Display for Mac Mini

Guys, Considering ditching the iMac and getting a Mac Mini. I know you can use them without a display, but it’s useful to have one in case of the need of being rescued by a sighted person etc. As I am totally blind, I know nothing about displays. Can anyone advise the least specs I can get

Audible App keeps stopping in IOS 15

Hi I am also experiencing this on my SE2020 and my original SE, which I keep for reading books on. In the settings, which can be accessed through the more button on the expanded player screen, there is an option to disable autolock. If you switch this to off then the player will stop as soon

Firefox and Chrome

Hello I bought a season ticket to a series of on-line plays. Unfortunately, the platform they chose to use is not compatible with Safari. I managed to access the actual performance, but not the pre and post-show elements. I was told I would need to use either Firefox or Chrome in order to

Microsoft Teams

Thanks. I’ve downloaded it onto my iPad. I opened it and tried to register. I gave my email address, then it asked me how I wanted to use Teams. If I click for work, then it wants an existing corporate account. If I click for family,it directs me to use Skype. Is it a question of waiting for

Microsoft Teams

Hi all Has anyone got any advice for using Microsoft Teams with VO? I only know one other VO user who has experience of this and they couldn’t get it to work at all. I just downloaded the app and it’s directing me to use Skype instead. I wouldn’t bother with it, but, ironically, it’s for a

RNIB Penfriend 3

Hi I bought the new RNIB Penfriend, a talking label device. There is a download tool for Windows only. I have had the two previous versions of the labeller and it has been possible to manually copy over the voice files to the internal memory of the device. This time it doesn’t seem to work.

Reading Age of Documents

Hi all Thanks to Jason for the link. I had a look at the HomeBrew site and panicked. However, I then found a link to this site, where you can paste text and get it analysed. > https://www.online-utility.org/english/readability_test_and_improve.jsp >

Reading age Of Documents

Hi Jason Sorry, I haven’t heard of Home Brew before and when I searched in-the App Store, it only had stuff on making beer. Google wasn’t a great deal of help either:) Best Adrienne -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any

Reading age Of Documents

Hi John Sorry if I was being obscure. What I mean is the reading age a person has to be to understand a piece of writing. For example, tabloid newspapers in-the UK are allegedly written so that a 9 year old can understand them. I’m writing some explanatory leaflets for a charity I am involved

Reading age Of Documents

Hi I know MS Word has a facility for checking reading age, but I don’t have it and don’t want to get it. I use Pages or Text Edit and can’t find a way of checking reading age in either of these. Does anyone know of an accessible app which checks readig age? Thanks Adrienne -- The

Samsung Laser Printer Accessibility

Hi all actualAnyone got any experience of Samsung laser printers and how accessible they are? I’d be interested in scanning more than printing. thanks in advance Adrienne -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or

Printer/scanner/copier recommendations

Hi Yes, I do seem to spend more time cleaing the nozzle than anything else. I have no experience at all of laser printers, is the toner difficult to replace? I imagine it doesn’t have to be done that often. Best Adrienne -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac

Printer/Scanner/Copier recommendations

Hi I have a relatively elderly Epson XP series 20 something or other. I tend to use the scan/copy function more often than printing. Occasionally I need to print mailing labels and this seems to be getting increasingly difficult. I can’t see at all, so I suppose touch screen controls won’t be

VO using two different voices

Hi Jonathan Yes, I was trying to find that bit, of which I had a dim memory, but it didn’t seem to be available and the Apple support guy certainly didn’t know about it when I mentioned it to him. However, I discovered that if I clicked the edit button, all those many options appeared and

VO using two different voices

Hi Since I updated to Mojave, although both my system voice and VO voice are set to Alex, Daniel, the English UK voice is reading out some stuff. For example, he is the typing feedback on this email. I have two users on my MBP, my everyday one and an admin one. The admin one is behaving

Formulas fin Numbers for Mac - follow up question

Guys That all worked a little too well:) I used the control up arrow to insert a row and that all seemed fine, but then when I started to move to another bit of the spreadsheet to insert another row, new rows and columns seemd to be springing up all over the place. Seemed to be any time I

Formulas in Numbers for Mac - follow up question

Thanks. I knew it would be something that should have been blindingly obvious, if you will pardon the expression. Anyway, I now have a new problem. I have constructed a spreadsheet, but I have missed something out in the middle of the blasted thing. I feel sure there must be a way to insert a

Formulas in Numbers for Mac

I am a total novice in relation to spreadsheets as a whole, but I am trying to teach myself how to use Numbers. I have worked out how to add all the values in a column, but I need to work out how to add selected rows in one column. I realise I need to put a formula in the cell in which I wish