible Trello mac app

Hi Yuma, I don’t have to work in teams at all. Basically what my job consists of is keeping appointments, health records and like the lists would be nice. Everything though does have to be encrypted if it’s at a stand still or if it is being transferred any where else. If these programs do

Re: Do I need to disable FileVault before upgrading to High Sierra?

Haven't decided yet. It's good to hear that I don't have to, but I am nervous. :) Cheers, Donna > On Nov 13, 2017, at 11:33 PM, Simon Fogarty wrote: > > Hi, > > No you shouldn't need to! > > Everytime I've updated file volt has been on, > However if your concerned, then

Re: Invitation to closed testing round for accessible Trello mac app

Hi Scott, I would love to distribute the app to more users, but right now as we are developing using certain apple technologies which require a developer’s account for beta testing, I can only provide invites to people who have a developer’s account or know somewhat how to use x-code.