Re: Help with RSS and Twitter feeds

2013-03-28 Thread Brian Fischler
List be able to tell that I have read tweets on my computer, and is there anyway to jump to last unread with a keyboard shortcut in Night Owl? Thanks so much. On Mar 26, 5:09 pm, Brian Fischler wrote: > Hey all, > > It seems Twitter can't leave well enough alone, and I am surprised

Re: Help with RSS and Twitter feeds

2013-03-29 Thread Brian Fischler
26, 5:09 pm, Brian Fischler wrote: > Hey all, > > It seems Twitter can't leave well enough alone, and I am surprised I > can't find the answer by searching for it. It seems my RSS Google > Reader stopped loading my Twitter feeds on March 21. This happened > once before

Re: Spell Check Just Stops Working in Pages

2013-03-31 Thread Brian Fischler
e them tell me no. I know it is not a purely dedicated voiceover hotline, but come on at least make sure the people working there have a basic understanding of voiceover and know how to turn it on. On Mar 27, 3:55 pm, Brian Fischler wrote: > Yet another unbelievably frustrating problem with Voic

Any Accessible Database Programs for the Mac with VO

2013-05-17 Thread Brian Fischler
I have been using Numbers and have reached the frustration point of all of its issues with VO. There is no search functionality when you need to jump down a spreadsheet since Mountain Lion was introduced as it broke the old search command. Additionally several times a day when enterting info into a

Re: Any Accessible Database Programs for the Mac with VO

2013-05-17 Thread Brian Fischler
h > the program before you begin creating your own database forms. > > I hope this helps! > > Harry > > On May 17, 2013, at 11:20 AM, Brian Fischler wrote: > > > > > > > > > I have been using Numbers and have reached the frustration point of > >

Re: Any Accessible Database Programs for the Mac with VO

2013-05-17 Thread Brian Fischler
lar order number to see what customer > it applies to, you search for it and it quickly brings up that information. > I have to say I haven't used it very much yet, but from what I have used of > it, I love it. > > I hope this is helpful and isn't to confusing. > >

Re: Any Accessible Database Programs for the Mac with VO

2013-05-17 Thread Brian Fischler
lar order number to see what customer > it applies to, you search for it and it quickly brings up that information. > I have to say I haven't used it very much yet, but from what I have used of > it, I love it. > > I hope this is helpful and isn't to confusing. > >

Dragging and Dropping a mailbox to Favorites

2013-05-18 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, I know that has been covered before, and I have read what I could find, but have had no luck. I am trying to drag and drop a mailbox into my favorites in mac mail. I have tried using the keyboard keys VO comma, and have of course gotten the mailbox may be hidden message. I tried doing a c

Re: Dragging and Dropping a mailbox to Favorites

2013-05-18 Thread Brian Fischler
Ricardo Walker > rica...@appletothecore.info > Twitter:@apple2thecore > www.appletothecore.info > > On May 18, 2013, at 2:28 PM, Brian Fischler wrote: > >> Hey all, >> >> I know that has been covered before, and I have read what I could >> find, but have

Re: Dragging and Dropping a mailbox to Favorites

2013-05-18 Thread Brian Fischler
; Ricardo Walker > rica...@appletothecore.info > Twitter:@apple2thecore > www.appletothecore.info > > On May 18, 2013, at 3:27 PM, Brian Fischler wrote: > >> Yes, Have tried all of this in full screen and none full screen but get the >> same error message that the mailbox is not d

Re: Dragging and Dropping a mailbox to Favorites

2013-05-18 Thread Brian Fischler
worked for me. Its VO command shift spacebar on the > folder/mailbox, and VO command shift space again on the favorites bar. > > Ricardo Walker > rica...@appletothecore.info > Twitter:@apple2thecore > www.appletothecore.info > > On May 18, 2013, at 6:18 PM, Brian Fischle

Re: Dragging and Dropping a mailbox to Favorites

2013-05-18 Thread Brian Fischler
tter:@apple2thecore > www.appletothecore.info > > On May 18, 2013, at 7:16 PM, Brian Fischler wrote: > >> Hey Ricardo, >> >> Still no luck here. Just to make sure I am doing this properly. I went to >> the mailbox I want to put into favorites. I clicked VO command

Re: Mail on the MacBook Air

2013-05-18 Thread Brian Fischler
Go to preferences in mail and turn threads off. It makes reading mail so much easier. On May 18, 2013, at 8:06 PM, Katey Glass wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm fairly new to the Mac and am having a hard time reading threaded > conversations in email. I'm not sure how to open the threaded message.

Re: interesting observation with the newest skype

2013-05-20 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, so I just installed Skype and figured I would give it a try, I got logged in through Facebook, and now am getting a bunch of busy busy messages. Has anyone done a podcast or anything like that to getting started with Skype and Voiceover. I have played around with Skype a little before b

Re: interesting observation with the newest skype

2013-05-20 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, Wow, it blows me away sometimes at the problems I have with Voiceover. I keep getting stuck in busy mode with Skype and having to force quit the program as it is not responding. Not sure how everyone else is able to use Skype, as I think this is why I gave up on Skype the last time, an

Re: Ideas for games?

2013-05-20 Thread Brian Fischler
As a big sports fan, and someone who could once see, I really miss all the baseball strategy games. Not sure why none of these games like Strat-o-Matic where you can use any player from any team isn't accessible, as this is a dice based game, and not a graphics game. There should be a fantasy li

Re: interesting observation with the newest skype

2013-05-20 Thread Brian Fischler
to > access the home screen, but these go away within seconds. You might try a > Skype reinstall and see if it helps. > > HtH, > Teresa > On May 20, 2013, at 10:00 AM, Brian Fischler wrote: > >> Hey all, >> >> Wow, it blows me away sometimes at the problems

Re: interesting observation with the newest skype

2013-05-20 Thread Brian Fischler
> Extension 170 > > Skype: Brandt.steenkamp007 > > SIP: 5500...@spokn.com > > Twitter: brandtsteenkamp > > On 20 May 2013, at 7:50 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote: > >> Hmmm, that could be the case. I haven't used it in conjunction with facebook >> yet at

Re: interesting observation with the newest skype

2013-05-20 Thread Brian Fischler
Krister > > 20 maj 2013 kl. 19:45 skrev Brian Fischler : > >> Hey Theresa, >> >> Just deleted Skype reinstalled, and still busy busy busy. When I got to >> Force Quit Skype says it is not responding. Does Skype not work with >> Facebook, as my account is

Noise Canceling Hadphones and Voiceover

2013-05-21 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, Living in an area where they recently changed the flight patterns, I am being driven crazy by the airplanes, and noisy neighbors. I had bought a cheap pair of noise canceling headphones, but like anything you get what you pay for. I did a search for the best noise canceling, most of wh

Re: Using messaging with fb chat

2013-05-21 Thread Brian Fischler
Yes, I have been using this method to chat for a bit, and it doesn't seem to sync up your messages sent via the web or iPhone, at least it works to send messages through messages On May 21, 2013, at 1:15 PM, dr.abdull...@gmail.com wrote: > Hello I found way to chat with messages app > By adding

Re: Noise Canceling Hadphones and Voiceover

2013-05-21 Thread Brian Fischler
eiser.com/headphones/travel > > CB > > On 5/21/13 12:34 PM, Brian Fischler wrote: >> Hey all, >> >> Living in an area where they recently changed the flight patterns, I am >> being driven crazy by the airplanes, and noisy neighbors. I had bought a >>

Re: Noise Canceling Hadphones and Voiceover

2013-05-22 Thread Brian Fischler
like the Sennheiser headphones: >> >> http://en-de.sennheiser.com/headphones/travel >> >> CB >> >> On 5/21/13 12:34 PM, Brian Fischler wrote: >>> Hey all, >>> >>> Living in an area where they recently changed the flight patterns, I am

Re: Dragging and Dropping a mailbox to Favorites

2013-05-22 Thread Brian Fischler
Ah I am having one of those I hate mac days. Everything was working fine than the mailbox I had moved into my favorites and all of its contents had vanished. I of course recreated it and am now once again having the problem of moving it back into favorites as the method I used before which I bel

Re: solving visual captchas with mac and safari

2013-05-22 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, I did something the other day that worked, as I took a screen capture of the screen I think it was VO command 3 and then pasted it an email sent it to someone and they told me what the screen capture was, yes a pain but it worked. On May 22, 2013, at 5:53 PM, Brandon Olivares wrote: >

Re: Dragging and Dropping a mailbox to Favorites

2013-05-24 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey Nicholas, You must be one of the very few lucky ones to never have had an I hate my mac day. I tried exactly what you suggested, even quit every application closed everything and restarted my mac, then opened mail first after a restart, and still got the message VO cannot drag the item as t

Re: Dragging and Dropping a mailbox to Favorites

2013-05-24 Thread Brian Fischler
ain Lion and LION > > AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE > > MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT > > > > > On May 24, 2013, at 1:42 PM, Brian Fischler wrote: > >> Hey Nicholas, >> >> You must be one of the very few lucky ones to n

Re: Expanding & collapsing mailboxes in Mountain Lion

2013-05-24 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey, I think I did the same thing recently. If you are looking to expand and collapse mailboxes and the standard VO left and right arrows isn't working, try the old command of VO slash the key to the right of the right bracket and below backspace, it is working on mine to collapse and expand ma

Re: What would you all like to see in scripts to speak system status?

2013-05-24 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey Alex, Very cool. I would love something if possible to make using the widgets more accessible not sure if that is possible through scripts. Also for us dummies is there anywhere we can read up on starting out with scripts. I have never used any except the time one that you can use through k

Re: Dragging and Dropping a mailbox to Favorites

2013-05-25 Thread Brian Fischler
: > >> Hi, >> >> Just curious, do you have the preview pane open in Mail? I don't, I'm >> wondering if this might be why your having difficulty moving a mailbox to >> favorites, an I'm not? >> >> Ricardo Walker >> rica...

Re: Expanding & collapsing mailboxes in Mountain Lion

2013-05-25 Thread Brian Fischler
ap structure of my personal account. > Where as for the gmail account, I can see all the imap structure. > > Gena > > On 24 May 2013, at 23:56, Brian Fischler wrote: > >> Hey, >> >> I think I did the same thing recently. If you are looking to expand and >&g

iTunes Question Resuming Play from last position

2013-05-25 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, I am not sure what I am doing wrong here, as I have downloaded a bunch of audio movies, and have gone into the Get Info section and options and checked the box to play from last position, yet if I start watching a movie and pause it to resume a day or two later, the movie always goes b

Re: iTunes Question Resuming Play from last position

2013-05-25 Thread Brian Fischler
www.appletothecore.info > > On May 25, 2013, at 6:20 PM, Brian Fischler wrote: > >> Hey all, >> >> I am not sure what I am doing wrong here, as I have downloaded a bunch of >> audio movies, and have gone into the Get Info section and options and >> checke

Re: Dragging and Dropping a mailbox to Favorites

2013-05-26 Thread Brian Fischler
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Re: Dragging and Dropping a mailbox to Favorites

2013-05-27 Thread Brian Fischler
I tried moving a mailbox in classic mail and in the regular version, and of course got the same error message in both that the mailbox is not draggable. I also wasn't able to do it the old way with a VO shift space bar, which is what worked a few weeks ago when I first wanted to move the mailbox

Re: Dragging and Dropping a mailbox to Favorites

2013-05-27 Thread Brian Fischler
using the regular view, not Classic. > • You must Interact with the given Mailbox from within the Mailboxes Table in > order to Mark it otherwise the "Not Draggable" message will be heard. > > Later... > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On 2013-05

Re: Dragging and Dropping a mailbox to Favorites

2013-05-29 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey guys, Must be some kind of a VO issue on my machine, as I followed all of your steps exactly from the F5 and sure enough the drafts mailbox was under the VO cursor the entire time. I also checked my settings per Tim's email and my navigation was properly set up per his suggestions. I am sti

Re: Dragging and Dropping a mailbox to Favorites

2013-05-29 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey Jürgen Did you try doing all of this in non classic view? I am the one who started this thread and wasn't able to move a mailbox into the favorites until I tried all of Tim's great steps with classic view turned off. Good luck On May 29, 2013, at 5:37 AM, Jürgen Fleger wrote: > Jürgen --

Re: Dragging and Dropping a mailbox to Favorites

2013-05-29 Thread Brian Fischler
appear and disappear so would it make a difference if you > have a drafted message in the box then tried to move it! > Only guessing! > Colin > > On 29 May 2013, at 13:58, Brian Fischler wrote: > >> Hey guys, >> >> Must be some kind of a VO issue on my mach

Re: Wait to crash numbers

2013-05-29 Thread Brian Fischler
I haven't had that specific problem but the list of voiceover issues with numbers is long, and yes I have spoken to Apple Accessibility several times about them, and gotten the standard, we're aware of the problem, but can't comment on when it might be fixed. I have given up on numbers and moved

Re: Dragging and Dropping a mailbox to Favorites

2013-05-30 Thread Brian Fischler
can duplicate this in Mail for > you. > > Later... > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On 2013-05-29, at 8:15 AM, Brian Fischler wrote: > >> Hey Thought you might be on to something about drafts, but I just cleared >> the folder out so there ar en

Re: Yurufukurou and Lists

2013-05-30 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey Rebecca Are you talking about viewing lists in Night Owl, sorry can't spell the Japanese name of it. You can view your lists as tabs buy going to the settings and going to tabs in the toolbar, under tabs go to the final option and open it you can set what lists show up as tabs here. Good luc

Re: Dragging and Dropping a mailbox to Favorites

2013-05-30 Thread Brian Fischler
gt; Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On 2013-05-30, at 8:44 AM, Brian Fischler wrote: > >> Hey Tim, >> >> I did have safari open in the background. I have shut it quit mail, and >> toggled VO off and on, then relaunched mail, but even with safari closed >> can&#x

Re: Dragging and Dropping a mailbox to Favorites

2013-05-30 Thread Brian Fischler
users use when using > the trackpad commander or on an iOS device, an actual double-click. > > Let me know what things do. thanks for your help. > > Later... > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On 2013-05-30, at 4:40 PM, Brian Fischler wrote: > >&g

Re: Dragging and Dropping a mailbox to Favorites

2013-05-30 Thread Brian Fischler
ter... > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On 2013-05-30, at 6:46 PM, Brian Fischler wrote: > >> Hey Tim, Interesting, actually we were talking about the same thing, I meant >> with the trackpad commander turned off not VO. Anyway, this is interesting >&

Re: Dragging and Dropping a mailbox to Favorites

2013-05-31 Thread Brian Fischler
r personal life, I'm just nosy. > > Later... > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On 2013-05-30, at 9:52 PM, Brian Fischler wrote: > >> Hey that's kind of personal Tim. Kidding. >> >> keyboard focus follows VO cursor Checked, Vo c

Re: Dragging and Dropping a mailbox to Favorites

2013-05-31 Thread Brian Fischler
outlined above with > respect to the Mouse pointer behaviour is how my computer is behaving and > other folks may report things differently, but I thought that it was worth a > try. > > Later... > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On 2013-05-30, at 9:52

Blind Mice Movies Remembering Playback Position

2013-06-02 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, I have been loving the content from Blind Mice Moves, but don't always have the time to watch a whole movie, and have been using iTunes to listen to the movies, and have the remember checkbox position checked in iTunes for the movie track, but that never seems to work. It had been sug

Frustrating Problem with QuickNav

2013-06-03 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, I'm curious to see if anyone else has this unbelievably frustrating problem with QuickNav, where it just completely stops working. You can be using it fine and then all of the sudden you can't even toggle it on or off with the arrows, and the only way to get QuickNav to start working a

Re: Frustrating Problem with QuickNav

2013-06-03 Thread Brian Fischler
ommand shift U to get to the utilities or command shift A Etc > etc and on occasions I can't open mail or tell the time if I do right option > M or right option T. > > Kawal. > > On 3 Jun 2013, at 04:01 PM, Brian Fischler wrote: > >> Hey all, >> &

Re: Frustrating Problem with QuickNav

2013-06-03 Thread Brian Fischler
VO. Just a theory. > > Les > On Jun 3, 2013, at 11:01 AM, Brian Fischler wrote: > >> Hey all, >> >> I'm curious to see if anyone else has this unbelievably frustrating problem >> with QuickNav, where it just completely stops working. You can be using it

Re: OCR: what does Abbyy offer that Prizmo does not?

2013-06-04 Thread Brian Fischler
I am also curious to hear more about Abby and Prizmo if anyone has used both of them. I have a cancan and have been using the software that comes with it to scan into PDF's and reading in preview. Do Prizmo and ABBY scan better as sometimes my scans come out only partially which can be a pain wh

Apple TV and Speakers Question

2013-06-04 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, Can anyone suggest a good pair of speakers to go with Apple TV that won't break the bank. I am looking to get Apple TV primarily to connect to my mac and iPhone and want to be able to play music, podcasts, and Blind Mice movies over it. Not sure if I even need the Apple TV, as I am loo

Re: Is Facebook Now Completely Broken

2012-08-23 Thread Brian Fischler
Randy is this something you do through Safari or do you go to that menu you have to be using Fiefox? I heard Firefox was still a mess, so do not even use it. Thanks. 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 > ge

Help No Way To Switch to Old Google Groups

2012-08-24 Thread Brian Fischler
Does anyone have the link to switch to the old Google Groups. It blows my mind how impossible it is to navigate this thread in the new google groups. I found the help page on Google and have clicked switch to the old google groups ten times, and it still will not switch. Additionally, under new

Re: Help No Way To Switch to Old Google Groups

2012-08-24 Thread Brian Fischler
to use with the new google groups? Also, can you use these keyboard shortcuts in safari or just chrome? I can't imagine that I am the only having so much difficulty navigating this group On Aug 24, 4:59 pm, Brian Fischler wrote: > Does anyone have the link to switch to the old Google Gr

Re: ML .1, first look.

2012-08-24 Thread Brian Fischler
Veronica, I think I was having the same problem. When I would load a new tab in safari it would first want me to interact with the html content instead of going directly into interacting with the page. This has happened to me several times, and I have spoken to Apple about it, but I also figured ou

Re: ML .1, first look.

2012-08-24 Thread Brian Fischler
Glad I could help Veronica. It was driving me nuts to having to interact with pages before getting to the content, couldn't believe when I discovered toggling VO off and on fixed it. Talk about a Bug On Aug 23, 8:59 pm, Alex Hall wrote: > Safari works fine for me, always interacting with the html

Re: Yorufukurou and Twitmarker

2012-08-29 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey, I wish I had an answer for you. Please do let me know if you figure out how to get it to work, as I was looking to get a twit marker program, but I think they are paided, and wanted to find out how accessible they were before purchasing one. Thanks On Aug 28, 9:02 am, Steve Holmes wrote: > T

Help with Flash for my Fantasy Football Draft

2012-08-31 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, Been a real bad two days as everything I have tried does not work whether using the Iphone of my mac. It is pretty pathetic that Yahoo, ESPN, and a few other sites still have such poor accessibility to screen readers. For example, I am in a few fantasy football leagues and pick em leagues

Re: Help with Flash for my Fantasy Football Draft

2012-08-31 Thread Brian Fischler
, Brian Fischler wrote: > Hey all, > > Been a real bad two days as everything I have tried does not work > whether using the Iphone of my mac. It is pretty pathetic that Yahoo, > ESPN, and a few other sites still have such poor accessibility to > screen readers. For example, I a

Is the old Google Groups finally Gone

2012-09-10 Thread Brian Fischler
Is the old Google Groups finally gone? The only way I had to navigate this forum was in the old google groups. I got logged out of Google which is almost impossible to do, and when I logged back in I was automatically taken to the new google groups, and I can't find anyway to set this group back

Re: sending an email to multiple people?

2012-09-10 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, Another mail question, what about using your contacts to send a bulk email? I have never figured out how to do this using mammal. Is there a way to pull up your contact address book in mail and select multiple contacts to mail, or to do this in the contacts app? I have played around with

External Speakers for the iMac?

2012-09-10 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, I would like to get some external speakers for the Imac as I listen to movies with descriptive video through the web. The only other option I would like is to have the option to hook my Iphone up to the speakers as well. I probably don't care if they are bluetooth or wired as long as they

Re: External Speakers for the iMac?

2012-09-11 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey Tim, Just wanted to say thanks for the suggestions, I will check these out On Sep 10, 11:35 pm, Brian Fischler wrote: > Hey all, > > I would like to get some external speakers for the Imac as I listen to > movies with descriptive video through the web. The only other option I >

Numbers Help with doing a Find

2012-09-11 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, well the geniuses at Apple were no help, maybe that is why they dropped the genius tag. All of this worked in Lion, but doesn't work in Mountain Lion. I called Apple and the Voiceover specialist had no clue how to use numbers and the numbers specialist I am pretty sure had never heard of V

Is it me or does Quick Nav have a mind of its own in Mountain Lion

2012-09-12 Thread Brian Fischler
One of my favorite things about using Voiceover is Quick Nav, as I use it to speed around the computer. Since installing Mountain Lion, I feel this is yet another feature that has moved backwards. Several times a day Quick Nav will just stop working and will not respond. I have to turn VO off by do

Can't Connect to the App Store

2012-09-16 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, strangest problem on my first generation Ipad. It can't connect to the App Store. I called Apple, but of course the warranty expired. I can download new apps, or go to an App that is already on my Ipad and update it, but when I go to the Update tab in the App store I get an error message t

Re: Can't Connect to the App Store

2012-09-16 Thread Brian Fischler
Brian On Sep 16, 6:11 pm, Brian Fischler wrote: > Hey all, strangest problem on my first generation Ipad. It can't > connect to the App Store. I called Apple, but of course the warranty > expired. I can download new apps, or go to an App that is already on > my Ipad and upda

Accessible PDF Editor

2012-09-18 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, Amazingly Adobe Acrobat Pro has a section to make PDFs accessible to screen readers, yet when I click on it and it walks me through the screen reader setup, I am finding that I still cannot read a PDF or edit one. Does anyone know of a program that will allow you to make edits to your PDF

Re: Accessible PDF Editor

2012-09-18 Thread Brian Fischler
For Macs On Sep 18, 4:06 pm, Brian Fischler wrote: > Hey all, > > Amazingly Adobe Acrobat Pro has a section to make PDFs accessible to > screen readers, yet when I click on it and it walks me through the > screen reader setup, I am finding that I still cannot read a PDF or &

Re: Accessible PDF Editor

2012-09-19 Thread Brian Fischler
lity  VoiceOver accessibility for it, but > it hasn't happened yet. > Say, if you're up to it, you might as well join the rest of us in telling > them that we need. The more the better. > Gigi > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Sep 18, 2012, at 7:08 PM, Brian Fischle

Re: iOS 6

2012-09-19 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey guys, about how long did the update take? Just started installing now. Thanks On Sep 19, 2:19 pm, Timothy Hornik wrote: > Loving git. > > The Zoom working in conjunction with Voice Over is simply magical. I am low > vision, and always hated having to chose one or the other, but now :) > > Ab

When might we expect a Voiceover Improvement in 10.8

2012-09-20 Thread Brian Fischler
I know that we are not Apple's main focus group, but two updates to 10.8 and still not one improvement to Voiceover? There are some pretty basic fixable things, that I am very disappointed that Apple has not addressed in either update. And before I get blasted for posting anything negative on this

Re: When might we expect a Voiceover Improvement in 10.8

2012-09-20 Thread Brian Fischler
I am sure is some very advanced design work. On Sep 20, 4:46 pm, Brian Fischler wrote: > I know that we are not Apple's main focus group, but two updates to > 10.8 and still not one improvement to Voiceover? There are some pretty > basic fixable things, that I am very disappointed

Re: When might we expect a Voiceover Improvement in 10.8

2012-09-20 Thread Brian Fischler
helps. On Sep 20, 4:46 pm, Brian Fischler wrote: > I know that we are not Apple's main focus group, but two updates to > 10.8 and still not one improvement to Voiceover? There are some pretty > basic fixable things, that I am very disappointed that Apple has not > addressed in e

Re: menu tab for facebook?

2012-09-29 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey guys, I started using it about a month ago when the Facebook site decided to start saying combo box on any text field, and you couldn't hear what you were typing. This app isn't a perfect solution but at least you can use a lot of it with VO. Regarding the question of how to search for friends,

Re: described content on iTunes, plus purchasing questions

2012-10-03 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey guys, Just wanted to chime in here, as it really is ashame how ignored we the blind are when it comes to described video. For example, I have yet to find a Netflix title through Netflix streaming offer descriptive video. Then again, I think that Netflix just recently was pressured into providin

Re: system dialog but not there

2012-10-05 Thread Brian Fischler
I get this problem at least twice a month and don't even really use skype. I think it might be some kind of alert about the battery dying in the keyboard or trackpad for bluetooth. The only way I can get the annoying announcement to go away is by restarting the computer. would love to hear if anyon

Re: described content on iTunes, plus purchasing questions

2012-10-07 Thread Brian Fischler
wasting my time with them. And yes, I do know these things take time. I have been emailing Apple for years. On Oct 4, 12:30 am, Brian Fischler wrote: > Hey guys, Just wanted to chime in here, as it really is ashame how > ignored we the blind are when it comes to described video. For > exa

Re: Unlabeled Buttons in Newsrack?

2012-10-09 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey, I use Newsrack all the time, not sure what buttons you are referring to where are these unlabled buttons? I assume you are using it on the mac? On Oct 6, 10:12 am, Teresa Cochran wrote: > Hi, all, > > There are a number of unlabeled buttons in the Newsrack newsreader. Does > anyone know wha

Re: Question About Building A Website

2012-10-09 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey guys, I have been trying to find a solution to edit my websites that work with Voiceover. Does anyone know with Rapid Weaver if the icons are accessible as I am not familiar with writing code or html. When I could still see a little I was able to update my sites by editing in a template, but h

Problem with Google Reader and Twitter Feeds?

2012-10-20 Thread Brian Fischler
Anyone else have their Twitter feeds they follow in Google Reader just all vanish? I just noticed that all the Twitter feeds I follow through Google reader have vanished on my mac through Newsrack, I tried to load them on my Iphone through As Feeds and it timed out. Anyone else having this problem?

Blind Mice Mart Movie Vault

2012-10-31 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, Ok, so I finally found the Blind Mice Mart movie vault, but when I go to download a movie, it takes me to another website saying pay for your downloads. Is this whole Blind Mice Mart movie vault just a scam for the Blind Mice Mart to sell products? Has anyone successfully been able to dow

Re: Blind Mice Mart Movie Vault

2012-10-31 Thread Brian Fischler
tch or the Icloud. Thanks for the help On Oct 31, 4:42 pm, Brian Fischler wrote: > Hey all, > > Ok, so I finally found the Blind Mice Mart movie vault, but when I go > to download a movie, it takes me to another website saying pay for > your downloads. Is this whole Blind Mice Mar

Re: Blind Mice Mart Movie Vault

2012-10-31 Thread Brian Fischler
Itunes on the computer but they don't transfer, I have tried transferring to aac as well. If anyone has had any luck downloading from Blind Mice Mart and then getting the file transferred to their Iphone please do let us know. Thanks On Oct 31, 4:42 pm, Brian Fischler wrote: > Hey all, >

Re: Blind Mice Mart Movie Vault

2012-10-31 Thread Brian Fischler
Thanks for that suggestions.Some of them are starting to appear on my Iphone through Imatch so maybe it is only a matter of time, and great suggestion on remember playback spot and naming the artist. On Oct 31, 4:42 pm, Brian Fischler wrote: > Hey all, > > Ok, so I finally found the B

Re: Blind Mice Mart Movie Vault

2012-11-01 Thread Brian Fischler
e for them to transfer through Itunes Match. At least now I don't have to sit at my computer to listen to them, and I can take them wherever I go. On Oct 31, 4:42 pm, Brian Fischler wrote: > Hey all, > > Ok, so I finally found the Blind Mice Mart movie vault, but when I go > t

Re: Numbers reports "busy" when working with long spreadsheet

2012-11-22 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey guys, I have had several problems with numbers since the mountain lion updated, and emailed apple accessibility a few weeks back. I never heard anything as I did express my disappointment with how poor an apple product like numbers worked with VO. I finally heard back from Apple and they said

Re: mountain lion impressions

2012-11-23 Thread Brian Fischler
Does anyone have a guide to doing a clean install of Mountain Lion? I have nothing but busy busy problems in everything I run on my 2010 iMac in safari, mail, new rack, everything is constantly busy busy Maybe a clean install will fix it, otherwise I find the mac has become unusable at these times

Google problems again

2012-11-26 Thread Brian Fischler
Well Google did it again. Not sure how anyone in the world can say google cares about accessibility and the fact that there is a Google Access Twitter account is absolutely laughable. They changed how Google search results come up, and go figure you used to be able to click on search tools as a lot

Re: Google problems again

2012-11-27 Thread Brian Fischler
Just wanted to say thanks to those of you who offered a solution. To the guy who had time to read the post three times seriously, you don't have any issues with google? Try browsing google groups on a mac with safari then maybe you will get it On Nov 26, 10:02 pm, Brian Fischler wrote: &

Re: Google problems again

2012-11-28 Thread Brian Fischler
rs or last week, I ended up using Yahoo where I was able to filter my search options. I'm sure google is trembling at the thought of losing me. LOL On Nov 26, 10:02 pm, Brian Fischler wrote: > Well Google did it again. Not sure how anyone in the world can say > google cares about acces

Re: Mac Mail threads stop expanding

2017-08-09 Thread Brian Fischler
A quick fix for this is to turn VO off than hit the left and right arrows three or four times and turn VO back on and it will work again. Frustrating but this is a quick fix. > On Aug 6, 2017, at 9:04 PM, Gabe Griffith wrote: > > Hi, > > I also have this happen from time to time. I fine that i

Re: Twitterrific returns to the Mac as a modern Twitter client w/ themes, muffle syncing, more

2017-10-14 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, very exciting about this, but can anyone let me know what the benefit is to using this app over Night Owl which I currently use? Debating the $20 is worth it. Thanks > On Oct 11, 2017, at 3:23 PM, christopher hallsworth > wrote: > > Hello, have just purchased this app, love the iOS c

Re: Twitterrific returns to the Mac as a modern Twitter client w/ themes, muffle syncing, more

2017-10-14 Thread Brian Fischler
rrific, though the company says > that feature is coming soon. > > * Again, I'm probably forgetting some. > > -- > Alex Hall > > > > >> On Oct 14, 2017, at 18:10, Brian Fischler > <mailto:brianfisch...@me.com>> wrote: >> >> Hey

Re: Logitech Keyboards

2018-01-08 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey, I have the K780 and it was working fantastic until yesterday as for some odd reason the O key broke. Will probably buy it again as the switching between three devices works fantastic. Only issue is and this is probably high sierra is at start up of my mac I need to pl;ug in a usb keyboard a

Re: direct TV now, live chat, and 72 hour rewind option

2016-12-10 Thread Brian Fischler
Sorry if I missed the beginning of this but how is the accessibility of the channel listings on both the iPhone and AppleTV? Thanks, > On Dec 10, 2016, at 12:23 PM, Mary Otten wrote: > > Limited access unless you want to pay seven dollars a month. > Mary > > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Dec

Re: direct TV now, live chat, and 72 hour rewind option

2016-12-10 Thread Brian Fischler
, and depending on what you want to do, you can > certainly use the app, and the price is right with all those channels for > just $35. But accessible it is not, not by anyone's definition that might > involve any sort of standard. > Mary > > > Sent from my iPhone >

Major Numbers Issue Question

2018-02-17 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey All, Not sure if this is device specific. I am running the latest build of High Sierra and Numbers. And Numbers will not allow me to type anything in the Column header rows. I am talking about the first row going down vertically. Anyone else having this issue? Thanks, -- The following in

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