Re: Saving some column values from Numbers?

I know you can hide columns and I believe there is a keystroke to move columns. Then you should be able to select all and copy doing a copy will put the table into Pages as a table. So if all else fails you can delete the columns once the Table is in your word processor. Best wishes, Jonathan

Re: Messages still broken in iOS 7.1 .1

If a reset didn't do it the only choice would be a factory reset. Save everthing, and delete it from iTunes. Sent from my iPhone > On May 8, 2014, at 7:44 PM, Mark BurningHawk Baxter > wrote: > > I have upgraded to iOS 7.1 .1 on my iPhone 5s. I have managed to clear out > all the unread mes

Re: emails won't stay where I move them to.

Relax, it's probably a problem with Google. I have had Mail crash on me my Google account the last two days. Sent from my iPhone > On May 8, 2014, at 2:08 PM, "Christina C." wrote: > > Hello listers, > > I do not understand what is happening. This just started yesterday. My > emails won't s

Re: setting up gmail and mail in Mavericks

In the original Mavericks there were issues if you had hidden the archive OR All Mail folder from IMAP. There were also issues for folks that had several folders. If you never hid any folders from IMAP syncing then a simple upgrade to 10.9.3 should be fine with no special setups. If you find tha

Re: Anyone use run keeper?

I wonder if it is the same pedometer I tried before purchasing a fitbit. I found that the numbers were high, I did not see any way to use GPS as you mentioned, and there was a slide here to stop area that I could not find any VO swipe to use. The one I used also created a temporary account on Ru

Re: Viewing Email Attachments | Since When Did They Become So Easy?

I have often used preview with multiple attachments you just need to find an area near the top that lists the attachments Best wishes, Jonathan On May 14, 2014, at 9:13 AM, Alex Hall wrote: > It does, so long as there is only one attachment. I've never had much luck > with Preview, but y

Re: from my iPhone because Mini is not doing what it should

U would suggest you do a "rebuild" of your mailbox this is an option near the bottom of the Mailbox menu. Mail worked significantly faster for me after doing this after an upgrade to 10.9.3 Best wishes, Jonathan On May 18, 2014, at 2:37 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > Hi Reggie, > > What proba

Re: Reading Documents

You can change verbosity settings with vi-v and then use the arrow keys or even first letter nagnavigation. Best wishes, Jonathan On May 19, 2014, at 1:06 PM, Tristan wrote: > I was told this before, however I do have this app on my iPhone. I was > referring to specifically Mac OS X-rela

Re: I am helping a friend who can not access her app store.

Try going to a secure Apple website and see what you have issues there something like iCloud.com you can hear message about certificates and there are help documentations on the web how to fix that. Sent from my iPhone > On May 28, 2014, at 6:23 PM, Gerard Doody wrote: > > > Gerard Doody > j

Re: command+o won't open folders on external drives anymore.

What view are they using? Column view has this behavior. Best wishes, Jonathan On Jun 18, 2014, at 1:15 PM, Jessica Moss wrote: > I've just noticed recently that for some weird reason, command+o won't open > the folders on my external drive as well as my flash drive anymore, and have > to

Re: calendar questions

In the general settings there is a default calendar pull down. You can set the date by something like Status Meeting on July 19 @ 1300 I have not tried putting timezones at the end but that might work. Best wishes, Jonathan On Jul 5, 2014, at 3:46 PM, Littlefield, Tyler wrote: > Hello all

Re: AppleScript (was calendar questions)

There are certainly graphic conversion commands in Apple Script. You can also use the "save as" directive and I believe in most applications there is a type argument that can be specified. I can look a bit further if you let me know source and destination and if I have a program that can handle

Re: Managing Gmail

I would recommend against disabling this mail box at this time. Apple only retrieves messages from the All mail box when using GMAIL and then associates them with a more specific label/folder. There is an option in the GMAIL settings to limit the number of messages to allow in any folder and th

Re: NFB store

I had no real errors when looking at the site. I wonder if somebody is placing a proxy in your connection. I did find the site to use very old web technology and it has absolutely no headers. Best wishes, Jonathan On Jul 5, 2014, at 12:28 AM, Dionipher Presas Herrera wrote: > https://ecomm

Re: Tandom equivalent for the Mac

Tandom is an implementation of the VNC protocol. I expect as long as sound is transferred too, that you might be able to use VNC clients and servers on the Macintosh to accomplish this. Also, Apple provides "Back to my Mac" services that allow at least sighted individuals to control a computer

Re: NFB store

if somebody knows how to explain. Is it the same as a > webpage heading? > > Sent from my iPad > >> On Jul 5, 2014, at 4:46 PM, "Jonathan C. Cohn" wrote: >> >> I had no real errors when looking at the site. I wonder if somebody is >> placing a prox

Re: Tandom equivalent for the Mac

My understanding from some discussions on the TIDBITS.COM newsletters is that BTMM uses IPv6 protocols and therefore the lack of IPv4 address space should not be a deterrent. Best wishes, Jonathan On Jul 5, 2014, at 7:09 PM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote: > Apple has Apple Remote Desktop, for

Re: Command line question.

Yes, but the error was too many arguments. If the source directory only has .mp3 files then you could try the recursive copy I believe the flag is a capital R but I would verify that in the man page. Best wishes, Jonathan On Jul 1, 2014, at 10:20 AM, Kjsc Radio wrote: > Anytime you are c

Re: An Overview of iOS 8's New Accessibility Features – MacStories

I added a phonetic first name into my contacts and SIRI and VoiceOver on the Mac and iPhone appear to use this. I am not sure now, since even in this message Alex pronounced it correctly. To do this goto the Card menu in the contacts application and select add field. Best wishes, Jonathan

Re: full sized bluetooth keyboard with numpad and that can work with multiple devices?

There is a podcast from about a year ago from Vision Australia that describes such a keyboard. Best wishes, Jonathan On Jun 26, 2014, at 9:26 PM, Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona wrote: > Hello am in search of a bluetooth keyboard thatr is full sized has a numpad > and can work with mu

Re: Scraping an Entire Website

There used to be a version of wget that came with the macintosh for use on the terminal. The only close examples now seem to be perl scripts for downloading sites either of lap-request or lap-download. I could not tell from a quick review if either of these does recursive downloads of a site.

Re: Apple script doesn't work

Editor showed an error message saying it > expected end of line but found an identifier. Could you try it once more and > see if there is anything wrong with the script? If it works correctly I’m > able to change it to right click. > > Thanks and > all the best > Jürgen

Re: Help I seemed to have broken toggling between open applications

I think that preference pane will sometimes override some of the standard keyboard shortcuts while it is active. Try going back to the preference pane and see if the problem starts again. Then quit Preference and see if the problem stops. > On Feb 24, 2015, at 15:20, Brian Fischler wrote: > >

Re: How to extract the attached file to a message

I have no problems getting to attachments in Mail on 10.10.2 The process is as follows: 1. Move to the bottom of the message text . 2. VO Right until you find the attachment it is almost always near the end. 3. use VO-Space 4. Select Open or Open with. I have had no luck with the command-y in

Re: a messages section for Nighowl

Great to know that now works. I was half considering creating a apple script. > On Feb 24, 2015, at 23:24, Alex Hall wrote: > > Control with numbers will also do it. For instance, ctrl-1 is your first tab, > or Home; ctrl-2 is Mentions; ctrl-3 is Messages (or DMs, whatever you want to > call i

Re: Applescript help

Send me a copy of the script and I can give it a try. Is output using the output command or the say command? Or perhaps the code from the Apple version was taken, which checks if VoiceOVer is running and also makes sure that applescripts can control voiceover. in any case the first thing to do

VM Statistics

Alex, You mentioned you were having problems getting memory information in your utilities scripts. I did a quick scan and it looks like you are parsing information from the top command to get these statistics. Might I suggest you look at the “vm-stat command? This lists things in terms of pa

Applescript to double click at voiceover cursor

Good day, Below starting with the word “use” is an apple script that Jürgen and I wrote. This will double click with the mouse on the VoiceOver cursor. It will of course only work reliably when your VoiceOver cursor is over a non-grouped item. . This has only been tested by two people,

Re: Applescript challenge

Well, there might be issues with Rich Text / HTML e-mails. But in general you would want to use the text object of the current object. basically if you change the text I know that the Text object provides paragraph and sentence access, but I am not sure about line numbers. If you bring up the l

AppleScript and TimeMachine

TimeMachine uses the System Preference pane to control it, and there is useful information in the system control pane like Disk size and backup status. So we could probably find the “id” string of the time machine preference panel, and then go from there. I know I saw a script in the UI Element

Re: Markdown Editor

U>lilies There is a mark down editor named after the first name of President Grant. I have talked to the developer and they are willing to work with the VoiceOver community. Currently I only use the standard Apple editors and since I was a very active Emacs user several years ago, I am going to

Re: VM Statistics

ysctl, both of which seem like > they'll work. I still don't really understand this memory compression thing, > though. I'll keep looking into it, but if you have a grasp on it already, I'd > love an explanation. Thanks. >> On Feb 25, 2015, at 7:22 PM, Jonat

time machine status.

I believe I found a simple solution that does not require scripting, but will require a bit of confirmation. When I set a hotspot to an item in the menu extras area, it appears the hot spot canstill be read with voice over command # where # is the number of the hot spot. It might be that the

Re: Numerous desktops

I would not worry much about multiple desktops it might actually make your system faster, since applications that are not in your current desktop are not being displayed and so they are more likely to have AppNap applied to them. AppNap is just what it sounds like, if a GUI application is not vi

Re: Sellecting files for copying or moving.

bination is VO-cmd-return. > > Later... > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On Mar 6, 2015, at 09:04, Jonathan C Cohn <mailto:jon.c.c...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > If the files are listed next to each other, then you can use shift and the > arrow key

Re: can't find unread mail messages

You can change the sort order from date to unread messages. This should help, the other possibility is to create a smart mailbox of unread messages. In fact the iPhone has one pre-created but not visible by default. > On Mar 4, 2015, at 14:00, Christina C. wrote: > > Yes, this is true, I do h

Re: Sellecting files for copying or moving.

If the files are listed next to each other, then you can use shift and the arrow keys to do selection. Otherwise the toggle current item in selection is bound to VO+shift+return . I think before in the cats versions of MacOS, this was bound to VO+shift+space. Now VO+shift+space is like the act

Re: can't find unread mail messages

anks, but how do I sort by unread. I tried sorting by the status column > header but that did not seem to work. I think I know hwo to make a smart > mailbox and I might try that. > > Christinacolumn header >> On Mar 6, 2015, at 9:33 AM, Jonathan C Cohn wrote: >> >

Re: disc keyboard shortcut

I being a unix junkie immediately thought of du command. Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 15, 2015, at 6:58 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland > wrote: > > I think... I need to look to make sure, but that there might be a way to sort > your Finder items by size. Don't quote me on this, but I'm almost

Re: Need an iPhone GPS solution

Good Morning, Two things you might have tried: 1. Create a location based reminder (( tell SIRI remind me when I get to here ) 2. When The apple Maps tracking with coordinates is on, it usually speaks intersections as you pass them. Best of luck! Jonathan Cohn > On Apr 15, 2015, at 8:03 AM,

Re: best cd burning app, again

I have always just used the finder or disk utility Jonathan Cohn > On Apr 15, 2015, at 2:15 PM, joe quinn wrote: > > What’s the best burning app, for data, and audio, out there, besides simply > burns and ITunes? I mean, there’s gotta be something else out there? > Thoughts? Thanks! > --

Re: VoiceOver and new line.

What about setting punctuation verbosity to none. Does that help? Jonathan Cohn > On Apr 14, 2015, at 11:15 AM, sadam Ahmed wrote: > > Hello Alex, > > Is there a way to suppress VoiceOver saying new line? > > This would apply if I hit the return key to insert said line or when arrowing

Re: accessible adobe on the mac

There were tweets from Adobe’s Accessibility Evangelist saying that Adobe DC (both reader and full fledged) would work with VoiceOver and include support for fully tagged PDF documents. > On Apr 11, 2015, at 15:53, denise avant wrote: > > Hello all, > A couple weeks ago, someone posted to the

Apple TV /remotes

Yes, the Apple “Remote” app can control Apple TV and iTunes on your computer. The Apple TV portion is a bit strange, but I believe the keyboard will pop up when you nee it. You can also yuse the remote app to pick the next item to play. We watch quite a bit of HBO on our Apple TV, and some DVDs

Re: accessible adobe on the mac

Send a tweet to Mike May and ask! > On Apr 15, 2015, at 23:13, Yuma Decaux wrote: > > Is already or will in the future? > >> On 16/04/2015, at 1:09 pm, Jonathan C Cohn wrote: >> >> There were tweets from Adobe’s Accessibility Evangelist saying that Adobe DC &g

Re: accessible adobe on the mac

adam Mohammed Ahmed >> >> B.A. Business Information Systems >> >> RMIT University >> >> — >> >> >>> On 16/04/2015 1:09 pm, "Jonathan C Cohn" wrote: >>> >>> There were tweets from Adobe’s Accessibili

Re: Problems with Safari

If you got to the same ad cycle i got to Here is what's i did 1. Turn off network or unplug if you are using wired ethernet. 2. Exit safari and then go back into safari. 3. Close every window in safari. 4. Reconnect the network. Jonathan Cohn > On Apr 26, 2015, at 12:03 PM, Alex Hall wrote

Re: Bluetooth assistance keeps popping up.

Plug in a nmouse Jonathan Cohn > On May 6, 2015, at 2:44 AM, Anders Holmberg wrote: > > Hi! > If i turn off my trackpad which i have, the bluetooth assistant pops up evry > now and then of course but can this be turned off? > I have tried to turn bluetooth off but it doesn’t seem to help

Tim Cook address to George Washington University.

I attended today’s commencement at George Washington University. You can find a full video of the Tim Cook speech on 9 to 5 mac and probably her places. The prime point of the speech was you can do good and make money at the same time. One of his first points before he talked about how the iPhon

Re: Keyboard Difficulties.

It almost sounds like you might have the option key stuck down. For example option A inputs Option T †. å > On May 17, 2015, at 14:40, christopher hallsworth > wrote: > > You should have selected one when you set up your Mac. In fact, you probably > can't proceed without selecting an input

toggling the preview pane in Mail.

A while back I provided a double click on VO cursor apple script to the list. It appears using this script with the VO cursor on the Vertical scroll bar will toggle the preview pane in the latest version of Yosemite. I will provide a script to toggle the scroll bar if 1. Somebody verifies tha

Re: Good monitor and keyboard for the mac

I personally have heard great things about the Logitech keyboards. You can actually pretty much use any USB keyboard, the primary difference between Mac and Windows keyboards in the US is that the command and option keys by default are reversed in order. This can be created in System Preference

Re: Using Apple script to script voiceover as one would make scripts for Windows screenreaders

It is possiblle, but you don't use the VoiceOver dictionary. I was about 50 percent comlete on creating an AppleScript to toggle the preview pane in apple mail when the logic board on my system died. I was using the UI scrippting elements within the System Events scripting library. Something l

replacement system.

I am looking to replace my well loved macbook pro 15 inch from 2009, and am wondering if I should get a high end Macbook Air or a MacMini. Please let me know of any sugestions. Also, how is the market for not quite new systems? My budget is a bit tight these days. Jonathan Cohn -- You re

Re: Using Apple script to script voiceover as one would make scripts for Windows screenreaders

It is also possible to script in javascript using the scripteditor. I believe that perl also has ways of accessing scripting objects in other applications. Jonathan Cohn > On Jun 11, 2015, at 6:12 AM, Sean Murphy wrote: > > I would also like to know and also do you have to use Apple script?

Illegal software use.

Would the moderators be so kind as to shut down the El Captain discussion and consider removing those folks who are encouraging illegal activities. This is against list policy . -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubsc

Re: strange issue with my computer

sounds like a quicknav issue? Jonathan Cohn > On Jun 14, 2015, at 7:49 AM, Dionipher Presas Herrera > wrote: > > Hello everyone, i am having problem with my computer, like closing windows on > my mac. I was working with imovie this morning but this strange issue came > up. before i restart

Re: Urgent! Need to know how to export an iTunes playlist

I can't test this, but how about creating a CD burn drive on disk utility. And then burning the tracklist to the CD. Jonathan Cohn > On Jul 4, 2015, at 10:57 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > > Hi, > > Select the Playlist you wish to export, go up to the File menu, down to > Library, right and down

Re: problems setting up a Macbook Pro

Look at your keyboard settings for a command associated with the arrow key. Jonathan Cohn > On Jul 13, 2015, at 9:23 AM, Daniel Miller wrote: > > Hi, > > I’m not sure about how to fix your first issue, but as for Night Owl, you > have to add the account manually through preferences>account

Re: renaming an account on the mac

Short name or full name? Full name should be fairly easy but the short name is also associated with the directory name. Jonathan Cohn > On Aug 21, 2015, at 12:07 AM, Sunshine wrote: > > Is there a way to rename an account on the mac? if so how do you go about > doing this? > > -- > You re

Re: apple script to remove resource fork files from usb drives?

Hello, I know there is an option in tintertool, to not include resource information though that option might just be for network drives and not removable media. If you have the terminal commands, then you could create a bash script to execute, or you could wrap the terminal commands in a do sh

Re: Changing outgoing email address based on recipient?

Mail Act On will do this. I have no idea if it is accessible, I looked at the product about 7 years ago when I was doing some consulting. Besides conrolling outgoing messages, one can set up pseudo smart actions to file messages. http://www.indev.ca/MailActOn.html Let me know how it goes.

Re: renaming an account on the mac

ing Sparrow wrote: > > both actually. > >> On 8/22/2015 3:24 PM, Jonathan C. Cohn wrote: >> Short name or full name? Full name should be fairly easy but the short name >> is also associated with the directory name. >> >> >> Jonathan Cohn >&

Re: I forgot a bluetooth command.

I believe vo home and end do this, but it might be pageUp instead. Try arrow with option for the second problem. Jonathan Cohn > On Aug 25, 2015, at 1:09 PM, Chris Gilland wrote: > > I seem to be drawing a mental blank. > > How do you go about bringing down the notification Center and iOS w

Re: iTerm?

George nachman is listed as dev. http://iterm2.com/features.htmlSounds great, yyou can set up regular expression triggers that cause growl notifications. I am not sure about the mouse features and if they would work with VoiceOver. I had been keeping a change message from the develoer to llook

Re: Signatures?

Drag and drop is the only way I have been able too do this. Jonathan Cohn > On Aug 29, 2015, at 11:20 AM, Matthew Dierckens wrote: > > Hi guys, > So as you can tell I got my signature back, but I had to manually type it in. > Here’s what I don’t understand. > When I go to the “Al signatures

Re: all in 1 pc or I mac that is the question.

Does the Apple license allow this? I would also expect issues with the recovery partition Jonathan Cohn > On Aug 29, 2015, at 1:57 PM, george b wrote: > > You now can buy v m fusion for windows to run osx mac as a v m machine > > -Original Message- > From: macvisionaries@googlegrou

Re: OT: connecting table to outlet in Xcode with VoiceOver consistently fails

Would it just be a subclass? Jonathan Cohn > On Aug 29, 2015, at 8:43 PM, Alex Hall wrote: > > Don't ask me how, but I think I have it working. My raining question is: how > do you create, then use, a custom cell view? I'm using the default one now, > which is just a text field, and that's

Re: wireless unconfigured

So you turned off wireless? Ou need to either turn off Airplane Mode or turn on Wireless ethernet. Jonathan Cohn > On Aug 29, 2015, at 11:30 PM, Jean wrote: > > Hello again all: > > Perhaps I wasn’t clear about my problem. As I was trying to change the > password on this particular wirele

Re: Really weird issue with ITunes accessibility

Jonathan Cohn > On Aug 29, 2015, at 5:50 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland > wrote: > > Guys, this is just strange. I'll explain this problem to you all in a > second, but here's an mp3 for you where I actually demonstrate this. > Hopefully, if my write up makes no sense, the recording will

Re: OT: connecting table to outlet in Xcode with VoiceOver consistently fails

eView.makeViewWithIdentifier(tableColumn!.identifier, > owner:self) as! NSTableCellView > newCell.textField!.stringValue=modelArray[row] > return(newCell) > } > >> On Aug 29, 2015, at 10:12 PM, Jonathan C. Cohn wrote: >> >> Would it j

Re: Really weird issue with ITunes accessibility

They had an opening listed earlier this summer, I would have applied but they required proficiency in braille and perhaps multiple langu. ency Jonathan Cohn > On Aug 30, 2015, at 4:01 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > > Observed exactly the same blasted thing as you did. I think it's high time > A

Re: signatures drag and drop problem

Try paste after (greater) or one at a time. If even those fail u will have to revert back to mouse lock down. That is what I did last time. Jonathan Cohn > On Aug 31, 2015, at 7:59 AM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > > Okay, > > Here's what 's going on. I'm trying to move three signatures from the

Re: more on signatures

I would drop the step that selects comcast. Jonathan Cohn > On Aug 31, 2015, at 9:32 AM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > > Okay. this is what I'm doing. > > 1. With curser tracking on, make sure that the one signature I want to place > is selected. > > 2. Turn curser tracking off. > > 3. Inter

Re: Really weird issue with ITunes accessibility

Chris, I don't know, I almost did not listen to your issue, since you spent 10 minutes proving what version of the OS you were on. Also, while you went into extreme detail about keystrokes used and why, you barely listed settings within VoiceOVer that might effect selection. Also, It was quit

Re: reclaiming space on hard drive

What is the state of time machine on this system? Jonathan Cohn > On Jul 31, 2015, at 10:43 AM, Pablo Sandoval wrote: > > Hi everyone, > I’ve just noticed the usage on my Mac HD is getting more full than I like. > I’ve just deleted several gigs of data, and I am not seeing the space freed >

Re: entering characters by unicode number?

I believe you can do this with the option key. Vut far simpler in in the long run would be to use a different keyboardlayout. Have you asked accessibility or looked in the international area of system settings? Jonathan Cohn > On Sep 1, 2015, at 11:16 PM, Donna Goodin wrote: > > Hi all, >

Re: Unicode entry issue solved

I did find a IPA keyboard available on the net. Is the international phonetic alphabet what you need? The page I found is off of sil.org Jonathan Cohn > On Sep 2, 2015, at 8:45 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: > > Hi all, > > OK, I've got the Unicode entry issue solved. In case anyone else is dyi

Re: Looking for check writing application

Intuit has been working on BO compatible for Quicken This might be overkill for your purposes. If your primary goal is writing checks for bills, then most banks have a ePay system that can handle payments in a more controlled fashion than paper checks. The downside, is you need to ensure your sy

Re: Cleanmymac is not working for me.

Sometimes restarting VoiceOver will solve issues like this. I mostly see this type of occurrence when I run the computer until the battery forces a shutdown. Jonathan Cohn > On Sep 2, 2015, at 1:04 PM, Anders Holmberg wrote: > > Hi! > I have cleanmymac 3 on my Mac mini. > But when i run it

Re: No sound coming from VO

Is the computer muted or is VoiceOver? F12 or pf key with F12 will unmute the computer it is actually volume up but that cancels mute. If it is BoiceOver than i onlly know double click with three fingers when trackpad commander ison. Jonathan Cohn > On Sep 4, 2015, at 3:30 PM, Marie Lyons

Re: Reasonably priced monitor for mac mini

Which mini or more specifically what video outputs does it have. I was looking at a aoc 24 inch monitor at Best Buy for $130. Just remeber if you have to convert signals quality and cost will take a hit. I'm interested in what you decide. Jonathan Cohn > On Sep 8, 2015, at 6:28 AM, William

Re: Question about bluetooth

What about using hey Siri. Also some phones or perhaps BT systems have auto answer when paired, not ideal but useable Jonathan Cohn > On Sep 7, 2015, at 11:04 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland > wrote: > > Guys, > > I have a quick question. > > My grandmother just got a new car. It's a 201

Re: How to uninstall an app

No. You can search for the vendor in the two Library directories or you can get an unstaller program like ‘Clean My Mac‘. Jonathan Cohn > On Sep 16, 2015, at 6:30 AM, venky...@gmail.com wrote: > > Hi, > Does this also get rid of all supporting files that an app may create during > install?

Re: two unrelated questions: contacts and DAISY or BRF reading on the mac?

First verify that the iCloud accounts are the same. Second look to see what other contact services are enabled inserbices or mail contacts and calendars I suggest one personal and one work contact service at most internet Jonathan Cohn > On Mar 13, 2016, at 2:53 PM, Aleeha Dudley wrote

Automating Macintosh book.

Hello Take Control books has a 50% off sale this weekend, and I was considering purchasing “Take Control of Automating Your Mac”. https://www.takecontrolbooks.com/automating I also believe their books are available via bookshare for those who have t

Design pattern usability study and CSUN 2016 UXathon | The Paciello Group – Your Accessibility Partner (WCAG 2.0/508 audits, VPAT, usability and accessible user experience)

For those out there who want to see a better web, filling out this survey would be useful. My reading of the survey is that they put several different ways of doing the same thing together, and want to find out which ones work best. > https://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/2016/03/design-pattern-u

One not so busy Macintosh.

I had my speedy new MacBook Air (I actually called it speedy), start going into slow state whenever I opened a menu item or switched / added a window. The performance steady degraded the more it was used. Thanks to some wonderful help from the accessibility desk, not only is my computer respond

Facebook keyboard navigation.

I just experienced that in 10.11.4 Facebook navigation with j/k keys to move in your feed only provides feedback when in “GrouP” mode of web browsing. Changing to this also allowed me to have the Gmail web site properly respond to N and P when in conversation mode. It still is not as efficien

Re: How to add an item to the dock?

Sorry, I should've read that before I sent it. Hopefully you understood it. Jonathan Cohn > On Mar 27, 2016, at 10:05 AM, Jonathan Cohn wrote: > > If you are attempting to add an item to a container than using the drop to > place it there makes sense. Using Often when dragging, you and befo

Automation mailing list.

As I discussed last week, I am starting a specialised discussion in a separate list to discuss how blind Macintosh users can use the items discussed in “Take Control of Automating Your Macintosh.” I now have a google group up for this. The book discusses using keyboard macros mail automation an

Administrative Issues.

Hello, After the first two content messages today, I went back to the Google Groups administration template and made a few adjustments. I hadn’t realised how powerful GoogleGroups can be. In any case two members were marked as not receiving e-mail’s, so I changed there settings to all message

Re: Facebook app for the Mac

Try using full Facebook in groups mode with quicknav off. Try using j and k t navigate your timeline. I can't test right now power outage. Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On Apr 3, 2016, at 3:27 PM, Kristeen Hughes wrote: > > Facebook on Safari is just so very bad, at least it is for me. Is

An issue that really needs examining.

Hello, Mail Signatures is a place where we could use some automation. Once you create signatures in the All Signatures area of mail, you need to drag them to a specific Mail account before they can be used. The issue with this is when Cursor tracking is on, the mail account gets selected befor

Microsoft accessibility.

On a different list that I am on, I heard that Microsoft is looking for feedback on the accessibility of Outlook for Macintosh. Here is the information: Hello friends & colleagues, As you know, together we were able to improve the accessibility/usability of many products in the past 10-12 yea

E Mail messages with multi-parts.

I receive several e-mail bulletins that use the HTML separator tag to divide the sections. Is there any way in VoiceOver to skip to the next separator? Best wishes, Jonathan -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions o

Re: Enabling and running Java applets under OS X

This would be in the security settings of your Safari preferences. Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On Apr 22, 2016, at 7:52 AM, 'Jason White' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > When I visit a Java applet verificaiton page, which checks that Java is > installed and running in Safari, I'm supposed t

Re: Reading Alert Dialogs on the Mac

For browser alerts like this it is best to use the tab key. Using voice over navigation could put you anywhere within the page but usually tabbing puts focus near or on the OK button for the dialogue. Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On Apr 22, 2016, at 8:09 AM, erik burggraaf wrote: > > Hi S

Re: How do I enable AirDrop on my Mac?

Mike, I didn't see any text in your last message. How old is your Mac? Maxson are over in three years have some issues with some of the conductivity between Mac and iPhone, because they don't have Bluetooth 4.2. I am not sure if that's getting in your way. Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On Ap

Re: about Skype

Is there a dialogue box open? Try a window list. Jonathan Cohn > On Dec 28, 2015, at 5:06 PM, Rebecca Sabo wrote: > > Dear all, > Some reason my Skype on my mack keeps saying it is busy all the time . Is > there something to fix it ? Also some times I do not hear it ring . > Becky > > -

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