Re: using a mac full time?

Hello Krister, Here are the setup instructions for VueScan. If your scan is unsuccessful, without moving the document in the scanner, press Cmd-R and try again. You can do this up to 3 times to get the orientation right. Cheers, Anne 1) Select Input; 1.1) Task: Scan to file; 1.2) Source: Your

Re: quick mac mini question

Hello Joe, All Macs have onboard speakers and the Mini is no different. Cheers, Anne On 15 Jul 2011, at 16:19, Joe Paton wrote: > good afternoon all, > > Just 1 quick question, which I can't find out the answer from the spec > sheets. Does the mac Mini have an onboard loud speaker? > > Ma

Re: Prizmo on the Mac!

Hello Colin, I've tried Prizmo on the Mac and wish I hadn't wasted my money. It's totally unusable. Even for a sighted person it's messy to use as you have to select the block of text you wish to OCR. I was really disappointed since I love Prizmo for the iPhone. I would recommend VueScan as th

Re: A few questions from a new mac user

Hello Hendrik, Tracking changes is complicated in Pages on the Mac. I'm currently trying to find an acceptable way of handling this. The changes can be examined using VoiceOver, but it's a tedious business. My husband is looking at creating an applescript to help with this, but what we thought

Re: safari question in lion

To get to the downloads in Safari, go to the Google search box with Cmd-Option-f then VO-Right arrow once and you're on the Downloads button. Cheers, Anne On 20 Jul 2011, at 21:53, chad baker wrote: > hi does anyone know where the download progress is in safari when downloading > something >

Moving files in Lion

To move files or folders in the Finder, just select what you want, press Cmd-c then use VO to go to where you want to put them and press Cmd-Option-v. Cheers, Anne -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send

Re: Moving files in Lion

e on the directory, but no go. It worked great with column > view. Did they just add this or did I only find out about it now? :) > > - Austin > > On Jul 21, 2011, at 1:48 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: > >> To move files or folders in the Finder, just select what you want,

Finding the downloads window in Safari

To find the downloads window in Safari, press Cmd-Option-f to land in the Google search box, then do VO-Right arrow and you'll be on the Downloads Button. Click it and you're in the Downloads window. Cheers, Anne -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "M

Re: lion and voiceover's drag and drop

The important thing to bear in mind with Drag&Drop is that both locations must be visible on the screen for it to work. This is no different from the way it works for sighted users. Cheers, Anne -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" gro

Re: Making Mail Easier with Activities

Hello Mark, Have you thought of creating shortcuts in Keyboard commander for a couple of hotspots? That should make it easier for you. Cheers, Anne On 22 Jul 2011, at 17:09, Mark BurningHawk Baxter wrote: > Is there a way to mark hot spots that doesn't make you cross your hands over > each

Re: Making Mail Easier with Activities

se them in rears order, starting with 0 or 9 so they wouldn't > require a hand cross for the first 5? > > > On Jul 22, 2011, at 10:26 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: > >> Hello Mark, >> >> Have you thought of creating shortcuts in Keyboard commander for a coup

Re: Acapela voices and Lion

Hello Allison, Any voices that are not showing up can be reactivated by going into VoiceOver Utility, Speech, and clicking on the Default Voice popup menu. Select Customise, and you'll find a table with all the voices. I think you'll find that your missing voices have become unchecked in the ta

Re: Question About Laptop Keyboards.

Hello Thomas, On a laptop keyboard, you get the missing Home End, Page Up and Page down by using the FN key with the arrow keys. Cheers, Anne On 23 Jul 2011, at 09:43, Thomas McMahan wrote: > When using a stand Apple keyboard a person can do vo shift end key to get to > the bottom of a list

Re: Adding voices

Hello Allison, If you have to reinstall your Acapela voices, you'll probably have to change the permissions on the Preferences folder at root level. I had to change them all to be Read and Write so that I could activate the Acapela voices. The next time I repaired permissions, they were changed

Re: Not Able to Assign Braille Keys in Lion

I'm having the same problem with my Braillino. I've let Apple know about this because it's driving me insane. Cheers, Anne On 23 Jul 2011, at 19:31, Teresa Cochran wrote: > Hi, all, > > Has anyone worked with assigning Braille keys yet in Lion? I was able to > assign a few keys, but the com

Re: Great new features in Lion

Hello David, Have you looked in the Edit menu under Spelling and Grammar? There are several options you can choose from. Also, in Verbosity, you can choose to have VO say nothing or make a sound. For most purposes, I have VO set to make a sound, but in Mail, I have Verbosity set to Low, and sp

Re: Both Braille Table Flavours.

Hello Georges, Unfortunately, the CeciMac Braille tables won't work with Lion. There are no plans to create new ones either since the work required would be enormous and the demand is minimal. Apple has used the Duxbury tables and they are far from ideal. Cheers, Anne On 25 Jul 2011, at 05:

Re: Word processing Q and intro

Hello Larry, What are your problems with Pages? If you could be specific, I might be able to help you. Cheers, Anne On 25 Jul 2011, at 15:56, Larry Wanger wrote: > Hi, > > I used to be on this list and with the release of Lion and some issues I'm > having I decided to begin participating o

ABBYY FineReader

Hello everyone, For those of you who've recently bought ABBYY FineReader from the Mac Appstore, there's an update available to make it work with Lion. For those of you, like me, who bought ABBYY FineReader before the Appstore came on line, we have to wait until sometime in August for the update

Re: anyone tried finereader yet on lion?

Hello Anouk, For those who bought ABBYY FineReader from the Mac Appstore, an update for Lion is available. For those who bought it from the Website, we have to wait until sometime in August for the update. Cheers, Anne On 25 Jul 2011, at 19:25, anouk r adix wrote: > Hi, > I was wondering if

Re: Both Braille Table Flavours.

inting? > > Carolyn > On Jul 25, 2011, at 1:09 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: > >> Hello Georges, >> >> Unfortunately, the CeciMac Braille tables won't work with Lion. There are no >> plans to create new ones either since the work required would be enormous >>

Re: docuscan vs finereader

Hello Anouk, The major problem with DocuScan is that it only offers English. In addition, since the OCR is done in the cloud, it's slower than doing it all on your computer. My preferred solution is to scan using VueScan and have ABBYY FineReader perform the OCR. If I'm scanning a whole book,

Re: ABBYY FineReader

, at 03:31, David Tanner wrote: > Can you or someone on this list tell me which scanners will work with Fine > Reader please. I understand that the Canon Canoscan Lide scanners may not > work with Fine Reader. > > > > > - Original Message ----- From: "Anne Robe

Re: using a mac full time?

Hello Krister, Did you download the Swedish OCR package from the Hamrick website? I can't guarantee that it will help, since the French just got worse with the French OCR package. We've contacted Ed Hamrick about this but had no reply yet. Cheers, Anne On 26 Jul 2011, at 11:42, Krister Ekstr

Re: Word processing Q and intro

time it did not > work well with VO. While I was able to work within the application VO had > difficulties with focus and with continius reading from one page to another. > Perhaps things have been improved in subsiquent releases? What version are > you using? > > > On J

Re: ABBYY FineReader

ilable on the app store? If not, where can it be purchased and > is there a trial version? > > - Original Message - From: "Anne Robertson" > To: > Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 3:34 AM > Subject: Re: ABBYY FineReader > > > Hello David, > &g

Re: Reading ebooks on the Mac

Hello Max, I'm not Jane, but I've started using Adobe Digital Editions Preview. Theoretically, you can interact with the page and read using the usual VO reading commands. However, I find that every time I interact with the page, VO crashes. As for continuous reading, it isn't currently possib

Re: Anyone running lion on 1 gb of ram?

Hello Matthew, Unfortunately, 1 gb of RAM is insufficient to run Lion. Cheers, Anne On 27 Jul 2011, at 15:50, matthew dyer at work wrote: > Hi all, > > I may upgrade my mac to 10.7, how ever I only have 1 gb of ram. I was just > curius of any on the list has it running under a gb of ram.

Re: MOVING Mail

Hello Johnny, To move a message to a different mailbox, place yourself on the message and press VO-Shift-m to get a contextual menu. Then type "mo" for "move", press right arrow then locate the desired mailbox, and press Return. You can type the first letter of the mailbox to save time. Cheers

Re: searching for mail in lion with classic layout

Hello Kary, If you press Cmd-Option-f you'll be in the Search box. After entering your text, a menu will open offering you choices of where to search, such as subject, body of message, and so on, and also showing what has already been found. Escape will get you out of this menu. If you stop in

Re: MOVING Mail

rently am on. > > Oh do I need help! grin > > More help perhaps in setting up things with vo is needed? > > Johnny > On Jul 31, 2011, at 5:03 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: > >> Hello Johnny, >> >> To move a message to a different mailbox, place yourself on th

ABBYY FineReader for Lion

Hello everyone, Here is the link to download the Lion compatible version of ABBYY FineReader for those who, like me, bought it through the Website.

Re: ABBYY FineReader for Lion

t;> employee that I'd be emailed the link when it became available. That didn't >> happen. So this is why I'm saying thanks. >> >> Dan >> >> On Aug 1, 2011, at 10:24 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: >> >>> Hello everyone, >>> >

Re: Help needed on completing a survey on Safari

Hello Linda, Having tried everything I could think of to make this work, I asked my husband to have a look. The buttons to select Yes, No, or I don't know, are inaccessible with VO. VO reads the labels, but the actual buttons are to the left, and VO skips over them. The Web rotor shows no butt

Re: mac freezing

Hello James, This is probably just the same old weird untraceable bug in VoiceOver that's been around for a long time. I press Cmd-F5 four times and VoiceOver comes back. If your Mac really is freezing, then this isn't happening to me. Cheers, Anne On 3 Aug 2011, at 21:38, James Walton wrote

Re: mac freezing

oice Over, not even once at all so > far. > > > Sincerely, > The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! > > Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! > > Skype name: > barefootedray > > Facebook: > facebook.com/ray.foretjr.1 > > > > On Aug 3, 2011, at

Re: cannoscan lide 600f and Mac ocr programs

Hello Mary, The first thing to do is to check on the Canon site for a new driver for this scanner. They never come with truly up-to-date drivers for Mac. Then, get the latest version of VueScan. In VueScan, set the scan resolution to 300DPI. Set external editor to default. Set the output file

Re: cannoscan lide 600f and Mac ocr programs

Hello Mary, VueScan does indeed do OCR, and in English, it does it really quite well. For your husband, VueScan is probably the way to go. For blind users, the problem with VueScan is that it only does OCR when the page is correctly aligned, whereas ABBYY FineReader takes care of orientation p

Re: has anyone seriously messed with Keynote?

Hello Matthew, There's a VoiceOver On podcast from February of this year that covers Pages and Keynote. You can find it in iTunes. Cheers, Anne On 4 Aug 2011, at 19:13, Matthew Campbell wrote: > Hello listers. > I'm really curious to know if anyone has seriously messed with keynote. I've >

Re: cannoscan lide 600f and Mac ocr programs

Hello Mary, For your husband, Prizmo for the Mac allows you to select portions of the scanned image to OCR. It's very difficult for a blind person to use but a sighted person can use it easily. Cheers, Anne On 5 Aug 2011, at 07:02, Mary Otten wrote: > The 600f is working, but the ocr progra

Re: has anyone seriously messed with Keynote?

gt; Pages. > > Brett C. > > On Aug 4, 2011, at 11:41 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: > >> Hello Matthew, >> >> There's a VoiceOver On podcast from February of this year that covers Pages >> and Keynote. You can find it in iTunes. >> >> Cheers, >&

Re: cannoscan lide 600f and Mac ocr programs

Hello Mary, Prizmo for the Mac is an application you can buy through the Mac Appstore. It handles both scanning and OCR, and it is more or less usable with VoiceOver, but way too complicated to be worth the effort for a VoiceOver user. Cheers, Anne On 5 Aug 2011, at 18:06, Mary Otten wrote:

Re: cannoscan lide 600f and Mac ocr programs

Hello David, On 6 Aug 2011, at 05:50, David Tanner wrote: > > > Frankly, I think for most blind users the best choice right now is probably > Docu Scan Plus. What makes you say that? VueScan and ABBYY FineReader work seamlessly together once they are set up correctly. Also, DocuScan only hand

Re: No ok button in VO utilities

Hello Joe, As soon as you make a change in the VoiceOver Utility, it is taken into account. There's no need for an OK button. Once you get your VO settings exactly as you want them, it's a good idea to save them either for use on another Mac, or in case your Mac suffers a major crash. You sav

Re: radio app for macbook air

Hello Larry, Have you tried iTunes? You can make a playlist of your favourite stations. Cheers, Anne On 11 Aug 2011, at 10:29, larry wrote: > Hello, > I am looking for an app for the macbook air. I would like to have a radio > app similar to ootunes or tune in radio which is available on the

Re: ok buttons in general

Hello Joe, There aren't that many OK buttons in Mac OS X. Don't worry about it. Cheers, Anne On 11 Aug 2011, at 11:48, Joe Paton wrote: > Hi folks, > > Well here's a strange thing, now in system prefferences, I don't see an ok or > done button. I can make changes, and close out of whatever

Re: ok buttons in general

Hello Joe, On 11 Aug 2011, at 12:27, Joe Paton wrote: > > > So when i've made changes, how are they saved. For example, I want to have > VO give its default anouncement when it starts. I check the box, leave the > default text unchanged , close the utility, go back in, and the changes have

Re: No ok button in VO utilities

Hello Joe, To have VoiceOver at login, go to System Preferences and select Users & Groups. The first thing you'll find is Users, groups and login options List 1 item selected. Interact with this list and go down to Login options. Stop interacting and navigate right as far as Use VoiceOver in the

Re: Accessible Electronic OCR?

Hello Teresa, ABBYY FineReader will work on PDF images just fine. Cheers, Anne On 11 Aug 2011, at 16:06, Teresa Cochran wrote: > Hi, folks, > > I have a number of pdf files that are image-based only. I rarely use a > scanner, and would mostly prefer performing OCR on electronic images. Does

Re: system preferences not holding across sessions.

Hello Joe, Your System Preferences settings should stick, so it looks as though you have a problem somewhere. First thing to do is repair permissions. To do this, open the Utilities folder (Cmd-Shift-u) and find Disk Utility. In Disk Utility, interact with the table and select the second row w

Re: Abbyy FineReader Express Preferences Unavailable

Hello Teresa, AbbYY FineReader for the Mac is an Express version and has no preferences. However, it works fine and can recognise up to three different languages in one document. Cheers, Anne On 13 Aug 2011, at 18:50, Teresa Cochran wrote: > Hi, Folk, > > Well, imagine my shock when I disc

Re: system preferences not holding across sessions.

Hello, PRAM is Parameter RAndom Access Memory. As for the short cuts, most of them are in the various menus. I often can't remember where they are because I've been using them for so long. Cheers, Anne On 13 Aug 2011, at 20:13, Hayri Tulumcu wrote: > What is Pram? and how do you find all th

Re: Question about Pages and double spacing?

Hello Jes, You change the spacing in the Inspector. Cheers, Anne On 15 Aug 2011, at 15:40, Jes Smith wrote: > Hi list, > Whenever I select a blank template under word processing, and try to change > the spacing from single to double, the popup menu is dimmed. Why is this and > how can I fix

Re: VoiceOver 4.0

Hello Chris, On Jun 29, 2010, at 2:27 PM, Chris Moore wrote: > Totally agree, all the legacy voices should go (am sure they could be > downloaded if anyone really wanted them) as they are useless. The legacy voices don't use much in the way of resources so getting rid of them would save nothing

Re: firefox accessibility

The developers of FireFox don't seem to think that it's an easy matter to make it accessible to VoiceOver users. This debate has been going on for several years, so I don't expect to see things improve in the near future. Cheers, Anne -- You received this message because you are subscribed to

Re: How do you drag a file or folder from one location to another?

Alfredo, With VoiceOver, you can't drag an item from one folder to another, you have to copy and paste. You can drag an item from one position in a list to another position in the same list, such as reordering languages in System Preferences. You can also drag and drop signatures in Mail Prefe

Re: Pages09

oating tables and most other >>> objects with little or no difficulty. When they are floating, they are >>> found in the lay-out area. Also, you can convert an in-line table to text >>> and back again. A text table has tabs as column seporators and new-line &

Re: How do you drag a file or folder from one location to another?

Teresa, Copy and paste works everywhere, Cut and Paste only works within documents where the Undo feature is available. The reason Cut and Paste is not available for moving files is to protect against loss of data should the computer crash during such an operation. I would say there is as good

Re: braille display

Hello May, I use an ancient PAC Mate 20 display alone with my MacBook. I just connected it and it was recognised in the VoiceOver Utility. It's USB only, of course, and the connection used to be a bit problematic until one of my dogs pulled the PAC Mate onto the floor and bent the USB connector

Re: Getting Mail to behave the way it used to

Hello Mike, I presume you prefer to read mail without the preview pane. In that case, all the advice about VO-j is useless. Apple has broken Mail for those of us who read without using the Preview pane. You have to either read line by line with the arrow keys or interact then use VO-a to read t

Re: Getting Mail to behave the way it used to

r on the > message, control to interrupt voiceover so that it doesn't say the whole > sentence "... message content scroll area", then tab shift tab and the > message is spoken automatically. A heavy procedure though. > On Jun 30, 2010, at 12:16 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: >

Re: Getting Mail to behave the way it used to

d check none. This does not show > the message header and goes straight to the body of the message. I hope this > is useful to others. > > Have a great evening, > R&J > On Jun 30, 2010, at 3:16 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: > >> Hello Mike, >> >> I presume yo

Re: Getting Mail to behave the way it used to

ress of the person sending you mail. > > Kev > On Jun 30, 2010, at 4:36 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: > >> Hello Thierry, >> >> Great work around. It's much quicker than interacting then doing VO-a. Would >> you pass this tip on to the CeciMac Forum ple

Re: Getting Mail to behave the way it used to

you won't be seeing the > actual e-mail address of the person sending you mail. > > Kev > On Jun 30, 2010, at 4:36 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: > >> Hello Thierry, >> >> Great work around. It's much quicker than interacting then doing VO-a. Would >&

Re: daisy software

Hello May, There is a free Daisy reader for Mac called Olearia. The latest version seems to be V1.1. Cheers, Anne On Jul 1, 2010, at 7:29 AM, May McDonald wrote: > Hello again. One more question for tonight. > > Is there any software that I can get that will play daisy books on the mac? >

Re: daisy software

t? > On 2010-06-30, at 11:25 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: > >> Hello May, >> >> There is a free Daisy reader for Mac called Olearia. The latest version >> seems to be V1.1. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Anne >> >> >> On Jul 1

Re: iCal

Hello Chris, There should be an iCal user guide on: www.icanworkthisthing.com If you don't find it there, post again and I'll send it to you. Cheers, Anne On Jul 1, 2010, at 6:10 PM, Chris Moore wrote: > Hi all, > > Just thought I would open iCal and stick some stuff in my calendar instead

Re: cepstral voices for Mac

Hello Allison, I'm afraid the Cepstral voices are very buggy and don't work well at all with VoiceOver. They are also very sluggish when they do work. The Infovox iVox voices are far superior in every way to Cepstral. They are responsive, work well with VoiceOver and sound much more realistic.

Re: selecting text with vo-return?

Hello Josh, On Jul 3, 2010, at 3:03 PM, Josh Kennedy wrote: > I tried selecting text inside an email message while interacting with the > text using control option return at the start of where I wanted to select, > and then again, control option return at the end of where I wanted to select > t

Re: Pages09

Hello Paul, On Jul 3, 2010, at 7:11 PM, Paul wrote: > I went to the Apple Store and we tried the different > outlining types. My instructor was able to see the numbering but we > couldn't get Voice Over to speak them. Have you been able to get this > working? > No, I can't get VO to read the par

Re: Iwork?

Hello Courtney, I hope the version of iWork you bought was iWork09 as it is the only one that is accessible. Cheers, Anne On Jul 5, 2010, at 3:56 PM, Courtney Curran wrote: > Hi, > Thanks for your help, after I heard that it is accessible, I went and bought > it on Amazon, it was about $40.

Re: Getting Mail to behave the way it used to

elightfully concurring with your assessment of Rhonda's > awesome brain power; she is indeed brilliant! > > Isn't it great to discover how just one little tweak can make all the > difference in the world? > > Cheers, > > Mike > > On 30,Jun,2010, at 10:3

Re: Non-Latin alphabets and voice over

Hello Aman, I can't answer your questions about voices, but you can get non-Latin Braille by downloading multilingual Braille from the CeciMac site. My husband, Archie, has made Braille tables for Arabic, Greek, Hebrew and Russian. You can download the package from:

Re: Receipt Requests in Mail

Hello Mike, Apple Mail does not support receipt requests. Cheers, Anne On Jul 12, 2010, at 10:34 AM, Michael Busboom wrote: > Hi. > > Is it possible in Mail to be notified when someone asks for a return receipt? > I am not being notified, nor are receipts being sent to people who need to >

Re: Can a really cool Voice Over feature be enhanced?

Mike, Have you set it to play a tone when encountering a misspelled word? I have mine set that way and it alerts me to misspelled words when typing. However, I have typing echo set to words. Cheers, Anne -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVision

Re: OLd School ClarisWorks Translator

Hello Kevin, The best way to deal with your ClarisWorks documents while keeping the formatting is to get hold of AppleWorks and open them with that. Although AppleWorks 6 is not accessible to VoiceOver, you just have to Save As filename in AppleWorks 6 format and the documents can then be opene

Re: how to select from curser directly to the bottom of text

Hello Donna, VO-a will read from current position to end in whatever kind of document or application as long as you are interacting with the document. You can make VO read from beginning to current position by highlighting from current position to beginning then pressing VO-F6 to read selected

Re: interaction and getting one's teeth in to the Mac

Hello Donna, I don't use the Preview pane, and in the Viewing section of Mail Preferences, I have Show header detail: set to "None". I just press Return to read a message, and only have to interact once if I want to activate a link. I don't have to read through the message so far to find the li

Re: interaction and getting one's teeth in to the Mac

Hello Ray, Mine also says "Window" and reads the subject line before reading the text of the message. I know no way of turning this off. Cheers, Anne -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macv

Re: Grade two input with the language pack?

Hello Erik, CeciMac Braille provides only grade one Braille in a great many other languages than English. You select your language in the Braille category of the VoiceOver Utility. My husband, Archie, provides this facility because Apple does not, and many languages have symbols, such as accen

Re: Navigating to the top or bottom of a table.

Hello Geoff, The commands to get to the top and bottom of a table are called "Go to first item" and "Go to last item", and the commands are: Control-Option-Home and Control-Option-End. On a laptop, Home is FN-Left Arrow, and End is FN-Right Arrow. The Command keys are at either end of the Spac

Re: Bluetooth keyboards for the iPhone and accented character support; Think Outside Bluetooth keyboards [was Re: great news about the mini bluetooth keyboard!]

Hello Esther, The mini BlueTooth keyboard I'm using only has 49 keys. To get the arrow keys, I have to hold down FN and use r, t, y and u. The bottom row, from left to right, is shift, FN, Alt, @, Space bar (double-size key), Windows, Alt, FN, and Shift. The Windows key appears to have no effe

Re: Bluetooth keyboards for the iPhone and accented character support; Think Outside Bluetooth keyboards [was Re: great news about the mini bluetooth keyboard!]

Hello Sandy, On 22 Aug 2010, at 16:57, Sandy Tomkins wrote: > >I discovered from a little researching on the net that only the iPhone 4 > will hold the bluetooth pairing. Hopefully, this will improve with time and > upgrades to the bluetooth stack. Still, either way, this is so much better

Mini BlueTooth keyboard for iPhone and other languages

Hello everyone, I've been doing some experimenting with the mini BlueTooth keyboard, (thanks to Esther for making me think!), and I've discovered that it behaves like the keyboard set on the iPhone. In other words, when I change the keyboard layout on my iPhone to French, the mini keyboard beco

Re: Mini BlueTooth keyboard for iPhone and other languages

19:19, Krister Ekstrom wrote: > I really wonder if this is true for Scandinavian keyboard layouts, they > aren't so big, so to speak as english, french or spanish. > /Krister > 22 aug 2010 kl. 18.41 skrev Anne Robertson: > >> Hello everyone, >> >> I've been

Re: problems with safari & google

I'm not having any problems at all with Safari and Google. I press Command-Option-f to get to the Google search field, enter my terms and press Return. When I hear the page load, I press VO-Command-l 3 times to get to the first result. I have web navigation set to Groups mode. I do this endles

Re: iwork

Hello Scott, You can get the information about font (type, size, colour) with VO-t in Pages, despite the fact that the Find Next whatever commands don't work and the same information doesn't show up in the status cells on a Braille display. I hope these problems get fixed in iWork10 as I use it

Re: iwork

Hello Isaac, You can download a 30-day trial copy of iWork from: <http://www.apple.com/iwork/download-trial/> Cheers, Anne On 25 Aug 2010, at 13:37, Isaac Obie wrote: > Hello Anne, > Is there a demo of iworks 09? Where might it be? Thanks. > Isaac > - Original Message

Re: selecting more than one file?

Hello Conrad, To select more than one file consecutively, hold down the Shift key while moving from one file to the next. To select several noncontiguous files, Turn cursor tracking off (VO-Shift-F3), then use the VO keys and arrows to navigate to each desired file and select it using VO-Comma

Re: About Hotspots and Apple scrits/macros

Hello Ronald, If an application is not accessible to VoiceOver, i.e. the VoiceOver cursor cannot enter any or all of a window in that application, there is no way of making it accessible. However, unlabelled buttons can now be labelled. Cheers, Anne On 28 Aug 2010, at 14:01, RvR wrote: > H

Re: About Hotspots and Apple scrits/macros

Hello Ronald, On 28 Aug 2010, at 16:49, RvR wrote: > > So in other words, VO has to "recognize" an object to make a hotspot out of > it? That's right. > When a sighted person uses a mouse and points at something you cannot > make a hotspot out of that? No, I've tried this and it doesn't work. Vo

Re: reading tables in pages

Hello Greg, Currently, you can't read tables in Pages. You have to select the table, which shows up to VO as a space, and copy it into a Numbers document where it can be read or modified as you please. I hope this gets fixed in the next version of iWork. Cheers, Anne On 31 Aug 2010, at 03:58

Re: is kapten GPS for Iphone accessible?

Hello John, Kapten GPS for iPhone is accessible and does work for planning routes using public transport in many cities, but apparently not all. It works for me here, on the fringes of the Paris region. I've used it to plan routes to various parts of the Ile-de-France. Cheers, Anne On 31 Au

Re: MS Office accessibility on the mac natively

Hello Andy, Not everyone has to use Windows at all. I work as a freelance translator and use the Mac exclusively. I use Pages to read and produce Word documents, and Keynote to read and produce PowerPoint presentations. For scanning books, etc I use VueScan, and Abbyy FineReader Express to per

Re: MOving to the bottom or top of a document in Text Edit

Hello Kimberly, To make the VO commands work in TextEdit, you have to interact with the text area. It is advisable to do this anyway, as it gives you access to useful commands such as reading by sentence, paragraph, from current position, etc. Cheers, Anne On 31 Aug 2010, at 23:10, Kimberly

Re: My e-mail view has changed, please help

Hello Scott, I think you've somehow brought back the horizontal splitter so that the preview pane is displayed. In any case, the solution is the same. Navigate to the horizontal splitter, bring the mouse to it with VO-Command-F5, then do a double click with VO-Shift-Space bar. Everything shou

Re: My e-mail view has changed, please help

Eric, mentioning Quick Nav reminded me that the problem could be that cursor tracking is off. That always screws up Mail. Cheers, Anne On 1 Sep 2010, at 13:16, erik burggraaf wrote: > Hi, it's also possible that quick nav has been turned on by mistake. If, > after trying what everyone else

Re: doinga find and replace in text edit?

Hello Sarah, Find and Replace is Command-f. Then in first text box enter text to find, in second enter text to replace it then click on Replace All. It will tell you how many it has replaced. Cheers, Anne On 1 Sep 2010, at 21:33, Sarah Alawami wrote: > hello to all is there a way to do a b

Re: taking the plunge with an mbp but have questions

Hello Matthew, On 1 Sep 2010, at 18:30, Matthew Johnson wrote: > > I do however have a few questions: > 1: I have a focus 40 blue, does this work, including the bluetooth part of > it? can I enter text using it, and does it work in multiple languages, since > I read french, German, and Spanish

Re: taking the plunge with an mbp but have questions but no problems listening to the BBC on Mac Book Pro

Hello Kawal, Yes, I can listen live just fine, it's the Listen Again that's defeating me. Have you figured that one out? I'd love to know. It used to work, but the BBC keeps fiddling with its website and messing things up. Cheers, Anne On 1 Sep 2010, at 23:24, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: > Hi Ann

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