Re: Command o Not working Inside Dropbox

2016-08-05 Thread Brian Fischler
Actually on certain Macs running El Cap there is a bug where VO O will not open folders as I have it and spent hours on the phone with Apple Accessibility reporting it. To work around this do a command down arrow to open a folder and command up arrow to close the folder. > On Aug 5, 2016, at 9:4

Re: Command o Not working Inside Dropbox

2016-08-05 Thread Brian Fischler
case I decide to go in the market for a newer (if not brand new) Mac? > > > Sent from my Mac, The only computer with full accessibility for the blind > built-in > > Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray > Still a very happy Mac, Verizon Wireless iPhone6+ and Apple TV u

Best Way to Navigate This Group With Voiceover

2012-07-10 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, I apologize if this has already been discussed, but I am finding it almost impossible to navigate Google Groups with Voiceover, and would love to hear what people find is the best way? I have signed up to receive emails in the forums but still find that very hard to get through everyth

Using Web Spots in Mountain Lion

2012-07-28 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, I have noticed since installing Mountain Lion all of my webspots are reversed meaning to jump down the page I am having to click VO shift left bracket to go right on the page and VO Shift right bracket to now go up the page. This is quite annoying as I have grown quite accustomed to th

Re: Numbers

2012-07-28 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, I have been using numbers for awhile and just started using this group. Does anyone else have a problem with numbers completely stop allowing you to input text in to any cells? The document isn't locked, and from time to time I will be working on a document and it just stops allowing me t

Re: Numbers

2012-07-28 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey eugene, Thanks for the info, but I think we may be talking about different issues, as I do not get the busy message. I just can't enter text in to a cell, and it usually happens when I have been working with a numbers document for a little while. I have tried tabbing around interacting with th

Web Spots in ML

2012-07-29 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, Having installed mountain lion and been playing around with it for a day, one of the biggest pains with it, is I use a lot of web spots for browsing sites that I go to a lot on the web. My webspots that I have created over time are all still there, but in Mountain Lion the way that I navi

Re: More on Activating Items with Left VO Space

2012-07-30 Thread Brian Fischler
This is one of my biggest problems with Mountain Lion, as I would consider myself a power mac user meaning I do things very quickly, and I had not problem clicking VO space bar in Lion and selecting items, now half the time when I VO space bar on something in Mountain Lion it doesn't select it. I g

Very Disappointed with Mountain Lion

2012-07-30 Thread Brian Fischler
Been reading all these posts the last few days about how amazed everyone is with Mountain Lion, and not sure what all the amazement iss about. It only took three days as I just had to use the Force Quit for Safari, and all it took was actually trying to login to my Yahoo Fantasy Baseball Page. I p

Very Disappointed with Mountain Lion

2012-07-30 Thread Brian Fischler
Been reading all these posts the last few days about how amazed everyone is with Mountain Lion, and not sure what all the amazement iss about. It only took three days as I just had to use the Force Quit for Safari, and all it took was actually trying to login to my Yahoo Fantasy Baseball Page. I p

Doesn't Anyone else use Web Spots in Safari?

2012-08-01 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, I posted once about this but got no response, so wanted to try again. I make use of setting webspots and sweet spots on the pages I go to a lot, as I find this makes navigating a page much faster. Anyway, all of my webspots have been reversed in mountain lion. what I mean is to scroll dow

Re: safari clicking?

2012-08-01 Thread Brian Fischler
I had a cookie issue with Yahoo on there Fantasy Baseball page. I keep myself logged in as I only use Yahoo for Fantasy sports, out of the blue, I got an error message that said your cookie for this site has expired, and it completely froze safari. The only way for me to get do anything in safari w

Re: Very Disappointed with Mountain Lion

2012-08-01 Thread Brian Fischler
chime in on the first few. On Jul 30, 10:23 pm, Brian Fischler wrote: > Been reading all these posts the last few days about how amazed > everyone is with Mountain Lion, and not sure what all the amazement > iss about. > > It only took three days as I just had to use the Force Quit for

Re: speakable objects… very cool!

2012-08-01 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, I just started trying out this feature having Siri on the Iphone and liking it. I to reassigned my keys and am now trying to use just the voice saying computer, but find both ways hit and miss with working. Also I seem to be able to get to the tabe with the menu of what to say, but when I

Re: Fwd: vo keys not responding consistently

2012-08-01 Thread Brian Fischler
Here is the response that I got from Apple Accessibility as I reported the same issue. The first paragraph is what I wrote than the response, I will email them back tonight. I am using the standard bluetooth keyboard that comes with the iMac. "I have noticed a problem when clicking VO space bar t

Re: Doesn't Anyone else use Web Spots in Safari?

2012-08-05 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey guys, just wanted to give you an update as I did report this misnavigation or reverse navigation to Apple, and they didn't know about it and will be working on it. I to do not make enough use of my trackpad just so comfortable with the keyboard for everything. On Aug 1, 11:30 am,

Problem with Safari and Interacting with Pages in Mountain Lion

2012-08-06 Thread Brian Fischler
This is something that just started happening over the weekend, it has happened to me before and it is quite frustrating as when I am using safari any time I open a new tab I must first hit VO shift down to start interacting with tab instead of automatically being taken in to the new tab. Not sure

Problem with Safari and Interacting with Pages in Mountain Lion

2012-08-06 Thread Brian Fischler
This is something that just started happening over the weekend, it has happened to me before and it is quite frustrating as when I am using safari any time I open a new tab I must first hit VO shift down to start interacting with tab instead of automatically being taken in to the new tab. Not sure

Re: web spots and hotspots?

2012-08-06 Thread Brian Fischler
I find webspots to be extremely valuable for pages that you go to a lot. I have set up numerous webspots to jump to certain areas of text and links within pages. You can also set a sweet spot that is supposed to enter you in to that page at the point that you set the sweet spot. Of course sweet spo

Re: web spots and hotspots?

2012-08-06 Thread Brian Fischler
One more thing as far as auto web spots I use them to navigate this group as most of the time scrolling through them will take me to the topic in this list as there do not seem to be any headers to navigate to in Google groups. What is everyone else using to navigate this group would love to hear i

Re: working with messages app in 10.8

2012-08-06 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey Alex, I to found it difficult to use at first, not sure if this could solve your problem, as I have multiple accounts example gmail, cell phone, Apple ID, and wasn't sure what account was associated with messages, I went in to the settings menu and clicked to login with my Apple ID and logged o

Re: Doesn't Anyone else use Web Spots in Safari?

2012-08-07 Thread Brian Fischler
At my ancient age i assumed i had just forgotten how > it worked before.  Thanks for letting me know my memory hasn't gone > completely. > > art > > On 8/5/12 11:10 PM, Brian Fischler wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hey guys, just wanted to give you an upd

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

2012-08-07 Thread Brian Fischler
6, 10:52 am, Brian Fischler wrote: > This is something that just started happening over the weekend, it has > happened to me before and it is quite frustrating as when I am using > safari any time I open a new tab I must first hit VO shift down to > start interacting with ta

Problems with Extras Menu New Apps

2012-08-09 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, Been trying to add some new apps to my mac, and I have noticed that anything I try and add that puts itself in the Menu Extras doesn't seem to work with VO. It could be that these apps do not work with Voiceover, or it could be that the Menus Extras just dones't work very well with VO. My

Re: Problems with Extras Menu New Apps

2012-08-09 Thread Brian Fischler
-5792 > Email: g.batw...@gmail.com > Secondary Email: customtra...@live.co.za > Skype: Batworx > Facebook:http://www.facebook.com/batworx > Twitter:http://twitter.com/baworx > > On 10 Aug 2012, at 1:17 AM, Brian Fischler wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hey

Re: Safari questions with ML

2012-08-09 Thread Brian Fischler
In a web page command option F takes you directly to google search from what I can tell in ML Command L and this previous command serve the same exact function On Aug 8, 12:20 am, Veronica Elsea wrote: > Oh how nice. I didn't realize that one could also search with command-L. > So when would one

Problems with Numbers in Mountain Lion

2012-08-10 Thread Brian Fischler
Ah the fun of being blind and dealing with change. My day was hijacked by problems using numbers which I use for work and then by coming to Google Groups and it taking me an hour to switch back to the old Google Groups to navigate the group. Has anyone been able to discover these new keyboard short

Re: What's your fave faceBook solution?

2012-08-10 Thread Brian Fischler
I am an avid Facebooker and as far as the Iphone goes I think the easiest and best way to navigate ones Timeline is through Flipboard. I think the gang at Flipboard have made great strides with their accessibility. I am not sure if my timeline does skip some people's postings as I am connected with

Re: Problems with Extras Menu New Apps

2012-08-10 Thread Brian Fischler
S Menu, Menu Weather, Boxcar, sometimes the native AIM client, which by > the way, yes, is totally! Voiceover friendly before anyone asks, not sure > what else.  I think that's about it.  All of them however seem to work just > fine over here for what it's worth.  Oh, wait a minut

Re: Problems with Extras Menu New Apps

2012-08-11 Thread Brian Fischler
t does Trillian do. I could install it on my machine and test > >> it for you, if you'd like. > > >> Regards, > > >> Gavin Grundlingh > >> Phone: +27 (0) 83 713-6191 > >> Secondary Phone: +27 (0) 79 157-2466 > >> Fax: +27 (0) 86 617-5792

Connecting Skype and Facebook

2012-08-11 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, Finally just got around to installing Skype on the mac. I had read on the Skype site that you could connect your Facebook account to read your timeline, comment, like, chat, and call Facebook friends. Of course, I can't seem to find anyway to authorize my facebook account. I did a search

Re: Connecting Skype and Facebook

2012-08-11 Thread Brian Fischler
w...@gmail.com > Secondary Email: customtra...@live.co.za > Skype: Batworx > Facebook:http://www.facebook.com/batworx > Twitter:http://twitter.com/baworx > > On 11 Aug 2012, at 11:05 PM, Brian Fischler wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hey all, > > > Finall

Re: Connecting Skype and Facebook

2012-08-11 Thread Brian Fischler
Not a good sign. Just tried posting to Facebook using Skype, and got stuck in a busy loop, so I toggled VO off and on, and it crashed Skype. Gavin do you use Facebook through skype or anyone else out there do this? On Aug 11, 5:05 pm, Brian Fischler wrote: > Hey all, > > Finally just g

Re: Connecting Skype and Facebook

2012-08-11 Thread Brian Fischler
suppose to be accessible on the mac on mountain Lion On Aug 11, 5:05 pm, Brian Fischler wrote: > Hey all, > > Finally just got around to installing Skype on the mac. I had read on > the Skype site that you could connect your Facebook account to read > your timeline, comment, like,

Re: Connecting Skype and Facebook

2012-08-11 Thread Brian Fischler
ork I will uninstall it and try reinstalling it. Once again something with Voiceover that a sighted person could have done in ten minutes has taken up half my day On Aug 11, 5:44 pm, Brian Fischler wrote: > Unreal not sure how this stuff always happens to me. I had to go in > and Force Qui

Re: Connecting Skype and Facebook

2012-08-11 Thread Brian Fischler
suppose to be accessible on the mac on mountain Lion On Aug 11, 5:05 pm, Brian Fischler wrote: > Hey all, > > Finally just got around to installing Skype on the mac. I had read on > the Skype site that you could connect your Facebook account to read > your timeline, comment, like,

Re: Connecting Skype and Facebook

2012-08-11 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey Mark, Thanks for the response, so you think I should let it stay in a busy loop for awhile instead of uninstalling and reinstalling? Will try that, but if that is the case, I doubt I would ever use Skype as the time it takes to load is ridiculous. Not sure if this is a Facebook issue, as ever s

Re: Connecting Skype and Facebook

2012-08-11 Thread Brian Fischler
11, 6:11 pm, Brian Fischler wrote: > Hey Mark, Thanks for the response, so you think I should let it stay > in a busy loop for awhile instead of uninstalling and reinstalling? > Will try that, but if that is the case, I doubt I would ever use Skype > as the time it takes to load is rid

Re: Connecting Skype and Facebook

2012-08-11 Thread Brian Fischler
freezes up. Going to check it out on my Iphone to see if the Facebook thing is happening there, never thought of that. If I can't access my contacts than I fail to see the point of having Skype. Again, not sure how I always have issues like this On Aug 11, 5:05 pm, Brian Fischler wrote: >

Re: Connecting Skype and Facebook

2012-08-11 Thread Brian Fischler
hing about the busy busy messages is my contacts table was already set on online contacts only. I hope I will not have to go through this every time Skype starts up On Aug 11, 5:05 pm, Brian Fischler wrote: > Hey all, > > Finally just got around to installing Skype on the mac. I had read

Help with Selecting Text in Safari

2012-08-12 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, Trying to copy some text in safari and have run in to some issues, not sure what I am doing wrong, and it is probably a setting, so wanted to see if anyone knew. It is weird as at first this was working, but it doesn't seem like the cursor is following VO and I have checked my settings in

Re: Help with Selecting Text in Safari

2012-08-12 Thread Brian Fischler
Awesome just found the help document. Ah, I believe I was hitting the command key and needed to hit the option key. Here is the help document in case anyone else is having problems http://help.apple.com/voiceover/info/guide/10.8/English.lproj/_1201.html On Aug 12, 11:49 am, Brian Fischler wrote

Re: Help with Selecting Text in Safari

2012-08-12 Thread Brian Fischler
rica...@appletothecore.info > Twitter:@apple2thecorewww.appletothecore.info > > On Aug 12, 2012, at 11:49 AM, Brian Fischler wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hey all, > > > Trying to copy some text in safari and have run in to some issues, not > > sure what I am doing wrong, and it is p

Re: Help with Selecting Text in Safari

2012-08-12 Thread Brian Fischler
do Walker > rica...@appletothecore.info > Twitter:@apple2thecorewww.appletothecore.info > > On Aug 12, 2012, at 11:49 AM, Brian Fischler wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hey all, > > > Trying to copy some text in safari and have run in to some issues, not > > sure w

Re: Help with Selecting Text in Safari

2012-08-12 Thread Brian Fischler
s behavior once or twice.  For the most part though, its worked > pretty well. > > Ricardo Walker > rica...@appletothecore.info > Twitter:@apple2thecorewww.appletothecore.info > > On Aug 12, 2012, at 11:49 AM, Brian Fischler wrote: > > > > > > > >

Re: Web Host and Voice Over

2012-08-12 Thread Brian Fischler
With Rapid Weaver do you have to know coding or is it a widget based design? Our website is hosted through GoDaddy and their website tonight is completely inaccessible. Thanks On Aug 12, 2:11 pm, Grant Hyde wrote: > I'm excited to find that I can now create webpages using text edit.  The web > h

Re: Help with Selecting Text in Safari

2012-08-14 Thread Brian Fischler
all of the time but still use Windows on occasion for the > formentioned tasks, and I'm glad I have that option. > > Les > On Aug 12, 2012, at 12:06 PM, Brian Fischler wrote: > > > > > > > > > Awesome just found the help document. Ah, I believe I

Re: multiple messages from macvisionaries group

2012-08-14 Thread Brian Fischler
Would be great if someone could post how they set everything up in gmail or mail, as I am still coming to the group and using auto webspots to navigate. Would love to get the group thread through mail, but not in my main mailbox Thanks On Aug 13, 5:31 pm, Andrew Lamanche wrote: > Hello Iona, > >

Growl in Mountain Lion

2012-08-14 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, I have never used Growl before and have been reading through all the threads on it to get a better understanding, but still am not sure what the whole point of it is. I was surprised to learn that Growl is installed on my system, as I don't recall ever installing as saw that you had to bu

Re: Growl in Mountain Lion

2012-08-15 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey Missy and Shawn, Thanks for the responses. I guess first off I just have to play around with Growl a little more to get used to it. I just installed Trillion but haven't used it as I found it to be a little inaccessible. Just installed Meny Tab for Facebook, again need to play around with it.

Menu Tab For Facebook

2012-08-17 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, I recently installed Menu Tab for Facebook, and got the pro version. While I find the app mostly accessible, from time to time, it pops up I am assuming with some kind of a Facebook notification, and I can't do anything with the notification. Has anyone figured out a work around to intera

Re: Menu Tab For Facebook

2012-08-17 Thread Brian Fischler
think it is just preference, and it was only .99 On Aug 17, 12:59 pm, Chris wrote: > So what can I do with Menutab that I cannot do with the main or mobile > Facebook sites? Thanks! > > On 17/08/2012 17:16, Brian Fischler wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hey all,

Re: Menu Tab For Facebook

2012-08-17 Thread Brian Fischler
Hit the menu command, vo-m, twice quickly. You'll find a lot of > >>> keystrokes do different things when pressed once than they do when > >>> pressed twice quickly. > >>> On Aug 17, 2012, at 2:09 PM, Chris >>> <mailto:christopher...@gmail.com

Re: Blogging platforms, which is accessible?

2012-08-20 Thread Brian Fischler
Are you using Square Space with Voiceover on a mac? If so, I found it terribly inaccessible so would love to hear what I did wrong. I can tell you that GoDaddy's website tonight is mostly inaccessible. For a blog wordpress is mostly accessible. Good luck On Aug 16, 1:12 pm, "Bill Holton" wrote: >

Re: Podcast App for Mac

2012-08-20 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey Mark, I can confirm that indeed Downcast is working on a app for the mac, as they responded directly to me a few weeks ago on Twitter you can check my feed here if you want to find it @blindgator On Aug 17, 10:15 pm, Esther wrote: > Hi Mark, > > I use a couple of AppleScripts to speed up pla

Re: Badges in YoruFukurou

2012-08-21 Thread Brian Fischler
Has anyone ever figured out how to get the unbelievably annoying one row added to stop in this app? I hate that when I am looking at my timeline, and VO is reading a tweet to me it is constantly interrupted by the app saying one row added. In my opinion, it makes reading ones Timeline almost unsabl

Re: Blogging platforms, which is accessible?

2012-08-21 Thread Brian Fischler
a try again. Not sure how I found it so difficult to use. Thanks On Aug 20, 2:26 pm, Brian Fischler wrote: > Are you using Square Space with Voiceover on a mac? If so, I found it > terribly inaccessible so would love to hear what I did wrong. I can > tell you that GoDaddy's websit

Re: Applications Not Coming Up with Cmd+Tab

2012-08-21 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey, I used to use command tab all the time, but since I set up keyboard commanders to launch programs I find that works much faster for examples I use the right control key and hit S to bring up safari. I changed Mail to use the Z key since I go there a lot and just now have to hit the right cont

Re: Badges in YoruFukurou

2012-08-21 Thread Brian Fischler
, Rachel Feinberg wrote: > Turn off real-time streaming in preferences, under the general button. It's a > checkbox that says enable real-time streaming. > > On Aug 21, 2012, at 12:58 PM, Brian Fischler wrote: > > > > > > > > > Has anyone ever figured

Is Facebook Now Completely Broken

2012-08-22 Thread Brian Fischler
I have had it with Facebook, and if I didn't need it for work would get rid of it. I went to update a status this morning, and went to the website, was so happy as everything in Mountain Lion had been working great, as I had set the sweet spot to go straight to update status field, and then today,

Re: Badges in YoruFukurou

2012-08-22 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey Rachel Thanks again, that really helped make Night Owl much more usable when viewing the Timeline. One other problem I have always had is replying to someone or trying to retweet something, as the VO Focus and Cursor focus must be different. Basically what happens is the person I try and hit re

Re: Is Facebook Now Completely Broken

2012-08-22 Thread Brian Fischler
works just fine here.  Just my thoughts. > >      Matthew > > On Aug 22, 2012, at 12:45 PM, Brian Fischler wrote: > > > > > > > > > I have had it with Facebook, and if I didn't need it for work would > > get rid of it. I went to update a status this mor

Re: Is Facebook Now Completely Broken

2012-08-22 Thread Brian Fischler
uggestions, as I find it hard to believe it is just me. I have not played around with any settings, it just started happening this morning. On Aug 22, 12:45 pm, Brian Fischler wrote: > I have had it with Facebook, and if I didn't need it for work would > get rid of it. I went to update

Re: Is Facebook Now Completely Broken

2012-08-22 Thread Brian Fischler
ey look at it as there is the Facebook way and that is it. Facebook would make a great dictatorship. If others are having this problem, please do let us know if you figure out any work arounds. On Aug 22, 2:36 pm, Brian Fischler wrote: > Ok, there is no way this can just be happening to m

Re: Badges in YoruFukurou

2012-08-22 Thread Brian Fischler
er you want. Usually a minute seems to work well > enough. If you want it to refresh more, then you can manually refresh all > tabs by pressing command+shift+R. > Or just command+R to refresh the current tab. > > On Aug 21, 2012, at 6:56 PM, Brian Fischler wrote: > > > > &g

Re: Is Facebook Now Completely Broken

2012-08-23 Thread Brian Fischler
tely broke accessibility of any kind for posting using Voiceover. Unreal. It is getting to the point where it seems to me Facebook goes out of there way to make their site inaccessible to blind people On Aug 22, 12:45 pm, Brian Fischler wrote: > I have had it with Facebook, and if I didn't need

Re: Severe Gmail issues in Mavericks Still

2014-01-21 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey David, How do you hide the all mail folder? As I have labels and individual folders that I save the messages I need to save, and have never used the all mail folder, so would love to hide it if that is what is causing my issues. I also noticed that in my inbox when I move over to the column

Re: Severe Gmail issues in Mavericks Still

2014-01-21 Thread Brian Fischler
gt; Apple continues trying to figure out what is going on. This is the nature of > programming and bugs. > > David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA > Email: dchitten...@gmail.com > Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 > Sent from my iPhone > >> On 22 Jan 2014, at 6:59, Brian Fischler wrote: >>

Re: Severe Gmail issues in Mavericks Still

2014-01-21 Thread Brian Fischler
out important messages during the process. I am doing this > on my iPhone as the mail interface makes more sense to me. I am down to > 44,000 messages at this point. > > David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA > Email: dchitten...@gmail.com > Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 > Sent from my iPhon

Re: Severe Gmail issues in Mavericks Still

2014-01-21 Thread Brian Fischler
s with screenreader access. > > David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA > Email: dchitten...@gmail.com > Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 > Sent from my iPhone > >> On 22 Jan 2014, at 9:21, Brian Fischler wrote: >> >> I think it is in settings but the idiots at Google still can’t ma

Re: Severe Gmail issues in Mavericks Still

2014-01-21 Thread Brian Fischler
7;s virtual mailboxes and > the gmail system should start making more sense. Then, if you have another > problem, you might be able to educate that tech support person on something > which is extremely confusing. > > David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA > Email: dchitten...@gmail.com > M

Re: Severe Gmail issues in Mavericks Still

2014-01-21 Thread Brian Fischler
and > the gmail system should start making more sense. Then, if you have another > problem, you might be able to educate that tech support person on something > which is extremely confusing. > > David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA > Email: dchitten...@gmail.com > Mobile: +64 21 2288

Re: Severe Gmail issues in Mavericks Still

2014-01-21 Thread Brian Fischler
re doing, but do not necessarily work so well > for average people. > > David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA > Email: dchitten...@gmail.com > Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 > Sent from my iPhone > >> On 22 Jan 2014, at 9:54, Brian Fischler wrote: >> >> Thanks for letting me

Re: What's wrong with Downcast on the Mac?

2014-01-21 Thread Brian Fischler
Good luck with that, as I deleted Downcast and have yet to be able to get it to actually open since reinstalling it from the app store, have traded a ton of emails with the developers but still have yet to be able to get Downcast to open on my mac, it just quits as soon as launched. On Jan 21, 2

Re: What's wrong with Downcast on the Mac?

2014-01-21 Thread Brian Fischler
m: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brian Fischler > Sent: January 21, 2014 18:41 > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: What's wrong with Downcast on the Mac? > > Good luck with that, as I deleted Downcast and h

Re: What's wrong with Downcast on the Mac?

2014-01-22 Thread Brian Fischler
ings happen. No > proof just a feeling. > > -Original Message- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brian Fischler > Sent: January 21, 2014 22:01 > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: What'

Re: Severe Gmail issues in Mavericks Still

2014-01-22 Thread Brian Fischler
Thanks Nick. Hopefully I am not the only one who feels like their head is going to explode over something as basic as email. On Jan 22, 2014, at 12:18 AM, Nicholas Parsons wrote: > Just to add a few points… > I believe that if you deleted messages in your Sent mailbox that these > messages wou

Magic Track Pad and iTunes Gesture

2014-01-22 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, I am trying to use the track pad more, and amazingly I can’t seem to find any documents on the web for using the track pad and iTunes specifically. I am using VoiceOver and have played around with the trackpad, and know there has got to be more, as I can’t figure out how to use the tr

Re: Magic Track Pad and iTunes Gesture

2014-01-22 Thread Brian Fischler
> Sent from my iPhone > >> On Jan 22, 2014, at 12:48 PM, Brian Fischler wrote: >> >> Hey all, >> >> I am trying to use the track pad more, and amazingly I can’t seem to find >> any documents on the web for using the track pad and iTunes specifically. I

Re: Magic Track Pad and iTunes Gesture

2014-01-22 Thread Brian Fischler
t; Daniel Hawkins > - Posted from my Macbook Pro > > 2012 15in. Macbook Pro > 2.3 Quad-core i7 > 4GB DDR3 > 500GB HDD > > Dual Boot: > Windows 7 Ultimate Edition 64-bit > > On Jan 22, 2014, at 12:07 PM, Brian Fischler wrote: > >> Hey Jessica, That is

Re: Magic Track Pad and iTunes Gesture

2014-01-22 Thread Brian Fischler
hat > would help. > On 23/01/2014, at 7:28 am, Brian Fischler wrote: > >> Seriously. You have to do all that just to get a song to play? If that is >> the case, I guess I will just stick with the keyboard. Would have thought it >> was as simple as double tapping

Anyone else have a problem with the contextual menu

2014-01-22 Thread Brian Fischler
I am having a strange issue with the contextual menu in iTunes and wanted to see if anyone else has had this happen and if so figured a work around. When I open the contextual menu focus jumps to a submenu and I cannot choose anything else. For example, I am trying to add a song to a playlist bu

Re: Magic Track Pad and iTunes Gesture

2014-01-22 Thread Brian Fischler
istake. > > Lisette > > On 23/01/2014, at 8:01 am, Brian Fischler wrote: > >> Where is that setting, as I just checked Trackpad commander settings and >> went to Track Pad settings and don’t see anything unchecked that should be >> checked. Thanks >> On Jan 22, 2

Re: Anyone else have a problem with the contextual menu

2014-01-22 Thread Brian Fischler
Ok this problem is really strange as I am only having the issue with the contextual menu in iTunes, in mail the contextual menu works fine. Very bizarre, as I can't choose anything in the contextual menu in iTunes, and it worked fine this morning. On Jan 22, 2014, at 3:43 PM, Brian Fis

Re: Free accessable rss reader on the Mac.

2014-01-22 Thread Brian Fischler
Ok just installed Vienna, but as soon as I go to the preferences in Vienna and VO space bar on the sync tab focus still stays on the general tab, and won’t change to the sync tab, so it looks like the only preferences you can change in Vienna with VO are the general ones. Please let me know if I

Re: Free accessable rss reader on the Mac.

2014-01-22 Thread Brian Fischler
e app does seem pretty good though as I played around with the preloaded feeds. On Jan 22, 2014, at 6:43 PM, Geoff Stephens wrote: > Press VO Shift Space on the desired preference tab to select it with cursor > tracking enabled. > > On Jan 22, 2014, at 5:29 PM, Brian Fischler wrote:

Re: Anyone else have a problem with the contextual menu

2014-01-24 Thread Brian Fischler
, generally, when VO cursor > misbehaves, I go to the list of windows and make sure there is no system > alert stuck in there. Press VO+F2 twice to get to the list. > I think it's a long-standing problem with Mac OS and VOiceOver. > > > On Wednesday, January 22, 2014 2:04

Unreal VoiceOver very choppy again

2014-01-24 Thread Brian Fischler
This is starting to get unbelievably frustrating as when I get to work I expect to work and not deal with hours of hours of VoiceOver problems. I just did a system repair and all was working fine for two days and now VoiceOver is back to being unbelievably choppy when reading anything. Multiple

Re: Unreal VoiceOver very choppy again

2014-01-24 Thread Brian Fischler
The Constantly Barefooted Ray, still a very happy Mac and Iphone 5 user! > > On Jan 24, 2014, at 9:48 AM, Brian Fischler wrote: > >> This is starting to get unbelievably frustrating as when I get to work I >> expect to work and not deal with hours of hours of VoiceOver problems.

Re: Unreal VoiceOver very choppy again

2014-01-24 Thread Brian Fischler
be the ticket for you. >> >> >> Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind >> built-in! >> >> Sincerely, >> The Constantly Barefooted Ray, still a very happy Mac and Iphone 5 user! >> >> On Jan 24, 2014, at 1

Re: Unreal VoiceOver very choppy again

2014-01-24 Thread Brian Fischler
ity for the blind >> built-in! >> >> Sincerely, >> The Constantly Barefooted Ray, still a very happy Mac and Iphone 5 user! >> >> On Jan 24, 2014, at 9:48 AM, Brian Fischler wrote: >> >>> This is starting to get unbelievably frustrating a

Re: Unreal VoiceOver very choppy again

2014-01-24 Thread Brian Fischler
> > Later… > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On Jan 24, 2014, at 10:37 AM, Brian Fischler wrote: > >> Hey Alex, Glad someone else sees it my way. Amazingly, the choppiness has >> gone away again. I just want to find out what is causing it, as it

Re: Unreal VoiceOver very choppy again

2014-01-24 Thread Brian Fischler
ink if your Mac is new and came with Mavericks you can't put >>> Mountain Lion on but I could be wrong about that. >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Cheryl >>> >>> I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. >>> I got crum

Home Phone with bluetooth that speaks to you

2014-01-25 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, Sorry for the off topic post, but this is the only place I thought I might be able to get an answer. I need to get a new home, and just discovered that a lot of home phones can now also connect to your iPhone via bluetooth. I also want the talking caller ID announce feature that my old

Re: logitech bluetooth keyboard that works with three devices?

2014-01-25 Thread Brian Fischler
Ray, yes the Logictech 7600 is very worth the money especially if you want to constantly toggle between multiple devices with the same keyboard, it’s fantastic. On Jan 25, 2014, at 3:54 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > Must look this up. Thanks. > > > Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full a

Saving a Pages Document as a Word Document

2014-01-26 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, Not sure where they moved how to do this as there used to be check box to do this in Mountain Lion. Doesn’t anyone know where they moved this to? Not sure why it wouldn’t be in the save as window somewhere. Not sure why they have to hide stuff like this, really frustrating. Thanks --

Re: clean install: erase whole drive or just Mac partition?

2014-01-26 Thread Brian Fischler
Can’t wait to hear if a clean install fixes your issues Alex. Please let us know, as these mail problems have gotten so annoying. Do you use gmail in mac mail, as I know that is the problem. Although today I am having a lot of problems with choppiness in Pages. Ended up getting so annoyed I just

Re: Saving a Pages Document as a Word Document

2014-01-26 Thread Brian Fischler
ow its > done now. > HTH. > > Matt Dierckens > Macintosh Trainer > Blind Access Training > www.blindaccesstraining.com > 1-877-774-7670 ext. 4 > > > > > On Jan 26, 2014, at 6:06 PM, Brian Fischler wrote: > >> Hey all, >> >> Not sure w

Re: Saving a Pages Document as a Word Document

2014-01-26 Thread Brian Fischler
; > > > > On Jan 26, 2014, at 6:06 PM, Brian Fischler wrote: > >> Hey all, >> >> Not sure where they moved how to do this as there used to be check box to do >> this in Mountain Lion. Doesn’t anyone know where they moved this to? Not >> sure why

Re: clean install: erase whole drive or just Mac partition?

2014-01-26 Thread Brian Fischler
I'll keep an eye (well, an ear, I guess) on things > and let you know if any problems come back. Fingers crossed that they don't! > On Jan 26, 2014, at 6:08 PM, Brian Fischler wrote: > >> Can't wait to hear if a clean install fixes your issues Alex. Please let us &g

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