RE: How Do You Mute the Chat In A Zoom Meeting

2020-04-15 Thread Simon A Fogarty
Yeah use the mute key on the function row, That is I believe f10. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Joy Cyr Sent: Thursday, 16 April 2020 3:14 PM To: Mac Visionaries Subject: Re: How Do You Mute the Chat In A Zoom Meeting Thank you! Is there a way

Re: How Do You Mute the Chat In A Zoom Meeting

2020-04-15 Thread maurice mines
Brian Mann and other listers, this idea works great writing your hearing is normal and you’re not a braille reader. A.k.a. you’re not deaf blind. But if that’s done, you get no text messages and note captioning. I just want to mute the VoiceOver speech but leave VoiceOver running because of need

Re: How Do You Mute the Chat In A Zoom Meeting

2020-04-15 Thread maurice mines
Hello, Amanda five I believe turns off VoiceOver and so far as I can tell at this point that seems to be the only good solution for this. But that won’t work for anyone what the significant hearing loss such as myself because then it cuts off any of the text messaging and or captioning text. So

Re: How Do You Mute the Chat In A Zoom Meeting

2020-04-15 Thread Ryan Mann
Command F5 totally turns off VoiceOver, but I guess that would work to. Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 15, 2020, at 11:28 PM, Lorie McCloud wrote: > > I think it's command-f5 > >> On Apr 15, 2020, at 10:14 PM, Joy Cyr wrote: >> >> Thank you! Is there a way to do this with a keyboard? I don'

Re: How Do You Mute the Chat In A Zoom Meeting

2020-04-15 Thread Lorie McCloud
I think it's command-f5 > On Apr 15, 2020, at 10:14 PM, Joy Cyr wrote: > > Thank you! Is there a way to do this with a keyboard? I don't have a track > pad and at least some of the time I would like to use the computer rather > than the phone. > Joy > > "Avoiding danger is no safer in the l

Re: How Do You Mute the Chat In A Zoom Meeting

2020-04-15 Thread Ryan Mann
I think you can go into VoiceOver Utility and assign a key stroke to it. I just looked in the voiceOver commands help and there does not seem to be a key stroke assigned by default. Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 15, 2020, at 11:15 PM, Joy Cyr wrote: > > Thank you! Is there a way to do this

Re: How Do You Mute the Chat In A Zoom Meeting

2020-04-15 Thread Joy Cyr
Thank you! Is there a way to do this with a keyboard? I don't have a track pad and at least some of the time I would like to use the computer rather than the phone. Joy "Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. ... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. ..."

Re: How Do You Mute the Chat In A Zoom Meeting

2020-04-15 Thread Lorie McCloud
well, technically you're right. that's what I do. it mutes voiceover. > On Apr 15, 2020, at 10:06 PM, Petrus Tuerlings wrote: > > You don’t need to turn VoiceOver off, you only need to mute it by doing a > three finger double tap on the trackpad or a three finger double tap on the > iPhone scr

Re: How Do You Mute the Chat In A Zoom Meeting

2020-04-15 Thread Petrus Tuerlings
You don’t need to turn VoiceOver off, you only need to mute it by doing a three finger double tap on the trackpad or a three finger double tap on the iPhone screen. This will keep voice-over on. Sent from Petrus's iPhone On 16/04/2020, at 15:01, Lorie McCloud wrote: the only way I know of to

Re: How Do You Mute the Chat In A Zoom Meeting

2020-04-15 Thread Lorie McCloud
the only way I know of to do this is to turn vo off. > On Apr 15, 2020, at 7:52 PM, Mary Otten wrote: > > I don’t know anything about zoom for the Mac, but cant you mute voiceover > speech? It’s easy enough to do on the phone, and I thought there was a way to > do it on the Mac as well. Then i

Re: The libby app

2020-04-15 Thread Petrus Tuerlings
Okay, thanks for that. One day I’ll try and learn Safari on the Mac but my attempts so far have been less than successful. I always end up using Safari on my iPhone if I want to look up anything. > On 16/04/2020, at 13:59, Dave Carlson wrote: > > Petrus, > Interesting. I use Overdrive on t

Re: The libby app

2020-04-15 Thread Dave Carlson
Petrus, Interesting. I use Overdrive on the web with no problems. Once I download the file.odm file, I click on it and a Safari window opens with Overdrive, and then I download the book. I don’t see the need for a separate app. Dave Carlson Musician, Engineer, Farfar, Oregonian, Woodworker,

Re: Two specific bugs in numbers OS X

2020-04-15 Thread Dave Carlson
Phil, Those keystrokes do nothing, but then I’m using an external Windows keyboard so the mapping may not be correct. Dave Carlson Engineer, Pioneer, Farfar, Woodworker, Musician, and Oregonian -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you

Re: How Do You Mute the Chat In A Zoom Meeting

2020-04-15 Thread Mary Otten
I don’t know anything about zoom for the Mac, but cant you mute voiceover speech? It’s easy enough to do on the phone, and I thought there was a way to do it on the Mac as well. Then if you need to navigate around, just unmute the speech. I know it’s a workaround, but it should work, just like i

How Do You Mute the Chat In A Zoom Meeting

2020-04-15 Thread Joy Cyr
Subject line sums it up, ... I can't follow what the speaker is saying because voice over tries to read what is being posted. And if I leave the window it is even worse since whatever it is reading out the chat feed is very loud and can't be interrupted. (Not that hitting control while in the

Calling All Fans of the Parker Brother's Monopoly Board Game

2020-04-15 Thread M. Taylor
Hello All, Recently I posted about an on-device, self-voicing Monopoly-like game for iOS, called EarsOpoly. While I continue to enjoy the game, I am all but certain that it will cease to function-as-expected in future versions of iOS; primarily because it is no longer being maintained by the deve

The libby app

2020-04-15 Thread Petrus Tuerlings
Hi all, I know that the Overdrive App isn’t available on the Mac and was wondering if the libby app is? Although even if it is I’m not holding up much hope for accessibility as it is useless on the iPhone. I looked in the App Store but couldn’t find anything, but thought I’d ask here as well ju

Re: Two specific bugs in numbers OS X

2020-04-15 Thread Phil Halton
That’s interesting Dave, row 50 hey. I get down to about row 16 in the data rows and the headers go silent. Also I get out to about column seven or eight and then I lose column reading. How about those keystrokes I mentioned do they work for you? I never had any problem until I recently updated

Re: Trouble reading in Apple Mail

2020-04-15 Thread Antonio Guimaraes
Funny thing, the problem seems to have gone away mainly on its own. The only thing I did that may have fixed it is to run a search on my inbox, and look at a resulting message in the search. Opening a message that resulted from the search was the first time I noticed I could read messages as usu

Re: Catalina Clean Install

2020-04-15 Thread Jonathan Cohn
There are some system cleanup programs out there but they are not likely to really help. One thing that can help is to uncheck the box on the logout screen about restoring windows. While it is convenient to have everything back the way it was when you logout or shutdown your machine, if you are

Re: Trouble reading in Apple Mail

2020-04-15 Thread Antonio Guimaraes
Hi Brad, Thanks for responding. I am running 10.15.4 I am checking and unchecking use column layout under the view menu, but this does nothing to fix the problem. I'll see if there are other suggestions before I reach out to Apple Accessibility Support. Best, Antonio > On Apr 15, 2020,

Amadeus Pro help neded.

2020-04-15 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! I am recording a reading i am doing for a christian newspaper for the blind here in Sweden. I have just read an article but when i listen to it it seems that there is a part i the end that hasn’t been recorded. It is like amadeus has taken a pause of it self and started again. So i need to in

VoiceDream Scanner.

2020-04-15 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! I am trying to scan a bill but the text can’t seem to be recognized. I have tried booth with torch on and torch off. No go. Seeing ai doesn’t work for me either. So i am probably doing things wrong. I give up. /A -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries

Re: Two specific bugs in numbers OS X

2020-04-15 Thread Dave Carlson
I can confirm the row headers issue. However on my installation it stops reading row headers at row 50. Not sure of where the column headers stops. I’m on latest Mojave, not Catalina. Have not tried the move to end functions, as I didn’t know they had ever been available. Dave Carlson Musicia

Two specific bugs in numbers OS X

2020-04-15 Thread Phil Halton
within the last week or so, after installing some OS X updates and the new version of Numbers, several things have been going wrong in numbers specifically label and Row header labels are not being read correctly. two other bugs are happening within tables and they are specifically: One, using th

Re: Trouble reading in Apple Mail

2020-04-15 Thread Brad Snyder
Assuming you are running macOS Catalina 10.15.x, try the following: 1. Go to Menu Bar > View and select Column view. HTH - Brad - On Apr 15, 2020, at 08:40, Antonio Guimaraes wrote: Hi all, I'm experiencing strange behavior while reading in the mail on macOS. When interacting with the Me

Trouble reading in Apple Mail

2020-04-15 Thread Antonio Guimaraes
Hi all, I'm experiencing strange behavior while reading in the mail on macOS. When interacting with the Messages list, I only see one field for the message as of recently. Are used to see the from, date, subject, and a message preview that I could move through. When this change came about, I f

Re: Headings in Mac pages or Word

2020-04-15 Thread Muhammad Babar Shahzad
Thanks for the guidance. now, I have really started to enjoy using mac pages for my assignments. Regards, Muhammad Babar. From: Julie Rattray Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2020 5:57 PM To: 'Devin Prater' via MacVisionaries Subject: Re: Headings in Mac pages or Word Glad it worked I love the Touch

Case and screen protecter for Macbook pro 16 2019

2020-04-15 Thread Muhammad Babar Shahzad
Hi, Any feedback about a particular brand that produces either the case or screen protecter for macbook pro 16 inches? Thanks, Muhammad. -- 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,