Re: reading battery level in sierra, and a few other things

Probably not the best idea in a meeting though, I expect. > On Dec 31, 2016, at 12:00 AM, 'Peggy' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > I have a Macbook Air. I didn't have a problem checking battery status until I > updated my mac a couple of weeks ago. I use siri to

Re: caps lock as screen reader modifier on Windows VM?

FWIW, I have the same setup but use the right option key as the modifier—but that’s because the accent key, when shifted, means “home directory” in Unix. > On Dec 2, 2016, at 10:31 AM, Alex Hall wrote: > > Thanks guys. I've installed Sharp Keys, and am using the accent key

Re: A question about the Sonos

Unfortunately I’ve had zero success getting the Songs software to work on my Mac (haven’t tried it on my Windows VM) but, like everyone else who has commented so far, I do find it works splendidly on iOS—and, as it happe > On Nov 13, 2016, at 10:34 AM, Kristeen Hughes wrote:

Java Applications Accessibility Issue

Hey all. Not sure if anyone can confirm this, but I seem to be hitting an issue with Java applications that use either the tree view (browser) or table controls. Since my company is standardizing on JMeter, which uses a browser control to display test plans and a table to show test results,

Re: Looking for Slack feedback from voiceover users on OSX and IOS

One thing that I’ve found helps with Slack is to set the VO modifiers to allow caps lock as an option. My guess is that some sort of keyDown event gets fired whenever any key that would register does so (I.e. Option, particularly since it can be used to type extended characters), and pops

Re: To Devon, (was This blind Apple engineer is transforming the tech world at only 22

Half a sec. You lose points on the immigration scale for New Zealand if you’re blind? The mind boggles just a bit. > On Jul 16, 2016, at 5:32 AM, David Chittenden wrote: > > Yes, Simon, I could not immigrate here. I immigrated independently. Most > blind people who

Re: Adobe Reader DC

. > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On Jun 26, 2016, at 12:36, Chris Meredith <talli...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Half a sec. Can you fill out forms with PDF Pen? I tried downloading a form > from the Social Security Administration and PDF Pen failed to

Re: Adobe Reader DC

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Re: Adobe Reader DC

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Adobe Reader DC

Hey folks, So I downloaded Adobe Reader DC, confident* in its ability to allow access to PDF files using VoiceOver. Upon selecting a PDF, I was dropped into, astoundingly enough, an accessible view of the document. Now, here’s the good bit—when I moved out of that accessible area, I was

Re: bar instead of function keys on new Mac Book Pros?

gmail.com <mailto:clgillan...@gmail.com> > Phone: (704) 256-8010. >> - Original Message - >> From: Chris Meredith <mailto:talli...@gmail.com> >> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> >> Sent: Saturday, Jun

Re: Hosting a website on a Mac Mini?

Can I assume they give you full root and ssh access to your virtual server? > On Jun 11, 2016, at 11:13 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland > wrote: > > Wonderful! Glad you got set up. Watch how quick they respond to your > ticket! I think you'll be incredibly impressed. >

Re: bar instead of function keys on new Mac Book Pros?

With all due respect, sir, there WAS a significant amount of negativity in this thread, which definitely took the tone of the age old song that blind people are always left out, and ZOMG this may happen again. I’m pretty sure it was the present Apple CEO that pointed out that, when they

Re: bar instead of function keys on new Mac Book Pros?

Although that wouldn’t solve the issue for those of us with FileVault enabled. > On Jun 10, 2016, at 10:47 PM, Simon Fogarty wrote: > > Hey what about the rumour that the new apple notebooks are going to have this > touch bar but also siri which will allow you to turn

Re: bar instead of function keys on new Mac Book Pros?

Could be that, could be a tactile marking above F5, could be any number of ways. Unless you’re thinking that the bar won’t be divided up into segments that replace the function keys? One question though—where are you hearing these rumors? > On Jun 10, 2016, at 5:01 PM, Ray Foret jr

Selecting text in Terminal

Hey gang. Is this even possible? There are times when I want to copy and paste various terminal outputs into either email or Slack chats (my company lives in Slack and spends most of its life in the Unix shell), and I can’t seem to find a way to bend VoiceOver to my will on this one. So far

Re: VO says busy

I found that a lot of those issues seemed to disappear with the upgrade to El Capitan. If thats an option, I highly recommend it. On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 11:52 AM, Sarai Bucciarelli < sarai.bucciare...@gmail.com> wrote: > VO keeps saying busy messages using Safari. any fix for this? I’m running

Re: Keyboard shortcuts broken after VMware's remote support

A little late to the party on this one, but I can reproduce the issue of being stuck in the VMware chrome pretty much EVERY! TIME! on my Windows VM (my job uses Slack for team communications, and Slack on anything other than Windows apparently may cause pain, nausea or death). On only a

Re: wireless printers

Not sure what model HP printer you got from the Apple Store, but I ordered the HP 6100 Wireless ePrinter. I say this because, if this is the same model you have, you can either connect to its own wi-fi network (a lot of printers set this up as a way to allow you to configure the printer

Re: Why do I want an Airport router?

Did Time Warner give you the router that supports 802.11AC? If not, they should have. For my part, and I run Macs, PCs, a Chromebook or two and at least one of each iDevice, I’ve gotten 802.11AC router that Time Warner provided and, because I live in an apartment in New York City where the

Toggling QuickNav in websites

Hey gang, I can’t imagine this hasn’t come up before—but has anyone else noticed that toggling QuickNav on or off doesn’t reliably work if you’re on a Web page? My workaround has been to enable Keyboard Comander and map the QuickNav toggle to Right Option+Q, but I wondered if I was just

Re: JAWS and Dongles and Fusion, Oh My

and training http://Mosen.org http://mosen.org/ On 14/06/2015, at 5:04 pm, Chris Meredith talli...@gmail.com mailto:talli...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings. I’m trying to get a VM spun up with Fusion and JAWS. I’m loath to use an ILM authorization (I shall leave my editorial comments on what I make

Re: Bull crap about I O S 9, and no, I'm not breaking NDA.

I can't confirm whether or not there is a limit on the number of cards you can activate, but when I upgraded my phone to an iOS beta build, I did get a ping from Capital One letting me know that my card was removed from Apple Pay--so clearly there is some communication that happens there. On Sun,

JAWS and Dongles and Fusion, Oh My

Greetings. I’m trying to get a VM spun up with Fusion and JAWS. I’m loath to use an ILM authorization (I shall leave my editorial comments on what I make of their authorization scheme for another time), so I’m using a hardware dongle from a prior life wherein I worked on the team that

Re: Evernote on iOS

Hmm. Wonder why I wasn’t seeing anything on my iPad—I’m totally willing to assume an acute case of neuroflatulence on my side. On Jun 8, 2015, at 5:06 AM, Shaf shafpa...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, it's completely accessible. On 6/8/2015 5:58 AM, Chris Meredith wrote: Is the aforementioned even

Favorites Bar in Mail

Greetings. I don’t suppose Apple ever got around to fixing the issue(s) that make it impossible for us to add folders to the favorites bar, have they?Drag and drop appears not to work—am I perhaps missing something? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Evernote on iOS

Is the aforementioned even usable?Launching the app on iPad seems to yield no joy. -- 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 to

Re: Menu extras and recovery partition

problem. On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 7:08 PM, Dan ablindvou...@icloud.com wrote: Hello, Just curious. Why will this be moot? On Jun 1, 2015, at 6:42 PM, Chris Meredith talli...@gmail.com wrote: It does, actually. Do you know if it's possible to upgrade the recovery partition? Although

Re: File Vault

It's been my experience that, if you fail to unlock FileVault and then restart the machine, you'll fall into the recovery partition (or something similar to this). If that happens, a Command+F5 should get you into a running copy of VoiceOver without a problem. On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 10:14 AM,

Re: Menu extras and recovery partition

It does, actually. Do you know if it's possible to upgrade the recovery partition? Although this will be moot shortly, according to the order status notification I got yesterday. On Monday, June 1, 2015, Sabahattin Gucukoglu listse...@me.com wrote: Just a follow-up to say that I verified that

Re: Menu extras and recovery partition

remember and which version of OS X it was fixed with. Sent from my iPhone On May 31, 2015, at 2:49 AM, Chris Meredith talli...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings. So one bug I remember from years back was that, if you tried to access the menu extras (like, for example, connecting to WiFi

Menu extras and recovery partition

Greetings. So one bug I remember from years back was that, if you tried to access the menu extras (like, for example, connecting to WiFi to download the operating system), VoiceOver refused to acknowledge their existence. Is this still a thing? Will I need to procure an Ethernet adapter in the

Specs for MacBook Pro and VMware Fusion

Greetings. I'm looking to finally upgrade my (ancient) late 2011 MacBook Pro. Assume for a moment that the unit will need to occasionally run Windows under a VM, in order to support Visual Studio, Xamarin .NET development for iOS/Mac OS X, and the ability to connect back to a Mac for debugging.

Re: Specs for MacBook Pro and VMware Fusion

quad-cores are up to what you want, but go for the 16gb ram! You won’t be disappointed. Jeff On May 29, 2015, at 9:57 PM, Chris Meredith talli...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings. I'm looking to finally upgrade my (ancient) late 2011 MacBook Pro. Assume for a moment that the unit will need

Re: Newbie Calendar question

want, hit enter once more. On Mar 15, 2015, at 4:01 PM, Chris Meredith talli...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings. Clearly I am likely doing something wrong here—but, when trying to create a calendar event, the calendar seems to … fail to create a calendar event. Pressing Command+N brings up

Newbie Calendar question

Greetings. Clearly I am likely doing something wrong here—but, when trying to create a calendar event, the calendar seems to … fail to create a calendar event. Pressing Command+N brings up the popover, but nothing seems to intuitively indicate how to actually persist this appointment. How am

Re: iTunes Match and iOS

29, 2012, at 5:38 PM, Tim Kilburn kilbur...@gmail.com wrote: This is when you are in Songs view. I don't believe that you'll have any issues with the songs that are already uploaded to iCloud. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On 2012-07-29, at 4:01 PM, Chris Meredith

Re: Very Disappointed with Mountain Lion

Just some thoughts from someone who's actually in software development professionally. Even if you're convinced that the beta testers have found a bug and that Apple is squashing it, report it anyway. Occasionally, it helps set bug priority if developers know how many people are seeing the

Re: Very Disappointed with Mountain Lion

I can confirm that Safari seems to handle larger web pages significantly better (I used blindcooltech.com as my test page, since it still continues to be a mass of text, links and headings that go on for miles). I am noticing some oddities with some table navigation on one site in particular

Re: Very Disappointed with Mountain Lion

But then, aren't we beginning to see some of this with Trackpad Commander in VoiceOver, and the touch modifications that are present in Narrator on Windows 8? On Jul 31, 2012, at 6:03 AM, Cheree Heppe che...@dogsc4me.com wrote: Cheree Heppe here: Designing the architecture for a useable

Re: Very Disappointed with Mountain Lion

I'll admit I was a little astounded at what actually worked on the Mac side. I've a machine with both platforms, as 1) I work in Windows CE, which Xcode oddly enough fails to develop for, 2) there are still some things that tend to work better on Windows (Remote Desktop being one such), and 3)

iTunes Match and iOS

Greetings. So I just turned on iTunes Match and am in the process of uploading my entire library. One thing I'm noticing, though: It appears that VoiceOver doesn't actually see the cloud icon next to songs, artists or albums that indicate their status as in the cloud vs. locally downloaded.

Re: why can't Textedit serve as a replacement for MS Word?

If I may play devil's advocate for a second, though--if you are working with people that are using Word, where is the line beyond which the solutions we have at our disposal that run natively on OS X are too incompatible for collaboration? If I sent a document that was originally created in

Re: iTunes Match and iOS

after the blip sound finishes, swipe left or right. • Wait a couple of seconds then swipe right. • VO should announce Confirm Deletion. • Double-tap on that button and it's gone. HTH. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On 2012-07-29, at 1:48 AM, Chris Meredith talli

Re: Busy, busy everywhere

I tend to run into it primarily in Xcode, fact that I have a ate 2011 MacBook Pro with 8 GB of memory notwithstanding. Thing is, if, as reported previously, the lag goes away when one removes VoiceOver from the equation and uses a working monitor, might the problem be with the way that

Re: VMWare Fusion questions

: Hello. After telling vmware fusion where windows 8 was, did you have to type a key? Then, how did you get narator to talk? On Monday, June 4, 2012 9:01:14 AM UTC-5, Chris Meredith wrote: Hi Maria, I'm actually running Windows 8 on a MacBook Pro with 8 GB of RAM, which I deliberately

Re: VMWare Fusion questions

Hi Maria, I'm actually running Windows 8 on a MacBook Pro with 8 GB of RAM, which I deliberately got kitted out so that I could run multiple virtual machines without having to buy multiple computers. I can't remember what the CPU is on the Mini, but you should certainly have enough memory.