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. 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