Acutally there was someone totally blind who can do it successfully wiht a mac. I dunno how though. but they can do it every single time.
Take care all On Feb 9, 2012, at 12:19 PM, Geoff Waaler wrote: > Hi Sarah, > > Assuming that your friend installed IOS5 and enabled "find my iphone" in > settings-->iCloud, this is sort of possible by going to the icloud.com site > and signing on with an Apple ID and selecting "find my iphone". > > From my testing, this now only appears to be possible using either Google > Chrome or Webkit/Safari. Be ware of a few rather severe accessibility > barriers though. If a passcode is already set on the phone, one can select > "find my iPhone" and after pressing the unlabeled button below the device (EG > joe blows iPhone located 2 minutes ago) select "remote lock and then press a > button to confirm. If a passcode is not set, however, the site prompts for a > passcode and confirmation. Sadly, these fields are not accessible to > voiceOver or any other screen reading technology that I've tested so far. > Even guessing and entering four digit numbers in the two likely places > doesn't work. > > On the Windows side (running XP pro), I can use Chrome with the same > limitation described above (IE if a passcode is not already set I'm > completely SOL), but I wouldn't dare try this using Mozilla Firefox 10.0. > When I select "remote lock" I keep receiving the admonishment for "remote > wipe" and chicken out. > > Best regards. > Geoff > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Sarah Alawami > To: mac access list iOS Accessibility > Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2012 1:05 PM > Subject: remotely locking an iPhone from your mac? > > > Hello. I heard somewhere that you can remotely lock an iPhone from your mac. > I've searched all over google but cannot find a way to do this. I'm asking on > behalf of a friend how to do this and I'm curious myself lol! > > Take care all. > > Sarah Alawami > > If you need editing done on a small narration project go to > http://music.marrie.org/audio_mastering for more info. > If you need to contact me my info is below. > MSN and AIM: marri...@gmail.com > website: http://music.marrie.org > Podcast: http://tffp.marrie.org/podcast > youtube: http://youtube.com/marrie125 > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > mac-access@mac-access.net > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at > either the list's own dedicated web archive: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > or at the public Mail Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. > Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> > > The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus > and worm-free! > > Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting > the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > mac-access@mac-access.net > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at > either the list's own dedicated web archive: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > or at the public Mail Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. > Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> > > The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free! > > Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting > the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
