Re: ibooks is driving me crazy

2015-11-08 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Hi, I should clarify that my trouble with ibooks is on the mac not on my ipad or iPhone. On my mac, iBooks gets constantly busy when I try to read. There are buttons in the window that should allow you to move to next or previous page but they don't seem to do what they are supposed to. That

Re: ibooks is driving me crazy

2015-11-08 Thread Anne Robertson
Adobe Digital Editions works for reading PDFs but you don’t have the same ability to read by character, word, line, etc. I use it for reading DRM protected books from Kobo since the Kobo application doesn’t work on Mac. Kobo for iOS works pretty well except for turning pages to get to where you

Re: A Definite Battery Drainer in iOS 9.1 of Which to Be Aware

2015-11-08 Thread Dionipher Presas Herrera
i have a news about the facebook apps having a battery issue on iPhone, so upgrade that too. > Il giorno 09 nov 2015, alle ore 2:27 AM, Jeff Berwick > ha scritto: > > I have been experiencing this since I upgraded to IOS 9 and, it is > intermittent. >> On Nov 8, 2015, at 6:11 PM, Kawal Gucuko

Re: Acapella TTS voices on Mac OS X

2015-11-08 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Victor, fear not. I have them on my Mac and can assure you that they are quite nicely responsive. ! Sent from my Mac, The Only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray, Still a very happy Comcast XFinity Voice Guidance, Mac, Verizon Wi

Re: update on voiceover issue.

2015-11-08 Thread Jessica Moss
Using Mavericks on my end so not sure if that will work. Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 8, 2015, at 8:01 PM, Melanie Clouser wrote: > > Sounds exactly like the problem I’ve been having since doing updates. Going > to try the clean install of Yosemite. I had hoped to wait for Apple to > release

Re: update on voiceover issue.

2015-11-08 Thread Jessica Moss
I know may have have typed it wrong, but followed procedure, and it did nothing. Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 8, 2015, at 11:22 AM, Phil Halton wrote: > > You didn't read the message very carefully. It requires command plus option > plus the letters are and P, not simply command RP. I have don

Acapella TTS voices on Mac OS X

2015-11-08 Thread Vic
Hello. Does anyone here have any experience using Acapella voices with VoiceOver on Mac OS? I would like to try them out but wanted to make sure I don't end up with a subpar performance (I know their quality is quite good) Thanks. Victor -- The following information is important for all member

Re: A Definite Battery Drainer in iOS 9.1 of Which to Be Aware

2015-11-08 Thread Jeff Berwick
I have been experiencing this since I upgraded to IOS 9 and, it is intermittent. > On Nov 8, 2015, at 6:11 PM, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: > > I have not seen this although I have no vision so I would not know if my > screen was awake or not. However, my battery on my phone is lasting four > days

Re: update on voiceover issue.

2015-11-08 Thread Melanie Clouser
Sounds exactly like the problem I’ve been having since doing updates. Going to try the clean install of Yosemite. I had hoped to wait for Apple to release an update to Yosemite before doing the upgrade but this problem has me stumped. I only updated the app store updates. Not the Yosemite upgrad

Re: haven't taken the plunge yet!

2015-11-08 Thread jeff `greene
Hi, Thanks for all the good info about upgrading! Its just I started thinking I was missing out on some cool feature etc. Thanks, Jeff > On Nov 8, 2015, at 7:14 PM, Sadam Ahmed wrote: > > Hi, > > AppleVis has put together a list detailing the current issues. > > http://www.applevis.com/blo

Re: ibooks is driving me crazy

2015-11-08 Thread Eileen Scrivani
If you can access the table of contents, I believe you must choose the page from the TOC in El Capitan. But, I forget how you get to the reading area. Before I went back to Yosemite, if I remember correctly, it would always skip back to a previous page where I had a book mark set. HTH. Eil

Re: haven't taken the plunge yet!

2015-11-08 Thread Sadam Ahmed
Hi, AppleVis has put together a list detailing the current issues. http://www.applevis.com/blog/mac-os-x-news/accessibility-bugs-os-x-1011-el-capitan-serious-minor. Many of these problems persist even after the update pushed out most recently. If you have a secondary Mac no problems go ahe

Outlook Mail or iOS Mail I wonder who likes what?

2015-11-08 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
I have just installed outlook on my phone to see what it was like. As I had two step verification, I had to generate an app specific password which I found out by accident. Before at work I could not install iCloud mail for some reason but I thought I’d give it a go here. So I opened Outlook t

Re: A Definite Battery Drainer in iOS 9.1 of Which to Be Aware

2015-11-08 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
I have not seen this although I have no vision so I would not know if my screen was awake or not. However, my battery on my phone is lasting four days and that is letting the battery run out completely. I am using an I phone 6 S Plus. Kawal. > On 8 Nov 2015, at 22:57, Anders Holmberg wrote: >

Re: Any fix for a Mini with no screen yet?

2015-11-08 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! Or by a fit headless adapter which is a hdmi plug with a squared peace of rubber or plastic. I guess its a circuit inside the rubber box that tells the mac its a screen thats connected. /A > On 08 Nov 2015, at 16:41, Daniel Miller wrote: > > Hi Alex, > > Unfortunately, the only fix is to g

Re: haven't taken the plunge yet!

2015-11-08 Thread Marianne Denning
Can you explain some of these? On 11/8/15, Sadam Ahmed wrote: > Hi jeff, > > My advice would be to stay put for now. > > There are still many issues that haven't been resolved from a accessibility > perspective. > > Yours truly, > > Sadam Ahmed > > Sent from my iPhone > > -- > > > >> On 9 Nov 201

Re: haven't taken the plunge yet!

2015-11-08 Thread Sadam Ahmed
Hi jeff, My advice would be to stay put for now. There are still many issues that haven't been resolved from a accessibility perspective. Yours truly, Sadam Ahmed Sent from my iPhone -- > On 9 Nov 2015, at 9:34 AM, jeff `greene wrote: > > Hi, Well when OS X 10.11 came out I upgra

Re: A Definite Battery Drainer in iOS 9.1 of Which to Be Aware

2015-11-08 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! I can confirm Daniels reply. No problems here. Wonder if its some hardware glitch or something? /A > On 08 Nov 2015, at 05:43, Daniel Miller wrote: > > Weird, that didn’t happen on my 6 Plus or 6S Plus. Strange. > >> On Nov 7, 2015, at 10:19 PM, Gabe Griffith wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I actu

haven't taken the plunge yet!

2015-11-08 Thread jeff `greene
Hi, Well when OS X 10.11 came out I upgraded and it wasn’t a good experience. Now I notice they are up to 10.11.1 do you think I should try it again? I’m running a 2012 15-inch macbook pro with 16gb of ram and an SSd. What do you guys think? Thanks, Jeff -- The following information is importa

Re: ibooks is driving me crazy

2015-11-08 Thread Blee Blat
Ok, I have a few PDF's that I've just been using preview for. How is Adobe Digital Editions different? And how is Kobo different than Kindle or iBooks. I'm not a huge fan of Kindle because a lot of the books I'd like to read are only on free sample. But iBooks on the phone is lovely if I could

Re: Any fix for a Mini with no screen yet?

2015-11-08 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
No, and it turns out that the graphics cards can’t be used to their full potential without a physical adaptor anyway; for example, no CUDA or Stream computation. Get a pack of FitHeadless units. They really are very elegant, it’s a one-time purchase, and they’ll help you in the future if you e

Re: ibooks is driving me crazy

2015-11-08 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
iBooks is very annoying by nature, but it’s not nonfunctional—at least, not by Apple’s present-day standards. It sounds like you’re having a right time of it, though, and there’s probably something wrong in your particular installation. At the very least, can you explore the main window and pr

Re: iMovie

2015-11-08 Thread Dionipher Presas Herrera
go to file then import file, then you can select your camera or a file to put to you record > Il giorno 08 nov 2015, alle ore 7:42 PM, Vaughn Brown > ha scritto: > > Hello folks, > > Somehow this message did not get through. I am needing to work on some > video projects and want to use iMovie

Re: ibooks is driving me crazy

2015-11-08 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Hi Anne, Thank you for responding. The thing is that I can't find the preferences where I could set the reading to two pages or whatever other option there may be. I can go to the menu bar with vo+m but I can't arrow down the menus. I'm just so surprise;surprised. Andrew > On 8 Nov 2015, at

Re: ibooks is driving me crazy

2015-11-08 Thread Anne Robertson
For me, iBooks in Mac OS X El Capitán, iBooks is working OK. I have it set to 2 pages and can either read using VO-a or by sentence, paragraph, etc. In fact, I much prefer Adobe Digital Editions on the Mac, and Kobo on the iPhone to read eBooks. Besides, living in France, there are lots of Engli

Re: transferring folders revisitied

2015-11-08 Thread Grant
Hello, My bad; I appreciate the correction! Cheers, Grant Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 7, 2015, at 3:59 PM, E.T. wrote: > > Apple Mail will open .eml files. Right click (VO shift m), select Open With > and select Mail. Just confirmed this works. > > From E.T.'s Keyboard... > ancient.al

Re: ibooks is driving me crazy

2015-11-08 Thread Blee Blat
Yeah I can get menus but that's it. The reading area is always busy. Have I got something misconfigured on OS X? Are there certain settings for accessibility. I read all the ibooks on iphone because it reads flawlessly but the same level of access on os x would be lovely. -- The following in

iMovie

2015-11-08 Thread Vaughn Brown
Hello folks, Somehow this message did not get through. I am needing to work on some video projects and want to use iMovie on the Mac. All I can find is the tutorial for the iPad. The iMovie seems to be not very accessible. I see t "voiceover" where you can record your voice over a visual film shot

Re: inspecting a link in safari

2015-11-08 Thread Vaughn Brown
Chris, Thank you. I managed to assign quick nav to the mail but was unable to find the letter nav you mentioned. How do I enable this? Looking forward to getting these functions going on mail as a lot of group messages have links and headings. Vaughn On 11/6/15, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: >

ibooks is driving me crazy

2015-11-08 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Hi, I don't seem to be able to work out anything in ibooks under El Capitan. I can't open any menus, I can't find preferences, I don't seem to be able to read books or change pages in a book, please help! This is desperate. I feel so helpless. Ibooks gets busy very often when I land on the r

Re: update on voiceover issue.

2015-11-08 Thread Phil Halton
You didn't read the message very carefully. It requires command plus option plus the letters are and P, not simply command RP. I have done this recently and it works as advertised hold command option RP until you hear the chime four times then release you'll hear the chime one more time as it re

Re: update on voiceover issue.

2015-11-08 Thread Jessica Moss
Ok, I followed the instructions according to what you posted, and it all the computer did was simply restart itself. I did command+r+p, altogether, then pressed the power button, with these held down, and it just restarted like normal, so have no idea what to make of it; then tried it pressing

Re: Any fix for a Mini with no screen yet?

2015-11-08 Thread Daniel Miller
Hi Alex, Unfortunately, the only fix is to get a newer model mac mini, as those don’t exhibit the same issues as the older ones did, I believe. > On Nov 8, 2015, at 8:54 AM, Alex Hall wrote: > > Hi all, > I’m on my 2011 Mini, now with a shiny new SSD in it. It would be blazing > fast… Except

Re: Clean install of El Capitan

2015-11-08 Thread Eileen Scrivani
Anne, Thanks so much for your step by step directions. I will be sure to save the instructions. Thanks again. Eileen From: Anne Robertson Sent: Sunday, November 8, 2015 10:05 AM To: mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Clean install of El Capitan Hello everyone, I know this

Clean install of El Capitan

2015-11-08 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello everyone, I know this has been covered before, but here’s how to do a clean install of El Capitán. Cheers, Anne Download El Capitán from the Appstore. When it opens the installer, quit it. Make sure you have a spare 8 gb USB drive and give it the name Untitled. Prepare your USB Flash Dr

Any fix for a Mini with no screen yet?

2015-11-08 Thread Alex Hall
Hi all, I’m on my 2011 Mini, now with a shiny new SSD in it. It would be blazing fast… Except for that bug where things are randomly busy unless you connect a monitor. I know I could connect a monitor, and I think there’s a box I could buy that would trick the Mini into thinking there’s a monito

Re: update on voiceover issue.

2015-11-08 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Eileen, I’ll post a separate message explaining how to do a clean install of El Capitán with a subject line that says what it is. Cheers, Anne > On 7 Nov 2015, at 21:57, Eileen Scrivani wrote: > > Hi Anne, > > I’m not Jessica, but I would not mind having clear cut instructions on ho

How To Enable the Google Less Secure Apps Feature

2015-11-08 Thread M. Taylor
Hello, I changed the subject line of this thread to more closely reflect the current discussion. Okay, I looked this up for you and the following is the easiest and most screen reader accessible way to change this setting in your Google account. To enable the Less Secure Apps feature, do th

Re: Outlook on the mac and Gmail

2015-11-08 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Mauricio, you are right: you have to go into your Google account on the web page, find settings and then activate the "less secure apps". It can be managed on the mac. > On 8 Nov 2015, at 02:27, Mauricio Molina wrote: > > Hi Denise, > > I have run into this issue a few times while assisting