When I get prompted for passwords or any of that, I just whip out my bluetooth keyboard and filled it in. I got that prompt this last week and all went fine.
On Sep 22, 2012, at 11:48 AM, Eugenia Firth <gigifi...@me.com> wrote: > Hi Sharee > Do you know that if you are using touch typing the lower left-hand thing for > changing from numbers to letters responds the way the letters do in touch > typing so you don't spec tap on it anymore. The delete do the same thing > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Sep 22, 2012, at 12:42 PM, Cheree Heppe <che...@dogsc4me.com> wrote: > >> Cheree Heppe here: >> >> This morning, September 22, I updated the I O S of my I-devices from 5.xxx >> to I O S 6. I used wifi. >> >> At the end of the update process, the prompt instructed me to type in my >> ICloud password. When I attempted to do this, neither of the IOS devices' >> screens would respond to taps to engage the shift or numbers/symbols levels. >> This meant that I had to skip this process. >> >> I phoned Apple. Their service offers an automated, interactive tool which I >> attempted to use. Things went well until the auto-service wanted my serial >> number. It placed me in wait mode while I looked up my serial number. >> Unfortunately, the wait mode employed music to keep the line active. The >> music masked out VoiceOver prompts. The assumption in wait mode seemed to >> exclude auditory feedback as a mode to acquire and transfer info. The >> designers didn't think that a VoiceOver user would have to hear spoken >> prompts over the music. >> >> A solution could involve a choice at the point where the wait screen came on >> saying something like selecting whether to hear the music or a soft, >> intermittent tone. The tone would keep the line active and would not >> significantly block VoiceOver feedback while a VoiceOver user searched the >> device for data or info. >> >> I asked for an agent and got a woman who could not get her head around the >> Voice Over connection at first. Apparently, apple is still training their >> people to think in separate but equal mode, where VoiceOver becomes the >> province of a specialized cadre who only deal with this ever so special >> application. Sounds a lot like JAWS and Freedom Scientific's way of >> handling things, doesn't it? I, for one, have walked in greener pastures >> and don't want that non-productive, isolating thinking circulating in an >> Apple mindset or tech environment. >> >> I got escalated to what the woman called a senior person. He didn't get >> disability access well. He kept saying that the odd, high-pitched tone the >> VoiceOver voice now uses when the screen locks is so that blind people who >> are totally blind can understand that the screen is locked. When I cleared >> it up by explaining that I am totally blind and don't need to have >> incompetence flouted as accessibility in the name of me being blind, he then >> said that the voice went into this high-pitched, exaggerated tonal mode for >> the lock screen notification because some blind people put their screens on >> vibrate and this signals them. I said that when the screen is on vibrate, >> the voice doesn't signal. >> >> I think he wasn't as senior as he claimed. But he did know enough to show >> me how to check the Settings/ICloud area. It seems that my problem is fixed >> somehow re ICloud enrollment or upgrade, or whatever. >> >> Have any others experienced this dramatically different lock screen tone >> change when the screens of the I-devices lock? I'm using the Karen voice, I >> think that's her designation. >> >> >> Regards, >> Cheree Heppe >> >> -- >> 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. -- 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.
