Re: How do I download something?

2011-10-18 Thread Robert Nelson
If you have not already resolved the problem, let me suggest that you see if you have cursor tracking on. The keyboard command for toggling cursor tracking on and off is VO-Shift F3. I hope this helps. Best Regards, robert -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Goo

Re: new mac user with two basic questions?

2011-10-18 Thread Robert Nelson
Dear Karen, I have not done this myself in all the years I have had a Mac except back in the 90's with Disk First Aid. I did open disk Utility and went to Disk Utility Help. Under Disk Repair it tells how to repair the disk. If it is the disk that is also being used as the start up disk,

Re: Newsstand problems

2011-10-22 Thread Robert Nelson
VoiceOver has it's limitation. It can only read certain file types, i.e. .txt, .rtf, .pdf and .doc. I have things in . pub format which I also would like to read, but cannot. The only suggestion I have is to try to save it in one of these formats and maybe it will be able to be read by Voic

Re: can't use safari ! please help

2011-10-24 Thread Robert Nelson
It sounds like you have cursor tracking turned off. VO-shift F3 toggles cursor tracking on and off. there are two separate cursors in Voice Over, the VoiceOver cursor and the keyboard cursor. Where the VoiceOver cursor is is what is read. The keyboard cursor must be on whatever object

Re: cannot get e-mails in order i want

2011-10-25 Thread Robert Nelson
In SL the VoiceOver command is VO-Shift-\ or as it is sometimes stated VO-Shift-|. this should take care of it. Sincerely Yours, Robert -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@go

Re: changing the order of podcast in Itunes

2011-10-28 Thread Robert Nelson
Dear Laura, I have SL and ITunes 10.3. I just go to the date column at the top and to the command VO-shift-\. and it toggles the sort order. I hope this helps. Sincerely Yours, Robert On Oct 27, 2011, at 9:38 AM, Laura Bratton wrote: > HI all, > I just went to my list of Podcast in Itunes an

Re: Question about Safari and Snow Leopard

2011-10-28 Thread Robert Nelson
I have also had this problem. One of my work arounds is to see if the item is nested in a table or is in another frame on the web page. If it is a form control you can also pick it up on the web router. Going through all the automatic web spots has sometimes yielded good results for me. S

Re: Question about speech recognition on the mac

2011-11-01 Thread Robert Nelson
Dear Friends, I am using Snow Leopard on an IMac.friend of mine, has suffered a loss of finger dexterity. She is blind I thought the native spreech recognition software on the IMac would be useful. The speech recognition software is also known as Speakable Items. It is found on the Spe

Re: saving VO settings

2010-12-27 Thread Robert Nelson
Dear Laura, I am sorry I cannot help you. I have an IMac and whenever I update my VO settings either through Voice Utility or the keyboard shortcut of control-option-command right arrow, left arrow etc or using the control VO+v verbosity dialogue box it saves the settings forever or until

Re: Can voiceover speak Kurgish or Russian?

2011-02-23 Thread Robert Nelson
I don't know from actual experience, but below is a link for web site that provides voices to pronounce the words correctly. I hope this helps. On Feb 18, 2011, at 12:33 AM, Kevin Reeves wrote: > Hey folks. An instructor in training here at the Louisiana Center for the > Blind is from Kurgist

Re: speech recognition with Voiceover

2011-02-24 Thread Robert Nelson
be made into a verbal command. You cannot use it to type text in a word processing document for that you have to purchase third party software. I have no experience with these products so I do not know how they work with Voice Over.. I hope this helps. sincerely Yours, robert Nelson On

Re: Looking for keyboard commands for file, edit, view etc.

2011-02-24 Thread Robert Nelson
Dear kevin, I am sorry . There are no standard keyboard commands to open these menus. Sincerely Yours, robert Nelson On Feb 24, 2011, at 1:27 PM, Kevin Gibbs wrote: > Guys, > I'm still learning to move from JAWS to VO, and from Windows to Mac. > What I'm looking for is the e

Re: reading attachments in mail

2011-03-05 Thread Robert Nelson
helps. Sincerely Yours, robert Nelson On Mar 5, 2011, at 7:44 AM, Denise Avant wrote: > hi all, > i have an e-mail with a couple of word files attached. but vo also says its > an attached image. when i do a quick look attachment, and try to open one of > them, nothing seems to happen. a

Re: how to go from page to page in the PDF attachments

2011-03-06 Thread Robert Nelson
rely Yours, Robert Nelson On Mar 6, 2011, at 8:08 PM, Cheok Cheng Ann wrote: > I am a new comer to the Mac and am still finding my way around. Please > advise me as to how I can go from say, page 5 if there is 1 of 30 page in > the PDF document. > Thank you. > > Regards, >

Re: Newby question

2011-03-09 Thread Robert Nelson
from the dock by once again going to the icon on the dock, opening up the shortcut menu, choosing options and then choosing remove from dock. I hope this helps. Sincerely Yours, Robert Nelson On Mar 9, 2011, at 9:43 AM, Joseph Norton wrote: > Hi list: > > Pardon the newby question.

Re: short cuts to get to the top and bottem of the message list in mail?

2011-03-28 Thread Robert Nelson
Dear Trahern, Once you interact with the Mail Messages Table you may press shift-vo-HOME which will bring you to the top and SHIFT-vo-END to bring you to the bottome. By the way this is with a desk top keyvoard. Sincerely Yours, robert Nelson On Mar 27, 2011, at 11:20 PM, trahern culver

Re: how to go from page to page in the PDF attachments

2011-04-03 Thread Robert Nelson
Dear Cheok, I am sorry. If you hold down the vo keys and press the space bar while you are at the attached file name, it will then automatically open in Preview. Sincerely Yours Robert Nelson On Apr 3, 2011, at 9:12 AM, Cheok Cheng Ann wrote: > Dear Robert, > > This is Cheng A

Re: preview questions

2011-04-03 Thread Robert Nelson
Dear Denise, I sometimes run into that problem. I went to a web site to look up directions for a digital recorder. there were two different products and I downloaded both sets of instructions. In one case Preview and voice Over were able to read the instructions in the other case all I had

Re: preview questions

2011-04-03 Thread Robert Nelson
eng Ann > cheokcheng...@gmail.com > http://www.chengann.com/ > > On 04-Apr-2011, at 6:32 AM, Robert Nelson wrote: > >> Dear Denise, >> I sometimes run into that problem. I went to a web site to look up >> directions for a digital recorder. there were two different products

Re: What software comes with Mac OS?

2011-04-04 Thread Robert Nelson
here or something that you do not see at Apple .com, just tell us what it is and one of us should have an answer. I hope this helps. Sincerely Yours, Robert Nelson -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this g

Re: Tables in Safari Question

2011-04-07 Thread Robert Nelson
mmand describes the item in the voice over cursor. In this case whether or not the check box is checked or not. I hope this helps. Sincerely Yours, robert Nelson -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this gr

Re: how can I best view messages in threds?

2011-04-10 Thread Robert Nelson
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Re: making folders in mail

2011-04-10 Thread Robert Nelson
Address Book to send a message to, that is done in Address Book. It is a little bit complicated to set up. There have been previous posts on that topic I think. Anyhow, let us know what you want to achieve and I am sure I or someone else will be able to help. Sincerely Yours, Robert Nelson

Re: making folders in mail

2011-04-10 Thread Robert Nelson
Dear Matt, I understand exactly what you want. Although I have never done it, it is called a smart mailbox. You first establish a rule that tells Mail which messages go in what mailbox. Since I have never done this I will have to let it go at this. Sincerely Yours, Robert Nelson On Apr

Re: dom to group mode, vo h h tells me nothing

2011-04-13 Thread Robert Nelson
While there is no keyboard shortcut for DOM to GROUP mode in in the HH menu voice over commands menu, simply hit the carriage return key and it will carry it out. I hope this helps. Sincerely Yours, robert Nelson On Apr 13, 2011, at 1:14 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: > Hello Marla

Re: a website quandary

2011-04-19 Thread Robert Nelson
Dear Carolyn, At the Chase bank web site I would bring up the statement. In order to download it, I had to go to file and choose print. Then in the printer dialogue box near the end was a pop-up menu labelled PDF. One of the choices was to save as a pdf. Once you choose this the save as di

Re: Spellchecker and mail question

2011-05-01 Thread Robert Nelson
dow by either command-w or VO-ESCAPE.. Once you do that you may bring the Spell check back up by pressing SHIFT-COMMAND-SEMICOLON or if the misspelled word is selected, I hope this helps. Sincerely Yours, robert Nelson you may use the shortcut menu VO-SHIFT-M. On May 1, 2011, at 2:49 PM,

Re: strange behavior with safari

2011-05-01 Thread Robert Nelson
does not let you type in the first instance or when does the situation occur. Perhaps, it is because the edit box is embedded in a table? I hope this helps. Sincerely Yours, robert Nelson On May 1, 2011, at 7:53 PM, Denise Avant wrote: > Hello all, > I ran into something strange with

Re: Where do I find the "passive mode" setting in Cyberduck?

2011-05-02 Thread Robert Nelson
bring up a window with six tabs on it . Choose the proxy tab. In the proxy tab about the fifth control is a check box labelled FTP PASIV. I hope this helps. Sincerely Yours, robert Nelson On May 2, 2011, at 9:39 AM, Søren Jensen wrote: > Hi. > The subject says it all. I've

Re: rearranging tables

2011-05-06 Thread Robert Nelson
dragging. You may want to do a vo F3 to verify that the vo cursor is on the item before beginning the process. I have never used this before. I hope it works. Sincerely Yours, Robert Nelson On May 4, 2011, at 5:26 PM, Sarai Bucciarelli wrote: > Hi: > I didn't. The company thin

Re: rearranging tables

2011-05-08 Thread Robert Nelson
d the item in multiples of 20 pixels. When I was finished I hit VO-ESC to stop moving. I hope this works. Sincerely Yours, Robert Nelson On May 7, 2011, at 11:27 AM, Sarai Bucciarelli wrote: > Hi: > It wouldn't drag the table headers. > On May 6, 2011, at 12:10 PM, Robert Nelso

Re: Weird Folder Setup

2011-05-09 Thread Robert Nelson
ight arrow in Icon mode. The other two were List Mode and Column Mode. In both List and Column mode I was able to simply right arrow to explore the contents of a Folder. I hope this helps. Sincerely Yours, robert Nelson On May 9, 2011, at 10:17 AM, Shawn Krasniuk wrote: > Hi. I've be

Re: Help please, Mail is freaking out

2011-05-13 Thread Robert Nelson
Dear Donna, Have you checked to see if preferences is unlocked and on the same idea are you logged in as theadministrator rather than a user? Sincerely Yours, Robert Nelson -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group.

Re: many of the conmands don't work on imac

2011-05-13 Thread Robert Nelson
Dear Stephanie, I have an IMac and as far as I know all of my keyboard commands work . CMD-, does open the preference pane, CMD-O does bring up the OPEN dialogue box. I don't know why your IMac isbehaving this way. I can only think that it has something to do with keyboard preference