Getting Voiceover to Speak at Logon Screen

Okay, I forgot. Just installed Monterey, and VO is not speaking at the logon prompt. Where do I go to make this work? Dave Carlson Engineer, Farfar, Woodworker, Pioneer, and Oregonian -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any que

Re: Narrowing down my new iPhone choices

Lainer sounds interesting but I don’t do social distancing. People don’t wanna be near me I figure they can move. Actually, I think that social distancing is a wet dream for the antisocial types. Just my opinion. And, I get a big kick out of crowding them. I must be rotten person. Sent from my

activities in vo utility

looks like I may already have set up an activity to deal with the vo cursor and mouse cursor situation. I want to check to see if it's doing what I want it to. is there a way to do that or do I need to delete it and start over again? there's something I don't understand very well about the vo ut

Re: Mouse cursor follows voiceover cursor or ignores voiceover cursor

where do I find the place to set the behavior of vo and mouse cursors? > On Mar 14, 2022, at 2:00 PM, 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > Hi, > > While in VoiceOver Utility, select the Activities category. Press Add > activity. Stop interacting with the table, navigate to the Navi

Re: Narrowing down my new iPhone choices

Before you decide you're not interested in the 13 Pro because you feel you don't need the better camera, keep in mind that along with the better camera on the 13 Pro, comes LIDAR, which is the ability to use the camera to judge distance. The feature can be very helpful for blind envision impair

Re: Narrowing down my new iPhone choices

I suggest checking whether the 13 Mini has Ultra-Wide-Band support. As Jonathan Mosen noted in a recent podcast, this is apparently needed to give the precise location of Apple air tags – and not all iPhone devices have it. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com on behalf of Phil Halton Date:

Narrowing down my new iPhone choices

Upgrading from my iPhone XR, I’m narrowing things down between the iPhone 13 and the 13 mini. I don’t need any of the features of the 13 Pro as it seems mostly camera enriched. And, I took a look at the iPhone SE third generation and it’s just too far of a step backward even though the price is

Re: Mouse cursor follows voiceover cursor or ignores voiceover cursor

Hi, No, I don’t believe so. You can, though, easily duplicate the activity and then change the web-site associated with it. Later… Tim Kilburn Jamf Certified Tech Apple Professional Learning Specialist Apple Teacher (with Swift Playgrounds Recognition) Fort McMurray, AB Canada > On Mar 14, 2

Re: Mouse cursor follows voiceover cursor or ignores voiceover cursor

if I find other websites later that I want to add to that activity can I do it without creating another activity? > On Mar 14, 2022, at 2:00 PM, 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > Hi, > > While in VoiceOver Utility, select the Activities category. Press Add > activity. Stop inte

Re: Where do All These Extra Volumes Come From?

Hi, Yes, that’s correct. Later… Tim Kilburn Jamf Certified Tech Apple Professional Learning Specialist Apple Teacher (with Swift Playgrounds Recognition) Fort McMurray, AB Canada > On Mar 14, 2022, at 14:54, Anders Holmberg wrote: > > Hi! > So the .data volume on the hard disk is for such th

Re: Where do All These Extra Volumes Come From?

Hi! So the .data volume on the hard disk is for such things then? I was just wondering what was going on with my volumes too. /A > 14 mars 2022 kl. 15:50 skrev 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries > : > > Hi, > > Definitely do not delete the other volumes. Catalina and newer have changed > the vo

Re: Switching Between Mojave and Big Sur: Process That Works for Me

Hi, Good job Dave. Glad you were able to work it out. Now, if you had an M1 Mac, the Start-up Picker is accessible, but, then again, you wouldn’t be able to run Mojave. There’s always a hurdle to jump over :). Later… Tim Kilburn Jamf Certified Tech Apple Professional Learning Specialist Ap

Re: Mouse cursor follows voiceover cursor or ignores voiceover cursor

Hi, While in VoiceOver Utility, select the Activities category. Press Add activity. Stop interacting with the table, navigate to the Navigation checkbox and press it. Set the cursor to Ignore. Navigate to the Apps & Websites menu and select web-site. Enter www.amazon.com

Switching Between Mojave and Big Sur: Process That Works for Me

Thanks to both Jonathan and Tim, I’ve come up with a process for switching between Big Sur and Mojave without using the Start Disk feature in System Preference. That process did not work for me. Here’s what I came up with: Switching OS Process Using Option Key After shutdown or restart... Hol

Re: Mouse cursor follows voiceover cursor or ignores voiceover cursor

I set mine up the other way but I do think that in most cases it works better to have the mouse cursor follow the vo cursor. how would I go about setting up an activity to change that behavior on sites like Amazon? thanks. Lorie > On Mar 14, 2022, at 10:10 AM, 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries

Re: Where do All These Extra Volumes Come From?

Jonathan, Thanks for your suggestion and support for my continuing realization that having it set up the other way (new OS primary, old OS secondary) might be the ultimate solution. Aside from using VMWare (I’ve never used or installed it) would just creating a second APFS after a new install

Re: Where do All These Extra Volumes Come From?

Tim, Interesting. So I was not aware that holding the option key was relevant. I did use the Command-R key combination to bring up the recovery process, which is accessible with Voiceover. But have not tried just holding down the option key. I may. Just play with that right now to see if I can

Re: Where do All These Extra Volumes Come From?

Hi, I might be fun to try for practice, but I’m not sure that it would render any different results. You may need to use the option key at startup instead of using the Startup Disk pane. Since this is not accessible, you’d likely need to test a time or two in order to determine how many arrow

Re: Where do All These Extra Volumes Come From?

Jonathan and Tim, Thanks for all the tips. Here’s what I’ve found over the weekend. Yes, deleting those apparently unnecessary volumes does cause eventual problems. So after cleaning up, and creating a new clean APFS volume next to my Mojave, I ran the Big Sur installer. Migrated using my Time

Re: Ability to search for specific recipient broken in Mac Mail?

Hi, It still works for me. The times it does jump around though is when something with that letter does not appear in the list of messages. So, if I was sitting on the top-most message in the table, press the letter “d”, it will take me to the top most item with the sender starting with the l

Re: Mouse cursor follows voiceover cursor or ignores voiceover cursor

Hi, I much prefer it to follow the VO cursor. For situations like the Amazon web-site that were mentioned, I’ve just created an Activity to change that behaviour for that, or those, specific web-sites. For me, it’s just easier to ensure that the mouse is where I’m hearing things when trying t

Re: Where do All These Extra Volumes Come From?

Hi, Definitely do not delete the other volumes. Catalina and newer have changed the volume structure so that the main system files are on the boot volume, and data is stored in other volumes. This is to allow for the new process of “Erase All Data & Settings”. Similar to iOS and iPadOS, this

Re: Where do All These Extra Volumes Come From?

Hello David, I was hoping that somebody with more experience with multiple systems would reply to your query. Since it is now the work week, perhaps the best thing would be to call Apple and see if they can untangle what is happening on your system. What I was suggesting was to completely wipe