Learning Ally

Grant, Chris and all, You have reawakened my interest in RFB, which is my oldtimer's name for Learning Ally! Thanks tons for this tip about the Security and Privacy tab. One thing that we must now do is to make the company know full well that they must not get rid of this piece of software.

Re: Apple's headphone scam

Hi! Frankly i don’t see the meaning in getting so upset in this. Maybe in 20 years you have your headphones built-in to your brain and pair yourself with the iphone or what it now is. I am not worrid at all just curious. /A > On 20 Jan 2016, at 23:21, Scott Granados wrote: >

Re: Apple's headphone scam

Hi! Yes thats true. I guess i am one of those audiophiles out there who just wants good quality. But to be honest i can not hear whether bluetooth or airplay has some differences. Nor can i hear differences from apple music and spotify. But as long as the sound fits my need i am happy. Hope this

RE: Very! very! very very sluggish Voiceover

Hello Chris, No, I am noticing no additional sluggishness after going from 9.2 to 9.2.1 on my 6 Plus. Mark -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Chris Gilland Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2016 6:24 PM To: 'Chris

RE: Headphone bug still exists on the I phone.

Hello Thuy, This sounds like a great workaround. Although I have not had to use it, I will definitely file it for the future. Thank you for posting. Mark From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Thuy Mallalieu Sent: Sunday, January 24,

Re: Link to Simplyburns?

Lovely! Error 404. We can’t find the file. That’s pretty. LOL! Just kidding. Chris. > On Jan 24, 2016, at 9:17 PM, erik burggraaf wrote: > > Well, I have a direct link. It may not be "the" direct link, but since it's > been so long that I forget where I got it

Re: Link to Simplyburns?

It might take a few minutes to wend it's way up to the cloud. My internet is slow. Best, Erik Burggraaf > On Jan 24, 2016, at 9:19 PM, Chris Gilland wrote: > > Lovely! Error 404. We can’t find the file. > > That’s pretty. LOL! Just kidding. > > Chris. > >> On

Re: Very! very! very very sluggish Voiceover

Very strange. It’s almost like a memory leakage. I guess I’ll have to look more into what the heck is causing this, then. Anyway, thanks for the confirmation. Chris. > On Jan 24, 2016, at 9:37 PM, M. Taylor wrote: > > Hello Chris, > > No, I am noticing no additional

Re: Very! very! very very sluggish Voiceover

I have not seen this problem. Although, I have a 6+ S. Sent from my iPhone > On 25 Jan 2016, at 4:05 am, E.T. wrote: > > I see. It was not clear. No I have not seen this myself. > > From E.T.'s Keyboard... > ancient.ali...@icloud.com > Many believe that we have

Re: Very! very! very very sluggish Voiceover

Speech rate? From E.T.'s Keyboard... ancient.ali...@icloud.com Many believe that we have been visited in the past. What if it were true? On 1/24/2016 6:23 PM, Chris Gilland wrote: Is it just me, or has anyone noticed that with the latest I O S update, and no, I’m not speaking of a beta.

Re: Headphone bug still exists on the I phone.

Thanks very very much. I will try this later today. Didn't know about that option in access ability. Again, I am grateful Thuy. Sent from my iPhone > On 24 Jan 2016, at 9:33 pm, Thuy Mallalieu wrote: > > Hi Kawal. One workaround for this is to go into >

Re: Braille on the Mac

Thanks Erick. We have a braille, but she needs to transmit it electronically...The search continues... Thx, Jeff > On Jan 24, 2016, at 11:13 AM, erik burggraaf wrote: > > Well, no but neither would perkyduck. They're just keyboards. That would be > great for her

Re: Link to Simplyburns?

Well, I have a direct link. It may not be "the" direct link, but since it's been so long that I forget where I got it exactly, try this. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1291668/SimplyBurns.zip Ejjoy, Erik Burggraaf > On Jan

RE: Headphone bug still exists on the I phone.

Hello Kawal, E.T., and Everyone, Perhaps this is a brand-specific bug? I have absolutely no problem making, receiving, or switching between telephone calls using my Plantronics Voyager Edge Bluetooth earpiece. I am running iOS 9.2.1 on an iPhone 6 Plus. Also, I have checked with a couple

Re: Link to Simplyburns?

OK, that must have been it then. I tried again, and this time, it worked. Thank you. I very much appreciate you uploading that for me. Chris. > On Jan 24, 2016, at 9:29 PM, erik burggraaf wrote: > > It might take a few minutes to wend it's way up to the cloud. My

Re: Link to Simplyburns?

what is simply burns? On 1/24/2016 8:33 PM, Chris Gilland wrote: OK, that must have been it then. I tried again, and this time, it worked. Thank you. I very much appreciate you uploading that for me. Chris. On Jan 24, 2016, at 9:29 PM, erik burggraaf

Re: Very! very! very very sluggish Voiceover

I see. It was not clear. No I have not seen this myself. From E.T.'s Keyboard... ancient.ali...@icloud.com Many believe that we have been visited in the past. What if it were true? On 1/24/2016 7:58 PM, Chris Gilland wrote: What about the speech rate. That's not the issue. When

Re: Link to Simplyburns?

It's a very old but fully accessible and fully featured cd writing program for times when you want to do something not covered by finder. I don't burn cd's that much any more, but it still serves me very well for the odd time. Best, Erik Erik Burggraaf > On Jan 24, 2016, at 10:58 PM,

Link to Simplyburns?

Would anyone happen to have a direct download link to the Simplyburns app for the mac? I’ve tried to Google it, but every time I do, it keeps trying to direct me back to Softpedia which I don’t want to use. Last time I did, I got quite a bit of malware. Before anyone asks, no. It’s not in

Very! very! very very sluggish Voiceover

Is it just me, or has anyone noticed that with the latest I O S update, and no, I’m not speaking of a beta. This is completely with the official latest build, that Voiceover gets ridiculously ridiculously sluggish? I’ve not tested all the voices, but at least with the high quality female Siri

Re: Very! very! very very sluggish Voiceover

What about the speech rate. That's not the issue. When Voiceover speaks, it's fine. It just takes forever when moving around the screen for VO to catch up. It's seeming to gradually be improving, but it's still not great. Chris. > On Jan 24, 2016, at 9:56 PM, E.T.

I know I've discussed this previously

Hi all! I know I've discussed this previously but I need help with pages templates. I have not really pursued this till now but I am going to need to create and use templates in pages to get some work done. If I go to pages and open a template, let's say business envelope, I see things that say

Re: Frustration with AccessNote

It is by Voice Dream and is called writer. There is reader and writer. A great software package. > On Jan 23, 2016, at 1:34 PM, Basioli George wrote: > > i went there and put in writer in the search field and found nothing like > that. > > by the way i did this before

Re: How to stop automatic downloads of IOS updates?

Surrender. Just choose to “Install tonight”. It’ll update, but now you don’t have to be there to watch it happen, and get all angry about it. It’ll all be over when you next look. Apple wins. Again. The license agreement shows up just before it commences the install, so presumably you’ll

Re: Connecting external mic

Did you visit System Preferences, Sound, Input tab, and make sure that the audio is set for use as Line In? Obviously, the audio output from the mic will need to be good enough for you to hear it if you’re going to use VO during this process. But once it’s done, now you should have

Re: Very! very! very very sluggish Voiceover

If restarting the phone normally and leaving it overnight doesn’t work, just force reset it (Home+Power for 10 seconds). That should kick Spotlight into obedience. Sometimes it happens that the mds process gets seriously stuck and consumes 100% CPU. Give it a shot. -- The following

Re: Clean Install or Not

I’m surprised that Time Machine wasn’t more vocal about the fact that it couldn’t connect to the resource. Is it a notebook? It’s usually quite persistent when things go wrong, but perhaps it was just hoping you’d reconnect to the relevant network so it could resume at some point. -- The

Re: I know I've discussed this previously

Hello Jim, I almost didn’t read your message because the subject line did not reference Pages. If your needs aren’t very urgent, my husband and I have a book coming out fairly soon on Pages with VoiceOver and it will answer all your questions. There are problems currently with placeholder

Re: VMWare version for latest macbook pro

Hi, Version 8 is the latest version should work for you. Matthew On 01/23/2016 04:48 PM, Tony wrote: > Hi, I’d like to run Windows 7 with Jaws 14 on a macbook pro and need to > get the correct version of VMWare, as there are a few to choose from. > > Thanks. > > > > Tony Santiago > >

Re: Braille on the Mac

Well, no but neither would perkyduck. They're just keyboards. That would be great for her own practice, but wouldn't give her visual representations of dots. Duxbury would automatically translate to braille on windows. Louis or Brailleblaster would do on mac, but that would be kind'a

Re: How to stop automatic downloads of IOS updates?

Hi Anders, My iPod behaves the same way. the thing is that even if you update manually, the update is still downloaded, whether or not you decide to install it. the download is what my friend wanted to stop, because it was eating through his data. Cheers, Donna > On Jan 24, 2016, at 9:57 AM,

Re: Braille on the Mac

Will that allow her to share the Braille file for marking? I think it has to be the actual braille so they can mark her proficiency. > On Jan 23, 2016, at 3:06 PM, Erik Burggraaf wrote: > > Hi jeff,, > > Perkyduck is just a braille keyboard. If that's all she needs,

Re: How to stop automatic downloads of IOS updates?

Hi! Actually my Iphone was updated without my knowledge but my Ipod Touch 5th gen was Updated by me. Not fun at all as there are glitches with this update too. /A > On 21 Jan 2016, at 05:44, Grant wrote: > > Hey Donna, > > My bad. I did miss the fact that your friend is

Re: Question about Learning Alley L A Book Manager

I have not been following this thread entirely, but this setting is now in the Security and Privacy preferences of System Preferences in the Privacy tab. You have to enable Assistive devices there. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email,

Re: Question about Learning Alley L A Book Manager

I wish I’d gotten help a bit sooner, admittedly, but that said, yes, Grant did direct me to that very place in his e-mail. Things are absolutely working perfectly now! I just hope that they’re not going to do away with the Book Manager on the mac side of things like they clamed they were

Re: Question about Learning Alley L A Book Manager

Normally, yes, I’d agree. The only reason I don’t agree with you in this one case is, I think it’s needing to somehow grab API’s from both Voiceover and from, most likely, Apple Script. It can’t do that though being those are different components than what are built into the app to start

Re: Clean Install or Not

Me too! Its a Macbook Pro. Normally I do not see anything because its on auto pilot. But the last step I took, or so I thought, was to manually start a backup. Well, it just made more work for me after I had spent time updating apps and cleaning house. From E.T.'s Keyboard...

Re: Headphone bug still exists on the I phone.

Kawal, If you mean the Bluetooth connection is lost when a call is made, yeah. I was not even aware it was a bug for I kept forgetting to look into it. Is it still present in cersion 9.2.1? I am afraid to try it. Its time to send a note to Apple and remind them. I will do that right now.

Re: Question about Learning Alley L A Book Manager

This was a change made in Yosemite announced in summer 2014. It is inexcusable that there is not at least a daw listing this change. I also consider this a security risk that this needs to be enabled. Jonathan Cohn > On Jan 7, 2016, at 3:59 PM, Sharon Hooley wrote: >

Re: Learning Ally

Ben wrote: One thing that we must now do is to make the company know full well that they must not get rid of this piece of software. All that they need to do is to update their documentation I agree with you, Ben, 100%! Chris. -- The following information is important for all members of the

Re: Question about Learning Alley L A Book Manager

I thought I remember back in those early days that it was recommended to turn that preference on if you were going to use VO. I think some of that kind of thing might come down to a copyright thing to make sure that only blind people can use the app. If they use the api's directly instead of

Re: Question about Learning Alley L A Book Manager

I was gonna say. If they don’t have a login, then how could they use the app anyway? Setting configured or not? Chris. > On Jan 24, 2016, at 2:10 PM, Brent Harding wrote: > > I thought I remember back in those early days that it was recommended to turn > that preference

Re: Question about Learning Alley L A Book Manager

I don’t think this preference has to do with VO, despite being labelled as “accessibility”. In fact, I don’t believe it has anything to do with whether or not an app is going to be accessible, or with what we normally consider to be “accessibility features". I think this setting simply

Re: Connecting external mic

Wow, this is so lame!!! apple does so much to make their devices media friendly, and then makes the input/output jack virtually useless for anything other than their own headphones. According to the Google gnomes, the only way I'm going to record on my MBA is to get a USB sound card or Mic.

Re: Game tonight?

> I don't know of anything that sort. If they had put tuna in radio on to the > Apple TV for, that would be bloody amazing. On Jan 24, 2016, at 13:30, Chris > Gilland wrote: > > Does anyone know if there are any apps for my Apple TV 4 that I can get which > will be

Re: Game tonight?

Yeah, I’m not aware of anything either, Ben. Anyway, now I’ve just gotta figure out what network on the radio down here is coverring it, as I don’t think WBT will. Anyway, that’s for a discussion not on this list. LOL! GRR! Go? Panthers! Chris. > On Jan 24, 2016, at 5:09 PM, ben J.

Re: Game tonight?

ESPN Radio or if you have a WFAN affiliate have been the ones covering the radio broadcasts of the playoff games. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT

Game tonight?

Does anyone know if there are any apps for my Apple TV 4 that I can get which will be broadcasting the Panthers vs. Cardinals game tonight? I really don’t care to pay for any type of premium membership. I’m just wanting to watch this particular game. Yeah, I could get it on cable, but

Re: How to stop automatic downloads of IOS updates?

Hello. I have been thinking about this thread as I was talking to a friend who is on this list earlier on as he was helping me with my Draytech 330. So my thought was you could not agree to the terms and conditions and then that may stop automatic download. Kawal. > On 24 Jan 2016, at 17:09,

Re: Headphone bug still exists on the I phone.

Yes, the but is still there. I tried it after the latest update. Thanks for reporting it if you have. Kawal. > On 24 Jan 2016, at 18:30, E.T. wrote: > > Kawal, > If you mean the Bluetooth connection is lost when a call is made, yeah. I > was not even aware it was

Re: trying to use an external microphone with my MBA for the first time

Basic question, but did you try restarting the machine after connecting it? Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL and Trainer AUTHORIZED APPLE

Re: Connecting external mic

I’m not sure. I think it might depend on the Mac model and the type of microphone, but I am far from an audio expert. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT

Re: Connecting external mic

Strange. I just tried it with a second mic. That one had separate jacks for input and output. When I plug in the output jack, everything behaves as expected and the sound from the mac is routed through the headphones. But when I plug in the input jack, I have the same problem as before.

Re: Connecting external mic

Hi, I'm not exactly sure of the details but the 3.5 audio jack on Mac computers is different from other types of headsets. I think it may have to do with the audio controls on the Apple headsets. Marshall > On Jan 24, 2016, at 2:36 PM, Donna Goodin wrote: > > Strange. I

trying to use an external microphone with my MBA for the first time

Hi all, I'm trying to connect an external mic to my MBA. When the mic is connected, the MBA seems to be trying to route the output through the mic, but not recognizing it as an input source. When I select the input tab in System Prefs, the only option I see is the internal mic. Anyone know

Re: trying to use an external microphone with my MBA for the first time

No, didn't know I had to. I'll give that a try. Thanks, Donna > On Jan 24, 2016, at 3:04 PM, John Panarese wrote: > > Basic question, but did you try restarting the machine after connecting it? > > > Take Care > > John D. Panarese > Director > Mac for the Blind >

Re: How to stop automatic downloads of IOS updates?

That's an interesting idea. So if you just caught it at the first announcement of the update and refused the terms, would it prevent the automatic download? It seems like that might actually work. I'll suggest that my friend give it a try and report back. That's a very creative solution! :)

Connecting external mic

OK, I just tried restarting the Mac, still no joy. Donna -- 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 owners

Re: Connecting external mic

What kind is it? Is it USB? Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL and Trainer AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE MAC and iOS VOICEOVER

Re: Connecting external mic

No, it connects through the headphone jack. Does it have to be USB? Donna > On Jan 24, 2016, at 3:27 PM, John Panarese wrote: > > What kind is it? Is it USB? > > > Take Care > > John D. Panarese > Director > Mac for the Blind > Tel, (631) 724-4479 > Email,

Re: Headphone bug still exists on the I phone.

Hi Kawal. One workaround for this is to go into settings/general/accessibility/call audio routing and setting it to bluetooth rather than auto. If you don't have the bluetooth headset switched on, the audio still goes through the phone's earpiece as usual, but if the bluetooth headset is on,

Re: Connecting external mic

Yes, there is something about how specific Mac models handle audio input. You might need to call upon the Google search gnomes to research this. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com

Re: Game tonight?

I’d assume that ESPN Radio’s not available for Apple TV4 though, or is it? Chris. > On Jan 24, 2016, at 5:17 PM, John Panarese wrote: > > ESPN Radio or if you have a WFAN affiliate have been the ones covering the > radio broadcasts of the playoff games. > > > Take

RE: Game tonight?

Hey Chris. If I want to watch sports which I rarely do seeing as how I have Sirius XM, I go to this website: www.goatd.net. I can find almost anything there from sports to even Pay Per View events. It may not work on your Apple TV because it uses flash but you can definitely give it a shot on

Re: Question about Learning Alley L A Book Manager

This is essentially correct. I would expect that Learning Ally wrote their program in Java or another cross platform language. And then discovered it didn't play nice with VoiceOver so a controller program was written with UI scripting my concerns are if this often cross platform tools have

Re: Game tonight?

Hi Chris, I think there might be, but I was talking about regular radio. I just got my Apple TV 4th Gen and am learning my way round what is available. Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website,

The Yelp web site is not playing well with voiceover & safari

As of Saturday, the yelp web site is not playing well with voiceover & safari. When you reach the word “find” while exploring the site, safari hangs up & goes into busy mode. I checked with apple support, & they confirmed that the problem was on yelp’s site. Perhaps a bunch of us need to