[audio-pals] Re: Finally
- From: Thomas McMahan <thomas.mcmahan@xxxxxxx>
- To: audio-pals@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2014 22:31:43 -0500
Don’t worry, when I wanted to subscribe under different address I had to go
through the same questioning. I just explained who I am and they figured it
out and got me in then. So it’s a matter of who is around and paying attention
or not.
But when you have questions people there will help you if you don’t ask them
here too.
Also Micro Soft’s office suite is basically inaccessible with voice over, a
person I was talking to confirmed that for me today, it is quite common with
Micro Soft products though, but you could try Open Office, and it’s price is a
big wapping FREE! Perhaps that can help you with some of the stuff you do.
The most inaccessible part of office stuff in the Mac world though is doing
spreadsheet. There is an app called Tables that some people are are using, but
you can of course ask questions on the Mac Visionaries list of course. Since I
don’t do that sort of stuff I probably can’t help you much. I always kept my
business on paper and in my head. I am thinking about sitting down and
learning the calendar stuff though, it might be handy for remembering long term
stuff. I wouldn’t likely forget when property taxes are due for example, can
be in the ball park for that kind of stuff, but say to remember Rascal’s
vaccinations or something like that it could be handy. I use that example
because I forgot until almost to late to schedule those and of course his
registration with the County. They just have to have that 12 Dollars to send
me a cheap flimsy tag to remind me that he has had his rabies shot *lol*. Well
he will get the 3 year shot, he’s young enough to gamble on that so we won’t
hear from the County for 3 years concerning him. But little things like that
when a little card comes in the mail 2 or three months in advance would be
handy to input it into the system and get a reminder. The memory isn’t 100%
apparently anymore. I don’t like that, but perhaps it’s about time for it to
start losing some of it’s edge, although I view that as a weakness in myself
because my memory has always been a pretty good one, especially for anything
that is long term.
So perhaps some of this stuff we’ll learn together.
Oh also, if you bring up either Mission Control, or dashboard accidentally,
just hit the escape key. Also VO keys m twice in quick succession brings up
your “menu Extras, which is where your notifications are, also your dropbox
status is there which is handy to have if you are uploading something.
Also VO shift M brings up context menu, or hold down control key and num pad
five can do the same thing. Many things in the mac world have two or three
ways to accomplish the same purpose. There are a lot of keyboard shortcuts you
can use to get around, as I mentioned before, I rarely use the physical mouse,
I leave that for sighted people to use.
On Jul 10, 2014, at 12:54 AM, Josh <lawdog911@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Well, I had to be a little persistent, but I am now on MacVisionaries. As of
> right now I have it going into the same Apple folder as my other group. The
> last time I applied to join I left out the reason by accident, but that
> accient is why I am now in I do believe because I received an e-mail from
> what I believe to be the owner or at least one of the mods requesting my
> reason for wanting to join the group because it did not show up with my
> application. I gave them the reason and explained that I have been tring
> since 2013 and within about an hour I was in. It is definitely a high traffic
> group.
> Today has been a pretty good day with the exception of some behavior
> problems… I guess I will eventually train Amanda. No, just kidding *LOL*. We
> received the last portion of our settlement today so that is all said and
> done as well as the Medicare letter showing that we do not owe them anything.
>
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