Re: Facebook is getting on my nerves.

Even Menutab isn't ideal with the way they are changing the site. FB has become more and more difficult to use, and the way they re-arranged the newsfeed made it all 10 times worse. I'm getting to the point where I might consider one of the specialist Windows clients in my VM. An app would be

Re: Teamtalk was Re: Good Prospects for Accessibility in Office for Mac

TeamTalk for Mac is mainly usable, but hardly accessible. You really have to know what you are doing, but most things can be done. Many of these things are extremely fiddly and slow to do due to the lack of accessibility, but if you know your way round a server, a lot can be done. If you are an

Re: Teamtalk was Re: Good Prospects for Accessibility in Office for Mac

It's clunky, and got slightly worse with the 4.6 update which breaks keyboard tracking. But the good news is that soon there will be a completely new client, called TeamTalk VI that a friend of mine is working on. We got permission from the developer to write it and it will be using his SDK

Re: Teamtalk was Re: Good Prospects for Accessibility in Office for Mac

Hi, This is fantastic! Will it include the video functionality? There's also an Android client, but it's very alpha right now. I'm hoping for all mobile platforms to be supported at some point. Blake -- From: Piotr Machacz piterm...@gmail.com

Re: Teamtalk was Re: Good Prospects for Accessibility in Office for Mac

Not at first, voice will be a bit bigger priority, but it's not out of the question. Once the most important things work, we can see about video. On 17 Apr 2014, at 12:06 pm, Blake Sinnett frequency...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi, This is fantastic! Will it include the video functionality?

Re: Tips on Abbyy Fine Reader?

Html is good for receipts for example. You need to go to finder and find the receipt you saved and open the html receipt from finder. Then you can usally move like in a table up-down and left-right. This is through for most receipts, but not all. Something with the paper and print maybe. Take

Re: Topic: reading brf files on the mac

In my experience, it can't work well with italics or any other kind of formatting. It only works with plain text files. Devin Prater Sent from my iPod 5. iMessage, facebook, and face-time: devinpra...@live.com email: d.pra...@me.com Google Talk/keychat: r.d.t.pra...@gmail.com On Apr 16, 2014,

Re: Topic: reading brf files on the mac

If you convert a file to html, louis will convert it to brf. That makes sense, since the markup is text as well. Going the other way is a little more problematic. Half the time Louis interprets braille italics as dots 4-6 in computer braille, putting a period before each word instead.

Re: Topic: reading brf files on the mac

Ah, thanks. So how would I convert a pages file to HTML? I didn't think Pages could export to HTML. Devin Prater Sent from my iPod 5. iMessage, facebook, and face-time: devinpra...@live.com email: d.pra...@me.com Google Talk/keychat: r.d.t.pra...@gmail.com On Apr 17, 2014, at 8:12, Teresa

Re: Viewing Recognized Text in Fine Reader?

I use a compatible scanner, there are lots of them, and after scanning, FR Pro recognizes the scanned pages and then opens a save dialog. I save the pages using the default file name untitled, and then the document opens in textedit where I can read the doc. I have the format set to RTF and

Re: slightly ot: icloud based audio discription indiegogo project.

thanks! I hope this gets off the ground! I'd shell out for it myself. Cait On Apr 16, 2014, at 6:37 PM, Karen Lewellen klewel...@shellworld.net wrote: Sharing in case this has not been posted here. What I love about this company besides the strong effort making the platform work is their

looking for accessible trivia and word games for mac

Hi, I am interested in and looking for accessible word and trivia games for mac. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. I prefer that they be free. Jessica jldai...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe

Pages improvement

Hello everyone, The latest update to Pages brought a big improvement. There is no longer any need to interact with the Paragraph styles button to hear the name of the style. This means that we can now set a hotspot on that button and consult it from within the document. Also, we can find the

Re: Topic: reading brf files on the mac

I haven't actually done that conversion before. Sometimes I convert documents by simply pasting text in, but then you lose all your formatting. With things like epub or mobi, Calibre command-line can be used. Teresa The golden age of science fiction is twelve.--Pete graham On Apr 17, 2014, at

Re: Pages improvement

How do you set up hotspots? On Apr 17, 2014, at 9:27 AM, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk wrote: Hello everyone, The latest update to Pages brought a big improvement. There is no longer any need to interact with the Paragraph styles button to hear the name of the style. This means that

Re: Viewing Recognized Text in Fine Reader?

Hello, I have been following this thread out of interest regarding Fine Reader Pro. I have not yet purchased it, but I believe from all of the current posts and other discussions in the past that this app for the Mac is the most friendly user with voiceover. Would like to suggest a solution

Re: Pages improvement

Hello Isaac, To set a hotspot, go to the place you want to put the hotspot and press VO-Shift-plus a number from 0 to 9. To jump to the hotspot, press VO-number. To consult the hotspot, press VO-Cmd-number. So, in Pages, if you set a hotspot with the number 1, you can press VO-Cmd-1 anywhere

Re: Calendar in Mavericks-creating an event that will recur once a month?

I too have the same question. I tried setting to the second saturday every month. It ended up on doing the same date number, not the second Saturday. Also, on the Mac how do you delete dates? cmd delete did nothing and I can't find anything under the menubar. Thanks! Daniel Hawkins - Posted

Re: Status Menus Are Gone

Hi, Don't rush to the reformat, that is a drastic and usually unnecessary task. Try to do a repair permissions first. To do so... * Go to the Finder. * Press cmd-shift-u to open the Utilities folder. * Navigate to the Disk Utility app and open it. * From the table of disks, select your

Keynote Aglore!

Hello everyone! Ok, I have been trying to learn how to make my own keynote slides. So far I am getting the hang of it somewhat. But one of the biggest problem my friends told me that the Body area is very very small print. I know how to make larger print by cmd+, but they explained to me the

Re: Status Menus Are Gone

It just says Apple menu and then puts me back wherever I was before. I always try from the desktop. Jane On Apr 17, 2014, at 11:07 AM, Tim Kilburn kilbu...@me.com wrote: Hi, Don't rush to the reformat, that is a drastic and usually unnecessary task. Try to do a repair permissions

Re: Viewing Recognized Text in Fine Reader?

I have those iOS apps, but they are rather finicky and slow when all I want to know is what an envelope or sheet of paper says. I suppose a scanning stand would help, but if I already have a scanner and Mac, it seems an unnecessary expense. Having the file open automatically is helpful. Plus,

Re: Pages improvement

When did pages get an update? Sent from my iPhone On Apr 17, 2014, at 10:50 AM, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk wrote: Hello Isaac, To set a hotspot, go to the place you want to put the hotspot and press VO-Shift-plus a number from 0 to 9. To jump to the hotspot, press VO-number.

Re: Calendar in Mavericks-creating an event that will recur once a month?

hi, You should be able to set events like that in within the Custom area of the Repeat options. So, after activating the date/time link, * choose Custom from the Repeat Every pop-up. * Select Monthly. * Select the On The radio button. * Select the proper day, eg. Third and Tuesday. * close the

Re: slightly ot: icloud based audio discription indiegogo project.

Definitely. Sign me up. On Apr 17, 2014, at 10:05 AM, Caitlyn and Maggie caitlyn.furn...@gmail.com wrote: thanks! I hope this gets off the ground! I'd shell out for it myself. Cait On Apr 16, 2014, at 6:37 PM, Karen Lewellen klewel...@shellworld.net wrote: Sharing in case this has

Re: Viewing Recognized Text in Fine Reader?

Hi Alex. The windows version of finereader has an option to view the text in word, internet explorer, notepad or simply sent to clipboard., I would recommend abbyy to implement this function in the mac version. How to write to abbyy is the question. They are making good products, but their

Re: Viewing Recognized Text in Fine Reader?

just to add whts the difference between abby fine reader and the fine reader pro? On 17 Apr 2014, at 04:43 pm, Eileen Misrahi eileen.misr...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I have been following this thread out of interest regarding Fine Reader Pro. I have not yet purchased it, but I believe from

Setting up Messages

In OS X ML, I want to set up Messages. It wants an email address and password. Is this an existing password or am I creating a new account here? I already entered my Apple ID and the email address I entered is tied to the Apple ID. Quote of the nanosecond . . . Moral indignation is

Re: Setting up Messages

It wants your Apple ID email and password. I thought it would grab them automatically, but if it didn't enter them and it should work. On Apr 17, 2014, at 1:18 PM, Robert C gone.to.da...@gmail.com wrote: In OS X ML, I want to set up Messages. It wants an email address and password. Is this

Putting messages into folders

Hi all. I wanted to start putting all my mail messages into folders. So lets say I have a mac folder, and a business folder, how could I go about making folders and then telling mail to put the messages there automatically? Thanks. Matt Dierckens Macintosh Trainer Blind Access Training

Re: Pages improvement

Pages in my Applications folder is dated April 6. Cheers, Anne On 17 Apr 2014, at 18:19, Jessica jldai...@gmail.com wrote: When did pages get an update? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and

Re: Setting up Messages

I thought it wanted new information but its happy now and I have Messages set up. Probably entered the password wrong and did not know it. My to do list is getting shorter! :) Quote of the nanosecond . . . I was in the grocery store. I saw a sign that said pet supplies. So I did. Then I

Re: Putting messages into folders

Make a new folder by going to the Mailbox menu, then New Folder. Place messages there by optionally selecting them (or do it one at a time), right clicking with vo-shift-m, then choose to move to or copy to and select the folder from the submenu. Copy and paste may work, I don't know. To sort

re:Topic: Topic: reading brf files on the mac

perhaps its time that those of us with braille note taker devices start volunteering some time to getting new braille books submitted to the NLS. the only really bad hitch I see with this is the copyright laws here in the US. If that doesn't turn out to be an issue, then we can all participate

Support for instant messaging in Messages

I see that this is availble to use thru Messages. I do not use this kind of service much but wish to connect to a Google Tak chat friend. Is it accessible? If not, there is Adium which I have not set up yet. Quote of the nanosecond . . . Why are there 5 syllables in the word monosyllabic?

Re: Calendar in Mavericks-creating an event that will recur once a month?

Ok cool thanks for letting me know. I was just getting annoied how long it takes to put a date down. And I still can't find a list of appointments only on my IOS devices lol. Thanks! Daniel Hawkins - Posted from my Macbook Pro On Apr 17, 2014, at 11:24 AM, Tim Kilburn kilbu...@me.com wrote:

two applications upgraded

why does eveytime i open up my computer i hear this voice. actualy i do have imovie update and xcode update, but i dont want to hear it everytime i open my mac -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and

VO-J

Is there, or is there a way to create a trackpad gesture for VO-J? A little side note, I wish VO-shift-J would jump VoiceOver backwards. Thanks, Traci -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop

Re: Support for instant messaging in Messages

I believe so. Open Preferences in Messages, go to the Accounts tab, and add an account. VO-left to the popup button and choose the server type, then fill in the rest of the information. On Apr 17, 2014, at 1:57 PM, Robert C gone.to.da...@gmail.com wrote: I see that this is availble to use

Re: VO-J

When you assign your command, choose move to linked item from the navigation menu. On Apr 17, 2014, at 2:04 PM, Traci Duncan our4p...@gmail.com wrote: Is there, or is there a way to create a trackpad gesture for VO-J? A little side note, I wish VO-shift-J would jump VoiceOver backwards.

Re: Facebook is getting on my nerves.

One thousand and one reasons to delete your Facebook account. :) OK, here is what I used to do. I have deleted my faceBook account. So, this is mostly off of memory but it's the only way I could tolerate basic use of faceBook on my iMac. Go into Safari preferences. Go to the Advanced tab.

Re: Keyboard Focus / Voice Over Cursor / Mouse Pointer

Anne, This is an old message but of interest. Specifically, the cursor tracking when in a chat environment. If tracking is off, keyboard fozus is on the edit field, and VO is on the text the other person types, do you hear both spoken or do you need to use commands? This is new to me

Re: Support for instant messaging in Messages

Alex, Thanks. I will set it up and try it very soon. If I dont need another app to do what the native apps already on the Mac can do, the better. Quote of the nanosecond . . . 2 rules to success in life. 1. Don't tell people everything you know. Robert Annie Yanni ke7nwn E-mail-

Re: Status Menus Are Gone

I am repairing permissions for the third tie now and I am down to one permission that needs to be repaired. Interestingly, it has nothing to do with Status menus. It has to do with Safari. I still can't access the extra menus, though. Jane On Apr 17, 2014, at 11:07 AM, Tim Kilburn

Re: slightly ot: icloud based audio discription indiegogo project.

as would I, sign me up too. The only issue is true Canadian dollar is lower than the American so it would invariably cost us more. On Apr 17, 2014, at 9:29 AM, Christine Grassman cgrassman1...@gmail.com wrote: Definitely. Sign me up. On Apr 17, 2014, at 10:05 AM, Caitlyn and Maggie

Re: slightly ot: icloud based audio discription indiegogo project.

Indiegogo is priced in Canadian dollars, but the service will be priced in the local currency when it launches. Hope this clears things up. :) Stay tuned, and thanks Karen for posting this. I've been talking to Cara about doing this with a Macvisionaries endorsement and she's a fan. Cheers,

Re: slightly ot: icloud based audio discription indiegogo project.

thanks, this does clear it u, I'm in. On Apr 17, 2014, at 11:58 AM, Kevin Shaw tvsound...@gmail.com wrote: Indiegogo is priced in Canadian dollars, but the service will be priced in the local currency when it launches. Hope this clears things up. :) Stay tuned, and thanks Karen for posting

Changing languages on iPad

Hello everyone, this is Chenelle! I changed the language settings to ration I am my iPad mini last week because I was learning Russian and now I want to revert back to English? What should I do in order to change it back to English again clash thank you so much have a great day Sent from my

Re: Calendar in Mavericks-creating an event that will recur once a month?

Hi, When you say that you were getting annoyed at how long it takes to get a date down, what exactly did you mean. You can have the Calendar app automatically place events on the proper date by pressing cmd-n to create the new event then putting the date within that field. For example,

Re: two applications upgraded

Hi, It appears to be an automatic thing when you have the Download in the Background checkbox checked in the AppStore pane of System Preferences. I believe that if you uncheck this box, those messages won't always come up. Other than that, you could turn on Do Not Disturb in the Notification

Re: Status Menus Are Gone

Hmmm. I wouldn't bother doing another repair after this, as some items just don't seem to repair themselves. How about you try the following: * Go to your Finder. * Open your Macintosh HD * Open the System folder. * Open the Library folder * Open the Core Services folder. * Open the Battery

Re: Changing languages on iPad

Hi Chenelle. If you have languages in your roter, simply rotate two fingers clockwise or counter clockwise until you hear Voiceover say language. Then flick with one finger up or down until you hear your English voice. HTH. Shawn Sent From My White MacBook On Apr 17, 2014, at 2:06 PM, Chenelle

Removing drm protection from Adobe Digital Edition pdf files purchased legally

Hi Listers, I need to remove drm protection from an adobe digital pdf book which I have purchased. This is obviously for my own use. Is there a Voiceover friendly program that would do it? Thanks for any tips. Andrew -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: Facebook is getting on my nerves.

Wow; this is the best bunch of suggestions I've seen for dealing with Facebook and difficult sites. Terrific. Christine On Apr 17, 2014, at 2:15 PM, Christina C. blindmaclo...@gmail.com wrote: One thousand and one reasons to delete your Facebook account. :) OK, here is what I used to do. I

Re: slightly ot: icloud based audio discription indiegogo project.

actually, that works in reverse, at the moment the Canadian dollar is less valuable then the American one. so it cost less to pay in Canadian using American currency. One of my saving graces truth be told. say I spend $20 in a Canadian store just now, but if I use my American visa card

Re: Status Menus Are Gone

Are you talking about the BAttery plugin under Menu Extras? It won't let me open that. Or do I need to look elsewhere in the Core SErvices folder? Jane On Apr 17, 2014, at 3:32 PM, Tim Kilburn kilbu...@me.com wrote: Hmmm. I wouldn't bother doing another repair after this, as some items

Re: Keynote Aglore!

If you bring the lists or the body content from other apps, the print side will be small, because you are taking the formatting of that original document to keynote. to about this, you need to copy the text, and when in Keynote, paste it with the same stile using the combination

words still being corrected

Hi all, I turned off auto correct ages ago, but at times, when I type in pages or the messages apps, I find my words are still being corrected or suggestions being offered. If someone can help me out that would be great, I don't want any automatic corrections as I spell check my documents

Re: Removing drm protection from Adobe Digital Edition pdf files purchased legally

Hi Andrew. As I remember you are a macuser. There are some good tools for things like that on this site: www.epubsoft.com Best regards Annie. Den 17/04/2014 kl. 22.12 skrev Andrew Lamanche ioani...@me.com: Hi Listers, I need to remove drm protection from an adobe digital pdf book which I

Re: words still being corrected

Some apps have auto-correct settings in their own preferences, independent of the system-wide setting. Check for that in the apps you find this happens. Also remember that spellcheck and auto-correct are two different items in most cases. On Apr 17, 2014, at 5:57 PM, Andrew Head

Re: Topic: Topic: reading brf files on the mac

Better to help bookshare out, I think. Their library is already much bigger then the nLS one. I also belive that NLS has it's own way of increasing it's library, and volunteers submitting material isn't included in it. I could be badly mistaken, though! Cait On Apr 17, 2014, at 1:55 PM,

Re: Viewing Recognized Text in Fine Reader?

Hi Alex, Once you press command-s (the shortcut to export) you are presented with a choice of file types in a dialog. DOCS is one of these, as is RTF and many more. Once you VO-space on your desired format, just press return to go to the save dialog. As someone said previously, the default

Re: Topic: Topic: reading brf files on the mac

Yes, but Bookshare's iOS sucks compared to the BARD app. And who wants to add BRF files from email or dropbox to bard all the time? I'd rather have more NLS books. Devin Prater Sent from my iPod 5. iMessage, facebook, and face-time: devinpra...@live.com email: d.pra...@me.com Google

Re: Renaming and some other questions

don't know sir alex how can I thank you. your explanation is excellent. thanks so much. is there a way to know the time while working in pro tools? On 4/17/14, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com wrote: It depends on the view you are using. I recommend you read my Finder guide, which explains all

Re: Pages improvement

Hi Ann, That's great news about the hotspots and I have been getting a lot of use out of the latest Pages. Setting shortcuts for paragraph styles is so much easier now too. However, the update to the paragraph styles button is a bit of a double edged sword. It seems to always display the same

Re: Calendar in Mavericks-creating an event that will recur once a month?

Re deleting events in month view, I've found that VoiceOver has some problems with focus. Keyboard focus and VoiceOver focus seem to get separated, and this results in either not being able to delete an event or deleting the wrong one. I've been able to eventually fix this by using just the

Re: Status Menus Are Gone

Hi, That should be the one. It's starting to look like you may need to do a re-install. I wouldn't go the total clean install route yet. You could try the Re-install option in the Recovery partition. This would install the newest MacOS onto your system, hopefully fixing any issues that

Re: slightly ot: icloud based audio discription indiegogo project.

No offense, but I've seen companies like this, and they usually fall. Countless companies that claimed to make inexpensive braille displays and such, that simple didn't show any progress. Talkingflicks has done the same. So I have little hope for those upstart company, no matter how much lip

Re: Status Menus Are Gone

If I do this, am I going to have to somehow re-authorize thiwcomputer? I think I have maybe one authorization left. Jane On Apr 17, 2014, at 7:26 PM, Tim Kilburn kilbu...@me.com wrote: Hi, That should be the one. It's starting to look like you may need to do a re-install. I wouldn't

Re: Status Menus Are Gone

No, it shouldn't affect anything like that. The registration is already attached to your machine so it will not be lost. If these other machines are no longer yours, or no longer functioning, let me know and I'll help you reauthorize them so you have more available authorizations. Later...

Re: Pages improvement

Will my vo spots will be saved on i cloud or what? Ramy moustafa saber Musicc instructor at: faculty of musical education music arranger and sound engineer Sent from my iPhone On Apr 17, 2014, at 6:19 PM, Jessica jldai...@gmail.com wrote: When did pages get an update? Sent from my iPhone

Hotspots and Web Spots in Safari

Hi all, I am working on a Safari article for new Mac users, and I thought I'd cover hotspots and web spots. Now, though, I don't know if I should. Here's what i did to try out hotspots: 1. I went to an open page in Safari, navigated to a heading partway down it, and pressed vo-shift-1. 2. I

Re: Status Menus Are Gone

Hi Jane, Out of curiosity, have you checked your cursor tracking settings? It sounds like your VO cursor might be routed to your mouse pointer. This is just a guess but it might be worth a look before you go the route of a reinstall. HTH Cara :) --- iOS design and development - LookTel.com

Moderator Note -was- Re: slightly ot: icloud based audio discription indiegogo project.

Hi All, While Kevin is correct in saying that I do support what he / Zagga is doing, please let me remind you all that this conversation is now straying way too far off topic for this list. I was personally hoping to post about Zagga myself since they have specific plans to actively support

Re: Hotspots and Web Spots in Safari

Hi Alex, I believe you may be seeing an issue where the heading you marked is no longer visible. When a hotspot moves out of the visible screen area or somehow becomes invisible, VoiceOver can no longer move to it. So no, hotspots are not broken. One just needs to understand that these are

Re: Pages improvement

Hello Nic, Once you're in your document, does consulting the hotspot on the paragraph styles button give you correct information? For me it does. However, there are many fields that don't display a change until you've moved away from them, and the paragraph styles button seems to be one of

Re: Keyboard Focus / Voice Over Cursor / Mouse Pointer

Hello Robert, What you hear when typing depends on how you have your keyboard echo set. What your correspondent has written can be read automatically in Skype if you have Growl installed, otherwise you need to navigate to it. Cheers, Anne On 17 Apr 2014, at 20:23, Robert C

Re: Status Menus Are Gone

Hi, That's a good idea Cara. I've seen that happen in the past when I've forgot to turn cursor tracking back on with VO-shift-f3 after doing whatever. It did cause these sorts of frustrations that didn't seem logical. Certainly worth a try. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada