Re: Do Activities Not Work in El Cap

Hello Brian, Activities seem to be working for me in El Cap. I too have a Mail activity with low verbosity. The only annoying thing is the time it takes to switch activities. Cheers, Anne > On 16 Apr 2016, at 18:17, Brian Fischler wrote: > > I have set up my activity for mail in VO Utilit

Re: Do Activities Not Work in El Cap

the activity is > assigned to or does it read apps and you have to hit the pop up button to get > to where mail is checked? Thanks, >> On Apr 16, 2016, at 12:56 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: >> >> Hello Brian, >> >> Activities seem to be working for me in El Cap. I

Re: Reference Citation Suggestions

Hello Emilio,, You can use the application Endnote with Pages. I’ve only tested the trial version as it’s too expensive for me and I have no use for it except for teaching others to use it. So here’s what we found. EndNote is easy to install, but there are minor problems with its splash screens

Re: Selecting an option on the Social Security web site

Hello Sandra, Your trackpad does the same thing as the mouse. You can turn VoiceOver off and press the trackpad to click the mouse. However, I just make sure that the trackpad commander is off and click with the trackpad without turning VoiceOver off. Also, I installed a handy utility that allo

Re: Bug with report of keyboard insertion point by VoiceOver in Pages version 5

Hello Nick, I’ve just followed your steps and am not getting these weird results that you have. After pressing Return, I’m getting `zero millimetres right every time. I’m using the same level of Pages and of Mac OS X as you are. I have Zoom set to 200% so that VO-F4-F4 gives more accurate result

Re: Bug with report of keyboard insertion point by VoiceOver in Pages version 5

n zoom or something else? Doesn't > zoom interfere with voiceover commands? > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Apr 27, 2016, at 9:36 AM, Anne Robertson <mailto:a...@anarchie.org.uk>> wrote: > >> Hello Nick, >> >> I’ve just followed your steps and

Re: reading pdf documents on the web

Hello Jean, You’re not alone having trouble with PDFs in Safari. I can’t give you a fool-proof way of dealing with them, but I find that reloading the page often makes them accessible. I hate things that behave so weirdly that it feels as though you need to perform some kind of magic to make th

Re: Apple store now stocking accessibility items

I really like FS’s Focus 14 Blue, but I don’t like note-takers so it suits me perfectly. I hate my old PACMate 20. I’ve also used a Focus 40 Blue which I also liked. I prefer these to my Handitech Braillino which only works with my Mac and refuses to pair with my iPhone. Cheers, Anne > On 1

Re: Moving between headings at same level?

Hello Donna, VO-Cmd-m should work too. It does for me. Cheers, Anne > On 8 Jan 2016, at 17:39, Donna Goodin wrote: > > Ah, thank you! I had tried that first, but it hadn't worked. the step in VO > utility is what I was missing. > Cheers, > Donna >> On Jan 8, 2016, at 10:23 AM, Jeffrey Sho

Re: Moving between headings at same level?

e. >> any thoughts as to what else I could check? >> Thanks, >> Donna >>> On Jan 8, 2016, at 10:42 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: >>> >>> Hello Donna, >>> >>> VO-Cmd-m should work too. It does for me. >>> >>> Cheers, >>

Re: Having trouble reading a document with VO

Hello Denise, It all depends how you are reading the document before you pause to start again. If you’ve been using the arrow keys without VO, you may have to bring the VO cursor to the keyboard focus with VO-Shift-F4. Of course, you always have to interact with the text for VO commands to work

Re: How to stop automatic downloads of IOS updates?

Hello Donna, On my iPhone, in Settings/iTunes & Appstores, under the heading Automatic Downloads, I have the following items turned off: Music, Apps, Books, Updates. I manage everything from my Mac and back up to my Mac. I had to restore my iPhone the other day as it was behaving erratically and

Re: Tables in pages

Hello Marie, Have you tried reducing the verbosity level to Low? Cheers, Anne > On 21 Jan 2016, at 03:01, Marie Lyons wrote: > > The verbosity is driving me nuts! I don’t really want to hear the > coordinates, especially the way I’m using the table. I work with my guitar > teacher and we p

Re: I know I've discussed this previously

Hello Jim, I almost didn’t read your message because the subject line did not reference Pages. If your needs aren’t very urgent, my husband and I have a book coming out fairly soon on Pages with VoiceOver and it will answer all your questions. There are problems currently with placeholder text

Re: Pages templates

a > of how things will look before I print them. > I appreciate any help you can give. > Jim > > >> On Jan 24, 2016, at 9:35 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: >> >> Hello Jim, >> >> I almost didn’t read your message because the subject line did not reference >

Re: any book scanner suggestions?

Hello, I can’t speak highly enough of the Fopydo stand with Book Reading Aid and KNFBReader. The book reading aid holds the book open and the stand keeps the iPhone at exactly the right position to take the perfect photo. KNFBReader allows you to add each newly scanned page to a document, and y

Re: any book scanner suggestions?

14? This could be important since knfb doesn't yet > support flipping sides as far as I know. > > Best, > > Erik > > Sent from TypeApp <http://www.typeapp.com/r> > > On Jan 25, 2016, at 10:39 AM, Anne Robertson <mailto:a...@anarchie.org.uk>> wrote:

Re: Pages templates

be expanded? I feel really dense when it > comes to this stuff. > Thanks, > Jim > >> On Jan 25, 2016, at 9:30 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: >> >> Hello Jim, >> >> Our book should be out during February. We cover analysing the provided >> templates

Re: any book scanner suggestions?

from TypeApp <http://www.typeapp.com/r> > > On Jan 25, 2016, at 2:48 PM, Anne Robertson <mailto:a...@anarchie.org.uk>> wrote: > Hello Erik, > > The Fopydo is highly adjustable so yes, it will cope with that size. > KNFBReader handles multicolumn documents very wel

Re: Pages templates

Jan 2016, at 21:32, Phil Halton wrote: > > Hi Ann, wondering when your book on pages is coming out? I know I'll be a > buyer. > > > Sent from my IPhone > > >> On Jan 25, 2016, at 2:49 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: >> >> Hello Jim, >> >&g

Re: The Fopydo Reading Aid Stand

Hello Sharon, I’m the one who recommended the Fopydo stand with book reading aid. It costs $35 plus shipping which depends on where you are. As far as I know, the book reading aid is not yet available from Amazon, so you’ll need to buy direct from the designer and manufacturer. Cheers, Anne

Re: new system dialogue

Hello Vaughn, Have you tried VO-F1-F1? That’s the usual way to find system dialogs. Cheers, Anne > On 27 Jan 2016, at 20:05, Vaughn Brown wrote: > > Hello folks, > > When I open a program or see a notification or even try to get a function > going in a program I noticed that it says new sy

Re: braille display commands for the mac

Hello Brian, With your Braille display connected to your Mac, open the VoiceOver utility (VO-F8_ and go down to Braille. Select Braille Displays. You should find a table showing all the commands provided for your particular display. You’ll also see that you can assign your own commands. Cheers

Re: Copy and paste from iBooks

Hello Paul, I’ve just done a bit of experimenting using a DRM-protected book. Although Shift plus Arrow Keys selects text, Cmd-c doesn’t copy it to the clipboard. However, You can make VO read a paragraph with VO-p then use the VO command VO-Shift-c to copy the last spoken phrase to the clipboa

Re: pages shortcut keys

Hello Jim, Did you see this link: It opens a page containing a table with all the shortcuts and they are readable with VO. Cheers, Anne > On 30 Jan 2016, at 07:54, Jim Gatteys wrote: > > Hi all! > I just we

Re: El Capatin upgrade

Hello Sarai, Your computer will handle El Capitan just fine, but please, do a clean install not an upgrade from Yosemite. I’ve seen so many problems for VoiceOver users with El Capitan when they just do an upgrade. Cheers, Anne > On 31 Jan 2016, at 02:26, Sarai Bucciarelli > wrote: > > H

Re: Is iBooks Unusable in El Capitan

I’m not having this problem in El Capitan. I have a three-year-old MacBook Air with 8 gb of RAM. I did a clean install of El Capitan. Cheers, Anne > On 1 Feb 2016, at 01:41, Blee Blat wrote: > > I'm hitting the same issue here. iBooks is completely unusable and is always > busy. I do not kn

Re: Official Moderator Contact?

Hello Sabahattin, The moderator is Mark Taylor. Here’s an e-mail address for him: mk...@ucla.edu Cheers, Anne > On 6 Feb 2016, at 15:42, Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote: > > Bloody Google Groups. > > I have a Mac for sale. How do I get to the moderator-person to approve the > ad [1]? I see no

Re: Formating documents in textedit

Hello Matthew, There seems to be something very wrong with TextEdit at the moment. I can confirm your issues. However, here’s a workaround. Turn cursor tracking off. Select the font you want, bring the mouse and do VO-Shift-Space. The same applies to text colour and text size. Cheers, Anne >

Re: Formating documents in textedit

Hello again Matthew, If you use Cmd-t to change the font, and Cmd-Shift-c to change the colour, they seem to stick. Cheers, Anne > On 9 Feb 2016, at 18:40, Anne Robertson wrote: > > Hello Matthew, > > There seems to be something very wrong with TextEdit at the moment. I

Re: To The List About The Recent Spam

In fact, I think it affects Apple voices in general as I use Fred and it shut that voice down too. Switching to a French voice didn’t help either. I wound up restarting my Mac four times before I got rid of all the offending messages. Cheers, Anne > On 15 Feb 2016, at 05:25, Mary Otten wrote

Re: To The List About The Recent Spam

Hello George, First of all, the command to open the VO utility is VO-F8. Then, it is not only the Alex voice that is affected. I do not have Alex on my Mac! I use Fred and quite a few other voices in Various languages. Switching to a French voice did not work for me. I had to do a restart to ge

Re: To The List About The Recent Spam

Command, Option and Control and press the Eject key. Cheers, Anne > On 15 Feb 2016, at 15:31, Caitlyn F wrote: > > Hi > Also I restarted my computer several times and I still don't have speech > Caitlyn > > Sent from Caitlyn's I phone > > On Feb

Re: To The List About The Recent Spam

ud.com> > > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>] On Behalf Of Anne Robertson > Sent: Monday, February 15, 2016 8:30 AM > To: macvisionaries@googleg

Re: Hi my name is Dora!

Hello Simon, I’m one of those who’s been with MacVisionaries since it started in April 2005, and I’m not the only one. Cheers, Anne > On 16 Feb 2016, at 08:19, Simon Fogarty wrote: > > I believe it has been going for a few years now. > > I know I joined this or a similar list back in 2010

Re: Web Page Form Fields Constantly Dimmed

Hello Bill, Have you tried bringing the mouse (VO-Cmd-F5) to the fields that are dimmed? Alternatively, try bringing the keyboard focus (VO-Cmd-F4). Cheers, Anne > On 16 Feb 2016, at 18:17, Bill Gallik wrote: > > Good Tuesday Morning, > > I’ve run into an issue on the BMO-Harris “Bill Pay”

Re: Txt expansion

Hello Gena, On the Mac, to add a string and substitution: • In System Preferences, press k for Keyboard and VO-Space to open that tab; • Select Text; • Press VO-Cmd-t to go to the table of substitutions; • Press VO-Down Arrow to get to the Add button; • Press VO-Space on the button and type your s

Re: Txt expansion

Hello Gena, Sorry for my bad memory, after entering your string, press Tab rather than VO-Right Arrow. The rest is correct. Cheers, Anne > On 17 Feb 2016, at 08:01, Anne Robertson wrote: > > Hello Gena, > > On the Mac, to add a string and substitution: > • In System Pr

Re: Silent "T" in Yosemite

Hello Bill, This is a well-known bug in Yosemite. Just switch to a different voice for a while and it should go away. It can happen with any letter, by the way. Cheers, Anne > On 18 Feb 2016, at 02:07, Bill Gallik wrote: > > Good Evening to All on the Macvionaries List > > I’m not at all c

Re: Syncing Apps between itunes and iPhone

Hello Paul, I always download apps to my Mac, but I sync using the USB cable. However, it should work the same way. When you connect your iPhone to your Mac, look through your settings for apps. You should find a table where you can select Apps, then interact with the scroll area to the left of

Re: Changing languages with a bluetooth keyboard

Hello Ben, I don’t know whether this works, but have you tried the left and up arrows together to go through the rotor options, then when you land on Language, use the up or down arrow. Cheers, Anne > On 20 Feb 2016, at 23:13, ben J. Bloomgren wrote: > > Hello List, > > I just bought an A

Re: What to do when cmd-f5 just dings?

Hello Alex, In that situation, I would shut down the computer and reinitialise the PRAM as something is clearly very wrong. Cheers, Anne > On 21 Feb 2016, at 16:40, Alex Hall wrote: > > I did, yes. Sorry, I should have said that. >> On Feb 21, 2016, at 10:28, gs wrote: >> >> Did you try

Re: Changing languages with a bluetooth keyboard

Hello Ben, If you have the virtual keyboard showing while using your external keyboard, can you get to the Next Keyboard button? Changing the spoken language changes the Braille input and output, but they are both part of VoiceOver which the keyboard is not. Cheers, Anne > On 22 Feb 2016, at

Re: It's finally here, a comprehensive guide to Pages on the Mac with VoiceOver

anks >> On Feb 28, 2016, at 17:03 PM, Jonathan Mosen > <mailto:jmo...@mosen.org>> wrote: >> >> Hi everyone, Anne Robertson is one of the most helpful people on this list, >> particularly when it comes to using Pages. She clearly knows it inside-out. >> L

Re: It's finally here, a comprehensive guide to Pages on the Mac with VoiceOver

thanks so much and hope you could tell me how to do this in contacts. > > thanks again > > george >> On Feb 29, 2016, at 6:41 AM, Anne Robertson > <mailto:a...@anarchie.org.uk>> wrote: >> >> Hello George, >> >> The book covers using the en

Re: beginning of table in mail

Option-Up or Down Arrow works for me whether interacting or not in the latest version of El Capitan. Cheers, Anne > On 2 Mar 2016, at 13:13, Jürgen Fleger wrote: > > @Christina: I beleive it sets the cursor to the first or last element that’s > visible on screen. > > @Alex and Rick: Option

Re: A Pages spelling alert issue

Hello Bill, What you are seeing is definitely not normal. This is some of what we say about spell-checking in our book, and we tested it out on two different Macs: "In the Edit menu/Spelling and Grammar submenu, Pages provides for correcting spelling automatically, checking grammar with spelling

Re: A Pages spelling alert issue

Hello Zoe, See my answer to the previous question. Cheers, Anne > On 2 Mar 2016, at 17:17, Zoe Fiogkos wrote: > > Hey everybody, on the spell check issue, I also need some help. I don’t have > the same issues as the original poster but I do have a question. When I hear > that a word is

Re: Viewing all pages of a PDF at once?

ttachment previews? As far as I know, the menus there are still > for Mail, not Preview, so I'm not sure how that would work. >> On Sep 18, 2015, at 02:16, Anne Robertson wrote: >> >> Hello Alex, >> >> Have you tried selecting Continuous reading in the

Re: Learning Pages for the Mac

it is indeed helpful. I’m more of a keyboard shortcut > person than a trackpad user, so some of the advice is not immediately useable > to me; but I appreciate the clear style of his explanations and the > thoroughness of his approach. > > Craig > > >> On S

Re: Learning Pages for the Mac

wish it would. > > Craig > > > On Saturday, September 19, 2015, Anne Robertson <mailto:a...@anarchie.org.uk>> wrote: > Hello Craig, > > Can you explain your difficulties with Pages? Remember to look at the menus > to find the short cuts. > > Cheers, >

Re: Learning Pages for the Mac

t took up most of the page. > > Craig > > > On Saturday, September 19, 2015, Anne Robertson <mailto:a...@anarchie.org.uk>> wrote: > Craig, if you stop interacting, VO will tell you which page you’re on and how > many pages are in the document. > > Che

Re: Is there any way to save a Word or pages doc as RTF in Pages?

Hello Donna, You can open Word files in TextEdit so, for the Pages files, export them as Word then you can open them in TextEdit and save them as RTF. Cheers, Anne > On 22 Sep 2015, at 16:06, Donna Goodin wrote: > > The documents in question are either Word or pages docs. I didn't think yo

Re: Learning Pages for the Mac

95?l=en&mt=11>> Cheers, Anne > On 25 Sep 2015, at 04:16, Donald Goosens wrote: > > Wher e >> do you acquire this free book?On Sep 15, 2015, at 12:47 PM, Anne Robertson >> mailto:a...@anarchie.org.uk>> wrote: >> >> Hello Craig, >>

Re: Weird Issue with textedit and voiceover.

Hello, You need to adjust the typing echo to suit your preference. Press VO-v and move right or left until you find Typing Echo, then move up or down to find the setting that suits you. However, I would suggest that you explore the VoiceOver Utility to make other changes to improve your VoiceOv

Re: Weird Issue with textedit and voiceover.

words to be signaled by playing a tone. Cheers, Anne > On 25 Sep 2015, at 09:29, Singing Sparrow wrote: > > what other changes would you recommand i make to make it easier to work with > voiceover? > > On 9/25/2015 1:40 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: >> Hello, >> &g

Re: The Doc Menu?

Hello Eileen, You’re right, the Dock menu is no longer there. You can configure the Dock from System Preferences. In the Dock pane, make sure that the Automatically hide and show the Dock checkbox is checked and ensure that the Dock is at the bottom of the screen. Cheers, Anne > On 25 Sep

Re: OSX 10.11

Hello, The service Nicolai was referring to, I believe, is Add to iTunes as a spoken track. It’s easy to use and you can select the voice you want. I always advise people to activate this service and set a short cut for it in System Preferences. Cheers, Anne > On 1 Oct 2015, at 17:09, 'Chri

Re: finder annoyance

Hello Donna, Which level of the OS are you using? Also, if you’re using List view, do you open folders by pressing right arrow? This opens the folders in the current window and Cmd-w will close everything. In list view, you should open subfolders with either Cmd-o or Cmd-Down Arrow. To collapse

Re: Kindle Accessibility on the Mac?

Hello Eileen, I’m afraid Kindle is not accessible on the Mac. It really is very annoying. Cheers, Anne > On 3 Oct 2015, at 19:46, Eileen Scrivani wrote: > > Hi All, > > Does anyone know if Kindle is accessible on the Mac & how well or not it > might work with VO? > > Thanks. > > Eilee

Re: Voiceover goes round and around.

Hello Anders, The setting is the checkbox Allow cursor wrapping and it should be unchecked. It’s in Navigation in the VoiceOver Utility. Cheers, Anne > On 7 Oct 2015, at 09:16, Anders Holmberg wrote: > > Hi! > I can’t for the life of me remember where this setting is: > But now voiceover do

Re: cursor tracking in Finder is broken

Hello Christina, I assume it’s like that for everyone. It certainly is for me, and I’ve no idea why it changed and I agree, it’s irritating. I don’t bother interacting with the table, I just use the arrow keys and open subfolders with Cmd-Down Arrow. Cheers, Anne > On 9 Oct 2015, at 19:33, C

Re: Nisus, Word, or pages?

Hello Krister, Pages, and iWork in general, is Apple’s proprietory word processing format and it only saves into Pages format. All other formats require exporting. This is normal. Pages is not Word. Why should it save into Word format? Cheers, Anne > On 13 Oct 2015, at 09:58, Krister Ekstrom

Re: Nisus, Word, or pages?

Hello Christina, I use Pages all the time and like it. I use all kinds of formatting, insert tables, text boxes and images. There are just a few accessibility problems, mostly to do with insufficient information available to VoiceOver. Cheers, Anne > On 13 Oct 2015, at 03:43, Christina C. w

Re: Tables and v/o

Hello Marie, In VoiceOver Utility, category Verbosity, under Announcements, uncheck the Speak header when navigating across a table row checkbox. Cheers, Anne > On 13 Oct 2015, at 02:40, Marie Lyons wrote: > > On my windows computer I used a table as a guitar tablature. I transferred > th

Re: VO going haywire with El Capitan

Hello Eileen, I expect a heap of criticism for what I’m about to say. I always recommend installing a new OS from a USB key and wiping the hard drive before doing the installation. You can then restore your data and settings from a Time Machine backup. I’m so tired of seeing unpredictable behavi

Re: VO going haywire with El Capitan

Yes, it does. And if the slightest error occurs during the process, you wind up with a wiped hard drive and a Mac that doesn’t work. All your data is gone! Also, any anomalies that have accumulated during the time the old OS was in service get carried over to the new one. Cheers, Anne > On 14 O

Re: VO going haywire with El Capitan

Hello Traci, It really isn’t that difficult and Voiceover works all the way through. Restoring your data from Time Machine is done automatically, so that’s easy Cheers, Anne . > On 14 Oct 2015, at 23:42, Traci Duncan wrote: > > A clean install sounds like a daunting task. I would need to Goo

Re: VO going haywire with El Capitan

Oh dear! That’s really not a good idea. Always back up your data. You never know what might happen. Cheers, Anne > On 14 Oct 2015, at 23:43, Devin Prater wrote: > > I don't even have an external drive to do time machine on. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Goog

Mail sounds gone in El Capitan

Hello everyone, I installed El Capitan today and my only problem is that my Mail sounds are all gone. Not just my custom sounds, but the built-in Mail sounds too. I’ve done the new First Aid thing in Disk Utility. I’ve booted into Safe Mode. I’ve reset the SMC. Anyone got any other ideas? It’s n

Re: Mail sounds gone in El Capitan

Hello again, OK, my MBA has made me a liar! Two of my custom Mail sounds have come back, but the others seem still to be missing. Cheers, Anne > On 17 Oct 2015, at 20:48, Anne Robertson wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > I installed El Capitan today and my only problem is that

Re: Mail sounds gone in El Capitan

> > >> Am 17.10.2015 um 20:48 schrieb Anne Robertson : >> >> Hello everyone, >> >> I installed El Capitan today and my only problem is that my Mail sounds are >> all gone. Not just my custom sounds, but the built-in Mail sounds too. >> I’ve d

Re: Mail sounds gone in El Capitan

One poster said he finally got an > admission from an Apple rep that this sound issue was a bug. However, > two Apple Accessibility reps I spoke to said they had not heard of the > problem and assured me it was not on their list of emerging issues. > > Craig > > > On

Pages: inability to select text across page boundaries fixed

Hello everyone, The really horrible bug in Pages that prevented the selection of text across page boundaries is now fixed! I’m sure this will be a relief to a lot of people. Cheers, Anne -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To

Charts in Pages

Hello Everyone, With the update to Pages, charts are now very accessible. We can even edit the title which we couldn’t even see before. Cheers, Anne -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop r

Re: Charts in Pages

u alcance. > Productos innovadores y cursos a tu medida certificados por Apple. > www.macneticos.com <http://www.macneticos.com/> > > iPhone: +34662328507 > > > > > >> El 18/10/2015, a las 16:39, Anne Robertson > <mailto:a...@anarchie.org.uk>> e

Re: Pages: inability to select text across page boundaries fixed

VO-Page Up moves backward a page at a time. I don't know if > this has always been the case, or if this command was added with the latest > update to pages. Just thought I'd throw it out there for discussion. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Oct 18, 2015, at 9:36

What have they done to placeholder text in the new Pages?

Hello everyone, Something horrible has happened to placeholder text in the new Pages. It doesn’t get selected automatically when navigating with the arrow keys. You have to select it using the Shift key. What is the point of placeholder text when it behaves like this? They’ve also messed up in

Re: What have they done to placeholder text in the new Pages?

hey are really > trying to make things better, but they somehow fix 2 things and mess other 2 > … Well, hope they fix it very soon! > > Daniela Rubio T > iPhone: +34662328507 > > > > > >> El 19/10/2015, a las 11:25, Anne Robertson > <mailto:a..

Re: Safari on the Mac worse than ever?

Hello Brian, You can stop VO saying Embedded by setting When encountering a link/attachment to Do Nothing. It’s in VoiceOver Utility/Verbosity/Text. Cheers, Anne : > On 19 Oct 2015, at 14:30, Brian Fischler wrote: > > Chris, > > After two days since the debacle of a clean install going back

Re: Pages: inability to select text across page boundaries fixed

old bug apears still > if I insert a page boundary manually from the insert menue. > Could you try it out if this is the same for you? > > Thanks and all the best > Jürgen > >> Am 18.10.2015 um 16:36 schrieb Anne Robertson : >> >> Hello everyone, >>

Re: Pages: inability to select text across page boundaries fixed

Hello, Whoever you spoke to at Apple doesn’t know what they’re talking about. One crucial feature that’s missing is merge fields, the ability to import contact information from Contacts. This is one thing that is preventing my husband from upgrading from Mountain Lion and iWork09 as he depends

Re: Charts in Pages

Hello Jürgen, Here’s how to access the contextual menu for a paragraph style. • Navigate to the Styles table and interact. • navigate to the style you want and bring the mouse. • Press VO-Cmd-j and interact again. • Navigate once right and you should be able to press VO-Space on the menu button.

Re: Pages: inability to select text across page boundaries fixed

nd ask > about these if you like? > > On 10/20/2015 12:27 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Whoever you spoke to at Apple doesn’t know what they’re talking about. One >> crucial feature that’s missing is merge fields, the ability to import >> contac

Re: moving in text

Hello Juan, Here are the basic navigation commands: Right one character - Right Arrow; Left one character - Left Arrow; Right one word - Option-Right Arrow; Left one word - Option-Left Arrow; Go to the end of the line - Cmd-Right Arrow; Go to the beginning of the line - Cmd-Left Arrow; Go to previo

Re: From Yosemite to El Capitan and Back: One New User's Story

I’m using Classic view with El Capitán. I’ve got rid of the Preview pane and all my accounts are POP3. I’m not having any issues with Mail. As for sighted people preferring the modern view, my sighted husband certainly does not. However, I’m getting old and stuck in my ways, so don’t take any not

Re: Navigating to End of Table

Hello Brandon, They’ve switched the commands for Go to last visible Item and go to last Item in El Capitán. Cheers, Anne > On 23 Oct 2015, at 22:31, Brandon A. Olivares (The Pianist) > wrote: > > Hello, > > In previous versions of OS X, you could use the end-of-window command > (vo-funct

Re: Navigating to End of Table

24 Oct 2015, at 14:50, george b wrote: > > Ann, > > It would be nice if you know the new commands to let us in on the sevret > please. > > thanks > > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Anne Robertson

Pages: Table of Contents now working properly

Hello everyone, In Pages, we can now use the Table of Contents to jump to a particular place in a document. We have to battle a bit with the focus, but once we can interact with the TOC, we can navigate to the page number, bring the mouse and do VO-Shift-Space and be taken to the correct page.

Re: Hotspots not working properly.

I tested Hotspot 2 today and it’s working for me. I usually set Hotspots from 6 to 0 as they are easier to get to quickly on a laptop keyboard, but I tried 2 with no problems. I could jump to it, monitor with it and consult it. I’m using a MacBook air from 2012 and did a clean install of El Capit

Re: Hotspots not working properly.

Hello Andrew, I can jump to a hotspot in another application as long as I’m using the basic activity, not one I’ve created myself. So, I can’t jump to a hotspot in Safari from Mail, because I have a special Mail activity with low verbosity and other variations from the norm. However, I can jump

Re: Pages: Table of Contents now working properly

Hello Jürgen, > On 27 Oct 2015, at 11:10, Jürgen Fleger wrote: > > Did you come across the folowing issues: > > • VO + j doesn’t always work reliably, especially from the formatter group > back to the document. AR. Mostly, it works fine. It’s just with footnotes that it’s peculiar. > • Normal

Re: More on hotspots.

Hello Anders, What keyboard layout are you using? I ask because with French keyboards, the French Numeric layout, which allows you to use the caps lock to have numbers on the top row instead of upper case accented letters and so on, is not supported with VoiceOver, although any commands using l

Re: Hotspots not working properly.

t, others have experienced this problem as well. > > Thank you for writing. > > Andrew >> On 28 Oct 2015, at 09:41, Anne Robertson wrote: >> >> Hello Andrew, >> >> I can jump to a hotspot in another application as long as I’m using the >>

Re: More on hotspots.

er why? > /A >> On 28 Oct 2015, at 19:12, Anne Robertson wrote: >> >> Hello Anders, >> >> What keyboard layout are you using? I ask because with French keyboards, the >> French Numeric layout, which allows you to use the caps lock to have numbers >>

Re: More on hotspots.

In keyboard help vo announces jump to hotspot 2. > However i can not add a hotspot on this number as vo announces ”. > So do you have any suggestions from here? > I wonder if its something with the swedish keyboard. > /A >> On 29 Oct 2015, at 08:48, Anne Robertson wrote: >>

Re: Current build of El Capitan.

Hello, > On 31 Oct 2015, at 14:33, Singing Sparrow wrote: > > From what a person at apple accessibility told me that the 10.11.1 release > has fixed all of the voiceover bugs. Clearly, that was someone who knows nothing about computers. There are always bugs, and there are still irritating on

Re: update on voiceover issue.

Hello Jessica, If you just did an update to Yosemite, you should try doing a clean install of El Capitán. I’ve seen so much trouble with this update that I would discourage anyone from doing a simple update rather than a clean install. If you need instructions, I’ll post them. Cheers, Anne

Re: update on voiceover issue.

rom my iPhone > >> On Nov 7, 2015, at 3:50 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: >> >> Hello Jessica, >> >> If you just did an update to Yosemite, you should try doing a clean install >> of El Capitán. I’ve seen so much trouble with this update that I would >>

Re: update on voiceover issue.

. Then let them go and the machine will boot normally. This procedure can fix a lot of problems. Cheers, Anne > On 7 Nov 2015, at 20:06, Jessica Moss wrote: > > 10.9.5 > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Nov 7, 2015, at 12:38 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: >> >> S

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