Re: quality of osx with voiceover for people with dissablities

2015-02-14 Thread Sean Murphy
David and all, I agree with your approach. As a user of technology for over 30 years now. There is no one solution. If you lock yourself into one solution, then you will find down the track at some time your lack of knowledge and expertise has left you behind requiring a major re-learning. Is

Re: Reading a PDF in Preview

2015-02-14 Thread Sean Murphy
The Office apps on iOS works but is not as user friendly as the Windows version. You can read documents and I have not yet check tables. But there is a lot of info you do not get access that you do under windows. Sean > On 15 Feb 2015, at 6:20 am, Angus MacKinnon wrote: > > Jonathan > > What

Apple Script to mount networked drive

2015-02-14 Thread Robert Cole
Hi, Here is a apple script to mount a network drive. using the script editor, export as app instead of script. tell application "Finder" try mount volume "smb://193.169.0.6" end try end tell replace the IP address with the IP of your drive. Thanks, Rob Sent from my MacBook On Feb

Re: Yosemite

2015-02-14 Thread Alex Hall
See our post on Yosemite. I try to keep the bug list up to date; to the best of my knowledge, it is accurate as of 10.10.2. http://www.applevis.com/blog/apple-mac-os-x-news/features-and-bugs-os-x-yosemite > On Feb 14, 2015, at 10:42 PM, Maria and Joe Chapman > wrote: > > HI. what are the major

Yosemite

2015-02-14 Thread Maria and Joe Chapman
HI. what are the major bugs that still exist in Yosemite? What is the situation with pdfs? thanks -- 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 email to macvision

Re: Searching hashtags on Yorufukuru/Nightowl

2015-02-14 Thread David Taylor
You have to make sure you are in your Search tab. Command-right until you get there. It will be empty and when you press command-f it will say Twitter Search, not just search. Use vo-f2 to work out which tab you are in if that helps, and when you find it, remember how many across it is. Remember

Searching hashtags on Yorufukuru/Nightowl

2015-02-14 Thread Edward Green
Hi, I was wanting to read tweets that used a particular hash tags using the above program. How do I do this? I wasn’t sure reading the Yorufukuru menus, but I chose the search (command f) feature. This just appeared to show the instances of the hashtags in my timeline, when I wanted to see th

tweet bot

2015-02-14 Thread Faisal ali
Can’t remember if I asked this before, but wondering if anyone here uses tweet bot? I’m curious to know if its fully accessible. Having a look at the website reveals no free trial so only the mac app store version is offered. Thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: question about using air drop with IOS

2015-02-14 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! And airdrop was set to all? Or Contacts. This must be done before things can work properly. Although i have had similar problems sharing to my Ipad mini from Iphone. /A > 14 feb 2015 kl. 01:11 skrev Caitlyn Furness : > > Yes, both bluetooth and wifi are on on both phones. > > I was attempting

Re: creating a list of what's on your drive

2015-02-14 Thread Emilio
Hello, A program that I have used with great success is List Export. This can be purchases on the Mac App Store for a few follars, and is worth the cost for list creation. All one does is simply highlight the folder in question, select the output tyle, which Excell will be the only option, then

Word Processing Options, (was Reading a PDF in Preview)

2015-02-14 Thread Jonathan Mosen
Hi Angus, I have started to use it to just write, then I bring in the file into desktop word for serious formatting and editing. I wouldn't like to do the process from beginning to end on iOS but it's pretty cool during the writing stage. I actually very much like Voice Dream Writer in IOS. The

Re: creating a list of what's on your drive

2015-02-14 Thread christopher hallsworth
1. Select all the files and folders with command-a then copy with command-c. 2. Open a text editor such as the stock Text Edit app. 3. In a new document, press shift-command-t to make the document plain text. 4. Paste with command-v. > On 14 Feb 2015, at 19:34, KristeenHughes wrote: > > I though

creating a list of what's on your drive

2015-02-14 Thread KristeenHughes
I thought I saw sometime ago, that we can capture a shot of Finder’s list of files in folders on a drive. Is this true? If so, how is it done? Thanks in advance for any help. Kristeen -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsub

Re: Reading a PDF in Preview

2015-02-14 Thread Angus MacKinnon
Jonathan What is then your opinion of the Office for iPad? since you talk about using Word in a VM Ware Fusion. Angus MacKinnon -- 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

Re: accessible youtube downloader

2015-02-14 Thread Emilio
Hello, I have found that sometimes MacTubes does not work in all youtube downloading situations. Thus, another option to consider, which does work so far is: MacX YouTube Downloader. Just type the program title into a Google search field and you should be good to go. Hope this has been helpful

Re: How do I mount networked drive?

2015-02-14 Thread Emilio
Hello, I have found that the most effective way of mounting a network drive (NAS) to a computer is by accomplishing this through the "connect to server" feature. This can be accessed through CMD-K. Before accessing this feature you will need to have your IP address for the network drive in ques

Re: where to download google chrome on mac?

2015-02-14 Thread Pamela Francis
I use the Chrome browser on my Mac I assume that's what you're talking about. Have had it loaded on my Mac since I've had it couple of years ago. Is it no longer works, that's news to me. On Feb 13, 2015 2:18 PM, "Dionipher Presas Herrera" wrote: > tried searching the google chrome on google sear

Re: WhisperSync for Voice.

2015-02-14 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Thanks for all the explanations. I did buy a kindle book, and when I look in the information for this book, it says it is whisper sink ready. However, the Audible version is not available in the audio Audible Store. So, if it is Whispa sink ready, does that still mean that the human Narration i

RE: trackpad help?

2015-02-14 Thread Zoe Fiogkos
Gosh I feel so stupid, thank you so much, and please excuse my flakiness. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jonathan Mosen Sent: February-14-15 12:27 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: trackpad help? Hi Zoe, you need to

Re: trackpad help?

2015-02-14 Thread Jonathan Mosen
Hi Zoe, you need to hold down the VO key, control+Option, when you rotate on the trackpad to toggle it on and off. Jonathan Mosen Mosen Consulting Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training http://Mosen.org > On 15/02/2015, at 6:24 am, Zoe Fiogkos wrote: > > Hi guys, hope all are well.

trackpad help?

2015-02-14 Thread Zoe Fiogkos
Hi guys, hope all are well. I don't know if I've messed something up but when I got the mac I use to rotate my fingers and it would say trackpad off and if I rotated the opposite way it would say trackpad on. I can't remember how many fingers, but I tried 1 and it rotates through lines and words e

Re: Reading a PDF in Preview

2015-02-14 Thread Jonathan Mosen
Hi Esther, it's great to see you posting to the list again and sharing all your knowledge. When I was writing Tweeting Blind, I decided it was a good opportunity as a reasonably new Mac user to go full emersion and do all my writing in OS X. I had the time, and it was an excellent way of further

Re: Reading a PDF in Preview

2015-02-14 Thread Eugenia Firth
Yes, it is there. It is listed as six, which right now it's 7.0.2. I don't know what difference that will make.i've only had 7.0.2 for a couple of days.I am about to ask them about the checkboxes informs because that seems to be the only thing I can't do right now.when I get around to it, I am g

Re: accessible youtube downloader

2015-02-14 Thread David Griffith
You may want to try the instructions I give for Mactubes as this may download videos but as I am not sighted nowadays I am probably not your best source of advice as I have never really investigated this. David Griffith On 14/02/2015 06:35, Dionipher Herrera wrote: david what i mean is how to

Re: some pages commands?

2015-02-14 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Zoe, The editing commands in Pages are exactly the same as elsewhere on the Mac. Cmd-Up Arrow goes to the top of the document and Cmd-Down Arrow goes to the bottom. Add the shift key to navigation commands to select the text. There’s one major bug in Pages when it comes to editing, and th

Re: Reading a PDF in Preview

2015-02-14 Thread Anne Robertson
I don’t use Nisus Writer but I seem to remember that tables are not accessible using VO. Could someone who uses this app please test this? Cheers, Anne > On 14 Feb 2015, at 00:56, Esther wrote: > > Hi Gigi, > > Nisus Writer Pro is a word processing app. You can think of it as an > alterna