Re: Voice Dream Reader for mac and Braille display

Hi Andrew, actually answering the second question as well. Lynx is a browser, and there is a compiled edition that, according to their website works for mac os x. As stated, not only am I not using the mac for what I shared, working from the idea that a mac browser could load a file, much

Re: Working around MS Word

Recent versions have improved somewhat in their accessibility. Make sure you’re using the latest Office 365, monthly channel, for the best that Microsoft Word for Mac currently offers to the VoiceOver user. Old versions are definitely problematic. > On 22 Jun, 2022, at 16:57, John Panarese

Re: Mac Mail app problem "This mail has no content"" Help please

yes my experience too. sometimes I have to wait for 5 min. or more and sometimes it never loads. > On Jun 22, 2022, at 4:25 PM, 'Ron S' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > Hi Tim, thanks for the reply, but time doesn’t make any difference, Ron. > > >> On 22 Jun 2022, at 18:00, 'Tim Kilburn' via

Re: Mac Mail app problem "This mail has no content"" Help please

Hi Lorie, thanks for the reply but unfortunately that didn’t work for me. Ron. > On 22 Jun 2022, at 22:15, Lorie McCloud wrote: > > I have a similar problem. for some reason my mail just does not load. I've > been experimenting and I've found that to hit enter twice instead of once > when I

Re: Mac Mail app problem "This mail has no content"" Help please

Hi Tim, thanks for the reply, but time doesn’t make any difference, Ron. > On 22 Jun 2022, at 18:00, 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > Hi, > > Just give it some time to load and that will go away. > > Later... > > > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Jun 22, 2022, at 8:29 AM,

Re: Mac Mail app problem "This mail has no content"" Help please

I have a similar problem. for some reason my mail just does not load. I've been experimenting and I've found that to hit enter twice instead of once when I open the mail will load the message content often. > On Jun 22, 2022, at 10:29 AM, 'Ron S' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > Hi there, I

Re: Working around MS Word

I agree, Tim. It works well. I have been made to work with sophisticated documents and it is surprisingly accessible. 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

Fwd: Is Voiceover broken in HomeKit in IOS?; Follow-up: 802217366

Hi all, After my emails last week regarding Homekit, I decided to email Apple Accessibility. Here is their response. I’m relieved to know that the problem wasn’t on my end, but I sure hope that Apple can create a fix for it soon. Cheers, Donna > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Apple

Re: Working around MS Word

Hi,Works fine for me.  Later... Sent from my iPhoneOn Jun 22, 2022, at 1:00 PM, Jürgen Fleger wrote:Sorry Tim, Word for Mac works terrible. Reading a simple text might work but in the moment a document is more suffisticated or very long Word doesn’t work very well.In my opinion Outlook is the

Re: Working around MS Word

Sorry Tim, Word for Mac works terrible. Reading a simple text might work but in the moment a document is more suffisticated or very long Word doesn’t work very well. In my opinion Outlook is the only app which works quite well using VoiceOver. Jürgen > Am 22.06.2022 um 21:51 schrieb 'Tim

Re: word processing beyond MS Word

Hi Andrew, to be honnest: Using Pages and exporting to Word works but I’d never rely on it fully. I’d use Pages and asked a sighted assistant afterwards. You could ask your own assistant or you could use a service like Aira for iPhone to check whether the layout looks well. But all in all

Re: Working around MS Word

Hi,I think that you might be running on old information about Microsoft Word. It is very accessible on the Mac now. But, if you do want to move docs back-and-forth between word, and an app, Pages is very accessible, and can import and export to Microsoft Word easily.Later…Sent from my iPhoneOn Jun

Re: An active Voice Dream Reader subscription on Mac

I”m not quite sure but when did yu subscribe to the application? The first two weeks are free so if you had subscribed before the two weeks are up, maybe your subscription is not valid yet. Andrew > On 22 Jun 2022, at 17:44, Tibor Niesner wrote: > > Hello, > > I have an interresting

Re: Voice Dream Reader for mac and Braille display

I’ve written to Winston chen but he’s not responded yet. He says he’s no Braille display which begs a question how he can properly make Braille access possible if he doesn’t bother about Braille displays. Andrew > On 22 Jun 2022, at 18:08, Anders Holmberg wrote: > > Hi! > I think its time

word processing beyond MS Word

Here’s another question for the group: One of the main reasons I’m considering abandoning MacOS for Windows is that I have to send and receive MS Word docs, often with track changes and comments. I primarily work in Scrivener and export to Word, but I can’t give up word entirely because I need

Working around MS Word

Here’s another question for the group: One of the main reasons I’m considering abandoning MacOS for Windows is that I have to send and receive MS Word docs, often with track changes and comments. I primarily work in Scrivener and export to Word, but I can’t give up word entirely because I need

Re: basic finder question

Dear Jürgen, Thank you so much for this quick and extremely helpful reply! All best, Andrew -- 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: How to delete messages in the app message?

Command backspace Will delete the message window. > On Jun 14, 2022, at 1:37 PM, Rena wrote: > > Hello, > > Would anyone please explain how to delete messages in the message app? > I’m trying, but I don’t know how to do it. > > Rena > > > > -- > The following information is important

Re: basic finder question

Hi Andrew, I’m sorry to hear you are getting blind. Ask as much as you want here in this list. A lot of great experts share their knowledge. You could also have a look on applevis.com . Very rich. Press CMD + Option + v instead of just CMD + v to move an element in the

Re: basic finder question

Hello, When you go to do the paste command use option plus command plus V instead of just command plus V. This will move the file rather than just copying it. Greg Wocher > On Jun 22, 2022, at 2:07 PM, Andrew Leland wrote: > > Hey all, > > I'm a lifelong sighted Mac user currently in the

basic finder question

Hey all, I'm a lifelong sighted Mac user currently in the process of becoming a blind Mac user. I've also decided to learn JAWS (even though I would've never dream of switching to Windows otherwise) since I can't avoid MS Word in my work and I've been gobsmacked by how frequently Word for Mac

Re: Anyone know the command for enabling/disabling Voiceover speech on an Apple TV?

Yeah. That’s what I was hoping to emulate on the Apple TV. Cheers, Donna > On Jun 22, 2022, at 12:37 PM, Les Kriegler wrote: > > Hi Donna, > > On the phone, if you do a three finger double tap, that will turn voiceover > speech off. Then you can issue the same command to turn it back on. >

Re: Anyone know the command for enabling/disabling Voiceover speech on an Apple TV?

Hi Donna, On the phone, if you do a three finger double tap, that will turn voiceover speech off. Then you can issue the same command to turn it back on. Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 22, 2022, at 12:26 PM, 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > Hi all, > > Thanks for the

Re: Anyone know the command for enabling/disabling Voiceover speech on an Apple TV?

Huh. Interesting. I do think there used to be. Thanks, Tim. Cheers, Donna > On Jun 22, 2022, at 11:57 AM, 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > Hi, > > If you have a Bluetooth keyboard connected, use VO-s. I don't believe there > is a Siri Remote gesture. > > Later... > > >

Re: Voice Dream Reader for mac and Braille display

Hi! I think its time for the VoiceDream developer to take a moment to think about how braille could be implemented properly. Though I am not the right person to explain this as I am not the best in English, even though I do understand it and can read and write a lot. But its a pain to explain

Re: Voice Dream Reader for mac and Braille display

HI! Do you happen to know if its a compiled version of Links or if you have to compile it? I can imagine that the browser is compiled and if so then the brltty could be used for that reading. THe complicated thing is to compile brltty in a proper way. /A > 21 juni 2022 kl. 23:25 skrev Karen

Re: Mac Mail app problem "This mail has no content"" Help please

Hi, Just give it some time to load and that will go away. Later... Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 22, 2022, at 8:29 AM, 'Ron S' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > Hi there, I am getting the above message in mail from time to time. It is > mostly from one email sender but not exclusively.

Re: Anyone know the command for enabling/disabling Voiceover speech on an Apple TV?

Hi, If you have a Bluetooth keyboard connected, use VO-s. I don't believe there is a Siri Remote gesture. Later... Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 22, 2022, at 9:26 AM, 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > Hi all, > > Thanks for the responses. All of these are both ways of

An active Voice Dream Reader subscription on Mac

Hello, I have an interresting thing. The Voice Dream Reader shows an active subscription in app preferences. But when I look at the subscriptions in iCloud settings, there are not any active subscriptions. It shows me after the last update. I don’t understand it. Thank you. Best regard

Re: Anyone know the command for enabling/disabling Voiceover speech on an Apple TV?

Hi all, Thanks for the responses. All of these are both ways of turning VO on and off, which is what I’ve been doing. I just thought that, as on the phone, there was a way to just turn speech on and off. If there’s not, I’ll just keep doing what I’ve been doing, which is triple clicking the

Re: Anyone know the command for enabling/disabling Voiceover speech on an Apple TV?

Or triple click the Menu button which is above the Siri button. From E.T.'s Keyboard... "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." --John F. Kennedy My e-Mail: ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 6/22/2022 8:33 AM, etscrivani via MacVisionaries wrote:

Re: hand-off

If you say so. I had a 2013 MacBook Air, and handoff worked on that machine consistently without issue. - Brad - On Jun 22, 2022, at 10:32, pdevasto0...@gmail.com wrote: Brad, For what it might be worth, I have a late 2014 Mac Mini running Mac OS Monterey. Apparently in order for handoff to

RE: Anyone know the command for enabling/disabling Voiceover speech on an Apple TV?

I have an Apple TV 4K that I got back in 2017. On the left side of the two columns of buttons, I hold down the middle round button and just tell it "turn Voice Over Off". When I want VO to return I hold the same button down and tell it "Turn Voice Over On." HTH. Eileen -Original

RE: hand-off

Brad, For what it might be worth, I have a late 2014 Mac Mini running Mac OS Monterey. Apparently in order for handoff to work, one of the things that is not listed in Apple's support article about handoff is that your Mac has to have something called Airplay Receiver enabled. The following

Mac Mail app problem "This mail has no content"" Help please

Hi there, I am getting the above message in mail from time to time. It is mostly from one email sender but not exclusively. When I try to enter the mail area I get “text”, but nothing else. I have been told by a sighted person that there is a link saying something like “click to download

Re: Anyone know the command for enabling/disabling Voiceover speech on an Apple TV?

Hi Donna, I have one of the older remotes, but what I do is locate the role of three buttons. You would hold in the middle button and say “turn on voiceover. “That will stay in effect until you wish to turn it off using the same procedure. We use this often, as my wife doesn’t wish to hear the

Anyone know the command for enabling/disabling Voiceover speech on an Apple TV?

Hi all, For some reason, since the last update, when I start our Apple TV, it starts without speech. I think, though, that VO is on, because I hear the other VO noises. I can always just turn VO off and back on, and then all is fine, but I’m thinking I should be able to just activate speech.

Re: PDFpen

Yes. I did it on a document that seemed not to be 100% accessible and I needed a little help with certain elements. I will find some other pdfs and see if any are 100%. This apparently is dependent on how the forms are created. From E.T.'s Keyboard... "Those who make peaceful revolution

Re: PDFpen

Can you fill in forms with this?? I tried the demo and didn't have any luck..? Thanks, Cait > On Jun 22, 2022, at 10:06 AM, 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > Ok good, I will save my pennies. What confused me was that the app changed > hands shortly after I bought the Mac version. It

Re: PDFpen

Ok good, I will save my pennies. What confused me was that the app changed hands shortly after I bought the Mac version. It does not seem like Nitro can decide on the app name, for Mac and iOS. From E.T.'s Keyboard... "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent

Re: PDFpen

Hi, No, it’s not worth it to go Pro. Later… Tim Kilburn Jamf Certified Tech Apple Professional Learning Specialist Apple Teacher (with Swift Playgrounds Recognition) Fort McMurray, AB Canada > On Jun 18, 2022, at 10:12, 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > Tim, I think I had used this

Re: a question about compact voices.

Hi, No need for Apple ID. You can download enhanced voices through VoiceOver Utility, Speech, under the Voices tab. Interact with the Customized language list table, locate the pop-up with the current selected voice, and choose Custom from there. All the voices, both compact and enhanced

Re: Voice Dream Reader for mac and Braille display

Karen, May I ask what Lynx is and what its equivalent for mac is? Andrew > On 21 Jun 2022, at 22:25, Karen Lewellen wrote: > > Hi Andrew, > Certainly. > Let me preface that I am *not* using the mac to accomplish this task, but > cannot imagine why the process would not be comparative, its