Useing The Calendar With Mavericks

Hello I’m afraid that there was a big change between ML and Mavericks for Calendar. From our point of view, I don’t think it makes it any easier. It used to be you would get a long list of attributes you could go through, but now it seems to be quite a chore doing things like setting a repeat

FineReader Pro and supported scanners

Christina, I recently bought Fine Reader Pro from the App Store and with that version there is no need to buy any separate app to perform the scan, such as Vue Scan. It is capable of handling multi page scans, either manually or by sheet feed Regards Adrienne -- You received this message be

setting up MacBook Pro with voiceover

Hi Jodie If I remember correctly, when you plug your new MBP in and switch it on for the first time, as it boots up it will speak to you and ask you if you need help with seeing and give you a simple keystroke to perform, can't remember which one:) If you tell it you do, it will next ask you

Text Browser

Guys I was reading an article about how to lighten data usage on the iPhone and it recommended a text only browser called, prosaically, Text Browser. It's free. Anyway, you have probably all been using it for years, but it seems to be quite VO friendly and cuts out a lot of the stuff that we do

voice over silent?

Dear Clifton I haven't got a clue about the Windows thing, don't use it, but sometimes VO will go in a bit of a huff and you need to hit command F5 about 4 times to get it to come on. Worth a try. Best Adrienne -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ma

FCC seeks comment on Amazons request for waiver of accessibility requirements

At last the mystery of why Amazon caved in on VO is solved. Is it OK for non-US residents to comment to the FCC, ? It will naturally affect us all across the world? Best Adrienne -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscrib

Muting startup sound

Hi I once heard the dreadful clanging of what sounded like a ship's bell when I switched on. Apparently that was a warning something bad had happened with the hardware. Once you've heard that sound, you'll never be sorry to hear the ordinary start up sound again:) Best Adrienne -- You rece

question of the day, page count in text edit

Hi Ray Dunno, Nanocount is just the name of the wee app that does a basic word and character count for Text Edit and probably other apps that don't have a word count of their own. Regards Adrienne -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries"

question of the day, page count in text edit

Get nanocount. It gives you a simple word count for Text Edit. Regards A -- 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegro

Mac OSX, Voiceover and BBC iPlayer

Hi Edward I cant believe it, it works. Fantastic. Excuse me while I go away and dance round the sitting room. I had been looking in BBC formats in the prefs which was entirely the wrong place:) Best Adrienne -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacV

Mac OSX, Voiceover and BBC iPlayer

Hello, probably a question for Anne. Wow, after all these years of iPlayer misery. Would it seem churlish of me to ask if there is a way of getting the BBC audio described programmes on this? Thanks Adrienne -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVis

Evernote?

Hi I'm having a similar problem. It wouldn't recognise my password and when I requested a new password, said it had sent me one, but it hadn't. The problem is across all three devices I downloaded it onto. Best Adrienne -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google G

Word Count in TextEdit

Hi You can download an app called Nanocount. It will give you a basic word count. Best Adrienne -- 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 macvisionari

the Calculator app?

Hi Also you can do command space to bring up spotlight and type your sum in there, if it's not too complicated. Cheers Adrienne -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from i

Saving files in pages

Hi If it's something where formatting doesn't matter and they just want to read what you've written, just paste the text into the body of an email and you will know anyone can read it. Other advantages of this method: a lot lighter on people's data plans if they are using a mobile device. Als

Keyboard command

Hi Another way of trying to find text is to do command i. I use this with a particular software update message from a non-Apple source which pretends it has no text in it. It might also be that you are not in the right window, so try window chooser menu as well. Best Adrienne -- You recei

Any Mac voices any good at speaking Latin?

Thanks for the suggestions. I hadn't thought about Romanian. Silly me and yes, if I could read braille, that would be the answer, but I have tried and failed to learn it on many occasions and now my fingers can't even begin to feel it properly. And I think it's a shame more people don't learn L

Any Mac voices any good at speaking Latin?

OK guys, this may seem an odd query, but I am trying to read some stuff in Latin and I can't yet find any voice which makes it sound anything other than gibberish. Some of you may say that's because it's written in Latin, but you know what I mean. Best Adrienne -- You received this message b

moving to the top of message list in mail

Just thought I'd also mention that, if you are on the last item in your mailbox, shift control option command and down arrow will take you back up to the top item. Obviously the reverse works too. I know some people find it tricky holding that big a key combination down, but, if you can manage

Readiris

The lower price was offer they sent me. It's also on Amazon UK for under £60. Regards Adrienne -- 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 macvisionaries

Readiris

Hello Anne and thanks It seems that Readiris is currently available for 69 Euros from the developers, while Abbyy is GBP 69.99 from the App Store. I don't know the current conversion rate, but that's a wee bit cheaper. I had been given the impression that people had to get Vuescan as well as

Readiris

Hello Does anyone have any experience of Readiris 14? Is it accessible with VO? I've tried emailing the company, but have not heard back from them on the issue. Regards Adrienne -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscr

captcha solving service for the mac.

OK guys, I realise we've probably flogged this horse to death, but reading through all the posts, it suddenly occurred to me that, if apps or whatever exist to solve captchas, what on earth use are they as a security method anyway? Best Adrienne -- You received this message because you are

captcha solving service for the mac.

Hi guys Isn't the real question here not about whether captcha solving services should be free, but why people are allowed to use inaccessible captchas on their sites in the first place? Personally, I am sick of the rotten things and don't know how people get away with using them and their unin

Nook accessibility is coming for the mac

Hello Does anyone know if the Nook IOS app is available in the UK? I cant' find it in the App Store. Nook devices have only just come on the market here. Regards Adrienne -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this g

blind friendly flatbed scanners? any ideas?

OK, I know a scanner is a scanner, but some of them do menus which don't talk and make the dear little things more difficult for us to use. I suppose a lot of them will have touch screens now. Another issue I have had with scanners in the past is it being difficult to position documents/books

Kindle app

I too fear that, as many of you say, the only thing which will move Amazon is legal action and I am also afraid that it can't just be done in one country. It seems a shame that visually impaired people would have to resort to this in the face of such intransigence. What difference should it make

Kindle app

Actually it's worse than it just won't work, Voiceover has been deliberately disabled by order of those nice folk at Amazon. Their reason seems to be that Voiceover is free and so sighted people might use it to get their books read out to them. Sounds like a load of spurious drivel to me. I wish

seeing to whom an email was addressed?

OK, what you need to do is go left from where you are and interact with "message headers" and that will show you the text of the sender, addressees and so forth. Best Adrienne -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this

BBC Radio Player

Hi all Kawal, if you have the iPlayer app, you wouldn't need the BBC Global app. I don't know how you were accessing the BBC on your Mac before, I used to use Real Player, but I don't think that works any longer. Lisette is right about accessing the BBC content outside the UK. However, if the

BBC Radio Player

Der Christopher and Kawal Since a year or so back, when you try to access BBC iplayer radio programmes it comes up with a whole new rigmarole because they have associated this with something called the Radio Player Partnership. You don't have to download anything, it just comes up automaticall

BBC Radio Player

Hi Can't get Radio Player to work on either my iMac or my MBP, both running latest version of ML. Has the BBC been improving accessibility again by making it impossible to use Radio Player with VO? Anyone else experiencing this? Regards Adrienne -- You received this message because you are s

VO and languages other than English

Hi Thanks in advance to anyone who has any ideas on this. Is there any way of switching VO easily to another language? I keep getting stuff in French and the standard English pronunciation makes it unintelligible. If there were something like the language change you get in spellcheck, that wou

Updating Stream from a Mac

Hi Has anyone tried to do this? If so, how does it work? I don't understand what a "root" is on and SD card, which Humanware keep going on about Thanks Adrienne -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send em