[mac4theblind] Re: web brouzing difficulties
- From: Sarah k Alawami <marrie12@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 11:50:33 -0800
I already gave a link to the page. if they want to explore it they can. I have
stuff on yosemite, as well as the basic stuff. I go over safari more in the
basic stuff as I normally expect the user to know the mac pretty well before
upgrading, at least that's the advice I normally give to anybody who asks.
> On Feb 11, 2015, at 11:38 AM, David hilbert poehlman <poehlman1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> you should talk about them Sarah they are quite good
>
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> -- Jonnie Appleseed With His Hands-on Technolog(eye)s touching the internet
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> On Feb 11, 2015, at 13:34, Sarah k Alawami <marrie12@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:marrie12@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>> It's a bit of both. If a site is not coded to work with safari it will not.
>> You will mainly have trouble with flash based pages. I would try checking
>> the develop menu under the advanced prefs, then closing that out, then going
>> to the develop menu, and going to user agent. Right arrow and choose firefox
>> for windows and hit enter. This will trick the site as to what browser you
>> are using.
>>
>> I don't talk about this at all, but i do have some basic tutorials at
>> http://Tffppodcast.Com/premium <http://tffppodcast.com/premium> if you want
>> to learn more about using your mac in different environments. They were
>> originally for a student who was in an office, but everything will apply
>> still.
>
> Hope this helps.
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>> On Feb 11, 2015, at 4:40 AM, Aidan <aidan.smarttalk@xxxxxxxxx
>> <mailto:aidan.smarttalk@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>
>> Hello all. I am quite new to the mac and I understand from general
>> feedback that safari is the best brouzer out there. Now that could be
>> good or bad news depending on wich side of the problem you are. I find
>> that allot of sites that use to work well in windows for me do really
>> sometimes slip up with safari. Any ideas as to why? I tried chrome and
>> only had success with one of them. And firefox I don't get to work at
>> all. Its quite accessible it seems, but I don't manage to open the
>> address bar and cannot type in there. But the bigger problem is really
>> that some websites don't work well with safari. I don't no if its a
>> voiceover thing or a dedicated safari thing. On www.audioboom.com
>> <http://www.audioboom.com/> I
>> struggle to upload files. The upload keep failing. Other sites like my
>> online pet store simply don't show me a "pay now button" but only the
>> cansel button. Some security systems used to handel kredit card
>> transactions shows as emty html content, and another site I found that
>> when entering a table it just keep saying "busy" forever. And no it
>> does not help to turn on or off voiceover and back aon again. You
>> would think that mac should just work. So often we here that apple
>> things just works. I mean this is not suppose to give problems at all.
>> All of these sites worked perfectly on windows with jaws. I no that
>> mac is not windows but in this case that is not the point, since I do
>> use the correct keystroaks, I navigate with the web roater where
>> necessary and even the quick nav roater. I no enough to at least
>> navigate a page, but the dam thing should work. Any brouzer you can
>> suggest that will just be better than safari, chrome, and firefox? I
>> don't no if any settings I can ajust will make the difference. Maybe
>> windows is not to bad after all when it comes to web brouzing.
>> Everything else works great, only internet wich sucks for now.
>>
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