Re: Vän for Mac.

Joseph, How did you get Surf Shark to work accessibly on your Mac? As I recall, when I tried it back in May or June, it was not a great accessible experience. Or maybe I'm just missing something? Thanks in advance for any help/advice. -John > On Oct 27, 2023, at 22:17, joseph hodge wrote: > >

Re: Mac mini with M1 chip and questions

You can use windows on an M1 Mac mini. The only way I found to do this is to download a program called UTM. You then need to get an ISO image of Windows 11, the version of Windows that seems to run on ARM processors, and install that into UTM. The setup was a little bit tricky, but definitely

Re: It's finally here, a comprehensive guide to Pages on the Mac with VoiceOver

Congratulations on that, I guess. As much as I enjoy free information, I’m going to go buy a copy of the book sometime before this week is out. Finding the time to sit down and delve into it is going to be the tricky part. DFTBA! John D. Lipsey mail: johnl1...@gmail.com Twitter: @J_TGL

Re: It's finally here, a comprehensive guide to Pages on the Mac with VoiceOver

this priced at or above $100, though I’ve come to expect reasonable prices from Mosen Consulting, and would be shocked if they ever tried to charge that much for this knowledge. That’s all. Back to silently observing I go. DFTBA! John D. Lipsey mail: johnl1...@gmail.com Twitter: @J_TGL > On Feb

looking for a virtual machine

. Thanks in advance! DFTBA! John D. Lipsey mail: johnl1...@gmail.com Twitter: @J_TGL -- 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr

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

to downgrade from the beta back to the current publically available version. Hope that helps. DFTBA! John D. Lipsey mail: johnl1...@gmail.com Twitter: @J_TGL On Jun 14, 2015, at 17:17, Brent Harding br...@hostany.net wrote: The thing with the betas though, don't you have to wipe everything

Re: time for Apple to get a new default voice

I like Eloquence well enough, but I would not want it on my mac or iPhone, ever I don’t think. For me, Eloquence is windows, Alex is Mac. Since I do boot into a virtual machine for mudding and the like, I enjoy having my 2 environments with different voices. DFTBA! John D. Lipsey mail

Re: claarification wanted with respect to using Messages for Facebook

! John D. Lipsey mail: johnl1...@gmail.com Twitter: @J_TGL On Jun 11, 2015, at 09:00, Traci Duncan our4p...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have one more question… Is this Facebook chat or Facebook messages? There is a difference, correct? :) Traci On Jun 10, 2015, at 3:36 PM, Ray Foret Jr

Re: Major frustrations and a big predicament

don’t think I’ll reenroll this year. Sad day. DFTBA! John D. Lipsey mail: johnl1...@gmail.com Twitter: @J_TGL On Jun 10, 2015, at 16:01, Christopher-Mark Gilland clgillan...@gmail.com wrote: So, guys, I never like writing e-mails like this, and I know some of you are going to write me

yosemite strangeness

. Is there a workaround for this incredibly odd behavior? I can probably learn to live with it, and I know I could do voiceover command T to jump to the table, but that's kind of an awkward keystroke on a laptop, for me personally. Thanks in advance for any insights into this. DFTBA! John D

some of my VO settings were lost. Help?

Hi all: I had to take my mac in recently for a genius bar appointment. It was necessary to erase my computer and start from scratch. I had a time machine backup, so I thought all was good. I was wrong!! Most things came over perfectly fine, except some random voiceover settings. Whenever I

question about restoring iPhone from iTunes

Hi all: Quite recently, today in fact, I had opportunity to DFU my phone. As you may be aware, this resets the phone to factory defaults, installs the current public version of iOS, and makes you restore the phone from a backup. No problem, I backed up today before this became an issue, so

Re: Truly bizarre problems; can't figure out if it's my MacBook, my iPhone, or Both

Christine: I have no idea what's going on here, exactly. I've never seen an issue like this before. However, I'd suspect the issue is primarily an iPhone issue. That's where I'd start with for repairs, at least. I would take the mac with you to the appointment, just so if they need to test

sharing activities?

Hi all: Now that I'm using activities more, I'm loving the value they have in increasing my productivity in certain things. This got me to thinking. It's easy enough for me to tell somebody how to create an activity if i find one particularly useful, but it would be nice if I could just give

Re: advanced voice over?

Jonathan: This hot key to know how many characters are left in a tweet when in YoruFukurou sounds like a dead useful feature. Having never created a hot key for this, or any other purpose come to think of it, could you give me some instructions on how I might accomplish this task? Thanks in

Re: Need help! Very frustrated with mail on the Mac!

I, too, am having no issues with my gmail on my Mac. Even back in the first version of Mavericks, I only had very minor issues with gmail and mail on my mac. I'm puzzled as to why it works well for some and not hardly at all for others. :( -John On Aug 17, 2014, at 13:39, David Griffith

piano pub replacement for Pandora

Hi all: Thanks to Twitter, I just discovered this wonderful little app for my mac. It is accessible, however some of the buttons are weirdly labeled. Just remember, if you don't like the label the app has assigned a button you can use VO slash to rename it. Here's the link to the page for

Re: accessible flight simulator or racing game etc for OSX or iOS?

I am very interested to know more about this game. It sounds awesome! Thanks in advance. DFTBA! John D. Lipsey johnl1...@gmail.com Twitter: @J_TGL On Jul 5, 2014, at 17:41, Sandi Jazmin Kruse sandi1...@gmail.com wrote: hi, no you don't exactly use it with voiceover, you use speak

Re: program to batch extract audio from video files?

mentioned earlier, that actually starts the conversion. DFTBA! John D. Lipsey johnl1...@gmail.com Twitter: @J_TGL On Mar 18, 2014, at 6:56, Jessica jldai...@gmail.com wrote: I downloaded adapter at one time but it wanted me to install 2 other programs to make it work. None of the buttons

Re: program to batch extract audio from video files?

know if you have questions about this program at all. DFTBA! John D. Lipsey johnl1...@gmail.com Twitter: @J_TGL On Mar 17, 2014, at 13:54, Cameron Strife came...@cameronstrife.com wrote: Hi everybody. I'm looking for a program to batch convert the audio from video files for example;start

Re: program to batch extract audio from video files?

If you can open it with hand brake, you can convert the file to either mkv or m4v. Adapter will see those and work with them just find. DFTBA! John D. Lipsey johnl1...@gmail.com Twitter: @J_TGL On Mar 17, 2014, at 23:02, Deb Lewis deblewi...@gmail.com wrote: I have a file ripped from a DVD

Re: free software for solving capchas on mac

a CAPTCHA. DFTBA! John D. Lipsey johnl1...@gmail.com Twitter: @J_TGL On Mar 15, 2014, at 11:11, Cheryl Homiak cah4...@icloud.com wrote: Well, I'm not sure how much they see. I know that one day there was a field to put in a coupon and rumola attempted to solve it as a captcha; I would think

extracting audio from DVDs?

are, of course, amazing. However, at this point I just want to trim these things down in size considerably when they're living on my hard drive. As long as it's not a recurring payment or an overly expensive one, I'll take those suggestions too. Thanks in advance, guys! DFTBA! John D. Lipsey

junk mail that isn't really?

Hi all: I have a few emails in my junk mail folder that aren't actually junk. I'm sure there's a way to tell mail that they're not junk, but I can't figure out exactly how to do it. Any assistance in this matter would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. DFTBA! John D. Lipsey johnl1

selecting non-contiguous items in finder?

title.mp3, 02 title.mkv, etc. How can I select all the mkv files in one go without selecting the mp3s as well? Thanks in advance. DFTBA! John D. Lipsey johnl1...@gmail.com Twitter: @J_TGL -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group

Re: selecting non-contiguous items in finder?

Brilliant!! Thanks much, Daniel! :) DFTBA! John D. Lipsey johnl1...@gmail.com Twitter: @J_TGL On Feb 26, 2014, at 19:15, Daniel Miller miller...@gmail.com wrote: Yo, John, Press VO+Command+return. It used to be VO+command+space, but they changed in it 10.9. On Feb 26, 2014, at 8:13 PM

Re: changing the options for opening itemes?

I suppose my first question is why would you want to? VO shift space twice seems to add more keystrokes, even though maybe not necessarily much more time, to opening things. Just curious what purpose this would serve. DFTBA! John D. Lipsey johnl1...@gmail.com Twitter: @J_TGL On Feb 10, 2014

Re: Does Anyone Else Have to Restart Mail Periodically to Get New Messages?

I'm having the same issue. The check for new nail command doesn't seem to help. Only restarting mail fixes the issue. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 14, 2014, at 12:05, Matt Dierckens matt.dierck...@gmail.com wrote: Theresa I am having the same problem. Glad it's not just me. Sent from my

possible solution to the voiceover problem

. That's it. Curious to know if this works for others, and even more curious to know why this seems to solve the problem. Thanks! DFTBA! John D. Lipsey johnl1...@gmail.com Twitter: @J_TGL -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group

Re: Setting up my wife's iPad

Hi: Slide to set up on any of the languages. It will default to english at that point and you can then confirm your language selection on the screen that follows after you slide. Hope that helps. DFTBA! John D. Lipsey johnl1...@gmail.com Twitter: @J_TGL On Dec 22, 2013, at 17:44, Agent086b

very strange, annoying and frustrating audio issue

Hi guys: This just started today, and it's most frustrating!! I'm going to make a genius bar appointment Saturday, but if anyone has a fix before then I'll gladly take it! I noticed, starting this afternoon for seemingly no reason, strange audio artifacts popping up in my headphones. This

Re: 10.9.1 Disappointing

I second Jonathan's opinion, at least with regards to the mail messages in conversation issue. Also, I was hoping they would fix this VO not speaking when you wake up the mac issue. Sadly, this remains for me. Unfortunately, all of those messages about dealing with that were posted before I

missing some mail. Is this still a thing?

Hi guys: I checked my mail on my iPhone yesterday. I saved a message with some content that I would prefer to access on my mac. I came home last night, hopped on my mac, and no message. A bunch of new message came in, but the one I left in my inbox never pulled into my mac. My gmail is set

emogees break Voiceover

Hey guys: Every time I come across an emogee item, unless it's at the end of a message/tweet etc, voiceover seems to just pass right over the item in question. By item in question, I mean the entire message/tweet etc. Is there a way to fix this issue? I'm running Mavericks on a brand new 13

issue with messages

Hi all: This is my second day running Mavericks on a brand new 13 inch MacBook air. So far, with the exception I'm about to mention, I'm enjoying Mavericks! Every time I go into messages and try to start an iMessage conversation, I get the following message: person phone number/email address

Re: skype on the mac

Which mac are you using? On my 13 inch MacBook Air I don't notice any lag. On Dec 13, 2013, at 5:15 PM, Jim Gatteys jgatt...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all! Does anyone here use skype on the mac and if so have you noticed it taking a really long time to load and being sluggish? I have Mavericks and

upgrading, downgrading, choices oh my!

Hey all: I'm considering upgrading my 2010 Macbook from Lion to Mavericks. Various people have told me my little old macbook should support the upgrade well enough, and it may run the new OS better than Lion. If this is not the case, or if I'm just ridiculously dissatisfied with mail and

strange behavior since update to IOS

Hi all: Just wondering if anyone else has noticed this, and could possibly know what's causing it. I installed the latest IOS7 update last night on my iPhone 5. Since the update, I've noticed that Voiceover now gives me to Screen locked. messages. One is, as expected, almost immediately after

navigon or apple maps?

Hi list: Just wanted to get some thoughts on this. I have, and use, both Apple's built-in Maps and Navigon. I'm not really leaning towards one over the other at present, so thought I'd get some additional input. Which do you prefer, and why? Is one better in certain situations, IE driving,

Spaces/desktops with VO and lion

Hi guys, I know this was discussed ages ago, but I seem to have lost my copy of the message and Google groups archives aren't playing so nicely. In lion, how does one delete a space or desktop from mission control? Thanks in advance. John Sent from my iPhone -- You received this message

Disregard last

Kindly disregard my last message. I was able to find an answer, though I'll probably forget that particular keystroke again quite shortly. John Sent from my iPhone -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this

still no FB chat for me

I've updated Adium, and I still have no better luck with facebook chat than I've been having all week. I'm about ready to give up on this, but I refuse to bow to Facebook and just use the website for chatting when adium presents a much cleaner, simpler interface. If anyone did anything before

Re: still no FB chat for me

have been the reason mine worked. Also, I think SSL has to be disabled. Not sure what the case is for you. Brandon On Apr 27, 2013, at 7:03 PM, John D. Lipsey johnl1...@gmail.com wrote: I've updated Adium, and I still have no better luck with facebook chat than I've been having all week

Re: Facebook chat

On miranda in windows, and Adium on Mac, both only see a couple of contacts online on FB chat for me. I know there should be more, but can't see them. Also, I don't have Skype link to Facebook, as I turned down that option when Skype presented to me initially. Is there a way to get it back?

Skype and FB still no go

Hi all: I got Skype connected to my facebook account, but it still only shows 1 person online from facebook if I'm lucky. Consulting the mobile site tells me I should have at least 50 people online. I'm not sure what facebook broke, but my Skype, Adium and Miranda are now all unable to

best antivirus for mac?

Hi list: I've been nomail on the list for absolute ages, and so if the topic came up in a recent thread I apologize. I want to put some antivirus software on my mac. Some would say that viruses are less likely to infect my mac, but I say I'd rather be prepared. I want something that's

Re: writing to NTFS drives under Lion?

remember, but I think that was the one I used. On Oct 12, 2011, at 10:56 PM, Gavin wrote: I thought writing to NTFS partitions was impossible under any Mac OS version. How did you manage it in Snow Leopard? Regards, Gavin On 13 Oct 2011, at 6:19 AM, John D. Lipsey wrote: Hi list: I

amazon mp3 downloader

Hi list: I just installed the amazon mp3 downloader, and tried to download an album. The website says complete purchase'. Clicking this link brought me to the downloads window where it downloaded a tiny file, but that's all. The table in the mp3 downloader stays empty, and the amazon mp3

upgrading ram and VM fusion

Hi list: Firstly, this is part of a long-term plan to go into broadcasting. It's just going to be easier, as far as I can tell, to broadcast on a virtual machine. My macbook has just the base 2 gigs of RAM. I want 4, as I believe that'ss the most it can support. So, firstly, is it worth

Re: yorufukurou question

Hello: I often find that VO and YoruFukurou don't always work in perfect sync. It is, therefore, sometimes necessary to command tab out of and back into YoruFukurou in order for the drawer contents to accurately reflect what you should be seeing. If anyone knows a way around this oddity,

watching a specific hashtag in YoruFukurou

Hi all: I've poked around, and if this option is available, I can't see it. I want to follow a hash tag, specifically #ACB11, so I can see whenever anyone tweets using this hash tag. I would think this option would be available, but I can't seem to find it. Any suggestions/help would be

Re: Pndora and VO?

Stupid question! I've installed and labeled the buttons, but... once you interact with stations table while a station is playing, how the heck do you switch stations? This is my perplexed face. On Mar 26, 2011, at 8:59 AM, Rose Morales wrote: For an accessible Pandora app, use Pianopub and

Re: Pndora and VO?

Interesting! Using the track pad doesn't even seem to work for me. This is potentially bad. On Mar 26, 2011, at 5:56 PM, Mary Otten wrote: Hi John, So far, the only way I've been able to change stations is to use my track pad with vo trackpad commander off. In other words, move the mouse

I broke click to flash!

Hi guys! I was having issues with click to flash today. Ever since I got home, I would click on flash videos, then interact with the thing adn click play on click to flash, and there was no audio. I checked for an update, sure enough there was one. The update, however, broke click to flash.

Blinkx remote?

Hi list: Has anyone ever used Blinkx Remote? I find the majority of its interface fairly self-explanatory, but I'm about to bang my head into a wall in frustration at one thing in particular. Selecting a TV show, season and episode is very straight forward. Then, Blinkxs asks me where I

getting started with navigon

Hi all: I just purchased navigon. I want to explore the app for myself, and have no specific questions at the moment. But if anyone has any generally useful tips/tricks, or a basic kind of getting started guide, VO specific would be nice but not mandatory, that'd be awesome. I plan on

adium and adding contacts?

Hi guys: I've been using Adium forever, well since I got my mac, and am over all happy with it. Recently, I've tried to add three people to MSN messenger. One with a hotmail, and two with non-SN addresses. That is they're not associated with hotmail, live.com, etc. In all three cases, I

Re: adium and adding contacts?

. That's all I get. On Feb 6, 2011, at 6:15 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: Hello. did you go to add contact then choose msn and put int he address and just hit add? what error messages do you get if any? S On Feb 6, 2011, at 2:53 PM, John D. Lipsey wrote: Hi guys: I've been using Adium forever

Re: first impressions of the new Skype

Ray: To read someone's profile, you perform the following steps. Interact with the table that shows your contacts. Then, arrow to the contact you want. While still interacting with the table, bring up the context menu for the contact you're interested in with VO-Shift-M. Then, arrow to the

turning on/off video in a call in new skype beta

This is what I'm trying to do. If there's a way to do it while in a call, it's sure not obvious to me. Any help would be great. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to

ITunes not properly updating podcasts

Hi list: I've now had this happen twice. For reasons I can't figure out, ITunes all of a sudden stops updating my podcasts. The only reason I know this is because I have one hourly news and one or two daily podcasts that haven't updated in the last several days. The only way I've found to

following people in YoruFukurou

Hi guys: I think this may have been discussed once before, but I don't recall what the answer is. How exactly can you follow people using YoruFukurou. Is it eve possible? I'm confused. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To

Re: Skype and Adium Questions

Adium and facebook are currently broken. Unless you set up your facebook account under jabber rather than facebook, and use chat.facebook.com as the server. I posted an article from adium about this to the list a couple of times. I'll see if I can dig up the link again, if you want it. On

selecting to end of document

Hi list: i'm in a mode again where i'm full of questions. I know it's possible to select an entire document, and it's possible to select a document line by line. However, is it possible to select from a certain point of a document to the end without going line by line? Or, from the same

adium/facebook, the solution

Some thoughtful person sent me this link in a facebook message. The solution seems to work, and I think it will be how they'll implement facebook chat connectivity in future versions of Adium. Hope it works for everyone. http://trac.adium.im/wiki/FacebookChat -- You received this message

making youtube videos??

Hi list: I want to break into the world of youtube videos. I have no idea what I'm doing, though. If anyone's done any podcasts on the subject, particularly discussing any issues VO users may encounter, that would be great. Here's hoping someone can nudge me in a direction. -John -- You

greyhound, webkit/safari, and voiceover: oh my!

Hi list: I was just wondering if anyone's used the greyhound website to buy tickets with webkit and voiceover? I tried it last night. It's useable, but I also found the process mildly frustrating. Part of that could have been due to the fact it was after midnight and I was tired, however.

concerning recent skype conversations

Hi all: I'm not particularly following many threads on the list at present, but the issue of skype accessibility seems to have cropped up a bit here and there. This has me curious. I am, to my knowledge, running the latest version of skype, and not having any issues with it. What

CD burning options on the Mac and another Amadeus question

Hi all: I want to burn several audio CD's. What is the best way to go about actually accomplishing this task? Someone suggested ITunes, but even if this is an option I don't really want to do that. I don't want to have to import the songs into my ITunes library, burn them, and then have to

Re: CD burning options on the Mac and another Amadeus question

Silly question ahead!! How does one rout the VO cursor to a particular area? I think I knew this at one point, but have forgotten it as I don't tend to use it very often. On Oct 10, 2010, at 2:27 AM, Sarah Alawami wrote: response below your question. On Oct 9, 2010, at 11:38 PM, John D

Re: Can keyboard only navigation ever be...

Quicknav allows you to use one hand. I almost never turn quicknav off, unless I'm working in a program where I need my arrow keys to function as arrow keys, such as Amadeus Pro. Quicknav is kind of like locking the VO keys, but it only applies to the arrow keys, enabling you to still enter

last question of the day converting avi to ogg?

Hi all: I have several avi files that I'd like to convert to ogg, hence my question earlier about batch processing. However, it appears that Amadeus won't open avi files. Therefore, I'd like some recommendations of alternatives. Preferably something that will do batch processing, but that's

selecting a part of a track in amadeus pro

Hi all: Back in the days of windows, I used goldwave for all my audio editing needs. Now I'm plunging into Amadeus pro. One of the things I loved about goldwave was how easy it was to select part of a track for copying/pasting, deleting, etc. I could just use my left and right brackets and

downloading/reading bookshare books

Hi all, I just tried to grab a book from bookshare.org using webkit. The zip file downloaded just fine, but I can't seem to get a password prompt when I go to unzip the file. It just tells me that it failed to extract. Also, when I used windows I would just open the .xml file from daisy

disregard my last: re bookshare stuff

I figured it out. I had to extract the book using stuffit expander. All is good, now. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send

navigating a webpage by headers, pre-snow leopard

Hello, I'm volunteering at a highschool that uses macs. However, they're running OS 10.5.8, I think. Using Snow Leopard has spoiled me, because I love using quicknav. Some websites I use at work are more efficient to navigate via headers. This is easy as pie with quicknav, but I can't for

VMWare, Skype and a soundcard issue

Hi all, I'm running VMWare fusion 3.1.1, I believe it is, but this problem was occurring even with my older version of Fusion. I'm running Windows XP on the virtual machine, if that matters. I've tested several hypotheses, and have reached the conclusion that Skype is my culprit. Here's the

mail and contacts

I'm confused! I want to add someone who sent me an email to my address book, but I've brought up the context menu for the message and looked in all of the menus on the menu bar, and I can't seem to find an option to do this. So I thought, maybe replying to a message will create a new contact

Re: VMWare issue

be your issue right there, as a full instalation disc is required. On Jul 30, 2010, at 3:00 PM, John D. Lipsey wrote: Hi list. I recently installed VMWare fusion on my MacBook so I can run Windows XP if I ever need to. Installing VMWare was easy enough. I then located an XP install CD

VMWare issue

Hi list. I recently installed VMWare fusion on my MacBook so I can run Windows XP if I ever need to. Installing VMWare was easy enough. I then located an XP install CD in my basement. I'm not sure how long we've had it kicking around here, but from all I could tell the disk was in working

Re: screen curtain

, 2010, at 8:22 PM, Mike Arrigo wrote: For saving the battery, rather than using the screen curtain, I would turn the display brightness all the way down to 0, that will totally turn off the screen lighting. On Jul 25, 2010, at 4:20 PM, John D. Lipsey wrote: Hello! I enable my screen curtain

audio captchas

Hi, I was trying to sign up for a website in Safari, and I came across a captcha. It had an audio link, but pressing the link, both with VOSpace and down-up in quicknav yielded no results. Trying to download the file gave me an HTML file. Advice? Tips/tricks for dealing with CAPTCHAs? -- You

screen curtain

Hello! I enable my screen curtain because A: I don't like people being able to look over my shoulder while I'm using my computer, and B: I assume that it saves a bit of battery power. However, I was under the impression that the screen curtain would behave like it does on the IPhone and

deleting messages in mail

Hello, I now have my MacBook. Am getting comfortable with it, but I'm confused about something in mail. I know how to interact with the table and delete one message at a time, but if I want to select and delete more than one message at a time, how do I accomplish this without selecting all

yet another mail question

Hi again. Mail set up my gmail account to be imap. However, I think, as I've used it as a pop3 account before, I'd like to change this accordingly. I fiddled around with preferences a bit, but still haven't seen a way to do this. Help? -- You received this message because you are subscribed