Re: I Pad Air.

2013-10-23 Thread Nicholas Parsons
I think the slimmer lighter design sounds awesome, but I'm just disappointed they didn't include Touch ID. I'm keen to get an iPad soon, but can't now decide which one I want. I think I'll have to play with them all in the Apple Store once they're out to see which one feels best. If the iPad Air

Apple Diagnostics or Apple Hardware Test

2013-10-23 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Is Apple Hardware Test or Apple Diagnostics accessible, or is it at least usable without sighted assistance? Thanks, 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

Re: Apple Diagnostics or Apple Hardware Test

2013-10-23 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Shame. thanks for letting me know though. On 24/10/2013, at 4:56 AM, Alex Hall wrote: Not, at least not in Mountain Lion. I haven’t tried AHT with 10.9 yet, but I doubt anything changed since it is such a low-level application. On Oct 23, 2013, at 1:20 PM, Nicholas Parsons wrote: > Is Ap

Re: In Case Anyone Was Caught Off Guard When Dictating . . . . . .

2013-10-23 Thread Nicholas Parsons
HI Christine and all, I'm Australian and until recently used Siri in Australian English with VoiceOver's default language also being Australian English. Ever since Siri could understand punctuation, I think sometime back in iOS 5, I used the word "full stop" and Siri understood this fine. After

Re: Regarding clean installs…

2013-10-24 Thread Nicholas Parsons
If you have some corrupted system files or preferences somewhere, these might get copied over in the normal upgrade process. If, however, you do a clean install, you'll have a clean, pristine operating system free from those corrupted files. This might resolve problems you were previously experi

Re: Updating to Mavericks

2013-10-24 Thread Nicholas Parsons
You might also like the book Take Control of Upgrading to Mavericks, which explains in detail the process of upgrading to Mavericks from Snow Leopard. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop rec

Re: Gmail Issues in Mavericks, Pretty Major, Folks

2013-10-24 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Thanks, Teresa, it's great that you're pointing that out for folks. Some of it isn't quite 100% accurate, however. From what I've read, for instance, All Mail doesn't get placed in your Archive folder exactly. In fact, Mail kind of gets rid of folders all together for gmail. Instead, just like g

Re: In Case Anyone Was Caught Off Guard When Dictating . . . . . .

2013-10-24 Thread Nicholas Parsons
ntences with no problem. I did have to edit >> manually to insert that word in the middle of the sentence, however. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>> On Oct 23, 2013, at 10:13 PM, Nicholas Parsons >>> wrote: >>> >>> HI Christine and

Re: email problems

2013-10-24 Thread Nicholas Parsons
I don't think it's a notification thing at all. What if you press command O on the messages you want to read? This way it opens in a new window and so VoiceOver shouldn't announce any new rows added. On 25/10/2013, at 7:03 AM, Edward Green wrote: Hi Alia, Sorry it didn’t work, Turning it off

App Nap in Mavericks

2013-10-25 Thread Nicholas Parsons
I was worried that App Nap might not work well with VoiceOver in Mavericks. IN particular, if the app with VO focus is visually in the background, it might be subject to App Nap and not get the memory it needs. HOw does this seem to be working? -- You received this message because you are subs

Preview Tables in Mavericks

2013-10-26 Thread Nicholas Parsons
HI, Do tables in Preview work in Mavericks? Given tables work for Pages I'm hopeful–this would be a great improvement. 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

Re: Downcast Synching

2013-10-26 Thread Nicholas Parsons
HI Bryan, If you have settings turned off in iCloud Sync preferences on your iPHone 4S then I'm not sure what else you could try. I recommend contacting the developer of Downcast to ask–I suspect turning off podcast syncing might have undesired effects. I was going to contact them on a similar i

Re: Gmail Issues in Mavericks, Pretty Major, Folks

2013-10-26 Thread Nicholas Parsons
HI Teresa, In what ways is gmail still clunky for you? I still haven't upgraded mainly because of this supposed Mail issue. Mail is probably my favourite and most used app on the Mac, so I'm not sure all the great new features of Mavericks, and some of them really sound fantastic, are worth a po

Re: attachments in mail now more logical

2013-10-26 Thread Nicholas Parsons
The other way you might know there's an attachment is if the person writing the email says such and such is attached, or refers to some attachment in another way. :) To be honest, that's the only way I notice attachments currently–I rarely wait to the very end of the email to see the attachment

Re: In Case Anyone Was Caught Off Guard When Dictating . . . . . .

2013-10-26 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Yeah, I suspect its your region setting causing the issue. I have mine set to Australia, as I'm currently living in Australia. You used to need your region set to Australia if you wanted the premium Australian English voice, but that's no longer necessary in iOS 7 so you're probably best to swap

Re: Gmail Issues in Mavericks, Pretty Major, Folks

2013-10-26 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Sounds like the syncing issue is the most serious one. Is this just with gmail? And it is just a matter of a delay, is it, rather than not syncing properly at all? Having the read/unread status and message count announced last would be a little annoying. Although, I tend to archive messages onc

Re: attachments in mail now more logical

2013-10-26 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Good point, it does, so long as you are patient enough to wait until the end. :) That's kinda creepy when you paste in that text though as it sounds like I've been taken back to the messages list. :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries"

Re: iPod Nano

2013-10-26 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Basically, you receive info on whatever text or icons are on the screen. It's great for listening to audiobooks, music and podcasts. I love my iPod Nano. I use it much less now my iPHone is essentially an iPod and more and has a much greater storage capacity. The Nano is great when I want to con

New Voices in Mavericks (was, Re: os 10.9, is it worth it?)

2013-10-26 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Two questions: 1. Are there any new Australian English voices? 2. Do the new voices read out capital letters properly, as does Alex, or do they announce both "capital" and change pitch? On 27/10/2013, at 3:59 AM, Alex Hall wrote: Yes, if you go into Voiceover’s speech settings and choose custom

Re: Adding Items to Doc.

2013-10-26 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Funny Apple with its complicated keystroke policy; why make a simple two key shortcut when you could make a complicated one involving multiple modifier keys. What do plane old Command-T and Command-Shift-T do now? Or why couldn't they have used Option-T or Control-T? Sorry for my rhetorical pond

Re: Gmail Issues in Mavericks, Pretty Major, Folks

2013-10-26 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Yeah, the ironic thing is that this seems to have happened because Apple made a big effort to make Mail work better with gmail. So they had good intentions, but just didn't quite pull it off smoothly. If I were CEO of Apple I would've delayed the public release of Mavericks until these issues we

Re: Adding Items to Doc.

2013-10-26 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Hahaha, okay, good points and good to learn a few more short cuts. I note control-T still isn't spoken for. :) (I'm now getting desperate to prove my nasty allegations against Apple). ;) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To uns

Re: Mavericks and Gmail

2013-10-27 Thread Nicholas Parsons
HI Janet, NO, if you use POP your mail won't sync between your devices. That's the huge advantage of IMAP, that it keeps your mail synced on all devices. So long as you have All Mail turned on in gmail settings on the server side, it seems gmail and Mail are now playing reasonably nicely with mo

Re: Pages for Mavericks, problems

2013-10-27 Thread Nicholas Parsons
If you copy from Pages and paste in Text Edit, will it keep all your formatting? -- 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...@goo

Re: Classic Versus Current view in Mail

2013-10-27 Thread Nicholas Parsons
As for moving between mailboxes, can't you add your nine most frequently accessed mailboxes to the favourites bar and then switch between them with command-1 through 9? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this

Podcasts on Mavericks

2013-10-27 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Am I missing something, or is there an almost total absence of podcasts on Mavericks? I find it funny that on the day iOS 7 was released there was an explosion of podcasts on every tiny little insignificant change from iOS 6, but half a week later still none on the 200 new features and two compl

Re: Macupdate desktop on mavericks.

2013-10-27 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Sorry I can't answer your question, but perhaps you can answer one of mine. What does the MacUpdate Desktop do? What's the advantage of using it? I have some software from MacUpdate and am often interested in their deals, but wasn't exactly sure why I would want or need the desktop app. Does it

Re: Mavericks and Gmail

2013-10-27 Thread Nicholas Parsons
HI Teresa, When you updated, did all your messages saved in the [IMAP]/Archive folder–that is, Mail's special Archive folder–get merged with all your archived messages in All Mail? Or does this still remain a separate, but now redundant, folder in Mavericks? Thanks, Nic -- You received this me

Re: New Voices in Mavericks (was, Re: os 10.9, is it worth it?)

2013-10-27 Thread Nicholas Parsons
HI Traci, By default, Alex should just change pitch when reading a capital letter but should not say the word "capital". This makes reading all caps much easier as you don't get all the unnecessary extra words. The other voices, however, will say "capital" and change pitch as well, which is unne

Re: Macupdate desktop on mavericks.

2013-10-28 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Don't most apps have their own automatic check for update feature? Or is it mainly for smaller plugins and things that MacUpdate Desktop is useful? To the person asking about Dropbox—no, Dropbox isn't available from MacUpdate.com as it's a free app available only directly from Dropbox.com. If y

Re: New Voices in Mavericks (was, Re: os 10.9, is it worth it?)

2013-10-28 Thread Nicholas Parsons
With the exception of Alex, doesn't it still say the word "capital" before each letter even with beeps turned on? Whether pitch change or beeps I don't mind, I just don't like it saying "capital" each time as that three syllable word before each one syllable letter is horribly verbose and slow.

Re: Use iOS shortcuts in Mavericks

2013-10-28 Thread Nicholas Parsons
That's cool. Is it possible to do it the other way around as well—set up shortcuts on your Mac that work on iOS? The iOS short cut preferences must be stored somewhere on the Mac—do you know where this is? Cheers, Nic -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: 1 password podcasts

2013-10-28 Thread Nicholas Parsons
That is a great podcast. It is, however, on 1Password 3. We're now up to 1Password 4. Though the interface has changed a bit, it's still very intuitive and the key concepts are the same, so the podcast should still be useful. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: advanced Gmail Imap Settings, Was Gmail Issues in Mavericks, Pretty Major, Folks

2013-10-29 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Yes, apparently limiting the folder size of IMAP folders helps, though it would be annoying not to be able to search through old email. I turned on All Mail before upgrading, and once I upgraded I just opened Mail and let it sync with gmail for several hours. I didn't try using Mail at all duri

Re: Observation with voice on Mavericks

2013-10-29 Thread Nicholas Parsons
I downloaded the Karen voice update but haven't noticed any difference. Do I need to delete and re-download or do anything else to get the updated voice working? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group

Re: a showstopper in the latest safari update

2013-10-29 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Alex, Do you have All Mail enabled for IMAP in Gmail settings? And around how many messages do you have in All Mail? Some people have found that limiting the size of IMAP folders in gmail has helped the issues. It's not something I want to do or something anyone should have to do but it might he

Re: Observation with voice on Mavericks

2013-10-29 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Thanks, Shawn! And how do I delete it? Is it just a matter of unchecking the checkbox for the voice, restarting and checking it again? Or do I need to find where the files are stored and delete those? Thanks for your help, Nic -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Googl

Re: Mac Calender (Openning Events)

2013-10-30 Thread Nicholas Parsons
I've always loved Calendar in Mountain Lion. It works really well for me. Deleting events with command-delete or editing them with command-e works fine. Along with Mail, it's one of my favourite Mac apps. I don't like the week or day views, but month view is great. I only played briefly with Cal

Re: fantastical 2 is an app I like more than apple calendar

2013-10-30 Thread Nicholas Parsons
This sounds great I will go get it now. I've always heard good things about Fantastical but until Apple stuffed up Calendar in iOS 7 I never thought I'd need it because Apple's Calendar was great. I've always wanted to see my calendar events and reminders/ToDo's in one place though, so this poin

BusyCal Support

2013-10-30 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Dear BusyCal Support Team, I downloaded the trial of BusyCal for Mac. I absolutely love the features in BusyCal, which are so sadly missing in the native OS X Calendar. However, unfortunately I haven't been able to use BusyCal properly. I use VoiceOver—Apple's built-in screen reader for OS X—to

Fantastical for Mac

2013-10-30 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Hi all, I downloaded the free 14 day trial of Fantastical for Mac. I managed to get through the set up process fine, but seem to be having some issues with the app. The app doesn't appear to have a window. I can only seem to access some kind of system menu, and this only displays a search fiel

Fantastical for iOS

2013-10-30 Thread Nicholas Parsons
I bought Fantastical 2 today on sale. Everything seems labeled properly, but still having some issues getting it working. 1. The settings button remains dim. Presumably I have to do something to activate this button, but not sure what that is. 2. Welcome message remains displayed. The welcome me

Re: BusyCal Support

2013-10-30 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Yes, I'm glad they had a trial as well. I was tempted, but reluctant, to pay the money to test it. Glad I didn't buy it now. The other issue is that VoiceOver is incredibly sluggish with it too, but I thought I'd take it one step at a time with the support team. Anyway, at least Calendar is stil

Re: Fantastical for iOS

2013-10-30 Thread Nicholas Parsons
The tip displaying at the moment says pull down on the DayTicker until it switches to the calendar. So far as I can work out, the DayTicker is a horizontal row of dates across the top of the screen, just below the settings button, month/year and the add event button. I tried double tapping on th

Re: request. automatic updates. voice over feature.

2013-10-30 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Seems to me Apple could push out updates to VoiceOver if they wanted to, just as they push other updates for raw camera compatibility and the like, even though those aren't separate applications. More frequent updates to VoiceOver would be good. However, the main accessibility issues we have are

Feature Request: iCloud Syncing of VoiceOver Preferences

2013-10-30 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Dear Apple Accessibility Team, With such deep integration of iCloud with so many aspects of iOS and OS X, it's surprising that VoiceOver has so far been left out. Many VoiceOver users own multiple Apple devices, and would benefit greatly from being able to sync VoiceOver preferences across all

BusyMac Response to BusyCal Accessibility Request

2013-10-30 Thread Nicholas Parsons
hanks for the note. I'm sorry that BusyCal is not fully Voice Over compatible. I'll add your request to the wish list. Regards, -John supp...@busymac.com On Oct 30, 2013 08:17 PM, Nicholas Parsons wrote: > Dear BusyCal Support Team, > > I downloaded the trial of BusyCal for Ma

Re: add a copy to device menu in iTunes

2013-10-31 Thread Nicholas Parsons
What do you mean instead of copying and pasting to your iDevice? I've never used copy and paste to put something on my iPhone—I thought that couldn't be done. On 31 Oct 2013, at 5:57 pm, Dean Adams wrote: > Hi All, > I have an idea for apple for I tunes when you are in your music books

Re: Fantastical for Mac

2013-10-31 Thread Nicholas Parsons
ontrol+F8? >>>> >>>> >>>> Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind >>>> built-in! >>>> >>>> Sincerely, >>>> The Constantly Barefooted Ray, still a very happy Mac and Iphone 5 user! >

Re: Feature Request: iCloud Syncing of VoiceOver Preferences

2013-10-31 Thread Nicholas Parsons
1. It seems to me the voices on iOS 7 are the same as on OS X 10.9. At least, certain new bugs in the Karen voice on iOS 7 have also appeared in the Karen voice in Mavericks. 2. If the voices are not the same, the settings other than the voices could be synced. E.g. speed, punctuation, etcetera.

Re: BusyMac Response to BusyCal Accessibility Request

2013-11-01 Thread Nicholas Parsons
HI Amilio, Thanks for sharing. I'm pretty keen to start doing more to help us coordinate our efforts at contacting developers and campaigning for accessibility. I think sharing information is a good first step. Cheers, Nic -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Gr

Re: Super Duper?

2013-11-01 Thread Nicholas Parsons
1. If you want your backup clone to be bootable, which you do, then it needs to have its own partition. 2. This can easily be done with Disc Utility. You need to make sure the partition is created in the Mac Extended Gernaled format using GID Partition Table. I'm sorry my spelling of these terms

Re: adding to doc in 10.9

2013-11-01 Thread Nicholas Parsons
My system tells me it's command-control-t, no shift. It's in the file menu anyway. Best, 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 macvisionaries+un

Re: What Safari Extensions Do You Find Useful with Voiceover

2013-11-01 Thread Nicholas Parsons
1. Rumola 2. Amazon Wish List 3. 1Password (this last one isn't so much useful as necessary for 1Password to do it's thing.) -- 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, sen

Re: adding to doc in 10.9

2013-11-01 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Ahh, yes, you're absolutely right of course, Tim. Seems I mixed those two up some howe. Thanks for clarifying and sorry for potentially confusing some people. Cheers, Nic -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from th

Re: What Safari Extensions Do You Find Useful with Voiceover

2013-11-01 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Amazon Wish List just lets you add any item to your wish list. It doesn't have to be on Amazon—it can be anywhere, including, for instance, the Apple Online Store. I'm not sure how it works, but it seems to know some how when you're viewing something you can buy, and it let's you add it to your

Re: Apple testing Mail update for OS X Mavericks to fix Gmail, stability, and smart mailbox issues | 9to5Mac

2013-11-01 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Thanks for sharing the article. It's good news indeed Apple is on to this. For the record, I certainly don't remember this many issues with Mountain Lion. Mountain Lion was a smooth and problem free upgrade for me. It just introduced cool new features, some VoiceOver improvements and I think per

Re: gmail?

2013-11-02 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Showing All Mail shouldn't be too much of a problem in Mavericks. Even though All Mail is shown on Mavericks, Mail only keeps one copy of each message. It just adds an XML tag to the end of each file to tell Mail which folders/labels it should show up in. In iOS All Mail shouldn't be a problem a

Re: Feature Request: iCloud Syncing of VoiceOver Preferences

2013-11-02 Thread Nicholas Parsons
girl1...@gmail.com On 31 Oct 2013, at 5:48 pm, Nicholas Parsons wrote: > Dear Apple Accessibility Team, > > With such deep integration of iCloud with so many aspects of iOS and OS X, > it's surprising that VoiceOver has so far been left out. Many VoiceOver users > own mu

Re: Fantastical for Mac

2013-11-05 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Thanks again for your help, Christina. I found the calendar view like you said. But like you I couldn't seem to find any information on the events or reminders associated with each day. I am looking for a calendar much like Apple's Calendar but one that let's me view reminders along side events

Re: Copying files to another mailbox

2013-11-05 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Yes, all these methods are great. I will just caution, however, that it's still possible to lose messages this way if you're not careful. I recommend opening activity monitor with command-option-0 if you're moving large numbers of messages. It's worth while keeping an eye on what's happening, be

Re: request. automatic updates. voice over feature.

2013-11-05 Thread Nicholas Parsons
First, I'm sure most if not all people on this list would agree that VoiceOver is, in many respects, better than Windows screen readers. That is probably why we are using Macs with VoiceOver after all. However, the lack of frequent updates, if indeed updates to VoiceOver are less frequent than W

Re: working with automater

2013-11-06 Thread Nicholas Parsons
There's a podcast series on Automator, but not from a VoiceOver perspective. It's called Mac Automation Made Simple with Ben Waldie. MacWorld also has a column on Automator projects that are often pretty useful. The main problem I've had is getting actions in the right order, but trial and error

Re: voice over spelling words it doesn't recognise

2013-11-09 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Have you tried teaching it how you want to pronounce the words in the pronunciations tab of the speech pain in VoiceOver Utility? I'm not sure if that would work with the particular words you're talking about but I use it a lot and it's great. If you don't know what I'm talking about or how to d

Re: More on Rumola

2013-11-10 Thread Nicholas Parsons
It's been so long since I installed Rumola that I can't remember the steps anymore. However, someone on this list a while back posted detailed instructions on how to get up and running. It's certainly not intuitive, but the instructions posted to this list were very easy to follow. I'd recommend

Re: working with automater

2013-11-10 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Oh wow, thanks, Esther— such a simple and elegant solution. I wish Apple implemented this functionality in other areas to re-order elements. It's so easy. I'll remember to try it out more often though. Cheers, Nic On 08/11/2013, at 9:05 AM, Esther wrote: Hi Nic, I think you can reorder the act

Re: fantastical 2 is an app I like more than apple calendar

2013-11-10 Thread Nicholas Parsons
I've been playing with this a little more and I like it. It has its quirks, but it's definitely better than Apple's Calendar in iOS7, and the fact that I can view my reminders along with the day's events makes it probably better than Calendar in iOS6 too. -- You received this message because y

Re: Amazon Add to My Cart Safari Plug In

2013-11-10 Thread Nicholas Parsons
HI Bryan, First, double check you have the write plugin. The subject of your email says Add to Your Cart plugin. If that is the plugin you have, then I think it's the wrong one. Your cart and your wish list are different things. So first just check you have the add to wish list plugin not add t

Re: help with voices and dates

2013-11-12 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Why don't you Americans start writing your dates the right way around then you wouldn't have any problem. ;) Seriously though, changing the date format in system preferences might solve some of your problems. If Mail displayed the received/sent date in the Australian format, then Karen would re

Problem Creating Folders on iPad Air Running iOS 7

2013-11-12 Thread Nicholas Parsons
HI, I think someone else posted about this, but I can't now find it. I just bought a new iPad Air today but am having problems creating folders. I double tap on an app and it says moving. All fine. I move it and it says, for instance, on Kindle, indicating it's on the Kindle app. However, it do

Re: help with voices and dates

2013-11-12 Thread Nicholas Parsons
> myself because I want my machine to be US, but not my dates, to communicate > naturally with my fellow native Dutch speakers. > > How do you write your dates in Australia? > Paul. > On Nov 12, 2013, at 8:59 AM, Nicholas Parsons > wrote: > >> Why don't

Re: Track Changes or Text Attributes with Pages

2013-11-12 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Unfortunately, to my knowledge VoiceOver still does not work fully with track changes. Track changes do not only highlight changes, but it also indicates whether the change is a deletion or an addition, or a format change. Anne Robertson, who is the guru on Pages with VoiceOver and on this list

Re: Track Changes or Text Attributes with Pages

2013-11-13 Thread Nicholas Parsons
ote: Hello Nic, Tracking changes is working much better in the new version of Pages. It tells you whether the change is an addition or a deletion, but I haven’t yet figured out how to find formatting changes. Cheers, Anne On 12 Nov 2013, at 16:04, Nicholas Parsons wrote: > Unfortunatel

Re: 1password

2013-11-13 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Sorry, I can't work this out either. I usually just log into a website and let 1Password Mini save the login item for me. I'm happy making up my own passwords. I can't work out how to get 1Password to generate passwords though in version 4 which is not good seeing as this is one of the main feat

OT Great news: OS X 10.9.1 to focus on VoiceOver improvements, among other things. http://goo.gl/qkBRKh Great news: OS X 10.9.1 to focus on VoiceOver improvements, among other things

2013-11-15 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Apple asks developers to focus on Mail, Graphics in first Mavericks 10.9.1 beta Apple on Friday supplied its development community with the first beta of OS X 10.9.1 Mavericks, a forthcoming maintenance and security update for the Mac operating system, and has asked testers to focus their efforts

Re: Safari 2 items, 3 items and internal link?

2013-11-16 Thread Nicholas Parsons
The two items three items thing you're hearing is most likely lists with several items. Whenever VoiceOver encounters a list or sub-list, it announces how many items are in the list. I agree it's overly verbose and not really necessary. It's VoiceOver treating the HTML and tags as a separate

Re: Getting back a forgotten recovery key using file Vault2 and V O

2013-11-16 Thread Nicholas Parsons
In Mountain Lion I was able to copy the key using VO-Shift-C, to copy the last spoken phrase. You should be able to use this—it's a great one to remember when VO can't interact and select text to be copied. Apple will not be able to email you the key as Apple does not keep any copy for security

Re: apple working on voiceover

2013-11-16 Thread Nicholas Parsons
I hope they: • Make VoiceOver announce a messages read/unread status, and the number of messages in thread, before the message preview in Mail. • Stop VoiceOver repeating text in nearby elements in Safari. • Fix problems with column view in Finder. • Label unlabelled buttons and images in iBooks.

Re: Getting back a forgotten recovery key using file Vault2 and V O

2013-11-16 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Oh right, well if you chose that option then I guess you're fine. No need to worry so long as you can remember the answers to your three questions. I doubt you'll forget the password though as you have to enter it every time you turn on your Mac. -- You received this message because you are su

Re: apple working on voiceover

2013-11-18 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Yes, absolutely. I can't follow popular topics on Twitter in Night Owl because VoiceOver keeps interrupting itself with "one row added". I agree this should be a toggle in VoiceOver preferences: a spoken announcement, a sound or nothing. On 17 Jan 2013, at 11:01 PM, Michael Marshall wrote: i w

Re: Safari 2 items, 3 items and internal link?

2013-11-18 Thread Nicholas Parsons
nd go down the list. You could change the verbosity level for specific elements to a lower level. This may reduce VO’s verbosity for those sorts of elements to a level you more prefer. Later… Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Nov 16, 2013, at 6:43 PM, Nicholas Parsons wrote: > The

VoiceOver Additional Verbosity Options (was Safari 2 items, 3 items and internal link?)

2013-11-19 Thread Nicholas Parsons
erbosity set to medium, VoiceOver used to read how many items there were. Do you know what I have to adjust in the verbosity settings to get VoiceOver to read these badges again? I've tried app but this doesn't seem to work. Cheers, Nic On 19 Jan 2013, at 6:29 PM, Nicholas Parsons wro

Searching for Topics on Night Owl (was: apple working on voiceover)

2013-11-19 Thread Nicholas Parsons
erse containing this hashtag, they will show up in the table to the right. Let me know if you have any questions. Cheers, Nic On 20 Jan 2013, at 1:04 AM, Sarai Bucciarelli wrote: I can't figure out how to search the entire twitter universe using night owl On Nov 19, 2013, at 1:25 AM,

Re: VoiceOver Additional Verbosity Options (was Safari 2 items, 3 items and internal link?)

2013-11-19 Thread Nicholas Parsons
our I’m hinting about. HTH. Later… Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Nov 19, 2013, at 1:18 AM, Nicholas Parsons wrote: > HI Tim and others, > I've now customised my verbosity options. I've chosen low but tweaked a > couple of things in the custom table. However, Voi

Re: Searching for Topics on Night Owl (was: apple working on voiceover)

2013-11-20 Thread Nicholas Parsons
wrote: How did you make • appear? Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 19, 2013, at 9:18 PM, Sarai Bucciarelli > wrote: > > Thank you! That worked! I appreciate it. >> On Nov 19, 2013, at 7:33 PM, Nicholas Parsons >> wrote: >> >> To search the entire Twitter unive

Send Later or Other Ways to Schedule Emails

2013-11-20 Thread Nicholas Parsons
I'm looking for ways to schedule emails in Apple Mail to send at a specific time/date in the future. I've come across the plugin called Send Later. I began to install it but the installation package has some unlabelled and inaccessible buttons. This doesn't bode well for its accessibility. So I

Re: ibooks and short cuts?

2013-11-20 Thread Nicholas Parsons
>From memory it worked for me if I stopped interacting with the text HTML area. >However, I'm not on my Mavericks Mac at the moment so can't double check this. Cheers, Nic On 21 Jan 2013, at 5:26 AM, Maria and Joe Chapman wrote: HI. Am currently reading an ibook on the mac. I am having troub

Re: find my iphone for mac

2013-11-21 Thread Nicholas Parsons
And then there's the iCloud website where you can actually search for your devices, activate their alarms and and wipe them etc. On 22 Jan 2013, at 2:46 PM, Alex Hall wrote: It should be built in. Go to System Preference,s iCloud, and look at the table of options. One should be Find My Mac. On

Re: book sample link on audible doesn't work

2013-11-24 Thread Nicholas Parsons
It uses flash player. I don't have flash player installed on Safari, so I can't listen to them on Safari. So if I want to listen to the samples I use Google Chrome, which has flash built in. I haven't tried it for a few weeks, so not sure if it's currently working, but it might be worth you tryi

Re: reading the subject, date and from fields in arecieved email

2013-11-24 Thread Nicholas Parsons
I don't think that header information includes sent date though, does it, Alex? I usually just get that information from the message list, and use the header information for the sent to address. On 25 Jan 2013, at 11:32 AM, Alex Hall wrote: To read headers, I hit enter on a message. To the lef

Re: Downcast qustion

2013-11-24 Thread Nicholas Parsons
I have Downcast for IOS and Downcast for Mac. Downcast for Mac was well worth the cost to me, but everyone will have a different opinion, as I think you can see from this thread. Downcast for Mac is fully accessible and easy to use. The settings are all easy to configure, and the syncing works

Date Pickers and VoiceOver Verbosity

2013-11-24 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Hi list, Since I customised VoiceOver verbosity, VoiceOver now doesn't announce dates correctly in those OS X date pickers such as in Calendar etcetera which allow you to interact and adjust a date. Instead of giving the date, month and year, VoiceOver only announces the date and year, skipping

Re: Could Use some Automation Advice

2013-11-25 Thread Nicholas Parsons
I guess you might have to press enter by yourself. Thankfully it's only one key press. :) On 26 Jan 2013, at 2:22 PM, Jonathan Mosen wrote: Thanks Jonathan, the substitutions sort of does what I want, except I can't get it to press enter for me and send the tweet. Jonathan Mosen Mosen Consulti

Re: Anyone know of a bluetooth earpiece that works with Downcast

2013-11-27 Thread Nicholas Parsons
HI Bryan, I have two that work well with Downcast. At least they certainly don't cut in and out. The first is from Bose, I think it's called Bose Bluetooth 2 or something like that. It's a small earpiece that just fits in one ear. The sound quality is good, it's highly portable, but the controls

Numbers on iOS

2013-11-29 Thread Nicholas Parsons
I've been playing with Numbers on my iPad Air. I created a spreadsheet in Numbers on Mavericks, and I'm trying to add a row on my iPad. I've read the Help documentation and have tried to follow this as best I can with VoiceOver but I can't seem to add a row. I've found the handle thing to the l

Re: Anyone know of a bluetooth earpiece that works with Downcast

2013-11-30 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Hi Bryan, The other bluetooth headset I have is called Creative WP-350 Headset. It's a random headset I bought in a shop one night—not sure how common it is. It doesn't sound as fancy as your Plantronics, but it works well with Downcast and certainly doesn't cut out. They're really comfortable f

Re: Looking for Mac RSS reader

2013-11-30 Thread Nicholas Parsons
You might also like to try ReadKit. • It can sync with plenty of services, e.g. FeedWrangler; • Just press G to read full text of articles in Readability mode; • It has customisable short cuts for all popular sharing and read later services – e.g. I just press Command-Shift-D to add to Apple Readi

Re: Calendar on the Mac

2013-12-01 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Once you find Calendar, I suggest you use it in month view. You can select month view from the view menu, or press command-3. I personally find month view the most useful with VoiceOver, but others might differ. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacV

Re: Readkit question (was Looking for Mac RSS reader)

2013-12-01 Thread Nicholas Parsons
There's two ways to add feed subscriptions. The first way is to add them through a syncing service like FeedWrangler or FeedBin, and sync these with ReadKit. This is the best way as it allows you to sync your feeds with your iOS device. The second way is to just click on an RSS link in your web b

Re: ReadKit rss reader and adding feeds

2013-12-01 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Hi, I replied to Alex's post on the same topic so I won't fully repeat myself here. For full info, see that thread. However, basically you need to either use a syncing service such as FeedWrangler or FeedBin to manage your feeds and then sync that with ReadKit (which is the preferred solution),

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