Hi Scott, You wrote: SR: can one create an i chat account without sighted assistance or has this now changed and you have to fill in the security question on the i chat account creation page?
Esther: I think you're talking about my post of a TidBITS article that tells about how to get a free, non-expiring iChat account by using the preferences menu under the iChat app. Google groups is searchable, but it's nowhere near as convenient as doing a simple search in the text box on the Mail Archive pages for this list at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/ which works for posts after February 28, 2009. And it certainly doesn't have support for access keys that make it easy to read down a thread with Control-N. Unfortunately, that archiving start date drops posts in the first 4 weeks after this group got moved. Here's the relevant excerpt from the post: <begin excerpt> I came across a TidBITS article describing how to get a free .Mac address to use for iChat at: http://db.tidbits.com/article/10084 You can get a free, non-expiring .Mac address to use for iChat without subscribing to MobileMe. If you already have a .Mac or MobileMe membership, you can use it to set up another iChat user address -- if you want to keep separate user addresses for work and personal use, for example. The process is accessible and uses the preferences menu (Command- comma) under the iChat app. You select (VO-space) the accounts button on the toolbar, and then tab to the "Add account" button, or find it with item chooser, and press (VO-space). In the "Account Setup" window that appears, navigate to the "Get an iChat Account" button and press it (VO-space). This brings up a web page in Safari that you fill out to select an account name and password. Unlike the dot Mac trial account web page signups, the process is accessible and there are no captchas, etc. <end excerpt> I only tried this up through the step just before creating a new account, since I already have a dot Mac account, but all those stages were accessible, while the older dot Mac trial account web page was not. Check the TidBITS link for more explicit details. Cheers, Esther --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
