Re: Body cams

2014-10-28 Thread BobH.
Intrigued to know what these are. R. Ps: found them, interesting. I had a pair of specs with camera and sound recorder in, with pocket remote; quite cheap and accessible as basic pen drive. - Original Message - From: The Believer ancient.ali...@icloud.com To: MacVisionaries

RE: Odd behaviour in notices.

2014-10-28 Thread M. Taylor
Hello, I cannot confirm this glitch. My Notification settings are preserved across system reboots. Mark -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Agent086b Sent: Monday, October 27, 2014 3:56 PM To: Mac List

Calling with the mac.

2014-10-28 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! I must say that i am not very happy with this feature to be able to call on the mac. It works sometimes and today when i tried it with my logitech headset i could hear my mom but she couldn't hear me. I checked the settings so that my headset was set right and it was. Also voiceover got a

Re: Odd behaviour in notices.

2014-10-28 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! If you open system settings and go to notices and interact with the table of programs shown in notices you can there look for a checkbox to turn on audio notices. /A 28 okt 2014 kl. 02:15 skrev Shawn Krasniuk bbssh...@icloud.com: Hi. What are audio notices and how do you turn them on?

Can someone please post current directions for making the preview pane go away

2014-10-28 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi all, I think the directions I have for this are from the days of Snow Lion. Can someone post current directions? Thanks, Donna -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from

Re: Can someone please post current directions for making the preview pane go away

2014-10-28 Thread Georgina Joyce
Hello Donna, It would be nice to know that too. However, here’s what I did that worked but I don’t know exactly how it worked. Go mail prefs, view and tick classic view. Go to system prefs, accessibility options and enable mouse keys. You should be able to press option quickly 5 times. That

Re: Can someone please post current directions for making the preview pane go away

2014-10-28 Thread Donna Goodin
Thanks, Georgina. I'm running Yosemite, and your directions aren't working here either. thanks for posting them, though. Maybe this is just an annoying Yosemite thing we have to live with. I made the preview pane go away years ago, and it never came back until I upgraded. Cheers, Donna On

Re: using a focus braille display with the mac

2014-10-28 Thread Joe Quinn
is there a way to assign specific braille commands to keyboard commands? for instance, dots 1-2-3-4-5+spacebar to the command q keys on the keyboard? thanks! On Oct 27, 2014, at 9:21 PM, Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com wrote: Hi there First, try pairing it with your Mac and please let me

Re: using a focus braille display with the mac

2014-10-28 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hello there There is a way to assign keys, but I'm not sure that one is going to work. There is a table on there of ones that are already assigned. You have to go into the voiceover utilities, go to broil, and then go to the assigned keys. Gigi Sent from my iPhone On Oct 28, 2014, at 9:00

Yosemite: The ghost in the machine?

2014-10-28 Thread Mark Baxter
Ever since upgrading my MBP15 (built around 2008, 4G RAM), random things have been changing, every time I put my Mac to sleep and wake it up again. For example: Safari will not access my banking website (www.usbank.com), and shows an empty HTML pane after I enter my password. However, I can

Re: Calling with the mac.

2014-10-28 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, From my prospective, it works perfectly every time. My Mac can be connected either wirelessly or with an ethernet cable, as long as I’m on the same physical network. I can use built-in speakers and microphone or use my iPhone headset. In fact, while I was typing this message, a call

Re: Can someone please post current directions for making the preview pane go away

2014-10-28 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi Donna, My Preview pane settings stuck when I upgraded to Yosemite, so, I’m not having your same frustration. Here’s some instructions for you though that I posted back when Mavericks first was released. Not sure how, or if they still work in Yosemite, but it’s probably worth a try. 1.

Re: Calling with the mac.

2014-10-28 Thread Pete Nalda
I've not had very good luck with this here either. Maybe it's my Wi-Fi, but it only works maybe two or three times, rest the time it didn't work. Egun On, Lagunak! (basque for G'day, Mates Louie P (Pete) Nalda MySpace.com/musikonalda Facebook.com/lpnalda Linkedin.com/in/lpnalda Twitter: @lpnalda

Re: Can someone please post current directions for making the preview pane go away

2014-10-28 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi Tim, When I do this, when I go to press and drag on the trackpad, I'm just taken over into the preview pane. Any idea what I might be doing wrong? thanks for the help. Cheers, Donna On Oct 28, 2014, at 10:13 AM, Tim Kilburn kilbu...@me.com wrote: Hi Donna, My Preview pane settings

Re: Can someone please post current directions for making the preview pane go away

2014-10-28 Thread Donna Goodin
And further weirdness, I somehow ended up with a file on my desktop with the subject of this message followed by the suffix dml. Cheers, Donna On Oct 28, 2014, at 10:13 AM, Tim Kilburn kilbu...@me.com wrote: Hi Donna, My Preview pane settings stuck when I upgraded to Yosemite, so, I’m not

Re: using a focus braille display with the mac

2014-10-28 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Joe, You can only assign VoiceOver commands to a Braille display, or to any commander for that matter. Cmd-q is a standard Mac command and not a VoiceOver command. Using a Braille display to drive your Mac, you’ll need to go into the menus and click the appropriate command. Cheers,

Safari Podcast 7 YouTube

2014-10-28 Thread David Griffith
Safari Part 7 YouTube https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/jim2ys Previous Podcasts Using Safari on the Mac Part 6 -- Searching Basics, Google Search and Google Snapback. https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/1ur8fz UsingSafari on the Mac Part 5. Strategies for using and customising the Reading

Re: Can someone please post current directions for making the preview pane go away

2014-10-28 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Donna, Whenever I’ve had to remove the preview pane using the trackpad, what I’ve done is to press down on the trackpad with one finger, and stroke the trackpad towards me with another finger. However, it may depend on your trackpad settings in System Preferences. Here are my settings:

Re: Can someone please post current directions for making the preview pane go away

2014-10-28 Thread Kliphton
What is the big issue with the preview pain? I just go to system prefs in mail, go to viewing, set the preview message option to none, use my favorites 1 threw 9, and I see no preview, and mail works perfectly. JMO On Oct 28, 2014, at 11:48 AM, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk wrote:

Re: Can someone please post current directions for making the preview pane go away

2014-10-28 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi Donna, It looks like you missed the Horizontal Splitter when you performed the drag, that would be why the file is on your Desktop. What happened was that the message itself was dragged to the Desktop instead of the splitter being dragged to the bottom of the screen. I did take a minute

RE: logitec k810 on osx?

2014-10-28 Thread wayne17a
Hello I use a logitec k750 sola with a mbp and a vm running win 7 pro with no problems so hope this helps -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Les Kriegler Sent: Monday, October 27, 2014 4:39 PM To:

Re: Can someone please post current directions for making the preview pane go away

2014-10-28 Thread Donna Goodin
Kliph, Are you running an older OS? There is no Preview Message option in Yosemite system prefs that I can find. Cheers, Donna On Oct 28, 2014, at 10:55 AM, Kliphton kliphskor...@icloud.com wrote: What is the big issue with the preview pain? I just go to system prefs in mail, go to

RE: fusion upgrade for yosemite

2014-10-28 Thread wayne17a
Hello I think fusion 7 is needed if you are running win 8 but I think running win 7 will be fine on fusion 6 but don't take my word for it hope this helps -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of matthew dyer Sent:

Re: Can someone please post current directions for making the preview pane go away

2014-10-28 Thread Donna Goodin
Well, I have no idea why, but it's gone! lol. I did change my trackpad settings according to Anne's directions, but it still didn't work a couple of times after that. So, I have no clue why it finally worked, but thanks Anne and Tim, for the help. Looking forward to a lot less VO jabber now.

Re: Can someone please post current directions for making the preview pane go away

2014-10-28 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Regarding Kliphton’s solution, I believe that he is referring to the Preferences in Mail itself, not System Preferences. Interesting solution though. It works as we hope when in the Modern or Standard view for removing Preview pane issues but not while in Classic view. One must still

Re: Can someone please post current directions for making the preview pane go away

2014-10-28 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi again, Just one more question. For grins, I switched out of Classic view. Now it looks like there are three separate mailbox lists, two to the left of the vertical splitter, and one way over on the right, past the toolbar. why these three separate mailbox lists? do they do the same

Re: Can someone please post current directions for making the preview pane go away

2014-10-28 Thread Kliphton
Sorry, lines for message preview may be the correct phrase. But I set this to 0. On Oct 28, 2014, at 12:00 PM, Donna Goodin doniado...@me.com wrote: Kliph, Are you running an older OS? There is no Preview Message option in Yosemite system prefs that I can find. Cheers, Donna On Oct 28,

Re: Can someone please post current directions for making the preview pane go away

2014-10-28 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Actually, to the right of the Toolbar, there is usually the Favourites Bar and the MailBoxes list and a few pop-up menu for MailBoxes etc. To the left should be the Messages list and some headings referring to which MailBox has focus. Later… Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Oct

Re: fusion upgrade for yosemite

2014-10-28 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Fusion 6 supports Windows 8 so you shouldn't have to upgrade just for that. Actually, after reading through Fusion 7 improvements, the only one interesting to me is power savings for laptops, but that hasn't really been an issue for me.

Re: Can someone please post current directions for making the preview pane go away

2014-10-28 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi Kliff, I found something that says list preview which I think is your setting. Wouldn't have worked for me b/c I was using classic view, but thanks for the suggestion. I'll keep it in mind should I change to standard view. Cheers, Donna On Oct 28, 2014, at 11:32 AM, Kliphton

Re: using a focus braille display with the mac

2014-10-28 Thread Joe Quinn
didn't relize that using the focus on the mac was so time consuming wow. Sent from my iPhone On Oct 28, 2014, at 10:34 AM, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk wrote: Hello Joe, You can only assign VoiceOver commands to a Braille display, or to any commander for that matter. Cmd-q

RE: Body cams

2014-10-28 Thread Rick Alfaro
Someone recently posted an audio boo about a body cam they purchased and were using successfully. It was the Go Hero 3 White and can be found on Amazon for about $200. It was supposedly very accessible and easy to use. Unfortunately, I don't have that person's email address but his name is

Re: Can someone please post current directions for making the preview pane go away

2014-10-28 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi Tim, Moving to the right from the messages column, the first thing I see are two listings of mailboxes. then I go past the vertical splitter, see the toolbar, the favorites bar, and then another listing of mailboxes. So why all these different mailbox lists? Cheers, Donna On Oct 28,

shark BT keyboard?

2014-10-28 Thread Kliphton
I searched for this keyboard, and can’t find it, does anyone have the link? -- 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

Re: Can someone please post current directions for making the preview pane go away

2014-10-28 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Not sure why your items are appearing as MailBox lists. The MailBox items prior to the ToolBar should just be titles or Headings announcing what Mailbox has focus at this point in time along with the number of Unread messages in that MailBox. Try Interacting with them and try determine

Re: Yosemite: The ghost in the machine?

2014-10-28 Thread Jeffrey Shockley
Hello, I have also had problems with one of my Macs when putting it to sleep. I am experiencing the same behavior when I wake it back up again. I can get the VoiceOver sounds to play, however, no matter how many times I try to toggle VoiceOver on and off, I get nothing, and I am forced to

Re: Yosemite: The ghost in the machine?

2014-10-28 Thread Mark Baxter
Thanks, Jeffrey; I didn’t think to do a forget and restore on the WIFI, but removed a lot of networks I will never connect to again recently. I have done about three permission repairs, and I, too, had no luck toggling VoiceOver repeatedly, thus my shutting it down cold by holding down the

Re: Can someone please post current directions for making the preview pane go away

2014-10-28 Thread Donna Goodin
Strange. Mine seems to act as lists, that is to say, I can change the selected mailbox from any of the three places. Cheers, Donna On Oct 28, 2014, at 11:49 AM, Tim Kilburn kilbu...@me.com wrote: Hi, Not sure why your items are appearing as MailBox lists. The MailBox items prior to the

Re: logitec k810 on osx?

2014-10-28 Thread Hank Smith, and Seeing-eye dog Iona
can that one work on ios and android devices? On 10/28/2014 9:00 AM, wayne17a wrote: Hello I use a logitec k750 sola with a mbp and a vm running win 7 pro with no problems so hope this helps -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

Re: Can someone please post current directions for making the preview pane go away

2014-10-28 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Strange indeed. If you are just using arrow keys, then the reason the Mailbox is changing is due to keyboard focus. Those items will not usually gain keyboard focus since they are not editable or modifiable elements. If when you Interact and continue holding down your VO keys and the

Re: Can someone please post current directions for making the preview pane go away

2014-10-28 Thread Donna Goodin
Interesting. You're right, when I interact and use VO-arrow keys, nothing changes. Still the standard view looks very cluttered to me. I think I'm going back to the classic view. :) Cheers, Donna On Oct 28, 2014, at 1:01 PM, Tim Kilburn kilbu...@me.com wrote: Hi, Strange indeed. If

Phone calls not working on the iPad

2014-10-28 Thread Aleeha Dudley
Hello all, I recently updated my iPad mini first-generation to iOS 8.1. I have been trying to use it to make a phone call, but I have had no luck. Both devices are on the same Wi-Fi network and are right next to each other, so it seems to neither be a network or proximity issue. Anyone have any

Re: Phone calls not working on the iPad

2014-10-28 Thread christopher hallsworth
Are they signed into the same iCloud account? On 28 Oct 2014, at 18:52, Aleeha Dudley blindcowgirl1...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, I recently updated my iPad mini first-generation to iOS 8.1. I have been trying to use it to make a phone call, but I have had no luck. Both devices are on

Re: Phone calls not working on the iPad

2014-10-28 Thread Aleeha Dudley
Yes. I only have one iCloud account. Sent from my iPad On Oct 28, 2014, at 3:09 PM, christopher hallsworth challswor...@icloud.com wrote: Are they signed into the same iCloud account? On 28 Oct 2014, at 18:52, Aleeha Dudley blindcowgirl1...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, I recently

Re: using a focus braille display with the mac

2014-10-28 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hello Joe Using a focus 14 with your Mac is not count time-consuming once you get it paired. That's where I had the problem. You can use cord S to go to the menu. That will get you to the quit option you were talking about, if you want to use it that way. Sent from my iPhone On Oct 28, 2014,

Re: problem keeping the preview pain off in mail.

2014-10-28 Thread matthew dyer
Hi, The preview pain is where the selected message is shown in a side pain in I think the right side. This is useful for sited people, but if you are blind you will nottes that when passing by a message, it is marked as read and this is quite annoying if you are like me and you do not use it.

Re: Calling with the mac.

2014-10-28 Thread Agent086b
Hi, I think you are lucky getting it to work sometimes. I am not able to get to work at all. I may try Apple Care when I have the time. Max On 29 Oct 2014, at 2:14 am, Pete Nalda lpna...@gmail.com wrote: I've not had very good luck with this here either. Maybe it's my Wi-Fi, but it only

Re: Can someone please post current directions for making the preview pane go away

2014-10-28 Thread matthew dyer
Hi here is what I do to get rid of it all though it does not seem to work for me. Go into mail preferences to switch to classic layout which is found in the view tab. Check the box that says use clasic lay out. Next close the preferences in mail and navigate to the spliter that is

Re: Odd behaviour in notices.

2014-10-28 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
Hi. Do audio notices include notifications using the system voice? I ask this because it would be handy in situations when Voiceover is turned off. Shawn Sent From My White MacBook On Oct 28, 2014, at 6:17 AM, Anders Holmberg and...@pipkrokodil.se wrote: Hi! If you open system settings and

Re: Left option+Down Arrow to move to bottom of message list in Mail?

2014-10-28 Thread Gerard Doody
Hi all, I just tried both command option down arrow, and left and right option dow arrow, and the only one that worked on my Macbook Pro running most recent update is command option down arrow. thanks for the info. Jerry Doody Sent from my Mac On Oct 27, 2014, at 8:38 pm, Alex Hall

Re: using a focus braille display with the mac

2014-10-28 Thread Scott Berry
It shouldn’t be really. One of the biggest struggles like stated before is getting it paired. Some pair and others do not. On Oct 28, 2014, at 10:41 AM, Joe Quinn jdawg1...@gmail.com wrote: didn't relize that using the focus on the mac was so time consuming wow. Sent from my

Re: using a focus braille display with the mac

2014-10-28 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi there Yes, and I have just had a struggle to get my Braille Edge 40 back onto my Mac. Since Yosemite, much to my disappointment, won't let me have more than one display, I have decided to take the Focus 14 off the Mac and put it on the iPhone instead. In my case, when I am doing

Re: Calling with the mac.

2014-10-28 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! Yes it works both with facetime and skype. However i come to think of one thing. I have a network with one normal wireless and one which uses the 5 Ghz network. Can this be a problem if for example the mac is connected to the 5 Gzh and the iphone is connected to the primary one. I didn’t

OT: Need Assistance for Blind Youth with Finding Accessible Audio Software

2014-10-28 Thread Christine Grassman
Hello all. I am attempting to help a 19-year-old who has a rapidly degenerating eye disease who is interested in pursuing radio broadcasting as a career. He is a Mac user. The school he would like to attend informed me that they use Adobe’s line of products, and they maintain that they cannot

Re: Phone calls not working on the iPad

2014-10-28 Thread Georgina Joyce
Hello Aleeha, Have you set it up in settings FaceTime on the phone? Gena Georgina Joyce Applied Psychologist Training and Coaching. Because individuals of groups matter! On 28 Oct 2014, at 18:52, Aleeha Dudley blindcowgirl1...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, I recently updated my iPad mini

Re: Phone calls not working on the iPad

2014-10-28 Thread Aleeha Dudley
Yes, all settings are correct. Aleeha Dudley and seeing eye dog Dallas Vice President, Ohio Association of blind students blindcowgirl1...@gmail.com The wind of Heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears. Arabian proverb Sent from my iPhone On Oct 28, 2014, at 6:24 PM, Georgina

Re: Calling with the mac.

2014-10-28 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, I’ve not tried it using that kind of set up. I’ve got a similar setup at home though but have my Extreme using its Dual Bandwidth option instead of two separate 2.4 and 5 GHz networks. It’s entirely possible that having them broadcast in that manner could cause the problem. If your

Re: fusion upgrade for yosemite

2014-10-28 Thread Daniel Chavez
Would anyone happen to have maybe in DropBox, the .app file of fusion 6? In particular, the latest Fusion 6? I can’t seem to download it. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails

Re: Phone calls not working on the iPad

2014-10-28 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Try these in this order. If the first doesn’t work, go on to the second, and so on. At each step, confirm that you still have WiFi connections. 1. Restart your iPad. 2. Restart your iPhone. 3. Turn the feature off then on again on your iPhone. 4. Turn the feature off then on again on

Re: OT: Need Assistance for Blind Youth with Finding Accessible Audio Software

2014-10-28 Thread erik burggraaf
HI, Adobe has it’s own accessibility department. It’s not something I’ve dealt with personally, but I would track them down and start with them. If you know the exact software and version numbers, you could download evaluation versions and test them with voiceover. Protools is the gold

Re: OT: Need Assistance for Blind Youth with Finding Accessible Audio Software

2014-10-28 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, The Adobe suite of products tend to use numerous custom elements that are not visible to VO. The basic framework is present, but, the ability to Interact and/or manipulate just about anything is limited or non-existent. We have Adobe CS6 in a couple of our facilities and I have had no

Re: OT: Need Assistance for Blind Youth with Finding Accessible Audio Software

2014-10-28 Thread David Chittenden
In other words, Adobe is saying exactly the same as what their accessibility specialist told me back in 2003. This does not sound like much improvement in accessibility improvement to me. Sounds like the same old Adobe. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: dchitten...@gmail.com Mobile: +64 21

new member

2014-10-28 Thread 'Maxwell Ivey' via MacVisionaries
hi group; what is the email for signing up to this group. I have a friend who is new to the iPad and apple and who is also losing more of her vision. i think she could really benefit from being part of this group but i don't remember the email to sign up. thanks, max -- You received this