[access-uk] Re: Connecting to the Internet with a Mac
- From: Andy Collins <Andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2013 23:36:43 +0100
Hi Carol - Wondered how you were getting on.
I fully understand when you talk about struggling with something, only to get
it sorted out, but not to be sure how. Sometimes I try so many things, that
when it works, I don't quite know how I did it. So like you, I too would
benefit from a sort of how to guide.
Regarding your question about the headphones socket and volume; I think as you
do, that it's more likely to be broken rather than a misplaced setting. You
probably know that you can adjust the volume on the fly with the fn key and f11
[down] and 12 [up.]
One of the most frustrating things I am finding, is when in Safari, I click on
a link, and nothing happens, and VO keeps telling me that I am on a link within
an HTML area, and to press VO and the space bar to activate the link. And I
think "that's all very well, but I've activated the link and nothing…"
I wouldn't mind a high traffic list just now, as I still have questions, and
nowhere to really ask them but here, and the Blind Apples list, and as helpful
as people are, it seems there aren't too many of us as yet, and people don't
seem to know the answers to the things I am now asking about. Anyway, never
give up eh <smile> -
Andy
On 6 Jul 2013, at 22:39, Carol Pearson <carol.pearson29@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Andy,
>
> I can't really help you there, except to tell you Frustrations of fully
> understood by another fellow new user.
>
> I know you asked a question the other day, to which I thought I knew the
> answer, but then I lost your email and now can't remember the question! I
> think it was to do with closing windows, or something of a kind.
>
> I know that when I haven't Found that I have closed the window with commands
> W, I have found that I have usually managed to reach a tall bar and find a
> minimise and close button there. Hope that might help you to go experimenting.
>
>
> One of the mysteries I'm trying to solve at present is that my headphones are
> no longer working. No, it isn't headphones themselves but the fact that they
> won't work when plugged into the MacBook. I have looked to see if there is a
> setting that perhaps turns off the socket, but I haven't found anything. I am
> also wondering if the volume can be set so high that it then doesn't go
> through to the year phone socket, being on safe to do so. That sounds a
> little far fetched to me so maybe I'm just grabbing at straws, but perhaps
> someone could confirm their thinking. I think is much for likely that the
> socket is just refused to work any longer. As the computer was second-hand,
> and worked fine when I purchased it, I suppose I can do nothing but accept
> the inevitable and get it fixed if I please!
>
> It's quite possible of course that I have failed to see a setting somewhere.
>
> I'm still finding myself going round in circles, going wrong with something,
> eventually getting out of it, then not really remembering just how I did get
> out of it and what the problem was. Nevermind, it's all good fun, when I'm in
> the mood for it.
>
> I still think I need some tuition, or at the very least to join a mailing
> list, but I'm not sure which one to join as something to be very high
> traffic. I'm finding that some pod cast move to quickly and I really need to
> break down my steps a little more than they are doing. Never mind, they are a
> good and useful source line making use of what I can.
>
>
>
>
>
> Carol P
> Sent from my iPhone using BrailleTouch
>
> On 6 Jul 2013, at 07:52 PM, "ANDY COLLINS" <Andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi all -
>>
>> Still asking lots I know...
>>
>> Some how now, I've gone off line. I can see in 'menus extra' that I have 4
>> bars showing for wi-fi, but web pages are not opening in Safari. Is there a
>> "working off-line/on-line" option somewhere, like there is in Windows? Looks
>> like I have inadvertently gone off line, and now can't get connected <smile>
>> -
>>
>> Andy
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