iBooks is very annoying by nature, but it’s not nonfunctional—at least, not by
Apple’s present-day standards. It sounds like you’re having a right time of
it, though, and there’s probably something wrong in your particular
installation.
At the very least, can you explore the main window and
No, and it turns out that the graphics cards can’t be used to their full
potential without a physical adaptor anyway; for example, no CUDA or Stream
computation.
Get a pack of FitHeadless units. They really are very elegant, it’s a one-time
purchase, and they’ll help you in the future if you
Yep, ALAC generally has a .M4A extension. M4A is actually a container format,
so what’s inside isn’t immediately obvious from the name. Specifically, you
probably also have AAC files with a .M4A extension. You can always tell one
kind from the other by getting info on the file in Finder or
Well, Apple are certainly doing it, but they take a different tack: they merely
punish you if you say “No”. But at least you can actually say “No”.
I am worried about the MS direction. Even if I don’t move to Win10—and I so
far have absolutely no intention of doing that—there’s still all the
.EML files are simply raw RFC 5322 message format files, and can be examined
with any text editor including TextEdit. And yes, Mail will, in fact, open and
display them.
Your unknown files probably have no extension. You are seeing them described
as “UNIX Executable Files” because that’s the
Yes, FLAC is an open lossless format (like Apple Lossless, but open). Just
convert the files to WAV or straight through to ALAC if your utility supports
it, then open those in iTunes. Of course, those files will have no metadata,
so you’ll have to add it yourself from iTunes using Command-I.
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Refind is Refit’s successor. Check that out. It has a configuration file that
looks fairly straightforward—but I’ve never used it, myself.
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I doubt it; Windows will, unfortunately, not be as power-efficient as OS X.
Still, you can reset SMC by shutting down the machine, disconnecting everything
except power, then pressing Control+Option+Shift+Power. Then reconnect and
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This is doable, yes, and I have done it myself while travelling.
The trick here is to employ FileVault. FileVault password prompts appear when
the machine has gone to standby or hibernation. Turn off all prompting inside
OS X, and set up FileVault. Then adjust your energy preferences using
OK, yeah, that’s about the size of it. Set display sleep to 1 (it won’t
sleep), sleep itself to never. Set a password to be required when sleep
begins, and rely on lid closure to start sleep and thus require a password.
You would then wake to an operational Mac that allows authentication
I’ve not using it on my own account, so I can’t give you precise directions.
But I distinctly remember the export commands in the File menu, and I’m sure
you could also “Share” photos to get them out.
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Hi Sadam,
As I see it, the main reason to get a Mac is OS X. Yes, you can get a PC and
save money, but Apple does design a superb combo of hardware and software, and
if you get a Mac, you can use it regardless of whether or not you get Windows.
You also get a nice, accessible safety net
The battery doesn’t need calibrating; sensors in the battery never allow them
to overcharge. The reason you want to run the discharge/recharge routine is
simply that the battery gauge, which measures the output power of the battery
in order to determine its level and times the progressive
You have to use Google’s terrible web interface. Sign in to your Google
account and find your profile and the associated email addresses. When you
tell Google about your new address, you can then choose in the Google Groups
preferences for each group where you want your email to go. I’ve
To be honest, I appreciate the new mode of working. And, since getting refunds
has been getting harder and harder, I’m restraining my impulse purchases
accordingly. Since you can only get apps from Apple, make Apple do the work of
maintaining your preferred list of apps; hide any purchase you
Use the Photos app on OS X. When you’re signed in to iCloud and have set the
preference to use iCloud Photo Library, it’ll show up in your Photos album
after you’ve initially set it up and synced. You can also use Photos itself to
turn on iCloud Photos. It should appear under at least “All
Oh yes, forgot to say: I do pity the bandwidth-conscious. This change sucks
for them. But if you are updating multiple devices on the same network, then
the Caching Service built into OS X Server can really help with that. Sadly
this service refuses to function over Wi-Fi, so the fairly
Yep, same thinking, although I would never use Win10 as my primary OS on
account of Microsoft’s clear intention to follow Google into the realm of
unwarranted data gathering. Hence, Win8.1 with Classic Shell. It’s painful,
but fight it long enough and hard enough, and you end up with an OS
Indeed, the cleanup done by the periodic scripts are not particularly
important, although one function they provide is to invoke makewhatis, which
allows use of the whatis command. That I appreciate. Since my iMac is in fact
a fortress that runs 24/7, as all proper well-adjusted Unix boxen
Remember, nothing prevents you installing a copy of El Capitan on an external
drive or in a separate partition if you’d like to.
Having said this, my recommendation still stands: stay put. There are bugs that
are well-known, which have been reported to Apple (and I know because I’ve done
it)
Ditto; started with version 3. Things have only got better. Any comments I
might make about the product are pertinent to the product as a whole and not
its accessibility, although there were bugs in prior releases which meant, for
example, that one could not use snapshots requiring use of the
Assuming the remaining hardware is good, have you done resets on the SMC and
PRAM for your model? Certainly the former is likely to help with fan problems.
You should be able to disconnect all power to the machine, wait a few moments,
then reconnect it.
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In this case it’s actually legit and the name is merely unfortunately similar
to the dubious Windows program.
I still wouldn’t use it, though. Here’s as good an explanation as any of why
Macs really, really don’t and shouldn’t need “cleaning”:
Copy-paste the MP3 file (or any other iTunes-supported file) into the table of
songs in iTunes. Or move the file into the “Automatically Add to iTunes”
folder in your iTunes media folder. Or go to Preferences and make sure that
you have the option to copy media into your iTunes library
Hi Andrew,
Absolutely it will work. If you just quit iTunes, then move the entire
Music/iTunes directory onto your external storage device, and then restart
iTunes with the Option key held down, you can choose your library’s new
location. Just don’t forget to leave that drive connected
Indeed; no way to switch from packet-switched voice on Wi-Fi to non-VOLTE
circuit-switched delivery. Just another reason not to use Wi-Fi calling if
your carrier doesn’t have LTE yet. Even when it does, I’d be reluctant to use
it unless they subsidised the cost of my calls while I was using
OK yes, fair point, if you have the base station analog at the site then you
get most of the benefit, but I think the reason why carriers love Wi-Fi calling
so much is precisely that customers can use it absolutely anywhere there’s
Internet. And let’s face it, asking customers to purchase and
Hi Andrew,
No problem; that’s why we’re here.
Unfortunately, no. The loss incurred by lossy encoding is permanent. You will
have to re-rip those CDs. This incidentally highlights another obvious benefit
of lossless formats: archival. When the next format-de-jour comes along, or if
you
It depends on what you want to do with your files. Playback generally requires
a widely-supported format, whilst editing will require larger, original files.
Since iTunes generally rips CDs for playback, that’s probably what you want to
do.
MP3 produces smaller files that are extremely
There was a mention of that silly repeat-until-death bug on AppleVis but I can
now find no further mention of it. And yes it drives me absolutely crazy. If
you switch task just as the content of a web page is being spoken, VoiceOver
will continuously repeat just that fragment until you go
Hi Andrew,
If you upload to iTunes Match from a lossless file in your library, the copy in
your library stays lossless but the copy that ends up in iTunes Match is 256 Kb
AAC. The transcoding happens temporarily on your computer prior to the upload
but does not remain in your library, much as
But that *IS* the problem! Good grief, you’re surely not saying that this is
an acceptable way to edit text, are you?
Well, even if you are, just compare it to Yosemite. Do you see the difference?
In Yosemite the editing is fluid and problem free, with the VO cursor tracking
your edits
It’s true: Google don’t even make the effort on Android. They make a much more
concerted effort on ChromeOS, though, where (surprise!) the platform is used
much more heavily in the educational environments for which a mandate of
accessibility would incentivise progress.
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Good question. IIRC most of the accessibility was coming from tooltips rather
than the button labels, but I’ll give VLC another shot and see how it goes.
On the other hand, VirtualBox still doesn’t work. I’ve since moved to Fusion,
but VBox is definitely QT.
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Pity they didn’t get a proper smackdown in your courts for that day’s work.
I block Zeobit, Krontek and MacKeeper domains at the border. I consider that
lot indistinguishable from malware purveyors. This is truly unfortunate as
they clearly aren’t actually true malware but have simply chosen
That’s them. Or one of their many unreliable partners who get serious
commission for flogging that crap.
Here’s a rundown from The Safe Mac (who sadly have just been picked up by
MalwareBytes):
http://www.thesafemac.com/ongoing-mackeeper-fraud/
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Well, thanks for confirming that at least it’s not just me, anyway. I still
regard this as serious breakage; no other text field behaves like that. Indeed
even in correctly-behaving text fields—say the one in Mail—one still has the
focus tracking problem to deal with, but at least it’s
Notice though that El Capitan is not pronounced correctly on iOS 9.1, just
released. :)
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I don’t agree that executives shouldn’t know about accessibility. They may not
know the details, but they ought to understand the urgency and importance.
Steve Jobs was once the CEO of Apple and he demoed the latest products for his
admiring audience; he didn’t palm the job off to his
I believe this is because Parallels uses QT for the UI, and we all know the
story there. Basically if Parallels were to become more accessible—which isn’t
much to ask, really, given that they’re a Mac-only product—then they’d have to
cross over to native widgets with Cocoa.
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Perhaps I should stop using the classic view too, then. I’d resent it, but the
only way of avoiding the horrible, terrible slowdowns in Mail presently seems
to be not to use that view.
Deliberate sabotage so Apple can obsolete that view and further solidify the
iOSification of the Mac? :)
Well visually it’s completely different, essentially like on iOS with each
entire message's detail displayed in a group format with a resizable view of
the content to the right, instead of displaying the message detail in a table
format at the top and the message text for the selected message
Nope, still completely borked for me. Can do it with QuickNav off, but as soon
as VO navigation commands get involved it’s all FUBAR. VO-right, for example,
will skim me suddenly from the very start to the very end, and word-by-word
navigation simply doesn’t work. If it’s working for others
It’s hopeless. The muting is still happening under pressure, and so is the
activity-fails-to-switch bug.
ARGH!
Bug report finger at the ready for the next incoming arrow of misfortune, but I
wonder what Apple think they have fixed in this release, then. It’s not right
that people see fixes
OK. Use Disk Utility to erase the disk first, and try one more time. If
DiskMakerX will not do it, then it’s really no hardship to use the
“CreateInstallMedia” tool that comes with the app you downloaded from the Mac
App Store. Go to the MAS and make sure the button for download on the
Yeah, they needed to update these to work with System Integrity Protection, but
the voices themselves are pretty useless. :(
I’m prepared to give them the benefit of the doubt since they’re clearly not an
Apple firm, but I still stand by my earlier recommendation. It’s just not
worth it. In
Well, speak for yourselves. Everybody is, of course, different and has
different preferences. I know that, given the choice to use classic view over
the “Modern” view, I would ordinarily choose the classic view, for all the
flexibility it gives me. It isn’t for everyone and I can see how the
My opinion is that unless you have a specific reason to move to El Capitan,
staying put will give you the better experience. At this stage I’d say the El
Capitan experience is merely tolerable, but not great. Responsiveness is a
definite plus, and I have come to endure iBooks for sheer lack
There really isn’t a change log as such, merely the release notes for the
update that is presented on upgrade. You can find a copy of those here:
http://osxdaily.com/2015/10/21/os-x-10-11-1-el-capitan-update-for-mac-available/
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Can you confirm that you are in fact booting the installer? Check that the
volume in Finder shows the Install OS X El Capitan application. If it does,
then you probably have a bootable disk, but it won’t hurt to recreate it as a
last resort. Better if you can avoid DiskMakerX and use the
At least my Safari issue is unresolved, however it looks like they might—and
this isn’t confirmed yet, but they might—have sorted out that annoying
self-muting trick whereby VO cuts itself off while navigating. Nothing else
yet, touch wood …
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Hi,
Yes. The commands are:
Move to beginning of line: Command-Left
Move to end of line: Command-Right
Move to top: Command-Up
Move to bottom: Command-Down
Hope it helps.
Cheers,
Sabahattin
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If you go into System Preferences > Network, choose the action menu, and “Set
Service Order …”, and make sure that Ethernet is in the table above Wi-Fi, then
you don’t need to do anything to switch; connect and disconnect as you like,
and as long as there is no session in progress, the
If you’re talking about FileVault, yes it is possible to use it eyes-free.
Apple has a system of beeps on older Macs and recorded voice prompts on newer
Macs which allow you to use speech during the login process. Personally I
prefer to avoid it entirely unless typing the password and enter
Native text widgets for me; no web applications required. Affects the post
field on for example forum.audiogames.net, which is a standard multiline text
entry area.
I turn QuickNav off because leaving it on pretty much blocks cursor movement.
The VO keys are then to be avoided; only cursor
For various reasons (probably it’s APM-formatted), the disk doesn’t show up in
System Preferences, but does when you hold down the Option key. I’m afraid
you’ll have to do the hold-Option-and-guess trick.
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The two big ones that I think constitute annoying but non-critical blockers are
the broken editing of text in edit fields on Safari and the continued
non-responsiveness while moving around Mail, either in tables in the classic
view or in mail message content. If efficiency is important to you,
Well, let’s just say that I’ve opened TextEdit more than once now to do it,
copying and pasting into Safari, just to avoid the pain of typing in Safari
directly. Whether the text is repeated over and over from start with every
character or simply not announced at all, the caret doesn’t follow
It’s lovely, isn’t it?
Now if they could add a reading mode whereby paragraphs indent two cells, like
Supernova’s Literary Mode or BrailleNote, that would be just wonderful.
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Remove all the entries from Language Rotor in Settings. Once you do, the
language rotor will disappear.
Be sure to delete downloaded voice data. Either press More Info for each voice
and use the swipe-up on the enhanced voice to delete gesture, or the Edit
button. Or, if you are using a
Hey Anders,
No, you cannot restore El Capitan preferences to Yosemite. Sorry. You had
better either have a Yosemite backup, or start from scratch.
As for browsing on the web, it’s just possible that one of the reasons you
aren’t experiencing the issues others were is that you were using
Assuming that your boot drive is the only other drive, and that you have not
used File Vault or BootCamp, then power up the machine, and when you hear the
chime (and *only* when you hear the chime) press and hold Option. Wait a good
twenty seconds, just to be absolutely damned sure. Then
You were quite close really, Brian. All you failed to do was repartition the
internal disk. Once you’ve done that, you can gallop on with the install.
See my other message for tips, assuming Yosemite. In El Capitan the Disk
Utility is a somewhat different beast which we shall ignore for the
You can report bugs to accessibil...@apple.com. You can also, if you have
access to the Apple Bug Reporter, Radar, use that system to file bugs against
the “Accessibility” classification.
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Well, much as I love the Open Sorcery in the fundamentals of OS X, I think
blind software engineers aren’t likely, if for no other reason than that most
of Apple’s development methodology is sadly inherently visual. Xcode promises
to get better but unlike on Windows we realistically can’t draw
My opinion is that once the new hotness (i.e., El Capitan) is out, you can
expect that Safari will be simultaneously broken and also not quite functional
once updated in previous releases, with any change to accessibility
concentrating on the new hotness at the expense of the old, so that you
It’s report-a-bug Friday. Why not send Apple a note? :)
For myself, my El Cap install is back to its old Yosemite ways, with Mail being
back to a crawl with large folders. I have no idea why, but rolling back is no
option, either. So, yeah, accept the way things are, and suffer. Oh, and
I sadly disagree that NVDA is competent enough to replace JAWS or Window-Eyes.
Getting there as more and more apps are supported, for sure, but not there yet;
that’s simply not how the Windows ecosystem works in practice, in my
experience. The Mac has a large body of natively Cocoa software
Full story at Ars here:
http://arstechnica.co.uk/apple/2015/10/apple-goes-all-retina-for-its-27-inch-skylake-imac-refresh/
New keyboard, trackpad and mice, too, with force touch, natch.
No mention at the keynote, of course. If not for the rumours, a complete and
total surprise.
Am I envious?
Plug it in with Ethernet and let it power up. Now turn on Bonjour in Safari
prefs and see if, in the Bookmarks menu, you now have an entry in the Bonjour
submenu for that printer. You might. And it might just lead to a page that
lets you configure it, including its Wi-Fi adaptor. If nothing
Hi Traci,
What *are* you seeing instead? Does the “Internet” icon show up and when
pressed does it say “Connected”?
And are you sure you are connected directly to the Wi-Fi network that AirPort
is providing, without any intervening relays, repeaters, bridges etc? Note
that if another Wi-Fi
The partition is otherwise usable, but don’t move anything already put there by
the installer. Only add files. Although it would theoretically be possible to
slice up the disk and use only one slice for the installer, I don’t think
that’s what the CreateInstallMedia tool (and, by extension,
Hi Traci,
In general, I recommend against using AirPort. Although inconvenient, using a
network printer has two advantages in practice: you get native driver and/or
AirPrint support for the printer, which depending on the printer is
indistinguishable from a wired connection, and you can use
This is a follow-up just in case anybody makes the same mistake I did of
assuming that just because iTunes shows you your books, removing iBooks worked.
Sadly, for whatever strange reason, removing iBooks in El Capitan also has the
side effect of preventing all iTunes Store operations. You
Are you using any activities? I am finding that activities are not switching
quite as they should. If your hotspots are activity-specific, it might just be
that activities are presently broken.
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Interesting; I learned that was all down to AT not having provisioned
services for teletype users. Apparently they are now moving to Real-Time Text
services but all their competitors were never impeded from deployment of Wi-Fi
calling while AT, who dobbed themselves in, were. Of course rather
Hi, and apologies to all for the mostly off-topic post.
This is mostly of interest to Europeans, but the ECHR (European Court of Human
Rights) recently ruled that the 2000 “Safe Harbour” provisions, which allow US
companies on US soil to store data on behalf of Europeans, are invalid. This
is
Hi guys,
Recently I have had need to adjust sliders in iOS more gradually than at 10%
increments. Specifically, VoiceOver’s rate adjustment. Every time I have
needed to change those, I have had to use the double-tap-and-hold gesture, with
infuriatingly imprecise results. It takes me several
Thanks for the confirmation guys. Shame.
Yes, I will make a note to bug Apple about it. And yes “Speech Rate” is
already in my rotor.
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Well, if it’s anything like over here, it still suffers from the basic problem
that you don’t pay any less for using Wi-Fi. So, unless your carrier has
committed to doing VoLTE, Wi-Fi calling is basically a subsidy for ineptitude.
I don’t use it, accordingly. I completely understand if some
At the risk of being completely useless, more is always better where specs are
concerned. Apple give you a great experience with Mac, but alas, they charge
overly for upgrades, and you only get to make those purchases one time, when
you buy your machine. This is, of course, no coincidence.
Out of curiosity, would a VM do it and which OS is the minimum required? I am
quite interested in a Brailliant display myself.
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Of course reading with dots 7 and/or 8 is harder, but if well implemented
that’s actually a good thing; for example, BRLTTY uses those dots to indicate
capitalisation and attribute, respectively, with both for a system cursor (one
cell). OS X on the other hand has exactly one caret style, a
There are quite a number of shortcomings, actually, but I’m going to
concentrate on three which are fundamental and very obvious if you are a
habitual braille user on other platforms. In general my bar for braille
support is: you can use it with speech off, or you don’t have braille support.
OK, step the first is to download the thing from the MAS. Go to the Mac App
Store, find the OS you want, and download. Once you have it, it will open
automatically offering to install; quit the Installer.
The next step is trickier. If someone has a graphical approach, post it now;
It’s not really clear to me either. Prior versions of Mail.app didn’t do that,
but I’m fairly sure Yosemite was affected too. Other mail clients that are
engineered to tolerate disconnection don’t have a problem because all the state
is maintained locally. For now, my only suggestion for the
It sounds like you may have picked up Mavericks, yeah. Try again; go to the
store and press Download after El Capitan. The App Store download is a partial
download in your Applications folder until it’s finished. You can also go to
the Purchases tab and look there to see how far it’s
You can manage your “Trusted devices” from appleid.apple.com. You can see
which devices are being tracked for location using Find My iPhone. Moreover
devices used for messaging and other iCloud services will, if not seen in a
while, eventually drain from the list. Finally Apple Support
What, exactly, do you wish to do? Resize partitions? Delete volumes?
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Unenrolling from the beta program is not the same as downgrading software. It
simply means you no longer have access to betas.
You need to reinstall the release version of the software (Yosemite or El
Capitan). Download it from the Mac App Store, create media for it, boot from
that media,
Nah Anders, I feel your pain completely. Even iOS has acceptable braille
support, so it’s not as if they couldn’t port that over to OS X. Clearly
nobody at Apple uses or cares about braille. Probably because it doesn’t make
them any money from hardware sales. Kinda tragic.
Hey Scott, you
Yes. There is a secondary effect as well: because elements are no longer
“Clickable” you often can’t click individual words in an element, which is
rather less straightforward to work around. I’m not sure what the situation is
like on El Capitan yet, but on Yosemite one could not click an
All of this speculation is wonderful, but I can’t see it happening unless Apple
actually sees any mainstream potential in a tactile display. For right now
that leaves us with a subsystem that doesn’t work. I guess that means we’ll
continue to use Windows and our favourite screen reader, or
Apple uses Akamai to distribute developer downloads. Perhaps the real reason
for all the slowness (which happens every single year) is simply that Apple’s
own servers are the chokepoint. It makes sense that Apple would need the use
of its own servers for App Store downloads because each
WINE would be just the thing for audiogames, if anybody has figured out how to
actually do it. I’ve never got it to work.
There are tools such as WineBottler and WineSkin that can help you wrap Windows
binaries plus dependencies inside an app package. In theory they should work
for such
Of course, all of these different ways of accessing it ultimately take you to
the same place: the El Capitan page on the Mac App Store, from where you will
be downloading it.
And right now that means a very, very long wait, while Apple fails to provision
its servers because it makes the new
Correction: GM seed is *not* the same build. Seems you still need to download
6 GB of El Capitan, just to update to the official release. Ah well, pains of
testing …
Enjoy the new release, anyway.
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You can update your Yosemite system without installing El Capitan, if that is
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Hi guys,
I just wanted to let you all know that if you are among those who prefer to zap
iBooks on installation of Apple’s shiny new OSs, iBooks is not among those
applications protected by System Integrity Protection that is new in El
Capitan. Feel free to exercise the sudo rm -rf hammer to
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