I know, I realized that after I asked the question.  I'm feeling a little 
stupid now.  LOL!

Chris.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Andrew Lamanche 
  To: [email protected] 
  Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2015 2:00 AM
  Subject: Re: Major frustrations and a big predicament


  Hi,


  You can assign a shortcut key combination to switch between DOM and group 
navigation in keyboard commander in VoiceOver utility.

    On 10 Jun 2015, at 23:17, Christopher-Mark Gilland <[email protected]> 
wrote:


    Is there a quick way to do this, or will I have to do it each time back and 
forth within the Voiceover Utility.

    Chris.

      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: Barry Hadder 
      To: [email protected] 
      Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2015 6:09 PM
      Subject: Re: Major frustrations and a big predicament


      Hi Chris, 


      Just switch to groups mode and it will work with voiceover.  The rest of 
the form works fine with dom navigation.


      On Jun 10, 2015, at 5:01 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland 
<[email protected]> wrote:


      So, guys, I never like writing e-mails like this, and I know some of you 
are going to write me and scream at me for being over dramatic, or for waisting 
your time etc.  Most of you on this list who're civil have seen the patterns, 
therefore I don't think it's either necessary nor appropriate for me to quote 
names, as you all probably know the folks I'm referring to.

      Here is the situation though.  I'm obviously going to keep this fairly 
general, but I have to at least be detailed enough for you all to understand 
where I'm coming from, so though this may be borderline, I don't think it's 
quite at the point of violating anything.

      So, this morning, I installed the beta of I O S 9 on my IPhone 5S.  I'm 
not at liberty to state the specifics, but I found a bug which is quite severe 
and could really effect accessibility in one aspect.  Though it's not anything 
that would render the device useless, it definitely is severe enough it needs 
to be fixed.  Again, I'm not at a position to elaborate on this, but my point 
is, I logged into the Apple developer web site, and proceeded to the bug 
reporter.  I should add that I tried this both with Capitan and with Yosemite.  
Both have the same results.  Once I clicked the button for a new bug report, it 
popped up asking what type of bug I'm filing.  Under the "Other" heading, I 
chose accessibility.  This opened up a window to create a new accessibility 
report.  I hit vo+Right arrow, and got down to classification.  Once I hit 
vo+space on the item that says select classification clickable, nothing at all 
happened.  Absolutely nothing.  So, I cannot accessibly continue the process, 
as at this point, I get totally stuck.  I tried routing my mouse pointer with 
vo+command+F5, then vo+shift+space, I tried hitting spacebar, return, clicking 
the literal trackpad, interacting, vo+shift+M, ctrl+clicking the trackpad, 
absolutely nothing! is working.  I tried with Safari, and with Chrome both on 
Yosemite, and on Capitan with the same results.

      I tried on Windows with Windows 8.1 in both IE 11, and in Firefox.  Both 
were tested with JAWS 16, and with NVDA 2015.2.  Once I clicked the new button 
for a new report, I tried hitting enter on the accessibility button, and 
absolutely nothing happened.  In JAWS, I did an insert+escape to refresh the 
screen, no good.  I re-initialized Aria, just in case that was what it was 
using, no good.  I tried routing my jaws cursor to my virtual PC cursor then 
clicking.  No good.  In NVDA, I routed my mouse pointer with NVDA+numpad slash, 
then left clicked with num pad slash.  No good.  I even tried with Window-Eyes, 
routing the mouse with insert+num pad plus, then doing a left click.  Again, no 
good.  Nothing happened.

      When I called Apple developer support to let them know about this, and 
that the accessibility of the bug tracker was broken, they didn't exactly blow 
me off, but they didn't seem really all that concerned either.  They basically 
told me they'd file it with

      apple.com/feedback

      When I told them that I don't know how long that would take but it 
probably wouldn't get solved very soon that method, most likely, the guy got a 
little bit defensive with me.  He told me that in his words, they don't support 
the Bug tracker in his department, therefore he doesn't have a way to open a 
ticket with the engineers to get this fixed.

      When I told him that I just spent the very last 99 dollars I had for this 
program, he got snovvy and said, then you better start developing your apps so 
you can get paid back.  I told him I don't program, I don't write applications. 
 The reason I joined was to report bugs, and help them with making sure things 
were accessible.  I told him if I can't do that and report bugs in the first 
place, then what is the point therefore of me being a dev.  I told him I'd paid 
99 dollars for this, and therefore feel it's my right to be able to have this 
looked into quickly, or to get a refund.  He told me unfortunately, he doesn't 
have the tools to push the feedback up to the bug reporter engineers.  That 
might be true, I don't know if it is or not, but if it is, then, that's 
frankly, ridiculous!  Especially considerring he was a senior advisor in the 
developer department.

      When I asked him for a refund, he told me that their policy is no refunds 
no matter what.  He said, plus, even if they did! refund me, they've changed 
the way they deploy I O S 9 to devices.  Technically, I'm not probably supposed 
to tell you all this, but I feel it's in you all's best interest to know, so 
you don't totally ruin your devices.  If you upgrade to I O S 9, it even says 
right there on the web site, you cannot downgrade back to I O S 8.  Not even 
apparently with D F U mode.  So, if I did! get a refund, and they disabled my 
dev account, that would unenroll my devices, therefore renderring them forever 
permanently useless unless they were re-enrolled, which there policy is, I 
couldn't do for 12 months after disabling them.

      Frankly, Apple needs to get their shit together.  That's all I'm gonna 
say.  You may not like hearing it, but this has me a little disturbed.  If we 
blind people can't report bugs, then how the hell do they expect us to help 
them with that side of things?

      Chris.


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