Re: Accessing the OS X terminal with VoiceOver on a laptop

2014-06-23 Thread Christian Schoepplein
On Mo, Jun 23, 2014 at 09:55:23 +1000, Sean Murphy wrote:
Jason and all.
The commands you have outlined are standard Linux/Unix commands.

Yes, they are. But in my opinion and regarding what I've noticed while 
working in the Mac OS X terminal, there are bigger problems then the 
keyboard commands.

One big issue is, that VoiceOver is not focusing the cursor possition 
all the times correctly. Try opening a file with vi and navigate in the 
file with arrow up and down to get spoken the current line. You will 
see, that VoiceOver sometimes reads the wrong line, sometimes the line 
above or below.

Then try to use a program like mutt, my favorite mail programm :-). 
There you also notice the focusing problems but also that VoiceOver is 
not able to track a softcursor, which is used in many of textbased 
tools.

Maybe the problems described above can be solved by changing some 
settings for VoiceOver or for the terminal, but I've not found out what 
needs to be changed :-(. But those both problems are the major show 
stoppers for a good terminal support in Mac OS in my opinion :-(.

Cheers,

  Christian

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Re: Accessing the OS X terminal with VoiceOver on a laptop

2014-06-23 Thread Jason White
Christian Schoepplein ch...@schoeppi.net wrote:
 
 One big issue is, that VoiceOver is not focusing the cursor possition 
 all the times correctly. Try opening a file with vi and navigate in the 
 file with arrow up and down to get spoken the current line. You will 
 see, that VoiceOver sometimes reads the wrong line, sometimes the line 
 above or below.
 
 Then try to use a program like mutt, my favorite mail programm :-). 

Mine too.
 There you also notice the focusing problems but also that VoiceOver is 
 not able to track a softcursor, which is used in many of textbased 
 tools.
 

Adding the following line to your ~/.muttrc file might help:
set braille_friendly=yes

Mutt doesn't use a soft-cursor by default anyway.

 Maybe the problems described above can be solved by changing some 
 settings for VoiceOver or for the terminal, but I've not found out what 
 needs to be changed :-(. But those both problems are the major show 
 stoppers for a good terminal support in Mac OS in my opinion :-(.

It looks nasty. I'm a very intensive terminal user and that isn't going to
change, so if anyone knows a good solution to the above, suggestions would be
welcome.

I'm planning to install Emacspeak, but that will only solve it for speech
output, not for my braille display.

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PDf's

2014-06-23 Thread Adi Kushnir
Hello,
What is the best way to read PDF's on a Mac with Vo including
navigation by headings, links, and so on like we are used with other
platforms screen readers?

Thanks,

Adi.
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RE: PDf's

2014-06-23 Thread David Griffith
I will not answer your full question but just to point out that on all
platforms, including Windows, the ability to navigate by heading etc. in PDF
documents depends on whether the PDF file has been tagged properly to allow
these accessibility features. In my experience only a small percentage of
PDF files have this tagging information included. If the heading or table
tags are not included no screenreader will be able to find them.

David Griffith
David Griffith

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Subject: PDf's

Hello,
What is the best way to read PDF's on a Mac with Vo including
navigation by headings, links, and so on like we are used with other
platforms screen readers?

Thanks,

Adi.
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Abby Fine Reader

2014-06-23 Thread Ian Harrison
Dear listers,

I understand this programme is well regarded in our community. Their web site 
is, however, hard to use to get info from. I am looking at hardware to go with 
this software. Can I ask for feedback on which makes of scanner or mfp people 
use and find compatible with abby and a mac using mountain lion?

With thanks in advance
Ian
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accessing PDF forms on the mac using VO.

2014-06-23 Thread Stuart Young
Hi all.
what would be the best software to use when trying to input some information in 
to a PDF form? i have seen a foram chat on the applevis.com website which 
sujested using the PDF pen software. any idears whow I would go about 
compleeting this task?.
Many thanks for your help.
Kind regards.
stuart.
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Installing Mac OS X from USB flash drive

2014-06-23 Thread Christopher Hallsworth

This guide I have written myself so hope you like it. It is below.

Installing Mac OS X from a USB flash drive

This guide will show you how to create a bootable USB flash drive to 
install Mac OS X. Here are the prerequisites.
A USB flash drive that's at least 8 GB in size. The installer and other 
files take up at least this space.
A program called DiskMakerX previously known as Lion Disk Maker 
available from

http://liondiskmaker.com/
The latest version of a supported operating system (Lion, Mountain Lion 
or Mavericks) available from the Mac App Store.


Instructions
1. Download the above two apps listed in the prerequisites.
Important!
After downloading the latest supported operating system from the Mac App 
Store the installer opens automatically. Do not proceed since the file 
will be erased upon the reboot. Instead, press command-q at the first 
screen of the installer where the continue button has the keyboard focus.
2. Open the DiskMakerX disk image in the finder. It should then appear 
in the image browser. You can accomplish this by highlighting the dmg 
file with just arrow keys and press command-o for open.
3. For reasons of better accessibility I then switch to list view with 
command-2. Copy the only .app file in there and paste into your 
applications folder. This is accomplished with command-c for copy, 
command-shift-a to open the Applications folder and command-v to paste. 
Once copied close all Finder windows with command-w so you're at the 
desktop and eject the disk image by first highlighting it with just 
arrow keys and press command-e for eject.

5. Connect the USB flash drive to your mac before beginning the next step.
6. Open the DiskMakerX which should now be located in your applications 
folder.
7. When prompted that Safari has downloaded this application from the 
web vo-arrow to the open button and press vo-space to activate. With 
QuickNav enabled with left-right arrows together you can simply navigate 
to the open button with left or right arrow keys then press up-down 
arrows together to activate.

Note
By VO throughout this guide I am talking about the VoiceOver keys which 
are control-option.
8. Follow the instructions on the screen. For example when choosing the 
operating system click either Lion, Mountain Lion or Mavericks button.
9. When it comes to the USB flash drive part choose to have it create as 
an 8 GB flash drive. You will be warned that all data will be erased so 
make sure your flash drive is backed up somewhere.

Note
If you have previously made a bootable USB flash drive you can update 
the volume here by clicking the appropriate button.

Tip
Since the application uses appropriate options as default buttons in 
most cases, pressing return will be enough to move on to the next screen.
10. The preparation and copying will eventually begin. Do not worry 
about any busy busy busy messages or that the app has no windows. It is 
just doing its work behind the scenes. Please enter any credentials when 
prompted. VoiceOver makes a clicking type sound when in password text 
fields.
11. When all finished, you are invited to either open Start-up Disk 
preferences so you can quickly change to the newly created or updated 
bootable USB flash drive and test your creations. You are also invited 
to make a donation to the developers which is in fact the default button 
so pressing return will open your browser allowing you to make such a 
donation. Finally there is a quit button which does what it says; quit 
the application. Let's then click the open Start-up Disk Preferences button.
12. Interact with the possible start-up disks scroll area, choose your 
bootable USB Flash Drive by selecting the appropriate radio buttons, 
stop interacting with the scroll area and click restart button. To 
interact and stop interact with VoiceOver do one of the following:
A. Press vo-shift-down arrow to interact; vo-shift-up arrow to stop 
interacting.
B. Press down-right arrows to interact; down-left arrows to stop 
interacting. This is assuming QuickNav is enabled with left-right arrows.

13. Click restart button again to confirm you want to restart the computer.
14. Your USB flash drive should now boot up and eventually display the 
Mac OS X Utilities with the applications table having keyboard focus. 
How long it takes depends on your USB flash drive. On my Verbatim 64 GB 
USB flash drive it takes about thirty seconds.
15. To enable the whole operation to talk and output to Braille if you 
have such facilities requires starting VoiceOver. To do this press 
command-F5. You may hear a different voice than what you're used to. 
This is because in effect a temporary copy of VoiceOver used for 
installation and other purposes is running and so the voice is set to 
Fred which runs on even older hardware. If using Braille only USB 
refreshable Braille displays will be supported at this time.
16. To manage your disks including partitioning, select Disk Utility and 
click continue 

Re: Crome

2014-06-23 Thread Phil Halton
Sean, Control-option is  the VoiceOver modifier key. Control-command is the 
chromeVox modifier key. I know you knew that, but I thought that the 
information should be corrected for the benefit of others.


On Jun 22, 2014, at 7:47 PM, Sean Murphy smur7...@bigpond.net.au wrote:

 Margaret,
 
 Chrome uses control option key to activate command options. If you press 
 cmd quickly twice  toggles between  on/off  sticky mode. This is the method 
 in which I use it.  Below are some commands to know:
 
 ctrl opt = - toggles between group, object, line, and word. This is the way 
 in which you control the amount of information you hear at once. I normally 
 use object and line.
 ctrl opt up/down arrows moves you through the page at the level of 
 information you want to hear.
 ctrl opt left and right arrow moves at the next lower level of information. 
 For example, if you are using Line. Then left/right arrow will move by word.
 ctrl opt . “period” brings up the list of available options with their 
 parameters.
 enter - activates a link or object.
 
 There is no form modes or the need to interact with the editable web 
 elements. Make sure you do not have the sticky mode enable when entering in 
 data. 
 
 You have to turn on table mode to navigate them by row, cel, column, etc.
 
 There are other options, but this will get you started.
 
 On 23 Jun 2014, at 6:19 am, Margaret Booth margaretebo...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 A while ago someone one on the list sent links on where to download chrome 
 and the how to use chrome. I did save the email at the time but I have had 
 some issues with my emails and I lost the email. Could someone please send 
 me the information on chrome. 
 
 Margaret
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Re: PDf's

2014-06-23 Thread Adi Kushnir
Yes, that is true, but it looks like preview on the Mac does not do a
very good job with pdf's.

2014-06-23 12:42 GMT+03:00, David Griffith d.griff...@btinternet.com:
 I will not answer your full question but just to point out that on all
 platforms, including Windows, the ability to navigate by heading etc. in
 PDF
 documents depends on whether the PDF file has been tagged properly to allow
 these accessibility features. In my experience only a small percentage of
 PDF files have this tagging information included. If the heading or table
 tags are not included no screenreader will be able to find them.

 David Griffith
 David Griffith

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 To: mac-access@mac-access.net
 Subject: PDf's

 Hello,
 What is the best way to read PDF's on a Mac with Vo including
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 Thanks,

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Re: PDf's

2014-06-23 Thread Eleanor Martha Burke

Have you tried Skim from Source Forge, link below.
http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/
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From: Adi Kushnir adikush...@gmail.com

To: OS X  iOS Accessibility mac-access@mac-access.net
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2014 12:57 PM
Subject: Re: PDf's



Yes, that is true, but it looks like preview on the Mac does not do a
very good job with pdf's.

2014-06-23 12:42 GMT+03:00, David Griffith d.griff...@btinternet.com:

I will not answer your full question but just to point out that on all
platforms, including Windows, the ability to navigate by heading etc. in
PDF
documents depends on whether the PDF file has been tagged properly to 
allow

these accessibility features. In my experience only a small percentage of
PDF files have this tagging information included. If the heading or table
tags are not included no screenreader will be able to find them.

David Griffith
David Griffith

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[mailto:mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net] On Behalf Of Adi Kushnir
Sent: 23 June 2014 09:54
To: mac-access@mac-access.net
Subject: PDf's

Hello,
What is the best way to read PDF's on a Mac with Vo including
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platforms screen readers?

Thanks,

Adi.
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Re: Installing Mac OS X from USB flash drive

2014-06-23 Thread Sarah k Alawami
I actually know how to and have done both the disk makerx and the drag drop 
method. The reason I learned both is we don't knwo what will happen in terms of 
bootable media and how it will be done in future os builds and version sos it's 
importent in my view to learn both. 

 On Jun 23, 2014, at 5:15, Christopher Hallsworth christopher...@gmail.com 
 wrote:
 
 This guide I have written myself so hope you like it. It is below.
 
 Installing Mac OS X from a USB flash drive
 
 This guide will show you how to create a bootable USB flash drive to install 
 Mac OS X. Here are the prerequisites.
 A USB flash drive that's at least 8 GB in size. The installer and other files 
 take up at least this space.
 A program called DiskMakerX previously known as Lion Disk Maker available from
 http://liondiskmaker.com/
 The latest version of a supported operating system (Lion, Mountain Lion or 
 Mavericks) available from the Mac App Store.
 
 Instructions
 1. Download the above two apps listed in the prerequisites.
 Important!
 After downloading the latest supported operating system from the Mac App 
 Store the installer opens automatically. Do not proceed since the file will 
 be erased upon the reboot. Instead, press command-q at the first screen of 
 the installer where the continue button has the keyboard focus.
 2. Open the DiskMakerX disk image in the finder. It should then appear in the 
 image browser. You can accomplish this by highlighting the dmg file with just 
 arrow keys and press command-o for open.
 3. For reasons of better accessibility I then switch to list view with 
 command-2. Copy the only .app file in there and paste into your applications 
 folder. This is accomplished with command-c for copy, command-shift-a to open 
 the Applications folder and command-v to paste. Once copied close all Finder 
 windows with command-w so you're at the desktop and eject the disk image by 
 first highlighting it with just arrow keys and press command-e for eject.
 5. Connect the USB flash drive to your mac before beginning the next step.
 6. Open the DiskMakerX which should now be located in your applications 
 folder.
 7. When prompted that Safari has downloaded this application from the web 
 vo-arrow to the open button and press vo-space to activate. With QuickNav 
 enabled with left-right arrows together you can simply navigate to the open 
 button with left or right arrow keys then press up-down arrows together to 
 activate.
 Note
 By VO throughout this guide I am talking about the VoiceOver keys which are 
 control-option.
 8. Follow the instructions on the screen. For example when choosing the 
 operating system click either Lion, Mountain Lion or Mavericks button.
 9. When it comes to the USB flash drive part choose to have it create as an 8 
 GB flash drive. You will be warned that all data will be erased so make sure 
 your flash drive is backed up somewhere.
 Note
 If you have previously made a bootable USB flash drive you can update the 
 volume here by clicking the appropriate button.
 Tip
 Since the application uses appropriate options as default buttons in most 
 cases, pressing return will be enough to move on to the next screen.
 10. The preparation and copying will eventually begin. Do not worry about any 
 busy busy busy messages or that the app has no windows. It is just doing its 
 work behind the scenes. Please enter any credentials when prompted. VoiceOver 
 makes a clicking type sound when in password text fields.
 11. When all finished, you are invited to either open Start-up Disk 
 preferences so you can quickly change to the newly created or updated 
 bootable USB flash drive and test your creations. You are also invited to 
 make a donation to the developers which is in fact the default button so 
 pressing return will open your browser allowing you to make such a donation. 
 Finally there is a quit button which does what it says; quit the application. 
 Let's then click the open Start-up Disk Preferences button.
 12. Interact with the possible start-up disks scroll area, choose your 
 bootable USB Flash Drive by selecting the appropriate radio buttons, stop 
 interacting with the scroll area and click restart button. To interact and 
 stop interact with VoiceOver do one of the following:
 A. Press vo-shift-down arrow to interact; vo-shift-up arrow to stop 
 interacting.
 B. Press down-right arrows to interact; down-left arrows to stop interacting. 
 This is assuming QuickNav is enabled with left-right arrows.
 13. Click restart button again to confirm you want to restart the computer.
 14. Your USB flash drive should now boot up and eventually display the Mac OS 
 X Utilities with the applications table having keyboard focus. How long it 
 takes depends on your USB flash drive. On my Verbatim 64 GB USB flash drive 
 it takes about thirty seconds.
 15. To enable the whole operation to talk and output to Braille if you have 
 such facilities requires starting VoiceOver. To do this press 

Re: Accessing the OS X terminal with VoiceOver on a laptop

2014-06-23 Thread Christian Schoepplein
Hi Jason,

On Mo, Jun 23, 2014 at 06:16:01 +1000, Jason White wrote:
Christian Schoepplein ch...@schoeppi.net wrote:
 
 One big issue is, that VoiceOver is not focusing the cursor possition 
 all the times correctly. Try opening a file with vi and navigate in the 
 file with arrow up and down to get spoken the current line. You will 
 see, that VoiceOver sometimes reads the wrong line, sometimes the line 
 above or below.
 
 Then try to use a program like mutt, my favorite mail programm :-). 

Mine too.

*lol* Yes, there is nothing better :-).

 There you also notice the focusing problems but also that VoiceOver is 
 not able to track a softcursor, which is used in many of textbased 
 tools.
 

Adding the following line to your ~/.muttrc file might help:
set braille_friendly=yes

Mutt doesn't use a soft-cursor by default anyway.

I'm not sure if this setting for mutt will help. From the mutt manual:

-
3.23. braille_friendly

Type: boolean
Default: no

When this variable is set, mutt will place the cursor at the beginning 
of the
current line in menus, even when the $arrow_cursor variable is unset, 
making it
easier for blind persons using Braille displays to follow these menus. 
The
option is unset by default because many visual terminals don't permit 
making
the cursor invisible.
-

The problem isn't the not displayed cursor, but that VO does not track 
the cursor in some situations. For example, if you are in the message 
list and press / to search a particular message, VO keeps focusing the 
selected message in the list and does not jump to the bottom of the 
screen into the field where the searchterm can be inserted.

I'll try the mutt setting, maybe it helps, but I believe it will not 
:-(.

And ofcourse that will not change the problem with the lines that are 
not read corect in editors or in the shell.

 Maybe the problems described above can be solved by changing some 
 settings for VoiceOver or for the terminal, but I've not found out what 
 needs to be changed :-(. But those both problems are the major show 
 stoppers for a good terminal support in Mac OS in my opinion :-(.

It looks nasty. I'm a very intensive terminal user and that isn't going to
change, so if anyone knows a good solution to the above, suggestions would be
welcome.

There've been some hints how to configure the terminal to get VO work 
better, but they did not work for me :-(.

Regards from Munich,

  Christian

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Re: accessing PDF forms on the mac using VO.

2014-06-23 Thread Bryan Jones
Hello Stuart,

I would strongly urge you to download and try the latest version of PDFpen from 
the www.smilesoftware.com website. The trial version has a few limitations but 
nothing that will prevent testing a PDF file to see if you can access the form 
fields. I’ve been testing the latest version, 6.3, and have found that I can 
navigate through, interact with, and fill form fields in PDF files using 
standard tab and VO navigation techniques. Note that I have been testing with 
PDF files that I know were created using the PDF accessibility guidelines, and 
YMMV if you are attempting to work with non-compliant PDF files.

Also note that I’ve only been focussing on testing the specific VO improvements 
mentioned by the Developer in the current release notes, including labeling of 
buttons and access to form fields. I don’t think PDFpen yet provides full 
access to headings, tables, etc.

In my opinion version 6.3 of the PDFpen application provides a glimmer of hope 
that true access to accessible PDF files may someday become a reality on the 
Mac.

HTH,
Bryan

On Jun 23, 2014, at 7:27 AM, Stuart Young stuartyo...@samobile.net wrote:
 what would be the best software to use when trying to input some information 
 in to a PDF form? i have seen a foram chat on the applevis.com website which 
 sujested using the PDF pen software. any idears whow I would go about 
 compleeting this task?.

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Re: Installing Mac OS X from USB flash drive

2014-06-23 Thread Christopher Hallsworth

Please share the drag and drop method if you can in return. Thanks!

Christopher Hallsworth
Student at the Hadley School for the Blind
www.hadley.edu

On 23/06/2014 16:03, Sarah k Alawami wrote:

I actually know how to and have done both the disk makerx and the drag drop 
method. The reason I learned both is we don't knwo what will happen in terms of 
bootable media and how it will be done in future os builds and version sos it's 
importent in my view to learn both.


On Jun 23, 2014, at 5:15, Christopher Hallsworth christopher...@gmail.com 
wrote:

This guide I have written myself so hope you like it. It is below.

Installing Mac OS X from a USB flash drive

This guide will show you how to create a bootable USB flash drive to install 
Mac OS X. Here are the prerequisites.
A USB flash drive that's at least 8 GB in size. The installer and other files 
take up at least this space.
A program called DiskMakerX previously known as Lion Disk Maker available from
http://liondiskmaker.com/
The latest version of a supported operating system (Lion, Mountain Lion or 
Mavericks) available from the Mac App Store.

Instructions
1. Download the above two apps listed in the prerequisites.
Important!
After downloading the latest supported operating system from the Mac App Store 
the installer opens automatically. Do not proceed since the file will be erased 
upon the reboot. Instead, press command-q at the first screen of the installer 
where the continue button has the keyboard focus.
2. Open the DiskMakerX disk image in the finder. It should then appear in the 
image browser. You can accomplish this by highlighting the dmg file with just 
arrow keys and press command-o for open.
3. For reasons of better accessibility I then switch to list view with 
command-2. Copy the only .app file in there and paste into your applications 
folder. This is accomplished with command-c for copy, command-shift-a to open 
the Applications folder and command-v to paste. Once copied close all Finder 
windows with command-w so you're at the desktop and eject the disk image by 
first highlighting it with just arrow keys and press command-e for eject.
5. Connect the USB flash drive to your mac before beginning the next step.
6. Open the DiskMakerX which should now be located in your applications folder.
7. When prompted that Safari has downloaded this application from the web 
vo-arrow to the open button and press vo-space to activate. With QuickNav 
enabled with left-right arrows together you can simply navigate to the open 
button with left or right arrow keys then press up-down arrows together to 
activate.
Note
By VO throughout this guide I am talking about the VoiceOver keys which are 
control-option.
8. Follow the instructions on the screen. For example when choosing the 
operating system click either Lion, Mountain Lion or Mavericks button.
9. When it comes to the USB flash drive part choose to have it create as an 8 
GB flash drive. You will be warned that all data will be erased so make sure 
your flash drive is backed up somewhere.
Note
If you have previously made a bootable USB flash drive you can update the 
volume here by clicking the appropriate button.
Tip
Since the application uses appropriate options as default buttons in most 
cases, pressing return will be enough to move on to the next screen.
10. The preparation and copying will eventually begin. Do not worry about any 
busy busy busy messages or that the app has no windows. It is just doing its 
work behind the scenes. Please enter any credentials when prompted. VoiceOver 
makes a clicking type sound when in password text fields.
11. When all finished, you are invited to either open Start-up Disk preferences 
so you can quickly change to the newly created or updated bootable USB flash 
drive and test your creations. You are also invited to make a donation to the 
developers which is in fact the default button so pressing return will open 
your browser allowing you to make such a donation. Finally there is a quit 
button which does what it says; quit the application. Let's then click the open 
Start-up Disk Preferences button.
12. Interact with the possible start-up disks scroll area, choose your bootable 
USB Flash Drive by selecting the appropriate radio buttons, stop interacting 
with the scroll area and click restart button. To interact and stop interact 
with VoiceOver do one of the following:
A. Press vo-shift-down arrow to interact; vo-shift-up arrow to stop interacting.
B. Press down-right arrows to interact; down-left arrows to stop interacting. 
This is assuming QuickNav is enabled with left-right arrows.
13. Click restart button again to confirm you want to restart the computer.
14. Your USB flash drive should now boot up and eventually display the Mac OS X 
Utilities with the applications table having keyboard focus. How long it takes 
depends on your USB flash drive. On my Verbatim 64 GB USB flash drive it takes 
about thirty seconds.
15. To enable the whole 

Re: PDf's

2014-06-23 Thread Bryan Jones
Hello Adi,

Access to PDF files is an important part of my day-to-day life and I’ve tested 
a dozen or more PDF reading Mac apps over the past few years but have found no 
single app that provides anything resembling true access to properly tagged PDF 
files on the Mac. I assumed all PDF files must just be inherently inaccessible 
because my only point of reference was the limited access provided by the PDF 
tools available to Mac VO Users. It was only recently that I discovered how 
wonderfully accessible a properly created PDF file can be when read on Windows. 
While Preview and Skim provide basic access to PDF files on the Mac, AFAIK 
there is no tool on the Mac that even comes close to properly handling 
accessible PDF files in the way that the free Adobe Reader does on Windows. 
Speaking of Adobe Reader, the Mac version is essentially useless in terms of VO 
access.

On a hopeful note, the latest version of the paid PDFpen application shows 
promise as the Developer specifically focussed on VO usage including making 
form fields accessible. I don’t think PDFpen yet provides accessible navigation 
by headings, etc, but it might be worth testing if PDF files are important to 
you.

HTH,
Bryan

On Jun 23, 2014, at 7:57 AM, Adi Kushnir adikush...@gmail.com wrote:
 Yes, that is true, but it looks like preview on the Mac does not do a
 very good job with pdf's.

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Re: PDf's

2014-06-23 Thread Adi Kushnir
Hi Brian,
Thanks. So, it seems that I will have to install another operating
system on my expensive Mac Book Pro to get this job done. Ok, I'll do
that.

Thanks,

Adi.

2014-06-23 18:31 GMT+03:00, Bryan Jones openses...@me.com:
 Hello Adi,

 Access to PDF files is an important part of my day-to-day life and I've
 tested a dozen or more PDF reading Mac apps over the past few years but have
 found no single app that provides anything resembling true access to
 properly tagged PDF files on the Mac. I assumed all PDF files must just be
 inherently inaccessible because my only point of reference was the limited
 access provided by the PDF tools available to Mac VO Users. It was only
 recently that I discovered how wonderfully accessible a properly created PDF
 file can be when read on Windows. While Preview and Skim provide basic
 access to PDF files on the Mac, AFAIK there is no tool on the Mac that even
 comes close to properly handling accessible PDF files in the way that the
 free Adobe Reader does on Windows. Speaking of Adobe Reader, the Mac version
 is essentially useless in terms of VO access.

 On a hopeful note, the latest version of the paid PDFpen application shows
 promise as the Developer specifically focussed on VO usage including making
 form fields accessible. I don't think PDFpen yet provides accessible
 navigation by headings, etc, but it might be worth testing if PDF files are
 important to you.

 HTH,
 Bryan

 On Jun 23, 2014, at 7:57 AM, Adi Kushnir adikush...@gmail.com wrote:
 Yes, that is true, but it looks like preview on the Mac does not do a
 very good job with pdf's.

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Re: Installing Mac OS X from USB flash drive

2014-06-23 Thread Sarah k Alawami
I've posted a guide on here before, I think, anyway, I mainly wrote the guide 
up for myself except I did not write how to reverse the steps of showign all 
files as I forgot to include that.Anywy here is the link to the post.

http://www.tffppodcast.com/blog-post-how-to-make-a-bootable-mavericks-disk-using-voice-over-and-disk-utility/
 Hth.


On Jun 23, 2014, at 8:19 AM, Christopher Hallsworth christopher...@gmail.com 
wrote:

 Please share the drag and drop method if you can in return. Thanks!
 
 Christopher Hallsworth
 Student at the Hadley School for the Blind
 www.hadley.edu
 
 On 23/06/2014 16:03, Sarah k Alawami wrote:
 I actually know how to and have done both the disk makerx and the drag drop 
 method. The reason I learned both is we don't knwo what will happen in terms 
 of bootable media and how it will be done in future os builds and version 
 sos it's importent in my view to learn both.
 
 On Jun 23, 2014, at 5:15, Christopher Hallsworth christopher...@gmail.com 
 wrote:
 
 This guide I have written myself so hope you like it. It is below.
 
 Installing Mac OS X from a USB flash drive
 
 This guide will show you how to create a bootable USB flash drive to 
 install Mac OS X. Here are the prerequisites.
 A USB flash drive that's at least 8 GB in size. The installer and other 
 files take up at least this space.
 A program called DiskMakerX previously known as Lion Disk Maker available 
 from
 http://liondiskmaker.com/
 The latest version of a supported operating system (Lion, Mountain Lion or 
 Mavericks) available from the Mac App Store.
 
 Instructions
 1. Download the above two apps listed in the prerequisites.
 Important!
 After downloading the latest supported operating system from the Mac App 
 Store the installer opens automatically. Do not proceed since the file will 
 be erased upon the reboot. Instead, press command-q at the first screen of 
 the installer where the continue button has the keyboard focus.
 2. Open the DiskMakerX disk image in the finder. It should then appear in 
 the image browser. You can accomplish this by highlighting the dmg file 
 with just arrow keys and press command-o for open.
 3. For reasons of better accessibility I then switch to list view with 
 command-2. Copy the only .app file in there and paste into your 
 applications folder. This is accomplished with command-c for copy, 
 command-shift-a to open the Applications folder and command-v to paste. 
 Once copied close all Finder windows with command-w so you're at the 
 desktop and eject the disk image by first highlighting it with just arrow 
 keys and press command-e for eject.
 5. Connect the USB flash drive to your mac before beginning the next step.
 6. Open the DiskMakerX which should now be located in your applications 
 folder.
 7. When prompted that Safari has downloaded this application from the web 
 vo-arrow to the open button and press vo-space to activate. With QuickNav 
 enabled with left-right arrows together you can simply navigate to the open 
 button with left or right arrow keys then press up-down arrows together to 
 activate.
 Note
 By VO throughout this guide I am talking about the VoiceOver keys which are 
 control-option.
 8. Follow the instructions on the screen. For example when choosing the 
 operating system click either Lion, Mountain Lion or Mavericks button.
 9. When it comes to the USB flash drive part choose to have it create as an 
 8 GB flash drive. You will be warned that all data will be erased so make 
 sure your flash drive is backed up somewhere.
 Note
 If you have previously made a bootable USB flash drive you can update the 
 volume here by clicking the appropriate button.
 Tip
 Since the application uses appropriate options as default buttons in most 
 cases, pressing return will be enough to move on to the next screen.
 10. The preparation and copying will eventually begin. Do not worry about 
 any busy busy busy messages or that the app has no windows. It is just 
 doing its work behind the scenes. Please enter any credentials when 
 prompted. VoiceOver makes a clicking type sound when in password text 
 fields.
 11. When all finished, you are invited to either open Start-up Disk 
 preferences so you can quickly change to the newly created or updated 
 bootable USB flash drive and test your creations. You are also invited to 
 make a donation to the developers which is in fact the default button so 
 pressing return will open your browser allowing you to make such a 
 donation. Finally there is a quit button which does what it says; quit the 
 application. Let's then click the open Start-up Disk Preferences button.
 12. Interact with the possible start-up disks scroll area, choose your 
 bootable USB Flash Drive by selecting the appropriate radio buttons, stop 
 interacting with the scroll area and click restart button. To interact and 
 stop interact with VoiceOver do one of the following:
 A. Press vo-shift-down arrow to interact; vo-shift-up arrow to stop 

Re: Accessing the OS X terminal with VoiceOver on a laptop

2014-06-23 Thread Sean Murphy
Team,


I think we should compile the short comings of the terminal app and send them 
to Apple Accessibility. They might or might not know the short comings. 

Do you know how the screen app manages the cursor and if there is any settings 
to improve this?

Since Vo only speaks the last half of the prompt when you are accessing a 
different device. 

Sean 
On 24 Jun 2014, at 1:10 am, Christian Schoepplein ch...@schoeppi.net wrote:

 Hi Jason,
 
 On Mo, Jun 23, 2014 at 06:16:01 +1000, Jason White wrote:
 Christian Schoepplein ch...@schoeppi.net wrote:
 
 One big issue is, that VoiceOver is not focusing the cursor possition 
 all the times correctly. Try opening a file with vi and navigate in the 
 file with arrow up and down to get spoken the current line. You will 
 see, that VoiceOver sometimes reads the wrong line, sometimes the line 
 above or below.
 
 Then try to use a program like mutt, my favorite mail programm :-). 
 
 Mine too.
 
 *lol* Yes, there is nothing better :-).
 
 There you also notice the focusing problems but also that VoiceOver is 
 not able to track a softcursor, which is used in many of textbased 
 tools.
 
 
 Adding the following line to your ~/.muttrc file might help:
 set braille_friendly=yes
 
 Mutt doesn't use a soft-cursor by default anyway.
 
 I'm not sure if this setting for mutt will help. From the mutt manual:
 
 -
 3.23. braille_friendly
 
 Type: boolean
 Default: no
 
 When this variable is set, mutt will place the cursor at the beginning 
 of the
 current line in menus, even when the $arrow_cursor variable is unset, 
 making it
 easier for blind persons using Braille displays to follow these menus. 
 The
 option is unset by default because many visual terminals don't permit 
 making
 the cursor invisible.
 -
 
 The problem isn't the not displayed cursor, but that VO does not track 
 the cursor in some situations. For example, if you are in the message 
 list and press / to search a particular message, VO keeps focusing the 
 selected message in the list and does not jump to the bottom of the 
 screen into the field where the searchterm can be inserted.
 
 I'll try the mutt setting, maybe it helps, but I believe it will not 
 :-(.
 
 And ofcourse that will not change the problem with the lines that are 
 not read corect in editors or in the shell.
 
 Maybe the problems described above can be solved by changing some 
 settings for VoiceOver or for the terminal, but I've not found out what 
 needs to be changed :-(. But those both problems are the major show 
 stoppers for a good terminal support in Mac OS in my opinion :-(.
 
 It looks nasty. I'm a very intensive terminal user and that isn't going to
 change, so if anyone knows a good solution to the above, suggestions would be
 welcome.
 
 There've been some hints how to configure the terminal to get VO work 
 better, but they did not work for me :-(.
 
 Regards from Munich,
 
  Christian
 
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Re: Accessing the OS X terminal with VoiceOver on a laptop

2014-06-23 Thread Sean Murphy
Jason,

I also wish to install EmacSpeak if it uses the Apple speech to learn it. Is 
there a simple how to guide on configuring the Mac and EmacSpeak?

Sean 
On 24 Jun 2014, at 1:10 am, Christian Schoepplein ch...@schoeppi.net wrote:

 Hi Jason,
 
 On Mo, Jun 23, 2014 at 06:16:01 +1000, Jason White wrote:
 Christian Schoepplein ch...@schoeppi.net wrote:
 
 One big issue is, that VoiceOver is not focusing the cursor possition 
 all the times correctly. Try opening a file with vi and navigate in the 
 file with arrow up and down to get spoken the current line. You will 
 see, that VoiceOver sometimes reads the wrong line, sometimes the line 
 above or below.
 
 Then try to use a program like mutt, my favorite mail programm :-). 
 
 Mine too.
 
 *lol* Yes, there is nothing better :-).
 
 There you also notice the focusing problems but also that VoiceOver is 
 not able to track a softcursor, which is used in many of textbased 
 tools.
 
 
 Adding the following line to your ~/.muttrc file might help:
 set braille_friendly=yes
 
 Mutt doesn't use a soft-cursor by default anyway.
 
 I'm not sure if this setting for mutt will help. From the mutt manual:
 
 -
 3.23. braille_friendly
 
 Type: boolean
 Default: no
 
 When this variable is set, mutt will place the cursor at the beginning 
 of the
 current line in menus, even when the $arrow_cursor variable is unset, 
 making it
 easier for blind persons using Braille displays to follow these menus. 
 The
 option is unset by default because many visual terminals don't permit 
 making
 the cursor invisible.
 -
 
 The problem isn't the not displayed cursor, but that VO does not track 
 the cursor in some situations. For example, if you are in the message 
 list and press / to search a particular message, VO keeps focusing the 
 selected message in the list and does not jump to the bottom of the 
 screen into the field where the searchterm can be inserted.
 
 I'll try the mutt setting, maybe it helps, but I believe it will not 
 :-(.
 
 And ofcourse that will not change the problem with the lines that are 
 not read corect in editors or in the shell.
 
 Maybe the problems described above can be solved by changing some 
 settings for VoiceOver or for the terminal, but I've not found out what 
 needs to be changed :-(. But those both problems are the major show 
 stoppers for a good terminal support in Mac OS in my opinion :-(.
 
 It looks nasty. I'm a very intensive terminal user and that isn't going to
 change, so if anyone knows a good solution to the above, suggestions would be
 welcome.
 
 There've been some hints how to configure the terminal to get VO work 
 better, but they did not work for me :-(.
 
 Regards from Munich,
 
  Christian
 
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Re: Accessing the OS X terminal with VoiceOver on a laptop

2014-06-23 Thread Jason White
Sean Murphy smur7...@bigpond.net.au wrote:
 Jason,
 
 I also wish to install EmacSpeak if it uses the Apple speech to learn it. Is 
 there a simple how to guide on configuring the Mac and EmacSpeak?

http://e-mac-speak.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/e-mac-speak-howto.org

The speech server for OS X is included in Emacspeak. I haven't tried to follow
these instructions yet, so I don't know whether they're up to date.

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Re: Server Transition: IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ!

2014-06-23 Thread Jessica Benzing
But I am on the list. Just please don't take me off?  

Sent from my iPhone

 On Jun 22, 2014, at 4:35 PM, Eileen Misrahi eileen.misr...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 Sorry for confusing your name with someone else's. Please accept my apology. 
 
 Eileen
 On Jun 22, 2014, at 5:30 AM, Gordon, Lynne  Tracy 
 supp...@mac-access.net wrote:
 
 Hello everybody
 
 As some of you may be aware, we have been planning for some time to migrate 
 the Mac Access server to a new physical server system and also to a new DNS 
 host. This involves a very great deal of work on our part and I’d like to 
 tell you a little bit about why that is the case.
 
 For some time now, we have been experiencing a problem with the server 
 administration tools we used to use to help us administrate both the member 
 listing for all of our groups, and also other vital server configurational 
 data. The net result of these problems is that the member listing is not 
 visible to us at all, neither is any of the other server data, or the list 
 data itself.  Therefore, the only access we have to the list configuration 
 is that which every user has to their own specific configuration. Without 
 going into too much technical detail, Gordon keeps having to manually 
 rebuild the Open Directory database because there’s a problem somewhere in 
 the system and it keeps causing corruption. The GUI-based administration 
 tools are useless so Gordon needs to use the Terminal and command line tools 
 to keep this airplane flying! Indeed, Apple’s own engineering staff have 
 been unable to determine the cause of the problem and their ultimate advice 
 was to simply trash the server instance totally and rebuild it from the 
 ground up with a new OS install. That is fine in principle, but we are keen 
 to retain as much information as possible in order to minimise inconvenience 
 to our clients and group members. Please know that even those of you who are 
 not our direct clients are important to us. Although our first duty is to 
 those for whom we host services, we regard all of our members as part of 
 what we do. Anyway I am babbling. e h
 
 This means that, in order to obtain the address of each user, along with any 
 specific configuration settings they may have set, we have to 
 effectivelyΩzsw log in as though we were that user via the web interface at 
 http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/your-address@your-host.whatever/.
  Aside from this, we’re going to have to manually replicate all of the 
 generic list data onthe new server for every single one of the groups 
 hosted here. This, believe me, is no easy task; as some of the groups used 
 by our commercial clients use very highly configured virtual hosts. One of 
 our most valued non-commercial clients has multilingual options configured 
 which we are also very keen to replicate. We shall be in touch with that 
 client directly shortly to discuss the way forward for them.
 
 Gordon has spent most of this weekend working behind the scenes in the room 
 from which we run all of our servers; (I’ve almost forgotten what he looks 
 like! ;-)); on the new system, and even as I write he estimates that several 
 more days will elapse before we’re ready to even test the new system 
 locally, let alone expose it to the Internet. Why am I telling you all this? 
 It’s really quite simple. We require, and would very much appreciate, your 
 assistance.
 
 It would make our lives far easier if you as list members would take a 
 moment to drop us a line privately, using the support address 
 supp...@mac-access.net to let us know whether or not you anticipate or 
 intend to remain a member of this group in the medium to long term, or even 
 whether you wish us to add you to the new system at all. As well as this, we 
 would be grateful if you would please let us have details of any specific 
 settings you have configured on our server. For instance, if you are using 
 digest mode to receive messages in bulk, whether you have a system password 
 configured which overrides the default, etc.. Of course, when the new 
 instance goes live, you will be able to modify your own configuration once 
 you’ve been subscribed. We are simply trying to save you the work and 
 minimise your inconvenience. :)
 
 We have not far short of 500 members in this group alone now, and it would 
 be a horrendously laborious task for Gordon to use the web interface to 
 inspect every single user’s individual configuration; especially since the 
 majority of users have never changed any settings. You may say “why not just 
 use the defaults then?” That in theory may save time. But we are anxious to 
 have the transition be as seamless as possible for everybody and, therefore, 
 we’d like to have this data available in a database which I shall be 
 compiling for Gordon as and when we receive each member’s response. We plan 
 to maintain this database in the longer term, so that we do have a permanent 
 record of 

Can't get drive door open

2014-06-23 Thread Juaanita Marttin
I’m in the process of putting my cd’s onto my Mac Book Air.  I put a cd in and 
now I can’t get the door open.  I may have put it in upside down.  At any rate, 
the eject button doesn’t show up.  I unplugged the drive and then plugged it in 
again but I still can’t get the door to open.  What can I try?

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Re: Can't get drive door open

2014-06-23 Thread Zachary Kline
Have you hit the eject key on the MacBook Air? IF you hold it down the drive 
should open and eject whatever CD is inside.
Best,
Zack.
On Jun 23, 2014, at 6:33 PM, Juaanita Marttin jordmar...@suddenlink.net wrote:

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Re: Can't get drive door open

2014-06-23 Thread Mark
Could you possibly, describe where the eject key would be located, on the 
MacBook air key board?

Sent from my iPhone

On Jun 23, 2014, at 6:35 PM, Zachary Kline zkl...@speedpost.net wrote:

Have you hit the eject key on the MacBook Air? IF you hold it down the drive 
should open and eject whatever CD is inside.
Best,
Zack.
 On Jun 23, 2014, at 6:33 PM, Juaanita Marttin jordmar...@suddenlink.net 
 wrote:
 
 I’m in the process of putting my cd’s onto my Mac Book Air.  I put a cd in 
 and now I can’t get the door open.  I may have put it in upside down.  At any 
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Re: Can't get drive door open

2014-06-23 Thread Zachary Kline
Oops, it seems modern MBAs don’t have an eject button. The suggestions I’m 
seeing are to find the disk in Finder and hit command-e on it. Does it show up 
on your desktop?
On Jun 23, 2014, at 6:59 PM, Juaanita Marttin jordmar...@suddenlink.net wrote:

 Where is the eject button?  I was trying to use the command in iTunes?  
 On Jun 23, 2014, at 8:35 PM, Zachary Kline zkl...@speedpost.net wrote:
 
 Have you hit the eject key on the MacBook Air? IF you hold it down the drive 
 should open and eject whatever CD is inside.
 Best,
 Zack.
 On Jun 23, 2014, at 6:33 PM, Juaanita Marttin jordmar...@suddenlink.net 
 wrote:
 
 I’m in the process of putting my cd’s onto my Mac Book Air.  I put a cd in 
 and now I can’t get the door open.  I may have put it in upside down.  At 
 any rate, the eject button doesn’t show up.  I unplugged the drive and then 
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Re: Abby Fine Reader

2014-06-23 Thread Bryan Jones
Hello Ian,

I’m not sure what hardware ABBYY recommends, but I've been using a Canon PIXMA 
MX922 MFP and have had no issues using it in conjunction with ABBYY FineReader 
Pro. I connect my Mac and other computing devices via Wi-Fi and am able to scan 
from the flatbed and the ADF. The ADF’s duplex function also works fine.

On the downside, this model Canon does not provide a very accessible hardware 
interface and will likely require sighted assistance during initial setup.

HTH,
Bryan


On Jun 23, 2014, at 6:47 AM, Ian Harrison 
harrisonc...@harrisonclan.karoo.co.uk wrote:
 I understand this programme is well regarded in our community. Their web site 
 is, however, hard to use to get info from. I am looking at hardware to go 
 with this software. Can I ask for feedback on which makes of scanner or mfp 
 people use and find compatible with abby and a mac using mountain lion?

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Re: Can't get drive door open

2014-06-23 Thread Sarah k Alawami
They do have an eject button but if you hold it down it shuts off the computer, 
or it gives  that option anyway. it feels weird but there you  go.
On Jun 23, 2014, at 7:22 PM, Zachary Kline zkl...@speedpost.net wrote:

 Oops, it seems modern MBAs don’t have an eject button. The suggestions I’m 
 seeing are to find the disk in Finder and hit command-e on it. Does it show 
 up on your desktop?
 On Jun 23, 2014, at 6:59 PM, Juaanita Marttin jordmar...@suddenlink.net 
 wrote:
 
 Where is the eject button?  I was trying to use the command in iTunes?  
 On Jun 23, 2014, at 8:35 PM, Zachary Kline zkl...@speedpost.net wrote:
 
 Have you hit the eject key on the MacBook Air? IF you hold it down the 
 drive should open and eject whatever CD is inside.
 Best,
 Zack.
 On Jun 23, 2014, at 6:33 PM, Juaanita Marttin jordmar...@suddenlink.net 
 wrote:
 
 I’m in the process of putting my cd’s onto my Mac Book Air.  I put a cd in 
 and now I can’t get the door open.  I may have put it in upside down.  At 
 any rate, the eject button doesn’t show up.  I unplugged the drive and 
 then plugged it in again but I still can’t get the door to open.  What can 
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Re: Can't get drive door open

2014-06-23 Thread Juaanita Marttin
No, it doesn’t show up on the desktop.

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 Oops, it seems modern MBAs don’t have an eject button. The suggestions I’m 
 seeing are to find the disk in Finder and hit command-e on it. Does it show 
 up on your desktop?
 On Jun 23, 2014, at 6:59 PM, Juaanita Marttin jordmar...@suddenlink.net 
 wrote:
 
 Where is the eject button?  I was trying to use the command in iTunes?  
 On Jun 23, 2014, at 8:35 PM, Zachary Kline zkl...@speedpost.net wrote:
 
 Have you hit the eject key on the MacBook Air? IF you hold it down the 
 drive should open and eject whatever CD is inside.
 Best,
 Zack.
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Re: Can't get drive door open

2014-06-23 Thread John Gunn
Hi,

With the computer off hold in the mouse, and while holding hit the power 
button.  Keep holding and you should here it come out but only a guess.


On Jun 23, 2014, at 8:33 PM, Juaanita Marttin jordmar...@suddenlink.net wrote:

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Re: Can't get drive door open

2014-06-23 Thread Juaanita Marttin
I held the button down and the Mac shut down but when I logged back in, I found 
the drive on the desktop and did the cmd E and the door popped open.
Thanks everyone for the help.

On Jun 23, 2014, at 9:40 PM, Sarah k Alawami marri...@gmail.com wrote:

 They do have an eject button but if you hold it down it shuts off the 
 computer, or it gives  that option anyway. it feels weird but there you  go.
 On Jun 23, 2014, at 7:22 PM, Zachary Kline zkl...@speedpost.net wrote:
 
 Oops, it seems modern MBAs don’t have an eject button. The suggestions I’m 
 seeing are to find the disk in Finder and hit command-e on it. Does it show 
 up on your desktop?
 On Jun 23, 2014, at 6:59 PM, Juaanita Marttin jordmar...@suddenlink.net 
 wrote:
 
 Where is the eject button?  I was trying to use the command in iTunes?  
 On Jun 23, 2014, at 8:35 PM, Zachary Kline zkl...@speedpost.net wrote:
 
 Have you hit the eject key on the MacBook Air? IF you hold it down the 
 drive should open and eject whatever CD is inside.
 Best,
 Zack.
 On Jun 23, 2014, at 6:33 PM, Juaanita Marttin jordmar...@suddenlink.net 
 wrote:
 
 I’m in the process of putting my cd’s onto my Mac Book Air.  I put a cd 
 in and now I can’t get the door open.  I may have put it in upside down.  
 At any rate, the eject button doesn’t show up.  I unplugged the drive and 
 then plugged it in again but I still can’t get the door to open.  What 
 can I try?
 
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Re: Can't get drive door open

2014-06-23 Thread Sarah k Alawami
Hmm. Ok, I guess that works. I've never heard of that hapepning, but glad you 
got it out.

Nowwhen you say door what do you mean as yoru drive unless you have a differen 
one shoudl be slot loading.

Take care and glad you did get it solved.
On Jun 23, 2014, at 8:12 PM, Juaanita Marttin jordmar...@suddenlink.net wrote:

 I held the button down and the Mac shut down but when I logged back in, I 
 found the drive on the desktop and did the cmd E and the door popped open.
 Thanks everyone for the help.
 
 On Jun 23, 2014, at 9:40 PM, Sarah k Alawami marri...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 They do have an eject button but if you hold it down it shuts off the 
 computer, or it gives  that option anyway. it feels weird but there you  go.
 On Jun 23, 2014, at 7:22 PM, Zachary Kline zkl...@speedpost.net wrote:
 
 Oops, it seems modern MBAs don’t have an eject button. The suggestions I’m 
 seeing are to find the disk in Finder and hit command-e on it. Does it show 
 up on your desktop?
 On Jun 23, 2014, at 6:59 PM, Juaanita Marttin jordmar...@suddenlink.net 
 wrote:
 
 Where is the eject button?  I was trying to use the command in iTunes?  
 On Jun 23, 2014, at 8:35 PM, Zachary Kline zkl...@speedpost.net wrote:
 
 Have you hit the eject key on the MacBook Air? IF you hold it down the 
 drive should open and eject whatever CD is inside.
 Best,
 Zack.
 On Jun 23, 2014, at 6:33 PM, Juaanita Marttin jordmar...@suddenlink.net 
 wrote:
 
 I’m in the process of putting my cd’s onto my Mac Book Air.  I put a cd 
 in and now I can’t get the door open.  I may have put it in upside down. 
  At any rate, the eject button doesn’t show up.  I unplugged the drive 
 and then plugged it in again but I still can’t get the door to open.  
 What can I try?
 
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Re: Can't get drive door open

2014-06-23 Thread gAIL THE u.s. mALE

Glad that worked for you!
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From: Juaanita Marttin jordmar...@suddenlink.net

To: OS X  iOS Accessibility mac-access@mac-access.net
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2014 10:12 PM
Subject: Re: Can't get drive door open


I held the button down and the Mac shut down but when I logged back in, I 
found the drive on the desktop and did the cmd E and the door popped open.

Thanks everyone for the help.

On Jun 23, 2014, at 9:40 PM, Sarah k Alawami marri...@gmail.com wrote:

They do have an eject button but if you hold it down it shuts off the 
computer, or it gives  that option anyway. it feels weird but there you 
go.

On Jun 23, 2014, at 7:22 PM, Zachary Kline zkl...@speedpost.net wrote:

Oops, it seems modern MBAs don’t have an eject button. The suggestions I’m 
seeing are to find the disk in Finder and hit command-e on it. Does it 
show up on your desktop?
On Jun 23, 2014, at 6:59 PM, Juaanita Marttin jordmar...@suddenlink.net 
wrote:



Where is the eject button?  I was trying to use the command in iTunes?
On Jun 23, 2014, at 8:35 PM, Zachary Kline zkl...@speedpost.net wrote:

Have you hit the eject key on the MacBook Air? IF you hold it down the 
drive should open and eject whatever CD is inside.

Best,
Zack.
On Jun 23, 2014, at 6:33 PM, Juaanita Marttin 
jordmar...@suddenlink.net wrote:


I’m in the process of putting my cd’s onto my Mac Book Air.  I put a 
cd in and now I can’t get the door open.  I may have put it in upside 
down.  At any rate, the eject button doesn’t show up.  I unplugged the 
drive and then plugged it in again but I still can’t get the door to 
open.  What can I try?


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Re: Can't get drive door open

2014-06-23 Thread gAIL THE u.s. mALE

It should be in the far upper right corner of the keyboard.
- Original Message - 
From: Juaanita Marttin jordmar...@suddenlink.net

To: OS X  iOS Accessibility mac-access@mac-access.net
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2014 8:59 PM
Subject: Re: Can't get drive door open


Where is the eject button?  I was trying to use the command in iTunes?
On Jun 23, 2014, at 8:35 PM, Zachary Kline zkl...@speedpost.net wrote:

Have you hit the eject key on the MacBook Air? IF you hold it down the 
drive should open and eject whatever CD is inside.

Best,
Zack.
On Jun 23, 2014, at 6:33 PM, Juaanita Marttin jordmar...@suddenlink.net 
wrote:


I’m in the process of putting my cd’s onto my Mac Book Air.  I put a cd 
in and now I can’t get the door open.  I may have put it in upside down. 
At any rate, the eject button doesn’t show up.  I unplugged the drive and 
then plugged it in again but I still can’t get the door to open.  What 
can I try?


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