Excel 2016 for Mac, reading row and column titles

2017-04-24 Thread 'Jim Fettgather' via MacVisionaries
This sounds like this might be kind of a long shot, but I am desperately hoping that there might be a way, using Voiceover on the Mac along with Excel 2016, to have Voiceover read column titles while navigating across the columns while navigation is down many rows deep into the spreadsheet. I h

Reading mail Efficiently with Sierra

2017-03-27 Thread 'Jim Fettgather' via MacVisionaries
Hello. It seems very beneficial to be able to skim within a mail message, moving paragraph by paragraph. There seems to be a discrepancy between what is said using Keyboard Help and what is listed in the keyboard commands section of online help. The command in question is Control Option Shift

Garage Band 10, Quantize a MIDI Track

2017-03-23 Thread 'Jim Fettgather' via MacVisionaries
Hello. Coming to grips with the latest Garage Band in Sierra, I am wondering if there is a hotkey to immediately quantize a track after recording it. I have looked through lists of hotkeys but have not found anything so far. Thanks for any guidance. -- The following information is important fo

RE: New iMac, A Bit slow and Sluggish

2017-03-22 Thread 'Jim Fettgather' via MacVisionaries
Scott Granados Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2017 10:44 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: New iMac, A Bit slow and Sluggish What kind of disk are you using, SSD or regular rotating/. Also is this a new IMAC or a used older model? Thank you > On Mar 20, 2017, at 9:55 AM, &

New iMac, A Bit slow and Sluggish

2017-03-20 Thread 'Jim Fettgather' via MacVisionaries
Hello. I had tested out the $999 21 inch iMac running Sierra in the Apple Store, and it had run with impressive speed and responsiveness. Applications opened quickly, web pages loaded quickly, and there was no lag or "busy signals" at all. I purchased the unit, and set it up with my Apple ID and

The Latest Update to Office 16 for Mac

2015-09-29 Thread 'Jim Fettgather' via MacVisionaries
Hello, I am wondering if anyone has had any luck with Option Right Arrow reading word by word in a document? Option left arrow seems to read prior word just fine, but I cannot get the option right arrow to read. However, option shift right arrow does read highlighted text. Thanks for your thought

Cannon Scanner and Mac Mini

2015-09-18 Thread 'Jim Fettgather' via MacVisionaries
Hello, I have a Macbook Air and a Mac Mini both running Yosemite. When I connect the Cannon scanner to the Macbook Air, , and go to printers and faxes, I can add it with no problem and it works beautifully. However, on the Mac Mini, it just literally does not show up at all, I have tried all ava

office preview for mac, Reading by Word??

2015-04-22 Thread 'Jim Fettgather' via MacVisionaries
Hello, In the latest Office Preview for Mac, I cannot get Option Right Arrow to read word by word. Option Left Arrow does seem to be reading prior words. I'm just wondering if this is specific to my system or has anyone tried this out? Thanks. -- You received this message because you are sub

Office for Mac 2016 Preview

2015-03-12 Thread 'Jim Fettgather' via MacVisionaries
Hello to the list. I have just now downloaded and installed this Microsoft office for mac 2016 preview, and what a bitter disappointment this is so far. Voiceover does not seem to read any of the text in my preliminary try out of the Microsoft Word application, everything else seems to read ju

Using Numbers for Simple Multiplication

2015-02-26 Thread 'Jim Fettgather' via MacVisionaries
Hello to the list. I may be missing something very basic about concepts for using Numbers. With two adjacent numbers, either in a row or a column, I cannot get the Product function in numbers to multiply the entries. I’ve tried selecting the numbers, but that did not seem to work, but placing the

Sorting Data in Numbers

2015-01-08 Thread Jim Fettgather
This one really has me stumped. After highlighting a row of numbers to be sorted in either a row or column of numbers, then stop interacting with the table and VO left arrow to the formatter group, because this seems to be where the sort options are located, no matter what I select, the sort now

Re: Yosemite: Continuing Curiosities in Spotlight Search

2014-10-21 Thread 'Jim Fettgather' via MacVisionaries
false as I would venture to say that Starbucks should show up quite a bit around the Net. Probably some setting I need to manipulate. Later… Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Oct 21, 2014, at 7:51 AM, 'Jim Fettgather' via MacVisionaries wrote: According to documentation,

Yosemite: Continuing Curiosities in Spotlight Search

2014-10-21 Thread 'Jim Fettgather' via MacVisionaries
According to documentation, performing a search term is Spotlight should bring up Wikipedia entries, map data, possible dictionary definitions, and a host of results. I was able to verify that typing in the term Starbucks into Spotlight brought no results, and the message appeared visually on t

Re: yosemite and spotlight search

2014-10-20 Thread 'Jim Fettgather' via MacVisionaries
stions, stand up for what we > need we will ultimately lose what we have. Those who are currently taking me > to task now will be truly whining.. The difference is, you know me, they > don't. > Pam Francis . > >> On Oct 20, 2014 10:05 AM, "'Jim Fettgather

yosemite and spotlight search

2014-10-20 Thread 'Jim Fettgather' via MacVisionaries
I have a quick question about the way that Spotlight is supposed to work in Yosemite. As far as I have been able to read, you should be able to get web results from Bing, using Spotlight. So, pressing Command Spacebar, which brings up the edit box, and then typing in a search term, using the d

Re: Mail Busy

2014-10-17 Thread 'Jim Fettgather' via MacVisionaries
2014, at 8:00 PM, 'Jim Fettgather' via MacVisionaries wrote: This is a strange phenomenon. After installing Yosemite, after launching mail, it is perpetually busy. And I mean, it stays busy. Absolutely no way to read or compose mail, it’s simply stuck on busy. I sure don’t k

Mail Busy

2014-10-17 Thread 'Jim Fettgather' via MacVisionaries
This is a strange phenomenon. After installing Yosemite, after launching mail, it is perpetually busy. And I mean, it stays busy. Absolutely no way to read or compose mail, it’s simply stuck on busy. I sure don’t know how to fix this one. -- You received this message because you are subscribed t

Re: Safari and Arrow keys

2014-10-17 Thread 'Jim Fettgather' via MacVisionaries
When using up and down arrow keys in Safari, it seems like the syncronization is not exactly precise to where the voiceover cursor is located. Also, shouldn't there be a hotkey in Safari, with this new functionality, to read next paragraph? I could not seem to get this to work, so any observati

Re: Louis Braille translator version 3

2014-09-03 Thread 'Jim Fettgather' via MacVisionaries
So, I sure would like to know if there would be a way to use a BRF file generated by this software and somehow use this to create a Braille file using a Tiger printer? Thanks for any insight or suggestions. -Original Message- From: Greg Kearney Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2014 4:01

Re: DVD Player for the Mac

2014-08-21 Thread 'Jim Fettgather' via MacVisionaries
, 2014, at 9:57 AM, Anders Holmberg wrote: Hi! Have you tried vlc? Don't know if this would work but its worth a try. /A 19 aug 2014 kl. 15:46 skrev Jim Fettgather : Hi to the list. I have run onto a situation where I have purchased a DVD, but the go menu

DVD Player for the Mac

2014-08-19 Thread Jim Fettgather
Hi to the list. I have run onto a situation where I have purchased a DVD, but the go menu will not let me properly select an episode title. No matter what I try, it keeps defaulting back to episode 1, I've tried cursor tracking on and off, routing the mouse pointer with control option F5 and doing

Re: Watching live TV on a Mac.

2011-12-06 Thread Jim Fettgather
I really enjoy using the Eye TV app with the iPhone because of the good accessibility in IOS 5, but I will sure be happy in encouraging El Gato Systems to consider accessibility in an upcoming release. On 12/6/11, Mr. L. Alexander wrote: > a thought on this. > > If anyone is going to contact the

Re: ChromeVox is now on the Chrome Web Store!

2011-10-04 Thread Jim Fettgather
to uninstall, RETURN, and OK. > now, you can install ChromeVox from Chrome Web Store. > > Kevin > > On 10/4/11, Jim Fettgather wrote: >> I had downloaded and installed Chrome, have gone to the Chrome store, >> and installed Chromebox, but when starting Chrome, and turning

Re: ChromeVox is now on the Chrome Web Store!

2011-10-04 Thread Jim Fettgather
I had downloaded and installed Chrome, have gone to the Chrome store, and installed Chromebox, but when starting Chrome, and turning off Voiceover, still no speech. I just get the typical bong sound when using Control option right arrow or down arrow, so not sure how to ensure that everything

Lion: Safari and Loading Pages

2011-09-02 Thread Jim Fettgather
Hello. I may have inadvertently changed something, now, when I click on a link in Safari, Voicever announces, pressed link, and there is no longer an indication of when the new page loads. It does load, but silently, with no audible indication of the download progress. Any hints as to how to get

Lion, Suppressing the Date field.

2011-07-24 Thread Jim Fettgather
Hello. Using the new mail layout in Lion, I'm wondering if there is a way to suppress the date field, while still being informed of the sender, subject, and the preview of the first two lines of the message? Thanks for any tips on this. -- You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: Where is the restore partition?

2011-07-22 Thread Jim Fettgather
So, in an attempt to access and install from the recovery partition, using Command R to start the machine, and connecting to the net via Ethernet,, I came up with the voice of Fred, after clicking continue, the prompt, Signing into the App Store. Then, absolutely nothing after that, just hangs on t

Apple Script for Double Space in Text Edit

2011-07-12 Thread Jim Fettgather
Hi, it really is not too difficult to interact with the ruler in Text Edit to set the line spacing to double space in a document. However, I wonder if it would be possible to write an apple script to accomplish the task with a keystroke? Thanks for any thoughts. -- You received this message be

Re: a couple of trackpad commander questions

2011-07-10 Thread Jim Fettgather
According to keyboard help, you are supposed to be able to hold down the the control key and tap to jump to a linked item, such as moving from the messages table in mail to the text. I can get this to accknowledge this gesture in keyboard help, but for some reason, I cannot get it to work in th

Re: Insertion point

2011-06-01 Thread Jim Fettgather
Also, in VoiceOver utilities, you can go to the Verbosity category, select the Text tab, and then Select the Speak text to the right of the cursor PopUp button. I am really glad that this option exists. On 6/1/11, carolyn Haas wrote: > Hi David: > Welcom to Mac!:) > > I actually haven't run acro

Re: Eye TV again

2011-01-05 Thread Jim Fettgather
The particular unit that I have has a place to connect a coaxial cable. This can be iether from an over the air antenna, or in my case, the coaxial cable it's coming right from a cable box. Hope this helps. On 1/4/11, Mary Otten wrote: > Jim, > Are you using the eye tv that gets signals from an

Re: Eye TV again

2011-01-04 Thread Jim Fettgather
Hi, Garth, I have had some very good luck with Eye TV in conjunction with the iPhone. The program guide, which is not at all accessible from within Eye TV, is completely accessible from the iPhone or iPad. Plus, you can stream programs over a Wifi connection from your Eye TV to an iPhone or iPad

Interact with Messages Table

2010-12-28 Thread Jim Fettgather
Hello. When using Control Option J in Apple Mail to jump from a message back to the messages table, is there a way to prevent voiceover from saying: Interact with Messages Table? Thanks a lot. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" grou

Re: Voice chat site

2010-12-27 Thread Jim Fettgather
On 12/27/2010 5:56 PM, May McDonald wrote: Hey there Colin, can you email me off list and help me out a bit? It's been a while since I've used the talking community with the Mac and can't remember how to toggle the talk key. May On 2010-12-11, at 5:04 PM, Colin M wrote: Hi all! For anyone w

Re: Talking Communities Chat Client for the Mac

2010-12-09 Thread Jim Fettgather
: rs5affc3cfa191 Also, I had to restart the Mac, or restart the program, I don't recall which, but it's probably a good idea just to be safe and restart the computer, and then, the program was able to log into the room just fine. On 12/9/10, Jim Fettgather wrote: > You can download the Ma

Re: Talking Communities Chat Client for the Mac

2010-12-09 Thread Jim Fettgather
You can download the Mac client here, Now, there are two things that need to be namually configured. One, you need to put in the IP address of the room, and the room ID. Those two pieces of info are displayed on the same page as the download link for the Mac. It works well, but there are definit

Re: Talking Communities Chat Client for the Mac

2010-12-08 Thread Jim Fettgather
On 12/8/2010 5:39 PM, Gary wrote: Where did you get this client? Can you please send me the link. Thanx. Gary On Dec 8, 2010, at 5:04 AM, Jim in KC wrote: Hello. I have downloaded and installed the Talking Communities client used by many popular sites such as Accessible World. Most of the bu

Talking Communities Mac Client

2010-12-07 Thread Jim Fettgather
Hello. Some web sites, such as Accessible World, use the popular Talking Communities TC Chat client to conduct conferences using both audio and text. I've used this client in Windows, and I have now tried it with the Mac, and it actually is easy to use, requiring a bit more fiddling, having

Re: Replacing Windows Media Centre with a Mac

2010-11-26 Thread Jim Fettgather
Eye TV allows you to easily change the channel and to view your recorded programsl both of which are accessible with Voiceover. The program guide is not accessible with Voiceover, making it impossible to schedule recordings in advance. It is certainly possible to start a recording at any time

Re: confirming apple tv has vo support

2010-11-22 Thread Jim Fettgather
I am also continuing to search for a Mac-based TV tuner whose program guide is accessible. The El Gato Eye TV, spelled E Y E works great as far as it goes. You can easily switch channels, play programs that have already been recorded, and start a recording live at any time simply by pressing Comm

Re: I cannot get gmail pop mail service to work

2010-11-15 Thread Jim Fettgather
On 11/15/2010 8:21 PM, Tom Frank wrote: Hi there all, POP is Post Office protocol. It simply downloads all of your new messages to your computer for you to read. IMAP is Internet Message Access Protocol. Your messages, folders, filters, and the like can reside on the server and your computer

Re: My Passport External Hard Drive

2010-09-20 Thread Jim Fettgather
On 9/20/2010 4:38 AM, Scott Howell wrote: You could reformat the drive as another option. On Sep 19, 2010, at 10:37 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: Hello download ntfs3g and macfuse. You cannot copy and past using ntfs at all unless you get these 2 *free* programs. Take care. S I did

My Passport External Hard Drive

2010-09-19 Thread Jim Fettgather
Hi to the list. I had purchased a My Passport 500 GB external hard drive, when connecting it to the Mac, a message came up asking if i wanted to use Time Machine to back up files. I elected not to use Time Machine but instead to copy and move files manually. However, when I copy files or f

Re: Pauses in Mail Messages

2010-08-02 Thread Jim Fettgather
Often, the option to display the message in plain text is dimmed out and unavailable. On 8/2/10, Chantel Cuddemi wrote: > Have you tried switching to plain text alternative? To do this, hit command > shift p I think. Someone correct me if I am wrong. > On Aug 2, 2010, at 11:59 AM, Jim F

Pauses in Mail Messages

2010-08-02 Thread Jim Fettgather
Hello. When reading mail, often, when using Control Option J to move between the mail message table and the message text, there are unnatural pauses as Voiceover reads the text of the message. These pauses seem to occur at the end of each line, but not on all messages. Any way to get Voice

Re: Vision Australia VO tutorials Won't Play on my Mac?

2010-07-24 Thread Jim Fettgather
I am also a bit surprised, I am running Snow Leopard with all software updates applied, and Vision Australia's MP3's don't play in Safari, Safari 5. Other sites, like BlindCoolTech play just fine. Thanks. On 7/24/2010 11:43 AM, Allison Manzino wrote: Hi Al, I just tried it on Safari and i

Accessible TV Tuner Software?

2010-07-21 Thread Jim Fettgather
I am still looking for accessible TV tuner software that is compatible with Voiceover. I have not heard about anything other than Eye TV, whose program guide is not accessible to VO. Any hints or tips for this would sure be appreciated. Thanks. -- You received this message because you are su

TrackPad and Mail

2010-07-06 Thread Jim Fettgather
Hi. I just now got a Macbook Air, it's really amazing, it really is lighter than air! So, this is my first experience with the Trackpad, except for on the iPhone, and I'm wondering if there is a gesture that can be used within mail to jump between the messages table and the messages, to emul

Re: New Mac Mini

2010-06-19 Thread Jim Fettgather
It would sure be great, if we had an accessible solution for scheduling and recording and playing TV programs from cable or antenna.. On 6/18/2010 7:23 AM, Chris Moore wrote: I personally think this is a good step taken by Apple. The introduction of HDMI on the mini is fantastic for those who

Iworks Trial Download

2010-06-13 Thread Jim Fettgather
Hello. I am very curious to try the 30-day trial of Iworks on the Mac. When going to the Apple site where the download is located, the actual download seems to be inside of an empty frame, at least this is what Voiceover reports. In other words, there is what sounds like a frame for the downloa

Itunes 9, Songs Table VS Album View

2010-02-28 Thread Jim Fettgather
Hello. I should be able to figure this out after all this time, but my song collection is growing quite a lot, and I'm trying to figure out how to change the songs table to show as groups of albums instead of individual songs. Any help with this is sure appreciated. Thanks. -- You received this

Popcorn and Accessibility

2010-02-20 Thread Jim Fettgather
Hi. I have purchased the program Popcorn to be able to copy DVD's, however, I'm beginning to wonder about its accessibility, as there are several windows that give the unknown message to Voiceover. Has anyone had any success with this program? Thanks for any tips. -- You received this message

Re: Copying a Non-Commercial DVD

2010-02-16 Thread Jim Fettgather
ake a disk image using Disk Utility and then burn > that image to a blank using disk utility? > > CB > > Jim Fettgather wrote: >> Hi to the list. >> >> I wonder if there is a way, using Snow Leopard, or perhaps another >> program, to create duplicates of a n

Copying a Non-Commercial DVD

2010-02-16 Thread Jim Fettgather
Hi to the list. I wonder if there is a way, using Snow Leopard, or perhaps another program, to create duplicates of a non-commercial DVD? I have looked around within the operating system, but have not found any specific information as to whether this is possible. Thanks for any suggestions. --

iTV and Snow Leopard

2010-01-24 Thread Jim Fettgather
Hi. I have just now installed iTV and it seems quite accessible in many ways. It is possible to move around among the various channels, start recording live TV, play, pause, rewind and fast forward through a recorded TV program, and make quite a few other adjustments using the keyboard. I have no

Re: mac mini's

2009-12-15 Thread Jim Fettgather
Because the Mac mini is the perfect form factor for an entertainment center, I'm wondering what applications could be used for recording television broadcasts? Playing DVD's appears to be no problem, as my experience with Front Row has been very positive in that regard, but the missing piece of th

Re: iphone

2009-11-16 Thread Jim Fettgather
Email was exactly what I was going to suggest, but recently, Bookshare files don't seem to contain HTML files, but only the XML equivalents. On 11/16/09, Romack wrote: > > I haven't done this myself, but know that it would work: > > Just put the files in a Dropbox or iDisk account. With these tw

Re: Abbyy FineReader works well

2009-11-10 Thread Jim Fettgather
How would one go about researching purchasing a new scanner compatible with Fine reader without the need for third party software? Thanks. On 11/10/09, Tony Bernedal wrote: > > Hi Anne. > Thanks for the answer. I'll give vuescan a try later. > Regards Tony > > 10 nov 2009 kl. 20.48 skrev Anne Ro

Thunderbird for the Mac?

2009-10-09 Thread Jim Fettgather
Hi. Has anyone been successful installing the Thunderbird email program with Snow Lepoard? I tried to open the Thunderbird DMG file, and it appeared as if even the install process was not accessible, although, I could have been doing something incorrectly. Any prior experiences with Thunderbird

Re: opening links from within an email message

2009-10-08 Thread Jim Fettgather
I have always been able to activate a link from an within an email by pressing VO Shift M, and from the menu, choosing open link. On 10/8/09, Donna Goodin wrote: > > Hi Soren, > > Thanks for your explanation, it wasn't bad at all. :) Am I imagining > that this doesn't always behave consistently

Re: skip blank lines

2009-10-06 Thread Jim Fettgather
For some reason, the plain text option in the view menu is always dimmed for all of my messages. On 10/6/09, Woody Anna Dresner wrote: > > Hi, > > Sometimes an HTML message includes a text alternative, which reads > better and doesn't read all those blank lines. To access it, press > Command-Opt

Mail Clients for the Mac?

2009-09-22 Thread Jim Fettgather
Hi to the list. Has anyone tried any other mail clients besides Apple Mail that ships with Snow Leopard? I'm asking only because of the way that VO reads a lot of mail now, with these hideous pauses at the end of each line. Thanks a lot. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Yo

Re: Snow Leopard and mail preview pane

2009-09-16 Thread Jim Fettgather
I am curious to know, what advantages are there to turning off the preview pane? Does the mail program behave differently in any way? Thanks for your observations. On 9/16/09, Simon Cavendish wrote: > > Try to do it with the physical mouse click by routing your mouse > cursor to voiceover cur

Itunes 9 and the Command Browser

2009-09-15 Thread Jim Fettgather
Hi to the list. Using Itunes 9, after turning on the store browser with Command B, it's fairly straight forward to choose categories and interact with all of the various artists and titles. It seems very responsive. I'm wondering though if anyone has found a way to jump to specific entries begi