Hi Jean,
When you press CMD-s, you will get a save dialogue box. When you
navigate through that dialogue box through VO-right arrow, you will
come across a save as option. You will be able to select the format in
which you wish to save the file like TXT, RTF, etc by using that
option.
On
Hello all:
I just wanted to know how can I get a good size of characters in Keynote, so
the slide is correct visually speaking. How can I change this size? In the
inspector I see the size too big, and when I paste the content of the slide
from Textedit, it becomes too small.
Can you suggest a
When you press command-s it will display the save/save as dialogue, unless the
file has already been saved. If the file has already been saved you have a few
options.
YOu can navigate to the left up near the toolbar to the file actions pop up
button. In this button are options such as rename
Hi,
as far as I could tell its for partially sighted people only not for screen
reader users.
All the best
Jürgen
Am 11.07.2013 um 09:13 schrieb Nicholas Parsons mr.nicholas.pars...@gmail.com:
I'm not sure about that particular one, but my university brought to my
attention another new PDF
Hello Anne,
thanks for your answer. I told you the wrong title of the series. Actually it's
Who do you think you are and it's produced by the BBC. I like it very much.
The BBC helps prominent people to find their family roots. I liked the episode
about Joanne K. Rowling the best up to now. I
I'm sorry that I missed these threads, but is the BBC I Play fully accessible
for the Mac now?
On 12 Jul 2013, at 09:20 AM, Jürgen Fleger apple-engl...@fleger.net wrote:
Hello Anne,
thanks for your answer. I told you the wrong title of the series. Actually
it's Who do you think you are
Hello Kawal,
No, the BBC iPlayer isn't accessible, but there's an application called Get
iPlayer Automator which allows us to download programmes into iTunes.
Cheers,
Anne
On 12 Jul 2013, at 10:23, Kawal Gucukoglu kawa...@me.com wrote:
I'm sorry that I missed these threads, but is the BBC
Hello Daniela,
Have you tried selecting the text and doing Cmd-+ to make the characters bigger?
Cheers,
Anne
On 12 Jul 2013, at 09:42, Daniela Rubio mabuha...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello all:
I just wanted to know how can I get a good size of characters in Keynote, so
the slide is correct
Hello Jürgen,
I looked for Who do you think you are as well, but no episodes were
available. I think they're only available for a week after they're broadcast.
As for the error message, it seems to be a format that GIA doesn't recognise.
Cheers,
Anne
On 12 Jul 2013, at 10:20, Jürgen Fleger
Wonderful.
How can we get this App or Program?
Kawal.
On 12 Jul 2013, at 09:44 AM, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk wrote:
Hello Kawal,
No, the BBC iPlayer isn't accessible, but there's an application called Get
iPlayer Automator which allows us to download programmes into iTunes.
Hello Anne,
do you have an idea what GIA exactly is? I don't understand what I'm supposed
to do to satisfy GIA. ;-)
All the best
Jürgen
Am 12.07.2013 um 10:47 schrieb Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk:
Hello Jürgen,
I looked for Who do you think you are as well, but no episodes were
Cheree Heppe here:
On my commute this afternoon, I tried blind square on the bus.
Sure enough, I got readouts of passing stores and learned more about my new
area. For instance, there is a Pendleton outlet store at a bus stop on my way
home. Good-bye fat wallet!
When I neared my place, which I
Hi,
I have a Plantronics Audio 995 headset that's wireless, and i thought it had
good sound quality but now i hear that the sampling frequency is about 25 KHz
so not good for doing broadcasts with, so i wonder if anyone has
recommendations for a headset i can use for internet broadcasting?
HI John,
What you're saying sounds interesting. However, I'm not sure exactly what it is
you're saying. Could you please try and give me a little more detail if
possible?
Many thanks for sharing your thoughts and knowle.
All the best,
Nic
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Has anyone been able to try out iBooks on the Beta of OS 10.9
Mavericks? I would love to have confirmation that it is fully
accessible - as one would expect it to be.
Thanks
Marcus
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Hi guys
Earlier it was asked about features that we would like for BlindSquare. Now
that I've had it for a while, a short while to be true, I have a couple of
ideas.
First, I think the meet speech mode should be available on all BlindSquare
screens. This is because I'm having to turn the
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On Jul 12, 2013, at 6:46 AM, Marcus Low low.mar...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi All
Has anyone been able to try out iBooks on the Beta of OS 10.9
Hope I didn't cause any offence, Kawal. Certainly none was intended. :) It just
sounded a little funny to be downgrading when most people seem to want to
upgrade. I'm sure you had good reasons though. You're clearly not a sheep. :)
I do subscribe to iTunes Match. This is great for my music.
Why not just get the Audible App for the I phone, All my audible books are on
there. May be in the next update Apple will let us keep our TV shows, Books and
other stuff in the Cloud. Why not? I did not take any offence, just laughed at
you. I really love my new AirPort Extreme. So just get it,
You're so right, I do want to. ;)
In fact, I wish Apple made other household appliances. If they did, I'd so get
an Apple washing machine, dryer, dish washer, AC/heating unit, oven, microwave,
etcetera. Of course they would all work with VoiceOver and I could control them
all from the remote
Hi!
I'll take one of those washing machines and food nuker right now gimme gimme
gimme!
Colin
On 12 Jul 2013, at 12:09, Nicholas Parsons mr.nicholas.pars...@gmail.com
wrote:
You're so right, I do want to. ;)
In fact, I wish Apple made other household appliances. If they did, I'd so
get an
Hi:
Can you use the unit to stream media from it?
Sent from my iPhone
On Jul 12, 2013, at 3:59 AM, Kawal Gucukoglu kawa...@me.com wrote:
Why not just get the Audible App for the I phone, All my audible books are on
there. May be in the next update Apple will let us keep our TV shows, Books
Hi Janine,
Yes, sorry, I should've been a little more detailed but I was in a rush so took
some shortcuts. :) By navigate to the right I did mean VO-right arrow, though
you could of course just press the right arrow with QuickNav turned on or swipe
right on your TrackPad with the TrackPad
Re streaming media: I don't think you can from the Airport Extreme as it
doesn't have storage. You can use the Airport Express I believe to air play
media to a media playing device. I believe you can use Time Capsule as a media
server but I've never done this myself so don't take my word on it.
Hello Kawal,
Here's the link for this app:
https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/39019/get-iplayer-automator
Cheers,
Anne
On 12 Jul 2013, at 10:52, Kawal Gucukoglu kawa...@me.com wrote:
Wonderful.
How can we get this App or Program?
Kawal.
On 12 Jul 2013, at 09:44 AM, Anne Robertson
Hello Jürgen,
GIA is Get iPlayer Automator and you can't do anything to satisfy it.
Cheers,
Anne
On 12 Jul 2013, at 11:32, Jürgen Fleger apple-engl...@fleger.net wrote:
Hello Anne,
do you have an idea what GIA exactly is? I don't understand what I'm supposed
to do to satisfy GIA. ;-)
There is separate volume setting for Acapela voices in settings. You can
balance volume with VoiceOver using that.
If you favourite a place, then you will hear also arrival and bypass
announcements.
I'm not sure if this is what you meant, but let me know!
Lähetetty iPhonesta
Eugenia Firth
Hi again
I will check out the settings on voiceover like you said, but I think it means
that if I raise the voiceover volume the speech volume on BlindSquare might be
too loud at times. But I will find out.
I know I can do a search and make a place a favorite. However, I had in mind
that you
Hi there
I have the combination of fine reader and VueScan. I tried doing the OCR with
ViewScan by itself, and I didn't like it. I'm doing English scanning.
Gigi
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On Jul 11, 2013, at 3:45 PM, Edward Green ergreen1...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Gigi,
I'm not looking for
I so much want that dream, talking washing machine, dryer and so much more!
On 12 Jul 2013, at 12:09 PM, Nicholas Parsons mr.nicholas.pars...@gmail.com
wrote:
You're so right, I do want to. ;)
In fact, I wish Apple made other household appliances. If they did, I'd so
get an Apple washing
No afraid not. You need an AirPort Express.
On 12 Jul 2013, at 12:16 PM, Mickey Quenzer mickey.quen...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi:
Can you use the unit to stream media from it?
Sent from my iPhone
On Jul 12, 2013, at 3:59 AM, Kawal Gucukoglu kawa...@me.com wrote:
Why not just get the Audible
Thanks.
On 12 Jul 2013, at 12:30 PM, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk wrote:
Hello Kawal,
Here's the link for this app:
https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/39019/get-iplayer-automator
Cheers,
Anne
On 12 Jul 2013, at 10:52, Kawal Gucukoglu kawa...@me.com wrote:
Wonderful.
Hi!
I do believe that one of the options when your on route is to hear again a list
of places you've gone passed!
And if you pick the one you want I suppose it will let you edit it!
Have you heard the podcast [I do not have the link sorry] it tells you all
about hearing that list as well as a
Hi all,
All this talk about Blindsquare makes it sound like a pretty neat app, and
clearly a lot of people use it. Here are my questions:
1. Can it do routes? That is, can I tell it I want to get to my home, or some
business or address, and have it guide me there? If so, is this turn-by-turn (I
Have you taken a look at dock you scam plus?
Sent from my iPhone
On Jul 12, 2013, at 6:55 AM, Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com wrote:
Hi there
I have the combination of fine reader and VueScan. I tried doing the OCR
with ViewScan by itself, and I didn't like it. I'm doing English scanning.
Hello List:
It feels great to catch up with the list. I went almost a year without a laptop.
I just got my new Macbook Pro last week. Although I remember how to perform
most tasks, I do need my memory refreshed on a couple of things:
1) How do I set up VoiceOver to automatically speak at the
Yes, in Tools there is Recent Places. There you get list what you just heard
and then favourite it.
Eugenia, I don't mean voiceover setting. In BlindSquare, go to Other/Settings.
You'll find setting for speech speed and volume.
Lähetetty iPhonesta
Red.Falcon velocity.focu...@virginmedia.com
1) Kind of. It itself has this getting warm, but it supports many 3rd party
apps that you can be launched directly from BSq: TomTom, Navigon, MotionX,
Google Maps, Apple maps etc. Since BlindSquare can run on backgrpund, you will
get best of both worlds. For example Navigon is giving
For speech at login go to the System Preferences and then Users
Groups. Near the very bottom you'll find a 'click the lock to make
changes' button which you will then authenticate with your Mac's admin
password. Once that's done you can interact with the Users, Groups and
Login Options list.
To put it more gently, any developer who signs up to beta test new stuff
from Apple also signs a non-disclosure agreement saying that they can't
talk about the stuff, good or bad, until it is released publicly. That's
what makes it so amusing to read reviews of iOS 7 and OSX 10.9 where the
To paste text without carrying along the formatting do a
command-option-shift-v. Then the text will be pasted but inherit the
formatting already set at the location you are pasting it. This same
command works in lots of apps, not just keynote.
CB
On 7/12/13 3:42 AM, Daniela Rubio wrote:
Here are steps I'm pasting from the MacWorld site:
(1) The Outlook addresses should show up in the Windows Address Book (WAB)
(2) Open the Windows Address Book (Start - Programs - Accessories -
Address Book)
(3) Create a new folder on your desktop
(4) Drag the address cards from the WAB to
Well, your login name should be the email address you're getting these
emails from. I think there is a password reset link somewhere on that
login form so if you don't know it you should be able to set another one.
CB
On 7/10/13 6:04 PM, Agent086b wrote:
Thanks, I am aware of doing it online
Hi. Up til now, I've used an exercise timer written in BASH script without any
problems. It has a line in it which calls out the percentage of completion and
number of loops at every interval. Lately, I'm getting this error instead of
the time announcement:
There is a discussion thread about it here:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5110118?start=0tstart=0
Seems to stem from some combination of downloaded voices and the say
command with the 10.8.4 update and possible some anti-virus problems
(virus barrier).
CB
On 7/12/13 11:26 AM, Mark
Hi.
Yesterday or the day before, there was an update to prizmo for mac. There are
some VoiceOver improvements and some improvements with scanners and scan and
recognize multiple pages. I have not had the time for testing it out. But maybe
there will be something useable in the near future. I
Hello Annie,
I tested Prizmo for Mac quite recently and the OCR results were dreadful! I
don't know what your problem is with ABBYY FineReader for Mac as it produces
really good results for me in both English and French. Although I must admit,
the results are less good when I use FineReader to
Interestingly, I have tried everything on this discussion thread, with the
exception of the fact that I am still using the Samantha voice which came with
OS X lion. The summation seems to be that it is a bug inherent with 10.8.4, and
should go away with Mavericks or whatever comes next.
Oh
Hello everyone,
I want to reformat my iMac, but when entrain recovery mode I cannot get
voiceover to run.
I have done this before, so I know what I am doing. Does anyone have any
suggestions?
I do not have an installed version of Mountain lion on a flash drive, so I use
the downloadable
Hi,
I'm wondering if the VO volume is down too low to hear. Try turning it on,
then pressing VO-cmd-right arrow twice then VO-cmd-up arrow a few times. If
the volume is down too low, this will increase the volume. If you're not sure
if this turned VO on or off, try turning on VO again and
Wow, very impressive! Thanks for the quick response, and I'll certainly give
that podcast a listen. I understand about the accuracy, but I will say this:
with Sendero's app, my accuracy was almost alwasy 16 or 33 feet (about 5 to 10
meters) so you might be able to get better than 7 meters in
Hello:
Several weeks ago someone posted a document from the BBC on making web sites
accessible for screen readers. I saved that document at the time but try as I
might I simply can not find it. Could the person who posted it either repost
it or tell me where I can find it on the internet?
Hi Anne.
Ok this is interesting. I recognized a cookbook with prizmo some time ago, and
it was quite good 1/2 where correct an so on, that will not happen with
finereader.
I contacted prizmo a while back, and they will allow a3 scanning on the mac in
a future release.
I am not getting quite
This leads to a question, when launching the third party apps for
navigation, is it specified what type of root to create, driving,
walking, etc? Or does the third party app use whatever is set as the default?
Original message:
1) Kind of. It itself has this getting warm, but it supports many
Hello ,all I just received my vm disc from del and when I installed it I was
asked for a product key but could not find one so when I rang del I was told
I had to purchase a key so has anyone else had the same problem and is that
right because I thought you could get the app for free and then buy
Gee wizz. Three apps just to get around? Better just to use a cane or guide
dog then right? I mean, three apps just to get around? Ain't that getting
just a bit cumbersome?
Sent from my mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind
built-in!
Sincerely,
The Constantly
Hello Annie,
When you say that ABBYY FineReader doesn't handle double-sided pages, do you
mean that it mixes up the order? I scan the left and right sides at the same
time, and it always gets them right. However, I don't use FineReader to do the
scanning, I use the paid version of VueScan
Thank you for this info. IPhone5 and any external device I have tried, reports
best accuracy of 5 meters. I never give instructions about direction if you are
closer than reported accuracy. My strategy is to get to the edge of accuracy
to be able to report last direction. So, you should be able
Usually 3rd party app has selection for that. To my knowledge, Navigon, Tomtom
and Navigon does.
BlindSquare support also simulation so you can plan your trip beforehand,
lookaround virtually to find bus stops, favourite them and set alerts by
distance. When you are in simulated place, BSq
Hello all,
I need to do some very basic editing of the text on my website. Does anyone
have any suggestions for an easy way that a novice could go about doing this?
Thanks,
Donna
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Dear all,
After having created a new, secure password using 1password, and hitting the
save button, can anyone tell me where it gets saved? I can't find the newly
generated password inside any of the vault items.
To Nick Parsons: thanks for the tip on command shift p. Didn't know that one
Dear listers,
When we're out and about, my wife often wants to use my iphone wifi hotspot,
because I sometimes have better coverage on my carrier. Everything works just
fine, but there's one thing I'd like to change. The wifi network, being set up
by my iphone as soon as I turn the wifi
Hi Anouk,
Adding to this: when reading through dot DocX files, especially when using
braille, formatting sometimes looks weird. What I usually do, is command shift
t inside text edit with the DocX loaded, to have it instantly converted into
plain text. That removes the formatting, which is not
I did not, but I called them and explained what happened. I am still waiting on
a key, but I have emailed the support person who eventually helped me and he
has sent in a request for a key. Just be persistent and explain that you bought
the software but it has no key with it as you thought it
First, it'd only be two apps, Blindsquare in the background speaking POIs and
streets and your maps/gps app telling you where to go. It sounds combersome,
but if you don't know where you are going, a cane or dog won't help you. True,
once you know a route a dog is good about taking you back to
I run my website to WordPress and can do much of the ending through that. What
are you using to control the content of your website?
Mike
On Jul 12, 2013, at 2:23 PM, Donna Goodin doniado...@me.com wrote:
Hello all,
I need to do some very basic editing of the text on my website. Does
Are you able to access the site's files? If so, just edit what you want in Text
Edit (be sure to be in plaintext mode) and then upload the altered files. If
you use a CMS like Wordpress or DJango, then editing is up to how the CMS works.
On Jul 12, 2013, at 3:23 PM, Donna Goodin
1. settingsAbout, change your iPhone name. It'll reflect the SSID.
2. No idea, let us know which type of bt keyboard this is and we can
help you further.
-Shaf
On 7/12/13, Paul Erkens paul.erk...@gmail.com wrote:
Dear listers,
When we're out and about, my wife often wants to use my iphone
Me, I'd rather use structured discovery. It's free and let's you go anywhere.
Sent from my mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind
built-in!
Sincerely,
The Constantly Barefooted Ray
Still a very proud and happy Mac and Iphone user!
On Jul 12, 2013, at 3:00 PM, Alex Hall
Hi What is the iPhone personal wifi hotspot and how do you use it?
Blessings,
Stacey and Gemini
mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net
On Jul 12, 2013, at 3:05 PM, shaf wrote:
1. settingsAbout, change your iPhone name. It'll reflect the SSID.
2. No idea, let us know which type of bt keyboard this is
Heyya Stace:
It allows you to tether other devices to use your iPhones data. Gotta either
have a shared data plan or call your carier to activate it.
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From: Stacey Robinson stacey...@bellsouth.net
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Sent: Friday, July 12, 2013 16:23
What do you mean about structured discovery?
Lähetetty iPhonesta
Ray Foret jr rfore...@att.net kirjoitti 12.7.2013 kello 23.11:
Me, I'd rather use structured discovery. It's free and let's you go anywhere.
Sent from my mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind
Hey Sean,
Thanks, no wonder I've never used it.
We have wifi hear at home.
Blessings,
Stacey and Gemini
mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net
On Jul 12, 2013, at 3:24 PM, Sean Paul wrote:
Heyya Stace:
It allows you to tether other devices to use your iPhones data. Gotta either
have a shared data
Well...
I have Y-Fi here at home also... , I've never used it either... I just
happen to know cause I've checked in to it. I'd be all over it if we had a
shared data plan if I needed to use it. However, I've still 1 of the old
unlimited data plans which I don't actually use all that much data
Hi Alex
Think about this too. You don't always need the turn by turn because a lot of
times you may be going places that you already know, but you want BlindSquare
for the bus stop. I had the situation today. I knew exactly where the place was
that I wanted to go to, but the Dallas area rapid
Indeed, I often know the streets but just don'w know where on a street a
destination is. So, I can get to the street, then use Blindsquare to tell me
whre to go from there, or even get into the area and have it tell me. At least,
I imagine I can - I don't currently have $20 to drop on this app,
What I mean is that it is possible to observe what is arround you and thus to
find your way to any place you wish even if you don't know the area.
Sent from my mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind
built-in!
Sincerely,
The Constantly Barefooted Ray
Still a very proud
Certainly, in most situations and given enough time, you can probably find what
you want to. However, some destinations are going to be hard to find, or there
will be no one around to ask, or you don't have time to spend trying to sort
things out, or the bus driver will forget your stop, and
exactly right! we all fell for the cheap price. Turns out it was just a
hardcopy backup DVD without any lisence key. I followed the bouncing ball, went
to the VMWare site, and bought a lisence for Fusion. I used that key to
activate the VMWare program and everything went smooth as warm milk
well, after logging into recovery mode, and turning on VO with Command F5
(fred voice comes up talking). in order to reinstall OSX you wipe the
partition ***not the hard drive***. Of course, as you know, you do the
partition wipe using the disk utility available in the recovery mode menu.
The
I'm definitely a fan of structured discovery. However, I appreciate the
ability to do the equivalent of sign reading that my sighted peers enjoy.
Combining technology and alternative techniques works - smile! I'm a satisfied
user of BlindSquare!
On Jul 12, 2013, at 2:48 PM, Ray Foret jr
Hello All:
If I am on an active call on Skype using my i phone, how can I add more
callers? I don't find any share button. What am I missing?
Jean
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Hello I did that and spoke to four people and the last one
said I was the third customer she had regarding vm and said the only thing
she could do was to refund and credit my card so I don't know what else I
can do
From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Hello phil thanks for the reply and I agree
it was a con and could you please send me the direct link for the link to
purchase a key please thanks in advance
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[mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Phil Halton
Yes, stay away from headsets and get a proper microphone. Blue make a bunch
that will do the job including the Snowball and the Yeti.
Jonathan Mosen
Mosen Consulting
Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training
http://Mosen.org
On 12/07/2013, at 10:44 PM, Krister Ekstrom
I'm afraid I don't have that link, but when you run VMWare and it tells you
that it's not lisenced, there's a link there to go and buy a lisence key.
Follow that link and it'll take you to the VMWare store. Then, just follow the
bouncing ball. Actually, its pretty easy to find on the VMWare
Hi Mike,
I think that's part of the decision I need to make. My brother-in-law was
donating his talents as a web-slinger, but he can't do that right now, so I've
decided it's time to take up the reigns myself. Wordpress is one of the CMSs
that I'm looking at. Have you found WordPress to
Hi all:
i got a special code that i won in a tournament to get the blind square for
free, but don't know where i can put this code, any ideas will be highly
abbreciated
thanks so much
Ramy moustafa saber
licturer at:
faculty of musical education
music arranger and sound engineer
Sent from my
Hi Alex,
I do have access to the files, so may give this a shot. I was thinking it
would probably be easier if I used a CMS. Any thoughts?
thanks,
Donna
On Jul 12, 2013, at 3:02 PM, Alex Hall mehg...@gmail.com wrote:
Are you able to access the site's files? If so, just edit what you want in
Yes, BlindSquare has feature called Look Around for that. You can select your
view radius (25m - 2 km) and then point your device to different directions.
You will hear heading, then intersections in that direction (closest first) and
then list of what kindof places you find from that
In App Store, go to first tab and then to bottom, you shloud find button there.
Those codes changes for each release, so your code doesn't work anymore.
Please send email to me, tell me rerence from which tournament you won this and
I'll then give you a new one.
Lähetetty iPadista
ramy
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