Hi Geoff, I just tried this from Safari 5.1 on my MobileMe account, and my reaction is yuck! I did manage to lock my iPhone (with existing passcode), but it reminded me that one of the reasons I was putting off the upgrade to Lion, apart from genuinely needing to use some software that wasn't updated for Lion, was not wanting to go to Safari 5.0. Navigating Find my iPhone with VoiceOver in Safari 5.1 is genuinely a worse experience. I can use this site with Leopard running Safari 5.0.6 better and more consistently and with far fewer problems than I can using Safari 5.1 in Lion.
Cheers, Esther On Feb 9, 2012, at 11:16 AM, Geoff Waaler wrote: > Hi Sarah, > > By "do it", are you saying this person can remotely set a pass code, or > compose a message to appear on the iphone when playing a sound? I normally > don't give up easily, but have tried this with four browsers on XP and Lion, > and so far no tricks such as clicking the mouse or turning off virtual cursor > in JFW13 have ever worked. I wrote to the Apple accessibility team on this > issue some months back and of course received no reply. > > Best regards. > Geoff > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Sarah Alawami > To: Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility > Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2012 3:32 PM > Subject: Re: remotely locking an iPhone from your mac? > > > 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 >> <--- 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/>
