Getting to system dialogs

2013-11-16 Thread Edward Green
Hi, Is there an easy way to get to an open system dialog? Sometimes Voiceover reports them as being open, but if I’ve missed them pop up, they don’t appear to be in the command tab cycle. Thanks, Ed -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries

Re: My Braille Edge 40 and myApple devices

2013-11-16 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi all, Just to add to Lisette's comments, I, too, have no trouble at all pairing my Braille Edge with my iPhone. It does sound like there's something odd going on for you, Gigi, that isn't happening for the rest of us. Best, Donna On Nov 16, 2013, at 1:26 AM, Lisette Wesseling wrote: > Hi T

Re: My Braille Edge 40 and myApple devices

2013-11-16 Thread Les Kriegler
Earlier this year, I lost the ability to pair my Brailliant 40 with the Mac. It turned out that the Bluetooth capability was broken on the Brailliant and I had to send it in for repair. So I would echo the sentiments of others regarding this possibility. A call to Hims Technical Support to di

Re: Getting to system dialogs

2013-11-16 Thread Chris H
Try either the application chooser or window chooser. Vo f1 twice and Vo f2 twice respectively. E-mail Facebook and iMessage christopher...@gmail.com On 16/11/2013 09:32, Edward Green wrote: Hi, Is there an easy way to get to an open system dialog? Sometimes Voiceover reports them as being o

Re: Getting to system dialogs

2013-11-16 Thread Edward Green
Thanks Chris, VO f1 twice did the trick. Ed On 16 Nov 2013, at 11:02, Chris H wrote: > Try either the application chooser or window chooser. Vo f1 twice and Vo f2 > twice respectively. > > E-mail Facebook and iMessage > christopher...@gmail.com > > On 16/11/2013 09:32, Edward Green wrote: >>

Re: How well is terminal working in Mavericks?

2013-11-16 Thread Garry Turkington
Hi guys, Thanks for the input. @Peter -- yes, I could run a Debian VM atop OS X just as I do today on a Windows laptop but that just feels so wrong. With OS X a Unix-based OS it would be really cool to actually have first-class access to the console without having to rely on a VM for heavy comman

Re: connecting speaker via bluetooth

2013-11-16 Thread Les Kriegler
Hi Don, Under the on/off button is another button. Hold that button in for a few seconds until you hear "Jambox is in pairing mode, waiting for device to connect?. I know what you mean, I haven't done this procedure for a while either. Les On Nov 15, 2013, at 11:17 PM, don bishop wrote: >

Re: My Braille Edge 40 and myApple devices

2013-11-16 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi there Thanks guys, and I may have to do that. I really wish I could tested under iOS 6 and Mountain lion first. I don't know that I can. I already did call technical support. Sincerely, Gigi Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 16, 2013, at 4:51 AM, Les Kriegler wrote: > > Earlier this year, I los

Re: best way to import music into itunes

2013-11-16 Thread Kevin Shaw
I have made an alias of the Automatically add to iTunes folder and it sits on my desktop. I drop files on there. Command O works as well from within the program. On 2013-11-13, at 11:47 PM, Aser Tolentino wrote: > The "automatically add to iTunes" folder in your iTunes Media directory seems >

how to read braille files without end-of-line markers

2013-11-16 Thread Chris Moore
Hello, I’m trying to read braille files in textedit without seeing the end-of-line markers. Is this a VO phenomenon, or are there some other programs which would suppress these markers? Chris -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group.

Re: My Braille Edge 40 and myApple devices

2013-11-16 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi again The braille display is a little over a year old. It really makes it complicated when the hardware is having trouble at the same time updates are happening. Whoever needs this, but the tiniest terrible. I have a lot of work I have to get done. I may just have to in Dewar until I have a br

Deleting Mail From Gmail site

2013-11-16 Thread Jane
I have Mail on my Mac and iPad and on the GMail server set to iMap. for some reason, when I tell Mail to delete stuff, it doesn't delete it, it just holds it. I can see the emails in the deleted items folder--over six thousand messages, but I don't see how to reliably delete them on Gmai

Re: how to read braille files without end-of-line markers

2013-11-16 Thread Cheryl Homiak
It's driving me nuts too and it shouldn't be necessary! I don't get those with brltty in terminal and I don't get them reading web braille books with the BARD app. I have pointed out the problem to accessibility but maybe I should do it again. It definitely detracts from using braille with voice

Re: best way to import music into itunes

2013-11-16 Thread Kjsc Radio
Hi, I do have a question about automatically add to iTunes. When I go in to add folders to that automatically add to iTunes folder, most of the music gets added to iTunes but not all of them. Keep in mind, that this has been done using large portions of folders and all of them are either MP3 or

Re: Deleting Mail From Gmail site

2013-11-16 Thread Geoff Stephens
On a related note, can anyone tell me why I am no longer seeing the all mail folders in Apple Mail for any of my GMail accounts? I may be in the minority, but I am one of those who wants access to that folder from the Mac. On Nov 16, 2013, at 10:26 AM, Jane wrote: I have Mail on my Mac

Re: how to read braille files without end-of-line markers

2013-11-16 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hello there I haven't tested it lately, but I was successful once in the doing this. Believe it or not, the last time I did it, notes doesn't show the end of line carriage returns and linefeeds. I even did it with a webr Braille file in notes once. Regards, Gigi Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 16

Re: Deleting Mail From Gmail site

2013-11-16 Thread Angelo
Hi, if you go to mail preferences and mail behaviors you can change how long gmail holds on to your deleted messages, options are never, one month, one week and when you close mail. hth Angelo Angelo a.rock...@gmail.com On Nov 16, 2013, at 10:26 AM, Jane wrote: > I have Mail on my Mac

Re: how to read braille files without end-of-line markers

2013-11-16 Thread John Sanfilippo
I'm not dead certain of this but this is what may be happening: I think Apple save Unix text files which means line end with just line feed. Other OSs save files whose lines end with carriage return and linefeed. If you want to bother, You might be able to search for carriage returns and remove

Re: Deleting Mail From Gmail site

2013-11-16 Thread Caitlyn furness
Are you using pop or imap? I changed my gmail from imap to pop to fix some irritations I was having and now I can’t see the all mail folder from apple mail, either. Of course, in theory, all my messages now get downloaded instead of staying on gmail’s servers. Alternately, do you have a folder

Re: Deleting Mail From Gmail site

2013-11-16 Thread Caitlyn furness
go intomail prefs on your mac. go to the accounts section and pick gmail. then, go to the mailbox behaviours tab and in there you can pick what you want mail to do with the messages. It’s a pop up button and you can pick deletion on closing mail, keep deleted messages for one day, a week, a m

radium

2013-11-16 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
Hi: Is Radium no longer accessible? I cannot get stations to play. I also do not see any of my XM Sirius radio stations in my favorites list. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving em

Re: connecting speaker via bluetooth

2013-11-16 Thread don bishop
Hi Les, Actually, I was talking about doing it from the mac end; probably wasn’t clear. How do you get the mac to search for the big jambox and then connect to it? Is it in systems preferences under bluetooth somewhere? That’s what I can’t find. Don On Nov 16, 2013, at 6:16 AM, Les Kri

Re: radium

2013-11-16 Thread Nektarios Mallas
Hello. I don’t know about the xm-radio issue, however Radium works just fine here. I can play my favorites and can add stations as well. Has there been any recent update that I am not aware of? Nektarios. On Nov 16, 2013, at 7:51 PM, Sarai Bucciarelli wrote: > Hi: > Is Radium no longer acc

Re: radium

2013-11-16 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
I interact with stations, and activate the play button. Noting happens. On Nov 16, 2013, at 12:35 PM, Nektarios Mallas wrote: > Hello. > I don’t know about the xm-radio issue, however Radium works just fine here. > I can play my favorites and can add stations as well. > Has there been any rece

Re: OT Great news: OS X 10.9.1 to focus on VoiceOver improvements, among other things. http://goo.gl/qkBRKh Great news: OS X 10.9.1 to focus on VoiceOver improvements, among other things

2013-11-16 Thread mario navarro
great, I've been waiting for this. I hope the team has fix all issues. all those that were identified and reported I hope so ... we will wait until friday. we are here to help as we always do in this beta update. cheers. Em 16/11/2013 03:43, Nicholas Parsons escreveu: Apple asks developers to

Re: connecting speaker via bluetooth

2013-11-16 Thread Ricardo Walker
Hi, Yes. go to system preferences/ bluetooth. Your Mac should already be discoverable. Put your jambox into pairing mode, and it should show up in the table of available devices. Interact with the table, and press the pair button for your device. hth Ricardo Walker rica...@appletothecore.

Re: OT Great news: OS X 10.9.1 to focus on VoiceOver improvements, among other things. http://goo.gl/qkBRKh Great news: OS X 10.9.1 to focus on VoiceOver improvements, among other things

2013-11-16 Thread Ray Foret Jr
I think you are confused. The message did not say that 10.9.1 was coming out this coming friday. It says that this past Friday, a beta was released to developers. Frankly, I wonder whehter this should have been posted. Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind

Re: radium

2013-11-16 Thread Mary Otten
Radium has been working fine for me, but I just now tried it on my Mac and I'm getting nothing. When I try my saved sirius/xm stations, it kicks me into the dialogue where my account info was stored. The info is still there, but when I hit save, it just puts me back into that same dialogue. And

Re: OT Great news: OS X 10.9.1 to focus on VoiceOver improvements, among other things. http://goo.gl/qkBRKh Great news: OS X 10.9.1 to focus on VoiceOver improvements, among other things

2013-11-16 Thread Daniel McGee
Its on the Mac rumours site too. www.macrumors.com Ray just out of interest why do you think they shouldn't of posted it? I hope they fix the Safari bug where Voiceover keeps repeating everything such as links, bulleted items etc. Yep that one is driving me crazy! Its even present on Mountain Lio

Safari 2 items, 3 items and internal link?

2013-11-16 Thread Daniel McGee
Hi all, with Safari, anyone no why on earth we get with Voiceover 2 items, 3 items oh and lets not forget that internal link now and then. I don't know if its me but these little things in Safari are starting to get on my nerves. Guess you could say I'm moaning. lol Do they annoy others here.

Re: Safari 2 items, 3 items and internal link?

2013-11-16 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Well, if you interact with the two items and three items things, you will notice that you can see items on the page that you cannot see without interacting with those items. Not everything on the page is visible on the surface look of the page. So, if you see an item with a label on it that sa

Re: Deleting Mail From Gmail site

2013-11-16 Thread Chris Moore
Cait, Thanks for the tip. On my Mavericks system the checkbox for moving deleted message to trash is dimmed. But the other settings seem to work. Chris On Nov 16, 2013, at 12:07 PM, Caitlyn furness wrote: > go intomail prefs on your mac. go to the accounts section and pick gmail. > then, g

problems type2phone on mavericks with iphone 4 with ios7

2013-11-16 Thread Anouk Radix
Hello, In the past I have used type2phone on my mac mostly to search on spotify on ios since i dont have an external bt keyboard. Now htat i have mavericks and ios 7 it does not work so well anymore though, i often get multiple letters entered when i only type one mostly at the beginning of a se

adding a bluetooth device

2013-11-16 Thread don bishop
I’ve done this before but for the life of me I can’t remember what I did. Using Mavericks I want to connect my big jambox as a speaker but can’t remember what I do in system preferences/bluetooth to do this. Could someone please refresh my memory? Maybe it’s just late in the week. Using an

Re: OT Great news: OS X 10.9.1 to focus on VoiceOver improvements, among other things. http://goo.gl/qkBRKh Great news: OS X 10.9.1 to focus on VoiceOver improvements, among other things

2013-11-16 Thread mario navarro
ah ok. Now I read the information better, that's what you told me. thanks friend. cheers. Em 16/11/2013 19:15, Ray Foret Jr escreveu: I think you are confused. The message did not say that 10.9.1 was coming out this coming friday. It says that this past Friday, a beta was released to develop

Re: best way to import music into itunes

2013-11-16 Thread alia robinson
IMO the best way is just to open the files you want to play. command O is good for your first run on tons of music, but for new stuff that’s how I’ve begun doing it. Alia On 16 Nov 2013, at 9:42 am, Kevin Shaw wrote: > I have made an alias of the Automatically add to iTunes folder and it sits

Re: best way to import music into itunes

2013-11-16 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Alia is quite correct. IF I’ve got some audio that happens to be flac, (a format ITunes happens not to support) no problem. I just use amadeus pro to change it to a .wav file then cause it to be added to ITunes library and have ITunes make a .4ma file out of it. Sent from my Mac, the only co

Re: Safari 2 items, 3 items and internal link?

2013-11-16 Thread Nicholas Parsons
The two items three items thing you're hearing is most likely lists with several items. Whenever VoiceOver encounters a list or sub-list, it announces how many items are in the list. I agree it's overly verbose and not really necessary. It's VoiceOver treating the HTML and tags as a separate

mail being marked as read

2013-11-16 Thread Rob
Dear List, Using Mountain Lion, as I arrow up and down the list of email messages, VO is causing them to be marked as read. The reason I know that it is Voice over, is that turning off VO and arrowing up down the list did not cause the mail to be marked as read. after about an hour phone call wi

Re: radium

2013-11-16 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
Hi: So glad it isn't just me. Thanks On Nov 16, 2013, at 1:31 PM, Mary Otten wrote: > Radium has been working fine for me, but I just now tried it on my Mac and > I'm getting nothing. When I try my saved sirius/xm stations, it kicks me into > the dialogue where my account info was stored. The i

Re: mail being marked as read

2013-11-16 Thread Alex Hall
Have you disabled the preview pane in mail? It is a bit tricky to do it first, but it should solve your problem. On Nov 16, 2013, at 8:56 PM, Rob wrote: > Dear List, > Using Mountain Lion, as I arrow up and down the list of email messages, VO is > causing them to be marked as read. > The reason

Re: mail being marked as read

2013-11-16 Thread Rob
The Apple tech did a remote session and told me how to close the preview pain but it didn't help. Thanks, Rob You can leave me a voice mail or fax at 206-426-3505 "God is good all the time, & All the time God is good" On 11/16/2013 8:41 PM, Alex Hall wrote: Have you disabled the preview pane i

Getting back a forgotten recovery key using file Vault2 and V O

2013-11-16 Thread Daniel C
Hey list, I’ve enabled File Vault2, a way to encrypt your disk with sensitive information or other info. But the recovery key I couldn’t write down as there is no way of interacting with VO to copy the text of the key. So now, I no longer have the key anywhere, and VO has a beep prompt at login

Re: Getting back a forgotten recovery key using file Vault2 and V O

2013-11-16 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Did you lose your password? You only need the key if you've lost your password which you would have made up. And actually I did find some way to copy the recovery key but maybe that was an older version of filevault and things have changed. -- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the meditati

Re: Getting back a forgotten recovery key using file Vault2 and V O

2013-11-16 Thread Daniel C
I haven’t lost the password, yet, though i really wanted to write down the key and couldn’t. So I’ll need to call AppleCare and ask them for the key and email it to myself. How were you able to copy the key? When I am able to generate a new key I’ll try your way of copying to see if it changed o

Re: Getting back a forgotten recovery key using file Vault2 and V O

2013-11-16 Thread Nicholas Parsons
In Mountain Lion I was able to copy the key using VO-Shift-C, to copy the last spoken phrase. You should be able to use this—it's a great one to remember when VO can't interact and select text to be copied. Apple will not be able to email you the key as Apple does not keep any copy for security

Re: Getting back a forgotten recovery key using file Vault2 and V O

2013-11-16 Thread Daniel C
Strange. It has an option to store the key with apple so why wouldn’t they keep it. As far as the login, it only does it at first boot, if it awakes from sleep, it uses regular voice over. Otherwise the beep method. It scared me at first, but i got it right the first time. VO+shift+c, good keyst

apple working on voiceover

2013-11-16 Thread jean parker
Hello: If there are any beta testers on this list for the upcoming release, the one I most hope they fix is in Safari. Command left bracket and command left arrow go back a page but you don't land in the place where you left off. This is really annoying. Jean -- You received this message bec

New Member and a question

2013-11-16 Thread George Cham
Hello, My name is George, and I’ve just joined the group. I’ve been using the mac since February this year. My Question is this. How do i add or remove mailboxes from the favorites bar in apple mail in mavericks using voiceover ? George Cham george.c...@outlook.com -- You received this m

Re: apple working on voiceover

2013-11-16 Thread Nicholas Parsons
I hope they: • Make VoiceOver announce a messages read/unread status, and the number of messages in thread, before the message preview in Mail. • Stop VoiceOver repeating text in nearby elements in Safari. • Fix problems with column view in Finder. • Label unlabelled buttons and images in iBooks.

Re: Getting back a forgotten recovery key using file Vault2 and V O

2013-11-16 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Oh right, well if you chose that option then I guess you're fine. No need to worry so long as you can remember the answers to your three questions. I doubt you'll forget the password though as you have to enter it every time you turn on your Mac. -- You received this message because you are su

Re: radium

2013-11-16 Thread Mary Otten
My radium stations are now working as before. But serious is not. Perhaps my subscription has run out. I will have to look into that. Mary Sent from my iPhone On Nov 16, 2013, at 6:33 PM, Sarai Bucciarelli wrote: > Hi: > So glad it isn't just me. > Thanks > On Nov 16, 2013, at 1:31 PM, Mary