Re: Am I nuts, or is Alex way better now?

2015-02-12 Thread christopher hallsworth
I use Alex on both my Mac and iPad Mini 2. Do not have a compatible iPhone to use ALex on. On 12 Feb 2015, at 07:37, Garth Humphreys ghu...@gmail.com wrote: I do love Alex on the Mac, then again I've always used Alex there. Even though I can also use him on my iPhone, I tend to stick to

Re: Test me

2015-02-12 Thread Pete Nalda
Got your message on MacVisionaries. Egun On, Lagunak! (basque for G'day, Mates Louie P (Pete) Nalda MySpace.com/musikonalda Facebook.com/lpnalda Linkedin.com/in/lpnalda Twitter: @lpnalda On Feb 12, 2015, at 4:42 AM, Graham Roby grahamnr...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, For some reason

Re: How do I get a word count in Pages?

2015-02-12 Thread Jamie Pauls
Hi, Anne, I see the Show Word count option, but it is not a button. Pressing it simply changes the menu item to Hide Word Count. I managed to see the word count a couple times while looking around in the document layout area, but I can’t reliably find the info. Sadly, TextEdit isn’t quite the

Re: quality of osx with voiceover for people with dissablities

2015-02-12 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! I totally agree with you William regarding braille support. Its so basic that i seldom use it at all. It would be really intresting if we could show them how things work now and how things should work. /A 12 feb 2015 kl. 07:10 skrev William Windels william.wind...@gmail.com: Of course,

Re: quality of osx with voiceover for people with dissablities

2015-02-12 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
Please have a look at my Applevis post, Report-An-Accessibility-Bug-Friday”, an effort to get these bugs noticed: http://www.applevis.com/forum/accessibility-advocacy/report-accessibility-bug-friday It’d be very cool to get this going by tomorrow, although it hasn’t received a response yet. --

Re: how to permanently disable automatic speling correction in textedit?

2015-02-12 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
The check boxes are in TextEdit preferences, under the “New document” tab. They should apply with newly-opened documents after you’ve unchecked them. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop

Re: Audio Highjack 3 Rocks with Voiceover!

2015-02-12 Thread Jonathan Mosen
Hi Gabriel, it's definitely customisable using the channels block. If you take a look at their VOIP session, you can use that as a base and copy it if you need to. Jonathan Mosen Mosen Consulting Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training http://Mosen.org On 12/02/2015, at 9:14 pm,

Pages for Mac podcasts

2015-02-12 Thread Graham Roby
Hi, Can anyone tell me where I might find any podcasts on Pages for Mac? Many thanks for any help received in advance. Regards Graham -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving

Import mailbox from other mail apps.

2015-02-12 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! I have a problem. I was trying to import a mailbox which is saved in thunderbird i think. When opening the import settings there seems to be some radiobuttons that voiceover can not found. I can tab in the dialog box and i find one of the five radio buttons. Is there a simple or other way to

Test me

2015-02-12 Thread Graham Roby
Hi, For some reason recent messages that I have sent from my Mac don’t appear to have got through to the group. Can someone let me know if they receive this so I know all is working okay my end. Thanks Graham sage -- You received this message because you are subscribed to

Re: Test me

2015-02-12 Thread Kevin Cussick
Hi, sorry if loads of people do this but your working fine. On 12 Feb 2015, at 10:42, Graham Roby grahamnr...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, For some reason recent messages that I have sent from my Mac don’t appear to have got through to the group. Can someone let me know if they

Re: Display media by genre

2015-02-12 Thread The Believer
Tim, That sounds like a good idea, will do that. Is there a way to delete genres from the list of genres? I have some that are sort of duplicates. From The Believer. . . . . . what if it were true? ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 2/11/2015 10:39 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote: Hi, You could make a

integrated programming environment

2015-02-12 Thread Todor Fassl
I am a programmer, mostly php, perl, and bash. I'd like to try to use my Mac as a development machine to write the code. Any suggestions for a text editor to use to write code? Right now, I mostly use gedit on linux. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: quality of osx with voiceover for people with dissablities

2015-02-12 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
I agree about the Braille. I have not used my Braille display very much with the Mac because of what William says in his message. I thought by now as the Mac Operating Systems matured and developed, we'd have better Braille support. May be Freedom Scientific best give them a hand since they

Re: 'Phorm' Case Adds Morphing Tactile Keyboard to iPad Mini - Mac Rumors

2015-02-12 Thread BobH.
It could be a game changer, interested to try one, not sure if I'd want to shell out that much simply to try though. RobH. - Original Message - From: Barry Hadder bhad...@gmail.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2015 9:07 PM Subject: 'Phorm' Case Adds

Re: integrated programming environment

2015-02-12 Thread Tyler Thompson
Actually you could use Xcode and just call your files “other”, alternately text wrangler supports a line count and quite a few syntax options although i’m no sure as to it’s accessibility On Feb 12, 2015, at 3:08 PM, Todor Fassl fassl@gmail.com wrote: I am a programmer, mostly php, perl,

Re: Display media by genre

2015-02-12 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, If it’s a genre that you’ve entered yourself, once you eliminate all instances of that genre within your iTunes database, it will no longer appear. If it is one of the default ones that iTunes generates themselves, then I’ve never tried, but I don’t believe that there is a way to delete

Can I change the speed of a recording with Amadeus Pro?

2015-02-12 Thread Agent086b
Hi all, I have an old tape that I think was recorded at 1.78 inches per second. I have just obtained a real to real recorder that will only run at 3.3/4 or 7.5 inches per second. Can I slow the speed with Amadeus by half so I can hear the original recording? The original tape was recorded 45

Re: integrated programming environment

2015-02-12 Thread Georgina Joyce
Hello, Have you looked at textedit on your Mac? I see in the preferences an option to display html code. I should imagine it will be very much like gedit. It’s been some years since I looked at Gnome. I’ve used emacs within a console. It’s just about useable. I haven’t tried vi for working

Re: Paprika recipe manager how to show a recipe?

2015-02-12 Thread Agent086b
Hello, thanks that works. How does a sited person do this? Thanks again. Max. On 13 Feb 2015, at 4:44 am, Sarai Bucciarelli sarai.bucciare...@gmail.com wrote: Hi: vo shift m choose open. On Feb 11, 2015, at 6:28 PM, Agent086b agent0...@internode.on.net wrote: Hello all, sometime ago I

Re: How do I get a word count in Pages?

2015-02-12 Thread Jamie Pauls
Hi, Anne and all, After closing Pages and relaunching, I am now able to see the word count plain as day. Before, I was looking at a Word document that I had brought into Pages, and I was seeing a lot of information that appeared very graphical in nature. Something about rectangles and

Re: Paprika recipe manager how to show a recipe?

2015-02-12 Thread Alex Hall
According to my sighted sister, you simply click the desired recipe one time to open it. My impression is that Paprika is good about feedback, so email them and ask if they can fix this. Sent from my iPhone On Feb 12, 2015, at 15:24, Agent086b agent0...@internode.on.net wrote: Hello,

Re: Am I nuts, or is Alex way better now?

2015-02-12 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I do use Alex on my i-devices though I also use Karen and Daniel and occasionally Samantha. I still don't really like Alex on the Mac but would rather use Karen or from the infovox voices Ryan or Heather or sometimes Will. Voices are such a matter of individual preference. -- Cheryl Move

an interesting observation

2015-02-12 Thread Faisal ali
so in itunes 12.1, I noticed that doing VO j to jump lands you back to the column browser instead of in the LCD section like it did before. I actually quite like this as before, one would need to do VO j twice to land them back to column browser. -- You received this message because you are

Re: Can I change the speed of a recording with Amadeus Pro?

2015-02-12 Thread Agent086b
Thanks, I do intend to get his tutorial but have been spending a lot of money on repairs to our house lately. Max. On 13 Feb 2015, at 11:30 am, Phil Halton philh...@gmail.com wrote: in fact you can. I just listened to Jonathan Mosen’s excellent AmadeusPro tutorial where he demonstrates

Re: quality of osx with voiceover for people with dissablities

2015-02-12 Thread David Griffith
I too must confess that I am not a braille user on the Mac so cannot comment on how frustrating this is. however there do seem to be a lot of people using Braille happily on the MacVisionaries list so perhaps there is some expertise you can tap into there to get support. Apart from that I

how to play midi files?

2015-02-12 Thread Vivianna
hi all. i am trying to play simple midi files on my mac air, running the latest yosemite and, i have absolutely no idea how to do it? when i activate the button on the website to start the midi, it opens up garageBand. i don’t know where to go or what to do from there. i do not see the name

Some External Hard Drive Questions

2015-02-12 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
Hey all. Today I bought an external hard drive because of that freak accident with my Mac a few weeks ago. So I got a few questions about it. 1. I want to do a time machine backup of my entire HD. However, I have a whole bunch of youtube videos I copied onto another system other than my Mac.

Re: Reading a PDF in Preview

2015-02-12 Thread Lorie McCloud
the other day I bought a pdf that turned out to be locked. what’s a good way to deal with that, or is there one? there’s a site where you can send pdf’s to be converted. it’s: “www.online-convert.com http://www.online-convert.com/ Lorie McCloud lorice...@gmail.com On Feb 12, 2015, at 11:24

Re: Display media by genre

2015-02-12 Thread The Believer
Thanks, that was just what happened. From The Believer. . . . . . what if it were true? ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 2/12/2015 1:30 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote: Hi, If it’s a genre that you’ve entered yourself, once you eliminate all instances of that genre within your iTunes database, it will

Re: quality of osx with voiceover for people with dissablities

2015-02-12 Thread Barry Hadder
Well, as I don’t use braille, I will not comment to much on that except just to say that I think it’s a little odd to seemingly not egknolege the significance of an off the shelf system with braille support out of the box and not find away to make good use of it. With that said, there are

Re: Can I change the speed of a recording with Amadeus Pro?

2015-02-12 Thread Phil Halton
in fact you can. I just listened to Jonathan Mosen’s excellent AmadeusPro tutorial where he demonstrates just such a technique. He had some very old cassette tapes that were recorded at half speed, and he showed how he ws able to bring them into AP, clean them up by removing tape hiss and

Re: Am I nuts, or is Alex way better now?

2015-02-12 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
Happy Will or normal Will? I find that normal Will sounds too much like Paul from Neospeech. Shawn Sent From My White MacBook On Feb 12, 2015, at 2:23 PM, Cheryl Homiak cah4...@icloud.com wrote: I do use Alex on my i-devices though I also use Karen and Daniel and occasionally Samantha. I

Re: Reading a PDF in Preview

2015-02-12 Thread David Griffith
I have had to start using Nisus Writer Pro to read PDFs as I no longer find Preview usable. Interestingly I can no longer find the scroll area you describe. I have experimented with single page and continuous scroll view but might appear to work. I find is something called PDF content

Re: Am I nuts, or is Alex way better now?

2015-02-12 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I believe it's normal Will i'm using but I admit I don't like him as Will as Heather and Ryan. -- Cheryl Move forward by looking back! Above all, fear the Lord and worship Him faithfully with all your heart; consider the great things He has done for you. (1 Samuel 12:24 (HCSB) On Feb 12,

Re: Some External Hard Drive Questions

2015-02-12 Thread Lorie McCloud
from my limited experience with this sort of thing I don’t think you’d have to partition your external hard drive but you might need to reformat it before you start putting stuff on it if it doesn’t work for multiple operating systems. Lorie McCloud lorice...@gmail.com On Feb 12, 2015, at

Re: Audio Highjack 3 Rocks with Voiceover!

2015-02-12 Thread Gabriele Battaglia
Hi all. Jonathan, I wasn't able to understand where Audio Highjack 3 has the settings to split audio in two different channels while recording a phone conversation? Is it something hidden in the code or customizable? Thanks. Gabriel. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to

Re: quality of osx with voiceover for people with dissablities

2015-02-12 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
Way to go. Let it all out! :) And to others: send Apple your feedback! Those bugs will not fix themselves, you know—Apple have to know about them first. Tomorrow is Friday. Shall we start a report-an-accessibility-bug-Friday tradition? Now, for my feelings on the matter: I would argue that

Re: Giving an app permission

2015-02-12 Thread Colin Matthews
Hi! If you do not wish to allow every app from anywhere to open! Another option find that app in your app’s [on finder Command+shift+a] Then use VO+shift+m and open the app from there and you should be given the option to always allow that one app! HTH Colin On 13 Feb 2015, at 02:24, Lorie

Re: Giving an app permission

2015-02-12 Thread Lorie McCloud
where or maybe I should say which system preferences? I looked in finder but that doesn’t seem to be the right place. that may be part of my Go To Webinar problem. Lorie McCloud lorice...@gmail.com On Feb 12, 2015, at 11:41 AM, Faisal ali faisal.a...@icloud.com wrote: You need to set your

Re: WhisperSync for Voice.

2015-02-12 Thread Myrna Votta
Hi, WhisperSync refers to the Audible version of the book. So, if you purchase a Kindle eBook, and then you choose to purchase what they are calling “WhisperSync,” you would be purchasing the Audible version of the book. What you then have is an audio book, read by a human narrator, in the

Re: Reading a PDF in Preview

2015-02-12 Thread Angus MacKinnon
Phil I have tried everything and get nowhere. In OS 10.9.5’s Mail; I get an email with a PDF attachment. I click on the attachment and the PDF is loaded into Preview. All I can Read is Toolbar, double quote and sometimes, page one of one zero. Angus MacKinnon -- You received this message

Re: how to play midi files?

2015-02-12 Thread Tyler Thompson
You should be able to play a midi file using iTunes. It’ll just use the built in instruments on OS X so it’s not going to sound great. It seems like you’re somehow telling it to edit, I suggest pulling down the contextual menu (VO + Shift + M) and using open with iTunes On Feb 12, 2015, at

'Phorm' Case Adds Morphing Tactile Keyboard to iPad Mini - Mac Rumors

2015-02-12 Thread Barry Hadder
I thought that some on the list might find the link below interesting. http://www.macrumors.com/2015/02/12/phorm-morphing-ipad-mini-keyboard/ http://www.macrumors.com/2015/02/12/phorm-morphing-ipad-mini-keyboard/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

email headers

2015-02-12 Thread Lorie McCloud
I’m having trouble reading message headers. somebody sends me an email and also sends it to another person so we can connect. I can read the sender’s name, my name and the other person’s name but not their email address. is there a way to do this? Thanks. Lorie Lorie McCloud

Re: How do I get a word count in Pages?

2015-02-12 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Jamie, When you find the Word Count, you’ll see that it’s a button and clicking it will give you other options such as Character count. You find the Word Count button to the right of the document layout area. Cheers, Anne On 12 Feb 2015, at 21:34, Jamie Pauls jamiepa...@gmail.com

Re: Reading a PDF in Preview

2015-02-12 Thread Phil Halton
typically I find that i have to interact twice in the scroll area to get at the text. Once there I can use the VO reading commands like VO + arrow keys, or VO + function + command down / up for sentence and VO + function + shift + up/down arrow for paragraph. This pertains to files I open from

How do I get a word count in Pages?

2015-02-12 Thread Jamie Pauls
Hello, list members, I need to get the word count on a document I am writing using the latest version of Pages. An article I read said to use the inspector, but I’m still not finding what I am looking for. Has anyone written a script for this? It seems like it might be a good candidate, but

Reading a PDF in Preview

2015-02-12 Thread Angus MacKinnon
I clicked on a PDF in OS 10.9. 5’s Mail. I keep getting to double quote. and can not get to the text. How does a person read text in preview? Angus MacKinnon -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and

Giving an app permission

2015-02-12 Thread Traci Duncan
Hi all, I’m using iText Express a lot lately, but I don’t remember how to tell my Mac this app is trusted. Every time I go to open a document, I need to jump through a couple hoops to say it is ok. Isn’t there a setting where I don’t need to do this anymore? Thanks, Traci Ready set CLIMB ,

Re: How do I get a word count in Pages?

2015-02-12 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Jamie, To get the number of words, characters, paragraphs, etc in Pages, just go to the View menu and down to Show Word Count. It appears as a menu button and pressing VO-Space on it will give you the other options. Cheers, Anne On 12 Feb 2015, at 16:56, Jamie Pauls

Re: Giving an app permission

2015-02-12 Thread Faisal ali
You need to set your gatekeeper settings. they can be found in system preferences, security and privacy and under the general tab. there should be a checkbox to say allow apps from anywhere. On Feb 12, 2015, at 8:54 AM, Traci Duncan our4p...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I’m using iText

Re: Paprika recipe manager how to show a recipe?

2015-02-12 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
Hi: vo shift m choose open. On Feb 11, 2015, at 6:28 PM, Agent086b agent0...@internode.on.net wrote: Hello all, sometime ago I purchased Paprika Recipe Manager for the Mac iPhone. We have added a recipe in our Mac version I can find the recipe but can’t open it. I am on the recipe name

Re: Reading a PDF in Preview

2015-02-12 Thread Angus MacKinnon
Phil Thank you for the reading help with Preview. Angus MacKinnon -- 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 an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.