VoiceOver Additional Verbosity Options (was Safari 2 items, 3 items and internal link?)

2013-11-19 Thread Nicholas Parsons
HI Tim and others, I've now customised my verbosity options. I've chosen low but tweaked a couple of things in the custom table. However, VoiceOver now doesn't seem to read app badges when I switch to that app in the app chooser. For instance, when I command tab to Mail with verbosity set to

Re: Windows on a Mac

2013-11-19 Thread Sandi Jazmin Kruse
hi, when you say a better handle of osx, what does that exactly mean? are you after UniX books, or just moving round on the computer, keyboard shortcuts? As for windows, i would consider vmware if i was you, unless if there is a special reason for not doing so :) sandi On 11/18/13, Joe

O,t goodfeel for sale

2013-11-19 Thread Ramy Moustafa
Please reply to my personal email directly not to the list. To all my friends: I bought the GOODFEEL Braille Music Translator from about 10 years, and I used it just 3 or 4 times. And now I need to sell it. I talked with dancingm dots, and they agree to make the transfer serial between me and

Re: radium

2013-11-19 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
Hi: I have ML as well. On Nov 18, 2013, at 8:52 PM, Mary Otten motte...@gmail.com wrote: Which version of OS X are you running? I have mountain lion, and radium is definitely in the extras menu. But if you're on Snow Leopard, you are out of luck. Married Sent from my iPhone On Nov

Re: apple working on voiceover

2013-11-19 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
I can't figure out how to search the entire twitter universe using night owl On Nov 19, 2013, at 1:25 AM, Nicholas Parsons mr.nicholas.pars...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, absolutely. I can't follow popular topics on Twitter in Night Owl because VoiceOver keeps interrupting itself with one row

Evernote On Mac

2013-11-19 Thread Scott Rumery
Good morning all, I am trying to use Evernote on my Mac and I can’t seem to locate the Sign In button. When I launch the application I am presented with 3 edit fields, Email, username, and password. After the password field I have some unlabeled buttons and a Register button. I already have an

Re: Evernote On Mac

2013-11-19 Thread Jessica D
maybe the first one. Sent from my iPhone On Nov 19, 2013, at 9:59 AM, Scott Rumery blindfait...@gmail.com wrote: Good morning all, I am trying to use Evernote on my Mac and I can’t seem to locate the Sign In button. When I launch the application I am presented with 3 edit fields,

Re: VoiceOver Additional Verbosity Options (was Safari 2 items, 3 items and internal link?)

2013-11-19 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Not positive, but I believe that you may wish to put the general verbosity setting back to medium but adjust specific elements to low. There are some things that are not mentioned under the Additional Speech Verbosity options that are affected when you set verbosity to low, medium or

Has anyone found a way to remotely control their Mac using Voiceover?

2013-11-19 Thread Megan Bening
Hello all, When I predominantly used Windows, I used to be able to remotely control my computer using VNC and JAWS. Now that I have switched to a Mac as my full-time desktop machine, I'm trying to do the same thing. I've tried using screen sharing and have found that the sound is not piped

Re: Windows on a Mac

2013-11-19 Thread Caitlyn furness
You’re welcome. there is also a program called vmware fusion which allows you to run windows as a virtual machine. this is what I use and a lot of others, too. If you go the fusion route, you can switch back and forth between the two os’s without rebooting your physical mac. You can also

drag and drop application

2013-11-19 Thread Chris Moore
Hello, I’m trying to install an app but can’t get the drag and drop function to work. After opining the dog file, I can locate the mounted volume on the desktop. There are two items inside: the app and the applications alias. I can mark the app with vo + comma. I then go right to the

Re: Evernote On Mac

2013-11-19 Thread Emilio
Hello Scott, Unfortunately to access Evernote with the Macintosh, you will need sighted help locating and clicking the “sign in” button. Furthermore, know that using Evernote with the Macintosh is not great, so be ready for some focus issues and editing documents is not very possible (at

how to delete mail when using gmail.com

2013-11-19 Thread Jessica D
hi, i am currently trying to delete a bunch of messages through gmail.com on my mac. How is this done? Sent from my iPhone -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send

Re: drag and drop application

2013-11-19 Thread Teresa Cochran
It’s actually easier to command-c to copy and command-v to paste. If you want to practice dragging and dropping, that is another matter. Drag and drop is a bit unpredictable. the item to be dragged has to be visible. I mostly use fullscreen mode to drag within an application. Another method of

Re: Evernote On Mac

2013-11-19 Thread Scott Rumery
Thank you, that was what I was afraid of. I have used Evernote on the Mac before but after doing a clean install of Mavericks I need to re-log into my account. On Nov 19, 2013, at 12:18 PM, Emilio emilio.s.hernan...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Scott, Unfortunately to access Evernote with the

Re: how to delete mail when using gmail.com

2013-11-19 Thread Caitlyn furness
Are you on the web site, or using the mail app? If you’re on the web site, there is a row of buttons above the list of messages. Check the messages that you want to delete in the table. After that, go to that row of buttons just above the table and find the one that says delete forever and

Surveys to Increase Accessibility at Cultural Institutions

2013-11-19 Thread Ibraheem Fakir
Dear List, I am working on a project geared towards producing access technology for cultural institutions. A major part of this project is to gather information from users of access technology about their experiences in cultural institutions and request their input on how we can use technology

Re: Surveys to Increase Accessibility at Cultural Institutions

2013-11-19 Thread Jane
Hello I'm interested in taking survey to assist. Jane On Nov 19, 2013, at 1:35 PM, Ibraheem Fakir ibayri...@gmail.com wrote: Dear List, I am working on a project geared towards producing access technology for cultural institutions. A major part of this project is to gather information

copying text in mail

2013-11-19 Thread Caitlyn furness
Hi, today I was attempting to copy part of a mail message to send to someone. when I did command a, mail went funny and started copying my whole list of mail messages instead of just what was in the original message I *wanted* to copy. I am using vo j to read my mail.. any help to fix this? I

Re: Surveys to Increase Accessibility at Cultural Institutions

2013-11-19 Thread Karen Lewellen
I am equally interested, with some professional concerns already. Karen On Tue, 19 Nov 2013, Ibraheem Fakir wrote: Dear List, I am working on a project geared towards producing access technology for cultural institutions. A major part of this project is to gather information from users of

Re: Surveys to Increase Accessibility at Cultural Institutions

2013-11-19 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
I too, am happy to assist where appropriate. Sent from my I phone On 19 Nov 2013, at 06:35 pm, Ibraheem Fakir ibayri...@gmail.com wrote: Dear List, I am working on a project geared towards producing access technology for cultural institutions. A major part of this project is to gather

Re: copying text in mail

2013-11-19 Thread richie Gardenhire
Hi Caitlyn, Did you try going to the body of an individual message, typing Command+A, the Command+C, then Command+V to paste? There are probably better ways to do the same thing, but haven't found them yet. HTH. Richie Gardenhire, Anchorage, Alaska. On Nov 19, 2013, at 9:50 AM, Caitlyn

Re: how to delete mail when using gmail.com

2013-11-19 Thread richie Gardenhire
If you want to delete an entire row of messages, simply type Command+A to select All, then hit the Delete key, and Voiceover will say something like: No Rows Selected. HTH. Richie Gardenhire, Anchorage, Alaska. On Nov 19, 2013, at 9:29 AM, Caitlyn furness wrote: Are you on the web site,

Photos in iTunes?

2013-11-19 Thread Daniela Rubio
Hello all! I am rying to show a person how to use iTunes, but we can not get to sincronice her photos. Her iTunes says that she has x number of photos, but she can’t see them. Are there any suggestions? Thanks! Daniela Rubio T iphone: +34662328507 Daniela Rubio T  Distinguished Educator

table row and column announcement

2013-11-19 Thread Phil Halton
I'm getting really tired of hearing row and column announcements on webpage tables - especially in layout tables. Is there any way to shut them off? I have VO set to announce table header, but I don't think that's it, is it? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: copying text in mail

2013-11-19 Thread Teresa Cochran
You can try pressing enter on a message and then editing the text in it. If you use the preview pane, things can be tricky. If you try the preview pane, make sure you interact with the text first. HtH, Teresa The Golden Age of science fiction is twelve.--Pete Graham On Nov 19, 2013, at 11:25

Re: copying text in mail

2013-11-19 Thread richie Gardenhire
Hi Teresa, Can I use that same technique, when I need to insert a character, or word, in text, when editing? Richie Gardenhire, Anchorage, Alaska. On Nov 19, 2013, at 11:05 AM, Teresa Cochran wrote: You can try pressing enter on a message and then editing the text in it. If you use the

Help needed please to open attachments in mail with Mavericks

2013-11-19 Thread Sharon Ballantyne
Hello, I know I wrote last week but I still cannot open attachments since upgrading to Mavericks. Prior to upgrading I could use quick look using command y. This would allow me to open or save the attachment as I chose. Now using command y does not seem to be able to get focus. Even if I have

Pairing Bluetooth keyboard and Mac in Mavericks

2013-11-19 Thread David Taylor
Hi, I'm trying to pair my Apple wireless keyboard in Mavericks. I've done all the obvious things like turning all other Bluetooth devices off etc, but when I enter the code, which is always 12345678, and press return as expected, I get an error saying wrong code. Am I missing something really

Re: copying text in mail

2013-11-19 Thread Teresa Cochran
In a mail message that has been sent to you, you’d have to copy and paste the text of that email into a new one and edit it that way. HtH, Teresa We're made of star stuff.--Carl Sagan On Nov 19, 2013, at 12:05 PM, Teresa Cochran vegaspipistre...@gmail.com wrote: You can try pressing enter on

Re: table row and column announcement

2013-11-19 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, There’s a checkbox in the Web section of VO Utility about column and row headers. Uncheck that and you should be happier. Later… Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Nov 19, 2013, at 1:01 PM, Phil Halton philh...@gmail.com wrote: I'm getting really tired of hearing row and column

Re: table row and column announcement

2013-11-19 Thread Teresa Cochran
In VO utility (VO-f8) go to the Web category and uncheck “speak column and row numbers”. HtH, teresa On the other hand, there are different fingers. On Nov 19, 2013, at 12:01 PM, Phil Halton philh...@gmail.com wrote: I'm getting really tired of hearing row and column announcements on webpage

Re: drag and drop application

2013-11-19 Thread Chris Moore
Terisa, Thanks. I used the copy and paste method. In this case I had to open the applications alias and navigate inside the list of applications before pasting. ChrisOn Nov 19, 2013, at 12:38 PM, Teresa Cochran vegaspipistre...@gmail.com wrote: It’s actually easier to command-c to copy and

Re: Pairing Bluetooth keyboard and Mac in Mavericks

2013-11-19 Thread Gene Baroni
It is a bug and the only way to fix it is to have apple remotely interact with your computer so they can read your screen. I just did this 1 week ago and the tec said they would address the issue in an upcoming update. - Original Message - From: David Taylor

Re: Help needed please to open attachments in mail with Mavericks

2013-11-19 Thread Jessica D
did you use save attachments under the file menu? Sent from my iPhone On Nov 19, 2013, at 3:38 PM, Sharon Ballantyne sbal...@nexicom.net wrote: Hello, I know I wrote last week but I still cannot open attachments since upgrading to Mavericks. Prior to upgrading I could use quick look

Re: Help needed please to open attachments in mail with Mavericks

2013-11-19 Thread Ray Foret Jr
I can help with the first, not the second. I save attachments from the file menu now. As for isolating individual attachments, thus far, I have not found how to do this iin Mavricks either. Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in! Sincerely, The

Re: Pairing Bluetooth keyboard and Mac in Mavericks

2013-11-19 Thread Ray Foret Jr
You are correct in guessing that access has been broken. Frankly, this is a point of frustration with me and all others who face the same characteristics you describe. Report this to: accessibil...@apple.com as we did. Help add your voice to those others of us who wish this bug fixed as

Re: Help needed please to open attachments in mail with Mavericks

2013-11-19 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Save, attachments under the file menu. Yes. The only way in can be done under Mavricks I believe. Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in! Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray, still a very happy Mac and Iphone 5 user! On Nov 19, 2013, at 3:39

Re: Help needed please to open attachments in mail with Mavericks

2013-11-19 Thread Teresa Cochran
You can use the contextual menu from inside a message, VO-shift-M, and choose open attachment from this menu. hth, Teresa We're made of star stuff.--Carl Sagan On Nov 19, 2013, at 1:53 PM, Ray Foret Jr rforet7...@comcast.net wrote: Save, attachments under the file menu. Yes. The only way

Re: Pairing Bluetooth keyboard and Mac in Mavericks

2013-11-19 Thread David Taylor
Thanks, will do. I am regularly reporting things to them. Thanks Dave On 19 Nov 2013, at 21:41, Ray Foret Jr rforet7...@comcast.net wrote: You are correct in guessing that access has been broken. Frankly, this is a point of frustration with me and all others who face the same

Re: Help needed please to open attachments in mail with Mavericks

2013-11-19 Thread Ray Foret Jr
That never works for me because don’t you have to focus on the attachment first? For me, under the so-called normal view, attachments do not show up in the body of the message at all. And, interacting with the header information of the message, I can see the attachments, but, cannot open

Re: Help needed please to open attachments in mail with Mavericks

2013-11-19 Thread Teresa Cochran
When I can’t find the attachment in the message body, I just select all the text and use the contextual menu. I’m also going to try the contextual menu when focused on a message. htH, Teresa Slow down; you'll get there faster. On Nov 19, 2013, at 2:53 PM, Ray Foret Jr rforet7...@comcast.net

Audiobooks

2013-11-19 Thread Krysti Power
How do I re download past purchased audiobooks on an iDevice I wanna download one I bought to my iPhone Sent from my iPhone -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it,

Re: copying text in mail

2013-11-19 Thread Caitlyn furness
thanks, I didn’t think of that! How do you turn the preview pane off in Mavericks? I had a look at the table, etc, but can’t see any splitters except one vertical one on the far left, between mailboxes and the messages column.. thanks again, Cait On Nov 19, 2013, at 3:31 PM, richie Gardenhire

iOS 7 question

2013-11-19 Thread Daniel McGee
Hi all, if I update to Mavericks apparently, contact syncing has been removed in iTunes therefore forcing one to use iCloud. However, if one was to just update to ios7 without updating to Mavericks, would this functionality still be removed? In other words, if I just update the iphone to the

Re: copying text in mail

2013-11-19 Thread Teresa Cochran
If you interact with the text in the preview and then copy, this should work fine. Getting rid of the preview pane in Mail is very tricky. you first have to switch to classic view in Mail Preferences. You’ll be able to find a horizontal splitter between the message list and the pane. For the

RE: Pairing Bluetooth keyboard and Mac in Mavericks

2013-11-19 Thread Kliphton -------
I was able to pair both my apple bt keyboard, and Logitech 811 keyboard to my mac. And I am using mavericks. Kliphton ~iMessageEmail~ kliphton@outlook.com ~Twitter,Instagram,FourSquareSkype~ kliphton72 ~Text only~ 914-820-2298 Personal blog-read at your own risk!

RE: Surveys to Increase Accessibility at Cultural Institutions

2013-11-19 Thread Amy Ruell
Will participate. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ibraheem Fakir Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 1:36 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Surveys to Increase Accessibility at Cultural Institutions

adding reverb advice

2013-11-19 Thread Ioana Gandrabur
Hi all, I have made a recording of classical guitar with microphone on the mac. Now I'm interested in adding discrete and natural sounding re-verb and maybe other enhancement's. I have no experience in this area and would love find a tutorial about how best to use effects. Any advice from

Searching for Topics on Night Owl (was: apple working on voiceover)

2013-11-19 Thread Nicholas Parsons
To search the entire Twitter universe on Night Owl, follow these steps: • From your main timeline, command-left arrow past any custom lists until you get to the search page. If you don't have any custom lists, it should be the first page left of the main timeline. • You'll have a table for

Re: VoiceOver Additional Verbosity Options (was Safari 2 items, 3 items and internal link?)

2013-11-19 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Thanks, Tim. I'll see if I can survive without them and if not I'll switch back. I think I'll need to spend a fair bit of time experimenting to learn what they all do and what are the optimum settings for me. Cheers, Nic On 20 Jan 2013, at 2:52 AM, Tim Kilburn kilbur...@gmail.com wrote: Hi,

BOINC Manager Preferences don't Stick

2013-11-19 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, all, I’m using BOINC manager for grid computing on scientific projects such as Seti@home. I’m trying to set preferences for when GPU is active, and they don’t stick. I have the screen-saver on one hour, but when I try to specify 60 minutes in BOINC manager, I don’t find an apply or OK

Re: Searching for Topics on Night Owl (was: apple working on voiceover)

2013-11-19 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
Thank you! That worked! I appreciate it. On Nov 19, 2013, at 7:33 PM, Nicholas Parsons mr.nicholas.pars...@gmail.com wrote: To search the entire Twitter universe on Night Owl, follow these steps: • From your main timeline, command-left arrow past any custom lists until you get to the search

Re: Searching for Topics on Night Owl (was: apple working on voiceover)

2013-11-19 Thread Jessica D
How did you make • appear? Sent from my iPhone On Nov 19, 2013, at 9:18 PM, Sarai Bucciarelli sarai.bucciare...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you! That worked! I appreciate it. On Nov 19, 2013, at 7:33 PM, Nicholas Parsons mr.nicholas.pars...@gmail.com wrote: To search the entire Twitter

Ibooks and navigation through contents

2013-11-19 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Okay. For those of y’all who use Ibooks on the Mac. I want to know how does one select items in the table of contents. I figured I could use the item chooser once I pressed cmd+t and that seemed to work up to the point of actualy selecting an item, chapter 1 for example. According to the

Saving Mail Messages

2013-11-19 Thread Angus MacKinnon
Maybe it is just me. When I am in a mail message and use Command Shift S to save a mail message as. I am presented with a table and select my SDHC card and can not understand how to select the folder I want and the sub folder I wish to save the mail message into. The mail Message is a

Re: Saving Mail Messages

2013-11-19 Thread Alex Hall
It is just a standard save dialog, or seems to be. Are you sure you checked the full disclosure checkbox? As with most any save dialog on the Mac, this box toggles the displaying of full folders on or off and does not seem to be checked by default. On Nov 19, 2013, at 10:44 PM, Angus MacKinnon

Notice: OS10.9 vo-shift-c adds a space before an ellipsis

2013-11-19 Thread Alex Hall
Hi all, I have just made a discovery in Mavericks. I was adding application shortcuts, and, as usual using voiceovers quote copy last spoken phrase to clipboard quote function to make sure I get the menu items correct. My shortcuts, though, were not working, and I finally figured out why: it

Re: Notice: OS10.9 vo-shift-c adds a space before an ellipsis

2013-11-19 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, If I am recalling correctly this Marcos has had some bewildering opinions in the past. Don't read to much into it. As it is so so easy to be a critic and not offer anything constructive and I am saying that after a little bit of booze. Yes, I to have been guilty of being a critic in