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Other Alexa functions like asking for the weather work fine on the iPhone.
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well, but I miss the sounds of the hard disk running. When I did not know
whether my previous iMac was kind of what it was doing are used to listen to
the hard disk working way. Hello,
I have recently migrated
layout was good.
Is there any VO friendly App for Mac OS Catalina which uses mark up tags to
create a document and then process it to create PDF or DOCX files?
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the Mac App store which was equally confusing as to
what I actually needed to install if I wanted to go the markdown and LateX
route. However that seems more powerful and expensive than I need.
I would appreciate a bit more advice on what to do.
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Can I do this using disk utility? I have a look at disk utility and it is not
obvious how to do this.
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unreliable and took several hours. As a test I created a
converted Kindle books to the more VO friendly iPub using the
Calibre App. That worked fine but it needs to access the .AZW file for the
Kindle book. I can no longer find this file.
Have any listers recent experience of converting Kindle books to iPub?
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descriptions. How can I get them back?
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Hello,
Many thanks for the suggestion of using the Seeing Eye App as a way to analyse
photographs on my iPhone. I am impressed with the results!
If there is just 1 face in a photo is it possible to name that person so that
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you will see a
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then 1 finger double tap on the confirm button. It was not obvious to me that
there were more edit options beyond the initial edit screen.,
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Hello,
I have recently updated my iMac to the latest Catalina 10.15.4. From time to
time and after initial logon I hear a message that 5 system dialogues are
active. How can I find these dialogues and fix them?
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I am running the latest update to Catalina on my iMac. For some reason the
swishing sound to indicate that an Email has been sent has disappeared. How can
I get it back?
The basso sound to indicate that a new Email has arrived is still working fine.
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I could change the
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the volume of individual sound effects and if so then how.
Also what is the mail sent sound called?
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I am running IOS 13.4.1 on my iPhone 8. My correct contacts and associated
groups are in iCloud and shared with my iMac. However I also have a now
obsolete group local to my iPhone which contains incorrect data. How can I get
rid of this group?
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spurious group
was now on my iMac.
Selected the spurious group on the iMac and then went to the contacts menu and
deleted that group.
That did the trick and the spurious group is now gone from both iMac and
iPhone. All contacts on both devices are now correct!!
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speech off!
I note that on my iPhone I can do a 3 finger double tap to toggle speech on and
off. It would be great if there were a iMac keyboard command to do this.
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thanks to Anders. If anyone wants a step by step on how to add such
short cuts then please contact me.
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it does not seem to pick up and resend the Zoom audio from my speakers. Is the
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thereby see the sensitive files.
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me even when the road in question is just a side road
and not a cross road. Occasionally it very helpfully tells me that the side
road is to my left or my right. I cannot figure out why it only does this on
rare occasions. Any thoughts on this?
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blind user found that the sighted
user was logged on could they do command+shift+q to log them off and get to the
speaking logon screen? Do any listers share a Mac between sighted and blind
users?
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I recover from this situation?
Possibly relevant is that I installed the Logi Options.app. Should I uninstall
that and if so how?
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page down keys. Are they hidden
somewhere?there How do I enter
Anyway it is up and working.
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Hello,
Is there a VoiceOver accessible way to check the battery level
on a Logictech K780 bluetooth keyboard? I checked the box to show battery level
in the menu bar while installing Logictech Options but I cannot see the
battery level anywhere.
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ordinary non-sensitive
data and also the occasional sensitive data which should be protected by a
password which you must enter to either encrypt or decrypt.
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of this problem is that I cannot get to the menu to end the
workout.
Do you have any suggestions on how to resolve this problem?
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workout!
Another approach is to turn on End Workout Reminder in the workout settings. If
you have a short period of inactivity after the workout the Apple Watch will
recognise this and ask if you want to end the workout.
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character as I type it.
IS there any way to restore this behaviour?
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initiate download.
So can you please tell me how to use this App to download a single youtube
video without conversion.
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Should I expect Safari to speak the text in images? I have image recognition
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notifications? I can use Control+Option+N to
get to the list of notifications but what do I do then?
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Monterey. I have now deleted them all! I could not replace the sensitive cable
connecting my time machine disk to my iMac as it is not a standard cable.
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I am running the latest Monterey on my 2018 iMac.
I seem to have accidentally deleted my Safari bookmarks. How can I recover them
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more recent deleted
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I am running the latest Monterey on my 2018 iMac.
I seem to have accidentally deleted my Safari bookmarks. How can I recover them
from my time machine?
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taking me back to my first ever time machine backup a bug which should
be reported to Apple?
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extension permission to access all web site data is dimmed.
I would appreciate any tips from anyone who has gotten this to work. It should
be a great time saver for Safari users in Europe.
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to give the extension permission to access all web site data is dimmed.
I would appreciate any tips from anyone who has gotten this to work. It should
be a great time saver for Safari users in Europe.
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ently had no problems opening such .DOC files with Bean. Note that
currently I can open .DOCX files with Bean OK.
Can I do anything to access these old .DOC files and save them as .DOCX files?
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when in bed and
horizontal.
Telling the time instantly and reliably is an essential function of a watch.
Can anyone recommend a set of options to achieve this for haptic time with VO
set off?
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the above. Note that the Mail in All Inbox also appears in the relevant Inboxes
for each account.
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box? Can any other listers see an “
all Junk” mail box in IOS?
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perhaps by changing
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wrist after removing it for charging?
In summary what is the easiest way for a VO user to secure an Apple Watch?
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every month or so. The problem seems to be that
Apple do not offer an interface for these products to copy the now protected
files to allow booting to an external disk.
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Does anyone know of a VO friendly IOS App which will capture audio played by
Safari, somewhat like Audio Hijack on Mac/OS?
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the copy.
It all worked fine with Catalina with the same disk configuration.
I will contact the developer.
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#x27;t require a workaround and will boot
Big Sur on Intel. It is not yet practical on an M1 Mac, though…
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asks me to choose the correct Pete and it then sends an
invitation to that Pete.
This is bad news as Pete does not have an iPhone and will be very confused by
any Email Siri sends to him.
Is there any way to stop this behaviour?
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arrowing down did nothing.
Now when I get to the oldest message and arrow down I go back to the youngest
message which I find very annoying.
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it? I am
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resultant TXT file back to my iMac. This often gives better results than using
Preview or Abby Fine Reader on my iMac. It would be great if I could run Voice
Dream Reader directly on my iMac.
If this is not possible on an Intel Mac is it possible on an M1 Mac?
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understand that I can accomplish this with a lightning AV adapter and a HDMI
cable with HDMI plugs at each end of the cable.
Have any listers tried this? If so are there any VO related problems? Can you
recommend a lightning AV adapter?
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did not help.
Any suggestions on what to do next? Happily this iPhone 8 is my backup phone
only but I would like it to work!
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As a VoiceOver user on the latest Bigsur how can I delete a notification I have
just read and how can I delete all notifications. Google search tells me how to
do this but assumes I can use the mouse.
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recharge the iPhone, or to upload the iPhone contents to my iMac.
So can anyone recommend a good long lasting non-bluetooth lightning to 3.5 mm
jack adapter?
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don’t mind a modest
one off payment if that helps..
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but that resulted in a zero size
file. Can you please clarify how to download the playing video in Safari.
I noted that there is a record option in my version of VLC and that will
record the currently playing video as an MP4 file in the Movies folder. That
works OK.
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Hello,
This is Paul Hopewell from near Southampton in the UK. I would like to
recommend the 24 July 2020 version of the GPS App Nearby Explorer Online. Most
days I use my long cane for a 3 mile or so exercise walk around the streets of
my suburban neighbourhood. Before GPS I sometimes used to
. Your iPhone is then pointing at the park gate which will help
you find the gate across an open space. In both these situations you do not
need to touch your iPhone screen and you do not even have to open your iPhone
case!
I hope this helps.
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- Nearby Explorer has a nice feature to help you traverse open spaces. Have a
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Hello,
Is it possible for a blind VoiceOver user to use the Measure App on an iPhone 8
running IOS 13.7 to measure the size of a room and then the size of various
items of furniture? It will hopefully not be a tight fit so high precision is
not necessary.
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works. I prefer the Right Arrow and Left
Arrow but can live with the Tab key approach.
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on Bigsur.
Have any others encountered the above problem?
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Hello,
FYI the infoVox iVox voices currently do not work on Mac/Os Bigsur. I have
contacted their support team and have been advised that this is a known issue
which will be fixed by an update to their App next week.
Thesed are my favorite voices so that is goodnews.
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boxes. Mail set up on IOS and Bigsur are identical.
I recall that in the past I had to do something to create say All Archive and
if I could remember what I did I could do the same to create All Junk.
Any ideas?
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I am running IOS 14.2 on my iPhoneSE
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