Re: Can't find splitter to drag to close Mail preview pane

2014-06-06 Thread Teresa Cochran
Put Mail into classic view in Mail preferences, viewing, then check "use classic layout.". Then find the message list and VO-right. You should find the splitter there. HtH, teresa Visualize whirled peas. On Jun 5, 2014, at 8:27 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > Hi, > > I believe that you need to put

Re: Special request to all who are beta testing IOS8 especially on the Mac.

2014-06-06 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
I am feemale. > On 6 Jun 2014, at 04:31 am, "Littlefield, Tyler" wrote: > > 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

Re: Special request to all who are beta testing IOS8 especially on the Mac.

2014-06-06 Thread Devin Prater
I agree, we should be able to ask that a part of the OS to be tested for accessibility. I for one hope airdrop is accessible. > On Jun 5, 2014, at 22:31, "Littlefield, Tyler" wrote: > > Please do reread his post. He didn't say "please tell me what you're > testing," he said "If you're a teste

Re: turning off the mac

2014-06-06 Thread Jessica D
Is the item you bought accessible with VoiceOver? How much does it cost? Do they use VoiceOver for demos? Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 6, 2014, at 1:22 AM, don bishop wrote: > > Hi All, > > I assume most people turn their mac off at night rather than just putting it > into sleep mode. Right

sharing movies with friends via vlc

2014-06-06 Thread Elaine O Neill
Hi All, Can any one tell me if it is possible to send movies via vlc to o ther friends on the Mac. Many thanks. Elaine. Sent from my iPhone -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving

Re: Can't find splitter to drag to close Mail preview pane

2014-06-06 Thread Stacey Robinson
Theressa, After finding the splitter what do you do? Blessings, Stacey Robinson mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net On Jun 6, 2014, at 2:00 AM, Teresa Cochran wrote: > Put Mail into classic view in Mail preferences, viewing, then check "use > classic layout.". Then find the message list and VO-right

Itunes Match not working on Mac

2014-06-06 Thread Lee Jones
Dear List, I subscribed to itunes match, and am trying to get my library matched, but I keep getting told that itunes match encountered a problem and that I need to sign out and sign back in before trying again. After lots of tries I'm getting frustrated. Has anyone got this to work, and is th

Re: Can't find splitter to drag to close Mail preview pane

2014-06-06 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Stacey, Once you've found the splitter, turn the trackpad commander off if it's active, then bring the mouse with VO-Cmd-F5. Press down on the trackpad with one finger and use another finger to stroke the trackpad from top to bottom. This should drag the splitter to the bottom of the scre

Re: turning off the mac

2014-06-06 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, I seldom, if ever shutdown my Mac. My MBP is put to sleep at night simply due to the fact that I close the lid whereas my other Desktop Macs stay on, 24-7-365. In fact, the computer is set to stay awake and only the display goes to sleep. Just makes it easier for me to access other compu

Re: Itunes Match not working on Mac

2014-06-06 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, It works perfectly for me across multiple devices. Have you Quit and restarted iTunes? Totally restarted your Mac? Since you have likely followed its suggestion of signing out of iTunes Match then back in, try signing out, restarting the Mac then signing back in. Later... Tim Kilburn F

Re: turning off the mac

2014-06-06 Thread Teresa Cochran
I don't shut mine down much either, because I use BOINC software for various projects when my computer is idle. I usually shut it down when there's a close thunderstorm, or I restart it if it's acting strangely. Teresa Slow down; you'll get there faster. On Jun 6, 2014, at 7:02 AM, Tim Kilburn

Re: Can't find splitter to drag to close Mail preview pane

2014-06-06 Thread Alex Hall
Thanks, I got it. I really hope part of the changes in Mail in 10.10 will be an option to close that pane. On Jun 6, 2014, at 9:40 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: > Hello Stacey, > > Once you've found the splitter, turn the trackpad commander off if it's > active, then bring the mouse with VO-Cmd-F5

Re: Any final suggestions for my Mini's hard drive?

2014-06-06 Thread Alex Hall
Thanks. I’m in the beta partition now, copying a few files over to my external hard drive. The problem is here too: Finder just hung for about thirty seconds, while my Mac’s HD made the sound I’ve come to dread. Still, it’s working, thankfully; my main partition won’t even boot. As to wiping, I

Re: Any final suggestions for my Mini's hard drive?

2014-06-06 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi Alex, Yes, I’m saying that you should totally wipe the HD. That is, after starting up from the thumb drive, go to Disk Utility and re-partition your drive to one partition named Macintosh HD. Any subsequent partitions should be done later on the live drive. This will ensure that the Recov

Re: Any final suggestions for my Mini's hard drive?

2014-06-06 Thread Alex Hall
Alright, I’ll do that. I used the installer file and Terminal to make the drive, so it should be fine. Thanks. On Jun 6, 2014, at 12:25 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > Hi Alex, > > Yes, I’m saying that you should totally wipe the HD. That is, after starting > up from the thumb drive, go to Disk Util

Re: Challenges with Apple Mail auto-complete

2014-06-06 Thread Steve Holmes
Yeah, I just looked here under both Composing and General and no checkbox for that option. I'm running latest Mavericks. On Jun 4, 2014, at 5:15 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > Hi, > > I believe that option has been removed, At least I couldn't find it anymore > so I didn't mention it in my post. >

Re: Special request to all who are beta testing IOS8 especially on the Mac.

2014-06-06 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi guys I have another request for testing when some of you get around to it. I discovered a very bad bug in Pages having to do with the iPhone and iCloud. Don't do what I did or you can lose your files or parts thereof that are near and dear to you heart. Part of this is a VoiceOver issue, and

Re: is soloDX finished or not?

2014-06-06 Thread Steve Holmes
That's right. they're toast! This other group is picking up the charge but they will use new apps and all so Movie Reading is another orphaned app . On Jun 5, 2014, at 12:23 PM, Christina C. wrote: > Hello all, > > I am confused. > I do not follow soloDX on twitter to know the latest. I don'

Re: Where do I go to read system dialogues?

2014-06-06 Thread Steve Holmes
Sometimes I don't find them there but find it under the window choose (VO-F2 F2). But even then, I had to roll through several apps with Command-Tab before I found a system dialog in the window chooser. It hasn't always been consistent for me over time. On Jun 5, 2014, at 12:47 PM, isaac wrote

Re: Can't find splitter to drag to close Mail preview pane

2014-06-06 Thread Steve Holmes
This used to be easier under Mountain Lion. At least there, I didn't have to go into classic mode and I think I could just use the arrow keys to adjust the slider too. Yes, I fully agree; this should be a simple check item in the View menu as far as I'm concerned. On Jun 6, 2014, at 8:12 AM, Al

Re: Any final suggestions for my Mini's hard drive?

2014-06-06 Thread Steve Holmes
I like the article detailing how to build a bootable image but the damn site started up autoplaying other videos. How the hell do I stop them? It’s still babbling away while I’m writing this mail. I can close the window of Safari byt then I can’t read the article. I hate auto play. I can’t find

VM Windows 7 and Window-eyes, anyone running this configuration?

2014-06-06 Thread Bill Holton
If so, I have a few questions about how you deal with certain WE isses. Bill -- 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...@

Re: Can't find splitter to drag to close Mail preview pane

2014-06-06 Thread Regina Alvarado
Asking a dumb question. What is the mail preview payne? How do I get rid of it, and if I do, what is the difference in how I would read mail? reggie and Allegra On Jun 6, 2014, at 3:00 AM, Teresa Cochran wrote: Put Mail into classic view in Mail preferences, viewing, then check "use classic

Re: Any final suggestions for my Mini's hard drive?

2014-06-06 Thread Alex Hall
Sorry, I just want to clarify one point. All the “clean install Mavericks” articles I’ve found say to format your disk/partition. They seem to imply that you will magically have a Macintosh HD partition, even if it is the only partition on an otherwise blank drive, or that you simply don’t erase

amusing notice from Mail

2014-06-06 Thread Jenine Stanley
Today as I was reviewing my mail, it kept saying things like 23 message, 24 unread, 18 messages, 19 unread, etc. I'm amused as well as baffled but it did finally straighten itself out. Hoping that Yosemite will end the "1 message added ... 2 messages added ..." etc. that VO insists on verbaliz

Re: Special request to all who are beta testing IOS8 especially on the Mac.

2014-06-06 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Not that this helps your situation at all, but, just a clarification for you. Anything that is in iCloud, is also on your Mac already. Therefore, moving those items out of the iCloud area does not specifically do anything profound, in fact, you're losing one backup location. For example:

Re: amusing notice from Mail

2014-06-06 Thread Jessica D
For me, voiceover does this, but it also interrupts itself. Why does it do this? How do I stop it? Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 6, 2014, at 1:48 PM, Jenine Stanley wrote: > > Today as I was reviewing my mail, it kept saying things like 23 message, 24 > unread, 18 messages, 19 unread, etc. I'm

Re: is soloDX finished or not?

2014-06-06 Thread Jessica D
I will not pay for a subscription just to see a descriptive movie. Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 6, 2014, at 1:06 PM, Steve Holmes wrote: > > That's right. they're toast! > > This other group is picking up the charge but they will use new apps and all > so Movie Reading is another orphaned app

Autoplay, wasRe: Any final suggestions for my Mini's hard drive?

2014-06-06 Thread Teresa Cochran
Steve, just press control-home to go to your home page. Teresa Slow down; you’ll get there faster. On Jun 6, 2014, at 10:34 AM, Steve Holmes wrote: > I like the article detailing how to build a bootable image but the damn site > started up autoplaying other videos. How the hell do I stop them

Re: Any final suggestions for my Mini's hard drive?

2014-06-06 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, What I’m asking you to do is, in Disk Utility, select your drive. That is, the thing that reads 1 TB Hitachi blah blah or whatever make your HD is, not the already partitioned volumes. Then, go to the Partition tab and partition your HD with one partition, MacOS Extended (Journaled) with

Correction, Autoplay, wasRe: Any final suggestions for my Mini's hard drive?

2014-06-06 Thread Teresa Cochran
I meant to say command-home to go to the home page. Teresa “Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”—Richard P. Feynman On Jun 6, 2014, at 10:34 AM, Steve Holmes wrote: > I like the article detailing how to build a bootable image but the damn site > started up autoplaying o

Re: Any final suggestions for my Mini's hard drive?

2014-06-06 Thread Alex Hall
Okay, got it! Thanks, I’ll go do that now. On Jun 6, 2014, at 1:56 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > Hi, > > What I’m asking you to do is, in Disk Utility, select your drive. That is, > the thing that reads 1 TB Hitachi blah blah or whatever make your HD is, not > the already partitioned volumes. The

Re: amusing notice from Mail

2014-06-06 Thread Jenine Stanley
Oh if there's a way to stop this, whoever shares it will be sainted. It drives me crazy. :) Jenine Stanley dragonwalke...@gmail.com On Jun 6, 2014, at 1:52 PM, Jessica D wrote: > For me, voiceover does this, but it also interrupts itself. Why does it do > this? How do I stop it? > > Sent fr

Re: is soloDX finished or not?

2014-06-06 Thread Steve Holmes
Well, the other guys had a free service. Where are they now? I'll tell you where they are. they're broke! The unfortunate fact here is anyone offering a service like this, using apps, servers, etc. will have to have some kind of business model to keep them afloat. Hence someone has to pay for it

Re: Any final suggestions for my Mini's hard drive?

2014-06-06 Thread Tim Kilburn
Steve, I’m not sure why or what started auto-playing for you. It’s never happened to me on that page before. If it keeps doing that to you, try a cmd-a to Select All on the page, go into TextEdit, up to its Format menu and choose “Make Plain Text”, then paste in the stuff. You can then read

Re: Correction, Autoplay, wasRe: Any final suggestions for my Mini's hard drive?

2014-06-06 Thread Steve Holmes
Well no, I wanted to stay on that page but stop the videos from playing. The article about building the bootable image looks very interesting and would make an excellent resource for future reference. But it autoplays the series of videos continuously and I haven’t found a way to stop them. Anyo

Re: Any final suggestions for my Mini's hard drive?

2014-06-06 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Since most autoplaying stuff is still Flash based this might be a good time to fiddle with getting something like ClickToFlash installed on Safari. Pages load faster when Flash ads and videos aren't running and if you do want one you just action the spot and that particular flash widget is allo

Re: Any final suggestions for my Mini's hard drive?

2014-06-06 Thread Steve Holmes
Yeah, I tried the reader toggle from the toolbar and that made the reading much easier. Thanks for the idea of pasting into a text file. That’s one way to skin the cat. That’s interesting that it didn’t auto play for you. That should be another option for Safari just like auto opening of downloa

Re: Any final suggestions for my Mini's hard drive?

2014-06-06 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi Chris, I could be off-base, but I believe that functionality may be built-in to the newer Safari installations. In the Advance pane of Safari, there is a section called “Internet Plugins” and directly after it, there is a checkbox that reads something to the effect “Stop Plugins from Playin

Re: Any final suggestions for my Mini's hard drive?

2014-06-06 Thread Steve Holmes
I never installed flash on my machine. Though click to flash maybe an interesting option to look at. I just didn’t think it necessary if flash isn’t installed at all. Odd that I couldn’t find any controls to control playback. At least when Audio Boo does this, you can find the controls to start

Re: Special request to all who are beta testing IOS8 especially on the Mac.

2014-06-06 Thread Eugenia Firth
Thanks Tim. So to clarify here, I do have it right that one should press command s if you're in Pages and you want to make sure, before you quit for the day, that you have saved your file so that the one you like is the latest version? Gigi On Jun 6, 2014, at 12:49 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote: >

Re: Special request to all who are beta testing IOS8 especially on the Mac.

2014-06-06 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Yes, for sure, it's always best to do the cmd-s prior to going away from any document. They did have TextEdit and Pages set to do this automatically back in Lion, I think, but I don't trust that method anyway. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jun 6, 2014, at 12:13 PM, Eug

Re: Any final suggestions for my Mini's hard drive?

2014-06-06 Thread Steve Holmes
Interesting; I just looked there and my option is also checked. It played for me though. Wonder if there is another option some place. On Jun 6, 2014, at 11:12 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > Hi Chris, > > I could be off-base, but I believe that functionality may be built-in to the > newer Safari in

Re: Any final suggestions for my Mini's hard drive?

2014-06-06 Thread Tim Kilburn
Steve, When I go to that site and do Item Chooser, enter the word “power”, I get the “Safari Power Saver, Click to Start Flash Plugin”. In fact, one time I got only instance and another time I got two instances of Flash stuff. In your Safari Preferences, in that same area, press the Details b

RE: Special request to all who are beta testing IOS8 especially on the Mac.

2014-06-06 Thread Eileen Misrahi
Hi Gigi, I can commensurate with you. When I was in grad school between 2005-2008, I did the same thing. Unfortunately, when I always attempted to recreate what I had deleted, it never came out the way it did the first time. I was using a PC at the time and all of my problems existed because I

Re: turning off the mac

2014-06-06 Thread matthew dyer
Hi, I just press control eject and the shut down box appears and i press enter and my iMac shuts down. HTH. Matthew On Jun 6, 2014, at 1:22 AM, don bishop wrote: > Hi All, > > I assume most people turn their mac off at night rather than just putting it > into sleep mode. Right? > If yo

Re: is soloDX finished or not?

2014-06-06 Thread Robert C
Its amusing and sad at the same time when folks state that they will not pay for something that used to be free. Free is not truly free, it will cost us somewhere sometime. If its not worth paying for something, we dont need to hear it for its a choice we all make. The same mindset came

Re: is soloDX finished or not?

2014-06-06 Thread Jessica D
Who wants to pay $25 or more a month just for disc riptide movies? Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 6, 2014, at 2:00 PM, Steve Holmes wrote: > > Well, the other guys had a free service. Where are they now? I'll tell you > where they are. they're broke! The unfortunate fact here is anyone offering

Re: is soloDX finished or not?

2014-06-06 Thread Jessica D
I want it but not for $25 or more month. Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 6, 2014, at 2:45 PM, Robert C wrote: > > Its amusing and sad at the same time when folks state that they will not > pay for something that used to be free. Free is not truly free, it will cost > us somewhere sometime. If

Re: turning off the mac

2014-06-06 Thread Christopher Hallsworth
I do this as well. Christopher Hallsworth Student at the Hadley School for the Blind www.hadley.edu On 06/06/2014 19:42, matthew dyer wrote: Hi, I just press control eject and the shut down box appears and i press enter and my iMac shuts down. HTH. Matthew On Jun 6, 2014, at 1:22 AM, don b

Re: is soloDX finished or not?

2014-06-06 Thread Robert C
Then its neither here nor there. Its tough making choices but we have to do it daily on many things. I do without many things because my budget cannot stretch enough. If $25 a month is too much, perhaps you want to contact the good folks running the service and see if they will offer other p

Re: is soloDX finished or not?

2014-06-06 Thread Christina C.
So, is this $25 a month just to have access to the audio description? I believe Zagga Entertainment will be charging a subscription but I think it includes the whole movie and not just the descriptive track. I could be wrong though. I am easily confused. There are so many emails and frankly, I j

Re: VM Windows 7 and Window-eyes, anyone running this configuration?

2014-06-06 Thread matthew dyer
Hi Bill. I have a vmware machine with windows 7 with we 8.4 using the window-eyes for office. What are you wanting to know. Matthew On Jun 6, 2014, at 1:33 PM, Bill Holton wrote: > If so, I have a few questions about how you deal with certain WE isses. > Bill > > > > -- > You rece

Re: is soloDX finished or not?

2014-06-06 Thread Jessica D
I think it includes the entire movie. But still, who wants to pay that much for a movie? Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 6, 2014, at 2:57 PM, "Christina C." wrote: > > So, is this $25 a month just to have access to the audio description? I > believe Zagga Entertainment will be charging a subscri

Re: Special request to all who are beta testing IOS8 especially on the Mac.

2014-06-06 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi there I didn't, but it's okay. Luckily for me, the text doesn't have to be exactly like I had it the first time. I sure wish I knew how I deleted that table on the iPhone. Sincerely, Gigi Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 6, 2014, at 1:25 PM, Eileen Misrahi wrote: > > Hi Gigi, > > I can comme

RE: VM Windows 7 and Window-eyes, anyone running this configuration?

2014-06-06 Thread Bill Holton
Hi. I have a chronic problem when resuming the VM when Window-Eyes will start reading the current clip and never stop or even allow interruptability until I close WE and reopen it. Is this something you experience? Thanks. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googl

Re: is soloDX finished or not?

2014-06-06 Thread Christina C.
Where did you get this info about the charges? I thought you all were saying it's $25 for a subscription but not $25 per movie. I pay netflix like $10 or something like that for their streaming service but that does not include any newer or very popular movies. On Jun 6, 2014, at 1:00 PM, Jess

Re: is soloDX finished or not?

2014-06-06 Thread Robert C
Why dont you get the facts for us and give us accurate information. $25 per movie or $25 per month, unlimited etc etc etc. Quote of the nanosecond . . . Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat & drink beer all day. Robert & Annie Yanni ke7

Re: is soloDX finished or not?

2014-06-06 Thread Jessica D
It is $25 for six months of service. Here is the website. http://igg.me/at/zagga Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 6, 2014, at 2:57 PM, "Christina C." wrote: > > So, is this $25 a month just to have access to the audio description? I > believe Zagga Entertainment will be charging a subscription b

Re: is soloDX finished or not?

2014-06-06 Thread Robert C
Now that does not sound bad at all. That is about $4 a month. Quote of the nanosecond . . . Oxymoron: Beaucractic Efficiencies Robert & Annie Yanni ke7nwn E-mail- gone.to.da...@gmail.com On 6/6/2014 12:26 PM, Jessica D wrote: It is $25 for six months of service. Here is the website. http:/

Re: VM Windows 7 and Window-eyes, anyone running this configuration?

2014-06-06 Thread matthew dyer
No not at all. I have not used my vm in a while. i am not sure what is going on. On Jun 6, 2014, at 3:16 PM, Bill Holton wrote: > Hi. > I have a chronic problem when resuming the VM when Window-Eyes will start > reading the current clip and never stop or even allow interruptability until >

Re: Any final suggestions for my Mini's hard drive?

2014-06-06 Thread Alex Hall
Well, this is odd. Absolutely everything in the partition tab is dimmed, including the all-important “add” button. I don’t know if I did something, or if this is more evidence of drive problems, but I’m unable to add a partition. Did I miss a step, like erasing both existing partitions first? On

Re: is soloDX finished or not?

2014-06-06 Thread Christina C.
$25 for six months is an excellent price. Ok, but I'm confused. I think I must have missed something in the email string. Have we been talking about Zagga the whole time and not soloDX? I thought the mention of the $25 was referring to soloDX? Did zagga purchase soloDX? My original inquiry was

Re: Any final suggestions for my Mini's hard drive?

2014-06-06 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Very similar. Just turned off click to flash to play with it. The "Stop plug-ins to save power" checkbox in advanced by itself didn't seem to stop youtube from autoplaying. What did work was going to Security and then hitting the Manage Wesite Settings button next to the Allow Website Plug-ins

Re: Any final suggestions for my Mini's hard drive?

2014-06-06 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Downside of having no flash is some sites insist on using it to play video, so going 100% no flash can leave you with no video at all. CB On 6/6/14, 2:13 PM, Steve Holmes wrote: I never installed flash on my machine. Though click to flash maybe an interesting option to look at. I just didn’t

Re: Where do I go to read system dialogues?

2014-06-06 Thread Edward Green
Hi Jenine, It should appear in the list if you press VO F1 twice quickly. If it doesn't, try VO F2 twice quickly. Cheers, Ed On 5 Jun 2014, at 20:25, 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.

Planning to install windows 7 on my mac using bootcamp

2014-06-06 Thread Dionipher Presas Herrera
before i try to install windows 7 on my mac, i would like to know about more into partitioning. do i need to partition it into ntfs? or can i do it onother format? so that i still manage all my files at the same time on mac and windows. can i use an cracked windows installer on bootcamp? cause

Re: Planning to install windows 7 on my mac using bootcamp

2014-06-06 Thread Phil Halton
You'd best read the bootcamp utility guide pdf that you can download through the utility itself. it'll tell you all the dirty little details. On Jun 6, 2014, at 6:39 PM, Dionipher Presas Herrera wrote: > before i try to install windows 7 on my mac, i would like to know about more > into part

No Pitch Change when Backspacing with Alex

2014-06-06 Thread Jonathan Mosen
Hi everyone, this one isn't really a show stopper, but it's a little annoying and now that I've noticed it, I'm kind of challenged by the seeming randomness of it. I'm not the biggest fan of the Alex voice, but over the last few days I've been using it to see if more use will cause it to grow on

Re: No Pitch Change when Backspacing with Alex

2014-06-06 Thread alia robinson
I don't think it ever has indicated that they are uppercase when you backspace, but really I don't care, but wait I just tried it on mine, and the pitch changed. hmm, that is weird. I have my delete set to tones, you might try that. Alia On Jun 6, 2014, at 7:21 PM, Jonathan Mosen wrote: > the

Re: No Pitch Change when Backspacing with Alex

2014-06-06 Thread Jonathan Mosen
Hi Alia, you are a genius! A genius! I think I Understand what was happening now. My "when deleting text" option was set to change pitch, so this counteracted the pitch change of the upper case letter. So setting it to play tone did the job. Thanks a lot. Jonathan Mosen Mosen Consulting Blindness

Re: No Pitch Change when Backspacing with Alex

2014-06-06 Thread alia robinson
Yes, that makes perfect sense, glad this helped. Alia On Jun 6, 2014, at 7:36 PM, Jonathan Mosen wrote: > Hi Alia, you are a genius! A genius! I think I Understand what was happening > now. My "when deleting text" option was set to change pitch, so this > counteracted the pitch change of the

Re: Any final suggestions for my Mini's hard drive?

2014-06-06 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi Alex, Sorry I was so slow at responding. I was fighting with a Server this afternoon and the battle isn’t won yet. Anyway, those things are immaterial to your issues. You don’t need to use the “Add” button at all. Unless I’m misunderstanding you in some way, do things in this order: • s

Activities

2014-06-06 Thread Tim Kilburn
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 this extra verbosity?

Re: Any final suggestions for my Mini's hard drive?

2014-06-06 Thread Alex Hall
That’s the problem, though, that popup button is dimmed, so I cannot select anything. I only see “current” once, and it is just text; the popup to the right of it is dimmed, not letting me select anything. I’m on my main drive (500gb Hitachi). On Jun 6, 2014, at 7:43 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > H

Double tap not opening mail messages?

2014-06-06 Thread Alex Hall
Hi all, I'm still on the MBA for now I prefer it, in fact, by I'm not supposed to use it for personal use. Anyway, I noticed that when I double tap a message in Mail, it does not open. A menu of some kind comes up, even when I've interacted with the messages table. Pressing enter opens messages,

Re: Any final suggestions for my Mini's hard drive?

2014-06-06 Thread Alex Hall
I was going off memory earlier, so misspoke a bit. I see “current, partition format, popup button, but it is dimmed. The table is not dimmed, and neither are the five tabs, but every other control in the Partitions Tab screen is unusable for some reason. Also, don’t worry about taking a while to

Skype for Mac

2014-06-06 Thread Lee Jones
Dear List, I have installed skype on my mac, but I can't figure out how to accept a contact request. I can't find my list of contacts. I've been through all the menus and I can't find a shortcut to answer a call. How do you do this? Many Thanks, Lee -- You received this message because you

Re: Skype for Mac

2014-06-06 Thread Alex Hall
There's a table on the far left; interact with it, vi-down to "recent", and under that you will find any pending contact requests. When you get a call, a dialog appears; pressing enter will answer it. To hang up, go to the Skype app and use cmd-shift-h, and cmd-shift-m to toggle the mute status

Re: Skype for Mac

2014-06-06 Thread Lisette Wesseling
Hi, Further to what Alex has said, you can see your list of contacts by interacting with the table on the left, focusing on contacts, uninteract and move to the right with vo right arrow. Keep doing this until you find your list of contacts. That's how I do it anyway. There's no short cut for a

Re: Can't find splitter to drag to close Mail preview pane

2014-06-06 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Reggie, The preview pane in Mail is where the body of a message is displayed automatically when you navigate to a message. When the preview pane is showing, you can't navigate past a message without opening it and some of us don't like this behaviour at all. If the preview pane is removed

Re: Skype for Mac

2014-06-06 Thread Jonathan Mosen
The command to answer a call is Command+Shift+R. This will also initiate a call on the focussed contact if you use it when there's no incoming call. Skype for Mac is absolutely packed with keyboard shortcuts. The full list is here: https://support.skype.com/en/faq/FA12074/what-keyboard-shortcuts-

Re: Activities

2014-06-06 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Tim, I'm not sure about this but I certainly don'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: > Hi, > > Just lately

Re: Skype for Mac

2014-06-06 Thread Terje Strømberg
And after interacting with the table to the left, you can use vo + j to jump between three windows(more like areas). For example if you are in an chat conversation with Madonna, you can jump from Madonna to chat history with Madonna to text edit wtih Madonna to back to Madonna in the table to th