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

  • From: Tracy Duffy <tracyduffy@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 07:07:28 -0500

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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