Hi all, I finally called Apple Accessibility about the inability to use Airdrop on a computer. The rep said he'd pass along to the engineers that the feature is not working with Voiceover, so we can only hope that an update will fix the problem.
In the meantime, he offered a solution which does in fact seem to work. Instead of opening Airdrop, go to the file you want to share, hit vo-shift-m, go into the share menu, and choose Airdrop from there. Any macs with Airdrop enabled will appear after a few seconds in the table; pick the one you want and hit enter, and the process should begin. So, at least we now have a way to do Airdrop, even if it isn't the usual way. I should also note that he said this is in 10.8 only, so older Macs cannot do this. Of course, many older Macs don't have Airdrop anyway. Hmm, thinking about it, am I right that only 10.8 has Airdrop at all? I had 10.7 for the first year I had a Mac, but hardly used it; my serious Mac use began with 10.8 (nothing against Lion, it just happened that way) so i don't remember just what Lion lacked. Anyway, that's how vo users can use Airdrop, at least until Apple supports pasting items onto the destination computer name in the Airdrop grid. Have a great day, Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) mehg...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
