Re: I gave up on my Apple watch.

My concerns are more for functionality than accessibility. The truth is, it had no place on my wrist while I was on holiday, despite the fact that, had I wished to, I could have charged it. Worse yet, it spends most of its time, when it is on my wrist, at its lock screen, because the Wi-Fi

Merge PDFs with PDFPen Pro

Hello everyone, As the subject line suggests, I am curious to know how others have merged PDFs together with PDFPen Pro? Also, with OCR, how have others successfully converted text with the “form fill” feature, so PDFs can be completed on the computer? Currently, I have to have sighted help

Toggling QuickNav in websites

Hey gang, I can’t imagine this hasn’t come up before—but has anyone else noticed that toggling QuickNav on or off doesn’t reliably work if you’re on a Web page? My workaround has been to enable Keyboard Comander and map the QuickNav toggle to Right Option+Q, but I wondered if I was just

Re: Alex for the Mac and Correctness of Pronunciation

Thanks very much to all who have responded to my request for help. Shaun and Alex, I typically run my Mac OS voices at around 50 percent. Sometimes, the faults I perceive are accentuated if I run them at a rate under 50%. Nicolai, here are a couple of examples which demonstrate the kind of

Re: Alex for the Mac and Correctness of Pronunciation

Using Alex on 10.11.2 at 70%, I noticed no problems in your examples. However, my rate is fast enough that picking out a D sound versus a hard G sound at the end of a word is impossible; my brain hears what it expects at the end of 'regards'. In the first example, though, I heard 'department'

Re: [Bulk] still no new message sound in Mail

Thank you for your thoughtfulness, Katie, in reviving this thread. I don't know if this elusive bug, which seems only to have affected a minority of users, ever made it to the top of Apple's bug list, but I'm glad the bug has been squashed for you. Craig On 12/10/15, Katie Zodrow

Airdrop from Mac to Ios Device

Dear List, I want to airdrop a file from my mac to an Ios device. I can see my mac as an airdrop recipient under share on my phone, but when I open the airdrop folder in finder it just gives me a grid with my name in it, and no phone. Could some kind soul run me through the steps when

Re: I gave up on my Apple watch.

Well, I know who would want an Apple Watch. He would pay hundred pounds for it so, if you want to sell, let me know and I will put you in touch! Sent from my iPhone > On 11 Dec 2015, at 9:30 am, Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote: > > My concerns are more for functionality than

Re: I gave up on my Apple watch.

Chris, I did not think that model was defective. I just thought that it was normal. It didn't do it all the time, so, I just thought it was normal. As I said, I have very few holidays left so, I don't always have the time to ring up companies and so want to get things sorted out Sent from my

Re: el capitan upgrade pod cast

The problem with this approach is that each time an update is released, you have to recreate the install in order to keep it up to date. Using the recovery method, though it takes longer, always installs the newest operating system right away. Original message: You could always download El

Re: Alex for the Mac and Correctness of Pronunciation

Yeah, Alex voice does have rhythm and pronunciation inconsistencies but I notice different ones with different voices and still find all these voices too human sounding and a little bit too slow for my taste. But they're not going to get a DoubleTalk LT style voice for OS X and iOS any time

Re: Download Progress

I second this question. I find trying to find an item with the percentage to be very! and I do mean, very! unreliable. Chris. - Original Message - From: "E.T." To: "MacVisionaries" Sent: Friday, December 11, 2015 6:25 PM

Seeking help with opening Safari iCloud tabs

I want to access tabs that are open on my iPhone with Safari on my Mac. In the toolbar I find the show all tabs button. Activating this button does indeed present a scroll area showing the tabs open on my phone. The problem is that I can’t activate the desired tab on my Mac. I’ve tried VO

Re: Alex for the Mac and Correctness of Pronunciation

Alex, you said something potentially helpful. Referring to my perceived mispronunciation of the end of "regards," you wrote: "my brain hears what it expects at the end of 'regards'. " It may well be that I am not sufficiently tuned into Alex's accent to allow my brain to make the proper closure.

Re: el capitan upgrade pod cast

Mike. I am waiting on my disk maker to finish making the biotin lie sd card for my iMac man it takes a wile. I started the prodded at 2:30 and it is still coping installer files. Great podcast. Matthew Sent from my iPod > On Dec 10, 2015, at 2:11 PM, Mike Arrigo wrote:

Re: Indenting Code

I program mostly in Python, so yes, for me this is non-optional. I found an applescript to check the indentation of a line. Unfortunately, it has to be invoked through keyboard commander. The page about the script is in Spanish, if you don’t speak Spanish just find the link labeled “script de

Download Progress

When downloading large files from the app store, how does one get the progress update? I find the button on the toolbar but it tells me nothing. From E.T.'s Keyboard... ancient.ali...@icloud.com Many believe that we have been visited in the past. What if it were true? -- The following

Re: Indenting Code

Thanks! Yes, I’m usually careful, but this should be useful. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the

Re: renaming a table in numbers?

Nice, I found it via the lovely google, copied it to my scripts folder, set option R to run the script with keyboard commander, and it works like crazy. Thank you for the tip. Erik Burggraaf > On Dec 9, 2015, at 6:06 PM, Phil Halton wrote: > > Eric, there is an apple

Re: Download Progress

It starts with the fact that there’s no indication at all of the size of the download before you download; the only way you know is once you have started. Then you find the information you’re looking for in the Purchases tab, or on the Dock item of the Launchpad app if that is on your dock

Re: Download Progress

Interesting. Well what I am trying to do is download the latest El Cap and make the bootable thumb drive with it. I downloaded the 11.1 version but now I cannot seem to get the 11.2 version. From E.T.'s Keyboard... ancient.ali...@icloud.com Many believe that we have been visited in the

Help.i think i did something to my mac hd.

Hi all. Today i tried to do aclean install of el capitan and after eracing the drive, i was unable to do so. I was was told that could not unmount disk i was able to format the macintosh hd partition oddly enough. The partition was only 2.67 gb or something around there. Any idea on what

Re: el capitan upgrade pod cast

It would be nice if that were the case, but, unless Apple has changed things, each operating system has its own recovery installer, that's why the upgrade has to be installed first. Original message: Hi Mike, I was under the impression that if re-installing the OS from the recovery

Re: I gave up on my Apple watch.

Hi, I have the sports model of the watch. sometimes, but not all the time, mine comes on if a sleeve touches it. It happens in particular with one of my coats. I also have raise to talk turned off, because that’s totally annoying to me as well, having it talk every time I move my arm!!

Wake Screen Timer Bug, Revisited

Hi guys, If you upgraded to iOS 9.2, can you say whether that silly wake screen timer bug has been dealt with yet? This is the bug where, once the screen wakes, it remains awake even though the device is not unlocked. On my iPod Touch, the update seems to have done the ticket, but on my

Re: Arrowing around the screen under El Capiten

I'm assuming he's already turned VO off and back on, restarted the computer, and--just because--reset his VO preferences? Those are the three steps that come to mind, though the last one may be unnecessary and may not help. I've never had a problem like that, so never had to reset my

Re: why 'clicking the X' doesn't close an app to VoiceOver?

The indicator light (a small dot) is on the dock item if OS X is told to show in in System Preferences. It’s the default. That’s the only way to know if the app is still open, unless you look carefully at the menu bar (which, in case you didn’t know, is shared between every app on the system

Re: el capitan upgrade pod cast

You could always download El Capitan from the app store, then use createinstallmedia (in the resources folder) to create a USB installer. Then boot from that and install. Bill > On Dec 11, 2015, at 12:54 PM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote: > > Nice work, Mike. > > As you

Re: el capitan upgrade pod cast

That’s true, but this of course requires you repeat that for every little update. The advantage of the recovery method is that the stick you build should be very stable. If only every Mac on a network could cache software from Apple, and replicate the cache content to other Macs. Just like

Re: el capitan upgrade pod cast

Nice work, Mike. As you discovered, the Erase function of Disk Utility now allows you to choose the partition scheme. The Partition function allows you to partition disks. I love the idea of using the Recovery HD from a USB drive, and I’m glad to see that the Recovery Disk Assistant still

Indenting Code

Hi to those who code outside IDEs. Apart from just using EmacsSpeak or braille, both of which I would find to be acceptable solutions BTW, does anybody have a strategy for getting VO to announce indentation of code? The actual text editing isn’t the problem; just the indenting. Some people

Re: Problem with VoiceOver looping using Safari on el Capitan

The “Repeat until death” bug (that’s what I’m calling it, anyway) is, of course, also present in the official 10.11.2 build. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you

Re: syncing music

Briefly, you will need to make sure your music is in your iTunes library. You can tell iTunes where your stuff is by pointing to it with File > Add To Library. Depending on your settings, all your stuff gets copied into your iTunes “Media Folder”. Once you are satisfied that all the data for

Re: Partitions

As always, the remedy under El Cap for the moment is Terminal and the (quite straightforward) diskutil tool. However, are you sure this actually requires partitions? Is it not a feature of both CCC and SuperDuper that one can host the Backups.db directory and live filesystem on the same

Arrowing around the screen under El Capiten

Hello everyone, I am trying to help a blind friend who is using El Capiten. He is a relatively new Mac user. He told me that before upgrading to El Capiten, he could arrow or cursor around documents and e-mails a character at a time, just using the right and left arrow keys. When I told him

Re: Toggling QuickNav in websites

Yes to both. For the first one, hit the control key right before toggling Quick Nav, and it works. The second, I'm careful to vo-arrow with the control and option keys, or just tab, when I know I'm near a password field. Passwords seem to be the problem. > On Dec 11, 2015, at 11:39, Chris

Re: Arrowing around the screen under El Capiten

You have enabled quick nav. Press left and right arrows together to disable. Bill > On Dec 11, 2015, at 1:33 PM, Mike Busboom wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > I am trying to help a blind friend who is using El Capiten. He is a > relatively new Mac user. He told me that

MathML and VOiceOver?

Hello, I’m running OS X 10.11.2. It seems that when VoiceOver encounters MathMl on a page, say all behaves unexpectedly. Steps to reproduce: 1. GO to http://enwp.org/special:preferences 2. Click the appearance tab. 3. In The math section, select "MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for

Re: Arrowing around the screen under El Capiten

This should already work, no matter your OS version. Be sure Quick Nav is off, or you might run into problems. > On Dec 11, 2015, at 13:33, Mike Busboom wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > I am trying to help a blind friend who is using El Capiten. He is a > relatively new Mac

Re: I gave up on my Apple watch.

Hate to say it, but I totally 100% agree with George. Chris. - Original Message - From: george b To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2015 5:36 PM Subject: RE: I gave up on my Apple watch. Well in reading this email. I think if you would of

Re: I gave up on my Apple watch.

And, you never thought about checking to see if you had a defected model which could have been replaced? Chris. - Original Message - From: Kawal Gucukoglu To: Macvisionaries Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2015 5:13 PM Subject: Re: I gave up on my Apple watch. First day

Re: Alex for the Mac and Correctness of Pronunciation

thir, tee, five, per, cent, is, w'w'w'way, too, suh, low'w'w for, my, ligh, king! Seriously, I have had no issues either, and I run mine at about 70 to 75. Chris. - Original Message - From: "Shawn Krasniuk" To: Sent:

Re: I gave up on my Apple watch.

You wrote: I did not like to share this with the list, just in case someone thought that I was being stupid. Firstly, you're not stupid. The only dumb question is the one not asked. Chris. - Original Message - From: Kawal Gucukoglu To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent:

Re: Arrowing around the screen under El Capiten

Thanks for the responses. I followed your instructions and it worked perfectly. Thinking that this might be the solution for my friend, I called him and listened as he tried to achieve the same result. No cigar! I think that his Mac may be having some problems, because when he arrowed