Re: Numbers Question

Thanks. Caitlyn > On Feb 8, 2015, at 9:08 PM, Phil Halton wrote: > > Yes, kind of. > > You can go to the bottom of the table, assuming your data extends to the > bottom, by either pressing VO shift right arrow, or by pressing command down > arrow to go to the bottom of the current column. >

Re: Am I nuts, or is Alex way better now?

I really wish Apple would reduce the lag in some of the other voices as well. I’d love to be able to use Eva again. Also, I just stick to Alex and have done so for a while since he use to be the only voice who could read emojis > On Feb 8, 2015, at 9:16 PM, Alex Hall wrote: > > Yes, this is Yo

Re: Am I nuts, or is Alex way better now?

Yes, this is Yosemite. As I said in my original message, speech synthesis is one of the most subjective things about accessibility software. For instance, I'm in that crazy minority that love ESpeak and KeynoteGold. > On Feb 9, 2015, at 12:01 AM, Traci Duncan wrote: > > I take it, this new Al

Re: Am I nuts, or is Alex way better now?

I take it, this new Alex is in Yosimity only? I have consistently used Compact Samantha on my Mac. I have mostly found Alex difficult to understand after long periods of reading. He seems to blur his words together. I was using him on my iPad mini for a while, but ended up going back to trus

Re: have to force quit mail because messages can't be deleted for some reason

Hi, I’ve usually seen this when quitting Mail too quick after either sending or deleting messages in an iMap account, most often in a Gmail iMap account. Just wait 10 to 15 seconds after doing these actions before quitting Mail and you should be fine. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB C

Re: Disabling the Preview pain in Mail in the latest OS X release

Hi, As mentioned, dragging with VO will not usually do what you are wanting it to do. You actually want the Horizontal Splitter to be at 100%, not 0%. You will know that the Preview Pane is gone by selecting a message, then stopping Interaction with everything, then using VO-right to move thr

Re: OT can I use the ipod touch in landscape?

I'm just trying it on the home screen. No luck. Best, Erik Burggraaf On feb 22nd 2015, Both reno area Chilis Locations will donate %15 of all sales to the NFB of Northern nevada when customers present the flyer linked below at time of purchase. Please download and print the flyer, or load it

Re: Am I nuts, or is Alex way better now?

I've had the studdering issue for a while now, but I'd always use Fred and forget about it. Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 8, 2015, at 9:04 PM, Alex Hall wrote: > > Thanks for the confirmation, everyone. I never thought I'd say it, but I plan > on keeping Alex as my primary voice for the forese

Re: Am I nuts, or is Alex way better now?

If you're using Yosemite and you're noticing Alex skipping or stuttering, I don't think that is an Alex problem. Rather, I think it is something to do with Yosemite, although it doesn't appear on everybody's machine. It also happens with vocalizer voices. I use the Russian ones, and it happens t

Re: OT can I use the ipod touch in landscape?

An iPod touch should operate just like an iPhone without the phone features. What app are you using at the time? The app launcher doesn't change orientation but many apps do such as Safari. CB On 2/8/15 9:21 PM, erik burggraaf wrote: Hi all, I am just trying to switch an ipod touch fifth gen

Re: Am I nuts, or is Alex way better now?

Thanks for the confirmation, everyone. I never thought I'd say it, but I plan on keeping Alex as my primary voice for the foreseeable future. Of course, that's assuming some genius doesn't port ESpeak over to the Mac. :) Odd that you're encountering suttering, Devin. Nuance voices would definite

Re: Am I nuts, or is Alex way better now?

The only thing I don't like is that Alex seems to studder and skip a little on the mac, but he doesn't do that on the iPhone. So I use Fred on the mac because of that. Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 8, 2015, at 7:59 PM, Jessica Moss wrote: > > What words did you find he ran together? I use him

Re: Am I nuts, or is Alex way better now?

Hey guys. I agree with you about Alex, he's awesome. And I agree with Ray in the sense that Acapela has taken steps backwards. In my opinion, they've replaced quality with features that aren't really necessary. That's why I even use Alex on my iPhone. One thing about the vocalizer voices, Alex,

RE: have to force quit mail because messages can't be deleted for some reason

Hello Ray, This usually occurs because your connection to the Internet is either lost, unstable, or extremely slow, causing the server connection to time-out. The next time this happens, before closing Mail, Open Safari and see if it is online. It may also be time for you to reboot your Inte

Re: Making mobile calls from Mac

Hi. Did you allow cellular calls from FaceTime on both your Mac and iPhone? You have to have the latest version of iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite in order to do this. Shawn Sent From My White MacBook > On Feb 8, 2015, at 7:58 PM, David Taylor wrote: > > Hi, > > Can anybody tell me what it is I need

Re: Disabling the Preview pain in Mail in the latest OS X release

i already drag the splitter to 0 by interacting it. On 08 Feb 2015, at 04:53 pm, Anne Robertson wrote: > Trying to drag the splitter using VO results in Mail being busy and doesn’t > work. > > Cheers, > > Anne > > >> On 8 Feb 2015, at 15:03, Dionipher Presas Herrera >> wrote: >> >> what i

have to force quit mail because messages can't be deleted for some reason

Subject line just about says it all. Sometimes, when I go to quit mail, I get an alert that says that some messages cannot be moved to the trash or deleted from the trash. When I press the okay button here I am forced to force quit mail then start it up again. After that, it seems to work ok

OT can I use the ipod touch in landscape?

Hi all, I am just trying to switch an ipod touch fifth generation to landscape orientation and it won't fly. Orientation lock is off but moving the ipod doesn't change the orientation. I can't find a setting to do it manually either. Did they take this feature out of Ipod touch? Thanks, Er

Re: Am I nuts, or is Alex way better now?

You mean get Alex for the iPhone? Well, first, let's start by informing you that you absolutely MUST have at the very least the iPhone 5S. Nothing less than that will do. Now, assuming you do have that, do this. 1. Click Settings. 2. Click general. 3. Click accessibility. 4. Click Voic

Re: Numbers Question

Yes, kind of. You can go to the bottom of the table, assuming your data extends to the bottom, by either pressing VO shift right arrow, or by pressing command down arrow to go to the bottom of the current column. You have to be very careful with the latter command though, because its right next

Re: Am I nuts, or is Alex way better now?

What words did you find he ran together? I use him as my default all the time, and only thing I've found that sounds really weird, is when you try to log in anywhere and go to the usual "remember me," checkbox, when he speaks the "remember me," he sounds like he either has his teeth clenched, o

Making mobile calls from Mac

Hi, Can anybody tell me what it is I need to do to make mobile calls from mac work please? I have my texts sorted, but get call failed when I try to make a call from mac. Thanks Dave -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsub

Re: Am I nuts, or is Alex way better now?

Hi, Can anybody tell me how to get this new Alex? I’ve even tried deleting and re-downloading to get him. Cheers Dave > On 9 Feb 2015, at 1:54 am, Jessica Moss wrote: > > Fred? lol, that voice sounds aweful, reminds me too much of either the > dectalk voices, or the Vera reading machine we u

Re: Am I nuts, or is Alex way better now?

Fred? lol, that voice sounds aweful, reminds me too much of either the dectalk voices, or the Vera reading machine we used to use when I went to FSDB. Things have definitely come so far sense then. On Feb 8, 2015, at 8:17 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > Alex, it ain't just you dude. Alex is tons be

Re: Am I nuts, or is Alex way better now?

Alex, it ain't just you dude. Alex is tons better than he used to be in every respect you mentioned. Much smoother, faster, way more responsive, and, other than Fred, which I am using at the moment for strictly sentamintal purposes, Alex is the best of all the voices out there. In fact, he's

Am I nuts, or is Alex way better now?

Hi all, First, yes, this is about a speech synthesizer, and will thus be very subjective. I wanted to see, though, if anyone else might have come to the same conclusion I have. I got a Mac in the days of Lion, and quickly switched to the Vocalizer voices (Serena or Lee, mostly). When we got new

Re: Color schemes

>From memory colour profiles are a tab under display in system preferences. It is difficult for me to comment with authority as I have not really seen this for years but I thought the whole point of the invert colours feature on the Mac was to provide white on black. So essentially you need a

Re: Color schemes

I am all too familiar with those issues in Windows. What she really needs is white on black. If she can find that, the rest she can tweak. Are there sources for downloading custom color profiles? From The Believer. . . . . . what if it were true? ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 2/8/2015 3:

Re: Where do I go to change the email address that is connected to my Apple ID?

Thank you, all. Cheers, Donna > On Feb 8, 2015, at 5:26 PM, Dave O. wrote: > > It would help if you spelled the URL correctly. > > Go to appleid.apple.com > > On that page, there's a link to manage your id. > > On that page, you can edit or change the email address associated with your > acco

Re: Color schemes

I am not a low vision user but I think that there will be a relative lack of customisation in relation to colour schemes across the Mac OS compared to Windows. You can customise the size of the Fonts by bringing up the view options window in finder with command J. There are a set of colour pro

Re: Where do I go to change the email address that is connected to my Apple ID?

It would help if you spelled the URL correctly. Go to appleid.apple.com On that page, there's a link to manage your id. On that page, you can edit or change the email address associated with your account. Be advised, before actually doing this, you may want to sign out of everything that is a

Color schemes

I am writing on behalf of a friend who is using a Mac, no idea what model. She is very low vision, deaf and no braille. She needs to change the Color schemes but it appears that here Apple falls behind Microsoft. There seems np ability to change colors, just Invert Colors and that is dre

Re: Numbers Question

Hi, So, is there a way for vo to get to the last cell with data when you reopen it? Thanks, Cait > On Jan 31, 2015, at 6:07 PM, Phil Halton wrote: > > Hi Emilio, > I use Numbers now on a daily basis and it has completely replaced Excel for > all my spreadsheet work. In a lot of ways it is easi

RE: Where do I go to change the email address that is connected to my Apple ID?

Hi Donna, GO to: applied.apple.com and all the info is there. Remember though if you have an icloud.com or me.com address it can't be done. Cheers, Scott -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Donna Goodin Sent: Mond

Where do I go to change the email address that is connected to my Apple ID?

Thanks in advance. I did this once a long time ago, but can't remember where you have to go to change it. Cheers, Donna -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an

Re: questions about Apple scripts

OK here is a simple AppleScript that will announce the status of the battery I have attached the script to this post as well. *set* batstat *to* *do shell script* "pmset -g batt" *say* batstat You could also do this from a shell script or in the terminal as well like this: pmset -g batt | s

Re: Making a Popup Menu in excell

I use Fusion/windows7 with Jaws and have remapped the grave accent key to act as caps lock, and the caps lock to act as grave accent key. I used the windows Sharpkeys utility and it works like a charm. So, my grave accent key is my jaws modifier key and if I ever really a grave accent, I can get

Re: Question about applying paragraph styles in Pages

Hi Ann, No, I always keep the mouse untethered. Maybe I misspoke, but I don’t think I routed the mouse before VOing right to the menu. I did however, use the alternatives action keystroke as suggested in the help tag for the style radio button (VO command spacebar). After pressing the "show act

Re: Question about applying paragraph styles in Pages

Hello Alex, You’re right. But most people use the same styles that they favour most of the time. Templates are really useful. I always save mine in a folder in my documents folder before adding them to the templates in Pages so that I can share them if necessary. cheers, Anne > On 8 Feb 20

Re: Question about applying paragraph styles in Pages

Hello Phil, Do you have your mouse set to follow the other cursors? I always have mine set to ignore the other cursors and I always have to bring the mouse before I can get access to the menu button. I get irritated with Apple breaking things, too. I used to be a systems programmer so I get re

Re: questions about Apple scripts

Thanks! That helped a ton. Aleeha Dudley and Seeing Eye Dog Dallas Vice President, Ohio Association of Guide Dog Users Vice President, Ohio Association of Blind Students Both proud divisions of the National Federation of the Blind of Ohio Email: blindcowgirl1...@gmail.com

A question about selecting audio in TwistedWave

Hello folks. Firstly i’m sorry for cross posting but i wasn’t sure exactly where i would post this and it sorta belongs to both lists in a way so here we go: I saw some mentioning on Twitter the other day that the latest Twistedwave should have an accessible way of selecting sounds in the wavefor

Re: Making a Popup Menu in excell

I have VMware Fusion but honestly I really hate it. I've tried to do the keymapping and it kind of works, but really it's a very clutsy solution except to go in and do a quick and dirty Windows thing. So right now I'm stuck with a Windows PC and a Mac. On 2/8/15, george b wrote: > Well Deb, > > I

RE: Making a Popup Menu in excell

Well Deb, I asked because I have Microsoft office on my mac and v o can not read any entries in a cell and I thought you might of found a work around. Just a tip for you I run v m fusion 7.2 on my mac and windows and it works great and takes up only 40 gigs of space on my hard drive. -Orig

Re: Making a Popup Menu in excell

It was thenotion of using VO-J that I was totally missing. I actually had gotten it all done without doing that, but it's so much more elegant with the VO-J. Because I don't use that command very often, I often don't realize where to apply it. And yeah, sorry for my subjectnot beig too clear. I ws

Re: Disabling the Preview pain in Mail in the latest OS X release

> Hi Sabahattin You gave also a terminal command to disable that panel, Am I right? Thanks so much to reposting it. Gabriel. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send

Re: Entering a long number

Wayne17A I have tried the cut and paste method. All that happens is that my pasted number is combined with the number i called and the call is put on hold. I just tried with a corrected number and it worked. I sure wish I could get the Numpad of this Microsoft Natural Ergonomic 4000 Version 1.1

Re: Entering a long number

Jonathan Thank you. The problem turned out to be, I was inputing the wrong number. I sure wish i could get the Numpad of this Microsoft Natural Ergonomic 4000 version 1.1 working with OS 10.9.5 and above. Angus MacKinnon -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Gr

Re: Disabling the Preview pain in Mail in the latest OS X release

Hi all, and sorry I’m late. If you have a keyboard with a numpad, a very leet way to turn off the preview pane in the classic layout is to turn on and use Mouse Keys, from System Preferences > Accessibility. Route the VO cursor to the horizontal splitter, then press and hold the numpad 5 key,

Re: Question about applying paragraph styles in Pages

So, the best way to save your styles is to make a template, correct? Make your styles in a blank document, set up hotkeys if you want, than save it as "my commonly used styles template" or something similar. Too bad there's no way to add to globally available styles, since the above method then

Re: Question about applying paragraph styles in Pages

Wow, now we can access the menu of a style without all those gymnastics we used to have to do. One thing I noticed, I don’t need to bring the mouse to access the menu. I just interact with the style, use the VO Command J command (that’s a new one on me), VO right and press vo space on the menu b

Re: Basic rules for interacting

Hi all, there is also no problem with trying to interact as you will find out quickly if you can't Jerry On Feb 8, 2015, at 5:23 am, Piotr Machacz wrote: You can interact with anything that's likely to contain other items. IE a tool bar will have buttons in it, a table has various items, scro

Re: Question about applying paragraph styles in Pages

Hello Jamie, Styles, hotspots and short cuts are all properties of the specific document, other than the standard set of styles. If you create a template with its own styles and short cuts, they will always be present in that document. Cheers, Anne > On 8 Feb 2015, at 15:02, Jamie Pauls wr

RE: Entering a long number

Hello could you not copy and paste the number from somewhere -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Angus MacKinnon Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2015 9:56 PM To: 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries Subject: Entering a

Re: Disabling the Preview pain in Mail in the latest OS X release

In classic view and without the preview pane, mail boxes are on the left and messages on the right. In the new layout, mail boxes are on the left, messages in the middle and the message preview on the right. Cheers, Anne > On 8 Feb 2015, at 15:33, Dionipher Herrera wrote: > > i already did

Re: Disabling the Preview pain in Mail in the latest OS X release

Trying to drag the splitter using VO results in Mail being busy and doesn’t work. Cheers, Anne > On 8 Feb 2015, at 15:03, Dionipher Presas Herrera wrote: > > what i mean is that i can i just interact with the plitter by pressing VO > shift down arrow. then pressing to the right arrow. --

Re: Making a Popup Menu in excell

position in the cell where you want the popup. then go to inspector with the VO+J command and select the cell radio button. Now, VO right to the scroll area and interact. there will be a data type popup field right at the top. press enter or vo space on it and arrow down to popup and press ente

Re: Disabling the Preview pain in Mail in the latest OS X release

i already did it what you did tell but i don’t know if i did it. One strange thing on mail on yosemite is that the messages is on the left, while on mavericks is on the right. is this the preview pain of the mail? > On 08 Feb 2015, at 10:01, Anne Robertson wrote: > > I’m afraid I don’t understa

Re: Disabling the Preview pain in Mail in the latest OS X release

what i mean is that i can i just interact with the plitter by pressing VO shift down arrow. then pressing to the right arrow. On 08 Feb 2015, at 10:01 am, Anne Robertson wrote: > I’m afraid I don’t understand what you mean. > > You have to turn the trackpad commander off to be able to use the t

Re: Question about applying paragraph styles in Pages

Hi, Anne, Thank you so much for the response. After playing around a bit more last night, I figured out how to apply the styles. I did not figure out how to delete them. Your instructions will help. As a sidenote, when I created a new document, the new styles I had added were not present. The ad

Re: Basic rules for interacting

Normally you can interact with containers. Scroll areas, tables, toolbars, groups, HTML contents, and probably a few others I'm forgetting. Note that to review the contents of some of these items, interacting is not always required (particularly true of tables). You can also interact with just a

RE: Making a Popup Menu in excell

Do you mean numbers or are you using excel with a mac? -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Deb Lewis Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2015 20:57 To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Making a Popup Menu in excel

Re: Basic rules for interacting

You can interact with anything that's likely to contain other items. IE a tool bar will have buttons in it, a table has various items, scroll areas are parts of the screen that have a lot of controls, html, etc. Sometimes, it's not obvious that you can interact with something to get even more i

Re: Question about applying paragraph styles in Pages

Hello Jamie, In Pages, there’s no need to select the paragraph whose style you wish to change, you just need to have the text pointer somewhere in it. To change the paragraph style: • Jump to the Formatter. • Press VO-Space on the Paragraph styles button. • Navigate right to the Paragraph styles

Re: Downloading Adobe Flash

http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/licensing/mac/install_flash_player_16_osx_pkg.dmg - Original Message - From: "Eileen Misrahi" To: Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2015 8:37 PM Subject: Downloading Adobe Flash Hello All, This is a related question to Adobe flash

Re: Disabling the Preview pain in Mail in the latest OS X release

I’m afraid I don’t understand what you mean. You have to turn the trackpad commander off to be able to use the trackpad the way a sighted person would use it. This is necessary for you to be able to drag the horizontal splitter to the bottom of the window. Using VO to drag the splitter down res