passport

2012-02-05 Thread william lomas
hi all can i use image scan to take a photo of the front cover of my passport for a job application? i guess sighted people don't need it OCR they just read the image do they? the job application is asking me to attach the scanned document of my passport, the front cover and biometric

Re: Help with voiceover shortcut or gesture

2012-02-05 Thread Maria Chapman
HI. what i did was set up a right mouse click using the track pad. this seems to work well. thanks for the suggestion. On 03/02/2012, at 10:44 AM, Sarah Alawami wrote: Strange. I can vo shift m on any link and get open link, download file, etc. I wonder if there's an option you have to

Re: editing playlists

2012-02-05 Thread Ian Harrison
Hi, thanks for the tip about command and l. It sort of works as long as you uninteract after each instance and then re interact. If you don't do that , the cursor stays on the last song you went to. Ian On 05 February 2012, at 06:06, Esther wrote: Hi Margaret, You can also navigate to the

cluttered screen in skype

2012-02-05 Thread michael weaver
i am running version 5 of skype on my macbook. however i appear to get a cluttered screen when i launch it like all the important stuff seems to be hidden like it is bringing up html pages on launch so it is like i keep having to stop interacting, try and locate the table and interact with

Re: skype notifications

2012-02-05 Thread michael weaver
i keep trying to set the choice to contact is available but every time i exit skype and relaunch skype, the choice i select in notifications is set back to announcing you have signed in like it is not saving my preferences properly. i have checked the box for speak text and that has saved so i

Re: Keyboard Shortcuts for Skype on the Mac

2012-02-05 Thread Matthew Chao
Hi, All! That's exactly what I was looking for. Too bad Skype's so inaccessible. Facebook's not much better, either. So, the major social networking tools we want to use work sort of haphazardly or not at all. Just my opinion. Matthew Chao At 07:29 PM 2/4/2012, you wrote: I think though

Re: back with more questions apple mail

2012-02-05 Thread Laurie Mehta
VO says blank because there is a blank space on the line where the graphic for unread message would be. This blank means that your message is not an unread message. If it was an unread message, the line would be read, beginning with the word unread. I do not find this to be a problem,

Re: Keyboard Shortcuts for Skype on the Mac

2012-02-05 Thread Sarah Alawami
Actually they work just fine. I find I don't need many keyboard shortcuts as I can assign them myself through the prefs and customize the way I want skype to be.. I could even if i wanted to change the cmd shift h to something else. So just because skype does not have all of these fancy stuff

Re: cluttered screen in skype

2012-02-05 Thread Sarah Alawami
Tha's the home screen for facebook. Just stopinteracting and then vo shift cmd t to the table which is what you want. On Feb 5, 2012, at 6:13 AM, michael weaver wrote: i am running version 5 of skype on my macbook. however i appear to get a cluttered screen when i launch it like all the

Using Skype on the iPhone

2012-02-05 Thread Matthew Chao
Hi, Folks. Has anyone figured out how to get Skype to work on speakerphone? Also, how do I know if the camera's working? Thanks in advance. Matthew Chao --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an

Help with fonts and styles on Bean

2012-02-05 Thread Margaret Booth
I have just downloaded Bean and I havve worked out how to bold,italic and underline text but I have a few questions which are. How do you centre text? How do you use thee style option in the font menu? How do you find out if text has gott some sort of font, style,, centre, bold etc? I mean by

Re: Help with fonts and styles on Bean

2012-02-05 Thread James AUSTIN
Hi margaret, I'm afraid i don't use Bean, so I can't answer your specific Bean question, but here are the answers to your other questions. How do you centre text? On OS X, the command is Command+Shift+Backslash How do you find out if text has gott some sort of font, style,, centre, bold

Re: Help with fonts and styles on Bean

2012-02-05 Thread David Griffith
Across the Mac, using VO T will give you font information. You will find the centre command under the format menu in Bean or you can use command | - I found this command confusing before I realised that what this really means is that you press shift command backslash on my IMac keyboard.

Re: Help with fonts and styles on Bean

2012-02-05 Thread Sarah Alawami
I think center is still cmd shift backslash. and there is a vo keystroke that will let you see what is what but I'm drawing a blank. I'm still learning bean btw. On Feb 5, 2012, at 1:31 PM, Margaret Booth wrote: I have just downloaded Bean and I havve worked out how to bold,italic and

New Tech Doctor Podcast

2012-02-05 Thread Robert Carter
Hi All, I just posted a new Tech Doctor podcast featuring Allison Sheridan host of the NOSILLA Cast over at http://www.podfeet.com Allison is a wonderful advocate for people who are blind and you will find this podcast most interesting and informative. Enjoy, Robert --- Mac Access At Mac