I also updated and my word is go for it. Just goes to show that know two people
are going to have the same experience. If you are nervous about updating and
don't need to, then don't. If you don't really have anything to lose, go ahead.
If no one updates, then nobody can report bugs to Apple o
When you come across a word that you have misspelled, press the down arrow key.
You will hear your first suggestion. Use right and left arrow keys to review
suggestions and press enter when you find the one you want. I use it all the
time and like it a lot.
Sent from my iPhone
> On Oct 20, 201
I also have the same clock with the missing battery cover. LOL I have a cat to
thank for that.
Sent from my iPhone
> On Oct 19, 2014, at 11:56 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
>
>
> I had all of those you mention specifically - lol! Still have the talking
> clock, a bit dented from being dropped and
Trying to imagine Fleksy as an alternate keyboard
Greetings all,
As much as I like using Fleksy to type on my iPhone, I frequently find that I
need to use the native iOS keyboard to edit a mistake I made earlier without
realizing it. If I could use Fleksy as the default keyboard in the iPhone
If you have SeroTek's Accessibility Anywhere package which includes DocuScan
Plus, you can connect to SAMNet from within iBlink Radio and view scanned
documents right from iBlink. I suspect this is where some of the confusion
is coming from. You cannot, however, scan documents from iOS at this time
I think the reference to the better voice is in regard to Google Now rather
than the Google TTS.
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You cannot, however, add a contact using Siri. As much as I agree with all
comments about how great the iPhone is, I feel that we need to try to answer
the specific questions as much as possible. I am pretty sure you can use a
Bluetooth keyboard to dial phone numbers, although I haven't done so. Al
Have you taken a look at dock you scam plus?
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On Jul 12, 2013, at 6:55 AM, Eugenia Firth wrote:
> Hi there
> I have the combination of fine reader and VueScan. I tried doing the OCR
> with ViewScan by itself, and I didn't like it. I'm doing English scanning.
> Gigi
>
> S
Apple maps with Siri works great. I am also quite impressed with NAVIGON.
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On Jul 27, 2013, at 8:25 PM, Shen wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> My wife and I are going to Italy in September for our vacation.
> What GPS apps would you recommend that will work well when we are there? We
I find that Rhapsody on the iPhone is much more accessible than Spotify. I also
use Rhapsody on the Windows side but have not tried it with the Mac. I am
speaking of the web client not the desktop client.
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On Aug 3, 2013, at 3:03 PM, Jessica Moss wrote:
> I noticed that mys
Dropbox will quickly lock down someone's account if a lot of people start
downloading files. I am thinking of the time when Curtis Delzer tried to share
his Samsung Haven podcasts via Dropbox. Perhaps Mike might charge a nominal fee
for his new Mac tutorials.
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On Aug 9, 201
I have no idea what their criteria is.
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On Aug 9, 2013, at 3:44 PM, Edward Green wrote:
> Hi Jamie,
>
> How many is a lot? I get a journal once a quarter that a hundred or so people
> download and it seems to work.
>
> Ed
> On 9 Aug 2013, at 21:3
I would also be interested in that Dropbox link. Thanks.
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Subject: Found Mike's Old Mac Podcasts From Blind C
Greetings, all:
I teach a music appreciation class at a local community college in my area.
This semester, I am required to use Blackboard in the instruction of my class.
Fortunately, I am not required to use many of the functions of Blackboard. A
very basic use of the system is all that is req
Mac. Who knows. There may even
be a discussion on the SeroTalk Podcast Network's Triple-click Home podcast
at some point. Again for those who don't know, I produce that podcast.
Several of the team members are on this list as well.
Take care and have a great weekend.
Jamie Pauls
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you say. When I go to
upload my assignment today I'll try uploading it with Blackboard on my IOS
device and let you know.
On 08/24/13 09:51, Jamie Pauls wrote:
> Greetings, all:
>
> I teach a music appreciation class at a local community college in my
area. This semester, I am requ
You can also see your dropbox folders in home as well. That's generally how I
do it.
Sent from my iPhone
On Sep 17, 2013, at 12:39 PM, Ray Foret jr wrote:
> When you land on the Drop Box Icon in the menu bar, do these things, making
> sure that your track pad commander is off.
>
> 1. Press
Unlock your phone and then do a three-finger swipe down. That will open the
searchfield.
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To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
The problem may be with the Facebook app. The latest version doesn't let you
view notifications anymore. It seems to be quite a bit more sluggish for me as
well.
Sent from my iPhone
> On Sep 20, 2013, at 9:25 PM, Jessica Moss wrote:
>
> I just noticed when I was typing a message on facebook o
The archive option is the one you want. I'm not sure why you didn't see it
before as that is what I have always seen with my Gmail account. You will also
find that swiping up takes you immediately to the archive option rather than
having to swipe down several times.
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> On S
setting the option to headset but
the problem persists. Is anyone else able to reproduce this problem and have
you found a workaround?
Thanks for any and all responses.
Jamie Pauls
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It is probably not an issue that affects 100% of users, but it definitely
has been reported from multiple sources.
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Hi, Randy:
I think what you were dealing with is something called Google instant. If I
understand correctly, this causes webpages to change dynamically. You should
find a link on the screen that says something like screen reader users click
here. That will turn off Google instant and you shou
way to apply actual heading levels in Text Edit. Centering appears
to be the closest I can get.
Any and all help would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Take care and have a great day.
Jamie Pauls
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> • Bring the mouse.
> • Interact.
> • Press VO-Cmd-j.
> • Navigate right to the Menu button and click it.
> • Select Delete Style … and press Return.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Anne
>
>
>
>> On 8 Feb 2015, at 05:23, Jamie Pauls wrote:
>>
>> H
Most definitely. As Alex stated earlier, I tend to keep Alex at around 65 to
70%. That seems to work best for me here.
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I’m not the guy to do it, I don’t
think. Regardless of the method, an explanation of how to get a word count in a
document would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for the help.
Take care and have a great day.
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word processor I need
and Pages seems a bit more frustrating to me that it’s worth. I’ll keep
plugging away, though. Thanks.
Take care and have a great day.
Jamie Pauls
jamiepa...@gmail.com
> On Feb 12, 2015, at 11:30 AM, Anne Robertson wrote:
>
> Hello Jamie,
>
> To get the
for the help.
Take care and have a great day.
Jamie Pauls
jamiepa...@gmail.com
> On Feb 12, 2015, at 11:30 AM, Anne Robertson wrote:
>
> Hello Jamie,
>
> To get the number of words, characters, paragraphs, etc in Pages, just go to
> the View menu and down to Show Word Coun
it
will give you other options such as Character count. You find the Word Count
button to the right of the document layout area.
Cheers,
Anne
On 12 Feb 2015, at 21:34, Jamie Pauls mailto:jamiepa...@gmail.com> > wrote:
Hi, Anne and all,
After closing Pages and relaunch
Greetings, all:
This afternoon, I installed Dropbox on my MacBook. When I go into applications
and attempt to open the program, I receive a message that Dropbox has no
windows. I successfully signed in to DB when installing. Any pointers will be
appreciated.
Thanks.
Jamie Pauls
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f them. I think
> this is a bug in the operating system that's been there for some time, but
> the voiceover keys will get you to the item you want.
> On Feb 28, 2013, at 6:39 PM, Jamie Pauls wrote:
>
>> Greetings, all:
>>
>> This afternoon, I installed Dropbox
under there. The menu icon is for
> showing upload and download status, preferences, and so on.
> On Feb 28, 2013, at 8:23 PM, Jamie Pauls wrote:
>
>> Drop Box says it is starting. I have seen this for quite some time. Do I
>> need to either restart the Mac or quit and rel
Hi Alex,
You say in your message below that one should disable the username and hash tag
auto fill options. Why is this a good idea? Thanks.
Sent from my iPhone
On Mar 2, 2013, at 12:46 PM, Pamela J Francis wrote:
> Hi Alex,
> Thank you very much for your in depth explanation of this program.
sing
> focus or failing to read back text. I find it much easier to just leave them
> off and use the reply command instead of typing names.
> On Mar 2, 2013, at 4:08 PM, Jamie Pauls wrote:
>
>> Hi Alex,
>>
>> You say in your message below that one should disable t
Hi, all:
I'm joining this thread late so please forgive me if this has already been
answered. Can the Braille Edge now be used with iOS 6? I recall at one point
that you couldn't use the product with an iPhone. Thanks.
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I suspect we will see a fix before too long.
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On Mar 12, 2013, at 8:09 PM, Matthew Campbell wrote:
> Hello all.
> Further to the thread I started on the brokenness of DropBox's latest update,
> this is the response I've gotten.
> Not much, but they are aware of the issues.
Perhaps a more up-to-date and also more easily digestible set of podcasts are
those done by David Woodbridge of Vision Australia.
Sent from my iPhone
On Mar 29, 2013, at 11:06 AM, Tim Mehok wrote:
> Brandt,
> I would go to blindcooltech.com and check the older podcasts of Mike Arrigo.
>
> He
Also check out Change Reaction and Silver Dollar from Draconis Entertainment.
Sent from my iPhone
On Mar 28, 2013, at 7:49 PM, Sean Murphy wrote:
> Inquisitor is another VI friendly game which is very good. Costs about 18:00
> On 29/03/2013, at 10:16 AM, Jessica Moss wrote:
>
>> That would
I have read that some people find sound studio to be quite usable. Also, for
the sake of completeness, consider sound Forge for the Mac. This is however
quite expensive.
Sent from my iPhone
On Mar 30, 2013, at 1:55 PM, Chris H wrote:
> Fission might do it but if not try Amadeus Lite or Amadeu
Change reaction is around $10 I believe.
Sent from my iPhone
On Mar 31, 2013, at 7:01 PM, "anita" wrote:
> Is there a charge for these? I'm not sure how to navigate the App Store on my
> MacBook Pro.
> - Original Message - From: "Jamie Pauls"
> T
Greetings, listers,
I am able to create an event on my Mac and have it instantly push to my iPhone,
but I am not seeing events created on my iPhone pushed to my Mac. I have gone
into iCloud preferences and it appears that the calendars checkbox is in fact
checked. I will admit to being stumpe
narese
> Director
> Mac for the Blind
> Tel, (631) 724-4479
> Email, j...@macfortheblind.com
> Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com
>
> APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX LION
>
> AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE
>
> MAC and iOS VOICEOVER T
Using my MacBook Pro with Quick Nab off, I don't see a way to quickly jump to
the top or bottom of a list of messages. Is this not possible, or have I just
not found the magic key combination?
Thanks.
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> Sincerely,
>
> Donovan Osborn
> donovan303...@gmail.com
>
>
>
> On Apr 2, 2013, at 9:28 PM, Jamie Pauls wrote:
>
>> Using my MacBook Pro with Quick Nab off, I don't see a way to quickly jump
>> to the top or bottom of a list of mess
-BUDDY
On Apr 3, 2013, at 8:54 AM, Jamie Pauls wrote:
> That is doable, but I think I may have missed a key. Thanks. I will play
with it later on today.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Apr 2, 2013, at 11:34 PM, Donovan Osborn
wrote:
>
>> I have a full keyboard so it mig
I will add that there are quite a number of podcasts that will help with
training, but unfortunately there is not a book for learning the Mac that
would compare with the iOS books from National Braille Press. I was a bit
surprised that there are not any current books from RFB&D related to
switching
its for free and works very nice, its multitrack recording software and for
>> me as a very blod person understandabel.Soundstudio is also on my mack, but
>> i cannot seem to get the hang of that program.
>> So, if i had to recommand something..
>> Egbert
>>
>>
uch
> more stable.
>
>
> Sent from my mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind
> built-in!
> Sincerely,
> The Constantly Barefooted Ray
> Still a very proud and happy Mac and Iphone user!
>
> On Apr 3, 2013, at 8:33 PM, Jamie Pauls wrote:
>
I find VoiceOver to be a very robust screen reader. I think you will fine that
the only accessibility issues you have will be with specific applications.
About the only area where there seems to be a consensus is in office
productivity. Microsoft office and windows screen readers continue to hav
I don't think you will ever win the game of trying to figure out when the next
MacBook will come out, especially since Apple seems to be less predictable
about the timing of new product releases then they used to be. I purchased my
MacBook last November and I expect to remain content with it for
Greetings, all,
Currently, after about ten minutes or so, I have to log back into my account
when using my Mac. I assume the computer goes into something equivalent to
screen saver mode, but I'm not certain. of that. I am curious as to whether it
is a good idea to keep the computer set this way
heblind.com
> Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com
>
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>
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>
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>
>
>
> On Apr 27, 2013, at 4:37 PM, Jamie Pauls wrote:
ns.
I've waffled on enough now and I think you all probably get the point. I will
be quiet until someone enlightens me further.
Thanks and have a great weekend.
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To u
ng command option H changed something
>> related to expanding and collapsing email conversations.
>>
>> I've waffled on enough now and I think you all probably get the point. I
>> will be quiet until someone enlightens me further.
>>
>> Thanks and have a gre
eve it, or call me a liar, one. LOL! I finally just said to
> heck with it, and disabled conversation view. Not something I liked doing,
> believe me, but what else could I do! It wasn't working correctly, so...
> yeah... ahim...
>
> Chris.
>
> - Original Messag
ck box to keep the computer always awake.
>
> The app puts itself in the menu bar and is fully VoiceOver accessible if you
> are running Mountain Lion.
>
> Robert Carter
>
>
> On Apr 27, 2013, at 3:37 PM, Jamie Pauls wrote:
>
>> Greetings, all,
>>
>&g
I signed up for a subscription of MacWorld on the Kindle without realizing
that it is available through NFB Newsline. The version of the magazine on
the Kindle app appears to be quite a bit different from the Newsline
version. I've looked at the current and previous version of the magazine in
Newsl
y for the subscription and NFB Newsline is free.
Robert Carter
On May 4, 2013, at 4:55 PM, Jamie Pauls wrote:
> I signed up for a subscription of MacWorld on the Kindle without
> realizing that it is available through NFB Newsline. The version of
> the magazine on the Kindle app appea
I haven't needed to do so yet, but how does one hard reset a Mac? Thanks.
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[mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ray Foret Jr
Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2013 7:38 AM
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: Youtube issue resolved
the Youtu
;
> Sent from my mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind
> built-in!
> Sincerely,
> The Constantly Barefooted Ray
> Still a very proud and happy Mac and Iphone user!
>
> On May 5, 2013, at 8:07 AM, "Jamie Pauls" wrote:
>
>> I haven’t
I turn QuickNav off and use right and left arrow keys to expand or collapse
messages. When reading messages, I press enter on the first message I wish
to read and then use VO+J to move to the message content area. As soon as
I'm finished with the message, I hit command+delete to get rid of the
mess
turned off, VO-j will not jump to the Message area.
That process works great while Preview Pane is active but likely will not
work in Alex's situation.
Later...
Tim Kilburn
Fort McMurray, AB Canada
On 2013-05-07, at 8:04 AM, Jamie Pauls wrote:
I turn QuickNav off and use righ
I have not tried it, but several on this list recommend a program called
transmit. I don't know any more than that so maybe someone else can chime in
here.
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On May 10, 2013, at 10:13 AM, Teresa Cochran wrote:
> Hi, all,
>
> Unless I'm missing something, I'm having a lot of
The trick with installing flash is to use the tab key and not VO and the
arrow keys. It's actually quite doable that way.
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[mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Matt Dierckens
Sent: Friday, May 10, 2013 8:08 PM
To: mac
I didn't play with the game long because it was a bit too trippy for me. I
suspect, though, that turning Voiceover off when trying to collect artifacts
makes the game a bit more responsive even though VO isn't actually talking.
I can't prove this; just a suspicion. I am usually pretty good at this
I would definitely agree with that.
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Sent: Friday, May 10, 2013 10:00 PM
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Dimensions
I would think the delay of using
Here you go:
http://blindaccessjournal.com/2013/02/csun-it-wont-be-hard-to-access-bard-wi
th-the-upcoming-ios-app-from-nls/
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[mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Devin Prater
Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2013 2:12 PM
To: macvisionaries@google
I thought she might be using an older version of the app. Glad she was able to
get the problem sorted out.
Sent from my iPhone
On May 26, 2013, at 10:17 PM, Brandon Olivares wrote:
> She got it working. She had to update the app to the newest version. Thanks
> to everyone who replied.
>
> R
I have not heard anyone suggest that a Mac client is in the works for this
platform. It does appear to be quite popular but it is also free so I am not
sure about resources.
Sent from my iPhone
On May 29, 2013, at 5:24 PM, Jessica Moss wrote:
> For anyone familiar with this server, what do y
You didn't mention using to finger double tap to hang up. Do you not use that
option?
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On May 30, 2013, at 2:16 PM, Eugenia Firth wrote:
> Ever since the new update, I have been having a problem hanging up my iPhone
> 4 S. What happens is that voiceover says nothing when
Unfortunately, BlindCoolTech no longer exists. The Web site is still around
but all the links give errors. Many of Mike's podcasts are on the System
Access Mobile Network.
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