I agree. I used to have this problem with the TrackPad Commander turned on. Now
I keep it disabled and just enable it if I need to use it for a specific task,
and then turn it off again.
Just as a reminder, you can turn TrackPad on and off by pressing VO keys and
rotating two fingers clockwise
Hi all,
Phil, have you actually tried them with the Mac? Can you turn them off and then
on again without losing VoiceOver?
I've asked this question elsewhere on this list but never seem to get an
answer. All my bluetooth headsets which work fine with VoiceOver on iOS have
problems on the Mac.
Hi All:
It still isn't working.
I went to default alert in the calendar settings. It is set to sound an alert
15 minutes before an event. So I put two events in my calendar as an
experiment but the alert did not go off. Any other suggestions?
Jean
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them and my status when I looked at the group via the web site said "joined,"
but I don't get mail from them, so have no idea what's going on, so could use
some help.
On Jun 5, 2013, at 6:23 PM, Joanne Chua wrote:
>
Hi everyone, first, a big thanks to Cara for the permission to post this here.
Mosen Consulting will be doing a series of webinars over the next little while
on audio and broadcasting-related things. The first, on June 15, is Record Tech
Demos like a Pro. It will give you a broad overview of the
Hi Les,
A couple more things that, hopefully, may but possibly, may not work. Try them
one at a time then see if things are fixed, if they work, then of course, you
don't need to do the rest of the options.
1. Press VO-shift-d to force focus on the Desktop.
2. Click your mouse or trackpad on
Hi,
Open something that will make your keyboard active, once the keyboard is up,
twist with two fingers to activate rotor controls. Keep twisting until you
hear "Typing Mode", swipe up or down until you hear "Touch Typing".
That should do it.
Later...
Tim Kilburn
Fort McMurray, AB Canada
On
How do you turn on the feature where you can put your finger down on the
keyboard and then when you lift it off the letter appears on the Iphone
5 and Ipad?
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Wow, what an amezing discussion we have about IOS camera and blind photographe.
Thanks Cara for creating the group. Just join. :)
I know there are some apps available to help a blind person navigating the
digital camera or DSLR camera menu using voice over. One was been release
True.
On 6/5/13 15:16, Jessica Moss wrote:
I've noticed in one instance for example, and I don't know if it's a
flaw with their computer system, or what's behind this, but I've
noticed that for some reason, when Walgreens decides to call with
their automated servey, and it does the typical "
I've noticed in one instance for example, and I don't know if it's a flaw with
their computer system, or what's behind this, but I've noticed that for some
reason, when Walgreens decides to call with their automated servey, and it does
the typical "press 1 for English," I'll try to press 1 on th
well, I guess an ending download sound will need to go on our wish list.
Gigi
On Jun 5, 2013, at 3:45 PM, Kerri wrote:
> It's one of the things I miss from windows as well, sad to relate. I'm not
> much into sounds for everything as I mainly use a Braille display so even
> speech is mostly
It's one of the things I miss from windows as well, sad to relate. I'm not much
into sounds for everything as I mainly use a Braille display so even speech is
mostly off, but I ust candidly admit that a dowload complete sound would rock.
On 2013-06-05, at 3:00 AM, Chris Gilland wrote:
> Good gr
Hi,
I think the simplest solution is to just turn off trackpad commander. With the
trackpad commander off, the only way the mouse would bring voiceover focus all
over the place with accidental presses is if you have set your mouse cursor to
move your VO cursor in Voiceover utilities. If you d
Worked for me too. Many thanks to all who helped with this. You'd think that
I, who have used a Mac since November of 2009 would have remembered that.
Again, thanks.
Saving this in the cloud for when I need it again.
Sent from my mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind
Yes, I did have trackpad commander on. I'll disable it and see what happens,
plus divorce vo and the mouse cursor completely. I was hoping to be able to
leave the commander enabled all the time, but I guess not.
On Jun 5, 2013, at 2:13 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The only times I've had t
Hi All,
For those interested on both lists, I've just started a Blind Photography group
at:
http://groups.google.com/group/blindphotography
Membership is open right now so y'all can join but I'll be making the group
invite-only very shortly so we head-off spammers before they start. :)
Please
Hi Tim,
Well, I unloaded VO and relaunched without change. Something visually must
have happened. I went into preferences and didn't see anything to modify. I
checked under the view menu and I'm set to view as lists which is what I wish.
So I'm stumped on this one. Thanks.
Les
On Jun 5, 2
Hi,
Try toggling VO off then on. Sometimes things get messed up by background apps
not usually visible to VO.
Later...
Tim Kilburn
Fort McMurray, AB Canada
On 2013-06-05, at 11:43 AM, Les Kriegler wrote:
> Well, I've tried all suggestions. The only thing that works besides using
> the VO
Ray,
Sorry, on lunch now so can look at MacVisionaries stuff. While Mail is in
Normal view, not Classic that is, these are the steps:
1. Stop Interacting with everything.
2. Navigate to the Vertical Splitter just to the right of the Messages Column
Group.
3. Press VO-cmd-f5 to make sure the
I just found another way sort of by accident:
1. Go to the vertical slider between the messages list and the preview pane.
2. Hit Vo-command-f5 to route the mouse pointer to the VoiceOver cursor.
3. Do a double tap by quickly hitting Vo-Shift-Spacebar twice.
- Austin
Pay no attention to that ma
Hi,
When VO is on, the iPhone is set by default to bring up the phone keypad when
you pull the iPhone away from your ear.
Later...
Tim Kilburn
Fort McMurray, AB Canada
On 2013-06-05, at 10:44 AM, Scott Berry wrote:
> Is there a quick way to bring up the keypad so I can use it with automated
Hi Jean,
Are you receiving the notification but just no sound with it or are you not
receiving the alert at all? Have you set the default times in the Mail,
Contacts & Calendars section of the Settings app? In this area you can set
default reminder intervals for calendar events.
Later...
Ti
Hi,
The only times I've had this sort of issue is when the Trackpad Commander is
turned on. Accidental touches on the trackpad are usually ignored with the
Commander off whereas with it on, they are considered gestures to act upon.
Also, when you have cursors tracking each other, the typing a
Not sure. Normally, when the Preview pane is off, it announces the state
properly as long as you actually opened the message.
Later...
Tim Kilburn
Fort McMurray, AB Canada
On 2013-06-04, at 8:47 PM, Ray Foret jr wrote:
> Ah, much thanks. Now, how to get Mail to tell me when a message is rea
Well, I've tried all suggestions. The only thing that works besides using the
VO arrow combinations is the tab key.
Les
On Jun 5, 2013, at 9:23 AM, Eugenia Firth wrote:
> I have had to turn Quick Nav on sometimes to navigate the desktop when this
> happens. Then, for some weird reason, if I t
Hi all,
Whenever I try to open YouTube on my Mac, the site doesn't open an it
merely says "empty HTML content."
All other sites are working perfectly.
Why could this be happening?
It's been happening for quite a while now.
Best,
Rahul
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There is a step missing at the end. I hope Tim sees this because he has
provided specific instructions on how to do it, which I followed and it worked
perfectly.
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Is there a quick way to bring up the keypad so I can use it with
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Sorry for the new subject line. I have not yet figured out how to reply from
the digest mode.
I am still having trouble. My calendar is in the notification center. Do not
disturb is off. I have selected alerts from the alert style section. The
sound called timber is checked as the sou
Okay, here's what I'm doing under the latest version of 10.8.4.
1. Using VO+right, navigated just to the right of the "message column area".
There's a verticle spiter there.
2. Routed the mouse to this using VO+shift+5.
3. Double click the physical trackpad with track pad commander turned o
Unfortunately, I don't, and a mouse would partially eliminate the point of the
laptop: portability. I'll maybe look into a script that can toggle the trackpad
on and off...
On Jun 5, 2013, at 11:15 AM, Red.Falcon
wrote:
> Hi there!
> OK this might not be good for you, but if you have a stand a
I'll add to what the last responder wrote. The font size for notes, mail, and
messages, up to 56pt in settings>accessibility>large text.
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OK this might not be good for you, but if you have a stand alone mouse and it
is not too much trouble if you plug it in and tuck it behind the laptop, you
can then switch off the trackpad altogether!
HTH colin
On 5 Jun 2013, at 15:29, Traci wrote:
> Thankfully, I haven't had this iss
Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, the "ignore accidental input" option
for the trackpad is gone, and google told me why: it is now automatic. So, I
guess I've already enabled that setting and didn't realize it. Hmm... guess I
will have to change my hand position after all.
On Jun 5, 2013
How do you turn the preview pain off in snowlepoard.
On Jun 5, 2013, at 8:49 AM, John Panarese wrote:
>You still have the preview pane showing if your message flags are not
> being identified.
> I think the VIP mailbox is only created if you have designated someone has a
> VIP. Can you use
No, the delete mailbox option is dimed out. IF message flags are still not
showing, how do I make sure I turn off preview pain? I've tried interacting
with the area just to the left of "mail activity" and bringing the slider to
the zero point then routing the mouse to that point and clicking i
You don't need an app, you can set up an automator workflow with a folder
action. Still, as I said, it might not work. I'll have to give it a try
sometime...
On Jun 5, 2013, at 10:07 AM, Chris Gilland wrote:
> I don't even know what Hazil is, let alone how to set it up. LOL!
>
> Chris.
>
> -
Thankfully, I haven't had this issue, but the following article may have the
solution for you.
http://www.macworld.com/article/1136275/trackpadoff.html
HTH, Traci
Sent from my iPhone
On Jun 5, 2013, at 6:31 AM, Alex Hall wrote:
> Hi all,
> Last night I was typing on the Air (which I rarely d
I don't even know what Hazil is, let alone how to set it up. LOL!
Chris.
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To:
Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 9:04 AM
Subject: Re: download sound on mac
This may sound like a complicated solution but what if one could set up
Hazil and creat
The gestures are actually different. Most are the same as when vo is off -
touching, swiping, and all that - but three fingers scroll the enlarged
display. If I recall correctly, you double tap and hold three fingers, then
slide them to move the screen around if not everything fits, or maybe you
You still have the preview pane showing if your message flags are not being
identified.
I think the VIP mailbox is only created if you have designated someone has a
VIP. Can you use the, Delete Mailbox, option if you VO-shift-m on the mailbox
itself?
Take Care
John D. Panarese
Director
Sorry for the confusion, but I was talking about the days I was using Windows
with MS Word. I have found that one has to be careful about text that touches
whatever you are trying to affect with alignments or fonts. I used to get text
all the time when I was using Windows that would have attribu
Hi, all,
I was just asked if I would explain to a person in the process of losing his
vision how he might be able to use the iPhone. Since I am totally blind, I
can't really judge how well the iPhone works for low-vision users. I know that
there is a Zoom function and that the font size can b
Hi all,
Last night I was typing on the Air (which I rarely do as it is for business
use) and the trackpad kept doing odd things. I know it was because my hand
would hit it as i typed, but it was still frustrating to jump out of the text
area I was in and be taken to some other part of the webpag
Well, it's working now. I put the mac to sleep last night, and tried again this
morning, and all is as it should be. Go figure! I also discovered the
incredibly useful, of verbose, "speak text changes" option in the verbosity
settings, which let me just read my document and hear all my style and
I have had to turn Quick Nav on sometimes to navigate the desktop when this
happens. Then, for some weird reason, if I turn it back off again, it starts
working.
regards,
Gigi
On Jun 5, 2013, at 6:20 AM, Chris Gilland wrote:
> Sometimes, even that! doesn't seem to always work for me.
>
>
Hi Alex
I did some experimentation this morning with TextEdit. Since I do a lot of work
with TextEdit for my business, I would be concerned if a bug like this
happened. I am not having the same problems you are having with your file. I
tried it with the keyboard and with the menu, and mine work
Thanks for the link Danny.
On 6/5/13 4:34, Danny Noonan wrote:
Found it in the middle of 165 listings. It's $5.49 in Australia so is probably
4.95 us.
It looks good and when my laptop is fixed ill start playing with it.
The info to find it is
https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/filebrowser-acc
I thought about that. The problem is that a new file is added when the download
starts (the .download file), and then changed to be the downloaded file when
the download is complete. So, it would play the sound when the download starts,
but I don't know if it would do so when it finishes.
On Jun
This may sound like a complicated solution but what if one could set up Hazil
and create a rule to monitor the Download folder and have it play a sound file
whenever a new file is added to that folder.
On Jun 5, 2013, at 3:00 AM, "Chris Gilland" wrote:
> Good grief am I the third! person to ag
The disk tends to become lose when connected,so I had to eject/replugin the
disk. But it finally created the new disk.
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Thanks everyone. The file is plaintext for now, but I'll save it as RTF or doc
since it will have to work on Windows machines. Since the text aligns to the
center, I know it is not my text type, or at least I don't think it is. I'll
try a single line at a time, and no, I'm not trying to put mult
The inability to edit is a big con for me. I don't always need to edit things,
but if I do, or even if I need to fix a scanning error or three, I would rather
have that option. Besides, the other apps are a third to a sixth of the price
and seem to offer more... Sorry Serotech, looks like Docusc
Have you tried re-formatting the disk and making sure it is both mounted
correctly (in Disk Utility) and iw writable?
On Jun 5, 2013, at 1:54 AM, Daniel C wrote:
> Hi,
> Just a quick question.
> Has anyone received error 10006 when making a Mountain Lion Boot Disk with
> Lion Disk Maker latest
Hi there everyone. I don't know if this has anything to do with my ongoing
struggle with Station playlist studio, but my headset is a Plantronics Usb
wireless ehadset, that is it uses the usb port. Should i be using anything else
and if so what? The strange thing now is that i have monitor devic
I tried to install custom based themes as I don't wanna jailbreak my device
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Has anyone used this app I tried to use it to install something g and all I
seem to get is an error message
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To reduce the latency of your XP machine, add a line like, 'pciSound.Buffer =
"50"' to your xp vmx file.
Regards,
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5 jun 2013 kl. 12:50 skrev Gavin Grundlingh :
> Didn't you say you were using WIndows 7 in your virtual machine?
>
I did, and it's true too. I thought i possibly could bring down latency in my
xp machine as well, Turned out i couldn't but that's not important, i only use
my xp machine for gam
Sometimes, even that! doesn't seem to always work for me.
Chris.
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To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 6:38 AM
Subject: Re: Navigating the Desktop
I find that, if ever something like this happens to
Didn't you say you were using WIndows 7 in your virtual machine?
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Hi,
I did as you said, and in the .vmx file, this is what's got to do with sound:
sound.present = "TRUE"
sound.fileName = "-1"
sound.autodetect = "TRUE"
sound.pciSlotNumber = "34"
sound.startConnected = "TRUE"
No Sound.virtual or anything. What obvious thing am i missing?
/Krister
5 jun 2013 kl.
Oh i forgot to mention that this is for the Windows XP machine.
/Krister
5 jun 2013 kl. 12:03 skrev Gavin Grundlingh :
> Hi Krister,
>
> Open the folder where your virtual machine is located. Usually, this is in
> ~/Documents/Virtual Machines. You should have a file there with the name of
> yo
I find that, if ever something like this happens to me, tabbing between the
various desktop items seems to sort things out. After tabbing once or twice, I
can usually go back to using the arrow keys.
Regards,
Gavin Grundlingh
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Found it in the middle of 165 listings. It's $5.49 in Australia so is probably
4.95 us.
It looks good and when my laptop is fixed ill start playing with it.
The info to find it is
https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/filebrowser-access-files-on/id364738545?mt=8
Danny.
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On 05
Also, I forgot to ask, and this may sound like a stupid question, but are you
trying to edit plain text or rich text?
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I have always! found desktop navigation to be really spiratic. Sometimes I
can't even vo+left and right arrow. I have to command tab away from the
finder to another app, then back to the finder again, then! things start
working as they should.
I made Apple aware of this, but even the enginee
Hi there,
I've been playing with this for about a half hour now, and I've only managed to
successfully get the alignment to read out correctly if I change it on single
lines or paragraphs at a time. Using multiple alignments on one line doesn't
seem to work. Weather you can do this visually, I'
OK, wait a second. Do you have a pare of eyeballs who can look and confirm
yay or nay?
What if you go to the aligned text and do vo+T? Or did I miss you saying
you'd tried that already.
Chris.
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To:
Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2013 10:19 PM
Subj
I doubt it, but it's worth a shot.
Chris.
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To:
Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2013 9:08 PM
Subject: Re: aligning text in Text Edit?
Instead of using the commands on the keyboard, maybe it would work if you
tried using the menu instead. I know tha
K, that answers my question then. So, you did try my suggestion. wow, I
have no clue then! That is! really weird.
Chris.
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To:
Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2013 8:54 PM
Subject: Re: aligning text in Text Edit?
Thanks for the suggestion, but it do
MS Word? Wait a minute! Since when has that been accessible on the mac?
Chris.
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To:
Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2013 8:18 PM
Subject: Re: aligning text in Text Edit?
Yes, I think I have an idea here. Whenever I want to change centering,
ital
OK, what if you select the parts of the text you want to get back to left
aligned, then! do your command left bracket? I suppose you already tried
that?
Chris.
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To:
Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2013 8:11 PM
Subject: aligning text in Text Edit?
Hi
Hi,
Absolutely. This won't affect anything on the OS X side of things.
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Hi and thanks for this useful info. Will this have any effect on the mac side
of things, that is can i use audio on both Mac and VM even though i use
HDAudio??
/Krister
5 jun 2013 kl. 12:03 skrev Gavin Grundlingh :
> Hi Krister,
>
> Open the folder where your virtual machine is located. Usual
I'm curious what other enhancements have been discussed could! be available
in this update aside from the pdf improvement. I know that they may not be
included, but what have you all heard the possibilities of?
Chris.
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To:
Sent: Tuesday, June
Hi there, My answering rant is below:
4 jun 2013 kl. 22:09 skrev Jonathan Mosen :
> My recommendation is that you simply switch off hearing yourself coming back
> in the headset. Even on a fast system there is still latency, and while some
> people have become used to it, I find it slows down m
Hi Krister,
Open the folder where your virtual machine is located. Usually, this is in
~/Documents/Virtual Machines. You should have a file there with the name of
your virtual machine, for example, Windows7.vmwarevm. Press VO-Shift-M on this
file, and select "Show Package Contents". Find the fi
Good grief am I the third! person to agree! that would really! make things
easier, no doubt!
Chris.
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To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2013 7:30 AM
Subject: Re: download sound on mac
Amazingly, this is one
But, will it do two page scanning? It doesn't seem to be doing so here,
unless I'm doing something wrong.
Chris.
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To:
Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 5:35 AM
Subject: Re: So wait. What should one use for scanning?
I love DocuScan as it'
Sounds great. Just to clarify, though, there was never any announcement about
changes to VoiceOver support in TextEdit or Pages. Only to text contained in
PDFs.
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Just one correction: It is true that DocuScan cannot do OCR on JPGs, which is a
shame, but it can scan multiple pages into one file. I do this all the time and
it is really easy.
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I love DocuScan as it's so accessible. It's so easy to scan things and convert
them. I can create MP3 files and add them to iTunes. It automatically rotates
pages, gives you feedback if the page looks blank and generally produces
fantastic results.
I think the problems most people have with it
Hi there,
I'm using Win7 in my virtual machine that i have Station Playlist in. However,
i would like to know how i edit the file that was to be edited to use the HD
sound driver.
Thanks,
/Krister
5 jun 2013 kl. 07:42 skrev Gavin Grundlingh :
> Hi Krister,
>
> Are you, by any chance, using Win
When I access the Finder window, I have two items, Macintosh HD and my external
disk drive shown. I always arrowed using up and down arrows to highlight
either drive. Now, for some reason, I hear nothing when using the down arrow
key to move from Macintosh HD to my external disk drive. I have
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