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

  • From: "Christopher-Mark Gilland" <cgilland1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 13:06:27 -0500

wow, go figure.

Chris.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Tracy Duffy 
  To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2011 11:23 AM
  Subject: [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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