Re: Messages

2015-06-10 Thread David Taylor
Yes, that happened here too. However, what I do is I use Notification Centre. This speaks messages when they come in, and my other trick is that when I interact with my conversation table, I hear the message I want to reply to and just type. I find that it leaves me in the table and new messages

Re: Current OS X beta.

2015-06-08 Thread David Taylor
Hi, If anything, it’s more stable than the last full release. Cheers Dave > On 8 Jun 2015, at 1:49 pm, Sadam Ahmed wrote: > > For those of you running either the public or private builds of the current > beta software is it stable enough to run? > > I was running it when I had 2 Macs here, b

Re: dropbox site

2015-05-13 Thread David Taylor
The Dropbox site is pretty good in IE, but horrible in Safari. Not sure if that’s Dropbox’s fault or Safari’s, but I suspect Dropbox. > On 13 May 2015, at 5:10 pm, Jonathan Mosen wrote: > > If it has, I've not seen any evidence of it yet. In my experience it's still > as hideous as ever. Perha

Re: menu tab

2015-04-03 Thread David Taylor
Hi, When discussing MenuTab, please remember that all it does is show you the FB website, and that it can show you either version, so please specify which layout you mean, and try not to blame MenuTab for things that are FB’s fault. For instance, since I upgraded to Yosemite, on the main site,

Re: audacity help please

2015-03-21 Thread David Taylor
Sound Flower works fine in Yosemite for me > On 21 Mar 2015, at 1:31 pm, Alex Hall wrote: > > Sound flower is broken in Yosemite, and hasn't gotten updated yet. I'm not > sure where it came into this discussion--I thought the goal was recording via > microphone, but I was obviously mistaken. A

Re: when i am using the newest update to night owl i don't hear any tweets from the main time line.Is there a way i can fix it?

2015-03-19 Thread David Taylor
Yes, you can, in notifications, but I would highly advise you not to do that, and it doesn’t read every tweet if your timeline gets busy. You are best to just go to your home timeline and press 0 for the newest tweet, space for the oldest unread etc. All notifications options can be controlled f

Re: disc keyboard shortcut

2015-03-15 Thread David Taylor
You do know you can sort any folder by size in Finder don’t you? I use List view, and these instructions work for me, you may have to modify them if you prefer a different view. You can press command-2 to get into list view. Interact with any list of files or folders, res vo-shift-\, VO to where

Re: Creating a keyboard shortcut for checking the time.

2015-03-02 Thread David Taylor
You don’t need to create it. Simply make sure that keyboard commander is turned on and go. To do this, press VO-F8 to get to VO utility, go down to commanders in the categories, then selected keyboard commander in the tabs and vo across until you hear the option to turn it on, and decide which o

Re: dropbox web interface

2015-03-01 Thread David Taylor
Hi, There are actually a lot of things I can’t figure out how to do myself on there. The site is dreadful now, I can’t delete things, or do anything in the menus. Cheers Dave > On 1 Mar 2015, at 1:52 am, Jean wrote: > > Hello All: > I am searching for someone who has experience using the drop

Re: Yosemite

2015-02-15 Thread David Taylor
I just set my view to month and tab from event to event as before. > On 15 Feb 2015, at 11:32 pm, Faisal ali wrote: > > Alex, > there is a major difference between calendar on Mavericks and Yosemite. > Under Mavericks, one was able to navigate through all the events by > interacting with a tabl

Re: Yosemite

2015-02-15 Thread David Taylor
Hi, When I press enter on a conversation it simply reads the first message for me in Mail, so no. Calendar has hardly changed at all, so really not sure what the issue is there I’m afraid. Cheers Dave > On 15 Feb 2015, at 10:10 am, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: > > Hi. > > Does anyone have bugs usi

Re: Searching hashtags on Yorufukuru/Nightowl

2015-02-14 Thread David Taylor
You have to make sure you are in your Search tab. Command-right until you get there. It will be empty and when you press command-f it will say Twitter Search, not just search. Use vo-f2 to work out which tab you are in if that helps, and when you find it, remember how many across it is. Remember

Re: Making mobile calls from Mac

2015-02-10 Thread David Taylor
ey just don’t talk to each other properly until > things have been fiddled with a time or two. > > Later... > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On Feb 9, 2015, at 20:51, David Taylor <mailto:e.david.tay...@icloud.com>> wrote: > > Hi, > >

Re: Making mobile calls from Mac

2015-02-09 Thread David Taylor
so > the two devices need to be signed into iCloud using the same Apple ID for > this, as well as all other continuity features work. If you need further > help, please don't hesitate to e-mail me off-list. > > On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 8:58 PM, David Taylor <mailto:e.david

Re: Am I nuts, or is Alex way better now?

2015-02-09 Thread David Taylor
e 6+ and Apple TV user! > > Sent from my Mac, > the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in > >> On Feb 8, 2015, at 7:56 PM, David Taylor > <mailto:e.david.tay...@icloud.com>> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Can anybody tell

Re: Making mobile calls from Mac

2015-02-09 Thread David Taylor
nt From My White MacBook > >> On Feb 8, 2015, at 7:58 PM, David Taylor wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Can anybody tell me what it is I need to do to make mobile calls from mac >> work please? I have my texts sorted, but get call failed when I try to make >> a

Making mobile calls from Mac

2015-02-08 Thread David Taylor
Hi, Can anybody tell me what it is I need to do to make mobile calls from mac work please? I have my texts sorted, but get call failed when I try to make a call from mac. Thanks Dave -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsub

Re: Am I nuts, or is Alex way better now?

2015-02-08 Thread David Taylor
Hi, Can anybody tell me how to get this new Alex? I’ve even tried deleting and re-downloading to get him. Cheers Dave > On 9 Feb 2015, at 1:54 am, Jessica Moss wrote: > > Fred? lol, that voice sounds aweful, reminds me too much of either the > dectalk voices, or the Vera reading machine we u

Re: No speech on log on screen

2015-02-05 Thread David Taylor
Did you, by any chance, enable File Vault? > On 5 Feb 2015, at 11:14 pm, Robert Cole wrote: > > Hi, > As of last night, Voice Over no longer talks on the log on screen. > There are no sounds at all. Command F5 does nothing. > > voice Over is running because I can interact twice, VO space, type

Re: finally upgraded to 10.10

2015-02-05 Thread David Taylor
I finally took the plunge too. I like the new features, but think there are a few steps backwards here, and, even using Alex, still find things slower than before and get many more busy notifications. Safari and Mental seem much more stable though, apart from the annoying middle dot thing in Fac

Re: Menu bar issue resolved but it brings up a larger issue

2015-02-04 Thread David Taylor
I must admit, as a general rule, I dis able everything I can from the menubar so it is as uncluttered as it can be, as I’ve often had times when I couldn’t see things I knew should be there, whichever way I tried to get to them. > On 4 Feb 2015, at 9:10 pm, Mike Arrigo wrote: > > You

Re: Using an external hard drive on both Mac and Windows

2015-01-04 Thread David Taylor
Hi, You can use software, or, you can format as X Fat, which works fine on both, or, you could share the drive if using a VM. Cheers Dave On 4 Jan 2015, at 06:07 pm, Edward Green wrote: > Hi, > > I have an external hard drive that I’d like to read and write to on both Mac > and Windows. >

Re: safari or chromeVox?

2015-01-03 Thread David Taylor
Chrome itself is great, and it’s worth having both Chrome and Safari and just seeing which you prefer, but Chromevox just gets in the way for me and I don’t use it On 4 Jan 2015, at 02:56 am, Kevin Mattingly wrote: > It is worthless in my opinion > > > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Jan 3, 2

Re: Following a user with Yorufukuru

2014-12-29 Thread David Taylor
Hi, Just for added simplicity, since people complain about Mac keystrokes, you can simply press space on the User Action menu and on Follow. This works on most pop-up buttons. Cheers Dave On 29 Dec 2014, at 01:22 pm, Alex Hall wrote: > You're close. Instead of pressing the drawer, interact w

Re: VM Fusion vs Bootcamp

2014-12-29 Thread David Taylor
Hi, I would add a few things to this. If you use Fusion, you can keep a backup of your VM, or VMs anywhere you like, so even if you have to reinstall OS X from scratch, you don’t have to lose your VM, or have it backed up by Time Machine. You can share files and folders between the two, and la

Re: CyberDuck FTP Questions

2014-12-18 Thread David Taylor
A friend and I looked at it last year and gave up on it. We found Transmit to be the only thing we liked, despite its price. Cheers Dave On 19 Dec 2014, at 03:31 am, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries wrote: > That is rather bizarre. So I can go to > > https://cyberduck.io/changelog/ > > and

Re: Current News Feed toggling

2014-12-17 Thread David Taylor
Interact with the App Navigation group and you’ll find it there, whichever app you’re using the main site layout with. Cheers Dave On 18 Dec 2014, at 01:57 am, Brian Fischler wrote: > Hi, very strange as I get to edit profile and I VO right and the very next > thing is App navigation then rem

Re: Advice for VoiceOver constantly resetting itself

2014-12-17 Thread David Taylor
This is the exact issue I am having in Menutab Pro, and was hoping Current may fix it, but suspected it might not, so haven’t bought it yet. On 17 Dec 2014, at 06:54 pm, Brian Fischler wrote: > Ok, just bought Current which seems to be working for those who have got it. > I am running a 2010 i

Re: Current for Facebook

2014-12-17 Thread David Taylor
Does Current literally reproduce the website, like Menutab, or does it have easier ways of skipping around or anything? I presume if it really is just like the site, the shortcut keys work? On 17 Dec 2014, at 08:28 am, Krister Ekstrom wrote: > But Menutab is much, much slower. But to each thei

Re: more yufukuru help

2014-12-10 Thread David Taylor
There are no settings for those things, setting things up this way makes it happen automatically. The tabs will appear in the order you set them up. I’ve not found a way to change the order of them yet. Cheers Dave On 10 Dec 2014, at 07:56 pm, Kliph wrote: > Okay, I can find the area where to

Re: yorFucuru questions

2014-12-09 Thread David Taylor
Hi, To cycle between timelines, use command-right or command -left. Space takes you to the oldest unread in your current tab, 0 the newest. There are loads of keystrokes you can learn by looking through the menus. To create new tabs, do command-p. You then go to add, and pick what you want to

Re: victor reader stream

2014-12-04 Thread David Taylor
All you do is format the card on the Stream itself, so it has all the right folders, and use the Mac to do the copy. SD cards do tend to break after a while, though I have one that managed 6 years. On 4 Dec 2014, at 05:40 pm, BobH. wrote: > I'd be careful of that, Mac is fastidious about for

Re: victor reader stream

2014-12-04 Thread David Taylor
Yes. You have to copy the files into the correct folders, but just use it like any other SD card apart from that. Details of what files go where are in the manual but should be fairly self evident. Cheers Dave On 4 Dec 2014, at 07:40 am, Lorie McCloud wrote: > can you use a mac to put stuff o

Re: A TuneIn Radio for the Mac

2014-12-01 Thread David Taylor
Hi, Actually, XBMC is accessible on the Mac. You have to get the TTS add on first, and put it in the add ons folder, but then it does work. Cheers Dave On 1 Dec 2014, at 11:09 am, Anders Holmberg wrote: > Hi! > Wow! > Whats the name of that addon? > I actually tried xbmc for windows at a time

Re: Navigon for IOS

2014-11-30 Thread David Taylor
Hi, No, there is no such mode for Navigon. Your best bet for that is Blindsquare. Navigon will only ever tell you when you need to make a turn or if you specifically go to Where Am I. Cheers Dave On 30 Nov 2014, at 06:37 pm, Faisal ali wrote: > Hi all, > I purchased Navigon the other day and

Re: Regarding virtual machine. and Windows 7.

2014-11-25 Thread David Taylor
Interesting, I’ve just found the same problem on exploring. I upgraded to VMWare 7 ages ago so it isn’t related to that. Something must have happened in a Windows update On 25 Nov 2014, at 01:59 pm, Kjsc Radio wrote: > Hello all, I have a question or two. Ever since I have upgraded to vmware 7

Re: uninstalling sound flower

2014-11-17 Thread David Taylor
On Nov 16, 2014, at 11:22 PM, David Taylor wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> In your Apps folder, there should be a Sound Flower folder, in which is an >> uninstall script. Simply open this and follow the prompts. >> >> Cheers >> Dave >> >> On 17 N

Re: uninstalling sound flower

2014-11-16 Thread David Taylor
Hi, In your Apps folder, there should be a Sound Flower folder, in which is an uninstall script. Simply open this and follow the prompts. Cheers Dave On 17 Nov 2014, at 05:32 am, Faisal ali wrote: > Hi all, > As the subject line states, I’m wanting to remove sound flower from my > system. An

Re: Backup Strategies

2014-09-13 Thread David Taylor
Even Apple say that Time Capsules are too slow to use to open content from, but if you have more than one Mac, you can set them all up to use the same Time Capsule and it will organise itself as neded so that each machine has a unique set of backups. On 13 Sep 2014, at 13:30, Alex Hall wrote:

Re: Reading mail with voiceover

2014-09-13 Thread David Taylor
This is why I open messages with return, and close them with either delete, if that's what I want to do, or command-w. OS keystrokes are often easier than VO ones. Cheers Dave On 13 Sep 2014, at 02:57, Janine Smith wrote: > Hi. > > When I am in mail moving from the message table over to the

Re: Braille display and VO on the Mac

2014-09-07 Thread David Taylor
You don't need to go to the Apple site, just use the VO help menu, VO-h. People should take a good look at everything in there. It is mentioned in the getting started guide. On 7 Sep 2014, at 22:09, Caitlyn Furness wrote: > If you go to the voice over manual online on apple's site, there is an

Re: Buying VMFusion 7 Pro.

2014-09-05 Thread David Taylor
It worked for me but have heard of others having problems. I'd just try again. Also, you really, really, don't need pro. Cheers Dave On 5 Sep 2014, at 09:29, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: > Morning. > > Now I have caught up with most of my E-mail lists, and have read the most > important things, I

iTunes and option key - solution

2014-08-25 Thread David Taylor
Hi, Right, I have worked out what the issue is. When you press option-i to launch iTunes, you must release both keys at the same time. If you hold the option key down for too long, you'll get the choose library dialog, but if you let both keys go together, you won't. Cheers Dave -- You recei

Re: iTunes short cut key

2014-08-25 Thread David Taylor
Hi, Sorry, this is completely wrong. There is *no* conflict in using keyboard commander at all. Keyboard Commander will only take over one of your option keys, and only for the keystrokes you add. This means your other option key is still avaliable for all combinations you might want, and even

Re: iTunes short cut key

2014-08-24 Thread David Taylor
Works fine here, I have option-i for iTunes working just fine. Sometimes, however you open iTunes, you get that dialog, and the next time, you can open it the same way and not get it at all Cheers Dave On 25 Aug 2014, at 07:11, Christopher Hallsworth wrote: > Because if you press the option

Re: launching apps

2014-08-24 Thread David Taylor
er really used the launchpad much, because it mostly > just seems like a duplication of the dock. I'm assuming from your message > that you do use Launchpad. What do you see as being the advantages of it > over the dock? > Thanks, > Donna > On Aug 24, 2014, at 12:19 PM, D

Re: launching apps

2014-08-24 Thread David Taylor
I went into system prefs and reorganised the system keyboard shortcuts, so now I have keyboard commander for my most common apps, but f12 brings up launchpad which I use for everything else. You just type a few characters and it finds apps containing them and you can pick what you want. Works pe

Re: Remapping keys with VM fusion

2014-08-22 Thread David Taylor
2014, at 9:00 PM, Kliphton Senior >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> That's why I prefer the sharp keys way. >>>>>> >>>>>> Frustrated with your Mac, I-device, or AppleTV? New user and want quick >>&g

Re: Torrent client recommendation?

2014-08-20 Thread David Taylor
Utorrent is fine for me. Cheers Dave On 20 Aug 2014, at 14:54, Bill Holton wrote: > Yes, exactly. If anyone is running this successfully, can you contact me off > list so I can ask some questions? > bill32...@gmail.com > Thanks. > > > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvi

Re: advanced voice over?

2014-08-20 Thread David Taylor
You'll learn more from the geting started guide, which you'll find in the VO help menu, which you were told how to access in the tutorial when you first started VO and would find a great help anyway. Mac isn't like Windows, just let Apple show you how to do things. Then you learn how software do

Re: Remapping keys with VM fusion

2014-08-17 Thread David Taylor
Hi, Couple of points here. Firstly, if you delete all the built in keystrokes, you have to do a lot of finger contortions that you don't actually need to do, given that the mac keystrokes are much easier to reach than the windows ones. I would advise people to keep them, they can actually come

Re: help with updating flash player?

2014-08-15 Thread David Taylor
Hi, You will also have to close anything else that is using Webkit. If you have this as your default browser, this could include, for example, MenuTab Pro for Facebook, or any other app that uses HTML style interfaces. HTH Dave On 16 Aug 2014, at 06:48, Maria and Joe Chapman wrote: > Hi. >

Re: opus audio encoding on osx?

2014-08-06 Thread David Taylor
I haven't heard anything, but given the fact that they have shut down loder versions and 3rd party apps now, and given that call quality seems to have dropped off recently to me, don't be surprised if it suddenly appears. At least, now, they have the least excuse ever for it not to. Cheers Dave

Re: Stuck in Menus on the Web

2014-07-31 Thread David Taylor
Hi, I would seriously suggest you have cursor tracking turned on. It makes life a million times easier in most situations. You're much better leaving it on, and turning it off when you need to. I created a keyboard command that is easier to reach for doing so. Cheers Dave On 31 Jul 2014, at 17

Re: activities

2014-07-22 Thread David Taylor
Hi, I have emailed Apple Accessibility about this in the past. I have noticed that only some Nuance voices are affected, Serena being one, Moira not much at all though. Cheers Dave On 22 Jul 2014, at 15:58, Alex Hall wrote: > The problem seems to be when using Nuance voices. Even if none of

Re: Anyone miss certain words with Voiceover english voices

2014-07-19 Thread David Taylor
t; >> Most of the time i use >> the voices from infovox. I use heather and the danish voices. They are not >> really expensive anymore, you can buy them for a reasonable price. You will >> not have to pay upgrades all the time, mine is very old, and they have been >&g

Re: KEY Chain for the Mac past Issues.

2014-07-19 Thread David Taylor
This is precisely why I haven't gone for two step verification. If somebody breaks in, they break in. I do use passwords that would be hard to get though. It wouldn't take me too long to fix things if the worst happened. Cheers Dave On 19 Jul 2014, at 01:15, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote: > Hello. >

Re: Anyone miss certain words with Voiceover english voices

2014-07-18 Thread David Taylor
Hi, I know exactly what you mean. None of the voices are clear and reliable on pronunciation. For this, and other reasons, I'm currently trying Moira, the Irish voice, but if you need a male for hearing reasons, she is not an option. Have you tried Lee, Tom etc? Go to vo utility, speech, voices

Re: NFB Resolution

2014-07-13 Thread David Taylor
. Cheers Dave On 14 Jul 2014, at 07:24, Jason White wrote: > David Taylor wrote: >> I wonder how anybody thinks national legislation can have any serious impact >> on the internet given that the internet is global, and most corporations can >> site their sites wherever they lik

Re: Sorry, but I still can't master Spotlight

2014-07-13 Thread David Taylor
Hi, Are you using command-space to enter spotlight? I find this always works for me. Also, do you ever leave quick nav on or turn cursor tracking off? If you do, then these may be part of your problem. Cheers Dave On 14 Jul 2014, at 02:33, Alex Hall wrote: > Hi all, > I know we've done this

Re: NFB Resolution

2014-07-13 Thread David Taylor
I wonder how anybody thinks national legislation can have any serious impact on the internet given that the internet is global, and most corporations can site their sites wherever they like? It only takes one country not to adopt any such law for it to become meaningless On 13 Jul 2014, at 22:4

Re: App Accessibility.

2014-07-13 Thread David Taylor
ey put in minimal effort to make > sure that they're possibly a step ahead of NVDA, for example. > > On 7/13/2014 9:01 AM, David Taylor wrote: >> One wonders if this Jaws preoccupation is behind them putting so muc >> pressure on Apple now too. Whatever Microsoft did

Re: App Accessibility.

2014-07-13 Thread David Taylor
One wonders if this Jaws preoccupation is behind them putting so muc pressure on Apple now too. Whatever Microsoft did in the past, they are undoing most of it now, Apple really are miles ahead. Cheers Dave On 13 Jul 2014, at 13:26, Littlefield, Tyler wrote: > Hello: > I can't speak to Google

Re: Sharing Links On Twitter From Safari

2014-07-13 Thread David Taylor
Hi, If you actually want people to read the link, you're much better introducing it yourself and copying the URL. We won't see what it refers to in Yoru if so if you don't provide relevant info, people won't follow anyway. Command-l command-a command-c then go to Yoru, type your intro and comma

Re: Intergrating Facebook with Twitter.

2014-07-12 Thread David Taylor
If you do a web search for Twitter for Facebook, you will get taken to the correct page to set up so that your Twitter updates show on Facebook. This is doable on Mac browsers. i remember having an issue with it, but can't remember what it was, but I may have had to use Chrome rather than Safari

Re: iCloud and Thunderbird

2014-07-09 Thread David Taylor
Hi, It is rather mre complex than that. There are extensive articles on how to do it on ine, but different people have different server formats, so there is a deal of trial and error involved. Cheers Dave On 9 Jul 2014, at 08:24, Christopher Hallsworth wrote: > Not sure if this will be helpf

Re: question about Mac book Air

2014-07-02 Thread David Taylor
Hi, Either the 11 or 13 inch will be perfect for what you need. Really, the only gain from the 13 is some extra batter life and much more weight to carry around, I'd go for the 11 personally, unless the 13 has something you specifically need. It would be very highly advisable to upgrade your R

Re: working with apple mail

2014-06-23 Thread David Taylor
where it shows the subject of messages > first, so I don't have to voiceover-right to know the subject of the message? > On Jun 23, 2014, at 5:38 AM, David Taylor wrote: > >> In a conversation, you see the most recent message in the list, but when you >> open it

Re: working with apple mail

2014-06-23 Thread David Taylor
In a conversation, you see the most recent message in the list, but when you open it, it opens all the messages in the conversation. It will read the oldest first. Simply press delete to delete the message you are reading and get to the next one, or if you want to keep the message, use command-w

Re: Keyboard Commander and entering Text on a Web Page

2014-06-20 Thread David Taylor
If it seems to be something more people find useful, I may well do that. Not sure if I'd use it myself as the tab method works well a lot of the time, but will think on this more. Cheers Dave On 20 Jun 2014, at 22:12, Mary Otten wrote: > Hi David, > I hope you will write to Apple accessibilit

Re: Alex on IOS 8

2014-06-20 Thread David Taylor
Yes, I like the new British female voice for Siri, but would happily have Serena back On 20 Jun 2014, at 21:15, Jessica Moss wrote: > Join the club, I love the male voice cerie uses though, and wish that could > be used as a reading voice, and have tried in vane to find more info about > it,

Re: Alex on IOS 8

2014-06-20 Thread David Taylor
system and voiceover course >> available now. Take advantage of our 10% discount for the month of June. >> Spots are limited, sign up here >> http://blindaccesstraining.com/training-courses/ >> >> >> >> On Jun 20, 2014, at 3:06 PM, David Taylor wro

Re: Alex on IOS 8

2014-06-20 Thread David Taylor
oduction to the Macintosh Operating system and voiceover course available > now. Take advantage of our 10% discount for the month of June. > Spots are limited, sign up here > http://blindaccesstraining.com/training-courses/ > > > > On Jun 20, 2014, at 3:06 PM, David Taylor

Re: Alex on IOS 8

2014-06-20 Thread David Taylor
I agree. I have to use the Irish voice on IOS for the same reasons but will switch to Alex if he sounds anything like. I don't know anybody who likes Daniel on any platform. Cheers Dave On 20 Jun 2014, at 20:02, Matt Dierckens wrote: > I honestly wish we had the option of using different amer

Re: Keyboard Commander and entering Text on a Web Page

2014-06-20 Thread David Taylor
Hi, You simply interact with the text or turn quick nav off. This is nothing to do with keyboard commander, which is what caused the confusion. If you have your tab key set to auto-interact, then when you tab into a field you can just type without doing anything, and for secure edit fields, it

Re: command+o won't open folders on external drives anymore.

2014-06-18 Thread David Taylor
I've suddnely found that isn't working for me either. In list view, it always did, now I have to open a folder with right arrow. Cheers Dave On 18 Jun 2014, at 19:08, Teresa Cochran wrote: > Which folder view are you using. With list view, you can go into the folder > with command-down-arrow

Re: a good youtube player for the mac?

2014-06-11 Thread David Taylor
Hi, You might want to get AdBlockPlus for Safari, which will block Youtube and many other ads. Cheers Dave On 11 Jun 2014, at 14:32, Anouk Radix wrote: > Hi, thanks for that info, will i be able to skip ads with this one? This for > me is the main reason to want to try something else. > Than

Re: Mac Daily News

2014-06-10 Thread David Taylor
Hi, I would just say that this list is pretty busy as it is, and anyone who wants can subscribe to RSS, Twitter feeds or whatever to get these kind of news stories if they want to, but if people want it to be for news on here as well then maybe I'll do some unsubscribing in other places :) On

Re: command-y and email attachments

2014-06-10 Thread David Taylor
Yes, do it from the messages list, an attachment will be selected to view and there will be next and previous buttons and an index list if more than one attachment. Most times, the one you want is selected anyway, and often you can interact with it as HTML, headings and all Cheers Dave On 10 J

Re: Skype for Mac

2014-06-07 Thread David Taylor
Hi, when you receive a call, you should get a dialog pop up, with answer being the default button, so simply pressing return will answer. The way I use Skype is to use VO-J to jump me between the table and other parts of the window. So I interact with the table and find where it says contacts, t

Re: expanding andfolders in list view

2014-05-08 Thread David Taylor
m still learning so much about the Mac two years on. > > Lisette > > On 8/05/2014, at 3:23 am, David Taylor wrote: > >> Hi, well, command down arrow not only opens a folder, it puts you in a list >> of the contents of just that folder. Right arrow expands the folder, so

Re: expanding andfolders in list view

2014-05-07 Thread David Taylor
Hi, well, command down arrow not only opens a folder, it puts you in a list of the contents of just that folder. Right arrow expands the folder, so you can see its contents, but doesn't hide everything else, IE expands the folder. Cheers Dave On 7 May 2014, at 16:14, Alex Hall wrote: > Comman

Re: correction to my post regarding option p to open pages

2014-05-07 Thread David Taylor
Sometimes, you just have to turn VO off and on again On 7 May 2014, at 14:48, Red.Falcon wrote: > Hi! > The only thing I can think of to check is to go to where you set up that > short cut and check everything is right like it is only the letter P as your > key selection and nothing else like

Re: Is there a trick to using VoiceOver to read mail messages in the Mail application?

2014-05-07 Thread David Taylor
Hi, Alternatively, don't interact at all, simply arrow up and down the message list and hit return to open one. If you want to delete the message you are on in the list, or the message you are currently in, backspace is your friend, no need for all these keystrokes people use. Cheers Dave On

Re: problem after most recent Mavericks update

2014-05-06 Thread David Taylor
Hi, Yes, I have been having problems. I associated them with installing Airfoil, but it could easily be the Mavericks update that started the same issue. Turning VO off and on again gets my audio back though. Cheers Dave On 6 May 2014, at 21:39, don bishop wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm having a

Re: heading levels

2014-05-06 Thread David Taylor
out more > about it? Haven't found out about this so far. > > Catherine > > On 5/6/14, David Taylor wrote: >> I have used activities. In browsers my activity has quick nav and single >> letter nav on, in chat type apps I have quick nav on but single letter off,

Re: heading levels

2014-05-05 Thread David Taylor
I have used activities. In browsers my activity has quick nav and single letter nav on, in chat type apps I have quick nav on but single letter off, and by default I have both off. When I want to type in a browser I either interact or turn Quick Nav off. Cheers Dave On 6 May 2014, at 03:19, Al

Re: Single letter navigation was Re: heading levels

2014-05-05 Thread David Taylor
Or simply interact when you want to type. The likelihood is you'll want to tab to the next form field in many cases when you type anyway, and if the tab key is set to auto interact, you can tab through forms and deal with them. Cheers Dave On 5 May 2014, at 22:01, Alex Hall wrote: > It is how

Re: strange issue

2014-05-04 Thread David Taylor
Hi, Whenever you get weird things like this, it's always worth quitting and restarting VoiceOver. Also, have you checked if you have any system dialogs? Do vo-f1 twice quickly, (written as VO-f1-f1) and if you have any system dialogs or notifications, right arrow into them, select them and act

Re: Which Mac?

2014-05-04 Thread David Taylor
e out to roughly the same price. > > On 5/4/14, David Taylor wrote: >> Many externals just work, even if they don't say they are compattible, and >> we are needing such drives less and less often now anyway. >> >> On 4 May 2014, at 14:31, Eileen Misrahi wrote: >

Re: Which Mac?

2014-05-04 Thread David Taylor
uck and I > know you will enjoy the MBA. > > Take care. > > Eileen > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On May 4, 2014, at 5:31 AM, David Taylor wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I've gone for the 11 inch myself. I maxed everything out on it and find it >

Re: Which Mac?

2014-05-04 Thread David Taylor
Hi, I've gone for the 11 inch myself. I maxed everything out on it and find it is plenty good enough for me. If you don't need a built in SD slot, it has everything the 13 inch does, and easy enough to get any adaptors you need for connections it doesn't have, such as Ethanet if you want that.

Re: Drop Box Website.

2014-04-28 Thread David Taylor
It was really hard getting the > secret key on my I phone as I could not scan the image with my camera so had > to E-mail myself the key but I like it. In the end I closed my Drop Box > account so I hope I get on with BT Sync. > > Kawal. > >> On 27 Apr 2014, at 06:56 pm, Davi

Re: Drop Box Website.

2014-04-27 Thread David Taylor
Hi, Yes, the DB website is pretty awful, though everything seems doable on it. I use both Dropbox and BT Sync. With BT sync, you create the folder, and then either send somebody a key to it, or somebody sends you a key and you add it as a shared folder. There is much more control, though settin

Re: Itunes on Mac

2014-04-23 Thread David Taylor
I agree, those are good places to go. The thing I would say though is learn VoiceOver and explore. I use methods that none of the podcasts suggest, which I found through trial and error David Woodbridge's podcasts on Applevis or Vision Australia will show you basic methods which you can learn qu

Re: App switching still takes too long when using activities

2014-04-23 Thread David Taylor
xes things. I very much prefer > the Ava voice, so use that exclusively. > On Apr 23, 2014, at 2:52 PM, David Taylor wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I find that app switching works well, using activities, but only if I use >> the Alex voice, and probably the older voic

Re: App switching still takes too long when using activities

2014-04-23 Thread David Taylor
Hi, I find that app switching works well, using activities, but only if I use the Alex voice, and probably the older voices would work too, but not at all well with the nuance voices. I have reported this to Apple. Cheers Dave On 23 Apr 2014, at 14:52, Alex Hall wrote: > I am using cmd-tab

Re: Teamtalk was Re: Good Prospects for Accessibility in Office for Mac

2014-04-17 Thread David Taylor
TeamTalk for Mac is mainly usable, but hardly accessible. You really have to know what you are doing, but most things can be done. Many of these things are extremely fiddly and slow to do due to the lack of accessibility, but if you know your way round a server, a lot can be done. If you are an

Re: Facebook is getting on my nerves.

2014-04-17 Thread David Taylor
Even Menutab isn't ideal with the way they are changing the site. FB has become more and more difficult to use, and the way they re-arranged the newsfeed made it all 10 times worse. I'm getting to the point where I might consider one of the specialist Windows clients in my VM. An app would be gr

Re: Good Prospects for Accessibility in Office for Mac

2014-04-16 Thread David Taylor
There are many, many, reasons why you might want to put Windows on your Mac still, even if Office becomes fully accessible. If they do it right, Office could be best of all on Mac, but there are plenty of things you still can't do, and might want to. Teamtalk is easier in Windows, many games don

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