Intro and question

2015-07-16 Thread gracewelln...@atlanticbb.net
Hello, I recently subscribed to this list because I purchased my first Apple computer, a Macbook air. I would like to know if my machine has a word processor, or more than one. In this case, what is the easiest to learn? I heard about Pages and Numbers. Are they word processors? Thank you,

Re: Amazon Fire TV Accessibility

2015-07-16 Thread christopher hallsworth
Apple TV is fully accessible out of the box whereas Chromecast isn't. On the other hand, Chromecast allows you to watch more channels out of the box whereas Apple TV doesn't although this may be changing later on in the year. Visit my groups: The Chat Zone the-chat-zone+subscr...@groups.io

Re: garage band

2015-07-16 Thread 'Gabriele Battaglia' via MacVisionaries
Hi Juan. Amadeus Pro allows you to edit almost any AudioFileFormat in a quite accessible way. Garageband, on the other hand, as far as I know doesn't allow to edit so easily and I've strong dubts about its accessibility, unfortunately. Gabriel. -- You received this message because you are

Re: biblical greek on the mac

2015-07-16 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Hi Brian, On my mac, I use Greek Braille tables with my refreshable Braille display and the table is in grade 1 Braille so I didn't have to learn much in order to read. I have very little experience of the Greek grade 2 Braille as i have no access to their Braille paper literature. On the

Re: Apple TV Connection Question

2015-07-16 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! I have my apple tv connected via a digital to analog converter to my stereo and without tv. Works like a charm. /A 15 juli 2015 kl. 21:16 skrev Tim Kilburn kilbu...@me.com: Hi, For this Tim, I have a Harman Kardon Receiver with HDMI inputs, and HDMI going out to the TV. The TV does

Re: siri's sense of humor, and ability to..?

2015-07-16 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! You’re lucky because there is at least one mail voice for siri. This is for english of course. Swedish users has to stand the crappy alva voice. /A 16 juli 2015 kl. 05:46 skrev Karen Lewellen klewel...@shellworld.net: Hi folks, as to the first question, I understand she? had no idea she

Re: biblical greek on the mac

2015-07-16 Thread Devin Prater
Wouldn’t the Greek voices work with classical Greek as well? On Jul 16, 2015, at 1:36 AM, Andrew Lamanche ioani...@me.com wrote: Hi Brian, On my mac, I use Greek Braille tables with my refreshable Braille display and the table is in grade 1 Braille so I didn't have to learn much in order

Re: VM insert key on OSX tutorial

2015-07-16 Thread 'Kevin Cussick' via MacVisionaries
Hi, yes handy thanks. On 15 Jul 2015, at 21:32, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote: Marco Zehe from Mozilla wrote up his solution to getting the caps lock key to act as both the VO keys on OSX and the Insert key when running VMWare with Windows and

Re: Strange issue with Microsoft Word on my mac

2015-07-16 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Krister, I’m not having your problems with the latest version of MS Word on my MacBook Air. Are you interacting far enough with the document? I interact with the document layout area and then with the text and the up and down arrow keys work fine. I do notice that the VoiceOver cursor

Re: Strange issue with Microsoft Word on my mac

2015-07-16 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi, this is the strange thing, it worked fine until a couple betas ago. Now if i interact only with the layout area VO can sometimes read one letter of a word and then is silent. If i interact with the text, nothing whatsoever is spoken except for the occational font- and size change, nothing

Re: siri's sense of humor, and ability to..?

2015-07-16 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Even though I'm in the states I have my voice set to the male UK English just because I find it more intelligible through the little speakers. Ask siri about the three laws or robotics or how much wood could a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood :) CB On 7/16/15 7:12 AM,

Re: biblical greek on the mac

2015-07-16 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Brian, Ben called last night and left you a voicemail, so hopefully you and him can hook up. He's quite confident he can help you out. Chris. - Original Message - From: Andrew Lamanche ioani...@me.com To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2015 2:36 AM

Re: garage band

2015-07-16 Thread Alex Hall
Audacity is very accessible, once you learn it. I use it for all my editing, and aside from one bug, it works well. On Jul 16, 2015, at 1:02 AM, Juan Hernandez juanhernande...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I need to last minute audio editing for a project. I saw on apples that audacity is

Re: Strange issue with Microsoft Word on my mac

2015-07-16 Thread eileen . misrahi
Hi There, I hope I'm not hijacking this thread too much. I was a beta tester for Office for the Mac. I don't have Office 365 that is offering the new version. My question is: Does the beta still work or will I need to wait when the Office product is released in the fall to use it again on the

Re: garage band

2015-07-16 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! Audacity can be used with voiceover on the mac. So you better try that out too. /A 16 juli 2015 kl. 08:42 skrev 'Gabriele Battaglia' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com: Hi Juan. Amadeus Pro allows you to edit almost any AudioFileFormat in a quite accessible way.

Re: biblical greek on the mac

2015-07-16 Thread Andrew Lamanche
Hi Brian, If you manage to have the problem solved, would you mind writing me off-list to share how you and Ben have achieved this? I may need Ancient Greek at some point as well. Thanks and good luck Andrew On 16 Jul 2015, at 15:27, Christopher-Mark Gilland clgillan...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: Amazon Fire TV Accessibility

2015-07-16 Thread Jessica Moss
Ok, still a little confused on that front; what does cromecast do that apple TV doesn't, and vise-versa? On Jul 15, 2015, at 3:53 PM, christopher hallsworth challswor...@icloud.com wrote: Apple TV is a box you connect to your TV via HDMI or stereo system via Optical out. Chromecast, on the

how to copy contacts from one account to another?

2015-07-16 Thread Joe Quinn
I've got contacts that I accidentally created under my gmail account, but want to transfer them to my iclouth account, without having to reenter everything into the contacts app under my icloud account. I'm sure there's a way to do this, but how? :) -- You received this message because you

Re: biblical greek on the mac

2015-07-16 Thread Andrew Lamanche
No, they don’t although it would seem logical. and that’s because classical Greek has different or rather more numerous marks over the letters which Voiceover doesn’t interpret in speech. It just ignores them. On 16 Jul 2015, at 09:09, Devin Prater d.pra...@me.com wrote: Wouldn’t the Greek

Re: Amazon Fire TV Accessibility

2015-07-16 Thread Mary Otten
Is there any excess ability for chrome cast? Mary Sent from my iPhone On Jul 16, 2015, at 12:16 PM, christopher hallsworth challswor...@icloud.com wrote: Apple TV is fully accessible out of the box whereas Chromecast isn't. On the other hand, Chromecast allows you to watch more channels

Talking timer/stopwatch App

2015-07-16 Thread Christina
Hello, are there any accessible ones out there? I'd like to possibly be able to hear time increments announced out loud. One way I would like to use something like this, is when making pancakes, I need to time them and no went to flip and so on. There are lots of other uses but that is the

RE: Talking timer/stopwatch App

2015-07-16 Thread george b
You can do it with the clock app that comes with your phone -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Christina Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2015 13:08 To: viph...@googlegroups.com; macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject:

Re: how to copy contacts from one account to another?

2015-07-16 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, If these contacts are within the Contacts app, but only linked to your gMail account, then you should be able to simply copy and paste into iCloud. If they're only visible through the gMail web interface, then you'll likely need to export them as vCards from the Contacts app of the gMail

Looking for Gary Robledo

2015-07-16 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
Sorry to spam the list but there is an issue with his account, I've emailed him twice with no response but he is still active in discussions. Gary, please contact me off list as Google has your email address listed as bouncing. CB -- ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -- You received this message because you are

Re: Strange issue with Microsoft Word on my mac

2015-07-16 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Eileen, The beta still works but you have to download the updater and update the applications regularly. It seems that every time I open Word, the updater kicks in and downloads a new version. The whole process was explained here a while ago but I don’t seem to have kept the message.

RE: how to copy contacts from one account to another?

2015-07-16 Thread M. Taylor
Hello Joe, If you Google this, you will find that there are two basic ways to accomplish your goal. The first method is to use your web browser to log into your gMail account and export your Contacts List as a vCard file; then, log into your iCloud account and import that file. As there

Re: siri's sense of humor, and ability to..?

2015-07-16 Thread David Chittenden
It has to do with the amount of processing required for human-sounding speech. This is quite processor intensive, and iOS devices, though powerful, are still pocket devices. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: dchitten...@gmail.com Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone On 17 Jul 2015,

Re: Intro and question

2015-07-16 Thread Alex Hall
Welcome to the world of the Mac! You get Text Edit built into the Mac; this app lets you write text, and format it with links, lists, fonts, alignment, and so on. You can't do margins--at least I don't think you can--and there is nothing like template support or other advanced features. Fr

Windows 7 and Bootcamp

2015-07-16 Thread E.T.
I have yet to do this so am curious, does this process require it be done in one stage, that is, once started, it has to be completed? From E.T.'s Keyboard... ancient.ali...@icloud.com Many believe that we have been visited in the past. What if it were true? -- You received this message

Re: Intro and question

2015-07-16 Thread Adrian Leong
it has text edit for word processing -- 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

Re: Talking timer/stopwatch App

2015-07-16 Thread Jessica Moss
I love that thing to death; use it when I need a second timer in the kitchen and it works wonders. On Jul 16, 2015, at 5:15 PM, george b gbma...@gmail.com wrote: You can do it with the clock app that comes with your phone -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

Re: OT question about ios 8 braille keyboard.

2015-07-16 Thread David Chittenden
Yes, the braille keyboard is specifically part of VoiceOver. It is activated in the rotor. Therefore, VO needs to be running. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: dchitten...@gmail.com Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone On 17 Jul 2015, at 10:37, erik burggraaf e...@erik-burggraaf.com

Re: siri's sense of humor, and ability to..?

2015-07-16 Thread Karen Lewellen
Hi Caitlin not Jenner lol! Seriously, this is something I do not understand. why can you not nuance ios voices the way you can mac ones? The ability to adjust tone and pitch is fundamental to using speech. It actually was a deal breaker for my getting an ios device. That handsome Brit was

Re: garage band

2015-07-16 Thread Kjsc Radio
I do a lot of audio editing with GarageBand, and it works quite well. There are some tips and tricks that you have to know, but it is easily accessible if you think of it. Jonnyboy! Iphones rock! On Jul 16, 2015, at 08:01, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com wrote: Audacity is very accessible,

Re: Intro and question

2015-07-16 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Pages is a full featured Word Processor that should have came with your Mac. There is also a basic Word Processor called TextEdit that comes with your Mac as well. Actually, it’s basic but really quite a bit more than basic. Later… On Jul 16, 2015, at 6:06 PM,

Re: siri's sense of humor, and ability to..?

2015-07-16 Thread Caitlyn Furness
Karen, You can have a male Siri if you like, it’s in the choices under Siri in settings. I have a nice Brit gentleman, for instance, instead of the snotty American version! lol hth, Caitlyn(not Genner, btw! another lol) On Jul 15, 2015, at 11:46 PM, Karen Lewellen klewel...@shellworld.net

Re: Looking for Gary Robledo

2015-07-16 Thread Gary
Sorry, I didn’t see your email on the message, but you can contact me on gary.robl...@gmail.com. Gary On Jul 16, 2015, at 3:03 PM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries macvisionaries@googlegroups.com wrote: Sorry to spam the list but there is an issue with his account, I've emailed him twice

OT question about ios 8 braille keyboard.

2015-07-16 Thread erik burggraaf
This may seem like a silly question, but does voiceover have to be turned on in order to access the braille keyboard? Thanks, Erik Burggraaf Inclusive android has extended our immensely popular amazon gift card giveaway through july 31st. . For details on how to enter for your chance to win