Re: Installing Rogue Amoeba apps is about to get a lot easier ↦

2024-01-10 Thread lenron brown
I am pretty excited about this change. On 1/10/24, Anders Holmberg wrote: > Hi! > Well that sounds great. > When that comes out I will remove this old one and get the full security > thing back. > Bless. > /A > >> 10 jan. 2024 kl. 05:12 skrev Jonathan Cohn : >> >> This sounds like great news. >>

Re: VMware Fusion/Player

2024-01-10 Thread 'Sabahattin Gucukoglu' via MacVisionaries
UTM is a graphical frontend to qemu. It's accessible, absolutely, once you have a feel for it—certainly more than Parallels which needs you to use VOCR just to get set up. Definitely give it a try and see if it meets your needs. The Spice guest tools (or qemu agent on other platforms) go into

Re: Thinking of Switching to Windows

2024-01-10 Thread 'Sabahattin Gucukoglu' via MacVisionaries
Yeah, I guess. System-wide spell check? Built-in dictionary? Oh hang on, Apple have sabotaged that for VoiceOver users now too, haven't they? I do think the app scene is somewhat better on Mac though. RSS readers and podcatchers, file transfer, sync and backup utilities, etc. together with a

Re: My review after spending two weeks with the Activator braille display

2024-01-10 Thread 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries
Hi Sabahattin, You’re welcome. The interface with the iPhone is definitely worth being excited about. But I came to the conclusion that it didn’t offset the other minuses, as you can tell. I find it strange and ironic that they designed this display that is clearly intended to function in

Re: My review after spending two weeks with the Activator braille display

2024-01-10 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! I was hoping for some les clunky solution. Having a focus 40 and a keyboard infront of that is quite clunky if you are very tall as I am. /A > 10 jan. 2024 kl. 13:55 skrev 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries > : > > Hi Anders, > > I gave them so much feedback that they’re probably relieved

Re: Thinking of Switching to Windows

2024-01-10 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! Absolutely, the downside for me with Mac is that braille is not as smooth as in linux or windows. It works but its just that and it has tons of issues. For example, it does not updating properly for example sometimes when I do tabbing and in some progress indicators. You have to use speech

Re: Installing Rogue Amoeba apps is about to get a lot easier ↦

2024-01-10 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! Well that sounds great. When that comes out I will remove this old one and get the full security thing back. Bless. /A > 10 jan. 2024 kl. 05:12 skrev Jonathan Cohn : > > This sounds like great news. >

Re: Restore Previous Music Database

2024-01-10 Thread 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries
Got it all working. Having moved both movies and music, I had forgotten to change the file path in the music app settings. Once I took care of that, it all together. From E.T.'s Keyboard... "Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much." -Helen Keller My e-Mail:

Re: My review after spending two weeks with the Activator braille display

2024-01-10 Thread 'Sabahattin Gucukoglu' via MacVisionaries
Thank you for an excellent review, Donnah. I guess unsurprisingly, the part that interests me most is thecombination of iPhone and Activator, since that's clearly the dominant use case, but the assembly sounds rather brittle and then the issue of newer USB-C iphones. I won't be buying any time

Re: My review after spending two weeks with the Activator braille display

2024-01-10 Thread 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries
Hi Les, That’s the thing that neither HelpTech nor DreamVision seem to get. At that price point, everything needs to be in order and work out of the box. You’d have to be crazy to spend that much money and then just hope that these issues will be addressed. Cheers, Donna > On Jan 5, 2024,

Re: My review after spending two weeks with the Activator braille display

2024-01-10 Thread 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries
Hi Anders, I gave them so much feedback that they’re probably relieved that I didn’t buy one. Lol But I completely agree with you about it being clunky. Cheers, Donna > On Jan 5, 2024, at 12:47 PM, Anders Holmberg wrote: > > Hi Donna! > Thanks for your review. > I have been thinking of

Re: My review after spending two weeks with the Activator braille display

2024-01-10 Thread 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries
Thanks! It was fun getting to take it for a test drive. Cheers, Donna > On Jan 5, 2024, at 4:57 AM, Jürgen Fleger wrote: > > Yes Donna, really a great review. Thanks a lot and > all the best > Jürgen > > >> Am 05.01.2024 um 07:13 schrieb M. Taylor : >> >> Hello Donna, >> >> This is an

Re: My review after spending two weeks with the Activator braille display

2024-01-10 Thread 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries
Hi Angie, Glad your “latest acquisition” is working out well.  Just to be clear, it works fine on windows 11 as a Braille display, it just doesn’t work as a storage device. I plugged it into my husband’s PC, which is running windows 10, and both as a display, and as external storage, it

Re: Thinking of Switching to Windows

2024-01-10 Thread Brandon Olivares
I definitely understand. I just think there are fewer and fewer reasons to choose Mac over Windows now, especially when the native accessibility has been diminishing on MacOS. Most third party apps from the Mac App Store aren’t generally very accessible I’ve found. So what’s really the selling

Messenger for Mac, and ticktock?

2024-01-10 Thread Kliph
Does anyone know how to delete messages in messenger in the Mac app, and is ticktock accessible? -- 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: My review after spending two weeks with the Activator braille display

2024-01-10 Thread Les Kriegler
Hi Donna, Thanks for the comprehensive and excellent review of the Activator. It does sound interesting; the high price will keep me away for now. Best, Les -Original Message- From: 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries Sent: Thursday, January 4, 2024 10:15 PM To: via MacVisionaries

Re: My review after spending two weeks with the Activator braille display

2024-01-10 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi Donna! Thanks for your review. I have been thinking of buying this display or getting funded to buy it. Even though things sounds very cool I think I will wait until they have fixed some issues. The issues with the internal editor and having to go in and out of apps is their real downside.

Re: VMware Fusion/Player

2024-01-10 Thread matthew dyer
Hi, I have not tried UTM, but looked at it in the App Store. Is it accessible? How does this work? Thanks. Matthew > On Jan 2, 2024, at 6:08 PM, 'Sabahattin Gucukoglu' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > This whole situation makes me sad. Of course it's less convenient to carry > multiple

Re: My review after spending two weeks with the Activator braille display

2024-01-10 Thread 'Angie Nutt' via MacVisionaries
Does indeed sound like a very interesting device but a bit scary re the Win 11 thing. Other than a couple of macs, we only have Win 11 so if we bought the Activator things could get interesting. . If money were no object it would be interesting as an experiment though since we do have a braille

Re: My review after spending two weeks with the Activator braille display

2024-01-10 Thread Jürgen Fleger
Yes Donna, really a great review. Thanks a lot and all the best Jürgen > Am 05.01.2024 um 07:13 schrieb M. Taylor : > > Hello Donna, > > This is an absolutely fabulous review. > > Thank you ever so much for posting. > > Mark > > -Original Message- > From: 'Donna Goodin' via