Hi again, Bryan and all, Just wanted to say that I did get the service set up on my IPod side. The tricky part will be finding it from the Mac.
Thanks, Teresa On Jun 17, 2011, at 8:26 PM, Bryan Jones wrote: > Hi Teresa, > > I have some bad news and some good news. First the bad. Believe it or not, > Me.com is pretty inaccessible using VO or any screen reader. Esther has > posted some workarounds that can help in some situations. One of Esther's > tips is that it can be less painful to login if you include the specific > section of the me.com site in the address bar as I've included in the > following URL: > > www.me.com/findmyiphone > > When you get to that site, chances are you will still hear lots of the > dreaded "Safari busy, Safari ready" chatter, but be patient and you should > eventually be able to enter your id and password. I've noticed that it can > take some VO left and right to hit the actual edit fields, and the button > labeled "sign in" sometimes requires routing the mouse cursor to the VO > cursor and then performing the VO-Shift-Spacebar mouse click. I just tested > this and it got me to the "find my iphone" section of the me.com site but I > was not able to find anything useful on that page using VO. > > Now for the good news. Aside from the me.com mess, I think you can perform > the actual setup of the "find my ipod" service from your ipod itself. If you > haven't already done so, take a look at the instructions at the following > Apple site for setting this up on an ipod touch: > http://www.apple.com/ipodtouch/find-my-ipodtouch-setup/ > > More good news is that there is an App called "Find my iPhone" that is VO > accessible and runs on an i-device. It will find any i-devices that have been > setup on the "find my i-whatever" service under the ID you use to login after > launching the app. It allows a sighted person to view a map displaying the > approximate location of the i-device in question, and it has fully accessible > functions allowing you to send a text message with or without sound, change > the device's password, or wipe the device. You can even use the app to test > the device you are running it on. Here's a link to the app in the US App > Store: > http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/find-my-iphone/id376101648?mt=8 > > Hopefully Apple will be replacing me.com with an upgraded and accessible > website as part of the iCloud initiative. I had emailed > accessibil...@apple.com a few months ago and they flat out told me the me.com > site is not accessible with VO or any screen reader, but they offered no > insight into when this situation might be improved. > > HTH, > Bryan > > On Jun 17, 2011, at 9:44 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote: >> I'm actually *hoping I have the wrong URL for the Mobile Me site. I'm trying >> to activate the "find my IPod" service, and when I go to www.me.com VO >> mostly says "busy" and will occasionally read one element on the page. Is it >> just me? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
