Signing into Kindle on IPhone using smart beetle Braille display

2022-06-28 Thread 'Andrew Lamanche' via MacVisionaries
Hi, I was trying to sign into Kindle on my IPhone SE 2nd generation using Smart Beetle refreshable Braille display. I navigated to the edit fields but no text would be entered into the field apart from the @ sign. Is there something specific I must do in order to enter text using Braille disp

Re: Pontes Media Downloader

2022-06-28 Thread Herbie Allen
I did not realize you had not put it in that folder. This is something you should do with all apps. > On Jun 28, 2022, at 01:31, Lorie McCloud wrote: > > I put the app in apps and then opened it. it opened right up and created the > downloads folder again.I haven't used it yet but I hope it's

Re: Signing into Kindle on IPhone using smart beetle Braille display

2022-06-28 Thread 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries
Are you interacting with the text field and using 8 dot mode? From E.T.'s Keyboard... "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." --John F. Kennedy My e-Mail: ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 6/28/2022 2:58 AM, 'Andrew Lamanche' via MacVisionaries wro

Re: PDFpen

2022-06-28 Thread Marsha Drenth
> what PDF app are you guys talking about? Marsha drenth Sent with my IPhone Please note that this email communication has been sent using my iPhone. As such, I may have used dictation and had made attempts to mitigate errors. Please do not be hesitant to ask for clarification as necessary.

Re: PDFpen

2022-06-28 Thread 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries
PDFpen. From E.T.'s Keyboard... "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." --John F. Kennedy My e-Mail: ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 6/28/2022 7:24 AM, Marsha Drenth wrote: what PDF app are you guys talking about? Marsha drenth Sent with my IP

Re: Signing into Kindle on IPhone using smart beetle Braille display

2022-06-28 Thread 'Andrew Lamanche' via MacVisionaries
Ah, no, I don’t think I interacted with the edit field as Voiceover said “editing’. Is there a chord for interacting with an edit field? Andrew > On 28 Jun 2022, at 14:31, 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > Are you interacting with the text field and using 8 dot mode? > > From E.T.'s K

Re: Signing into Kindle on IPhone using smart beetle Braille display

2022-06-28 Thread 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries
Space with dots 3 and 6 should do it. Here is a link to common braille shortcuts. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4400?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US From E.T.'s Keyboard... "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." --John F. Kennedy My e-Mail: an

the dock, is likely a silly question about the mac desktop.

2022-06-28 Thread Karen Lewellen
Well...apparently I must have missed a detail. going to the dock does not let you type a program name at all. It does put you on a list, but as I am still finding or configuring a solidly understandable voice, not all programs are well easy to follow. Again part of why I want to run text edit

Re: the dock, is likely a silly question about the mac desktop.

2022-06-28 Thread 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries
Karen, I would strongly suggest you put your focus solely on mastering Voiceover before venturing into other areas. Get a handle on the Voiceover commands as well as those the the standard Mac commands. Find a local Voiceover user and invite him/her to come over and work with you. From

Re: Pontes Media Downloader

2022-06-28 Thread Lorie McCloud
sometimes when I'm installing an app it'll ask me where I want it and then put it there by default. maybe that's changed though. > On Jun 28, 2022, at 7:56 AM, Herbie Allen wrote: > > I did not realize you had not put it in that folder. This is something you > should do with all apps. > >> O

Re: the dock, is likely a silly question about the mac desktop.

2022-06-28 Thread Karen Lewellen
That is what an apple store is for. My first priority to be honest is getting a solid enough voice. The onboard tutorial is helping, but again I am far more used to greater keyboard dexterity, meaning I will make mistakes while trying to learn voiceover itself. Oh yet another question on that

Re: the dock, is likely a silly question about the mac desktop.

2022-06-28 Thread 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries
An Apple store visit is fine but there is nothing ;like working with a Voiceover user who uses VO day in day out. If you have sighted helper, yes you can turn VO off. From E.T.'s Keyboard... "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." --John

Re: the dock, is likely a silly question about the mac desktop.

2022-06-28 Thread Les Kriegler
In addition, unless things have changed, I think you would be very disappointed if you go to an Apple Store for training. It is a very noisy environment and even if you can find someone know something about voiceover, I don’t think you’re going to get the results you desire by going there. Sent

Re: the dock, is likely a silly question about the mac desktop.

2022-06-28 Thread Karen Lewellen
You mean like the voiceover users at apple accessibility? who 1, gave me wrong information corrected on this list more than once. 2. began to claim I needed to upgrade in the middle of a crisis? To be honest, my experiences have been more positive with general apple staff than the, by your defi

Re: the dock, is likely a silly question about the mac desktop.

2022-06-28 Thread Karen Lewellen
Actually, speaking only for myself, this is not correct. The apple location where I intend visiting is the same one where I would previously go and seek a safe for my use IOS voice. They have a small room where they provide classes, are allowing me to speak with the technician in advance, as we

Re: the dock, is likely a silly question about the mac desktop.

2022-06-28 Thread Jonathan Cohn
The voices are retrieved from VoiceOver Utility. I don't believe you need VoiceOver running to do this. Here are the seps that a sighted person would do as best as I can tell. Open the finder 2. In a finder window use the Go menu to switch to utilities 3. Open the program 4. Click on speech in

Re: the dock, is likely a silly question about the mac desktop.

2022-06-28 Thread 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries
Karen, you will travel your own path of discovery. Each of us have our own unique challenge but for the most part, we can seek solutions here because most of us are grounded in daily use of Voiceover. From E.T.'s Keyboard... "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent re

Re: the dock, is likely a silly question about the mac desktop.

2022-06-28 Thread Les Kriegler
Well, you are very fortunate then. Because I don’t think that is typical. But I am glad to know that you were able to find a quiet environment in which to work. Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 28, 2022, at 6:41 PM, Jonathan Cohn wrote: > > The voices are retrieved from VoiceOver Utility. I don't

Re: likely a silly question about the mac desktop.

2022-06-28 Thread 'Jason White' via MacVisionaries
Maybe you should run Vim and never have to take your hands away from the main keyboard while editing. On 26/6/22 19:57, Karen Lewellen wrote: Hi folks, One thing I am personally finding I seriously need is  basic keyboard typing practice. On my main computers, because I have been using  them f

Re: the dock, is likely a silly question about the mac desktop.

2022-06-28 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Hello, I am not sure what you mean by a fluid layout, there might be a way to adjust VoiceOver to work this way if I am understanding what you want. Are you looking to avoid the interact/stop interact functions? To repeat what VoiceOver just said, press VO-z. (if you make the Z uppercase, it sav

Re: Working around MS Word

2022-06-28 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Well, Word does not change much in a month, but the past year has seen a lot of improvements. Also, 2-3 months ago, documents with tables were fairly difficult to read unless one used the tab key to move from cell to cell Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On Jun 23, 2022, at 08:48

Re: the dock, is likely a silly question about the mac desktop.

2022-06-28 Thread Karen Lewellen
Thanks Jonathan, My mac partner is enjoying the voiceover adventure, might want to do it with the tool, just wanted to give him choices. Interestingly enough when I went through the voices part of the voiceover tutorial, there are not 200 from which to choose. Is there a list anywhere? Outside

Re: the dock, is likely a silly question about the mac desktop.

2022-06-28 Thread Karen Lewellen
For the stores that provide lessons that is the case...and according to main Apple support, there are rather a few. to be sure the Pandemic is impacting locations providing the service, but I had more than one choice here. On Tue, 28 Jun 2022, Les Kriegler wrote: Well, you are very fortu

Re: likely a silly question about the mac desktop.

2022-06-28 Thread Karen Lewellen
and is Vim an apple provided program comparative to textedit? On Tue, 28 Jun 2022, 'Jason White' via MacVisionaries wrote: Maybe you should run Vim and never have to take your hands away from the main keyboard while editing. On 26/6/22 19:57, Karen Lewellen wrote: Hi folks, One thing I a

Re: the dock, is likely a silly question about the mac desktop.

2022-06-28 Thread Karen Lewellen
what I mean by a more fluid display layout is one that would have resulted in what Herbie indicated being the case. a text field where a program name can be typed. knowing about vo-z will be helpful, assuming the keystroke is not too challenging finger wise. I have small hands, and this is re

iOS Apps on Ma

2022-06-28 Thread 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries
Is it possible to view a list of purchqced iOS app on the Mac? It would be interesting to see which apps are compatible for the Mac, Thanks. From E.T.'s Keyboard... "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." --John F. Kennedy My e-Mail: ancient.a

I may have a better solution first.

2022-06-28 Thread Karen Lewellen
How much has voiceover changed since the last actually available outside of the system users guide? That would be likely high Sierra I believe? If not a great deal then I could do something quite practical, read in my main computer practicing over and over without needing to figure out what i

Re: the dock, is likely a silly question about the mac desktop.

2022-06-28 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Care, I turn on voice command on my computer, and said "switch to mail". I then told it two "click reply" That opened this message. The dictation with Voice Command was not that great though. And I am typing that with voice command. I did do some editing, and now I will say "click "click se

Re: I may have a better solution first.

2022-06-28 Thread Jonathan Cohn
The most recent change for VoiceOver was around High Siera. They moved some keyboard commands around the only change I remember was making the voice adjustment commands change from VO-Command-arrow to VO-COmmand-Shift arrow, so that VO-command-arrow keys could be used for rotor operations which

Re: iOS Apps on Ma

2022-06-28 Thread Herbie Allen
You can in the App Store on an M1 Mac. I do not know of a way on the Intel ones. > On Jun 28, 2022, at 20:42, 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > Is it possible to view a list of purchqced iOS app on the Mac? It would be > interesting to see which apps are compatible for the Mac, Thanks.

Re: the dock, is likely a silly question about the mac desktop.

2022-06-28 Thread Karen Lewellen
Thanks much Jonathan, When I first had the mac configured I insured that both voiceover, and voice control were active, I have not tried it as of yet. To be honest, I would hope to blend the use, hopefully I can type my own messages, but would say send or open things as it were. On Tue, 28 J

Accessible crypto platform

2022-06-28 Thread Yuma Decaux
Hi All, Has anyone come across an accessible crop crypto wallet platform? Thanks -- 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 inappropriate,