[mac4theblind] Re: application dialogs

  • From: Justin Harford <blindstein@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 15:04:06 -0700

About safari that makes since. I think those are php related messages, and 
those are the ones that I have problems with too. 

I used to be able to find dialogs through the windows menu or the applications 
menu, but they don't seem to appear anymore, at least the ones that I am 
finding in textedit.
El 17-09-2011, a las 14:58, John Panarese escribió:

>     I think I've had this happen a couple of times in Text Edit over the 
> years.  It's not Lion specific.  I think I used the window chooser menu to 
> find the dialog and then tried to create the document again by restarting 
> Text Edit.
> 
>    The Safari stuff only seems to happen to me if the website has some kind 
> of dialog that pops up.  
> 
> 
> Take Care
> 
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> On Sep 17, 2011, at 4:36 PM, Justin Harford wrote:
> 
>> Hi guys 
>> 
>> A few days ago I had opened a document in textedit, and I pressed command s 
>> to bring up the save dialog. I put in the title and selected the location, 
>> and pressed enter and nothing happened. I navigated to the save button, 
>> which was not dimmed, and I pressed it, and nothing. I think the computer 
>> might have played that sound that means you tried to do a command that 
>> cannot be done. When I took a closer look, I noticed that a dialog had 
>> popped up saying that a new doc could not be created. Apart from the 
>> weirdness of not being able to create a new document, I was not able by any 
>> means of the keyboard to navigate or to even see that dialog, or know it was 
>> there if not for my low vision. I have also noticed this in other apps like 
>> safari, in which vo gets stuck in the busy signal of death until you click 
>> the dialog away. 
>> 
>> Has anyone noticed these dialogs or this behavior? It is sort of reminiscent 
>> of the days of tiger, except then you could use vo f1 to get to the 
>> messages, and now you can't. 
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Justin Harford 
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