Re: Using Apple script to script voiceover as one would make scripts for Windows screenreaders

2015-06-13 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
It is possiblle, but you don't use the VoiceOver dictionary. I was about 50 percent comlete on creating an AppleScript to toggle the preview pane in apple mail when the logic board on my system died. I was using the UI scrippting elements within the System Events scripting library. Something

replacement system.

2015-06-13 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
I am looking to replace my well loved macbook pro 15 inch from 2009, and am wondering if I should get a high end Macbook Air or a MacMini. Please let me know of any sugestions. Also, how is the market for not quite new systems? My budget is a bit tight these days. Jonathan Cohn -- You

Re: Using Apple script to script voiceover as one would make scripts for Windows screenreaders

2015-06-13 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
It is also possible to script in javascript using the scripteditor. I believe that perl also has ways of accessing scripting objects in other applications. Jonathan Cohn On Jun 11, 2015, at 6:12 AM, Sean Murphy mhysnm1...@gmail.com wrote: I would also like to know and also do you have to

Re: Good monitor and keyboard for the mac

2015-05-19 Thread Jonathan C Cohn
I personally have heard great things about the Logitech keyboards. You can actually pretty much use any USB keyboard, the primary difference between Mac and Windows keyboards in the US is that the command and option keys by default are reversed in order. This can be created in System

Re: Keyboard Difficulties.

2015-05-17 Thread Jonathan C Cohn
It almost sounds like you might have the option key stuck down. For example option A inputs Option T †. å On May 17, 2015, at 14:40, christopher hallsworth challswor...@icloud.com wrote: You should have selected one when you set up your Mac. In fact, you probably can't proceed without

toggling the preview pane in Mail.

2015-05-17 Thread Jonathan C Cohn
A while back I provided a double click on VO cursor apple script to the list. It appears using this script with the VO cursor on the Vertical scroll bar will toggle the preview pane in the latest version of Yosemite. I will provide a script to toggle the scroll bar if 1. Somebody verifies

Tim Cook address to George Washington University.

2015-05-17 Thread Jonathan C Cohn
I attended today’s commencement at George Washington University. You can find a full video of the Tim Cook speech on 9 to 5 mac and probably her places. The prime point of the speech was you can do good and make money at the same time. One of his first points before he talked about how the

Re: Bluetooth assistance keeps popping up.

2015-05-06 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Plug in a nmouse Jonathan Cohn On May 6, 2015, at 2:44 AM, Anders Holmberg and...@pipkrokodil.se wrote: Hi! If i turn off my trackpad which i have, the bluetooth assistant pops up evry now and then of course but can this be turned off? I have tried to turn bluetooth off but it

Re: Problems with Safari

2015-04-26 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
If you got to the same ad cycle i got to Here is what's i did 1. Turn off network or unplug if you are using wired ethernet. 2. Exit safari and then go back into safari. 3. Close every window in safari. 4. Reconnect the network. Jonathan Cohn On Apr 26, 2015, at 12:03 PM, Alex Hall

Re: accessible adobe on the mac

2015-04-19 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
: Hi there, After all the talk from Adobe Systems this app is rubbish to say the least. I would try PDF pro. Really disappointed. Kind regards, Sadam Mohammed Ahmed B.A. Business Information Systems RMIT University — On 16/04/2015 1:09 pm, Jonathan C Cohn

Re: Need an iPhone GPS solution

2015-04-15 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Good Morning, Two things you might have tried: 1. Create a location based reminder (( tell SIRI remind me when I get to here ) 2. When The apple Maps tracking with coordinates is on, it usually speaks intersections as you pass them. Best of luck! Jonathan Cohn On Apr 15, 2015, at 8:03 AM,

Re: best cd burning app, again

2015-04-15 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
I have always just used the finder or disk utility Jonathan Cohn On Apr 15, 2015, at 2:15 PM, joe quinn jdawg1...@gmail.com wrote: What’s the best burning app, for data, and audio, out there, besides simply burns and ITunes? I mean, there’s gotta be something else out there? Thoughts?

Re: VoiceOver and new line.

2015-04-15 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
What about setting punctuation verbosity to none. Does that help? Jonathan Cohn On Apr 14, 2015, at 11:15 AM, sadam Ahmed sadamahmed1...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Alex, Is there a way to suppress VoiceOver saying new line? This would apply if I hit the return key to insert said line

Re: accessible adobe on the mac

2015-04-15 Thread Jonathan C Cohn
There were tweets from Adobe’s Accessibility Evangelist saying that Adobe DC (both reader and full fledged) would work with VoiceOver and include support for fully tagged PDF documents. On Apr 11, 2015, at 15:53, denise avant denise.av...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, A couple weeks ago,

Apple TV /remotes

2015-04-15 Thread Jonathan C Cohn
Yes, the Apple “Remote” app can control Apple TV and iTunes on your computer. The Apple TV portion is a bit strange, but I believe the keyboard will pop up when you nee it. You can also yuse the remote app to pick the next item to play. We watch quite a bit of HBO on our Apple TV, and some

Re: accessible adobe on the mac

2015-04-15 Thread Jonathan C Cohn
Send a tweet to Mike May and ask! On Apr 15, 2015, at 23:13, Yuma Decaux jamy...@gmail.com wrote: Is already or will in the future? On 16/04/2015, at 1:09 pm, Jonathan C Cohn jon.c.c...@gmail.com wrote: There were tweets from Adobe’s Accessibility Evangelist saying that Adobe DC

Re: disc keyboard shortcut

2015-03-17 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
I being a unix junkie immediately thought of du command. Sent from my iPhone On Mar 15, 2015, at 6:58 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland clgillan...@gmail.com wrote: I think... I need to look to make sure, but that there might be a way to sort your Finder items by size. Don't quote me on

Re: can't find unread mail messages

2015-03-11 Thread Jonathan C Cohn
wrote: Thanks, but how do I sort by unread. I tried sorting by the status column header but that did not seem to work. I think I know hwo to make a smart mailbox and I might try that. Christinacolumn header On Mar 6, 2015, at 9:33 AM, Jonathan C Cohn jon.c.c...@gmail.com wrote: You can

Re: Sellecting files for copying or moving.

2015-03-06 Thread Jonathan C Cohn
is VO-cmd-return. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Mar 6, 2015, at 09:04, Jonathan C Cohn jon.c.c...@gmail.com mailto:jon.c.c...@gmail.com wrote: If the files are listed next to each other, then you can use shift and the arrow keys to do selection. Otherwise

Re: Numerous desktops

2015-03-06 Thread Jonathan C Cohn
I would not worry much about multiple desktops it might actually make your system faster, since applications that are not in your current desktop are not being displayed and so they are more likely to have AppNap applied to them. AppNap is just what it sounds like, if a GUI application is not

Re: Sellecting files for copying or moving.

2015-03-06 Thread Jonathan C Cohn
If the files are listed next to each other, then you can use shift and the arrow keys to do selection. Otherwise the toggle current item in selection is bound to VO+shift+return . I think before in the cats versions of MacOS, this was bound to VO+shift+space. Now VO+shift+space is like the

time machine status.

2015-03-06 Thread Jonathan C Cohn
I believe I found a simple solution that does not require scripting, but will require a bit of confirmation. When I set a hotspot to an item in the menu extras area, it appears the hot spot canstill be read with voice over command # where # is the number of the hot spot. It might be that the

Re: can't find unread mail messages

2015-03-06 Thread Jonathan C Cohn
You can change the sort order from date to unread messages. This should help, the other possibility is to create a smart mailbox of unread messages. In fact the iPhone has one pre-created but not visible by default. On Mar 4, 2015, at 14:00, Christina C. blindmaclo...@gmail.com wrote: Yes,

Re: VM Statistics

2015-03-05 Thread Jonathan C Cohn
and sysctl, both of which seem like they'll work. I still don't really understand this memory compression thing, though. I'll keep looking into it, but if you have a grasp on it already, I'd love an explanation. Thanks. On Feb 25, 2015, at 7:22 PM, Jonathan C Cohn jon.c.c...@gmail.com

AppleScript and TimeMachine

2015-03-02 Thread Jonathan C Cohn
TimeMachine uses the System Preference pane to control it, and there is useful information in the system control pane like Disk size and backup status. So we could probably find the “id” string of the time machine preference panel, and then go from there. I know I saw a script in the UI

Re: Markdown Editor

2015-03-02 Thread Jonathan C Cohn
Ulilies There is a mark down editor named after the first name of President Grant. I have talked to the developer and they are willing to work with the VoiceOver community. Currently I only use the standard Apple editors and since I was a very active Emacs user several years ago, I am going to

Re: Applescript challenge

2015-02-27 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Well, there might be issues with Rich Text / HTML e-mails. But in general you would want to use the text object of the current object. basically if you change the text I know that the Text object provides paragraph and sentence access, but I am not sure about line numbers. If you bring up the

Applescript to double click at voiceover cursor

2015-02-26 Thread Jonathan C Cohn
Good day, Below starting with the word “use” is an apple script that Jürgen and I wrote. This will double click with the mouse on the VoiceOver cursor. It will of course only work reliably when your VoiceOver cursor is over a non-grouped item. . This has only been tested by two

Re: a messages section for Nighowl

2015-02-25 Thread Jonathan C Cohn
Great to know that now works. I was half considering creating a apple script. On Feb 24, 2015, at 23:24, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com wrote: Control with numbers will also do it. For instance, ctrl-1 is your first tab, or Home; ctrl-2 is Mentions; ctrl-3 is Messages (or DMs, whatever you

VM Statistics

2015-02-25 Thread Jonathan C Cohn
Alex, You mentioned you were having problems getting memory information in your utilities scripts. I did a quick scan and it looks like you are parsing information from the top command to get these statistics. Might I suggest you look at the “vm-stat command? This lists things in terms of

Re: Applescript help

2015-02-25 Thread Jonathan C Cohn
Send me a copy of the script and I can give it a try. Is output using the output command or the say command? Or perhaps the code from the Apple version was taken, which checks if VoiceOVer is running and also makes sure that applescripts can control voiceover. in any case the first thing to

Re: Apple script doesn't work

2015-02-24 Thread Jonathan C Cohn
but found an identifier. Could you try it once more and see if there is anything wrong with the script? If it works correctly I’m able to change it to right click. Thanks and all the best Jürgen Am 11.01.2015 um 18:39 schrieb Jonathan C Cohn jon.c.c...@gmail.com

Re: How to extract the attached file to a message

2015-02-24 Thread Jonathan C Cohn
I have no problems getting to attachments in Mail on 10.10.2 The process is as follows: 1. Move to the bottom of the message text . 2. VO Right until you find the attachment it is almost always near the end. 3. use VO-Space 4. Select Open or Open with. I have had no luck with the command-y in

Re: Help I seemed to have broken toggling between open applications

2015-02-24 Thread Jonathan C Cohn
I think that preference pane will sometimes override some of the standard keyboard shortcuts while it is active. Try going back to the preference pane and see if the problem starts again. Then quit Preference and see if the problem stops. On Feb 24, 2015, at 15:20, Brian Fischler

Re: Scraping an Entire Website

2015-02-22 Thread Jonathan C Cohn
There used to be a version of wget that came with the macintosh for use on the terminal. The only close examples now seem to be perl scripts for downloading sites either of lap-request or lap-download. I could not tell from a quick review if either of these does recursive downloads of a site.

Re: email headers

2015-02-13 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
The easiest thing to do is turn off smart mail addressing in the viewing section of mail preferences. Sent from my iPhone On Feb 13, 2015, at 2:56 AM, Lorie McCloud lorice...@gmail.com wrote: I’m having trouble reading message headers. somebody sends me an email and also sends it to

Re: upgrading?

2015-02-04 Thread Jonathan C Cohn
Yes, first upgrade iTunes. I would recommend doing at least one back up. Personally I make sure Time Machine is up to date and then use SuperDuper to make a bootable image of my boot disk. The next step is do go to the App Store and download the installer, this shows up in your applications

Re: open windows and folders

2015-02-04 Thread Jonathan C Cohn
I seem to remember a finder preference to open new folders in new windows, but I could not find that now. I generally use the column view in finder, that if you arrow left or right you change folder levels and up and down for the current folder. On Feb 3, 2015, at 16:36, Lorie McCloud

Re: Powered USB hub

2015-01-30 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Get a drive with its own power supply. I find these more reliable. Or find a hub with a higher amp rating. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 29, 2015, at 10:49 PM, The Believer ancient.ali...@icloud.com wrote: It appears that the USB 3.0 hub I am using cannot power two external hard drives at

Re: Turbo Tax for 2014

2015-01-28 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
If you used theTurboTax in a previous year , then you should be importing that information so you should start over with an import. Otherwise you should be OK. Check a W2 to make sure. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 28, 2015, at 5:30 PM, Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com wrote: Hi guys I

Re: Turbotax application

2015-01-27 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Are used TurboTax last year and a couple of other years. Mostly my wife does the taxes and I just review what she's done. I have not had issues. Our family has been using turbotax for mac for over a decade. You can contact me off list if you have need for help. Sent from my iPhone On Jan

Re: BT keyboard stops working on iMac

2015-01-25 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Hello Donna, I saw something like this a few times since I have upgraded to Yosemite. I turned off quick keys and that seemed to mostly help. I have noticed issues that I can't yet fully explain with panels asking for passwords and the VO keys not allowing me to actually type into the username

Re: Changing iTunes location

2015-01-21 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
You need to start iTunes while holding down the option key. I believe you can use commandoption-downArrow todo this, but I am not positive right now. Both iTunes and iPhoto will prompt you for a library location when double clicking the mouse while holding down the option key. I expect if you

Re: Coast to Coast am. app

2015-01-16 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
They obviously don't understand screen readers. Is this an app or a web page? I am not sure about event handlers for touch, but if they had used a standard button you would not have problems. make sure they know that you are using the app and let him have an introduction to voiceover. Does

Re: shortcuts for styles in pages appear to work

2015-01-12 Thread Jonathan C Cohn
I verified my pages version it was upgraded on January second, so was exactly one version older than the current version. In any case, I am glad that Barry was able to confirm! Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn On Jan 12, 2015, at 07:41, Jonathan C. Cohn jon.c.c...@gmail.com wrote: I upgraded

Re: shortcuts for styles in pages appear to work

2015-01-12 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
is not the latest one. In your version, there is no problem getting to the menu, but this is broken in Yosemite where we are now up to version 5.5.2 (2120) of Pages. Cheers, Anne On 12 Jan 2015, at 02:15, Jonathan C. Cohn jon.c.c...@gmail.com wrote: I was able to get to control button

Re: shortcuts for styles in pages appear to work

2015-01-12 Thread Jonathan C Cohn
, Jonathan C Cohn jon.c.c...@gmail.com mailto:jon.c.c...@gmail.com wrote: Hmm, I have not played much with the applescript with dialogs and Yosemite, but I seem to remember somebody saying the dialog boxes don’t work right anymore. I suppose one could use commanders to execute

Re: Avoiding Duplicates in Smart Folders?

2015-01-12 Thread Jonathan C Cohn
I can’t test this right now, but what about the tags area of the side bar? It is an expandable area and has items for the couple of tags I have used. I don’t have Time Machine on this system so I can’t see if it gets included in the listing but I would be surprised if it did. Also can’t you

Re: shortcuts for styles in pages appear to work

2015-01-12 Thread Jonathan C Cohn
, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com wrote: I just had a look through the Pages scripting dictionary. Oddly, I didn't see anything about styles. Might it be called something odd that I'm not thinking of? On Jan 12, 2015, at 3:24 PM, Jonathan C Cohn jon.c.c...@gmail.com mailto:jon.c.c...@gmail.com

Re: shortcuts for styles in pages appear to work

2015-01-12 Thread Jonathan C Cohn
mehg...@icloud.com wrote: Let me ask this: is any of this doable with ApleScript? It seems like, with so many convoluted keystrokes and command sequences, scripting would be a huge help here. On Jan 12, 2015, at 9:57 AM, Jonathan C Cohn jon.c.c...@gmail.com mailto:jon.c.c...@gmail.com

Re: Is Setting Styles Fixed in Latest Pages? Now that AppleScript has been extended again. What are other things you were interested in having AppleScript do to make your life easier?

2015-01-11 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Sent from my iPhone On Jan 9, 2015, at 11:51 AM, Anne Robertson a...@anarchie.org.uk wrote: Hello Alex, VO users have always been able to set paragraph styles in Pages, the problem is setting short cuts and this is still broken in the latest release. Cheers, Anne On 8 Jan

Re: Apple script doesn't work

2015-01-11 Thread Jonathan C Cohn
There is actually an option for a double click with the VO “mouse cursor” object I tested the below and it seems to work for me. tell commander perform command move mouse pointer to voiceover cursor delay 1 end tell output mouse summary (* Above output

Re: Fujitsu ScanSnap | Accessibility of ScanSnap Manager with VoiceOver

2015-01-11 Thread Jonathan C Cohn
Hmm, can somebody elaborate on the performance of SnapScan with Abby in terms of pages per a minute? I have found that the TWAIN drivers for flat bed scanners seem to limit one to 3 minutes for 1 page. I seem to remember that the SnapScan’s can work with 10 pages a minute that could go a

Re: Unwanted List traffic

2015-01-11 Thread Jonathan C Cohn
This is a question for the moderators and not the list. It is best for all if you don’t reply to these items and get them pushed back onto the list. In all likelihood the moderators quietly took care of this abuse. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

shortcuts for styles in pages appear to work

2015-01-11 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
I was able to get to control button for renaming a style or creating a shortcut by hitting command-control-option-J (jump to next control) I believe this will work from anywhere in the style table, but I was also attempting combinations of vo-spacebar or vo-command-shift-spacebar. I am fairly

Re: the graphicsless paradigm

2015-01-11 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Microsoft UIA also has properties associated with a specific control. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 6, 2015, at 11:08 PM, Yuma Antoine Decaux jamy...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Devin, This is exactly how the program is structured. In trees. Theres nothing new there. Nothing changes to the way you

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

2015-01-05 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
I thought that NTFS was readable by Max but not writable. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 5, 2015, at 7:37 AM, Aleeha Dudley blindcowgirl1...@gmail.com wrote: Unfortunately, this is correct. There are free programs you can get to read the drive, but there are also paid programs. On Jan 5,

Re: Aspects of VoiceOver not working - Read All, Read down, VOJ and Scroll

2015-01-05 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Hello Building from areformatted disk will not fix your issue. Has this ever worked for you. If poassible reply directly to jonathan.co...@va.gov as I don't read this list during work. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 5, 2015, at 6:08 AM, April aprilbrownsh...@gmail.com wrote: Hello. I don't

Re: Voiceover Accessibility of DevonThink 2.8.2

2015-01-05 Thread Jonathan C Cohn
I thought it sounded like a great concept 3 years ago, but I never quite figured out the interface. There are a couple of Take Control books on using this application and others like it to reduce your dependence on paper records. At least some versions of the package include Abby Fine Reader to

Re: VO pronouncing Spanish Accent marks strangely

2015-01-04 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Can you add the word and you dictionary? Please send an example. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 4, 2015, at 3:29 PM, Phil Halton philh...@gmail.com wrote: Since upgrading to Yosemite, VO says “combining acute accent” whenever it encounters a accent mark in a spanish word. If I switch to the

Re: How do i get my contacts from my computer to icloud

2015-01-04 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
You might try export and import. Or select all and paste to your iCloud group gif you export your current list you will have a base of contacts to work. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 4, 2015, at 7:32 PM, Cheryl Homiak cah4...@icloud.com wrote: I hope somebody can help me figure out what it

Re: How tyo scroll in textEdit

2015-01-04 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
My memory of this as a partially sighted person. Is that,A single tap of the keys will bring you to the top of the bottom of the screen in the second tap will move to by a page. down. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 3, 2015, at 3:31 AM, David Griffith daj.griff...@gmail.com wrote: Or on full

Re: Zip files

2014-12-27 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Probably the easiest solution would be to create a compressed disk image and place your book folders in that disk image. If you are severely short on disk space you need to be careful, since at least until the compression has finished and possibly been verified you will not be able to delete

Re: Creating Message /rules.

2014-12-17 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
This depends on what you want. If you want all the messages from John Smith to be available in one place but also to read them from your Inbox than a Smart Mailbox is the way to go. If you want all the messages from John Smith to disappear from the Inbox and Appear in their own folder than you

Re: IPhone constantly saying invalid sum,

2014-12-17 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Hello, When I went to the apple store to get a iPone 6 replaced, they moved the SIM card from the old phone to the new phone. I then had to call into Sprint to have the new phone activated. I am not really sure how SIM cards and CDMA networks interact, though it might be that Sprint / Verizon

Re: Creating Message /rules.

2014-12-17 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
for the information. I'd like, for example, all of the messages from John Smith to disappear from th inbox using message rules. How do I do this? On Dec 17, 2014, at 7:36 AM, Jonathan C. Cohn wrote: This depends on what you want. If you want all the messages from John Smith to be available in one place

Re: Hiding the Gmail all folder

2014-12-15 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
One thing that might speed up gmail syncing and save space on your computer would be to reduce the number of messages that Google iMAP allows to be downloaded. My memory is that there is a checkbox with a default of 2000 messages. So supposedly if you checked this you would only have the 2K

Re: selecting text from one particular point to end

2014-12-15 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Another possibility is to set up a smart folder. You can set up a smart folder that has the rules folder: retail Age 2 weeks ago. Then you would be able to just select all and delete every once in a while. I certainly do this for the MacVisionaries since otherwise my system gets slow

Re: headphone balance drifts from the center in mac os10 yosemite how can i stop this from happening? kind regards trey.

2014-12-15 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
This is a feature that I had forgotten about. It lets you know where on the Macintosh screen the VoiceOVer cursor is currently located. This can be turned off in VoiceOver Utility under the Sounds area there is a checkbox called Enable Positional audio Best wishes, Jonathan On Dec 11,

Re: how to save please help?

2014-12-14 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Another thing to note about the control key. The control key will continue playback after you have hit it a second time.so in other words it acts like a pause/play button rather than a stop button. Sent from my iPhone On Dec 14, 2014, at 3:55 PM, Phil Halton philh...@gmail.com wrote: I’m

Re: My Network

2014-12-14 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
You might be able too get to the drive with url like smb://myoldcomputer/public Sent from my iPhone On Dec 14, 2014, at 9:27 AM, Eugenia Firth gigifi...@me.com wrote: Hello guys I don’t know if you guys can help me figure this out. I can’t figure out which computer, or maybe both of

Re: iTunes 12 importing media slow?

2014-12-14 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
You don't use match by any chance?g Sent from my iPhone On Dec 13, 2014, at 1:18 PM, Tim Kilburn kilbu...@me.com wrote: Hi, Kliph, I would suggest that with large imports like you’re doing, that the iTunes Database is possibly the issue. The number of files tends to be as big of an

Re: OT: WebEx

2014-11-30 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
I have online meetings at my office using WEBEX usually there is both a phone number with bridge ID and a web link. The WEBEX software itself is written in JAVA, so if depending on the components they use you should have success. I generally have only used WebEx on a Windows Machine using JAWS.

Re: Chess Server Client for Mac

2014-11-28 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
The Macintosh chess program that has been on my computer since MacOS 10.0. has some sort of game sharing component built in. I was unable to view the help documentation because GameCenter kept popping up in front of Chess and I could not cancel or fully login to Game Center. Best wishes,

Re: mac terminal

2014-11-28 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Since there were no further mentions of OS or application one other hint is if you are on UNIX most applications can have standard out piped to pager program like more or less. (Those are two separate programs and Less has more features than more). Also when I was doing builds using the

Re: Strange things happen when i copy files on my mac

2014-11-28 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Are you sure there is no dialog kiting the progress of the copy? Best wishes, Jonathan On Nov 27, 2014, at 14:54, Krister Ekstrom kris...@kristersplace.com wrote: Hi there. I’m in the process of making a music library and another for my books on my NAS. When i have copied some files, the

Re: Daisy File Conversion

2014-11-28 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
There are a couple of daisy readers that work on the Macintosh, but I do not know their capabilities. Daisy files have at least one SMIL file that synchronizes each type of material (voice, text, HTML) in a chunk of text. I believe there is also a file listing each SMIL file that is being used.

Re: Possible Bug in Yousemity?

2014-11-28 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Hello, I believe two things are being talked about here. 1. Date and Time script accessed with keyboard commander and T. This script will use either the default voice of the system or VoiceOver depending on if VoiceOver Scripting is enabled. 2. Regularly scheduled time announcements defined in

Re: VMWare Fusion 7 and JAWS 16

2014-11-28 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
On my Citrix based machines, where I encountered similar issues, I was able to drop a “Shortcut” file to JAWS into a directory close to: %appdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Startup Items\” I know there is at least one other item in the path listing above, but than this is not a JAWS list. Good Luck,

Re: Mail Time format different than computer

2014-11-15 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
I just verified in 10.9.5. I changed my 24 hour clock in Language and Region, and then went to the next message in the message list and indeed the time changed from using PM to 24 hour notation. Were you noticing the time in the message itself, or in the list of messages. For a short while I

MacUpdate deal on disk utilities

2014-11-15 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Just an FYI, MacUpdate send me a notification that tools that allow read/write of NTFS disks on Macintosh and also HFs+ on Windows and a disk partition utility that allows more controls then Apple disk utility are being sold by them as a bundle. If you are one of those folks often moving

Re: cal lender question

2014-11-15 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Well, the sighted just drag appointment to where they want it. You might be able to do this with the VO , commands. I always use the command-i option that brings up the details and then edit from there. Jonathan Best wishes, Jonathan On Heshvan 22, 5775 AM, at 14:37, Faisal ali

Re: cal lender question

2014-11-15 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
to be a way to change the time. On Nov 15, 2014, at 11:42 AM, Jonathan C. Cohn jon.c.c...@gmail.com wrote: Well, the sighted just drag appointment to where they want it. You might be able to do this with the VO , commands. I always use the command-i option that brings up the details and then edit

Re: how to add a 100 MB partition to my other partition

2014-11-12 Thread Jonathan C . Cohn
? On Nov 9, 2014, at 2:44 PM, Jonathan C. Cohn jon.c.c...@gmail.com wrote: Is this 100MB partition on the same drive? Was it created with Bootcamp assistant or just when creating the partition map? Disk partitions on Yosemite are a bit different than on earlier system, so you should probably

Re: The latest version of Microsoft Outlook appears to be accessible

2014-11-11 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
I might be speaking out of lack of knowledge, but HTML generally ignores line breaks in the BODY and instead uses a specific tag to indicate breaks and/or change of paragraph. I have not looked specifically at HTML based mail, but I would expect the same behavior. Also, at least in Outlook

Re: Apple Scripts

2014-11-11 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Delay is the applescript command for a pause. I believe its argument is in seconds. If you really need, I can look that up for you. Also, I discovered the error in my previous post about the mouse click. It should have been tell mouse cursor to click twice The twice can be once, twice, or

Re: how to add a 100 MB partition to my other partition

2014-11-11 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
? On Nov 9, 2014, at 2:44 PM, Jonathan C. Cohn jon.c.c...@gmail.com wrote: Is this 100MB partition on the same drive? Was it created with Bootcamp assistant or just when creating the partition map? Disk partitions on Yosemite are a bit different than on earlier system, so you should probably

Re: how to add a 100 MB partition to my other partition

2014-11-09 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Is this 100MB partition on the same drive? Was it created with Bootcamp assistant or just when creating the partition map? Disk partitions on Yosemite are a bit different than on earlier system, so you should probably look up a recent technical document. The boot partition in Yosemite uses the

Re: bootcamp question

2014-11-08 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
I know there have been some recent posts about bootcamp and startup so I won’t answer those. If you want or security of FileVault for your Macintosh disk than every time the computer power is turned on, you need to login via File Vault because the encryption key for the disk must be opened.

Re: bootcamp question

2014-11-08 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Sorry, now I remember what else I wanted to say. If you turn off file vault, then the macintosh will start decrypting your files, and once that process is done then the Macintosh will prompt for UserName / Password after the OS is running so that VoiceOve and other services are available on

Re: does Firefox work for us

2014-11-08 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
I have used both Firefox and Chrome with speech. Sometimes ChomeVOX the chrome screen reader will work better than VoiceOver on a specific page. Also, don’t forget to report your crashes to Apple! Best wishes, Jonathan On Nov 8, 2014, at 8:41 AM, Scott Berry sb356...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: Airdrop again.

2014-11-08 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Could this type of transfer also be done with the new iCloud functionality? Perhaps we could get VoiceStream developers to create a Macintosh version that allows continuity transactions to transition reading from Macintosh to IOS. I have read a bit about the process continuity uses to

Re: Apple Scripts

2014-11-07 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
as I can understand the script there's no action defined for that. Is that true? So I wonder wether you are willing to add the lines to perform a click. Thanks and all the best Jürgen Am 07.11.2014 um 06:30 schrieb Jonathan C. Cohn jon.c.c...@gmail.com: This should work. tell application

Re: Airdrop again.

2014-11-07 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
I caught airdrop on mac to iOS only worked with Max greater than 2012. Sent from my iPhone On Nov 7, 2014, at 7:55 AM, Jürgen Fleger apple-engl...@fleger.net wrote: Hi Andrew, did you switch off Do not disturbe? on the iPad. Sorry, I don't know the correct term on an english machine but

Re: Apple Scripts

2014-11-07 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
and not defined. If I just right click once Script Editor tells me there was an error 4. So that didn't work. Do you still have an idea? Thanks and all the best Jürgen Am 07.11.2014 um 13:28 schrieb Jonathan C. Cohn jon.c.c...@gmail.com: You are absolutely right, I did not put

Re: Apple Scripts

2014-11-06 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
This should work. tell application VoiceOver tell commander to perform command move mouse pointer to voiceover cursor end tell see http://www.cbtbc.org/tools/asvo/voec.php for details. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group.

Re: Apple Scripts

2014-11-06 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Oh, to play a sound there is definitely a way to do this, and the shutdown unix command can be used for restarts and shutdowns. Best wishes, Jonathan On Nov 6, 2014, at 2:21 PM, Jürgen Fleger apple-engl...@fleger.net wrote: Hi Folks, I wonder wether it was very complicated to create 2

Re: Cookies in Safari

2014-11-06 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
There are three options for cookies. Allow, don’t allow third party and disallow. This is currently and I believe for a while has been in the privacy area of the Safari settings. Best of luck, Best wishes, Jonathan On Nov 3, 2014, at 7:45 PM, Stacey Robinson stacey...@bellsouth.net wrote:

Re: a printer to use with both Mac Mini and a Win-h computer

2014-10-13 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Most wifi enabled printers should work. Often the hard part is the initial setup. The HP machines appear to have their own WiFi hotspot in them, that is advertised so that any machine can print to them. If you are in a dorm environment this might be a good thing to lock down, but I think you

Re: still having trouble with mail

2014-10-13 Thread Jonathan C. Cohn
Have you checked if view deleted messages is on? This is in the view menu. I have also on occasion had the Unread smart folder not allow me to delete from it. Best wishes, Jonathan On Oct 13, 2014, at 2:24 PM, becky sabo beckyas...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I have cleaned out my mail

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