Re: App to make the solar eclipse accessible

[Donna Goodin]

Hi Simon,

This is a very fun story about a small town in the U.S. that suddenly finds 
itself in the limelight.  As best i understand it, the longest duration of the 
eclipse is in a small town in Illinois where many of my in-laws live, and where 
my husband and I lived till this past April.  Truth be told, this has been a 
rough weekend.  I'm sad I'm not there.  The  university is closed Monday, and 
there are lots of parties that we would be attending if we still lived there.

http://eclipse.siu.edu 
Donna
,
Donna
> On Aug 19, 2017, at 4:57 PM, Simon Fogarty  wrote:
> 
> Hi Janina,
> 
> Yes it was a story on our evening news tv show last night.
> 
> The town in Oregon that is the centre of the eclipse  has a population of 
> approx. 6500 people but they are expecting 25 to arrive over the next day 
> or so to watch the eclipse 
> 
> 
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries 
> [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] 
> Sent: Sunday, 20 August 2017 6:55 AM
> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
> Subject: Re: App to make the solar eclipse accessible
> 
> Simon,
> 
> Where I live just outside Washington, DC, it will approximately 80%.
> It's full further west in the U.S. Hotels out west are full. People are 
> sleeping in their cars, I imagine! 
> 
> Janina
> 
> Simon Fogarty writes:
>> I didn't know there was to be a solar eclipse this year?
>> 
>> So is it a full one for you folks in the northern hemisphere or only partial?
>> 
>> And besides I'm sure this type of thing happens every day, Or at least 
>> night, I believe what happens is the earth gets in front of the sun so that 
>> the side of the earth furtherest away from the sun is eclipsed from seeing 
>> it,  and it gets very dark on that furtherest away side.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -Original Message-
>> From: 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries 
>> [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com]
>> Sent: Saturday, 19 August 2017 9:40 AM
>> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
>> Subject: App to make the solar eclipse accessible
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> People living anywhere proximate to the coming solar eclipse might want to 
>> look into a special app intended to help blind and visually impaired people 
>> experience this upcoming celestial event:
>> 
>> https://www.space.com/37746-solar-eclipse-experience-for-visually-impa
>> ired.html
>> 
>> The app, Eclipse Soundscape, may well be available via Itunes Appstore.
>> I haven't checked, though.
>> 
>> Enjoy!
>> 
>> Janina
>> 
>> 
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Re: App to make the solar eclipse accessible

['Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries]

Hi, Chuck:

My not quite so perfect pitch was ruined years ago from playing Bb
instruments. Actually, it was really ruined during the year I spent
playing a Sousaphone which is pitched Bb, but scored in C. Every since,
I need a reference note! 

I'm with you on the Big Banger, though. The cosmologists who don't like
that implication have been falling all over themselves inventing every
more fantastic theories to avoid that conclusion, all without the
tiniest shred of evidence. Now, I ask you, who's relying on myths?

Janina

CHUCK REICHEL writes:
> Hi Janina,
> good observation. :)
> any body for the "a 432" tuning out there?
> My wife has switched to the a 432 tuning & it is so much more healing!
> As for the big bang radiation.
> Behind the big bang is the ultimate big banger! :)
> Nothing from nothing = nothing!
> GOD for U is the Creator of the engineers that produced Apple!
> C.R.
> 
> 
> 
> On Aug 19, 2017, at 2:52 PM, 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries wrote:
> 
> > Great points, Scott. I would add only that it was sound that tipped off
> > the discovery of the Big Bang. Everywhere Penzias and Wilson pointed
> > their radio telescopes they found the same background noise pattern,
> > which pointed to the same background em radiation:
> > 
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_of_cosmic_microwave_background_radiation
> > 
> > 
> > I find this fact particularly important to convey to blind children who
> > should know their ears alone could just discover something really, really
> > important.
> > 
> > There's, of course, no sound in space, as we humans know sound. But the
> > vibrations discoverable throughout the univers can certainly be mapped.
> > Make good musical choices in those mappings and you would indeed get
> > something quite hauntingly beautiful. So, Scott, please post some links!
> > 
> > Janina
> > 
> > Scott Granados writes:
> >> This topic came up on an Apple list as well and I’d just like to bring to 
> >> the attention of our group here all the wonderful sounds from space that 
> >> are available.  An audio representation of the eclipse is a great idea but 
> >> have you ever heard the sound of the rings of Saturn?  How about the 
> >> Northern and Southern lights?  The sounds of pulsars are startling in 
> >> their almost artificial sound and yes it’s totally possible to hear the 
> >> echoes of the Big Bang from the microwave spectrum.  As a young child I 
> >> remember being under attack by all sorts of invisible man in the sky 
> >> believers and to counter this my parents encouraged me to learn about 
> >> Science.  I befriended a local science teacher who taught me astronomy (I 
> >> was about 9 years old at the time) and also a fellow from the local phone 
> >> company who taught me electronics where my father’s abilities left off.  I 
> >> mention this here because one of the first things I did was scrounge up a 
> >> huge dish from an old satellite ground station and modify it to become a 
> >> small radio telescope in my back yard.  One of the first things I picked 
> >> up was the Smoot radiation from the big bang and actually hearing the 
> >> echoes of the creation of the universe hooked me for life. I then started 
> >> to write software on an old Apple 2E to decode that radiation and generate 
> >> both numeric and visual representations of the background radiation which 
> >> could paint a picture of how the massive ripples of the expansion of space 
> >> and time echoed across over 13.5 billion years.  It’s such a good way for 
> >> a blind person, especially children to connect with the wonders of nature 
> >> and science which sometimes can be painfully visual.   If there’s any 
> >> interest and nobody objects about it being off topic I would be happy to 
> >> post links to some of this audio and big thanks to Janina for pointing 
> >> this out.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >>> On Aug 18, 2017, at 5:40 PM, 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries 
> >>>  wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> Hi,
> >>> 
> >>> People living anywhere proximate to the coming solar eclipse might want
> >>> to look into a special app intended to help blind and visually impaired
> >>> people experience this upcoming celestial event:
> >>> 
> >>> https://www.space.com/37746-solar-eclipse-experience-for-visually-impaired.html
> >>> 
> >>> The app, Eclipse Soundscape, may well be available via Itunes Appstore.
> >>> I haven't checked, though.
> >>> 
> >>> Enjoy!
> >>> 
> >>> Janina
> >>> 
> >>> 
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Re: App to make the solar eclipse accessible

[E.T.]

   The path of totality starts in Oregon and goes through South Carolina.

From E.T.'s Keyboard. . .
  "God for you is where you sweep away all the
  mysteries of the world, all the challenges to
  our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off
  and say God did it." --Carl Sagan
E-mail: ancient.ali...@icloud.com

On 8/19/2017 11:55 AM, 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries wrote:

Simon,

Where I live just outside Washington, DC, it will approximately 80%.
It's full further west in the U.S. Hotels out west are full. People are
sleeping in their cars, I imagine! 

Janina

Simon Fogarty writes:

I didn't know there was to be a solar eclipse this year?

 So is it a full one for you folks in the northern hemisphere or only partial?

And besides I'm sure this type of thing happens every day,
Or at least night, I believe what happens is the earth gets in front of the sun 
so that the side of the earth furtherest away from the sun is eclipsed from 
seeing it,  and it gets very dark on that furtherest away side.



-Original Message-
From: 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com]
Sent: Saturday, 19 August 2017 9:40 AM
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: App to make the solar eclipse accessible

Hi,

People living anywhere proximate to the coming solar eclipse might want to look 
into a special app intended to help blind and visually impaired people 
experience this upcoming celestial event:

https://www.space.com/37746-solar-eclipse-experience-for-visually-impaired.html

The app, Eclipse Soundscape, may well be available via Itunes Appstore.
I haven't checked, though.

Enjoy!

Janina


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RE: App to make the solar eclipse accessible

[Simon Fogarty]

Hi Janina,

Yes it was a story on our evening news tv show last night.

The town in Oregon that is the centre of the eclipse  has a population of 
approx. 6500 people but they are expecting 25 to arrive over the next day 
or so to watch the eclipse 

 

-Original Message-
From: 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries 
[mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] 
Sent: Sunday, 20 August 2017 6:55 AM
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: App to make the solar eclipse accessible

Simon,

Where I live just outside Washington, DC, it will approximately 80%.
It's full further west in the U.S. Hotels out west are full. People are 
sleeping in their cars, I imagine! 

Janina

Simon Fogarty writes:
> I didn't know there was to be a solar eclipse this year?
> 
>  So is it a full one for you folks in the northern hemisphere or only partial?
> 
> And besides I'm sure this type of thing happens every day, Or at least 
> night, I believe what happens is the earth gets in front of the sun so that 
> the side of the earth furtherest away from the sun is eclipsed from seeing 
> it,  and it gets very dark on that furtherest away side.
> 
> 
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries 
> [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com]
> Sent: Saturday, 19 August 2017 9:40 AM
> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
> Subject: App to make the solar eclipse accessible
> 
> Hi,
> 
> People living anywhere proximate to the coming solar eclipse might want to 
> look into a special app intended to help blind and visually impaired people 
> experience this upcoming celestial event:
> 
> https://www.space.com/37746-solar-eclipse-experience-for-visually-impa
> ired.html
> 
> The app, Eclipse Soundscape, may well be available via Itunes Appstore.
> I haven't checked, though.
> 
> Enjoy!
> 
> Janina
> 
> 
> --
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> Janina Sajka, Phone:  +1.443.300.2200
>   sip:jan...@asterisk.rednote.net
>   Email:  jan...@rednote.net
> 
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Re: VMware fusion and focus blue connection issue

[Andrew Lamanche]

Hello Otto,

What version of Jaws are you running?  Have you been able to solve your problem 
yet?

Best wishes

Andrew
> On 19 Aug 2017, at 12:18, Otto Hylli  wrote:
> 
> Hello Andrew
> Thanks for your suggestion. Unfortunately it did not help in my case. Seems 
> that my problem is different from yours since I had no issues with pairing 
> the focus with Windows but after that Jaws simply doesn’t connect to the 
> display for some reason. However thanks to your message I now know that this 
> should be possible.
> 
>> Andrew Lamanche > kirjoitti 
>> 14.8.2017 kello 17.05:
>> 
>> Hello Otto,
>> 
>> I have recently had to pair my Focus blue with Windows 10 which I run in 
>> vmware fusion.  I had quite a bit of a problem making Focus work  but 
>> eaventually succeeded.  I had to go to bluetooth advanced options in 
>> settings in windows 10 and check the box which allows my pc to be 
>> discoverable to other bluetooth devices. It would appear that whilst my 
>> computer was seeing my focus, my focus wasn't seeing my computer, and" that 
>> was the problem. Only then was I able to enter the default pairing code 
>> which is  and then everything went smoothly.  Hope this will help.
>> 
>> Andrew
>>> On 14 Aug 2017, at 14:36, Otto Hylli >> > wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hello Michelle
>>> Thank you for your suggestion. Unfortunately it did not help. The driver 
>>> installed successfully and I went through the whole focus blue setup 
>>> process starting withpairing it with Windows and then adding it to Jaws 
>>> as a braille display but Jaws was not able to connect to it. I am using 
>>> Jaws 17 which I forgot to mention in my previous email. I also forgot to 
>>> say that I of course added the focus to jaws’ braille displays and set it 
>>> as my default braille display.
>>> 
 Michelle's Home Emails > kirjoitti 8.8.2017 kello 11.00:
 
 Hi Otto 
 
 Michelle Stevens here, 
 
 You may have to install the focus driver to work in Windows grab this from 
 freedom scientific. 
 
 Best wishes 
 Michelle 
 
 Sent from Michelle's  iPhone
 
 On 23 Jul 2017, at 1:40 am, Otto Hylli > wrote:
 
> Hello
> Has anybody gotten a focus blue braille display working successfully with 
> Jaws via a bluetooth connection in a VMware Fusion Windows virtual 
> machine? I got the focus blue successfully paired with Windows 10 but 
> Jaws is not able to connect to it for some reason. The focus works all 
> right via bluetooth with VoiceOver on Mac OS and with Jaws on my Windows 
> laptop and desktop. Unfortunately I cannot simply use USB since the USB 
> port on my focus is damaged. 
> 
> I tried pairing the focus with Windows two times. For the second try I 
> removed the focus from  the Mac OS bluetooth devices just in case though 
> I had voiceover off in any case. I also restarted Jaws multiple times  
> and also restarted Windows with no luck.
> 
> 
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Re: App to make the solar eclipse accessible

[CHUCK REICHEL]

Hi Janina,
good observation. :)
any body for the "a 432" tuning out there?
My wife has switched to the a 432 tuning & it is so much more healing!
As for the big bang radiation.
Behind the big bang is the ultimate big banger! :)
Nothing from nothing = nothing!
GOD for U is the Creator of the engineers that produced Apple!
C.R.



On Aug 19, 2017, at 2:52 PM, 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries wrote:

> Great points, Scott. I would add only that it was sound that tipped off
> the discovery of the Big Bang. Everywhere Penzias and Wilson pointed
> their radio telescopes they found the same background noise pattern,
> which pointed to the same background em radiation:
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_of_cosmic_microwave_background_radiation
> 
> 
> I find this fact particularly important to convey to blind children who
> should know their ears alone could just discover something really, really
> important.
> 
> There's, of course, no sound in space, as we humans know sound. But the
> vibrations discoverable throughout the univers can certainly be mapped.
> Make good musical choices in those mappings and you would indeed get
> something quite hauntingly beautiful. So, Scott, please post some links!
> 
> Janina
> 
> Scott Granados writes:
>> This topic came up on an Apple list as well and I’d just like to bring to 
>> the attention of our group here all the wonderful sounds from space that are 
>> available.  An audio representation of the eclipse is a great idea but have 
>> you ever heard the sound of the rings of Saturn?  How about the Northern and 
>> Southern lights?  The sounds of pulsars are startling in their almost 
>> artificial sound and yes it’s totally possible to hear the echoes of the Big 
>> Bang from the microwave spectrum.  As a young child I remember being under 
>> attack by all sorts of invisible man in the sky believers and to counter 
>> this my parents encouraged me to learn about Science.  I befriended a local 
>> science teacher who taught me astronomy (I was about 9 years old at the 
>> time) and also a fellow from the local phone company who taught me 
>> electronics where my father’s abilities left off.  I mention this here 
>> because one of the first things I did was scrounge up a huge dish from an 
>> old satellite ground station and modify it to become a small radio telescope 
>> in my back yard.  One of the first things I picked up was the Smoot 
>> radiation from the big bang and actually hearing the echoes of the creation 
>> of the universe hooked me for life. I then started to write software on an 
>> old Apple 2E to decode that radiation and generate both numeric and visual 
>> representations of the background radiation which could paint a picture of 
>> how the massive ripples of the expansion of space and time echoed across 
>> over 13.5 billion years.  It’s such a good way for a blind person, 
>> especially children to connect with the wonders of nature and science which 
>> sometimes can be painfully visual.   If there’s any interest and nobody 
>> objects about it being off topic I would be happy to post links to some of 
>> this audio and big thanks to Janina for pointing this out.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Aug 18, 2017, at 5:40 PM, 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries 
>>>  wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> People living anywhere proximate to the coming solar eclipse might want
>>> to look into a special app intended to help blind and visually impaired
>>> people experience this upcoming celestial event:
>>> 
>>> https://www.space.com/37746-solar-eclipse-experience-for-visually-impaired.html
>>> 
>>> The app, Eclipse Soundscape, may well be available via Itunes Appstore.
>>> I haven't checked, though.
>>> 
>>> Enjoy!
>>> 
>>> Janina
>>> 
>>> 
>>> --
>>> 
>>> Janina Sajka,   Phone:  +1.443.300.2200
>>> sip:jan...@asterisk.rednote.net
>>> Email:  jan...@rednote.net
>>> 
>>> Linux Foundation Fellow
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Re: Down grading my I cloud storage.

[David Tanner]

I just did the thing same thing about a week it's a little confusing actually 
it's not as difficult as it looks it just looks difficult actually is soon as 
you double tap on the 58 changes and all you have to say is that you're doing 
but you don't realize that until you do it. Hope that helps schedules

David Tanner

>From my iPhone 7

> On Aug 19, 2017, at 2:24 PM, Kawal Gucukoglu  wrote:
> 
> Hi.
> 
> I am having to change my I Cloud storage due to some change of circumstances 
> and as I tried to down grade my storage, it was as if Apple would not let me 
> do it.  At the present time I wanted to change from a 200 megabytes to a 50 
> megabytes and when I clicked on the option for that, it was with some 
> difficulty that I managed to do it at last.  I don't know why it was such a 
> struggle to down grade my I Cloud storage.  Anyone else have that problem?
> 
> Kawal.
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Down grading my I cloud storage.

[Kawal Gucukoglu]

Hi.

I am having to change my I Cloud storage due to some change of circumstances 
and as I tried to down grade my storage, it was as if Apple would not let me do 
it.  At the present time I wanted to change from a 200 megabytes to a 50 
megabytes and when I clicked on the option for that, it was with some 
difficulty that I managed to do it at last.  I don't know why it was such a 
struggle to down grade my I Cloud storage.  Anyone else have that problem?

Kawal.

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Re: One mistake people make using public WiFi, USA Today

['Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries]

Or, better still, with an unlimited data plan from your telco you can
just skip the wifi and stay with your telco.

I've been doing this at conferences I attend. I have a lot less trouble
than my colleagues who are struggling with conference wifi and its
vagaries.

Janina

M. Taylor writes:
> One mistake people make using public Wi-Fi Kim Komando , Special for USA
> TODAY 
> Modern Greyhound buses offer free WiFi, a feature the company hopes will
> attract younger travelers. (Photo: Greyhound) If I've said it once, I've
> said it a thousand times: Avoid doing anything you would not want anyone in
> the world to know on public Wi-Fi. You may think you're safe in that busy
> café or big-name hotel, but public Wi-Fi is a major liability. It doesn't
> matter how safe the connection seems to be; your computer is vulnerable to
> hackers because you have no idea who is really in charge of that router or
> who has access to it and all the data that passes through it. Knowledge is
> power. Learn how crooks attack your computer on public Wi-Fi. There are lots
> of ways to protect yourself, of course. Your best defense is a virtual
> private network (VPN), which can prevent nosy strangers from snooping on
> your browser. You can also employ the usual firewalls and antivirus software
> to defend your computer from hackers and malware. Learn more about VPNs and
> safe browsing on public WiFi. Even the best security systems have their
> weaknesses, and you have likely never heard of this one: File sharing on a
> public network can expose your computer to data thieves. This is a scary
> problem because you may not even realize that you're sharing files. But if
> your computer is on the wrong setting, you may attract any number of
> cyber-criminals. So how do you make sure your computer isn't leaking
> information by accident? File sharing is very handy, especially for groups
> of people. Whether you're using iCloud, Dropbox, or Google Drive, file
> sharing allows a large team to work on a single project at once, or families
> to browse digital photo albums, or data specialists to organize large
> batches of information. This is very convenient, as long as you're on your
> own secure network. But if you're sharing files on public Wi-Fi, your
> folders may be accessible to anyone connected to the same public network. In
> other words, file sharing automatically exposes your computer and everything
> you intend to share. Your vacation photos may end up in the wrong hands, and
> so could your contracts, spreadsheets, and tax information. In fact, you
> don't have to be a hacker to take advantage of shared folders. Anyone who
> looks around their network folders can instantly run a search and find
> unguarded files. It works the other way around too. An attacker can also set
> up a shared folder with malicious files. You may stumble into the mysterious
> folder and think, "Wait a minute, where did this come from? Then you click
> on it, releasing the malware onto the desktop. There are other ways you can
> get into trouble. Learn how to avoid getting hacked on the road. Want to
> ensure your privacy? Make sure to turn off file sharing before you connect
> to public WiFi. Here's how to do it: 1. Search for "Control Panel" then
> click on the best match to open it. 2. Under "Network and Internet," click
> on "View network status and tasks. 3. On the next page, click "Change
> advanced sharing settings. 4. Under "File and printer sharing," tick off
> "Turn off file and printer sharing. 5. To prevent network snoopers from
> seeing your computer, tick off "Turn off network discovery" too. 6. Save
> changes. 1. Open your Mac's System Preferences (the gear icon on your dock).
> 2. Click on the "Sharing" icon. 3. On the next "Sharing Page," uncheck File
> Sharing. 4. I also recommend that you uncheck all the other sharing services
> here when connecting to public Wi-Fi. 5. Close the window and you're set.
> Okay, you're done your business, and now you can log off of public Wi-Fi.
> You've taken all the necessary precautions, and there's a good chance none
> of your information was compromised. Just remember to switch your file
> sharing back on when you get back to your home or office. None of these
> services will work unless you restore your regular settings. When you're
> back on your secure server, you can continue sharing to your heart's
> content. How else can you protect yourself from digital intrusion? Be sure
> to listen or download my podcasts, or click here to find it on your local
> radio station . You can listen to the Kim Komando Show on your phone, tablet
> or computer. From buying advice to digital life issues, click here for my
> free podcasts . Related:: How not to get hacked when using your plane's
> Wi-Fi Copyright 2017, WestStar Multimedia Entertainment. All rights
> reserved. 
> 
> Original article at:
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> 

Re: App to make the solar eclipse accessible

['Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries]

Simon,

Where I live just outside Washington, DC, it will approximately 80%.
It's full further west in the U.S. Hotels out west are full. People are
sleeping in their cars, I imagine! 

Janina

Simon Fogarty writes:
> I didn't know there was to be a solar eclipse this year?
> 
>  So is it a full one for you folks in the northern hemisphere or only partial?
> 
> And besides I'm sure this type of thing happens every day,
> Or at least night, I believe what happens is the earth gets in front of the 
> sun so that the side of the earth furtherest away from the sun is eclipsed 
> from seeing it,  and it gets very dark on that furtherest away side.
> 
> 
> 
> -Original Message-
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> Sent: Saturday, 19 August 2017 9:40 AM
> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
> Subject: App to make the solar eclipse accessible
> 
> Hi,
> 
> People living anywhere proximate to the coming solar eclipse might want to 
> look into a special app intended to help blind and visually impaired people 
> experience this upcoming celestial event:
> 
> https://www.space.com/37746-solar-eclipse-experience-for-visually-impaired.html
> 
> The app, Eclipse Soundscape, may well be available via Itunes Appstore.
> I haven't checked, though.
> 
> Enjoy!
> 
> Janina
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Re: App to make the solar eclipse accessible

['Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries]

Great points, Scott. I would add only that it was sound that tipped off
the discovery of the Big Bang. Everywhere Penzias and Wilson pointed
their radio telescopes they found the same background noise pattern,
which pointed to the same background em radiation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_of_cosmic_microwave_background_radiation


I find this fact particularly important to convey to blind children who
should know their ears alone could just discover something really, really
important.

There's, of course, no sound in space, as we humans know sound. But the
vibrations discoverable throughout the univers can certainly be mapped.
Make good musical choices in those mappings and you would indeed get
something quite hauntingly beautiful. So, Scott, please post some links!

Janina

Scott Granados writes:
> This topic came up on an Apple list as well and I’d just like to bring to the 
> attention of our group here all the wonderful sounds from space that are 
> available.  An audio representation of the eclipse is a great idea but have 
> you ever heard the sound of the rings of Saturn?  How about the Northern and 
> Southern lights?  The sounds of pulsars are startling in their almost 
> artificial sound and yes it’s totally possible to hear the echoes of the Big 
> Bang from the microwave spectrum.  As a young child I remember being under 
> attack by all sorts of invisible man in the sky believers and to counter this 
> my parents encouraged me to learn about Science.  I befriended a local 
> science teacher who taught me astronomy (I was about 9 years old at the time) 
> and also a fellow from the local phone company who taught me electronics 
> where my father’s abilities left off.  I mention this here because one of the 
> first things I did was scrounge up a huge dish from an old satellite ground 
> station and modify it to become a small radio telescope in my back yard.  One 
> of the first things I picked up was the Smoot radiation from the big bang and 
> actually hearing the echoes of the creation of the universe hooked me for 
> life. I then started to write software on an old Apple 2E to decode that 
> radiation and generate both numeric and visual representations of the 
> background radiation which could paint a picture of how the massive ripples 
> of the expansion of space and time echoed across over 13.5 billion years.  
> It’s such a good way for a blind person, especially children to connect with 
> the wonders of nature and science which sometimes can be painfully visual.   
> If there’s any interest and nobody objects about it being off topic I would 
> be happy to post links to some of this audio and big thanks to Janina for 
> pointing this out.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > On Aug 18, 2017, at 5:40 PM, 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries 
> >  wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > People living anywhere proximate to the coming solar eclipse might want
> > to look into a special app intended to help blind and visually impaired
> > people experience this upcoming celestial event:
> > 
> > https://www.space.com/37746-solar-eclipse-experience-for-visually-impaired.html
> > 
> > The app, Eclipse Soundscape, may well be available via Itunes Appstore.
> > I haven't checked, though.
> > 
> > Enjoy!
> > 
> > Janina
> > 
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Re: Be my eyes and capture images

[Sharon Hooley]

Yea!  That’s the best, one more hurdle we’ve come through!


> On Aug 19, 2017, at 10:53 AM, Phil Halton  wrote:
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> I just use the Be My Eyes app to solve a capture image on the web page. 
> Worked like a charm, what a great service. No more need for Romola or other 
> capture solving subscriptions.
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Be my eyes and capture images

[Phil Halton]

I just use the Be My Eyes app to solve a capture image on the web page. Worked 
like a charm, what a great service. No more need for Romola or other capture 
solving subscriptions.

Sent from my IPhone

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VoiceOver friendly way to order a list of items into descending order of importance

[Paul Hopewell]

Hello Anne, 
Many thanks for the tip on using the VoiceOver mouse down and mouse up hotkeys 
on Mac OS to do drag and drop. That worked fine on the problem web site. I also 
found that I could re-order the list on my iPhone using a 1 finger double tap 
and hold and then drag. This gave no VoiceOver feedback on where I was dragging 
to but with a little practice it was easy enough to judge how far to drag. 
I wonder if such lists might be a problem for Windows screen reader users, 
especially of the free NVDA and for Android screen reader users. However it is 
up to them to complain if it is a problem!
Many thanks and best regards….

Paul Hopewell 

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Re: App to make the solar eclipse accessible

[E.T.]

Chuck,
   There are festivals in the totality path, like Oregon. I hear the 
weather is ideal there so run over there and hunker down with a bucket 
load of  legal weed and say "Far Out Man!"


   You do know you plagiarized Carl Sagan, don't you? Far Out Man!

From E.T.'s Keyboard. . .
  "God for you is where you sweep away all the
  mysteries of the world, all the challenges to
  our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off
  and say God did it." --Carl Sagan
E-mail: ancient.ali...@icloud.com

On 8/19/2017 6:32 AM, CHUCK REICHEL wrote:

Hi EAT,
Thats absolutely amazing how By random chance we can predict with mathematical 
exactness these perfect alignments of the planets & stars.
awesome design!
GOD for you is the Creator of the engineers that produced Apple!
C.R.


On Aug 18, 2017, at 11:01 PM, E.T. wrote:


  The path of totality is narrow but this one will go from the west coast to 
the east coast, in about 2 hours. At any given point in that path totality will 
last less than 2 minutes.

  No it does not happen every day. I'm sure you can find a calendar somewhere 
that will give dates of future eclipses. Someone mentioned another event coming 
in 2024, don't know where.

  There are also lunar eclipses where instead of the sun being blocked, the 
moon is blocked.

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 mysteries of the world, all the challenges to
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On 8/18/2017 7:48 PM, Simon Fogarty wrote:

I didn't know there was to be a solar eclipse this year?

So is it a full one for you folks in the northern hemisphere or only partial?

And besides I'm sure this type of thing happens every day,
Or at least night, I believe what happens is the earth gets in front of the sun 
so that the side of the earth furtherest away from the sun is eclipsed from 
seeing it,  and it gets very dark on that furtherest away side.



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Sent: Saturday, 19 August 2017 9:40 AM
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: App to make the solar eclipse accessible

Hi,

People living anywhere proximate to the coming solar eclipse might want to look 
into a special app intended to help blind and visually impaired people 
experience this upcoming celestial event:

https://www.space.com/37746-solar-eclipse-experience-for-visually-impaired.html

The app, Eclipse Soundscape, may well be available via Itunes Appstore.
I haven't checked, though.

Enjoy!

Janina




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Re: App to make the solar eclipse accessible

[CHUCK REICHEL]

Hi Scott,

Yes the Creation of the universe is still broadcasting!
Absolutely stunning! :)
GOD for you is the Creator of the engineers that produced Apple!
C.R.



On Aug 18, 2017, at 8:11 PM, Scott Granados wrote:

> This topic came up on an Apple list as well and I’d just like to bring to the 
> attention of our group here all the wonderful sounds from space that are 
> available.  An audio representation of the eclipse is a great idea but have 
> you ever heard the sound of the rings of Saturn?  How about the Northern and 
> Southern lights?  The sounds of pulsars are startling in their almost 
> artificial sound and yes it’s totally possible to hear the echoes of the Big 
> Bang from the microwave spectrum.  As a young child I remember being under 
> attack by all sorts of invisible man in the sky believers and to counter this 
> my parents encouraged me to learn about Science.  I befriended a local 
> science teacher who taught me astronomy (I was about 9 years old at the time) 
> and also a fellow from the local phone company who taught me electronics 
> where my father’s abilities left off.  I mention this here because one of the 
> first things I did was scrounge up a huge dish from an old satellite ground 
> station and modify it to become a small radio telescope in my back yard.  One 
> of the first things I picked up was the Smoot radiation from the big bang and 
> actually hearing the echoes of the creation of the universe hooked me for 
> life. I then started to write software on an old Apple 2E to decode that 
> radiation and generate both numeric and visual representations of the 
> background radiation which could paint a picture of how the massive ripples 
> of the expansion of space and time echoed across over 13.5 billion years.  
> It’s such a good way for a blind person, especially children to connect with 
> the wonders of nature and science which sometimes can be painfully visual.   
> If there’s any interest and nobody objects about it being off topic I would 
> be happy to post links to some of this audio and big thanks to Janina for 
> pointing this out.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> On Aug 18, 2017, at 5:40 PM, 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries 
>>  wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> People living anywhere proximate to the coming solar eclipse might want
>> to look into a special app intended to help blind and visually impaired
>> people experience this upcoming celestial event:
>> 
>> https://www.space.com/37746-solar-eclipse-experience-for-visually-impaired.html
>> 
>> The app, Eclipse Soundscape, may well be available via Itunes Appstore.
>> I haven't checked, though.
>> 
>> Enjoy!
>> 
>> Janina
>> 
>> 
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>>  sip:jan...@asterisk.rednote.net
>>  Email:  jan...@rednote.net
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Re: App to make the solar eclipse accessible

[CHUCK REICHEL]

Hi EAT,
Thats absolutely amazing how By random chance we can predict with mathematical 
exactness these perfect alignments of the planets & stars.
awesome design!
GOD for you is the Creator of the engineers that produced Apple!
C.R.


On Aug 18, 2017, at 11:01 PM, E.T. wrote:

>   The path of totality is narrow but this one will go from the west coast to 
> the east coast, in about 2 hours. At any given point in that path totality 
> will last less than 2 minutes.
> 
>   No it does not happen every day. I'm sure you can find a calendar somewhere 
> that will give dates of future eclipses. Someone mentioned another event 
> coming in 2024, don't know where.
> 
>   There are also lunar eclipses where instead of the sun being blocked, the 
> moon is blocked.
> 
> From E.T.'s Keyboard. . .
>  "God for you is where you sweep away all the
>  mysteries of the world, all the challenges to
>  our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off
>  and say God did it." --Carl Sagan
> E-mail: ancient.ali...@icloud.com
> 
> On 8/18/2017 7:48 PM, Simon Fogarty wrote:
>> I didn't know there was to be a solar eclipse this year?
>> 
>> So is it a full one for you folks in the northern hemisphere or only partial?
>> 
>> And besides I'm sure this type of thing happens every day,
>> Or at least night, I believe what happens is the earth gets in front of the 
>> sun so that the side of the earth furtherest away from the sun is eclipsed 
>> from seeing it,  and it gets very dark on that furtherest away side.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -Original Message-
>> From: 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries 
>> [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com]
>> Sent: Saturday, 19 August 2017 9:40 AM
>> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
>> Subject: App to make the solar eclipse accessible
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> People living anywhere proximate to the coming solar eclipse might want to 
>> look into a special app intended to help blind and visually impaired people 
>> experience this upcoming celestial event:
>> 
>> https://www.space.com/37746-solar-eclipse-experience-for-visually-impaired.html
>> 
>> The app, Eclipse Soundscape, may well be available via Itunes Appstore.
>> I haven't checked, though.
>> 
>> Enjoy!
>> 
>> Janina
>> 
>> 
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Re: App to make the solar eclipse accessible

[Michael Busboom]

Hello Scott,

I can only echo Daniela’s sentiments.  Any links that you could provide and any 
apps that address this issue as well would be greatly appreciated.

Daniela, I am so sorry to hear about the events that have transpired in your 
lovely city.  I have been there many times, and I love the city, as well as its 
people.

Kindest regards from Vienna, Austria,

Mike

> On 19 Aug 2017, at 13:49, Daniela Rubio  wrote:
> 
> Hello all!
> 
> Thanks Scott for posting about these wonders of space and nature. If this is 
> off topic, sorry for the inconvenience, but I would love to know more about 
> this. I love space, universe and science. Could you please post here or send 
> privately those links?
> 
> Thank you, you will make my weekend shine after the horrible days we have had 
> in Barcelona.
> 
> Best
> Daniela
> 
>> El 19 ago 2017, a las 2:11, Scott Granados  
>> escribió:
>> 
>> This topic came up on an Apple list as well and I’d just like to bring to 
>> the attention of our group here all the wonderful sounds from space that are 
>> available.  An audio representation of the eclipse is a great idea but have 
>> you ever heard the sound of the rings of Saturn?  How about the Northern and 
>> Southern lights?  The sounds of pulsars are startling in their almost 
>> artificial sound and yes it’s totally possible to hear the echoes of the Big 
>> Bang from the microwave spectrum.  As a young child I remember being under 
>> attack by all sorts of invisible man in the sky believers and to counter 
>> this my parents encouraged me to learn about Science.  I befriended a local 
>> science teacher who taught me astronomy (I was about 9 years old at the 
>> time) and also a fellow from the local phone company who taught me 
>> electronics where my father’s abilities left off.  I mention this here 
>> because one of the first things I did was scrounge up a huge dish from an 
>> old satellite ground station and modify it to become a small radio telescope 
>> in my back yard.  One of the first things I picked up was the Smoot 
>> radiation from the big bang and actually hearing the echoes of the creation 
>> of the universe hooked me for life. I then started to write software on an 
>> old Apple 2E to decode that radiation and generate both numeric and visual 
>> representations of the background radiation which could paint a picture of 
>> how the massive ripples of the expansion of space and time echoed across 
>> over 13.5 billion years.  It’s such a good way for a blind person, 
>> especially children to connect with the wonders of nature and science which 
>> sometimes can be painfully visual.   If there’s any interest and nobody 
>> objects about it being off topic I would be happy to post links to some of 
>> this audio and big thanks to Janina for pointing this out.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Aug 18, 2017, at 5:40 PM, 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries 
>>>  wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> People living anywhere proximate to the coming solar eclipse might want
>>> to look into a special app intended to help blind and visually impaired
>>> people experience this upcoming celestial event:
>>> 
>>> https://www.space.com/37746-solar-eclipse-experience-for-visually-impaired.html
>>> 
>>> The app, Eclipse Soundscape, may well be available via Itunes Appstore.
>>> I haven't checked, though.
>>> 
>>> Enjoy!
>>> 
>>> Janina
>>> 
>>> 
>>> --
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>>> sip:jan...@asterisk.rednote.net
>>> Email:  jan...@rednote.net
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>>> Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup:   http://a11y.org
>>> 
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Re: me.com e-mail address.

[Kawal Gucukoglu]

Hi Scott.

My me.com is fine now and is working again.

Many thanks.

Kawal.
> On 12 Aug 2017, at 14:14, Donna Goodin  wrote:
> 
> Not any more.  But you can get an iCloud.com address.
> Best,
> Donna
>> On Aug 12, 2017, at 8:13 AM, afik Suffir  wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Hi, 
>> 
>> And everyone can get the .me.com address?
>> 
>> בברכה, 
>> אפיק סופיר
>> חבר ומייסד קבוצת ק.מ.ח - כי דברים שרואים משם לא רואים מכאן 
>> 050-5782208
>> afik.so...@gmail.com
>> www.facebook.com/afik.sofir
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> ‫ב-12 באוג׳ 2017, בשעה 16:05, ‏‏⁨Donna Goodin⁩ ‏<⁨doniado...@me.com⁩> 
>>> כתב/ה:‬
>>> 
>>> Me.com is the address you used to get for iCloud email.  It's been replaced 
>>> with iCloud.com.  Those of us who were around when apple was giving out 
>>> me.com addresses have one of each.  So I have doniado...@me.com and 
>>> doniado...@icloud.com.  I never ever use the latter.
>>> Cheers,
>>> Donna
 On Aug 12, 2017, at 5:24 AM, afik Suffir  wrote:
 
 
 
 Hello
 
 
 What is me.co address please? 
 
 בברכה, 
 אפיק סופיר
 חבר ומייסד קבוצת ק.מ.ח - כי דברים שרואים משם לא רואים מכאן 
 050-5782208
 afik.so...@gmail.com
 www.facebook.com/afik.sofir
 
 
 
> ‫ב-12 באוג׳ 2017, בשעה 13:16, ‏‏⁨David Chittenden⁩ 
> ‏<⁨dchitten...@gmail.com⁩> כתב/ה:‬
> 
> I have no idea. I switched to my icloud.com address when it was offered 
> because I have had email addresses disappear on me in the past. It is 
> also why I use gmail.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA
> Email: dchitten...@gmail.com
> Mobile: +61 488 988 936
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On 11/08/2017, at 23:08, Donna Goodin  wrote:
> 
>> David,
>> 
>> My understanding is that they aren't giving out new me.com addresses, 
>> but the old ones will continue to function.  Is that incorrect?
>> Cheers,
>> Donna
>> 
>>> On Aug 10, 2017, at 10:25 PM, David Chittenden  
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Yes, Apple has been slowly retiring the me.com email address. They 
>>> started the process about 5 years ago.
>>> 
>>> Kind regards,
>>> 
>>> David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA
>>> Email: dchitten...@gmail.com
>>> Mobile: +61 488 988 936
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>> 
 On 11/08/2017, at 07:39, Kawal Gucukoglu  wrote:
 
 Hi.
 
 Suppose it's time to ask a serious question.
 
 Today I wrote from my me.com e-mail as that is my primary e-mail as I 
 use for personal stuff.  This is my Alias.
 
 When I replied it had gone from my Icloud.com address which I don't 
 use as I prefer my me.com.  So has the me.com gone?
 Thanks.
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Re: App to make the solar eclipse accessible

[Daniela Rubio]

Hello all!

Thanks Scott for posting about these wonders of space and nature. If this is 
off topic, sorry for the inconvenience, but I would love to know more about 
this. I love space, universe and science. Could you please post here or send 
privately those links?

Thank you, you will make my weekend shine after the horrible days we have had 
in Barcelona.

Best
Daniela

> El 19 ago 2017, a las 2:11, Scott Granados  
> escribió:
> 
> This topic came up on an Apple list as well and I’d just like to bring to the 
> attention of our group here all the wonderful sounds from space that are 
> available.  An audio representation of the eclipse is a great idea but have 
> you ever heard the sound of the rings of Saturn?  How about the Northern and 
> Southern lights?  The sounds of pulsars are startling in their almost 
> artificial sound and yes it’s totally possible to hear the echoes of the Big 
> Bang from the microwave spectrum.  As a young child I remember being under 
> attack by all sorts of invisible man in the sky believers and to counter this 
> my parents encouraged me to learn about Science.  I befriended a local 
> science teacher who taught me astronomy (I was about 9 years old at the time) 
> and also a fellow from the local phone company who taught me electronics 
> where my father’s abilities left off.  I mention this here because one of the 
> first things I did was scrounge up a huge dish from an old satellite ground 
> station and modify it to become a small radio telescope in my back yard.  One 
> of the first things I picked up was the Smoot radiation from the big bang and 
> actually hearing the echoes of the creation of the universe hooked me for 
> life. I then started to write software on an old Apple 2E to decode that 
> radiation and generate both numeric and visual representations of the 
> background radiation which could paint a picture of how the massive ripples 
> of the expansion of space and time echoed across over 13.5 billion years.  
> It’s such a good way for a blind person, especially children to connect with 
> the wonders of nature and science which sometimes can be painfully visual.   
> If there’s any interest and nobody objects about it being off topic I would 
> be happy to post links to some of this audio and big thanks to Janina for 
> pointing this out.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> On Aug 18, 2017, at 5:40 PM, 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries 
>>  wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> People living anywhere proximate to the coming solar eclipse might want
>> to look into a special app intended to help blind and visually impaired
>> people experience this upcoming celestial event:
>> 
>> https://www.space.com/37746-solar-eclipse-experience-for-visually-impaired.html
>> 
>> The app, Eclipse Soundscape, may well be available via Itunes Appstore.
>> I haven't checked, though.
>> 
>> Enjoy!
>> 
>> Janina
>> 
>> 
>> --
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>>  sip:jan...@asterisk.rednote.net
>>  Email:  jan...@rednote.net
>> 
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>> Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup:http://a11y.org
>> 
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Re: VMware fusion and focus blue connection issue

[Otto Hylli]

Hello Andrew
Thanks for your suggestion. Unfortunately it did not help in my case. Seems 
that my problem is different from yours since I had no issues with pairing the 
focus with Windows but after that Jaws simply doesn’t connect to the display 
for some reason. However thanks to your message I now know that this should be 
possible.

> Andrew Lamanche  kirjoitti 14.8.2017 kello 17.05:
> 
> Hello Otto,
> 
> I have recently had to pair my Focus blue with Windows 10 which I run in 
> vmware fusion.  I had quite a bit of a problem making Focus work  but 
> eaventually succeeded.  I had to go to bluetooth advanced options in settings 
> in windows 10 and check the box which allows my pc to be discoverable to 
> other bluetooth devices. It would appear that whilst my computer was seeing 
> my focus, my focus wasn't seeing my computer, and" that was the problem. Only 
> then was I able to enter the default pairing code which is  and then 
> everything went smoothly.  Hope this will help.
> 
> Andrew
>> On 14 Aug 2017, at 14:36, Otto Hylli > > wrote:
>> 
>> Hello Michelle
>> Thank you for your suggestion. Unfortunately it did not help. The driver 
>> installed successfully and I went through the whole focus blue setup process 
>> starting withpairing it with Windows and then adding it to Jaws as a 
>> braille display but Jaws was not able to connect to it. I am using Jaws 17 
>> which I forgot to mention in my previous email. I also forgot to say that I 
>> of course added the focus to jaws’ braille displays and set it as my default 
>> braille display.
>> 
>>> Michelle's Home Emails >> > kirjoitti 8.8.2017 kello 11.00:
>>> 
>>> Hi Otto 
>>> 
>>> Michelle Stevens here, 
>>> 
>>> You may have to install the focus driver to work in Windows grab this from 
>>> freedom scientific. 
>>> 
>>> Best wishes 
>>> Michelle 
>>> 
>>> Sent from Michelle's  iPhone
>>> 
>>> On 23 Jul 2017, at 1:40 am, Otto Hylli >> > wrote:
>>> 
 Hello
 Has anybody gotten a focus blue braille display working successfully with 
 Jaws via a bluetooth connection in a VMware Fusion Windows virtual 
 machine? I got the focus blue successfully paired with Windows 10 but Jaws 
 is not able to connect to it for some reason. The focus works all right 
 via bluetooth with VoiceOver on Mac OS and with Jaws on my Windows laptop 
 and desktop. Unfortunately I cannot simply use USB since the USB port on 
 my focus is damaged. 
 
 I tried pairing the focus with Windows two times. For the second try I 
 removed the focus from  the Mac OS bluetooth devices just in case though I 
 had voiceover off in any case. I also restarted Jaws multiple times  and 
 also restarted Windows with no luck.
 
 
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