Hi list,
This is in some ways a silly question. I can't see album art in iTunes, yet my
desire for order, organisation and perfection drives me to attempt adding album
art to itunes.
For a number of audiobooks I have downloaded I have album art in the form of
jpg files.
Does anyone know how t
Thanks for that, Alex. I guess it's good to know both options.
For clarification, I don't need to root the mouse pointer to the VoiceOver
curser with VO-CMD-F5, as I have the mouse pointer set to follow the VoiceOver
curser in VoiceOver Utility. I use VO-F5, however, to check what is under the
Dear list,
Could people please try and ensure they are not quoting conversation history or
previous posts in their posts.
I receive the threads in digest mode, and Mail therefore doesn't block out the
quoted conversation history. It makes it really difficult when I have to read
through the who
Hi,
I've used MS Office for Mac on my friends 2011 model MacBook Air when it was
running Lion. I found the text area to be completely inaccessible.
VoiceOver could navigate between the toolbar, menu items and the text area, but
could not interact with the text area. Typing produced no results,
OKay, I accept there are different views on this and I'm not going to get my
way. But I can't help continuing the discussion now it's started.
I already have a separate mailbox just for this list and server side
rules/filters that all messages go straight to this mailbox. Even so, without
diges
Hi Karen,
In situations such as that you mentioned, where the post is something as simple
as "no", I'd either
• Discover the question from the subject title of the thread.
Where the question was simple enough to get such a simple answer, the subject
line usually says it all.
Personally, the inaccessibility of Microsoft Word for Mac didn't stop me from
switching over to the Mac. I run a Mac without Windows installed, but I do
still have an old Windows machine. It also hasn't stopped many, many blind
people I know from using Macs.
If Microsoft Office for Mac were acc
Thanks, Esther! You're amazing, as always!
That worked exactly as you said (of course). My problem was that previously I
had been in the edit multiple information view, and the album art work tab
didn't appear.
And this is my problem. Most of my audiobooks that are missing album art are
broken
HI Ricardo,
I agree. Hence I said I accept that you prefer things differently. I originally
thought that quoting the original messages was just something people did out of
habit, not intentionally because you actually needed the original message there
for some reason. I still think it's unneces
HI and thanks again Esther,
I got that to work just as you said. Interestingly, the art well doesn't appear
unless I navigate to it using the item finder. Not sure how you discovered
that, but thanks so much for the tip. I noticed in between the comments item
and the genre, there is an album ar
I bought a Freetalk Wireless headset directly from Skype. It was around $99. It
worked seamlessly with Skype and had answer/hang up and volume controls on the
headset itself. It also had an adjustable mic. It had a USB dongle for wireless
connectivity, and charged via USB cable into the dongle.
Just to add a little to Alex's explanation. If you have already typed a word or
hear VoiceOver announce a word as misspelled, you can
• navigate to the word;
• ensure the curser is at the end of the word, before the space
or punctuation;
• ensure quick na
Ahh, yes, now you mention it that works for me too. Not sure if this has only
happened since Mountain Lion or whether I just never tried that obvious step.
Nicely spotted Alex and thanks for the tip. Nice to know there's a few ways of
doing things.
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I would love to learn. I've started, and it's always been something on my to do
list, but it just always gets put on the back burner. The list would be great
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What happens when you arrow down? Are you sure you're exactly to the right of
the last character? Have you turned quick nav off?
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No, the rotor does not need to be set to a particular setting. In fact, you
should not have the rotor as you should have quick nav turned off.
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Sounds like you might have quick nav turned on.
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Does the Plantronics audio 995 have an answer call button on the headset?
What's the wireless range and battery life like? I had a Plantronics headset,
can't remember which model, but I remember the range and battery life being
fairly poor.
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When on the bookmark in the table, press VO-SHIFT-M to open the context menu,
then press O to navigate to open and press enter or VO-SPACE.
You can also copy all those bookmarks from whatever imported folder they are
in, and paste them into the Bookmarks Menu folder. That way you can access the
In iOS, if you hear the sound, you can just double tap to dismiss the
suggestion. If you wish to accept the suggestion, just press space. To review
the suggestions, as Alex said you just need to swipe down.
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I exported my favourites to Dropbox, and then imported that file from Dropbox
into Safari. It's really quite easy. There should be an export menu in Firefox,
probably in the file or bookmarks menu. Follow the instructions to save the
file wherever you want; on a flash disc, for example. And then
Hmm, that's odd. I get Open, Open in New Window, Open in New Tab, Rename
Bookmark…, Edit Address, Copy and Delete. Not sure why this is so. If you
VO-Left Arrow from the bookmark, do you get its address? A work around might be
for you to copy that address, press Command-L to move to the address
Before you press the down arrow, are you hearing the noise to indicate that
there are suggestions?
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"The only question I have: How interested might Microsoft be to make the Mac
more attractive to blind users?"
I don't think Sara would have joined this thread if Microsoft were not
interested in making MS Office for Mac accessible.
However, I agree with you that making the Mac a viable alternat
Tid Bits Publishers produce a great series of books on how to use Mac OS X.
It's called the Take Control series. In particular, they have a new Take
Control of Apple Mail in Mountain Lion book. It goes through how to set up Mail
in great detail. At first I thought it was silly getting a whole bo
Yes, it's accessible.
• To the right of the tool bar there should be a table. Interact
with this table and use the VoiceOver keys (control and option together) along
with the up and down arrows to select contacts.
• Stop interacting with the table and then navigate wi
Hi Gigi,
That sounds odd. The password you use on both the Mac and iOS should be the
same.
Have you tried logging on to the Dropbox website just to check everything's
working there? Might be a first step in trouble shooting.
And just to check, are your files showing up on either the iPHone or
HI Gigi,
Yes, this happens to me too, a lot.
I use column browser view in Finder. One time I notice it happening a lot is
when , say, I have a folder called Downloads and inside that folder a file
called Document A. I'll interact with the file browser and VoiceOver will
announce I am on Downlo
Okay. Sure thing, Gigi. I'll do that. Has it got anything to do with verbosity
settings I wonder?
Nic
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HI Ricardo,
Thanks for that. I thought without interacting you could only go up and down,
but couldn't open new folders. I'm sure I tried it before without success. NOt
sure what I did wrong.
Anyway, that's a great tip and will save me some time. Thank you!
Nic
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Also make sure that on all devices the default from credentials are the same.
For example, make sure that Messages are set to always be from your phone
number on all of your devices/Macs.
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Jed,
Why don't you try calling Apple Care? they're really good at handling these
kinds of general Mac OS X questions. If you purchased your Mac recently you
should have 90 days free Apple Care phone support. Alternatively, you could see
a Genius at the Apple Store.
Best,
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DocuScan Plus is indeed an app to scan and OCR texts. It works really well,
although it is expensive. It's free for a seven day trial, but $299 for a full
life-time licence.
It seems to detect scanners automatically and require no set up or anything. It
will scan and OCR the documents at once.
Thanks once again for your wealth of knowledge, Esther.
Funny, the reason I bought my Macs, before them, my iPhone, and originally my
iPod, was essentially because I loved the way Audible's audiobooks played on my
iPod. I then took on the mammoth task of importing my digital media into iTunes
a
HI Emelio,
It was me who was having problems with AudioBookBinder. And yes, it is the one
from the Mac App Store.
Interesting that you have also found the chapter navigation not to work. This
is a fairly big issue for me. NOt only because they advertise it as being able
to maintain the origina
"How do you change messages to have your phone number at the default on your
Mac"?
In Messages Preferences under the Accounts tab. There is an option to, "Start
new messages from:". Below it there is a pop up menu to choose from. Simply
select your phone number from this menu.
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The only way I know of to add a phone number is from your iPhone. If you've
turned on iMessages on your iPhone, and you use the same Apple ID on your Mac,
your phone number should show up in that send messages from pop up menu under
accounts in Messages preferences.
Apart from this I'm not real
It shouldn't matter that your email address is selected. The main thing is to
have your phone number set to the default send from credential for Messages on
your Mac/s. Is your phone number showing up in that pop up menu yet? Once this
is done all your iMessages should sync between devices. Ordi
Is that a VoiceOver setting or a system setting? As far as I know, VoiceOver
can only change voices, whereas the language is just the system-wide setting.
So, you would need to go to System Preferences by Pressing VO-M, VO-Space,
typing s y, pressing VO-Space on System Preferences. Then go to la
First of all, it's easier to get to language and text by pressing tab once you
first open System Preferences and then pressing the letter l. Then open it by
VO-SPACE.
However, I've been playing around with the settings here and and not sure I can
achieve what you're trying to do. IN the languag
Hi list,
Does anyone know of a way to add signatures in the all signatures category to a
particular account? I'm speaking of Mail in Mountain Lion here.
I've tried navigating to the name of the signature in question, turning off
curser tracking, then dragging the name of the signature and dropp
Thanks, all.
Red Falcon, I'm unable to copy the names of any of my signatures from any
account, including all. I am able to copy the text of the signature and then
create a new signature in a paticular account and paste in the copied text.
This is the work around I have been using but it create
Hi all,
Does anyone have data entries for playing cards in LookTel Recogniser?
If so, would you please be able to post them online or email them to me by any
chance?
I'm having a card night with sighted friends in a few weeks and would love to
be able to participate using LookTel Recogniser.
Hi Gigi,
I'm pretty sure Facetime was in Lion as well. Maybe even before that; I don't
know as my first Mac ran Lion. You don't need to be running the same operating
system to Facetime though. From my Mac I only ever Facetime people on iOS.
It's really easy. You just open Facetime and select
I tried Headlines on the Mac which was free, but I didn't like it. I've tried
News Free on iOS which was fantastic and free but crashed often.
Now I use News Rack on both my Macs and iPhone and I love it. It stays in sync
on all devices via Google Reader. Not only the read/unread and starred
ar
I guess there's a couple of possibilities there. It's hard for me to know
exactly what the problem was given we don't have your dad here to tell us
exactly what his problem was, but here goes.
Firstly, you should be able to specify in Facetime settings, in the Settings
app of your iPHone, what
Call me crazy, but I really like Apple Reader for that purpose. I find it
really useful. I can just open the context menu on a link on my Mac, add it to
reader, and then read it later on my iPhone. I know Instapaper looks really
pretty, but I'm not sure how this would benefit a VoiceOver user. I
Great news. Thanks, Kawal. Currently there seems to be a bunch of GPS solutions
for people who are blind or have low vision but none of them is ideal. Some
have good accuracy but few features, some have plenty of features but poor
accuracy. They each seem to have some advantages and some disadva
News Rack, for sure. It ain't pretty, but it's accessible, simple and
efficient. Some buttons aren't labelled, but these don't seem to be important.
Some buttons have help tags which are, funnily enough, helpful.
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Hi Alex,
1. Yes, it will sync with Calendar on your Mac and iOS device/s. You just add
your Google account like any other account. ON the Mac, you can do this from
within the Calendar app or from within the Mail, Contacts and Calandars
preference pane in system preferences. If you already have
Hi Tim,
Thanks for your comments here. I've been getting mixed up with QuickLook and
Preview and associating one with the other.
In QuickLook I basically had to read each whole page in one go. With Preview
I'm able to interact with the text and, with QuickNav turned on and set to the
Navigatio
Hi Gigi,
Giving the table a custom name and selecting to show table name would solve
your problem. Unfortunately, renaming tables in Pages is a bit of a pain.
Basically you need to go to cell A1, turn on mouse keys, move the mouse pointer
up a bit until it’s over the table name, and then click
I downloaded the Kindle app from the Mac App Store recently but have been
unable to register it. The interface appears to be completely inaccessible to
VoiceOver. I’ve put reporting this to amazon on my to-do list. They’ve made the
accessibility of Kindle on iOS fantastic, I hope they can do the
That’s right, William. You need to interact with the text before doing the two
finger swipe gesture if you want it to start reading from that point.
On 7 Jan 2014, at 10:37 pm, Jürgen Fleger wrote:
Hi William,
I know this behaviour but just if I'm not interacted with the text area. Did
you try
Hi Jürgen,
Try this:
tell application "VoiceOver"
tell commander
perform command "move mouse pointer to voiceover cursor"
perform command "click mouse"
end tell -- commander
end tell -- VoiceOver
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Is it free to create and edit documents as well as view them? Or do you need a
Microsoft 365 subscription for that? If you need the subscription then that
news is nothing new. They’ve been available and accessible for a while now, but
without an accessible Mac counterpart it’s not an attractive
Hi Jürgen,
Not sure if you ever got this working the way you wanted—I haven't been
checking the list for a while. If not, try this:
tell application "VoiceOver"
tell commander
perform command "move mouse pointer to voiceover cursor"
delay 1
perform command
I bought the ScanSnap IX500 recently. I’ll write about the experience more
fully in another post. But basically it’s very usable with VoiceOver. The
scanner comes with a custom version of ABBYY FineReader and at the moment I
have mine configured so I just press the scan button on the ScanSnap (a
After recent updates I haven’t been able to play a podcast episode on Downcast
for Mac using the keyboard at all. I used to start playback with
command-shift-s, but that doesn’t work for me anymore. And the play button in
the now playing menu is dimmed. The only way I’ve gotten it to work is by
Hi list,
I recently bought the Fujitsu ScanSnap IX500 document scanner. It’s a great
scanner, but it doesn’t support any standard scanning protocols so must be used
with its proprietary software, ScanSnap Manager, which is the scanner driver.
I’ll address the accessibility of ScanSnap Manager a
I thought that books created with iBooks Author, as David Woodbridge’s book is,
can only be viewed on an iPad or Mac, or has this now changed?
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Anders,
I’m not sure I understand your question. The ScanSnap is a scanner. It scans
physical documents and turns them into digital files. I hope that answers your
question.
Amilio,
Thanks for that list of the unlabelled buttons.
To have ABBYY FineReader automatically OCR your scanned documents
1. You can download a trial version of PDFPen Pro for free.
2. The standard version of PDFPen can likely be used to fill PDF forms with
VoiceOver, but I have not tried it personally. The pro version is required to
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I read on this list a while back that Microsoft listed on their website that
Office 2011 for Mac was accessible with VoiceOver, even though it clearly is
not. So maybe that’s y the Commission thinks that it is accessible.
I’ve found this to be a fairly common situation in the work environment, w
Has anyone else noticed VoiceOver incorrectly announcing “expanding” when
disclosure triangles are collapsing? It seems to be a bug introduced with
Yosemite. If I VO space on a disclosure triangle, whether it is collapsed or
expanded, VoiceOver will announce “expanding”. The function works perfe
I’m having a similar issue. Running Yosemite 10.10.1 on a 2011 iMac and a 2011
MacBook Air. I’m using Calendar in month view.
If I navigate from date to date, VoiceOver announces how many events are on
that particular date. For many days this works fine, and I can interact with
the date to view
The Fujitsu ScanSnap IX500 scans at 25 pages per minute. The actual speed
depends on your settings, most notably the resolution you scan at. I’m just
using it with the default settings and it’s damn fast. Zaps through my
documents in no time. The OCR process definitely takes the most time. It ta
Hi Phil,
Not sure why this happens, but I suspect it has something to do with changing
the size of the table through altering the width of the columns, numbers of
rows etc. You can change the order of the tables by using the “Arrange” tab of
the format inspector. In particular, adjust the X and
>From memory paragraph styles aren’t scriptable in Pages version 5, but things
>might change. I’ll keep an eye on it.
You can assign descriptions to images in Pages through the format inspector.
VoiceOver then announces the description when navigating to the image. I think
it’s a good practice
t
> enough for me to bother with now.
>
>> On Jan 14, 2015, at 2:52 AM, Nicholas Parsons
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Phil,
>>
>> Not sure why this happens, but I suspect it has something to do with
>> changing the size of the table through altering the
blo Sandoval wrote:
>
> Hi Nicholas,
> I have resolved this issue for me. It turned out that I had my verbosity set
> on low, once I switched it to medium VO is able to identify calendar events
> again.
> I hope this helps you as it did me.
>
> .
>> On Jan 14, 20
I gave a detailed description earlier in this thread on setting up and using
the ScanSnap. If you’re thinking about buying one I recommend reading that post
as there are a few thigns to consider.
Briefly
Yes, you also need to install the ScanSnap Manager application to use the
ScanSnap. It come
Yes, absolutely. In the event inspector you can select add invitees. This
allows you to add people from your contacts. If the event is taking place at
John’s house, you can type, “John” in the location field, and Calendar will pop
up suggestions of places you might mean. You can navigate between
?
>> On Jan 14, 2015, at 6:21 PM, Nicholas Parsons > <mailto:mr.nicholas.pars...@gmail.com>> wrote:
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>> Yes, absolutely. In the event inspector you can select add invitees. This
>> allows you to add people from your contacts. If the event is taking place at
>
isance, no data is lost or anything like that. It’s just that
> you get used to a certain arrangement and then it is changed for no apparent
> reason requiring different keystrokes to do your work.
> ,
>> On Jan 14, 2015, at 6:08 PM, Nicholas Parsons
>> wrote:
>>
&g
And of course once you open the context menu one of the first few options is
“Sort ascending”, and the next is “Sort Descending”. Those are for sorting
rather than filtering. You do not need the submenu for the sorting options,
only the filtering options. Sorry if that explanation was not needed
Hi Alex,
They don’t need to be iCloud users to receive an invitation. They just need an
email address, or perhaps even just a mobile number. It works with Microsoft
Exchange calendars, Outlook, Google Calendar etcetera. But really the purpose
of adding them as an invitee is not so the event appe
I haven’t experienced a loss of entries, but VoiceOver fails to announce some
entries for me on certain days. I’m not sure what it is about these entries,
but VoiceOver announces some and not others. The way I can tell that they are
not lost but that VoiceOver is simply failing to announce them
Try pressing command-a to select all and then VO-j to jump to the format
inspector. From the styles tab of the format inspector you can adjust the font,
style, size, colour and line spacing of the text. This might not work so well
if you have different paragraph styles in your document (e.g. for
No worries, Bryan, glad it helped.
Phil, command-a to select all works for me and pretty much always has, it’s
manually selecting over page boundaries which was still messed up last I
checked. So if you want to select the whole document that’s fine, but if you
want to select text on multiple pa
Hi,
I contacted the developer around a year or so ago and posted about it on this
list. They made some appropriate noises but it didn’t sound promising. I don’t
remember exactly what they said but I remember thinking it didn’t sound like it
would be becoming accessible anytime soon. I don’t wan
Thanks for the tip. I just tried this but it didn't work for me. I was in
Preview, had interacted with the text, had Quick Nav on and set to Navigation.
Shift with any arrow key just got that blank dong sound meaning there's nowhere
to go.
Did you mean shift with arrow keys while QuickNav was o
Hmm, as for that, I'm not so sure, sorry. Maybe in the Calendar Settings. I
suspect there will be that ability but, if not, you could always create a new
Google Account I guess.
Just FYI, if your friend shares a calendar with you it may show up in Calendar
Preferences under the Delegates tab of
Okay, that does sound kinda cool. Organising into folders would be useful,
though I suspect this would just help me avoid reading some of those articles
I've been meaning to read for sometime now. So do I understand correctly that
you can add a link to Instapaper from Twitter clients without hav
Yes, shift and arrows still just bings at me, but VO-SHIFT ARROWS does the
trick. Thanks, Cheryl and Alex! This is a great help. I'm grateful for this
much, but I hope in the future Apple improves this a little. When I'm reading
word by word but change direction, VoiceOver misses some letters wh
It only skips characters when I'm reading word by word (i.e. not holding down
shift) and when I switch from moving to the right to moving to the left. It
skipped a space or two when I was reading character by character, but this
seemed inconsistent.
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Thanks for the explanation. Sounds pretty good.
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News Rack.
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Alex, to edit a post, why don't you just select all with command A when you're
in the edit area, paste into your preferred text editing application and then
edit it and copy and paste back in. Not the best, but it's a work around.
Incidentally, you may be interested in checking out MultiMarkdown
Hi,
I've been having these problems too. But to me there seems to be too separate,
though perhaps connected, problems.
First is a problem I only have at the login screen. This problem occurs even
though I'm not using a bluetooth headset. On awaking from sleep or prolongged
inactivity VoiceOver
For OS X. It's in the Mac App Store.
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Hi William,
What happens when you try to change one instance of a repete event?
Without knowing more, at this stage I can suggest the following:
• Edit some detail of a repete event, such as the time;
• Once you have tried to do this, perform a two finger double tap
o
Cool. Thanks for this. I really need to spend more time learning Apple Scripts.
It's just one of those things I keep putting off.
Just a question, did you mean to write "the" twice in the second line (e.g.
"the the front document"), or was this a typo?
Best,
Nic
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I've really been loving the native Facebook app for iOS of late. It works
really well and easily for me. Only problem is, it lacks a few features of the
full website. Also, after the most recent update in the last day or so I've had
some problems pasting text, but I'm sure I'll work out how to m
I agree it's great news that we now have more choices. However, I'm curious,
does it do anything that Safari cannot or work with VoiceOver better than
Safari does? I'd happily take a more accessible, though slightly slower,
browser. I don't find Safari on my Macs particularly slow. It might be w
Internet Exploder lol. I actually quite liked it for a number of reasons but
having it crash on me every 10 minutes or so was a bit of a downer. Probably
one of the main reasons that drove me, thankfully, to try a Mac.
Okay, sounds like I'll just have to stop being lazy and try FireFox out mysel
Cool. Good to know. Thanks!
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I can sync to both. Are you having any luck with either? What steps have you
taken so far?
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Are their any good references/resources that describe how VoiceOver reads HTML?
I've found that it works slightly differently to JAWS (surprise surprise). For
instance, sometimes VoiceOver seems to read the file extentions on links, and
it also seems to read the alt text on links like a help tag
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