Hi Simon,
O'Reilly should definitely take international credit cards.
The only issue with VoiceOver that I ran into was that if I used VO-Space on the
"Continue" button instead of clicking with VO-Shift-Space, the web page would wipe out my
credit card entries as though I had made a mistake or omitted a field. This was very reproducible.
As long as I clicked with VO-Shift-Space I was able to go through the purchase, and all the fields
were filled in on the page for me to confirm my order. They didn't ask for my credit card
confirmation code. I haven't applied all the most recent software updates. However, I also tried
this on another Mac (not my own), and started from scratch (didn't log in until prompted in the
order process). Again, the only place where I had any difficulty was if I used VO-Space on the
"Continue" button instead of routing my mouse cursor with VO-Command-F5 and then clicking
with VO-Shift-Space. When I clicked with VO-Shift-Space, I was taken to the final page, where the
only other thing I could have done was click the final button to complete the purchase and have my
credit card charged. If your credit card was one of the ones listed for selection, I see no reason
why you should not be able to make your purchase.
Cheers,
Esther
On Oct 21, 2010, Simon Fogarty wrote:
Hi Esthre,
I've tried this on both the mac and my windows 7 machines and I get similar
things happening.
I don't have trouble clicking the continue button, it just wont go to the
following / final review order page. And I can't figureout why.
It's like I've got something wrong or missing, but I can't find anything
after going throughthe entire page link by link and edit box by edit box.
I'm starting to question whether or not my NZ credit card can actually work
on this site.
Do they allow for international purchases.
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From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
[mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Esther
Sent: Friday, 22 October 2010 3:00 a.m.
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Teaching Mac to sighted people
Hi Simon,
When you have entered your credit card information, route your mouse to the
"Continue" button (with VO-Command-F5, if you do not have your mouse cursor
set to track your VoiceOver cursor) and use VO-Shift- Space to click the
button. You'll be taken to a "Confirm Order" page which should contain your
STANZACAT discount, if you entered the coupon code earlier. Click the
"Finish Order" button to complete your transaction.
If you ever encounter a situation where a button press does not seem to
"take" with VO-Space, try clicking the button. Technically, VO- Space should
perform the default action for any situation, which in this case is to click
the button. There are some cases where VO-Shift- Space (which I refer to as
a "software click") does not work, but where clicking with your trackpad or
mouse button ("hardware clicks") will work. Remember to first route your
mouse cursor to your VoiceOver cursor before you press your trackpad key (or
the whole trackpad in recent MacBook models) or mouse button to click, if
you have not set your mouse cursor to track your VoiceOver cursor in
VoiceOver Utility. Pressing the "5" key on the numeric keypad with Numpad
Commander turned on also counts as a "hardware click"; it will work in those
same cases where clicking a mouse or trackpad works when VO-Shift-Space and
VO-Space do not work to click a button.
Incidentally, I've read that you can now purchase the O'Reilly eBooks in
iBooks, but I don't think that you get the DAISY and PDF versions of the
book when you do so, and I don't believe you can use any discount codes.
The eBook bundle purchases you make directly from the O'Reilly site should
also update if there are any minor revisions or corrections, or additional
eBook formats made available.
HTH. Cheers,
Esther
On Oct 20, 2010, at 20:53, Simon Fogarty wrote:
Hi Esther or anyone else that can help.
I'm trying to purchase a couple of ebooks from O'Reilly's ebook site
and keep getting a weird thing happening.
Everytime I fill in the credit card details I hit continue and it
tells me that the charge will be taken from my credit card, once I
confirm / review my purchase in the next step. However it doesn't or
at least I can't get to the next step.
And it also clears out my credit card details
I have checked with my bank and my cards fine to use internationally,
I have the money in the account to cover the purchase, But yet I
can't figure out wha the hells going on.
And it wont give me an error messge to refer to either.
Also, there is no place to put the 3 digit validation code, which a
lot of online payment methods require for making a purchase.
Just wondering if anyone else has had this sort of thing happen to
them before and how they got through it.
Thanks for any assistance on this, it's really starting to hack me
off.
Simon f
-----Original Message-----
From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
[mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Esther
Sent: Saturday, 14 August 2010 8:48 p.m
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Teaching Mac to sighted people
Hi Simon,
You can purchase a DRM-free, ePub version of "Mac OS X Snow Leopard:
The Missing Manual" by David Pogue from O'Reilly's eBooks. They sell
their eBooks in multi-format bundles that include PDF files that you
can read in Preview and ePub versions that you can add to your iTunes
Library and read in iBooks on your iPad (or iPhone or iPod Touch under
iOS 4). They also have "Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual,
Snow Leopard Edition" by the same author. All the O'Reilly books are
available through Bookshare.org, internationally, although the annual
subscription for users outside of the U.S. is probably the cost of
buying the book from O'Reilly in an eBook bundle that includes an ePub
version.
Here's their web site:
http://oreilly.com/ebooks/
You'll need to create an account with log in for your purchases.
Once you
buy the eBook bundle, you'll have access to multiple formats of the
book from your log in account. They'll also tell you if the book has
been updated. I'm not sure if this is still valid, but they ran a
promotion for eBook purchases in connection with the iPhone (Stanza
app) last year, and the coupon code "STANZACAT" on checkout gave a 40%
discount.
HTH. Cheers,
Esther
On Aug 11, 2010, Teresa Cochran wrote:
It's in pdf format.
Teresa
On Aug 11, 2010, at 11:40 PM, Simon Fogarty wrote:
Is this book available in an e book format, that I could read on my
ipad?
-----Original Message-----
From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
[mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Teresa Cochran
Sent: Wednesday, 11 August 2010 12:37 p.m.
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Teaching Mac to sighted people
Snow Leopard, The Missing Manual from OReilly publishers is an
extremely good book. It describes in detail what the window controls
look like and any keystrokes, if applicable, etc. I highly recommend
it.
Teresa
On Aug 10, 2010, at 5:27 PM, Sarai Bucciarelli wrote:
Hi:
Now this is a switch. LOL. I've learned Windows from sighted
people, so
have been able to adapt from their POV; however I'm learning the Mac
from a blindness perspective. I'm trying to show a sighted person my
Mac, and since I don't really know what the screen looks like, we're
having issues. I.E. He cannot see the icons on the doc, and he
cannot find the address bar in Safari. Any advice?
Sarai Bucciarelli
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