Test, pls ignore

2020-04-27 Thread Simon Cavendish
just testing my preferences. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rath

Test

2023-10-16 Thread Simon Cavendish
Hi, I don’t seem to be receiving any messages from the group although I have chosen to receive each individual email. Am I missing something I should have done? Simon -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concern

My first ever Zoom call on a mac and I'm really worried

2023-10-30 Thread Simon Cavendish
Hi, I’ve been sent an invitation to a Zoom meeting in a few days’ time. I’ve got Zoom installed on my M1 chip macbook air but I’ve not done a Zoom meeting before. They sent me a link, and then some ID numbers. If I click the link, will it automatically connect me to the person who issued the

Best headset to use with navigation apps out and about

2023-11-16 Thread Simon Cavendish
Hi I’d like to start experimenting with navigation apps. I will need to purchase a good headset, and I guess this will have to be bone conduction one as I’m totally blind and need to monitor other sounds in the streets. Could you share your experience with such? I know many of you use naviga

Test message

2023-11-17 Thread Simon Cavendish
Could you please confirm this message has reached the group? Simon -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact

Re: Google drive on a Mac

2023-11-18 Thread Simon Cavendish
Dear Lorie, You need to go to menu extra, find Google drive and vo+space on it. You will be presented with a number of choices. Press “more” and you should be in the preferences for Google Drive. There you can determine whether your files sync and are available off-line. Simon > On 18 Nov

One Drive blocks access to menu extra in Sonoma

2023-11-19 Thread Simon Cavendish
Hi, When One Drive is running on my macbook air in Sonoma, when pressing vo+m twice in order to access menu extra, One Drive window pops up and there’s no way I can see my menu extra. Could anyone replicate this before I report this to Apple? Also, is there an alternative way of accessing men

Need a new Braille display

2023-11-22 Thread Simon Cavendish
Hi, I’d like your suggestions for a new Braille display at a lower price end on the market. My Focus 40 blue has died and I need a 32 cell or 40 cell Braille display with no bells and whistles. Any comments on the Orbit Braille display, which seems to be more affordable at present? Many than

Re: Need a new Braille display

2023-11-22 Thread Simon Cavendish
> On 11/22/23, Simon Cavendish wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I’d like your suggestions for a new Braille display at a lower price end on >> the market. My Focus 40 blue has died and I need a 32 cell or 40 cell >> Braille display with no bells and whistles. Any comments

Apple TV 4th generation

2024-01-06 Thread Simon Cavendish
Hi, I’ve had Apple TV third generation for years. I’ts going great but there’s an application or two wich I’d like to use and I have no ability to download it onto my third generation Apple TV. Do you find it easy to work with forth gen Apple tv? Any tips, comments, suggestions? Simon -- T

Re: How to read pdf or if there is a app

2024-01-07 Thread Simon Cavendish
Hi Tom, The application Preview is always available on mac OS; you will find it in your applications folder and most likely on your dock if you press control + F3 key or control + option + letter D, and then start typing preview, you should land on it. Press enter and it will open. It is also

Setting up Apple tv 4K without sighted help

2024-01-08 Thread Simon Cavendish
Hi, I’m expecting a delivery of Apple tv 4K wifi. Will I be able to set it up without sighted help straight from the box? I’m feeling rather nervous. Any tips would be appreciated. Simon -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any

Re: Setting up Apple tv 4K without sighted help

2024-01-08 Thread Simon Cavendish
y that's slightly indented three times quickly. > That will turn on Voice Over and you're good to go from there. > > > Sincerely, > The Constantly Barefooted Ray > Still a very proud Mac, Xfinity Mobile and Apple TV user > >> On Jan 8, 2024, at 4:00 AM, Simon C

Re: How to open an App from an unknown developer in Ventura

2024-01-16 Thread Simon Cavendish
Hi Paul, the way I’ve always gone round this problem is to invoke contextual menu while focused on the name of the app in the application folder and choosing to open it from there. You get a warning with the cancel button as the rightmost element but before the cancel button there will be the

Reading DAISY books on Mac os Sonoma

2024-01-29 Thread Simon Cavendish
Hi, Is there a way of reading DAISY books on the mac M1 chip? I mean reading using voiceover and a Braille display? I know there’s Dolphin Easy reader but it requires subscription which is not cheap. Simon -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries li

Re: Sharing encrypted files and folders between Mac and IOS

2024-02-11 Thread Simon Cavendish
Paul, Checkout Encrypto app by Macpaw.com to see whether it might meet your needs. I have just come across this app but have not used it yet. I’m pasting the link to the app details below my name. Simon https://macpaw.com/encrypto Encrypto | Encrypt your files before sending them to friends

Re: Headphones for my SE 2020

2024-03-24 Thread Simon Cavendish
Hello, This model has no headphone jack but uses the lightning connecter. The charging lightning port doubles as headphone connecter. You will need an adapter lightning to 3.5 mm headphone adapter. Best wishes Simon > On 24 Mar 2024, at 09:25, meikle.aiden via MacVisionaries > wrote: > >

Voiceover default voice confusion

2024-04-16 Thread Simon Cavendish
Hi, So I open my voiceover Utility and choose speech tab. Then customise languages. I look at the default language, which is English. Although Alex is speaking, the button where you choose the voice says Eloquence Fiona. No matter what I do, I can’’t make it say what it is: Alex. I have 4 mo

Re: Turkish language and the Mac.

2012-03-06 Thread Simon Cavendish
Nektarios, First of all, you need to go to system preferences and choose "language and text" button and then the text input tab, which is the last tab. If you move to the right, you will come across a table of all available keyboards. You need to check the box in the first column, next to the T

Re: Turkish language and the Mac.

2012-03-07 Thread Simon Cavendish
wasn't online today. Try again. I > will do the same when I see you online. > > Nektarios. > > On Mar 7, 2012, at 12:15 AM, Simon Cavendish wrote: > >> Nektarios, >> >> First of all, you need to go to system preferences and choose "language and >>

Re: Possible bug in Lion

2012-03-09 Thread Simon Cavendish
It's happened to me as well: I've been receiving answers to somebody else's questions from apple accessibility. On 9 Mar 2012, at 00:30, John Sanfilippo wrote: > I do not know why I am receiving this as it is not my question. > > At the same time, my request that a specific braille keyboard migh

Re: anyone else noticing mail.app wierdness?

2012-03-24 Thread Simon Cavendish
No problem here at all. On 24 Mar 2012, at 21:28, Sean Murphy wrote: > The mail issue isn't isolated to Hot mail. I get it with Gmail and my ISP. > Mail now and then prompts for the password and refuses to send a message. > Very flakey program. Don't know if I should go through my passwords and

Re: importing vo-preffereces in osx-lion

2012-03-29 Thread Simon Cavendish
Please note, that this message had not originated from me and therefore should not have been sent to me either. This is not the first time that this has happened. This is a worrying trend in the way you track messages. With best regards Simon Cavendish On 29 Mar 2012, at 19:45, accessibil

Re: Creating a list of all the headings and links on a webpage

2012-04-10 Thread Simon Cavendish
When on a web page, press vo+u and you will be presented with a choice of elements in categories. You can then use your right and left arrow keys to move from category to category, e.g. headings, links, visited links, form controls, tables, regions, etc. Once you find the category you wish, use

Re: Jumping to the top and bottom of the message list (Lion & Mac mail in classic view)

2012-04-16 Thread Simon Cavendish
They key combinations described by Esther work for me too but you need to interact with the list of messages or files in the finder for the keys to take effect. On 16 Apr 2012, at 02:23, Frank Ventura wrote: > Hi all, when in a message list in mail sometimes I want to jump to the top or > botto

Re: importing vo-preffereces in osx-lion

2012-06-11 Thread Simon Cavendish
I think this message is meant for somebody else. With best wishes Simon Cavendish On 11 Jun 2012, at 17:35, accessibil...@apple.com wrote: > Please include the line below in follow-up emails for this request. > > Follow-up: 196742241 > > William > > You should rep

Re: copying files to certain folders.

2012-06-25 Thread Simon Cavendish
Have you tried to open the folder to which you wish to copy your file with command key + down arrow? You can close the folder with command + w after you have copied the file. On 24 Jun 2012, at 22:25, Jakob Rosin wrote: > hi all. > As ive mentioned, i've been using mac only for a week so far so

Re: Bookmarks

2012-06-27 Thread Simon Cavendish
Open Safari. Move left along the bookmark bar (provided it's showing, and if not, press command+shift+b) and look for the place which Voiceover reports as "show all bookmarks, unchecked checkbox". Check this box. Now in place of your usual html page, you will have two tables. The first table

Re: what Voiceover bugs people want or are hoping will be fixed or squashed in Mountain Lion?

2012-07-03 Thread Simon Cavendish
I'd like to have Braille tables for some languages fixed in Mountain Lion. I've been writing to Accessibility about it a few times but ominously have not had a single response to reassure me that they are going to do so. Braille tables swapping on te the fly would be a good feature, very much li

Re: time machine

2012-07-06 Thread Simon Cavendish
You need to choose in time machine preferences your new disk, and the time machine will do the rest. Find your time machine in either system preferences or on your menu activated with control+f8. Best of luck Simon On 6 Jul 2012, at 17:44, Stacey Robinson wrote: > Hi all, > I will be getting a

Re: Time Machine question

2012-07-07 Thread Simon Cavendish
Stacey, As far as I can remember, there is an off and on button in the time machine preference window. Make sure to click the on button. Before you do, check that the lock to prevent further changes is not on. Yo You will find it on the right side. Hope this will help. Good luck Simon On

Re: Time Machine question

2012-07-07 Thread Simon Cavendish
things and all seems good to go. > > On Jul 7, 2012, at 11:58 AM, Simon Cavendish wrote: > >> Stacey, >> >> As far as I can remember, there is an off and on button in the time machine >> preference window. Make sure to click the on button. Before you do, check

Re: Tips for Using Track Changes

2012-07-08 Thread Simon Cavendish
Dear Harry, I understand from the many expert messages that Ann has been posting on this list regarding iWork suite, that sadly track changes does not work with Voiceover. Ann is a very knowledgeable person in the matter, and had there been a work around, she would have found it. Maybe she will

Re: Tips for Using Track Changes

2012-07-09 Thread Simon Cavendish
Dear Harry, Regarding speaking the attributes of the text you are reading, press control+shift+v and you will find yourself in the dialogue box where yo you can adjust various values for Voiceover. One of them is speak text attributes. There are other useful functions of Voiceover you can chang

Re: Re-setting Vo in Safari

2012-07-10 Thread Simon Cavendish
Dear Johnny, Open Voiceover utility with vo+f8. Then with vo+m, go to your menu bar and move to the right to find "file". Then down arrow to open the menu. If you arrow down the options you have there, you will find a few choices for resetting various preferences of Voiceover. I've not done it

Re: Re-setting Vo in Safari

2012-07-10 Thread Simon Cavendish
m doing there so I hope I > don't mess things up any further. Lol!! > > But I must say it again that you guys on this list are the bestest! > > Thanks again, > > Johnny > On Jul 10, 2012, at 4:37 AM, Simon Cavendish wrote: > >> Dear Johnny, >> >&g

Re: Keystroke for moving between windows within same application

2012-07-11 Thread Simon Cavendish
As has been already said, command+accent key but on the British keyboard it is located immediately to the right of the left shift key, not above the tab. Not sure what keyboard you use. Thought it might help. On 12 Jul 2012, at 04:17, Lisette Wesseling wrote: > Hi folks > Can someone please remi

Ultralingua electronic dictionary and Mountain Lion

2012-07-13 Thread Simon Cavendish
Dear Listers, Ultralingua electronic dictionary, whose developers have been committed to its accessibility with Voiceover, is preparing for Mountain Lion as I am being informed in their newsletter. Below I'm pasting a piece of the newsletter which actually mentions Voiceover. I'm so excited tha

Re: updating flash?

2012-07-16 Thread Simon Cavendish
Donna, I run Lion and in system preferences on the far right of the preferences pain, you have various buttons which relate to non apple products like flash. If you have had flash installed previously, you will find the button there. Activate it and you should be able to check for flash updates

Re: how can I restore a bootcamp-partition with voiceover?

2012-07-17 Thread Simon Cavendish
estions on the list. I can't remember his name. Please check your records and respond to the correct recipient. Best regards Simon Cavendish On 18 Jul 2012, at 01:15, accessibil...@apple.com wrote: > Please include the line below in follow-up emails for this request. > > Follow-u

Somebody asked about resizing bootcamp partition with Voiceover

2012-07-17 Thread Simon Cavendish
Dear Listers, I am aware that recently somebody was asking questions about resizing a bootcamp partition using Voiceover. I have today received a response from Accessibility team at Apple to their questions. He or she must have clearly e-mailed Accessibility. They sent a response to me in erro

Re: braille translation for mac?

2012-07-22 Thread Simon Cavendish
I think Erik means louis not Lois. Just a typo I believe. not sure whether Louis is Lion compatible? Best wishes Simon On 22 Jul 2012, at 01:27, Alex Hall wrote: > Hi all, > Some weeks back a few options for braille translation/brf > reading/embossing were discussed. Unfortunately, I didn't sav

Re: File versions

2012-07-22 Thread Simon Cavendish
Dear Joseph, I have pasted below a description by Tim Kilburn on how to revert to earlier versions of a document in TextEdit. I have found it by doing a search in the Googlegroups pages. I will post copy the link to that particular page for your information. Hope this will help See below for

Re: Removing an item from the dock

2012-07-23 Thread Simon Cavendish
Find the item you wish to remove, press vo+shift+m, and arrow down to options submenu. Press right arrow to expand the menu and you should find in there an option to remove from dock. Best wishes Simon On 23 Jul 2012, at 13:11, Stacey Robinson wrote: > Hi all, > Can someone please refresh my m

Re: Apple Bluetooth keyboard

2012-07-24 Thread Simon Cavendish
Have you tried the alternative shortcut key combination, control+f3? Best wishes Simon On 24 Jul 2012, at 01:59, Stacey Robinson wrote: > Hi, > I've pared my apple bluetooth keyboard with my macbook. > I can't get some commands to work though such as moving to the doc. What > could I be doing

Re: mail question

2012-07-24 Thread Simon Cavendish
I will describe to you what I do to achieve this on macbook air. Whilst in a mailbox, interact with the list of messages. Then press fn+vo+shift+left arrow to go to the first row of the table of messages and fn+vo+right arrow to go to the last row in the table of messages. hope this helps. Sim

Re: Apple Bluetooth keyboard

2012-07-24 Thread Simon Cavendish
shortcut keys. On 24 Jul 2012, at 11:44, Stacey Robinson wrote: > No, where can I find a list of these alternative keys. > > On Jul 24, 2012, at 3:02 AM, Simon Cavendish wrote: > >> Have you tried the alternative shortcut key combination, control+f3? >> >> Best wi

Re: Verifying disk before Mountain Lion upgrade or clean install

2012-08-12 Thread Simon Cavendish
Because certain repairs or verifications can't be done when you are actually within the start up disk. I don't understand the full programming details. On 12 Aug 2012, at 02:06, Christina C. wrote: > Thanks for sharing this info. Why does it have to be done in the recovery > partition instead o

Re: lightning browser

2011-11-21 Thread Simon Cavendish
I've been using Lightening for a long time. You always have to move to the html content to interact with it and then you can read it as normal. On my macbook air, I use the shortcut function +vo keys + right arrow to take me to the rightmost object on the page which is usually html. I then inter

Re: Browsing with Safari has become extremely difficult

2011-12-01 Thread Simon Cavendish
Try lightening for mac. It's a much slimmer application, and once you work out how to use it, it performs better than Safari. I tend to use it more and more. It gives me less of a "busy" problem that frustrates me so much in Safari. On 30 Nov 2011, at 18:50, Christina wrote: > I am still using S

Re: changing the language spelling

2011-12-07 Thread Simon Cavendish
You can indeed change your keyboard language on the fly. First, however, you need to choose the keyboards that you wish to have available via system preferences/language and text. Once you find language and text button in system preferences, activate it and you will have four tabs there. Select

Re: Mac spreadsheet apps - was Re: Mac App Store 1 Day $0.99 App "Bundle" deals

2011-12-07 Thread Simon Cavendish
I have also used Tables successfully. It is not a free programme but works better for me than numbers. You should find it by googling Tables for mac. You can try it for a few days free. Admittedly I use Tables for simple things. On 5 Dec 2011, at 15:54, Chris Blouch wrote: > Numbers from Apple a

Re: changing the language spelling

2011-12-07 Thread Simon Cavendish
; > Sent from my iPhone > > On Dec 7, 2011, at 5:13 AM, Simon Cavendish > wrote: > >> You can indeed change your keyboard language on the fly. First, however, you >> need to choose the keyboards that you wish to have available via system >> preferences/lan

Re: how can I rename files in finder without having to go through get info?

2011-12-11 Thread Simon Cavendish
I'm not sure whether my method is going to be too slow for you but in Finder, I hit enter on the name of the file, which allows me to edit its name. Once you hit enter on the name of a file, be careful because the name is highlighted so if you start typing immediately, you will delete the existi

Re: bouncing incoming messages under Lion?

2011-12-12 Thread Simon Cavendish
I just realised myself that it was missing under Lion. what a pity! I have not found an alternative way of bouncing messages. On 12 Dec 2011, at 08:12, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > Say, > > I remembear that, under SL, there was a way to manually bounce a message you > didn't want using mail in such a

Recording a few minutes' long video on the mac

2011-12-13 Thread Simon Cavendish
Hello Listers, I'd like to record a short audiovisual message for a friend of mine so that they can both hear me and see me. Can I accomplish it on my macbook air/ Has anyone done that before? A few minutes would do. I'd appreciate some brief instructions. What application would I have to use t

Re: Pages

2012-01-08 Thread Simon Cavendish
Under Windows, it used to be called "track changes". On 8 Jan 2012, at 07:34, Jürgen Fleger wrote: > Hi Folkes, > > in Pages there is an option what allows to show changes in a document by > others. For a discription I need the correct term of that option in an > english Pages. When I translat

Re: creating appointments using ICal.

2012-01-12 Thread Simon Cavendish
Under view options in the menu bar you probably need to choose how you wish to view your calendar: by day or week or month. On 10 Jan 2012, at 14:14, Jessica wrote: > I've just started trying to figure out how to create an event using ICal, but > when I try to use the left and right arrows to sc

Re: NewsStand

2012-01-15 Thread Simon Cavendish
No, this is also my experience. Disappointing. On 13 Jan 2012, at 21:56, Chris Blouch wrote: > So I went to try this out on the iPad today and wasn't able to get very far. > Seemed like most of the ones I tried were unreadable with voiceover. Does > anyone know of a particular subscription that

Re: Selecting text in Safari

2012-01-16 Thread Simon Cavendish
Bill, I interact with the text on a web page, press vo+enter and then start selecting using vo + arrow keys. When I've selected what I wish, I press vo+enter again and then command+c to copy to clipboard. While you are selecting the text with vo+arrow keys, you should hear the swishing sound. Ho

Re: Anyone Using Google Chrome with VO?

2012-02-07 Thread Simon Cavendish
Yes, I love Google Chrome and have been using it regularly for a couple of months. Very fast, no busy - ready reports. Only on some websites it does not always report all the labels at which point I switch to Safari. Simon On 7 Feb 2012, at 06:39, Teresa Cochran wrote: > Hi, all, > > Upon a c

Re: Tables [was:] Re: numbers

2012-02-23 Thread Simon Cavendish
When focused on the cell you wish to change data in, press F2 key which will put you in the editing mode. Then you should be able to use your cursor keys. Once done, press tab. In the previous version of Tables, this worked very well. The latest update has rendered this important function more d

Re: Tables [was:] Re: numbers

2012-02-23 Thread Simon Cavendish
Jurgen, changing sheets in Tables has always worked for me by pressing command + option + right or left arrow key. The larger the sheet the longer it takes though for Tables to change to the next sheet. In the latest update, again you do not necessarily know that the sheet has been changed so yo

Re: Tables [was:] Re: numbers

2012-02-23 Thread Simon Cavendish
ys to reach specific parts of a sheet. > > Thanks and all the best > Jürgen > Am 24.02.2012 um 07:34 schrieb Simon Cavendish: > >> When focused on the cell you wish to change data in, press F2 key which will >> put you in the editing mode. Then you should be able to use your c

Re: Tables [was:] Re: numbers

2012-02-23 Thread Simon Cavendish
gave up. But as I mentioned before: I use Sheets as a two dimensional > note pad and so it might be because of a lot of text in each sheet. > Am 24.02.2012 um 07:37 schrieb Simon Cavendish: > >> Jurgen, changing sheets in Tables has always worked for me by pressing >> comma

Re: new mac user please help

2014-02-26 Thread Simon Cavendish
Dear Zoe, Welcome to the group. I, too, am a Greek speaker and I, too, chose to switch to Mac because of the many language Apple offers. I've learnt Greek, and in fact, I'm still continuing my classes with a tutor in Cyprus. Now to your questions. Isaac has already told you how to switch langua

RE: Digest for macvisionaries@googlegroups.com - 23 Messages in 11 Topics

2013-10-24 Thread simon . cavendish
According to vmware website, maverick requires fusion 6. -original message- Subject: Digest for macvisionaries@googlegroups.com - 23 Messages in 11 Topics From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Date: 23/10/2013 10:19 pm =

Re: concerning VUScan

2011-06-12 Thread Simon Cavendish
Ann Robertson has recently posted the instructions on how to set up Vuescan. I'm pasting them below my signature. Simon === Below are the settings for VueScan. Cheers, Anne 1) Select Input; 1.1) Task: Scan to file; 1.2) Source: Your scanner; 1.3) Media: Text; 1.4) Media size: Auto; 1.5) Pre

Re: PDF files

2011-06-28 Thread Simon Cavendish
Rafaeel, I have not tried it myself as I haven't got a multi-column document to test it, and it is just a thought - but try highlighting the content of your document by pressing command+a and copying it to clipboard and then pasting into TextEdit. Good luck. Simon On 28 Jun 2011, at 00:05, Be

Re: Voice over hot spots

2011-07-10 Thread Simon Cavendish
Yes, it should be as you say. On 8 Jul 2011, at 15:41, matthew Dyer wrote: > Hi all, > > I have set up hot spots for my mail programs to jump between the different > mail boxes. How ever, in testing them, It only takes me to my gmail and I > have 4 acccounts which I have hot spots seup for.

Re: Another mail question with Lion

2011-08-02 Thread Simon Cavendish
Hello, I've just tried to do this. This is what I did. I vo+left arrow to the message header area. I then interacted with it. Once you interact, I moved with vo+right once and landed on "details" link. Voiceover actually says here "link". I pressed vo+spacebar on this link. This resulted in be

Re: adding a label on radio/button/list/etc

2009-10-08 Thread Simon Cavendish
I think you position voiceover cursor on the button that's not been labelled, and then press vo+slash and you will find yourself in a dialogue wehre you can type in the label you wish. Best wishes, Simon On 8 Oct 2009, at 11:59, Yuma Antoine Decaux wrote: > > Hi list, > > Each time i find ou

Re: How to read entire article on web page.

2009-10-10 Thread Simon Cavendish
Dear Kevin, There is no such equivalent to Jaws ctrl+n with Voiceover. I'm afraid that this is how one reads articles, i.e. by paragraphs. With time, you learn various techniques to speed things up. For instance, I use the vo+command+h command - sometimes repeattedly - to get to the headin

Re: Reading PDF Files with Preview

2009-10-11 Thread Simon Cavendish
Nic, I interact with the table of content, and when I reach the chapter heading I want to read, I perform the click with vo+shift +spacebar and then stop interacting and vo+left arrow once and I usually am at the top of the page where my chapter begins. The only thing I noticed then is some

Re: Reading Email

2009-10-11 Thread Simon Cavendish
This "split" reading happens in Snow Leopard when the message comes in the HTML format. To get rid of this annoyance, press the shortcut command+option+p to change the format to plain text and it will read fine. With best wishes, Simon On 12 Oct 2009, at 00:41, Mac Cougar wrote: > > Hello,

Re: Reading PDF Files with Preview

2009-10-11 Thread Simon Cavendish
ebook: Profile > Twitter: http://twitter.com/chojiro > > On Oct 11, 2009, at 7:31 PM, Simon Cavendish wrote: > >> >> Nic, I interact with the table of content, and when I reach the >> chapter heading I want to read, I perform the click with vo+shift >> +spaceba

Re: skype on the itouch

2009-10-11 Thread Simon Cavendish
Where do you get Nimbuz from? On 12 Oct 2009, at 03:13, John J Herzog wrote: > > Hi > Use nimbuzz instead. Nimbuzz can log into facebook, AIM, yahoo, google > talk, and skype. It even lets you use your skype out call plan to dial > phone numbers. Perfectly accessible, except the dial pad buttons

Re: Reading Email

2009-10-12 Thread Simon Cavendish
. My SL > has never behaved like that, and I always use HTML. What exactly > causes it? > > Regards, > Nic > Skype: Kvalme > MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk > AIM: cincinster > yahoo Messenger: cin368 > Facebook: Profile > Twitter: http://twitter.com/chojiro >

Re: continuous reading

2009-10-14 Thread Simon Cavendish
Can Snow Leopard read from where you are continuously? On 14 Oct 2009, at 14:15, Nicolai Svendsen wrote: > > Hi, > > Leopard can't read from where you are, unfortunately. At least, I've > never seen it. > > Regards, > Nic > > Skype: Kvalme > MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk > AIM: cincinste

Re: Questions about Mail with VO

2009-10-16 Thread Simon Cavendish
Have you got your mouse cursor tracking your VO cursor by any chance? If you do, this might be the reason. Do some experimentation with the cursors tracking or not tracking to see wehther you get a more reliable expereinces. As for the second question, I have never been able to drag and dro

Re: reading pdf files on the mac usingvo?

2009-03-17 Thread Simon Cavendish
A pdf file should open in Preview. Normally, you just need to navigate to the right by pressing vo+right arrow once and interact by pressing vo+shift+down arrow and you should be able to read the file using vo commands. Simon On 17 Mar 2009, at 20:49, Maurice Mines wrote: > > hi how dos on

Re: reading pdf files on the mac usingvo?

2009-03-18 Thread Simon Cavendish
This is also my question: I haven't found a way of finding a string of text I want in Preview so any clues would be welcome. Simon On 18 Mar 2009, at 01:52, Eliza Cooper wrote: > > Hi List, >How about using the find feature in preview? When you have > searched for text, how do you naviga

Re: Poll Results

2009-03-19 Thread Simon Cavendish
Cara, I think the creation of a new unmoderated group and allowing people who want to to subscribe to it is a selfish preference of mine as I wouldn't want to have to go through subscribing to thep present group again. I would have preferred things to be as they are but the vote is the vo

Re: Poll Results

2009-03-19 Thread Simon Cavendish
It's all confusing to me now: which is the new list? The moderated or unmoderated? I did worry all this might result in a bit of a mess. Simon On 19 Mar 2009, at 03:21, Ryan Mann wrote: > I agree. Just transfer the members to the new list. > > On Mar 18, 2009, at 8:40 PM, Richie Gardenhire wro

HOW MUCH HARD DRIVE SPACE HAVE I GOT LEFT?

2009-03-21 Thread Simon Cavendish
DEAR LISTERS, HOW CAN I FIND OUT HOW MUCH HARD DISK SPACE I HAVE GOT LEFT? IF I WERE TO RUN OUT OF HARD DRIVE SPACE, COULD SOME OF YOU E-MAIL ME PRIVATELY AND SHARE YOUR WAYS OF DEALING WITH THIS? WHAT WOULD BE MY OPTIONS? WITH MANY THANKS, SIMON --~--~-~--~~~--

Previous systems folder

2009-03-23 Thread Simon Cavendish
Dear Listers, Inside the "previous systems" folder, I have a folder which is 16 GB large. I think it was created when I reinstalled my OS earlier this year. Can I delete it? It would free up some considerable space. Thnks for your help. Simon --~--~-~--~~~---~--~

Re: Just waht is "off topic" here

2009-03-25 Thread Simon Cavendish
Hear hear, I entirely agree. Let's leave it to our gently regulated discretion. Simon On 25 Mar 2009, at 17:32, Chris Blouch wrote: > > I'm certainly guilty of being off topic and worthy of the ban. At the > same time I'd like to think some lenience for off topic posts which > have > broad a

Re: Problem Purchasing Infovox IVox (please help asap)

2009-03-26 Thread Simon Cavendish
Tiffanitsa, I have today purchased the Greek voice but I had to do so using Windows and Mozilla. I have already spoken on this list about the difficulties buying from assistiveware website using voicoever. It baffles me that it continues to be the case. If you still have Windows on your m

Re: OCR software and recommended scanners

2009-03-27 Thread Simon Cavendish
Soren, Is HP OCR softwarre totally compatible with VO? Can you scan multilingual material? Can you save it into text files? Can you scan two pages at the same time, like an open book? Thanks in advance, Simon, e-mail privately if you want or if it violates the rules of the list. On 27 Mar

Re: podcast question

2009-03-31 Thread Simon Cavendish
I delete my podcasts by going down the list in Itunes and pressing the delete sequence. I then get a message asking me whether I want to keep the podcast in my music library or whether I want to move it to the trash. I think you have to do it for each podcast that has already been download

Mail repeating itself all the time

2009-04-16 Thread Simon Cavendish
Dear Listers, I find that off late Voiceover tends to repeat itself all the time in Mail. For exmaple, I would be arrowing down the list of my messages and Voiceover will suddenly start announcing the name of the application mailbox in which I am. This happens so much that it is really an

Re: Mail repeating itself all the time

2009-04-18 Thread Simon Cavendish
ry to interact with the table to see if that > helps. > Best regards > Søren Jensen > Mail & MSN: > s...@coolfortheblind.dk > Website: > http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ > > On 17/04/2009, at 00.23, Simon Cavendish wrote: > >> >> Dear Listers, >

Installing mobile speak on nokia 6210 using mac

2009-05-02 Thread Simon Cavendish
Dear Listers, does anyone have experience of installing mobile speak onto a Nokia phone, in this case, Nokia 6210 using a Mac computer? On the Windows side, there's pcsuite. Is there an equivalent for Mac and is it accessible with Voiceover? Any help would be welcome. Thanks listers, Simo

Uninstalling vmware fusion

2009-05-03 Thread Simon Cavendish
I've been trying to uninstall vmware fusion using its uninstaller. Unfortunatley the uninstaller does not seem to uninstall anything. Can I just trash vmware fusion? thanks for your help, listers. Simon --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because

Re: Bluetooth trouble

2009-05-04 Thread Simon Cavendish
Maybe you could try with mouse cursor routed to the voiceover cursor. You need to go to the voiceover utility with vo+f8 and check the box there. Then your mouse cursor is going to be tracking voiceover cursor. It might help. Best wishes, Simon On 4 May 2009, at 17:28, Brett Campbell wrote:

Re: Please Help: Fusion and jaw's key mapping.

2009-05-07 Thread Simon Cavendish
Mike, There's a lot available on this subject in the discussion group archive. If you do a search on relevant terms, you will see lots ofp posts. With best wisehs Simon On 7 May 2009, at 01:49, Michael Huckabay wrote: > > Evening all mike here I'm wundering if someone could help. I'm tryi

setting new blutooth device doesn't work with voiceover

2009-05-07 Thread Simon Cavendish
Hello, Somebody had already posted on this subject a few days ago. I'm trying to set up a new bluetooth device (my mobile phone) but when I launch the assistant under blutooth, the table which should show me my phone, is empty. And yet, I did manage to send afile to my mobile via bluetoot

some mailboxes have disappeared

2009-05-27 Thread Simon Cavendish
Dear Listers, I have just noticed much to my horror that some of my mailboxes have disappeared. I have for instant created a mailbox called macvisionaries and in it macvisionaries archive to which I would direct by creatting a rule or move by hand respectively my e-mails from the group. T

Re: How to dlwnload a file

2009-06-11 Thread Simon Cavendish
Just one more thing to this: don't you have to route your mouse to VO in order to perform the physical mouse click with vo+shift+space accurately? That is of course if you don't have your cursors tracking each other. Best wishes Simon On 10 Jun 2009, at 20:24, Chris Gilland wrote: > > Wel

Re: New IPhone 3GS list regarding accessibility

2009-06-12 Thread Simon Cavendish
Why do we have to have a separate list for every single thing that happens regarding voiceover and such like? Are we going to have a separate list for Ipod too? It just fragments things and makes it impossible to follow things. But if that's what people want, that's fine with me. Has there

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