hey,
I would love it if you could put the steps down for resizing or anything to do 
with partitioning in voice-over.
I have done some of it with external drives but internal is no go.
thanks

Michael
On 27 Jul 2014, at 6:23 am, Cheryl Homiak <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have to comment here that partitioning with voiceover is most certainly NOT 
> useless. I do it all the time with external drives and have done it with my 
> internal drive on occasion. I don't have time right now to write more, but it 
> involves how you interact and tab; it might be a bit challenging but it isn't 
> at all undoable with voiceover. It's much more tricky if you are resizing 
> though because (1) you can't resize in such a way to make your partition that 
> already has data on it too small to hold the data any more; (2) if you try to 
> resize and put in a text value this often won't be the exact figure that you 
> really need for resizing; and (3) if you actually have free space that isn't 
> even partitioned somewhere this makes it more complicated yet. However, it 
> definitely is possible to partition using voiceover and it gets easier the 
> more you do it. This includes writing your names in the title text fields too.
> 
> 
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> On Jul 26, 2014, at 3:02 PM, Michael Marshall <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
>> Partitioning with voice-over is useless. i think a lot more could be done to 
>> make the panels more accessible. take the resize control
>> On 26 Jul 2014, at 10:28 pm, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> I made sure to select the proper partition from the scroll area, and the 
>>> size did show up. The thing it, any value I enter in the size text field is 
>>> replaced by 8.34 no matter what. VO indicates that, in the scroll area, 
>>> there is a "resize control", but I can't figure out how that is supposed to 
>>> work. The options button is also dimmed for no apparent reason.
>>> On Jul 26, 2014, at 1:32 AM, Barry Hadder <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Sounds like you don't have the partition in question selected.
>>>> Interact with the scroll area containing the partitions and vo-space on 
>>>> the one you want.  Then all the things you want should be enabled.
>>>> Also note that unless it has been fixed, the installation does something 
>>>> strange to an existing partitioning scheme.  After the install, all of 
>>>> your partitions may be contained in a logical partition of the same name 
>>>> as the Yosemite.  Not to worry however as erasing the Yosemite partition 
>>>> will put everything back to normal.  At least that has been my experience.
>>>> 
>>>> On Jul 25, 2014, at 11:31 PM, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> I'm trying to test Yosemite, and I've been running it off an old thumb 
>>>> drive. Needless to say, I've hit serious lag issues that practically 
>>>> prevent me from using the system. I'd like to partition my (admittedly 
>>>> small) internal disk instead, so I've moved my Windows VM off for now, 
>>>> leaving me with what Finder tells me is about 19GB free.
>>>> 
>>>> I opened up Disk utility and selected my internal disk, then hit the 
>>>> Partition tab, then Add. I did this same thing to the afore mentioned 
>>>> thumb drive, and it was a snap. Now, trying to do this on my internal 
>>>> disk, I'm getting odd behavior.
>>>> 
>>>> * Despite having almost 19GB available, the new partition is stuck at 
>>>> 8.34GB and I can't change it. When I type a new size, it automatically 
>>>> reverts to 8.34 seconds later.
>>>> * I can't open the options to check my table is correct because the button 
>>>> is dimmed.
>>>> * I can't find a place to name the new partition.
>>>> * The number of partitions (the popup menu) is dimmed. This is not a 
>>>> problem since the add/remove buttons work, but it was not dimmed when I 
>>>> partitioned my thumb drive.
>>>> 
>>>> What am I missing? Do I need to shrink the existing partition? If so, I 
>>>> don't know that I can - I tried, but that seemed to make no difference. I 
>>>> don't know why this is so much harder than that thumb drive, but it's 
>>>> giving me no end of trouble for some reason. Can anyone offer any help? 
>>>> Thanks!
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>>>> 
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