Re: How do I edit cell contents in Numbers?

2013-10-07 Thread erik burggraaf
Hi, Control option space on any cell will edit the contents of that cell. Best, Erik Burggraaf Ebony Consulting will close it's doors for good on december 20th. Thanks to everyone who contributed to the past four years of success for my little consulting business. It means a lot to me. Ebony

Re: How do I edit cell contents in Numbers?

2013-10-07 Thread Agent086b
Press Option + Enter. This will allow you to edit the sell. Max. On 08/10/2013, at 3:48 PM, Alex Hall wrote: > Hi all, > I went ahead and got Numbers. It is good that we can arrow around the grid, > at least until there is editing to be done. I can type and have the text > entered into the focu

How do I edit cell contents in Numbers?

2013-10-07 Thread Alex Hall
Hi all, I went ahead and got Numbers. It is good that we can arrow around the grid, at least until there is editing to be done. I can type and have the text entered into the focused cell, but how do i then edit what I typed? Interacting does not work, and deleting without interacting seemed to c

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2013-10-07 Thread Maxwell Ivey
hi list; i am subscribed to a few rss updates from bloggers. i can't seam to make their old posts go away. how do you delete them and remove them so they don't reappear the next time you check your mail? thanks, max -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: bootcamp without sighted assistance

2013-10-07 Thread Alex Hall
That makes sense. Windows and Mac can read FAT and FAT32 formatted devices. However, Macs cannot write to NTFS devices, and Windows cannot write to devices formatted with the Mac file system. So, you need a format that both OSs are happy with, and your best option is FAT32. On Oct 7, 2013, at 8:

Re: bootcamp without sighted assistance

2013-10-07 Thread Terje Strømberg
Hi If memory serves, the external hard drive/usb device must be FAT or FAT32 i.e.. the device that Windows drivers is downloaded to. These drivers should be installed from this external usb device after Boot Camp installation. At my system the Boot Camp installer would not download the Windows

Copy music to cd

2013-10-07 Thread Helena Fehr
I wouldn't know. I just leave it the way it is. The one time I copied music to a cd for a friend, we listened to it on his stereo-system, and it played fine, so that's all that matters to me. God bless!!! Helena -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacV

Re: bootcamp without sighted assistance

2013-10-07 Thread Brent Harding
I think Brian Smart's talking Win PE thing that has NVDA built in is capable of working and installing Windows on a Mac. You have to make sure to hit the right partition though to not wind up blowing OSX away by mistake. I think this only works with win 7 or 8 though, not sure if it would do XP.

Re: A Friend of mine would like to subscribe to the list

2013-10-07 Thread Matt Dierckens
Hey thanks Alex. I'll let him know. : ) Matt Dierckens matt.dierck...@gmail.com Assistive Technology Trainer IOS and Macintosh User support Windsor area On 2013-10-07, at 6:11 PM, Alex Hall wrote: > I think the "private" flag just indicates that the list moderators have to > approve someone ma

Re: A Friend of mine would like to subscribe to the list

2013-10-07 Thread Alex Hall
I think the "private" flag just indicates that the list moderators have to approve someone manually. Other lists are set up so anyone can join, but this one is different. When your friend subscribes, he should get a message saying that his request is awaiting moderator approval. Once he is okaye

Re: bootcamp without sighted assistance

2013-10-07 Thread Phil Halton
Why would you want to reformat A portion of your drive? Boot Camp utility will do that automatically when you do the install. Be careful what you do without reading about it first. You can really cause some big problems if you don't know what you're doing. And, I'm not sure that using windows fr

bootcamp without sighted assistance

2013-10-07 Thread Anouk Radix
Hello everyone, Although windows via fusion works fine for many situations my braille display seems to be buggy if i use it with nvda. But is it possible to do an unattended install under botcamp as a blind person? I , unfortunately do not have any sighted assistance to do this procedure with. I

A Friend of mine would like to subscribe to the list

2013-10-07 Thread Matt Dierckens
Hey guys, my friend would like to subscribe, but he does it says that this list is a private one. Are we not aloud new users? How should he go about subscribing to the list? Thank you. Matt Dierckens matt.dierck...@gmail.com Assistive Technology Trainer IOS and Macintosh User support Windsor area

Re: Fastest Way to Scan Books?

2013-10-07 Thread erik burggraaf
Hi Sandy, thanks for the commiserations. They have been good years these Ebony consulting years. I'm happy to be moving on, but my little company served me very well when I needed it. The hovercam is a pretty fabulous tool, as long as you have a good OCR software. I don't know how well the

Re: Fastest Way to Scan Books?

2013-10-07 Thread erik burggraaf
Hi Annie, I'm using the hovercam twane under windows 7 and vmware fusion and it has worked very well. I have felt extremely confident demonstrating it to users and they have been happy with what I've shown them. Could I ask what OCR package you used with your hovercam? Thanks, Erik Burggraaf

Re: accessibility variations with different browsers

2013-10-07 Thread Chris Blouch
There are a couple buckets of reasons. Getting a good experience depends on a stack of stuff all working right. That stack would be the HTML from the web site, the browser and then the screen reader. Errors in the HTML are handled in different ways by the browser/screen reader. Some attempt to

Re: accessibility variations with different browsers

2013-10-07 Thread Phil Halton
I was about to ask the same question. Specifically, why use chrome? On Oct 7, 2013, at 11:39 AM, Traci Duncan wrote: > Hi all, > > Just recently, my bank's bill payments portion of the site has been tricky > with Vo & Safari. I was pleased to realize, it is working well using Chrome. > > Why

Re: navigating pop up menus with first letter?

2013-10-07 Thread Mary Otten
Hi Edward, Thanks. I was ever so sure that I had, in fact, turned qn off prior to attempting to use first letter nav in the pop up menu. But I must not have, because I just did it again, after seeing your note, and it worked as it should on the amazon site. I do think it would be nice if the qn

Re: Trackpad Command for Notification Center

2013-10-07 Thread Jonathan Mosen
Oh, you're right! There's a bit of a knack to it, you really do have to go all the way from right to left, but it does work either way. Thanks very much for this, much appreciated. Jonathan Mosen Mosen Consulting Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training http://Mosen.org On 8/10/2013,

Re: Trackpad Command for Notification Center

2013-10-07 Thread Kevin Shaw
No problem, Jonathan. I tried the same gesture with Trackpad Commander on and off and the Notification Centre came up both times. When you bring it up with a 2 finger right to left gesture, VO will stop interacting with whatever you're working with. You can hit escape to get back out of it. I

Re: Trackpad Command for Notification Center

2013-10-07 Thread Jonathan Mosen
Thanks Kevin. But having to toggle the VO trackpad support on and off just to get there sort of defeats the purpose of trying to get efficient access to it. I have assigned a hotkey, so may just keep using that. Jonathan Mosen Mosen Consulting Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training h

Re: Trackpad Command for Notification Center

2013-10-07 Thread Kevin Shaw
2 finger swipe from right to left on the track pad without track pad commander on and it'll come up. 2 finger swipe from left to right to make it go away. Kevin On 2013-10-07, at 1:28 PM, Jonathan Mosen wrote: > I thought it would be convenient to assign a command using Trackpad Commander >

Trackpad Command for Notification Center

2013-10-07 Thread Jonathan Mosen
I thought it would be convenient to assign a command using Trackpad Commander to invoke the Notification Center. Has anyone done this? It seems Notification Center isn't its own app, so you can't assign one that way, and I've not found the ability to do it in any other menus. Thanks. Jonathan Mo

accessibility variations with different browsers

2013-10-07 Thread Traci Duncan
Hi all, Just recently, my bank's bill payments portion of the site has been tricky with Vo & Safari. I was pleased to realize, it is working well using Chrome. Why is this? Why do some sites work better depending which browser is being used? The bill payment area use to work just fine with S

Re: what's the word on the Numbers app with Voiceover?

2013-10-07 Thread Eugenia Firth
Yes, it would be easy to split a file, if that would work ok for you. If I wanted to do something like that, I would make a copy of the file, rename it to something else, and then just decide how many rows I wanted to take out, go to the EDIT option, and choose DELETE ROWS. You could even make s

Re: what's the word on the Numbers app with Voiceover?

2013-10-07 Thread Alex Hall
Thanks. I have 8gb of ram as well, if that helps anything. As i said, I don't know how long my files will get, but I can't imagine a hundred rows. Plus, if it starts to slow down, I can always split it up I suppose. On Oct 7, 2013, at 6:56 AM, Eugenia Firth wrote: > Hi Alex > I think 20 or 50 R

Re: what's the word on the Numbers app with Voiceover?

2013-10-07 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi Alex I think 20 or 50 Rose should be fine. I haven't started running into a problem until I got to say about 100. In my case, I can just wait a little bit before typing in something. Effect, if you don't have update it constantly you can generally tolerate the wait. I should add that I have

Re: Lost voiceover audio after playing with Bluetooth headset…

2013-10-07 Thread Nicholas Parsons
I wish there was. I have asked Apple Accessibility for a keyboard short cut to return VO speech to the inbuilt output. Here's hoping they fix the issue in Mavericks. Until they do, I just don't use bluetooth headsets with my Mac. I'm going to try to get some non-bluetooth wireless headset but I

Re: connectives in mac mail rules

2013-10-07 Thread Nicholas Parsons
yes, as far as I am aware you can't have nested conditions. So you can't, for instance, set an event to occur if condition one and either condition two or condition three are present. This is a shame. You can apparently do this in other places such as smart playlists where you apparently option