RE: Bugs in Apple Mail with MacOS 10.12

Hello Grant, I can confirm the first item in your list said item being "1. You can't Shift-Tab to the mailboxes table as it will not appear in the tab order. So, for instance, if you are focussed in the messages list you need to tab several times until you wrap back around to the mailboxes tabl

RE: Can anyone get Activities to work on Sierra

Hello Brian, Yes, Activities are working beautifully in Sierra, on my MacBook Pro Mid-2014 machine. I use several activities including various voices. For example, while my primary VoiceOver voice is Alex, all notifications and the notification center, use my beloved Samantha. To be honest

Re: Bugs in Apple Mail with MacOS 10.12

Hello Mark and Grant I was able to get an accessibility adviser from apple to confirm not being able to shift tab in apple, mail. He’s taken a ticket up to engineering. Thanks. cheers gerry have a nice day Email: gerryc...@optusnet.com.au Skype: gerry.cook1 Twitter: @gerrycook52 > On 22 Sep.

Re: Networking and Time Capsule

I am in Ontarioand am up and back at it. Complicating things, we had house guests last night and they sleep in my router room. As a result, I’m waiting for them to wake up before starting again. :) Jeff > On Sep 21, 2016, at 10:08 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > > Jef, > > Which province are you

Re: Installing a fresh copy of El Capitan on my Mac mini

I can't believe myself, it'w working? no not working, but at least start installing. I discovered, the issue. , it was that the Voice over made automatic interaction with the table of hard disks. so, I can not find the install button at all. don't know why this happened. but this is what happened.

Re: do i want firewire to ethernet or USB to ethernet?

Most modern Macs have Thunderbolt not firewire and you can get a firewire to ethernet dongle too. I believe these cost about $45, so you need to look at what you are using the network for to determine if the additional bandwidth provided by a more expensive cable will actually give you better th

Re: Apple TV 3rd Gen.

Thanks ET. I'll work on it tonight. Vaughn On 9/21/16, E.T. wrote: > Cannot charge that one. Use a coin to open the battery compartment. > It uses a CR2025 type. > > The input source will be the HDMI port you connected to. > > From E.T.'s Keyboard... >Are We Alone in the Universe? >

Re: Networking and Time Capsule

I have discovered this morning, that the most important step in working with wired networking, is to connect the correct ethernet cable. Not sure how I pugged the wrong one in, but I’ve found another cable that has brought the system back online. This weekend I’ll try setting things up properl

Not Seeing Documents in iCloud Drive

Hi, I’ve enabled the option in Sierra to store Documents and Desktop in iCloud Drive. But in the iCloud Drive app on IOS 10, I’m not seeing those folders, nor has the space available decreased at all. I’m not sure why this might be happening. There is plenty of space for those items to be stor

Re: do i want firewire to ethernet or USB to ethernet?

Can you get lightning to ethernet? That'd be kind of cool for those times when you've got bad wifi. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post

Re: do i want firewire to ethernet or USB to ethernet?

Hi, Never thought of that before, but an interesting question indeed. It appears that there is such an animal, but it has limitations. It is only compatible with specific apps. Visit http://redpark.com/lightning-ethernet-cable/ for more info.

Hourly vibration on the apple watch.

Hi! I know there is Mickey and Mimi mouse clocks that announces the time every hour but i wonder if there is something that can make the watch vibrate on every hour? I really need such an app but haven’t found one yet. There is Diiiy or something similar but it wont vibrate on the apple watch, o

Re: Not Seeing Documents in iCloud Drive

Hi, In Sierra, on your Mac, in the Finder, when you press cmd-shift-i to access your iCloud Drive, do you see the Desktop and Documents folder? Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Sep 22, 2016, at 07:18, Brandon A. Olivares wrote: Hi, I’ve enabled the option in Sierra to store

Re: Networking and Time Capsule

Jeff, Thanks for the update. Good luck. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Sep 22, 2016, at 07:12, Jeff Berwick wrote: I have discovered this morning, that the most important step in working with wired networking, is to connect the correct ethernet cable. Not sure how I pugg

Re: Not Seeing Documents in iCloud Drive

Yes, they are both there. > On Sep 22, 2016, at 10:04 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > > Hi, > > In Sierra, on your Mac, in the Finder, when you press cmd-shift-i to access > your iCloud Drive, do you see the Desktop and Documents folder? > > Later... > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > O

Re: Not Seeing Documents in iCloud Drive

hi, I'd first restart your iDevice, then wait a few minutes after it's started up to allow it to sync, then check. If that doesn't fix things, go into iCloud in settings and turn off iCloud Drive, back out of settings then go in again and re-enable it. All iCloud data is stored up in the Clou

Re: Not Seeing Documents in iCloud Drive

Hi, Restarting didn’t help. It won’t let me disable iCloud Drive. When I try, I get this message: If you turn off iCloud Drive, all documents stored in iCloud will be removed from this Mac. This includes documents on your Desktop and in your Documents folder which will be available on iCloud D

Re: Not Seeing Documents in iCloud Drive

Actually, I restarted my Mac and that seems to have kicked it into gear. :) > On Sep 22, 2016, at 10:09 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > > hi, > > I'd first restart your iDevice, then wait a few minutes after it's started up > to allow it to sync, then check. If that doesn't fix things, go into iCloud

Re: Hourly vibration on the apple watch.

Hi, no I don't believe there's anyway to set a vibration or chime at the hour mark. But the vibration time isn't limited to a particular watch face. I really love this feature. You could set it up for any watch face. Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 22, 2016, at 10:01, Anders Holmberg wrote: > >

Re: Hourly vibration on the apple watch.

Hi, There's an app that does this. I don't remember what it's called, though. Try doing a search in the app store for clock, or vibrating clock, or something like that. Cheers, Donna > On Sep 22, 2016, at 9:36 AM, John JD Denning wrote: > > Hi, no I don't believe there's anyway to set a vibr

Re: Not Seeing Documents in iCloud Drive

OK, that's good. A couple things to note. Stuff that is on your iCloud Drive remains in your iCloud Drive even if you turn off the service on either your Mac or iDevice. What you're essentially doing is just severing that computer's connection to the data. If you choose "Remove from Mac", th

Re: how to create a bootable installer for os 10 12

Hi, I forget the site, but I have it saved in my favorites list and will be doing this at some point. When they say root password, are they refering to the paassword you set when you first setup the mac? I ask as I don't recall seting up a root password here on my mac. Thanks. Matthew

Re: Bugs in Apple Mail with MacOS 10.12

Hey guys, While shift tab may not be working why not make your life easier. This is in standard mail with the preview pane closed. All you need to do is VO j and you can go directly from the message column to your mailbox column and vice versa. Pretty simple. As far as moving mailboxes to your

Re: Can anyone get Activities to work on Sierra

Thanks so weird that this must be device specific as I have a computer only 4 months old and 90% of the time activities will not work for me. Absolutely head scratching but good to hear they are working for some. Thanks for confirming. > On Sep 22, 2016, at 3:15 AM, M. Taylor wrote: > > Hello B

Moving favorites to the favorites bar, was Bugs in Apple Mail with MacOS 10.12

The way favorites are added has not used vo period or vo coma for some time. The way to move mailboxes to your favorites. 1. Highlight the mailbox you want to move 2. Do the mouse down command. Vo command shift space bar. 3. Stop interacting with the mailbox list, go to favorites, and interact

Re: Networking and Time Capsule

Okay, now that we have figured out the weak link in your otherwise brilliant plans (me), I have implemented the original solution and the network seems to be working. It will be some time before I notice if the intermittent wifi outages are fixed, but I don’t have the Double NAT error (which I

Notifications Keep Interrupting

Sorry for all the emails. :P Now in 10.12, when there is a notification, Voiceover interrupts the flow of whatever I’m doing to tell me about it. Usually it would instead wait until its done reading the current item before it notifies me. For instance, if I’m reading something in Safari, and I

Re: Can anyone get Activities to work on Sierra

Activities are working. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather th

Re: Notifications Keep Interrupting

Hi, You should be able to make any modifications to the notification settings for Mail in System Preferences, Notification Centre. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Sep 22, 2016, at 11:31, Brandon A. Olivares wrote: Sorry for all the emails. :P Now in 10.12, when there is a n

Update on mac research

Hello everyone. Just an update on my mac research for Hannah’s Christmas present. She has chosen the 13 inch Macbook Pro with retina display, customized with 512 GB of PCIE-based flash storage, base RAM of 8 GB and base processor of 2.9 GHZ with turbo boost up to 3.2 GHZ, something like that an

Time Machine

Hello again. I have finally set up Time Machine, and it’s pretty good. It’s currently doing a full backup of a partition on my external disk, this is because the first partition hosts the bootable installation media for macOS Sierra. In fact, I’ve just been greeted with a notification that the

Re: Can anyone get Activities to work on Sierra

They may be working for you but not for me. Just hung up with Apple showing them and they agree they are at least broken on my machine as they are kicking it up to engineering. So be fortunate they are working for you. > On Sep 22, 2016, at 1:32 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland > wrote: > > Activi

Accessing text field in Messages app on IOS

Hi all, One thing I'm finding in iOs 10 is that with all the clutter of digital touch and the Messaging Apps button, I can no longer activate the message text field without swiping to it. Is anyone else encountering this behavior, and does anyone know of a way to fix it? TIA, Donna -- The fo

Re: Time Machine

Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 22, 2016, at 11:46, christopher hallsworth > wrote: > > Hello again. Correct. > > I have finally set up Time Machine, and it’s pretty good. It’s currently > doing a full backup of a partition on my external disk, this is because the > first partition hosts the

Re: Time Machine

Hello, blank bar my original email. > On 22 Sep 2016, at 19:07, Daniel C wrote: > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Sep 22, 2016, at 11:46, christopher hallsworth > wrote: > >> Hello again. Correct. >> >> I have finally set up Time Machine, and it’s pretty good. It’s currently >> doing a f

Re: how to create a bootable installer for os 10 12

Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 22, 2016, at 10:03, matthew dyer > wrote: > Hi, Most likely, the password that they are referring to, maybe in a minute straight of account password. You don't actually need to use the root user that usually comes with UNIX like operating systems to perform such

Re: Time Machine

2nd time too. He may be bottom posting. From E.T.'s Keyboard... Are We Alone in the Universe? ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 9/22/2016 11:10 AM, christopher hallsworth wrote: Hello, blank bar my original email. On 22 Sep 2016, at 19:07, Daniel C wrote: Sent from my iPhone On Sep 22, 20

Re: how to create a bootable installer for os 10 12

Hi, When using the Terminal to create the bootable installer, it uses the "sudo" command in front. You, as an Administrator, have the power to use the sudo command, although the OS will ask for your Admin password in order to proceed. Once the password has been correctly input, the action wil

Re: Time Machine

No he’s not, I cannot see his response at all. Frustrates me how or why people with iOS devices send emails with just their signatures. I’ve emailed on my own iOS devices with no problems. > On 22 Sep 2016, at 19:22, E.T. wrote: > > 2nd time too. He may be bottom posting. > > From E.T.'s Key

Re: Time Machine

hi, His answers are posted below the "Sent from my iPhone" signature. For your initial eMail, you'll note a "Correct" inserted in your original text. The practice of inserting a response in that manner is not uncommon, it's just often difficult to follow if the preceding signatures and other

Re: Time Machine

Ok. Still can’t see it, all I see is his signature repeated, my response then the list footer repeated several times. > On 22 Sep 2016, at 19:34, Tim Kilburn wrote: > > hi, > > His answers are posted below the "Sent from my iPhone" signature. For your > initial eMail, you'll note a "Correct"

Re: Time Machine

My fault, I guess I'm not used to posting from iOS, so I figure that what I posts where it is supposed to. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member'

Re: how to create a bootable installer for os 10 12

Hi all No need for that, found a free app from the internet that does this all for you. Called “Install Disk Creator”, found this out after discovering Diskmakerx is not ready for Sierra even though they claim to be “rocking with Sierra”, according to their web page, www.liondiskmaker.com > O

Re: Can anyone get Activities to work on Sierra

Working here on my late 2011 Macbook Pro 13 running Sierra. Don’t use them myself, just wanted to see if it was working for others. > On 22 Sep 2016, at 07:37, Brian Fischler wrote: > > This is something I contacted Apple about several times during the beta and > at least on my machine they dro

Re: how to create a bootable installer for os 10 12

Hi, I prefer the Terminal method, but using an app is less worrisome for many. If it does the job, then do whatever you feel most comfortable with. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Sep 22, 2016, at 12:44, christopher hallsworth wrote: Hi all No need for that, found a free

Re: how to create a bootable installer for os 10 12

Well keep forgetting the Terminal commands lol so use an app instead. > On 22 Sep 2016, at 19:47, Tim Kilburn wrote: > > Hi, > > I prefer the Terminal method, but using an app is less worrisome for many. > If it does the job, then do whatever you feel most comfortable with. > > Later... > >

Re: Time Machine

No worries. Tip: in the message body, make sure you are at the beginning of the text by VoiceOver’s announcement of “insertion at beginning of text”. > On 22 Sep 2016, at 19:44, Daniel C wrote: > > My fault, I guess I'm not used to posting from iOS, so I figure that what I > posts where it is s

Re: Time Machine

hi, No biggy to me. When posting in iOS, if you double-tap to bring focus to the edit field, make sure that it says "Cursor at the beginning" or something like that. Usually, it is placed there by default, but if it is there already and you double-tap a second time, the cursor will be placed

Re: how to create a bootable installer for os 10 12

I can understand that. It's not a particularly easy set of commands to remember. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Sep 22, 2016, at 12:49, christopher hallsworth wrote: Well keep forgetting the Terminal commands lol so use an app instead. > On 22 Sep 2016, at 19:47, Tim Kilbu

Re: how to create a bootable installer for os 10 12

> Good day, Terminal is also my preferred method for creating such bootable media as well. Applications to me do not give enough output, terminal however seems to give more. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or con

Re: Time Machine

Is this Topic concernin' TimeMachine? JustWonderin' Because that's TheSubject of ThisThread or SoItAppears At 11:42 AM 9/22/2016, you wrote: Ok. Still can’t see it, all I see is his signature repeated, my response then the list footer repeated several times. > On 22 Sep 2016, at 19:34, Tim Ki

Re: Apple TV 3rd Gen.

Hello First, the 3rd generation, as far as Apple Support is concerned, is long gone. So your chances of support may be slim. Not impossible, but slim. Now onto your questions. This remote, does not charge, unlike the 4th generation. Therefore, you change the batteries when it is low. To set it

Re: Time Machine

Yeah sorry. It was, then it drifted off, again sorry. > On 22 Sep 2016, at 19:54, Robin wrote: > > Is this Topic concernin' TimeMachine? JustWonderin' > > Because that's TheSubject of ThisThread or SoItAppears > At 11:42 AM 9/22/2016, you wrote: >> Ok. Still can’t see it, all I see is his sign

Re: Time Machine

Certainly is regarding Time Machine. There was just some clarification posts after the original question. Later.. Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Sep 22, 2016, at 12:54, Robin wrote: Is this Topic concernin' TimeMachine? JustWonderin' Because that's TheSubject of ThisThread or SoItA

Re: Notifications Keep Interrupting

Yes I’m familiar with that, but usually when there’s a notification, Voiceover won’t actually speak it until it’s done speaking the current item. Now, it is interrupted. I’d prefer to keep the notification but simply not have it interrupt like that. Is that no longer possible? Brandon > On Sep

Re: Time Machine

What's considered as veering vs. clarification, or is that subjective? --- Christopher Gilland JAWS Certified, 2016. Training Instructor. i...@gillandmarketing.com Phone: (704) 256-8010. - Original Message - From: Tim Kilburn To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, S

Re: Time Machine

Chris, Attempting to be funny, or just needing clarification yourself? In my opinion, the thread didn't actually veer off, there was just some confusion as to some responses that were posted. Hence, confusion is cleared up with clarification. yeah, there were some opinions expressed, but tha

Re: Time Machine

I wasn't attempting to be funny. I was being dead serious. I really do wonder where that line is drawn, where one should say maybe it's time we change the subject to reflect, vs. oh, this isn't gonna veer too badly, keep the subject as is. I'm not trying to be smart butt over here. I'm askin

Re: Notifications Keep Interrupting

hi, If VO was polite and not interrupting for you in the past, then I prefer your VO to mine. The Notifications interrupted me most of the time in previous versions of the MacOS as well. I usually just turn off the ones that annoy me the most, or change them to something that's less likely to

Re: Time Machine

Chris, No offence intended. I hope none taken. There likely is a subjective line, but since it's subjective, it's difficult to draw. One could say that you and I discussing this is off topic in itself, and they'd likely be right. But, is it necessary to change the Subject line for a few not

Re: Notification of a new OS

That’s because you don’t go there, you go to the home page of the Mac App Store, the page that first appears when you open it. > On 22 Sep 2016, at 01:08, Agent086b wrote: > > Hi all, > should we receive notification there is a new version of the Mac OS? I know > Sierra is out but I see nothing

Trusted apps?

Okay, before in security settings we had 3 choices for installing apps. App Store, App Store and trusted developers, or anywhere. The anywhere option is gone, and now I can’t install VLC. Is there a fix for this? -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionarie

Re: Time Machine

Tim, you're exactly right. I'll stop not practicing what I preach. Alas, I digress from this discussion. And by the way, no, I wasn't then, nor am I now offended. Don't worry. --- Christopher Gilland JAWS Certified, 2016. Training Instructor. i...@gillandmarketing.com Phone: (704) 256-8010.

Re: Trusted apps?

Kliph, Where does it stop you? When you try to open the installer, or somewhere during the installation process. If the former, you used to be able to press VO-shift-space to bring up the Contextual menu then choose Open from there and it would allow the installer to proceed. Later... Tim K

Re: Trusted apps?

Yes, but this is nothing new in Sierra. Simply vo-shift-m, choose open from the context menu and it will open as normal. > On 22 Sep 2016, at 20:15, Kliphton Miller wrote: > > Okay, before in security settings we had 3 choices for installing apps. App > Store, App Store and trusted developers,

Re: Time Machine

Chris, You do not need to bother yourself with this. Your contributions (?) more often than not are not helpful. From E.T.'s Keyboard... Are We Alone in the Universe? ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 9/22/2016 12:06 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: I wasn't attempting to be funny. I was

Re: Trusted apps?

Kliph, Oops, that should be VO-shift-m as Chris H mentioned. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Sep 22, 2016, at 13:21, Tim Kilburn wrote: Kliph, Where does it stop you? When you try to open the installer, or somewhere during the installation process. If the former, you used

trying to contact mark.

Mark could you please check your private email and contact me off list please? thanks. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropri

Re: Trusted apps?

That did the trick. I forgot about that command. > On Sep 22, 2016, at 3:33 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > > Kliph, > > Oops, that should be VO-shift-m as Chris H mentioned. > > Later... > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On Sep 22, 2016, at 13:21, Tim Kilburn wrote: > > Kliph, > > W

Re: Update on mac research

Chris, That sounds good. I say you should go with what you can afford. I have an iMac 21 inch with 8 GB of ram and a 1 TB HD. I do how ever wish I had an SSD as It would be nice to work with, but for my needs things work well. I am going to be working on getting a clean install of Searria t

Re: how to create a bootable installer for os 10 12

Hi I got it working today. Things are uploading the stuff to dropbox at the moment but will be attempting the clean install this weekend at the l.atesed. Matthew > On Sep 22, 2016, at 2:15 PM, Daniel C wrote: > > > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Sep 22, 2016, at 10:03, matthew dyer >> wr

Re: Time Machine

Tim, I finally got around to this and tried your steps last night. Worked fine except when I brought up the Actions menu, I must have selected delete all for that is what happened. But TM did a new backup so its good. It was a rather convoluted process but worked fine. Thanks much. From E.

Re: iCloud Keychain

Tim, Signed out and closed System prefs then opened it and signed in again. Same thing happened except this time the dialog said incorrect code. I see no place to reset it. From E.T.'s Keyboard... Are We Alone in the Universe? ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 9/20/2016 10:00 AM, Tim Kilburn

Re: Time Machine

Hi, Glad I could help. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Sep 22, 2016, at 13:55, E.T. wrote: Tim, I finally got around to this and tried your steps last night. Worked fine except when I brought up the Actions menu, I must have selected delete all for that is what happened.

Re: Update on mac research

check out the apple refurbished store. > On Sep 22, 2016, at 2:48 PM, matthew dyer > wrote: > > Chris, > > That sounds good. I say you should go with what you can afford. I have an > iMac 21 inch with 8 GB of ram and a 1 TB HD. I do how ever wish I had an SSD > as It would be nice to work

Re: iCloud Keychain

Hi, When you interact with the Services table, navigate down to Keychain, then interact again, there'll be an Options button. Press on that and you should have the ability to change the code. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Sep 22, 2016, at 13:58, E.T. wrote: Tim, Signed

Capitalone app transfering money

Hi guys: Can anyone transfer money to and from accounts on the capitalone app? As soon as I hit the done button, VO stopps reading. Sarai D. Bucciarelli www.linkedin.com/in/SaraiDBucciarelli -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any

Re: Update on mac research

I did, and no refurbished macs so far. Cheers for the idea though and will keep looking. > On 22 Sep 2016, at 21:04, Sarai Bucciarelli > wrote: > > check out the apple refurbished store. >> On Sep 22, 2016, at 2:48 PM, matthew dyer >> wrote: >> >> Chris, >> >> That sounds good. I say you s

Re: iCloud Keychain

When I do that I am placed on the iCloud Drive item. This happened every time when I tried to activate the Options button yesterday. From E.T.'s Keyboard... Are We Alone in the Universe? ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 9/22/2016 1:05 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote: Hi, When you interact with the Ser

Re: Accessing text field in Messages app on IOS

Hi Donna. I don’t know why we need digital touch in messages on the I phone as it’s good on the Apple watch. For instance you can’t send your heart beat and what’s the use of sending a camera? It is definitely cluttered and when I find where I want to reply, I just double tap but at times it’

Re: Notifications Keep Interrupting

Hi Brandon. This was also like that in the beta of Sierra. I brought it to the attention to the beta group I'm with on Roger and one of those members whose also on this list, Daniel I think it was, said that this was going to be normal behavior for Sierra. Knowing this I turned off notifications

Re: Notifications Keep Interrupting

Thanks. Good to know. I’ve also shut off notifications now. > On Sep 22, 2016, at 4:31 PM, Shawn Krasniuk wrote: > > Hi Brandon. This was also like that in the beta of Sierra. I brought it to > the attention to the beta group I'm with on Roger and one of those members > whose also on this list,

Re: iCloud Keychain

Hmmm. Is iCloud Keychain enabled at the moment, or disabled? Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Sep 22, 2016, at 14:13, E.T. wrote: When I do that I am placed on the iCloud Drive item. This happened every time when I tried to activate the Options button yesterday. >From E.T.

Re: iCloud Keychain

Finally! I found the needed information online but as is happening more and more, Apple support articles do not quite match up. But I finally was able to do it from my iPhone and now the Mac is happy. Thanks for sticking with this. From E.T.'s Keyboard... Are We Alone in the Universe?

Questions about Sierra update

Hi all! How are you all? So I was at my school today,and I went to the app store of my Mac, and when I went to updates, it told me not new updates available However, isn't it suppose to show me the Sierra update since it came out on Tuesday? Just wondering. Do you have any idea why it is no

Re: Questions about Sierra update

Hi, At the moment, it's not showing it in the updates screen. You can do a search for Sierra or, I believe that it is on the Home page of the Mac App Store. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Sep 22, 2016, at 14:48, Helga Schreiber wrote: Hi all! How are you all? So I was at

Re: Braille input with hands on an I phone podcast?

Hello David, I’ve started using braille input. How do you enter capital letters, numbers and special characters? Thanks. Chris > On Sep 18, 2016, at 5:16 PM, David Chittenden wrote: > > On the iPhone, five separate events can be detected at one time. Therefore, > the dots 1 2 3 4 5 6 (for sig

Re: Braille input with hands on an I phone podcast?

Hi Chris, Not David, but I think I can help. :) If you set your braille table to either contracted or six-dot, just use the capital dot 6 before the letter you want capitalized. Cheers, Donna > On Sep 22, 2016, at 4:02 PM, Chris Moore wrote: > > Hello David, > I’ve started using braille input.

AppleVis

Did AppleVis do an overview of Sierra yet? They usually are pretty quick to do so after a release. From E.T.'s Keyboard... Are We Alone in the Universe? ancient.ali...@icloud.com -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questi

Re: Accessing text field in Messages app on IOS

Hi! Yes i have this problem to. Its very annoying but i use to try finding the text field in the bottom right corner. Something like that. Try that my friend. /A > 22 sep. 2016 kl. 20:03 skrev Donna Goodin : > > Hi all, > > One thing I'm finding in iOs 10 is that with all the clutter of digital

Re: Accessing text field in Messages app on IOS

Thanks, Anders. I will give that a try. Cheers, Donna > On Sep 22, 2016, at 4:23 PM, Anders Holmberg wrote: > > Hi! > Yes i have this problem to. > Its very annoying but i use to try finding the text field in the bottom right > corner. > Something like that. > Try that my friend. > /A >> 22 sep

Re: Accessing text field in Messages app on IOS

What's different, just a couple more buttons to swipe past? I have done the iPad but not the iPhone yet so wondering if its really that bad. From E.T.'s Keyboard... Are We Alone in the Universe? ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 9/22/2016 2:23 PM, Anders Holmberg wrote: Hi! Yes i have this pro

Re: Accessing text field in Messages app on IOS

Hi! Well, maybe its something to get used to. I haven’t done yet but hopefully soonsoon. /A > 22 sep. 2016 kl. 23:31 skrev E.T. : > > What's different, just a couple more buttons to swipe past? I have done the > iPad but not the iPhone yet so wondering if its really that bad. > > From E.T.'s K

Re: Braille input with hands on an I phone podcast?

Yes, the ruls are the same as hardcopy braille. Uppercase letters are entered with a dot 6 preceeding the letter. 2 dot 6 in a row indicates uppercase the following characters (continues until a non-alphabetic character). Dots 5 6 indicate lowercase character follows. Dots 3 4 5 6 indicates the

Re: AppleVis

macOS 10.12 Sierra: What's New and Changed for Blind ... - AppleVis http://www.applevis.com/blog/apple-macos-news/macos-1012-sierra-what-s-new-and-changed-blind-and-low-vision-users > On Sep 22, 2016, at 2:15 PM, E.T. wrote: > > Did AppleVis do an overview of Sierra yet? They usually are pretty

Re: AppleVis

Thanks much for the link. From E.T.'s Keyboard... Are We Alone in the Universe? ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 9/22/2016 2:38 PM, Michael Babcock wrote: macOS 10.12 Sierra: What's New and Changed for Blind ... - AppleVis http://www.applevis.com/blog/apple-macos-news/macos-1012-sierra-what-s-

Re: Accessing text field in Messages app on IOS

It's not the end of the world, but the lower part of the screen on the iPhone is kind of dominated by those buttons. And, speaking only for myself, I can't imagine why I would ever use the messaging apps button, so would love to have the option to just make it go away. That said, Anders's sug

Re: Accessing text field in Messages app on IOS

Hmmm. Well there are many many things I could stand to do without. I cannot get rid of it so I just sweep past them. From E.T.'s Keyboard... Are We Alone in the Universe? ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 9/22/2016 2:47 PM, Donna Goodin wrote: It's not the end of the world, but the lower part

Re: Notifications Keep Interrupting

Do not disturb? Not perfect but it would stop interruptions On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 4:32 PM Brandon A. Olivares < thepianist2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks. Good to know. I’ve also shut off notifications now. > > On Sep 22, 2016, at 4:31 PM, Shawn Krasniuk wrote: > > > > Hi Brandon. This was also

Re: Voiceover Slow

That check-box, in Voice-over settings makes all the difference because when AppleScript can't talk to VoiceOver then it uses the speak interface instead which uses the default system voice. On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 7:05 PM Christopher-Mark Gilland < clgillan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Absolutely no n

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