HI John,
What you're saying sounds interesting. However, I'm not sure exactly what it is
you're saying. Could you please try and give me a little more detail if
possible?
Many thanks for sharing your thoughts and knowledge.
All the best,
Nic
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lol, Kawal, you're so funny. You switched from a Time Capsule to an Airport
Extreme because you were sick of backing things up? Hahaha… Can I have your
Time Capsule then? ;)
I know what you mean though. Nearly everything of mine is backed up on Dropbox
too, so it kinda makes Time Machine backups
When you press command-s it will display the save/save as dialogue, unless the
file has already been saved. If the file has already been saved you have a few
options.
YOu can navigate to the left up near the toolbar to the file actions pop up
button. In this button are options such as rename fil
HI John,
What you're saying sounds interesting. However, I'm not sure exactly what it is
you're saying. Could you please try and give me a little more detail if
possible?
Many thanks for sharing your thoughts and knowle.
All the best,
Nic
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Hope I didn't cause any offence, Kawal. Certainly none was intended. :) It just
sounded a little funny to be downgrading when most people seem to want to
upgrade. I'm sure you had good reasons though. You're clearly not a sheep. :)
I do subscribe to iTunes Match. This is great for my music. Unfo
You're so right, I do want to. ;)
In fact, I wish Apple made other household appliances. If they did, I'd so get
an Apple washing machine, dryer, dish washer, AC/heating unit, oven, microwave,
etcetera. Of course they would all work with VoiceOver and I could control them
all from the remote app
Hi Janine,
Yes, sorry, I should've been a little more detailed but I was in a rush so took
some shortcuts. :) By navigate to the right I did mean VO-right arrow, though
you could of course just press the right arrow with QuickNav turned on or swipe
right on your TrackPad with the TrackPad comma
Re streaming media: I don't think you can from the Airport Extreme as it
doesn't have storage. You can use the Airport Express I believe to air play
media to a media playing device. I believe you can use Time Capsule as a media
server but I've never done this myself so don't take my word on it.
If it wants you to create an iCloud email address I think you should just
create an iCloud email address. You won't have to use this address and it won't
change any existing addresses you have.
Best,
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You can also get an app called AudioSwitcher (I think there's a podcast about
it on AppleVis) which will live in the extras menu. This will allow you to swap
between sound devices quite quickly. In my experience the Mac doesn't always
switch to my headset when I plug it in.
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audible.com and audible.co.uk are both great. You can get a monthly
subscription with each of them which gives you one free book a month. At
audible.com the one book a month membership is $14.95 and at audible.co.uk it
is a little cheaper at £7.99. To buy books outside a subscription it generall
I use it with a CanoScan LiDE 700F. Not sure if this is flat bed or not.
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You can also open window chooser with VO-F2 twice quickly and then select the
notification from there or select notification centre.
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Yes, People outside the UK – Australians, for instance – can join
audible.co.uk. I have, and I live outside the UK. The only thing to be careful
of is that they often run competitions but in the fine print it says you need
to live in the UK in order to win. I bought a whole bunch of books hoping
HI Jürgen,
That's great you're coming to visit Australia.
Weather wise though you haven't picked well with Melbourne. :) Australian's
like to joke that Melbourne has four seasons in one day, because the weather is
so unpredictable. It can go from freezing in the morning, scorching hot during
t
I too love interaction. It makes navigating so much more efficient rather than
all that tabbing to death in Windows, as others have said..
The other reason I like interaction is so I can read how, say, a label on a
particular button or other control is written. I just noticed when using
Windows
Hi,
I never used to be able to get chapters to work with AudiobookBionder until I
found the following tutorial:
http://bluezbox.com/audiobookbinder/chapters.html
Just follow its instructions exactly. You can also access all of those
chapter-related commands in the Chapters menu in the menu bar.
Version 1.0.1 fixes all these problems. Podcast episodes are now downloading
without a problem for me and playback syncs seamlessly between my Mac and
iPhone. It's amazing how quickly and seamlessly it syncs. I was listening to a
podcast last night on my Mac. My bluetooth headphones ran out of b
Olaria keeps crashing for me every time I open it.
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HI,
This is really interesting. I just have a couple of points to make.
1. I hope this doesn't mean that if Amazon is unsuccessful in getting the
exemption it will stop supporting VoiceOver on its iOS app.
2. I really respect the fact that you're making your voice heard to the FCC.
However, I
I just hope that if Amazong doesn't get this waiver, it doesn't stop supporting
VoiceOver on its iOS app.
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I've never had episodes dim before either, but would also point out that to
start a podcast playing initially you need to use the command-shift-s command.
Space bar only works to play/pause once playback has begun.
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Hi Motion X users,
What does Motion X offer that free solutions such as Google and Apple Maps do
not?
thanks,
Nic
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Yes, but it sounds like at least one important motivation for Amazon to support
VoiceOver on its iOS app was so it would have a better chance of not needing to
make its eReaders accessible in the future. So, if the FCC rejects its request,
would it no longer be motivated to make its iOS app acce
Maybe just try marking them as played instead of or as well as deleting? That
way your iOS app might not bother downloading them or they will be marked as
read and then not appear in the main list of podcasts.
I'm having an issue now that continuous play doesn't seem to be working in
playlists.
Sad to hear. Remember that you can sync your settings across apps via iCloud,
so if you're happy with the Mac settings you can just sync these to the iOS app.
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That worked perfectly, thank you!
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I know very little about this, but can't you use BootCamp?
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HI Graham,
I haven't tried this before. What's so accessible about it? How is it better
than, say, TextEdit or Nisus Writer Pro (if you've tried any of those)? Have
you tried any more advanced features such as footnotes or track changes, or are
these only available in the paid version? Have you
HI Rahul,
Just to expand on Greg's answer – When you're on the article in question in
Safari, press command-L to jump to the address bar, press command-C to copy the
URL, and then use command-V to paste it into your paper.
Cheers,
Nic
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Not sure, sorry. YOu may have to do it from the web app.
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The current app is currently 50% off on MacUpdate.com – but is it accessible?
Does anyone know?
AllMyTube 4.3.1
Download and convert YouTube videos.
$14.50
50% off
$14.50
$29.00
Who is it for?
If you've ever wished you could save your favorite online video for offline
viewing, AllMyTube is just t
I'm interested in any on iMovie.
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On iOS, go to the More tab, and then go to iCloud settings. ON the Mac app
there's a button on the home/podcasts screen which takes you directly to iCloud
settings. Just check all the relevant boxes to sync your podcasts, podcast
episodes and settings too if you want to sync settings.
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Do you know which, if any, of those is on iMovie? Or what each of them is about?
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It depends what type of email account you were using and what the settings
were. But usually it will have gone to a folder called archive or, on gmail,
[IMAP]/archive. You should be able to find the archive folder in the accounts
section of Mail on your iPhone. But, like Gigi said, it may have g
What did you see when you opened the .dmg disc image file? Did you see a .pkg
installer file or a .app application file? If you see the .pkg installer file
you should open that, if you see a .app application file you should copy and
paste it to your applications folder.
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I just use the normal Facebook site with Safari. I definitely find it clunky
but it's accessible and has more functionality than the mobile site. The main
tricks to using it are tabbing to enter text edit fields and just pressing
enter to post your text.
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Sounds great! How about Reminders coming up in the next 24 hours?
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I agree that providing refunds for inaccessible apps would be a good policy,
but I accept that there would have to be some limitations. Firstly, sometimes
what one person says is inaccessible, another person claims is accessible.
Sometimes things are only accessible once you learn how to use the
If it's mandatory for some apps to be accessible, but not others, who will
determine which are to be accessible and which not? And if you talk about
feasibility, doesn't that start to become a little like inaccessible apps don't
need to be accessible, but accessible apps must be accessible? Who
Hi,
Has anyone had any luck with using spaces, I think through Mission Control,
with OS X? This sounds like a cool feature to me but I don't know how to use it.
Cheers,
Nic
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I use Any Video Converter Lite.. Available from the Mac App Store – I believe
it was free. Converts from .AVI to .mp4.
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That's great news. I presume you press VO- down arrow to move down row by row,
can you also press VO-right and left arrows to move across columns?
Cheers,
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You also have to enable control center in the lock screen in settings.
Shame about no new Siri voices for non US English.
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Not sure about Inquisitor as I haven't played it, but there are quite a few
text adventure games available in the Mac App Store. One series is "Choice of"
Games – they're available on iOS too.
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Yes, I have been using it and it works really well. There were some
instabilities in earlier versions but the current version seems to work fine. I
haven't had it go busy on me in a long time.
I suggest:
1. Make sure you are running the latest version (i.e. check software update);
and
2. Maybe g
I'm not sure about this particular issue as I've never tried returning audible
books, but for some links on the new audible site I've noticed that VO-SPACE
doesn't work, but just hitting space bar works. Hopefully that might help.
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In the music player (that is, the view with the actual play/pause button
etcetera), there is a button near the top which says track list. Does this give
you what you want?
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My battery usage varies depending on what activities I do with the phone. GPS
and heavy internet use over 3G is a major battery drain. I was once getting
turn by turn directions in the car while streaming my iTunes Match music over
3G. I drained my spare battery pack and drained the iPHone's bat
I'd also recommend Googling MacWorld and TidBits articles on making gmail work
with Apple Mail. Take Control of Mail is also a great book in this regard.
Gmail IMAP works differently to regular IMAP, and so takes some tweaking to
work properly with Apple Mail. I'd love to help you but there are
Yes, I completely lost VoiceOver for a while. Funnily enough, it happened just
as I went to demonstrate Twitter with VoiceOver for a friend who is thinking of
buying an iPHone for the first time and wanted to know how accessible it was.
Wasn't a great demonstration. :)
Triple Click Home wasn't w
HI Jürgen,
You're right, I'm sorry. Before sending you that last email I saw the track
list button but didn't press it.
Later that night I was reading an audiobook and tried using it, but it only
showed me the audio files, not the chapters/tracks. In my case it was a book
from audible which was
And just for the record, you certainly can sync your audible books through
iTunes. This is what I do all the time as I much prefer the iPhone's native
Music player to the audible app, plus it's faster downloading to my Mac than to
my iPhone. But this might change now since some of the annoying c
It's a shame. I've often wished there was a way to airplay to my Mac. It seems
to be an oversight to me that you can AirPlay from a Mac and to loads of
devices including an Apple TV. Sometimes I'd like to play movies from an iOS
device on the larger screen of my Mac so that sighted friends can e
HI,
Downcast on the Mac works really well for me. I really liked podcasts in
iTunes, but the surprising syncing problems between my Mac and iPhone with
Apple's native apps made me try Downcast.
Syncing between Downcast on my Mac and iPHone works surprisingly well. I won't
say there's absolutely
Well, first let me say that I know the audible app has had a lot of updates,
and I probably haven't used it since January. I used it then because I was on
holiday away from my Mac, but wanted to listen to a book that was only just
released on audible. I was very glad to have the app then.
One f
Hi Alex and others,
What is the "drawer"? Where do I find it? And will this method of following
people sync across devices or is this something which is specific to one copy
of Night Owl?
Cheers,
Nic
On 22/09/2013, at 12:39 AM, Alex Hall wrote:
Apparently, Twitter removed that feature. You must
HI Kawal,
Yep, you could just import an OPML file. However, on the main screen of
Downcast Mac there should be an iCloud Settings button down near the bottom
right as it seems to a VoiceOver user. Press this and then check all the things
you want synced. ON Downcast iOS, there's a more tab along
Once you get it up and running, Lisette, I'd be interested in how you find
Downcast on the Mac.
Hi Brian, yes I was talking about you. :) Just a friendly dig – I thought you
might be reading but hope you didn't take any offence. Wanted to make sure your
voice was heard in case Lisette ran into
Fantastic, thank you, Command-D did the trick. Now for something a little off
topic, do people get notified if you stop following them? Thank you.
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When I tap the playback speed button in the iOS7 Music app the speed of
playback changes, but the button continues to show the speed as set to normal.
I've so far tested this only on an audiobook not purchased from audible or
iTunes on my 4S running iOS 7.0.2. Can anyone else reproduce this?
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Has anyone else ever had the following experience? You try to go to the next
link or heading in Safari on Mac and VoiceOver suddenly turns itself off and
back on again and takes you half way back up the page? Do we know what causes
this? It can be kinda annoying.
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yes, as far as I am aware you can't have nested conditions. So you can't, for
instance, set an event to occur if condition one and either condition two or
condition three are present. This is a shame. You can apparently do this in
other places such as smart playlists where you apparently option
I wish there was. I have asked Apple Accessibility for a keyboard short cut to
return VO speech to the inbuilt output. Here's hoping they fix the issue in
Mavericks. Until they do, I just don't use bluetooth headsets with my Mac. I'm
going to try to get some non-bluetooth wireless headset but I
Has anyone updated to 1Password 4.0 for Mac yet? What are your thoughts? How
accessible is it with VoiceOver? Is it as good and easy to use as the previous
version? I'm a little hesitant to leap right in given it's been completely
re-written from the ground up.
Thanks,
Nic
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Hi Teresa,
I'm no web development expert, but I believe it is because of the increasing
popularity and use of AJAX. AJAX is a group of client side web development
techniques. Kinda like Javascript on steroids. It allows for dynamic webpages
and has been made popular primarily by Google, but als
etter feedback
to Apple Accessibility.
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From: Nicholas Parsons
Subject: VoiceOver and Siri in iOS7
Date: 8 October 2013 9:29:17 PM AEDT
To: "Apple Accessibility"
Dear Accessibility Team,
Thank you once again for your great continuing work with accessibility.
HI Robert,
Thanks for that. ON your advice, I think I'll go get their $16 package for Take
Control of Your Passwords and Take Control of 1Password. I'm always reluctant
to pay for information I can easily get elsewhere, but I always end up learning
lots from the Take Control series. I usually o
HI Gigi,
I'm learning lots from your Numbers tutorials too, so thank you.
Some of your emails are turning out as symbols to me. Are you using a
non-English character set or something? NOt sure if it's the same for everyone
but some come out as pretty messed up to me.
Cheers,
Nic
On 09/10/201
Thanks for sharing, Kawal. Shame you're having those problems with a new phone.
I'm thinking about getting an iPhone 5S so I'll make sure to double check it in
store before buying to ensure it's not having strange issues. The volume stuck
on 35% sounds like it could make things difficult.
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Hey Alex,
Try this.
First, try flipping your table around. So, you have your headers across the top
row, at the top of each column: A1, B1, C1, D1, E1. Then, A2 might be, for
instance, date. B2 would be starting milage, C2 end milage, D2 excluded milage.
IN E2, type =C2-B2-D2. Not sure if this
VoiceOver on the 5S I played with in the Apple Store was loud enough for me to
hear over all the noise in the Store, so there wasn't an issue for me. But
sounds like it might be only on some phones or only present in certain
circumstances. Sounds like it might be worth me waiting until the probl
Never happened to me either, Brian, sorry.
Nic
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HI Alex,
I don't know the exact answer to your question in Numbers. IN Excel, however,
maths works on date fields even when they are displayed as dates. So you can
calculate the time difference between two dates, etcetera, just as if they were
regular numbers. So maybe you could try just using
I'm not having any problems with Downcast on either platform and I have
automatic updates on so I should be running the latest version.
Brian, is it the iOS version of Downcast you're having issues with? You say
you're worried about losing episodes, but that you only stream and don't
download, i
On a MacBook Pro or MacBook Air:
• Home is function key left arrow
• End is function key right arrow
• The function key is on the bottom row furthest to the left, to
the left of the control key.
To test these or other gestures, or to find a particular key,
Hey Brian,
Shame you might have lost some episodes. Hopefully you can get them back.
Though what you said about podcast episode horder sounds about right – I think
I'm the same. What I've found is that the idea that one day I'll eventually
have enough time to listen to them is a bit of a fairy
Scott, Downcast doesn't allow you to read RSS articles. It just does podcasts.
Brian, I think your plan has promise. I download everything and stream nothing,
both on my iMac, MacBook Air and iPHone. I have 1TB storage on my iMac, 128GB
on my MacBook Air and 64GB on my iPHone. I have set my iPho
Just FYI, I think the reason we need to turn curser tracking off for this is
because when you navigate away from the All Signatures list, the signature
you're trying to drag disappears from view. With curser tracking turned off,
however, only the VoiceOver curser is navigating away from the All
You can buy Apple's Main Stage app from the Mac app Store which is around $30
and comes with all the Apple JamPacks which work with GarageBand. I bought this
just as a convenient way of getting all the extra GarageBand material - I don't
actually use Main Stage. I think it includes, among other
Mainstage is quite well labeled etcetera but I have no need for it (apart from
the Jam Packs) so have never actually tried to do anything with it.
>From memory, I went to the MainStage menu in the menu bar, chose something
>along the lines of download additional content, and then I was able to c
Hi list,
VoiceOver has serious problems focusing on my personalised/purchased ring tones
in iOS6.
When I go into Settings > Sounds > Ring Tone there is a section for all the
ring tones I have purchased or created myself. However, I get different results
when I flick right through the list comp
HI list,
Has anyone here used Song Genie on the Mac for iTunes? I have bought it but
have trouble using it. It seems accessible so far as all the buttons and menus
are labelled etc, but I can't tell if/when it has updated song info or whether
it requires some more input from me.
If anyone has
I'm using an iPhone4S. I'm currently using iOS6 but I think I was still having
problems back in iOS5, though they weren't as bad.
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Jealous! :)
Nic
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Remember you can always explore the keyboard keys using VO-K to turn on
keyboard assistant. Press escape to exit keyboard assistant.
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Hi,
I use both an iMac and MacBook Air. I love them both.
Sounds like I use my MacBook Air for exactly the same things you need. I have
the standard 13" with 4GB RAM and 128 GB SSD. In comparison my iMac has 16GB of
RAM and 1TB HD.
This MacBook Air is perfect for my needs and it never seems sl
I like News Rack. There's an iOS version as well so you can keep your Mac and
iOS devices in sync. It's a paid app though, but worth it. I used to use
Headlines but it was pretty rubbish compared with News Rack.
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Hi list,
I've read that one can hide the preview pane in the three column view in Mail.
This way, messages won't be marked as read unless you open them in a separate
window. Currently I find it a little annoying that messages are marked as read
when I've only read their subject line and not the
Hi list,
I've recently read something about proxy link icons for Mail messages.
Apparently in a message window near the toolbar there is a icon next to the
title of the message. This icon can be dragged into other apps, creating a link
to that Mail message.
Does anyone have any idea whether or
HI.
Thanks for those suggestions. I might try and add William and Cheryl's tips to
my bag of tricks. I tried capslock as VO keys but this didn't help me at all. I
already have perfectly good VO keys on the left of the MacBook keyboard. I
don't need extra VO keys on the left, I just need VO keys
Thanks, guys! You guys are brilliant!
I followed Tim's instructions as reposted by Cheryl and they worked exactly as
stated. So simple and easy, I guess I should've thought of it myself. I'm just
so not used to being able to use the mouse/trackpad so accessibly as I haven't
quite been on the Ma
P.S. When dragging using the Trackpad I find the easiest method to be clicking
(that is, holding down the trackpad) with one finger and dragging with another
finger. Otherwise it can be a bit tricky to drag while pressing down the
trackpad and to be accurate. At least it is on my big stand alone
VO-J can also be used
• in Skype and Messages to jump between the conversation HTML
area and the edit field to type instant messages;
• in NewsRack to jump between the table of feeds, the table of
articles and the HTML area displaying the selected article; and
Sounds interesting. Will check it out.
I'd really love it if you guys made a poker game (might suit the Silver Dollar)
or a Monopoly game. But that's just me.
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I think someone was asking about copy and paste in Safari.
To copy:
• Navigate to the item you wish to copy using VO-Right Arrow or
just right arrow with Quick Nav turned on.
• Turn Quick Nav off if it is not already.
• Use COMMAND-SHIFT-RIGHT ARROW to se
Can't you just navigate to messages in the extras menu, open it with VO-Space
and select offline?
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This game is kinda fun. Fairly simple,but worth it for the price tag.
I notice there seems to be a fair few French speakers in the saloon. Seems a
little odd for such a place, but I guess with globalisation and all that I
shouldn't be surprised. Anyway, I've got nothing against French tourists s
My preferred method is as follows:
• Switch Mail into full screen mode. This is not necessary, but
makes things more reliable.
• Interact with the favourites bar and move VO focus to the
mailbox you wish to remove.
• Turn trackpad commander off by holdin
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