Re: OCR for iPhone 4s or iPad

ake for you > to become proficient? > > > > This is my signature > > > -Original Message- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Anne Robertson > Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 3:48 PM > To: macvisi

Re: highlighting text in pages?

Hello Maria, If you press VO-t you'll hear the font type, size and colour, as well as bold, italic, etc. I just tried changing the colour of a portion of text and Cmd-Shift-c first opened the colour palette then hid it the next time. In Pages, I like to hide everything I can to keep the window

Re: highlighting text in pages?

Hello Maria, On 19 Jun 2012, at 21:00, Maria Chapman wrote: > One more question, if i change the colour in pages and export to word will it > keep my changes? > Yes. Cheers, Anne -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to

Re: Voiceover speak clipboard?

Hello Maria, I don't know of any way to have the clipboard contents read by VoiceOver, but you can check what text is selected by pressing VO-F6. Cheers, Anne -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send emai

Re: Pages start-up

Hello Johnny, It sounds as though Pages is opening with a template. To have Pages always open with a blank document, go into Preferences (Command-Comma) and select General in the toolbar. Select the radio button Use template. A dialogue box will open where you can choose the template you want.

Re: Moving to top of message table

Hello Lisette, I'm a bit confused as to how you're viewing your mail. I find Classic View to be simplest and I get rid of the preview pane. In this way, I have the list of my mailboxes on the left and a list of messages on the right. I press Return to open a message and VO reads it straight thr

Re: Finding the notes field in contacts on the iPhone

Hello Gigi, Having tapped the contact you want, find the Edit button and tap it. Find Insert add field and tap it. The last option will be Notes. Tapping this will give you an edit field. Cheers, Anne On 23 Jun 2012, at 19:59, Gigi wrote: >> Hi guys > I know how to get to the contacts and f

Re: Forward deleting?

Hello Johnny, You can forward delete using the FN key with the backspace. Cheers, Anne On 25 Jun 2012, at 10:01, Johnny Angel! wrote: > Hi again, > > Is this possible? If so, how is it done? > > thanks, > > Johnny > > > Not of this world, > I am born of The forty-second generation > A ne

Re: documents and spreadsheets

Hello Laura Ann, You should be able to do what you want with Pages and Numbers. I use Pages all the time to edit Word documents in my capacity as a professional translator. Pages is a powerful word processor and it takes a little time to learn how to use it. The only function I haven't found a

Re: what's the keyborrd short cut to get to the top of message lists in mail? sorry ive foregotten it.

I think you're confusing the Keyboard Commander with the Numpad Commander which needs the numeric keypad. The Keyboard Commander normally uses the right-hand Option key. Cheers, Anne On 29 Jun 2012, at 02:55, trahern culver wrote: > thanks guys but don't you need the num pad for the keyboard

Re: ABBYY fine reader

Hello Kirsten, Just place yourself on the JPG file you want to convert, press VO-Shift-m to get a contextual menu, go down to Open with, go right and select ABBYY FineReader and it will do the job. Cheers, Anne On 30 Jun 2012, at 05:30, Kirsten Edmondson wrote: > Hi, > > I have some JPG fi

Re: what Voiceover bugs people want or are hoping will be fixed or squashed in Mountain Lion?

Hello, Vicky is supposed to be the female equivalent of Alex. Personally, I can't stand either of them. I've been using Fred for years because he's clear and quite neutral. On 3 Jul 2012, at 16:05, Daniel Miller wrote: > Hi, > > While I agree a female equivalent to Alex would be a necessary

Re: what Voiceover bugs people want or are hoping will be fixed or squashed in Mountain Lion?

Fred is used during installation because it requires the least system resources, which is also why Fred is the most responsive voice and why it is my preferred voice for practical purposes. I use Acapela voices sometimes for reading for pleasure, and have Fiona, the Scottish voice that comes wi

Re: VoiceOver saying, "Busy," Formatting in Pages, and recording on the Mac

Hello Harry, On 5 Jul 2012, at 05:10, Harry Hogue wrote: > > > First, has anyone noticed VoiceOver saying "busy" in certain programs, but > when Voiceover is turned off all is fine? It is as though VoiceOver is > hanging programs, or causing itself to hang. I have 4gb of RAM, which I > thou

Re: Moving through links in an email

Hello Stacey, VO-Cmd-l to go to next link works for me. Cheers, Anne On 5 Jul 2012, at 14:38, Stacey Robinson wrote: > Hi all, > If I'm in an email message, and it has several links, is there a way to move > easily from one to the other? > Thanks, > Stacey and GEB dog Chesley > mailto:stacey

Re: VoiceOver saying, "Busy," Formatting in Pages, and recording on the Mac

Hello Harry, Here is the link for the Applevis site: You'll find lots of information about IOS and Mac applications there. Cheers, Anne -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send emai

Re: Tips for Using Track Changes

Hello Harry, As Simon said, track changes is a problem for VO users. We can see what changes have been made but not where they are. When you interact with the page, VO says "Page whatever, number of items". Anything over 3 items means there are additional items such as text boxes on that page.

Re: Tips for Using Track Changes

Hello Harry, You can find text attributes by pressing VO-t. However, in Pages, you can't detect the highlighting of text by colour, also known as shading, but you can do this in TextEdit. I doubt that anyone is going to do an in-depth podcast on pages as it would take much too long. Training

Re: Page up? Page down?

On a Mac laptop, Page up is FN-up arrow, page down is FN-down arrow. Home is FN-left arrow and End is FN-right arrow. Lisette, the VO command VO-Shift-Page up is either Go left one page or Previous paragraph depending on the situation. The VO page up command is VO-Page up. Cheers, Anne -- Y

Re: using pages on the i-phone 4.s.Hi all,

Pages is not really an appropriate application for just reading, whether on an IOS device or on a Mac. However, it does offer a reasonably accessible way of formatting documents. Here's a little guide to using Pages on the iPhone that I put together from my own experience and other people's. C

Re: Lion, open with, unexpected behavior

Hello John, Open with works for me, but I use List view in the Finder. Could it be a problem with Column view? Cheers, Anne On 15 Jul 2012, at 19:54, John Sanfilippo wrote: > Hello, > > I'm wondering what I may be missing here or if my system is somehow > malfunctioning: > > I have file b

Re: iCal Event Creation Problem

Hello Harry, You're making life more difficult for yourself than it need be. To create a new event, press Cmd-n and type something like: "Dinner with parents at 8 pm on Sunday 22 August". Then press Return and navigate once to the right where you'll find "event details scroll area". interact wi

Re: Pesky Dictionary and Sidebar issue

Hello Mike, You can remove any folder from your Sidebar by interacting with the Sidebar and getting a contextual menu for the item you wish to remove. Remove from sidebar is the last item in the menu. Whatever is selected in the sidebar is automatically displayed on the right. Cheers, Anne

Re: why can't Textedit serve as a replacement for MS Word?

Hello Alex, TextEdit is great for reading documents, but it doesn't support Headers or footers. I use Pages for complex documents. Cheers, Anne On 23 Jul 2012, at 18:22, Alex Hall wrote: > Hi all, > I have a stupid question. I was looking at Textedit yesterday, and > found it supports lists,

Re: Apple Bluetooth keyboard

Hello Stacey, You can find a lot of standard shortcuts in System Preferences in the Keyboard pane. You can also create your own shortcuts for commands that don't already have one. Cheers, Anne On 24 Jul 2012, at 13:15, Stacey Robinson wrote: > Control f3 has worked great. > Is there a place

Re: Fonts in Pages and TEmplates with placeholder text in Pages and Numbers

Hello Harry, First of all, fonts in Pages. To change the font, select the text whose font needs changing (select all the text if the whole document is to be changed). Press Cmd-t to show the fonts. Press VO-Cmd-t to go to the first table and select the collection. Go to the next table and selec

Re: spelling text?

Hello Alex, To learn more about text navigation, do VO-h-h and look at the Text menu. You'll learn how to navigate by character, word, line, sentence and paragraph, as well as discovering other useful commands. Cheers, Anne On 26 Jul 2012, at 20:57, Alex Hall wrote: > I never knew that. I'm

Re: in Pages

Hello Harry, To edit header and footer areas in Pages, you need to interact with the area then bring the mouse and do a simulated mouse click (VO-Shift-Space bar) to move the focus to that area. We teach all this in our Pages course. Cheers, Anne On 27 Jul 2012, at 03:37, Harry Hogue wrote:

Re: Numbers

Hello Harry, To edit the contents of a cell, press the space bar. In the case of menus, this will bring up the menu. To rename the table, go to the Sheets table, interact with it and navigate to the one you want to rename. Bring the mouse and double click using the trackpad, then type the new

Re: in Pages

Hello Harry, Yes, it's me along with my husband, who offers Pages training via Skype. We do it together since he is fully sighted and can share the student's screen to see that everything is working correctly. Cheers, Anne On 27 Jul 2012, at 19:02, Harry Hogue wrote: > Anne, was it you who

Re: clean install?

On 28 Jul 2012, at 08:55, Shen wrote: > Wonder if those who are strong believers of a clean install are all x Windows > users. Hahaha!!! No way! I've never been a Windows user. I've been a Mac user for 16 years and I strongly recommend a clean install. Problems can be carried over from one OS

Re: clean install?

Hello Tim, yes, you're right. I'd forgotten about the Upgrade option. The difference now is that the upgrade is the default action and a clean install requires more effort. I come from a systems programming background, so I always did a clean install, just as I've always done a complete backup

Re: why can't Textedit serve as a replacement for MS Word?

Hello Dan, When converting files from MS Word to Pages, there are problems with the positioning of text boxes, the text within shapes, borders around paragraphs and some fonts that are not available in Pages. There are even some fonts that are not available in Word for Mac but are in Word for W

Re: Very Disappointed with Mountain Lion

Hello David, To force a file to download rather than play, hold down the Option key and press Return. Cheers, Anne -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To uns

Re: Having Mail not automatically mark a message as read when I move to it

Hello Harry, You need to get rid of the preview panel. That will stop Mail from opening every message you land on. I'm unable to help you with how to do this for two reasons: I haven't yet upgraded to Mountain Lion and I use Classic View in Mail. However, if you can find the horizontal splitter

Re: voiceover and greek?

Hello Karen, A Greek voice was first integrated into Mac OS X with Lion, along with all the other non-English languages. I downloaded a Greek voice as someone I know signs her name in Greek letters and VoiceOver does not speak them unless I switch to the Greek voice. Cheers, Anne -- You rec

Re: what scanning software is compadable with the mack?

Hello Chenelle, VueScan costs $39.95 for a one-year license, or $79.95 for a lifetime license. It supports the vast majority of scanners and produces excellent images. It can also do OCR but isn't as good as ABBYY FineReader for this. I think that FineReader costs around $80 dollars but can't s

Re: Problem with Safari and Interacting with Pages in Mountain Lion

Hello Brian, Have a look in VoiceOver Utility in the Navigation category and make sure that Initial position of VoiceOver cursor is set to Keyboard focused item. Cheers, Anne On 6 Aug 2012, at 16:56, Brian Fischler wrote: > This is something that just started happening over the weekend, it h

Re: what scanning software is compadable with the mack?

Hello Matthew, In VueScan, select Input and make sure it's set to Text. Then select Output and check the OCR text file Check box. Keep navigating right to OCR text file name, and right again to OCR language. To the right of that is the OCR text multi page check box. Cheers, Anne On 6 Aug 2

Re: toggle reader?

If you're talking about the Safari Reader, I use it all the time. It makes reading articles very convenient. Sometimes you have to wait a few seconds before VO starts reading, but it's worth it. Cheers, Anne On 8 Aug 2012, at 19:31, Mary Scott wrote: > Hi all, If you are using VO does toggle

Re: viewing scanned text in Abyy Fine-Reader

Hello Donna, Are you talking about ABBYY FineReader Express for Mac? If so, I don't understand your question. When I open a scan with FR, I'm presented with a window where I can choose the language, then the type of document I want to produce such as RTF, spreadsheet, HTML or searchable PDF. C

Re: IPhhone gps solutions

Hello Tammy, Have you tried Ariadne GPS? You can set landmarks and it keeps you updated as to where you are. Cheers, Anne On 21 Aug 2012, at 20:45, Tammy wrote: > Hi all, > > What’s the best app for landmarking a bus stop or sign, or similar on the > IPhone? I thought gps look around wou

Re: Best GPS app for iPhone

Hello Harry, The best GPS app for iPhone is a very subjective matter. It very much depends whether you mind having a 3G connection while using it or not. I like Navigon because its maps reside on the phone so it doesn't download data. The version I have works all over Europe as long as I rememb

Re: help! tables and pages

Hello Jürgen, The only difference between your method and mine is that your method tells you how many items are selected, but you don't hear the first and last cell coordinates, whereas with my method, you don't need to count cells and rows before starting, you just have to locate the first and

Re: What am I doing wrong trying to mark non contiguous?

Hello Bill, To mark non-contiguous items, interact with the table, press VO-Cmd-Space bar and if you hear VoiceOver say that the item is unselected, repeat the action. Navigate to the next item using the VO keys and down arrow, then press VO-Cmd-Space bar on the one you want. Continue in this

Re: What am I doing wrong trying to mark non contiguous?

Hello Esther, Selecting noncontiguous items has changed in Lion. It's no longer necessary to turn cursor tracking off. Pressing VO-Cmd-Space bar puts you into selection mode, and using any command other than those necessary during selection, takes you out of this mode. You need to be in list vi

Re: Mac feel natural

Hello Garth, There are vast numbers of keyboard shortcuts that have nothing to do with VoiceOver. To get a contextual menu, hold down the Control key and click with the mouse or trackpad; To get to the Apple menu, press Ctrl-F2; To go to the dock, press Ctrl-F3; To go to the Status menus, press

Re: Keyboard settings not saving.

Hello Allison, This kind of thing happens sometimes when a file gets corrupted for some reason. Here's something to try. In your Home folder, open the Library folder (this is hidden by default, but you can get to it from the Go menu). In Library, open the Preferences folder (not Preference Pan

Re: reading in text editing and safari question

Hello Banu, Often, the pauses when reading are due to new line characters. You can get rid of the noises by opening VoiceOver Utility, going to the Verbosity category, Text, and selecting DO Nothing for When text attributes change, When encountering a misspelled word and ,When encountering a li

Re: text edit find question

Hello Paul, You've almost got it. • Press Cmd-f to open the Find window; • Enter the text to find in the search box; • press Return; • Press Escape; • You should be on the first occurrence of the text you want. To find further occurrences, press Cmd-g and the word will be highlighted. Cheers,

Re: reading special characters

Hello Banu, This is a problem you'll have to take up with Apple. Send an example of text giving you trouble to: accessibil...@apple.com Give them as much information as you can to help them understand the problem. Are you having the same trouble with PDF files and file names? These give troubl

Re: text edit find question

Hello Paul, Having typed in your search, pressing Return carries out the default action, as it does everywhere on the Mac. However, you are still in the Search window, so Escape puts you back in the body of the text where the word you were looking for is highlighted. There are often several wa

Re: interesting bug in voiceover with numbers and apostrophes

Hello Paul, It's definitely a bug in Lion. Cheers, Anne On 29 Nov 2011, at 22:52, Paul Erkens wrote: > Dear listers, > Before I start bugging Apple with what I think is a bug, I would like to ask > you listers about the following. I found the bug while working in Amadeus > pro. In this soun

Re: Clearing my question

Hello Francisco, The short cut to change the voice only works on the default voice, so you need to set everything you want to change to Default voice. I just set Content to default voice so that all the menus, which are in English, remain comprehensible while the content is read in the language

Re: changing margins in pages

Hello Nancy, You change margins in the Document inspector, under the Document tab. Cheers, Anne On 4 Dec 2011, at 22:52, Badger, Nancy wrote: > Does anyone know how to change margins in pages with voice over? Thanks in > advance. > Nancy > Nancy L. Badger, Ph.D. > Director, Counseling and C

Re: changing the language spelling

Hello Rachel, For me, the Mac detects the language without me having to do anything. In System Preferences, in the Language&Text pane, under Text, I have it set to Automatic by language. Cheers, Anne On 6 Dec 2011, at 05:24, Rachel Magario wrote: > This question is for Anne, but anyone who

Re: MacLegion 2011 Winter Bundle includes Nisus Writer Pro and MacGourmet + 7 other apps for $49.99

Hello Greg, >From what I've heard, Nisus doesn't handle tables properly either. I can deal >with tables in Pages by copying them into Numbers, working on them there, then >copying them back to Pages. If I just want to read a table in Pages, I use the >menu item Convert table to text, which is f

Re: pages question

Hello Kirsten, To type into the header or footer in Pages, interact with the appropriate field then bring the mouse (VO-Cmd-F5) and click using VO-Shift-Space bar. Cheers, Anne On 22 Dec 2011, at 13:18, Kirsten Edmondson wrote: > Hi, > In pages, how do I access the header and footer, I have

Re: Looktel Money Reader For Macintosh (OSX)

Hello Jessica, The camera is located in the screen surround at the centre of the top. It feels like a tiny shiny round insert about 4 mm across. Cheers, Anne -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email

Re: My thoughts regarding the latest "VoiceOver On" podcast

Hello Massimo, On 24 Dec 2011, at 23:10, Massimo Vettoretti wrote: > I wouldn't talk about "accessible word processing choice". A better statement > might be "basic word pprocessing choice". Advanced word processing involves > tables, footnotes and end notes management and many other things that

Re: My thoughts regarding the latest "VoiceOver On" podcast

Hello Massimo, On 25 Dec 2011, at 17:08, Massimo Vettoretti wrote: > And what's about notes and headings? If I am reading a document using the Say > All command, how can I know if a given paragraph contains a note or is an > heading? And, if I know a note is present, is there a method to have it

Re: My thoughts regarding the latest "VoiceOver On" podcast

Hello William, In Pages, tables show up as a highlighted space. In the Document inspector, under the Info tab, they are counted as Graphics. If you find a highlighted space, you can look in the Format menu under Tables to see whether the Convert Table to Text is active. I have a shortcut for th

Re: concise pages podcast or tutorial doc for vo users

Hello Yuma, As far as I know, no one has produced either a podcast or a simple tutorial on how to use Pages with VO. My husband and I provide a Pages course using Skype for €25 per unit. There are 5 units in the full course. Information on how to contact us on that subject is on the website: w

Re: concise pages podcast or tutorial doc for vo users

Hello Yuma, On 26 Dec 2011, at 05:55, Yuma Decaux wrote: > Hi Anne, > > Pretty good course there. Is it possible to go through an organization? Like > the MDPH in Paris? > Yes. We've already had a couple of people supported by one MDPH or another. The MDPH normally pays about 75% of the cost.

Re: My thoughts regarding the latest "VoiceOver On" podcast

Hello Garth, On 26 Dec 2011, at 05:25, Garth Humphreys wrote: > Surely the fact that you feel the need to use a different program to read > through a document then to edit it highlights the fact that there may be some > shortcomings in the software. > Of course there are. I didn't say there we

Re: right-clicking? (was installing World Jam Pack for Garage Band question

The keyboard and trackpad equivalent of right click is Control-Click where you hold down the Control key and click with the trackpad. Cheers, Anne On 31 Dec 2011, at 19:06, Mr. L. Alexander wrote: > depending on where you are, you have the option of VO - SHIFT - M as a right > click alternat

Re: Message rules?

Hello Shannon, Before setting up your rules, you must create your new mailboxes by going to the Mailbox menu and choosing New Mailbox. Once that is done, open Mail Preferences (Command-Comma) and in the toolbar, select Rules. Click on Add Rule and work your way through the options. You might f

Re: how to do envelopes in Pages

Hello Gigi, The procedure is the same for all templates. Where there is placeholder text, just use the arrow keys without the VO keys and when you hear "Highlighted", then you can overtype what's already there. Cheers, Anne On 2 Jan 2012, at 20:10, Eugenia Firth wrote: > Hi guys. > I got my

Re: how to do envelopes in Pages

e the item >> chooser to go from the return address to the receiver's address. >> >> I'll mess with it so more and see if I can make it work. >> >> Regards, >> Gigi >> On Jan 2, 2012, at 3:21 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: >> >>> H

Re: Pages

Hello Jürgen, It's called "Track Changes". Unfortunately, I haven't found a way to use it with VoiceOver effectively. I can find what the changes are, but not where they are within a given page. Cheers, Anne On 8 Jan 2012, at 08:34, Jürgen Fleger wrote: > Hi Folkes, > > in Pages there is an

Re: Pages

Hello Kirsten, On 8 Jan 2012, at 13:42, Kirsten Edmondson wrote: > I have created a document in pages and done my editing, but to submit it I > need to export it to word. I have a few questions. > 1. I split my pages document into sections, but it has added in new pages > every time. I didn't

Zoom on the Mac, was: Switching to a Mac from PC

Hello Mark, This is not first hand experience as I'm totally blind, but my husband teaches low-vision people to use the Mac, and most of his clients use VisioVoice from Assistiveware to give them the combination of colours that suits their eyesight. This application is far from free, but it mig

Re: Zoom on the Mac, was: Switching to a Mac from PC

---Original Message- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Anne Robertson > Sent: Monday, January 09, 2012 3:32 AM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Zoom on the Mac, was: Switching to a Mac from PC > >

Re: A truly frustrating issue

Hello Richard, One thing that hasn't yet been suggested is initialising the PRAM. To do this, shut down your machine, then hold down the Command, Option, letter P and letter R keys and press the Power key. Keep holding down the four keys until you've heard the start up chime at least 3 times. T

Re: changing font size in Text Edit with Lion?

Hello Donna, This applies to any text editing application on the Mac. Select the whole document, (Cmd-a), then press Cmd-plus sign to make bigger or Cmd-Minus sign to make smaller. Alternatively, select the whole document then press Cmd-t and you can change the font and/or its size. The key i

Re: changing font size in Text Edit with Lion?

Hello Ray, Of course you can change the font size of a word or a single character if you want to, but that wasn't the question. Whatever is highlighted is what will be changed. Cheers, Anne On 12 Jan 2012, at 20:25, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > You mean to say you cannot select individual words an

Re: Question about setting status in mail and accessible word processing programs for the Mac

Hello Shai and Jürgen, You certainly can check the status of a message in Mail using classic view. First, You have to move the horizontal splitter that divides the message headers from the body to the bottom of the window. You do this by moving the VO cursor to it, bringing the mouse and then d

Re: Selecting text in Safari

Hello Bill, This all seems to depend on the website. Selecting would appear to work better in DOM mode than in Groups. If Shift-Cmd-Right arrow doesn't highlight a chunk of text for you, remember that VO-Shift-c will copy the last spoken phrase to the clipboard. Also, you may find you need to

Re: Selecting text in Safari

Hello Bill, No one ever likes this method when I explain it, but it works for me. Set a hotspot at the beginning of the text you wish to copy. It must not be a link. Then set a hotspot at the end of the text, and once again, it must not be a link. At your first hotspot, bring the mouse and do

Re: Changing language on Mac

Hello Allison, To change the language in which your Mac runs, go to System Preferences and select the Language&Text pane. Choose the Language tab, and in the table of languages, use Option-Up Arrow to drag Spanish to the top. You'll then need to restart your machine for the change to take effec

Re: documents question

Hello Sarai, If you would prefer your apps to close all the windows when you quit them, go into System Preferences and select the General pane. Look for Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps and uncheck the check box. That will get rid of your problem once and for all. Cheers, Ann

Re: problems with abby fine reader express and my epson scanner

Hello Paul, ABBYY FineReader for the Mac is an express version and has no preferences. I use it with VueScan so that I can scan as many pages as I need into one file before handing it over to FineReader for the OCR. I have the system set up so that FineReader is launched automatically when the

Re: Inserting Accents In Text Documents

Alternatively, why not add The Spanish keyboard and switch to it when you need to type in Spanish? I do that for French. You just have to press Cmd-Space to switch from one keyboard layout to the other. Cheers, Anne On 25 Jan 2012, at 05:24, Chris Blouch wrote: > I don't use them often but u

Re: automatically opening and converting with Abby Fine Reader Express

Hello Ray, Here are the set up instructions for using VueScan with ABBYY FineReader. Cheers, Anne Configuring VueScan 1) Open VueScan and read carefully the initial message which informs you as to whether your scanner has been recognised. If it has, carry on, otherwise follow VueScan's inst

Re: automatically opening and converting with Abby Fine Reader Express

Hello Ray, On 25 Jan 2012, at 09:45, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > Thing is, when I scan a file now, Fine reader will not open by itself. > And, even when I do open a file using command+o and it opens in Abby Fine > Reader, I still have to go in to Aby Fine Reader and press the convert to > text but

Re: abbyy fine reader express

Hello Angie, ABBYY FineReader Express is completely accessible. However, it only seems to work directly with a few scanners. I'm afraid I don't know which they are. I use it with VueScan, as that seems to give me the best results. Cheers, Anne -- You received this message because you are sub

Re: SpellCheck in Pages

Hello Mark, Throughout the iWork suite, there is a level of accessibility for VoiceOver that is missing. Commands concerning text attributes don't work, although you can sample the current text attributes with VO-t. This has been reported to the iWork team over and over again, but another voice

Re: efficiently selecting multiple cells in numbers

Hello Yuma, Sorry for the delay in answering you but I've been out teaching VO all day. To select multiple cells in Numbers, place a hotspot on the first and last cells to be selected. If the first cell is the actual first cell, this is not necessary. Go to the last cell to be selected, turn c

Re: Jumping to a particular cell in Numbers

s. > > Thanks so much. > On Jan 30, 2012, at 1:53 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: > >> Hello Yuma, >> >> Sorry for the delay in answering you but I've been out teaching VO all day. >> >> To select multiple cells in Numbers, place a hotspot on the first an

Re: powerpoint on mac and or iphone?

Hello Ioana, PowerPoint for Mac is not accessible with VO, you'll need to use KeyNote, which is part of the iWork suite. If you're not familiar with presentation software, you might find it rather complicated to use. I don't know how it works on the iPhone. Cheers, Anne On 31 Jan 2012, at

Re: efficiently selecting multiple cells in numbers

Hello Emrah, If you're interested in a French website and list, have a look at: C'est mon site pour les utilisateurs francophones DV de Mac et c'est là qu'on trouve les infos pour s'abonner au forum cecimac. Il y a aussi une page d'astuces. Amicalement, Anne On 1 Feb 2012, at 08:28, Emrah w

Re: On or off list help appreciated for keynote presentation with vo

Hello Ioana, The only resource I can think of about KeyNote is an episode of the VoiceOver on podcast in which I participated last year. It is episode 7 from February 2011. Apart from that, I don't really know how I can help you. It all depends on what you're trying to do. Are you using images

Machine slowing down

Hello everyone, I regularly see messages from people complaining that their Macs are slowing down since upgrading to Lion. One explanation could be that, by default, all windows are reopened when an application is launched. Someone I know had over 40 windows open in Pages and wondered why it to

Re: question about spell check

Hello Gigi, On 6 Feb 2012, at 23:35, Eugenia Firth wrote: > I know the command semicolon is the command to call up spell checking. What > is the command to replace the misspelled word with the correct one? You just press VO-Shift-m to get a contextual menu and select the word you want. Cheers,

Re: Creating Presentations USING KeyNote

Hello Ezzie, On 7 Feb 2012, at 06:58, ezzie bueno wrote: > > Can you lovely people please help me with the basics of creating PowerPoint > presentations using KeyNote? I've never created a presentation before. I'm afraid the answer is much too complicated to put into an e-mail message. Most pe

Re: Creating Presentations USING KeyNote

Hello Ezzie, On 8 Feb 2012, at 01:44, ezzie bueno wrote: > > My presentation must include two pictures along with a biography, > motivations, something interesting about myself, and my future plans. Would > it be a good idea to discuss these items in their own separate slides? Do you have to

Re: Assigning Braille command to toggle between 8 and 6 dot Braille possible

Hello Ioana, I haven't found a way to do this, but I accidentally set my Braillino to 6-dot braille in its own software, and when connected to the Mac, it refused to produce 8-dot Braille, so that might be a solution for you. Of course, contracted Braille is always 6-dot. Cheers, Anne On 7

Re: question about spell check

Hello Adie, VO-Shift-m still works for me in TextEdit. Did you remember the shift? Cheers, Anne On 8 Feb 2012, at 18:31, Adie wrote: > Hi > > I just can't get the VO M to bring up the spelling suggestions any > more in Text Edit, it still works in Mail. I think I may have messed > with a set

Re: Creating Presentations USING KeyNote

Hello Nancy, On 9 Feb 2012, at 16:05, Badger, Nancy wrote: > Where did you get this training? I would love to have this type of training, > and I believe my employer would actually pay for it. > My husband and I provide training on iWork. The person who learned KeyNote took a three-day course

Re: a probably silly question about the IPhone

Hello Jean-Claude, To put the shift lock on, place one finger on Shift and tap twice with another finger. To take the shift lock off again, place one finger on Shift and tap once with another finger. I'm in touchtyping mode. A un de ces quatre, Anne On 15 Feb 2012, at 15:58, Jean-Claude Provo

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