Re: Here is a Link to the VoiceOver Accessible Version of Apple’s Swift Playground Coding Guide

2019-02-23 Thread 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries
Thanks, Mark. I've been kind of curious about learning Swift myself. I don't currently have an iPad, but will download this for the day that I get one. And while we're on this subject, can you run Swift Playground on an iPad mini? I'd much rather have one of those than one of the larger iPads.

Re: where have people encountered the phrase "has alternate items" with VoiceOver

2019-02-23 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! I have seen this on i think the full screen buttons in some applications. I think they use to be in the toolbar. /A > 23 feb. 2019 kl. 02:14 skrev Slau Halatyn : > > The accessibility API has an option for custom menus where voiceOver would > announce "has alternate items." I know I've seen

Any good reason to own both an iPhone and an iPad?

2019-02-23 Thread 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries
Hi all, OK, so Mark has re-awakened the bug in me, and I'm thinking about buying an iPad mini. But I'd like to do a sensibility check first. I've been curious about learning Swift ever since Apple released Swift Playgrounds. However, my interest is largely as a hobby, I don't see myself sudd

RE: Any good reason to own both an iPhone and an iPad?

2019-02-23 Thread ilovecountrymusic483
Hi, 2 things. First, if you're considering an iPad, I would hold off as if your looking at a mini, apple says they are releasing an iPad mini 5th gen some time this year. I think 9-5 mac has articles suggesting such. Second. The iPad mini is good for the simple fact that it is only about 7

Re: Any good reason to own both an iPhone and an iPad?

2019-02-23 Thread 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries
Thanks. I'll check out 9-5 Mac and see what I can learn. But since I envision the iPad being a very secondary device, I'm not sure I need the latest and greatest. Cheers, Donna > On Feb 23, 2019, at 9:34 AM, ilovecountrymusic...@gmail.com wrote: > > Hi, > > 2 things. First, if you're consid

Re: Any good reason to own both an iPhone and an iPad?

2019-02-23 Thread 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries
If you are ready now, there is no reason to wait for a new model. If everyone was to wait for the next generation, they may as well, well, wait forever. (smiles) I have the mini 4. Its main purpose is as a backup should something happen to my hearing. Its in a case with a qwerty keyboard

Re: Any good reason to own both an iPhone and an iPad?

2019-02-23 Thread 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries
Hey ET, That’s an interesting set up. I’ve always hated having to choose between a braille display and a qwerty keyboard, so that actually sounds kind of attractive. Thanks. Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 23, 2019, at 10:38 AM, 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > If you are ready now, th

Re: Any good reason to own both an iPhone and an iPad?

2019-02-23 Thread 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries
I need to set this up again when I find a victim, err, a volunteer, so I can make some practice runs and make sure I csan do this on the fly. The Focus Blue 5th as made this so simple and so far I like the wauy it all works. For this I use the Drafts app because it opens directly to the text

Re: Any good reason to own both an iPhone and an iPad?

2019-02-23 Thread 'Harry Bell' via MacVisionaries
I have iPhone XS and iPad 2018. This iPad is noticeably slower than the iPhone and it struggled so much to download that Accessible Learn to Code ePub book that I gave up and downloaded it with my iPhone. I have a small fragment of central vision left, so getting text up very large in some apps

Re: Any good reason to own both an iPhone and an iPad?

2019-02-23 Thread 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries
I’d be happy to be a victim, if the victim can be remote. Not sure what you need, but let me know. Cheers, Donna Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 23, 2019, at 11:03 AM, 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > I need to set this up again when I find a victim, err, a volunteer, so I > can make so

Re: Any good reason to own both an iPhone and an iPad?

2019-02-23 Thread 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries
Hmm. Interesting. I would have thought the iPad would be faster. thanks for the input. cheers, Donna > On Feb 23, 2019, at 11:20 AM, 'Harry Bell' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > I have iPhone XS and iPad 2018. This iPad is noticeably slower than the > iPhone and it struggled so much to dow

Re: Any good reason to own both an iPhone and an iPad?

2019-02-23 Thread 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries
Well, I'm now the proud owner of a 2018 iPad, and a Logictech keyboard case. This sets a record for my most expensive impulse buy. Feeling very glad for BestBuy's two-week return policy. lol Guess I'm off to play! Cheers, Donna > On Feb 23, 2019, at 11:03 AM, 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries > wr

Re: Screenshots

2019-02-23 Thread 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries
Hi, I press VO-space to get rid of the Markup screen, but also have found that I need to click the Trackpad on the Desktop in order that the cmd-shift-5 and 3 will do the proper things. 5 does bring up a menu of choices for screen capturing. Later... Tim Kilburn Apple Teacher (with Swift Pla

Re: Any good reason to own both an iPhone and an iPad?

2019-02-23 Thread 'Jason White' via MacVisionaries
I have an iPad which is fairly old now, but it nevertheless runs the latest iOS. It's excellent for Facetime calls and for listening to podcasts or music. I can also read mail on it. My iPhone is much newer and faster, but the iPad remains useful for the purposes that I've mentioned. Whehter yo

Re: Any good reason to own both an iPhone and an iPad?

2019-02-23 Thread 'Harry Bell' via MacVisionaries
The cheap 2018 iPad is great for those things too, but the processor and ram are not up to coping with complex tasks (which I did not realise are that complex, such as displaying very large text fonts as you move from page to page of a book). If you are thinking of coding with Playgrounds, perha

Re: Any good reason to own both an iPhone and an iPad?

2019-02-23 Thread 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries
Maybe, but that's a serious chunk of change, just to play around with Swift Playgrounds. I don't have enough vision to make large text anything I would need, so I'm not worried on that count. Cheers, Donna > On Feb 23, 2019, at 3:27 PM, 'Harry Bell' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > The cheap

Re: Any good reason to own both an iPhone and an iPad?

2019-02-23 Thread 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries
You know, the speed thing that Harry mentioned really has come as a surprise. I've been reading online and saw a comparison of the iPad processor with the iPhone 7. I would have expected the iPad to be much faster than that. Cheers, Donna > On Feb 23, 2019, at 3:07 PM, 'Jason White' via MacVis

Re: Screenshots

2019-02-23 Thread 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries
Well cmd-shift-3 and 4 work fine. I was actually doing it right all along. Are you sitting down, Tim? All my screenshots were going to their folder in Dropbox. Had 40 in there. :) I think that will work out. I don't need cmd-shift-5 at all. From E.T.'s Keyboard... ancient.ali...@icloud.c

Re: Any good reason to own both an iPhone and an iPad?

2019-02-23 Thread 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries
Ha ha. That won't do it for I can just use one device and the braille display. My idea is for one on one face to face. 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 2/23/2019 9:23 AM, 'Donna Goodin' via MacVi

Re: Any good reason to own both an iPhone and an iPad?

2019-02-23 Thread 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries
Now that is impulse buying indeed. Give it a good workout for 2 weeks. (grins) 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 2/23/2019 10:20 AM, 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries wrote: Well, I'm now the pro

Re: Any good reason to own both an iPhone and an iPad?

2019-02-23 Thread 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries
I am ok with the speed difference though it sure stands out next to my 8+. 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 2/23/2019 2:45 PM, 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries wrote: You know, the speed thing

Re: Any good reason to own both an iPhone and an iPad?

2019-02-23 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! I actually have both an Iphone and 2 Ipad mini. One mini 3 and one Mini 4. I know this is overkill but i would not be able to do beta testing with only an Iphone. So i use one of my Ipad minis for that. I also play all of my music and media through Ipad mini. On webpages i actually can get mor

Single user mode.

2019-02-23 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! Sometimes but not very often you may be wanting to use Single user mode on your mac. BUt can this be done with VoiceOver? I suppose that this is not possible as i guess there’s no audio and maybe not even other drivers loading. I know this is only console or commandline environment. So maybe

Re: Any good reason to own both an iPhone and an iPad?

2019-02-23 Thread 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries
So here's another question. I had assumed that the reason you need to run Swift on an iPad was because it is faster. Clearly that's not the case. since it isn't speed, why is it that you can't run Swift on a phone? Screen real-estate? Cheers, Donna > On Feb 23, 2019, at 5:17 PM, 'E.T.' via M

Re: Any good reason to own both an iPhone and an iPad?

2019-02-23 Thread 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries
Interesting perspective. I don't beta test, so that's not an issue for me, but I'm surprised you play music and media on it. Do you find the speaker to be better? I haven't been wowed by the iPad speaker. Cheers, Donna > On Feb 23, 2019, at 5:52 PM, Anders Holmberg wrote: > > Hi! > I actual

Re: Single user mode.

2019-02-23 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Another possibilty whd be to start in recovery mode yoand then mount the root partition from the terminal there. that terminal does have VoiceOver available. I haven't tried this in 2 versions but it should still work. Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 23, 2019, at 7:11 PM, Anders Holmberg wrote:

Re: Any good reason to own both an iPhone and an iPad?

2019-02-23 Thread lenron brown
I thought it might have been screen size, or maybe the fact that Apple wants to make you buy the Ipad. On 2/23/19, 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries wrote: > Interesting perspective. I don't beta test, so that's not an issue for me, > but I'm surprised you play music and media on it. Do you fin

Re: Any good reason to own both an iPhone and an iPad?

2019-02-23 Thread 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries
I'm thinking that the latter is probably the case. *sigh* Donna > On Feb 23, 2019, at 7:16 PM, lenron brown wrote: > > I thought it might have been screen size, or maybe the fact that Apple > wants to make you buy the Ipad. > > On 2/23/19, 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries > wrote: >> Interest

Photos App on a Macbook air

2019-02-23 Thread jimfettgather via MacVisionaries
Hi to the list. So far, I have been unable to figure out how to do this, but I'm sure I am missing something. I am trying to find a way, within the photos app on the Mac, to select and copy all photos to the clipboard so that they may be transferred to a thumb drive. I have about 5000 pho

Re: Photos App on a Macbook air

2019-02-23 Thread 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries
Hi, Instead of copy/paste, you should use the export feature. So, in the sidebar, make sure that Photos is selected. Stop interacting with the sidebar and navigate to the Collection area. Interact with it, then press cmd-a to select all. It will likely say some illogical number that probabl

Re: Single user mode.

2019-02-23 Thread 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries
Hi, Running Terminal from the Recovery Partition works fine in Mojave. I do it all the time. Later... Tim Kilburn Apple Teacher (with Swift Playgrounds Recognition) Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Feb 23, 2019, at 18:07, Jonathan C. Cohn wrote: Another possibilty whd be to start in recovery mo

Re: Screenshots

2019-02-23 Thread 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries
Hi, I believe that you can set it to go to DropBox from the cmd-shift-5 menu options. Later... Tim Kilburn Apple Teacher (with Swift Playgrounds Recognition) Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Feb 23, 2019, at 16:10, 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries wrote: Well cmd-shift-3 and 4 work fine. I was actual

RE: Any good reason to own both an iPhone and an iPad?

2019-02-23 Thread M. Taylor
Hello Harry, That's interesting about the download speed you experienced on your iPad. My iPad Pro, 10.5 inch, downloaded the accessible book in roughly the same time as my 8 Plus. There may have been about a 2 second difference. Mark -Original Message- From: 'Harry Bell' via MacVisio

RE: Any good reason to own both an iPhone and an iPad?

2019-02-23 Thread M. Taylor
Hello Donna. Wow! Good for you. Congratulations on your new iPad. I purchased an iPad Pro 10.5 inch. I purchased the Pro because I wanted faster speed, along with TouchID and the ability to use the Apple Smart keyboard. Also, Pro has four amazing speakers. Now because of a home office compu

RE: Any good reason to own both an iPhone and an iPad?

2019-02-23 Thread M. Taylor
Hello Harry, All I can say is that, iPad Pro seems definitely faster than the non-pro models. As for me, two things I have managed to accomplish is watching a couple of TV shows, which, I admit, look great on iPad and downloading and playing a couple of games that, on iPhone, are too difficu