Re: Current for Facebook

2014-12-17 Thread Krister Ekstrom
But Menutab is much, much slower. But to each their own. I happen rather to like Current. What amazes me though is how now when a new facebook kid is on the block, how people in this community whine about that the app in question doesn’t offer more than a web page of Facebook, something that man

Re: Current for Facebook

2014-12-17 Thread David Taylor
Does Current literally reproduce the website, like Menutab, or does it have easier ways of skipping around or anything? I presume if it really is just like the site, the shortcut keys work? On 17 Dec 2014, at 08:28 am, Krister Ekstrom wrote: > But Menutab is much, much slower. But to each thei

Re: Current for Facebook

2014-12-17 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Yes, the shortcut keys actually do work in the app. Another thing that makes me like Current is the fact that notifications, buddy list and inbox are in separate windows that you can call up with a keyboard command and when you’ve read the messages in those windows you can close them with comman

Toggeling voiceover speech

2014-12-17 Thread Chris G
I have a slight problem. I have a mac mini 2009 that is running Yosemite. When I start voiceover, it says voiceover on, speech off. How do I turn speech back on? Thanks Chris -- Mystic Access Where the magic is in learning. 733 Delaware Rd 341 Buffalo, NY 14223 Phone: (716) 803-8528 web: www.mys

Re: Toggeling voiceover speech

2014-12-17 Thread Matt Dierckens
Hello Chris, To unmute speech. A three finger double tap on the trackpad will toggle. Matt Dierckens Assistive technology specialist Macintosh trainer Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 17, 2014, at 06:22, Chris G wrote: > > I have a slight problem. > I have a mac mini 2009 that is running Yosemite.

Re: Current for Facebook

2014-12-17 Thread Jonathan Mosen
Frankly I think people are quite entitled to express an opinion on whether they consider an app value for money, or indeed whether it adds any value to their user experience of any kind, without it being called whining. All the discussion I've seen in this thread has contained people expressing

Re: Toggeling voiceover speech

2014-12-17 Thread Chris G
Hi, Is there a keyboard shortcut because I don't have access to my track pad as it is bluetooth and truthfully I don't even know if it is functional. Mystic Access Where the magic is in learning. 733 Delaware Rd 341 Buffalo, NY 14223 Phone: (716) 803-8528 web: www.mysticaccess.com Accessible

Re: Creating Message /rules.

2014-12-17 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
This depends on what you want. If you want all the messages from John Smith to be available in one place but also to read them from your Inbox than a Smart Mailbox is the way to go. If you want all the messages from John Smith to disappear from the Inbox and Appear in their own folder than you

Re: IPhone constantly saying "invalid sum,"

2014-12-17 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Hello, When I went to the apple store to get a iPone 6 replaced, they moved the SIM card from the old phone to the new phone. I then had to call into Sprint to have the new phone activated. I am not really sure how SIM cards and CDMA networks interact, though it might be that Sprint / Verizon

Re: Creating Message /rules.

2014-12-17 Thread ernest mccullough
Hello: Thanks for the information. I'd like, for example, all of the messages from John Smith to disappear from th inbox using message rules. How do I do this? On Dec 17, 2014, at 7:36 AM, Jonathan C. Cohn wrote: > This depends on what you want. If you want all the messages from John Smith > to

Re: Toggeling voiceover speech

2014-12-17 Thread Matt Dierckens
Not by default unfortunately. Matt Dierckens Assistive technology specialist Macintosh trainer Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 17, 2014, at 06:48, Chris G wrote: > > Hi, > Is there a keyboard shortcut because I don't have access to my track pad as > it is bluetooth and truthfully I don't even kn

Re: Toggeling voiceover speech

2014-12-17 Thread David Griffith
You have to set this up yourself. I have done this in Keyboard Commander, in my case I can now hit right option A and it toggles speech on and off. You have to make sure you select the right toggle in keyboard commander, you want mute speech rather than muting all sound. \David Griffith > On 17

Re: IPhone constantly saying "invalid sum,"

2014-12-17 Thread Jessica Moss
Well unfortunately it seems to be doing it again, and can't figure out why. I get service every time I reboot the phone; LTE comes up, then Sprint network, then sim failier, then invalid sim. The weird thing is, that when I called Sprint to find out what the deal was, things stayed fine as lo

Re: Creating Message /rules.

2014-12-17 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Sorry, one more question. Do you have multiple systems that you read mail on? If so, you should use GMail filters so yor rules are appled to every computer. Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 17, 2014, at 7:45 AM, ernest mccullough > wrote: > > Hello: > Thanks for the information. I'd like, for exa

Re: iTunes gift card

2014-12-17 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi there Got it! Been having a good time with my present here! Once I figured out I could take that thing that felt like a tape off, it worked like a charm. You can be real sloppy about how you wait that camera around to read it Gigi Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 16, 2014, at 8:17 PM, Alex Hall

Re: Creating Message /rules.

2014-12-17 Thread ernest mccullough
No, just this mac as my windows PC stopped working. On Dec 17, 2014, at 9:15 AM, Jonathan C. Cohn wrote: > Sorry, one more question. Do you have multiple systems that you read mail on? > If so, you should use GMail filters so yor rules are appled to every computer. > > Sent from my iPhone > >>

Re: Toggeling voiceover speech

2014-12-17 Thread Chris G
Hi, I managed to get my magic trackpad working and got speech back. Thanks! Mystic Access Where the magic is in learning. 733 Delaware Rd 341 Buffalo, NY 14223 Phone: (716) 803-8528 web: www.mysticaccess.com Accessible Gadgets mailing list: > > http://lists.mysticaccess.com/listinfo.cgi/acces

Private practice software for counselors

2014-12-17 Thread Nancy Badger
Hello, I am thinking of starting a private practice and am currently a licensed psychologist. I am wondering if there are any other counselors or psychologist out there who use accessible private practice software. I'm interested to find out what you use. Thanks Nancy Nancy Badger, Ph.D Assista

question about Duxbury braille translator

2014-12-17 Thread Juliette Swiler
I have a question for those who use Duxbury braille translator. If I am using a braille display to edit text, how come when I press a cursor routing key, nothing happens? I don’t know if there is a setting I am supposed to change. I am using System Access as my screen reader, along with a Brilli

Re: Current for Facebook

2014-12-17 Thread Brian Fischler
Couldn’t agree with you more Jonathan about people in this thread offering good constructive feedback. Not sure if I need to do a permission repair on my machine running Mavericks as I just launched MenuTab which I have not used in a very long time. The very first post I went to comment on I got

removing filler from Pages Template

2014-12-17 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
Hello: I’m trying to figure out how to remove filler from the pages template. I have quick nav turned off, pressed interact with edit field. Press shift down to select, then start typing my own info. It appears the filler is still there as well as my info. Not even selecting, then deleting will

Greyhound app

2014-12-17 Thread Todor Fassl
Has anybody tried the Greyhound IOS app? Their web site is so hard to deal with I thought I'd try their app. But when I run it, it just says "login view" no matter what I do. I have tried tapping around the screen and all voiceover says is "login view". I even tried a bluetooth keyboard. It se

Advice for VoiceOver constantly resetting itself

2014-12-17 Thread Brian Fischler
Ok, just bought Current which seems to be working for those who have got it. I am running a 2010 iMac with Mavericks and VoiceOver keeps crashing or recycling. How do I know? I have my screen curtain turned on and it keeps going off and VoiceOver goes out for a second then comes back on and says

Re: question about Duxbury braille translator

2014-12-17 Thread erik
this would be better going to the duxusers group or a group for system access. Not that we wouldn't help if we could. Best. Sent from my android device. -Original Message- From: Juliette Swiler To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 11:41 AM Subject: question about

Re: Checking battery status

2014-12-17 Thread Janine Smith
Cool as Alex! All done and it works. While I was in your talking dashboard I looked around and couldn't resist taking the wifi status script, you did invite me in! That too is working brilliantly so thanks very much. Such small things but so much easier, not need to multi-task. Again thank you f

Re: removing filler from Pages Template

2014-12-17 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Sarai, In a Pages template, you often have to press Return followed by Cmd-z for placeholder text to function correctly in that each section should become highlighted when you navigate using just the arrow keys. As for seeing the spacing etc, you can use the service “New TextEdit window

some help recalling one of the Mac keys names

2014-12-17 Thread Scott Berry
Hello there, I am having trouble recalling one of the keys on the bottom left hand side of the keyboard. I know there is Control and Command but what is the other one called? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsu

Re: some help recalling one of the Mac keys names

2014-12-17 Thread Joe Quinn
Option Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 17, 2014, at 2:56 PM, Scott Berry wrote: > >Hello there, > > I am having trouble recalling one of the keys on the bottom left hand side of > the keyboard. I know there is Control and Command but what is the other one > called? > > > -- > You receiv

Re: some help recalling one of the Mac keys names

2014-12-17 Thread Aleeha Dudley
There is the function key on the far left, followed by control, option, and. Command. Aleeha Dudley and seeing eye dog Dallas Vice President, Ohio Association of blind students blindcowgirl1...@gmail.com "The wind of Heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears." Arabian proverb Sent f

Current News Feed toggling

2014-12-17 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey fellow current users. Been playing around with it a little but cannot seem to figure out how to toggle the News Feed to see people’s most recent posts as my news feed seems to be set to some bizarre filter that picks and chooses whom’s posts it shows me, is there a way to quickly do this via

the Lifeproof iPad mini case I have for sale...

2014-12-17 Thread Cameron Strife
Hi all. I'm still selling my mint condition lifeproof nuud waterproof case for the iPad mini. Please write off list to make me an offer... Somebody had e mailed me off list and wanted to make an offer. I can't find your e mail but check your spam folder as I actually did reply to you the same day

installing windows on a macbook without using a CD/DVD

2014-12-17 Thread Matthew J
Hi all, I have a quick question for you all. I got through the password issue thankfully. I am trying to install windows 7 on my macbook pro, but I have no blank DVDs and so have burned the iso to a memory stick using bootcamp. This all worked fine and the ISO is from a good source. But seeming

Re: some help recalling one of the Mac keys names

2014-12-17 Thread Scott Berry
Thank you. > On Dec 17, 2014, at 2:17 PM, Aleeha Dudley wrote: > > There is the function key on the far left, followed by control, option, and. > Command. > > Aleeha Dudley and seeing eye dog Dallas > Vice President, Ohio Association of blind students > blindcowgirl1...@gmail.com > "The win

Re: IPhone constantly saying "invalid sum,"

2014-12-17 Thread matthew dyer
If you still have your old phone, try to take the old sim out of the old phone and see if you have the same problem. Sent from my iPhone. Skype: graduater2004. Email and face time/iMessage: ilovecountrymusic...@gmail.com > On Dec 16, 2014, at 8:29 PM, Daniel Chavez wrote: > > I’d reset the p

Re: installing windows on a macbook without using a CD/DVD

2014-12-17 Thread Caitlyn Furness
Hi, I used the iso image to put windows on my mac air. I had the iso image in my documents folder and navigated to it when prompted for the location of the image file by fusion. It worked fine here. I realize you are using boot camp, but maybe doing something similar would help you out. Cait

Re: installing windows on a macbook without using a CD/DVD

2014-12-17 Thread Brian Moore
what are you installing on? I just did this the other day but unless you have a fairly new macbook, it will not boot off a usb stick. if you look at the contents of the usb stick in finder, what's on it? should contain 9 items I think. efi sources and some others. I cheated and made the usb s

Re: the Lifeproof iPad mini case I have for sale...

2014-12-17 Thread Matt Dierckens
Hi I am interested. Would you ship to Canada? Matt Dierckens Assistive technology specialist Macintosh trainer Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 17, 2014, at 16:22, Cameron Strife wrote: > > Hi all. I'm still selling my mint condition lifeproof nuud waterproof > case for the iPad mini. Please write

Re: the Lifeproof iPad mini case I have for sale...

2014-12-17 Thread Cameron Strife
Hi. Yes, I could do that. I just shot you an e mail off list by the way. Thanks, Cameron. On 12/17/14, Matt Dierckens wrote: > Hi > I am interested. Would you ship to Canada? > > Matt Dierckens > Assistive technology specialist > Macintosh trainer > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Dec 17, 2014,

Re: removing filler from Pages Template

2014-12-17 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
Hi: Where is this in system preferences? I cannot find it? Thanks! > On Dec 17, 2014, at 2:06 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: > > Hello Sarai, > > In a Pages template, you often have to press Return followed by Cmd-z for > placeholder text to function correctly in that each section should become > h

Reading Row and column titles Numbers

2014-12-17 Thread Daniel Chavez
Hi list, In Microsoft Excel and jaws For Windows, you could set JFW to read row and column titles, so that when you put headings, going from left to right, when you would tab, it’d say things like: travel in A1, gas expense in B2, etc. When you were in a blank cell, like B3, it’d say travel, as i

Re: IPhone constantly saying "invalid sum,"

2014-12-17 Thread Faisal ali
I would physically take into the sprint store and show them what is going on. This way, they can probably be able to better troubleshoot the issue as you can reproduce the problem before hand. All you would do is simply show them what is going on and they might be able to figure something out. >

Re: Current News Feed toggling

2014-12-17 Thread Faisal ali
As far I can tell, there isn’t a keystroke to do this. you have to navigate over to where it says sort options and click on that. > On Dec 17, 2014, at 1:18 PM, Brian Fischler wrote: > > Hey fellow current users. Been playing around with it a little but cannot > seem to figure out how to toggle

iCloud and Email?

2014-12-17 Thread Robert Cole
Hi List, I added a new comcast email account on my iPhone. How do I get it to show on my Mac? Shouldn't it be in iCloud? I thought it would automatically be added to Mac Mail. Thanks, Rob Sent from my MacBook -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisi

Re: iCloud and Email?

2014-12-17 Thread Aleeha Dudley
I don't believe the Mac will do this, accept with your iCloud account. Aleeha Dudley and seeing eye dog Dallas Vice President, Ohio Association of blind students blindcowgirl1...@gmail.com "The wind of Heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears." Arabian proverb Sent from my iPhone >

Re: Checking battery status

2014-12-17 Thread Faisal ali
Hi alex, I followed your instructions perfectly but when I select the apple script file, my voiceover utilities crashes. What am I doing wrong? > On Dec 16, 2014, at 9:20 PM, Alex Hall wrote: > > I have a script for this, and several other things besides. Here's the link > to the full zip file.

Re: Current News Feed toggling

2014-12-17 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey, thanks, but where is the sort options located, as I have navigated all around in Current For Facebook and have yet to find the sort options. Thanks, On Dec 17, 2014, at 6:47 PM, Faisal ali wrote: > As far I can tell, there isn’t a keystroke to do this. you have to navigate > over to where

Re: Current for Facebook

2014-12-17 Thread Faisal ali
I also can’t get notifications and messages to open up in a separate window. they all seem to be opening up in the same window. Is there a setting I adjust somewhere which will do this? Thanks > On Dec 17, 2014, at 3:37 AM, Jonathan Mosen wrote: > > Frankly I think people are quite entitled to

Re: Current News Feed toggling

2014-12-17 Thread Faisal ali
Its right after where it says edit profile. Its called sort options and its a expandable menu > On Dec 17, 2014, at 4:10 PM, Brian Fischler wrote: > > Hey, thanks, but where is the sort options located, as I have navigated all > around in Current For Facebook and have yet to find the sort optio

moving graphics around in surveys

2014-12-17 Thread Scott Berry
Hello there, I partake in surveys quite often. I found a cool little tip I’d like to share with the list. I was doing surveys earlier today and found out that I could move graphics to number boxes. Here is how it’s done: 1. Use the Lock Mouse which is Control Command Option Shift plus space

Re: Advice for VoiceOver constantly resetting itself

2014-12-17 Thread David Taylor
This is the exact issue I am having in Menutab Pro, and was hoping Current may fix it, but suspected it might not, so haven’t bought it yet. On 17 Dec 2014, at 06:54 pm, Brian Fischler wrote: > Ok, just bought Current which seems to be working for those who have got it. > I am running a 2010 i

Re: Current for Facebook

2014-12-17 Thread Brian Fischler
Beginning to think this app is not totally accessible or a little buggy with VO, as it is causing VO to crash a lot on my system, and earlier today I got the story options menu to open where I could hide certain posts from my timeline, but now I cannot seem to get story options to work again and

Re: Advice for VoiceOver constantly resetting itself

2014-12-17 Thread Brian Fischler
I would hold off buying current as I am having VO constantly turn on and off in both menu tab and current for FB. I am experiencing the issues on both Mavericks and Yosemite but no where near as much on my machine running Yosemite. On Dec 17, 2014, at 7:23 PM, David Taylor wrote: > This is the

Re: Current News Feed toggling

2014-12-17 Thread Brian Fischler
Hi, very strange as I get to edit profile and I VO right and the very next thing is App navigation then reminders then the update status button On Dec 17, 2014, at 7:12 PM, Faisal ali wrote: > Its right after where it says edit profile. Its called sort options and its a > expandable menu >> On

Re: Checking battery status

2014-12-17 Thread Alex Hall
That's a new one, I've never heard of that. All I can suggest is a reset, and a disk permissions repair if it still doesn't work. Also be sure you've unzipped the zip file first, but I don't think you can avoid unzipping on the Mac like you can on Windows. > On Dec 17, 2014, at 7:07 PM, Faisal a

Re: Current News Feed toggling

2014-12-17 Thread David Taylor
Interact with the App Navigation group and you’ll find it there, whichever app you’re using the main site layout with. Cheers Dave On 18 Dec 2014, at 01:57 am, Brian Fischler wrote: > Hi, very strange as I get to edit profile and I VO right and the very next > thing is App navigation then rem

Re: Reading Row and column titles Numbers

2014-12-17 Thread Phil Halton
It’s very possible, and I set up all my tables to read out column/row titles. Here’s how it’s done. for column titles, insert a header row into the table if one is not already there. Now, place your column titles in that header row and VO will read out the column title as you arrow across data

Re: removing filler from Pages Template

2014-12-17 Thread Phil Halton
If you’re referring to the “New textedit window with selection” that Anne spoke of, first you have to have something selected for it to show up, and it will be found under the pages menu in “services”. That’s for manual use, for a short cut key to execute that service, That’s somewhere in system

Re: Request for resources

2014-12-17 Thread Scott Rumery
There are many free and paid resources out there if you look. Because we all learn differently it is hard to know if you would benefit from just listening to podcasts on the subject or if you would be better off going with a paid instructor or something. In full disclosure I can tell you that I

Re: Checking battery status

2014-12-17 Thread Faisal ali
Also, I had no issues doing this under mavericks. > On Dec 17, 2014, at 6:18 PM, Alex Hall wrote: > > That's a new one, I've never heard of that. All I can suggest is a reset, and > a disk permissions repair if it still doesn't work. Also be sure you've > unzipped the zip file first, but I don'

Re: Current News Feed toggling

2014-12-17 Thread Brian Fischler
Thanks Dave, did not realize I could interact with that as I assumed it was just a header. Took me awhile to figure it out as some things you have to hit return on and others you have to VO space on annoying as you would think it would be the same throughout the program. Also I am noticing in my

greyhound app

2014-12-17 Thread Jean
Hello: To the person with the question about the Greyhound app. The web site is farely unusable by sighted people also. Some time ago while visiting my sister on the east coast of America, I needed to book a bus ticket. I tried the web site then she tried the web site, we both ended up dow

Re: greyhound app

2014-12-17 Thread Faisal ali
When ever I use greyhound, I just call them and book a ticket over the phone. I also find the amtrak website to be pretty confusing as well. > On Dec 17, 2014, at 8:47 PM, Jean wrote: > > Hello: > > To the person with the question about the Greyhound app. The web site is > farely unusable b

App requires Java

2014-12-17 Thread Robert Cole
Hi, I tried installing Cyber Duck FTP app and was asked to install Java Runtime. My question is, is it safe to have Java on the Mac? Thanks, Rob Sent from my MacBook -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this gro