Re: I thought Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac was suppose to be accessible

2016-06-04 Thread sadam ahmed
Hi Brian, Your able to create paragraphs and other stuff. I did download from the App Store. Another thing to consider is Pages. Not sure about a guide as such. All the best, Sadam Ahmed On 5/06/2016 11:30 AM, Brian Howerton wrote: Thanks for this man, I appreciate it. Did you download f

Re: I thought Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac was suppose to be accessible

2016-06-04 Thread Brian Howerton
Thanks for this man, I appreciate it. Did you download from the mac app store or from their website? I did download it, but the only thing that I saw that was dimmed was the footnote feature. Thought that was strange though, but didn’t know if you could shed any light on this. I’ve just been

Re: I thought Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac was suppose to be accessible

2016-06-04 Thread sadam ahmed
Hi Brian, iText Express will do what you want. I too use it for college. Here's the Mac App Store description: iText Express is a cute, intuitive, and refined text editor with simple word processing completely rewritten in Cocoa. iText Express provides the simplest way to make gorgeous manu

Re: I thought Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac was suppose to be accessible

2016-06-04 Thread Brian Howerton
Hi Sadam, I am trying to learn pages myself, but can you tell me a little more about Itext express? I am assuming that it is another word processor option. Currently, I am in grad school right now, and am looking for something that will allow me to do pretty advanced formatting for papers such

Re: I thought Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac was suppose to be accessible

2016-06-04 Thread sadam ahmed
Hi, Office on the Mac is accessible however no where as good as the Windows version. There always going to prioritize the Windows client first. For working with documents I use the excellent Pages or iText express. Kind regards, Sadam Ahmed On 5/06/2016 9:42 AM, Simon Fogarty wrote: Hi

RE: I thought Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac was suppose to be accessible

2016-06-04 Thread Simon Fogarty
Hi Cheree, Not misled but more like uninformed about accessibility issues, -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Cheree Heppe Sent: Sunday, 5 June 2016 4:25 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: I th

RE: I thought Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac was suppose to be accessible

2016-06-04 Thread Simon Fogarty
Hi Ladies, Tha'ts officece 2011 for the mac and office 2013 for the windows platform. No office 2011 and earlier versions of office on the mac were not accessible with voiceover, Office 2016 is meant to be accessible but I've not tried it myself, The issues were due I believe to how the mac

RE: Reading and editing files on an iPhone 6

2016-06-04 Thread Simon Fogarty
Hi the best bet would be pages which is available for your iPhone And it is very very accessible. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Mike Busboom Sent: Sunday, 5 June 2016 3:20 AM To: 'Adrian Leong' via MacVis

Re: Reading and editing files on an iPhone 6

2016-06-04 Thread David Chittenden
I use Pages or Google Docs to edit word documents on iOS. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: dchitten...@gmail.com Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone > On 5 Jun 2016, at 03:20, Mike Busboom wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I have a lot of files in my Dropbox account which I regularly read

Re: seeing icloud contents on new macbook pro

2016-06-04 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Try going into your iTunes Preferences, under the General pane and make sure that your iTunes Music Library is connected to your Apple ID. It's located right after the Apple Music item within that pane. If that doesn't do it, let me know. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada O

seeing icloud contents on new macbook pro

2016-06-04 Thread don bishop
Hi, it's me again. I have had a mac and iphone for severeral years and they both see the same music on the cloud. On my new macbook pro I can't see any of my music on the cloud. I have signed onto my account and again in icloud. I also authorized the new machine, but still not seeing any of my

Re: I thought Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac was suppose to be accessible

2016-06-04 Thread Cheree
Cheree Heppe here: Once upon a time, after everything else did not work, blind people participated in on site protests, complete with signs, slogans and songs. One of those songs could just as well be adapted for the accessibility issues dividing our productivity now. The old song goes: Wait, w

Re: Any Accessible YouTUbe Live-streaming Encoders for Mac

2016-06-04 Thread Joe Paton
You're right. that message was to peter. I'll have to re-write it. Joe On Sat, 4 Jun 2016 15:38:20 -0500 Seyoon Choi wrote: Hello listers, The subject of this e-mail pretty much says it. As WWDC comes closer, I am in preparation to do some live events. I could always rely on Google Hangouts on

Re: Reading and editing files on an iPhone 6

2016-06-04 Thread sadam ahmed
Hi Mike, Both the Word app and Pages will do what you want. Hope this helps. Sadam Ahmed On 5/06/2016 1:20 AM, Mike Busboom wrote: Hi everyone, I have a lot of files in my Dropbox account which I regularly read an edit on my MacBook. However, I don’t always have my MacBook with me and wo

Any Accessible YouTUbe Live-streaming Encoders for Mac

2016-06-04 Thread Seyoon Choi
Hello listers, The subject of this e-mail pretty much says it. As WWDC comes closer, I am in preparation to do some live events. I could always rely on Google Hangouts on Air but I am in a lookout for custom YouTube compatible encoders for me to use it on the Mac. I heard Wirecast by Telistream,

RE: Widgets, and Calendars, and Lists, Oh My!

2016-06-04 Thread M. Taylor
Hello Sabahattin, et al, Well, as it turns out, with the installation of El Capitan, the Dashboard Widget Space is automatically disabled. I re-enabled it but, to my dismay, the Calendar widget that used to provide a list view is no longer being updated and is incompatible with the current ver

Apple watch and treadmill

2016-06-04 Thread Sarai Bucciarelli
Hi guys: I found an interesting thing with the ap Sarai D. Bucciarelli www.linkedin.com/in/SaraiDBucciarelli ple watch and treadmill. I was using the workout app. This time, I raised the incline level on the treadmill. When I finished my workout,I noticed the app wasn’t accurately tracking the di

Re: Moderators

2016-06-04 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
You're more than welcome. Glad I could help. --- Christopher Gilland JAWS Certified, 2016. Training Instructor. clgillan...@gmail.com Phone: (704) 256-8010. - Original Message - From: Stacey Robinson To: Macvisionaries Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2016 11:35 AM Subject: Re: Moder

Re: I thought Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac was suppose to be accessible

2016-06-04 Thread Krister Ekstrom
I wonder if VO has been better at reading long documents in Word. Before in Office 2016 VO read a couple of pages in a document and then all of a sudden jumped back to the beginning for no apparent reason. Accessibility at Microsoft says they’re continuing to work on making Office better, so i h

Re: I thought Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac was suppose to be accessible

2016-06-04 Thread Mary Otten
Well, they certainly should have known better at Microsoft. I hope you can get your money back or at least get a free upgrade to the accessible version. I'm not sure it's totally accessible. But people have reported good luck more or less. Mary Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 4, 2016, at 9:25 A

Re: I thought Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac was suppose to be accessible

2016-06-04 Thread Devin Prater
That's a terrible loss of money. You should definitely ask for your money back if possible, or see if you can upgrade to 2016. I enjoy Pages myself, but Office has it's uses, I suppose. Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 4, 2016, at 11:25 AM, Cheree Heppe wrote: > > Cheree Heppe here: > That's not

Re: I thought Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac was suppose to be accessible

2016-06-04 Thread Cheree Heppe
Cheree Heppe here: That's not what the Microsoft reps who sold me the MS Office product said. Apparently, they had also been mis-led. Regards, Cheree Heppe Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 4, 2016, at 09:04, Mary Otten wrote: > > There was never any claim made for the accessibility of office 2013

Re: Moderators

2016-06-04 Thread E.T.
Uh Chris? How about you let Mark do the moderating so you don't have to spam the group? He already took care of things yesterday already. And uh take your own advice and take it off list. Thanks for your cooperation. From E.T.'s Keyboard... ancient.ali...@icloud.com Many believe that we h

Re: I thought Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac was suppose to be accessible

2016-06-04 Thread Mary Otten
There was never any claim made for the accessibility of office 2013 on the Mac. Unless you misspoke and meant 2016, your complaint has no basis in reality, since the inaccessibility of all previous office versions on the Mac was well known and much complain about. Mary Sent from my iPhone >

Re: I thought Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac was suppose to be accessible

2016-06-04 Thread Cheree Heppe
Cheree Heppe here: I purchased MS Office 2013, a purchase I continue to regret. It's my guess that totally blind testers are scarce in Microsoft cosmology, while partially sighted testers who meet the legal definition of blindness and make directors and managers comfortable around blindness, work

Re: Moderators

2016-06-04 Thread Stacey Robinson
That was very helpful. Also, Mark thanks for writing me off list. Blessings, Stacey Robinson and GEB dog Kirk. mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net > On Jun 4, 2016, at 9:24 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland > wrote: > > Um, that wasn't very

Reading and editing files on an iPhone 6

2016-06-04 Thread Mike Busboom
Hi everyone, I have a lot of files in my Dropbox account which I regularly read an edit on my MacBook. However, I don’t always have my MacBook with me and would like to make minor changes to files using my iPhone. I have the DropBox app for the iPhone and I can open files with it. However, i

Re: Bug with Alex Saying “Arrived”

2016-06-04 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Have you guys reported it? --- Christopher Gilland JAWS Certified, 2016. Training Instructor. clgillan...@gmail.com Phone: (704) 256-8010. - Original Message - From: "Shawn Krasniuk" To: Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2016 3:46 AM Subject: Re: Bug with Alex Saying “Arrived” Yes, I'm getti

Re: Moderators

2016-06-04 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Mark, any chance then we could put a close to this thread? It's becoming incredibly unproductive. --- Christopher Gilland JAWS Certified, 2016. Training Instructor. clgillan...@gmail.com Phone: (704) 256-8010. - Original Message - From: "M. Taylor" To: Sent: Friday, June 03, 2016 7:

Re: Apple TV and channels

2016-06-04 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Unfortunately, I'm not aware of one, unless you can find someone who will lend you a login. Sorry to be the barer of bad news. --- Christopher Gilland JAWS Certified, 2016. Training Instructor. clgillan...@gmail.com Phone: (704) 256-8010. - Original Message - From: "E.T." To: "MacVis

Re: Moderators

2016-06-04 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Mark is only a co-mod. That's why it's probably not listed. Cara's address is there however. --- Christopher Gilland JAWS Certified, 2016. Training Instructor. clgillan...@gmail.com Phone: (704) 256-8010. - Original Message - From: "Sabahattin Gucukoglu" To: Sent: Friday, June 03,

Re: Moderators

2016-06-04 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Guys, grow up! Take it off list, for goodness sake! --- Christopher Gilland JAWS Certified, 2016. Training Instructor. clgillan...@gmail.com Phone: (704) 256-8010. - Original Message - From: "E.T." To: Sent: Friday, June 03, 2016 3:28 PM Subject: Re: Moderators A more in-depth

Re: Moderators

2016-06-04 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Yes, but learning doesn't over rule politeness, thank you very much? --- Christopher Gilland JAWS Certified, 2016. Training Instructor. clgillan...@gmail.com Phone: (704) 256-8010. - Original Message - From: "E.T." To: Sent: Friday, June 03, 2016 2:14 PM Subject: Re: Moderators

Re: Moderators

2016-06-04 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Amen! Totally agreed. --- Christopher Gilland JAWS Certified, 2016. Training Instructor. clgillan...@gmail.com Phone: (704) 256-8010. - Original Message - From: Charlie Doremus To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, June 03, 2016 2:02 PM Subject: Re: Moderators

Re: Moderators

2016-06-04 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Um, that wasn't very nice. It might be true, but you could have at least offered some help rather than chastising her. That isn't productive. The main moderator is Cara. You can e-mail her directly at: caraqu...@caraquinn.com You also can reach Mark Taylor, the co-moderator. His e-mail addr

Re: Apple Watch speaker weirdness?

2016-06-04 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Wait... I thought you said you did! reset the watch. If not, then yeah, I'd suggest giving that a try. Also, what model watch is this we're dealing with, and what version of WatchOS? --- Christopher Gilland JAWS Certified, 2016. Training Instructor. clgillan...@gmail.com Phone: (704) 256-8010

Re: slightly OT: Disk Utility refusing to erase micro SD card

2016-06-04 Thread Jonathan Cohn
I'm pretty sure those cards also have a lock slide but perhaps, they just removed the cover so you couldn't make it right enabled. On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 11:58 PM Alex Hall wrote: > Hi all, > I have a micro SD card that came as part of my Raspberry Pi starter kit. I > want to erase whatever OS t

Re: Apple Watch speaker weirdness?

2016-06-04 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Uh, I think she said she tried that already. If resetting it didn't help, then you might have to take it in, and let them look at it, as it definitely shouldn't be doing that. --- Christopher Gilland JAWS Certified, 2016. Training Instructor. clgillan...@gmail.com Phone: (704) 256-8010. -

RE: copying settings from mac to macbook pro

2016-06-04 Thread Simon Fogarty
The migration assistant You'll need to have a firewire or thunderbolt cable if the machines are new enough, Mig ration assistant will step you through what you need to do. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of do

Re: Bug with Alex Saying “Arrived”

2016-06-04 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
Yes, I'm getting this too. Shawn Sent From My White MacBook Facebook Username: Shawn Krasniuk Twitter Handle: shawnk_aka_bbs Skype username: bbstheblindrapper Facetime: bbssh...@icloud.com > On Jun 3, 2016, at 11:52 PM, Brandon A. Olivares > wrote: > > Anyone notice Alex now has a bug with the