Re: [Mac-access]: iPad Mini 2

2014-12-11 Thread Brian Fischler
Mini 2 Well, I can't wear headphones or at least I'm put off wearing them after an ear infection which nearly perforated my eardrum back in March. Sorry for the waffle but! On 10/12/2014 18:19, Brian Fischler wrote: Sorry to hear you restored your device as the same exact thing happened

Re: [Mac-access]: iPad Mini 2

2014-12-10 Thread Brian Fischler
Sorry to hear you restored your device as the same exact thing happened to me with the new iPad mini and all you need to do is plug in headphones to hear VoiceOVer and from there for some reason with headphones plugged in you can then raise the volume. I did soft resets and nothing and was

Re: [Mac-access]: Recording with Voice memos

2014-11-06 Thread Brian Fischler
I disagree as a buddy of mine and I record a weekly podcast using voice memos and the quality of recording of a 5S and voice memos is just fine as I would not want to do the podcast if the quality was crap. What I would suggest doing is turn on Do Not Disturb then click record in voice memos

Re: recommended rss readers

2014-07-17 Thread Brian Fischler
Not sure if it was mentioned here but the best iPhone RSS reader is Newsify syncs up with your Feedly account and I believe it is free not sure I got it along time ago, does everything you would want it to do, by far and away the best most accessible RSS reader I have found. It’s so good I have

List Membership You need to find another method

2014-06-30 Thread Brian Fischler
Just an FYI for those of us you receive this list in an single email for every message, I think it was wrong of you to ask everyone wishing to stay on the list to email the list with their email as you have flooded my email with a ton of messages that are of no concern to me. I understand you

Re: tagging somebody on Facebook using Safari on Mac

2014-06-17 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, Thanks for this info Brian. I’m curious as I have started doing all of my Facebook posts from the notification center, as it is quick and reliable, but no way to tag anyone in a post, is there any way to tag someone from the notification center? If you put the @ symbol and typed out

Re: tagging somebody on Facebook using Safari on Mac

2014-06-17 Thread Brian Fischler
Thanks Sarah that is what I figured. On Jun 17, 2014, at 1:57 PM, Sarah k Alawami marri...@gmail.com wrote: Nope. I tried. You have to use safari to do it or the ios fb app. Take care. On Jun 17, 2014, at 9:59 AM, Brian Fischler brianfisch...@me.com wrote: Hey all, Thanks for this info

Re: Posting To Twitter or Facebook, Is It Just Me?

2014-02-14 Thread Brian Fischler
Nope this seems to be the one thing in Mavericks that has worked very well for me. Wish I had a suggestion for you, sorry. On Feb 14, 2014, at 3:33 AM, Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net wrote: Hi! When posting Twitter or Facebook from the Notifications Center on my Mac I now seem to

Re: Mountain Lion Safari; Pages have Stopped Interacting when opened.

2013-12-11 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey, I get this issue from time to time where I load a page and VO doesn't automatically interact with the page. Toggle VO off and back on with command F5 and most of the time this will fix the automatic interact issue. Hope this works it does for me. On Dec 11, 2013, at 4:55 PM, Martin G.

Re: ABBYY FineReader Pro now available for the Mac

2013-12-06 Thread Brian Fischler
What are the benefits of the pro version over the express? Do you not have to hit scan twice to scan a document? I assume the reason in the express version I have to hit it twice is to scan once and then OCR it. Thanks. On Dec 6, 2013, at 2:47 AM, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk wrote:

Re: Deleting a Skype account

2013-11-12 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, Would love to hear what I am doing wrong as I had signed up with Skype through Facebook and have learned you can't access Skype on the iPhone anymore through Facebook I went to Skype.com and clicked on sign in trying to see what options I had for my account but every time I click the

Re: Safari 6.1 bug?

2013-11-02 Thread Brian Fischler
Yes, I am having the same exact problem, and encounter this header bug when using the voiceover rotor but once I exit the rotor and use quick nag I can navigate down through the headers. This is yet another very pathetic bug on Apple's part and either Voiceover gets little to no testing before

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

Re: Adding extra rows in Numbers

2013-08-10 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey Andy, I find Numbers very difficult to use with VO and have stopped using it but if I recall correctly go to where you want to enter a new line and I believe command right arrow will enter a new cell below your current position hope this helps On Aug 10, 2013, at 2:03 PM, Andy Collins

Re: Adding extra rows in Numbers

2013-08-10 Thread Brian Fischler
a...@recreation.plus.com wrote: Thanks Brian - certainly Numbers is proving to be a challenge. Thankfully I don't require it for really complicated calculations - Andy On 10 Aug 2013, at 19:26, Brian Fischler blindga...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Andy, I find Numbers very difficult to use with VO

Re: Tffp presents: a look at down cast for osx

2013-08-03 Thread Brian Fischler
indeed are! signed into ICloud. Chris. - Original Message - From: Brian Fischler blindga...@gmail.com To: Mac OSX iOS Accessibility mac-access@mac-access.net Sent: Friday, August 02, 2013 11:07 PM Subject: Re: Tffp presents: a look at down cast for osx Is anyone else having

Re: Tffp presents: a look at down cast for osx

2013-08-02 Thread Brian Fischler
Is anyone else having issues getting iCloud sync to properly sync all their podcasts on the mac? Mine are not syncing correctly. Thanks. On Aug 2, 2013, at 11:00 PM, Chris Gilland ch...@clgproductions.com wrote: Oh my God! It's finally available? OK, I'm downloading this thing, case closed.

Re: FaceBook

2013-07-31 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, a little tip using Facebook and safari that some of you might not know. I have my Facebook page set to where it is bookmarked and I have set a web spot right on the what's on your mind field, and almost every time I pull Facebook up by my bookmark it opens right to the what's on your

Re: State of Apple Accessibility (was: Re: Logic Pro X accessibility: the view from Cupertino)

2013-07-23 Thread Brian Fischler
, at 19:20, Brian Fischler blindga...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Gordon, First, my bad, as I get all these emails in one mail folder, and just assumed this was the Google group, macvisionaries where several months ago I got blasted on that one for expressing my opinion about numbers having so many

Re: State of Apple Accessibility (was: Re: Logic Pro X accessibility: the view from Cupertino)

2013-07-22 Thread Brian Fischler
, Brian Fischler blindga...@gmail.com wrote: Hey All, Funny as the message you got from Apple on Logic is the same exact response I have gotten for years from Apple about the awful accessibility of Numbers which I now no longer use. I got blasted on this list for listing several issues

Re: State of Apple Accessibility (was: Re: Logic Pro X accessibility: the view from Cupertino)

2013-07-20 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey All, Funny as the message you got from Apple on Logic is the same exact response I have gotten for years from Apple about the awful accessibility of Numbers which I now no longer use. I got blasted on this list for listing several issues with mountain lion and voiceover when it came out.

Re: MAIL HAS NO WINDOWS

2013-07-20 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey Carol, I believe you might accidentally be closing all of mail when trying to close an email. I occasionally do this as I leave my mail open all the time on my desktop. A quick way to relaunch mail is having a keyboard commander for mail. I use the z key with the modifier key I think option

Re: State of Apple Accessibility (was: Re: Logic Pro X accessibility: the view from Cupertino)

2013-07-20 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey John, Relax. It is great to read everyone's opinions on the topic. Do some people go to far saying that Apple isn't committed to accessibility. Sure, but hey that is their opinion. In my posting, I am just saying, I don't know how something so simple as web spots can be reversed as it is

Re: State of Apple Accessibility (was: Re: Logic Pro X accessibility: the view from Cupertino)

2013-07-20 Thread Brian Fischler
AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT On Jul 20, 2013, at 3:47 PM, Brian Fischler blindga...@gmail.com wrote: Hey John, Relax. It is great to read everyone's opinions on the topic. Do some people go to far saying that Apple isn't

Re: MAIL HAS NO WINDOWS

2013-07-20 Thread Brian Fischler
? At least I think i remember it being that way. On 7/20/2013 2:51 PM, Brian Fischler wrote: Hey Carol, I believe you might accidentally be closing all of mail when trying to close an email. I occasionally do this as I leave my mail open all the time on my desktop. A quick way to relaunch

Re: State of Apple Accessibility (was: Re: Logic Pro X accessibility: the view from Cupertino)

2013-07-20 Thread Brian Fischler
BUSINESS AFFILIATE MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT On Jul 20, 2013, at 4:48 PM, Brian Fischler blindga...@gmail.com wrote: Hey John, Yes, I agree who ever made the half baked comment seems to be going a little far. As for me and numbers, I am not sure what my issue

Re: Accessible Internet Browsers For the Mack andVoiceoverwithMountain Lion

2013-07-08 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, Not having built in flash in safari has been a love/hate thing for me, as I love how sites that have built in video that plays over voiceover doesn't play, but when I do want to watch a youtube clip or listen to an audio clip, not having flash has been frustrating, one way to get the