Re: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY under Chrome OS / Crostini

2024-10-16 Thread Jason J.G. White
On 15/10/24 19:29, Daniel Dalton wrote: Just an update here I was able to get this working by using the new brltty-term script suggested by Dave instead of the old screen driver. This raises the question whether there's a way to install the necessary kernel modules in your environment to ena

Re: memory problem?

2024-10-16 Thread 'Jason J.G. White' via MacVisionaries
On 15/10/24 19:13, Caitlyn Furness wrote: Lots of times when I get the error, I only have one thing open or am doing a quick look at a file... So confusing! 🙂 It could be a service running in the background. You'll need to examine memory statistics. Activity Monitor is the obvious tool for t

Re: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY under Chrome OS / Crostini

2024-10-12 Thread Jason J.G. White
On 8/10/24 07:26, Daniel Dalton wrote: I run brltty from the shell and see the brltty version on the display followed by "no screen". I see the following error which I guess is not unexpected because Crostini may have some differences to a full version of Linux: BRLTTY 6.6 rev BRLTTY-6.6-116

Re: The iPhone Dial Pad, Back on Top, After All These Years!

2024-10-07 Thread 'Jason J.G. White' via MacVisionaries
On 7/10/24 02:15, MacVisionaries wrote: Younger people may not know this but, once upon a time, the primary purpose of a mobile phone was to actually make a phone call using a dial pad (smile). An interviewee on a podcast insightfully suggested that they aren't "phones" anymore, they're act

Re: Sequoia: Where'd the menus go?

2024-10-01 Thread 'Jason J.G. White' via MacVisionaries
On 1/10/24 14:31, 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries wrote: It seems VO+M no longer works in Sequoia. I must say I wasn't expecting that! It works for me. Something is different in your system or configuration. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries l

Re: My decision whether to get the 16 or the 16 Pro

2024-09-30 Thread 'Jason J.G. White' via MacVisionaries
On 30/9/24 08:54, 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries wrote: I’d love to hear what others do if you want to share. I have an iPhone XS, one of the oldest devices that can run iOS 18. It meetgs my needs well. I plan to wait at least another year, expecting that next year's operating system ma

Re: [BRLTTY] Italian Table

2024-09-29 Thread Jason J.G. White
On 29/9/24 09:58, Giuli wrote: In Orca settings > Braille tab, I selected the it-IT table and it is ok except for punctuation and numbers. As I remember, Orca uses Liblouis as its Braille translator, so modifying the BRLTTY configuration will have no effect if you are using a contracted Brail

Re: Passwords and Passkeys

2024-09-29 Thread 'Jason J.G. White' via MacVisionaries
I’m currently using Apple’s included password manager with Apple Keychain. Obviously, this works well among my Apple devices, but I would consider adopting a solution that supports Linux as well, preferably self-hosted, and definitely not requiring a cloud service or payment. Keepass might be the a

Re: Clearing Notifications

2024-09-29 Thread 'Jason J.G. White' via MacVisionaries
Different notifications have different options, e.g., “close” or “clear all”. Whatever option you need is in the menu, however. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com on behalf of Bradford Snyder Date: Saturday, September 28, 2024 at 19:07To: MacVisionaries Subject: Re: Clearing NotificationsCorrec

Re: Orca/espeakup loud audio on login screen and..

2024-09-24 Thread Jason J.G. White
On 24/9/24 09:18, Kenneth Schack Banner wrote: When starting the computer, it comes to the login window and the audio is extremely loud, untill logged in, then the audio level is okay / low. What could be the reason that the login screen has one level of audio, but when logged in, its anothe

Re: Sonoma

2024-09-23 Thread 'Jason J.G. White' via MacVisionaries
On 23/9/24 17:09, Lorie McCloud wrote: as far as accessibility goes, how is Sonoma compared to Ventura? it’s the time of year when I probably should upgrade. normally I stay 1 behind the current os and for me that has worked very well. I haven't noticed much difference from one release to t

Re: Accessible Mesh Routers

2024-09-23 Thread 'Jason J.G. White' via MacVisionaries
On 23/9/24 11:15, Bradford Snyder wrote: The problem with Eero, is that it is owned by Amazon. Using one of these system means you have given Amazon permission to harvest all of your internet browsing activity, which means you have forfeited any expectation of privacy when online. Almost ever

Re: [BRLTTY] Old Question about ALVA

2024-09-04 Thread Jason J.G. White
On 4/9/24 17:39, Howard Traxler wrote: I've asked this before but I don't think anyone responded.  In any case, it's still a problem.  Several months ago, my controls on the ALVA stopped working.  The display works fine, as before. But the routing buttons and the front panel controls do nothin

Re: Data backup - I made a mistake

2024-09-01 Thread Jason J.G. White via luv-main
On 18/8/24 00:24, Andrew Greig via luv-main wrote: Using grsync I backed up my data dir "data/RAW files" to an external to an external HDD directory /RAWfiles/ so instead of appending the files I now have a 1.3Tb directory within my target directory. Couldn't you just delete the extra dire

Re: microsoft word docs in mail

2024-08-26 Thread 'Jason J.G. White' via MacVisionaries
Try a double tap and hold on the button that opens the attachment. This may open a context menu. I haven’t checked what options are in there, but a Web search suggests there should be an option to choose the application with which to open the file. From: 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries Date: Mond

Re: Adjusting value for pitch change in VO on the Mac?

2024-08-22 Thread 'Jason J.G. White' via MacVisionaries
You could also turn off the pitch changes and re-enable them selectively in situations in which you need them. VoiceOver Activities may help with it.I use the Braille display when editing text, so the problem doesn’t arise, but everyone has different use cases, of course. From: macvisionaries@googl

Re: Virtual machines for the Mac and linux.

2024-08-17 Thread 'Jason J.G. White' via MacVisionaries
On 17/8/24 11:32, Anders Holmberg wrote: Since VMware is not going to be gone I was wondering if you can run linux in parallels? Or are there any other ways such as emu or something else to do this? You could try the following, about which I've heard positive reports. I haven't used it per

Re: installing debian with vmware work station speech stops part way threw the installation

2024-08-17 Thread Jason J.G. White
On 16/8/24 20:49, Nick Gawronski wrote: Yes but finding one with speech already enabled is the issue. All you need is one with ssh enabled, to which you can log in and install packages. Debian may have official images - I suggest doing some research on the Web.

Re: [BRLTTY] ALVA controls quit working

2024-08-16 Thread Jason J.G. White
On 16/8/24 10:34, Howard Traxler wrote: I'm using an HP computer with windows 10 Pro 64,, NVDA current release, BRLTTY 6.4, and an alva 80-cell display, ABT80 via serial port.  Been using it for something over a year now.  All of a sudden, the controls stopped working.  That means the routing

Re: installing debian with vmware work station speech stops part way threw the installation

2024-08-16 Thread Jason J.G. White
On 15/8/24 17:01, Nick Gawronski wrote: On windows 11 pro I have tried to install debian 12 64 bit and found that even when telling vmware work station to use the built in sound card the installation freezes or at least speech stops no clue what is causing this and no way to show it Could

Re: testing/sid: upgrade atspi to version 2.53.1-1 break orca on my system

2024-08-08 Thread Jason J.G. White
On 8/8/24 09:32, Jérémy Prego wrote: I don't know if this is the right way to report my bug, but I discovered that updating the atspi2 stack to version 2.53.1-1 prevents orca from starting with a python error : Try upgrading Orca as well, as the problem may have been fixed upstream.

Re: [BRLTTY] Braille driver restarting

2024-08-06 Thread Jason J.G. White
On 5/8/24 01:04, Rob Hudson wrote: Connected a q braille xl via USB. Arch linux, brltty 6.6-10. Every so often at random times the message Braille driver restarting pops up, followed by brltty 6.6 I'm not the right person to advise on this, but I expect you'll need to provide log output to

RE: Anyone have the VisionPro?

2024-08-02 Thread 'Jason J.G. White' via MacVisionaries
I don't have it, and I can't think of a good use case that would justify my purchasing it. This situation may change, however. -Original Message- From: 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries Sent: Thursday, August 1, 2024 3:18 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Anyone have the V

Re: HIMS Braille displays

2024-07-27 Thread 'Jason J.G. White' via MacVisionaries
A few suggestions: You may receive more responses by asking on a braille display-related mailing list, such as braille-display-us...@groups.io, to which you can subscribe. You could also ask the vendor to test the demonstration device and provide an explanation. In addition, check the term

Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] Tables in Write.

2024-07-03 Thread Jason J.G. White
On 3/7/24 02:24, Gabriele Battaglia wrote: Hi, any news to get accessibility on tables on Write docs? They're screen reader-accessible for me. What problem are you having? I'm using a recent version of Orca, LibreOffice 24.2, GNOME desktop environment. I can use the usual table navigation

Re: [BRLTTY] Somewhat New Linux User with a Few Questions

2024-06-24 Thread Jason J.G. White
On 21/6/24 10:18, Lanie Carmelo wrote: There are times when I've started my computer, and gone to a TTY when "BRLTTY 6.6" repeatedly flashes on my Braille display, a HumanWare Brailliant BI 40X. Once when it did this, I think I also caught the words "braille driver restarting" flashing right

Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] Accessibility of images with alternative text in LibreOffice Writer

2024-06-18 Thread Jason J.G. White
On 18/6/24 02:53, Michael Weghorn wrote: There is this existing bug report which sounds like it describes the same issue: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77679 ("[ACCESSIBILITY] Accessibility support for replaced objects is incomplete") Orca does however announce the acce

[libreoffice-accessibility] Accessibility of images with alternative text in LibreOffice Writer

2024-06-17 Thread Jason J.G. White
After importing an OOXML (from MS-Word) document into LibreOffice Writer 24.2.4, using Orca as the screen reader I was unable to read the alternative text associated with an image. I don't think I can share the document, but I would be interested to know whether anyone else here can reproduce

Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] Re: [a11y] LibreOffice Calc exposes 2^31 children, freezes on `GetChildren`

2024-06-15 Thread Jason J.G. White
On 14/6/24 17:25, Michael Weghorn wrote: Personal preferences aside, Windows/NVDA as the most widely used platform indeed generally has some priority for me, as does Writer over Calc over everything else. There are other factors I also take into account, though, e.g. involvement/contribution

Re: Thoughts on Apple Keynote?

2024-06-12 Thread 'Jason J.G. White' via MacVisionaries
I have a late 2021 MacBook Pro, and the hardware is very impressive. MacOS is a good operating system also, but I already knew that from having used my late 2013-model MacBook Pro. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com on behalf of Phil Halton Date: Wednesday, June 12, 2024 at 14:09To: macvisionar

Re: [orca] Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] menu navigation issue

2024-06-11 Thread Jason J.G. White
On 11/6/24 07:38, Joanmarie Diggs wrote: BTW, are you using Wayland and gnome-shell? If so, it sounds like https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/3267. Although that was fixed four months ago. Yes, it's GNOME-Shell under Wayland. I just tried it again under a GNOME-Shell X11 session,

Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] menu navigation issue

2024-06-11 Thread Jason J.G. White
Adding the Orca list to this discussion, as the bug may be a GTK or Orca issue, as Michael helpfully details below. On 11/6/24 00:39, Michael Weghorn wrote: On 2024-06-10 14:14, Jason J.G. White wrote: I noted the following on the Orca mailing list recently, but others were unable to

[libreoffice-accessibility] menu navigation issue

2024-06-10 Thread Jason J.G. White
I noted the following on the Orca mailing list recently, but others were unable to reproduce it. The issue below is not a priority for me at the moment, but I'm reporting it here in case it can be resolved to prevent others from encountering it. Environment: LibreOffice 24.2.4, GNOME 46.2, r

Re: Updating phone while in another country

2024-06-09 Thread 'Jason J.G. White' via MacVisionaries
On 9/6/24 00:39, 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries wrote: I live in the US, but am in Italy right now. I’m getting messages that I have an IOS update ready to install, but am hesitant to do so. Does anyone know if the version my phone downloaded will be the US version, or the Italian one? M

Re: Ambiguity of "Double-Press Home" has me frustrated

2024-06-05 Thread 'Jason J.G. White' via MacVisionaries
My iPhone doesn’t have a Home button – it’s an iPhone XS. The gesture to reach the list of open apps is to slide up from the bottom of the screen until the second haptic vibration occurs. If this gesture is also available on your phone, you could use it instead of the Home button. From: 'Janina Saj

Re: Should I buy carbon copy cloner? Is it good enough to just use time machine? Thought anyone?

2024-06-04 Thread 'Jason J.G. White' via MacVisionaries
Note that the operating system volume is managed entirely by Apple on modern machines, so you only need a backup strategy for the data volume. On 3/6/24 13:42, 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries wrote:    I use both. CCC will do the same basic backup as Time Machine but is very flexible if you wish to m

Re: [BRLTTY] [issue] HID braille device very slow under certain conditions

2024-06-04 Thread Jason J.G. White
Although I can't assist with your problem, I would suggest that, if no solution becomes available quickly, you could investigate the Asahai Linux project and its Fedora integration. This would allow you to dual boot your Mac by installing Linux alongside MacOS. On 4/6/24 04:20, Yannick PLASSIA

Re: VMware's Fusion now free for personal use!

2024-05-27 Thread 'Jason J.G. White' via MacVisionaries
On 27/5/24 04:50, Nebojsa Tasic wrote: Thanks. Can Docker be used instead of virtual machine? Can you use Linux on Docker like on a virtual machine or the regular installation? So far as I know, you can run Docker on MacOS to use Linux containers. I haven't had any experience with it. I have a

Re: List View versus Column View

2024-05-20 Thread 'Jason J.G. White' via MacVisionaries
On 20/5/24 00:03, Brad Snyder wrote: Asking which is better, List view or Column view; is like asking which is better, Chocolate or Vanilla ice cream. The answer you get, depends on who you ask. I agree, and they're both available at any time. -- The following information is important for all

Re: List View versus Column View

2024-05-19 Thread 'Jason J.G. White' via MacVisionaries
On 19/5/24 17:50, 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries wrote:    I have always used list view on the Mac. I would like some feedback on this as it may help me when using a braille display connected to the Mac.    Things such as, are there any areas in macOS where one view is better over the other? L

Re: [BRLTTY] brltty 6.6 under windows not working?

2024-05-19 Thread Jason J.G. White
On 19/5/24 16:02, Simon Eigeldinger wrote: I tried brltty versions 6.3, 6.4, 6.5 and 6.6. Attached is the brltty.log of brltty 6.6. There appear to be Windows USB errors. Did you run it with administrative privilege? I suspect this isn't the issue, but we might as well check. I'm not run

Re: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY and Alva Satellite under Windows in connection with NVDA

2024-05-16 Thread Jason J.G. White
On 16/5/24 02:01, Eigeldinger Simon wrote: *Will see what i can do.* *I'll also try to downgrade to brltty 6.4.* *If the downgrade is necessary, please report the issue here, with debug logs, so that the BRLTTY developers have a chance of fixing it.* * * ___

Re: [BRLTTY] BRLTTY and Alva Satellite under Windows in connection with NVDA

2024-05-15 Thread Jason J.G. White
On 14/5/24 09:02, Eigeldinger Simon wrote: What the braille display displays is basically its start up message which says something like Alva Satellite OK, Waiting for connection... I suggest checking the BRLTTY logs, and increasing the log level, if necessary. I don't know how the BRLTTY l

Re: Problem reseting touch ID with stolen device protection on.

2024-05-15 Thread 'Jason J.G. White' via MacVisionaries
You might have to reset the device altogether, then recover your data from an iCloud backup. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com on behalf of Paul Hopewell Date: Wednesday, May 15, 2024 at 11:23To: macvisionaries Subject: Problem reseting touch ID with stolen device protection on.Hello, I have a

Re: Fwd: [libreoffice-accessibility] Shortcuts on a document opened in Writer.

2024-05-13 Thread Jason J.G. White
On 13/5/24 03:43, Vivien Palcic wrote: I have the Navigator turned on, but this isn't helpful when trying to navigate within a table - eg between columns or rows etc. It just gets me into the table and NVDA reads off the whole lot, whereas I'm trying to get around within the table without affe

Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] Shortcuts on a document opened in Writer.

2024-05-09 Thread Jason J.G. White
On 9/5/24 15:17, Gabriele Battaglia wrote: Hi. With NVDA, How can I use the key shortcuts to move along a writer document? Commands like H to jump over headers? I don't know whether this is supported - it isn't in Linux, which is the environment with which I'm familiar, due to LibreOffice lim

Re: Using P M Set To Schedule Automatic Shutdown Mac OS Sonoma

2024-05-07 Thread 'Jason J.G. White' via MacVisionaries
On 7/5/24 10:52, Pete De Vasto wrote: I think that the problem is that, by default, the root user is disabled. On older versions, Apple says you can go into the Directory utility, and from there once you type in your local password you can do Edit I have sudo working on my Sonoma system with

Re: Using P M Set To Schedule Automatic Shutdown Mac OS Sonoma

2024-05-05 Thread 'Jason J.G. White' via MacVisionaries
On 5/5/24 16:19, pdevasto0...@gmail.com wrote: My sighted wife just got a new M3 iMac running Sonoma, and I want to help her configure it to shut down at a certain time each day like her earlier computer did. I have hers and my older  Macs running versions earlier than Sonoma, and could enab

Re: qc 25 bose headphones with iphone SE

2024-05-04 Thread 'Jason J.G. White' via MacVisionaries
Yes, that’s what you need. From: ngc5055 via MacVisionaries Date: Saturday, May 4, 2024 at 11:46To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: qc 25 bose headphones with iphone SEok great, thanks ...my iPhone is a 2nd gen S E. SO the 3.5 mmm to lightning apapter would work?On May 4, 2024, at 11:3

Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] New user

2024-05-04 Thread Jason J.G. White
On 3/5/24 18:46, Keith Reedy wrote: I am a new user of writer the latest version. I am looking for anything that mite get me up to speed. There's plenty of documentation on the Web at https://documentation.libreoffice.org/en/english-documentation/ A quick Web search will locate lists of key

Re: Unable to Boot into New Startup Volume

2024-05-02 Thread 'Jason J.G. White' via MacVisionaries
On 1/5/24 20:55, 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries wrote: Google seems to point to the master boot record  (MBR). Anyone have experience with this function? My understanding is that Intel-based machines no longer have master boot records - it's all UEFI. Apple Silicon machines have their own boot

Re: 2020 Mini Stuck on Sonoma 14.2.1

2024-05-01 Thread 'Jason J.G. White' via MacVisionaries
On 1/5/24 09:06, Steve Matzura wrote: I keep hearing about updates to 14.4, but I never actually receive them. If I go to "About this Mac," it does not show that there are any updates. Did I do something wrong and accidentally disable this somewhere along the way? Does it show that automa

Re: Macintosh vs iPad

2024-04-28 Thread 'Jason J.G. White' via MacVisionaries
On 28/4/24 09:49, Jonathan Cohn wrote: For those that have both an iPad and a M1, M2 or M3 Mac, when do you feel the need to use the Mac instead of your iPad. When does the iPad seem particularly frustrating . My iPad is very old at this point and mostly sits unused. By contrast, I'm a dail

Re: A very handy way to deal with junk mail

2024-04-17 Thread 'Jason J.G. White' via MacVisionaries
I run my own mail server. I have it configured to train its filter on all of the mail that I move into the spam folder. Anything automatically placed in the spam folder and later moved out of it manually is automatically trained as legitimate mail. I would expect commercial mail providers to d

Re: Voiceover frequently shutting off

2024-04-16 Thread 'Jason J.G. White' via MacVisionaries
On 16/4/24 10:30, Phil Halton wrote: By the way, this usually happens after a long period of inactivity on the laptops. Like for example first thing in the morning after a nights inactivity, or even after several hours during the day of not being used. I would suggest contacting Apple and creati

Re: Keychain Cannot be Found

2024-04-14 Thread 'Jason J.G. White' via MacVisionaries
On 13/4/24 17:02, ancient.aliens via MacVisionaries wrote: During setup I may have inadvertently changed a setting. What do I need to change to correct this? Many thanks. I suppose you just use System Settings, find the setting in question, and fix it. -- The following information is imp

Re: Secondary Apple ID

2024-04-11 Thread 'Jason J.G. White' via MacVisionaries
On 11/4/24 18:36, ancient.aliens via MacVisionaries wrote: Another issue, this one on Sonoma. I had not been using Apple mail for some time. The account I am sending from is offline. I attempted to log in and after entering the password, was prompted to do a verification which failed with un

Re: notifications on my Mac

2024-04-11 Thread 'Jason J.G. White' via MacVisionaries
On 10/4/24 22:39, Herbie Allen wrote: Unless you have a good reason not too, the simplest way would just be to upgrade and be done with it. There isn’t much of a difference if you are on the previous OS. In addition, there are the security issues. I always run the latest OS on everything, unl

Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] Write documents read only.

2024-04-11 Thread Jason J.G. White
On 11/4/24 07:04, Michael Weghorn wrote: Do you mean that navigation using the text cursor/caret isn't possible? If so, please see this reply from an earlier question asked here which describes how to enable it: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/accessibility/msg01076.html Thank you

Re: speechd-up installation

2024-04-10 Thread Jason J.G. White
On 10/4/24 18:47, David Hoff Jr wrote: Apr 09 16:24:13 pc1 speechd-up[7674]: To work, speechd-up needs speakup and speakup_soft modules. Apr 09 16:24:13 pc1 speechd-up[7674]: They are loaded automatically. If you don't want, type Apr 09 16:24:13 pc1 speechd-up[7674]: rmmod speakup speakup_sof

Re: Passkeys and how to use them with voiceover

2024-04-01 Thread 'Jason J.G. White' via MacVisionaries
On 1/4/24 05:06, 'Andrew Lamanche' via MacVisionaries wrote: At which point do you get the prompt to use touch ID?  One of my macs has got touch ID but another is quite old and hasn’t got one.  How would passkey work on such a machine? You're prompted when you press the button on the Web sit

Re: Passkeys and how to use them with voiceover

2024-03-31 Thread 'Jason J.G. White' via MacVisionaries
On 31/3/24 15:42, 'Andrew Lamanche' via MacVisionaries wrote: I’m trying to use passkeys as a more secure method to sign into various services like Microsoft, Google, and passkeys enabled websites. I’ve tried this with Google accounts but I’m not being successful in using them. Has anyone on t

Re: Anyone have experience with the Orbit reader?

2024-03-24 Thread 'Jason J.G. White' via MacVisionaries
On 24/3/24 13:16, 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries wrote: I assume you bought it from those Envision people? It didn’t seem to me like they were very organized, and I was worried they wouldn’t be able to make a go of it. Have they added Wifi to the Vario? The only change I am aware of on

Re: Anyone have experience with the Orbit reader?

2024-03-24 Thread 'Jason J.G. White' via MacVisionaries
On 24/3/24 12:19, 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries wrote: I *loved my VarioUltra!  Of all the nonQWERTY braille displays I’ve used, it was my favorite.  I kept my Vario for years after Baum folded, but eventually it bit the dust. I bought mine new last year. If you still have yours and

Re: Anyone have experience with the Orbit reader?

2024-03-24 Thread 'Jason J.G. White' via MacVisionaries
On 24/3/24 11:29, 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries wrote: I’ve never seen the 20-cell version, but yes. The forty-cell units have three buttons at either end of the braille cels. They’re very handy. BAUM displays (now manufactured by VisioBraille) also have three keys at either end of th

Re: Anyone have experience with the Orbit reader?

2024-03-24 Thread 'Jason J.G. White' via MacVisionaries
On 24/3/24 09:23, 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries wrote: Yeah. So far it’s only in my thumbs, so if the display has panning buttons on either end of the braille cells, I’m fine. The Brailliant does have that, but the Mantis does not. In this situation, would the Active Tactile Control of Hel

Re: Headphones for my SE 2020

2024-03-24 Thread 'Jason J.G. White' via MacVisionaries
On 24/3/24 05:25, meikle.aiden via MacVisionaries wrote: I’ve recently purchased an Iphone SE 2020 and I cannot locate the headphones jack.  Is there one or am I to buy Bluetooth headphones for this model. There's a lightning to headphone adapter available. Otherwise, you'll need to use Bl

Re: GMail App on iPhone

2024-03-23 Thread 'Jason J.G. White' via MacVisionaries
On 22/3/24 01:42, JĂĽrgen Fleger wrote: I don't like the conversations view in this App on my iPhone. But it seems it doesn't work to disable it in the settings. Whether it is enabled or disabled it always looks the same. Note that you can configure Apple Mail to access Google's Gmail accounts.

Re: Anyone have experience with the Orbit reader?

2024-03-23 Thread 'Jason J.G. White' via MacVisionaries
On 23/3/24 09:07, 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries wrote: I am still on a quest to find a braille display with a qwerty keyboard, and I just saw that Orbit is about to release a forty cell display with a qwerty keyboard. I’d love to hear about people’s experience with the Orbit reader. I re

Re: Another Item new to Sonoma 14.4

2024-03-20 Thread 'Jason J.G. White' via MacVisionaries
'E.T.' via MacVisionaries wrote: I get the following dialog when I boot to Sonoma. Where in settings is this so I can turn off the dialog? Thanks. Is it a dialogue, or a notification? If the latter, you can close it in Notification Center. If it truly is a dialogue, I think your best optio

Re: [BRLTTY] Affordable refreshable braille display project

2024-03-18 Thread Jason J.G. White
On 18/3/24 14:49, SĂ©bastien Hinderer wrote: I confess that the document felt too long for me to try to study it so I am just passing the link,, with the hope that it wiill be of interest to somebody on the list. This appeared in social media recently as well. Without commenting on that partic

Re: What's the deal with the Globe key?

2024-03-15 Thread 'Jason J.G. White' via MacVisionaries
On 15/3/24 11:59, 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries wrote: One question first. What’s the deal with the Globe key? What is it used for? What’s the deal for those of us with older Macs that don’t have one? On older portable devices, it's referred to as the FN key. It has various commands a

Re: Any way to empty the junk folder without sending the messages to the trash?

2024-03-14 Thread 'Jason J.G. White' via MacVisionaries
On 14/3/24 09:12, 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries wrote: So when I empty the Junk folder, it just sends the messages to the Trash. Then I have to go to Trash, and delete them again. Any way to delete messages from junk without sending them to the trash? I thought that CMD-backspace did this

Re: Braillex el does not detect.

2024-03-12 Thread 'Jason J.G. White' via MacVisionaries
On 12/3/24 11:27, Anders Holmberg wrote: I have a braillex el 40 c here which won’t detect in VoiceOver. It seems to have power as I can read the name and revision of the display. I would suggest testing it with a different device and operating system. Have you checked that it's on Apple's list

Re: Running wineskin on an m1 Mac.

2024-03-11 Thread 'Jason J.G. White' via MacVisionaries
On 11/3/24 12:26, Anders Holmberg wrote: It was last updated 2015 so it might work but I guess its better to buy an extra computer. You could still run a virtual machine, I suppose, as discussed on this list in recent weeks. Having a second physical machine would probably be easier, though

Re: Anyone else using Apple Pay or an Apple Card?

2024-03-08 Thread 'Jason J.G. White' via MacVisionaries
On 7/3/24 10:16, Brad Snyder wrote: This is true, unless you have enabled the new Stolen Device Protection feature. I recently enabled stolen device protection. Face ID is working reliably, but I did turn off the requirement to look at the device when I first set up Face ID. I've used App

Re: Question about word

2024-03-06 Thread 'Jason J.G. White' via MacVisionaries
On 6/3/24 15:10, John Panarese wrote:     I believe centering is command-e with the highlighted text. I’m not sure what the left justify is, but I think it’s command-l. It's usually better to use styles instead, e.g., title, heading level 1, etc. -- The following information is important for

Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] LibreOffice Writer 24.2.1.2 for Windows: Pressing the Alt Key by Itself No Longer Moves Focus to the Menu Bar

2024-03-04 Thread Jason J.G. White
On 4/3/24 12:58, David Goldfield wrote: In previous versions pressing the alt key by itself moved focus to the menu bar. While I can still press key combinations such as alt-f to open the File menu pressing just the alt key does nothing. Pressing f10 moves focus to the menu bar but pressing alt

Re: [BRLTTY] USB HID Braille standard

2024-02-27 Thread Jason J.G. White
On 27/2/24 07:16, Sebastian Humenda wrote: - How much adoption has it found in actual devices? My VarioUltra display implements a HID-based protocol, but I don't know whether it makes use of the standard. Apparently, recent HumanWare devices support HID only - again, I don't know whether the

Re: Question about word

2024-02-27 Thread 'Jason J.G. White' via MacVisionaries
On 25/2/24 14:13, Brad Snyder wrote: When using Word on a Mac, I suggest skipping the Ribbon, and looking for what you want in the pulldown menus of the Menu  Bar. This way, when you find the action you are looking for, if it has a keyboard command, you will find it listed there as well. An a

Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] Notes on LibreOffice 24.2 under Linux with Orca, GNOME 45.7

2024-02-26 Thread Jason J.G. White
On 23/2/24 10:19, Michael Weghorn wrote: By the way, do you know whether the issues you report are regressions, i.e. whether they were working correctly earlier? And if so: Do you know with what versions of LibreOffice and/or Orca? The source of the footnote keyboard accessibility issue has b

Re: Windows Insider and VMWare Fusion

2024-02-24 Thread 'Jason J.G. White' via MacVisionaries
On 24/2/24 07:41, Kelly Ford wrote: The processor itself between the two VMs ends up showing differently inside of Windows. They are configured the same in the two VMs in terms of what resources the VMs are using. Has anyone else hit this and found a solution? Are there any CPU options you co

Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] Notes on LibreOffice 24.2 under Linux with Orca, GNOME 45.7

2024-02-23 Thread Jason J.G. White
On 23/2/24 11:25, Jason J.G. White wrote: Yes, I'll submit a bug report. There's no screen reader output or any other indication after issuing Ctrl-Shift-Pgdn. I've created https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159863 The bug describes the accessibility-re

Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] Notes on LibreOffice 24.2 under Linux with Orca, GNOME 45.7

2024-02-23 Thread Jason J.G. White
On 23/2/24 10:11, Michael Weghorn wrote: 1) When the Navigator is undocked, i.e. in a separate window, F5 brings focus to it and the focus announcement works as expected. I was able to achieve this result by deleting my LibreOffice configuration (rm -rf ~/.config/libreoffice). 2) When its doc

Re: [BRLTTY] brltty does not work with orca

2024-02-21 Thread Jason J.G. White
Also, if Brlapi is a separate package in your Linux distribution, be sure the version matches your installed BRLTTY version properly. I'm reasonably confident your installation has a version mismatch somewhere. On 21/2/24 16:57, Jason J.G. White wrote: On 21/2/24 16:19, John Covici

Re: [BRLTTY] brltty does not work with orca

2024-02-21 Thread Jason J.G. White
On 21/2/24 16:19, John Covici wrote: I hope you can fix. As I indicated on the Orca list, I suspect it's your responsibility to fix this by correcting your installation. If Orca and BRLTTY are properly installed, brlapi symbols are found and the library is loaded. Which version of BRLTTY

Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] Notes on LibreOffice 24.2 under Linux with Orca, GNOME 45.7

2024-02-21 Thread Jason J.G. White
On 21/2/24 12:58, Jason J.G. White wrote: 2. Also in Writer, Shift-Pgdn is supposed to move into the footnote area, but doesn't achieve anything. With apologies, that should be Ctrl-Shift-Pgdn, which is listed in the documentation but isn't working for me. -- To unsubscribe

[libreoffice-accessibility] Notes on LibreOffice 24.2 under Linux with Orca, GNOME 45.7

2024-02-21 Thread Jason J.G. White
Thank you for all of the ongoing work on LibreOffice accessibility. I noticed a few issues that may be Orca or LibreOffice-related - I don't know which is responsible. Orca is undergoing extensive development at the moment, which I'm testing by running the latest code from the main branch. 1

Re: Taking watch iPhone and Mac to Italy this summer

2024-02-21 Thread 'Jason J.G. White' via MacVisionaries
On 20/2/24 22:22, 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries wrote: Yeah, and I will be on wifi pretty much of the time.  Mostly I was just wondering if I need different chargers. No - the chargers are all switching power supplies that will take 120-240V or whatever the official specifications say.

Re: Mac OS Calculator?

2024-02-20 Thread 'Jason J.G. White' via MacVisionaries
On 19/2/24 15:03, Doug Lee wrote: Curiously I don't find sagemath in Homebrew; wonder if it left? I checked on two Macs (one mine and one a That's interesting - it appears for me, see below. I'll acknowledge that Linux is my primary computing environment these days though. ==> sage: 10.2,2

Re: Any accessible games for the mac

2024-02-19 Thread 'Jason J.G. White' via MacVisionaries
On 19/2/24 15:49, Rebecca Sabo wrote: I was wondering if their are any good accessible games to play on the Mac? You should be able to play "interactive fiction" games on the Mac. They're the only kind of game in which I have sustained an interest, although admittedly I haven't played signif

Re: Mac OS Calculator?

2024-02-19 Thread 'Jason J.G. White' via MacVisionaries
On 19/2/24 10:25, Doug Lee wrote: I've never tried calc, but I've used bc for a long time when I need a quick calculation. Thank you for the recommendation. At the other end of the sophistication scale is Sagemath, also available in Homebrew. It's more than the ultimate calculator. -- The

Re: Accessibility in Rescue Mode?

2024-02-19 Thread 'Jason J.G. White'
On 19/2/24 11:54, Al Puzzuoli wrote: That being the case is separate rescue media the only way, or is there a way to leverage this built in rescue mode with speech? A separate, "live" distribution offers a lot more tools for working on a system than you'll have in any "rescue" mode of an un

Re: Accessibility in Rescue Mode?

2024-02-19 Thread Jason J.G. White
On 19/2/24 11:24, Al Puzzuoli wrote: I’m getting a boot menu, but I’ve tried several sequences of down arrowing through menu options and pressing enter to no avail.  . What’s the easiest way to enter rescue mode with speech at this point? I would recommend a "live" image such as GRML - deta

Re: Mac OS Calculator?

2024-02-19 Thread 'Jason J.G. White' via MacVisionaries
On 19/2/24 01:23, Mohamed Fayed wrote: I wonder whether anyone here tried to use the default scientific calculator that comes with Mac OS. You can access it via Applications/Calculator.app. I haven't tried the default calculator, but I have found the calc tool to be useful. It runs in a termi

Re: Can not update clanmymac.

2024-02-18 Thread 'Jason J.G. White' via MacVisionaries
On 18/2/24 13:14, Anders Holmberg wrote: I can not update cleanly Mac x from with in the app. When I do Sonoma tells me that its damaged so it can not be installed. I've never heard of it, so I can't offer specific advice. However, have you tried removing it and reinstalling? -- The followin

Re: attaching a Zoomax e-reader to a Mac as a braille display

2024-02-11 Thread 'Jason J.G. White' via MacVisionaries
On 11/2/24 11:15, Jessica Barr wrote: It wouldn't hurt to contact whoever is in charge of distributing the eReader and troubleshooting problems. Also, be sure you are running the latest MacOS release, which at the moment is 14.3.1. Check Apple's hardware compatibility list of supported brai

Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] Inserting comments with a screen reader.

2024-02-11 Thread Jason J.G. White
On 11/2/24 09:22, V Stuart Foote wrote: The + 4 to land directly on the Navigator deck followed by and Cursor down movements down to the Comments nodes does expose the content of each of the comments. Additionally when focused on a comment in Windows the + will expose the context menu fo

Re: Dialog for dpkg-based package configuration

2024-02-08 Thread Jason J.G. White
On 8/2/24 11:56, Sebastian Humenda wrote: However, in a cloud setting, I am working with temporary containers that I set up using a script. When installing locales, the shown dialog is not using the "real" TTY cursor, but visual highlighting. Which setting, probably set by the installer, changes

Re: VMware Fusion/Player

2024-02-07 Thread 'Jason J.G. White' via MacVisionaries
On 27/1/24 20:45, 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries wrote: I was happy to pay $10 9less one penny) for an accessible vm. Clearly, I'm hoping this works out! I'll report when I've successfully started running Arch in an UTM vm, or when I give up on trying. This project, based on Qemu, received an

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