Re: robobraille

2015-05-24 Thread Henry D. Hollithron
Good Day: The converter is in a frame following the first heading on the main page. If you interact with it, it guides you through the four phases of conversion. When the page updates, you may have to refocus VoiceOver, but the web interface is certainly useable. HTH: Henry Education

robobraille

2015-05-24 Thread Joe Quinn
anyone know how to use this? when I go to the site and click on convert file, i get no form. all i get is the copyright thing at the end of the web page. thanks! or ,$ it better to use email? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group.

Re: Battery announcement

2015-05-24 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Thanks for this! I'll definitely check it out! Chris. - Original Message - From: sadam ahmed To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Cc: Holidays in United States Sent: Sunday, May 24, 2015 10:22 PM Subject: Re: Battery announcement Hi Jose, Good day! There’s a

RE: The Audible Player on the Mac.

2015-05-24 Thread Marcia Yale
The web site has changed and yes, each book listed in your audible.com library now has an on-line play button. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Joe Quinn Sent: Sunday, May 24, 2015 10:36 PM To: macvisionaries@

RE: The Audible Player on the Mac.

2015-05-24 Thread Marcia Yale
You need to first download the books from the site using Safari. Then you open them with iTunes. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Kawal Gucukoglu Sent: Sunday, May 24, 2015 4:52 PM To: Macvisionaries Subject: R

Re: The Audible Player on the Mac.

2015-05-24 Thread Joe Quinn
how do you do this? I know you used to be able to do this, never tried it on the mac. is there a play button that's in the library or something? Sent from my iPhone > On May 24, 2015, at 2:29 PM, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: > > Hi. > > Can anyone tell me if anyone has tried playing their audible

Re: Battery revisited

2015-05-24 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
No, it's not there on Yosemite 10.10.3. The closest thing I see is to automatically speak alerts when displayed, but I gather that is for all alerts, not just the battery. I don't want the things speaking every single God forsaken alert. I only want it telling me when my battery's low. Chri

Re: Battery announcement

2015-05-24 Thread sadam ahmed
Hi Jose, Good day! There’s a very helpful Mac app that will do what you’re after. It’s called Battery Monitor. For you’re convenience the direct URL is below: https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/battery-monitor-beautiful/id836505650?mt=12

Re: The Audible Player on the Mac.

2015-05-24 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Itunes is the answer here. In fact, it's the only way to do this. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray Still a happy Mac, Verizon Wireless iPhone 6+ and Apple TV user! Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in > On May 24, 2015, at 2:29 PM, Kawal Gu

Battery revisited

2015-05-24 Thread Jose Lomeli
Hello; Listers, I called Apple Accessibility and I found my answer this is for Chris Gilland! Go to system preferences and then go down to dictation and speech, then go to the text to speech tab In their you should find it! Let me know if you need any more help and I will sure help you out! :) J

Re: Battery announcement

2015-05-24 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Oh cool! I didn't know that was even possible without an Apple script of some sort. If you figure this out, I'd be very very interested. Chris. - Original Message - From: "Jose Lomeli" To: Cc: "Holidays in United States" Sent: Sunday, May 24, 2015 8:49 PM Subject: Battery announc

Battery announcement

2015-05-24 Thread Jose Lomeli
Hello; Listers, I have a question! For the life of me I can’t remember howto enable the battery announcements on the Mac! I want VoiceOver to alert me when my battery is low! Please help me out! Jose Lomeli Sent From My MacBook Pro! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: MS-Word tool bar (was Re: Navigating to the ribbon in Office 2015)

2015-05-24 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Weird. They seem to be labeled here. Chris. - Original Message - From: "Jason White" To: Sent: Sunday, May 24, 2015 8:01 PM Subject: MS-Word tool bar (was Re: Navigating to the ribbon in Office 2015) Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: If you press vo+shift+up arrow a few times to

MS-Word tool bar (was Re: Navigating to the ribbon in Office 2015)

2015-05-24 Thread Jason White
Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: > If you press vo+shift+up arrow a few times to verify that you are not > interacting with anything at all, then move to the top of the screen, can > you not find your ribbon, then interact with it? I'm seeing it over here > just fine. While you're looking at that

Re: Navigating to the ribbon in Office 2015

2015-05-24 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
I intend to. - Original Message - From: "The Believer" To: Sent: Sunday, May 24, 2015 7:13 PM Subject: Re: Navigating to the ribbon in Office 2015 Please, give it a rest and give us a break. (smiles) From The Believer. . . By way of the Chariots of the Gods cameth the Aliens

Re: Navigating to the ribbon in Office 2015

2015-05-24 Thread The Believer
Please, give it a rest and give us a break. (smiles) From The Believer. . . By way of the Chariots of the Gods cameth the Aliens who dwelt amongst the humans, and bringeth much knowledge. On 5/24/2015 4:11 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: OK, you win this argument. Are you happy now?

Re: Navigating to the ribbon in Office 2015

2015-05-24 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
OK, you win this argument. Are you happy now? I'm too tired to debate this. Chris. - Original Message - From: "george b" To: Sent: Sunday, May 24, 2015 6:57 PM Subject: RE: Navigating to the ribbon in Office 2015 Well kristifer maybe you made the wrong assumption that is why I a

RE: Navigating to the ribbon in Office 2015

2015-05-24 Thread george b
Well kristifer maybe you made the wrong assumption that is why I asked her -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Christopher-Mark Gilland Sent: Sunday, May 24, 2015 15:47 To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject:

Re: Navigating to the ribbon in Office 2015

2015-05-24 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
I think she meant 2016 most likely. I'm assuming in her subject, she made a typo. Chris. - Original Message - From: "george b" To: Sent: Sunday, May 24, 2015 1:25 PM Subject: RE: Navigating to the ribbon in Office 2015 So are you talking about 2015 in the subject line or2016 in t

Re: Navigating to the ribbon in Office 2015

2015-05-24 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
If you press vo+shift+up arrow a few times to verify that you are not interacting with anything at all, then move to the top of the screen, can you not find your ribbon, then interact with it? I'm seeing it over here just fine. Chris. - Original Message - From: "Eileen Misrahi" To

Re: Navigating to the ribbon in Office 2015

2015-05-24 Thread Jason White
Eileen wrote: > Thanks for all of the suggestions. Just to clarify my suggestion: if you use Ctrl-Option-Left-Arrow/Right-Arrow keys to navigate, the ribbon will be announced as "ribbon tab group". Interact with that and you'll have the layout that I described earlier. -- You received this mes

Re: Navigating to the ribbon in Office 2015

2015-05-24 Thread Eileen
Hello All, Thanks for all of the suggestions. Currently, I'm waiting for MS Outlook to finish its update. I'll look at these suggestions when the computer settles down. It was a fluke that I was able to find the edit field to send the feedback to MS in the help tab. I know that there are vetera

Re: Navigating to the ribbon in Office 2015

2015-05-24 Thread Jason White
Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: > Does anyone know when Microsoft Office will be released? I'm sure there are project planners in Microsoft who know, but I doubt they'll announce it publicly until the release date. It's supposed to be in the third quarter of 2015. -- You received this message becaus

Re: Navigating to the ribbon in Office 2015

2015-05-24 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Does anyone know when Microsoft Office will be released? I will get it when it is fully released. Thank you. Kawal. On 24 May 2015, at 21:34, Anne Robertson wrote: Hello Eileen, Whenever you have a problem finding an element on a page in any application, try using the Item Chooser (VO-i).

Re: The Audible Player on the Mac.

2015-05-24 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
I don't like playing books through iTunes. I did try it on the Mac and at the time, the server could not be connected. I'll try it again. Thanks so much. Kawal. On 24 May 2015, at 20:38, Edward Green wrote: Hi Kawal, Just tried it on the Mac and it’s working fine here. I’m running Yosemite

Re: Navigating to the ribbon in Office 2015

2015-05-24 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Eileen, Whenever you have a problem finding an element on a page in any application, try using the Item Chooser (VO-i). It can save you a whole lot of frustration. In Word, I just tried it with Home and it put me in the ribbon. When I entered Help, it found Help MicroSoft improve Office,

Re: The Audible Player on the Mac.

2015-05-24 Thread Edward Green
Hi Kawal, Just tried it on the Mac and it’s working fine here. I’m running Yosemite and using Safari. Cheers, Ed > On 24 May 2015, at 20:29, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: > > Hi. > > Can anyone tell me if anyone has tried playing their audible books on the Mac > by going into their Library, choos

RE: The Audible Player on the Mac.

2015-05-24 Thread Marcia Yale
I play Audible books all the time in iTunes. I think the first time you play one you will need to authorize the book with your user name and password, but it has been a long time since the first one so I may be wrong about that. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [

Re: The Audible Player on the Mac.

2015-05-24 Thread Jeff Greene
Hi, No I’ve never tried that! But, itunes on the mac plays audible books fine. And you can jump through books by chapter in itunes too. Jeff > On May 24, 2015, at 3:29 PM, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: > > Hi. > > Can anyone tell me if anyone has tried playing their audible books on the Mac > by goi

The Audible Player on the Mac.

2015-05-24 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Hi. Can anyone tell me if anyone has tried playing their audible books on the Mac by going into their Library, choosing a book and playing it straight on their Mac? I know that one can do it by using Windows. I am trying to do this by using my Mac and see all the controls and buttons which ar

Re: Navigating to the ribbon in Office 2015

2015-05-24 Thread Jason White
Eileen Misrahi wrote: > Hello All, > > Okay, so I updated to Word 2016 current version and I have toggled on to > show the ribbon with COMMAND-OPTION-R. Maybe I’m missing something, but I > can’t navigate to it, so I can see if an additional edit field has been > added to send my report to Micro

RE: Navigating to the ribbon in Office 2015

2015-05-24 Thread george b
In word 2016 Open a blank document from the templets table Stop interatting with the doc when it opens Flick left with one finger on the trackpad and you hear header and footers ribbon Interact with that ribbon Flick left with one finger on the trackpad to you hear help inprove office menu butto

RE: Navigating to the ribbon in Office 2015

2015-05-24 Thread george b
So are you talking about 2015 in the subject line or2016 in the email...i am confused now -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Eileen Misrahi Sent: Sunday, May 24, 2015 10:16 To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sub

Navigating to the ribbon in Office 2015

2015-05-24 Thread Eileen Misrahi
Hello All, Okay, so I updated to Word 2016 current version and I have toggled on to show the ribbon with COMMAND-OPTION-R. Maybe I’m missing something, but I can’t navigate to it, so I can see if an additional edit field has been added to send my report to Microsoft. This has been very exasper