Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays

2013-12-25 Thread Teresa Cochran
Just wanted to do this, as I really appreciate the help and discussion on this list. Happy computing! Have a great New Year, too! Teresa -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving email

Re: Reading iBooks on the mac using braille display

2013-12-27 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, vic and andrew, Actually iBooks is accessible with VO on the mac. Each chapter has its own html content area, and once you interact with it, you can read using a Braille display. Unfortunately, you can't use the keyboard shortcuts to go to the next chapter in a predictable way. Going throu

Re: VO always focusing on the toolbar?

2013-12-27 Thread Teresa Cochran
Control-f7 is a non-VO setting you can try. It toggles between having the tab key move to all controls or just form controls. HtH, Teresa Wishing everyone a joyous holiday season and a happy New Year! On Fri, 27 Dec 2013, Ray Foret Jr wrote: Funny thing about this is that in my Voice OVer pr

Anyone else Notice Gmail Acting Funky, no Matter the Mail App?

2013-12-27 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, all, Well, I've been using Alpine in Terminal and Gmail still has syncing issues. I sometimes get a batch of mail that's three days old. My iCloud and Cox accounts sync just fine. Teresa Wishing everyone a joyous holiday season and a happy New Year! -- You received this message because

Re: Reading iBooks on the mac using braille display

2013-12-27 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, Vic, If you switch to list view in the library, this helps a lot. You can then press return on the title of a book. HtH, Teresa Wishing everyone a joyous holiday season and a happy New Year! On Fri, 27 Dec 2013, Vic wrote: Hello Teresa!I did not realize this part, however, choosing the

Re: Anyone else Notice Gmail Acting Funky, no Matter the Mail App?

2013-12-28 Thread Teresa Cochran
I don't think this is an Apple problem. I'm using an open-source mail app in terminal. I think it's a gmail issue. Teresa Wishing everyone a joyous holiday season and a happy New Year! On Sat, 28 Dec 2013, David Chittenden wrote: Apple has instructed beta testers to focus on gmail issues. Th

Gifting Kindle Books?

2014-01-04 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, all, The Amazon help page indicates that you can activate a link on a Kindle book page that says, “give as gift”. I can’t find this link, either on the full site or mobile and apps with my iPod. Ideas? Thanks, teresa "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's t

Syncing Books in iBooks that Aren't in the iBooks Store?

2014-01-07 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, all, I’m a little confused about syncing issues in iBooks for the Mac. I have some epub non-drm books that I like to read on my iPod and my Mac. As far as I can tell, neither iTunes nor iBooks will sync these. Is this correct? Thanks, Teresa "We're made of star stuff."--Carl Sagan -- You

Re: kindle

2014-01-08 Thread Teresa Cochran
It doesn’t work on the Mac, but it does on the IThings. HtH, Teresa "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."--Groucho Marx On Jan 8, 2014, at 12:57 PM, May and Noah wrote: > Good afternoon. > > Does anyone know of kindle works well with voice

Re: kindle

2014-01-08 Thread Teresa Cochran
down; you'll get there faster. On Jan 8, 2014, at 1:09 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote: > It doesn’t work on the Mac, but it does on the IThings. > > HtH, > Teresa > > "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too > dark to read.&

Re: rhapsody help!

2014-01-08 Thread Teresa Cochran
The website is somewhat trickier than the IOS app. You can go to the “my music link” then go to “library” from there. If you tab to the title of a track or album, then shift-tab, you’ll reach “options”. For whatever reason, you can’t forward tab to this link. Press VO-space on “options” and then

Re: VoiceOver Not Working All of the Sudden

2014-01-09 Thread Teresa Cochran
There is a huge step from having specific problems on a computer to declaring a product unusable by the blind. Many blind folks have upgraded to Mavericks without having these problems, so before you make a statement that it’s unusable for the blind, you might consider that there is a specific p

Re: buying mp3 from amazon.com

2014-01-09 Thread Teresa Cochran
Another note: do *not* get Amazon Cloud Player for the Mac. If you’re prompted to use it, choose Mp3 downloader instead. Amazon cloud Player is not accessible, except through the website. HtH, Teresa "We're made of star stuff."--Carl Sagan On Jan 9, 2014, at 5:12 PM, Greg Aikens wrote: > You

Re: Another Way to do Email on the Mac

2014-01-09 Thread Teresa Cochran
I’ve used Alpine off and on for Mail, but VO is just wonky enough with it that I decided to give it up. I once tried using mutt in Linux, but it used VI to compose messages, and not being much of a coder sort of gal, I thought the keyboard commands extremely counter-intuitive for an average use

Re: Another Way to do Email on the Mac

2014-01-10 Thread Teresa Cochran
Well, to be honest, I had some time on my hands, and I knew alpine was fairly easy. The same compulsion that caused me to switch to the Mac and try various Linux distros on Vmware Fusion also caused me to poke around curiously. I also had the mistaken idea that using a different mail client woul

Re: A why, curious

2014-01-10 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, Reggie, You might have your Mail setting to always CC or BCC yourself in the compose tab in preferences. I set up a filter on the gmail site to cause messages sent by me to a list to go to the inbox. I’ll look up the Gmail filter if anyone’s curious, but I don’t remember exactly how I set i

Re: first mail on Mini

2014-01-10 Thread Teresa Cochran
Congratulations, reggie! :) Sending an email to my mom was the first thing I did on the Mac, so I can relate. That was almost four years ago! Wow. The command line in terminal is based on a Unix-like operating system. You might call it a cousin to Linux. It’s called BSD. The more tekkie folks ca

Re: How to use emacs on mac

2014-01-11 Thread Teresa Cochran
I may google this today. I so don’t want to install from source, as I don’t have enough knowledge of command line to do this yet. I also don’t want to use VO with emacs, because VO is a bit unpredictable when you get outside of the shell. Teresa "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend

Re: Mavericks Safari

2014-01-11 Thread Teresa Cochran
You can also use a non-VO accessibility keystroke, control-f7, which toggles between tabbing to all elements in a window including the toolbar, or just the contents of a page. Hth, Teresa "The Golden Age of science fiction is twelve."--Pete Graham On Jan 11, 2014, at 7:19 AM, Alex Hall wrote:

Re: How to use emacs on mac

2014-01-11 Thread Teresa Cochran
f you go into it deeply enough."--Richard P. Feynman On Jan 11, 2014, at 10:22 AM, Sandi Jazmin Kruse wrote: > am not sure how one would install emacsspeak, but emacs seems too be > installed on my version of ml, > > On 1/11/14, Teresa Cochran wrote: >> I may google th

Re: How to use emacs on mac

2014-01-11 Thread Teresa Cochran
Jan 11, 2014, at 11:14 AM, Chris Moore wrote: > Hi Teresa, > Emacs is definitely on my Mavericks. Go into terminal and enter emacs > You can type c-x c-c to quit emacs. > > Chris > On Jan 11, 2014, at 2:08 PM, Teresa Cochran > wrote: > >> hi, Sandi, >> &

Re: How to use emacs on mac

2014-01-11 Thread Teresa Cochran
le, that is all religion though. > Best > > > Sandi > > > On 1/11/14, Devin Prater wrote: >> Going to the terminal and typing "emacs" should be sufficient. >> Sent from my braille plus 18 >> >> Teresa Cochran wrote: >> >>>

Re: Today's 30 minutes with VoiceOver

2014-01-12 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, April, It sounds like you very possibly could very much benefit from individual instruction. If you have an Apple Store in your area, you might find out if the folks there can refer you to someone. Or you can call Apple’s accessibility number for referrals. I am not saying this because we d

Re: How to use emacs on mac

2014-01-13 Thread Teresa Cochran
s not too be had from my recovery disk, so rm too the rescue >> ;d >> That, is a another story intirely though:) >> >> >> >> Sandi >> >> >> On 1/11/14, Teresa Cochran wrote: >>> Oh, my, I had a horrible time with VI, because I

Re: Today's Plan

2014-01-13 Thread Teresa Cochran
Yes, I remember using the quick-start tutorial about twenty minutes after taking my Mac Mini out of the box. Once I went through it, the registration form for my Mac was a breeze. As I recall, I then panicked because I couldn’t remember the keystroke to get into menus, and my husband had to look

Re: Removing the topsites menu bar

2014-01-13 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, Graham, Go to Safari Menu General Preferences and have new tabs and new windows open with either homepage or empty. HtH, Teresa Slow down; you'll get there faster. On Jan 13, 2014, at 12:28 PM, Graham wrote: > Hi, > > Can anyone advise me on how to perminently get rid of the topsites b

Re: Menu in mail?

2014-01-14 Thread Teresa Cochran
One setting I find helpful system-wide is to use interact automatically when using tab key. The tab key doesn’t go to everything, but in areas like the preferences dialog of an app, it will make for easier navigation. You can find this setting by going into VOiceover preferences, VO-f8, choosing

Does Anyone Else Have to Restart Mail Periodically to Get New Messages?

2014-01-14 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, guys, I’ve noticed that sometimes Mail goes into limbo and when I shut down and restart, a whole bunch of new messages come in. I have Mail set to check for messages every five minutes. Anyone else having this issue? thanks, Teresa "The Golden Age of science fiction is twelve."--Pete Graha

Re: Looks like Windows is also heading toward full screen reader built in

2014-01-14 Thread Teresa Cochran
It’s not quite built-in. Of course, someone has to buy Microsoft Office to be able to use window-eyes for free. And it’s still basically out-sourcing the screen-reader. It’s going to work out well for some folks. Teresa "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too

Re: Moving through tabs and Closing them in Mavericks Safari

2014-01-15 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, folks, I like to use tabs, because everything stays in the same window. I don’t like a lot of windows cluttering things up. You can switch between tabs in Safari with control-tab. Once you’re focussed on a tab, you can close it with command-w. Sometimes VO says “closing all windows”, especi

Found a Keystroke, Was Re: Removing the topsites menu bar

2014-01-15 Thread Teresa Cochran
, 2014, at 1:02 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote: > Hi, Graham, > > Go to Safari Menu General Preferences and have new tabs and new windows open > with either homepage or empty. > > HtH, > Teresa > > Slow down; you'll get there faster. > > On Jan 13, 2014, at 12:28 P

Re: selecting multiple lines of text

2014-01-15 Thread Teresa Cochran
Try shift-down-arrow to select a line at a time, command-shift-down-arrow to select from the cursor to the end of the text, and command-shift-up-arrrow to select from the cursor to the beginning of the text. HtH, Teresa Slow down; you'll get there faster. On Jan 15, 2014, at 12:15 PM, Chris Mo

Re: brltty on mac

2014-01-15 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, Alex, VO works ok with the shell, but once you start using applications like Alpine for mail and text web browsers, VO HAS some pretty awkward tracking issues. Brtty is specifically designed to work with a terminal and does a wonerful job of it. It's the only screen reader I know of that us

Re: Mozilla Thunderbird?

2014-01-17 Thread Teresa Cochran
No, it doesn’t, unfortunately. Teresa "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."--Groucho Marx On Jan 16, 2014, at 4:45 PM, Jesus Garcia wrote: > Evening list members, can someone tell me if mozilla thunderbird for the mac > works with voice ov

Navigating Between Sections Within a Chapter in iBooks?

2014-01-17 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, all, I’m currently reading a novel in iBooks which has several sections within each chapter. I can read it on the iPod just fine, but on the Mac, the sections don’t seem to be presented sequentially by VO. Whole sections are skipped sometimes. Has anyone found a way to use a keystroke to go

Re: Selecting a bunch of items in Mavericks without having to select them all

2014-01-17 Thread Teresa Cochran
I know of no method with the keyboard to mark the beginning and end of a selection area. You can try holding down shift-down-arrow, and then check your progress periodically by pressing VO-F6. Another way to do this might be to do a search in your library for Billy Joel, select all the resulting

Re: Rotor setting not reading where it is set

2014-01-17 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, Regina, the name of the feature is actually “quick nav” with a V as in Victor, short for navigation. I love your phrase for it, though, as it does sometimes seem that way to me. :) Make sure quick nav is turned on by pressing left and right arrow keys at the same time. Then try going to th

Re: Selecting a bunch of items in Mavericks without having to select them all

2014-01-17 Thread Teresa Cochran
selecting all might be the best way. I remember > when I could see there was a way to do this back in my windows days. It is > not a command I would use a lot, but every now and then. > On Jan 17, 2014, at 12:18 PM, Teresa Cochran > wrote: > >> I know of no method with the k

Re: What is the intonation?

2014-01-17 Thread Teresa Cochran
intonation is how much expression the voice has, how much it rises and falls. If you set it to 0, you get a robot voice. Teresa "The Golden Age of science fiction is twelve."--Pete Graham On Jan 17, 2014, at 10:41 AM, Daniel McGee wrote: > Hi all, I understand what the pitch is in the VO uti

Re: Stanza not opening epub book in Mavericks

2014-01-17 Thread Teresa Cochran
Is it a protected epub book, such as iBooks or Nook? You can’t read iBooks or Nook in Stanza. Teresa "We're made of star stuff."--Carl Sagan On Jan 17, 2014, at 11:03 AM, Andrew Lamanche wrote: > Listers, > > Has anybody had problems with Stanza opening epub books in Mavericks? I have > an

Re: How to turn off Find My Mac?

2014-01-18 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, Eileen, Go into the Apple menu and choose system preferences. From that Window press the iCloud button. In the services table, find the item that says “find my Mac”. There is a checkbox next to it that you can uncheck. HtH, Teresa Slow down; you'll get there faster. On Jan 18, 2014, at 5:

Re: Ftp client for the mac.

2014-01-18 Thread Teresa Cochran
You can also use FTP command-line in terminal. I haven’t done it in awhile, so I’d have to brush up, but it’s easy to google it. HtH, teresa On Jan 18, 2014, at 6:21 AM, David Taylor wrote: > Transmit is very good, it costs quite a bit but not found anything else > anything like as accessible

Re: Looks like Windows is also heading toward full screen reader built in

2014-01-18 Thread Teresa Cochran
Well, actually, some folks use Bootcamp or Fusion, and could probably benefit from not having to buy a full copy of WindowEyes when they do so. HtH, teresa Slow down; you'll get there faster. On Jan 18, 2014, at 8:38 AM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > For my part, I’m wondering what this has to do wit

Re: clearing favorites bar in mail?

2014-01-18 Thread Teresa Cochran
You’ll have to use either mouse keys or the track pad. Basically you grab each one and slide it down as far as it will go to “throw it away”. HtH, teresa On the other hand, there are different fingers. On Jan 18, 2014, at 7:56 AM, Kliphton --- wrote: > Hello, I have switched email address

Re: What is the intonation?

2014-01-18 Thread Teresa Cochran
do others think though? >> On 19 Jan 2014, at 1:26 am, Daniel McGee >> wrote: >> >>> Teresa, thank you for your description of the word. >>> >>> Daniel >>> On 17 Jan 2014, at 18:55, Teresa Cochran wrote: >>> >>>> Teres

Re: Severe Gmail issues in Mavericks Still

2014-01-21 Thread Teresa Cochran
I’ve found Mail to be much more snappy when I went to the Gmail website and limited the number of messages to 1000. I realize that not everyone is willing or able to do this, but I was, and aside from the occasional delayed syncing issues, things are workable for me in Mail now. Teresa "The Go

Re: iBooks, Was just upgraded to Mavericks, question re Eva voice

2014-01-21 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, Donna, Just be aware that iBooks is a bit tricky. When you’re in the library, push the lists radio button to have VO say your book titles. When you open a book, the chapter will be in an HTmL area, which you have to interact with. The shortcut key to switch chapters doesn’t work well with v

ITunes In the Cloud

2011-06-07 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, guys. I just downloaded ITunes 10.3 under the assumption that I could try the ICloud. I do notice a menu item labeled "cloud" in the app store menus. I'm wondering if anyone knows whether the "match" service is available yet. I can't seem to find it. Also, I don't find anywhere to sign up, u

Re: iTunes iCloud

2011-06-07 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hmmm, thanks, but it looked to me as if ITunes 10.3 was being offered as beta so that you could use the service termed "ICloud" on it. I also thought I saw somewhere that the Match service is already available. I will have to keep looking. Teresa On Jun 7, 2011, at 11:26 AM, Shen wrote: > I wa

Re: iTunes iCloud

2011-06-07 Thread Teresa Cochran
Well, I truly am confused. Here's a quote from Apple: "When you sign up for iCloud, you automatically get 5GB of free storage. And that’s plenty of room, because of the way iCloud stores your content. Your purchased music, apps, and books, as well as your Photo Stream, don’t count against your

Re: ITunes In the Cloud

2011-06-07 Thread Teresa Cochran
in iTunes. It is a mechanism for you to sync your >>> content across all your devices. There's no need to sign up if you >>> already have an iTunes account. >>> The confusing part here is that there is no cloud. >>> >>> >>> >>> >&

Clearing Up Some Confusion Re: ICloud

2011-06-08 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, folks, There are some aspects of ICloud that are available in beta now, as was announced in the keynote address. One is the ITunes IBook store, which lets you purchase books on your computer and have books automatically downloaded on your IOS4.3.3 device. You can set this up in settings/sto

Re: editing?

2011-06-08 Thread Teresa Cochran
command-shift-up and command-shift-down Teresa On Jun 8, 2011, at 12:35 PM, Kliph&Sharrie wrote: > So, like I said before, I send email to multiple resipients. And sometimes I > need to get rid of previous senders and headers. So how would I select to > the end and beginning of a document or

Re: last jquestions for now

2011-06-08 Thread Teresa Cochran
You can open a file in Finder by pressing command-down-arrow. Yes, you can import a .csv file into Address Book. HTH, Teresa On Jun 8, 2011, at 2:42 PM, Zachary Kline wrote: > Hi, > I can answer a couple of your questions. There is a Mac shortcut to open the > applications folder, which is cmd

Re: iCloud observation, and a comparative question.

2011-06-08 Thread Teresa Cochran
Yes, I've only seen updates with books and music. I got a book using ITunes on my Mac Mini and instantaneously received it on my IPod, which was not connected to the computer. Pretty cool. :) Teresa On Jun 8, 2011, at 6:18 PM, Shameless FanGirl wrote: > Evening everyone, > > i've managed to ga

Re: iCloud observation, and a comparative question.

2011-06-08 Thread Teresa Cochran
Oh, I misspoke. I got a game, too. I haven't tried an app yet. Teresa On Jun 8, 2011, at 6:34 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote: > Yes, I've only seen updates with books and music. I got a book using ITunes > on my Mac Mini and instantaneously received it on my IPod, which was not &g

Ibooks, was Re: iCloud observation, and a comparative question.

2011-06-09 Thread Teresa Cochran
ng some issues with it. But I wasn't sure if those were > just because I didn't know what I was doing, or because it wasn't accessible > to actually use for reading. > > > On Jun 8, 2011, at 9:34 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote: > >> Yes, I've only seen upda

Re: Ibooks, was Re: iCloud observation, and a comparative question.

2011-06-09 Thread Teresa Cochran
I forgot one more point: You can read continuously by using a two-finger-swipe downward. It beeps to denote pages as it reads. Teresa On Jun 9, 2011, at 1:51 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote: > Oh, yes, IBooks is quite accessible. You flip pages with a three-finger swipe > to the left or Bra

Re: [Bulk] Re: editing?

2011-06-10 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, John, The command you want to use at the beginning and end of text is command-option-return. It is indeed method of marking text at start and end. HTH Teresa On Jun 10, 2011, at 9:15 PM, John Sanfilippo wrote: > Hi Colin, > > I'm joining this thread late, so I may be missing something very

Re: Cohrection, Was [Bulk] Re: editing?

2011-06-10 Thread Teresa Cochran
Oops, my brain went away during my last post. The command you really want is control-option-return, more commonly known as VO-return. Teresa On Jun 10, 2011, at 9:24 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote: > Hi, John, > > The command you want to use at the beginning and end of text is > co

Re: Trouble with PDF files

2011-06-11 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hello, Christine and all, The pdf files that are the most accessible are designed using accessibility standards. There are some pdf files that are simply images, and aren't read by screen readers. I always indicate to people when they scan something and send a pdf of it to me that they use the

Re: Trouble with PDF files

2011-06-11 Thread Teresa Cochran
I haven't tried scanning software much on the mac as yet. I know that when I was playing with a trial of Iris, it had a utility that converted a pdf to OCR text. I think they may even have this as a separate utility. It would be great to have this as a feature of scanning software, similar to Ku

Re: Icloud

2011-06-14 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, Paul, On your mobile device, go to settings. You will find some of the necessary options in the Store section there. HTH, Teresa On Jun 14, 2011, at 2:12 PM, Paul Hunt wrote: > I am running IIS 4.3 and ITunes 10.3 and would like to use the ICloud beta. > Have any of you got it working and

Re: the meetup.org site?

2011-06-16 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, Karen, The meetup site is not as friendly with a screen-reader as it used to be, but still works okay. Sometimes, in particular, when you RSVP to an event, it will pop up a confirmation window near the bottom of the page. If you find you aren't noticing a page change, just check out the bo

How Are MS Word Tables Handled in TextEdit?

2011-06-17 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, all, Yesterday I opened an MSWord document that I knew had a table in it. When I opened it in Pages, as expected, VO didn't read the table at all. When I opened it in TextEdit, all the info in the table was presented, but VO did not indicate that there was a table. Needless to say, I think

Re: How Are MS Word Tables Handled in TextEdit?

2011-06-17 Thread Teresa Cochran
s show up in Pages as a highlighted space. I've found that > copying this space into a Numbers document gives me the table. > > This isn't good, but it's a workaround that works. > > Cheers, > > Anne > > > On Jun 17, 2011, at 7:44 PM, Teresa Cochra

Re: Braille on the I phone.

2011-06-17 Thread Teresa Cochran
Try using a letter sign (dots 5-6) before any letter in the middle of a word. HTH, Teresa On Jun 17, 2011, at 12:41 PM, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: > Hi. > > As I'm not on the VI phone list, I am posting to another list as there may be > people on it who may be having this problem. > > I use a Euro

Um, VO Doesn't Seem to Work with the Mobile Me Site?

2011-06-17 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi all, I'm actually *hoping I have the wrong URL for the Mobile Me site. I'm trying to activate the "find my IPod" service, and when I go to www.me.com VO mostly says "busy" and will occasionally read one element on the page. Is it just me? Thanks, Teresa -- You received this message because

Re: Um, VO Doesn't Seem to Work with the Mobile Me Site?

2011-06-17 Thread Teresa Cochran
> website as part of the iCloud initiative. I had emailed > accessibil...@apple.com a few months ago and they flat out told me the me.com > site is not accessible with VO or any screen reader, but they offered no > insight into when this situation might be improved. > > HTH, &

Re: Um, VO Doesn't Seem to Work with the Mobile Me Site?

2011-06-17 Thread Teresa Cochran
onths ago and they flat out told me the me.com > site is not accessible with VO or any screen reader, but they offered no > insight into when this situation might be improved. > > HTH, > Bryan > > On Jun 17, 2011, at 9:44 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote: >> I'

Re: Using Find My iPhone from the MobileMe page on the Mac [was Re: Um, VO Doesn't Seem to Work with the Mobile Me Site?]

2011-06-18 Thread Teresa Cochran
at you'll hear VoiceOver announce a group of odd sounding > blocks that are map image sections between the end of the "Devices" list and > your selected device if you do that, but the page is perfectly explorable > with VoiceOver navigation. Using item chooser menu, which

Re: VO-j acting all weird in mail

2011-06-18 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, Howard and all, It sounds like the preview pane isn't visible. When you have VO on the message list, stop interacting with it and VO right once more to where it says "horizontal splitter". Do a VO-f5 to be sure you have the mouse positioned on it, then a VO-shift- space to click it. HTH, T

Re: Braille on the I phone.

2011-06-19 Thread Teresa Cochran
7;t expect that of mainstream companies like Apple. Teresa On Jun 19, 2011, at 12:44 AM, Claus Thøgersen wrote: > Hi, > > This makes typing in contracted braille useless and for sure does not conform > with the rules of contracted braille, as I know them. > > Claus > &g

Re: voiceover screenshot

2011-06-19 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, Erik, Command-shift-3. You'll hear a camera-shutter sound, too. HTH, Teresa On Jun 19, 2011, at 11:24 AM, erik burggraaf wrote: > Hi guys, I've gotten voiceover to capture the screen for me by accident > several times in my mac life. Now I want to do it for real and I can't > figure out h

Re: voiceover screenshot

2011-06-19 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi. I forgot to mention that you can find the screenshots on the desktop, with Screenshot plus the date and time. Teresa On Jun 19, 2011, at 11:38 AM, Teresa Cochran wrote: > Hi, Erik, > > Command-shift-3. You'll hear a camera-shutter sound, too. > > HTH, > Teresa >

Stanza and Kindle Books?

2011-06-20 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi all, Has anyone tried to read a Kindle book with Stanza? I was surprised to note that one of stanza's supported file formats is Kindle ebooks. Thanks, Teresa -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send ema

Calibre Command Line?

2011-06-20 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, folk, I've had someone sighted assist me in adjusting the preferences in the Calibre GUI to install command-line options. Now, I know enough about command-line to be dangerous. I have no idea, when looking at the user's guide, what the syntax is. I don't know whether to put the calibre, con

Re: Stanza and Kindle Books?

2011-06-20 Thread Teresa Cochran
that there >> are some symbols that get in your way like Euro Macro etc. Still, you can >> follow the flow of the reading if you can only filter out mentally these >> characters. >> >> On 20 Jun,2011, at 4:01 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote: >> >>> Hi

Re: stanza and kindle books

2011-06-21 Thread Teresa Cochran
Oh, darn, that's too bad. Teresa On Jun 21, 2011, at 1:20 PM, David McLean wrote: > I tried opening a Kindle book with Stanza and it told me the book was Drm > protected and couldn't open it. > On Jun 21, 2011, at 4:18 PM, Annie Skov Nielsen wrote: > >> Hi. >> >> Ok as I understand it it is th

Re: Having trouble selecting text

2011-06-29 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, Shannon, Command-shift-up-and-down-arrows select to the beginning and end of text. If you want to select line by line, use shift-up-and-down-arrows instead. When selecting files in a list, turn off cursor tracking with shift-VO-f3, navigate to each file with VO-arrows, and use VO-command-sp

Re: I R C?

2011-07-04 Thread Teresa Cochran
Colloquy works very well with VO. http://colloquy.info/downloads.html Teresa On Jul 4, 2011, at 11:56 AM, Pete Nalda wrote: > I believe XChatAqua, and *maybe* LimeChat can both do this with Growl. I > know XChatAqua can for sure, I use LimeChat and do find it quite accessible, > but I do have

Re: Colloquy: Not liking what I'm seeing at all!

2011-07-06 Thread Teresa Cochran
hi, Chriss, Colloquy has a "new connection" option in the file menu. The control to enter your server is indeed an edit combo. There is a checkbox there to "remember this connection. Also if you go to your connections window, each remembered connection is listed in it. If you go into the prefer

Get Your Mac Ready for Lion (From Macworld)

2011-07-07 Thread Teresa Cochran
http://www.macworld.com/article/160943/2011/07/get_your_mac_ready_for_lion.html#lsrc=fb_mw Teresa -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this g

Re: lion

2011-07-08 Thread Teresa Cochran
Snow Leopard needs to be on the machine for one reason: it allows you to buy it from the app store. Teresa On Jul 8, 2011, at 9:42 AM, Les Kriegler wrote: > I thought Snow Leopard needed to be on the machine for Lion to work? I would > like to do a clean install, but from what I've read, it so

Permanently Removing Downloaded Apps From all Devices

2011-07-08 Thread Teresa Cochran
I'm using the most recent beta version of ITunes. There are a few apps that aren't accessible, which I want to remove. When I remove them from my IPod, they sync again periodically and they're bck! How can I delete these for good? Do I need to turn off syncing temporarily? Thanks, Teresa -

Re: Apple Mail or gmail, pop or imap

2011-07-08 Thread Teresa Cochran
I've used both pop and Imap with Gmail and they both work. I'm really liking Imap, because I'm using online labels and filters so I don't get tons of mailing-list messages on my IPod, and I can simply check whichever label I want to online. HTH, Teresa On Jul 8, 2011, at 6:56 PM, Cakes wrote:

Re: Permanently Removing Downloaded Apps From all Devices

2011-07-08 Thread Teresa Cochran
et rid of them from the iDevice. I think You > can also keep apps in iTunes but have them not sync, by unchecking their > checkboxes in the apps. table. > > HTH > Carolyn > > On Jul 8, 2011, at 6:34 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote: > >> I'm using the most recent b

Re: lion

2011-07-08 Thread Teresa Cochran
I think I'm going to attempt the upgrade and also make a dVD in case it goes snafu. It is meant to be an upgrade, and I'm not sure I want to mess with moving all my files around more than I need to at the moment. Advice is duly noted and appreciated, though. Teresa On Jul 8, 2011, at 6:57 PM, S

Re: Itunes and syncing: was permanently removing downloads

2011-07-09 Thread Teresa Cochran
h it. > Can anyone give me a clue why it won't sync back, even though other apps are > syncing. > Take care and tia for any info. > > Carolyn > On Jul 9, 2011, at 12:45 AM, Teresa Cochran wrote: > >> Perfect, Carolyn; thank you. I didn't even notice that

Re: quick mac mini question

2011-07-15 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, Joe, Yes, the Mac Mini has a single speaker. It's not meant to be used for anything other than glorious living mono sound, and it's a little tinny, but it works. HTH, Teresa On Jul 15, 2011, at 7:19 AM, Joe Paton wrote: > good afternoon all, > > Just 1 quick question, which I can't find

Re: Screenreader for old mac

2011-07-15 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, Ash, According to this post from earlier in the year,http://macintoshgarden.org/forum/request-outspoken-92 you can phone and request it from visioncue.com . This is just a googlefest on my part, and I don't have firsthand experience with it, so I do hope it helps. Teresa On Jul 15, 2011, a

Re: flash why is it such a pain?

2011-07-15 Thread Teresa Cochran
Even Orca for linux has more flash accessibility than VO. However, I hope to see flash phased out soon and replaced by the leaner and meaner HTML5. Flash is inefficient, proprietary, and a resource hog compared to the concept of building the player into the HTML markup. Just saying. :) I hope to

Re: flash why is it such a pain?

2011-07-15 Thread Teresa Cochran
Thanks for that exposition, Chris. It should really be in a blog or wiki. Much appreciated. Teresa On Jul 15, 2011, at 9:52 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: > Thought I just posted this in another thread so I'll post again with a bit > more detail. > > Flash can be accessible on platforms that use the

Google Plus Website With VO?

2011-07-19 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, all, I'm noticing something disconcerting about Google Plus contacts. They seem to be listed only as numbers as far as the tags on images are concerned. Has anyone else experienced this? Thanks, Teresa -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisio

Re: lion is now on the app store

2011-07-20 Thread Teresa Cochran
How do you get a progress bar when it's downloading? I found the entry in the dock, and it simply says "OS X Lion, downloading". Teresa On Jul 20, 2011, at 6:36 AM, Brandon Misch wrote: > still am downloading it. 70 something percent now. > > On Jul 20, 2011, at 9:12 AM, David Hole wrote: > >

Re: lion is now on the app store

2011-07-20 Thread Teresa Cochran
Thanks for that. Teresa On Jul 20, 2011, at 7:00 AM, Daniel Miller wrote: > Hi, > If you go to your purchase section, it will be in that table under status. > > > -Original Message- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

I Have Lion Running; My Impressions

2011-07-20 Thread Teresa Cochran
hi, all, Just a word before you install an upgrade: make sure you are aware that speech will stop once you restart the -puter and won't restart till the VO updates are installed. For me, this took about forty-five minutes, then the -puter restarted again and VO came up speaking in the login win

Re: I Have Lion Running; My Impressions

2011-07-20 Thread Teresa Cochran
and you'll get the Fred voice which then you can see your install and update > progress. >HTH, > Courtney > On Jul 20, 2011, at 12:17 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote: > > > hi, all, > > > > Just a word before you install an upgrade: make sure you are aware that &

Re: Launchpad

2011-07-21 Thread Teresa Cochran
I'm inclined simply to use the dock instead of the launchpad, but I may still explore it and see how it works. Teresa On Jul 21, 2011, at 7:18 AM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: > Ok, pardon my total and utter ignorance here, but are we *really* supposed to > be able to move applications around? After

Re: getting more voices for 10.7

2011-07-21 Thread Teresa Cochran
Nope. I just downloaded eleven voices for free, including the English Indian one and the Scottish and Irish. Also, I downloaded Italian, since I'm learning some Italian songs. Very fun. :) They do take up quite a bit of space, however. Teresa On Jul 21, 2011, at 7:43 AM, Christopher Peppel wrote

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