Hello Denise,
I always get rid of the preview pane by placing the VO cursor on the horizontal
splitter, bringing the mouse to it, and double clicking with the trackpad. This
allows me to choose which messages I want to open, and to skip those I don't. I
read a message by pressing Return, and
Hello,
I was wondering if there is or there will be a way to use iclaude on a winxp
computer?
I have red that Apple , same as Microsoft, only should support vista and win7
from now.
But, perhaps there are or will be some third party solutions to solve this
problem.
Thanx for your answers,
Hi Darcy and Teresa,
Wow. Life can be so simple sometimes. It worked right away. Thanks Darcy.
Teresa, would you mind explaining how you deal with invisible icons in the menu
bar? Still very interested.
Paul.
On Oct 11, 2011, at 10:45 PM, Darcy Burnard wrote:
Hi. Just open up the growl app.
Hi Iona,
Did you check to see if the driver location on disk that you are browsing to,
does contain .sys and/or .cat files? I've had this problem as well, and it
usually means that I need to go one more level down the folder tree, like into
a folder x86, 32-bit or something similar.
Hth,
Paul.
Hi Craig,
Yes all apps must be closed before you can shut down. I had a similar issue
that was nagging me, and the solution was to use the voiceover application
chooser, to find out what was running. I discovered that a program was still
running, that I was not aware of. Moreover, this program
Hi Marco,
Amadeus is wonderful. Especially its batch converter is amazing. Not only can
you convert from one file format to the other, with all your options for the
target format in place such as tag info and even album art, but it also lets
you perform file operations during the conversion.
Hi folks
How do I change tabs in the browser?
oI don't mean the tabs for sites, but for example in Google+ when clicking on
circles, there appears 3 tabs, one for people I've added, one for people who
have added me and a last one for people I might know.
The same kind of tabs have I seen on
hi all! how do i get rid of bookmarks i've added in safari because when i press
delete VO keeps announcing the name of the file without getting rid of it: any
help would be appreciated.
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hello ann,
thanks. i did find and demo the extra voices like tom and daniel. but do i go
through the appp store to download them?
On Oct 12, 2011, at 1:50 AM, Anne Robertson wrote:
Hello Denise,
I always get rid of the preview pane by placing the VO cursor on the
horizontal splitter,
Hello all,
I seldom use anything on the template when i open pages other than a blank
canvas. is there a way to simply tell pages to open to a blank screen when i
open it? thanks.
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Review - A Look at Accessibility and VoiceOver in iOS 5
The day has arrived! iOS 5 will be released today for supported iPHone, iPod,
and iPad devices. You can find out about the most compelling accessibility
enhancements, especially those in VoiceOver in A Look at Accessibility and
VoiceOver in
I've only stumbled upon those elusive menu items in the status menu, like
Dropbox, etc. Sometimes it works when trackpad commander is off, and sometimes
when the mouse cursor is set to move the VO cursor. I haven't found a reliable
way to do it, but I think others have. I just move my finger
Hello Denise,
When you want to download a new voice, select it in the table, then click on OK
and it will download automatically.
Cheers,
Anne
On 12 Oct 2011, at 14:43, Denise Avant wrote:
hello ann,
thanks. i did find and demo the extra voices like tom and daniel. but do i go
through
Hello Denise,
In Pages Preferences, under General, you can select the template with which you
want Pages to open by default. This does not prevent you from getting to the
Template Chooser as there is a menu item with a shortcut for this.
And if you create your own templates, you can simply
If anyone knows a quick and easy way to jump to the tool bar in an application,
I'd appreciate you sharing.
Kev
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application isn't limited to having just one toolbar. Consider using hotspots
to jump to frequently-used toolbars in your favourite applications.
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Cheers,
Anne
On 12 Oct 2011, at 16:30, Kevin Mattingly wrote:
If anyone knows a quick and easy way to jump to the tool bar in an
application, I'd appreciate you sharing.
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Hi Ann,
I'm not a user of pages but it makes me wonder. Why do you need a template at
all? There are none in text edit either, nor are there in other text editors I
know of. In ms word, they are also not manatory. What does a template do in
pages?
Paul.
On Oct 12, 2011, at 3:56 PM, Anne
Hello Paul,
A template can save you a lot of work. You can, for instance, have a template
for personal letters and another for business letters. You can set up the top
of the letter and the end, choose the appropriate font, create paragraph styles
and have hotkeys associated with them.
You
Hi Ann,
Very clear. So, to enter plain text with only blank lines between paragraphs,
there is no downside to stick with text edit? Do you happen to know if, just
like notepad does in windows, text edit prints the filename as header on each
paper page when you print your document? Wordpad just
My understanding of iCloud is it is a set of APIs and backend systems to
store and sync media between different devices. I would have to assume
that just for supporting this on iTunes for Windows Apple will have to
port and allow developers on Windows to integrate it into their apps.
Specific
Dear listers,
I just noticed that I have voicemail from skype. I turned it on, and I thought
I would get a notification inside Skype if a new voicemail arrives. However, I
now see that, on my spambox, I have a message from skype saying I received a
new voicemail from a list member here. I
Hi,
My friend has a Mac, and he wanted to reformat to get a clean install of Lion,
however his Mac kept ejecting his DVD's. It even did this when he tried to
restore to Snow Leopard. Does anyone have any thoughts on why this is
happening, and why the Mac keeps ejecting the disks, and ways to
Dear list,
I would like to have a solution for the following. I often find video stuff
that my partner would like to watch on tv. I download a video on my iphone, and
I can play it there, but that is not very comfortable for her. Is there an easy
way to plug something into your iphone, so that
Thanks for the suggestion.
Unfortunately I went as low as I could in the structure tree. I will try
burning the files on a cd.
Take care,
Ioana
On Oct 12, 2011, at 4:13 AM, Paul Erkens wrote:
Hi Iona,
Did you check to see if the driver location on disk that you are browsing to,
does
Hi,
You'd probably get better responses if you posted this on viPhone. To
answer your question though, if you have an iPhone 4 then you can get
an Apple adapter that lets you convert the 30 pin doc connector into
hdmi. For older devices you can get third party component out adapters
which should
Hi Anne.
Have I missed something here, but are not the templates in Pages images unless
you create them yourself? If they are images, can you change them so that they
are text? When I looked at the templates in Pages, I couldn't get VoiceOver to
read them. I could get them to work fine in
Find the name of the person who sent the voice mail; it will either be in the
the table right below the tool bar or, if it's very old, in the history list
table. Select it and press Enter to exit the tables and go back to the main
window. Find the HTML content frame and interact with it. VO
Hi guys.
This is not a sales announcement or anything. My husband wrote this program for
me which right now runs under Windows. He used to write custom programs for
small businesses for both the Apple 2 and the PC.
I got tired of counting lines and finding page numbers in brf files. As a
What language did he use? Python is a great cross-platform language
that he may want to look into. Using the wxPython gui library,
accessible guis for programs should be easy to design. I doubt
anything written for something as old as an Apple II would run on a
modern system, but I could be wrong.
No way. However, if all you want to do is count line numbers then you
should be able to do it through Apple script. If he is still up to
scratch on general programming concepts then Apple script shouldn't be
that hard to learn, so I wouldn't go installing windows just yet.
Cheers,
Ben.
On
Can someone tell me how to delete these audible books off my phone? I guess I
can delete them out of ITunes and then resync but I'd just rather take them off
the phone.
Kev
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Hello Paul,
TextEdit doesn't print the filename at the top of each paper page.
Cheers,
Anne
On 12 Oct 2011, at 17:36, Paul Erkens wrote:
Hi Ann,
Very clear. So, to enter plain text with only blank lines between paragraphs,
there is no downside to stick with text edit? Do you happen to
Hello Gigi,
The templates in Pages contain quite a lot of placeholder text that disappears
as soon as you start typing over it. You can actually read it if you want to.
The inportant thing to remember is never to use Quick Nav in Pages, and that
you have to interact with the text, then use the
No idea if this works on BRF files, but you can display the line count in a
file by running `wc -l filename` in Terminal.
Example: wc -l ~/Documents/Report1.txt
As Ben has already mentioned, Apple Script could indeed be useful to either you
or your husband in this case. The WC command could
While I haven't tried it, there is also an iPhone/iPad to VGA adapter:
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC552ZM/B?mco=MTY3ODQ5OTY
Main limitation with all of these it the apps have to support it. So
video players like the ones that ship with the phone are usually fine
but it's not video
Thanks Anne. This kind of blew me away because it never occurred to me to
interact with the image. I'll do some more experimenting with this.
I have been typing material into TextEdit which eventually would be converted
into a table in Word by a reader. This works pretty good because I can get
Hello Gigi,
To create tables with different width columns, you have to use Numbers then
select the cells you want to copy, press Cmd-C and paste the table into your
Pages document. Pages with VO can only create equal-width columns.
I have to use Pages all the time as I'm a translator, and get
Hi Ben.
I may not have explained very well. I'm not needing a total line count for the
whole file. What I meed to do is to know what print page, what braille page,
and what line number a given mistake I find is located on if it were brailled
on a braille printer. That way, I don't have to
Like the subject says.
hth
Ricardo Walker
rwalker...@gmail.com
Twitter Skype: rwalker296
www.mobileaccess.org
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Am installing it now. I'm curious if they've fixed enough stuff that I'll be
ready to fully migrate to lion, or if I'll just
want to continue using SL on my main drive. I'll find out in a few minutes,
hopefully.
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Hello Anne.
What do you mean by place holder text?
Thanks.
On 2011-10-12, at 12:56 PM, Anne Robertson wrote:
Hello Gigi,
The templates in Pages contain quite a lot of placeholder text that
disappears as soon as you start typing over it. You can actually read it if
you want to. The
I'm downloading it too. I had to upgrade ITunes and then was trying to upgrade
my phone to IOS5. The phone upgrade didn't work and one solution was to upgrade
your machine's O/S. There's almost to many upgrades for one day.
Kev
On Oct 12, 2011, at 2:11 PM, Missy Hoppe wrote:
Am installing
Thanks Mark that worked right away. Very nice.
Paul.
On Oct 12, 2011, at 6:26 PM, Mark BurningHawk Baxter wrote:
Find the name of the person who sent the voice mail; it will either be in the
the table right below the tool bar or, if it's very old, in the history list
table. Select it and
Hello Matthiew,
Placeholder text is text that disappears as soon as you start typing over it.
It's used to show the layout of a document.
When creating templates, I make all replaceable text, placeholder text, but I
enter it in the format that should be used. So, for instance, in a template
Great! So when you want to type over this text, do you mouse click with VO to
do so or just start typing?
Thanks.
I'd like to become an iWork convert but have been able to get by with TextEdit.
On 2011-10-12, at 3:16 PM, Anne Robertson wrote:
Hello Matthiew,
Placeholder text is text that
I think this was described in a previous email in the archive but the
basic steps are to open the bookmarks page with commnad-option-b and
then in the first table interact with that to choose which set of
bookmarks you want to edit such as Bookmarks Bar, Bookmars Menu etc. I
most often am
I haven't been successful yet. It tries to back it up and then fails with a
cannot restore message. I didn't see any specific message. It all looked pretty
generic to me.
Kev
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Hello Matthew,
Once the placeholder text is highlighted, you just start typing and it's
replaced with your own text.
Cheers,
Anne
On 12 Oct 2011, at 21:31, Matthew Campbell wrote:
Great! So when you want to type over this text, do you mouse click with VO to
do so or just start typing?
I haven't heard any good news about this update being successful. Slightly
worried about updating now.
Matt
Sent from my macbook pro
On 2011-10-12, at 4:16 PM, Kevin Mattingly wrote:
I haven't been successful yet. It tries to back it up and then fails with a
cannot restore message. I didn't
Hold off. As of a few minutes ago, only about half of the upgrades
were successful due to excessive load on Apple's servers.
On 10/12/11, Matt Dierckens matt.dierck...@gmail.com wrote:
I haven't heard any good news about this update being successful. Slightly
worried about updating now.
Matt
My iPad is now in recovery mode! I tried to restore it and it says the server
cannot be contacted at this time, try later. I think it's a bust for now.
On Oct 12, 2011, at 4:24 PM, Matt Dierckens wrote:
I haven't heard any good news about this update being successful. Slightly
worried about
My iPad 2 is successfully updated, so there's hope.
Brett C.
On Oct 12, 2011, at 2:27 PM, David McLean wrote:
My iPad is now in recovery mode! I tried to restore it and it says the
server cannot be contacted at this time, try later. I think it's a bust for
now.
On Oct 12, 2011, at 4:24
iPad 2 updated, but lost all media along the way. Are all the English voices
other than defaults compact only?
Sent from my iPad
On Oct 12, 2011, at 1:28 PM, Brett C. blindinnova...@gmail.com wrote:
My iPad 2 is successfully updated, so there's hope.
Brett C.
On Oct 12, 2011, at 2:27
Are any of you aware of a specific twitter hashtag for users of this list? I
know during the live stream done by the mac accessibility crew, they used one
called VOLive. There are times when using something like this would allow us to
respond pretty fast to each other. I guess there are a few
Might these problems be related to busy servers?
On Oct 12, 2011, at 4:27 PM, David McLean wrote:
My iPad is now in recovery mode! I tried to restore it and it says the
server cannot be contacted at this time, try later. I think it's a bust for
now.
On Oct 12, 2011, at 4:24 PM, Matt
Well, for me at least, the lion update wasn't worthwhile. The midi issue still
hasn't been fixed. I'll test it a bit more,
but it looks like I'll still be using SL as my primary OS for the time being.
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Hi peoples.
I've got a twitter follower request that I'm trying to accept. When I log in to
the site, go to my profile, and then to the friend requests section, I see an
item labeled as Accept Clickable. I VO spaced on it but apparently it didn't
go through. How do I accept the request? Do I
Hi,
I Still with my question: How can i go to the top or the end, for example from
a Pages document or the Yorufukurou's timeline? with the trackpad and the
keyboard
Thanks,
Francisco
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Well folks!
I've managed to some how really muck up doing the update!
The Iphone had the same problems as others I went through the restore method
and now the Iphone is dead it will not switch on and when I plug it into Itunes
it does not appear!
So I've got to take a trip to my apple store
Hmm, if it isn't turning on at all, not sure much can be done.
I'd keep it plugged in for a while, (Maybe) the battery died?
On 10/12/11, Red.Falcon velocity.focu...@virginmedia.com wrote:
Well folks!
I've managed to some how really muck up doing the update!
The Iphone had the same problems
It also looks like they still haven't fixed the issue of VO not launching on
startup. Not a huge deal, but still an inconvenience.
Allison
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Yep. I've played with it a bit more, and over all, I'm quite underwhelmed by
the update. So, I'll just keep running snow
leopard for now. It does everything I need without any problems.
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Press and hold the home key and power key at the same time for about
10 seconds. That will hard boot the phone. I have had a nightmare
this evening, I killed mine too. Had to re-install iTunes, find and
replace the iPhone updater file, restore about 300 times or it felt
that way and kept
I'm getting an error 5000 mixed in with the 3200 errors. Tried about seven
times so far, no luck.
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Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 4:57 PM
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Hi Andy!
Well I did not know that command!
But sadly that also has not worked!
So off to the apple store for me!
Colin
On 13 Oct 2011, at 00:10, Andy Lane wrote:
Press and hold the home key and power key at the same time for about
10 seconds. That will hard boot the phone. I have had a
This is pretty good...
http://axslab.com/articles/new-voiceover-features-in-ios5.php
Enjoy,
Kev
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Hi everyone.
I'm attempting to update to iOS5 by means of an IPSW file. Since my Mac is
the main computer with which I sync now, I loaded the file onto my
harddrive, plugged in my phone, and navigated to it in the sources table in
iTunes. I am trying to restore the phone to factory defaults, so
Hi list.
I have a trial copy of amadeus pro from quite some time ago.
Now I decided to purchase this program, but I see that there is also in the app
store.
How do I uninstall my current trial copy and buy from the Mac app store? Is it
enough to move the application file to the trash?
Is the
Hi,
I think they broke option click in iTunes 10.4, or at least starting with
that version. I've had bad luck with that as well, but unfortunately don't
have a solution.
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Hello Paul. Your statement about Microsoft word is not accurate. If you launch
Microsoft word and just start typing in a blank document you are using the
normal template. In Pages you can either choose your template each time or
select a default template.
Templates set your default fonts, etc.
Hello,
I suppose this is a really dumb question, but here it goes anyway.
When setting up the free @me account, do you type in the whole address, or just
the stuff before the at sign? According to the prompts, this is a one-time
shot. Furthermore, it appears is if there are a few examples, but
Hi Paul,
Thanks for your reply! I have used this method many times for other links in
email messages. Most of the time it works slick as a wistle. But sometimes it
doesn't work for me ane this is one of those times. However I was able to
invoke the link by first opening the shift+ Cmd +
Hi Ioana,
Thanks for reminding me of this command. It works wonderfully!
Johnny
On Oct 11, 2011, at 2:04 PM, Ioana Gandrabur wrote:
A more reliable way to download something is to go to the link in question
and press option enter on the link. This is a mac command not a vo command
and
Yes, press control F5, that will focus the first toolbar item.
On Oct 12, 2011, at 9:30 AM, Kevin Mattingly wrote:
If anyone knows a quick and easy way to jump to the tool bar in an
application, I'd appreciate you sharing.
Kev
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Hey. I had the exact same problem. You have to disable VoiceOver when you do
the actual click. So go to the button, route with Vo-Command-F5, then disable
VoiceOver with Vo-f5. Wait a moment, then hold down the option key and click on
the lower left corner of the trackpad. Then release and
Hi!
Is this action possible in order to send contacts to the iPAD from the phone?
Thanks.
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Yeah, it still seems like they're sidestepping a lot of the issues that VO has,
such as the freaky pitch changes with the Nuance voices and the annoying
Safari busy messages are still there too when doing easy tasks like reading
forum posts in Samnet and such. Speaking of Samnet, I know this is
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 just tonight took the plunge and upgraded to lion. Under SL, I was able to
write to my eternal
I installed a little program that somehow enabled it to work. I don't recall
what this program is called, nor do I know where it resides on my mac. If I
did, I'd remove it and try reinstalling it. It was discussed on this list
though. One was MacFuse, and the other was something I don't
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