Re: El Capitan Is Here

2015-10-04 Thread Alex Hall
Thank you, I'd never tried that. I tried looking for hints for everything, tabbing, and everything else, but I missed this one. I'll update our bug list with this new info. > On Oct 4, 2015, at 22:44, Shawn Krasniuk wrote: > > Hi Alex. I just read your blog post about the bugs in El Capitan and

Re: El Capitan Is Here

2015-10-04 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
Hi Alex. I just read your blog post about the bugs in El Capitan and I found your post about the character counter bug in the Twitter share menu. I don't know if this really is a bug or not but if it is, try interacting with that character counter. For me when I interact with it it shows the num

Re: El Capitan Is Here

2015-10-01 Thread Maria Chapman
Hi. the bug with the reader is happening to me in Yosemite Maria > On 2 Oct 2015, at 8:01 am, Alex Hall wrote: > > Hi all, > I wanted to hit a few points I've seen raised in this thread. > > First, I want to address George's comment suggesting that I would do a > podcast/blog post like th

Re: El Capitan Is Here

2015-10-01 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi all, I just want to second Mary's comments. thanks Alex for doing the work and taking the time to post the bugs list. None of us can say what will matter to the next person, or even if the next person will experience all the same bugs. But I personally would rather be informed about poten

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2015-10-01 Thread Mary Otten
Hi Alex, I for one appreciate the work you went through to post your report in a very timely manner. Comments like what George did our typical for some people and in my view most unhelpful. I say again most definitely not helpful. So I'm glad that you are continuing to do the good work that you

Re: El Capitan Is Here

2015-10-01 Thread Alex Hall
Hi all, I wanted to hit a few points I've seen raised in this thread. First, I want to address George's comment suggesting that I would do a podcast/blog post like this on a beta. I didn't, and I wouldn't, plain and simple. I was running the GM, which is the final version in all but name. It's

Re: El Capitan Is Here

2015-10-01 Thread Devin Prater
to acknowledge >> that you're not alone on that one bug. I've seen it too, and hate it! >> >> Chris. >> >> - Original Message - From: "Donna Goodin" >> To: >> Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2015 1:03 PM >> Subject: Re:

Re: El Capitan Is Here

2015-10-01 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
I figured that was the case. I just wanted to confirm. Chris. - Original Message - From: "Alex Hall" To: "'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries" Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2015 3:28 PM Subject: Re: El Capitan Is Here This is all in the final release, t

Re: El Capitan Is Here

2015-10-01 Thread Alex Hall
> > Is that in the beta though, or the official release? Sorry for asking. > > Chris. > > - Original Message - From: "Alex Hall" > To: "'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries" > Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2015 2:54 PM > Subject: Re: E

Re: El Capitan Is Here

2015-10-01 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Is that in the beta though, or the official release? Sorry for asking. Chris. - Original Message - From: "Alex Hall" To: "'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries" Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2015 2:54 PM Subject: Re: El Capitan Is Here Just to address the

Re: El Capitan Is Here

2015-10-01 Thread Alex Hall
al Message - From: "Donna Goodin" > To: > Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2015 1:03 PM > Subject: Re: El Capitan Is Here > > > Hi Mary, > > The one that bugs me the most on a day-to-day basis is the one pertaining to > mail messages. It's very rare that

Re: El Capitan Is Here

2015-10-01 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
itan, then that is very heartenning! Perhaps I should give it another go. Chris. - Original Message - From: "Scott Granados" To: Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2015 1:38 PM Subject: Re: El Capitan Is Here Hi Dona, I wonder what the cause of this is. I haven’t had any iss

Re: El Capitan Is Here

2015-10-01 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
h the return key. Call me weird, but that's that. LOL! So, just wanted to acknowledge that you're not alone on that one bug. I've seen it too, and hate it! Chris. - Original Message - From: "Donna Goodin" To: Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2015 1:03 PM Subjec

Re: El Capitan Is Here

2015-10-01 Thread Scott Granados
Hey if Hillary can break the law and share classified information and if our fearless leader can target people with the IRS or Secret Service than why should a poor shmuck like me follow the laws if the people who right them don’t? (I’m kidding you don’t need to respond that’s for yucks I’m not

Re: El Capitan Is Here

2015-10-01 Thread Donna Goodin
I don't know. It seems like others on this list were complaining about it a long time before I started experiencing it, though. Seems like it's been around for a while. In fact, I could be wrong about this, but I could swear I read someone's post on this list where they said that issue was fi

Re: El Capitan Is Here

2015-10-01 Thread Mary Otten
Well, this is now really going to be off-topic, so just a couple of comments. We also have a new car, and I know what you mean about all the gadgets. But it does come with a manual, and for those who actually read it, my husband not being one of them, apparently it's really helpful. Smile. As fo

Re: El Capitan Is Here

2015-10-01 Thread Scott Granados
Hi Dona, I wonder what the cause of this is. I haven’t had any issues with mail and I didn’t do anything special on the install side, not even a fresh install. > On Oct 1, 2015, at 1:03 PM, Donna Goodin wrote: > > Hi Mary, > > The one that bugs me the most on a day-to-day basis is the one pe

Re: El Capitan Is Here

2015-10-01 Thread Scott Granados
So I think there is some validity to the complaints. Apple under Steve was a much more thorough company when it came to QA. Under Tim Cook things have gotten sloppy. The Apple maps issue is one of the big indicators of this. Secondly, Microsoft has n o screen reader because the folks a

Re: El Capitan Is Here

2015-10-01 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi Mary, I also use classic View, but I almost always prefer accomplishing an action with a single key-press, rather than a command that requires multiple keys, so I prefer the Enter method. It used to work great, up until Yosemite. Cheers, Donna > On Oct 1, 2015, at 12:09 PM, Mary Otten wrote

Re: El Capitan Is Here

2015-10-01 Thread Mary Otten
Hi Donna, and thanks for your reply. I am a big fan of the preview pane, the classic view, and using vo Jay to jump between the message list and the text. So the one where you hit enter to open the message and read is not something that would be a huge deal for me. I have done it on occasion, us

Re: El Capitan Is Here

2015-10-01 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi Mary, The one that bugs me the most on a day-to-day basis is the one pertaining to mail messages. It's very rare that I open a message and just get to read it. I very often have to open and close it several times. there were others I noticed, I think pertaining to the Safari busy. and havi

Re: El Capitan Is Here

2015-10-01 Thread Mary Otten
Hi Donna, I would be curious which of Alex's bugs you experienced in Yosemite. Some of the ones I recall reading on his list I am certainly not experiencing, and those are some of the more serious ones. Audio ducking doesn't much concern me. But the web stuff, getting stuck on webpages, the prob

Re: El Capitan Is Here

2015-10-01 Thread Mary Otten
To the person who said they don't remember negativity when new releases of screen readers came along, I can only say, I don't know where you were. But I used to be a regular on the window eyes list. And let me say, there were tons and tons and tons of complaints every time new releases came out.

Re: El Capitan Is Here

2015-10-01 Thread Scott Granados
Reminds me of Sheldon’s spot. (for the Big Bang Theory TV show fans) > On Oct 1, 2015, at 11:50 AM, E.T. wrote: > > Its called the Goldilocks principle. Most people cannot find that perfect > bed to lie in or the perfect chair to sit in. > > From E.T.'s Keyboard... > ancient.ali...@icloud

Re: El Capitan Is Here

2015-10-01 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
I have to agree with George here, honestly. O, K. I've seen a couple of the bugs, but not very severe. Not at least to the point where I can't work around them. Chris. - Original Message - From: "george b" To: Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2015 11:17 AM Subjec

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2015-10-01 Thread E.T.
Its called the Goldilocks principle. Most people cannot find that perfect bed to lie in or the perfect chair to sit in. From E.T.'s Keyboard... ancient.ali...@icloud.com Many believe that we have been visited in the past. What if it were true? On 10/1/2015 1:13 AM, Krister Ekstrom wrote:

RE: El Capitan Is Here

2015-10-01 Thread george b
Capitan Is Here As I mentioned, I’m not getting a lot of these bugs. I experienced the email bug for a bit but on reboot it hasn’t happened again since yesterday. No audio docking bug and haven’t run in to anything else yet although I’m sure I will. So far so good though, much cleaner than the

Re: El Capitan Is Here

2015-10-01 Thread Nicolai Svendsen
Hi, A majority of the serious bugs I can't even reproduce, and only all moderate bugs appear here. Only five minor bugs, and those are easy to deal with. Even the supposed "serious" bugs I can reproduce rarely actually happen, and it's far from a showstopper. For instance, audio ducking. I onl

Re: El Capitan Is Here

2015-10-01 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
I definitely! did not see these bugs in Yosemite. Chris. - Original Message - From: "Donna Goodin" To: Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2015 7:45 AM Subject: Re: El Capitan Is Here Hi all, I finally had a minute to read Alex's bugs list. I thought it worth mentioni

Re: El Capitan Is Here

2015-10-01 Thread Dionipher Presas Herrera
same here, i don't see any major bugs. and i love it. audio dosking is not happening here as the first beta. > On 01 Oct 2015, at 2:25 PM, Scott Granados wrote: > > No I agree with you, that’s why I mentioned what I thought about bugs. The > whole vibe I get from this thread is there are a lo

Re: El Capitan Is Here

2015-10-01 Thread Scott Granados
No I agree with you, that’s why I mentioned what I thought about bugs. The whole vibe I get from this thread is there are a lot of people afraid of their machines. None of this stuff is hard to revert, especially if you have a good backup which Apple makes it ridiculously easy to do. No guts,

Re: El Capitan Is Here

2015-10-01 Thread Scott Granados
As I mentioned, I’m not getting a lot of these bugs. I experienced the email bug for a bit but on reboot it hasn’t happened again since yesterday. No audio docking bug and haven’t run in to anything else yet although I’m sure I will. So far so good though, much cleaner than the jump to Yosemi

Re: El Capitan Is Here

2015-10-01 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi all, I finally had a minute to read Alex's bugs list. I thought it worth mentioning that many of those bugs are bugs I'm currently experiencing in Yosemite. so, while I confess I was hoping they would be fixed in el Capitán, these are not new bugs, just old ones that didn't get fixed. Chee

Re: El Capitan Is Here

2015-10-01 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
oftware, I tell ya. Chris. - Original Message - From: "Krister Ekstrom" To: Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2015 4:13 AM Subject: Re: El Capitan Is Here A philosophical pondering which probably will get me flogged and called names but isn’t it strange how when a new relea

Re: El Capitan Is Here

2015-10-01 Thread Krister Ekstrom
A philosophical pondering which probably will get me flogged and called names but isn’t it strange how when a new release of the MacOs comes out, the things that stay longest around in the blind community are the bugs and the negative? If by chance there would be things that actually could effec

Re: El Capitan Is Here

2015-09-30 Thread Dionipher Presas Herrera
>>> Now, keep in mind, I'm using Alex, not the Nuance voices, so that may or >>> may not be playing a factor. >>> >>> Chris. >>> >>> - Original Message - From: "Dionipher Presas Herrera" >>> >>> To: >>> Sent:

Re: El Capitan Is Here

2015-09-30 Thread denise avant
Hello Alex, Thanks for the blog, podcast, and bug report. Most of all, thanks for your honesty regarding these bugs. The bugs here are really tough to deal with. As someone who really likes using the Mac, but is an average user, for the first time, I think I’m going to wait for another update

Re: El Capitan Is Here

2015-09-30 Thread Devin Prater
----- From: "Dionipher Presas Herrera" >> >> To: >> Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2015 3:00 PM >> Subject: Re: El Capitan Is Here >> >> >> actually i found this bug on the first beta of the el capitan, so hopefully >> if i'll insta

Re: El Capitan Is Here

2015-09-30 Thread Mike Arrigo
As with any new operating system, I would suggest waiting until at least the first, maybe the second major update before installing it, much safer that way. Original message: You can’t really go by these bug lists. They may be an issue for one person, not on another. Depends on a lot of facto

Re: El Capitan Is Here

2015-09-30 Thread Eric Oyen
one question before I try this. will it work on a late 2007 whitebook? if that is one model that is supported, great! it will get me up to the latests supported apps. if not, then I need to save up funds for a mac mini. -eric On Sep 30, 2015, at 1:25 PM, CJ Daniel wrote: > Alex, > > I read bo

Re: El Capitan Is Here

2015-09-30 Thread CJ Daniel
Alex, I read both posts & really appreciate your efforts. In fact, they have reenforced my belief that it is best to wait a release or two before taking the plunge. Again, thanks for your work in this area. CJ > On Sep 30, 2015, at 10:56 AM, Alex Hall wrote: > > Hi all, > Just a note to s

Re: El Capitan Is Here

2015-09-30 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
al Message - From: "Dionipher Presas Herrera" > > To: > Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2015 3:00 PM > Subject: Re: El Capitan Is Here > > > actually i found this bug on the first beta of the el capitan, so hopefully > if i'll install the el capitan stand

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2015-09-30 Thread adrian
the official release. Now, > keep in mind, I'm using Alex, not the Nuance voices, so that may or may not > be playing a factor. > > Chris. > > - Original Message - From: "Dionipher Presas Herrera" > > To: > Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Re: El Capitan Is Here

2015-09-30 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
age - From: "Dionipher Presas Herrera" To: Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2015 3:00 PM Subject: Re: El Capitan Is Here actually i found this bug on the first beta of the el capitan, so hopefully if i'll install the el capitan stand alone edition i can verify it all. the s

Re: El Capitan Is Here

2015-09-30 Thread Pablo Sandoval
How do you check the download status of El Capitan? I know I’m in the minority, but I think what a great name! > On Sep 30, 2015, at 11:56 AM, Alex Hall wrote: > > Hi all, > Just a note to say that El Capitan has been released. I compiled a bug list > for AppleVis which I strongly recommend ev

Re: El Capitan Is Here

2015-09-30 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
PM Subject: Re: El Capitan Is Here I am saying that they may not happen but I’m also saying they may, it’s not a certain thing. For example, many people have reported audio routing bugs with OS9 on the iPhone, I have not experienced this. I think you’re making the right move it’s just imp

Re: El Capitan Is Here

2015-09-30 Thread Dionipher Presas Herrera
actually i found this bug on the first beta of the el capitan, so hopefully if i'll install the el capitan stand alone edition i can verify it all. the sound effect was so frustrating before but i already reported that. > On 30 Sep 2015, at 8:25 PM, Sadam Ahmed wrote: > > Hi Alex, > > Thanks

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2015-09-30 Thread Sadam Ahmed
Hi Alex, Thanks for this write up. The next update is in beta 2 so hopefully there will be a fix to some of the VO bugs soon. Kind regards, Sadam Ahmed > On 1 Oct 2015, at 3:56 AM, Alex Hall wrote: > > Hi all, > Just a note to say that El Capitan has been released. I compiled a bug lis

RE: El Capitan Is Here

2015-09-30 Thread george b
Well wait then -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Mary Otten Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2015 11:15 To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: El Capitan Is Here Well, unless you are saying that the

Re: El Capitan Is Here

2015-09-30 Thread Michael
I've been running the beta cycle for public users for about a month and a half now. Yes, some of these bugs do exist, however they do not prevent a user from using OS X 10.11. Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 30, 2015, at 11:21 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland > wrote: > > Yikes! I had quite a few

Re: El Capitan Is Here

2015-09-30 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Yikes! I had quite a few issues in the beta cycle, but nothing! like the bugs you reported in that Applevis post. Wo! Baby! I'm sure as hell glad I saw this before updating! Chris. - Original Message - From: "Alex Hall" To: "'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries" Sent: Wednesday, Sep

Re: El Capitan Is Here

2015-09-30 Thread Scott Granados
I am saying that they may not happen but I’m also saying they may, it’s not a certain thing. For example, many people have reported audio routing bugs with OS9 on the iPhone, I have not experienced this. I think you’re making the right move it’s just important to state. You and only you can w

Re: El Capitan Is Here

2015-09-30 Thread Mary Otten
Well, unless you are saying that the bugs may not appear on my machine when I upgrade, I think some of them are big enough deal for me where I will wait for an update that will hopefully fix them. I am particularly thinking of the mail one and those associated with Safari. The new features do so

Re: El Capitan Is Here

2015-09-30 Thread Scott Granados
You can’t really go by these bug lists. They may be an issue for one person, not on another. Depends on a lot of factors. > On Sep 30, 2015, at 2:06 PM, Mary Otten wrote: > > Thank you so much, Alex for posting this list of bugs in the new operating > system. Having just read a mainstream

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2015-09-30 Thread Mary Otten
Thank you so much, Alex for posting this list of bugs in the new operating system. Having just read a mainstream review the talked about how this was a "rock solid" release, it is disheartening to see so many bugs in your list. I do know that Apple cares about accessibility. But it is damned har