Re: Macbook Air late 2015: anything to note?

2017-11-02 Thread Michelle's Home Emails
Hi Devon Michelle Stevens here, I have the exact Mac book air. It does take time to learn voiceover commands. When I was learning my best friend was control plus option plus letter k the VO modifier is option plus control keys. To get you started to turn on voiceover press command plus f5

Re: Macbook Air late 2015: anything to note?

2017-11-02 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Hello, First of all realize that using VoiceOver is a little bit like using JAWS in touch cursor advanced navigation mode Don't expect all of the navigation commands used by NVDA and JAWS to perform the same. The VoiceOver help guide is very tcomplete and is a great resource though make sure yo

Re: Irritating "user authentication" window that is hidden but talks and interrupt continuous reading

2017-11-02 Thread Maria Chapman
HI. I am not experiencing this issue, but if someone wants to write something explaining the issue, I am happy to report it to apple. It sounds like it’s a really annoying problem to have. Maria > On 2 Nov 2017, at 12:53 am, Tim Kilburn wrote: > > Hi Simon, > > Both platform types as far a

Re: Irritating "user authentication" window that is hidden but talks and interrupt continuous reading

2017-11-02 Thread Maria Chapman
HI. I sometimes get the authentication has new window, but it’s never interrupted when I’ve been reading or anything like that. I don’t know what I have set differently, but I’m not seeing this issue. Maria > On 3 Nov 2017, at 5:54 am, E.T. wrote: > > A note here. Leaving the display set

RE: Iphone 5c question?

2017-11-02 Thread Simon Fogarty
I believe 10.3.2 was the last one for that. But then it did come out at the same time as the 5s so I can't now be sure. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Karen Lewellen Sent: Friday, 3 November 2017 6:57 AM To:

RE: Irritating "user authentication" window that is hidden but talks and interrupt continuous reading

2017-11-02 Thread Simon Fogarty
ET, Crazy thought but what if you enable the require password restart your machine a couple of times and then disable it again, Fooling the machine in to the situation tim has now. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Beha

RE: Irritating "user authentication" window that is hidden but talks and interrupt continuous reading

2017-11-02 Thread Simon Fogarty
Yeah I hadn't really taken notice of it till yesterday but it's working hard in sierra also. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Tim Kilburn Sent: Friday, 3 November 2017 3:37 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.c

RE: Very Urgent help, Can not update my phone when he asked for Itunes

2017-11-02 Thread Simon Fogarty
Hi Ramy, That's interesting that the apple store didn't run the 11.1 update for you. Personally I'd run the update but will it happen again only the phone will know, Don't do it through itunes just do it on your phone -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:ma

RE: Attention Ramy,

2017-11-02 Thread Simon Fogarty
HiRamy, No problem, Interesting,I've updated my iPad mini 4 to ios 11.1 Have you tried turning the phone off and on again? To see if that changes things? -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ramy Moustafa Sent:

Macbook Air late 2015: anything to note?

2017-11-02 Thread Devin Prater
Hi all. Tomorrow, I'll be purchasing a Macbook Air, late 2015 Edition. Should I know anything special, with the Macbook or macOS? It has an SSD, 4 gigs of RAM, and 128 GB of storage space. Now, I know, this probably won't be my machine to store huge amounts of data on, but as a machine to get th

Re: Irritating "user authentication" window that is hidden but talks and interrupt continuous reading

2017-11-02 Thread E.T.
A note here. Leaving the display set to never and enabling screen saver, when it kicks in, it only announces the screen saver and its name. No authentication dialog. In Sierra, it did announce "authentication has new window". From E.T.'s Keyboard. . . "God for you is where you sweep away

Re: Iphone 5c question?

2017-11-02 Thread E.T.
The 5c is 32 bit so the latest version of iOS you can install on it is 10. From E.T.'s Keyboard. . . "God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off and say God did it." --Carl Sagan E-mail: anc

Iphone 5c question?

2017-11-02 Thread Karen Lewellen
Hi folks, I am inheriting an iphone 5c from a co-worker. Granted my first major step will be learning if there is a voiceover in Ios safe voice for me to even use. still, I am thankful for a chance to experiment with limited investment. may I ask what Ios edition I can run on this phone? Than

Re: Irritating "user authentication" window that is hidden but talks and interrupt continuous reading

2017-11-02 Thread E.T.
Oh please would you read that article to us? :) I tried all those settings and no go. I even changed to automatic login. Its interesting to note that I can swap the VO settings between the public release of High Sierra and the beta installations. The dialog swaps yet both installs as far

Re: Irritating "user authentication" window that is hidden but talks and interrupt continuous reading

2017-11-02 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, Yeah, that doesn't make any difference. I just listened for over 20 minutes to an article on the web about authorization services on the Mac for developers. Riveting stuff I tell ya ;). Some settings both in VO and on the Mac to check as well. • On the Mac, in System Prefs, Accessibilit

Re: Irritating "user authentication" window that is hidden but talks and interrupt continuous reading

2017-11-02 Thread E.T.
Tim, I do not have the require password enabled. I have tried other settings to no avail. From E.T.'s Keyboard. . . "God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off and say God did it." --Carl S

Re: Irritating "user authentication" window that is hidden but talks and interrupt continuous reading

2017-11-02 Thread CHUCK REICHEL
Hi Tim, Your method is working so far on my mac book air running Sierra. its been quiet as a mouse since i implemented your suggestion! Great work! Nice find as usual! Chuck "God does not play dice with the universe" "Albert Einstein’ On Nov 2, 2017, at 10:53 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > Hi, > > In

Re: Major bug in iOS 11.1

2017-11-02 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi Mary, I've not seen those in eMail messages, but have seen them many times on the web itself. In the past, VO didn't handle them well on the Mac either, although I believe that this has since been addressed. Sure, send me a message with them in it and I'll see if I can figure anything out.

Re: Major bug in iOS 11.1

2017-11-02 Thread Mary Otten
Tim, you are exactly right. I had never heard of that term, “expansion link“. But what you describe is totally correct. Once you click on any one of the expansion links, the whole business expense, and you see all of the things under the various headings that you would otherwise not see except f

Re: Irritating "user authentication" window that is hidden but talks and interrupt continuous reading

2017-11-02 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, In my testing, my MBP is set to require a password after screen-lock or screen saver. I'm not sure if those of you where it's not working have it set the same. I will turn that feature off and see what happens to me. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Nov 2, 2017, at 08:3

Re: Major bug in iOS 11.1

2017-11-02 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi Mary, These sorts of things don't actually sound like "in-page links", but more like expansion links. That is, at least from your original post, it's a link that, if pressed, expands or reveals certain information pertaining to that link. If you were to navigate through the entire eMail me

Re: Irritating "user authentication" window that is hidden but talks and interrupt continuous reading

2017-11-02 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi Simon, Yes, for the most part, it is the same issue. If you have your security settings set to require a password after screen-lock or screen saver, then that login panel requesting a password will appear. It seems that even without the security setting being enabled, the Security Server s

Re: Irritating "user authentication" window that is hidden but talks and interrupt continuous reading

2017-11-02 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi Shawn, We'll have to compare even more notes. There's got to be some settings, or combination of settings that will work for others like it seems to have for me. I've tested it in a few different scenarios and I've eliminated it on my MBP. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On

Re: Major bug in iOS 11.1

2017-11-02 Thread John JD Denning
OK, I’m no help with that. I saw on the 11.1 release notes that was listed as fixed. But I don’t have any emails that would have in page links to test that with. Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 2, 2017, at 09:29, Mary Otten wrote: > > Hi John, > That is correct. Within page links. > Mary > > >

Re: Major bug in iOS 11.1

2017-11-02 Thread Mary Otten
Hi John, That is correct. Within page links. Mary Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 2, 2017, at 6:25 AM, John JD Denning wrote: > > And so to be sure I understand. You’re talking about with in page links. So > you open an email, there’s a link that drops you down to another part of the > email.

Re: Major bug in iOS 11.1

2017-11-02 Thread John JD Denning
And so to be sure I understand. You’re talking about with in page links. So you open an email, there’s a link that drops you down to another part of the email. Rather than you open an email there’s a link that takes you to further content on the web. Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 2, 2017, at 08

Re: Major bug in iOS 11.1

2017-11-02 Thread Mary Otten
My issue isn’t with opening links that take me into Safari into the webpage. That works. What doesn’t work, at least for me, are links with in an email message that don’t actually open another page, but rather expand, for lack of a better word, to let you see more text which then might include a

Re: Very Urgent help, Can not update my phone when he asked for Itunes

2017-11-02 Thread Ramy Moustafa
Hi Tim and Simon: THank sso much for your help. all my attempts did not do anything. so I went to the Apple store, and they made the update in 20 minutes, and my Phone came to live. do not know the difference, because I tried making the update. but they did and now, it tern back to 11.03,. don't

Re: Very Urgent help, Can not update my phone when he asked for Itunes

2017-11-02 Thread Ramy Moustafa
Hi Simon: frankly , I didn't try this, but the Update issue did not solve the situation, don not know if this is a way, after that, to make my ITunes know my Pass code, so, it I will never happen again? On 11/2/17, Simon Fogarty wrote: > Hi Ramy, > > No it's not possible to make itunes speak fo

Re: Major bug in iOS 11.1

2017-11-02 Thread Mary Otten
Tripple tapping the link did not help. Thanks for the thought. Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 2, 2017, at 3:07 AM, Raymond Foret Jr wrote: > > Try triple clicking on a link to open it instead. > > > Sent from the only computer with built-in screen reader access for the blind: > > Sincerely,

Re: Attention Ramy,

2017-11-02 Thread Ramy Moustafa
Hi Simon: First of all thanks so much for your interest I updated my Phone, and I used it about 3 hours, with no problems, at all, I put it in airplane mode, and sleep, yesterday morning, I find the problem that I mentioned. so do not know if it's something related to the Update, or it happened by

Re: Major bug in iOS 11.1

2017-11-02 Thread Donna Goodin
I am also able to open links as normal. Cheers, Donna > On Nov 2, 2017, at 5:19 AM, John JD Denning wrote: > > I just tried some links in an email I just received. They work as normal. > Open up Safari and took me to the page. > > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Nov 2, 2017, at 06:07, Raymond

Re: Major bug in iOS 11.1

2017-11-02 Thread John JD Denning
I just tried some links in an email I just received. They work as normal. Open up Safari and took me to the page. Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 2, 2017, at 06:07, Raymond Foret Jr wrote: > > Try triple clicking on a link to open it instead. > > > Sent from the only computer with built-in scr

Re: Major bug in iOS 11.1

2017-11-02 Thread Raymond Foret Jr
Try triple clicking on a link to open it instead. Sent from the only computer with built-in screen reader access for the blind: Sincerely, The constantly barefooted Ray > On Nov 1, 2017, at 9:25 PM, Mary Otten wrote: > > > I don’t know if this has been present in Ios 11 since it’s inceptio

Re: Irritating "user authentication" window that is hidden but talks and interrupt continuous reading

2017-11-02 Thread lenron brown
Yes it's so annoying. I hate when I am reading something and that pops up. On 11/2/17, Simon Fogarty wrote: > Hmmm, > > After noticing this today when working on my MBA, > > I'm thinking of one other option to correct this. > > Yosemite anyone? > > -Original Message- > From: macvisiona

RE: Battery drain and iOS 11.1

2017-11-02 Thread Simon Fogarty
Yeah I don't normally go through 92 percent of my battery in 13 ours, I've not been doing anything different today so not sure what the hell other than the update has set the battery usage back 10 years. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@goo

Attention Ramy,

2017-11-02 Thread Simon Fogarty
Hi Ramy, I've just had an email from someone who speaks of the same issue you are having. She said that her phone restarted after update in silent mode. What she did was to turn the phone off with out it being connected to her computer and on it powering back up things had come right for her.

RE: Irritating "user authentication" window that is hidden but talks and interrupt continuous reading

2017-11-02 Thread Simon Fogarty
Hmmm, After noticing this today when working on my MBA, I'm thinking of one other option to correct this. Yosemite anyone? -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Tim Kilburn Sent: Thursday, 2 November 2017 8:05

RE: Very Urgent help, Can not update my phone when he asked for Itunes

2017-11-02 Thread Simon Fogarty
Hi Ramy, No it's not possible to make itunes speak for your iPhone interface. Question. Have you anything on the iPhone that you can't replace or should I say don't wish to lose? If not then what I would suggest is a full restore of the IOS version of the device. To do this unplug your ph