Re: What on earth did I do??? Mail is driving me crazy

2017-11-08 Thread 'Roland Zitzke' via MacVisionaries
Hello, Am Mittwoch, 8. November 2017 19:42:46 UTC+1 schrieb Christine Grassman: > > behaving accurately at all. I cannot navigate a message. I cannot copy. I > cannot right, delete, insert, backspace, or anything properly. Sometimes, > there is no voiceover feedback at all while writing.

Re: good vo accessible alternatives to the finder (for searching for files)?

2017-03-06 Thread 'Roland Zitzke' via MacVisionaries
terminal brings you to a bSD UNIX > environment, most places where you are requesting a matching of file names > u are using a glob pattern and not a regular expression. > Best wishes, > > Jonathan Cohn > > > > > On Mar 5, 2017, at 8:25 AM, 'Roland Zitzke' v

Re: good vo accessible alternatives to the finder (for searching for files)?

2017-03-05 Thread 'Roland Zitzke' via MacVisionaries
I have some big folders that I need to search through forcertain files. I > know i should be able to do it with finder but for some reason that does > not work so well for me in the latest os x. I was wondering if there are > any good vo accessible finder alternatives that work well? > >

Re: Main Stage or Garage band when playing live?

2017-01-06 Thread 'Roland Zitzke' via MacVisionaries
15:19:20 UTC+1 schrieb Ramy Moustafa: > > ok, but if all I need is to select a track that has piano or electric > paino, and play with it, will it be ok? > > On 1/6/17, 'Roland Zitzke' via MacVisionaries > <macvisi...@googlegroups.com > wrote: > > Hi, t

Re: Main Stage or Garage band when playing live?

2017-01-06 Thread 'Roland Zitzke' via MacVisionaries
Hi, this is an interesting question. MainStage is certainly the way to go for live performances. It has many features tailored around this task. However, I am not sure about the VO accessibility of MainStage. I have never actually used it but on the logic accessibility group I remember people

Re: Urgent, urgent Apple Logo appears with a message Installing Progress has not windows sometimes when I turn on My Mac computer!

2017-01-06 Thread 'Roland Zitzke' via MacVisionaries
Hi Helga, without knowing the history of your installation it appears as if some part of the Sierra upgrade terminated prematurely. Did you try to download and install all available updates, either via the Appstore or by opening the terminal and typing: sudo softwareupdate -i -a Does this window

Re: Urgent, urgent Apple Logo appears with a message Installing Progress has not windows sometimes when I turn on My Mac computer!

2017-01-05 Thread 'Roland Zitzke' via MacVisionaries
Helga, I have seen similar issues with the log-in screen. Which audio interface are you using, the built-in speaker / headphone or an external one? If this problem ever occurs again you may want to try changing the audio output. Alternatively, you can try to quit VO by pressing CMD+F5, wait for

Re: Reading PDF image files

2016-04-09 Thread 'Roland Zitzke' via MacVisionaries
Hi Helga, paid solutions for your problem would be Abbyy Fine Reader or Prizmo. Abbyy used to be available as a 30 days trial, don’t know if this is still the case. If you need a free solution, PDF Sandwich is the (terminal) app go install. /Roland -- The following information is

After latest Garageband update: Shifting pitch of regions?

2016-04-09 Thread 'Roland Zitzke' via MacVisionaries
Hello, the latest update of Garageband is supposed to introduce some accessibility improvements. However, I am having a couple of rather strange problems, may be someone can confirm them or even has a solution. When working with an audio track I can enable the editor. By doing so I get a

Re: No sound in vm's after upgrading to VMware 8

2016-01-03 Thread Roland Zitzke
Hello Janina, Am Donnerstag, 31. Dezember 2015 23:48:13 UTC+1 schrieb Janina Sajka: > > > I've been happily using VMware 7 with both a Windows 7 and Linux virtual > machines. I have recently upgraded to the latest VMware 8 Fusion and no > longer > get sound in my vm's. My Apple is latest

Garageband: Accessing the transposition track

2015-12-27 Thread Roland Zitzke
Hi, in Garage Band you can display a track showing key changes within the song. This option can be activated from within the Track menu. However, it looks like this is totally inaccessible to VO, at least I couldn't figure out how to find and interact with it. Can anyone confirm this? TIA,

Re: PDF files

2015-09-30 Thread Roland Zitzke
> I have a PDF image file on my Mac that I am unable to read, is there a > way to convert it to something else or is there a way to read it as is? > There is a nice and free solution for this too. If you have installed home-brew http://brew.sh you can go ahead and install: tesseract (An

Re: Strange issue with Microsoft Word on my mac

2015-07-17 Thread Roland Zitzke
Hello Anne, Am Donnerstag, 16. Juli 2015 13:38:38 UTC+2 schrieb Anne Robertson: I’m not having your problems with the latest version of MS Word on my MacBook Air. Are you interacting far enough with the document? I interact with the document layout area and then with the text and the up

Tip: GB for Mac: Alert windows

2015-07-11 Thread Roland Zitzke
Hi, this is mainly a follow-up to a previous topic but it might help others who run into the same problem with GB, it took me quite some time to figure this out. When using smart controls like the arpeggiator on an instrument track, GB lets you save such settings. If you then change the

Re: satisfied with the new garageband

2015-07-04 Thread Roland Zitzke
Hi, yes, in fact the biggest problems appear to be solved in GB, in particular it is now easily possible to stretch and shrink regions and loops. However, one thing doesn't work for me and I wonder if this is VO related at all. 1. Create a new project with a virtual instrument, I have a MIDI

Re: Skype very important, please help

2015-05-09 Thread Roland Zitzke
Hi, if you use the MAC I would make a test call for at least a little more than five minutes though. I have seen skype lose the picture after a couple of minutes in conjunction with the screen saver a couple of times, both on my MBA and on my MAC desktop. In other words, if stability is the

Re: Preparing Full Drive for Use on Windows and Mac?

2015-05-08 Thread Roland Zitzke
Hi, I am using ntfs-3g in conjunction with home-brew and it works so well with NTFS drives that I almost forgot I had to install it once. The setup is terminal based and fully accessible and once it is installed it works in the background. /Roland -- You received this message because you are

Re: eclipse side on the Mac

2015-05-03 Thread Roland Zitzke
Hi, while Eclipse is not the most accessible App for the MAC I think it is quite usable - at least for basic things like editing and compiling. It often helps to use the tab key to move through the items rather then to use object navigation. . Sometimes it is easier to use the Window command

Re: Any mac reaper users out there?

2015-04-26 Thread Roland Zitzke
Hi, this is well possible with VO The only catch is that once you are in Preferences - devices - Midi devices you must make sure that the mode (second column in the table) of your device is Enabled this is not the default, at least it wasn't for me. In order to get there I think I had to

Presentations on MAC

2015-03-14 Thread Roland Zitzke
Hello, has anyone found a good way to give presentations using a PDF document with Voice Over? My problem with the Apple Preview is that it shows artefacts when scrolling through the document while VO is active. An ideal solution would be to get the same effect as with a laser pointer

Re: Numbers on the iPhone

2015-03-06 Thread Roland Zitzke
Hi, here is what I do to get a column inserted, I would guess a row works in the same manner. I assume that you have your table filled with data and you want to insert a column between two columns with actual contents. In other words inserting a column into the empty space does not make sense

Re: i message and face time are not working for me in the latest version of mac os10 yosemite please help!!!!

2014-12-12 Thread Roland Zitzke
Hi, I had the same problem a while ago with Yosemite. After spending half a day to solve it I discovered that my MAC had lost it's serial number. Can you see a serial number when you open the About my MAC item from the Apple menu? Am Mittwoch, 10. Dezember 2014 17:13:26 UTC+1 schrieb Trahern

Re: running Embosser with Duxbury on my Mac

2014-11-23 Thread Roland Zitzke
fusion. On Nov 22, 2014, at 2:03 PM, Roland Zitzke roland...@googlemail.com javascript: wrote: Hi, these USB to parallel adapters are actually printer port adapters. This means that they connect a centronics printer to your USB host. They do not - and they can not - simulate all aspoects

Re: running Embosser with Duxbury on my Mac

2014-11-22 Thread Roland Zitzke
Hi, these USB to parallel adapters are actually printer port adapters. This means that they connect a centronics printer to your USB host. They do not - and they can not - simulate all aspoects of a parallel interface. a classical parallel interface allows for port level IO which is simply not

Garageband 10: How to stretch a region

2014-11-18 Thread Roland Zitzke
Hi, has anyone successfully extended the size of a loop region with GB 10.0.3? It is quite simple to move a region but I have not managed to resize it. All instructions on the net suggest that you should interact with the track contents - the track - the region - one of the handles to be