Hi Simon,
When you have entered your credit card information, route your mouse
to the "Continue" button (with VO-Command-F5, if you do not have your
mouse cursor set to track your VoiceOver cursor) and use VO-Shift-
Space to click the button. You'll be taken to a "Confirm Order" page
which should contain your STANZACAT discount, if you entered the
coupon code earlier. Click the "Finish Order" button to complete your
transaction.
If you ever encounter a situation where a button press does not seem
to "take" with VO-Space, try clicking the button. Technically, VO-
Space should perform the default action for any situation, which in
this case is to click the button. There are some cases where VO-Shift-
Space (which I refer to as a "software click") does not work, but
where clicking with your trackpad or mouse button ("hardware clicks")
will work. Remember to first route your mouse cursor to your
VoiceOver cursor before you press your trackpad key (or the whole
trackpad in recent MacBook models) or mouse button to click, if you
have not set your mouse cursor to track your VoiceOver cursor in
VoiceOver Utility. Pressing the "5" key on the numeric keypad with
Numpad Commander turned on also counts as a "hardware click"; it will
work in those same cases where clicking a mouse or trackpad works when
VO-Shift-Space and VO-Space do not work to click a button.
Incidentally, I've read that you can now purchase the O'Reilly eBooks
in iBooks, but I don't think that you get the DAISY and PDF versions
of the book when you do so, and I don't believe you can use any
discount codes. The eBook bundle purchases you make directly from the
O'Reilly site should also update if there are any minor revisions or
corrections, or additional eBook formats made available.
HTH. Cheers,
Esther
On Oct 20, 2010, at 20:53, Simon Fogarty wrote:
Hi Esther or anyone else that can help.
I'm trying to purchase a couple of ebooks from O'Reilly's ebook site
and
keep getting a weird thing happening.
Everytime I fill in the credit card details I hit continue and it
tells me
that the charge will be taken from my credit card, once I confirm /
review
my purchase in the next step. However it doesn't or at least I can't
get to
the next step.
And it also clears out my credit card details
I have checked with my bank and my cards fine to use internationally,
I have the money in the account to cover the purchase,
But yet I can't figure out wha the hells going on.
And it wont give me an error messge to refer to either.
Also, there is no place to put the 3 digit validation code, which a
lot of
online payment methods require for making a purchase.
Just wondering if anyone else has had this sort of thing happen to
them
before and how they got through it.
Thanks for any assistance on this, it's really starting to hack me
off.
Simon f
-----Original Message-----
From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
[mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Esther
Sent: Saturday, 14 August 2010 8:48 p.m.
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Teaching Mac to sighted people
Hi Simon,
You can purchase a DRM-free, ePub version of "Mac OS X Snow Leopard:
The Missing Manual" by David Pogue from O'Reilly's eBooks. They
sell their
eBooks in multi-format bundles that include PDF files that you can
read in
Preview and ePub versions that you can add to your iTunes Library
and read
in iBooks on your iPad (or iPhone or iPod Touch under
iOS 4). They also have "Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual,
Snow Leopard Edition" by the same author. All the O'Reilly books are
available through Bookshare.org, internationally, although the annual
subscription for users outside of the U.S. is probably the cost of
buying
the book from O'Reilly in an eBook bundle that includes an ePub
version.
Here's their web site:
http://oreilly.com/ebooks/
You'll need to create an account with log in for your purchases.
Once you
buy the eBook bundle, you'll have access to multiple formats of the
book
from your log in account. They'll also tell you if the book has been
updated. I'm not sure if this is still valid, but they ran a
promotion for
eBook purchases in connection with the iPhone (Stanza
app) last year, and the coupon code "STANZACAT" on checkout gave a 40%
discount.
HTH. Cheers,
Esther
On Aug 11, 2010, Teresa Cochran wrote:
It's in pdf format.
Teresa
On Aug 11, 2010, at 11:40 PM, Simon Fogarty wrote:
Is this book available in an e book format, that I could read on my
ipad?
-----Original Message-----
From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
[mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Teresa Cochran
Sent: Wednesday, 11 August 2010 12:37 p.m.
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Teaching Mac to sighted people
Snow Leopard, The Missing Manual from OReilly publishers is an
extremely good book. It describes in detail what the window controls
look like and any keystrokes, if applicable, etc. I highly recommend
it.
Teresa
On Aug 10, 2010, at 5:27 PM, Sarai Bucciarelli wrote:
Hi:
Now this is a switch. LOL. I've learned Windows from sighted
people,
so
have been able to adapt from their POV; however I'm learning the Mac
from a blindness perspective. I'm trying to show a sighted person my
Mac, and since I don't really know what the screen looks like, we're
having issues. I.E. He cannot see the icons on the doc, and he
cannot
find the address bar in Safari. Any advice?
Sarai Bucciarelli
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