Re: various OS X questions with voiceover

2015-03-18 Thread David Griffith
That is correct but you will also have to navigate into the dialogue and interact a couple of times to get into the meat of the download message. My own personal preference is to set up a Folder Alert service on the downloads folder. This brings a message up whenever a download starts and the

Re: various OS X questions with voiceover

2015-03-18 Thread Eugenia Firth
If I remember right, the Macintosh command to check your downloads is option command L, and then you press The escape key to get out of it. Gigi Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 18, 2015, at 3:53 PM, Mike Arrigo wrote: > > Pressing vo+a will read from your cursor position. Safari does not really

Re: various OS X questions with voiceover

2015-03-18 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
Hi Mike and others. For the downloads thing, if I remember correctly, somebody posted an applescript that opens a dialog when a download is complete if they want to view it. I have this script somewhere but I can't remember the name off the top of my head. Shawn Sent From My White MacBook > On

Re: various OS X questions with voiceover

2015-03-18 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks all, really appreciate the help. On 3/18/2015 4:53 PM, Mike Arrigo wrote: > Pressing vo+a will read from your cursor position. Safari does not > really give any indication that a fileis downloading, you will need > to go to the toolbar if it's

Re: various OS X questions with voiceover

2015-03-18 Thread Mike Arrigo
Pressing vo+a will read from your cursor position. Safari does not really give any indication that a fileis downloading, you will need to go to the toolbar if it's enabled, and check the download status there. Original message: Hello all: I’ve been slowly using the mac a lot more while in class

Re: various OS X questions with voiceover

2015-03-18 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
Hi Tyler. For your query about Facebook, I find that if you set Safari to act like a different browser, the website plays a lot nicer. To do this, in the advanced pain in Safari preferences, make the develop menu visible in the menu bar, then in the develop menu, select user agent. I find the si

Re: various OS X questions with voiceover

2015-03-18 Thread Dionipher Presas Herrera
when reading from cursor and beyond VO A > On 18 Mar 2015, at 5:21 pm, Littlefield, Tyler wrote: > > Hello all: > I’ve been slowly using the mac a lot more while in class just to be able to > pick up the skills with it. There are a couple things that are bothering me, > however which I’d like t

Re: various OS X questions with voiceover

2015-03-18 Thread Dionipher Presas Herrera
i can answer some of your questions, first, going to the edit field on facebook, turn on your quick nav on then press e for edit boxes, you can use this in every web when going to edit boxes. there's also a lot of shortcut keys for facebook,, turn off your quick nav on, then press p for your st

various OS X questions with voiceover

2015-03-18 Thread Littlefield, Tyler
Hello all: I’ve been slowly using the mac a lot more while in class just to be able to pick up the skills with it. There are a couple things that are bothering me, however which I’d like to figure out if someone could help. First, when in Facebook messages using hotspots doesn’t seem to work unl