Hi Richard. I can tell you right now, using Find My iPhone using the iCloud website on a Mac is just as inaccessible as it is on the PC.
Shawn Sent From My White MacBook On Feb 22, 2014, at 12:57 PM, Richard Turner <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jim, > > You are right. From a PC, Find My iPhone through iCloud is completely > useless to a screen reader user. > I tried with Window-eyes and NVDA. > > My sighted wife can get to the iPhone, and make it play a sound, if desired > even erase it, etc. > But, none of that is accessible. > > I've written [email protected] and asked about this. > Granted, I will likely get the usual we forwarded it to the people who deal > with such things, which in too many cases seems to be people in the fifth > basement in a locked room, with no internet connection. > But, I'm letting my critical side come through. Obviously, Apple has done > amazing things with the iDevices and they have, actually, responded to > customer feedback. However, it seems awfully slow and frustrating at times. > > Maybe, there needs to be a polite push from hundreds, if not thousands, of > blind users to get them to make this accessible from a PC. I have no idea > how accessible it might be from a Mac. > > It is completely accessible from an iDevice. > > Richard > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Jim Ruby > Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2014 9:22 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: Heads Up: Learn to Use Where's My iPhone > > I took a look at this link and went to the link provided and I could get no > info about my iPhone. Yes I have find my iphone active on all devices. Yet it > only sees one of my devices and I can not see any map data on it other then > to center the map. I wish they would provide some text information. Apple > accessibility is lacking terribly with the icloud. At least for me using win > 7 and ie 11 you just can not do much of anything. > > Androis with my s3 I can access everything I can lock the phone, make it ring > etc. I don't remember if gave me an address I could read though. I'll have to > go have a look at again. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Richard Turner > Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2014 8:39 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Heads Up: Learn to Use Where's My iPhone > > Assuming you are talking about Apple's Find My iPhone app, here is the Apple > support page with information and links where you can learn all you need to > know to use Find My iPhone. > http://support.apple.com/kb/ph2696 > > "There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be > nothing." - Aristotle > > > On Feb 22, 2014, at 5:41 AM, SSEric <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > The part that makes it inaccessible is the map it shows. You can read > what address the device is, but beyond that someone would have to look at a > map. But, just knowing how to quickly get someone to that point before your > phone is turned off could help you retrieve it. Unfortunately, by the time I > figured out how to get to iCloud.com or download the app on another device, > whoever had found my phone had turned it off. Some 12 hours later they still > have not turned it in or called me to say they have it. > > > > > > On Feb 22, 2014, at 7:24 AM, "Michael Malver" <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have no idea how to use "where is my iPhone" > I have it enabled, but is there an accessible tool to use if the phone > is > stolen? > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf > Of SSEric > Sent: Friday, February 21, 2014 5:34 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Heads Up: Learn to Use Where's My iPhone > > > We just found out the hard way that one should really have at least some > familiarity with using where's my iPhone, either the app or iCloud.com. > Ironically, just last week I suggested we figure out that in case, and > today > she lost her phone. 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