How or who got Slacker Radio to fix accessibility in the past? So far, they
have ignored me. Thanks for trying again, Christine. I would appreciate it if
others who enjoy slacker Radio would also contact them.
Thanks,
Christina
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On Dec 4, 2013, at 2:09 PM,
I just purchased the iPad version and the Mac Version at the sale price. Thanks
for sharing, I have been waiting and hoping for a sale to purchase the Mac
version as I love the iPhone version but I want to add all my recipes from the
mac as that sounds much easier. :)
Christina
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Try this, when VO is focused on the document name, bring up the context menu by
pressing vo plus shift, plus M. Then go to get info. In there down a bit there
is something called file name and extension disclosure triangle ( I can’t
remember exactly what it’s called), Vo space on that if the
Oh thanks! I love this voice and I would not have known about it if you would
not have let me know about this great voice if you had not brought it to my
attention. :) I feel the Ava voice has a much more concise pronunciation of
words. I feel like the words are spoken much more distinctly and
Hi all,
I would love some help. I don’t know why but around 2 weeks ago my computer
won’t seem to stay connected to the internet. The wifi status will say 4 of 4
bars with name of network but no web pages will load nor will mail work. Then
if I turn wifi off and then back on, all will work
Hi all,
I started having this problem after I updated to Maverick. I was wondering if
anyone else was experiencing this problem or if anyone had a fix. I cannot get
my user agent settings to stick. I use these settings under the develop menu of
Safari to help me access certain websites better,
:02 PM, Christina C. blindmaclo...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
I would love some help. I don’t know why but around 2 weeks ago my computer
won’t seem to stay connected to the internet. The wifi status will say 4 of
4 bars with name of network but no web pages will load nor will mail work
Hi,
I have no idea how to contact or find the contact info for the developer and I
have also never done this before, so this would be new territory for me. :) I
know this sounds sad but I never feel like I can sound smart enough to be
convincing. LOL!
Christina
On Oct 30, 2013, at 6:17 PM,
OK, I have this app. I believe getting to the calendar view is very tricky. I
will try to look at it. I do not use the app for that. I only use it to add
calendar events. I can’t explain why but I just much prefer Fantastical for
this. If I remember correctly, the calendar view pops up when the
:)
Christina
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On Oct 31, 2013, at 10:13 AM, Christina C. blindmaclo...@gmail.com wrote:
OK, I have this app. I believe getting to the calendar view is very tricky. I
will try to look at it. I do not use the app for that. I only use it to add
calendar events. I can’t
a different beast to apples calendar app. Smile.
Danny.
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On 1 Nov 2013, at 3:08 am, Christina C. blindmaclo...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I have no idea how to contact or find the contact info for the developer and
I have also never done this before, so this would be new
. Sounds promising!
Nic
On 1 Nov 2013, at 3:36 am, Christina C. blindmaclo...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Nick,
OK, I found it. It does not pop up after hovering the mouse. That was
something different. I can explain that later if need be but for now. Here
is the calendar. When you are in the app
HI all,
I just downloaded and tried the app Fantastical 2 on my iPhone. It’s currently
half off right now. I’ve only played with it for around 20 minutes so this is
my early take on the app. I like it a lot more than the apple calendar app,
mostly because I now have access to month view this
I am very confused. I went into apple preferences then iCloud and checked the
check box to sync notes. I thought this would sync my notes using notes on my
iPhone and iMac using the notes application. However, it keeps asking me to
create an iCloud email address. Do I have to do this and if I
Is the email from yahoo or gmail? It's also possible that yahoogroups is having
some technical difficulties at this time. I do not know.
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On Jul 2, 2013, at 2:09 PM, Maria Joe Chapman bubbygirl1...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi. Does anyone know the correct settings for a
Why do folks suggest that we buy both? What are the benefits to scanning with
vuescan and then using Abby fine reader for the OCR? Why can't we just use fine
reader for the scanning as well?
Thanks,
Christina
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Winging its way from my iPod
On Jun 25, 2013, at 10:33 AM, Christina C. blindmaclo...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello everyone,
I don't know what has been going on lately but voiceover has been speaking
oddly and I can't seem to find
I am new to learning braille right now and I have been using Brailletouch
pretty well but I have not upgraded. I am still keeping my fingers crossed that
apple will find a way to incorporate specialized keyboards like the
brailletouch or the fleksy keyboard because I don't use these great tools
, 2013, at 1:56 PM, Christina C. blindmaclo...@gmail.com wrote:
Hmmm, one example is that in the subject line of this email, Alex says oddly
with a distinctive H sound at the beginning like its spelled HODDLY. If I
spell out the last name Solden but I refer to the whole family as the
Soldens
Hi, I do not have a word processor on my mac except for text edit. How does it
compare to pages? Why should or would one consider this over pages? Thanks so
very much. I do need to purchase a full fledged word processor but I have not
done so because I wasn't sure about accessibility.
Thanks,
Hello everyone,
I don't know what has been going on lately but voiceover has been speaking
oddly and I can't seem to find any settings anywhere that would affect these
changes. I am using the voice Alex in the United States. Alex will just
randomly say words incorrectly then I will back up
Hi, I think the deal is over because she posted the email last night. In the
mac app store its' a lot more than $25. Is it on sale somewhere else for that
price? Although, I thought you already had the app.
Christina
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On Jun 25, 2013, at 11:38 AM, Nicholas
I use fantastical to enter my calendar events. I do not use the calendar
portion of the app but I just use it for event entry by typing the event in
natural language. As a thought, you should see if the ACB convention has a
public calendar that you could subscribe to then you would not have to
, 2013, at 4:33 PM, Christina C. blindmaclo...@gmail.com wrote:
I use fantastical to enter my calendar events. I do not use the calendar
portion of the app but I just use it for event entry by typing the event in
natural language. As a thought, you should see if the ACB convention has
Hi, Can anyone suggest a webpage building application for the mac that somewhat
works with voiceover. I understand that building a website is somewhat of a
task requiring vision. However, I will and can have help with this. I don't
need anything super robust. It's more for learning and
is this an app I download from the mac app store? Thanks :)
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On Jun 20, 2013, at 4:56 PM, Maxwell Ivey maxwelli...@aol.com wrote:
hello; then i suggest you consider using wordpress to build your site. best
of luck, max
On Jun 20, 2013, at 5:53 PM, Christina C
, at 5:53 PM, Christina C. wrote:
Hi, Can anyone suggest a webpage building application for the mac that
somewhat works with voiceover. I understand that building a website is
somewhat of a task requiring vision. However, I will and can have help with
this. I don't need anything super robust
starting. good luck, max
On Jun 20, 2013, at 6:16 PM, Christina C. wrote:
is this an app I download from the mac app store? Thanks :)
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hello; then i suggest you consider using wordpress
Can one purchase and manage their kindle books from the amazon app then switch
over to the kindle app to download the book and read it? OMG! I am shocked,
amazed, and excited all at once. I can barely sit still in my seat. I thought
this was a mean joke at first.
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I used to love type 2phone. However, lately mine refuses to type properly.
It constantly repeats any key I type over and over and over. I am running
latest version of mac and type2phone and ios on my iPhone 4. The last
type2phone update was supposed to fix the key repeat problem but it did
Hi is there a trick for the fine tune feature of radio stations in slacker. I
get how to get to the area but there is a slider I'm supposed to adjust and I
can't get it to work. I have tried the double tap and hold but that has been
hit and miss. The flicking up and down doesn't slide the
Hello all,
Is spotify vo friendly on ios? Is there anything a blind user can't do with the
app? If spotify isn't VO friendly what are the alternatives? I currently use
Pandora but I like the idea of making my own playlists and Pandora seems to get
very repetitive. Also as a side note, is
I feel kind of dumb asking but what is intonation when choosing voice
preferences. I understand speed and pitch but I don't understand intonation.
Thanks,
Christina
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Hi,
Which Craig's List app do you recommend that is very VO friendly. I have the
free version of Craig's List Pro. It used to be much more accessible and now I
find it quite cumbersome and I keep getting lost and having to ask for sighted
assistance.
Thanks,
Christina C.
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were on topic here.
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On Feb 12, 2013, at 3:00 PM, Christina C. blindmaclo...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Which Craig's List app do you recommend that is very VO friendly. I have the
free
Hmmm, I am not sure I understand what you mean when you say you cannot OCR
within the app. I can OCR within prizmo. If you did not OCR in prizmo than how
did you OCR with Prizmo to compare to abbyy? :) I was hoping Prizmo was a good
trade off because the price for Prizmo was quite a bit less
Hi,
I am barely fiddling with the mac app but I figured out how to do a scan. If
you go to file and click on new, then VO around in the window that opens up
until you hear something like import from camera and scanner. Select that than
VO and interact until you find the name of your scanner. I
, Christina C. blindmaclo...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I am barely fiddling with the mac app but I figured out how to do a scan. If
you go to file and click on new, then VO around in the window that opens up
until you hear something like import from camera and scanner. Select that
than VO and interact
William,
I cannot speak for ABBYY as I have never used it. Nor, can I offer much info
about prizmo as I am very new to prizmo 2. I have a little bit of experience. I
was able to use my scanner directly from prizmo. I scanned a two page paperback
book and the results were good. I was able to
Hi,
Can someone please help me figure out how to take a mailbox out of my favorites
bar in apple mail. I am thinking there is some kind of dragging the mailbox
off but I don't know who to do that with VO.
Thanks so much!
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Is there an Pandora app that would be accessible on my mac. I would also love
it if I could use airPlay with this app. I cannot figure out how to use Pandora
through the web/Safari and I was hoping there was an alternative. :)
Thanks,
Christina
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, but if you do
a google search for something like download pianopub, you should be able to
find it easily enough.
Good luck!
Missy
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I appreciate your reply. :) Did you find this custom repeat on the mac or
iPhone? I did not see this on my iPhone but I may have missed it somehow. I
would think that first week instead of once a month would do what I want, for
example, the first Saturday. I just need to find this custom
Hello,
Currently, I am using Calendar on my mac and iPhone syncing via iCloud. Is
there a way to customize reminder alerts. I would like other options, such as
12 hours before an event. I also cannot figure out how to schedule a repeating
event to occur the first Saturday of the month. I found
Wow, I had no idea I could use my iPhone to control appleTV. I tried to
understand how I would go about this through these emails, but I got lost.
Where would I get started. I'd appreciate someone pointing me in the right
direction. All this time I haven't been using the apple TV because I
Oh Thanks so much. Christopher, what in the world is a message activity? What
is an activity? I know nothing of this? Where can I learn about this? Colin, I
like that idea and I will experiment with that. I will try that shortly by
getting hubby to chat with me via iMessage. :)
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Do you find the effort of learning lastPass worth it? Do you use it a lot and
does it save you time? I really need to make my online shopping quicker and
more independent. :)
Christina
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the auto-completing of
contact information or credit card numbers, but I'm always unsure about
using such things, if they exist, because of security concerns.
Thanks,
Harry
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wrote:
Hi,
I'm not actually sure what
Is lastPass for the MAC VO friendly. If not, is there another solution to the
lastPass Safari Extension. .
Thanks so very much,
Christina
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Hmm, that is a good idea. I could also password protect the file? I've never
password protected a file. I am sure it's not too difficult.
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On Nov 30, 2012, at 10:20 AM, Mauricio Almeida mauriciopmalme...@gmail.com
wrote:
hello there.
May i give you a hint:
Hi,
I find using the messaging app cumbersome on my Mac. When a message comes in, I
have to VO over to the HTML area then use a key combo to get to end of HTML
area then vo back a bit to hear last message sent to me. Then uninteract and VO
to the area where I type my reply. Is there a quicker
Hi,
I'm not actually sure what this type of app or safari extension is called. My
husband uses some sort of plug in with google chrome on his mac. When he shops
online it will automatically fill out his contact info and he chooses which
credit card he wants to use and he's done. It fill it all
Hi all,
I had a notes folder/mailbox in SL apple mail. Maybe I remember wrong? I
can't find this in ML apple mail. I just need a handy way to jot down notes for
when I'm on the phone.
Thanks for any help or advice,
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I am royally frustrated. I do not even know how but I keep ending up in
spaces. I can't access my safari windows when I'm doing research because of
spaces. I can't figure this out at all. Can anyone please help. How can I
either not use spaces or how do I use these? I'd rather not
What in the world is spaces and how in the world do I seem to end up in spaces
with applications? I don't like this experience because I cannot find safari
windows that I have open and I cannot access them. I don't even know how I am
getting in this spaces thing. I apologize for my ignorance
one thing i love about apple TV is that our good speakers are hooked up to our
TV and so I can use my iPhone to listen to my play lists, Pandora, or Songza on
my good speakers through the apple TV through air play.
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On Sep 11, 2012, at 11:57 AM, Nic Parsons
no idea what they are either.
i think it's like the dashboard.
i also keep ending up in them.
Timothy
Your Friend in the music industry
http://www.timothyclarkmusic.tumblr.com
On Sep 11, 2012, at 11:55 AM, Christina C. wrote:
What in the world is spaces and how in the world do
Hi all,
I skipped lion and went from SL to ML. I used to be able to VO spacebar on a
folder in Finder and the folder would open and I could see it's contents. I
cannot get this to work in ML. What am I doing wrong. I can press the right
arrow to expand the folder but I do not like this
Hi,
I don't think you can remove the all mail label. I believe you can sort of
unsubscribe from that label so you don't end up with duplicates and such
while using imap. I will do a horrible job of explaining so I will send you
the link that helped me. When I went through this process I did
have you tried any apps for the iPhone in the app store? there has been a
discussion on the viphone list but I did not follow it. Sorry, I'm not into
football and just deleted the messages without reading them.
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On Aug 31, 2012, at 8:51 AM, Brian Fischler
.
HtH,
Teresa
On Aug 17, 2012, at 11:08 AM, Christina C. blindmaclo...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
Can someone please tell me how to add mailboxes to the favorites bar. I
cannot figure it out. I have checked all of the menus,preferences, and tool
bars.
Thank you so much.
Sent
How do you do this in mountain lion? I used to hit command, shift, h to see
the headers, then vo to the sender, then mouse click the name, then I would
click the reply to sender. I do not see this option anymore.
Thanks,
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On Aug 28, 2012, at 1:09 PM, Alex Hall mehg...@gmail.com wrote:
Why not just use cmd-r to reply? What does the reply to sender do that cmd-r
does not?
On Aug 28, 2012, at 3:06 PM, Christina C. blindmaclo...@gmail.com wrote
and most online
stores.
On Aug 28, 2012, at 3:36 PM, Brett C. blindinnova...@gmail.com wrote:
I've been seeking this answer myself. Please post if you figure it out.
Thanks,
Brett C.
On Aug 28, 2012, at 1:06 PM, Christina C. blindmaclo...@gmail.com wrote:
How do you do
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On Aug 28, 2012, at 7:08 PM, Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com wrote:
Oh!
Yes. I see what your saying now. My bad.
Ricardo Walker
rica...@appletothecore.info
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On Aug 28, 2012, at 8:59 PM, Christina C. blindmaclo
Hi, I am using ML with standard view in apple mail. Is there a way to
configure things so that the fields in the messages table are in an order that
I prefer. I'd like voiceover to read this info to me in a different order. I
really don't need to know how many message conversations are in
Hi all,
Can someone please tell me how to add mailboxes to the favorites bar. I cannot
figure it out. I have checked all of the menus,preferences, and tool bars.
Thank you so much.
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I just purchased it for $4.99. Yay! At least, that' what I think. When I
went through the in app purchase process it asked me if I was sure I wanted to
buy it for $4.99. I was passing this along in case someone one was wondering
if it is still $4.99 through the in app purchase.
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On Aug 12, 2012, at 1:41 AM, Garth Humphreys wrote:
Yes u can each have your own iCloud accounts If you have created separate
apple IDs for iMessages then just sign in to iCloud with those credentials.
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On 12/08/2012, at 7:31, Christina C
a month ago.
Chris.
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From: Christina C.
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 4:41 PM
Subject: What's your fave faceBook solution?
Hi all,
I am so frustrated. I am not one of those people who are always on FB but
when I do
with Gmail and aliases, but I'm not sure what that is.
Again, thanks for the help with trash folder.
Bill
On Aug 10, 2012, at 3:37 PM, Christina C. blindmaclo...@gmail.com wrote:
Ok, it's been a bit since I've done this so my instructions may not be
exact. Also, I did this on snow leopard so
, remember the subject.
I can try to type them up for you again, if you want, but it may not be until
later tonight. I have a huge recording session that I'm gonna be dealing
with here in a bit.
Chris.
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From: Christina C.
To: macvisionaries
I think I found them. I was reading some old e-mails. I am copying and
pasting what I found below. Are these them?
***
On my mac, I use the FB mobile site. you have to configure a few things though
in Safari to make it work correctly. Let me outline those things below. Being
Hi,
The family and I share the iTunes account. Can I have my own iCloud account
and still share the iTunes account or are they the same thing? We each have
our own iMessage and FaceTime accounts. This made me wonder if we can each
have our own iCloud account.
Thanks!
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Thanks for sharing this info. Why does it have to be done in the recovery
partition instead of through Lion in disk utilities?
Thanks
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On Jul 29, 2012, at 10:23 PM, Andrew Lamanche wrote:
Dear Listers,
Since the news of Mountain Lion - I still run Lion - I've
Oh Thanks for this. Everytime I hear VO announce a system dialog, I never can
find it. Then I have to get my kids to help me find it and then I have them
read it to me and take the appropriate action to clear the message. I really
appreciate this great help.
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On
Hi, is this a mac app or a iOS app?
Thanks,
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On Aug 9, 2012, at 5:10 PM, Ed Worrell wrote:
Hello, the app that I have had the most luck with is Ace For Facebook. This
is a great app. You may want to relabel some buttons, but the buttons all
work, there is a
Ok, it's been a bit since I've done this so my instructions may not be exact.
Also, I did this on snow leopard so I hope my instructions are not outdated.
I'm assuming you are using gmail imap in apple mail. So, in apple mail go to
the gmail trash folder in the mailboxes sidebar. Make sure
How do I set a sweet spot? I will be checking out ace for FaceBook as well as
flipboard. Thanks so much
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On Aug 10, 2012, at 2:20 PM, Brian Fischler wrote:
I just use the Facebook website to
post my own thoughts. And I have noticed that if you set the sweet
Hi all,
I am so frustrated. I am not one of those people who are always on FB but when
I do use it I am always so disappointed. I was hoping voice book for iOS would
be the solution. However, I just discovered that my newsfeed is not accurate.
So, back to the mac and Safari, but the
Do I need to back up iOS apps before I update the app if I use Time machine? I
have been backing up iOS apps in a folder on my hard drive before I update apps
in case accessibility has been broken or if the update is terrible so that I
can install the previous version if I need to. I was
. If your using one, the other has to be off or, out of range
of the keyboard.
Ricardo Walker
rica...@appletothecore.info
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On Jul 25, 2012, at 10:37 PM, Christina C. blindmaclo...@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, it makes great sense, thanks. However, my
Hi, I just got a iMac a couple of days ago. Can I pair my wireless keyboard
with my iOS devices? Can it only be paired with one item, like my computer?
How in the world do I pair it with an iDevice if it can be done. I can't
figure it out. I'm really lost on this.
Thanks,
Christina C
will need to type a set
of numbers from the Apple keyboard. Type those numbers in and press the
Enter key.
Let me know if any of this is not clear.
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Hi, I just got a iMac a couple of days
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