to do, when in the
Activities panel of VO Utility,, select the activity, then press the “Set”
button for the item you’ve checked. It would be the “Set” button just one
VO-right after the checked box for the changed settings.
HTH.
Later…
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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
Hi,
When in the VO Utility in the Activities category, select the Activity from the
table. Navigate to the Apps & websites pop-up menu and VO-space on it.
Navigate down to the Web-sites item and press return. This will bring up the
list of sites connected to this activity. In the t
awhile ago I set up an activity to have the mouse ignore the vo cursor for
certain websites. very helpful. anyway, I inadvertently have a couple of sites
listed twice. is there a way to delete them without erasing the whole activity
and starting over?
thanks.
Lorie
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Hi, is there a way to have quick nav turn on when I use Safari, and turn off
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Thank you very much, Tim. After reading some of the traffic on the list, I
checked in the App Store here (yes, I am in Austria) and found ten different
apps with the name of my provider in the title, so going the route of a
provider’s own app might just be the best approach. I’ll let you know
activities
Hi,
If I recall correctly, you're in Austria or somewhere across the pond :). As
suggested, probably your carrier is your best option. Most carriers either
have an app, or at least web-site account access. Many also have notification
options that are available for when yo
Hi!
My phone provider has an app that keeps track of that.
/A
> 8 mars 2018 kl. 14:37 skrev Jonathan Cohn :
>
> Some phone companies have a number to dial to check this information. For
> Sprint it is either *2 or *4. I have been unlimited with them for so long,
> that I can't remember which. F
No but an option would be to search the app store and see if your
carrier offers an app.
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Many believe that we have been visited
in the past. What if it were true?
On 3/8/2018 8:39 AM, Michael Busboom wrote:
Hi. Some of this might be in se
Hi,
If I recall correctly, you're in Austria or somewhere across the pond :). As
suggested, probably your carrier is your best option. Most carriers either
have an app, or at least web-site account access. Many also have notification
options that are available for when you get close to vario
Hi. Some of this might be in settings, but not everything I’m looking for.
Since I live outside the States, Verizon isn’t an option.
Take care and thank you.
Mike
> On 08.03.2018, at 17:28, E.T. wrote:
>
> Those starred numbers are in settings, or were. I didn't locate them in
> either
Those starred numbers are in settings, or were. I didn't locate them
in either Cellular or Phone,
Verizon does have an app which provides access to everything
including data usage.
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Many believe that we have been visited
in the past. W
Thanks for the tip, Jonathan. I will look at this provider’s website or see if
they have an app that would allow me to keep track of this info from billing
period to billing period. Still, one would think that something else would be
available. Nevertheless, I like your suggestion, and I’ll c
Some phone companies have a number to dial to check this information. For
Sprint it is either *2 or *4. I have been unlimited with them for so long, that
I can't remember which. For that matter, I believe in the Phone area of
settings there is a place where the carrier can put customer service n
Hello everyone,
Recently, I changed phone service providers, because the new provider has a far
more attractive LTE data package plan. The downside is that I have fewer
minutes and fewer text messages for the flat rate I pay each month.
I am looking for an app that keeps track of the number of
Thanks Alex. I am sure I can find something to make an activity for.
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On 12/1/2016 12:20 PM, Alex Hall wrote:
Activities let you customize verbosity, speech, commanders, and many other VO
options based o
Activities let you customize verbosity, speech, commanders, and many other VO
options based on the current application. You can also hit vo-x to select an
activity at any time. For instance, some people set things so that an activity
will enable Quick Nav whenever Safari or Chrome is open, or
Am reminded that I should explore this feature. What are some of the
things where this might be useful? I realize its a rather generic query
but its a starting point.
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If you don't mind me saying so, you should not rea
, and I know Scott, E.T, etc. are probably gonna attack me for
> this, so go ahead and do so. I won't see your mails anyway, so who cares.
> Anyway, I probably should a read this thread more in depth, but are you
> rememberring after creating the activity to then attach it to
o the
application? In the activities category of the VO Utility, after all is set,
it'll say, use activity for, and you have to actually pick the .app file of
the application, like, mail.app, to attach that particular activity to.
Otherwise, the activity won't do anything. It'll
Yes it is. Now I got activities working a little and this is so weird. If I go
from a program running a activity to another running an activity everything
works fine, but if I go from a program like mail running an activity to safari
running the default and back to mail running the activity
those are the same exact steps I have been
> doing but activities still do not work for me. Even tried switching my mail
> to Daniel to see if it was an issue with Samantha but did not work as Alex is
> still being used when I go to mail. So strange considering this is a brand
>
Hi Chris, Thanks so much. Yup those are the same exact steps I have been doing
but activities still do not work for me. Even tried switching my mail to Daniel
to see if it was an issue with Samantha but did not work as Alex is still being
used when I go to mail. So strange considering this is a
1. Open VoiceOver Utility and navigate to activities.
2. Click add.
3. If you can't see the option you are looking for, expand the disclosure
triangle. Click the checkbox next to the option you wish to change, then click
set next to that, such as voices.
4. Set the appropriate options,
rence though, but it worked like a charm.
>> On 29 Oct 2016, at 19:09, Brian Fischler wrote:
>>
>> Hey all,
>>
>> Can someone you claims activities on Sierra works for them please write out
>> the steps they are using to successfully have an activity set for a p
You did what I exactly did, except I used Daniel instead of Samantha, shouldn't
make a difference though, but it worked like a charm.
> On 29 Oct 2016, at 19:09, Brian Fischler wrote:
>
> Hey all,
>
> Can someone you claims activities on Sierra works for them please write o
Hey all,
Can someone you claims activities on Sierra works for them please write out the
steps they are using to successfully have an activity set for a program. Would
love to see if there is something I am missing as Apple cannot seem to figure
it out and they still do not work for me. I just
machine they dropped the ball big time as activities do not
> seem to work at all. I like QuickNav to automatically turn off when in mail
> and Night Owl and I use different voices but nothing seems to work. Would
> love to hear if activities are working for anyone. Thanks,
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Thanks so weird that this must be device specific as I have a computer only 4
months old and 90% of the time activities will not work for me. Absolutely head
scratching but good to hear they are working for some. Thanks for confirming.
> On Sep 22, 2016, at 3:15 AM, M. Taylor wrote:
>
&
Hello Brian,
Yes, Activities are working beautifully in Sierra, on my MacBook Pro Mid-2014
machine.
I use several activities including various voices. For example, while my
primary VoiceOver voice is Alex, all notifications and the notification center,
use my beloved Samantha.
To be
This is something I contacted Apple about several times during the beta and at
least on my machine they dropped the ball big time as activities do not seem to
work at all. I like QuickNav to automatically turn off when in mail and Night
Owl and I use different voices but nothing seems to work
Depressing, isn’t it? WWDC is just around the corner and apparently OS
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graded to Yosemite to get activities back. They’re thoroughly broken
> for me on El Cap. And yes, it was a clean install.
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Thanks Chris. Actually on the phone now with Apple Accessibility and yup my
issue seems to be device specific yuck fun for me.
> On May 3, 2016, at 2:39 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland
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>
> I use quite a few activities in my workflow. Anything from within Mail, to
> IT
I use quite a few activities in my workflow. Anything from within Mail, to
ITunes, to even a few things I've set up both for Logic, and for ProTools.
I think I may even have one on this machine set up for Mainstage. I'm using
El Capitan 10.11.4, and no, this isn't a
Hey all,
I have activities set up for mail and Night Owl and they will work for five
minutes and then completely stop working. This is quite annoying and I imagine
it is a bug in El Cap. Has anyone gotten their activities to work consistently
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the activity is
> assigned to or does it read apps and you have to hit the pop up button to get
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>> On Apr 16, 2016, at 12:56 PM, Anne Robertson wrote:
>>
>> Hello Brian,
>>
>> Activities seem to be working for me in El Cap. I
PM, Anne Robertson wrote:
>
> Hello Brian,
>
> Activities seem to be working for me in El Cap. I too have a Mail activity
> with low verbosity. The only annoying thing is the time it takes to switch
> activities.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Anne
>
>
>
>>
Hello Brian,
Activities seem to be working for me in El Cap. I too have a Mail activity with
low verbosity. The only annoying thing is the time it takes to switch
activities.
Cheers,
Anne
> On 16 Apr 2016, at 18:17, Brian Fischler wrote:
>
> I have set up my activity for m
working I do not like
how the assign activity button reads apps and when I click it mail does have a
check next to it. Any one getting activities to work let me know if I am doing
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> When I set up an activity and associate it with an app, it takes forever to
> command tab out of that app. Is this still a known issue?
Yes, with Nuance voices. If you avoid those, then it works—kinda. Sometimes,
in that case, activit
Hi.
When I set up an activity and associate it with an app, it takes forever to
command tab out of that app. Is this still a known issue?
Thanks.
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Hello Everyone,
I would like to setup a VoiceOver Activity. My question:
Is there a way to setup a voice specific activity for Notification Alerts
and/or the Notification Center/area?
I would like my Notifications Alerts to use Samantha instead of Alex, for
example.
If so, I cannot find it
ok,found out how to use activities and it's cool. Now, to answer John's initial
question, I think just exporting your voiceover prefs, you'll be able to share
your activities with others. I've not tried this, but I don't see why it
wouldn't work!
Sent from my iP
is there a place in the manual that shows how to use them?
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> On Aug 26, 2014, at 11:54 AM, Chris Bruinenberg wrote:
>
> Activities are customized settings for voiceover for a particular
> application. You can choose to have a different voice, punctuation or
Activities are customized settings for voiceover for a particular application.
You can choose to have a different voice, punctuation or hotspots!
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> On Aug 26, 2014, at 9:38 AM, Joe Quinn wrote:
>
> What are activities?
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>>
What are activities?
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> On Aug 26, 2014, at 11:19 AM, "John D. Lipsey" wrote:
>
> Hi all:
>
> Now that I'm using activities more, I'm loving the value they have in
> increasing my productivity in certain things. This got me to thinkin
Hi all:
Now that I'm using activities more, I'm loving the value they have in
increasing my productivity in certain things. This got me to thinking. It's
easy enough for me to tell somebody how to create an activity if i find one
particularly useful, but it would be nice if I
I suspect that I am going to come to the same conclusion.
Too early to tell yet, though.
Cait
On Jul 22, 2014, at 7:08 PM, Alex Hall wrote:
> I just don't use Activities. They are handy, but not useful enough to bother
> with for me.
> On Jul 22, 2014, at 6:50 PM, Caitlyn Fur
I just don't use Activities. They are handy, but not useful enough to bother
with for me.
On Jul 22, 2014, at 6:50 PM, Caitlyn Furness wrote:
> Hi,
> So, how did you fix this, or did you? Are you just using Alex?
> Cait
>
> On Jul 22, 2014, at 7:38 AM, isaac.heb...@gmail.
Well, for the time being I just put all the voices back to Alex and things seem
to be smoother.
I am just now playing with activities, so am not even sure I'll stick with the
ones I now have set up.
thanks,
Cait
On Jul 22, 2014, at 11:59 AM, Brian Fischler wrote:
> I have also noticed
58 AM, Alex Hall wrote:
> The problem seems to be when using Nuance voices. Even if none of your
> activities change voices, just the act of using a Nuance voice appears to
> cause slowness. Try switching to Alex and see if that helps, though I realize
> that is not a solution. Please
t 6:33 AM, Caitlyn Furness
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> Is anybody else experiencing your mac seeming to get bogged down when you
>> are using activities with voiceover?
>>
>> I just loaded a new set of vo preferences a few days ago and it's got
>> several ac
of your
> activities change voices, just the act of using a Nuance voice appears to
> cause slowness. Try switching to Alex and see if that helps, though I realize
> that is not a solution. Please remember to email accessibil...@apple.com to
> let them know about the problem.
> O
. When this
happens I restart my computer. Yes this is frustrating as I hate restarting but
it seems to get everything playing nice together again.
On Jul 22, 2014, at 10:58 AM, Alex Hall wrote:
> The problem seems to be when using Nuance voices. Even if none of your
> activities change
The problem seems to be when using Nuance voices. Even if none of your
activities change voices, just the act of using a Nuance voice appears to cause
slowness. Try switching to Alex and see if that helps, though I realize that is
not a solution. Please remember to email accessibil...@apple.com
Yes I have experienced slowness when using different voices with different
apps. especially when switching to another app.
On Jul 22, 2014, at 6:33 AM, Caitlyn Furness wrote:
> Hi,
> Is anybody else experiencing your mac seeming to get bogged down when you are
> using activi
Hi,
Is anybody else experiencing your mac seeming to get bogged down when you are
using activities with voiceover?
I just loaded a new set of vo preferences a few days ago and it's got several
activities set up. It now seems to take forever to change windows, for
example. It's dr
;t get these announcements. Have a
> look at what you have set for "When status changes" in VO
> Utility/Verbosity/Announcements. I have it set to "Play tone".
>
> Cheers,
>
> Anne
>
>
> On 7 Jun 2014, at 01:53, Tim Kilburn wrote:
>
>&g
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just lately started playing with Activities. So, whenever I go into the app
> that I attached the Activity to, VO announces "blah blah activity" and
> "VoiceOver settings activity" when exiting. This includes when I cmd-tab in
> and ou
Hi,
Just lately started playing with Activities. So, whenever I go into the app
that I attached the Activity to, VO announces "blah blah activity" and
"VoiceOver settings activity" when exiting. This includes when I cmd-tab in
and out of the app. Is there a way to stop
xes things. I very much prefer
> the Ava voice, so use that exclusively.
> On Apr 23, 2014, at 2:52 PM, David Taylor wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I find that app switching works well, using activities, but only if I use
>> the Alex voice, and probably the older voic
That's interesting, I'll have to see if that fixes things. I very much prefer
the Ava voice, so use that exclusively.
On Apr 23, 2014, at 2:52 PM, David Taylor wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I find that app switching works well, using activities, but only if I use the
> Alex voice,
Hi,
I find that app switching works well, using activities, but only if I use the
Alex voice, and probably the older voices would work too, but not at all well
with the nuance voices. I have reported this to Apple.
Cheers
Dave
On 23 Apr 2014, at 14:52, Alex Hall wrote:
> I am using cmd-
, then up or down arrow to "low" and press space. It alters how
> messages are read in the Messages Table.
>
> I set up an activity to do this automatically when Mail is active, but it now
> takes a long time to switch to or from Mail. To do this, just go to
> Activiti
switch to or from Mail. To do this, just go to Activities
in the VO Utility, add a new one, check 'verbosity", set it to low, then choose
"Mail" from the applications popup button.
On Apr 23, 2014, at 9:46 AM, Daniel Hawkins
wrote:
> Hello Alex,
>
> Could you
AM.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Anne
>
>
> On 23 Apr 2014, at 05:30, Alex Hall wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> Someone recently told me that low verbosity in Mail eliminates the
>> "disclosure triangle" and other annoying announcements. It does indeed, so i
&
, 2014, at 10:30 PM, Alex Hall wrote:
> Hi all,
> Someone recently told me that low verbosity in Mail eliminates the
> "disclosure triangle" and other annoying announcements. It does indeed, so i
> set up an activity to set low verbosity in Mail. I tried activities a couple
wrote:
> Hi all,
> Someone recently told me that low verbosity in Mail eliminates the
> "disclosure triangle" and other annoying announcements. It does indeed, so i
> set up an activity to set low verbosity in Mail. I tried activities a couple
> years ago, but they cau
Hi all,
Someone recently told me that low verbosity in Mail eliminates the "disclosure
triangle" and other annoying announcements. It does indeed, so i set up an
activity to set low verbosity in Mail. I tried activities a couple years ago,
but they caused switching to and from apps to
Dear Listers,
I've just spent an inordinate amount of time trying to set up a new
activity in Voiceover utilities that would associate a Braille
translation table with a particular voice so that if I should choose it,
my Braille tables will have changed automatically. When I saw that such
a c
Hi all,
Is there some sort of bug with VoiceOver activities?
I have set up a couple and most of the time they don't switch properly. For
example, when VO should switch back to my default activity & default voice, it
often sounds like it is switching to Austrailian Lee.
I like Lee,
; change the speech language, I would like my braille language to follow that
> changes. This is not possible. unless you set up some activities.
>
> I will do that, but can I set up a hotkey that lets me activate a speciffic
> activity.
>
> Best regards Annie.
>
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Hi all.
I have a problem that frustrates me a lot. I am using braille, and if I change
the speech language, I would like my braille language to follow that changes.
This is not possible. unless you set up some activities.
I will do that, but can I set up a hotkey that lets me activate a
Activities are unfortunately named, as they do not do what they sound like. An
activity is a way of associating certain settings with certain applications.
For instance, you might have an activity called "edit", in which vo is set to
speak text attribute changes, use phonetics, and
hello guys,
I am curious about the activities menu item in voiceover. I would like to be
able to make some nice shortcuts for common activities, but am not sure where
to begin. Also, I may need to start using apple scripts for other things. Both
of these items are starting to become important
The activity I had did not change voices at all, it just enabled quicknav for
certain apps. Even so, there was quite a lag, enough that I got tired of
dealing with it and never used activities again. It's easy to say "don't let
the lag stop you", but when you're used to
Even before I got my SSD, I didn't experience lag in voices when I had
different voices set up for different activities. AS for using iMessage,
just set up a commander to go to the beginning and, and then just inter act
with the HTML section when reading and replying to messages, works l
The lag when switching apps only gets worse if you choose a different voice,
and it's the one single drawback to Activities, which is otherwise an extremely
powerful way to use VO. I have, now, two activities; the normal one, which I
use for everything except messaging clients. I us
to or away from
any of those apps, it took a second or two, instead of being immediate. I soon
discovered that, for me, the delay was more frustrating than manually enabling
quicknav when I want it, so I removed the activities. Maybe I did something
wrong, though. If you have a way to use
Hello.
I just took delivery of a brand new MacBook Air yesterday afternoon. When I
exported my VO prefs from my old Mac, and then imported them in to my new one
everything imported properly accept for activities.
Does anyone know if activities are supposed to be exported when one exports
VO&#
ot tested this in anything aside from Safari, but using Mountain
>> Lion, which by the way is very specifically important in this equasion, if
>> you're not on ML, you're probably not gonna have this issue. I'm finding
>> that if I go into the Voiceover Utility, and go
on, if
> you're not on ML, you're probably not gonna have this issue. I'm finding
> that if I go into the Voiceover Utility, and go down to activities, and set
> up my activity for Safari, more specifically, I tell it by default to turn on
> quick nav, and also t
OK. I've not tested this in anything aside from Safari, but using Mountain
Lion, which by the way is very specifically important in this equasion, if
you're not on ML, you're probably not gonna have this issue. I'm finding
that if I go into the Voiceover Utility, and g
one
>
> On Aug 10, 2012, at 2:38 PM, Bill Holton wrote:
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>> Hi.
>>
>> In the activities tables, is there anyway to set a separate
>> punctuationverbosity level for mail the main menu and mail emails that are
>> opened?
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What do you mean by "you can't multi-sleect in the applications menu"? You can
associate an activity with multiple applications, if you are saying this cannot
be done.
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Yes, and the excellent point was made that the App Store also uses HTML based
interface, so I … hmmm. Too bad you can't multi-select in the applications
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> of naming an activity is, other than to quickly identify it, which seems
> redundant since activities themselves are application specific.
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I believe the first column in that table is "name of activity." So, you might
call it "Safari VO," or something; I'm not really sure what the purpose of
naming an activity is, other than to quickly identify it, which seems redundant
since activities themselves
from the activity. If all else
fails, vo-x will let you pick from all the activities you have created.
On Aug 8, 2012, at 4:13 AM, Lisette Wesseling
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> I thought turning on quick nav was picking the activity.
> I wondered if I was missing a step but don't und
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