Re: I have reported some serious voice-over bugs in recovery partition to Apple on big sur

2020-11-15 Thread Michael Marshall
hey, Thanks for that, I certainly hope they fix this. > On 16 Nov 2020, at 1:06 pm, Gerry Cook wrote: > > Hi Michael I was told that the caption that is with voiceover keeps turning > it off and on so we haven’t got any idea what’s happening, if you want to > repair or erase a disk using

Re: I have reported some serious voice-over bugs in recovery partition to Apple on big sur

2020-11-15 Thread Gerry Cook
Hi Michael I was told that the caption that is with voiceover keeps turning it off and on so we haven’t got any idea what’s happening, if you want to repair or erase a disk using disk utility so i sent capture data to apple and hopefully it’ll be fixed in the next update. thanks. > On 15

Re: Am I write and thinking that the Mac mini from 2018 does not have a headset jack?

2020-11-15 Thread Brad Snyder
That would be my assumption as well. I’d send the speakers back to Amazon for a refund, and get something else. - Brad - On Nov 15, 2020, at 18:08, matthew dyer wrote: Hi Brad and all, Just tried pair of ear buds with a 3.5 jack and they work fine. I am incline to thingk it is a bad set

Re: Am I write and thinking that the Mac mini from 2018 does not have a headset jack?

2020-11-15 Thread 'Jason White' via MacVisionaries
What happens if you change the audio output device in System Preferences? On 11/14/20 3:26 PM, matthew dyer wrote: Peet, I still have sound through the internal speeker even wile the speakers connected.  Other headphones work far as I know.  I am guessing it is the speakers themselfs but not

Re: Am I write and thinking that the Mac mini from 2018 does not have a headset jack?

2020-11-15 Thread matthew dyer
Hi Brad and all, Just tried pair of ear buds with a 3.5 jack and they work fine. I am incline to thingk it is a bad set they gave me since they do not work on any of my other devices. What a shame. They power up, but they do not show up as an option in sound preferences. There is 9only

Has anyone upgraded to one of the new iPads?

2020-11-15 Thread 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries
Hi all, I have a sixth-gen iPad, and am considering upgrading to one of the new ones. I'm on the fence about which one. I don't need most of the features of the Air, and I'm not crazy about the larger size, but I'm attracted to the faster processor. Has anyone gotten either of the new iPads

Re: Am I write and thinking that the Mac mini from 2018 does not have a headset jack?

2020-11-15 Thread Brad Snyder
I’ve had speakers similar to this that I used on a Windows PC at work. They functioned just fine on my Windows machine, so I am wondering why you are having a problem using them on a Mac mini. I know you said you can see a little green light, so you know the speakers have power. I’m wondering

Re: Am I write and thinking that the Mac mini from 2018 does not have a headset jack?

2020-11-15 Thread matthew dyer
Hi PPeet, Here you,. Thees are usb speakers and are suposivly plug and play. You plug in the usb end into the USB port of your machine which is how they get power and then youplugin the 3.5 mm end into the jack for sound output. With that here is the link.

infoVox iVox Voices on Bigsur

2020-11-15 Thread Paul Hopewell
Hello, FYI the infoVox iVox voices currently do not work on Mac/Os Bigsur. I have contacted their support team and have been advised that this is a known issue which will be fixed by an update to their App next week. Thesed are my favorite voices so that is goodnews. Best … Paul Hopewell --

Re: Apple Mail on Bigsur: where have All Archive, All Bin, and All Junk gone?

2020-11-15 Thread Jonathan Cohn
OK, I re-read this message. I don't know if there is still an all archives, but Apple did merge the "Favorite" folders into the panel of folders rather than having it as a separate panel. So at the top of the Mailbox list are your favorite folders, then the "all XX" folder, then smart folders

I have reported some serious voice-over bugs in recovery partition to Apple on big sur

2020-11-15 Thread Michael Marshall
hey all, I have found a couple of bugs whilst using recovery on big sur with voiceover which I have reported to Apple and if any of you can find them, I would really encourage you to do the same. The first thing is the Wi-Fi problem, it has always been tricky but manageable, now when you hit VO

Re: Column view in Finder on Bigsur and the Tab key.

2020-11-15 Thread Herbie Allen
I have also noticed this. However, I also noticed that Tab does not tell you the folder has ben opened while VO left and right do. > On Nov 15, 2020, at 10:25, Paul Hopewell wrote: > > Hello, > Column view is my preferred Finder interface. In the past I used to use Right > Arrow to expand a

Re: Apple Mail on Bigsur: where have All Archive, All Bin, and All Junk gone?

2020-11-15 Thread Herbie Allen
I just looked and mine are still there. I couldn’t fine it with first letter navigation though. > On Nov 15, 2020, at 11:25, Paul Hopewell wrote: > > Hello, > After upgrading from the latest Catalina to Bigsur I see that my prior mail > boxes All Archive, All Bin, and All Junk have

Re: Column view in Finder on Bigsur and the Tab key.

2020-11-15 Thread Jonathan Cohn
In all other versions of MacOS that supported column view, the left and right arrow keys with no modifier would switch you to the next or previous column, not really opening the folder, but moving focus into the column. I heard that in Bigsir that tab and shift tab do this, which is not as

Apple Mail on Bigsur: where have All Archive, All Bin, and All Junk gone?

2020-11-15 Thread Paul Hopewell
Hello, After upgrading from the latest Catalina to Bigsur I see that my prior mail boxes All Archive, All Bin, and All Junk have disapperared. All these mail boxes contained messages in Catalina. If I archive a message in Bigsur it appears in the All Archive folder on my iPhone running IOS

Re: How I can make Microsoft teams to be accessible with voice over?

2020-11-15 Thread Jonathan Cohn
I have experienced the issue with notification problems but the notification window will often go away if you wait. Since I am impatient, what I do when I get stuck in the notification window is to use the close window command which ends up with me having no Teams windows open and then

Re: Am I write and thinking that the Mac mini from 2018 does not have a headset jack?

2020-11-15 Thread Pete De Vasto
Matthew, Would you be willing to share the brand and model of your speakers? I’m intrigued by you saying that the cord has a USB plug on one end and a 3.5-inch plug on the other, and I’d like to learn more about the concept. Thanks, Pete De Vasto > On Nov 14, 2020, at 12:26 PM, matthew dyer

Re: Column view in Finder on Bigsur and the Tab key.

2020-11-15 Thread Greg Wocher
Hello, If you are in column view, you can use VO plus left and right arrows to do the same thing as just using the arrow keys used to do. This is a possible bug that has been reported to apple. Greg Wocher > On Nov 15, 2020, at 11:53 AM, 'Jason White' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > >

Re: Zoom

2020-11-15 Thread Marie Lyons
It’s the strangest thing! The meeting I want to keep has the delete button to the right of the edit button. The one I want to delete does not , despite having the meetings tab selected. I’m not sure what to do. > On Nov 9, 2020, at 7:28 PM, John Panarese wrote: > > Make sure you choose,

Re: Column view in Finder on Bigsur and the Tab key.

2020-11-15 Thread 'Jason White' via MacVisionaries
Apple's documentation indicates that using right/left-arrow to expand/collapse folders works only in list view. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201236 On 11/15/20, 11:26, "Paul Hopewell" wrote: Hello, Column view is my preferred Finder interface. In the past I used to use Right

Re: Time for a new Mac

2020-11-15 Thread 'Jason White' via MacVisionaries
As I recall, running virtualized Linux instances on ARM-based Mac hardware has been demonstrated publicly by Apple. Running Linux natively (i.e., without Mac OS underneath it) isn't yet supported, and I don't know whether it will be, due to the Apple-specific hardware involved. On 11/14/20,

Re: How I can make Microsoft teams to be accessible with voice over?

2020-11-15 Thread 'Kliph' via MacVisionaries
1, Big Sur is fine. Some have reported that dismissing notifications are hard, but I haven’t ran into this issue. 2nd, you can send from alias’s just fine from IOS, I have been doing it since IOS 10. What you have to do is, double tap on the from field twice, the 1st time the VoiceOver

Column view in Finder on Bigsur and the Tab key.

2020-11-15 Thread Paul Hopewell
Hello, Column view is my preferred Finder interface. In the past I used to use Right Arrow to expand a folder and Left Arrow to colllapse a folder. This no longer works in Bigsur. However using Tab to expand a folder and Shift+Tab to collapse a folder works fine. I recall this is how Windows

Re: How I can make Microsoft teams to be accessible with voice over?

2020-11-15 Thread 'Kawal Gucukoglu' via MacVisionaries
Hi Jonathan. Thanks so much about your explanation with to Teams. I tried using it on the Mac some time ago and didn’t like it. It’s better on the I phone but still kind of horrible. I’ll keep your message. I am not upgrading to Big Sur yet until it has got better. I use to upgrade

Re: How I can make Microsoft teams to be accessible with voice over?

2020-11-15 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Hello, I use it quite often. Generally, it prefers you use the Microsoft keyboard shortcuts and not the VO ones. It sounds like you are not logged into the teams interface. There might be another window lurking around asking for your email and password. The Teams app is essentially a

Re: mac OS big sur: browsing save dialog boxes

2020-11-15 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Well, there is a bug in column list view where the standard arrow keys do not work to move left and right. As for your question I just created a folder in list view in the finder and focus went right to it. See if this was a single occurrence and perhaps if your view was different.

Re: mac OS big sur: why does it have to behave like I'm using an iPad

2020-11-15 Thread Jonathan Cohn
I'm not seeing this either. command-option-F still brings me to the search dialog, and just typing characters works fine when in the message list. Do you perhaps have quicknav turned on? Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On Nov 15, 2020, at 07:47, Yuma Decaux wrote: > > Hi All,

Re: mac OS big sur: web navigation using arrow keys only

2020-11-15 Thread Jonathan Cohn
I haven't ben on a lot of sites since seeing this message, but I don't believe this is the case. Some sites do put in keyboard handlers that forget to allow default actions for keys they don't use perhaps you are running into that? There is an option in the web area of VoiceOver utility to

mac OS big sur: web navigation using arrow keys only

2020-11-15 Thread Yuma Decaux
Hi All, Another issue I found now is that I can't navigate web pages by simple arrow up or down keys. This used to be an extremely useful way of moving around pages, especially when it comes to tutorials, scientific articles or others. is there some setting in the VO preferences which allow me

mac OS big sur: why does it have to behave like I'm using an iPad

2020-11-15 Thread Yuma Decaux
Hi All, I've noticed that a lot of the usual operations I perform on my mac are now requiring extra steps. one such instance is when I look for a particular email, I have to now go to the toolbar, go to search, and press on search. This behaviour is probably good for ipads, but now it adds

mac OS big sur: browsing save dialog boxes

2020-11-15 Thread Yuma Decaux
Hi All, I've noticed that now navigating the directory to save a file from mail or safari or any other application is now not straight forward anymore. I tried going through column list etc, but it doesn't behave as expected. Also, I can't create new folders and rename it directly upon

mac OS big sur: mail inbox names

2020-11-15 Thread Yuma Decaux
Hi All, Has anyone been able to change settings to get the inbox names back? Thanks, Yuma -- 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

Re: Request for a tutorial about pages

2020-11-15 Thread ernest mccullough
On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 3:56 PM Sight Shots wrote: > Sure! > I can help you learn how to work in pages! > My pleasure! > In the next email I would send you some tips and tricks and even my > tutorial and course. > Thank you for asking! > Wait for my email I would help you soon! > Have a great

Option key problem solved!

2020-11-15 Thread 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries
Hi all, Just to wrap up this thread, I got the option key issue sorted out. Somehow, and I have no idea how, the keyboard input got switched to Unicode Hex. I switched it back to US, and now the option key is working as it should. Phew! Thanks to all of you who tried to help with this. Cheers,