OK Jacob, good enough. Can you please give me a link to get the nightly
builds of Webkit? Also, does anyone know if I could set up a kron job that
would automatically download a nightly build each night?
Chris.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jacob Schmude" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 5:15 PM
Subject: Re: Lot's a questions, please forgive me.
Hi Chris
Ok, here's a few answers, but I don't have all of them.
First, regarding Linux. This is off topic, but here's the jist of the
situation. Your older Mac runs a PowerPC processor. This is substantially
different from the processors in PCs or newer Macs which are compatible
with PC architecture--the newer Macs use the same processors in fact.
Ubuntu does not have an edition for these processors, so you'll have to
pick another distribution if you wish to try Linux on it. The subject of
Linux goes way beyond the bounds of this list, though, as it has nothing
to do with OS X or the accessibility of Macs at all. You'll want to check
out the speakup list and the orca list for Linux-related questions.
In mail you can, of course, get to a link simply by finding it in the
message and clicking it, as Voiceover will identify it as a link when you
get to it. VO+space will open the link as you'd expect.
Regarding the ctrl-clicking issue, grab a webkit nightly build. As of
very recently, VO+shift+m is supported, so no routing or ctrl-clicking is
needed anymore.
Well, those're the ones I can answer, hth.
On Oct 24, 2008, at 14:02, Chris Gilland wrote:
Slau has strictly said, please don't consolidate lots of questions into
one e-mail, so I really hope she'll forgive me this one time, and one
time only, as I have enough questions, I feel making different posts for
all of 'em, really would be very impracticle and would waiste a lotta
inbox space.
I'm gonna try to keep this list as brief and to the point as I can, but
I do have a few things that need addressing. I've been meaning to ask
these things, but I've been so lazy, I just haven't.
Anyway, please read down the whole list, as if you don't know the answer
to one a these, you may know the answer to another one of them.
k: here we go.
1. In Mail, under Leopard, if I get an e-mail which has a link in it,
or several links for that mind, I have been using the item chooser list
to get to them. Is there an easier way to click them aside that or the
vo+U links list?
2. If I wanna send a link to someone, but rather than in the e- mail, it
showing the URL as the link text, I'd rather it say something like:
click here to go to the site, is there a way to make that happen? I
tried using html markup, but it didn't work.
3. In Leopard, I know I can go to universal access in system prefs, and
turn high contrast on, and I also know that under system prefs, in
appearance, I can change the highlight color from blue, to whatever,
like now I set it to red, but, that is only changing the highlight
within a program. so let's say I am at the desktop on my finder, and I
hit vo m, then down arrow in the Apple menu. Even though I turned it to
red, that! highlight in the menu on the menu bar's still a light sky
blue color. I was wonderring if I could change that to red, or dark
purple, or something like that a my choice.
4. I do not have a mouse on this machine, as I don't have room on my
desk for one. If I go to a link on a web page in Safari, and then
vo+command+F5, I then can't do vo+shift+M. I wonder aside hitting
control and then clicking the physical mouse, being I don't have the
resources of desk room to put a mouse up there to do that, is there
another way, or am I kind a screwed as faras that goes.
5. My final question is: I have that old Mac system that I got back in
July that came with Tiger on it. I'm not talking my quick silver
running Leopard, I mean that other older one. Anyway, I wanted to wipe
it, and put Ubuntu Hartsy on it. my only issue is, when I pop the CD in
the drive, and reboot, and hold down the C key to boot to CD, it won't
boot. Yes the disc is bootable, as when I put it in a windows based
machine and try booting to it, it works flawlessly. I'm just wonderring
if installing Linux on a Mac is a little more tricky than I think, and
if so, what've I gotta do?
OK, I'm done. That's all for now. Sorry for the huge list. I feel I
should a written a novel. LOL! Sorry bout that. Hey! I did? warn ya
though, did I not? LOL!
Chris.
