accessibility API's

ies > <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > Jonathan Cohn <jon.c.c...@gmail.com> wrote: >> My memory is that 10.3 had UI Scripting the Macintosh equivalent of >> Microsoft’s UIA to query applications and provide links for accessibility >> tools. The ne

Re: iGrill thermometers accessability

The AT guys sell the iGrill thermometer so I know it is workable with VoiceOver. JJ also provides excellent support for the things he sells. And if you buy from them you are supporting a blind entrepreneur. > On Mar 13, 2016, at 20:55, Bill Gallik wrote: > > Beyond

Re: could Siri's iPhone voices finally be coming to the Mac?

The spoken interface actually dated back to the v7 days. When UUNET got Macintosh computers for the sales staff in 94-95 there was already the ability to give spoken commands and get responses. And in fact if you remember from the Steve Jobs movie even the first Macintosh ad MacSpeech which

Re: A Pages spelling alert issue

I wonder if you could delete (or tempororarily move) your com.apple.pages* files in your preference area. ANother thing to attempt would be to create an account to see if a fresh account also does not speak mis-spelled words. Take care, Jonathan On 2 March 2016 at 11:47, Anne Robertson

Re: File vault in elcapitan refuses to disable.

This would be set in the security area of system settings. It is called file vault. On 8 March 2016 at 09:53, Jessica Moss wrote: > Thanx so much, got it up and running, how do I disable it completely so I > don't have to keep doing this? > > Sent from my iPhone > >

Re: Remote control software for mac and windows?

Hello, the Wikipedia page on remote protocol implementations lists 72 different commercial and freeware programs to do this. One that looked like it works on Mac and does sound forwarding is call FREERPD . http://www.freerdp.com I was starting to think it might be interesting to look at

Re: Remote control software for mac and windows?

to do this please share with the list! > On Mar 16, 2016, at 09:02, Jonathan Cohn <jon.c.c...@gmail.com> wrote: > > NO, I was thinking of Apple Remote Desktop which is describe pretty well in > this Wikipedia entry: > > > The standard protocol that this currentl

Re: Remote control software for mac and windows?

Both JAWS and Macintosh do use the same basic underlying protocol for remote windows. My brain is forgetting the name right now, but it is an open source package, so I would expect that NVDA would use this to. Now the hard part would be routing the voice over to the remote controlling machine,

Re: tax blues with mac

I have forwarded this thread to Intuit’s Accessibility office. I’ll let you know if I get a reply. Best Wishes, Jonathan -- 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

Re: Hotspot number 3

Yes, I was able to reproduce on my US Macintosh just now, though it was difficult because first I had to go to input area of the keyboard system settings and add a new layout of british. Also, on that input tab of keyboard settings there is an HTML area that crashed voiceover every time I got

Re: VirtualBox questions

in native OS X windows that Voice Over would understand. HTH, Jonathan COhn > On Mar 16, 2016, at 11:08, Chris Moore <chris.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > I have a few questions before diving into VBox. > 1. Is there a build for el capitan, or do I need to build

Re: Remote control software for mac and windows?

an't > here audio of the machine your controlling.. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Mar 16, 2016, at 8:02 AM, Jonathan Cohn <jon.c.c...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> NO, I was thinking of Apple Remote Desktop which is describe pretty well in >> this Wikipedia

Re: Request for Tips on Using Screen Sharing

There are several applications out there for doing this and each has its own features. Generally there are the web conferencing type solutions and the remote log in to my computer solutions. For the Web Conferencing type solutions (I think even skype has a version) you connect together each

Re: El Cap output sound

Actually, the System settings are a bit tricky to use with Apple Script even if you are using UI Scripting. I was able today to put together an AppleScript that clicks on the System Sound tab in the Menu Extras area, but it appears there is no way to perform a option click in AppleScript

Re: Request for Tips on Using Screen Sharing

eavors. >> >> I would prefer to avoid using a third-party solution, if possible. >> >> Unless there is a more native option, as far as I can tell, Back to my Mac >> will probably be my choice, I think (smile). >> >> Mark >> >> -Original

Re: Mail Signatures

You actually have to drag the signature or signatures from the right panel into the Email account you want them active on. This is a bit difficult because if you have cursor tracking on, then when you move to the mail account on the left it selects that account and thereby unselecting all the

Re: Remote control software for mac and windows?

that to VoiceOver also? I suppose we could ask the accessibility desk at Apple if Apple Remote Desktop supports VoiceOVer and if there is any possibility of getting it to work with NVDA remote (after all NVDA remote has to be open source too!) Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn https

Re: siri and iphone

What I think is amusing: J: Call my Son. Siri: You have two contacts named Sam Cohn neither of which has a phone number. J: Call Sam Cohn Siri: Calling Sam’s mobile number. One time it went further and when I said Call Sam Cohn Siri asked who I wanted to call and listed all three of my

Re: VoiceOver does not speak images in the UIImagePickerController

Hello, pole Apple maintains an accessibility mailing list whereApple employees and developers can discuss such issues. I suggest you look at the archive and perhaps post to that list. Most of the people on this list are VoiceOver users. Messages would be sent to:

Re: Is there any way to figure out the format used in a PDF file in Preview?

I could not figure anyway to do this, but I was able to get font information with vo-T in iBooks. Best wishes, Jonathan > On 17 Mar 2016, at 22:51, Donna Goodin wrote: > > Hi all, > > I tried using the inspector, but still can't determine the font of my > document.

Re: List View or column view

The title of the window will tell you which folder is active. vo-f2 (or as VO help calls it, Describe Window” > On Mar 16, 2016, at 07:45, Sandy Finley wrote: > > I have been trying both to see which I prefer. I like column view because it > is so easy to hit the right

Re: Automating Macintosh book.

the way of which tools are VO usable and probably a summary of how much additional work a VO user would need will be provided to the list. Jonathan Cohn jon.c.c...@gmail.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/JCCohn > On 19 Mar 2016, at 10:31, Scott Berry <sb356...@gmail.com> wrote

Re: Screen Brightness default

Yes, this was my experience with my 2009 MBP. If the brightness is set to 0 then it gets restored to 100% on reboot or re-login. I usually keep my brightness at 3-6% and rarely find it getting reset except when somebody else uses my system. :-) . Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On 21 Mar 2

Re: Anyone install OS X 10.11.4?

Well, if you can actually get to the point where VO says interacting with edit text, then vo-L will work. Tested on the full gmail site, by typing “/line nav” and then doing interact with until I heard interact with text edit. Those funky combo boxes like on the google home page don’t seem to

Re: One not so busy Macintosh.

. Personally I think just cleaning out Saved Application State and logging out and in to iCloud was probably all that was needed. “ Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On 23 Mar 2016, at 17:37, E.T. <ancient.ali...@icloud.com> wrote: > > Was it any one thing or a combination of things? Si

Re: Changing e-mail from All Messages to most recent 150 in Pop3 Gmail account on iPhone 6 running iOS9.X

I believe this is a setting in Google configurations. Are you sure your new phone is still using POP? The IMAP protocol has been in more favour recently since it will keep everything in sync. Perhaps if you delete your gmail account, disable IMAP service from the Gmail settings and then

Re: Hotspot number 3

So if shift 2 is not @ how do you create e-mail address? If you type vo-@ will that create a hotspot? Best wishes, Jonathan > On 21 Mar 2016, at 10:11, Anders Holmberg wrote: > > Hi! > On my mac its hotspot number 2 that does not work. > But if i change to English

Re: Automating Macintosh book.

ks. > /A >> On 20 Mar 2016, at 18:04, - <dandun...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Include me on your new list please. >> >> >> On Sun, 20 Mar 2016, Jonathan Cohn wrote: >> >>> Currently only Scott has replied to this message. We have decided to

Re: Changing e-mail from All Messages to most recent 150 in Pop3 Gmail account on iPhone 6 running iOS9.X

tely a POP3 on my iPhone 4. Everything was just migrated >> wholesale when i connected the iPhone 6 to iTunes upon purchase. So, I have >> no reason to believe that this account wouldn’t remain a POP3. Any guidance >> appreciated. >> Kevin >> >> >> >&g

Re: pdf and mac question

PDF tags, for full understanding by the entire user community of a complex document, you should be using PDF-UA which is an international standard. Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On 25 Mar 2016, at 00:11, John Weir <johnw...@gvtc.com> wrote: > > because the PC automatical

Re: How to add an item to the dock?

t I think I'll just stick > to using the contextual menu or the keyboard command. > Cheers, > Donna > >> On Mar 24, 2016, at 7:20 PM, Jonathan Cohn <jon.c.c...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> FWIW, I was able in the latest OS to get the VO drag commands to move >> somethi

Re: Problem with imap gmail on Mac OS

1. Use item chooser and find “google account”. 2. click this or press enter. 3. click tab 4 or 5 times and you will find a logout link. Press Enter. Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On 27 Mar 2016, at 11:29, Sarai Bucciarelli <sarai.bucciare...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > H

Re: Starbucks Order And Pay

I fully agree, So please vote on: Vote on this idea ... http://mystarbucksidea.force.com/apex/ideaview?id=0873800PTOaAAO#.VvgPspc2dVA.twitter I saw three types of controls when ordering a drink. 1. A control with adjust add / reduce buttons after the amount. 2. a button which when

Re: pdf documents

Jonathan Metz just started creating a series of Youtube videos on making accessible PDF documents I expect it is mostly for Windows, but I will provide the link. I believe that google docs might also be able to create tagged PDF files. . Best wishes, Jonathan >From WEB AIM mailing list: Hi

Re: Hotspot number 3

ign. > /A >> On 24 Mar 2016, at 00:04, Jonathan Cohn <jon.c.c...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> So if shift 2 is not @ how do you create e-mail address? If you type vo-@ >> will that create a hotspot? >> >> >> Best wishes, >> >> Jonathan

Re: pdf documents

That is true, though the same PDF might have different sizes if the font collections are compressed or the graphics have reduced sizes. I believe Acrobat Pro has controls to manage this along with the ability to change or modify PDF tags. Best wishes, Jonathan > On 26 Mar 2016, at 12:46,

Re: Major overhaul of voice dream reader

I have been planning on purchasing this, do you think if I wait for the new release there might be a discount? Thanks, Jonathan Cohn > On 27 Mar 2016, at 19:49, Anders Holmberg <and...@pipkrokodil.se> wrote: > > Hi! > I will do it. > But do yu know how to contact th

Re: How to add an item to the dock?

FWIW, I was able in the latest OS to get the VO drag commands to move something to the dock. 1. Go into system preferences- Dock and uncheck “Automatically hide and show the Dock unchecked checkbox” 2. Don’t use the drag command but instead use the drag after or drag before commands (

Re: smart groups in contacts

I can think of a couple possibilities but without any details it is hard to know which would be the culprit. 1. Some of your contacts are actually merged contacts where you have contact information from Facebook and your own entry in the same contact card. If this is the case, then perhaps

Re: Lisp interpreters for OS X that work with VO?

I know there are versions of EmacsSpeak that work withApple speech syncs. I downloaded one version but never installed it. If you are fairly good with VI, there is a “vi- mode” in EMAVS that simulates a lot of vi commands. Kyle Jones wrote a great mail reader in EMACS called VM that was quite

Re: Administrative Issues.

Sorry Folks, That message was supposed to go to BlindMacAutomation, I need to listen more carefully when posting. My apologies and of course I did not change anything on MacVisionaries! Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On 2 Apr 2016, at 18:07, Jonathan C. Cohn <jon.c.c...@gmail.com&

Re: Pdf reader and editor

Hello, I could not find a reference to the MoveMouse application. Could you please provide information either on or off list. Thanks,, Jonathan Cohn > On 2 Apr 2016, at 17:34, Anne Robertson <a...@anarchie.org.uk> wrote: > > OK. Filling out PDF forms can be done with

Dragging an unprotected iBook

I did this, though it was too many keystrokes and I would love to have to automate this a bit. 1. Use vo-~ to bring up the resize move the iBooks window to the top left. 2. Switch to finder use vo ~ to resize to right centre. 3. go back to iBooks and use vo-comma to start a drag operation. 4.

Re: Ip addresses of devices in a network

I used to ping the broadcast address and then run arp -n I believe modern IP stacks are less likely to respond to broadcast pings though. Best wishes, Jonathan > On 30 Mar 2016, at 21:37, Simon Fogarty wrote: > > Hi Krister, > > Just a thought and someone may know

Re: Ip addresses of devices in a network

Yes, I used to spend 50 hours a week writing and configuring SNMP systems. Most SNMP systems run SNMPv1 which is considered to be a security hole . Though if one runs SNMPv3 it is hard to call it Simple Network Management Protocol anymore. Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On 1 Apr 2

Re: Selecting an option on the Social Security web site

Did you enable the accessible mode? When looking at https://secure.ssa.gov/iClaim/Ent001Submit.do There were two sets of radio buttons. If you use the arrow keys and tab keys on the radio buttons then what is spoken is what is selected, and VoiceOver in high verbosity mode did speak selected

Re: How do I enable AirDrop on my Mac?

ree years have some issues with some of the conductivity > between Mac and iPhone, because they don't have Bluetooth 4.2. I am not > sure if that's getting in your way. > > > > Best wishes, > > > > Jonathan Cohn > > > >> On Apr 28, 2016, at 4:58

Re: Automation mailing list.

Did you get your acceptance? If so, please let us know what you are interested in learning. Thanks, Best wishes, Jonathan > On 24 Apr 2016, at 17:45, gs wrote: > > Strangest thing in the world but maybe the reason you haven't gotten many > subscriptions. Whenever

Re: Automation mailing list.

I was attempting to send essentially the same information to two different mailing lists, and when I pasted the draft message into Macvisionaries I did not proof it before sending the message. I think you also requested to join. Any high priority items you are looking at discussing? Also,

Re: Very interesting scenareo I urgently need help with

that QuickTime >> has a ability of merging in multiple things and getting them synchronize >> too, though I have no idea how accessible it is. >> >> Best wishes, >> >> Jonathan Cohn >> >> On May 20, 2016, at 1:27 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland <

Re: Applescript Use Voiceover Find

elieve it actually clicks the menu (perform action) . Another thing you might look at is the text library. I believe you should be able to do something like: select the first paragraph that contains "#" Were you using the VoiceOver find or the application find? Best wishes, Jonat

Re: Focus Bug in El Cap

Also what checkboxes are unchecked in the Navigation area of VoiceOver utility? Best wishes, Jonathan > On 27 Apr 2016, at 15:17, Brian Fischler wrote: > > Curious if anyone else has had this happen and if they know the cause or a > fix. I do a VO shift D to go to

Re: VR stream and mac

types depending on the capacity and perhaps speed of the drive. It might be that the card itself is not compatible with your card reader. In this case, disk utility would not see the card either. I believe an external card reader would help with this issue. Good Luck, Jonathan Cohn > O

Re: the new Macbook

type faster with the new keyboard. Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On 30 Apr 2016, at 19:37, John Panarese <jpanar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > To each his or her own. However, if one person doesn’t like it, that > doesn’t imply or infer it’s unusable for the blind and th

Re: finder with el capitan

I believe the sidebar is not available in all view types. Sorry, I am not being more specific. Best wishes, Jonathan > On 3 May 2016, at 16:25, Nancy Badger wrote: > > Hi everyone, > I finally upgraded my laptop to elcappitan. I am only having one problem so > far.

Re: I can't really order my mailbox

his process? > > Thanks, > Kevin > > Sent from my iPhone > > On May 4, 2016, at 8:37 AM, Jonathan Cohn <jon.c.c...@gmail.com > <mailto:jon.c.c...@gmail.com>> wrote: > >> You need to use the drag and drop functionality of VoiceOver. Go to the >> fold

Re: I can't really order my mailbox

You need to use the drag and drop functionality of VoiceOver. Go to the folder you want to move. Mark it with VO+comma Move to the folder after where you want it to go. Use vo+ less than (vo+shift+comma) This worked fine for me. If you want to actually have the folder placed inside another

Re: I can't really order my mailbox

Yes. Best wishes, Jonathan > On 4 May 2016, at 11:38, Kevin Gibbs <kevj...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Are you using El Capitan? > > Sent from my iPhone > > On May 4, 2016, at 9:42 AM, Jonathan Cohn <jon.c.c...@gmail.com > <mailto:jon.c.c...@gmail.com>&

Re: Slack on iOS and Watch OS

I head heard it was entirely inaccessible and that the vendor did not have plans to make SLAC usable by the blind. Are there any on-line guides for the blind on using slap with any environment? Best wishes, Jonathan > On 5 May 2016, at 20:14, Kevin Chao wrote: > >

Re: Silencing 'disclosure triangle' (was: Safari Verbosity Driving Me Bonkers Any Help How to get rid of)

Mail is quite interesting with this. In the messages view the disclosure triangle will not speak if overall verbosity is set to low, even if disclosure triangle verbosity is set to high. Best wishes, Jonathan > On 15 Apr 2016, at 07:07, Alex Hall wrote: > > Hello, > I

Re: vo+f2 does it work for you

This command only lists application and System windows like Please enter your password or command help. So the Mail help window shows up in the finder window list, but none of the mail windows. VO-F1 twice gives you a listing of all applications then a right arrow will list the windows

Re: Tray?

I understand that VO-Shift-J should do this, but I have not directly experienced this working. Would you be willing to share the site, so that somebody else can look at the exact issue? Best wishes, Jonathan > On 15 Apr 2016, at 17:32, Christina C. wrote: > > I’ve

Re: Accessibility in Inbox by Gmail - Inbox by Gmail Help

, it did not seem to recognise the Amtrak ticket associated with the same trip. Thanks for providing information on this, though I think we still need to see a few updates before it will be as efficient as a Native client. Has anybody tried the IOS version? Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On 6

Re: Problem with Logging On after Update.

David, Just to be clear, the only options available are Password, Shutdown, reboot? What does VO-F1 say for this screen. What happens if you type escape. Best wishes, Jonathan > On 17 Apr 2016, at 11:47, David Griffith wrote: > > dthanks - I was not clear enough

Re: E Mail messages with multi-parts.

So If I click on the read in browser link, would I be able to skip to the separators? I don’t remember a keyboard shortcut or roar for that. Best wishes, Jonathan > On 18 Apr 2016, at 09:54, Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote: > > No, I think you’re out of luck. Even though

Re: setting up a Gmail account with Outlook 2016 for Mac

Did you look look google help? I believe you need to change. GMail security settings. On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 9:10 AM Jenine Stanley wrote: > I’m having all kinds of difficulty setting up my GMail account in Outlook > 2016. Google has blocked the use of my log-in. > >

Re: question on greater and less

That is fairly standard on US keyboards. I thought you might be asking a single character that combines those two characters. On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 9:26 PM Sarai Bucciarelli < sarai.bucciare...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi: > How do you write the lessthan sign and greaterthan sign on the Mac? >

Re: To Unified English Braille Readers

: Re: To Unified English Braille Readers >>> >>> If a braille display is connected to the Mac to be used as a display, >>> it will rely on the Mac for translation. In other words, it matters not >>> how the Focus is set up. >>> >>> From E.T.'s K

Re: OT: custom sound works for Mail, not Messages

It looks like the file type should be core audio file I found the Bamboo sound in the Modern directory under: Library/PrivateFrameworks/ToneLibrary.framework/Resources/AlertTones Best wishes, Jonathan > On Jul 24, 2016, at 7:16 PM, Alex Hall wrote: > > Hi all, > I just

Re: To Unified English Braille Readers

Mark, Did you change a setting on the Focus or on the VoiceOVer braille settings? I did find the binary that does braille translation for the Macintosh appears to be based on Duxberry if that makes any difference. FS appears to have moved to LibLouis for their Braille translation in UEB. --

Re: El Capitan

I believe this is the correct item to open. Probably after clicking on the application a dialog box comes up to verify that you are doing something serious to your system. Also, the F1 key is the second key on the top row. The first key is the Escape key. Best wishes, Jonathan > On Jul

Re: Moving WiFi networks on MacOS El Capitain

zero. > > Later... > > > Later... > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On Jul 23, 2016, at 12:30, Jonathan Cohn <jon.c.c...@gmail.com> wrote: > > My response in-line to your two possibilities, I am doing this with 10.11.5 > >

Re: Message tones on the Mac

If you are talking about the messages application, this is set in the settings area of the messages app under the General tab. I believe there is also the ability to set message tones in the contacts application, I am not sure if messages honors these settings. Best wishes, Jonathan > On

Re: Listing the contents of folders on my hard drives

Well, there is always the "ls" command in terminal. But it is truly amazing how many files are in a modern Operating System. One "app" might have 1,000 files. Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On Jul 23, 2016, at 11:26 PM, Kristeen Hughes <khwi...@gmail.com> wrote

Accessible screen sharingScreen

> Begin forwarded message: > > From: Jennifer Sutton > Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Accessibility user testing > Date: July 19, 2016 at 2:37:51 PM EDT > > For those who may be interested in screen sharing, here's a recent accessible > Webinar software roundup. Though you may find this slightly

Re: Latency issues with VMware Fusion

be called setup) on the CD.. 6. Restart the Virtual Machine. Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On Jul 23, 2016, at 8:45 PM, Joshua Tubbs <ori...@icloud.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > As expected with a Virtual Machine, I have sound lag and also key delay due > to this. > I tried to

Re: Latency issues with VMware Fusion

be called setup) on the CD.. 6. Restart the Virtual Machine. Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On Jul 23, 2016, at 8:45 PM, Joshua Tubbs <ori...@icloud.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > As expected with a Virtual Machine, I have sound lag and also key delay due > to this. > I tried to

Re: MS Word jumps to the top

You could set up the numbed commander to have 0-8 used read line function. By default this keystroke is set to next table I believe. Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 5:44 PM Larry Thacker Jr. < larry.thacker...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was having some other issues and

Re: MS Word jumps to the top

and star go to previous / next image. Sorry about being off a line on the table jump commands, Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On Jul 29, 2016, at 8:28 AM, Larry Thacker Jr. <larry.thacker...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I thought about redefining all the keys to work like I’m used to,

Re: High pitched VoiceOver

bracketsxz. So perhaps some controls are getting in the way. Best Wishes, Jonathan Cohn On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 3:16 PM Traci Duncan <our4p...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everybody, > I don’t know if I accidentally changed a setting, but this is driving me > a little crazy. I use S

Re: To Unified English Braille Readers

ionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of E.T. >>> Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2016 7:51 PM >>> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >>> Subject: Re: To Unified English Braille Readers >>> >>> If a braille display is connected to the Mac to be used as a >

Re: Accessible online banking / Bank America

Just got an advertisement about BOA having a MacOS app now. If anybody try the new app, can you report back to the list? Thanks, Jonathan Cohn > On Jul 27, 2016, at 11:45 AM, Scott Granados <sc...@qualityip.net> wrote: > > Hi, I have had very very good luck with Bank

Re: Audio highjack echo

of Hijack options when the major version came out about a year ago. wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On Jul 30, 2016, at 10:35 AM, Antonio Guimaraes <anto...@accesstoplaces.com> > wrote: > > I am using Audiohighjack to record Skype and FaceTime calls. > > The resulting record

Re: events in an email

this in enough detail to report to Apple Accessibility. Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On Jul 30, 2016, at 12:05 PM, Marie Lyons <mlyons...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I received an email from someone listing some dates I needed to put on my > calendar. vo said “event detected”. Is t

Re: Is there a keyboard command to bring the mouse?

in effect. I guess I would need a sighted person to verify that . Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On Jul 30, 2016, at 3:41 AM, Anne Robertson <a...@anarchie.org.uk> wrote: > > Hello Donna, > > I regularly have to bring the mouse to the VoiceOver cursor and haven’t

Re: OT: custom sound works for Mail, not Messages

25, 2016, at 08:10, Jonathan C. Cohn <jon.c.c...@gmail.com >> <mailto:jon.c.c...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> My primary idea was to let you know to try core audio instead of an AIFF for >> the file type. >> >> ghe location. >> I used the find co

Re: Notifications

to this table from the shortcuts tab. 5. Hit tab again to find the Do Not Disturb shortcut. Check the check box to the left of the "Do not disturb" and then move focus to the text entry field and enter your shortcut to toggle "Do not disturb". . Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn

Re: To Unified English Braille Readers

that would work, and wonder if and how standard Screen Readers would handle the ability to have non-linear braille output. Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On Jul 27, 2016, at 2:45 AM, M. Taylor <mk...@ucla.edu> wrote: > > Hi Jonathan, > > Wow! You've done some serious r

Re: .KWT file Type?

on all unix type commands it looks at the file extension and the first few lines of the file and compares them with a "magic" file to guess what type of file it is. For example files that start with #!/usr/local/bin/perl are perl script files. Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On Jul 3

Re: .KWT file Type?

Chris, Thanks for the suggestion, I had not read the manual page for file in 30 years. I like the new option to output mime types instead of standard strings. Take care, Jonathan Cohn > On Jul 31, 2016, at 7:14 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland <clgillan...@gmail.com> > wrote: &

Re: .KWT file Type?

I have a BrailleNote Apex at work, but only really use it as a braille terminal. Do you think this would be from the BrailleNote word processor? I could try creating one of these files and place it on a flash drive. Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On Jul 31, 2016, at 7:33 PM, Christop

Re: Using MS Word and Excel on the Mac

Well, you could place hotspots on the alignment buttons and track them, but there is about a 5 second delay before VoiceOver speaks the tracked changes. Best Wishes, Jonathan Cohn . On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 6:06 AM Frank Ventura < frank.vent...@littlebreezes.com> wrote: >

Re: Printer and scanner

My HP Printer has a very extensive web page built in to do configurations also. So you could probably connect to ethernet hardwired then connect to the printer and change settings. Actually, I believe the HP printers are also set up as wireless base stations so perhaps just switching your Mac to

Re: Using MS Word and Excel on the Mac

I wonder, I bet that we could take the commands from JAWS to get that information and implement them in AppleScript on the Macintosh On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 6:06 AM Frank Ventura < frank.vent...@littlebreezes.com> wrote: > This may be something I am doing wrong but in Word when I use VO T to

Re: Machine translation software for the mac

I believe there is a translation widget provided as part of the OS Dashboard widgets. I believe newer accounts default to having dashboard disabled as Apple is seeming to migrate that stuff to the notification center Hit F12 and if dashboard comes up then use VoiceOVer window list and you should

Re: StoCard, The Rewards Card App, is Back and Better Than Ever!!

Mark, I do not have enough reward cards to make this worthwhile, but I thought the Wallet app that is part of IOS 9 obsoleted all of the reward card apps. Can you give a brief explanation of the advantages of this app over the builtin version? Thanks, Jonathan > On Aug 14, 2016, at 1:35

Re: Searching for sanity

Larry, I don't think anybody answered you on this. One possibility is that the database that is used to support search services like spotlight somehow missed those files. You can do a Google search on how to re-build the Spotlight database. If you have a hard disk Macintosh (not solid state),

Office 365 / 2016 August update.

r graphics and also be told if any of their document structures are not suitable for AT technology. Go and advocate to your computer friends that send they have no excuse now for sending you documents that are unreadable and composed in Word or PowerPoint. Best Wishes, Jonathan Cohn -- The

Re: help with get info please

Best of luck! Jonathan Cohn On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 12:16 PM zoe fiogkos <fiog...@rogers.com> wrote: > If I'm understanding what you are telling me, if I continue typing in > lower case it will accept that even though it's not showing it\? I was > hoping there would be an eas

Re: Pages not in US app/iTunes Store?

To the best of my knowledge it is available for free for all users of recent Apple computers. Best Wishes, Jonathan Cohn On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 12:09 PM Sharon Hooley <shoole...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I was able to download Pages on my iPhone, no problem. But is it tr

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