Esther, I swear you are a Mac goddess! (grin). I have always been so impressed with how thoroughly and comprehensively you help us all and answer questions. Thank you so much. Christine On Oct 2, 2011, at 3:30 PM, Esther wrote:
> Hi Christine, > > I wasn't able to get anywhere with the main web site in Safari with VoiceOver > on. Not only does the site use flash for its contents, but the source page > view indicates that they are using a lot of javascript. I couldn't even > click in the web page and select all to send the contents to TextEdit for > viewing via the services menu option. > > What did work was doing a Google search for a separate page for Red Mango > gift cards. I found this URL for their online card sales: > https://redmango.myguestaccount.com/login/web_card_sale/selectcards.srv > > I think this is the page you can eventually get to if you manage to get past > all the flash and javascript. Navigate to the Quantity field of the > denomination gift card you want ($25, $50, $75, etc.), route your mouse > cursor to your VoiceOver cursor with VO-Command-F5 and click with > VO-Shift-Space in the text field. Then type the number of cards you want and > press return. You'll be taken to the Billing & Shipping page, and can > continue. I didn't try to go through the whole order placement, but this > seemed to work with Safari and VoiceOver once you get past that main web > page. I'd normally try to find a search field or sitemap link on the main > page to do a search, but it didn't work in this case, so I tried Google. So > the workaround in this case was to search for the specific web page on the > redmango.com site that dealt with gift cards, and hope that if I found this > that it wouldn't have the same flash problems of the main page of the site. > > HTH. Cheers, > > Esther > > On Oct 2, 2011, at 08:30, Christine Grassman wrote: > >> Hello, folks. I have tried, on my own and with sighted assistance without >> VoiceOver on, to purchase a gift card from >> http://www.redmangousa.com >> >> The site seems to be in flash, yet I can read the address bar, and the links >> to Twitter and Facebook. When I search in Google, I see the information in >> perfectly readable text in the search window, but when I click on it, I'm >> back to the inaccessible site. My husband tried without VoiceOver, and is >> getting "missing plug-in" -- but I thought Flash worked without VoiceOver. >> I tried Omniweb, and I'm getting nothing except the title of the site, and a >> TAbs button, which is doing nothing. Any workaround for such sites is >> appreciated. >> Christine >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
