Re: AUdio/MIDI configuration utility, any alternatives?

2014-05-03 Thread Vic
Chuck, Wow, man, you saved not only my day, but a bunch of weeks of trying to figure out how to get the darn dialog work. I can't thank you enough. At least we have a work-around! I also noticed that you can switch between those windows with command+accent to get rid of the ones you don't care ab

Re: Which Mac?

2014-05-03 Thread Tristan
This was a great post. It really reopens the door to potentially getting a Mac Air -- thanks Kayaker. I'd even maybe go for the 13-incher, as it offers a longer battery life; though I may be unnecessarily attempting to over compensate in terms of statistics. I'd be happy to discuss this further wit

Re: Sample text that VoiceOver is skipping

2014-05-03 Thread Alex Hall
Almost certainly. It seems to be a product of the embedded commands the mac synthesizer engine uses, which is used by all system voices. I suppose I'll just have to put spaces in my code if this happens again. :) On May 3, 2014, at 10:40 PM, Traci Duncan wrote: > Do you think this is a voiceove

Re: VoiceOver Bug | Help Testing

2014-05-03 Thread Alex Hall
I've noticed this since 10.8, maybe earlier. However, I can't work out any pattern to it at all. Still, you're not alone in this one. On May 3, 2014, at 10:35 PM, Nicholas Parsons wrote: > Hi list, > > I've noticed a bug which I think has crept in with Mavericks. If I navigate > by word with

Re: Sample text that VoiceOver is skipping

2014-05-03 Thread Traci Duncan
Do you think this is a voiceover specific thing? I just tried the 3 left bracket secret with to online demos for Cepstral and Cereproc. both of those programs read out the word. Interesting, Traci On May 2, 2014, at 10:17 PM, Maria and Joe Chapman wrote: > HI. interesting voice over read s

Re: Going back to mountain lion

2014-05-03 Thread Kayaker
Hi, I'll state this mantra. Always backup your hard drive before a major OS update. Repeat it daily. At least in the US, the access to Mountain Lion in the app store is not available Apple wants you to run Mavericks. SO, unless you have a version of the ML installer saved, or you have a back

Re: good o c r for mac

2014-05-03 Thread Nicholas Parsons
ABBYY FineReader Pro. -- 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 group, send email to macvisi

VoiceOver Bug | Help Testing

2014-05-03 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Hi list, I've noticed a bug which I think has crept in with Mavericks. If I navigate by word with option-right arrow, and delete a one letter word, VoiceOver will incorrectly announce the letter which was deleted. It will speak the last letter of the preceding word. This seems to be the case in

Re: network printer again

2014-05-03 Thread Kayaker
Hi, When you say it is a network printer and you attached it to your airport extreme, did you do it by USB or by ethernet? It is hard to give you any feedback without the exact HP model number. If you plug the printer into the USB port, you need to configure it with the Airport Utility app. If

Re: A program for clipboard.

2014-05-03 Thread Traci Duncan
I recommend: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cloudclip-manager/id563362017?mt=12 It sits inside your menu extras bar. You access this via VO-MM. I am loving this app because there is an iPhone version as well. I can copy items on my phone, and they are available on my Mac. works both ways.

Re: Which Mac?

2014-05-03 Thread Kayaker
Hi, There have been a lot of unsupported and non objective replies to your query. All Macs you can buy today are solid performers. We have reached the point in CPU performance that there's little difference between bottom of the line and top of the line machines for us who can't see, what's the

good o c r for mac

2014-05-03 Thread joseph
hi list can anyone recommend voiceover friendly o c r to use with my hp scanner on my iMac? thank you in advance -- 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 emai

Re: Saving some column values from Numbers?

2014-05-03 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Saving as PDF should retain good formatting so long as you've formatted the table well in Numbers originally. It's important to make sure the columns are sized correctly as they don't automatically expand to fit the cell contents, and VoiceOver reads the cell contents properly even if it's hidde

Re: AUdio/MIDI configuration utility, any alternatives?

2014-05-03 Thread CHUCK REICHEL
Hi Vic, Glad to see someone else has contacted apple about this! I've been trying to get them to fix this for "several" years! :( There is a work around sort of. Hi light all the devices with command A then go to the toolbar and click on show device info. Now check your windows that are open and p

Re: Saving some column values from Numbers?

2014-05-03 Thread Alex Hall
Copying all, after hiding columns, did what I wanted. However, VO had a very hard time reading the resulting text once I pasted it into my email, so I have no idea how it was formatted. Looks like I'll still need Applescrit if I want to have more control over the copied text. I don't mind writin

Re: Saving some column values from Numbers?

2014-05-03 Thread Nicholas Parsons
I think the simple copy and paste is your best bet if I understand your needs correctly. And as Jonathon said, you can hide columns three through seven and then just use the arrow keys without VoiceOver keys to navigate when selecting and you should only select and copy columns one, two and eigh

FS: Sony deluxe flat panel monitor with built in speakers, Mac and windows compatible...

2014-05-03 Thread Cameron Strife
Hi everybody. Please write off list to purchase... This would be great for somebody with a mac pro, a mac mini or someone with a pc who needs a monitor upgrade! It's a SONY Pro deluxe SDM-X93 19 LCD flat panel monitor with built in stand and built in stereo speakers. It's in fantastic cond

looking for program....

2014-05-03 Thread Mark Furness
That can do book marks like k1000. As I am studying and ocr books, I like to book markinto levels, then summarizd them, as I can do in k1000. Since k1000 can only run in windows, I'm trying to figure out what is necessary to perform the same in a Mac environment. abbey pro can do the ocr. What

Re: Searching for special characters in Pages

2014-05-03 Thread Phil Halton
Hello Anne, I tried this and it does not work. I selected and copied an instance of two new line characters and pasted them into the find field of find and replace. I then pasted them into the replace field and deleted one of them. the characters are there, but VO does not recognize them as it o

Ustream Accessibility, or Lack Thereof?

2014-05-03 Thread Teresa Cochran
hi, all, I'm trying to play Ustream service live streams. I can get commercials, but nothing else. Has anyone had any luck accessing the streams? I have the latest flash player and ClickToPlugin is enabling Ustream flash. Thanks, teresa "Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enoug

Re: Searching for special characters in Pages

2014-05-03 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Phil, If you can find a first example of what you want to change, you can highlight it and copy it to the clipboard. You can then paste it into the Find command. Cheers, Anne On 3 May 2014, at 21:13, Phil Halton wrote: > In text edit I can search for and replace such characters as new

Re: Which Mac?

2014-05-03 Thread Tristan B.
Hi, Thanks for all the great input. I opted with, as I'm sure you can guess, the MacBook Pro retina. I'll be ordering it this week -- it's definitely going to be nice to delve into something else. Thanks again and best regards. On Friday, May 2, 2014 7:13:04 PM UTC-4, Tristan B. wrote: > Hello

Re: keyboard question

2014-05-03 Thread Caitlyn and Maggie
Hi Doug, My i mac is a 2010 imac, i7, 16 g of ram, if that makes any difference. I'm running mavericks, 10.9.2 or whatever the latest incarnation is at the moment. I have tried everything I can think of to get this blasted keyboard to work! I read an an article yesterday teling how to go into t

Re: Saving some column values from Numbers?

2014-05-03 Thread Alex Hall
That might work, thanks. I was hoping for some kind of text exporting system in Numbers itself, but if one does not exist, this sounds like the next best thing. On May 3, 2014, at 3:48 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > Hi, > > Couldn't you just go to cell A1, then hold down the shift key while arrowing

Re: keyboard question

2014-05-03 Thread Doug Lawlor
What version of Mac OS are you running? How old is your iMac? Doug Sent from my iPhone > On May 2, 2014, at 2:48 PM, Caitlyn and Maggie > wrote: > > At an office supply store near me. It's called Beatty's Basics. > Any ideas as to my question? > Cait > >> On May 2, 2014, at 2:14 PM, Isaac

Re: Saving some column values from Numbers?

2014-05-03 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Couldn't you just go to cell A1, then hold down the shift key while arrowing down to the bottom of the list of names and over to the right once. This would select everything in both columns. Copy the selection with cmd-c and when you paste it, they will paste in the same order with tabs b

A program for clipboard.

2014-05-03 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi. I sometimes run into a problem, when I have copied something to the clipboard, I need to use, if I need to use more clips or I need to go back to a clip I have used earlier. In the old days when I use windows, I had a great program for saving and remembering clips. I have tried some progr

Searching for special characters in Pages

2014-05-03 Thread Phil Halton
In text edit I can search for and replace such characters as new lines, by pressing option return in the find or replace field. In pages, these keystrokes don't produce new line characters. I tried looking for the new line and carriage return characters in the characters window by pressing comma

Re: Saving some column values from Numbers?

2014-05-03 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
I know you can hide columns and I believe there is a keystroke to move columns. Then you should be able to select all and copy doing a copy will put the table into Pages as a table. So if all else fails you can delete the columns once the Table is in your word processor. Best wishes, Jonathan

Re: Which Mac?

2014-05-03 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
Hi: I'd go for the air because it was just updated. I bought my pro 4 years ago, planning to run a vM of Windows, and never did. Everything I wanted was on the Mac. On May 2, 2014, at 6:13 PM, Tristan wrote: > Hello, > > I've been a part of this group for some time now, and have enjoyed the >

Saving some column values from Numbers?

2014-05-03 Thread Alex Hall
Hi all, I have a spreadsheet in Numbers. The first two columns are first and last name, then other information. I need to save columns 1, 2, and 8 to paste into an email, preferably templated so I can adjust how the text comes out. Is there a built-in way to do this, or I am about to return to t

Re: Which Mac?

2014-05-03 Thread Kliphton -------
kay I have used the air and the pro. I like the pro because to me you get more bang for your buck. I am running fusion with no hiccups or lag at all. All the things you mentioned as to word processing, can be done on the mac. And these days, when you buy a new mac, the pages, keynote, number

Re: VO KNOWLEDGABLE TECH AT APPLE SUPPORT

2014-05-03 Thread matthew dyer
Hi, You can email accessibil...@apple.com. Also there is a phone number but not sure what it is at the moment. Matthew On May 2, 2014, at 8:05 PM, don bishop wrote: > > > - Forwarded Message - > From: don bishop > To: macvisionarr...@googlegroups.com > Date: Friday, May 2, 2014 5

Re: best printer?

2014-05-03 Thread Ray Foret Jr
I too am thinking printer/scanner/fax. I want something that is fully accessible with Voice Over and if y'all don't mind, model numbers please. Sent from my mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in! Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray, still a very happy Mac

Re: best printer?

2014-05-03 Thread Dionipher Presas Herrera
i ma thinking of buying a hp ptrinter too in the apps store, what would you recommend in case,i'd like a wireless printer scanner and maybe a fax On 02 May 2014, at 11:20 pm, e...@erik-burggraaf.com wrote: > The options are getting really good these days. I would stay away from hp. > They are

AUdio/MIDI configuration utility, any alternatives?

2014-05-03 Thread Vic
Hello all, It is quite unfortunate, but the "MIDI Studio" part of the Audio/MIDI Setup Utility is for the most part inaccessible to VoiceOver. I filed a couple of bugs on that issue but no fixes have been introduced so far. I need to set up a network session to be able to send MIDI signals via w