Thank you all who responded to my menu extras access shortcut key wows. It definitely doesn’t work here. I found that I would use it more than the vo shortcut key. and I can no longer move along the menu bar with just s arrow keys, I have to use vo+arrow keys.
Best wishes Andrew On 13 Nov 2013, at 07:36, macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote: > Today's Topic Summary > Group: http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries/topics > > can't activate the see more link on the facebook mobile site and creating > signatures in apple mail [1 Update] > Focus display and Mavericks [8 Updates] > VO-J and Mail [1 Update] > iBooks internal location on the mac? [1 Update] > Infovox purchases gone [1 Update] > Is Winamp accessivle on the mac? [3 Updates] > xcode 5 question [4 Updates] > Track Changes or Text Attributes with Pages [2 Updates] > How does one get to menu extra in Maverick? [2 Updates] > Is it true in Mavericks that iTunes contact syncing has gone? [1 Update] > Help with Skype [1 Update] > can't activate the see more link on the facebook mobile site and creating > signatures in apple mail > Andrew Head <ath...@bigpond.net.au> Nov 13 06:33PM +1100 > > Hi all, > When I get to the end of a facebook page, the see more link comes up as a > heading instead of a link and I can’t activate it. Just wondering what’s > going on here and how to fix it? > > also, how do you create a signature in apple mail? > Andrew > > Focus display and Mavericks > Kristeen Hughes <khwi...@gmail.com> Nov 12 04:27PM -0500 > > Okay, I look and I don't see some things that seem to be rather importatn. > For example, if you are wanting to switch from one open app to another, how > do you do it with the display. Are you using a keyboard along with the > display? > > Kristeen > > > Teresa Cochran <vegaspipistre...@gmail.com> Nov 12 01:58PM -0800 > > Admittedly, yes, I’m also using a keyboard. My opinion is that you’ll > probably have to do quite a lot of customizing to use a Braille display as a > primary keyboard. > > For switching apps, I’d probably map a braille keystroke to VO-applications > list. (VO-f1 twice quickly)I don’t think there’s an easy way to map one to > command-tab. > > 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 > > > Daniel Miller <miller...@gmail.com> Nov 12 04:10PM -0600 > > Hi, > Teresa is correct, you have to do a lot of customizing in order to get your > focus display to work as your keyboard. Unfortunately, you will have to use > your keyboard more than you would like to. That's just the nature of the > beast. > > Sent from my iPhone > > > Eugenia Firth <gigifi...@me.com> Nov 12 05:00PM -0600 > > True duys, but I know I can get to the menu with my braille display. I c' > remember how to do it on a Focus 40 although I had one. Can anyone remember > what the braille keyboard command is for going to the menu and using left and > right arrows. I found that useful when I was somewhat away from my computer. > On my Braille Edge, it has some keys on it that will bring up Spotlight and > the menus and the dock. That may help some. For instance, space dd sign will > bring up the dock. Space question mark will let you interact and space low j > will stop interacting. Do you have a list of braille key commands that are > already in place? > > Regards, > Gigi > > > Teresa Cochran <vegaspipistre...@gmail.com> Nov 12 03:18PM -0800 > > It’s s-chord (dots 2-3-4-space). I just use the panning keys to display > different areas of the menu bar, and then use the cursor-routing keys on the > item I want. sometimes this doesn’t work, and I have to use dot 4-chord and > dot 1-chord to navigate through the menus > > 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 > > > Kristeen Hughes <khwi...@gmail.com> Nov 12 11:08PM -0500 > > Thanks,. This info does help. Can you tell me how I can sellect text? I've > not been successful. > > Kristeen > > Ben van Poppel <benvanpop...@gmail.com> Nov 13 04:26PM +1100 > > Hi Kristeen, Teresa and the rest. The workaround I did for single-keystroke > app switching was to write two scripts to simulate command-tab and > command-shift-tab respectively. Then I assigned running of the scripts to > focus commands (I used 12-chord and 45-chord). The scripts had one line each: > Tell application "System Events" to keystroke "tab" using command down > > Tell application "System Events" to keystroke "tab" using {command down shift > down} > > In the examples above the "tab" means double quote then press tab then double > quote again. \t might also be valid. I'm still not applescript proficient. > > Hope that trick helps you out. > > Cheers. Ben > > Sent from my iPhone > > > Teresa Cochran <vegaspipistre...@gmail.com> Nov 12 09:41PM -0800 > > Hi, Kristeen, > > This is the sort of thing that I meant when I mentioned customization. WHAT > you’d have to do is go into your Braille settings, go to the display tab, > choose “assign commands", and assign a Braille command to select text. There > aren’t separate commands for selecting different amounts of text, so > honestly, I’m not sure how you’d do this. Also, unless I’m wrong, you’d have > to use command-b on the keyboard to initiate the Braille command entry. I > haven’t assigned keystrokes for this, because frankly, it’s more trouble than > it’s worth to me. Let’s see if anyone else has already done this, and if not, > I’ll experiment with it and let you know what I come up with. I admit I have > my doubts that it’ll be an easy process. > > HtH, > Teresa > > "The Golden Age of science fiction is twelve."--Pete Graham > > > VO-J and Mail > Janet Ingber <janet.ing...@gmail.com> Nov 12 11:16PM -0500 > > Hello Everyone, > > When I use VO-J to jump from the message list to an individual email,a few > lines are read and then without my doing anything, I’m back in the messages > table. This does not only happen with my Gmail account. I am using the > default mail view and I have not made any changes. This behavior started a > few days ago. Any suggestions? > > Thanks, > Janet > > iBooks internal location on the mac? > Kliphton ------- <kliphton....@outlook.com> Nov 12 09:44PM -0600 > > Hello. I have imported about 700 books in ePub format in to iBooks. They > read just fine, but I accidently deleted the folder where I originally > imported them from. Where does iBooks store them so I can try to save them > to a different folder for my own reference? Thanks. > > Kliphton > ~iMessage&Email~ kliphton....@outlook.com > ~Twitter,Instagram,FourSquare&Skype~ kliphton72 > ~Text only~ 914-820-2298 > "Personal blog-read at your own risk!" http://kliphskorner.wordpress.com > > Infovox purchases gone > "Antonio M. Guimaraes Jr." <freethau...@gmail.com> Nov 12 10:12PM -0500 > > I get a message that reads > > "this is an evaluation version of Acapela text to speech synthesizer." > > > > > Is Winamp accessivle on the mac? > Rob <musicmaker...@gmail.com> Nov 12 05:37PM -0600 > > Hi, > Have any of you tried winamp for the Mac? > Thanks, > Rob > You can leave me a voice mail or fax at > 206-426-3505 > "God is good all the time, & All the time God is good" > > Michael Marshall <mightymaggie...@gmail.com> Nov 13 12:19PM +1100 > > hey, > sadly no, i tryed out the mac version and there is just nothing you can do in > the program. i don’t think winamp is even beeing made for the mac from what i > have read. > > Ray Foret Jr <rforet7...@comcast.net> Nov 12 07:33PM -0600 > > Would not recommend it. Nothing like the windows version. > > > Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind > built-in! > > Sincerely, > The Constantly Barefooted Ray, still a very happy Mac and Iphone 5 user! > > > xcode 5 question > "Littlefield, Tyler" <ty...@tysdomain.com> Nov 11 02:06PM -0500 > > Helloo: > Thanks a lot for the info. When it says I have a new window, I have no > way of getting to that window. presumably that's where the variable gets > its name and everything. Does the window just pop up, or do you need to > do something special to get there? > Thanks for the help, I really appreciate it. > On 11/11/2013 2:01 PM, Barry Hadder wrote: > > -- > Take care, > Ty > http://tds-solutions.net > He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he that > dares not reason is a slave. > > "Littlefield, Tyler" <ty...@tysdomain.com> Nov 11 04:05PM -0500 > > I think I may have figured out the issue. with xcode 5 apparently you > are supposed to control+drag, which draws a blue line. clicking and > holding down doesn't work, because I don't get the blue line. Is there a > way to control+drag with voiceover? > On 11/11/2013 2:01 PM, Barry Hadder wrote: > > -- > Take care, > Ty > http://tds-solutions.net > He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he that > dares not reason is a slave. > > "Littlefield, Tyler" <ty...@tysdomain.com> Nov 11 06:40PM -0500 > > It appears this method does not work for me as well. I drag and drop and > hear 'xcode has new window" and that's that. nothing happens and we're > back to square 1. > On 11/11/2013 6:32 PM, Alex Hall wrote: > > -- > Take care, > Ty > http://tds-solutions.net > He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he that > dares not reason is a slave. > > "Littlefield, Tyler" <ty...@tysdomain.com> Nov 11 02:06PM -0500 > > Hello: > sorry for the double message. Yes, in my routing step I did mean route > the mouse to the voiceover cursor. I just mixed the two up. > Thanks again, > On 11/11/2013 2:01 PM, Barry Hadder wrote: > > -- > Take care, > Ty > http://tds-solutions.net > He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he that > dares not reason is a slave. > > Track Changes or Text Attributes with Pages > Anne Robertson <a...@anarchie.org.uk> Nov 12 11:05PM +0100 > > Hello Ibraheem, > > In the new Pages, if you stop interacting with everything, the second item on > the page is the Change tracking and annotations toolbar group. Interact with > this and click the Next button the changed text will be highlighted. You can > read it with VO-F6 and decide what to do about it. > > If you’re using the old version of Pages, you really need a Braille display > to see the changes. > > Cheers, > > Anne > then > > > Anne Robertson <a...@anarchie.org.uk> Nov 12 11:15PM +0100 > > Hello Nic, > > Tracking changes is working much better in the new version of Pages. It tells > you whether the change is an addition or a deletion, but I haven’t yet > figured out how to find formatting changes. > > Cheers, > > Anne > > > > How does one get to menu extra in Maverick? > Teresa Cochran <vegaspipistre...@gmail.com> Nov 12 01:53PM -0800 > > Odd. control-f8 works fine for me in Mavericks. This is the standard non-VO > keystroke. For that matter, VO-m twice quickly also works. Sometimes the > menus balk when a program is hanging, though. > > HtH, > Teresa > > On the other hand, there are different fingers. > > > Barry Hadder <bhad...@gmail.com> Nov 12 04:13PM -0600 > > Hi, > > I have run into that situation several times where control-f8 doesn’t work > with Mavericks. I’ve found that when it doesn’t work, I have to restart to > git it back. I have no idea what causes this. It is true that you can git to > the status menus with vo-m twice, but you can’t move through the menus with > the arrow keys, and sometimes that’s useful. > > The Finder keystrokes you mention work the same in Mavericks. At least, they > are for me. > > > On Nov 12, 2013, at 2:59 PM, Andrew Lamanche <andrew.laman...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Dear Listers, > > I’ve just upgraded to Mavericks. The very first thing I’ve noticed is that > the command ctrl+f8 to activate the menu extra no longer works. Nor can I > open a folder with command down arrow or command + o. It has to be now > command + shift + o. Is that right? > > Andrew > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > Is it true in Mavericks that iTunes contact syncing has gone? > Daniel Miller <miller...@gmail.com> Nov 12 04:12PM -0600 > > Hi, > Yes, it is gone. They want you to eat sync your contacts with iCloud, which > quite honestly, I think everybody should do. But that's just my opinion. > > Sent from my iPhone > > > Help with Skype > Brian Fischler <blindga...@gmail.com> Nov 12 04:58PM -0500 > > Ok, so I get that Skype changed a bunch of stuff recently and I can no longer > access Skype on my iPhone as they seem to have gotten rid of logging in > through Facebook. I am able to log in to Skype on my computer through > Facebook, but can't seem to find any way to change my password so I can > access Skype on my iPhone. I used the Skype desktop app to take me to the > website to mange my account, clicked change password but this seems to take > me to an inaccessible screen as I get the heading for Change Password but > then there is nothing to interact with. Anyone know how to log in to Skype on > your iPhone when your account was created through logging in to Facebook on > the desktop? 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