Re: Matched Items download?

2013-10-22 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Thanks Tim. As I thought I was deleting one album I unchecked keep copies in the cloud so I have lost my matched items. I will check my preferences. Kawal. Sent from my I phone > On 22 Oct 2013, at 04:40 am, Tim Kilburn wrote: > > Hi, > > Yes, you can download all the music that you've matc

Re: prospective subscribers not allowed to join this group?

2013-10-22 Thread Antonio M. Guimaraes Jr.
Hi, I have seen no response to the message below, so I don't know how others can subscribe to this list anymore. I have a friend who's trying to do just that, and is quite frustrated with how and when he can join the list. Any response will be appreciated, Antonio On Oct 20, 2013, at 7:29 PM

Re: prospective subscribers not allowed to join this group?

2013-10-22 Thread Kliphton -------
I don't know the answer to how to subscribe to this list. But if your friend wants to get answers to questions, tell them to go to mac4theblind.org its the number 4 not the word for. HTH. Kliphton (iMessage )kliph...@icloud.com-Email kliphton@outlook.com (Twitter,Instagram,foursquare&Skype

Re: prospective subscribers not allowed to join this group?

2013-10-22 Thread Chris Blouch
Sorry for the delay. I was traveling this weekend and am just now catching up on email. Anyone can join the group, there is just an approval process to weed out spammers. I have not found any join requests in my inbox to approve. It's been years since I joined this list so I'm a bit fuzzy on t

Re: prospective subscribers not allowed to join this group?

2013-10-22 Thread Alex Hall
I have been telling people to email macvisionaries+subscr...@googlegroups.com, and they all get the error message about not being able to join. People shouldn't need a Gmail account to join a list. What, then, is the correct subscription address? Joining has always been a huge problem for this l

Re: prospective subscribers not allowed to join this group?

2013-10-22 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
I never joined this list with a Gmail account. Why not go to Google and put in the E-mail address you prefer as that is what I did and had no problem at the time. Kawal. Sent from my I phone > On 22 Oct 2013, at 03:50 pm, Alex Hall wrote: > > I have been telling people to email > macvisiona

Script, Say command

2013-10-22 Thread Traci Duncan
Hi all, You know how you can create a script with the say command using any or many voices? Is there a way to save that script as an audio result? I've found via Google where I can save it as an audio file for one voice, but I cannot find a solution for virtually creating a speech conversation

Re: Script, Say command

2013-10-22 Thread Alex Hall
Why not just speak, save, speak, save, and so on until you have all the files? If you tell hte script to, say, number them, you can then import them all into something like Audacity and align them end to end to form a conversation. That's the best I can come up with for now. On Oct 22, 2013, at

Re: prospective subscribers not allowed to join this group?

2013-10-22 Thread Teresa Cochran
I haven't caught part of this thread, unfortunately. What is the error message they're getting? This might be an instance for contacting the moderators with the problem off-list, as you might get a quicker response. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!contactowner/macvisionaries Once you confirm y

Re: Problem from Re-Labeling an App

2013-10-22 Thread Brian Fischler
Thanks Nick. Glad to see I wasn't the only one who thought why not relabel a generically named app so I know what it is. On Oct 22, 2013, at 2:31 AM, Nicholas Parsons wrote: > For what it's worth, Bryan, I've had the same issue as you. It's really > annoying. I reset my iPhone and restored the

Mavericks is free.

2013-10-22 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hello list, I thought you would all like to know Mavericks is free, and available today. Even if your running an older OS like Snow Leopard. hth Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info -- You received this message because you are subscribed t

Re: Mavericks is free.

2013-10-22 Thread Jane
Where did you find this? Jane On Oct 22, 2013, at 1:27 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Hello list, > > I thought you would all like to know Mavericks is free, and available today. > Even if your running an older OS like Snow Leopard. > > hth > > Ricardo Walker > rica...@appletothecore.info

Re: Mavericks is free.

2013-10-22 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Free? Wow!! What can we expect in the way of differences accessibilitywise? Wow! I sure didn't think it would be free! Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in! Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray, still a very happy Mac and Iphone 5 user! On

Re: Mavericks is free.

2013-10-22 Thread Matt Dierckens
Can't wait to see what's new. I won't be getting for a few weeks. Matt Dierckens matt.dierck...@gmail.com Assistive Technology Trainer IOS and Macintosh User support Windsor area On 2013-10-22, at 1:29 PM, Jane wrote: > Where did you find this? > > Jane > > > > > On Oct 22, 2013, at 1:27 P

Re: Mavericks is free.

2013-10-22 Thread Teresa Cochran
Uh, I google and find nothing about this, nor is it in the app store. Am I supposed to laugh now? Hahahaha. Thanks, (I think) :) Teresa "Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough."--Richard P. Feynman On Oct 22, 2013, at 10:27 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Hello list, > > I tho

Re: Mavericks is free.

2013-10-22 Thread Ricardo Walker
Lol. It’s not a joke. It was announced in the Apple event that is streaming live at this moment. Mavericks will be hitting the Mac store later today. hth Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Oct 22, 2013, at 1:39 PM, Teresa Cochran wro

RE: Mavericks is free.

2013-10-22 Thread Shen
Yep, we can all laugh. And, it's true. I'm watching the Apple event live right now and they made the announcement about 20 minutes ago. It's not there yet because the event is not over. Give it a little time. It will be in the App Store for sure today. -Original Message- From: macvisiona

Re: Mavericks is free.

2013-10-22 Thread Chris Blouch
Here's a web link to the same info: http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/22/apple-makes-os-x-mavericks-a-free-upgrade-available-today/ CB On 10/22/13 1:42 PM, Shen wrote: Yep, we can all laugh. And, it's true. I'm watching the Apple event live right now and they made the announcement about 20 minutes

Re: Mavericks is free.

2013-10-22 Thread Jane
I just saw it on Twitter, too My apologies for thinking this was a joke. Jane On Oct 22, 2013, at 1:40 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Lol. > > It’s not a joke. It was announced in the Apple event that is streaming live > at this moment. Mavericks will be hitting the Mac store later today. >

Re: Mavericks is free.

2013-10-22 Thread Teresa Cochran
Sorry, Ricardo. It didn't seem like the sort of thing you'd do on the list, but there was so little info to work with. It's great news, and I'm still laughing. way to go, Apple. :) Teresa "We're made of star stuff."--Carl Sagan On Oct 22, 2013, at 10:47 AM, Jane wrote: > I just saw it on Twi

Mavericks Is Free

2013-10-22 Thread Helena Fehr
Does this mean that iBooks for Mac will come with Mavericks, and that we will be able to read iBooks on our Macs today too? Or do we need to get iBooks for Mac from the app-store too? I'm guessing it'll be free as well, since iBooks is free on iPhones and such. Am I right? God Bless!!!

Re: Mavericks is free.

2013-10-22 Thread Teresa Cochran
Thanks for that, Chris. And yes, Helena, iBooks is part of the Mavericks oS. Teresa "The Golden Age of science fiction is twelve."--Pete Graham On Oct 22, 2013, at 10:44 AM, Chris Blouch wrote: > Here's a web link to the same info: > > http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/22/apple-makes-os-x-maveri

Re: Mavericks Is Free

2013-10-22 Thread Pete Nalda
iBooks came with it. Egun On, Lagunak! (basque for G'day, Mates Louie P (Pete) Nalda MySpace.com/musikonalda Facebook.com/lpnalda Linkedin.com/in/lpnalda Twitter: @lpnalda > On Oct 22, 2013, at 1:04 PM, Helena Fehr wrote: > > Does this mean that iBooks for Mac will come with Mavericks, and tha

Re: Mavericks Is Free

2013-10-22 Thread Matt Dierckens
Hi. So, if I understood correctly, iWork is free on all *new* devices, correct? Also, I wonder when the new OSX will actually be available? Matt Dierckens matt.dierck...@gmail.com Assistive Technology Trainer IOS and Macintosh User support Windsor area On 2013-10-22, at 2:38 PM, Pete Nalda wrot

Re: Mavericks Is Free

2013-10-22 Thread Ray Foret Jr
AS for when it will be available, sometime today. AS for Ibooks being free on all devices, yep. Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in! Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray, still a very happy Mac and Iphone 5 user! On Oct 22, 2013, at 1:46 PM,

Re: Mavericks Is Free

2013-10-22 Thread Daniel Miller
Mavericks will be available *today*. And yes, the alps will be free on *new* devices only. Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 22, 2013, at 1:46 PM, Matt Dierckens wrote: > > Hi. > So, if I understood correctly, iWork is free on all *new* devices, correct? > Also, I wonder when the new OSX will actu

Mavericks available now

2013-10-22 Thread Edward Green
Subject line says it all. -- 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...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to mac

Re: Mavericks Is Free

2013-10-22 Thread Teresa Cochran
Try *now*! :) HtH, Teresa "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."--Groucho Marx On Oct 22, 2013, at 11:49 AM, Daniel Miller wrote: > Mavericks will be available *today*. And yes, the alps will be free on *new* > devices only. > > Sent from

Re: Mavericks available now

2013-10-22 Thread Michael Marshall
hey, any changes or improvements to VO with the new OS? On 23/10/2013, at 6:07 AM, Edward Green wrote: > Subject line says it all. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving em

Re: Mavericks available now

2013-10-22 Thread Mike Arrigo
Is it a free or paid upgrade? I will be curious to know how it works, but think I will wait until at least the first update in case there are any major bugs. Original message: Subject line says it all. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionar

Re: Mavericks available now

2013-10-22 Thread Edward Green
It's free. Ed On 22 Oct 2013, at 21:19, Mike Arrigo wrote: > Is it a free or paid upgrade? I will be curious to know how it works, but > think I will wait until at least the first update in case there are any major > bugs. > Original message: >> Subject line says it all. > >> -- >> You receiv

Re: Mavericks available now

2013-10-22 Thread Edward Green
Hi Michael, It's still downloading and I haven't found any early podcasts yet, so I'm still waiting to see - I'll let you know what I find. Ed On 22 Oct 2013, at 21:15, Michael Marshall wrote: > hey, > any changes or improvements to VO with the new OS? > On 23/10/2013, at 6:07 AM, Edward Green

Re: Mavericks available now

2013-10-22 Thread Michael Marshall
thanks for that. i just don't want to update the OS to find it so buggy that i can't use it. On 23/10/2013, at 7:23 AM, Edward Green wrote: > Hi Michael, > > It's still downloading and I haven't found any early podcasts yet, so I'm > still waiting to see - I'll let you know what I find. > > Ed

First impressions of Mavericks

2013-10-22 Thread Daniel Miller
Hello, I just downloaded OS X Mavericks on my 2012 Macbook Air. As far as accessibility goes, I’m going to put a damper on something right away. iBooks isn’t ready for primetime, unfortunately. It’s an extremely quirky interface, that has lots of accessibility issues that need to be fixed before

Re: First impressions of Mavericks

2013-10-22 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hello, Yes. ibooks does need a lot of waork accessibility wise. I do think its usable though. But it feels very much like a beta product. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Oct 22, 2013, at 5:01 PM, Daniel Miller wrote: > Hello, >

Enabling Assistive Devices Help.

2013-10-22 Thread Emilio Hernandez
Hello Everyone, >From performing a google search on the Internet, I have found that enabling >assistive devices with Mavericks is done from within “Security and Privacy.” However, when accessing this area I do not see a feature that would allow me to enable assistive devices for applications i.e

Re: First impressions of Mavericks

2013-10-22 Thread Tim Emmons
Oh that reminds me, is the Kindle app on the mac itself accessible? I haven't loaded it onto the mac Book Pro yet. Thanks. On Oct 22, 2013, at 4:01 PM, Daniel Miller wrote: > Hello, > > I just downloaded OS X Mavericks on my 2012 Macbook Air. As far as > accessibility goes, I’m going to put a

Re: First impressions of Mavericks

2013-10-22 Thread Jane
It wasn't the last time I'd checked. Maybe it will be accessible next May? Jane On Oct 22, 2013, at 5:48 PM, Tim Emmons wrote: > Oh that reminds me, is the Kindle app on the mac itself accessible? I haven't > loaded it onto the mac Book Pro yet. Thanks. > On Oct 22, 2013, at 4:01 PM, Daniel

Re: First impressions of Mavericks

2013-10-22 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hello, No it is not. hth Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Oct 22, 2013, at 5:48 PM, Tim Emmons wrote: > Oh that reminds me, is the Kindle app on the mac itself accessible? I haven't > loaded it onto the mac Book Pro yet. Thanks. >

pages and tables.

2013-10-22 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hello, I just updated Pages to version 5.0. It is nice to finally have access to tables in pages. So far so good. Voiceover accessibility seems much improved. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info -- You received this message because you a

Re: First impressions of Mavericks

2013-10-22 Thread Richard Ring
I completely aggree about iBooks. It’s not a VoiceOver ready app at all! Too bad! You can have an off day, but you can't have a day off! ---The Art of Fielding Sent from my Mac Book Pro richr...@gmail.com On Oct 22, 2013, at 4:01 PM, Daniel Miller wrote: > Hello, > > I just downloaded OS X

Re: First impressions of Mavericks

2013-10-22 Thread Barry Hadder
Hi, Actually the unlabeled buttons not with standing, iBooks is quite usable with Voiceover. Make sure that you have list selected. I’ve also have been able to download a sample chapter of an iBooks version of a book I have in PDF, and it is much better. The app certainly needs a little wor

Re: Enabling Assistive Devices Help.

2013-10-22 Thread Barry Hadder
Hi, Go into security and privacy/privacy and select accessibility from the list. Then you can enable an application. On Oct 22, 2013, at 4:27 PM, Emilio Hernandez wrote: Hello Everyone, >From performing a google search on the Internet, I have found that enabling >assistive devices with Mav

Re: prospective subscribers not allowed to join this group?

2013-10-22 Thread Alex Hall
The error is Google saying they don't have permission to join. I'm just not sure how to tell people to join, and if they need a gmail address or not. On Oct 22, 2013, at 12:08 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote: > I haven't caught part of this thread, unfortunately. What is the error > message they're ge

Re: First impressions of Mavericks

2013-10-22 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Honestly, I am beginning to think it might be high time to have a list discussion on what defines accessible and usable. One user says it's not at all accessible while another says it's doable. Perhaps we might want to do a litlte something about clearing this up? Sent from my Mac, the only

Re: prospective subscribers not allowed to join this group?

2013-10-22 Thread Ray Foret Jr
>From what I understand, in order to join this list, the list moderater must >now approve all would be members. The bad part about this is that if the >moderater is never arround, forget it. Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in! Sincerely, The Co

Re: First impressions of Mavericks

2013-10-22 Thread Alex Hall
The question I have is: are there help labels for each button? For me, if a button is labeled with the help tag, I can at least label it myself and then the app is usable. It isn't perfect, but it is better than nothing. On Oct 22, 2013, at 7:41 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > Honestly, I am beginnin

Solving captures on a mac?

2013-10-22 Thread Rob
Dear List, How do you solve captures on a mac? On my PC I use Firefox and Webvisum. I have not received my ordered macbook yet, but I wanted to know the answer. I also would like to know if any of you are using the password app called Keepass on a mac? Thanks, Rob You can leave me a voice ma

Re: First impressions of Mavericks

2013-10-22 Thread Barry Hadder
The buttons in question are not labeled nor do they have help tags, but other than the fact that it is stupid for them not to have done it, it doesn’t matter. I’m sure that they are in the menus. You have a row of radio buttons that are labeled, and the only on that will work for you is the l

Re: Mavericks is free.

2013-10-22 Thread Laura ann Grymes
when you go to updates under the app store its there. laura Ann On Oct 22, 2013, at 12:39 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote: > Uh, I google and find nothing about this, nor is it in the app store. Am I > supposed to laugh now? Hahahaha. > > Thanks, (I think) :) > Teresa > > "Everything is interesting

VO seems better was:Re: First impressions of Mavericks

2013-10-22 Thread Michael Marshall
hey, have just put the new OS on and all reddy i see a difference. hard to put my finger on but in some parts VO just seems more descriptive. some of the voices have got updates to install as well so i look forward to having a look at that. On 23 Oct 2013, at 10:41 am, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > Hon

Re: VO seems better was:Re: First impressions of Mavericks

2013-10-22 Thread Alex Hall
Okay, now please do me a favor and give me a reason to go dancing in the streets... Tell me they did something about the whole "1 row added" thing that has driven so many of us insane... Please, tell me they did *something* about that. On Oct 22, 2013, at 8:18 PM, Michael Marshall wrote: > hey

safari, virtual windows and mavericks

2013-10-22 Thread May and Noah
Hi there everyone. I’m not sure if this is a safari issue or if it’s new with mavericks, but any help would be appreciated if someone knows how to fix it. First with Safari now whenever I’m moving around a page on the web it says clickable, for example May clickable. It did not do this before an

Re: Mavericks is free.

2013-10-22 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
I just downloaded mine but am going to do a clean install as I've not cleaned up my IMac since I bought it in January. On 23 Oct 2013, at 01:16, Laura ann Grymes wrote: > when you go to updates under the app store its there. > laura Ann > > On Oct 22, 2013, at 12:39 PM, Teresa Cochran > wrote

Re: safari, virtual windows and mavericks

2013-10-22 Thread Matt Dierckens
Hi May. I can only answer the second question. The reason its lowering the volume is because there is a new setting in the sound category of VO utility called audio ducking. I would uncheck that box. Matt Dierckens matt.dierck...@gmail.com Assistive Technology Trainer IOS and Macintosh User suppo

Re: Mavericks is free.

2013-10-22 Thread Jessica Moss
What's the advantage to upgrading as opposed to doing a clean install, and can you upgrade straight to Mavrix from Lion, or do you have to upgrade to mountain lion first? On Oct 22, 2013, at 8:33 PM, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: > I just downloaded mine but am going to do a clean install as I've not c

Re: VO seems better was:Re: First impressions of Mavericks

2013-10-22 Thread Michael Marshall
i don’t know about that as yet but i don’t think so some how. something new in VLC with VO i found interesting, if VO speeks when you are listening to something the music turns down when speech is on and turns back up when VO is done talking. On 23 Oct 2013, at 11:20 am, Alex Hall wrote: > Okay

Re: Mavericks available now

2013-10-22 Thread Mike Arrigo
I guess it's free to all those who have purchased mountain lion. Hopefully you can still do a clean install, I prefer to start from scratch any time there is a major new version of the operating system. On Oct 22, 2013, at 3:21 PM, Edward Green wrote: > It's free. > > Ed > On 22 Oct 2013, at 2

Re: Mavericks available now

2013-10-22 Thread Mike Arrigo
That's why I prefer to wait until at least the first major update. On Oct 22, 2013, at 3:35 PM, Michael Marshall wrote: > thanks for that. > i just don't want to update the OS to find it so buggy that i can't use it. > On 23/10/2013, at 7:23 AM, Edward Green wrote: > >> Hi Michael, >> >> It's

Re: VO seems better was:Re: First impressions of Mavericks

2013-10-22 Thread Alex Hall
Yes, auto-ducking is finally on the Mac. Apparently there's a checkbox to control that if you don't like it. On Oct 22, 2013, at 8:56 PM, Michael Marshall wrote: > i don’t know about that as yet but i don’t think so some how. > something new in VLC with VO i found interesting, if VO speeks when

Regarding clean installs…

2013-10-22 Thread Alex Hall
Hi all, What is this about a clean install? I have a 320gb external drive doing nothing and have never used Time Machine. Should I do a backup onto that first, given that I also have Crashplan? Ho, exactly, does one do a clean install without losing all installed apps (and more importantly, non-

Re: VO seems better was:Re: First impressions of Mavericks

2013-10-22 Thread Michael Marshall
VO is much better on the net EG if you back out of a page it remembers where you were but who knows if it will remember all the time. On 23 Oct 2013, at 12:05 pm, Alex Hall wrote: > Yes, auto-ducking is finally on the Mac. Apparently there's a checkbox to > control that if you don't like it. >

Mavericks download time?

2013-10-22 Thread Christine Grassman
It has been downloading for some time, and I cannot find a progress indicator. How long has it been for folks? Christine -- 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

Re: Mavericks download time?

2013-10-22 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, to get a progress update, from the Mac app store press Command 4 to go to purchases. You can then press VO command H to navigate by headings until you get to Mavericks, and VO right arrow to the progress info. If it’s going extremely slo, like saying the download will be complete in 18 ho

Re: Mavericks download time?

2013-10-22 Thread Christine Grassman
Great. Thanks. On Oct 22, 2013, at 9:18 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Hi, > > to get a progress update, from the Mac app store press Command 4 to go to > purchases. You can then press VO command H to navigate by headings until you > get to Mavericks, and VO right arrow to the progress info. If

Re: Mavericks available now

2013-10-22 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hello, No. Its free to pretty much anyone. Going as far back as snow leopard. Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Oct 22, 2013, at 8:59 PM, Mike Arrigo wrote: > I guess it's free to all those who have purchased mountain lion. Hopefully

Poor mail Experience. Any way to Tweak?

2013-10-22 Thread Jonathan Mosen
Hi everyone, so far I must say I’m disappointed with Mail in Mavericks. Mail in Mavericks has become way to chatty for my tastes and I’m hoping I’ve just missed a setting to make it stop. In Mountain Lion, I had my message list set up so all I heard was the sender, and the subject. If there was a

Re: safari, virtual windows and mavericks

2013-10-22 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Would I be right in guessing that this audio ducking has to do with Voice Over causing the primary audio to be ducked under like on the Iphone? Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in! Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray, still a very happy Mac a

Re: Poor mail Experience. Any way to Tweak?

2013-10-22 Thread Alex Hall
I am not running OS 10.9 yet, but it sounds like you have disabled Classic View. I don't use that feature, but what you describe - the ability to decide exactly what get spoken with each message - is Classic View behavior. Open Mail Preferences, and see if you can find the Classic View setting c

Re: safari, virtual windows and mavericks

2013-10-22 Thread Alex Hall
As I understand it, yes. As to the virtual Windows problem, I assume you're using fusion? If so, have you updated to the latest version, which has support for OS 10.9? On Oct 22, 2013, at 9:31 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > Would I be right in guessing that this audio ducking has to do with Voice >

Re: Poor mail Experience. Any way to Tweak?

2013-10-22 Thread Jonathan Mosen
Thanks very much for that Alex. I have never used Classic View before today, but you’re right, enabling it has allowed me to turn some of this stuff off. I do wish VO didn’t speak the field before the contents of each field, but at least it’s a little better than what I had. Jonathan Mosen Mosen

Re: Mavericks is free.

2013-10-22 Thread Kjsc Radio
You will be able to upgrade from mountain lion. I'm doing my installation right now. Sent from my iPhone > On 22 Oct 2013, at 6:38 pm, Jessica Moss wrote: > > What's the advantage to upgrading as opposed to doing a clean install, and > can you upgrade straight to Mavrix from Lion, or do you h

delting files in mavericks?

2013-10-22 Thread Cait and Maggie
Hi, I upgraded to mavericks tonight, something I usually don’t do!. anyway, some of the keystrokes might’ve changed, but when I checked, sure enough, the one for deletion of a file is supposedly still command delete, but mine isn’t working, I get an annoying bonk sound. I checked in the sharing

Re: delting files in mavericks?

2013-10-22 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, are you trying to delete the app from your apps folder? Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Oct 22, 2013, at 10:02 PM, Cait and Maggie wrote: > Hi, > I upgraded to mavericks tonight, something I usually don’t do!. > > anyway, some o

Re: safari, virtual windows and mavericks

2013-10-22 Thread Ricardo Walker
Correct. This can be toggled on/off in Voiceover utilities under sound Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.info Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Oct 22, 2013, at 9:31 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > Would I be right in guessing that this audio ducking has to do with Voice > Over

Re: Poor mail Experience. Any way to Tweak?

2013-10-22 Thread Michael Marshall
hey all, i’m using mail and when i hit VO J to interact with a message first it will say “interact with enbedded” if i do it a second time i interact with text. to get back to the message table i have to VO J twice. still usible but strange. Michael On 23 Oct 2013, at 12:39 pm, Jonathan Mosen

Re: safari, virtual windows and mavericks

2013-10-22 Thread May and Noah
Oh, thank you very much. That did fix that problem, whew. May and Prince Noah www.canadianlynx.ca On Oct 22, 2013, at 8:34 PM, Matt Dierckens wrote: > Hi May. > I can only answer the second question. > The reason its lowering the volume is because there is a new setting in the > sound category

Re: safari, virtual windows and mavericks

2013-10-22 Thread May and Noah
Oh yes, I do have the latest fusion and thanks for the suggestions, it’s all fixed now. Now to figure out the safari thing. May and Prince Noah www.canadianlynx.ca On Oct 22, 2013, at 9:37 PM, Alex Hall wrote: > As I understand it, yes. As to the virtual Windows problem, I assume you're > us

Anyone using Aftershokz bluetooth headset!

2013-10-22 Thread Red.Falcon
Hi! OK I was wondering if anyone has the Bluetooth version of the Aftershokz headset and if so do they have the same problem as others! Like a delay that inter fears with Apps like Blind square or that they really work well with Voice over? Thanks all! Colin -- You received this message because

Re: Poor mail Experience. Any way to Tweak?

2013-10-22 Thread Jonathan Mosen
I can confirm this Michael, but it behaves itself if you want to use the classic view. Would be worth reporting it as a bug though. Jonathan Mosen Mosen Consulting Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training http://Mosen.org On 23/10/2013, at 3:38 pm, Michael Marshall wrote: > hey all,

finder very slow was:Re: Poor mail Experience. Any way to Tweak?

2013-10-22 Thread Michael Marshall
hey, mail isn’t the only thing acting up. finder is taking a very long time to get going. i hit cmd shift O for documents and it is saying bizzy for a long time. On 23 Oct 2013, at 1:49 pm, Jonathan Mosen wrote: > I can confirm this Michael, but it behaves itself if you want to use the > classi

Re: First impressions of Mavericks

2013-10-22 Thread BBS
The update is very good, except for a few things. I haven’t looked in the whole VO utility but the annoying pitch changes for data detectors in Mail and search boxes are still present with the Nuance voices. On the other hand, I’m glad that Vocalizer Expressive is on this thing now, although I f

Re: safari, virtual windows and mavericks

2013-10-22 Thread Alex Hall
Can you describe the problem with Safari in more detail? Is it on all pages? On every page element? On Oct 22, 2013, at 10:46 PM, May and Noah wrote: > Oh yes, I do have the latest fusion and thanks for the suggestions, it’s all > fixed now. > > Now to figure out the safari thing. > > May and

Re: First impressions of Mavericks

2013-10-22 Thread Alex Hall
As to the auto ducking, take a look in the commands available to a commander keystroke or gesture. It might be hiding in one of those menus, so you could just toggle it with a commander. I don't know since I don't yet have the update, but that is my first reaction. On Oct 22, 2013, at 10:58 PM,

Re: safari, virtual windows and mavericks

2013-10-22 Thread BBS
Staying with Windows in VMWare Fusion, I’ve noticed that after installing Mavericks, I can’t connect to the internet. It’s saying that it’s connected, but I get a message saying that Internet Explorer can’t display the page which is google, my homepage. How do I fix this? I’m using XP with Fusio

Accessible Bible Apps For The Macintosh That Are VoiceOver Compatible

2013-10-22 Thread Keith Hinton
Hello, everybody: Mike did podcasts several years ago back on BlindCoolTech (wich is now a site with loads of 404 links), so since I can longer get his podcasts on the Mac, I thought I would write out here to see if anybody could reply back to this message, and tel me something: What applications e

Re: First impressions of Mavericks

2013-10-22 Thread Michael Marshall
hey, the one thing this update has done is make VO fantastic with safari. you can now click on text elements and even better if you hit the back button it seems to remember where i was when i clicked the link. anyone who has used screenreaders on windows will fined that using safari is abit like

Re: First impressions of Mavericks

2013-10-22 Thread Ray Foret Jr
How do you delete the old vocalizer voices? Do you just uncheck them or what? I assume, of course, that you have to do this after the update? Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in! Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray, still a very happy Mac an

Re: Regarding clean installs…

2013-10-22 Thread Terje Strømberg
Hi A clean install is OSX with nothing. Only Maverick for example. All the settings have to be done again. Like VO settings. Then you probably can do a restore from backup of different apps. Not sure if it works on a clean install. Music, photos, documents should not be a problem to restore fro

Re: safari, virtual windows and mavericks

2013-10-22 Thread May and Noah
No, in checking around more on other sites it looks like just this one place. www.godvillegames.com and it’s like that for the whole thing. Since it’s not on every site I go to that I can tell now I can live with it, but would still be nice if I can turn that off. May and Prince Noah www.canadi

Re: Mavericks available now

2013-10-22 Thread CJ Daniel
Mike, Normally, I follow the same practice. However, this time, I just went for it in the first hour. And, while it is early-days still, I’m not having any problems. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that this continues. CJ On Oct 22, 2013, at 6:00 PM, Mike Arrigo wrote: > That's why I pref

Re: safari, virtual windows and mavericks

2013-10-22 Thread Alex Hall
That's a relief. Someone in a different thread said that clicking text that the web author intended to be clickable now works, so it is likely that VO is just picking up more than it used to. On Oct 23, 2013, at 12:05 AM, May and Noah wrote: > No, in checking around more on other sites it looks

Re: Poor mail Experience. Any way to Tweak?

2013-10-22 Thread CJ Daniel
Jonathan, I’m not experiencing the problem, a you described, with VO-J. I, still, press it & away we go…reading the email. So, it must be an individual thing? CJ On Oct 22, 2013, at 6:26 PM, Jonathan Mosen wrote: > Hi everyone, so far I must say I’m disappointed with Mail in Mavericks. > M

Re: Accessible Bible Apps For The Macintosh That Are VoiceOver Compatible

2013-10-22 Thread CJ Daniel
Keith, There’s always Eloquent, formerly Mac Sword. But, be aware, I just tried to launch it under the new OSX, Mavericks, & it didn’t launch properly. But, they’ll probably have a new version, that is compatible, soon. CJ On Oct 22, 2013, at 8:14 PM, Keith Hinton wrote: > Hello, everybody

Re: safari, virtual windows and mavericks

2013-10-22 Thread May and Noah
Ah, ok, that is most likely it then. Thanks everyone for your help. May and Prince Noah www.canadianlynx.ca On Oct 23, 2013, at 12:07 AM, Alex Hall wrote: > That's a relief. Someone in a different thread said that clicking text that > the web author intended to be clickable now works, so it is

Re: Poor mail Experience. Any way to Tweak?

2013-10-22 Thread Alex Hall
One thing to keep in mind is that you can press enter on a message to open it and, 99% of the time, VO will start reading it. The other advantage is that, if you get rid of the preview pane, you are not seeing messages marked as "read" just because you arrowed over them. I realize it is differen

mavericks and voices

2013-10-22 Thread May and Noah
Last thing for tonight hopefully. Someone mentioned about new voices and I thought I remembered where to go to get the mac to install other voices. Could someone please direct me again. I’ll make suer to save it in case I forget again in the future. May and Prince Noah www.canadianlynx.ca --

Maverix and Terminal?

2013-10-22 Thread Alex Hall
Hi all, Someone reported on Twitter that they can't review the screen in Terminal under Maverix. Can someone try that and confirm or refute the claim? I'm doing my first-ever Time Machine backup and it's taking forever, so I can't install until tomorrow sometime at the earliest. thanks. Have a

Re: Poor mail Experience. Any way to Tweak?

2013-10-22 Thread Jonathan Mosen
I don’t like to hear read or unread status, because it just slows things down. Similarly, opening the message with Return speaks a whole bunch of window title information that slows me down too. This is why I prefer VO+J. It’s the quickest way to get right at the text, when it works. Jonathan Mo

Re: Poor mail Experience. Any way to Tweak?

2013-10-22 Thread Alex Hall
Fair enough, everyone uses apps in different ways. I just wanted to make people aware of the alternative. On Oct 23, 2013, at 1:11 AM, Jonathan Mosen wrote: > I don’t like to hear read or unread status, because it just slows things > down. Similarly, opening the message with Return speaks a who

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