Thanks for your tips and background on this. My roommate read me the choose network screen, and then I was able to activate VoiceOver. I would say it took 4-6 minutes to download the recovery partition and there was no way to know besides just trying Command+F5 regarding when the download was complete.
I agree there should be a better solution such as being able to type in the SSID and password. I was really surprised to see this issue on a Mac since Apple thought out the out-of-box VoiceOver experience so well. I did initially erase the hard drive with disk utility in order to do a clean OS install. Best, Mika On 3/12/16, Simon Fogarty <[email protected]> wrote: > Yeap exactly, > > So long as you have an internet connection then you hav3 the ability to > download the recovery OS from apple directly, however there is a small > recovery partition on your hd that gives the machine the details of what to > grab and where to get it all from, > > > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Christopher-Mark > Gilland > Sent: Sunday, 13 March 2016 10:17 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: Lost VoiceOver in Recovery Manager Not Sure If MacBook Air Is > Doing a Cold Reboot from Scratch > > So, if you was to enter the network recovery while an ethernet cable was > connected, giving you hard-wired internet access, then am I correct in > assuming that you’d not have to then worry about the screen asking for a > wifi network, but instead, it would just go? > > Chris. > > > From: > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Grant > Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2016 3:15 PM > To: MacVisionaries List > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> > Subject: Re: Lost VoiceOver in Recovery Manager Not Sure If MacBook Air Is > Doing a Cold Reboot from Scratch > > Hi Christopher-Mark, > > You’d potentially need sighted help to get past a screen that prompts you to > connect to a Wi-Fi network. Then you’d be good to go. Of course, if you had > no internet connection and/or no help available then yes, that would be a > problem. Or as another poster pointed out you could potentially use trial > and error to guess the order of Wi-Fi networks in the list. > > Cheers, > > Grant > > On Mar 12, 2016, at 11:50 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > I was just about to say. > > How would one do this, if either, you had no ethernet cable on hand, or had > no way of connecting via a hard wired connection? I’d think then, you’d be > a bit screwed. > > Chris. > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac > Visionaries list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara > Quinn - you can reach Cara at > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac > Visionaries list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara > Quinn - you can reach Cara at > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac > Visionaries list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara > Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. 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