PDF files with annotations & Voiceover

2018-08-18 Thread 'Andrew Lamanche' via MacVisionaries
Hi, This is a bit of an SOS message. I’ve just received a pdf file from my tutor outlining the comments on my latest essay. I can’t read any comments in Preview. All I get is “image image image” as I vo+down arrow through the text of the original submission. Is there a way of reading somebo

Re: Smart refrigerators

2018-08-18 Thread 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries
Hi, Sarai: I have no personal experience. However, I have been on LG's Accessibility Acvisory Committee for quite a few years, and I can report they demonstrated their smart refridgerator to one of our meetings. I haven, however, not personally tried to use the app. Janina Sarai Bucciarelli writ

Re: Accessibility problems on the Libby app

2018-08-18 Thread Mary Otten
Hi Mark, Well, I did just now try overdrive. Unfortunately, you cannot activate the edit box into which you are supposed to type your library card number after you found your library. You also can’t activate the other box into which you are supposed to type your pin number or password. So I don’

Re: working with OneDrive on the web using Voiceover

2018-08-18 Thread Simon Fogarty
One drive on the Mac can be a pain in the A, The basic one drive only gives you 5GB off storage and then you have to pay for more. You can get to one drive through a web browser But I’m sorry off the top of my head I can’t remember the URL. Might be worth while looking at that, but it should

RE: Smart refrigerators

2018-08-18 Thread Simon Fogarty
Hang on, A smart refrigerator? Really? Does it open the beer bottle before it hands it to you? Will it know when to thor out my frozen chicken before I go to cook it? And the really important question, will it know if I put a bottle of red wine in the fridge that it should only be kept at

RE: PDF files with annotations & Voiceover

2018-08-18 Thread Simon Fogarty
Have you tried an OCR package over the PDF file or actually tell them it's unreadable? -Original Message- From: 'Andrew Lamanche' via MacVisionaries Sent: Sunday, 19 August 2018 8:18 AM To: 'Jason White' via MacVisionaries Subject: PDF files with annotations & Voiceover Hi, This is a

RE: Smart refrigerators

2018-08-18 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
With the price of them, it better do all the above. All fridges are stupid touch screens. Bought the lesser of two evils. Did get one of the Kenmores with the grab-and-go doors. Sarai D Bucciarelli www.linkedin.com/in/SaraiDBucciarelli -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroup

Re: Accessibility problems on the Libby app

2018-08-18 Thread Daniel Chavez
Good day, I myself am a user overdrive, and use it quite successfully. I can try to see how to describe it resolution to your problem when I have time. Libby never worked successfully for me. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any

RE: Smart refrigerators

2018-08-18 Thread Simon Fogarty
Ok, I'll ask. What's a grab and go door? Is that like grand theft larsenie for a fridge or what? -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Sarai Bucciarelli Sent: Sunday, 19 August 2018 12:41 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Smart refrig

Re: Accessibility problems on the Libby app

2018-08-18 Thread Maria Reyes
hi all, Talking about book apps, Has anyone tried Scribd if so how accessible is it? > On Aug 18, 2018, at 8:47 PM, Daniel Chavez wrote: > > Good day, > I myself am a user overdrive, and use it quite successfully. I can try to see > how to describe it resolution to your problem when I have tim

Re: Accessibility problems on the Libby app

2018-08-18 Thread Daniel Chavez
Good day, I have just logged into my library system using OverDrive successfully. Make sure that you have the latest version of OverDrive, and try again if you will, And let me know how you come along with that. I can help off list if you need, just let me know. -- The following information is

Re: Accessibility problems on the Libby app

2018-08-18 Thread Mary Otten
Hi Daniel, I have when I take to be the latest version of overdrive, since I just downloaded it yesterday. I already have an account through Libby with my library is in my library card. So, I attempted to login with that account, which requires the library card and the pin. Neither edit field wo

Re: Accessibility problems on the Libby app

2018-08-18 Thread Daniel Chavez
Hi there, Interesting that you have such an issue with OverDrive, I'm wondering whether or not Overdrive is more for an iPhone 8 or above, and that it doesn't work too well with your 7 plus and iOS 11? Knowing your issue in detail, I can't really say I can be of much help, but maybe some other l

RE: Accessibility problems on the Libby app

2018-08-18 Thread M. Taylor
Hello, Mary, the library card and PIN number fields are completely accessible via VoiceOver. Have you attempted to find these fields using the explore by touch, method? Just so you know, after receiving your post, I signed out of one of my libraries, turned on the screen curtain, so I could

Re: Accessibility problems on the Libby app

2018-08-18 Thread Daniel McGee
Hi Mary .Hi Mary, another Daniel here. I too had major issues with the libby app with audiobooks so I switched to overdrive. In my case, I was lucky enough that I was able to find my library in the overdrive app. While overdrive isn't perfect, its better and certainly more usable than li

Apparent E-Mail Corruption

2018-08-18 Thread 'Bill Gallik' via MacVisionaries
I have a couple of questions concerning what appears to be e-mail corruption. What is happening is that a subject line may read something that I find quite interesting, but when I hit the key to read the message is completely unrelated to the corresponding subject line. As if that isn’t bad e

Help working with spreadsheets in Numbers?

2018-08-18 Thread Phantom.Vader
Hi! Desperately need some help with Numbers. I feel kind of daft asking this, though, because it seems like it should be obvious! But apparently not. Anyway, I'm trying to copy data from one spreadsheet to another. But, although Numbers/VO seem perfectly happy to let me select a row, I can't f

Re: Accessibility problems on the Libby app

2018-08-18 Thread Mary Otten
Hi Mark, Well, yes, I did trying to explore by touch to get to the fields. They weren’t on the Visible screen that is visible to me with voiceover. I could flick to them, but when I tried to move to them by doing a three finger flick up to advance the screen, it didn’t work. Similarly, three fin