Will be at ACB from 10 - 12

2012-07-08 Thread Cara Quinn
Hi all, Just wanted to send along a quick note to let you know that LookTel will be at the ACB convention this week from the 10th through the 12th. I'll be at the booth so please do stop by and say hello if you'd like! :) I'd love to say hi in person. Moderating these groups is a very special

Re: Tips for Using Track Changes

2012-07-08 Thread Simon Cavendish
Dear Harry, I understand from the many expert messages that Ann has been posting on this list regarding iWork suite, that sadly track changes does not work with Voiceover. Ann is a very knowledgeable person in the matter, and had there been a work around, she would have found it. Maybe she will

safari question re heading navigation

2012-07-08 Thread Lisette Wesseling
Hi I wonder if anybody can explain why, very often, safari reports there are no next headings to be found, but when I continue to arrow right using quick nav, I hear all sorts of headings listed. I thought that by pressing h, or the number, it would jump to the next heading. Sometimes, it work

Re: Tips for Using Track Changes

2012-07-08 Thread Harry Hogue
Simon, Thanks very much. This is a real pity, since track changes is a pretty important feature. Of course, I've noticed that most of the formatting features in Pages don't really work that well, actually. Thanks, Harry On Jul 8, 2012, at 3:25 AM, Simon Cavendish wrote: > Dear Harry, > >

Re: Tips for Using Track Changes

2012-07-08 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Harry, As Simon said, track changes is a problem for VO users. We can see what changes have been made but not where they are. When you interact with the page, VO says "Page whatever, number of items". Anything over 3 items means there are additional items such as text boxes on that page.

Re: safari question re heading navigation

2012-07-08 Thread Dawn Johnson
Hello Lisette, I think that it has to do with the lay out of the web page. We have found that if the headers do not show up in VO-U, then we try VO-I and you can find details there. Sent from my iPad On Jul 8, 2012, at 5:31 AM, Lisette Wesseling wrote: > Hi > I wonder if anybody can explai

Question about drives and time machine

2012-07-08 Thread Stacey Robinson
Hi all, I now have a drive for backing up my mac running SnowLeopard. I've backed it up successfully. This drive is a 2TB drive. Can I also store files on the drive such as music? Do I need to do something so that my backups are in a different place? If so what do I need to do and how do I do it?

Re: safari question re heading navigation

2012-07-08 Thread Jürgen Fleger
That's an issue of VO, I suppose. Here it happens regularly. Sometimes it helps just to restart VoiceOver and sometimes it's useful to restart Safari. What for me is quite annoying in this context: it happens also in iTunes. VO even jumps back to the first header of the store page even though t

Re: chess?

2012-07-08 Thread Alex Hall
Yes, I'm finding that as well. Now I just need to find a small chess board with raised squares and a way of keeping the pieces in place while I feel them. Nothing too big, but it has to be accessible... On 7/7/12, Gerard Doody wrote: > I found these programs work best when I have a board to follo

Re: Question about drives and time machine

2012-07-08 Thread rashantha de silva
Stacey I assume you are using Time Machine for backups. You can store what you like on the drive. To move your music look at iTunes prefs > Advanced tab it will show the path to your music. Just google moving my itunes library to an external drive. You haven't indicated how your 2tb is connecte

Re: chess?

2012-07-08 Thread Gerard Doody
I have found that the travel chess set from I think it was maxiaids is the best for size and portability. the board folds up and you can keep the pieces inside the b oard. However, I do not believe tha this board meets the tournament regs for size of pices and or type. hdh Jerry Sent from

Re: chess?

2012-07-08 Thread Alex Hall
I'll have a look, thanks. I don't need a regulation board (I never even knew there was such a thing), I just need something to keep track of the computer's moves. On 7/8/12, Gerard Doody wrote: > I have found that the travel chess set from I think it was maxiaids is the > best for size and porta

Re: Question about drives and time machine

2012-07-08 Thread Stacey Robinson
My drive is connected via usb. On Jul 8, 2012, at 10:51 AM, rashantha de silva wrote: > Stacey > I assume you are using Time Machine for backups. You can store what you like > on the drive. To move your music look at iTunes prefs > Advanced tab it will > show the path to your music. Just google

Re: chess?

2012-07-08 Thread Gerard Doody
Hi I think it costs about thrty dollars. I always take this board with me, and it is excellent for correspondence chess. Let me know How you do. Jerry Sent from my iPhone On Jul 8, 2012, at 12:18 PM, Alex Hall wrote: I'll have a look, thanks. I don't need a regulation board (I never even k

Re: Time Capsule and backing up

2012-07-08 Thread Tim Kilburn
Harry, Just to make sure that everything is set up properly on your external, try the following: • Connect the external HD to your Mac. • Open Disk Utility. • Select your drive from the list on the left. Make sure that you select the drive itself, not the formatted partition. That is, select

BBC radio 4 extra

2012-07-08 Thread -
Bbc radio 4 extra can be streamed on a mac computer. It has older shows no longer broadcast of mostly drama and comedy. The daily schedule page is the last of the 3 links below. One has to keep in mind that the time is 4 hours ahead of the eastern us. The regular radio 4 with similar but

Re: BBC radio 4 extra

2012-07-08 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Uh, five hours ahead of Eastern. Double summer time and all. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! Skype name: barefootedray On Jul 8, 2012, at 1:19 PM, - wrote: > > Bbc radio 4 extra can be streamed on a mac computer. It has older shows no > l

Unable to determine people's answers to my questions on EHarmony

2012-07-08 Thread Eric Brinkman
I decided to take the plunge and join EHarmony, but I have become quite frustrated with their "guided communication" feature. I sent a match several multiple choice questions, and she responded, but when I try to read her answers, I just hear the choices. I can't tell which ones she has selected.

Re: Unable to determine people's answers to my questions on EHarmony

2012-07-08 Thread Harry Hogue
The answers are in bold, if I remember right, but I'm not sure how to set VO to automatically tell you that. Would love to know how to do this without a keystroke, if anyone does know. harry On Jul 8, 2012, at 2:09 PM, Eric Brinkman wrote: > I decided to take the plunge and join EHarmony, but

Re: Unable to determine people's answers to my questions on EHarmony

2012-07-08 Thread erik burggraaf
It's actually control option command B, only the EHarmony people have even managed to thwart that somehow. So, the way I do it is command A on the answer page and command C to copy. Then go to text edit. Press command shift R to make it rich text. Press command v to paste. Trim out the page head

Re: Unable to determine people's answers to my questions on EHarmony

2012-07-08 Thread Eric Brinkman
Many thanks, Erik! I figured I was going to have to call them tomorrow about this. Do you know what the "com"/"no thanks" buttons on the site do exactly? I know there is some sort of facebook integration that is supposed to tell you whether you have any connections with your matches, but I'm not

Re: Tips for Using Track Changes

2012-07-08 Thread Harry Hogue
What I mean with features is being able to tell things like centered text, different-colored text, tables (inserting them, etc), and I am just guessing here, but I imagine that putting in a table of contents or headers and footers wouldn't work too well, either. I would love to see an in-depth

Re: Unable to determine people's answers to my questions on EHarmony

2012-07-08 Thread Frank Tom
I don't know about accessibility now, but it's worth the effort. I met Janet on E Harmony seven years ago. In August we celebrate our fifth anniversary. With her four children and my two, we now have eleven gran children between us. Keep trying; it's worth the effort. Tom On Jul 8, 2012, at

weird Mac Issue

2012-07-08 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
Hi: I was playing a video someone emailed me. I was using vlc media player. The Mac foze, video made a weird noise, and I lost speech. I powered on Mac, Apple logo appeared. A dialog box popped up. I turned on VO, and Fred began talking. I was in disk utilities. I could erase disk, reinstall OS,

Searching the friends of other friends on Facebook

2012-07-08 Thread Orin
Hi all, In short, I'm trying to look for old school friends and such from other friends that I believe have kept in touch and thus friended these friends on Facebook. In the old interface before timeline, this used to be possible where I would go click on friends, there was a search area where I

Re: Burning playlist to disc in iTunes keeping original order

2012-07-08 Thread BlindBikeTrials
On Friday, July 6, 2012 1:26:00 AM UTC-4, Maria aka bubbyBubbyGirl wrote: > > Hi. if you get an answer to this i would be interested. > Blessings! Maria Joe and loving guide Karly. > Email/ I Message: &fb bubbygirl1...@gmail.com > twitter: bubbygirl > skype: bubbygirl1972 > > bubbygirl1...@g

No Skype option in Audio Hijack Pro

2012-07-08 Thread Blinkin
All, I have a question about recording Skype calls with audio hijack pro. I have two profiles set up on my Mac. Profile one has both Skype and audio hijack but Skype is not an option in the component list. My other profile has Skype as an option in audio hijack pro but it m

Re: No Skype option in Audio Hijack Pro

2012-07-08 Thread Matt Dierckens
Hey Mike. Contact me off list and I can help you out with this. Thanks. Matt Sent from my mac Twitter: matt692 msn: matt...@live.com skype: blindman3221 On 2012-07-08, at 8:59 PM, Blinkin wrote: > All, > I have a question about recording Skype calls with audio hijack pro. > I have tw

some basic questions about a mac

2012-07-08 Thread Scott Berry
Hello there, I am thinking about changing over to a Mac exclusively for school work. but I have a few questions. 1. Will Microsoft Office work with VoiceOver? If not, what would be another good word processing program for school work? 2. I do remember a while ago that there was a site w

Re: Unable to determine people's answers to my questions on EHarmony

2012-07-08 Thread CJ Daniel
Dito, I met my wife Kathi on Eharmony in December of '04 & we were married on Easter Sunday a little over 3-months later. While we have had our ups & downs, mostly because of our kids, I don't believe either of us would change a thing. That's over 7-years now & still cooking. Anyway, good

Re: some basic questions about a mac

2012-07-08 Thread Rachel Feinberg
Hi Scott, I can answer some of your questions. The Mac comes with TextEdit which is like Notepad in Windows, but a bit fancier. you can do some simple formatting in TextEdit, and save your documents in different formats like .RTF and .docx. However, a more full-fledged word processor for the ma

Re: safari question re heading navigation

2012-07-08 Thread CJ Daniel
Lisette, As previously mentioned, the solution seems to lay in restarting VO &/or occasionally Safari as well. This would seem to indicate a problem with VO loosing track of the big picture. It is annoying, as well as a few other bugs in Apple's accessible approach. But, it is cool to walk i

Re: some basic questions about a mac

2012-07-08 Thread CJ Daniel
Rachel, Glad some one took the time to answer a lot of Scott's questions. I can add that I use my PAC Mate's 40 character display with VoiceOver all the time. The routing buttons don't seem to work as I believe they should, but I can live with that. As for trying to sync the actual PAC Mate,

Re: Unable to determine people's answers to my questions on EHarmony

2012-07-08 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, There is also the VO-t command that will tell you the Text Attributes of a given text item including headings. Not sure how eHarmony lays out their web-page but if these items are textual, the VO-t command will be able to let you know if something is bold, italic, plain or whatever. Later

Check your firmware updates and RAM in case of Mac freeze while video playing {was Re: weird Mac Issue]

2012-07-08 Thread Esther
Hi Sarai, I haven't seen this issue myself, but I've read reports where this type of freezing behavior can occur associated with bad RAM or a memory slot going bad, or simply one of your memory chips not being firmly enough seated in the slot, which is more likely to happen if your Mac is a lap

Re: No Skype option in Audio Hijack Pro

2012-07-08 Thread Brandon Olivares
Hi Mike, Have you created a new session in Audio Hijack and chosen Skype as the source? I use Audio Hijack all the time and it works fine for Skype. I've used it to redirect output from Skype to another program, to record Youtube videos into mp3, to make iTunes louder when tracks aren't very lo