Re: Getting Started with AppleScript (was: Shortcut to Speak Word Count in Any application | Here's How It's Done)

Phil, if you have some experience with programming or some scripting language (e.g. I've done a bit with JavaScript) AppleScript will be really easy to pick up once you read through some other people's scripts and get an idea of the syntax, objects and commands. For more information on any parti

AppleScript to Open the Current Safari Tab in Google Chrome

If your'e like me, you keep you're Mac that much safer and don't bother installing Adobe Flash Player. Most of the time this works fine, but every now and then you come across the odd youtube video which requires Flash Player. The perfect solution in this situation is to open the current Safari

Re: AppleScript to Open the Current Safari Tab in Google Chrome

Hi Kait, It's as Phil said. But here's the link again if that's easier. Kawal and Chris, I've heard about those solutions too, and was interested. I'm sure they're great. I just feel better knowing my Mac is free of Adobe Flash Player (and Java too for that matter). I like not having to deal wi

Re: Pages question

It doesn't do that for me. I'm not sure about this one in particular, but often those kinds of windows have a checkbox which says display this window on launch. You need to uncheck it for it not to pop up again. Sometimes you need to stop interacting with the window a few times before you can se

Re: setting up a commander

Probably 'NumPad'. :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisi

Re: how to enhance the say word count script

Your first question is tricky. You might be able to get the "name of" "current application" or "frontmost application" and put it in a variable, but I think this is a little difficult. The second question is easy, at least so far as it doesn't depend on the first question. You could just change

Is There an Easier Way to Access and Download Google Drive Documents?

I need to access some documents on Google Drive. There is a lot of them. I want to just download them to my Mac so I have easy access to them. Plus, I need to OCR them. Does anyone have an easier way to do this rather than opening each document individually and pressing download? Thanks, Nic --

Re: Is There an Easier Way to Access and Download Google Drive Documents?

Thanks both Tim and Deb (think that's it). I was definitely hoping for something as seamless as Dropbox. I'll give Insync a go, but I'm guessing from what Tim said that it might only work if the documents are in my Drive, and the documents I'm interested in were shared with me by someone else s

Re: Is There an Easier Way to Access and Download Google Drive Documents?

Hi, I just installed Google Drive desktop client for Mac. You're right, it works really well. I only added three of the piles of documents I was given to my Drive, but it seems that may not have bene necessary as when I opened Drive it had all the documents there. Really great. Now I'm just doin

Re: Saving some column values from Numbers?

I think the simple copy and paste is your best bet if I understand your needs correctly. And as Jonathon said, you can hide columns three through seven and then just use the arrow keys without VoiceOver keys to navigate when selecting and you should only select and copy columns one, two and eigh

Re: Saving some column values from Numbers?

Saving as PDF should retain good formatting so long as you've formatted the table well in Numbers originally. It's important to make sure the columns are sized correctly as they don't automatically expand to fit the cell contents, and VoiceOver reads the cell contents properly even if it's hidde

VoiceOver Bug | Help Testing

Hi list, I've noticed a bug which I think has crept in with Mavericks. If I navigate by word with option-right arrow, and delete a one letter word, VoiceOver will incorrectly announce the letter which was deleted. It will speak the last letter of the preceding word. This seems to be the case in

Re: good o c r for mac

ABBYY FineReader Pro. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisi

Re: problem with selecting appropriate text in Text Edit

I'd also recommend making sure you interact with the text area and check that your cursors are following each other properly by navigating with VO and arrow keys. It's possible to navigate in TextEdit just using the arrow keys, but sometimes this means the VoiceOver cursor gets left behind somew

Re: VoiceOver Bug | Help Testing

Thanks, all, I'll report it to Apple Accessibility. and Alex, if this still exists in the beta it would be great if you could report it as well. Best, Nic -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop

Re: Searching for special characters in Pages

RE the services issue I think you might find the TextEdit still there if you look carefully but otherwise I'd suggest it depends on what your default app for opening rtf files is. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscrib

Re: Does anyone use Dictionary?

Hi, I use Dictionary on the Mac all the time. I love it and it is another one of my favourite things about the Mac. There's two ways I use it. First, I open the Dictionary app navigate to the tool bar and interact with it navigate to the end where the search field is, type a word and press retur

Re: good o c r for mac

If you want to be able to read the document but also preserve the image of the document perfectly for sighted people, then choose to export (command-s) the document as PDF. This will have an exact image of the document with the text file imbedded so it's a perfect duel purpose solution. About t

Re: Does anyone use Dictionary?

VO-comma to drag and VO-shift-period or VO-shift-comma to drop before or after the selected item. On 10 May 2014, at 10:43 pm, Jessica wrote: > How do you change them when using voice over? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. T

Re: good o c r for mac

Yes, Andrew, that is correct. On 11 May 2014, at 4:26 am, Andrew Lamanche wrote: > Hi Nic, > > Thank you very much for this explanation. It helps a lot to understand how > it works. > > Just to make sure that I understand you correctly, say I have a form which > has been filled by hand and

Re: download a linked file from an email?

Just to elaborate on what Chris said: Whenever you want to download a PDF, video or audio file which has opened in Safari, just press command-l to navigate to the address bar, and then press option-return to download the file to your Downloads folder. This works for ordinary webpages too if you

Re: working with numbers

Hi William, Phil's given you a great overview. We've had many discussions on this list about different tricks with Numbers, including how to rename tables and a number of other things. You can Google for all those and read them on the archives. But if you have any specific questions while you'r

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

Hi all, I know this is not news to many of you, but it might be for some of you so thought I'd share it. I think when Mavericks first came out email attachments in Mail were pretty inaccessible unless you downloaded them from the option in the file menu. Well, now you can navigate to them in t

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

Alex, I think command-y opens the attachment in QuickLook, which isn't as good as reading PDFs as Preview, so it's often worth VO-spacing on PDF attachments anyway. But the command-y is a good tip/reminder. Does that one still work in Mavericks? Best, Nic -- You received this message because

Re: accessible poker game for mac or iOs

Theta Poker Pro works well in terms of accessibility and is pretty close to free (ie. very cheap). Unfortunately it doesn't seem to support multi player. The computer intelligence is good, but for some reason I'm just not as interested in playing if it's not against real people. -- You receive

Re: Am I Crazy, or Does this Word Sound Way Off?

Karen, the Australian English voice, in Mavericks also does not read it correctly. I've been noticing lots of bugs with pronunciation in Mavericks. Ironic, seeing as Mavericks was meant to introduce enhanced quality voices. I really regret downloading those premium voices. -- You received this

Re: Question: How to get to mail tokens

While typing, I use up and down arrows to move between suggestions. This will give suggestions, depending on what you typed, for contact's names, subject lines etcetera. Once you have selected one, you can navigate past it with the left arrow, and then use the up and down arrows again to choose

Re: Question: How to get to mail tokens

It has nothing to do with the view you are in; it works in both views for me. Try: Type a name which is in your contacts; Press down arrow until you hear the full name read out; Press return; Press left arrow; Press down arrow. Anything then? -- You received this message because you are subscri

Re: numbers & voiceover: moving sheets?

On OS X I've successfully reordered sheets in the sheet navigator with the standard VO-comma and VO-shift-comma/period. I do this often enough, but as it can take several tries I now always try to create the sheet in the right place to begin with. Sometimes when using the VO drag and drop comman

Re: Question: How to get to mail tokens

Just to be clear, the method we're explaining won't allow you to search by mailbox. That you need to do in the favourites bar. It will, however, allow you to search by contact, subject, attachment, etcetera and give you various other options. Can you please tell us step-by-step what you are doi

Re: numbers & voiceover: moving sheets?

Yep, arranging tables is mostly just for sighted people. It also changes what order VoiceOver comes across them, but this isn't really that important for VoiceOver users. I know, many of my personal spreadsheets apparently used to look awful and make no sense to sighted people. Of late I've bee

Re: Question: How to get to mail tokens

Hi Jim, >From your description, it seems as if you might not have been following those >detailed instructions exactly. It might seem a little pedantic, but I suggest >you go back and have another attempt at following those numbered step-by-step >directions very closely. Slight changes can make t

Re: Editing Tables in Pages

VO-space also works, but as you say return is probably the easiest. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com

Re: pages questions

1. To get to the body text area first interact with the document layout area, and then interact with the body of the page you wish to start editing. 2. To highlight or select text just use shift and the arrow keys (with QuickNav turned off). For example, shift-option-right arrow will select a wor

Re: editing a bulleted list in Pages

Yes, this is a problem with lists in Pages. It does not happen in TextEdit, but does happen in Pages. Lists are different in Pages to TextEdit with much more functionality and customisation. But that additional unnecessary verbiage makes editing them a real pain in the backside. It happens both

Re: Pages text selection bug workaround

Selecting up with option-shift-up arrow doesn't work for me either. Couldn't get VO-return to work either. It worked for the first couple of lines and then I lost the selection. Haven't tried extensively with the VO-return method though. -- You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: Pages text selection bug workaround

Actually, I stand corrected. Option-shift-up arrow is working for me, though it sounds like it doesn't work. I get the same sound of losing the selection, but when I press command-c and then paste somewhere else, the copy and paste works. -- You received this message because you are subscribed

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

Thought the below article might be of interest to some on the list. http://www.macstories.net/stories/an-overview-of-ios-8s-new-accessibility-features/ An Overview of iOS 8's New Accessibility Features Since this year's WWDC keynote ended, the focus of any analysis on iOS 8 has been its featur

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

I would actually prefer to have more bug fixes in iOS 8 rather than new features. If we got no new features but all the iOS 7 bugs were fixed I'd be so happy. The new features sound awesome, but I just hope bug fixes get proper priority. -- You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: Numbers on the iPhone

I’ve played around with it quite a bit. I can do many things, but still haven’t quite figured out how to add rows or columns. I can select the row handle and then flick through many action options, such as insert, but can’t manage to insert a row or column. If anyone works it out please let me k

Screen Curtain Not Working Sometimes

Hi list, It seems screen curtain is not working for me sometimes. VoiceOver announces screen curtain on as if everything’s fine, but in fact the screen is still on. If the screen’s brightness is set to maximum, I can tell if it’s on or not. The issue only appears to happen sometimes, however, a

Re: My Podcast on the OS X Calendar

Hi Alex, Haven’t heard your podcast on AppleVis yet, but there is a bug with Calendar which you might like to take into account when doing any future podcasts on Calendar. When in month view, VoiceOver does not detect or announce some calendar events either when on a day of the month or when i

Re: My Podcast on the OS X Calendar

No, it doesn’t just affect those with multiple calendars. Apple tested it with the same calendar setup on different Macs and got different results. NO idea what’s behind it. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from

Re: PDF Pen reader for the Mac.

Hi Gigi, Just referring to your below email. Could you please have a look for that email from Greg? I’d be really interested in learning how sighted people are supposed to rename the form fields as that’s exactly what I’m hoping to get some people to do for me. Thanks and best regards, Nic >

Microsoft Office for Mac 2016 Preview | Accessibility of Tables in MS Word

Hi list, Just downloaded the preview, and accessibility seems pretty good on first glance when creating simple documents, even when using some of the built-in templates. However, I tried using Word to open some existing documents I was working on at work, but couldn’t seem to interact with the

Re: Searching and selecting text in PDF documents

1. Navigate and interact with the toolbar, then navigate to the end of the toolbar where there is a search field. Type text in there to be searched and press return. Then stop interacting with the toolbar, and next to the PDF content area will be a new scroll area. Interact with that scroll area

Re: PDF Pen reader for the Mac.

Brilliant! Thanks, Tim! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvi

Hourly Precipitation on the Watch

Hi list, I have a 38mm Watch (stainless steal). When I ask Siri, “Will I need an umbrella today?”, she apparently displays the “Hourly precipitation” for my city. In those circumstances, I would love to see a breakdown of the hourly precipitation for my city. However, with VoiceOver, all I get

Re: File Vault

I recently had this issue. No idea why, but for some reason I was forced to reset my Firevolt password. The process was mostly accessible. I was confused initially, because the login process wasn’t working as usual. But it seemed to force me into some kind of recovery mode type thing, where a co

Re: Hourly Precipitation on the Watch

precipitation" than an unlabelled button. >>> >>> I have the 42mm stainless steel with the leather loop strap. >>> >>> Have this helps. >>> >>> Barry >>>> On Jun 1, 2015, at 7:14 PM, Nicholas Parsons >>>> wrote

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

I’ve written a few AppleScripts for VoiceOver but I’ve never written scripts for windows screen readers, though I have used some, so can’t really answer your question. sorry. Hopefully someone else on the list will be able to. What I do know is, one can create AppleScripts which accessibly speak

Re: menus on web pages causing problems

The work around I use is to open the window menu using VO-m followed by typing w i n, navigate through a couple of the options using the arrow keys, and then press escape. No idea why this affects it but it seems to work. Maybe it’s removing the selection from the webpage and thus making the men

Re: watch apps

That depends where you live. I love the TripView app for Sydney, Australia. Fat Secret is a good app, despite the terrible name, for counting calories. The apps for my banks are also really good. Other than those and the ones you mentioned, I mostly use the native apps and, most of all, the comp

Watch Screen Responsiveness with VoiceOver

Hi list, and particularly to those of you who have Watches, Two issues: 1. I have activate on wrist-raise enabled, and speak on raise disabled. When I raise my wrist, the screen remains off and Siri is not available. I have to touch the screen before it activates and Siri becomes available. I

Re: Watch Screen Responsiveness with VoiceOver

Thanks, all, for the feedback. I had heard that the IPX7 water resistant rating meant it could be submerged in water up to a depth of 1m for up to 30 mins. The Apple Store staff member who helped me try on the watch said they don’t recommend waring it in the shower, but then I read that Tim Cook

Re: watch apps

gt; > >> On 25/06/2015, at 8:23 AM, Nicholas Parsons >> wrote: >> >> That depends where you live. I love the TripView app for Sydney, Australia. >> Fat Secret is a good app, despite the terrible name, for counting calories. >> The apps for my banks are

Re: Hourly Precipitation on the Watch

Just a follow up on this one. The weather app now seems far more accessible to me with VoiceOver on the Watch. Each hour is an item which VoiceOver focus can flick to, just as on the phone. This is whether viewing it in the weather app or by Siri. Odd, as I’m running the same Watch OS as before

Re: Glances in Apple Watch

I’ve had no problem with the two finger swipe gesture in the glances or anywhere else. To swipe left or right, I too place my fingers vertically, one towards the bottom of the screen and one towards the top, and then swipe either left or right as desired. -- You received this message because y

Re: where're the cur ated playlists?

They’re in the “For You” tab, after you have told Apple about your musical tastes. > On 3 Jul 2015, at 12:06 pm, Joe Quinn wrote: > > Apparently in apple music, you're able to find various "playlists," I guess, > from expert curators such as rolling stone, among others. However I can't > find

Re: where're the cur ated playlists?

it's only available on the Mac? Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 2, 2015, at 11:13 PM, Nicholas Parsons > wrote: > > They’re in the “For You” tab, after you have told Apple about your musical > tastes. > >> On 3 Jul 2015, at 12:06 pm, Joe Quinn wrote: >> >> App

Watch Screen Activation with VoiceOver Enabled

Hi list, Sorry to be raising this again, but would like to try and clear this up. I suspect, but am not sure, that enabling “Speak on Wrist Raise” for VoiceOver on the Watch overrides the general “Wrist Detection” setting, so that with VoiceOver’s “Speak on Wrist Raise” set to off, the Watch

Re: Quirky cell behavior in Numbers

I don’t have a solution but I think I might have a work around. 1. If you are entering a formula into a blank cell, instead of typing VO-space, just type an equals sign. 2. If you are entering or editing a formula in a cell which already has some contents, instead of typing VO-space, press optio

Re: weird audio behavior

I haven’t experienced this on the Mac, except occasionally when the OS is still loading up, but I have noticed something similar on iOS. Not sure about solution. > On 19 Jul 2015, at 1:25 pm, deedra waters wrote: > > I’ve noticed this since about jan or so or maybe that’s just when i noticed

Re: word count in text edit

You can find and download the script from this website . > On 31 Jul 2015, at 2:10 pm, sadam.li...@gmail.com wrote: > > Hi Jim, > > Is this app available from the Mac App Store? > > Thanks, > > Sadam > > Sent from my iPhone > > -- > > >

Re: ms office 2016 for mac

In my opinion, while the accessibility with VoiceOver has greatly improved since earlier versions of Office for Mac, it is still patchy and Pages and TextEdit are much better options. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubs

Re: Text boxes in Pages?

Hi all, Alex, I don’t think the issue you were having is a beta thing. I’ve noticed it as well and I’m not running any beta. It might, however, have something to do with the VoiceOver setting to play tones instead of announcing links. When I’m navigating through a Pages document using the down

Re: productive calender app on mac or ios?

I use the Calendar on Mac. I launch Calendar with the keyboard commander, press command-n to create a new event, and then type in the event details in natural language and press return. Fantastical is another option I’ve played with which is even faster – it sits in the menu bar and can be trigg

Re: Large Numbers file and VoiceOver

I don’t know anyway around the problem, unfortunately. I suspect it’s a consequence of Numbers being a memory hog, or something. But if you find away around it, let me know. As a practical matter, I’ve found that once the row count gets above 500 VoiceOver starts having difficulty. > On 22 Jul

Re: IFTTT Question.

Hi Emilio, I’ve never used the gmail channel of IFTTT, sorry, so I can’t help you with that one. Other ways I’ve used IFTTT include: automatically saving to Dropbox any articles I send to Instapaper; sending me text message alerts if it is going to rain tomorrow; uploading to Dropbox certain fil

Re: Microsoft Word on the mac does not want to read more than a few pages out of a long document

The problem I get is that the further down the document I go the more flaky VoiceOver becomes, and it stops indicating paragraph and line breaks properly. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop

Audiobooks in iBooks for iOS | Problems with Playback Controls for m4b Files

Hi List, I’ve listened to around four or five audiobooks in the new iBooks for iOS now. While I believe the playback controls all worked quite well for audible .aa files, there still seems to be some issues for audiobooks I’ve imported into iTunes myself. I think these are m4b files. With thes

Re: ms office 2016 for mac?

I found powerpoint to be good for viewing presentations, but I haven’t tried creating a powerpoint presentation yet. Unfortunately, I’ve found word not to be a viable option, particularly if the document is long or contains track changes. This is despite the fact that there is a huge incentive

Re: Audiobooks in iBooks for iOS | Problems with Playback Controls for m4b Files

> though as my wife has me pretty occupied with Garage Sale prep right now. > > Later... > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On Aug 19, 2015, at 22:11, Nicholas Parsons > wrote: > > Hi List, > > I’ve listened to around four or five audiobooks

Re: Audiobooks in iBooks for iOS | Problems with Playback Controls for m4b Files

when they are there. > > Later... > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On Aug 19, 2015, at 22:11, Nicholas Parsons > wrote: > > Hi List, > > I’ve listened to around four or five audiobooks in the new iBooks for iOS > now. While I believe the pla

Re: Numbers Cell Format Help.

For me, it worked with the cell format set to ‘Numeral System’ and the places set to 6. I don’t have an option for ‘Numeric System’. I’m not sure if that was a typo by others, or if perhaps Numeric gets changed to Numeral in an Australian localisation. -- You received this message because you

Feedback on VoiceOver behaviour in Numbers | announcing row and column numbers before the selected cell's contents

Hi, In the latest version of Numbers—and it seems since about version 3.6—VoiceOver will say the row or column number before saying the contents of the selected cell when navigating by cell using either just the arrow keys or the VO and arrow keys together in a table without both header columns

Re: Feedback on VoiceOver behaviour in Numbers | announcing row and column numbers before the selected cell's contents

ity team at Apple. If so it's a very good message > and I hope they listen to you. For myself, I've just learned to live with it > as I learn to live with a lot of things. > > > Sent from my IPhone > > >> On Apr 20, 2016, at 5:27 PM, Nicholas Parsons

Feedback on VoiceOver Accessibility in Numbers Version 3.6.X

Hi, I have three issues to report with VoiceOver accessibility in Numbers version 3.6.X. All three have been recently tested with Numbers version 3.6.1 (2566) on a 13" mid 2011 MacBook Air with 1.7 GHz Intel Core i5 processor, 4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 RAM and Intel HD Graphics 3000 384 MB. 1. VoiceO

Re: Is there any way to accept an Outlook Calendar invitation in Mail?

For me, there’s always been a .ics file attachment. If I open that attachment, it adds the event to Calendar and from there I can accept or decline. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of

Re: Feedback on VoiceOver behaviour in Numbers | announcing row and column numbers before the selected cell's contents

e list of items for that day in a calander > day to read. > Maybe if you change it in numbers it will not read all of this > > -Original Message- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Nicholas Parsons > Sen

Bug with report of keyboard insertion point by VoiceOver in Pages version 5

Greetings, There are a few inaccuracies/anomalies with the keyboard insertion point as reported by VoiceOver in Pages 5.6.1. These can be illustrated by repeating the following steps: Open a new blank document in Pages from the template chooser. Interact with the body of the document and press V

Re: Bug with report of keyboard insertion point by VoiceOver in Pages version 5

visually on the screen, not as would be printed out. > > Cheers, > > Anne > > > >> On 27 Apr 2016, at 14:33, Nicholas Parsons > <mailto:mr.nicholas.pars...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> Greetings, >> >> There are a few inaccuraci

Re: Microsoft word for the Mac

Yes, it has the ribbon. Currently you need a 365 subscription if you want the somewhat accessible version, though a box version might be coming out later in the year which you can buy outright. Office for Mac 2011 is available for purchase outright, but is not accessible at all. I’ve found Power

Re: VO going silent when reading an email?

Hi Alex, The problem arises because of indented text. When you reply or forward an email the text of the message being forwarded or replied to is indented to distinguish it visually from the new message text. For whatever reason, VoiceOver has difficulty reading this indented text. What can yo

Re: any way to auto-setup someone else's VO commanders?

I've tried a few things to sync my VoiceOver preferences between my Mac. Portable preferences was impracticable as I needed to always carry the USB stick with me. My more recent attempt has been to export my VoiceOver preferences to Dropbox and then import them when I change Macs, but some of th

Re: One Password Safari Extension

It's been a while for me so my memory is a bit foggy as well, but I think the trick may have been to use window chooser (VO-F2 twice quickly) to get to the dialog that pops up. Best of luck, NIc -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group

Re: Random Signature setting in Mail? I Can't Find it All of a Sudden

HI, I think if you have more than one signature/name for one account, then there's a pop up button to the right of the signature text edit field which allows you to select one as a default or to choose random. This is all in the Mail Preferences Signatures tab of course. I can't check this as I

VoiceOver Feature Request: Announcing Text Styles

, heading level 1, footer or whatever other custom styles one might add to a word processing application. Kind regards, NIc Nicholas Parsons -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiv

Re: VO going silent when reading an email?

ra :) On Oct 17, 2013, at 6:53 PM, Nicholas Parsons wrote: Hi Alex, The problem arises because of indented text. When you reply or forward an email the text of the message being forwarded or replied to is indented to distinguish it visually from the new message text. For whatever reason,

Re: any way to auto-setup someone else's VO commanders?

Nice one, Ricardo. So long as Alex exports his own VO preferences first that should work (hopefully). Nic -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macv

Re: Mailing List Conventions: Plain Text Versus Rich text?

I can't speak for anyone else, but as for me… I used to be able to read HTML messages fine when I just viewed gmail in a web browser. HTML emails are annoying in Mac Mail, however, so I only send rich text messages. I don't send plane text messages, but if I receive an email with too much HTML,

Re: Mailing List Conventions: Plain Text Versus Rich text?

ms to have trouble. Cheers, Nic On 19/10/2013, at 5:32 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote: I'm a bit confused here. Rich text is the same is HtML, isn't it? For all intents and purposes, anyway. Teresa "We're made of star stuff."--Carl Sagan On Oct 18, 2013, at 9:30 PM, Nichol

Re: yet more regarding youtube

I also refuse to install flash on my Mac, and I'm often frustrated and angry at the prevalence of inaccessible flash on the web. However, I disagree that it is entirely Adobe's fault or that they haven't done anything about flash accessibility. 1. Some flash, though unlabelled, is still accessibl

Re: Problem from Re-Labeling an App

For what it's worth, Bryan, I've had the same issue as you. It's really annoying. I reset my iPhone and restored the iTunes backup and this seemed to fix it for me. Cheers, Nic -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe f

Re: Strange problems with fonts and text attributes in Text Edit

When you wish to check the attributes of text make sure you have interacted with that text first. NOt just interacted with the text area, but actually interact with the text. Use the VO keys to navigate around rather than just the arrow keys. I think what you're experiencing is that you are chan

Re: Solving captures on a mac?

I use Rumola to solve CAPTCHAs. It's fantastic. On 23/10/2013, at 11:00 AM, Rob wrote: Dear List, How do you solve captures on a mac? On my PC I use Firefox and Webvisum. I have not received my ordered macbook yet, but I wanted to know the answer. I also would like to know if any of you are us

Re: Solving captures on a mac?

ow I can't remember. :) Best, Nic On 24/10/2013, at 1:37 AM, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: Please tell me Nick where to get that from? Kawal. Sent from my I phone On 23 Oct 2013, at 03:36 pm, Nicholas Parsons wrote: > I use Rumola to solve CAPTCHAs. It's fantastic. > > On 23/10/2

Re: Mavericks is free.

For those of you unsure how you want to upgrade, I recommend the book Take Control of Upgrading to Mavericks (available on iBooks or Kindle) or MacWorld has a number of great articles which you can Google for free. Best, Nic On 24/10/2013, at 1:29 AM, Laura ann Grymes wrote: from what I heard

Re: Regarding clean installs…

I recommend just doing the standard backup unless you are experiencing problems with your system as it is. Either way, however, I recommend you create a backup duplicate of your entire drive before upgrading. This way if anything goes wrong, or you decide you hate Mavericks, you can restore to y

Re: Going to the previous page in the new Safari

Are you sure you're pressing the correct left bracket key – it's the one to the right of the letter p. On 24/10/2013, at 12:44 AM, Mary Otten wrote: Since I came over from Windows, command left Earrow was an easy keystroke. It's position is like alllt left arrow in windows. Left bracket is jus

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