Re: Skype on the Mac

2014-03-24 Thread Eleanor Burke
Thank you for this Sarah. Eleanor - Original Message - From: "Sarah k Alawami" To: "mac access list iOS Accessibility" Sent: Monday, March 24, 2014 2:44 AM Subject: Re: Skype on the Mac to learn the basics of skype for mac see this link. http://www.tffppodcast.com/looking-at-skype

Beginners Question Setting Up Voice Control

2014-03-24 Thread Eleanor Burke
Hi All, I have set up voice control on the Mac, e.g. instruction the Mac to close a window by saying 'close ' or 'open e-mails. All settings have been configured correctly but I have been unable to calibrate the microphone as this would appear to be something requiring visual assistance. Howev

upgrading to Mavericks

2014-03-24 Thread David Griffith
For the last 3 months my repeated attempts to upgrade to Mavericks had crashed at the authorisation stage with a message saying Apple had received a report of this problem. To be fair to Apple it appeared that they have repaired the bug which, for whatever reason, was preventing my upgrade from ML.

Re: upgrading to Mavericks

2014-03-24 Thread isaac
I am glad you’re mavericks upgrade has been a great experience. now you were asking how to turn off notifications? Here is how you turn off notifications first go to notifications center by pressing vo m twice to get to the extras menu then vo right arrow to get to the notifications center and

Re: upgrading to Mavericks

2014-03-24 Thread Richie Gardenhire
Is there a way, other than what was explained here? Richie Gardenhire, Anchorage, Alaska. Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 24, 2014, at 4:09 AM, David Griffith wrote: > > For the last 3 months my repeated attempts to upgrade to Mavericks had > crashed at the authorisation stage with a message sayin

Re: upgrading to Mavericks

2014-03-24 Thread isaac
I don’t think so. On Mar 24, 2014, at 8:05 AM, Richie Gardenhire wrote: > Is there a way, other than what was explained here? > > Richie Gardenhire, Anchorage, Alaska. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Mar 24, 2014, at 4:09 AM, David Griffith >> wrote: >> >> For the last 3 months my repeated

Re: Skype on the Mac

2014-03-24 Thread Caitlyn and Maggie
speaking of skype on the mac, how do you hang up on a call? thanks! Cait On Mar 24, 2014, at 4:33 AM, Eleanor Burke wrote: > Thank you for this Sarah. > > Eleanor > - Original Message - From: "Sarah k Alawami" > To: "mac access list iOS Accessibility" > Sent: Monday, March 24, 2014 2:

Re: Skype on the Mac

2014-03-24 Thread isaac
To hang up call just press command shift h. On Mar 24, 2014, at 8:19 AM, Caitlyn and Maggie wrote: > speaking of skype on the mac, how do you hang up on a call? > thanks! > Cait > > On Mar 24, 2014, at 4:33 AM, Eleanor Burke > wrote: > >> Thank you for this Sarah. >> >> Eleanor >> - Ori

Re: Skype on the Mac

2014-03-24 Thread Eileen Misrahi
Hi Isaac, Since you posted the VO or maybe it's an OS keystoke, is there a listing of keystroke list for all of them for skyp and where can one find the list of them? I guess I could open all of the individual menus and make my own list of them. I was hoping that there was a listing of all of t

Re: Skype on the Mac

2014-03-24 Thread isaac
The keystroke I posted was a keystroke to hang up Skype calls. On Mar 24, 2014, at 9:03 AM, Eileen Misrahi wrote: > Hi Isaac, > > Since you posted the VO or maybe it's an OS keystoke, is there a listing of > keystroke list for all of them for skyp and where can one find the list of > them? I g

Re: Skype on the Mac

2014-03-24 Thread Eileen Misrahi
Okay!!! I did understand that the keystroke you posted was for hanging up calls. It seemed like you were a more experienced user of Skype on the Mac that you could share a listing of keystrokes (if there was one) to those who are newbies in using Skyfe on the Mac. I didn't think my last post on

Re: upgrading to Mavericks

2014-03-24 Thread Phil Halton
What was explained here Richy? If you can be a little more specific in your question, we can probably give you an answer. On Mar 24, 2014, at 9:05 AM, Richie Gardenhire wrote: > Is there a way, other than what was explained here? > > Richie Gardenhire, Anchorage, Alaska. > > Sent from my iPh

Re: upgrading to Mavericks

2014-03-24 Thread Phil Halton
Please disregard my post, didn’t see the other messages in the thread. On Mar 24, 2014, at 10:38 AM, Phil Halton wrote: > What was explained here Richy? If you can be a little more specific in your > question, we can probably give you an answer. > > On Mar 24, 2014, at 9:05 AM, Richie Gardenhi

Re: Skype on the Mac

2014-03-24 Thread isaac
First you can use command three to get in to contacts. To get to the dial pad use command 2. To get to the current call window use command1. The current call window also has the mute and hang up buttons in the same window. To get to the message window first vo left arrow or control option left

Re: Skype on the Mac

2014-03-24 Thread matthew Dyer
To hang up a call use command shift h. HTH. Matthew On Mar 24, 2014, at 9:19 AM, Caitlyn and Maggie wrote: > speaking of skype on the mac, how do you hang up on a call? > thanks! > Cait > > On Mar 24, 2014, at 4:33 AM, Eleanor Burke > wrote: > >> Thank you for this Sarah. >> >> Eleanor

Re: Skype on the Mac

2014-03-24 Thread Sarah k Alawami
You can hit cmd shift h on the call, or failing that as sometimes it will fail, go to the current calls section of the table, and vo shift m on the call and hang up, or quit skype. lol! Take care. On Mar 24, 2014, at 6:19 AM, Caitlyn and Maggie wrote: > speaking of skype on the mac, how do y

Re: upgrading to Mavericks

2014-03-24 Thread Sarah k Alawami
I usually just go in to dnd first tign in th morning. You can find this in the notifications center in the table. Good luck. On Mar 24, 2014, at 5:08 AM, David Griffith wrote: > For the last 3 months my repeated attempts to upgrade to Mavericks had > crashed at the authorisation stage with a me

Re: upgrading to Mavericks

2014-03-24 Thread Sarah k Alawami
Sure. set up a keyboard shortcut in system prefs, keyboard, then after that you will have to do a bit of exploring as my short carried over from ml. Iset up cmd shift n as in notification center. Take care. On Mar 24, 2014, at 6:05 AM, Richie Gardenhire wrote: > Is there a way, other than wha

Re: Skype on the Mac

2014-03-24 Thread Margaret
How do you answer a call? Margaret Sent from my iPhone > On 25 Mar 2014, at 12:49 am, isaac wrote: > > To hang up call just press command shift h. >> On Mar 24, 2014, at 8:19 AM, Caitlyn and Maggie >> wrote: >> >> speaking of skype on the mac, how do you hang up on a call? >> thanks! >>

how to make a group email?

2014-03-24 Thread Eric Caron
Hi listers, Can someone give me the directions on how to create a email that will send out a message to a pre selected number of people? For example, I'd lioke to create a email that sends a message to all the people that were in my guide dog training class with me. I'd appre

Re: how to make a group email?

2014-03-24 Thread john gallagher
hi eric i do this with the braille sense but i think on the mac would you put commas between the email addreses but surely there must be a better way. - Original Message - From: Eric Caron To: OS X & iOS Accessibility Date: Monday, 24 March 2014 8.21 pm Subject: how to make a group emai

Re: how to make a group email?

2014-03-24 Thread Sarah k Alawami
Hello. select the contacts in your contacts app and click in the file menu, with selected make a group. Now name the group. when you type in the group in the to field it will then email all of them. I think that they can see each other's email addresses but I'm not sure. I mail merge everything

Re: Skype on the Mac

2014-03-24 Thread Sarah k Alawami
Simply when the window comes up tab to answer or hit vo shift end. it's always at the bottom of the window. I think but I:m not sure that the answer button is default. Tc. On Mar 24, 2014, at 1:15 PM, Margaret wrote: > How do you answer a call? > > Margaret > > > Sent from my iPhone > >>

Re: how to make a group email?

2014-03-24 Thread isaac
First press control n to open the new message dialog next choose the two button then select the contacts you want in the message then tab to the both of the message then send it. On Mar 24, 2014, at 3:20 PM, Eric Caron wrote: > Hi listers, > > Can someone give me the directions on how

RE: how to make a group email?

2014-03-24 Thread David Griffith
You need to start with Contacts and not with Mail. Assuming you have all your email addresses in your contacts then open contact and create a new group. Now you can simply copy and paste contacts from your main table into this new group. When you return to mail and type in the name of the group y

Re: how to make a group email?

2014-03-24 Thread Sarah k Alawami
Hmm. I normally don't do this paste thing unless i"m modifying a group. I just create from selected contacts in my address book via the file menu as for me it's less prone to errors, and quicker. and it yeps with serial mail. Take care. On Mar 24, 2014, at 1:32 PM, David Griffith wrote: > You

Re: Skype on the Mac

2014-03-24 Thread isaac
To answer a call when vo tells you that you have a call and when the Skype window comes up then vo right to the accept button and the call will start. On Mar 24, 2014, at 3:15 PM, Margaret wrote: > How do you answer a call? > > Margaret > > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On 25 Mar 2014, at 12

Re: how to make a group email?

2014-03-24 Thread Aleeha Dudley
Is there a way to do this with iOS? Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 24, 2014, at 4:26 PM, Sarah k Alawami wrote: > > Hello. select the contacts in your contacts app and click in the file menu, > with selected make a group. Now name the group. when you type in the group in > the to field it wil

Re: how to make a group email?

2014-03-24 Thread Sarah k Alawami
there I don't think is a way to make a group in the ios contacts app thanks to apple's sandboxing technology, or something. You have to use your computer to do that in its contact app. I could be wrong, and let's hope I am as that would be nice. On Mar 24, 2014, at 1:31 PM, Aleeha Dudley wrote:

Re: how to make a group email?

2014-03-24 Thread Andy Collins
You can do this by opening up contacts from the Doc, where you can create new contact cards, and put them in a display group, and then when you want to write to them all, you will just type in the name of the group in the cc or bcc field of your email - Andy On 24 Mar 2014, at 20:20, Eric Caron

Re: Skype on the Mac

2014-03-24 Thread Caitlyn and Maggie
Oh, thanks! Lots better then doing command q! Cait On Mar 24, 2014, at 9:49 AM, isaac wrote: > To hang up call just press command shift h. > On Mar 24, 2014, at 8:19 AM, Caitlyn and Maggie > wrote: > >> speaking of skype on the mac, how do you hang up on a call? >> thanks! >> Cait >> >> On M

Re: how to make a group email?

2014-03-24 Thread Eric Caron
Hi David and others, Wow! that is pretty easy. thanks very much for the directions. I tried this with a existing group name from my contacts and it popped up and looked ready to mail. I just need to set up the sub groups for those I need to mail to. This list really came th

problems with iBooks on the mac.

2014-03-24 Thread Ian McNamara
Hi all, don’t know if anyone can help with this. I seem to be having a problem with ibooks on the mac. When I read some of my books it will start reading then keep saying text text text. Then after scrolling threw it’ll then start reading other bits of the book having failed to read the bits bef

Re: problems with iBooks on the mac.

2014-03-24 Thread Josh Gregory
This program is not quite accessible yet with an OS X, from what we know they're working to fix it Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 24, 2014, at 8:41 PM, Ian McNamara wrote: > > Hi all, don’t know if anyone can help with this. I seem to be having a > problem with ibooks on the mac. When I read so

Re: problems with iBooks on the mac.

2014-03-24 Thread Sarah k Alawami
Tha'ts what I hear, and actually that's whats holding my adeneum up. I have 2 files out, but yeah ibooks really needs to become better. 'm quite surprised that if there were beta testers of this software who were visually impaired that they either never reported the troubles, which is unlikely,

Re: problems with iBooks on the mac.

2014-03-24 Thread Ian McNamara
It is odd because some of them read absulootly fine and some don’t. Ian McNamara <--- 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 archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the li

Re: problems with iBooks on the mac.

2014-03-24 Thread Josh Gregory
Sarah, completely agree, I don't really use iBooks that often but if it became more accessible I might give it a shot Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 24, 2014, at 8:49 PM, Sarah k Alawami wrote: > > Tha'ts what I hear, and actually that's whats holding my adeneum up. I have 2 > files out, but ye

Re: problems with iBooks on the mac.

2014-03-24 Thread Sarah k Alawami
Yeah. I dunno. it's been a problem weber since mavericks was released. It's just plain odd. I hope apple can fix it. Have you emailed accessibil...@apple.com with the problem? I did a while bad and they just said we'll forward it. I hope the next iteration of mavericks can cause me to update

Re: problems with iBooks on the mac.

2014-03-24 Thread Sarah k Alawami
I used it to read an ebook once, but that was in the update before this one, what ever it was. lol! I can't remember. I guess the more of us that ask, the louder we'll collectively talk and the more apple will have to listen, if we ask nicely of corse. Take care. On Mar 24, 2014, at 5:52 PM, J

Re: problems with iBooks on the mac.

2014-03-24 Thread Zachary Kline
Hi, Unfortunately, I don’t have any info for you, at least not in terms of solutions. I have to say this problem has been impacting me too. I hope they fix the app soon. Best, Zack. On Mar 24, 2014, at 6:02 PM, Sarah k Alawami wrote: > I used it to read an ebook once, but that was in the updat

Re: problems with iBooks on the mac.

2014-03-24 Thread Josh Gregory
Very strange indeed, but regardless, some of the buttons and things are unlabeled, this might seem trivial to summon that is fine, but it does impact Usability by just a little bit Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 24, 2014, at 8:50 PM, Ian McNamara wrote: > > It is odd because some of them read a

Re: problems with iBooks on the mac.

2014-03-24 Thread Sarah k Alawami
Well, at least some of them have help tags now, or at lease it did when 10.9.1 came out. Not sure about 10.9.2 as I have not had a chance to test epub files with this. Good luck. On Mar 24, 2014, at 5:53 PM, Josh Gregory wrote: > Very strange indeed, but regardless, some of the buttons and t

Re: how to make a group email?

2014-03-24 Thread JAKE JOEHL
If you are sending the email to a bunch of people, one good option is to put all of them in the BCc field and then in the To field just type your name and/or email address. This helps eliminate spam, and it also prevents all recipients from having to weed through all the email addresses to get t

Re: problems with iBooks on the mac.

2014-03-24 Thread Christopher gilland
Why do you think I frankly don't report bugs hardly anymore. Need I say more? Chris. - Original Message - From: "Sarah k Alawami" To: "mac access list iOS Accessibility" Sent: Monday, March 24, 2014 8:49 PM Subject: Re: problems with iBooks on the mac. Tha'ts what I hear, and actu

Re: problems with iBooks on the mac.

2014-03-24 Thread Christopher gilland
I've e-mailed accessibility, and like normal, get the canned response of, we're aware and will fix it, in time. I pretty much have stopped e-mailing them, as they keep saying quote: in time. There are some bugs I know of which date all the way back to Tiger! which haven't been fixed, if that