Re: can't add a signature

2015-07-01 Thread Greg Aikens
that particular account in the table, the Names table is empty, and the Choose button is dimmed. G. Thanks, Donna On Jul 1, 2015, at 9:36 AM, Greg Aikens gpaik...@gmail.com wrote: Not a dumb question. I can’t make this work either. I thought I remembered someone offering a solution a while back

Re: can't add a signature

2015-07-01 Thread Greg Aikens
with the account. When I select that particular account in the table, the Names table is empty, and the Choose button is dimmed. G. Thanks, Donna On Jul 1, 2015, at 9:36 AM, Greg Aikens gpaik...@gmail.com wrote: Not a dumb question. I can’t make this work either. I thought I remembered

Re: can't add a signature

2015-07-01 Thread Greg Aikens
Never mind. I got it to work. For some reason I have to bring the mouse twice. The first time it does not move the mouse cursor to the correct position but the second time seems to work. Thanks again for this. On Jul 1, 2015, at 11:35 AM, Greg Aikens gpaik...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Anne

Re: can't add a signature

2015-07-01 Thread Greg Aikens
Not a dumb question. I can’t make this work either. I thought I remembered someone offering a solution a while back but was unable to locate it in the list archives. As a work around, I have just created the signatures under each account name instead of under the all accounts spot. On Jul 1,

Re: pdf files

2015-06-18 Thread Greg Aikens
I’m pretty sure this is a mac program. She said that just like when you are using Windows, you need an accessible PDF. Best, Greg On Jun 18, 2015, at 3:20 PM, May McDonald mcdonald@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, I'll see if there's a mac version of this since I don't use windows. On Jun

Re: renaming tables in Numbers, revisited

2015-05-03 Thread Greg Aikens
the script. On May 3, 2015, at 8:39 PM, Greg Aikens gpaik...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, Is there a new way to rename tables in Numbers? For a while now I have been using Ann Roberson’s solution involving mouse keys etc. but for some reason that doesn’t seem to be working for me anymore. I end

Re: renaming tables in Numbers, revisited

2015-05-03 Thread Greg Aikens
on list (perhaps even me if I get off my duff) can supply the script. On May 3, 2015, at 8:39 PM, Greg Aikens gpaik...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, Is there a new way to rename tables in Numbers? For a while now I have been using Ann Roberson’s solution involving mouse keys etc. but for some

renaming tables in Numbers, revisited

2015-05-03 Thread Greg Aikens
Hello all, Is there a new way to rename tables in Numbers? For a while now I have been using Ann Roberson’s solution involving mouse keys etc. but for some reason that doesn’t seem to be working for me anymore. I end up selecting whatever row my cursor started in using the old method. Can

Re: Major trouble with internet: Warning: not for the basic user!

2015-04-26 Thread Greg Aikens
Get a small table to set next to your desk for the receiver. Seriously, $5 at Salvation Army or something. On Apr 26, 2015, at 3:58 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland clgillan...@gmail.com wrote: As I said in my subject, I don't want to turn anyone off from reading this e-mail. If you

Re: Logos Bible Software

2015-03-30 Thread Greg Aikens
These bible sites are great, but Logos gives you the ability to cross reference between the biblical text, texts in the original languages, commentaries, do word studies, etc. It allows you to upload and add to your own reference library. It’s a pretty nice software package. On Mar 29, 2015,

Re: spotify

2015-03-23 Thread Greg Aikens
I would also be interested to know if others have had success with desktop clients. I have used the web player but I can’t get VO to consistently read the different parts of the page when I want to search for new music etc. I currently use the IOS app. Thanks, Greg On Mar 23, 2015, at 7:24

Re: Using range of header rows and columns in numbers

2015-03-07 Thread Greg Aikens
, at 10:05 AM, Greg Aikens gpaik...@gmail.com wrote: My mistake. Let me repost with the correct terms. Hello all, I have a spreadsheet with two header rows and two header columns. The Leftmost header column lists each month. The second header column list individual transactions for each

Re: Using range of header rows and columns in numbers

2015-03-07 Thread Greg Aikens
in formulas to refer to the entire column beneath it. Similarly with column headers, the column closest to the actual data columns can reference the entire row to its right. On Mar 7, 2015, at 9:45 AM, Greg Aikens gpaik...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, I have a spreadsheet with two header rows

Using range of header rows and columns in numbers

2015-03-07 Thread Greg Aikens
Hello all, I have a spreadsheet with two header rows and two header columns. The Leftmost header row lists each month. The second header row list individual transactions for each month. The leftmost header row is a merged cell so that all of the January transactions fall into the January

Speaking contents of merged cells in Numbers

2015-03-01 Thread Greg Aikens
Hello all, I have taken a break from the list for quite a while but I’m back with a question about Numbers. When I merge cells, I would like for voiceover to read the content of the merged cells as I arrow across my table. Right now the announcement I get is “H1 through K1 added to selection.

Re: an annoying little problem

2014-03-18 Thread Greg Aikens
If you aren't trying to record it, couldn't you just use your built in microphone as input and your external speakers? It's not recording quality obviously, but depending on what you are doing, this set up will allow someone to hear voiceover and any other sounds coming from your mac. You could

Re: free software for solving capchas on mac

2014-03-15 Thread Greg Aikens
You can disable the extension at any time in safari, just like you would do for any extension. Open the preferences dialog with Cmd+, and switch to the extensions page. There is a list of extensions. Select the one you want and interact with the scroll area. Find the check box that says enable

Tagging people and pages on Facebook

2014-02-14 Thread Greg Aikens
Does anyone know of a step by step guide of how to tag someone using Facebook and voiceover on the mac? I was able to do so back in December but now I can't seem to figure it out again. I don't know if Facebook has changed or if I'm just not remembering what I did correctly. Any tips or

Re: Tagging people and pages on Facebook

2014-02-14 Thread Greg Aikens
this to only show the first name, but VO is a little weird with it, so you might have to interact with the tag text first. Trying to pick a name from the suggestions is not very reliable. HtH, Teresa Slow down; you'll get there faster. On Feb 14, 2014, at 9:25 AM, Greg Aikens gpaik

6 or 8 dot braille for brf files

2014-02-11 Thread Greg Aikens
Hello all, I have a BRF question. When reading a brf in text edit, I turn off automatic braille translation. As far as I can tell, I have to use 8 dot braille for the brf to be represented correctly. Is there a way to read a brf file in 6 dot braille correctly? Currently, when I uncheck the 8

Re: 6 or 8 dot braille for brf files

2014-02-11 Thread Greg Aikens
, Greg Aikens gpaik...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, I have a BRF question. When reading a brf in text edit, I turn off automatic braille translation. As far as I can tell, I have to use 8 dot braille for the brf to be represented correctly. Is there a way to read a brf file in 6 dot braille

Re: playing and rewinding on youtube

2014-01-31 Thread Greg Aikens
On many of the ads, you can skip them after watching the first several seconds. I only know this from watching youtube with sighted friends. I haven’t found a way to do this with VO. On Jan 31, 2014, at 11:50 PM, Chris Blouch cblo...@aol.com wrote: I doubt they would supply a way to skip

Re: Hebrew voice and hebrew braille for mac

2014-01-26 Thread Greg Aikens
not, I hope Apple will include Hebrew support to Voiceover as soon as possible. Thanks, Rafi. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Greg Aikens Sent: Monday, January 20, 2014 5:22 AM To: macvisionaries

Re: Unreal VoiceOver very choppy again

2014-01-24 Thread Greg Aikens
Hi, I am experiencing this periodic choppiness in speech and even sluggish response from VO. Restarting VO helps sometimes but sometimes it doesn’t. When it is at its worst, I also hear fan noise as though my laptop were running hot or some process is eating up all my CPU. Any tips of what

Hebrew voice and hebrew braille for mac

2014-01-19 Thread Greg Aikens
Hello all, I’m trying to find a way to read hebrew braille on my mac. I found an old post in the archives that list a supported package for international braille codes but it looked like it was for Snow Leopard. The link is http://www.cecimac.org/english.htm Does anyone know of anything more

Re: Step by Step Guide

2014-01-10 Thread Greg Aikens
Hi April, Are you interacting with the web page before you try to navigate it? You need to move to the part that says html view and interact with it using Control+option+shift+down arrow. Then you should be able to use VO+left and right arrows to move through the page. Interacting is

Re: buying mp3 from amazon.com

2014-01-09 Thread Greg Aikens
You’ll need to download the amazon mp3 downloader from their site. Installation is fairly simple. The only other trick to know is that after you click on the buy button, go up to the top of the page to confirm the purchase. Best of luck. -Greg On Jan 9, 2014, at 7:53 PM, don bishop

Re: VoiceOver and Numbers: Negative Numbers

2013-12-13 Thread Greg Aikens
Hi Nick and all, I have punctuation set at “Most” and in Numbers when I have negative dollar amounts VO says dash before the dollar amount, as in dash $125.00. When I change the verbosity setting to some punctuation, I get no indication that the negative sign, or dash, is there. Hope this

Re: rumola

2013-12-10 Thread Greg Aikens
It is working for me using Safari 7 and Mavericks. On Dec 10, 2013, at 6:34 PM, Patrick Neazer patricknea...@mac.com wrote: Hello Everyone: I was wondering if people were still having success using rumola the safari extension. when I take a look at the website it indicates that it works

Renaming a table in the new Numbers using Mavericks

2013-12-05 Thread Greg Aikens
Hi all, I used to use the Inspector to change the names of tables in Numbers but am no longer able to do so with Mavericks and the new version of Numbers. I see many of the old features from the inspector in the format area, including a checkbox that is called “Table Name,” but don’t see any

Re: Can't Expand Conversations in Mail

2013-11-25 Thread Greg Aikens
I’m also having this problem but am able to expand the message with VO+Space. Left arrow works to collapse it. Not sure why this is happening. On Nov 25, 2013, at 10:27 PM, Jonathan Mosen jmo...@mosen.org wrote: Hi everyone, I'm stumped by an issue my partner is having on her Macbook Air

Re: Track Changes or Text Attributes with Pages

2013-11-13 Thread Greg Aikens
Anne, I might be interested in something like this. I have been disappointed in my inability to master Pages on Mac as well as I have MS Word on Windows, but I see you post about many of the things I have found frustrating. Do you have a description anywhere listing what kind of materials are

Re: Solving captures on a mac?

2013-11-07 Thread Greg Aikens
Are there any other text boxes to fill in on the page? It usually starts working whenever I start filling in the form. Greg Aikens, M. Ed. Teacher of students who are blind and visually impaired Cobb County School District gpaik...@gmail.com On Nov 7, 2013, at 7:37 PM, Alex Hall mehg

Re: Copying files to another mailbox

2013-11-03 Thread Greg Aikens
Select the message or messages you want to move, then press VO+Shift+M to bring up a context menu. Move to is one of the options. Press right arrow to get into a list of mailboxes and select the one you want and press enter. Hope this helps. -Greg On Nov 3, 2013, at 4:41 PM, Eugenia

Re: Pleading, begging and groveling for hhelp once again: bookshare troubles

2013-10-29 Thread Greg Aikens
Just a thought: Several of us had a similar problem a while ago. The fix was to go into the Preferences in Safari, choose the Advanced tab, and then check the box that says Show Develop menu. Then, go into the Develop menu from the menu bar and select Disable Local File Restrictions. For

Re: Pandora, edit station details

2013-10-27 Thread Greg Aikens
Hi Traci, You can delete a station from within Piano Pub. Select the station by double clicking with the track pad like you would do to play it. Then, stop interacting with the stations table and VO+right arrow until you hear Dash button. This lets you delete the station. Hope this helps.

Re: entering text in numbers (without deleting previous content!)

2013-10-16 Thread Greg Aikens
Press option+enter on a cell to enter the cell to edit it. This will work for text, but for editing a formula, highlight the cell in question and press VO+Shift+F3 to turn off cursor tracking. Then stop interacting with the table/layout area and use VO+Left arrow to navigate to the formula

Accessible video conferencing/presentation software

2013-10-15 Thread Greg Aikens
Hello all, Does anyone have a recommendation for a good, accessible with VO, video conferencing software? I'm looking for something that will support maybe 40 people or so and I would like to be able to share documents or a slideshow presentation if possible. Does google hangout do this? And

Re: ChromeVox weirdness

2013-10-04 Thread Greg Aikens
Hi Phil, My mistake if I misunderstand you, but when you use chromevox, you do not use the standard VO commands or even need to interact with a web page. I would use safari to look up the Chrome Vox commands to learn how to navigate using chromevox. It takes some getting used to. Greg

Re: keystroke to jump to message body in Apple Mail compose window?

2013-10-02 Thread Greg Aikens
Why not just hit VO+Shift+End (VO+Shift+ FN+Right Arrow on my Macbook Pro)? As long as you don't interact with the To and CC fields, this should take you straight to the body. Just interact with it and start typing. -Greg Greg Aikens, M. Ed. Teacher of students who are blind and visually

Re: Learning ally VoiceOver-MAC

2013-09-13 Thread Greg Aikens
. Both of these apps are available from the learning ally website. The process can be a little cumbersome, but it is definitely doable. Good luck. Let us know if you have more questions. -Greg Greg Aikens, M. Ed. Teacher of students who are blind and visually impaired Cobb County School

Re: Pages APA Writing Style

2013-09-08 Thread Greg Aikens
window that allows you to make changes there as well. Let us know if you have more specific questions. -Greg Greg Aikens, M. Ed. Teacher of students who are blind and visually impaired Cobb County School District gpaik...@gmail.com On Sep 8, 2013, at 10:56 AM, Robin robin-mel...@comcast.net

Re: editing text in Marsedit

2013-09-05 Thread Greg Aikens
this on the mac is to close the spell check window and find where the cursor is in the document, which is only sometimes reliable. Maybe I'm not doing it right though… Greg Aikens, M. Ed. Teacher of students who are blind and visually impaired Cobb County School District gpaik...@gmail.com On Sep

Re: How VO-friendly is Blackboard with Safari?

2013-08-24 Thread Greg Aikens
I can't speak to the accessibility from an instructor's point of view, but both my grad school and current employer use blackboard as a way of posting info. Most things are accessible, even though some may be cumbersome. Finding files to download and announcements are fairly simple to do.

Re: URL

2013-08-18 Thread Greg Aikens
Could you use Command+L to get to the address bar and copy the URL from there? On Aug 18, 2013, at 9:21 AM, Rahul Bajaj rahul.bajaj1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I have to cite the URL of an article in a research paper. However, I can't figure out how to determine the URL. I generally

problem reading brf files on mac

2013-08-03 Thread Greg Aikens
Hello all, It's been a while since I tried to read a brf on my mac using a braille display. I thought that I should be able to open it in text edit and turn off braille contractions and be good to go, but for some reason that isn't working right. For some reason VO isn't representing the

Re: problem reading brf files on mac

2013-08-03 Thread Greg Aikens
may want to go to edit/transformations once you highlight all the text and make it lower-case. HtH, Teresa On Aug 3, 2013, at 9:05 AM, Greg Aikens gpaik...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, It's been a while since I tried to read a brf on my mac using a braille display. I thought that I

Re: Beta testers needed for accessible Mud Client

2013-06-07 Thread Greg Aikens
I have been fairly satisfied with tintin for mac, but I would be interested in testing your client as well. -Greg On Jun 4, 2013, at 2:10 PM, Devin Prater d.pra...@me.com wrote: tktpianostud...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: pages inquiry

2012-11-27 Thread Greg Aikens
Hi Robert, Two tips to help you out: Use command+T in Pages to pull up the font dialog box. You can then change any of your font attributes from here. Use Command+Option+I to open the inspector window for your document. The inspector has a number of layered tabs you can use to navigate

Re: Good News about Safari and Bookshare XML Files

2012-11-05 Thread Greg Aikens
Harry, this is genius. This worked perfectly. I still don't know why Safari only blocks new bookshare files but now I can read them. To show the develop menu in the menu bar, go to the Preferences dialog from the Safari menu. Select the Advanced tab and you will find the option to show the

Trouble reading new bookshare books in xml format

2012-10-20 Thread Greg Aikens
Hi all, I know there have been a few threads on accessing bookshare books in xml format over the last month or so, but I wanted to follow up to see if anyone had found a solution to the problem I am encountering. I can read bookshare books that I downloaded months ago just fine in the xml

Re: pandora solutions?

2012-08-29 Thread Greg Aikens
I am also using Piano Pub on ML with no problems. -Greg On Aug 29, 2012, at 5:22 PM, brianna Snyder briannasnyde...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I should have clarified. I use PianoPub, and I run Mountain Lion. It works as good as it ever did. Make sure you've got the latest version.

Re: Easiest Way to Read Bookshare Books in Mountain Lion

2012-08-12 Thread Greg Aikens
One way to get around this is to set a web spot at the place you left off. I haven't tried this under ML but in Lion it worked inconsistently and often I would forget to set a web spot when I finished reading, but it is better than nothing. -Greg On Aug 12, 2012, at 5:17 PM, Mary Otten

Re: Easiest Way to Read Bookshare Books in Mountain Lion

2012-08-10 Thread Greg Aikens
Check the archives for more in depth tips on this, but I'm still just opening the xml file in Safari and reading it with VO. Maybe I'm still in the dark ages. If others have better solutions, please enlighten me. -Greg On Aug 10, 2012, at 1:54 PM, Harry Hogue harryhog...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: Mailboxes/Folders in ML Mail

2012-08-02 Thread Greg Aikens
Hi Jeff, There are a handful of us who have had this problem in ML. There were one or two threads about how to expand these mailboxes, if you want to search the archives. Several solutions were presented but the one that worked for me was to go to my mailboxes table, use VO + down arrow to

Re: speakable items?

2012-07-29 Thread Greg Aikens
You can try calibration through trial and error. Just move the control one way and if it seems less responsive than before, move it the other way. :) Seems crude but you can definitely do it without sighted assistance. On Jul 29, 2012, at 3:58 PM, Maria Chapman bubbygirl1...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: interesting behavior with Mail

2012-07-27 Thread Greg Aikens
I have also observed this. It will take some getting used to. -Greg On Jul 27, 2012, at 1:50 AM, Shen goalb...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I discovered something new with Mail in Mountain Lion. It's not a big thing, but worth keeping in mind. First, my Mail is in classic view. When going

Re: Weird mail problem with Mountain Kitty

2012-07-27 Thread Greg Aikens
everything in my inbox. Of course, I can also get mail on my iPhone fortunately. Regards Gigi Sent from my iPhone On Jul 26, 2012, at 12:42 PM, Greg Aikens gpaik...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am having the same problem. My inbox is expanded so that I see the separate inboxes for my

Re: Weird mail problem with Mountain Kitty

2012-07-26 Thread Greg Aikens
Hi, I am having the same problem. My inbox is expanded so that I see the separate inboxes for my separate accounts. However, I can't see the list of folders under each account. These used to appear below my trash folder in the list of mailboxes. In Lion, I could hide these folders by

Re: chess?

2012-07-07 Thread Greg Aikens
You can move up, down, left, and right to get an idea of the visual layout. This doesn't give you diagonal information, but it makes the game very playable. On Jul 7, 2012, at 6:29 PM, Harry Hogue wrote: That's what I never understood. As a blind person, with a physical board, how are we

Re: Renaming Files

2012-06-07 Thread Greg Aikens
Yes, I use the duplicate function to make copies of data sheets for different students/classes. This works well for the purpose. Although, you have to get used to not editing the original file. I suppose you could lock the file. Then, whenever you tried to edit it, you would be prompted to

Re: Renaming Files

2012-06-07 Thread Greg Aikens
Also, when I select duplicate from the file menu, I am not prompted for a new file name until I save or close the file. I have only used the feature in Numbers though. I can't say if it works differently in other applications. -Greg On Jun 7, 2012, at 10:15 AM, Steve Holmes wrote: I think

Re: Mudding on the mac.

2012-05-06 Thread Greg Aikens
You can download Tintin from http://tintin.sourceforge.net/ It comes as a tar archive that you have to unpack. I believe the built in mac utilities can handle this, but if not, something like the unarchiver works great. Run the resulting file. Your mac will classify it as a unix executable

Re: Mudding on the mac.

2012-05-05 Thread Greg Aikens
Hi Allison, I have been reasonably successful using tintin in terminal. I had to play with the VO cursor settings some but here is the configuration I like and have saved as an activity.: Keyboard follows VO cursor: Yes VO follows keyboard cursor: No Insertion point follows VO cursor: Yes VO

Re: disclosure triangles?

2012-04-29 Thread Greg Aikens
Disclosure triangles are a way to hide or reveal extra info or options. If the disclosure triangle is collapsed, the extra options are hidden and if it is expanded they are displayed. Press VO+Space to toggle a disclosure triangle. In mail, expanding a disclosure triangle shows the list of

Re: disclosure triangles?

2012-04-29 Thread Greg Aikens
failed. On 29 Apr 2012, at 12:47, Greg Aikens wrote: Disclosure triangles are a way to hide or reveal extra info or options. If the disclosure triangle is collapsed, the extra options are hidden and if it is expanded they are displayed. Press VO+Space to toggle a disclosure triangle

Re: A question regarding blindmicemegamall.com

2012-04-27 Thread Greg Aikens
Did you try restarting Safari? You could also try visiting the site using webkit. If those things don't work, it could just be a send space problem. I have run into strange issues trying to download from them sometimes. -Greg On Apr 27, 2012, at 10:46 AM, Rahul Bajaj wrote: Hi all, I

Re: Frotz

2012-04-07 Thread Greg Aikens
I have played with Zoom some. There are a handful of resources for mac on the interactive fiction archive page. Some of the mac resources work better than others with VO. Unfortunately it has been months since I have tried so I can't remember specifics. -Greg On Apr 7, 2012, at 9:39 PM,

Re: DAISY Player for the Mac/iPhone

2012-03-27 Thread Greg Aikens
Hi, There was just a similar thread about reading bookshare books on the mac. I use safari to read them on the mac. Just open the xml file from your daisy book in safari and read away. I don't have any suggestions for IOS. -Greg On Mar 27, 2012, at 8:55 PM, Steve Holmes wrote: I haven't

Re: Bookshare?

2012-03-25 Thread Greg Aikens
I use Safari. After unzipping the book, open the .xml file and read away. -Greg On Mar 25, 2012, at 7:22 AM, Alex Hall wrote: Hi all, What do people use to read Bookshare books on the mac? It should work well with both vo and zoom, and have the ability to let Alex do the talking (no

Re: Bookshare?

2012-03-25 Thread Greg Aikens
on behalf of someone who is not very used to vo, so hotspots, finding xml files, and so on might be a bit much. A simple program to read bookshare's files and keep your place would be perfect, if such a thing exists. On 3/25/12, Greg Aikens gpaik...@gmail.com wrote: I use Safari. After

Re: IPhone timer?

2012-03-17 Thread Greg Aikens
There is a timer built into the clock app that comes on the iPhone. It's one of the different tabs within the app. There is also a nice stopwatch. -Greg On Mar 17, 2012, at 6:57 PM, Johnny Angel! wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know of one for either the IPhone or the MBP? Thanks, Johnny

Re: Games for Mac and MUD Clients and other little questions of new Apple Eater

2012-03-14 Thread Greg Aikens
I use TinTin mud client to access muds. It's not the best thing in the world but gets the job done, especially if you play with the cursors so they do not follow each other. Also tintin has a nice gag feature so you can easily eliminate unnecessary lines, such as blank lines. It has been a

Re: Google eBooks

2012-03-08 Thread Greg Aikens
The one I purchased has been accessible on mac using safari and using the google books app on my iPhone. The mac experience has been more positive than the IOS one but they both seem to work fine. -Greg On Mar 8, 2012, at 6:51 PM, Ezzie Bueno wrote: Hello list: Do any of you know whether

I found a table I can read in pages

2012-02-28 Thread Greg Aikens
Hello all, It has been my experience that tables are completely inaccessible in pages. However, recently I have come across a couple of files that have table objects in them that I can navigate and interact with. They show up after the body and before the footer, at least on the two files I

Re: editing cell contents in numbers?

2012-02-25 Thread Greg Aikens
Option + Enter should put your cursor in the cell to edit. -Greg On Feb 25, 2012, at 5:37 AM, erik burggraaf wrote: Hi, is there a key to edit cell contents in numbers? The standard f2 doesn't work. I checked all through the menus and couldn't find it. I looked in the inspector and it

Re: Tables [was:] Re: numbers

2012-02-23 Thread Greg Aikens
Another way to edit cells in Numbers is to move to the cell you want to change and hit Option+Enter. This will put your cursor in the cell for editing. You can navigate to any point in the cell by using the arrow keys or arrow keys + the option key. Once I discovered this, working with

Re: Abby Fine Reader Express

2012-02-04 Thread Greg Aikens
You can use Abby without first printing the files. Indeed, this is how many people use it since it does not directly support all scanners. -Greg On Feb 4, 2012, at 2:15 PM, Paul Hunt wrote: Hello everyone. I'm going to purchase Abby Fine Reader but don't have a scanner yet. If I buy it

Re: Pages question

2012-01-18 Thread Greg Aikens
Under Lion you need to choose export from the file menu. The steps should be straight forward from there. -Greg On Jan 18, 2012, at 8:43 PM, Sarai Bucciarelli wrote: Help! I did a performance review with Pages, and I need a copy in Word, or text format. I cannot figure out how to do

Re: Jumping to pages in Preview

2012-01-11 Thread Greg Aikens
I go into the view menu and select single or double page for viewing. That way, when VO wants to jump to the top, it is limited to the page or 2 that are displayed instead of the entire document. Hope this helps. GregOn Jan 11, 2012, at 11:54 AM, Lindsay Yazzolino wrote: Hi Everyone, I

Re: Gps on the iPhone

2011-12-16 Thread Greg Aikens
Navigon definitely has a pedestrian mode. I like to use Navigon in conjunction with Sendero. -Greg On Dec 13, 2011, at 7:46 PM, Gigi wrote: Hi Hank I think it is the p o I things because I called one restaurant Sent from my iPhone On Dec 13, 2011, at 7:04 PM, Hank Smith

Re: Gps on the iPhone

2011-12-16 Thread Greg Aikens
16, 2011, at 4:58 PM, Eugenia Firth wrote: Hi Gregg. Where is the pedestrian mode on Navigon. I have Sendero also. Regards, Gigi On Dec 16, 2011, at 11:06 AM, Greg Aikens wrote: Navigon definitely has a pedestrian mode. I like to use Navigon in conjunction with Sendero

Re: Daisy Reader under Lion

2011-12-15 Thread Greg Aikens
Learning Ally has a program that reads their books and I think there is a version you can buy that lets you read any daisy materials. Sorry I don't remember the name right now. Hope this helps. Greg On Dec 15, 2011, at 12:31 AM, Kevin Gibbs wrote: Guys, I promise I have looked in the

Re: MacLegion 2011 Winter Bundle includes Nisus Writer Pro and MacGourmet + 7 other apps for $49.99

2011-12-10 Thread Greg Aikens
How does Nisus handle tables with VO? That would be a huge selling point for me. I may look at the demo, but thought I would ask too. -Greg On Dec 10, 2011, at 6:13 PM, Esther wrote: Hi All, One of the interesting accessible alternatives for Office on the Mac is Nisus Writer Pro, which

Re: playing interactive fiction games on mac?

2011-11-21 Thread Greg Aikens
Hi, I have used Zoom. It is available from the interactive fiction archive. -Greg On Nov 20, 2011, at 11:43 PM, Ioana Gandrabur wrote: Hi, I use frotz on iphone and wa wondering what best to use to play the same games on the computer and ideally to sync my progress with phone. I read

Re: frustrating issue with papa john's mobile site

2011-11-21 Thread Greg Aikens
not a whole lot you can do about that. On Nov 19, 2011, at 10:47 PM, Greg Aikens wrote: Hello all, I am having a hard time entering new credit card information on the papa john's mobile site because whenever I enter a value, such as my credit card number, Safari reformats it with commas

Re: Word Games for the Mac?

2011-11-19 Thread Greg Aikens
I have been able to use TinTin for mudding of the mac pretty successfully. I set up an activity for terminal so that the VO cursor does not follow the keyboard or insertion point. This means that even though VO will interrupt itself, it doesn't move my cursor all the way to the bottom, so I

frustrating issue with papa john's mobile site

2011-11-19 Thread Greg Aikens
Hello all, I am having a hard time entering new credit card information on the papa john's mobile site because whenever I enter a value, such as my credit card number, Safari reformats it with commas and even rounds the value to the nearest 10. I have tried unchecking autofill and spell check

Re: Bookshare on the Mac

2011-11-18 Thread Greg Aikens
Hi Scott, I read bookshare books on my mac by opening the xml file in Safari and reading it with VO. Hope this helps. -Greg On Nov 18, 2011, at 8:32 PM, Scott Rumery wrote: Hello, I was wondering if there is a way to read Bookshare books on the Mac? I think that using V O to read a book

Re: Bookshare on the Mac

2011-11-18 Thread Greg Aikens
if I am not mistaken, by reading it in Safari there is no way to bookmark where you leave off. If I am wrong, please let me know. Scott On Nov 18, 2011, at 9:54 PM, Greg Aikens wrote: Hi Scott, I read bookshare books on my mac by opening the xml file in Safari and reading it with VO

Re: more on speech recognition on the Mac

2011-11-15 Thread Greg Aikens
Hi Donna, I haven't looked at this in a while, but there is a button labelled calibrate in the speech recognition dialog. It should bring up a slider that you can move around until it is more accurate. I can't tell you what the slider does, just that that I moved it around until it was more

Re: How to delete messages in my mail on my iPhone

2011-11-15 Thread Greg Aikens
There is an edit button towards the top right of the mail display. Double tap Edit and then double tap the messages you want to delete. You will notice that as you move through your messages they will be read as selected or unselected. When you are done selecting everything you want to

Re: for those who love the siri feature

2011-11-14 Thread Greg Aikens
Good how-to video and thanks for the tip on the youtube5 extension. I like the interface a lot better than click to flash. -Greg On Nov 13, 2011, at 10:31 PM, Yuma Decaux wrote: Check the video

Re: for those who love the siri feature

2011-11-14 Thread Greg Aikens
If you downloaded one of the html5 converters, you will need to navigate to the html5 player on the page to start the video. In the youtube5 extension, this is contained in a frame. -Greg On Nov 14, 2011, at 10:51 AM, Goodin, Donna wrote: So, I'm really confused. I googled Safari

Re: Now that blindmicemart (blindmicemegamall) is back . . .

2011-11-07 Thread Greg Aikens
an exceptionally long frustrating day, so it's entirely possible the problem's all me, and I'm missing something very obvious. :) Kari. On 07/11/2011, at 2:30 PM, Greg Aikens wrote: Yes, free and completely accessible using VO. On Nov 6, 2011, at 10:06 PM, Kliphton wrote

Re: Now that blindmicemart (blindmicemegamall) is back . . .

2011-11-06 Thread Greg Aikens
Hi Christene, Once you have opened the edit info dialogue, you want to get to the options tab. There is a list of several tabs at the top of the window. Once on the options tab there is a pop up box labelled Media kind. If you want your files to show up somewhere else, this is where you

Re: Now that blindmicemart (blindmicemegamall) is back . . .

2011-11-06 Thread Greg Aikens
, but here's the page which comes up when I've logged in and clicked on Blind Mice Movie Vault: https://www.blindmicemegamall.com/bmm/shop/Movie_Vault?recentlyAdded=true On Nov 6, 2011, at 6:38 PM, Greg Aikens wrote: Hi Christene, Once you have opened the edit info dialogue, you want to get

Re: Now that blindmicemart (blindmicemegamall) is back . . .

2011-11-06 Thread Greg Aikens
Yes, free and completely accessible using VO. On Nov 6, 2011, at 10:06 PM, Kliphton wrote: Is this free? -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Greg Aikens Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2011 9:13 PM

Re: Lion Growl no longer free

2011-10-07 Thread Greg Aikens
Even without self-voicing, I find apps like Adium and Skype quite accessible. It might be less convenient but I wouldn't call it less accessible. On Oct 7, 2011, at 12:06 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: I guess I'm looking at it as an equal access question. If I want a chat communications app to

Re: iPhone 4s and Siri

2011-10-05 Thread Greg Aikens
I thought the Siri app already existed for iPhone. How is this different? On Oct 5, 2011, at 3:06 PM, Maxwell Ivey Jr. wrote: the only thing i read that sounded definite is that the seri digital assistant will only be available on the iphone 4's. take care, max On Oct 5, 2011, at 12:41

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