I have had similar problems. One trick to try is to occasionally invoke window chooser menu to see if there is more than one window open and then move to it. Remember that you will probably have to add function key to the vo keys + f2 twice quickly in order to get the list of windows.
Well-done! Andrew > On Mar 1, 2018, at 8:49 PM, Paul Hopewell <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > Re earlier posts about preparing a Mac for disposal I ave now securely > erased my hard disk and re-installed El Capitan both via the recovery manager > partition. > One concern is that I had to get sighted help to re-install El Capitan and > now wonder whether I could have done it without sighted help and if so how? I > got as far as agreeing to the El Capitan terms and conditions and then saw a > screen saying Sign onto App Store. I assumed that this was happening > automatically and so waited for ages for something else to happen. It was > only when my sighted wife heard my frustration and saw the screen that i > learnt that there was another window asking me to enter my apple ID and > password.My wife could easily do this using the mouse but I could not find > any way using VoiceOver to discover the existence of this window and so could > not complete the El Capitan re-install without sighted help. IN normal Mac OS > operation I could have pressed VO+F2 to discover the list of possible windows > but this did not work with recovery manager. > So if any of you have re-installed your OS from recovery manager using > VoiceOver then how did you do this? > Many thanks…. > > Paul Hopewell > > -- > 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. You can reach mark at: > [email protected] 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. 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. You can reach mark at: [email protected] 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.
