Re: how to add people to a Skype conversation

2011-02-03 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, I've found that there are a couple steps in your description that can be done differently and that could be a time saver. Instead of searching for the "add people" button, just hit cmd+shift+a then in the edit box provided, type a name or parts thereof, the table will shrink down to the choi

Re: adding and taking away individuals in a Skype conversation

2011-02-09 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, I'm very interested in how you remove someone from a skype conversation. Also have you found out if it's possible to add someone who's calling in to a conversation that i host? /Krister 9 feb 2011 kl. 12.24 skrev Ray Foret Jr: > Hi, > > I know that we've had a discussion about adding indiv

Re: sparrow email client for Mac

2011-02-10 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, I checked it out briefly when it was in beta and guess what? It's not accessible. That is, you can set up accounts no problems, and you can manage preferences and so on, but the mailboxes as well as the messages table are just presented to VO as empty tables. You could try the free one and s

Re: Steve Jobs has only six weeks to live, according to the inquirerer

2011-02-18 Thread Krister Ekstrom
18 feb 2011 kl. 01.12 skrev Jes Smith: > So, what will happen to Apple's Accessibility team after Jobs is gone? Will > we lose access to voice over, or will it cease to be updated? What do you > guys think? I hate to say this, but it wouldn't surprice me in the least if the first thing that g

Helping a friend cancel a file in skype 2.8 but how?

2011-02-21 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, As the subject says, i'm trying my best to help a friend of mine who's just got a new Mac. She runs Skype 2.8 and she has encountered a problem. When in a window with a file transfer that waits to start sending, whe can't cancel the file transfer to start all over again. There's no cancel bu

Accessibility or lack thereof in Reaper

2011-02-22 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hello, Since i'm interested in audio editing, i'm trying different products out. Now i'm trying Reaper v3.75. It's an audio editor with pretty advanced features. Unfortunately, it's quite inaccessible, however, you have loads of short cuts in it, so i believe it could work sorta, but one would o

Re: [Bulk] Re: My 2 cents about the inaccessibility of the set up of drop box

2011-02-24 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Yeah, but the thing is, we're such a tiny piece of the market that our money doesn't do anything here nor there. Just think for a while, how many are blind in the world, and i mean all of the world? How many of the blind are using an Apple product? How many of those Apple product users are on th

Re: sparrow e mail client

2011-02-28 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Yep, i tried Sparrow lite and came to the same conclution. You can sorta read your emails, if you know how to select them but the trick is to select the messages since all that's showing is an empty scroll area. Does anyone know a way to contact the developers about this? The feedback form on th

Re: some good and some possibly bad news for bo users

2011-03-02 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Oh come on, the scansoft voices ain't so bad, be thankful it isn't espeak or Orpheus. I for one think that the swedish scansoft voices are way way better in terms of language treatment than the Infovox ones. /Krister 2 mar 2011 kl. 17.46 skrev Mary Otten: > According to the article found at > h

Accessibility of Reaper on the Mac

2011-03-06 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hello, I've downloaded and tested an app for audio and midi editing that is cross platform between Windows and Mac called Reaper. It looks promising, exept that you can't read the tools in the toolbar nor times, meters and the like, but at least some times you can actually play and manipulate so

Re: Accessibility of Reaper on the Mac

2011-03-06 Thread Krister Ekstrom
6 mar 2011 kl. 19.41 skrev louie: > Krister how about a url to download the app. I don't know the exact download link but you can get the latest Reaper for the Mac at http://www.reaper.fm. /Krister -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries"

Re: a helping hand for developers in assessing their accessibility

2011-03-08 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, I'm not sure i understood everything in your mail, but i'm thinking of 2 apps that could use this sort of help, one of which you are familiar with and the other i've mentioned before here on the list. The familiar one i thought of was Algoriddims DJay for the Mac. What's needed there is a wa

Two questions about the accessible Audacity for the Mac

2011-03-12 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, Let me put this to you frankly, me and Audacity aren't friends at all.:-) I don't at all like the way Audacity works, but since everyone have a personal taste i could always either learn the beast, which i'm about to sorta do or use another program. The thing i wanted to ask here are 2 quest

Re: Two questions about the accessible Audacity for the Mac

2011-03-13 Thread Krister Ekstrom
s ins and outs are going to gather and i'm actually going to speak there, so it'd be cool if i had something to show there. /Krister 13 mar 2011 kl. 19.33 skrev Frank Carmickle: > Hi Krister > > On Mar 12, 2011, at 6:00 AM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: > >> Hi, >>

Re: Reaper versus other sound editors on the mac

2011-03-16 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, Other people have already answered this but i want to give my opinnion about this, partly to start a discussion and partly because i want things to happen and don't know where to start to really make them happening. The basics of Reaper are actually accessible, menus, dialogs and such stuff

Re: An informal Podcast regarding Pro Tools

2011-03-19 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi there. One thing that would be very useful to know is just how much power it needs, i.e what are the system requirements to even get off the ground? I suppose a 2 year old IMac with 2 gig ram, a 4.66 gig Intel core duo processor and aprox 1.5 TB external and internal storage is far from enoug

Re: Outspoken VS. VoiceOver

2011-03-22 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, I'm an old outspoken user, and i can say that for its time it was the best screen reader i'd used on any platform, but then we'll have to remember that in Sweden we only used one screen reader for Dos, and it could be quite cumbersome to set up and so on. True enough we didn't have the contr

DJay 3 and Vestax spin

2011-03-24 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, So i took the plunge and ordered a Vestax Spinn control surface, now i wonder if anyone has made a podcast about using the Spinn as a blind person or if someone could tell me if there's something one should be aware of when or before using the spinn? Is it hard to set up? How would i go abou

I have never gotten the hang of sound flower

2011-03-29 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi good people. I will receive my Vestax Spin tomorrow, then there will be a lot of playing going on, i'm sure. Someone on this list, i think it was Yuma talked about a way to route Voiceover via Soundflower to the cuing channel of ... DJay? The Vestax unit? i have installed Soundflower but hav

Got my Vestax spin today. It's awesome but...

2011-03-31 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, i have got my Vestax spin today and am trying it out with Djay for Mac, it works wonders but i have a couple of questions to those who own a spin or similar device: Is there a way to change modes so that instead of pitch shifting i get time stretching when adjusting the speed of tracks? That

Re: Got my Vestax spin today. It's awesome but...

2011-03-31 Thread Krister Ekstrom
31 mar 2011 kl. 19.11 skrev Yuma Decaux: > 1-pitch lock is what you want for time stretching. It's on the button top > right of your pitch slide fader. There's no such button, at least i can't find it. That's probably the difference between the bigger model that you have and the one i have. As

Re: Skype 5 conferencing 101, (was Re: Making a Skype Conference: is it Possible?)

2011-04-10 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, Rose, have you figured out how to add people who call you while you're in a conference to that conference, if you see what i mean? Let's say i'm in a conference with Jill and John and then you call and i want to add you to the conference i'm in, is it possible? /Krister 10 apr 2011 kl. 14.24

Routing the voiceover sound to DJays pre-cuing channels using Soundflower, how?

2011-04-11 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi there, I want to be able to use DJay 3 software with a Vestax spinn that i have to do some mixing and stuff. I don't want voiceover to go out in the main mix but i still want to have control of what i do and so i want voiceover sound to go to say the cuing channels of DJay, how would i go abo

Re: braille and voice over?

2011-04-17 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, I use an Alva Satelite 544 which is a quite old display but it works, or should i say worked well until OsX 10.6 when it decided it no longer wanted to play, this was due to incompatibility with the international braille system mentioned below. Now please let me clarify that i think it has n

Facebook app now even more accessible

2011-04-21 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, After the long wait the facebook app is now at least as far as i have looked fully accessible. The long standing bug where the comment and like buttons weren't available is now gone. Next to the posts in the latest facebook app posted April 20th are first an image that says "photo" and then

Re: Facebook app now even more accessible

2011-04-22 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Facebook is the name of the app. /Krister 22 apr 2011 kl. 00.14 skrev Kliph&Sharrie: > What is the exact name of the face book ap? > > -Original Message- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Krister Ekstr

File handling on the Mac, somewhat techy

2011-04-22 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi folks. I was deleting files from my beloved digital recorder today and had my virtual machine up. It's a vmware virtual machine running Windows XP. I decided to do some experimenting so i looked on my recorder from the PC side of things and in the root of the memory was some files that the ma

Re: Facebook app now even more accessible

2011-04-24 Thread Krister Ekstrom
hanks, Krister, this is good news. Does the same apply to iPad? ALso, can > you give me - if it is not too much - a short description of how you use Chat > on the iPad with voiceover? > > Best wishes > > Simon > On 21 Apr 2011, at 22:57, Krister Ekstrom wrote: > >>

Re: File handling on the Mac, somewhat techy

2011-04-24 Thread Krister Ekstrom
ey > > Sent from my iPod > > On Apr 24, 2011, at 11:00 AM, Jes Smith wrote: > >> I don't think there is an option like that. I could be wrong though. >> >> On Apr 22, 2011, at 11:14 AM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: >> >>> Hi folks. >>> I was

Re: For those who can actually afford this, DocuScan Plus is now on the mac app store.

2011-04-29 Thread Krister Ekstrom
I don't get this at all, in the swedish app store they say Docuscan plus is free, is there a "hidden" cost somewhere or what gives? /Krister 29 apr 2011 kl. 14.46 skrev Matthew Campbell: > Hi. > Seems a little pricy to me as a college student who doesn't have any funding > that's all. > On 2011-

Re: For those who can actually afford this, DocuScan Plus is now on the mac app store.

2011-04-30 Thread Krister Ekstrom
30 apr 2011 kl. 01.45 skrev Kimberly thurman: > I just bought a Cannon Lied 210 and bought Vuscan just to be able to scan > photographs and the like, as the drivers that are included with the Cannon > scanner are not accessible with VO Strange, how come then, that i, who are totally blind can

Help with cleaning up my ITunes library

2011-05-07 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hello, I don't know if this is even possible, but here's the problem: I have an ITunes library with a load of songs, over 1000 at least, however due to various happenings in the past i also have many duplicate links to the same song, many if not all of them has the status "invalid place" or some

Strange error when converting files with Max

2011-05-08 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, I'm trying to convert files from a for ITunes unreadable format .flac to a more ITunes friendly format. I use Max for this task. In Max there's a neat little function that adds files to ITunes after conversion should you so wish, which i do, but when trying to convert files and add them to I

Re: Strange error when converting files with Max

2011-05-08 Thread Krister Ekstrom
8 maj 2011 kl. 14.13 skrev erik burggraaf: > Hi, why don't you just download fluk eand save the overhead? Cause Flook doesn't support one thing or the other and i'm dead sure that the thing it doesn't support is just what i need and i'm no programmer. Also is it even still under development? /

Re: Strange error when converting files with Max

2011-05-08 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Burggraaf > User support consultant, > Now posting occasionally on twitter at eburggraaf, > 1-888-255-5194 > http://www.erik-burggraaf.com > > On 2011-05-08, at 9:22 AM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: > >> >> 8 maj 2011 kl. 14.13 skrev erik burggraaf: >> >>&

Re: Strange error when converting files with Max

2011-05-08 Thread Krister Ekstrom
hout first converting them to a suitable format and then sync them? If so, i'll stick to Max anyway and then the question about the error comes again, how to get rid of it so that i don't have to hit enter on each and every file i want to convert. /Krister 8 maj 2011 kl. 20.23 skrev Krister Eks

Re: Strange error when converting files with Max

2011-05-08 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Best, > > Erik Burggraaf > User support consultant, > Now posting occasionally on twitter at eburggraaf, > 1-888-255-5194 > http://www.erik-burggraaf.com > > On 2011-05-08, at 3:00 PM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: > >> Ok, i've been on the Fluke web site and ch

Re: Libra Office

2011-05-10 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, I have tried Libre Office and it's got about the same sowstoppers as Openoffice, that is wordprocessing, every line is presented as a different edit box, making it hard to read continuously and you can't as far as i know select long pieces of text. That's as far as i came before giving up on

Re: Say Goodbye to Skype, Microsoft just bought it for 8.5 billion

2011-05-12 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, I wonder what alternatives there could be for Skype. Too bad it's so big and popular, Skype, that is, i don't want any M$ bloatware on my beloved macs. /Krister 10 maj 2011 kl. 17.26 skrev Jes Smith: > Hi all > > Looks like the days of Skype's being useful, and accessible to the blind are >

Re: Other media players than iTunes.

2011-05-14 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hey, Is Cog still under active development? I got the impression it wasn't, but i could be wrong. /Krister 14 maj 2011 kl. 00.34 skrev Ray Foret Jr: > There's Cog too. > > That one has ENQ on it. I don't think any of the others do. > > > Sincerely, > The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! > > Now

Re: Other media players than iTunes.

2011-05-14 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Yes, VLC supports Flac, but then we have the problem of not being able to take our .flac files with us on the IPhone, something that at least i want to do, hense my earlier question of long ago of converting .flac to ITunes friendly format using Max. /Krister 14 maj 2011 kl. 02.06 skrev Blake S

Re: New text-to-speech voices in Lion

2011-05-18 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Unlike you i am a fan of Nuance voices. Why? Because they are multilingual and way better than the acapella ones in my oppinion.Finally we get to have swedish voices without buying 3rd party voices, if the rumors are true. Nice! /Krister 17 maj 2011 kl. 16.12 skrev Chris Moore: > Don't panic, th

Re: New text-to-speech voices in Lion

2011-05-18 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Considering that we finally get a swedish voice, and one that is way, way better than Acapellas, i do vote for Nuance anyday. The acapella voices, at least the swedish one has serious pronounciation issues, it adds words i haven't written and generally is annoying to my ears. /Krister 17 maj 201

Re: accessible web page maker

2011-05-19 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, I have briefly looked at an app called Rapid weaver. It's a wysiwyg (what you see is what you get) style editor that is accessible to VO. You can both use coding, that is insert html tags yourself or you can use it rather like one uses a word processor. Both ways worked when i looked at it.

Re: Nisus writer pro 2 is out.

2011-05-21 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, Another thing i want to know, can Nisus writer pro handle Word documents directly, that is, do you, like in pages, have to "export" the document into word format or could you act upon, and save a word document directly? /Krister 20 maj 2011 kl. 14.35 skrev Thomas Byskov Dalgaard: > Hi Annie!

Re: desk top facebook cliant?

2011-05-23 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, What facebook client are we talking about here? Where might i get it to try it out? /Krister 23 maj 2011 kl. 14.42 skrev Ray Foret Jr: > The Facebook cliant is pretty much okay. It's actually better than using the > mobile site via the Mac itself. That's because of the changes they've mad

Re: Facebook client for the mac

2011-05-23 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hello, What are the differences between the two if any, and which of them would you recommend when it comes to features and such? I want to be able to write statuses, comment/like other peoples posts and chat. Uploading photos is a plus though not a deal breaker if they're not there. /Krister 23

Re: Facebook client for the mac

2011-05-23 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, I have played around a bit with the pro version of Facetab, as this is the one that has chat support. It's accessible although there are some quirks i want you to beware of: 1 and possibly the most serious one, you can't like or comment with this app using the usual vo methods, since vo does

Re: Facebook client for the mac

2011-05-24 Thread Krister Ekstrom
tegall wrote: > >> If the window gets closed for some reason pressing control f reopens it. >> Hope this helps >> >> >> Randy Stegall >> kc4...@aol.com >> Sent from my Mac Mini. >> >> On May 24, 2011, at 2:28 AM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: &g

Re: so what about face tab

2011-05-26 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, has anyone figured out anything about the following? On the main page you have notifications, and sometimes a link saying "see more events" but when you've clicked on the link you can't get back to the previous notifications and there's no way as far as i can tell to get to the notifications

Re: text editor for coding, and a good anti malware app?

2011-05-31 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, I can't help but wondering what the difference is between the X 6 and the plus version and what program has the most benefits. /Krister 31 maj 2011 kl. 00.31 skrev Dan: > Hello Matthew, > No problem at all. I was considering this app, but I was also considering the > Virus Barrier X 6 applic

Re: VizWiz

2011-05-31 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, It's interesting to note that VizWiz actually is available even in the Swedish app store, however i wonder whether the services offered by this app really works here, since i wonder if there are any scandinavian speaking volunteers at this time. ***ranting mode on*** Sometimes i wonder abou

Re: Microsoft Office.

2018-02-22 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, I have no knowledge of excell since i don’t work with that kind of applications. For my kind of workflow which is very simple, word works well. What i’m most impressed with however is the way Outlook now works on the Mac with every calendar view accessible and visible, whereas earlier on the

Re: Pro Tools with VO? is it any good?

2018-02-23 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Odd that you should say that. I found that in Pro tools you had to read tons of manuals and partly obsolete tutorials just to be able to record one single track. It took me over a year to even get off the ground and when i did, half of the time i didn’t know what i was doing, while in Logic i wa

Re: Pro Tools with VO? is it any good?

2018-02-23 Thread Krister Ekstrom
;t tried pro tools 12 or the new "2018 version that may explain > your observation. :) > The midi section is night & day now from pre PT 12 days! > YMMV :) > Talk soon > Chuck >>>> "God does not play dice with the universe" >>>> "Alb

Re: Pro Tools with VO? is it any good?

2018-02-24 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hey, I thought i would try PT 2018 out but i can only see a free trial of PT 11 which is quite useless since i already have tested it. Is there a free trial or do i have to renew my license which i haven’t done since v11 came out? Also is there a list of compatible control surfaces both third par

I have stepped into the future and have a question

2018-03-13 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi i’ve got an iPhone X that i purchased today. I have just set it up and now i wonder, is there a way to get all my old settings back without having to start from the beginning again with setting up the iPhone? I want my apps, favorites and contacts and so on back. I know this is a typical ”i s

Re: I have stepped into the future and have a question

2018-03-13 Thread Krister Ekstrom
E.T.'s Keyboard... > ancient.ali...@icloud.com > Many believe that we have been visited > in the past. What if it were true? > > On 3/13/2018 7:56 AM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: >> Hi i’ve got an iPhone X that i purchased today. I have just set it up and >> now i wonder, is there a way

Re: I have stepped into the future and have a question

2018-03-13 Thread Krister Ekstrom
; Sent from my iPhone > >> On Mar 13, 2018, at 10:28 AM, Krister Ekstrom >> wrote: >> >> I use iCloud backup but i can’t see anything to restore from even though >> there should be things to restore. Could you please remind me where to go? >> /Krister >>

Re: I have stepped into the future and have a question

2018-03-13 Thread Krister Ekstrom
I know that when I did the setup on mine, >> there is a point during setup where if you just hold the old phone next to >> the new phone it copies over all or at least most of your settings. Of >> course this requires that you still have the older phone. >>

Face id question

2018-03-13 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, To those who use Face ID, do you use it with the extra Attention mode or do you have that turned off? I tried the attention mode and it was almost impossible to open the phone then. I just wondered how you other people do it? /Krister -- The following information is important for all member

Re: Face id question

2018-03-14 Thread Krister Ekstrom
it on first, once Face ID is set, you can turn Tention on providing that it > can see the eyes. That is how I use mine. >> On 13 Mar 2018, at 20:57, Krister Ekstrom wrote: >> >> Hi, >> To those who use Face ID, do you use it with the extra Attention mode or do >>

An audio editor question

2018-03-18 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hello and sorry for the cross posting but i figured that if someone on one list doesn’t know this then maybe another one on the other list might know. I’m using an audio editor for the Mac called TwistedWave which for the very most part is accessible, however i can for the life of me not figure o

Re: An audio editor question

2018-03-19 Thread Krister Ekstrom
t; > Sent from the only computer with built-in screen reader access for the blind: > > Sincerely, > > The constantly barefooted Ray > >> On Mar 18, 2018, at 4:36 AM, Krister Ekstrom >> wrote: >> >> Hello and sorry for the cross posting but i figured th

I'm probably getting my airpods today, is there something i should know?

2018-03-21 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hello, I’ve purchased a set of Apple Airpods that i’m going to get today or tomorrow. Now i wonder if there’s anything i have to do to make these beasts accessible and/or if there’s somewhere i could read up on the commands that you use to operate the Airpods. I understand you have to tap somewh

Re: I'm probably getting my airpods today, is there something i should know?

2018-03-22 Thread Krister Ekstrom
other devices, but that > should be more than enough to get you started. Also, since they have no > buttons or anything of their own, any questions you have which are answered > online should have no accessibility challenges. > > -- > Alex Hall > > > > >> On

Re: I'm probably getting my airpods today, is there something i should know?

2018-03-24 Thread Krister Ekstrom
few days then the bloody things cut out during > phone calls. > > I just don’t get it, why can’t they stay functioning until the call your on > is ended. > Crap, absolute shit. > > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com On > Behalf Of Krister Ekstrom > Sent: Thursday

Is there a way to forward an entire mail conversation?

2018-05-09 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, This is one of those ”i really should know this but…” questions: If i have to forward a lot of mail to others and they are in a conversation or more, is it possible to forward that entire conversation thread or must i forward the mails one by one? If there is a way to forward a thread at once

Apple Watch series 2 and Airpods

2018-05-11 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, I have an Apple watch series two and in the manual they claim that you should be able to use them with an apple watch when you don’t use it with the iPhone, however, that doesn’t seem to be the case. When i stop using the iPhone and try to use the watch, no sound comes from the Airpods. Is t

A good gps solution for the blind revisited

2018-05-19 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, Sorry for the somewhat frustrated tone of this letter, guess i need to let off steam or somesuch.:-) I’m trying to find a good gps solution because i’m about to try a new route that i haven’t walked for a year or more. At that time i had an Android phone and just about the only good thing wi

Re: Laptops: When did things change?

2018-06-12 Thread Krister Ekstrom
I’m actually a bit surpriced that the touchbars haven’t made it into the magic keyboard for the mac. I wonder if they will come. /Krister > 12 juni 2018 kl. 20:25 skrev Tim Kilburn : > > Hi, > > Close John. It was actually 2016 that the Touch Bar MacBook Pros came out. > Everything else you

Beware of a new inaccessible control

2018-06-16 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hello I have recently tried to start an account in an app and failed due to a new inaccessible control, or rather the control isn’t inaccessible as such but … well, it’s like this: I as i said tried to open an account in an app and they wanted to have my phone number, which is totally understan

Re: Beware of a new inaccessible control

2018-06-16 Thread Krister Ekstrom
mpatible with spirituality; > it is a profound source of spirituality.| --Carl Sagan > > On 6/16/2018 6:57 AM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: >> Hello >> I have recently tried to start an account in an app and failed due to a new >> inaccessible control, or rather the control

Re: 13 apps for your iPhone that are better than the ones Apple made, Business Insider

2018-06-19 Thread Krister Ekstrom
I got interested and tested Edison Email. It looks really promising i’d say. Ok, there may not be every single thing under the sun accessible, there’s no rotor actions for example, but still mail is readable and most actions can be performed as far as i can see. Haven’t tested replying yet from t

Anyone worked with Evernote on the iPhone

2018-06-21 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, I needed a good app where i easily could do check lists and if possible even attach alarms to them so that i could check important things to do before i go on vacation in a couple days. I downloaded and tried Evernote and found it hard to work with and incredibly sluggish. Furthermore i cou

Re: The 10 most important iPhone apps of all time, The Download Blog, CNET Download.com

2018-07-13 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Evernote isn’t. I tried it not so long ago and it was verry hard to work with, at least for what i wanted it to do. I don’t consider Google maps fully accessible either since you can’t follow a map like you can on Apple Maps, so i guess you have to compromise, less accurate map data and more acc

Re: Create custom ringtones for your iPhone, CNET

2018-07-24 Thread Krister Ekstrom
In what app do you do this? Sounds simple enough. /Krister > 24 juli 2018 kl. 14:58 skrev 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries > : > > Why would one go through all this? > > In the past, I've just taken songs I wanted to use as ringtones, marked off > the 30 seconds I wanted to use as a ringtone

Adding another language without VO going nuts

2018-08-22 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi all, I want to add an english keyboard layout to my Mac, but i want it to be below the Swedish keyboard layout in the layouts table. The reason is that if i only add the keyboard layout and it goes above the Swedish keyboard layout, Voiceover starts to speak swenglish, that is some words are

Re: Adding another language without VO going nuts

2018-08-23 Thread Krister Ekstrom
that this might shed some light on your situation, but if it doesn’t, > I am sorry. > > > Best regards, > > Mike > > >> On 22.08.2018, at 11:53, Krister Ekstrom wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> I want to add an english keyboard layout to my Mac, but i

Shortcuts with If statements

2018-09-19 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hello, I’m trying to understand the Shortcuts app and although i don’t understand much of programming i want to see if i can grasp at least something about this app. Now i want to know if anyone has created shortcuts with one or more ”if”, ”else” statements. I don’t understand the syntax of this

Dealbreaker alert!

2018-09-21 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, I have encountered what i think is a big deal breaker for the shortccuts app unless i have misunderstood something here. When i add a customized shortcut to Siri and run it from the home screen or anywhere else outside the shortcuts app, Siri runs the shortcut as expected, but leaves the sh

Re: Dealbreaker alert!

2018-09-21 Thread Krister Ekstrom
th the Shortcuts app having focus. > > They could easily fix this I have an action to go to home screen. But I don’t > see any such action. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Sep 21, 2018, at 06:36, Krister Ekstrom wrote: >> >> Hi, >> I have encountered

Re: Dealbreaker alert!

2018-09-21 Thread Krister Ekstrom
e this will be helpful. > > <https://support.apple.com/guide/shortcuts/welcome/ios> > > From E.T.'s Keyboard... > ancient.ali...@icloud.com > Many believe that we have been visited > in the past. What if it were true? > > On 9/21/2018 7:12 AM, Krister Ekstrom wrote:

Re: Dealbreaker alert!

2018-09-22 Thread Krister Ekstrom
I do appreciate that documentation. But I still have lots of questions. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Sep 21, 2018, at 14:52, Krister Ekstrom wrote: >> >> The manual is helpful in many ways, but i see no mention of if it’s possible >> to be put back on the home scree

Re: Amazing app for transferring, copying, extracting between and among computers/devices: any accessibility info?

2018-10-16 Thread Krister Ekstrom
I too would like to know about this. Would be too bad if there’s a good app for transfering stuff and then you can’t use it because it’s inaccessible. What’s the name of the app btw? /Krister > 16 okt. 2018 kl. 16:11 skrev Christine Grassman : > > So, I am told there is an app which normally se

Re: Amazing app for transferring, copying, extracting between and among computers/devices: any accessibility info?

2018-10-16 Thread Krister Ekstrom
he blind: > > Sincerely, > > The constantly barefooted Ray > >> On Oct 16, 2018, at 11:50 AM, Christine Grassman > <mailto:cgrassman1...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> >> >>> Imazing is the name. With an I instead of an A.On Oct 16, 2018, at 12:

Re: Siri and music.

2018-11-20 Thread Krister Ekstrom
I think it has to do with language. It looks as if Siri has trouble communicating in multiple languages at the same time, so if you have Siri set to Swedish for example, it gets confused when suddenly one or more english or other forreign words are thrown into the mix. That’s my 2 cents for what

Where are my subsccriptions?

2018-11-23 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hello everyone. I’m now really embarrased because i should know this but i don’t, either that or the setting i’m after is hidden somewhere and i can’t find it. I wonder where i might find information about my subscriptions so that i can stop them. I’m talking about subscriptions to Apple music, o

Found it

2018-11-23 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hello, After somme searching i was actually able to find the subscriptions for Apple Music and the like. Now that has been taken care of. It wasn’t in an obvious place but i found it nonetheless. /Krister -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If

Re: Any one have any news on GPG for Sierra?

2016-10-24 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Mailmate is supposed to support Gpg, however it didn’t quite match my workflow, too bad since it was a nice mail client. /Krister > 24 okt. 2016 kl. 00:35 skrev Michelle Hurdt : > > Scott, > > I know there is Alpine, but if you want something with a Gui, I don't know. > > Portia. > > On 10/23

Re: Peel the Apple or what ever it is called.

2016-11-10 Thread Krister Ekstrom
+100 on that one. > 11 nov. 2016 kl. 03:55 skrev E.T. : > > One month?! You will break that pledge at the speed of light. Its not in > your nature to stick to this one. Trust me. (smiles) > > From E.T.'s Keyboard... > Without H2O there is no life! > ancient.ali...@icloud.com > > On 11/10/20

Re: Aftershockz bluez 2s headset

2016-11-18 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Do the Trekz titanium sit as tight on the head as the Bluez 2S do? Half an hour with those on and i get a serious headache and in my not so humble opinion the sound quality just isn’t fit for music with only midrange and no bass or treble at all. That’s me though and the mileage may vary. /Krist

Re: RIP AirPort? Apple may abandon wireless routers and Time Capsule

2016-11-22 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Uh oh, so what’s a good and accessible wireless router in case my old trusty Airport Extreme breaks down on me? /Krister > 21 nov. 2016 kl. 23:52 skrev Dan D. : > > > > http://www.macworld.com/article/3143604/hardware/rip-airport-apple-may-abandon-wireless-routers-and-time-capsule.html#tk.rss_

Re: Question about the Sonos products

2016-12-06 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, I have a Sonos Connect amp sitting here. I also have a pair of regular hifi speakers connected to them and it sounds quite good, i’d say. /Krister > 6 dec. 2016 kl. 14:04 skrev Andrew Lamanche : > > Hi, > > I've been following some of the discussions on Sonos because for quite a > while I'

Re: Question about the Sonos products

2016-12-06 Thread Krister Ekstrom
; > Andrew >> On 6 Dec 2016, at 14:14, Krister Ekstrom wrote: >> >> Hi, >> I have a Sonos Connect amp sitting here. I also have a pair of regular hifi >> speakers connected to them and it sounds quite good, i’d say. >> /Krister >> >>> 6 dec.

Re: Question about the Sonos products

2016-12-06 Thread Krister Ekstrom
it works fantastically. > > On another note, did anyone get the V7 yet of the Sonos controller and try > accessibility with it on the Mac? I'll be doing so shortly to see if it's any > better. > > Chris. > > - Original Message - From: "Krister E

Re: wordpress VoiceOver content management solutions

2017-04-23 Thread Krister Ekstrom
There are so many plugins to Wordpress that sifting through them all would probably have my head spinning in no time, so what are good accessible themes/plugins etc? /Krister > 23 apr. 2017 kl. 03:31 skrev Jonathan Cohn : > > Well, > > I guess you got an answer from Michael. I have heard of o

Re: wordpress VoiceOver content management solutions

2017-04-23 Thread Krister Ekstrom
kl. 12:40 skrev Caitlyn Furness : > > Hi, > Well, it depends on what you want and need as to what’s good. > > what are some things you are wanting to do with your site? > > Cait > >> On Apr 23, 2017, at 4:34 AM, Krister Ekstrom > <mailto:kris...@kristersplac

Re: And here's an example of why Apple is losing the digital assistant game

2017-04-23 Thread Krister Ekstrom
That was what i was about to write a couple mails ago, many of those digital assistants have no or limited functionality outside the US. I’m not certain that even Google or Siri for that matter works at their fullest here in Sweden and then let’s not even begin to talk Samsungs new Bixby. I wond

Re: love, love, love the AirPods!

2017-06-08 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, What makes me a bit hesitant to buy a pair of airpods is the battery time which isn’t so impressing if one compares with a Plantronics headset, but if they are comfortable to wear and has good sound, maybe one should try them after all. /Krister > 8 juni 2017 kl. 16:13 skrev Donna Goodin : >

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