Re: Mozilla Thunderbird?

2014-01-17 Thread Teresa Cochran
No, it doesn’t, unfortunately. Teresa Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.--Groucho Marx On Jan 16, 2014, at 4:45 PM, Jesus Garcia jesusga...@gmail.com wrote: Evening list members, can someone tell me if mozilla thunderbird for the mac

Re: where to go from here? macv

2014-01-17 Thread Maria and Joe Chapman
Cheers Maria sent from mac mini email, fb bubbygirl1...@gmail.com skype bubbygirl1972 twitter same as skype without the numbers. On 17 Jan 2014, at 5:19 pm, Daniel Hawkins computersassocia...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to add, if you want to adjust VO on the fly, and not the

connecting bluetooth headpset

2014-01-17 Thread Dionipher Presas Herrera
can somebody tell me how to pair my bluetooth headset. because when im in the bluetooth preferences, i cant see my headset although it was already on. can somebody give me the step by step procedure. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries

Re: Teamspeak3 accessibility

2014-01-17 Thread Phil Halton
I'm totally unfamiliar with teamspeak and/or team talk. Does this mean they are usable or unusable for the blind? . On Jan 16, 2014, at 4:25 AM, Piotr Machacz piterm...@gmail.com wrote: the stable version of teamspeak works as well as team talk. That is, everything is accessible except the

Re: Teamspeak3 accessibility

2014-01-17 Thread isaac
Team speak and team talk are useable for the blind. On the mac platform team speak has some issues with accessibility. You can’t move from channel to channel on the server but for the most part it is useable. On Jan 17, 2014, at 8:09 AM, Phil Halton philh...@gmail.com wrote: I'm totally

Re: Teamspeak3 accessibility

2014-01-17 Thread David Taylor
Hi, Seems you have to fill in a capture to search their forums. Is there a link to a download file you can send to the list, or is it a case of get the main client first and upgrade to the beta from within it? Cheers Dave On 17 Jan 2014, at 14:23, isaac isaac.heb...@gmail.com wrote: Team

Re: Teamspeak3 accessibility

2014-01-17 Thread isaac
Here is the link to the team speak downloads for mac http://www.teamspeak.com/?page=downloads On Jan 17, 2014, at 8:25 AM, David Taylor e.david.tay...@icloud.com wrote: Hi, Seems you have to fill in a capture to search their forums. Is there a link to a download file you can send to the

Re: Teamspeak3 accessibility

2014-01-17 Thread David Taylor
Hi, that doesn't have the beta on it as far as I can tell though, so this doesn't answer my question. Cheers Dave On 17 Jan 2014, at 14:31, isaac isaac.heb...@gmail.com wrote: Here is the link to the team speak downloads for mac http://www.teamspeak.com/?page=downloads On Jan 17, 2014, at

questions about preview and braille

2014-01-17 Thread Caitlyn and Maggie
Hi, I have been reading a file in preview. I have another file open in text edit and have to switch between the two files. Everything is fine until I have to return to preview. when I do, my place isn’t kep and it goes back to the beginning of the section I originally did a find command for

Re: Safari question

2014-01-17 Thread David Taylor
Press command-[ Cheers Dave On 17 Jan 2014, at 15:38, regina alvarado reggie.alvar...@gmail.com wrote: Good morning. Haven’t quite gotten things sound wise the way I want them, but getting closer because of your help. Thanks. Have a simple question. When in Safari, if I am interacting with

Safari question

2014-01-17 Thread regina alvarado
Good morning. Haven’t quite gotten things sound wise the way I want them, but getting closer because of your help. Thanks. Have a simple question. When in Safari, if I am interacting with the HTML and links, how do I get back to the previous page I was on or my home page? Have the prefs to work

Re: Safari question

2014-01-17 Thread Daniel Hawkins
As David said cmd [. That can be found under the delete key. If you start from the right under the delete key and go left by three keys, that is [. If you hit cmd ] that will go forward. this key combination can be used under finder too. Daniel Hawkins - Posted from my Macbook Pro 2012 15in.

Re: questions about preview and braille

2014-01-17 Thread Daniel Hawkins
Hello all, This tip works in both Preview and Text Edit. When you go to the program go right untill you get to the text feild and interact, now do the rotor command and navigate with character, words, or lines, or paragraph, so when you switch from one app to the next it will remember the last

Re: Safari question

2014-01-17 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, In case David’s message doesn’t read the punctuation to you, it is command-left brace. This is the key just to the right of the letter “p”. These sort of shortcuts can also be found within the menubar in the History menu. Note that all regular keyboard shortcuts available to the sighted

Selecting a bunch of items in Mavericks without having to select them all

2014-01-17 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey all, Is there a command to select the first item and then go down a bunch select the last one and the command will select all the items in between the two points? For example if I want to highlight all of my Billy Joel songs for a playlist instead of clicking on 200 songs with VO command

Re: Selecting a bunch of items in Mavericks without having to select them all

2014-01-17 Thread isaac
Use command a to select all items. On Jan 17, 2014, at 10:43 AM, Brian Fischler blindga...@gmail.com wrote: Hey all, Is there a command to select the first item and then go down a bunch select the last one and the command will select all the items in between the two points? For example if

Navigating Between Sections Within a Chapter in iBooks?

2014-01-17 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, all, I’m currently reading a novel in iBooks which has several sections within each chapter. I can read it on the iPod just fine, but on the Mac, the sections don’t seem to be presented sequentially by VO. Whole sections are skipped sometimes. Has anyone found a way to use a keystroke to

Re: Selecting a bunch of items in Mavericks without having to select them all

2014-01-17 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey man, That won’t work, as I don’t want to select all items, I want to select al lthe items between a starting and ending point and the items in between those two points not outside them. On Jan 17, 2014, at 11:55 AM, isaac isaac.heb...@gmail.com wrote: Use command a to select all items.

Re: Selecting a bunch of items in Mavericks without having to select them all

2014-01-17 Thread Daniel Hawkins
Really? I use shift. Wonder what’s the difference... Daniel Hawkins - Posted from my Macbook Pro 2012 15in. Macbook Pro 2.3 Quad-core i7 4GB DDR3 500GB HDD Dual Boot: Windows 7 Ultimate Edition 64-bit On Jan 17, 2014, at 10:55 AM, isaac isaac.heb...@gmail.com wrote: Use command a to select

Anyone using Command C or Scribe

2014-01-17 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey, Been looking for something like this for awhile, a way to easily copy my clipboard on my mac to my iPhone and vice versa. I installed Comman C on my Mac but couldn’t get very far with it, and don’t want to plunk down the money for either of these utilities until I know they work with

Re: Selecting a bunch of items in Mavericks without having to select them all

2014-01-17 Thread Daniel Hawkins
Ok, what I do is do the line command, or word command or link command, then start the top and hold shift, and just go down till the end, once you have select all that you want, then cmd c to copy . Daniel Hawkins - Posted from my Macbook Pro 2012 15in. Macbook Pro 2.3 Quad-core i7 4GB DDR3

Re: Selecting a bunch of items in Mavericks without having to select them all

2014-01-17 Thread Teresa Cochran
I know of no method with the keyboard to mark the beginning and end of a selection area. You can try holding down shift-down-arrow, and then check your progress periodically by pressing VO-F6. Another way to do this might be to do a search in your library for Billy Joel, select all the

Re: questions about preview and braille

2014-01-17 Thread Caitlyn and Maggie
Daniel, Um.. thanks. However, how do you do the roter command on a mac? Or is this the vo u thing? Cait On Jan 17, 2014, at 11:07 AM, Daniel Hawkins computersassocia...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, This tip works in both Preview and Text Edit. When you go to the program go right untill

Re: questions about preview and braille

2014-01-17 Thread Daniel Hawkins
Ok, I use the trackpad for this, since I’m am more used to the IOS editing. If you turn on trackpad commander you can use rotor to select character, word, line, etc. when you interact with a text you can select one of the rotor options and use the down arrow. So you can skip by character, word,

Rotor setting not reading where it is set

2014-01-17 Thread regina alvarado
With quick nag on I hit left and up arrow to change to character to read by letter. This did not work. How do I read by character? Thanks! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving

Re: Selecting a bunch of items in Mavericks without having to select them all

2014-01-17 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey Teresa, Thanks, your search idea and selecting all might be the best way. I remember when I could see there was a way to do this back in my windows days. It is not a command I would use a lot, but every now and then. On Jan 17, 2014, at 12:18 PM, Teresa Cochran vegaspipistre...@gmail.com

Re: Rotor setting not reading where it is set

2014-01-17 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, Regina, the name of the feature is actually “quick nav” with a V as in Victor, short for navigation. I love your phrase for it, though, as it does sometimes seem that way to me. :) Make sure quick nav is turned on by pressing left and right arrow keys at the same time. Then try going to

Re: Rotor setting not reading where it is set

2014-01-17 Thread Alex Hall
Most times, you can interact with the text you want to read and then use vo commands to read it character by character. A filename in Finder, for instance, is easily reviewed: interact until you can't anymore, then use vo-shift-right or left, or vo-w twice. I prefer this to Quicknav since I

Re: Selecting a bunch of items in Mavericks without having to select them all

2014-01-17 Thread Teresa Cochran
Yes, it involves selecting the beginning or end of the area you want highlighted and holding the mouse down while you move it over your desired block of text or items. I’d imagine you could try this with VO and the mouse-dragging commands, or you might have better results with mouse keys on,

Serious Mail Busy Problems in Mavericks All of the sudden

2014-01-17 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey listers, Is anyone else experiencing serious mail busy busy busy problems in Mavericks classic view mail mode? Over the last two days mail has become almost unusable, with me having to constantly quit mail to stop the busy busy and sluggishness. It just started again while writing this

What is the intonation?

2014-01-17 Thread Daniel McGee
Hi all, I understand what the pitch is in the VO utility but could someone explain what does the intonation do when changed? Thank you Daniel -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving

Re: Serious Mail Busy Problems in Mavericks All of the sudden

2014-01-17 Thread Maria and Joe Chapman
HI. am not experiencing a lot of busy mail problems and usually if I do quitting mail resolves this for a very long time. I hope you can find a solution to this problem. Warm regards and blessings Maria, Joe and FurBabies Email: iMessage:bubbygirl1...@gmail.com On 18 Jan 2014, at 5:40 am,

Re: What is the intonation?

2014-01-17 Thread Teresa Cochran
intonation is how much expression the voice has, how much it rises and falls. If you set it to 0, you get a robot voice. Teresa The Golden Age of science fiction is twelve.--Pete Graham On Jan 17, 2014, at 10:41 AM, Daniel McGee danielmcgee...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi all, I understand what

Re: O.t flip4mac pro question

2014-01-17 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Hi Chris, Thank you very much for this. Andrew -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this

Re: PDF Pen

2014-01-17 Thread Eugenia Firth
Ok, Nic. Go ahead and send it to me off list, and I'll see what happens when I try it. Regards, Gigi On Jan 17, 2014, at 12:16 AM, Nicholas Parsons mr.nicholas.pars...@gmail.com wrote: HI Gigi, I was using PDFPen. I downloaded the trial version of PDFPen Pro, and at first it seemed to

Stanza not opening epub book in Mavericks

2014-01-17 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Listers, Has anybody had problems with Stanza opening epub books in Mavericks? I have an epub book which when I try to open it in Stanza in order to convert it into a .rtf gives me an error message about something or other missing in the archive. The error message is so long and complex that I

Re: Serious Mail Busy Problems in Mavericks All of the sudden

2014-01-17 Thread Brian Fischler
What was it about 15 minutes since I sent the message and I quit mail and was using it again and again the busy busy problems, and yes, I have restarted my computer and still the same problems. Very frustrating. On Jan 17, 2014, at 1:54 PM, Maria and Joe Chapman bubbygirl1...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: Serious Mail Busy Problems in Mavericks All of the sudden

2014-01-17 Thread Maria and Joe Chapman
Hi. I wonder if repairing permissions would help? Maria and Joe Chapman bubbygirl1...@gmail.com On 18 Jan 2014, at 6:05 am, Brian Fischler blindga...@gmail.com wrote: What was it about 15 minutes since I sent the message and I quit mail and was using it again and again the busy busy

Re: Stanza not opening epub book in Mavericks

2014-01-17 Thread Teresa Cochran
Is it a protected epub book, such as iBooks or Nook? You can’t read iBooks or Nook in Stanza. Teresa We're made of star stuff.--Carl Sagan On Jan 17, 2014, at 11:03 AM, Andrew Lamanche andrew.laman...@gmail.com wrote: Listers, Has anybody had problems with Stanza opening epub books in

Re: OT: FW: GW Micro Announces Global Window-Eyes Initiative for users of Microsoft Office

2014-01-17 Thread Maria and Joe Chapman
HI. this is a good start, but it still doesn’t make a windows computer truly accessible out of the box. I did this with an iPhone but I think it applies to all apple products. My brother left his iPhone in the house, and went out. He called me from a friends phone and asked me to go in to

Re: Looks like Windows is also heading toward full screen reader built in

2014-01-17 Thread Maria and Joe Chapman
Hi. Just had another thought. This might be a good thing for those of us looking for volunteer work. If we can use window eyes as long as they have office 2010 or later on their system. How well does window eyes and office work together I wonder? Warm regards and blessings Maria, Joe and

Re: Serious Mail Busy Problems in Mavericks All of the sudden

2014-01-17 Thread Brian Fischler
What does repairing permissions do, is that in the system utility? Do I need to be concerned with repairing permissions changing anything else on my system? Thanks, On Jan 17, 2014, at 2:12 PM, Maria and Joe Chapman bubbygirl1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. I wonder if repairing permissions would

Re: Looks like Windows is also heading toward full screen reader built in

2014-01-17 Thread Alex Hall
I haven't followed this thread very closely, so I'm sorry if this has come up. You seem to be forgetting about NVDA, a free screen reader that has very good Office support and can also be scripted. A common complaint about NVDA is that people don't like Espeak, the synthesizer it comes with,

Reading column and row titles automatically in Numbers

2014-01-17 Thread Vic
Hi. I noticed that when creating new spreadsheet in Numbers, the column and row titles are read automatically. This, however, doesn't seem to be the case when when reading spreadsheets from other people, eg when they are imported from Excel. Has anyone found a solution to this? Thanks for any

Dual Boot versus Virtual Machine

2014-01-17 Thread Robert C
Hi everyone, Just joined the list. Got a MacBook Pro recently, and will start training on it next week. First of many questions, but will not fire them off too quickly. I am switching from Windows 7 to the Mac. One program that is not yet supported by OS X Mountain Lion is Duxbury. I

Re: Looks like Windows is also heading toward full screen reader built in

2014-01-17 Thread Karen Lewellen
indeed? if this is a fully functional edition with all other programs, does not that mean the speech choices you would get with window eyes in general? Why are they only offering one synthesizer I wonder? Kare On Fri, 17 Jan 2014, Alex Hall wrote: I haven't followed this thread very

Re: Looks like Windows is also heading toward full screen reader built in

2014-01-17 Thread Buddy Brannan
Licensing costs, most likely. You will also get no free technical support beyond installation. -- Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA Phone: (814) 860-3194 or 888-75-BUDDY On Jan 17, 2014, at 4:18 PM, Karen Lewellen klewel...@shellworld.net wrote: indeed? if this is a fully functional edition

Re: Dual Boot versus Virtual Machine

2014-01-17 Thread Chris Blouch
You can set up a mac to 'dual boot' where you partition your hard drive in two pieces with Windows on one and MacOS on the other. Then Apple's BootCamp tool lets you pick which one you want to start up. When running Windows this way it's no different than any other PC laptop and your Apple

Re: Dual Boot versus Virtual Machine

2014-01-17 Thread Robert C
Chris, Thanks. Have you used both modes? Since the Mac experience is new for me I want to do what works right the first time. I can keep using the Windows machine and have to until I find a Windows 7 dvd anyway, but it would be a tidy office here to have only one computer. I hope there

Re: Reading column and row titles automatically in Numbers

2014-01-17 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi there Apple told me that the top row and the first first column are considered to be heading rows and columns by default, at least that's the way I understood it. Have you tried to change the file a little when you export it to have the labels set up that way? You can increase headers in

Re: Dual Boot versus Virtual Machine

2014-01-17 Thread Chris Blouch
The little I do in Windows didn't require a dedicated Bootcamp setup so I've always used VMs. The other nice thing is the virtual windows hard drive is just a (large) file. So I keep a master copy around and if my running copy gets mangled somehow I just put it in the trash and clone another

Re: Dual Boot versus Virtual Machine

2014-01-17 Thread Daniel Hawkins
Hello all, I would like to add. On top of this. If you are looking at other Options other than Duxbury, you can use Libre and install the OBT2 extention and that can translate. I have seen that on a Windows side, but I have not seen it on the Mac side since I don’t have an embosser. Daniel

Re: Dual Boot versus Virtual Machine

2014-01-17 Thread Terje Strømberg
One question, in unity mode, in VMWare Fusion, do you risk any virus from the Windows side to run into the mac side? It could be configured for Windows OS and Mac OSX? Is it maybe best to keep Windows fun in Windows in shell mode or what i can call it? Take care 17. jan. 2014 kl. 22:25

Re: Dual Boot versus Virtual Machine

2014-01-17 Thread Terje Strømberg
Do you only need to make a copy of the original Windows by clicking command + c and store it on a free space? Then throw it in the trash and copy it back with command + c and paste it into the virtual machine folder again? That would be fantastic in a way, because we are sort of talking about a

Re: questions about preview and braille

2014-01-17 Thread Caitlyn and Maggie
thanks! right after I wrote in asking what the roter was on the mac, I had a light bulb moment and went to the track pad! Don’t know why I didn’t think of that before, but thanks, this does help a bunch! Cait On Jan 17, 2014, at 12:26 PM, Daniel Hawkins computersassocia...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: Looks like Windows is also heading toward full screen reader built in

2014-01-17 Thread Terje Strømberg
Speech Syntherzises is very important for my self i.e. the choice of installing from developers. This is a very bad mistake by GW Micro. Free speech!! Take care 17. jan. 2014 kl. 22:22 skrev Buddy Brannan bu...@brannan.name: Licensing costs, most likely. You will also get no free technical

Re: Looks like Windows is also heading toward full screen reader built in

2014-01-17 Thread Eileens Misrahi
Hi All, I just want to point out that I have had a paid copy of Window-Eyes for a few years. Last year though, if I wanted the Vocalizer voices I needed to pay for them. Also, I listened to a recent podcast from GW micro on how to get started with the WE version for Office and it was

Re: Serious Mail Busy Problems in Mavericks All of the sudden

2014-01-17 Thread Terje Strømberg
It will not solve the problem in long terms, but command + f5 and command + f5 to reset voice over should help in short terms. I have to use this in Finereader Pro, very often. Irritating. Take care 17. jan. 2014 kl. 20:59 skrev Brian Fischler blindga...@gmail.com: What does repairing

bootcamp question, apparently win7 drivers are unavailable?

2014-01-17 Thread Matt Dierckens
Hey all. I tried to install windows 7 on my mac with bootcamp. I’m running an early 2011 macbook Pro with 10.9.1. I got the message saying that it couldn’t download the win7 software from the software update server. Is there anything I can do? I want to try bootcamp instead of VMware. Thanks.

Re: bootcamp question, apparently win7 drivers are unavailable?

2014-01-17 Thread Terje Strømberg
You need to format your usb device as a FAT32 file format. You can do this in disk utility by hitting command + space and type disk utility. You find your drive in the side panel and tab to delete, chose FAT format and a name and tab to delete key. Let me know if this works, cause i have

Re: Teamspeak3 accessibility

2014-01-17 Thread Phil Halton
I just downloaded and tried out the stable version of TeamSpeak, and couldn't get past the setup wizard screen. In fact, I couldn't even command Q the app - had to force quit. It seemed completely inaccessible to me. The windows version works fine, but I was hoping to have a mac option as well.

Re: Reading column and row titles automatically in Numbers

2014-01-17 Thread Kevin Shaw
Whenever I create a new sheet in Numbers, the first thing I do is turn off header rows and columns. Right click on the header row and column and set header rows and columns to 0. From that point on, you should hear standard spreadsheet coordinates when navigating around. A1, B1, C1, etc.

Re: questions about preview and braille

2014-01-17 Thread Daniel Hawkins
No prob, did it work for you? Daniel Hawkins - Posted from my Macbook Pro 2012 15in. Macbook Pro 2.3 Quad-core i7 4GB DDR3 500GB HDD Dual Boot: Windows 7 Ultimate Edition 64-bit On Jan 17, 2014, at 5:07 PM, Caitlyn and Maggie caitlyn.furn...@gmail.com wrote: thanks! right after I wrote in

RE: Serious Mail Busy Problems in Mavericks All of the sudden

2014-01-17 Thread wayne17a
Hi you could try a pram reset by shutting down your mac and then holding down the cmd and option key with the letters p and r and then hold the power button down entill you hear four sets of chime hope this helps -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

Re: Looks like Windows is also heading toward full screen reader built in

2014-01-17 Thread Sandi Jazmin Kruse
i am kinda wondering what they will gain by doing it like that? Not that i will ever have too find out, the absolutely only thing i use windows for is scanning , when done i can copy paste it over in textedit directly. I have thought long and hard over if i really needed something newer than xp

help with mail

2014-01-17 Thread Antonio Guimaraes
Dear list members, I have tried to deal for weeks with my gmail account not working with Apple Mail. I don’t know what could be the matter. I spent hours with the people at the Mac Accessibility Support line, and took two trips to an Apple store with iMac in toe. My issues with mail have not

Re: Looks like Windows is also heading toward full screen reader built in

2014-01-17 Thread Chris Blouch
I wonder why they went with WindowEyes. Maybe less outcry when the #3 gets picked for inclusion. As it normally goes for $900 a pop I could see MS giving them $9 each which would be made up for in quantity. Last WebAIM survey had Primary Screen Reader use with Jaws at 49%, WindowEyes at 12%

Re: Dual Boot versus Virtual Machine

2014-01-17 Thread Chris Blouch
Generally Windows viruses won't work on OSX so it's not like having a virtual windows box is going to add much risk. As a virtual windows machine it is just as susceptible to viruses as a real windows box. That also means you could create a document in Windows that is infected, use your Mac to

Re: Dual Boot versus Virtual Machine

2014-01-17 Thread Chris Blouch
The virtual machine and all it's setting show up a a single big package file on OSX. I usually keep it on my desktop as VMWare doesn't seem to care where you stick it. So I can copy that file as many times as I want and throw them in the trash if I don't want a particular instance, just like

Re: step by step, please and a recommendation on whether need to buy monitor

2014-01-17 Thread Chris Blouch
Piles of them here on newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENEN=17679%20600012573IsNodeId=1Description=speakersbop=AndOrder=PRICEPageSize=20 I have an ancient Altec Lansig set with a subwoofer which sounds quite nice. CB On 1/16/14 3:39 PM, Alex Hall wrote: The

Re: Serious Mail Busy Problems in Mavericks All of the sudden

2014-01-17 Thread Brian Fischler
Hey Wayne, Thanks I am going to try this tomorrow. Only problem has does one hold down those keys as it seems like it will take two hands to do so, and my power button is on the back of my iMac. On another hilarious mail note in mac mail I just got a test email I sent to my gmail from my