Re: How to emulate numeric keyboard in a Macbook air keyboard?

2016-03-21 Thread Daniela Rubio
Yes, that is what we are going to end up doing. It seems that it is worthy, as there are extra functionalities that can be launched from there. Cheers! Daniela Rubio > El 21 mar 2016, a las 7:57, Simon Fogarty escribió: > > Hi Anne, > > Thanks for that, > I use the USB full keyboard for the

Re: Perplexing problem with ITunes: very quiet playback

2016-03-21 Thread Dionipher Herrera
try to go to the equalizer of iTunes by pressing command option e, you can adjust the db on there. maybe some of it is lover than zero. > Il giorno 13 feb 2016, alle ore 01:20, Chris Gilland > ha scritto: > > I’m pulling my hair out over here trying to figure this out. > > I’m running the most

Re: blue tooth headsets

2016-03-21 Thread Scott Granados
I always forget about that option. I’veneer tried them as i’ve heard about issues with build quality and the like but it may be worth considering. Sounds like you like yours. > On Mar 20, 2016, at 6:17 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland > wrote: > > Why not look into the Aftershokz lineup? I swe

RE: VoiceOver does not speak images in the UIImagePickerController

2016-03-21 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Forgive me then. I’d not know. That was the only theory I had. Chris. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of venky...@gmail.com Sent: Monday, March 21, 2016 2:44 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: VoiceOver does not

RE: blue tooth headsets

2016-03-21 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
I absolutely swear by mine, yes. OK, there may be a little bit of leakage, but they're bone induction, so give them some credit. You're never gonna *totally!* get rid of that. Compared to the 1st generation though, the Bluez 2S model is really great, and has improved this quite significantly.

Re: Hotspot number 3

2016-03-21 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! On my mac its hotspot number 2 that does not work. But if i change to English US it works like a charm. I use the swedish keyboard and yes i told them all that stuf. /A > On 18 Mar 2016, at 09:12, Anne Robertson wrote: > > Did you explain to the accessibility team that they had to set the key

Re: Automating Macintosh book.

2016-03-21 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! Well what is this automating all about? Thanks. /A > On 20 Mar 2016, at 18:04, - wrote: > > Include me on your new list please. > > > On Sun, 20 Mar 2016, Jonathan Cohn wrote: > >> Currently only Scott has replied to this message. We have decided to go off >> list with this discussion. So

Re: Checkbook/Checkbook Pro

2016-03-21 Thread Bill Gallik
As much as I would like to be able to answer your question I cannot. At present I’m managing only one account with Checkbook Pro. As soon as the check printing feature is added I will include a second account but for now I really see no point in setting up a second account in the app. ———

Re: Checkbook/Checkbook Pro

2016-03-21 Thread Bill Gallik
I can’t really say how Splasm is going to design the check printing feature, but I seriously doubt they would implement it in such a way as to allow users to completely print a check on a blank sheet of paper. This is because the routing, account and whatever that third number is called is prin

Re: Checkbook/Checkbook Pro

2016-03-21 Thread E.T.
I see. I have 3 accounts set up and do transfers between all 3. Not enough that I understand it completely. Will work with that more in coming months. From E.T.'s Keyboard... ancient.ali...@icloud.com Many believe that we have been visited in the past. What if it were true? On 3/21/2016

Re: tax blues with mac

2016-03-21 Thread Ted Drake
Hi Caitlyn Thank you Jon for forwarding the message. I subscribed to this list, but didn't catch this conversation. The TurboTax Canada product is different than the US product. It sounds like you are using the standard, paid product instead of TurboTax Free. I was just visiting the TurboTax

Re: siri and iphone

2016-03-21 Thread Chris Gilland
what version of iOS are you running on that phone? Chris. Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 18, 2016, at 22:14, Sarai Bucciarelli > wrote: > > Hi: > I have an iPhone 6s. Siri stopped opening apps! It says the apps do not > exist. They do exist. I tried clearing ram, resetting phone by holding h

A question for people who have both an iPad and an iPhone

2016-03-21 Thread
Hello, For those of you with an iPad and an iPhone, what do you use each device for? Why would having both be beneficial? What do you use your iPad for? What about your iPhone? Your Mac? Thanks, Bill -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you

Re: A question for people who have both an iPad and an iPhone

2016-03-21 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
To be honest, I have both an IPhone 6S, as well as an IPad Air 1st generation. I don't really so much think I use one for things more than the other, nor do I use them for different tasks. I pretty much have the same configuration and set of apps on both devices. I think it's more just that

Re: A question for people who have both an iPad and an iPhone

2016-03-21 Thread Caitlyn Furness
Hi, I currently have an i phone, an i mac, a macbook air, and an apple watch. I used to own an i pad, but sold it. I used the i pad for everything I used the phone for, except phone calls. I got rid of the i pad because I just wasn’t useing it as much as I thought I would. I liked the large

Re: Screen Brightness default

2016-03-21 Thread E.T.
Ok, my findings. I could reproduce this if I set brightness to 0% then rebooted. I think at 0% the "automatically adjust brightness" checkbox is dimmed. I then set brightness level to 5% and checked the above option then rebooted and was still at 5%. There may be a built in safeguard tha

Re: A question for people who have both an iPad and an iPhone

2016-03-21 Thread Mary Otten
I have an iPad mini and an iPhone. I like the iPhone for male much better than the iPad, because I like the smaller footprint. The layout for mail is simpler, and the mail program in the iPhone opens straight into the list of messages. On the iPad, it opens to the last opened message, which is i

Re: blue tooth headsets

2016-03-21 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Hello Chris. I live in the UK and I praise Aftershokz Customer Service. When my blues 2 was broken, I sent them back after calling them and in a matter of days got a replacement. This was before the Bluez Sports S came on to the market. Kawal. > On 21 Mar 2016, at 13:39, Christopher-Mark Gill

Re: siri and iphone

2016-03-21 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
None of these worked. I’m hoping the new ios software update will fix it. > On Mar 19, 2016, at 1:13 PM, Jenine Stanley wrote: > > I’ve tried a couple things if the issue doesn’t clear itself after a few > tries. > > 1. turn off VO and turn it back on using triple click hom. Sometimes even >

Getting my contacts from my mac to my phone.

2016-03-21 Thread Stacey Robinson
Hello, Can someone tell me how to get my contacts that are on my mac over to my phone and vise versa? Contacts on my mac is on and same for my iPhone. I can’t tell that anything has changed though. Please help. Blessings, Stacey Robinson and GEB dog Kirk. mailto:st

Facebook keyboard shortcuts not working on mac

2016-03-21 Thread Devin Prater
Hi all. Has anyone experienced this? I go to Facebook.com, and once its loaded, press J. I hear the voiceover clicking sound, that focus has moved, but voiceover doesn’t speak the status I land on. Subsequent presses of J and K have the same effect. Can anyone help with this? I’m on os x el Capi

Latest Version Of Skype

2016-03-21 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
Hi all. Well today I had to depart from my beloved Skype 6.15 to the newest, Skype 7.21. I had to do this because I'm in a group chat with a bunch of people and in order to accept calls from the group, apparently you have to be running the latest version of Skype. Anyway, I'm trying to get it so

Re: Latest Version Of Skype

2016-03-21 Thread Jeffrey Shockley
Hi, What you have to do is go to Preferences, and click Notifications from the toolbar. Then, go to the Overview Tab. Then, you can select each event from the popup, and tell it what kind of notifications you want, such as just sound, or whatever you want it to do. The checkbox you’re looking fo

Re: Latest Version Of Skype

2016-03-21 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
I know where it is but it's dimmed for some reason. Shawn Sent From My White MacBook Facebook Username: Shawn Krasniuk Twitter Handle: shawnk_aka_bbs Skype username: bbstheblindrapper Facetime: bbssh...@icloud.com > On Mar 21, 2016, at 6:03 PM, Jeffrey Shockley wrote: > > Hi, > What you have to

Re: Screen Brightness default

2016-03-21 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Yes, this was my experience with my 2009 MBP. If the brightness is set to 0 then it gets restored to 100% on reboot or re-login. I usually keep my brightness at 3-6% and rarely find it getting reset except when somebody else uses my system. :-) . Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On 21 Mar 2016,

Re: Screen Brightness default

2016-03-21 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
OK, E.T. what you say makes sense. I'll give that a try next time I'm by one of my macs. Thank you so much for helping me with this. Again, as I said, it's appreciated. --- Christopher Gilland JAWS Certified, 2016. Training Instructor. clgillan...@gmail.com Phone: (704) 256-8010 Extension 4

Re: blue tooth headsets

2016-03-21 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
When did you call them to have that done? I don't know why I always seem to be the bad luck of the draw, but I don't doubt you. that was my experience, but perhaps others will have better luck, as you did. I'm not trying to bash them. I'm simply just stating the experience I had. If others

Re: Latest Version Of Skype

2016-03-21 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Shawn, Over all, is there much difference in the Skype interface from a Voiceover accessibility standpoint? --- Christopher Gilland JAWS Certified, 2016. Training Instructor. clgillan...@gmail.com Phone: (704) 256-8010 Extension 401. - Original Message - From: "Shawn Krasniuk" To: "

Re: Screen Brightness default

2016-03-21 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
OK, I'll try that then. Thank you guys for the help. --- Christopher Gilland JAWS Certified, 2016. Training Instructor. clgillan...@gmail.com Phone: (704) 256-8010 Extension 401. - Original Message - From: "Jonathan Cohn" To: "Macintosh Blindness List" Sent: Monday, March 21, 2016 7:

Re: Latest Version Of Skype

2016-03-21 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
Well I guess not, but I liked the ability of Growl reading incoming messages automatically. Not a big fan of the notification center and wish there was something I could use to have banner notifications speak automatically even if Voiceover is turned off. Shawn Sent From My White MacBook Facebo

Re: How to emulate numeric keyboard in a Macbook air keyboard?

2016-03-21 Thread Chris Moore
I have karabiner installed on my mac. One of the things you can do is to emulate a numeric keypad. Maybe it sounds a bit geeky, but it does work! Chris > On Mar 21, 2016, at 4:39 AM, Daniela Rubio wrote: > > Yes, that is what we are going to end up doing. It seems that it is worthy, > as the

Can't install iOS 8 update on my iPad

2016-03-21 Thread Mary Otten
I have the iOS 9.2.1 update downloaded on my iPad courtesy of Apple. I never installed it. Just recently, I went to see if the 9.3 update was available. I am told I have one update available and downloaded, which is the 9.2.1. So I thought I would install it, in case it was necessary to have tha

Re: Can't install iOS 8 update on my iPad

2016-03-21 Thread E.T.
Try a reboot? From E.T.'s Keyboard... ancient.ali...@icloud.com Many believe that we have been visited in the past. What if it were true? On 3/21/2016 7:05 PM, Mary Otten wrote: I have the iOS 9.2.1 update downloaded on my iPad courtesy of Apple. I never installed it. Just recently, I we

Re: Can't install iOS 8 update on my iPad

2016-03-21 Thread Mary Otten
No, and I should've thought of that. Stupid. I decided to recharge my iPad, so when that is done, I will try a reboot and see what happens. Maybe that will fix it, just like it fixed my dictation problem on this phone the other day. Mary Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 21, 2016, at 7:12 PM, E.T.

Re: Can't install iOS 8 update on my iPad

2016-03-21 Thread Bill Dengler
You need to delete the old update before installing the new one. Go to settings, general, storage and iCloud usage, manage storage (in the section for the device, not iCloud) and delete from there. Bill > On Mar 21, 2016, at 10:19 PM, Mary Otten wrote: > > No, and I should've thought of that. S

Re: Latest Version Of Skype

2016-03-21 Thread Jeffrey Shockley
Hi, I know what it is. I forgot to tell you to go to the Details tab instead. I was trying to double check what to do, and missed a step saying in this case to switch to the Details tab. Sorry about that. Hope this helps, Jeffrey > On Mar 21, 2016, at 7:05 PM, Shawn Krasniuk wrote: > > I know

Re: Can't install iOS 8 update on my iPad

2016-03-21 Thread Mary Otten
Thank you, Bill. That did the trick. The update is downloading as I dictate this. I did not know you can actually delete these updates from within manage storage. Mary Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 21, 2016, at 7:23 PM, Bill Dengler wrote: > > You need to delete the old update before install

Re: siri and iphone

2016-03-21 Thread David Chittenden
I suggest that you update using iTunes from the computer next week when iOS 9.3 comes out to clear out any legacy code. This should clear the odd behaviour.. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: dchitten...@gmail.com Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone > On 22 Mar 2016, at 11:18, Sarai B

Anyone install OS X 10.11.4?

2016-03-21 Thread Kevin Chao
http://applevis.com/blog/apple-mac-os-x-news/apple-releases-os-x-el-capitan-10114-bug-fixes-and-enhancements Have others noticed any other VoiceOver improvements? -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about t

Re: Can't install iOS 8 update on my iPad

2016-03-21 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
I wonder if 9.2.1 which you still have is no longer being signed by Apple, therefore making the update not go through. It's very unlikely, but I do wonder. --- Christopher Gilland JAWS Certified, 2016. Training Instructor. clgillan...@gmail.com Phone: (704) 256-8010 Extension 401. - Origin

Re: Can't install iOS 8 update on my iPad

2016-03-21 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
I was gonna suggest the same thing, but somehow, my intuition tells me, that's not gonna work. --- Christopher Gilland JAWS Certified, 2016. Training Instructor. clgillan...@gmail.com Phone: (704) 256-8010 Extension 401. - Original Message - From: "E.T." To: Sent: Monday, March 21, 2

Re: Can't install iOS 8 update on my iPad

2016-03-21 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Yeah, that's kind a what I anticipated. --- Christopher Gilland JAWS Certified, 2016. Training Instructor. clgillan...@gmail.com Phone: (704) 256-8010 Extension 401. - Original Message - From: "Bill Dengler" To: Sent: Monday, March 21, 2016 10:23 PM Subject: Re: Can't install iOS 8 up

Re: Can't install iOS 8 update on my iPad

2016-03-21 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Believe it or not, I didn't know that either, so I agree with Mary. Thank you for that great tip! --- Christopher Gilland JAWS Certified, 2016. Training Instructor. clgillan...@gmail.com Phone: (704) 256-8010 Extension 401. - Original Message - From: "Mary Otten" To: Sent: Monday, M

Re: Anyone install OS X 10.11.4?

2016-03-21 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Oh, wow. Is 10.11.4 actually out as the official build? I'm on the beta on one of my systems, though that's really all I can say. But for this reason, I confess, I'm not exactly totally up to speed on what's beta, vs. what's official. --- Christopher Gilland JAWS Certified, 2016. Training Inst

Re: Facebook keyboard shortcuts not working on mac

2016-03-21 Thread Dionipher Herrera
same here. i prefer using m.facebook.com > Il giorno 21 mar 2016, alle ore 23:37, Devin Prater ha > scritto: > > Hi all. Has anyone experienced this? I go to Facebook.com > , and once its loaded, press J. I hear the voiceover > clicking sound, tha

Re: Getting my contacts from my mac to my phone.

2016-03-21 Thread Dionipher Herrera
did you turn on contacts on your iCloud devices? > Il giorno 21 mar 2016, alle ore 23:19, Stacey Robinson > ha scritto: > > Hello, > Can someone tell me how to get my contacts that are on my mac over to my > phone and vise versa? > Contacts on my mac is on and same for my iPhone. > I can’t tell

Re: Anyone install OS X 10.11.4?

2016-03-21 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
Hey Chris. 10.11.4 came out earlier today. Shawn Sent From My White MacBook Facebook Username: Shawn Krasniuk Twitter Handle: shawnk_aka_bbs Skype username: bbstheblindrapper Facetime: bbssh...@icloud.com > On Mar 21, 2016, at 11:58 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland > wrote: > > Oh, wow. Is 10.11.

RE: A question for people who have both an iPad and an iPhone

2016-03-21 Thread Simon Fogarty
I have my phone on me everyday but I leave my iPad behind depending on what I do. However If I don't have my mac book air I will have my iPad mini, it's only a couple of weeks old an iPd mini 4 and at the moemtn I'm using it more for things like typing email and surfing the web using the Logite