they can remotely lock there phone every single time. via the mac. I have no idea how and they are not forth coming at the moment lol! I asked them. On Feb 9, 2012, at 1:16 PM, 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. 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