Re: A question I'd really like some serious thought to be given to regarding iOS.

That's kind of what I had suspected to hear. I just wanted to check. What's worse is, when I spoke to Apple Accessibility over the phone, they swore to god it was stupidly ridiculously accessible with Voiceover. When I insisted to the guy, no it's not, he's like, all of our native Apple apps a

Re: Problem solved.

Don't worry, my friend. It happens to the best of us. --- Christopher Gilland JAWS Certified, 2016. Training Instructor. clgillan...@gmail.com Phone: (704) 256-8010. - Original Message - From: Kawal Gucukoglu To: Macvisionaries Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2016 5:16 PM Subject: P

Re: HP's radical new computing design or Singularity here we come!

Yes, I'm not looking real forward to the teenage detectives discovering that they can probably get into the apartment building without buzzing in because the old phone line based intercom system gave out awhile ago now, then it came back about 3 weeks later, and now it's out again. I think that

Re: Overdrive for the Mac.

I hear Overdrive is fairly doable on the mac. Again, I personally have never tried it, so I can't verify this. I'm going by what others have told me. It should be at least somewhat doable, if not very doable. --- Christopher Gilland JAWS Certified, 2016. Training Instructor. clgillan...@gmail

Re: To Devon, (was This blind Apple engineer is transforming the tech world at only 22

No, not officially. Blindness is not a reason to deny immigration. However, when one immigrates independently, one must prove that one is able to live independently. In other words, one needs to prove that one is not going to be a burden on society. Now, if one was a refugee, it is different, an

RE: To Devon, (was This blind Apple engineer is transforming the tech world at only 22

Bloody government. Oh well yor here now. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of David Chittenden Sent: Saturday, 16 July 2016 9:33 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: To Devon, (was This blind Apple

RE: Deleting a Time Machine Backup in the trash

If you haven't already try unplugging your time machine drive and then restart your machine and then do the shift command and delete to see if you can delete the trash completely. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf

RE: I Need a Little Help in Safari

Mark, Till now I had respect for you. Now I'm just really concerned! Tell me your not getting into this psycho craze! LOL> -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of M. Taylor Sent: Sunday, 17 July 2016 5:41 AM To: macv

RE: Reformatting drives on Mac: which entry in the table?

Hi Alex, Yes the first entry is the actual drive, you would partition this, the second entry is the drive volume so if you only wish to format the volume then highlight the second entry and then go to the eraise tab and then select the correct format mac osx extended journaled, then eraise, you

RE: Reformatting drives on Mac: which entry in the table?

Hi Alex, If you wished to partition the disk then highlight the full drive name not just the volume name You can just format a drive using eraise tab but a full partition may well be a better option if it’s currently set to ntfs. As tim said mac osx extended journaled is the format to use if you

Re: iOS 10 is a total mess

Hi. I haven't read the whole article mainly because I can't open a reader window, but from what I've read, it seems like it's a total whine fest. I mean, has the guy used beta software before? It's called "beta" for a reason. There will be bugs, but who's to say that these bugs will remain in th

RE: To Devon, (was This blind Apple engineer is transforming the tech world at only 22

Yeah we like to make things more difficult. Unless your Asian, austrailian or pacific islander NZ doesn't want you unless you've got truckloads of cash, can't speak English well enough to say hello, don't want to live anywhere but Auckland and or feel you can use the government welfare syst

Re: iOS 10 is a total mess

I can't really go into any specifics, but I'll just say in my opinion, the iOS 10 beta even from the first day I got it with WWDC paid devs, was probably the most rock solid most stable beta I think that I've ever seen! If anyone is saying iOS is a mess, they really need to look at things more

Re: A question I'd really like some serious thought to be given to regarding iOS.

You mean you had this kind of exchange with Apple Accessibility? My goodness. Maybe we need actual blind people working in that department: then, we’d get some actually accurate information. While I’m glad you showed him up on his ignorance, I’m not glad it took your effort to make it a real

Re: Looking for Slack feedback from voiceover users on OSX and IOS

Just sent a message to: /feedback your feedback message here In any of the chat edit boxes and this will open a new support ticket. I just do find for “esc” and VO left from there, reads the messages backwards but works for me for now. Thanks for the tip about setting the modifier key to padlock,

Re: A question I'd really like some serious thought to be given to regarding iOS.

Yes, he was definitely American. NOt sure why that really matters, but ok. I mean, if you're asking did he speak english, then yes, absolutely. He was apparently in the Austin call center. --- Christopher Gilland JAWS Certified, 2016. Training Instructor. clgillan...@gmail.com Phone: (704) 25

Did I imagine

Is it my imagination, that there used to be a key stroke to read continuously using Voiceover. If true, was it 'VO keys plus the letter 'a'. To stop reading, press the control key, and to start reading again press the control key again. I seem to remember that, when reading a newspaper that had eac

Audible members: I just found a piece of gold!

Have you ever been like me, wishing that you could strip the DRM out of your... ahim, legally? LOL! purchased Audible books, and convert them to an mp3? Well, for $35, now, you can. And may I add, this app is totally 100% accessible. Basically, what it does is, it goes through your ITunes libr

Re: Did I imagine

VO+A definitely should work, yes. --- Christopher Gilland JAWS Certified, 2016. Training Instructor. clgillan...@gmail.com Phone: (704) 256-8010. - Original Message - From: "Martin Brown" To: Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2016 8:38 AM Subject: Did I imagine Is it my imagination, that ther

Re: Did I imagine

Hello, Martin. You may well know this, but interacting with the text with "VO-Shift-down arrow" before pressing "VO-A" may be helpful. Craig On 7/17/16, Martin Brown wrote: > Is it my imagination, that there used to be a key stroke to read > continuously using Voiceover. If true, was it 'VO ke

Re: iOS 10 is a total mess

How can I find out more about the public beta and can anyone download it? Does it cost anything? If this is offtopic please write me offlist. Peace, Stacey Robinson and GEB dog Kirk. mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net > On Jul 17, 2016, at 5:46 AM, Christophe

Re: iOS 10 is a total mess

You can sign up for free at: Http://beta.apple.com/ The directions will walk you threw getting it all set up! That’s how you can join public beta for IOS and OSX. HTH *** Michael Babcock Consulting Blind entrepreneurs on digital marketing Your Own Pay Lets Connect On Twitte

Re: iOS 10 is a total mess

We can't really discuss anything about the beta, may on this list will tell you otherwise, but the terms say you can't, and I intend to abide by them. That said, you can learn more about how to get the public beta from http://beta.apple.com if I'm not mistaking. --- Christopher Gilland JAWS Ce

Re: iOS 10 is a total mess

Note, if that link I just provided doesn't work, then try http://www.apple.com/beta I'm pretty sure it's the first of those though. --- Christopher Gilland JAWS Certified, 2016. Training Instructor. clgillan...@gmail.com Phone: (704) 256-8010. - Original Message - From: "Stacey Robinso

Re: A question I'd really like some serious thought to be given to regarding iOS.

If you had played "head games" with someone much higher up the ladder, like Tim Cook, then maybe you can feel like you accomplished something. Not this person you spoke to who is paid to TRY to assist people with accessibility questions. And I can think of a couple or three people on this gr

Re: A question I'd really like some serious thought to be given to regarding iOS.

A bit of a mind blower nevertheless wouldn’t you agree? 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, Verizon Wireless iPhone6+ and Apple TV user! > On Jul 17, 2016, at 6:58 AM, Christophe

Re: A question I'd really like some serious thought to be given to regarding iOS.

Well, yeah. I didn't say it wasn't. LOL! --- Christopher Gilland JAWS Certified, 2016. Training Instructor. clgillan...@gmail.com Phone: (704) 256-8010. - Original Message - From: Ray Foret jr To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2016 10:37 AM Subject:

Re: iOS 10 is a total mess

No we can’t, but the question looks ok. The public beta is for anyone with an Apple ID. It costs nothing unlike the developer betas which are at no additional charge once you pay the $99 annual fee to gain access to them. > On 17 Jul 2016, at 14:47, Christopher-Mark Gilland > wrote: > > We ca

Re: iOS 10 is a total mess

I didn't have an issue with the question. That's why I gave the link I did. --- Christopher Gilland JAWS Certified, 2016. Training Instructor. clgillan...@gmail.com Phone: (704) 256-8010. - Original Message - From: "christopher hallsworth" To: Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2016 11:26 AM Sub

Re: iOS 10 is a total mess

Christopher, I absolutely concur with you. Nough said. > On 17 Jul 2016, at 11:46, Christopher-Mark Gilland > wrote: > > I can't really go into any specifics, but I'll just say in my opinion, the > iOS 10 beta even from the first day I got it with WWDC paid devs, was > probably the most rock s

Re: iOS 10 is a total mess

Stacy, Go to beta.apple.com You can find out all the info there. Matthew On 07/17/2016 09:12 AM, Stacey Robinson wrote: How can I find out more about the public beta and can anyone download it? Does it cost anything? If this is offtopic please write me offlist. Peace, Stacey Ro

Re: Audible members: I just found a piece of gold!

I love Inaudible myself. Someone sent it to me for free and it allows for folders to be created with chapter splitting and a few formats, including Flac. For the record, I do not know where to get the app and I believe it is free originally, so I did not pirate it. HTH. > On Jul 17, 2016, at 8:

Re: Audible members: I just found a piece of gold!

That's one thing I can't do with Tunekit is split the thing up into mp3's based on the chapters. Chris. --- Christopher Gilland JAWS Certified, 2016. Training Instructor. clgillan...@gmail.com Phone: (704) 256-8010. - Original Message - From: Joshua Tubbs To: macvisionaries@goog

Re: VMware Fusion: When the keyboard commands are not being sent to WIndows

Well, when focus is in the VM, CTRL-G seems to do the trick in keeping it there. > On Jul 16, 2016, at 5:15 PM, Jonathan Cohn wrote: > > control-` is I believe supposed to switch you around windows in Fusion. Other > possibilities: > > 1. Make sure VO touch pad functions are disabled and three

Time Machine

Tim and others, I do not think this was mentioned. If TM is on menu extras (enabled in Time Machine preferences), there is a menu selection labeled Enter Time Machine. In this window that displays are the time lines. I know one can delete TM backups here but how, I have not figured out.

Re: Audible members: I just found a piece of gold!

what I am wondering is how to get my audible books off my i phone and onto the mac.. Cait > On Jul 17, 2016, at 12:32 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland > wrote: > > That's one thing I can't do with Tunekit is split the thing up into mp3's > based on the chapters. > > Chris. > > --- > Christoph

Re: Audible members: I just found a piece of gold!

Why don't you try downloading them from the audible website to the Mac. Sent from Kimber's iPhone > On Jul 17, 2016, at 1:49 PM, Caitlyn Furness > wrote: > > what I am wondering is how to get my audible books off my i phone and onto > the mac.. > Cait > >> On Jul 17, 2016, at 12:32 PM, Chri

Thank you Craig

That's what I was doing wrong in this instance Craig. Forgot to interact. A big thank you. Martin -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is

Re: Audible members: I just found a piece of gold!

Um.. because I didn’t know that was an option! thanks! Cait > On Jul 17, 2016, at 1:51 PM, Kimberly wrote: > > Why don't you try downloading them from the audible website to the Mac. > > Sent from Kimber's iPhone > > On Jul 17, 2016, at 1:49 PM, Caitlyn Furness

Re: Audible members: I just found a piece of gold!

Glad I could help. Sent from Kimber's iPad > On Jul 17, 2016, at 2:07 PM, Caitlyn Furness > wrote: > > Um.. because I didn’t know that was an option! > > thanks! > Cait > >> On Jul 17, 2016, at 1:51 PM, Kimberly wrote: >> >> Why don't you try downloading them from the audible website to th

Re: Time Machine

Hi, >From the Time Machine area that you mention here, you can delete backups of >specific folders or files. For example, from the Finder, press cmd-shift-h to >open your Home folder, then go up to the Time Machine extras menu and activate >the Enter Time Machine item. As long as your Time Ma

Two First Generation Track Pad Questions

When I set up my newly arrived Mac Mini, how do I pair my first generation track pad with it, being that it doesn't have a way to connect it via cable to pair it? Also, is the button on the opposite side from where the batteries insert an on off button, or does it just lock the track pad? If

Re: Two First Generation Track Pad Questions

Hi, If the MacMini was purchased with the Trackpad straight from Apple, it is usually already paired for you. If not, upon startup, it should ask to pair. Yes, the button is a power button. Usually, I hold it in for about two seconds to power it up. There's no real need to power it down as

Re: Overdrive for the Mac.

Hello Chris. Overdrive on the Mac is easy peasy and so much better than the IOS Overdrive App. The Overdrive app on the phone is worse than ever and so prefer the Overdrive on the Mac. However, I just download the books from the RNIB Library and let the books extract themselves in the media f

Re: I Need a Little Help in Safari

Please can you tell me why you think Mark’s question was a little crazy for you as I thought it a perfectly simple question. Mark is always particular and methodical in what he writes and could follow what he said. Perhaps I’m missing the point? Thank you. Kawal. > On 17 Jul 2016, at 10:33,

Re: Audible members: I just found a piece of gold!

Oh thank you very much Chris. I hardly use audible although I still have an account but no plan. So I must get cracking to download all the audio books I want to keep and use your little app. Kawal. > On 17 Jul 2016, at 13:39, Christopher-Mark Gilland > wrote: > > Have you ever been like me

Re: Time Machine

Nice tips on Time Machine here. Personally I am used to turn on and off the Time Machine manually. So, Time Machine is off most of the time. Don’t need new backups every day for my use, but will have a look at the options mentioned here some day. Take care > 17. jul. 2016 kl. 20.51 skrev Tim

Re: A question I'd really like some serious thought to be given to regarding iOS.

Good on you Chris for once you showed the person that not all things are friendly to Voice Over users. I’ve been wanting to learn Garage band on IOS and on the Mac but I can’t do it. So (sorry to say this on list) Chris, I hope you will teach me how to use Garage band on the Mac. Thanks. Kaw

Re: iOS 10 is a total mess

Matthew, Thanks I’ll go there. Peace, Stacey Robinson and GEB dog Kirk. mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net > On Jul 17, 2016, at 10:47 AM, matthew dyer > wrote: > > Stacy, > > > Go to beta.apple.com You can find out all the info there. > > > Matthew

Re: Two First Generation Track Pad Questions

It will be interesting to see which one of the following my track pad ends up being. You say that a set of batteries lasts for months. I also have read that probably the most negative thing about the first generation track pad was, they can go through a set in less than a week. I hope mine is

Re: Two First Generation Track Pad Questions

Hi, I don't use my TrackPad that much as I primarily use the VO key navigation, so my estimate may be off. I hope not for your sake. Also, when I purchased my TrackPad, I purchased it with an Apple rechargeable battery pack thing. It came with three sets of double-A batteries and an Apple ch

Re: I Need a Little Help in Safari

Kawal, the poster was just engaging in a little harmless friendly humor by pretending to worry that Mark was going to turn into an obsessive game player. Craig" On Sunday, July 17, 2016, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: > Please can you tell me why you think Mark’s question was a little crazy > for you a

Re: iOS 10 is a total mess

Is there a way to revert back to the current production release if one tried the beta and found it too buggy? I know if I stick it on my watch, for all intents and purposes, it's a beta device forever forward that would no longer be able to be legally sold to someone else if I should decide to g

Re: Looking for Slack feedback from voiceover users on OSX and IOS

Slack has made VO/a11y improvements in latest iOS app and are responding to feedback in this channel. https://web-a11y.slack.com/archives/slack-a11y-feedback/p146876676102 On Sun, Jul 17, 2016 at 4:48 AM michael babcock wrote: > Just sent a message to: > /feedback your feedback message here >

Re: Slack on iOS and Watch OS

Slack has made VO/a11y improvements in latest iOS app and are responding to feedback in this channel. https://web-a11y.slack.com/archives/slack-a11y-feedback/p146876676102 On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 4:25 PM Kevin Chao wrote: > The mobile apps are more accessible and Web is mostly inaccessible. >

Audible Books To My Victor Reader, was Re: Audible members: I just found a piece of gold!

I have googled this, but I may as well ask here, too. In Windows, there is an Audible book manager. When I download a book to it, I transfer the book to my Victor Reader via this book manager, after having authorized my player, or the card, I am not quite sure which. If it isn't authorized as

Re: Time Machine

Ok selecting Enter TM opens a Finder window. Makes sense now. But rather than choosing folders, how do you choose a time line to delete, say the oldest week or month's worth of backups? From E.T.'s Keyboard... Are We Alone in the Universe? ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 7/17/2016 11:51 AM,

Re: Audible Books To My Victor Reader, was Re: Audible members: I just found a piece of gold!

Hi, The audible.com activation goes on the SD card and not the player itself. As long as the card has been activated for audible you should be able to copy and paste your audible book to the $VRAudible folder the same way you would anything else. Gabe On Jul 17, 2016, at 2:41 PM, Arnold Schm

Re: A question I'd really like some serious thought to be given to regarding iOS.

Could you maybe put up some podcasts to get people started? There were some around a while back, but I don’t remember who did them, and I think they’re outdated now sense garage band has been updated several times sense then, and its interface has changed, at least to my understanding. I have

Re: iOS 10 is a total mess

Remember these are typically sited users making these comparisons. Our VO experiences may and probably will vary from theirs wildly so something we may love they may n to do to appearance or video performance issues etc. > On Jul 17, 2016, at 6:46 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland > wrote: > > I

Re: To Devon, (was This blind Apple engineer is transforming the tech world at only 22

You know, it’s interesting, all kidding aside I can’t imagine myself being a citizen of another country. It’s funny how we attach to the places we’re born. I’ve also had America / Apple pie / Baseball / tea parties and liberty bells drilled in to my head since I can remember so it’s hard for me

Re: Time Machine

Hi, Similar process. 1. Up to the Extras menu and choose Time Machine. 2. Select Enter Time Machine. This will automatically bring you to the newest Time Machine backup. To access older ones... 3. Use the Window Chooser (VO-f2-f2) and choose Time Machine Controls. There will be a Vertical

Re: HP's radical new computing design or Singularity here we come!

We’re in for very interesting times. I was reading about some applications today designed to run on “the machine”. One was a linux instance that has no distinction between memory or hard disk, everything is just running in addressable memory. Each instance is built with a minimum of a petabyt

Re: This blind Apple engineer is transforming the tech world at only 22

Aww come on, I’m going to need a Hillary / Trump escape plan! Peter Jackson could hire me to make sure his render farms are networked properly. I’d be happy to cut you in.:) I was good enough for Dream Works so should be able to slide that. > On Jul 16, 2016, at 4:02 AM, Simon Fogarty wrote:

Re: iOS 10 is a total mess

i wish i could have a play with it my self but i have an iPhone 4 S so that is out. > On 18 Jul. 2016, at 12:33 pm, Scott Granados wrote: > > Remember these are typically sited users making these comparisons. Our VO > experiences may and probably will vary from theirs wildly so something we ma

RE: iOS 10 is a total mess

Hi Chris, Only problems I've had have been applications that aren't yet up to scratch with IOS10 Otherwise yes I agree at this point. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Christopher-Mark Gilland Sent: Sunday, 1

RE: A question I'd really like some serious thought to be given to regarding iOS.

Chris, Did you by any chance ask him how much voiceover usage knowledge did he have? I know how to drive a car but I wouldn’t say I was great at it. Or that all blind people can do it. I wonder if we have a apple accessibility contact team here in NZ. Might be worth while giving them a call

RE: Audible members: I just found a piece of gold!

That app sounds very bad chris and I wont for one be looking in to it any further. Cough cough! From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Christopher-Mark Gilland Sent: Monday, 18 July 2016 12:40 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject:

RE: iOS 10 is a total mess

Hi Stacey, No cost, and if you go to Beta.apple.com In your ios browser safari etc and then follow the links It's a public beta so it's open to anyone so long as you have an itunes account Good luck. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@