Changing Font in iText Express

2013-10-03 Thread Eileen Misrahi
Hello, I have downloaded iText Express on to MBA. When I open the preferences and go to the "new" button, I select the change button for the RTF. I interact with the table for the family font type and select Ariel, regular, and 12 pt. When I return to the edit field and press VO-T, Ariel bold

hide/show mail activity in mac mail

2013-10-03 Thread don bishop
Hi all, What does the hide/show mail activity in mac mail do? I toggle it and nothing seems to change. Is it a visual thing, or am I just missing something. Thanks, Don <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.n

Re: mouse clicking with VO

2013-10-03 Thread Michael Marshall
hey, had a play with crome vox and i must say it isn't to bad at all. should you turn off VO when using vox? because VO reads a lot more stuff such as menues. thanks Michael On 04/10/2013, at 1:02 PM, Sarah k Alawami wrote: > Chrome vox is a chrome extension that is a screen reading for the ch

Re: mouse clicking with VO

2013-10-03 Thread Sarah k Alawami
Chrome vox is a chrome extension that is a screen reading for the chrome browser and chrome OS. There is a list that discusses access to chrome in general and chrome vox. It's on google groups.Here is the info and link to the list page and more. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/axs-chrom

Re: What's the accessibility take on iOS7?

2013-10-03 Thread Josh Gregory
Yeah, I think you got that right. Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 3, 2013, at 8:20 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: > > I believe the graphics will adjust an dmove when your phone does. Might make > one sea sick if they are prone to that. lol! > > Someone with sight can probably explain the feature bett

Re: What's the accessibility take on iOS7?

2013-10-03 Thread Sarah Alawami
I believe the graphics will adjust an dmove when your phone does. Might make one sea sick if they are prone to that. lol! Someone with sight can probably explain the feature better then I can. lol. > On Oct 3, 2013, at 13:17, "Christopher-Mark Gilland" > wrote: > > What do you mean by motion

Re: Blogging on a Mac

2013-10-03 Thread Sarah Alawami
Actually what I meant by bandwith limit is the free account is limited to a 20 gig sl a day and that's in *all* folders, except when you grab from shared folders. On the paid accoungt it's I think 100 gig a day. If tha'ts reatched, that is if 20 people watch yoru 1 gig video, you will be s spsu

Re: the pac mate braille display woes.

2013-10-03 Thread Candie Stiles
I had the same problems you are describing with the pack mate Braille display. I read over all the material and tried everything i could think of, and I still wasn't able to get it to work. On Oct 3, 2013, at 3:23 PM, Linda C Knight wrote: > > Hi all, > > When i connect the pac mate to the ma

Re: Blogging on a Mac

2013-10-03 Thread Phil Halton
The visual editor thing is no longer a problem, and as far as fdropbox bandwidth is concerned, I can view videos and audio files without any appreciable slowdowns. For my needs, being able to post articlesand embedd images, or external links to medial files in my dropbox account, it's working f

the pac mate braille display woes.

2013-10-03 Thread Linda C Knight
Hi all, When i connect the pac mate to the mac, it recognizes it right away. I am not understanding how the router buttons work. I've read Chapter 10 of the vo getting started guide till i'm blue in the face. Also I am use to the advance buttons in panning. But it appears that the right whiz

Re: Blogging on a Mac

2013-10-03 Thread Sarah Alawami
> On Oct 3, 2013, at 11:25, Phil Halton wrote: > > There's a restriction on bandwith on dropbox so be aware of that. This is why > I'm self hosted. Also, when I was helping someone with a word press.com > website, they could not at the time turn off the visual editor. Hth. > I get around t

Re: mouse clicking with VO

2013-10-03 Thread Michael Marshall
hey, thanks for that info. what is chrome vox? is it an extension for crome or another browser? thanks Michael On 03/10/2013, at 11:26 PM, Sarah k Alawami wrote: > download and use chrome vox. I don't have a link to it but there i a list > that discusses chrome accessibility. I can get that stu

Re: What's the accessibility take on iOS7?

2013-10-03 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
What do you mean by motion control? Can you please elaberate on that a bit? I'm very interested. chris. - Original Message - From: "William Lomas" To: "Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility" Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2013 4:14 PM Subject: Re: What's the accessibility take on iOS7? siri f

Re: What's the accessibility take on iOS7?

2013-10-03 Thread William Lomas
siri for me on ios is shocking now it never responds smile i do like the OS now since 7.0.2 it seems a lot more responsive to VO users though battery life as to be expected terrible even with motion control off On 3 Oct 2013, at 21:01, "Christopher-Mark Gilland" wrote: > I think you're a litt

Re: What's the accessibility take on iOS7?

2013-10-03 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
I think you're a little confused. The 5C does not go any higher than the 32 gig model, but the 5S goes all the way up to 64 gigs. I just wanted to clarify, as I can see where that may be confusing. Chris. - Original Message - From: "Sarah k Alawami" To: "Mac OSX & iOS Accessibilit

Re: Blogging on a Mac

2013-10-03 Thread Sarah Alawami
I use 1 click instells. You can also follow the 5 monty install steps at wordpress.org I'm not home to give more detailed instructions than that, but good luck. > On Oct 3, 2013, at 11:00, Gordon Smith wrote: > > This raises an interesting point. But it isn't always possible for people to >

Re: Blogging on a Mac

2013-10-03 Thread Phil Halton
I get around the file size restriction by linking to files in my public dropbox account there's no limit there wordPress.com has an cost me a penny and I've got two blogs up and running and I'm able to link to audio files of any size. Sent from my IPhone > On Oct 3, 2013, at 2:00 PM, Gordon Sm

Re: What's the accessibility take on iOS7?

2013-10-03 Thread Chris H
I think you better reset your phone as I am having no issues here although can't test the music problem as don't have any on there. E-mail Facebook and iMessage christopher...@gmail.com On 03/10/2013 17:57, Brian Fischler wrote: I am running IOS 7.0.2 on an iPhone 4S and it is very accessible,

Re: Blogging on a Mac

2013-10-03 Thread Gordon Smith
This raises an interesting point. But it isn't always possible for people to go your route, owing to provider restrictions on low level access. You'd need to make sure that PHP 54 ohr later is functional before this will work. But the interesting part for me is the actual installation proce

Re: What's the accessibility take on iOS7?

2013-10-03 Thread Sarah Alawami
> On Oct 3, 2013, at 9:57, Brian Fischler wrote: > > I am running IOS 7.0.2 on an iPhone 4S and it is very accessible, but does > have some annoying bugs. Half the time the two finger double tap to start and > pause music doesn't work, and to get it to work again you have to shut the > phone

Re: What's the accessibility take on iOS7?

2013-10-03 Thread Sarah Alawami
It's not that the keboard is more sensitave it's just more responsive. Also the edit field is right there, 1 line at the bottom of the screen witht e send button beeing on the right hand corner. Tc. > On Oct 3, 2013, at 9:46, "meadowlark77" wrote: > > I have trouble when sending an iMessage

Re: What's the accessibility take on iOS7?

2013-10-03 Thread Sarah Alawami
Yep gthat's what I shoed in my podcast on my site where it is. I have found vo to be a lot more responsive and I don't need that anyway as I get motion sick anyway lol! > On Oct 3, 2013, at 8:48, Chris H wrote: > > Turn on reduced motion in settings general accessibility. > > E-mail Facebook

Re: What's the accessibility take on iOS7?

2013-10-03 Thread Daniela Rubio
Hi! I am good with it, just that I dose the cursor focus when I am writing something and I touch the text at some point, the cursor jumps to that point and I start typing in the wrong place. This was something that happened also at the beginning of iOS 6, but they fixed it. I hope they can do it

Re: What's the accessibility take on iOS7?

2013-10-03 Thread Brian Fischler
I am running IOS 7.0.2 on an iPhone 4S and it is very accessible, but does have some annoying bugs. Half the time the two finger double tap to start and pause music doesn't work, and to get it to work again you have to shut the phone off, so this can be fairly annoying, and the other major issue

Re: What's the accessibility take on iOS7?

2013-10-03 Thread meadowlark77
It's always in mine. Take care, Brenda mailto:meadowlar...@cox.net - Original Message - From: "Ben J Bloomgren" To: "Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility" Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2013 11:48 AM Subject: Re: What's the accessibility take on iOS7? I don't see that problem in iMessage. Maybe

Re: What's the accessibility take on iOS7?

2013-10-03 Thread Ben J Bloomgren
I don't see that problem in iMessage. Maybe it's only a sporadic problem. Ben J. Bloomgren Manager CLG Productions Http://www.clgproductions.com 704-256-0067 Hours: Nonday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Eastern accept holidays. > On Oct 3, 2013, at 9:46, meadowlark77 wrote: >

Re: What's the accessibility take on iOS7?

2013-10-03 Thread meadowlark77
I have trouble when sending an iMessage because the edit field doesn't seem to be just right there, like it was in IOS6. The keyboard seems to be extra sensitive now. Take care, Brenda mailto:meadowlar...@cox.net - Original Message - From: "Dónal Fitzpatrick" To: "Mac OSX & iOS Acces

Re: What's the accessibility take on iOS7?

2013-10-03 Thread josh gregory
Did that, did pretty much nothing to solve the issue... On 10/3/13, Chris H wrote: > Turn on reduced motion in settings general accessibility. > > E-mail Facebook and iMessage > christopher...@gmail.com > > On 03/10/2013 15:03, Josh Gregory wrote: >> I will agree… Of particular annoyance to me is

Re: What's the accessibility take on iOS7?

2013-10-03 Thread josh gregory
The airdrop functionality is due to iPhone 4s and older models lacking the wifi chip technology to allow these transfers. On 10/3/13, Chris H wrote: > Lynn, if I am correct, the only significant functionality missing on iOS > 7 under older phones, even the 4s, is the Airdrop feature, which I'm >

Re: What's the accessibility take on iOS7?

2013-10-03 Thread Chris H
Lynn, if I am correct, the only significant functionality missing on iOS 7 under older phones, even the 4s, is the Airdrop feature, which I'm sure you're familiar with on the Os X platform. For others, it allows certain files to be transferred from one iOS device to another, over bluetooth or w

Re: What's the accessibility take on iOS7?

2013-10-03 Thread Chris H
Turn on reduced motion in settings general accessibility. E-mail Facebook and iMessage christopher...@gmail.com On 03/10/2013 15:03, Josh Gregory wrote: I will agree… Of particular annoyance to me is the losing focus issue of voice over on iPhone 4s. Maybe this doesn't happen on other devices,

Re: What's the accessibility take on iOS7?

2013-10-03 Thread Isaac Hebert
Yes it is probably a bug in siri or it could be a issue wheir siri has two many request to process at one time. On 10/3/13, Chris H wrote: > The issues I am having with Siri I am probably not aware of since I am > new to Siri. I however do experience tiems where one time Siri can't > handle reque

Re: What's the accessibility take on iOS7?

2013-10-03 Thread Chris H
The issues I am having with Siri I am probably not aware of since I am new to Siri. I however do experience tiems where one time Siri can't handle requests but next time it can. But I can't blame that on iOS 7. So will put it down to something I get used to with Siri. After all Siri processes i

Re: What's the accessibility take on iOS7?

2013-10-03 Thread Chris H
Same here. While I liked iOS 7 under iPhone 4, my experience has been tons better since I upgraded to the iPhone 4s. I love the Siri improvements, which are actually new to me as never got the chance to use Siri on iOS 5 and iOS 6. I also love the overall responsiveness. Whether this is the iPh

Re: What's the accessibility take on iOS7?

2013-10-03 Thread Josh Gregory
I agree, definitely another really annoying feature. Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 3, 2013, at 11:33 AM, Dónal Fitzpatrick > wrote: > > Edit fields in IOS7 are flakey though. In the IOS6 (and before) days, > touching an edit field, whilst editing was ongoing, would only read it not > set the

Re: What's the accessibility take on iOS7?

2013-10-03 Thread Jane
Perhaps I got gestures confused. It's just that for some reason, when using my braille display to type in an edit field, it never taes the first time. I'll have to experiment. Jane On Oct 3, 2013, at 11:30 AM, Zachary Kline wrote: > Hi Jane, > This is weird. Dictation can be started by a t

Re: What's the accessibility take on iOS7?

2013-10-03 Thread Dónal Fitzpatrick
Edit fields in IOS7 are flakey though. In the IOS6 (and before) days, touching an edit field, whilst editing was ongoing, would only read it not set the focus to wherever in the field one happened to touch. Dónal On 3 Oct 2013, at 16:30, Zachary Kline wrote: > Hi Jane, > This is weird. Dict

Re: What's the accessibility take on iOS7?

2013-10-03 Thread Zachary Kline
Hi Jane, This is weird. Dictation can be started by a two-finger double-tap, which is in fact one of my favorite new little features. I’ve never ad problems with a one-finger double tap. Best, Zack. On Oct 3, 2013, at 8:26 AM, Jane wrote: > Hi. Yes it is very accessible from a totally blind per

Re: What's the accessibility take on iOS7?

2013-10-03 Thread Jane
Hi. Yes it is very accessible from a totally blind person's perspective. There is one conflict you need to be aware of. At least, I find it to be a problem. It's hard to double-tap on a field and type in text. Now, the microphone seems to think I want to ictate text. This an make searching for b

Re: What's the accessibility take on iOS7?

2013-10-03 Thread Dónal Fitzpatrick
Agreed Josh and I have the same device. I also don’t like the VO behaviour in the lock-screen. On 3 Oct 2013, at 15:03, Josh Gregory wrote: > I will agree… Of particular annoyance to me is the losing focus issue of > voice over on iPhone 4s. Maybe this doesn't happen on other devices, but it

Re: What's the accessibility take on iOS7?

2013-10-03 Thread Zachary Kline
I’ve been using iOS 7 for a while now, and must say that the issues are very minor. Over all the experience is positive, for me as a totally blind person. Best, Zack. On Oct 3, 2013, at 7:03 AM, Josh Gregory wrote: > I will agree… Of particular annoyance to me is the losing focus issue of > voi

Re: What's the accessibility take on iOS7?

2013-10-03 Thread Josh Gregory
I will agree… Of particular annoyance to me is the losing focus issue of voice over on iPhone 4s. Maybe this doesn't happen on other devices, but it is particularly noticeable here. Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 3, 2013, at 9:57 AM, Dónal Fitzpatrick > wrote: > > Hi Lynne, > > Right here’s a

RE: What's the accessibility take on iOS7?

2013-10-03 Thread Tommy Craig
Hi, Well you were miss informed about there not being a 64gb version of the 5S I have one. I was one of the crazy ones who stood in line on the 20th in the rain to get one. It is a great phone and I love it. It is much more responsive than the 4S. As far as size and shape it is virtually the same

Re: What's the accessibility take on iOS7?

2013-10-03 Thread Dónal Fitzpatrick
Hi Lynne, Right here’s a departure from the fanboy culture for you. IOS7 is a mediocre release. There are various issues but of particular note is the way they have broken interaction with Siri. Lots of fairly clued-in people have commented on this on twitter but for me they need to really

Re: mouse clicking with VO

2013-10-03 Thread Andy Collins
What can ChromeVox offer VO users that is an improvement over the regular Chrome browser? - Andy On 3 Oct 2013, at 14:26, Sarah k Alawami wrote: > download and use chrome vox. I don't have a link to it but there i a list > that discusses chrome accessibility. I can get that stuff to you later

Re: What's the accessibility take on iOS7?

2013-10-03 Thread Sarah k Alawami
I love ios7 and all its glory. It's accessible with some quirks and some pas crash and brake, but I'm sure that will come in time. But as for access issues others are reporting I'm not ringing them. Yu just need to practice some of the jesters until you can do them in your sleep. Where did you

Re: mouse clicking with VO

2013-10-03 Thread Sarah k Alawami
download and use chrome vox. I don't have a link to it but there i a list that discusses chrome accessibility. I can get that stuff to you later when I get back home from classes today if you want. Good luck. On Oct 3, 2013, at 6:15 AM, Michael Marshall wrote: > hey andy, > good thinking ther

Re: mouse clicking with VO

2013-10-03 Thread Michael Marshall
hey andy, good thinking there, i will test crome if a site is not working with the other one. thanks Michael On 03/10/2013, at 10:21 PM, Andy Collins wrote: > Hi Michael - > > I've not use Chrome for that kind of thing. Perhaps like me you may have to > use both browsers, determined by how a

Re: mouse clicking with VO

2013-10-03 Thread Andy Collins
Hi Michael - I've not use Chrome for that kind of thing. Perhaps like me you may have to use both browsers, determined by how a website functions with each. I guess you could keep Safari as your main one, especially if that's where your book marks are, and just use Chrome when you find things a

Re: mouse clicking with VO

2013-10-03 Thread Michael Marshall
hey andy, thanks for the reply to my question. i have played around with crome a tad and am wondering if there is a way to make it a bit more accessible? it's just little things like importing bookmarks and such. thanks for any help Michael On 03/10/2013, at 8:20 PM, Andy Collins wrote: > Hi

Re: Blogging on a Mac

2013-10-03 Thread Andy Collins
Thanks. I'm reading up on it now - Andy On 3 Oct 2013, at 02:50, Phil Halton wrote: > WordPress.com is definitely the way to go. You don't download anything and > you don't have to set up your own server. There's a document called "learn > WordPress "or something like that on the support.WordP

Re: mouse clicking with VO

2013-10-03 Thread Andy Collins
Hi Michael - This may or may not help, but I have encountered this when using Safari, but had better success when using Google Chrome. I use Chrome most of the time as it does seem to work better - Andy On 3 Oct 2013, at 07:19, Michael Marshall wrote: > hey listers, > > i'm having abit of tr

Re: What's the accessibility take on iOS7?

2013-10-03 Thread Cait and Maggie
Hi Lynn, Personally, I like IOS 7. some of the gestures took some getting used to, and I still struggle with a few of them, but that's me and not the OS! We upgraded both our phones from i phone 4's to the 5C, 32 g model. IOS 7 does run a bit faster on the new phones, but we didn't play around

What's the accessibility take on iOS7?

2013-10-03 Thread Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith
Hello everybody Firstly, let me just say that I’m not interested in what the “fat cats” and the professional analysts say; I’m looking for genuine user opinion here. I just wondered what you all make of iOS7.02 now that it is public, in terms of accessibility primarily, and functionality as a s

New Member Welcome

2013-10-03 Thread Gordon, Lynne & Tracy
Hello everybody Please do not reply to this message on list. If you wish to comment, please contact the new member or the support personnel directlyy. Until quite recently, it was traditional when new members joined the Mac Access Dot Net email forum that Gordon, Tracy and I tried to welcome th