gmail's understanding of IMAP and Apple Mail's understanding of IMAP are not
the same, and if you're not careful this can produce funny results. The way
they both work is rather complicated. Thankfully, Joe Kissell has written a
number of great MacWorld and TidBits articles which are free on the
Hi Brian,
Glad I could help. Yep, I think DocuScan's 7 day trial is worth checking out.
It's relatively a very expensive app, so make sure you like it before you buy.
With that CanoScan software, is the document that opens automatically in
Preview as you say already been OCR-ed? Not sure if I sti
I could just write the HTML in Mars Edit. I used to just write the HTML on the
WordPress web app. However, it's annoying to proof read stuff you've written in
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I'm not sure iText does support footnotes, Rahul. And if it does I'm not sure
they work with VoiceOver. If you're looking for footnotes, I'd recommend Nisus
Writer Pro. Pages might also serve your needs, otherwise you might have to try
Microsoft Word for Windows. I'm no expert on iText Express t
Ahh, okay, cool. That makes sense. Can you upgrade from SL straight to ML?
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That's awesome! I'd also echo Ricardo's words that you probably don't really
need to teach yourself all that much. Apple's webpage on Mountain Lion would
probably be a good start, just so you know what new features there are. Also,
as someone else said, David Woodbridge's podcasts are a good res
Hi list,
I've been helping my university test the accessibility of some of its online
resources. They've been building a whole lot of stuff with AJAX which, as you
probably know, is generally pretty awful for screen readers.
I was wondering if anyone knows of any good resources which would help
Thanks, Chris. That looks good. I note their demo was using JAWS. I've noticed
that JAWS does tend to work a bit better with rich text editors for me. I'd be
worried that CKEditor might work well with JAWS, but not VoiceOver. I'm keen to
try and encourage people to make their websites accessible
Have any of you tried StandScan? I've heard it's pretty good. I'm thinking
about trying it myself.
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Fantastic, thanks, Anne! You've given me the confidence and encouragement I
need to go out and order myself one. I think it's going to make a big
difference.
Have you had any luck using the StandScan with Talking Gogles or one of those
video-based apps which automatically read the results aloud
Hi,
I think the problem is that you've got so many messages and it will take a long
time for Mail to scan your messages and apply the rules. I've done this before
with a few thousand messages and I too thought nothing was hapenning for a long
time. I can't imagine what it would be like with 48
I too reckon you should just get the iMac. I love my iMac, and I can't even see
the screen. When I did the calculations to decide the same question you're
considering, it worked out to be cheaper and easier to just get an iMac rather
than buying the Mac Mini, the keybaord, the TrackPad or Mouse,
An alternative if you have a TrackPad:
• Tap twice on your TrackPad with three fingers.
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HI Jean,
How extensively have you used your Jabra Clear with your Mac now? Have you had
any dificulties? Will you lose VoiceOver if you turn the Jabra Clear headset
off and then on again, or if it runs out of batteries? When you first boot up
your Mac and the OS loads, will VoiceOver default to
Yes, you can install JAWS or any other screen reader on the Windows part of
your Mac. It doesn't matter whether it's running as a duel installation (i.e.
bootcamp) or as a virtual machine (e.g. VM Fusion).
I am curious if any of these people who keep saying parallels is inaccessible
have actual
Dear Becky,
Unfortunately, AppleVis is the best there is. There is no comprehensive,
authoratative source on accessible Mac apps. So, your best bet is to just
search the Mac App Store for what you're interested in. Then, check on AppleVis
to see if that app has been reviewed. If it hasn't, then
Hi,
Thanks for this. Can you please try connecting it and using it with VoiceOver,
then turn the headset off and on again and see if VoiceOver still works?
Thanks,
Nic
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Yes, the new iMacs do not, I repeat, do not, come with CD drives. Of course you
can buy an external disc drive that will connect via USB. Apple sells them for
around $80 but you can probably get them cheaper elsewhere.
Also, just one note, while VM Fusion does have a lot of advantages over a due
Ahh, yes, thanks, Tim. I overlooked that step. YOu're right, and for the person
who started the thread you can turn the TrackPad Commander on by holding down
the control and option keys together and rotating two fingers clockwise on the
TrackPad.
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After contemplating the sad news that screen curtain does not conserve battery
power, I decided today to try and lower my mid 2011 MacBook Air's screen
brightneess in order to conserve battery power. I did this in the display pane
of system preferences. When I tried adjusting the screen brightne
HI Jean,
Ahh, well, maybe that's where I have been going wrong then. If you find out the
procedure for disconnecting it properly as you say, can you please let me know?
Many thanks,
Nic
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Thanks all for the responses. Using the function keys works perfectly, so
thanks for that. Not sure what was going on in the display preferences. I've
known screen brightness to have unusual effects on seemingly unrelated things
before, so thought it might be something like that. Anyway, here's
Dear listers,
Does anyone know whether it's possible, and if so how, to do any of the
following?
1. Create an active table of contents for a PDF that works with iBooks? That
is, the PDF already has a table of contents, but it doesn't seem to work with
iBooks. Anyway to fix this?
2. Create an
It's certainly worth looking into. Thanks, Tim! I guess for now that would mean
I could only read them on an iPad, which I don't yet have, but when Mavericks
comes out I'll be able to read them on my Mac too. Woot!
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Seems it's only possible to get PDFs into iBooks Author by copying and pasting
the text. As the books I'm talking about are thousands of pages long this
wouldn't really be feasible. Word and Pages documents can be imported into
iBooks Author with each file becoming a new chapter. This is exactly
Well, your friend could buy music or other media from the iTunes Store on their
iOS device, then it would be downloaded directly to their device. They can get
audiobooks from audible, books from BookShare etcetera.
They could also use Dropbox or some other cloud syncing app to get media on to
t
It might not just simply be an Apple problem. It might be the way the rich text
areas are coded. But yes, many do seem to have problems with VoiceOver. Often
the same rich text areas work fine with Windows screen readers. I'd suggest
getting Safari to emulate Firefox. This makes the rich text ar
Hi,
I've never found that highlighting text like this is an effective aid for blind
people. At least it isn't much good to me. What I tend to do is copy and paste
the relevant text into a separate document I'll call notes on whatever subject
or book it is I'm researching/reading. As well as the
Try Internet Explorer as well. But yes, if it doesn't work, Windows probably
will.
Just to elaborate on the problem though, what I was finding is that when I
would hit return/enter, I would lose VoiceOver. Once I started typing again
though VoiceOver would come back. I could use standard format
No, you're right, Mary. There were some changes to the accessibility menu
(which, as Alex said, used to be universal access), including a new short cut
key. The various settings were also grouped differently. The VoiceOver Utility,
however, stayed the same, and that's all that most blind people
Nisus Writer Pro opens PDFs? Wow, you're blowing my mind! I'll definitely give
this a go.
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Hi,
This has been a huge pain in the neck for me. I'd also really like to kick
Apple for removing the right control key. Especially as there's a little space
in between the left and up arrows where a mini control key might fit.
Anyway, here's how I've dealt with it.
Like Ricardo, I too use the
Hi all, but particularly Ricardo,
Can I preserve battery life on my MacBook Air by lowering screen brightness and
turning the screen curtain on? Or, to get the advantage of low screen
brightness, do I need to leave the screen curtain off?
Cheers,
Nic
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Hi,
Okay, Anne, you make a strong argument. I'll refrain from kicking Apple
executives for your benefit.
I played around with key remapping, but just using the options in system
preferences. Nothing worked for me though. From the sounds of things, neither
would the more advanced options. Havin
HI,
Thanks for the comments and info.
I'm not really fussed about overkill. What I particularly want to know is, if I
turn the screen curtain on, will this undermine any benefit of having the
screen brightness at 0? I understand screen curtain does not turn the screen
off, but is it therefore
Ahh, that does sound much better. Thanks, Esther, I'll go check this out.
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Harry,
I've always found that JAWS works well with the basic HTML version but not the
standard version of gmail. VoiceOver works quite well with them both. The basic
HTML version is still easier to use with VoiceOver but lacks a lot of features
of the standard version.
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I think you might be right, Chris. They've designed it to look like a virtual
desktop. It's meant to look like what your computer's desktop would look like
at work. So maybe that would make it a little more intuative for some people as
they can interact with it as they would their desktop. But I
Yeah, I was always a bit surprised when the writers at MacWorld would often
recommend Fantastical for this reason. Ever since I started using a Mac with
Lion iCal/Calendar has supported natural language.
I agree the best way to add so many events will be through a public calendar
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Yes, it sounds like the mute switch on the side of the phone near the volume
controls is on. This would be the simplest explanation anyway, and it's always
good to start with the simple. If you've already checked this then I apologise.
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Chris, try opening the window chooser with VO-F2 twice quickly, and getting to
the alert that way. Then you can just VO-Space on the close button.
Alex,
Re Reminders
NOt sure how you would do this, but what would seem to be the best way for me
would be as follows. One script which speaks today's
HI Chris,
What if you try opening the window chooser while the Finder has focus? This
usually works for me to get to the Reminder and Calendar alerts. It's odd that
it doesn't work for you.
Nic
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Thanks, Alex! These are great. Just two issues to report, and one
comment/feature request.
1. When I'm not connected to any wifi network the Say Wifi script outputs, "You
are connected to at DbM". It would be great if you could make this instead say
something like, "You are not currently connect
One more issue. The bluetooth script only ever seems to announce the name of
one paired device, even though I have several paired. The device announced
changes each time.
Cheers,
Nic
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Yes, plus you can get Outlook for the Mac as you can get Office for Mac. And
then there's Office/Outlook 365 which is their web/cloud based service. But I
would be really surprised if Apple employees even used Microsoft software on
the Mac. Surely they'd be using Apple Mail and iCloud out of off
HI Alex,
Great to hear about the updated version to be coming out soon.
Re the mute status, you're absolutely right. I was stupidly imagining VoiceOver
to somehow work when the system sound was muted, but I guess this isn't
possible. In that case, forget what I said about the system mute.
Re t
HI Christina,
I have both Nisus Writer Pro and Pages, but I have not used Pages that much. I
found Pages a little complicated and confusing. I have unfortunately not yet
taken Anne's course, which I hope to do someday, but if I did I'm sure this
would resolve many of the issues I have with Page
HI Annie,
Do you know if I buy that deal will I be able to run Nisus Writer Pro on both
my iMac and MacBook? Or will I need to purchase two separate licences?
Thanks,
Nic
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Hi all,
That tables trick is exactly the kind of reason why I should take Anne's course.
Anyway, like others I too like using Nisus Writer Pro to create ePub books.
It's really simple. But it does seem a lot of money compared with Pages if you
simply look at its functions/features rather than t
Hi,
Just letting everyone know that I had troubles creating a MacUpdate account.
The website isn't particularly VO friendly. But I emailed c...@macupdate.com
and he very promptly created an account for me. So if anyone else has
difficulties creating an account I suggest you do the same.
Cheers
Hi Alex,
Can we please have a script to announce TimeMachine status in the next version?
Whether it's currently backing up or not, how long until the next backup, time
of the last backup etcetera.
Thanks.
Nic
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HI all,
I just discovered shortly after purchasing Nisus Writer Pro that they offer
education pricing on their website. Essentially you just need an email address
from an academic institution. It's really very simple to do (I just tested it).
It's available from the following link:
http://nisus
HI,
Has anyone used Endnote or Bookends on the Mac? How accessible and easy to use
are they?
Thanks,
Nic
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HI Brian,
Yes, iBooks is mainly for reading books, though it's also a nice way to read
any unprotected PDF files. It's generally a really good PDF and eBook reader,
and it makes available a lot of books that aren't available elsewhere in
audiobook format or from other libraries that cater to th
You can make sure VoiceOver is off too by doing a three finger double tap.
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HOw about just flicking the mute switch; does this work?
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I actually think the Braille Touch way of typing Braille makes much more sense
than the Perkins way. The dots are actually lined up as they appear in the
Braille cell. Moreover, they fit on the iPhone screen much better that way and
it allows you to hold the device at the same time as typing. If
I use Sleepy Time (can't remember if it's one word or two). It's available from
the Mac App Store. I use it to wake me up with a playlist from iTunes, but it
has lots of built-in sounds and playlists as well. You can also choose for it
to wake you up with a custom message from any one of Apple's
HI Chris,
Happy to help. Sounds like you've found a solution already, But just for
completeness it's SleepyTime (one word) in the Mac App Store. I'd paste the
link here but it's not working for some reason.
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I'm guessing those instructions are out of date. Just install it as normal. I
did, and it works fine.
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Fantastic, I"m looking forward to it.
Just one preliminary thought/question. When you speak of a Reminder's due date,
do you mean an actual due date? As of Mountain Lion, it's a bit tricky to set
due dates for Reminders. Under Lion it was much easier. In Mountain Lion it is
possible to set due d
HI Alex,
Apple Mail works really well with multiple accounts. You don't have to add any
extra filters or smart mailboxes. I'll try and answer your questions below but
let me know if there's any other info you'd like. Also, I'd highly recommend
Take Control of Apple Mail which has answers to all
Yes. It's how blogging should be.
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Brian, the default gesture is just the same as a double tap. Whatever doing a
double tap would do, that's what the default gesture would do. So, depending on
where in Downcast you're talking about, the default button would play the
podcast episode or open the podcast to view the contained episod
Alex,
What you want is called MultiMarkdown Composer II. It's brilliant. YOu type
your markdown in an edit field and can VO once to the right to see the HTML
area with your rendered HTML. Exports to multiple formats and has a great help
section for all the supported markdown.
It's available in
Just to add to Alex's info: Although, as Alex said, if you export a document
from Dropbox in iOS to Pages and edit the document those edits will not be
automatically synced with Dropbox, there are some text editors, such as
DropText, which do work more seamlessly with Dropbox on iOS.
Cheers,
Nic
HI Alex,
The Reminders Script works really well. Thank you. Here are my observations,
comments and requests:
You mention "name" as a keyword but in the actual script you seem to use
"title" as the keyword. I think this just needs to be made consistent so as not
to confuse some uses.
If a remind
Just letting you know the RAM script is working much better for me now, except
that the total RAM seems to vary a bit, but always within a few MB of my total
16GB. Not sure why this is, but it doesn't seem to matter all that much.
I'm still having the same issue with the Bluetooth script though,
Do you mean empty trash? One way is to navigate to the Doc with VO-D, type
Trash to navigate to the Trash folder, open the context menu with VO-SHIFT-M,
and choose empty trash.
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HI,
Just to add a little to Alex's explanation…
Dropbox isn't so much as a file transfer app, but a file syncing app. The idea
is that all your files remain within Dropbox and it keeps them in sync between
your various devices.
The easiest way to add documents to Dropbox is on your Mac or Windows
Alex,
Also, Mars Edit itself supports some limited markdown. The following is from
the developer of Mars Edit:
> the key to using Markdown in MarsEdit is to stick to HTML Text mode and make
> sure the "Markdown" preview filter is set for the preview window. One major
> shortcoming is currently M
Rahul,
I don't think anyone on this list would be prepared to buy an Office 365
subscription to test this out given its price and Microsoft's track record with
Mac accessibility. If they had, I would guess we would have heard about it by
now. It would be big news. So beyond downloading the app,
Hey Rahul,
That's fantastic news. You're only speaking of Office 365 for iPhone, right?
So are you able to read documents, create documents and edit documents? Have
you tried Word, Excel and Powerpoint documents? What are the glitches you've
found?
It's great news that the iPhone app is accessibl
Hi,
ReadKit on the Mac is completely accessible, supports syncing with Feed
Wrangler, FeedBin, and about half a dozen other services. It is very similar to
NewsRack, even costs about the same. Only criticism I have is that it doesn't
support feed management with Feed Wrangler from within the app
If the preview pane is turned off as Tim says, you can simply use command-o to
open the message and read the text. Press command-w to close it and return to
the message list.
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HI,
I'm using ReadKit on the Mac. When I use the down arrow to navigate down the
list of articles in a smart folder or feed, VoiceOver begins reading the title
of the article and then, after a second or so, cuts itself off and starts
reading the title again from the beginning.
This is a little
Hi list,
Esther gave me a lot of info on this list a while back about sample rates, bit
rates and creating M4B audiobooks with apps like AudiobookBinder and
AudiobookBuilder. I've searched for this thread in Mail and on Google but can't
find it. So sorry for asking for old info.
What's the sig
HI Brian,
Yes, ReadKit let's you just arrow down through the list of articles and marks
them as read once they've been selected. In this sense it's very similar to
NewsRack. There's a table for your folders and feeds, and then to the right of
it is the table of articles, and then to the right o
Thanks, Chris. You're good. That was the post I was talking about. I missed it
because I had not adhered properly to the posting rules and failed to change
the subject when we got off iTunes artwork and on to sample rates and the like.
My bad, whoops.
Anyway, I still have a few questions for an
Did you say BlindSquare works while driving? What's the purpose of this? Does
it mean I can now go and drive a car by myself and just have BlindSquare direct
me? That would be pretty awesome, even if I had to stick to 30 MPH. :)
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Ahh, okay, that makes sense. Not as exciting as letting us drive ourselves
though. :) I still think taxi drivers could always use the excuse that they
were taking a shortcut to avoid traffic, or some roadblock, or something. My
parents never seem to follow the turn by turn directions exactly. Th
Alex,
I couldn't find an option for when text changes. There's text attributes, which
is already set to nothing. There's also status changes which is just set to
play tone. I'm sure you've correctly diagnosed the problem though.
Brian,
As I said, ReadKit optionally syncs with a whole range of se
I use Ariadne and I too am lukewarm towards it. It does name street names, but
doesn't seem particularly accurate. It is also a bit hit and miss to get it to
say the street name. Is BlindSquare different?
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HI Brian,
Glad you worked it out.
Well, first of all, some of the feeds I subscribe to just display the full text
of articles by default. Others provide only an intro, and invite you to read
the rest in Safari. So what I do depends on which kind of article I'm reading.
More or less, though, wh
HI Brian,
YOu don't need a Readability account to use Readability mode in ReadKit. The
Readability mode in ReadKit just displays the full text of the article without
annoying links and the like even if the owners of the feed have tried to only
include a teaser in the RSS feed. To use it, press
The Feed Wrangler iOS app is free. I've downloaded it and used it a bit, but
not a whole lot yet. You can't, so far as I'm aware, swipe down on an article
to delete it. But there is a button two swipes away from the article title
which you can double tap to mark the article as read.
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NO, I've never used Instapaper or Pinboard. I've never seen the need. I use
Apple's built-in Reader which is a part of Mac OS and iOS. Reader is fantastic.
You can press Command-Shift-R on just about any article in Safari and have it
appear without all the extraneous rubbish. YOu can also press
Just FYI, Brian, if you do decide to go with Feed Wrangler, I think you'll have
to import your feeds again into Feed Wrangler. I'm not sure it will
automatically import them from ReadKit – you'll have to export them from
ReadKit or Google Reader and import them into Feed Wrangler through their w
HI Brian,
1. No, I don't know how to favourite things in Readability. I don't use
Readability. I just use the Readability view in ReadKit. For this I just press
the letter G and the article displays in full text.
2. I'm not sure how or where to view favourite items. I don't use this feature.
It
HI,
I'm pretty sure each part is basically recognised as it's own file. So if
you're listening to part 2 and stop, to resume you'll need to press play on
part 2 again. If you press play on part 1 it will resume at the beginning of
part 1. So just remember to press play on the part on which you l
I think you need to tag some articles before any will show up in the tags list.
This feature doesn't interest me at all.
I wish they had a simple command to add articles to the Mac OS reading list.
I'd really like that.
Good luck with your hunt for favourites!
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For some reason, even though Google is set as my default search engine in
Safari preferences, searches I perform in the Safari search/address bar keep
being performed by Bing. This is really annoying not to mention a little
sinister. What's Bing up to. Is this happening to anyone else or is thi
He told me he is working on such shortcuts for the next update. If you speak
with him, maybe ask that he includes shortcuts to add articles to the OS X
reading list.
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Google is set to my default search engine in Safari preferences, but every now
and then when I do a search it uses Bing for some reason. Sometimes, I'm not
sure why, it will use Google as it should, but other times it uses Bing. Really
odd. I'll call Apple about it tomorrow as it's a pretty weir
I'm not sure about that particular one, but my university brought to my
attention another new PDF reader called something like Vision Impaired PDF
reader or accessible PDF reader or something. It advertised itself as being an
accessible PDF reader for companies concerned with accessibility. Howe
1. This has probably got something to do with your email provider (Yahoo)
and/or the fact that you're using POP3. It can also be with the type of account
you've set up. I'd strongly recommend you look into using IMAP rather than POP.
If you want to import your contacts from Yahoo you might be a
Thanks, Kawal, I'm thinking of getting one. It's so much more expensive than
other routers, and I already have another router, but I think it will be worth
it for something that works smoothly with all my Apple devices. I'm tempted to
pay the extra to get a Time Capsule but that might be a littl
Hi Paul,
YOu can get to generated passwords through the Go menu or by pressing
Command-Shift-P.
Once I generate a password, however, I usually just copy and paste it into a
new login item or whatever I'm creating.
Best,
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