[mac4theblind] Re: I feel like a total dumb nut for asking this, but...

Yes. I am in Raleigh. It's not all that far away. (smile) 

tracyduffy@xxxxxxxxx
                        2 Chronicles 20, 21B: "Give thanks to God, his faithful 
love endures forever."

On Dec 17, 2011, at 8:48 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote:

> Hey Tracey,
>  
> You're in the Triad Raleigh area aren't you, judging by your e-mail address!
>  
> Go figure!  We're almost neighbors!  I could throw a baseball to your back 
> yard!
>  
> I'm in charlotte!
>  
> Go figure.
>  
> Chris.
>  
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Tracy Duffy
> To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2011 7:07 AM
> Subject: [mac4theblind] Re: I feel like a total dumb nut for asking this, 
> but...
> 
> Well, some sites don't seem to be compatible with safari. For example, I 
> signed up to answer surveys and almost every site comes up in safari as an 
> empty page. They say the problejm is tey do not support safari and have no 
> plans to. Now I don't know if those sites will work with this browser or not, 
> but that's an example of what I mean, and it may work with them. We will see. 
> I didn't really mean accessible as in being able to access    them as a blind 
> person, just as being able to use a given browser with them. We'lll see if 
> that helps or not. I have similar trouble with one of my banking sites. I can 
> access the site and even move through the forms, but it doesn't sustain the 
> information when I fill in the information and submit. I've talked with tech 
> support several times and they keep saying it's because I'm using safari. Now 
> whether that's true or not, I can't be sure. I just know that's what they 
> tell me. 
> 
> tracyduffy@xxxxxxxxx
> 2 Chronicles 20, 21B: "Give thanks to God, his faithful love endures forever."
> 
> On Dec 16, 2011, at 8:41 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote:
> 
>> You're probably not gonna see much difference accessibility wize in Google 
>> Chrome vs. Safari.  I mainly prefer Chrome as it just seems to be a bit more 
>> customizable.  As far as navigating web sites, that pretty much is for the 
>> most part gonna be the same.
>>  
>> Chris.
>>  
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Tracy Duffy
>> To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Sent: Friday, December 16, 2011 6:42 PM
>> Subject: [mac4theblind] Re: I feel like a total dumb nut for asking this, 
>> but...
>> 
>> Excellent. I'm looking forward to trying it. I have trouble on some sites 
>> with safari, and I'm hoping maybe this will work better for me. Thanks for 
>> talking about it. I had not heard of this particular one before and I'm 
>> always hesitant to try browsers and things until I hear from others what 
>> experience they've had. I'd say I'm kind of a medium skill computer person 
>> and so I don't often get adventurous unless I have reason to believe I 
>> should be    able to work things out. (smile)
>> 
>> tracyduffy@xxxxxxxxx
>> 2 Chronicles 20, 21B: "Give thanks to God, his faithful love endures 
>> forever."
>> 
>> On Dec 16, 2011, at 5:55 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote:
>> 
>>> Holy dynomite! does, it, ever!  I'd very highly suggest doing a google 
>>> search for:
>>>  
>>> download+google canary
>>>  
>>> It should be the first result that pops up.
>>>  
>>> then use your vo commands, and find the button that says something to the 
>>> effect of agree and download.
>>>  
>>> then just open the dmg and install it like normal.
>>>  
>>> If you wanna set it as your default browser like I did, then oddly enough, 
>>> go into Safari, and hit command+comma, then go to the general tab.  In 
>>> there, there's a popup button which'll let you select google Canary as the 
>>> default.  I dono why you have to do it that way, but it works, trust me.
>>>  
>>> You can! install Chromvox from the Chrome Store, but I couldn't seem to get 
>>> the thing to work correctly.  I got it installed, and talking, but when I 
>>> hit the modifier key which is basically your vo keys: control and option, I 
>>> get nothing with the other keys.  It's totally strange.  I'm telling you 
>>> though, it works flawlessly! with voiceover by itself right outta the box.  
>>> Just navigate the same way you would in Safari, and explore your menu bar.
>>>  
>>> It works very very nicely!
>>>  
>>> Chris.
>> 
>> 
> 
>

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