Re: Night Owl

2015-04-20 Thread Alex Hall
I've actually never seen that. When I leave Night Owl, then come back to it, a press of either up or down arrow (Quick nav off) will cause VO to say how many rows were added, then I can keep arrowing up through the newer tweets. Perhaps try using j and k to navigate, instead of the arrows?

files are locked by default

2015-04-20 Thread KristeenHughes
This has been the case since I upgraded to Yosemite. Every file I save or copy or acquire by whatever means is locked by default. I have no idea how to change this and how to change whatever behavior is causing it. I have tried to google, but can’t make sense of anything I have found. Can

Re: Eloquence for the Mac.

2015-04-20 Thread sadam ahmed
The developer behind this notion of puting Eloquence on the Mac can be contacted at the below website: http://allinaccess.com http://allinaccess.com/. All the best, Sadam Mohammed Ahmed B.A. Business Information Systems RMIT University Assistive technology blog:

Re: Night Owl

2015-04-20 Thread Stacey Robinson
Alex Is their a way I can save this so I can read it on my Braille Sense Onhand? A text file would be great. Blessings, Stacey Robinson and GEB dog Kirk. mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net On Apr 20, 2015, at 7:07 PM, Alex Hall

Re: Eloquence for the Mac.

2015-04-20 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
No, the Mac voices are running locally, no Internet connection required. You may be thinking of Infovox iVox, which has a rather persistent activation check that uses the Internet, but that’s third-party software. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: Night Owl

2015-04-20 Thread Darcy Burnard
Hi Jürgen. In Nightowl pressing the spacebar will take you to the oldest unread tweet. So if you're at the top of the list, pressing the spacebar should do what you want. As a matter of fact, I mainly use the spacebar to browse tweets. What I do when launching the app, is hit control 2 to

Re: Eloquence for the Mac.

2015-04-20 Thread sadamahmed1992
Anders, Thanks for your diligence. Hopefully all these reports generate a positive outcome. Enjoy the rest of your day. Kind regards, Sadam Mohammed Ahmed Sent from my iPhone -- On 21 Apr 2015, at 6:14 am, Anders Holmberg and...@pipkrokodil.se wrote: Hi! I’ve written to them

Re: Night Owl

2015-04-20 Thread Alex Hall
You have good timing--I posted a guide and podcast on AppleVis quite recently. Here's the guide, which contains a link to the podcast: http://www.applevis.com/guides/mac-apps/guide-night-owl On Apr 20, 2015, at 7:57 PM, Stacey Robinson stacey...@bellsouth.net wrote: I have Nightowl and really

Re: VoiceOver clicks on the Mac!

2015-04-20 Thread Jose Lomeli
They won't! Jose Lomeli Sent from my iPhone On Apr 20, 2015, at 1:39 PM, Matthew Dierckens matt.dierck...@me.com wrote: When you uncheck it, they should come back. God bless. Matthew Dierckens Certified Assistive Technology Specialist Macintosh, Windows and IOS Trainer U.S. number:

Re: Night Owl

2015-04-20 Thread Alex Hall
I'll paste the text below. This is the Markdown text I keep locally, so you'll see some links and bits of syntax here and there. It's quite readable, though, and isn't HTML or anything that will be a headache. That said, the Unhand can go online, and AppleVis should be pretty nice to mobile

Re: VoiceOver clicks on the Mac!

2015-04-20 Thread Matthew Dierckens
When you uncheck it, they should come back. God bless. Matthew Dierckens Certified Assistive Technology Specialist Macintosh, Windows and IOS Trainer U.S. number: 573-401-1018 Personal Email: matt.dierck...@me.com On Apr 20, 2015, at 16:23, Jose Lomeli jose.lome...@gmail.com wrote: I

Re: Night Owl

2015-04-20 Thread Stacey Robinson
I have Nightowl and really don’t know how to use it. Is there a guide I can look up on how to use this program with VoiceOver Blessings, Stacey Robinson and GEB dog Kirk. mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net On Apr 20, 2015, at 6:53 PM,

Re: Audio Description from Netflix largely an epic fail

2015-04-20 Thread Brent Harding
I wonder if others had the bug come back several times after doing the sign out and back in drill? I found that erasing the data under storage management for Netflix had more success, but had to be done every 2 to 4 episodes. The show itself was absolutely well done with some of the better

Re: A question about making headings on different levels with ms word.

2015-04-20 Thread Barry Hadder
Hi Annie, I have been able to use the outline, but it does have problems. I prefer Pages over word, but the outline mode is a feature that Pages really should have. The old one did and I would have thought that they would have brought it back by now. So, it will be good to have another option.

Re: Audio Description from Netflix largely an epic fail

2015-04-20 Thread Christine Grassman
No, I only went to Silver Light as a last ditch desperate effort to get it working. I have literally spent a couple of hours trying to get the darned audio description on episode 2. It is reliably working on episodes 1 and 3; I haven’t tried any other episodes yet; there does not seem to be

Re: Audio Description from Netflix largely an epic fail

2015-04-20 Thread Joe Quinn
ok, just went to netflix's episode 2 on my iphone, and was, able to get audio description on that episode. don't know if it actually played, as I'm not in the room the iphone is in, I'm on the braille display, but I do know it was selected. So, there's hope for ya yet christine! On Apr 20,

Audio Description from Netflix largely an epic fail

2015-04-20 Thread Christine Grassman
I called Netflix Customer Service and the woman I spoke with was very friendly and sympathetic, and essentially said that the only instructions they had was the article I posted earlier. The audio description for Daredevil is completely unreliable on my end. I have it working on episodes 1

Re: Audio Description from Netflix largely an epic fail

2015-04-20 Thread Joe Quinn
to put my thoughts in, i can access it no problem on my iphone, haven't tried all episodes, but cannot, for the life of me, access it whatsoever on the apple tv. and yes, i have signed out and back in, to no avail. any ideas? i can get to the audio menu on the apple tv, but the option for video

Re: Audio Description from Netflix largely an epic fail

2015-04-20 Thread Pablo Sandoval
Hi everybody; Here’s my experience for what it’s worth. Last week I was able to watch the first 3 episodes on my AppleTV. I did initially have to sign out and in a couple of times to get it working. When I tried to watch episode 4 today I could not get it to work. I ended up calling Netflix, and

Re: Audio Description from Netflix largely an epic fail

2015-04-20 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Seems to me the issue here is more to do with Silverlight than Netflix. From what I seem to recall, Silverlight has always been an issue for us: Even during my windows days I could never manipulate it. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray Still a happy Mac, Verizon Wireless iPhone 6+

Re: VoiceOver clicks on the Mac!

2015-04-20 Thread Jose Lomeli
I do not see this! Jose Lomeli Sent From My MacBook Pro! On Apr 20, 2015, at 1:03 PM, Matthew Dierckens matt.dierck...@me.com wrote: Hello, Go to Voiceover utility with VO f8. Press CMD 6 to get to the sound category. The first checkbox should say, enable sound effects. VO space to turn

Re: VoiceOver clicks on the Mac!

2015-04-20 Thread Matthew Dierckens
strange. if you go into the sound category, the first checkbox should be the mute or unmet sounds. what do you see? God bless. Matthew Dierckens Certified Assistive Technology Specialist Macintosh, Windows and IOS Trainer U.S. number: 573-401-1018 Personal Email: matt.dierck...@me.com On Apr

Re: Eloquence for the Mac.

2015-04-20 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! I’ve written to them to get the espeak on the mac. Eloquence might be good but it doesn’t have swedish. /A 20 apr 2015 kl. 10:23 skrev sadam ahmed sadamahmed1...@gmail.com: Not a bad notion at all. I’m currently drafting an email to accessibil...@apple.com

Re: VoiceOver clicks on the Mac!

2015-04-20 Thread christopher hallsworth
He won't see it, because the wording is slightly, only slightly, incorrect. He needs to uncheck the check box that says mute sound effects. This is unchecked by default. On 20 Apr 2015, at 21:10, Jose Lomeli jose.lome...@gmail.com wrote: I do not see this! Jose Lomeli Sent From My MacBook

Re: VoiceOver clicks on the Mac!

2015-04-20 Thread Jose Lomeli
I see the mute and unmut sounds thing. But that does not work! I don’t know what to do next! Perhalfs I have to reinstall OS X Jose Lomeli Sent From My MacBook Pro! On Apr 20, 2015, at 1:12 PM, Matthew Dierckens matt.dierck...@me.com wrote: strange. if you go into the sound category, the

Re: VoiceOver clicks on the Mac!

2015-04-20 Thread Jose Lomeli
I unchecked that box! Jose Lomeli Sent From My MacBook Pro! On Apr 20, 2015, at 1:18 PM, christopher hallsworth challswor...@icloud.com wrote: He won't see it, because the wording is slightly, only slightly, incorrect. He needs to uncheck the check box that says mute sound effects. This

Re: Night Owl

2015-04-20 Thread 'Maxwell Ivey' via MacVisionaries
hi; then post a tweet on their time line. you can do that whether you follow them or not. and i use it on my mac. i have the time for refresh set to like five or ten minutes. and i arrow over to the table. while in the table i only move up or down when i want to. and if i want to go to the top

Re: Digest for macvisionaries@googlegroups.com - 25 updates in 13 topics

2015-04-20 Thread Chenelle Hancock
Hello Anthony, This is Chenelle, I wanted to thank you I have been trying to get help for two months now and no one knew what I was talking about? I was wondering if you can give me step-by-step instructions on how to download the BrailleTouch able to my computer using my Mac? I'm never done it

Re: Well, I did it, Pre-ordered the Apple watch!

2015-04-20 Thread Donna Goodin
Will do, Kevin. Cheers, Donna On Apr 20, 2015, at 3:46 AM, Kevin Cussick the.big.white.sheph...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Donna, Please keep us informed on how the watch performs watching with interest. On 18/04/2015 21:22, Donna Goodin wrote: I had a chance to go into an Apple store

Re: A question about making headings on different levels with ms word.

2015-04-20 Thread Jamie Pauls
Place your cursor in the paragraph where you want to apply the style. Then, go to format and choose styles. I had to choose all styles before I could see the different heading levels. I am doing this from memory, so please forgive any errors. Sent from my iPhone On Apr 20, 2015, at 7:51 AM,

A question about making headings on different levels with ms word.

2015-04-20 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi all. Ok I have installed the preview of office. I have looked a little at word. How do you make a heading on a level e.g. level 2. I have never liked office on windows, but i like it on the mac. Best regards Annie. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

For what it's worth: Netflix help center article on accessing subtitles, captions, and alternative audio on various devices

2015-04-20 Thread Christine Grassman
https://help.netflix.com/support/372 https://help.netflix.com/support/372 -- 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

Re: Night Owl

2015-04-20 Thread Ray Foret Jr
First, the fact that you cannot send direct messages to people who do not follow you is not a fault of Nightowl. That's a limitation of Twitter itself. As to other clients, forget it. Nightowl is the one and only Twitter client which we can use for the Mac. Sincerely, The Constantly

Voiceover and tables in Microsoft Word on the mac

2015-04-20 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Hi, I've just tried inserting and navigating a table into a microsoft word document on my mac. The inserting of the table was easy and accessible. Navigating the table also seems to work without having to interact with it. I tried using both tab key and voiceover keys with arrow keys, both

Re: Netflix on MacBook Air

2015-04-20 Thread Jamie Tachiyama
They told me that they were working on it but it was not currently available. I could certainly take a look and see if I can get it on another show. Jamie T Blind Dragon Hobbies One stop shopping for all your gaming needs. http://www.blinddragonhobbies.com/ Twitter: @BDHobbies Facebook:

Re: Night Owl

2015-04-20 Thread sadam ahmed
Hello, Night Owl was updated yesterday. The release notes claim that some issues relating to account management were addressed. You should be running version 2.83. I echo the sentiments forget any other Twitter client on the desktop. Best, Sadam Mohammed Ahmed B.A. Business

Re: Eloquence for the Mac.

2015-04-20 Thread sadam ahmed
Not a bad notion at all. I’m currently drafting an email to accessibil...@apple.com mailto:accessibil...@apple.com so will mention it. The perfect solution would be for them to include ETI eloquence in the next version of OS X. I can’t be the only person who would like that synth on the

Re: Maybe a stupid question, but does a web site service like this exist?

2015-04-20 Thread Lisette Wesseling
Hi Chris, Sorry I don't know. I used to do some contract work for them producing braille letters, but don't have time anymore. They seem a pretty friendly bunch so perhaps you could contact them and ask how much it is for one letter. Sorry I can't help. Braille was more expensive than print, but

Re: Night Owl

2015-04-20 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Thanks for your answer. I know that this is not the fault of Night Owl. But I don’t like the fact a developer is not availabel directly, in this case even not at all. But that’s not my request. Again, thanks for answering my question. J Am 20.04.2015 um 09:06 schrieb Ray Foret Jr

Re: Netflix on MacBook Air

2015-04-20 Thread Jamie Tachiyama
I would call Netflix customer service. I did that last night, they added a flag to my account, and now it is appearing for me. It is only available for daredevil though. Jamie T Blind Dragon Hobbies One stop shopping for all your gaming needs. http://www.blinddragonhobbies.com/ Twitter:

Re: Well, I did it, Pre-ordered the Apple watch!

2015-04-20 Thread Kevin Cussick
Hi Donna, Please keep us informed on how the watch performs watching with interest. On 18/04/2015 21:22, Donna Goodin wrote: I had a chance to go into an Apple store this morning, so decided to take a look at the Apple watch. I was very interested in it, but not sure what I would think,

Re: Eloquence for the Mac.

2015-04-20 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
You’re certainly not the only one. My bug report on this is here, from a couple of weeks back: http://openradar.appspot.com/radar?id=5298694911950848 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop

Netflix on MacBook Air

2015-04-20 Thread Christine Grassman
I am trying to sign out of Netflicks on my iPhone and MacBook Air. I am double tapping Sign Out on my iPhone, but it is not working. (I had to get sighted assistance to do this last night.) On my macBook Air, I have tried various browsers, and cannot locate a sign out or a log out. There are

Re: Netflix on MacBook Air

2015-04-20 Thread Christine Grassman
My understanding, according to all of the articles out there, is that any Netflix production has it available. This is not so? -- 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: Digest for macvisionaries@googlegroups.com - 25 updates in 11 topics

2015-04-20 Thread Chenelle Hancock
Is there anyone out there that could help me download a Russian braille table onto my Mac using voice over I need step-by-step instructions? I'm in voiceover utilities and I selected braille but for some reason I can't select the table. By the way, this is Chenelle thank you so much for your

Re: Eloquence for the Mac.

2015-04-20 Thread Scott Davert
Eloquimnce is the main reason I stick with Windows, as it's the only synth I can clearly understand with my type of hearing loss, for whatever reason. While I can use the decent braille support already built in, Eloquince would still be way faster. isn't the current version of this synth on the

Re: Night Owl

2015-04-20 Thread Alex Hall
Others have hit all your questions, so I'll just mention the scrolling. Unless you mean visually, I'm not sure what you're talking about here. If you close and re-open Night Owl, you will be at the top, but so long as you leave it open, your position never changes. Can you describe what the

Re: A question about making headings on different levels with ms word.

2015-04-20 Thread Eileen Misrahi
Hi Jamie, Thanks for the tip on activating all the style selections. However, I haven’t found a keystroke that will work like on the PC side. I did locate a list of keystrokes for Word 2016, but the ones for heading styles don’t work for me. It would be nice if I had a keystroke to evoke the

RE: A question about making headings on different levels with ms word.

2015-04-20 Thread george b
I also have not figured out how to do a envelope with word preview I actually get my word app froven and have to do a quick shoutdown to close the app Any ideas -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Eileen Misrahi

Re: A question about making headings on different levels with ms word.

2015-04-20 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi Jamie and Eileen. Ok this is a little tricky, I figured it out, but I have two comments. 1 It would be great if we could use some keystrokes. 2. When I have got the heading on e.g. level 2 added, the only way to see it is a heading on level two is to press voiceOver +t, and when you will get

Re: A question about making headings on different levels with ms word.

2015-04-20 Thread Jamie Pauls
The way you describe is the only way I know to check whether headings have been applied. Unfortunately, I have no experience with creating envelopes. Take care and have a great day. Jamie Pauls jamiepa...@gmail.com On Apr 20, 2015, at 10:27 AM, Annie Skov Nielsen annieskovniel...@gmail.com

RE: CargoLifter

2015-04-20 Thread george b
Open your apps window with command shift a Find cargo lifter in the table of apps Right click on it and arrow down to move to trash and hit v o spacebar, and answer the prompt to move to trash and it is gone -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

Re: A question about making headings on different levels with ms word.

2015-04-20 Thread Eileen Misrahi
Hi Jamie, I was successful in adding a heading 1 level in a doc, but what is missing is having VO announce what type of style one has used. This is obtained with JAWS on the PC side. The only way I knew it was applied was using the speak attribute VO keystroke of VO-T. I know the font size of

Cd-drive issues.

2015-04-20 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! This is really strange. I am ripping cd-s into itunes and most of the time i am using my apple super drive. However some cd-s refuse to work in this drive but in my cheaper drive evrything works like a charm. Its like that when burning cd-s too. Just curious why this is? /A -- You

Re: A question about making headings on different levels with ms word.

2015-04-20 Thread Barry Hadder
You can choose a style such as a heading level by going to the Home tab of the ribon area by activating the styles menu and interacting with the styles gallery. You can easily assign a keystroke to a style in the keyboard preferences in the tools menu. Just select format in the categories

CargoLifter

2015-04-20 Thread Juliette Swiler
Hi all, Since the invention of MailDrop, I don’t believe I will be needing CargoLifter anymore. How can I remove it from the Mac? Thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails

Re: A question about making headings on different levels with ms word.

2015-04-20 Thread Eileen Misrahi
Hi Jamie, I was successful in adding a heading 1 level in a doc, but what is missing is having VO announce what type of style one has used. This is obtained with JAWS on the PC side. The only way I knew it was applied was using the speak attribute VO keystroke of VO-T. I know the font size of

Re: Automatically enabling and disabling Quick Nav when apps gain focus

2015-04-20 Thread David Griffith
Well I achieved precisely this under Mavericks with no problems but to be honest I disabled all activities when I upgraded to Yosemite as there was a suggestion that Activities were setting up a Voiceover Performance lag and I concluded it was no real hardship to press the left and right

Re: Night Owl

2015-04-20 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Hi Alex, here’s the issue: I’m on top of the tweet list in the timeline table. I leave Night Owl for several hours while I’m away doing other things but the Mac is still switched on and Night Owl is running. When I’m back at my Mac and check Night Owl for the next time I’m still on top of the

Re: A question about making headings on different levels with ms word.

2015-04-20 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi Barry. Yes of course the outline view, but I can not get the outline view and the draft view to work, but things are promising, as far as I can see. I figured out that command option 1-3 works for headings level 1-3. Best regards Annie. Den 20/04/2015 kl. 18.05 skrev Barry Hadder

Re: Automatically enabling and disabling Quick Nav when apps gain focus

2015-04-20 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Hi Ed, just tried it on an existing Activity of mine and it worked fine. Did you check 1. Quick Nav on in the settings of this Activity? 2. the checkbox to enable the Quick Nav settings section? So you need to check two checkboxes then it should work. Sometimes Activities seem not to work for I

Re: Maybe a stupid question, but does a web site service like this exist?

2015-04-20 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
l-mail's prices are here: https://l-mail.com/scripts/static/pricing.php So in the US it's $1.47 for credit and $2.08 for debit cards for a three-page letter. There is also a $3.74 surcharge if you don't open an account with a deposit, which implies that you can use their service without

VoiceOver clicks on the Mac!

2015-04-20 Thread Jose Lomeli
Hello; Listers, since I got my Mac, I accidentally disable the keyboard clicks when navigating the Dock on the Mac! At the time I was running Mavericks on the Mac. Now, I am running Yosemite the latest version. How do I enable the keyboard sounds again? This will be much appreciated a lot! Jose

Re: VoiceOver clicks on the Mac!

2015-04-20 Thread Matthew Dierckens
Hello, Go to Voiceover utility with VO f8. Press CMD 6 to get to the sound category. The first checkbox should say, enable sound effects. VO space to turn this back on. HTH. God bless. Matthew Dierckens Certified Assistive Technology Specialist Macintosh, Windows and IOS Trainer U.S. number:

Re: VoiceOver training

2015-04-20 Thread christopher hallsworth
Yup, sure works fine at my end. On 20 Apr 2015, at 04:46, Debbie April Yuille debbiey1...@optusnet.com.au wrote: Hello Sadam and Chris I just checked the link and it works fine now. I guess what ever was wrong with their server has now been fixed. Debbie -Original Message-

Re: Eloquence for the Mac.

2015-04-20 Thread Devin Prater
I second that. Espeak would be far better. Sent from my iPhone On Apr 19, 2015, at 3:05 PM, Anders Holmberg and...@pipkrokodil.se wrote: Hi! Why not ask them to add espeak. It has more languages. /A 18 apr 2015 kl. 22:55 skrev gs geoffsli...@gmail.com: Hmm. When you tried it, it

Night Owl

2015-04-20 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Hi, is Night Owl the only accessible twitter client for the Mac you know of? My issues with this app: 1. The timeline scrolls always to the top automatically and it seems to be insignificant which settings I’ve set. I tried different settings but it had no impact on this behaviour. 2. I’m