Can anybody tell me what the difference is between Finereader Express and
finereader pro? Since I already paid for the Express version before it was in
the app store, I would like to know what added benefits I am getting before I
pay for the Pro version. I don't object to paying something; I jus
I did troubleshooting with somebody using vuescan a few weeks ago. The problem
was that media was not in "text". I suspect you do have a setting wrong
somewhere if you are not getting good results when you scan with vuescan but
you are with Abbyy; there are several incorrect settings that could
I know this because I needed it to use brltty on my Mac with bluetooth for my
braille edge. Correction: I knew how to find bluetooth addresses on Mountain
Lion, and this might just be the last straw if I can't find them with
Mavericks! In Mountain Lion, I opened System Preferences > Bluetooth an
Yes, I usually change to icon view or at least I often do this.
--
Cheryl
Go beyond the Christmas story this year;
meet Immanuel (God with us),
Jesus, the crucified Savior,
Christ, the risen Lord.
On Dec 6, 2013, at 6:43 PM, Annie Skov Nielsen
wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> My finder is going busy
Are you making sure you are on the icon for the stream in your desktop before
doing cmd-e? Also, I can't remember from when I had a Stream but does the
Stream just mount as one item? The reason I ask is that when I attach my mp3
player the player mounts and the sd card mounts separately and I ha
It should have been in the dock by default as I rtecall but maybe not.
--
Cheryl
Go beyond the Christmas story this year;
meet Immanuel (God with us),
Jesus, the crucified Savior,
Christ, the risen Lord.
On Dec 8, 2013, at 3:12 PM, Christine Grassman wrote:
> I have tried multiple times to
If you've opened a widget more than once without closing it, you'll have to
repeat this procedure until doing cmd-vo-escape just pings at you and brings up
no choices. Or you can check to see if you are still in a widget each time you
close. It's possible to really accumulate them if you haven't
One thing I've found is this, even though I am using imap: If I find that my
inbox is empty even though I know I should have mail, I quit mail and open it
again and usually a bunch of mail shows up within a few seconds.
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Cheryl
Go beyond the Christmas story this year;
meet Immanuel (God with
You don't need the file menu and you don't activate the menu bar.
Choose podcasts from the table, meaning interact with the table and when on
podcasts stop interacting.
Do vo-right arrow until you come to the "subscribe" button. Do vo-space on the
subscribe button.
A dialog comes up telling you
It actually says Macintosh HD, right? And it's on your desktop?
Okay, vokeys-arrow over to it and press return. It will say acintosh HD
contents selected. Don't start typing or you'll have to type the whole thing
because you will be replacing the name instead of adding to it. Left arrow and
ma
You are welcome! Put your podcast name in the search field and your episodes
should appear in the table. Interact with the table, find the episode, and
press return to play. I actually closed vlc and reopened it before I searched
but I think that probably isn't necessary.
--
Cheryl
Go beyond
Are you registered? Did you pay for credits? If so, could they have expired? I
had a friend for whom this was not working properly and I think we decided it
was the slowness of her Internet connection then though we weren't sure. Could
there be anything set in privacy settings that would block
Actually, I think it's xcode you need to update and make sure the commandline
tools are updated. I'm really sorry to dangle this little carrot under your
nose and then tell you I don't have time right now to get the info together for
you but I'm just doing a very quick email check and dashing o
Okay, here are the latest instructions I can find. But it's kind of a nightmare
in my opinion; you are supposed to uninstall and reinstall all your ports all
over again in the process! I haven't yet done this though I may decide I have
to at some point. What I've done so far is this:
The first
Teresa Cochran
> wrote:
>
> Thanks, Barry and Cheryl. I’ll consider tackling this. :) I do have time on
> my hands.
>
> Teresa
>
> "The Golden Age of science fiction is twelve."--Pete Graham
>
> On Dec 14, 2013, at 9:22 AM, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
>
It's better if you have a braille display and then use brltty in terminal. But
do make sure you have cursor tracking on in Alpine's configuration. Even using
vo that may help some. I do pretty much everything in terminal with a braille
display and brltty.
--
Cheryl
Go beyond the Christmas sto
When what you are used to doing doesn't work for you, it is time to move on and
try something else. Vo-j is no longer the best way to handle mail so it's time
to adapt in my opinion.
--
Cheryl
Go beyond the Christmas story this year;
meet Immanuel (God with us),
Jesus, the crucified Savior,
Ch
Really? The inconvenience outweights the benefits? I scan and ocr books all the
time and unless i want perfection very little proofreading is necessary. I
haven't noticed the joy being sucked out of my reading by a little effort! Yes,
more work needs to be done in this area but meanwhile I will
That is correct. If you put a .addressbook (note the period in front) in your
home directory, as long as the information is in the correct format, when you
open Alpine the addresses should be imported.
--
Cheryl
Go beyond the Christmas story this year;
meet Immanuel (God with us),
Jesus, the c
It works much better with brltty than with just vo. The problem is at this
point I'm not sure how to tell you what has to be installed in order for you to
be able to compile brltty on your system. I use macports and then compile and
install the developer (subversion) installation of brltty but I
Sent using Alpine messaging system in Mac OS X Terminal
>
> On Thu, 19 Dec 2013, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
>
>> It works much better with brltty than with just vo. The problem is at this
>> point I'm not sure how to tell you what has to be installed in order for you
>>
I'm just using audible.com not audible for UK but I would think it should be
the same: could be wrong of course. Actually I used to have automatic download
on but it went off and I'm not sure it is a choice any more. I haven't really
gone looking for it.
I go to my Library and I usually just ta
The directions I sent were for using safari. It appears now that if you hit
download on a book the whole book is downloaded; there is probably still a way
to download by part but it isn't necessary unless you only want one part.
--
Cheryl
Go beyond the Christmas story this year;
meet Immanuel
sed audible managerwith windows
> which was a real clunk.
> Do your instructions mean that you can do it all with safari and don't have
> to use any audible software? If so, that would be great!
> Don
>
>
> - Original Message -
> From: Cher
Yes, I use dom order in safari and I do not group items within tables, at least
not on Audible.
--
Cheryl
I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf.
I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper
thrown in the trash!
Then God gave me a new heart and life:
His joy for my despairing tears!
And now, ev
Oh, this is something I hate! I've had the same problem and a couple of times
when I've upgraded all my signatures have gone over to All Signatures! It's
extremely irritating! I found a description of how you are supposed to be able
to drag and drop the signatures but have never been able to get
Same here. I haven't really tried anything with the instant video but to me the
free shipping and knowing when the package will come are worth it.
--
Cheryl
I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf.
I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper
thrown in the trash!
Then God gave me a new heart and
I wouldn't quit vmware fusion without shutting down Windows first. I haven't
used version 6 yet nbut I found in 5 that if I got that menu behavior and did
it again (vo-m) it usually opened. But you usually should be able to shut down
Windows by the normal procedure within Windows itself and then
Well, it might be that you might not be able to sign up for prime on the app.
Once you have bought Prime or gotten signed up for the free trial for it, I
would think prime would then be one of your options. As I recall the site that
comes up with safari on the iPhone isn't the full site or at le
feel Amazon is being
> pretty sneaky in not mentioning on the trial sign up page or email how long
> the trial lasts.
>
> I am not using Amazon on safari on the iPhone but rather through their app
> which I find is the most accessible way to use Amazon. Will have to check if
g. It will also say something like
> sold by and shipped from Amazon or sold by (seller name) and fulfilled by
> Amazon. In product searches, you can also filter results so that only prime
> eligible items are displayed.
>
> Respectfully,
> Aser Tolentino, Esq.
>
>> O
arai Bucciarelli wrote:
>
>> Hi:
>> I didn't know where was an Amazon app. I just use Amazon on the Mac.
>> On Dec 31, 2013, at 4:50 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
>>
>>> I really don't have trouble using Amazon on the Mac so I've never
>>> downl
Have you checked to see if there's an update to MacTubes; I think you have to
go on the web and look for it. One time when I had MacTubes problems, there was
an update I didn't know about. I do notice with the vrsion of MacTubes I have,
it will play but then when I close the window I get told th
I use liblouis to translate from print to braille. It's also actually possible
to write in braille on your computer if you know what symbols to use and I've
been known to do this for short things and quick corrections. My printer is an
Index and so I use the Index driver for actual printing.
--
You need to use screen-4.0.1 and there are also patches you have to apply which
are contained in the brltty source which you must download using subversion. I
will really try to update the instructions I wrote several years ago and post
them in the next few days.
--
Cheryl
I tried and tried to
creen, we’ll be more than half
> way there.
>
> Chris
> On Jan 15, 2014, at 5:25 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
>
>> You need to use screen-4.0.1 and there are also patches you have to apply
>> which are contained in the brltty source which you must download using
>> su
or the Mac to my
>> knowledge. There may be edge cases where independent braille output would be
>> helpful, but I can't think of any. Aside from the fun of the project itself
>> (no, that's not sarcasm, I can understand enjoying something like this) what
>>
I also sometimes prefer using ctrl-option-f.
--
Cheryl
I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf.
I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper
thrown in the trash!
Then God gave me a new heart and life:
His joy for my despairing tears!
And now, every day:
"This I call to mind,
and therefore I have
Usually in the Unix world, a warning does not in and of itself mean you have a
problem. As long as you aren't having problems related to this warning, I
wouldn't be concerned about it.
--
Cheryl
I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf.
I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper
thrown in the
What usually happens is this: You go to the page where the captcha is needed
and by the time you've filled the rest of the page out, or within a minute or
two at most, the captcha is filled in for you. There are a few instances where
this may not work; for instance, when I was submitting my inco
The only possibilities from your end I can think of are: (a) make sure all your
contacts' phone numbers are correctly identified i.e.: a mobile phone doesn't
show as "home" etc; (b) if you are typing the beginning of the contact you want
in messages and then flicking through the choices, make su
I'm pretty sure you are going to have to switch to the Arabic voice to get the
Arabic but I could be wrong.
--
Cheryl
I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf.
I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper
thrown in the trash!
Then God gave me a new heart and life:
His joy for my despairing tears!
I have to comment here that partitioning with voiceover is most certainly NOT
useless. I do it all the time with external drives and have done it with my
internal drive on occasion. I don't have time right now to write more, but it
involves how you interact and tab; it might be a bit challenging
What I think you may not be understanding is that by writing in an amount
instead of just working the resizer you usually aren't going to get the exact
fraction needed for resizing so you are going to get an error and/or a
different size than you thought you requested. This isn't a matter of DU
x Hall wrote:
>
> Fair enough, I guess I can see that. The question then becomes: how do you
> use the resize control? I interact with it, but can't do anything past that.
> Is there a special command to use this?
>> On Jul 26, 2014, at 5:33 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
>>
itions.
> i have a 2.4TB partition which the Mac operating system is installed on and a
> 900GB partition with nothing on it. I want to somehow get that 900 GB back to
> the first partition but can’t make it happen.
>> On 27 Jul 2014, at 7:33 am, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
>>
>
Can you post the link to what you were trying to access?
> --
> Cheryl
> I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf.
> I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper thrown in the trash!
> Then God gave me a new heart and life:
> His joy for my despairing tears!
> And now, every day:
> "This I call
Hmmm! It's been a while since I used a virtual linux build but I'm quite sure I
used it with a usb-serial cable when I did use it. I don't remember if I had to
install the driver for the usb-serial converter. And at least when I was using
vmware, it wasn't difficult to change between the vm and
By saying you disabled the key in System Preferences, I assume you mean you
changed it to "no action".
are you aware that the keyboard hack app is now Seil.app instead?
In Seil, Did you make sure that change caps lock is checked and did you make
sure the keycode is changed to 110? 51 should s
nged it
> to 110 and now everything is working as it should. I love having the VO keys
> back there!
> On Aug 11, 2014, at 10:15 AM, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
>
>
> By saying you disabled the key in System Preferences, I assume you mean you
> changed it to "no action&quo
I did a google search and what came up was to use option plus 6 with a US
keyboard layout. I tried that and it was announced by voiceover as a section
symbol. Here it is; see if this is what you need. § Is the symbol right before
this sentence what you need?
--
Cheryl
I tried and tried to turn
I don't now remember all the details, but it wasn't accessible enough for me to
use last time I tried it.
--
Cheryl
I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf.
I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper
thrown in the trash!
Then God gave me a new heart and life:
His joy for my despairing tears!
A
What Erik has written is much more thorough and clear than what I have written
below but since there are a few things he didn't say and I don't want to take
the time to edit, I will send this as is. If in doubt, defer to what Erik has
written. Others have also perhaps posted while I was working
Is there a way to copy and paste or in some other way make a file of one's key
assignment table in braille > displays > key assignments. I'd like to be able
to keep a list independent of having to open the table, especially when I've
changed assignments.
--
Cheryl
I tried and tried to turn ov
I just thought I would check this in case somebody has come up with a solution
and I hadn't heard about it. I really would like to read braille files in text
edit and also edit them there. I can read the files fine for the most part and
can do editing as long as I remember to use the appropriate
)
On Aug 15, 2014, at 11:28 AM, Jane wrote:
> No way that I've found to not see them, unless you edit on an iDevice. Then I
> think you can't see them. I have the opposite problem.
>
> Jane
>
>
>
>
> On Aug 15, 2014, at 12:24 PM, Cheryl Homiak wr
Well, if this is gmail, it might have something to do with your settings up on
the gmail website rather than with a problem on your mac. But in order for any
of us to help you, you are going to have to give more information about your
setup for your mail on iphone and Mac i.e.: are they both set
Well, not all of us in the US have that speech preference. Having worked with
brltty in linux and in terminal on the Mac for years, admittedly mostly
command-line as I never got much into Orca or other linux guy screenreader, I
would rather the braille didn't just echo the speech. I frankly find
I would rather be able to use the braille display only but this isn't always
possible. for instance, there is no double-tap-and-hold equivalent for the
braille display as far as I know. Also, sometimes if I lose my place as to
where my cursor is, doing a quick arrow with my bluetooth keyboard wh
n Prater wrote:
>
> Oh, you can use brailletty in the terminal? How can that be done?
>
>> On Aug 16, 2014, at 17:52, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
>>
>> Well, not all of us in the US have that speech preference. Having worked
>> with brltty in linux and in termina
While I realize that braille on the Mac still has plenty of room for
improvement, i am still glad to have it. For one thing, to say that it is
behind "even" compared to other graphical screenreaders fails to acknowledge
that most of the other screenreaders have been under development for years a
I think that the best way to approach this with people who don't actually use
braille is to give concrete examples of what you cannot now do with the braille
and what you want to do with it. Then if possible explain something about how
that would work or how it can be done. Even with people who
VLC very well may work. But as far the the titles, are you going into the menus
with vo-more and looking under the titles?
> --
> Cheryl
> I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf.
> I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper thrown in the trash!
> Then God gave me a new heart and life:
> His
I don't really think your method is faster. You go to the dock, type m or ma
and mail is there; do enter or vo-space. I've never done this other method
myself but I suppose it's all about what one is used to; you always think what
you are used to doing is fastest.
--
Cheryl
I tried and tried
I don't think you are particularly "wrong"; it is basically what one is used
to. after a while your fingers "remember" what you have done over and over and
an alternative, whether easier or harder, will seem harder for a while. One of
the strengths of the Mac is that there are usually several wa
I once bought an album from there and once a single song, both times using
safari on my Mac. I don't remember having a particular problem with it so I
can't really tell you anything special I did. The app was accessible for
playing my songs though you can also download the song to your computer
I was able to use an email address to report the problem with the app as I
recall but again, I don't now remember the process so it must not have seemed
difficult to me at the time.
> --
> Cheryl
> I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf.
> I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper thrown
You don't specify if you were trying to buy a song on an i-device or on a Mac
computer. Here's what I did on my Mac with Safari. I'm writing down the steps
as I do them.
I searched for the artist I wanted and then went to the link for the album and
then the individual song (there was a "buy now"
Is it possible you've either turned on mouse-keys or locked voiceover? If set
up in system preferences, mousekeys is toggled by pressing the option key (I
don't think it matters which one) five times. Voiceover is locked so control
and option keys are automatically on and you just use voiceover
I haven't been following this thread but I've done selective syncing and I
posted how I did it at one point. If I can find it, I'll repost.
> --
> Cheryl
> I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf.
> I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper thrown in the trash!
> Then God gave me a new hear
Okay, here is what I posted about this a couple of months ago. I have been busy
and haven't been reading this thread so I apologize if this has already been
tried and no longer works. It isn't ideal but it is doable if it still works.
You have to do this blind, but then what else is new - grin!
Yes, if you get voiceover at login this should include braille at login. Go
into System Preferences > user accounts and interact with the table and go down
to login options. Then stop interacting and go right looking for something
about having voiceover on at login and check that box. This shoul
Thanks.
>
> From The Believer. . .
> What if it were true?
> ancient.ali...@icloud.com
>
> On 8/30/2014 5:17 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
>> Yes, if you get voiceover at login this should include braille at login. Go
>> into System Preferences > user accounts and i
played so I only need to type in password
> after I choose my account. Is yours set up the same?
>
> From The Believer. . .
> What if it were true?
> ancient.ali...@icloud.com
>
> On 8/30/2014 8:30 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
>> Hmmm, as far as I know, that should do it.
It's true that I never bothered about checking and unchecking subdirectories;
I've basically kept everything on a single level so that I could quickly access
any directory without nesting. But yes, for those using a lot of
subdirectories, this could be a problem unless there's a way to uncheck c
I guess that depends on your definition of "accessible". I have been using it
successfully for a couple of years but it takes more work than using safari and
you may be better off to use the nightly builds; you just install them and you
don't have to actually build them yourself. I even installe
ndy.
>
> From The Believer. . .
> What if it were true?
> ancient.ali...@icloud.com
>
> On 8/30/2014 10:32 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
>> Yes, those are my settings too. Are you using it as bluetooth or usb? I
>> usually use it with usb on my Macs because then I can switch b
;This I call to mind,
and therefore I have hope:
The steadfast love of the Lord
never ceases;
his mercies never come to an end;
they are new every morning;
great is your faithfulness."
(Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV)
On Aug 31, 2014, at 9:52 AM, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> I haven't tried
l a very happy Mac and iphone user!
> Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind
> built-in and fully protected by ClamXav Antivirus!
>
>> On Aug 31, 2014, at 9:14 AM, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
>>
>> It's true that I never bothered about ch
I think it is much easier for me to use braille completely on my i-devices than
on my computers and I definitely don't like the way words that would be speech
or that could have symbols are written out.
--
Cheryl
I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf.
I got crumpled wads of tear-stained pa
By default it does not. I worked out a way to do this but haven't done it in a
while and don't know if it works now since we've been through some OS changes
since then. It's probably still in the archives but I won't post it again
unless/until I find it and test it to see if it still works.
--
As far as I know, the Apple Mail app does not in itself have any option to do
read receipts either individually or for all mail but I could be wrong. The one
I did could be turned on or off as I recall but it's been a long time.
--
Cheryl
I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf.
I got crumpl
I'm going to try this and see if it now will handle Spanish correctly. I've
been compiling and using Louis instead but it would be nice to use the package.
--
Cheryl
I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf.
I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper
thrown in the trash!
Then God gave me a new
Tested and modified in MacOS 10.9 Mavericks: September 2 2014
This still works but you have to do all the steps before you can test it. Also
be aware that it is possible for the return receipt request to be seen before
the actual email, at least when testing it on myself. I've only tested it on
Actually, this is only partly correct. You can write whatever you want to write
in the email that is presented for you to fill in. You can also have different
return receipt protocols for different email addresses though i haven't tried
to do this. No, it may not be as good as a built-in system
Hmmm, on my computer running Mavericks, doing cmd-shift-delete doesn't seem to
send one message directly to the trash. Instead it brings up a dialog asking me
if I want to delete all items in trash and it says something about doing that
in all accounts. Maybe I'm missing something about how and
Even ifit's on your computer, you don't ever have to use it. I have several
voices that I never use. You are only going to hear the voices you pick.
--
Cheryl
I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf.
I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper
thrown in the trash!
Then God gave me a new heart a
What Ann says is exactly right. If you don't have extra new line characters in
what you are reading, the pauses between sentences should be no more than you
would hear in normal speech and shouldn't be annoying. But no matter how fast
you set the speed, the new line characters are going to cause
If you are talking about logging in, there is an autologin that can be enabled
though it would be considered a security risk. You would have to choose which
user gets the autologin though. You may have to enable this in Security before
you can change it in Users and Groups.
You also can have yo
I:m not even getting the video or the event. I am getting music on and off and
a very busy busy safari and when I can move I see twitter posts etc, Of course
i can listen to the keynote podcast later but I am not exactly happy either.
--
Cheryl
I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf.
I got
Okay, I closed safari and started over again and now I am able to listen. I did
not do anything different from before; just went to apple,com. If you are
having trouble try starting over. It: s a bit distracting because I can hear
one of the translators quite clearly in a background and it is no
Apparently, it is already in your library waiting for you to download or that
was my understanding.
--
Cheryl
I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf.
I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper
thrown in the trash!
Then God gave me a new heart and life:
His joy for my despairing tears!
And now
There really isn't any need to worry about the process before the new version
comes out, and there's no need to be terrified. You don't even have to upgrade
right away if you don't want to and there will be ample instructions and
discussion about this when Yosemite is released. While the agreem
Yes, I did know about the change to eloquence and as I recall keith did too.
Can you be more specific about what doesn't work with voiceover? Does nothing
read at all or what happens?
Thanks.
--
Cheryl
I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf.
I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper
thrown
@ this point I remain sad but hopeful that the situation will be resolved @ a
> later date.
>
> Hope this answered your questions,
>
> CJ
>
>
> On Sep 14, 2014, at 4:56 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
>
>> Yes, I did know about the change to eloquence and as I recall ke
No, they didn't charge.
Cheryl
I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf.
I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper
thrown in the trash!
Then God gave me a new heart and life:
His joy for my despairing tears!
And now, every day:
"This I call to mind,
and therefore I have hope:
The steadfast love
alling Mavericks. Upto that point, everything was fine. I even
>> upgraded to a later version of Eloquent a bit later, 4.2 I think, & still no
>> joy. So, @ this point I remain sad but hopeful that the situation will be
>> resolved @ a later date.
>>
>> Hope t
Yes, I would say that you installed the Windows version. The Mac version is in
the Mac app store. I am runing it and have successfully enjoyed Tech Talk two
weeks in a row now wwith Accessible World; haven't tried talking yet. The first
week I got dumped out of the room several times but this ti
on
> in the room!
> A private chat can be started by someone else to you and it will open in a
> new window so you would have to command ` back to the room!
> And if your kicked out of the room and have to re-enter any private chats
> will be lost so would have to be restarted by t
the
> windows tc conference software on the MAC, and remove it. Thanks.
>
> On Sep 16, 2014, at 8:03 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
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>> Yes, I would say that you installed the Windows version. The Mac version is
>> in the Mac app store. I am runing it and have successfull
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