lousy web page

2014-04-10 Thread Jim Gatteys
Hi all! I am trying to use my supermarket's web page to read the current weekly ad specials. Just wondered if somebody would take a look at this page to see if you have any ideas. Just general feedback would be good as well. I think its a pretty poorly designed web page and I've talked to the

Re: getting started with garageband

2014-04-10 Thread Venkatesh Potluri
Hi. Thanks for all your help. Im making my self familiar with garage band. I have another problem. I am unable to insert loops at specific positions in tracks. I am playing the arrangement until I reach the point where I wish to insert the new loop in a new track. I am navigating to the loops, se

Re: lousy web page

2014-04-10 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Hi Jim, I've just visited the page of your supermarket. I'm afraid you are right: I was able to choose the department but thereafter things get complicated. I too can read only a part of the text label for an item. I wonder whether the labels are also truncated for a sighted user who probabl

Re: lousy web page

2014-04-10 Thread Jim Gatteys
Hi Andrew! Well there probably was only one page for the bakery. Thanks for taking a look at it. I have been able, sometimes, to route the mouse to the image and have it read the text in its entirety. The text is expanded for sighted users and I can't figure out what they have done to make it

more on my keychain problem

2014-04-10 Thread Caitlyn and Maggie
Hi, Last week I wrote in with a problem with my keychain. On my MBA, somehow my keychains got out of synch. I got suggestions from this list on how to fix this, and I thought it was fixed, but yesterday it started happening again. I got security alerts asking me to enter the keychain password

RE: lousy web page

2014-04-10 Thread Scott Duck
Hi Jim, I just took a look and I'm having the same problem. It's not just a Safari or VO issue either because I'm having the same problem with Internet Explorer 10 and JAWS 15. Thanks, Scott Duck -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups

two pages questions

2014-04-10 Thread Jim Gatteys
Hi all! I have a situation in pages where I have a line of text and part of it needs to be at the left margin and part needs to be aligned flush right. When I select the text that I need to align right it moves the entire line. Any ideas? Maybe with tabs? I have not figured out how to set a ta

Re: lousy web page

2014-04-10 Thread Jim Gatteys
Hi Scott! I wish I could remember how I got it to work recently but can't remember. Thanks for taking a look. Jim On Apr 10, 2014, at 8:26 AM, Scott Duck wrote: > Hi Jim, > I just took a look and I'm having the same problem. It's not just a Safari > or VO issue either because I'm having the sam

Re: Adding Random Quotes

2014-04-10 Thread Teresa Cochran
The only way I know to do this is to put each quote in a separate signature, and then set it to "random." this is what I do with mine. HtH, Teresa "Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough."--Richard P. Feynman On Apr 9, 2014, at 6:08 PM, Robert C wrote: > In Mail on the Ma

Re: getting started with garageband

2014-04-10 Thread Phil Halton
you have to first set the Bar and beat indicators to the exact position in the song where you want to insert the loop. I haven't used the new GB for much, but I've looked through it and the controls to set the bar/beat are in that control toolbar. On Apr 10, 2014, at 3:18 AM, Venkatesh Potluri

Re: Hazel Discussion

2014-04-10 Thread Keith Watson
Nick, You have to build custom tokens that will match on what you are looking for. Its easy once you Grok what is going on but a bear until you do. I probably need to sit down and record something for AppleVis on how its done. Keith On Apr 9, 2014, at 4:56 PM, Nicholas Parsons wrote: > Hey K

Re: statusbar in 10.9.2 mavericks

2014-04-10 Thread Doug Lawlor
Hello all: I'm getting the same problem here as well. I've got two third party items in my status bar. The first is the dropbox icon and the second is the icon for 1Password Mini. If I Vo+Space on Dropbox I get the window opening sound and hear the word "app" which is then cut off. The window c

Re: Styles context menu in pages - assigning shortcuts

2014-04-10 Thread Phil Halton
Thanks Anne, What threw me off was that the styles are called "buttons", which doesn't usually indicate an element that one can interact with. (I've been coming across a lot of these non-standard naming of elements lately). This makes getting to that context menu a lot easier than my method. As

Re: statusbar in 10.9.2 mavericks

2014-04-10 Thread Doug Lawlor
If I issue the following commands this is what happens. Press Vo+m+m to focus on the status menu. Vo+arrow to the DropBox icon. Press Vo+Command+f5 to move the mouse pointer to the VoiceOver cursor. Double tap the track pad. VoiceOver gives me the following message: "Dropbox 2.4.11 Up to date

Re: statusbar in 10.9.2 mavericks

2014-04-10 Thread Ray Foret Jr
You made your mistake at the last step. You want to click the track pad by using VO+shift+space. That'll do it. 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 Apr 10,

Re: Styles context menu in pages - assigning shortcuts

2014-04-10 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Phil, We don't sell our training materials outside our courses, they come as part of the deal. However, anyone who does even just one unit with us gets the general notes. Cheers, Anne On 10 Apr 2014, at 17:02, Phil Halton wrote: > Thanks Anne, What threw me off was that the styles ar

pages questions

2014-04-10 Thread Jim Gatteys
Hi! Just wondered if anybody had looked at my earlier post about changing the alignment of tabs in pages. Its a combo box but when I up or down arrow it just blinks at me. Any ideas would be helpful. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries"

Re: statusbar in 10.9.2 mavericks

2014-04-10 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, Ray, This worked for me. however, I can't get it to close. How do you close the Dropbox window? I tried command-w and escape. Thanks, Teresa Slow down; you'll get there faster. On Apr 10, 2014, at 8:18 AM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > You made your mistake at the last step. You want to click t

Improvement with Adobe Flash 13 installer

2014-04-10 Thread Teresa Cochran
I'm pleased to note that the new installer for Adobe Flash is HTML based and much easier to use. HtH, teresa Slow down; you'll get there faster. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receivi

Re: statusbar in 10.9.2 mavericks

2014-04-10 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Let's see. I usually just press escape to get out. Should all else fail, I just go in to Drop box prefs window and get out that way. 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

Re: statusbar in 10.9.2 mavericks

2014-04-10 Thread Teresa Cochran
Yes, it seems to go away when I move VO focus away from it. I wonder if this is a specific VO feature? It's interesting that sometimes when I use vO-shift-space to activate the Dropbox window, VO announces: "interacting with tray popup". This is a special interface, and most likely has been made

Re: Accessible Packet Sniffers?

2014-04-10 Thread Doug Lawlor
Hi Alex, I don't know of a Mac specific utility, but I used to use a console utility called "mmap" quite a few years ago when I was doing a lot of experimenting with Linux. I don't have the links handy but do a search for a package called home-brew. It is a packaging system for Mac OS that will

Re: Improvement with Adobe Flash 13 installer

2014-04-10 Thread Daniel Hawkins
Really? How did you install it? I am still stuck, I am about to have someone to do it for me. Thanks! Daniel Hawkins - Posted from my Macbook Pro On Apr 10, 2014, at 11:24 AM, Teresa Cochran wrote: > I'm pleased to note that the new installer for Adobe Flash is HTML based and > much easier to

Re: Improvement with Adobe Flash 13 installer

2014-04-10 Thread Teresa Cochran
It downloads an installer that is contained in a disc image. You open the disc image, find the install app, and open that. It opens in an HtML window. HtH, Teresa Visualize whirled peas. On Apr 10, 2014, at 10:44 AM, Daniel Hawkins wrote: > Really? How did you install it? I am still stuck, I

Re: can somebody help me about microsoft one note

2014-04-10 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, It will likely stay on the list of apps that were upgraded in the last 30 days until those 30 days are past. Because you've deleted the app though, you shouldn't get anymore requests to update it. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Apr 9, 2014, at 10:12 PM, Dionipher Presas

Re: Improvement with Adobe Flash 13 installer

2014-04-10 Thread Regina Alvarado
Is the Adobe 13 new? Where do I go to download if it is, and where do I find the disk image? Had a difficult time with this a few days ago. Thanks for any detailed help with this. reggie and Allegra On Apr 10, 2014, at 1:52 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote: It downloads an installer that is containe

Re: getting started with garageband

2014-04-10 Thread CJ Daniel
ÎHi, Try this. Navigate to the tool bar & interact with it. VO-Right-arrow to the Control bar & interact with it. I believe you'll land right on the BPM group. Interact with it & VO-Arrow to & fro between the Bar, Beats, & Tics. Set each one, as desired, by arrowing up & down. Remember, i

Re: pages questions

2014-04-10 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Jim, This was a hard nut to crack but here's how to sort out the alignment. * Type the text you want to have at the left then jump to the Formatter. * Select layout and interact with the scroll area. * Go down to Tab stops and expand it with VO-Space. * Click the Add tab stop button and int

Re: pages questions

2014-04-10 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello again, One correction, I should have said 6.5 inches not 4.5. It's getting to my bedtime and I'm not thinking straight! Cheers, Anne On 10 Apr 2014, at 22:43, Anne Robertson wrote: > Hello Jim, > > This was a hard nut to crack but here's how to sort out the alignment. > > * Type the

Re: pages questions

2014-04-10 Thread Jim Gatteys
Hey Anne! thanks a lot for taking the time to figure that out. I got as far as setting the position of the tab stop but couldn't do the alignment part. I have emailed apple accessibility as well to tell them that this really would be a good thing to fix. Thanks again, Jim On Apr 10, 2014, at 3:

Re: pages questions

2014-04-10 Thread Jim Gatteys
well sorry to report that after following those directions I can not replicate your findings. Not sure if some setting on my laptop might be different or what but I still appreciate you taking the time to look at it. Jim On Apr 10, 2014, at 3:43 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: > Hello Jim, > > Thi

Re: pages questions

2014-04-10 Thread Jim Gatteys
Ok I may have gotten it to work. Just wasn't going down fare enough but now I have no way of telling that the text is right aligned from what I can tell. Jim On Apr 10, 2014, at 3:43 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: > Hello Jim, > > This was a hard nut to crack but here's how to sort out the alignme

Re: bard mobile question

2014-04-10 Thread Devin Prater
If you get it in an email or dropbox, choose open in... then bard mobile. It'll go there then and be in your bookshelf. Sent from my iPod > On Apr 10, 2014, at 0:45, Jean Parker wrote: > > Hello All: > I have heard that the Bard mobile app can read brf files from other sources > than the Bar

Re: pages questions

2014-04-10 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi Jim Maybe I missed something or I'm off base or something, but have you used the VO v command to turn on VoiceOver's announcing attributes. When I check this, I turn two things on. I first turn on where it says When Status Changes--right now mine is set to do nothing, but if I use the up and

Re: Styles context menu in pages - assigning shortcuts

2014-04-10 Thread Phil Halton
That sounds interesting Anne. Could you send the details of your training sessions, website, etc, I'd like to give them a try. On Apr 10, 2014, at 12:12 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: > Hello Phil, > > We don't sell our training materials outside our courses, they come as part > of the deal. Howe

Re: bard mobile question

2014-04-10 Thread Eugenia Firth
How do you tell Dropbox to put files into BARD Mobile? When I did it with Access Note, that program sent to Dropbox to add it. You can read brf files in Access Note, too, but I think BARD Mobile would be better. The last time I looked at a brf file in it, the control characters were not displayi

Re: pages questions

2014-04-10 Thread Jim Gatteys
well I have not done that. I do not see the announcing thing you mentioned. On Apr 10, 2014, at 5:28 PM, Eugenia Firth wrote: > Hi Jim > Maybe I missed something or I'm off base or something, but have you used the > VO v command to turn on VoiceOver's announcing attributes. When I check this,

Re: pages questions

2014-04-10 Thread Eugenia Firth
If you press the VO keys and V at the same time as in verbosity, you can go left and right arrows to find the various choices. Then when you get those two I talked about before, you go down arrow to get the one you want. Then you don't have to do anything except press escape and it should talk t

Family Trees

2014-04-10 Thread Traci Duncan
Hi all, Has anyone researched their family tree and used any Mac apps to build your tree? I'm doing a lot of googling, ancestry .com, & family search org. I'd like an easy to use program to actually type in the information and build my family tree. I have it going on ancestry right now, but

Re: iSee - eBook on how to use Apple products from a blind perspective

2014-04-10 Thread Lisette Wesseling
Hi, Coming late to this, but I absolutely agree. It's the worst example of iBook accessibility I've ever seen. Pity, because it's a great book but really very difficult to read with VO. Personally, I would not have released it in this state. Sorry if that sounds blunt, but it's how I feel. Lise

Printer showing off-line

2014-04-10 Thread Agent086b
Hello, my printer has started printing only part of the text we wish to print. I deleted the printer driver and re-installed it. I ran a repair disk etc. I now get a message saying the printer is offline. My sited wife tells me that the printer is not flashing offline as it would normally do. Ho