Unless you added apple care to your plan when you purchased the Mac from the
apple store, you have to add it on yourself. If you want to add an apple care
plan and its much later than the purchase date, I believe you will have to call
them and purchase it that way. Not sure if you can simply
I’m finally getting nice and comfortable with my macbook air and i also managed
to solve the problem with osx and vmware and eating the capslock…..Turns out
that in vmware the command key acts as a numpad insert. this allows me to use
the speakup laptop layout and i’m happy. Also using the vm
1. what do people suggest for a cost-effective method of getting ocr on the
mac? I’d love to get it working on here i would enjoy scanning books again.:)
2. i bought my macbook air straight from the apple store. Would they have
registered my apple care plan or do i need to do it myself? asking
I bought it at the apple store when i got the mac.
deedra waters
dee...@the-brannons.com
On Jan 23, 2015, at 9:51 AM, Faisal ali faisal.a...@icloud.com wrote:
Unless you added apple care to your plan when you purchased the Mac from the
apple store, you have to add it on yourself. If you
Hi there. If you actually go to the option about your Mac with and preferences,
and choose support, then you can view your warranty status. Once you verify
your Apple ID, there will be an option to purchase AppleCare, if you're not
already enrolled.
Sent from my iPhone
On Jan 23, 2015, at
to add to that, visit this link by Applevis. They’ve done a great tutorial and
I highly recommend it.
http://www.applevis.com//new-to-mac
On Jan 23, 2015, at 5:10 AM, Kevin Shaw tvsound...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Nishi,
Answers below.
what will be more long lasting?
I’ve had my Macbook
I am running Windows 7 in Bootkamp and the caps lock key won't
function as the insert key even though JAWS is set to lap top. How do
I set the caps lock to be the insert key? Or, what other key is
functioning as my insert key?
--
Marianne Denning, TVI, MA
Teacher of students who are blind or
Then it should already have been applied.
On Jan 23, 2015, at 10:02 AM, deedra waters dee...@the-brannons.com wrote:
I bought it at the apple store when i got the mac.
deedra waters
dee...@the-brannons.com
On Jan 23, 2015, at 9:51 AM, Faisal ali faisal.a...@icloud.com wrote:
Hi:
Yes, you can have two different accounts. My mac is 5 years old and still going
strong. They last! Do you want a laptop or a desktop? If you have the componets
to a desktop already such as speakers and monitor, then I’d get a Mac mini.
On Jan 22, 2015, at 10:27 PM, Nishi
Hi,
does it mean you can confirm this volume issue? That would be super cool
because Apple told me they were not aware of such an issue and asked me to
reinstall Mac OS. But because I experience this on several Macs from different
people since 2013 I’m pretty sure it’s not my personal
the trend for those are quite ominous. Bots are capturing all captchas and
recording all of them. what is happening now is that these saved captchas are
being placed on randomly created websites and domaines where actual human
beings are solving them thereby the bots getting the proper
Hello,
Yes I do. And I sent the logs for all the MBP machines we have that are
currently using VoiceOver.
I have this problem on all these machines and I’m also aware that others are
having the same problem.
So here’s my suggestion to anyone who’s interested.
Please send an email to
The google thing uses a checkbox and trying to determine if a person is
clicking it. I've found it kind of hit or miss with Jaws though. I suspect it
might be because of the way a screen reader clicks on things might false
trigger them to think one isn't real.
- Original Message -
OK, what’s yours?
Am 23.01.2015 um 20:09 schrieb Joseph ablindvou...@icloud.com:
Hello,
Sorry about that. I do have a case number, don’t know what I was thinking.
On Jan 23, 2015, at 11:03 AM, Joseph ablindvou...@icloud.com
mailto:ablindvou...@icloud.com wrote:
Hello,
True, but they
Hmm, not so sure about that. I know the audio captchas I've played with
are a string of 6-8 random letters or numbers strung together with
different voices speaking each letter at different pitches and durations
overlaid with noise and background speech. I suspect nearly every one is
Hi Joseph,
thanks for this good bad news. ;-)
I agree and ask people as well to send their report to Apple. It might be
helpful if we could all refere to the same case number. I got an answer by
Apple with the following case number: [
495386] VO and other Volume issues
If we are aware of
If it's temporary then you don't want to actually unsubscribe, just tell
google to stop sending you mail until you're ready to turn it back on
again. I'll contact you off list.
CB
On 1/23/15 3:20 PM, Mark BurningHawk Baxter wrote:
I need to unsubscribe from this was temporarily. I went to
Hi,
to my knowledge, if you keep hitting on new challenge, a new set of letters and
numbers will appear. These bots keep hitting new challenge and recording what
shows up. Naturally, there is a certain amount of letter and number
combinations before this is exhausted. This is how they are able
Yup, I agree that the arms race has reached the point where it's become
difficult for real people to pass either the visual or audio captchas
because they have to be scrambled so much to knock out the bots. As far
as the number of combinations, just the 26 letter and 10 numbers (36
glyphs)
Hello,
True, but they never gave me a case number.
On Jan 23, 2015, at 10:50 AM, Jürgen Fleger apple-engl...@fleger.net wrote:
Hi Joseph,
thanks for this good bad news. ;-)
I agree and ask people as well to send their report to Apple. It might be
helpful if we could all refere to the
Hello,
Sorry about that. I do have a case number, don’t know what I was thinking.
On Jan 23, 2015, at 11:03 AM, Joseph ablindvou...@icloud.com wrote:
Hello,
True, but they never gave me a case number.
On Jan 23, 2015, at 10:50 AM, Jürgen Fleger apple-engl...@fleger.net
I need to unsubscribe from this was temporarily. I went to the Google groups
page governing this list, but cannot readily find an unsubscribe option. My
apologies for list traffic, but can someone point me in the way of
unsubscribing, or will the moderator please unsubscribe me?
Thanks. Be
Actually there is a case number in every answer by Apple in the subject line.
But you could use mine now to refere to that. What about that?
Am 23.01.2015 um 20:03 schrieb Joseph ablindvou...@icloud.com:
Hello,
True, but they never gave me a case number.
On Jan 23, 2015, at 10:50 AM,
I'm usually running about a 1.0 with my usual set of apps running and
just sitting there. My MacBook i7 has 4 dual-thread CPUs so fully-loaded
would be a 4.0 so about 25% of available CPU time. I think disk I/O is a
bigger factor now days than CPU speed. Machines with flash drives are
much
While I don't use them, Google did give a mention to improved
accessibility for VO users on iOS in their announcements.
http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2015/01/updated-mobile-apps.html
From the article:
Making everything more accessible
If you’re blind or have low vision, we have improved
I found what you want in the message footer. You should be alright now.
RobH.
- Original Message -
From: Mark BurningHawk Baxter markbaxte...@gmail.com
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2015 8:20 PM
Subject: I need to unsubscribe, how?
I need to unsubscribe
can you also please get with me off list?
want to go no mail
not unsubscribe just go no mail
--
From: 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2015 1:25 PM
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Does anyone know about OS X? My student was asking me about it today.
God bless. :)
Matthew Dierckens
Certified Assistive Technology Specialist
Macintosh Trainer
Blind Access Training
www.blindaccesstraining.com
1-877-774-7670, extension 3
work email:
matt...@blindaccesstraining.com
Personal
Hello ,list I have a ihome wireless speaker but all the time, I get a
message asking me if I want to continue or revert to the ihome speaker and
as the speaker is a long way from my mac I cant here vo. So how can I stop
the message coming up or can I remove it from sound list in system prefs,
Last I heard Google favors using their own Chrome browser with ChromeVox
with Google docs. Of course that means, essentially, using two screen
readers to get stuff done which I consider a non-starter.
CB
On 1/23/15 4:06 PM, Matthew Dierckens wrote:
Does anyone know about OS X? My student was
Hi matt,
You can just about use VO and Safari to compose and read Google Docs. There
are some fairly annoying issues (at least on my system), E.G. when you navigate
by whatever textual unit, you get the sound you get when you try to navigate
passed the top or bottom of a web page. By
Brilliant, thank you!
-Original Message-
From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com]
On Behalf Of Darcy Burnard
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2015 2:16 AM
To: Mac Visionaries
Subject: recording VoiceOver and a microphone with Audio Hijack 3
Hi. Earlier
Hi
F first of all, I want to thank all of you for your excellent responses.
Well, I will certainly try the applications that were suggested. STD
before, recording isn't really an issue right now, but maybe in the future.
As for as an accessible MUD client, we can wait on that, as its not really
a
Hi,
is here anyone who could confirm a strange behaviour which I experience on
several Macs of different people included my self in Mavericks and Yosemite. I
only find this strange behaviour on Macs from 2013 or newer.
First set voice to Alex.
2. Set volume to a very low rate, for example 10
Ed and Chris.
Thank you so much for this information! I'll be sure to check it out.
God bless. :)
Matthew Dierckens
Certified Assistive Technology Specialist
Macintosh Trainer
Blind Access Training
www.blindaccesstraining.com
1-877-774-7670, extension 3
work email:
matt...@blindaccesstraining.com
Try command-option-v to move the item.
Take Care
John D. Panarese
Director
Mac for the Blind
Tel, (631) 724-4479
Email, j...@macfortheblind.com
Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com
APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX 10.7 LION and 10.8 Mountain
Lion
AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE
Hi:
Every list of keyboard shortcuts I’ve seen says you can use command X to move a
file, but it doesn’t work when moving files from dropbox. I have to copy them,
paste, and then go back to delete them. I’d like to just move them. But Command
X is greyed out in the Edit menu. thoughts?
deb
--
Hi Darcy, this is golden. I have a hardware mixer so haven't had cause to play
with this much, but I'll save this info should I ever need it. Thanks for
writing it up so clearly. Really great stuff.
Jonathan Mosen
Mosen Consulting
Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training
I tried it tonight, via my iPhone and Airplay to watch a tv episode
from a link in email.
I got as far as getting to the web page but could not figure out how
to play the video. I am pretty sure some of this showed up on Apple TV
but by the time I got Audio Ducking on, and Voiceover
Hi Matt,
The other thing to point out (and apologies if you or your student know this
already) is that you can’t actually get to Google Docs directly by expanding
the Apps link on the Google web page. You have to go into Google Drive first,
and either open an existing document or click on
To enlarge on that for anybody who doesn't know - I didn't know until I tried
it and then looked it up - you do cmd-c to copy the file or files to the
clipboard. Then do cmd-option-v at the location where you want the file(s) to
move tfile(s) rather than just copy. I have learned my new thing
Hi. Earlier tonight, I listened to Jonathan Mosen's excellent demo of the new
Audio Hijack 3. Jonathan mentioned that it was possible to record just
VoiceOver and the microphone without recording system audio. Well I managed to
accomplish this, so I thought I'd write up how I did it, in case
A bluetooth foot switch would have a lot more uses than that, if it existed
at all.
RobH, fascinated to see what comes of this.
- Original Message -
From: Matthew Dierckens matt.dierck...@me.com
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2015 9:42 PM
Subject: Using
I do not know about foot switches but have a suggestion which may help in the
meantime.
1. open iTunes and start the audio recording of dictation in that app.
2. Press FN F8 to pause the playing.
3. Open TextEdit or whatever Word Processor you are using.
4. I would recommend adjusting
Hello,
I contacted accessibility and that was around a week ago. they just today
requested my system log and I’m going to send it to them shortly.
On Jan 23, 2015, at 12:52 AM, Jürgen Fleger apple-engl...@fleger.net wrote:
Hi,
is here anyone who could confirm a strange behaviour which I
Tim and Jonathan,
Thanks for the help. I think I missed a step and ended up almost
filling yo the hard drive. So am moving some files to make room then go
in and see where the duplication is.
When moving the iTunes folder, there is the Movies and Music
folders. The dvds I ripped are in
Hi Nishi,
Answers below.
what will be more long lasting?
I’ve had my Macbook Pro for almost 6 years and aside from the hard drive never
being big enough, it still works like a champ. Double the RAM and get the
biggest hard drive you can afford. Laptops are great if you’re moving around a
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