It would be great if a Braille user could do it. I would if I had the time.
Kawal.
> On 5 Jun 2014, at 01:01 am, Eugenia Firth wrote:
>
> Hi there
> Do you get to indicate if you are a voiceover user if you signed up for the
> public testing? I ask because we could really use some of us doing
Hi and sorry for cross posting but this stupid question of mine conserns both
the Mac and the IPhone. I'm trying to install the new IOS8 beta to see how
accessibility is and am failing miserably because i get an error message saying
the file with the firmware isn't compatible. Now i know that th
Hello,
Anyone know of an accessible Open VPN client for the Mac?
I have tried TunnelBlick, but I can't access the icon which appears in the menu.
Any suggestions?
Chris
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I think you need to uninteract from that point. selecting memory, or other
settings, kicks you into a sub level of the toolbar I think and uninteracting
once or twice will let you move again.
On Jun 4, 2014, at 8:29 PM, Bill Holton wrote:
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>
> Sent from my iPhone hi.
> When I close my vir
I've noticed lately that when I have vlc running, it does this annoying thing
where it loves to pause about 10 minuttes or so after my computer goes to
sleep, which is really ffrustrating, because I have to constantly stop what I'm
doing to wake my computer up and unpause it. Does anyone know a
To stop you're computer from going in to sleep.
First go to system preferences.
Next go to energy saver.
Next tab to the slider and then to make the computer stay awake longer move
the slider to the right.
isaac
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On Jun 5, 2014, at 8:04 AM, Jessica
Ok, that's just it, I don't want it to do that, considering the fact that it's
going to be more of an energy hog when I'm not using it, so figured if there
were a way to prevent having to do that and let vlc run in the background when
it was still in sleep mode, that would be great. Itunes does
There is a setting in energy saver that says prevent computer from sleeping
when the display is off. I am not sure if that would solve the problem that you
are having with VLC or not.
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On Jun 5, 2014, at 8:14 AM, Jessica Moss wrote:
> Ok, that's
Sounds like the VLC folks need to call UpdateSystemActivity to keep the
machine from thinking that there is nothing going on:
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/qa/qa1160/_index.html
That said, there are apps to prevent a machine from going to sleep so
you could use one of them when you h
Latest iTunes is 11.2.2. You can get that by finding itunes in your
applications folder and hitting command-I (info). In the general section
the version should be the 6th item.
I don't know much about the beta but iOS 8 requires an iPhone 4s or
higher. Is your phone that new?
CB
On 6/5/14,
Searching on DVS in the US store only gives 5 results, all Pixar movies.
Sounds like an Apple experiment to me.
CB
On 6/4/14, 7:33 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote:
Tim,
The Canadian store may use dv instead of dvs. Additionally, it is
possible? that the Canadian Itunes store does not include the dv
What's the keystroke for Mavericks?
Gary
On Jun 4, 2014, at 10:10 PM, Alex Hall wrote:
> Command-shift-t, I believe. It changed in mavericks, but I am pretty sure
> that is the ML keystroke.
> On Jun 4, 2014, at 11:06 PM, Agent086b wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> could somebody remind me of the keystrok
Control Command shift T.
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On Jun 5, 2014, at 10:51 AM, Gary wrote:
> What's the keystroke for Mavericks?
> Gary
> On Jun 4, 2014, at 10:10 PM, Alex Hall wrote:
>
>> Command-shift-t, I bel
Thanks!
Gary
On Jun 4, 2014, at 10:28 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote:
> go to the item in the finder, then press command-control-shift-t.
>
> HtH,
> teresa
>
> On the other hand, there are different fingers.
>
> On Jun 4, 2014, at 8:10 PM, Alex Hall wrote:
>
>> Command-shift-t, I believe. It chan
the
keystroke for adding items to the doc use control command shift t.isaac
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On Jun 5, 2014, at 9:51 AM, Gary wrote:
> What's the keystroke for Mavericks?
> Gary
> On Jun 4, 2014, at 10:10 PM, Alex Hall wrote:
>
>> Command-shift-t, I believe. It ch
Hello list:
I am trying to figure out why I can't access a URL contained in the text "View
full job posting" on the following page. When I am using VoiceOver I get the
text some like: "View full job posting dimmed" When I do a Vo+space on this
text I get an indication that I'm in a group. When I
If you go to the View the full job posting group and hit enter, your
next tab stop will be a new link that says "View the full job posting on
Wokopolis. Hit enter on that and you'll be taken to the Workopolis web
site. They really should have moved focus to the newly exposed content
when the fi
Thanks Tim, but things got worse. :) I ran the repair from the Recovery HD, and
it said the disk could not be repaired. It now tells me to reformat and
reinstall the OS, but as I said, I did just that a couple months back. Worse
still, my Mac no longer boots! I have a Macbook for my business whi
Hi,
I've had this happen before and it's rather frustrating. The only good thing
is that it happened to other people, not me, so I didn't have the same level of
stress. The data is normally still on your Mini, it's just unable to boo up
properly. The best thing to do is have an external HD w
Hey alex, I had that same issue many times.
In short, you're screwed. Unless you have an external HD and a way of
hardwiring it up and accessing your data, you're going to have to go from
scratch.
Matt Dierckens
Macintosh Trainer
Blind Access Training
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Thanks guys. I have a TM backup from January with all my music and movies, and
I copied essential files this morning before I ran the fatal repair. Aside from
a few non-important audio projects, I should be okay, data-wise.
The thing is, I did a reformat/install in April, and had no problems the
Have you tried tunnel Bear or Cloak?
They both had their accessibility issues, but I found them doable. Since I'm a
light user of VPNs, I'll stick with Tunnel Bear. If you tweet about them each
Month, I think you get a free extra gig. Both apps have iPhone apps as well.
Traci
On Jun 5, 2014
Hi
I am unable to search mac mail for messages. I am pressing command F for find,
typing my search term, and pressing the "done" button. what am I doing wrong?
Jessica
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Hi,
Normally, if there's something physically wrong with the drive, it will either
take forever attempting the re-format or just fail entirely. Sometimes, I've
tricked a drive and made it last longer by partitioning it with more than one
partition, and formatting it MSDOS with the Master Boot
Makes me wonder if the drive isn't having issues. In Disk Utility, if
you get info on the drive, somewhere in that list of parameters like
Total Capacity andPartition Number should be S.M.A.R.T. Status which
should say "Verified" or the like. If it says "Failing" then your drive
is not long for
Hello all,
I am confused.
I do not follow soloDX on twitter to know the latest. I don't use faceBook or
twitter. :)
http://www.accessibilityhound.com/solo-dx/
http://serotalk.com/2014/04/28/high-contrast-episode-20-screen-dump/
I have not listened to the podcast yet. I will try to soon but I
My MBP says I have 1 system dialogue but I don't know where to go to read it.
Any help would be hugely appreciated.
Jenine Stanley
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Hi,
Try VO-f1-f1 (App Chooser). Usually these show up there.
Later...
Tim Kilburn
Fort McMurray, AB Canada
On Jun 5, 2014, at 1:25 PM, Jenine Stanley wrote:
> My MBP says I have 1 system dialogue but I don't know where to go to read it.
> Any help would be hugely appreciated.
> Jenine St
Thanks Tim for the tip. that got it. Now if I can only remember all these.
That's what makes this list awesome.
Jenine Stanley
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I'd use cmd-option-f instead, I find that to be a much more workable interface.
On Jun 5, 2014, at 3:11 PM, Jessica wrote:
> Hi
> I am unable to search mac mail for messages. I am pressing command F for
> find, typing my search term, and pressing the "done" button. what am I doing
> wrong?
>
>
Press vo f 1 f 1.
Then use the down arrow key to find the system dialogs submenu. Next press vo
space bar on the system dialogs submenu.
Next choose the system dialogs you want to close.
Next press vo space on the system dialog in question.
Next press command q or command w on the system dia
Hello.
For those who are beta testing at the moment or when ever testing, please test
the new I Cloud as before when iCloud came out it wasn't very accessible. In
my Opinion, if Cloud Drive is coming out then people may want to use it on the
web especially if one wants to get at a document as
Hello Folks,
I thought I would venture in using Paprika again, since I have also installed
the ap on my phone. I was looking for a particular recipe and I thought it was
in MacGourmet, but I guess it never was uploaded. On the Mac side, I am getting
an error message that Paprika can't be open
Hi,
You are only searching within the current window. Please go to the Edit menu in
Mail, then look for the Find sub menu, then explore your options there. What
you probably want is the mailbox full search, not just the find command for the
current message or window. I believe the shortcut is c
Hi.
Thanks. That was the problem exactly. I did not on interact far enough.
By chance are you using a VM machine with window eyes?
Sent from my iPhone
> On Jun 5, 2014, at 7:58 AM, Phil Halton wrote:
>
> I think you need to uninteract from that point. selecting memory, or other
> settings, k
Did you give up on Mac Gourmet?
jg
On Jun 5, 2014, at 3:42 PM, Eileen Misrahi wrote:
> Hello Folks,
>
> I thought I would venture in using Paprika again, since I have also installed
> the ap on my phone. I was looking for a particular recipe and I thought it
> was in MacGourmet, but I guess
Hi all,
On my MBA (which I'm using for everything until my Mini is back), I can't find
the splitter I should be able to use to close the horribly annoying preview
pane in Mail. Can someone remind me where it is, in case I'm thinking of the
wrong one? Thanks.
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Hi guys,
This may not be doable, but is there a way to use chrome and download mp3 files
on it? There's a site that I can't use safari with to download these files, and
would like to download them all at once, as there's about 200 or so. If there's
a way to do this please let me know. Thank you.
I don't use window eyes. I am running a win7 VM with JAWS.
On Jun 5, 2014, at 6:05 PM, Bill Holton wrote:
> Hi.
> Thanks. That was the problem exactly. I did not on interact far enough.
> By chance are you using a VM machine with window eyes?
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Jun 5, 2014, at
Hi all,
So, here's the status of my Mac Mini's hard drive.
* Two repairs from the Recovery HD resulted in an error telling me to format ad
re-install.
* I did just that at the end of March, and given that two repairs couldn't fix
whatever errors have accumulated after three months, it seems like
Hi,
this may not be possible because I don't know exactly what a Mac Mini is. Never
seen one. When I have had this or similar problems with a Windows machine I run
Spin Rite from GRC.com. If it is possible to remove the drive and put it in a
Windows machine after making a Win boot CD. You can ru
Surely, as I believe you already know, Beta testers cannot tell what they are
testing or what the results of those tests are. This we say time and time and
time again.
Sent from my mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind
built-in!
Sincerely,
The Constantly Barefooted Ray
You mentioned a 50GB partition for OSX betas. So were you running beta
OSes on this box? If so, it's at least plausible that the beta OSX had
some kind of bug which mangled data structures on the drive and, since
it had access to your non-beta partition, it could have mangled your
regular OSX b
Hi,
I agree with Chris that it could very likely be a software thing. So, since
you have a Time Machine backup that is fairly up-to-date and you say that you
have your important files backed up, I’d go for the reformat and reinstall
option. If you don’t have an external HD or the cables that
Hi,
If they're downloadable, and if Chrome is more agreeable on that site, then I
don't see why not. Whether you can download them all at once depends on the
design of the site. If they are individual download links, then it doesn't
matter what browser you are using, they'll need to be activa
Hi,
I believe that you need to put your Mail into Classic view first.
Later...
Tim Kilburn
Fort McMurray, AB Canada
On Jun 5, 2014, at 5:35 PM, Alex Hall wrote:
> Hi all,
> On my MBA (which I'm using for everything until my Mini is back), I can't
> find the splitter I should be able to use t
Hi Tim.
The files don't play in safari, and I even had someone else check. These work
in chrome.
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On Jun 5, 2014, at 11:24 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If they're downloadable, and if
If you don't mind playing in terminal you could kick off a whole batch
of curl commands and change the URL path on each one. For example:
curl website.org/path/to/SomeBigLong.mp3 > file1.mp3
You just make a text file with a bunch of those lines, modified to
download each one. You could name th
Please do reread his post. He didn't say "please tell me what you're
testing," he said "If you're a tester, please look at this if you can
because it was unaccessible last time." Which anyone could do with no
problems while not disclosing any information about the beta itself.
Sent from my win
Thanks guys. I have a thumb drive with Mavericsk that I’ve used before, and
that I keep around now that we have a couple Macs in the house. I’ll use that.
Before I do though, is there any way to copy off any other files I’d like to
keep, ones I could recover but that it’d be easier just to have
Hi,
For expediency purposes, I wouldn’t worry about re-mapping partitions etc.,
you’re just going to wipe the drive and re-partition anyway. Regarding
grabbing those files, if you startup from your thumb drive, then go under it’s
Apple menu to Startup Disk, you should be able to select the 10.
Hi Jim,
No. I thought I had a particular recipe in Paprika, so I tried to launch it and
got the error message. I have since prepared the Mango Lime Couscous and it's
cooling in the refrigerator. I haven't used Mac Gourmet in a little bit, so I'm
a little rusty on the commands to import the rec
Hi All,
I assume most people turn their mac off at night rather than just putting it
into sleep mode. Right?
If you do turn it off, how do you do it? I turn mine off using vo command
eject. I purchased the learning the mac discussed a few days back, and in
there she says to press the power
Hello Don,
I put my Mac into sleep mode at night and very rarely shut it down. However,
VO-Cmd-Eject is the best way to shut it down. It's all to easy to hold down the
Power key for too long and shut the Mac down brutally without it having the
chance to close down tidily.
Cheers,
Anne
On 6
Ditto. I tried
www.icloud.com
under Windows and can't say it's accessible. I tried to send a tet mail
from my webmail account but couldn't figure out one of the edit fields.
I thought it was the to header but the send button was still
unavailable. Will try it under Maverix and report back.
Ch
You can also do a clean shut-down by quitting all applications and then going
into the Apple menu and choosing "shut down". You will get a dialog asking you
to confirm. Just press enter, which will press the default button, which is
"shut down".
HtH,
Teresa
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