Voiceover default voice confusion

2024-04-16 Thread Simon Cavendish
Hi, So I open my voiceover Utility and choose speech tab. Then customise languages. I look at the default language, which is English. Although Alex is speaking, the button where you choose the voice says Eloquence Fiona. No matter what I do, I can’’t make it say what it is: Alex. I have 4

Re: Headphones for my SE 2020

2024-03-24 Thread Simon Cavendish
Hello, This model has no headphone jack but uses the lightning connecter. The charging lightning port doubles as headphone connecter. You will need an adapter lightning to 3.5 mm headphone adapter. Best wishes Simon > On 24 Mar 2024, at 09:25, meikle.aiden via MacVisionaries > wrote: > >

Re: Sharing encrypted files and folders between Mac and IOS

2024-02-11 Thread Simon Cavendish
Paul, Checkout Encrypto app by Macpaw.com to see whether it might meet your needs. I have just come across this app but have not used it yet. I’m pasting the link to the app details below my name. Simon https://macpaw.com/encrypto Encrypto | Encrypt your files before sending them to

Reading DAISY books on Mac os Sonoma

2024-01-29 Thread Simon Cavendish
Hi, Is there a way of reading DAISY books on the mac M1 chip? I mean reading using voiceover and a Braille display? I know there’s Dolphin Easy reader but it requires subscription which is not cheap. Simon -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries

Re: How to open an App from an unknown developer in Ventura

2024-01-16 Thread Simon Cavendish
Hi Paul, the way I’ve always gone round this problem is to invoke contextual menu while focused on the name of the app in the application folder and choosing to open it from there. You get a warning with the cancel button as the rightmost element but before the cancel button there will be the

Re: Setting up Apple tv 4K without sighted help

2024-01-08 Thread Simon Cavendish
t's slightly indented three times quickly. > That will turn on Voice Over and you're good to go from there. > > > Sincerely, > The Constantly Barefooted Ray > Still a very proud Mac, Xfinity Mobile and Apple TV user > >> On Jan 8, 2024, at 4:00 AM, Simon Cavendish &g

Setting up Apple tv 4K without sighted help

2024-01-08 Thread Simon Cavendish
Hi, I’m expecting a delivery of Apple tv 4K wifi. Will I be able to set it up without sighted help straight from the box? I’m feeling rather nervous. Any tips would be appreciated. Simon -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have

Re: How to read pdf or if there is a app

2024-01-07 Thread Simon Cavendish
Hi Tom, The application Preview is always available on mac OS; you will find it in your applications folder and most likely on your dock if you press control + F3 key or control + option + letter D, and then start typing preview, you should land on it. Press enter and it will open. It is

Apple TV 4th generation

2024-01-06 Thread Simon Cavendish
Hi, I’ve had Apple TV third generation for years. I’ts going great but there’s an application or two wich I’d like to use and I have no ability to download it onto my third generation Apple TV. Do you find it easy to work with forth gen Apple tv? Any tips, comments, suggestions? Simon --

Re: Need a new Braille display

2023-11-22 Thread Simon Cavendish
> On 11/22/23, Simon Cavendish wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I’d like your suggestions for a new Braille display at a lower price end on >> the market. My Focus 40 blue has died and I need a 32 cell or 40 cell >> Braille display with no bells and whistles. Any comme

Need a new Braille display

2023-11-22 Thread Simon Cavendish
Hi, I’d like your suggestions for a new Braille display at a lower price end on the market. My Focus 40 blue has died and I need a 32 cell or 40 cell Braille display with no bells and whistles. Any comments on the Orbit Braille display, which seems to be more affordable at present? Many

One Drive blocks access to menu extra in Sonoma

2023-11-19 Thread Simon Cavendish
Hi, When One Drive is running on my macbook air in Sonoma, when pressing vo+m twice in order to access menu extra, One Drive window pops up and there’s no way I can see my menu extra. Could anyone replicate this before I report this to Apple? Also, is there an alternative way of accessing

Re: Google drive on a Mac

2023-11-18 Thread Simon Cavendish
Dear Lorie, You need to go to menu extra, find Google drive and vo+space on it. You will be presented with a number of choices. Press “more” and you should be in the preferences for Google Drive. There you can determine whether your files sync and are available off-line. Simon > On 18

Test message

2023-11-17 Thread Simon Cavendish
Could you please confirm this message has reached the group? Simon -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please

Best headset to use with navigation apps out and about

2023-11-16 Thread Simon Cavendish
Hi I’d like to start experimenting with navigation apps. I will need to purchase a good headset, and I guess this will have to be bone conduction one as I’m totally blind and need to monitor other sounds in the streets. Could you share your experience with such? I know many of you use

My first ever Zoom call on a mac and I'm really worried

2023-10-30 Thread Simon Cavendish
Hi, I’ve been sent an invitation to a Zoom meeting in a few days’ time. I’ve got Zoom installed on my M1 chip macbook air but I’ve not done a Zoom meeting before. They sent me a link, and then some ID numbers. If I click the link, will it automatically connect me to the person who issued

Test

2023-10-16 Thread Simon Cavendish
Hi, I don’t seem to be receiving any messages from the group although I have chosen to receive each individual email. Am I missing something I should have done? Simon -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or

Test, pls ignore

2020-04-27 Thread Simon Cavendish
just testing my preferences. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly

Re: new mac user please help

2014-02-26 Thread Simon Cavendish
Dear Zoe, Welcome to the group. I, too, am a Greek speaker and I, too, chose to switch to Mac because of the many language Apple offers. I've learnt Greek, and in fact, I'm still continuing my classes with a tutor in Cyprus. Now to your questions. Isaac has already told you how to switch

RE: Digest for macvisionaries@googlegroups.com - 23 Messages in 11 Topics

2013-10-24 Thread simon . cavendish
According to vmware website, maverick requires fusion 6. -original message- Subject: Digest for macvisionaries@googlegroups.com - 23 Messages in 11 Topics From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Date: 23/10/2013 10:19 pm

Re: Verifying disk before Mountain Lion upgrade or clean install

2012-08-12 Thread Simon Cavendish
Because certain repairs or verifications can't be done when you are actually within the start up disk. I don't understand the full programming details. On 12 Aug 2012, at 02:06, Christina C. wrote: Thanks for sharing this info. Why does it have to be done in the recovery partition instead of

Re: Apple Bluetooth keyboard

2012-07-24 Thread Simon Cavendish
Have you tried the alternative shortcut key combination, control+f3? Best wishes Simon On 24 Jul 2012, at 01:59, Stacey Robinson wrote: Hi, I've pared my apple bluetooth keyboard with my macbook. I can't get some commands to work though such as moving to the doc. What could I be doing

Re: mail question

2012-07-24 Thread Simon Cavendish
I will describe to you what I do to achieve this on macbook air. Whilst in a mailbox, interact with the list of messages. Then press fn+vo+shift+left arrow to go to the first row of the table of messages and fn+vo+right arrow to go to the last row in the table of messages. hope this helps.

Re: Apple Bluetooth keyboard

2012-07-24 Thread Simon Cavendish
shortcut keys. On 24 Jul 2012, at 11:44, Stacey Robinson wrote: No, where can I find a list of these alternative keys. On Jul 24, 2012, at 3:02 AM, Simon Cavendish wrote: Have you tried the alternative shortcut key combination, control+f3? Best wishes Simon On 24 Jul 2012, at 01:59

Re: Removing an item from the dock

2012-07-23 Thread Simon Cavendish
Find the item you wish to remove, press vo+shift+m, and arrow down to options submenu. Press right arrow to expand the menu and you should find in there an option to remove from dock. Best wishes Simon On 23 Jul 2012, at 13:11, Stacey Robinson wrote: Hi all, Can someone please refresh my

Re: braille translation for mac?

2012-07-22 Thread Simon Cavendish
I think Erik means louis not Lois. Just a typo I believe. not sure whether Louis is Lion compatible? Best wishes Simon On 22 Jul 2012, at 01:27, Alex Hall wrote: Hi all, Some weeks back a few options for braille translation/brf reading/embossing were discussed. Unfortunately, I didn't save

Re: File versions

2012-07-22 Thread Simon Cavendish
Dear Joseph, I have pasted below a description by Tim Kilburn on how to revert to earlier versions of a document in TextEdit. I have found it by doing a search in the Googlegroups pages. I will post copy the link to that particular page for your information. Hope this will help See below for

Somebody asked about resizing bootcamp partition with Voiceover

2012-07-18 Thread Simon Cavendish
Dear Listers, I am aware that recently somebody was asking questions about resizing a bootcamp partition using Voiceover. I have today received a response from Accessibility team at Apple to their questions. He or she must have clearly e-mailed Accessibility. They sent a response to me in

Re: how can I restore a bootcamp-partition with voiceover?

2012-07-17 Thread Simon Cavendish
on the list. I can't remember his name. Please check your records and respond to the correct recipient. Best regards Simon Cavendish On 18 Jul 2012, at 01:15, accessibil...@apple.com wrote: Please include the line below in follow-up emails for this request. Follow-up: 217170526 Hello

Re: updating flash?

2012-07-16 Thread Simon Cavendish
Donna, I run Lion and in system preferences on the far right of the preferences pain, you have various buttons which relate to non apple products like flash. If you have had flash installed previously, you will find the button there. Activate it and you should be able to check for flash

Ultralingua electronic dictionary and Mountain Lion

2012-07-13 Thread Simon Cavendish
Dear Listers, Ultralingua electronic dictionary, whose developers have been committed to its accessibility with Voiceover, is preparing for Mountain Lion as I am being informed in their newsletter. Below I'm pasting a piece of the newsletter which actually mentions Voiceover. I'm so excited

Re: Keystroke for moving between windows within same application

2012-07-11 Thread Simon Cavendish
As has been already said, command+accent key but on the British keyboard it is located immediately to the right of the left shift key, not above the tab. Not sure what keyboard you use. Thought it might help. On 12 Jul 2012, at 04:17, Lisette Wesseling wrote: Hi folks Can someone please

Re: Re-setting Vo in Safari

2012-07-10 Thread Simon Cavendish
Dear Johnny, Open Voiceover utility with vo+f8. Then with vo+m, go to your menu bar and move to the right to find file. Then down arrow to open the menu. If you arrow down the options you have there, you will find a few choices for resetting various preferences of Voiceover. I've not done it

Re: Re-setting Vo in Safari

2012-07-10 Thread Simon Cavendish
any further. Lol!! But I must say it again that you guys on this list are the bestest! Thanks again, Johnny On Jul 10, 2012, at 4:37 AM, Simon Cavendish wrote: Dear Johnny, Open Voiceover utility with vo+f8. Then with vo+m, go to your menu bar and move to the right to find file

Re: Tips for Using Track Changes

2012-07-09 Thread Simon Cavendish
Dear Harry, Regarding speaking the attributes of the text you are reading, press control+shift+v and you will find yourself in the dialogue box where yo you can adjust various values for Voiceover. One of them is speak text attributes. There are other useful functions of Voiceover you can

Re: Tips for Using Track Changes

2012-07-08 Thread Simon Cavendish
Dear Harry, I understand from the many expert messages that Ann has been posting on this list regarding iWork suite, that sadly track changes does not work with Voiceover. Ann is a very knowledgeable person in the matter, and had there been a work around, she would have found it. Maybe she

Re: Time Machine question

2012-07-07 Thread Simon Cavendish
Stacey, As far as I can remember, there is an off and on button in the time machine preference window. Make sure to click the on button. Before you do, check that the lock to prevent further changes is not on. Yo You will find it on the right side. Hope this will help. Good luck Simon On

Re: Time Machine question

2012-07-07 Thread Simon Cavendish
to go. On Jul 7, 2012, at 11:58 AM, Simon Cavendish wrote: Stacey, As far as I can remember, there is an off and on button in the time machine preference window. Make sure to click the on button. Before you do, check that the lock to prevent further changes is not on. Yo You will find

Re: what Voiceover bugs people want or are hoping will be fixed or squashed in Mountain Lion?

2012-07-03 Thread Simon Cavendish
I'd like to have Braille tables for some languages fixed in Mountain Lion. I've been writing to Accessibility about it a few times but ominously have not had a single response to reassure me that they are going to do so. Braille tables swapping on te the fly would be a good feature, very much

Re: Bookmarks

2012-06-27 Thread Simon Cavendish
Open Safari. Move left along the bookmark bar (provided it's showing, and if not, press command+shift+b) and look for the place which Voiceover reports as show all bookmarks, unchecked checkbox. Check this box. Now in place of your usual html page, you will have two tables. The first table

Re: copying files to certain folders.

2012-06-25 Thread Simon Cavendish
Have you tried to open the folder to which you wish to copy your file with command key + down arrow? You can close the folder with command + w after you have copied the file. On 24 Jun 2012, at 22:25, Jakob Rosin wrote: hi all. As ive mentioned, i've been using mac only for a week so far so

Re: importing vo-preffereces in osx-lion

2012-06-11 Thread Simon Cavendish
I think this message is meant for somebody else. With best wishes Simon Cavendish On 11 Jun 2012, at 17:35, accessibil...@apple.com wrote: Please include the line below in follow-up emails for this request. Follow-up: 196742241 William You should report this to developer services

Re: Jumping to the top and bottom of the message list (Lion Mac mail in classic view)

2012-04-16 Thread Simon Cavendish
They key combinations described by Esther work for me too but you need to interact with the list of messages or files in the finder for the keys to take effect. On 16 Apr 2012, at 02:23, Frank Ventura wrote: Hi all, when in a message list in mail sometimes I want to jump to the top or bottom

Re: Creating a list of all the headings and links on a webpage

2012-04-10 Thread Simon Cavendish
When on a web page, press vo+u and you will be presented with a choice of elements in categories. You can then use your right and left arrow keys to move from category to category, e.g. headings, links, visited links, form controls, tables, regions, etc. Once you find the category you wish, use

Re: importing vo-preffereces in osx-lion

2012-03-29 Thread Simon Cavendish
Please note, that this message had not originated from me and therefore should not have been sent to me either. This is not the first time that this has happened. This is a worrying trend in the way you track messages. With best regards Simon Cavendish On 29 Mar 2012, at 19:45, accessibil

Re: anyone else noticing mail.app wierdness?

2012-03-24 Thread Simon Cavendish
No problem here at all. On 24 Mar 2012, at 21:28, Sean Murphy wrote: The mail issue isn't isolated to Hot mail. I get it with Gmail and my ISP. Mail now and then prompts for the password and refuses to send a message. Very flakey program. Don't know if I should go through my passwords and

Re: Possible bug in Lion

2012-03-09 Thread Simon Cavendish
It's happened to me as well: I've been receiving answers to somebody else's questions from apple accessibility. On 9 Mar 2012, at 00:30, John Sanfilippo wrote: I do not know why I am receiving this as it is not my question. At the same time, my request that a specific braille keyboard might

Re: Turkish language and the Mac.

2012-03-07 Thread Simon Cavendish
. On Mar 7, 2012, at 12:15 AM, Simon Cavendish wrote: Nektarios, First of all, you need to go to system preferences and choose language and text button and then the text input tab, which is the last tab. If you move to the right, you will come across a table of all available keyboards. You

Re: Turkish language and the Mac.

2012-03-06 Thread Simon Cavendish
Nektarios, First of all, you need to go to system preferences and choose language and text button and then the text input tab, which is the last tab. If you move to the right, you will come across a table of all available keyboards. You need to check the box in the first column, next to the

Re: Tables [was:] Re: numbers

2012-02-23 Thread Simon Cavendish
When focused on the cell you wish to change data in, press F2 key which will put you in the editing mode. Then you should be able to use your cursor keys. Once done, press tab. In the previous version of Tables, this worked very well. The latest update has rendered this important function more

Re: Tables [was:] Re: numbers

2012-02-23 Thread Simon Cavendish
Jurgen, changing sheets in Tables has always worked for me by pressing command + option + right or left arrow key. The larger the sheet the longer it takes though for Tables to change to the next sheet. In the latest update, again you do not necessarily know that the sheet has been changed so

Re: Tables [was:] Re: numbers

2012-02-23 Thread Simon Cavendish
the best Jürgen Am 24.02.2012 um 07:34 schrieb Simon Cavendish: When focused on the cell you wish to change data in, press F2 key which will put you in the editing mode. Then you should be able to use your cursor keys. Once done, press tab. In the previous version of Tables, this worked

Re: Tables [was:] Re: numbers

2012-02-23 Thread Simon Cavendish
mentioned before: I use Sheets as a two dimensional note pad and so it might be because of a lot of text in each sheet. Am 24.02.2012 um 07:37 schrieb Simon Cavendish: Jurgen, changing sheets in Tables has always worked for me by pressing command + option + right or left arrow key. The larger

Re: Anyone Using Google Chrome with VO?

2012-02-07 Thread Simon Cavendish
Yes, I love Google Chrome and have been using it regularly for a couple of months. Very fast, no busy - ready reports. Only on some websites it does not always report all the labels at which point I switch to Safari. Simon On 7 Feb 2012, at 06:39, Teresa Cochran wrote: Hi, all, Upon a

Re: Selecting text in Safari

2012-01-16 Thread Simon Cavendish
Bill, I interact with the text on a web page, press vo+enter and then start selecting using vo + arrow keys. When I've selected what I wish, I press vo+enter again and then command+c to copy to clipboard. While you are selecting the text with vo+arrow keys, you should hear the swishing sound.

Re: NewsStand

2012-01-15 Thread Simon Cavendish
No, this is also my experience. Disappointing. On 13 Jan 2012, at 21:56, Chris Blouch wrote: So I went to try this out on the iPad today and wasn't able to get very far. Seemed like most of the ones I tried were unreadable with voiceover. Does anyone know of a particular subscription that

Re: creating appointments using ICal.

2012-01-12 Thread Simon Cavendish
Under view options in the menu bar you probably need to choose how you wish to view your calendar: by day or week or month. On 10 Jan 2012, at 14:14, Jessica wrote: I've just started trying to figure out how to create an event using ICal, but when I try to use the left and right arrows to

Re: Pages

2012-01-08 Thread Simon Cavendish
Under Windows, it used to be called track changes. On 8 Jan 2012, at 07:34, Jürgen Fleger wrote: Hi Folkes, in Pages there is an option what allows to show changes in a document by others. For a discription I need the correct term of that option in an english Pages. When I translate

Recording a few minutes' long video on the mac

2011-12-13 Thread Simon Cavendish
Hello Listers, I'd like to record a short audiovisual message for a friend of mine so that they can both hear me and see me. Can I accomplish it on my macbook air/ Has anyone done that before? A few minutes would do. I'd appreciate some brief instructions. What application would I have to use

Re: bouncing incoming messages under Lion?

2011-12-12 Thread Simon Cavendish
I just realised myself that it was missing under Lion. what a pity! I have not found an alternative way of bouncing messages. On 12 Dec 2011, at 08:12, Ray Foret Jr wrote: Say, I remembear that, under SL, there was a way to manually bounce a message you didn't want using mail in such a way

Re: how can I rename files in finder without having to go through get info?

2011-12-11 Thread Simon Cavendish
I'm not sure whether my method is going to be too slow for you but in Finder, I hit enter on the name of the file, which allows me to edit its name. Once you hit enter on the name of a file, be careful because the name is highlighted so if you start typing immediately, you will delete the

Re: lightning browser

2011-11-21 Thread Simon Cavendish
I've been using Lightening for a long time. You always have to move to the html content to interact with it and then you can read it as normal. On my macbook air, I use the shortcut function +vo keys + right arrow to take me to the rightmost object on the page which is usually html. I then

Re: embossing Braille from a Mac, Possible or impossible?

2011-11-09 Thread Simon Cavendish
I used to use an old Everest printer (from the year 2000), and it worked fine to a point. Whatever embosser you choose, and I can't recommend any, had better have a usb connection. I do not think Duxbury is compatible with Mac computers. I used to use Louis - an open source piece of software

Re: Question About Frames

2011-11-07 Thread Simon Cavendish
Hello, I've just been to a page where there are some frames, and when I press vo+shift+m, I get a choice to open it in a new window as you said. At the same time, on that page, there is another frame that contains an advert, and the same command does not give me the choice. I can only suggest

Re: Help with touch pad command

2011-11-03 Thread Simon Cavendish
Hello, I've just tried this command and it works. I have tried it while reading a message in Mail. For this command to work while the message is open, I had to interact with the text body of the message. The only thing is, that choosing between line sentence reading mode, VoiceOver reads in

Re: Did Lion update break my mail behavior?

2011-10-30 Thread Simon Cavendish
Johnny, My mail behaves occasionally in the manner you have described, i.e. Voiceover won't read the message: it's stuck at the beginning of the message and doesn't say anything. But it doesn't happen every time. I've repaired permissions several times. I don't know - and perhaps Scott could

Re: Did Lion update break my mail behavior?

2011-10-30 Thread Simon Cavendish
As I have learnt today, Cocktail is a Mac application that does all sorts of maintenance activities. It is not free, it costs $19 It can be found at www.maintain.se Best wishes Simon. On 30 Oct 2011, at 18:03, Johnny Angel! wrote: Hi, What is cocktail and where do I find it in lion? On

Re: key echo rate?

2011-10-30 Thread Simon Cavendish
Do you mean by key echo that you want to hear or not as the case may be each key as you type? I think You should be able to set it in VoiceOver utility activated by vo+f8. In VoiceOver utility choose verbosity and then text tab and you can set your key echo to what you wish. hope this helps.

Re: repair permission

2011-10-28 Thread Simon Cavendish
Oct 2011, at 20:50, Simon Cavendish wrote: In your finder, press command+shift+u to open utilities folder in your applications. Then find Disk Utility. Once in it, vo+right arrow to find table of available disks. Interact with it and find your macintosh hd. Stop interacting and vo+right

Re: repair permission

2011-10-26 Thread Simon Cavendish
In your finder, press command+shift+u to open utilities folder in your applications. Then find Disk Utility. Once in it, vo+right arrow to find table of available disks. Interact with it and find your macintosh hd. Stop interacting and vo+right arrow until you find your first aid tab. Make sure

Re: repair permission

2011-10-26 Thread Simon Cavendish
rubbish. On 27 Oct 2011, at 00:46, joseph wrote: aha, what is the difference between repair permission and repair disk best On 26 Oct 2011, at 20:50, Simon Cavendish wrote: In your finder, press command+shift+u to open utilities folder in your applications. Then find Disk Utility. Once

Re: bootable dvd with lion?

2011-10-23 Thread Simon Cavendish
Gerry, I've only done a bootable usb drive. I'm posting below some notes on creating a bootable DVD which I had found on the internet when I considering doing it myself a few months ago. HOpe this will help. See the text below my signature. Simon === tuaw.com How to burn a Lion boot disc by

Re: Update made things better!

2011-09-15 Thread Simon Cavendish
Yes, I think there really has been some improvement although I still lose speech quite often and have to press command+f5 a few times to get it back. Simon On 13 Sep 2011, at 11:28, Red.Falcon wrote: Hi All! I'm not sure and maybe some of you can confirm this ! Since I updated the security

Re: Scanners and OCR

2011-09-06 Thread Simon Cavendish
Dear Paul, I've been using Abbyy FineReaderExpress for a few years in multilingual environment, and it is a very good piece of OCR software. I don't use it to scan my multilingual documents as my scanner is 11 years' old and thus incompatible with FineReaderExpress. But I use it for

Re: Selection Replaced. No items selected

2011-09-06 Thread Simon Cavendish
I get annoyed by it too but have not found a way round it. It regularly happens when my mac begins its time machine backup procedure. Nuisance! On 6 Sep 2011, at 17:57, Jeff Berwick wrote: Hi all, This is a problem that has annoyed me since I started using a Mac and I am wondering if there

Re: opening links in email on mac air

2011-09-04 Thread Simon Cavendish
Jack, Once you open the message, vo+left arrow until you hear Voiceover announce message headers group. Then interact with the group with vo+shift+down arrow. You will then hear Voiceover say as you examine the area with v+arrow keys, message header text and details link. position your vo

Re: Audio conversion program

2011-09-02 Thread Simon Cavendish
Dear Greg, It is good to hear from you. Thank you very much for the gift of the audioconversion application. It's very generous. Here in Wales UK, things are okay. I am still working, and I am mad about my Mac computer and iPad. Truly hooked although I do worry sometimes about the fact that

Re: Download link in email invisable to vo

2011-09-02 Thread Simon Cavendish
Johnny, When in the body of the e-mail message, listen for Voiceover saying link. Then try to interact with the text with vo+shift+down arro and move vo cursor rightt or left until you hear voiceover say link. Even if you are at the beginning or end of the link as long as Voiceover says link,

Re: Safari help sorly needed

2011-08-31 Thread Simon Cavendish
Hello, Please do not feel offended by these basic questions but make sure, when copying n application from the downloads folder, that it has the extension .app after its name. Then - and I think only then - will the application be pasted into your application folder. If - once you have located

Re: question about downloading in Saphari

2011-08-31 Thread Simon Cavendish
When you encounter a link which is to download a file, focus on it and press vo+shift+m to get contextual menu and arrow down to hear download linked file and / or download linked file as. This will give you a choice to download the file or the latter will give you a choice a specify where to

Re: Multilingual Braille tables under Lion

2011-08-31 Thread Simon Cavendish
if you already have over 64 thousand character possibilities? Having just one braille table would be nice. Can you tell me more on this? Paul. On Aug 30, 2011, at 1:07 PM, Simon Cavendish wrote: Dear Listers, This message is primarily for those who use Braille with a Braille display under

Multilingual Braille tables under Lion

2011-08-30 Thread Simon Cavendish
Dear Listers, This message is primarily for those who use Braille with a Braille display under Lion and who need to use Braille in foreign languages, especially those languages that use non-Latin characters. In my case, it is Greek and Russian. I am not sure whether anyone has noticed but

Re: Facebook app

2011-08-25 Thread Simon Cavendish
I saw some posts on the list a while ago, reviewing favourably an application called Trillian (if I remember correctly), available from the app store. Maybe you could try it out, or else look for some earlier posts using the search term Trillian on the archive page. With best wishes Simon On

Re: need help with software installation

2011-08-23 Thread Simon Cavendish
Hello, I had the same happen - had to ask sighted assistance as you can't get to the controls with VO keys or trackpad. Best wishes Simon On 22 Aug 2011, at 22:37, Bill Holton wrote: Hi. Figured I would install Flash as my first application, going to need it eventually. Got the link to

Re: VMware fusion and JAWS

2011-08-18 Thread Simon Cavendish
Hello, I've been trying to follow your very helpful instructions to remap an insert key in Windows running in VMWare fusion so that I can use it as Jaws key. You suggest choosing right option key to become the insert key. However, I do not see an right option key choice in the list, just

Re: Another mail question with Lion

2011-08-02 Thread Simon Cavendish
Hello, I've just tried to do this. This is what I did. I vo+left arrow to the message header area. I then interacted with it. Once you interact, I moved with vo+right once and landed on details link. Voiceover actually says here link. I pressed vo+spacebar on this link. This resulted in being

Re: Voice over hot spots

2011-07-10 Thread Simon Cavendish
Yes, it should be as you say. On 8 Jul 2011, at 15:41, matthew Dyer wrote: Hi all, I have set up hot spots for my mail programs to jump between the different mail boxes. How ever, in testing them, It only takes me to my gmail and I have 4 acccounts which I have hot spots seup for.

Re: PDF files

2011-06-29 Thread Simon Cavendish
Rafaeel, I have not tried it myself as I haven't got a multi-column document to test it, and it is just a thought - but try highlighting the content of your document by pressing command+a and copying it to clipboard and then pasting into TextEdit. Good luck. Simon On 28 Jun 2011, at 00:05,

Re: concerning VUScan

2011-06-13 Thread Simon Cavendish
Ann Robertson has recently posted the instructions on how to set up Vuescan. I'm pasting them below my signature. Simon === Below are the settings for VueScan. Cheers, Anne 1) Select Input; 1.1) Task: Scan to file; 1.2) Source: Your scanner; 1.3) Media: Text; 1.4) Media size: Auto; 1.5)

Re: ipod oops.

2011-05-06 Thread Simon Cavendish
Could we please have more descriptive subject lines rather than iPod oops? smile I think Moderators of the list have been asking for these many a time. Simon On 6 May 2011, at 20:40, Nadine Carr wrote: Hi, made a mistake when having to format a machine. I forgot to back up the itunes

Re: problem selecting text on Facebook walls

2011-05-01 Thread Simon Cavendish
!!! Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! Skype name: barefootedray On Apr 30, 2011, at 5:21 PM, Simon Cavendish wrote: Dear Ray, Try using copy last spoken phrase to the cpliboard command vo+shipft+c immediatley after Voiceover has spoken the text or even while it is speaking. I

Re: problem selecting text on Facebook walls

2011-04-30 Thread Simon Cavendish
Dear Ray, Try using copy last spoken phrase to the cpliboard command vo+shipft+c immediatley after Voiceover has spoken the text or even while it is speaking. I use this feature regualry with good results, and then copy the spoken text into a text edit window. hope this will help a little.

Re: Technical AirPort question

2011-04-25 Thread Simon Cavendish
I understand from reading take control books k- and I am currently struggling with setting up a similar network to yours, Scott, that iPad has not the capacity to connect to 5ghz radio as it is still 8211G rather than N. With Express, it has as you point out a dual capacity and it should

Re: iOS 4.3.2: New Software Keyboard Rotor Option

2011-04-24 Thread Simon Cavendish
When I use container option on my iPad. it doesn't seem to do what others have said here, i.e. go from section of the screen to another section. It just moves me through all the elements within all sections as I flick right or left with one finger. Am I doing something wrong? Thanks for

Re: extremely frustrated re: reading pfd files

2011-04-24 Thread Simon Cavendish
Esther, this is such a helpful description, thank you. I also wonder wehther when reading in iBooks, one can read line by line? I don't ever see that option in the rotor on the iPad. Also, when reading pdf versions of take control books if I pause reading with double finger tap, and then

Re: iOS 4.3.2: New Software Keyboard Rotor Option

2011-04-24 Thread Simon Cavendish
@neilbarnfather TalkNav is a Nuance, Code Factory and Sendero dealer, for all your accessible phone, PDA and GPS related enquiries visit www.talknav.com URL: - www.talknav.com e-mail: - serv...@talknav.com Phone: - +44 844 999 4199 On 24 Apr 2011, at 11:11, Simon Cavendish wrote: When I use

Re: Facebook app now even more accessible

2011-04-24 Thread Simon Cavendish
Thanks, Krister, this is good news. Does the same apply to iPad? ALso, can you give me - if it is not too much - a short description of how you use Chat on the iPad with voiceover? Best wishes Simon On 21 Apr 2011, at 22:57, Krister Ekstrom wrote: Hi, After the long wait the facebook app is

Re: Spanish on the IPhone

2011-04-22 Thread Simon Cavendish
I don't think yu can remove them but you can change the order in which they appear as you flick up and down so that you needn't flick through all the languages to find your preferred ons. On 23 Apr 2011, at 03:11, Matt Dierckens wrote: is there a way to remove languages from the router? On

Re: apple mail?

2011-04-19 Thread Simon Cavendish
Hello, I can only comment on this when using your iPad in landscape mode which is what I have chosen to do. In landscape mode, the screen is divided into two portions. THe left handside portion - a smaller part of the screen - displays the list of your messages in a particular account that you

Skype on the iPad

2011-04-18 Thread Simon Cavendish
Hello All, Is Skype on the iPad accessible? Does anyone on the list use it to chat with friends? If not Skype, is there an alternative that would be accessible for Voiceover users? Thanks a lot. Simon -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

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