Re: amazon's accesability contact.

Peter corn is a guy with decades of experience in the excess ability field. He is not some guy with a disability that some company put front and center just to make something look good. Mary Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 16, 2016, at 9:40 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: >

Re: amazon's accesability contact.

As I said before yes. the guidelines are incorporated into legal requirements in many countries. My swift google of MR. Korne reveals he is rather strong in the creation of tools...worked on outspoken, with some Linux structures as well.He may be surprised to learn himself of the

Re: amazon's accesability contact.

It starts with the first step. But was that not already taken a long time ago? The W3C guidelines, are they just that? Or have they been adopted and agreed upon? Is there any legal teeth in then? From E.T.'s Keyboard... Are We Alone in the Universe? ancient.ali...@icloud.com On

Re: amazon's accesability contact.

Honestly that depends on Mr. Korn's personal background. Sometimes management leads with their own experience of a disability, instead of recognizing that inclusion refers to the floor not the person using the floor. One does not find a different Walmart for those arriving in a van

Re: amazon's accesability contact.

No. Peter corn has been doing accessibility for a very long time. He certainly is familiar with the guidelines and the nuts and the bolts. But he is not going nor should we expect him to answer everyone's complaint. They certainly should have people further down the line from Peter corn who can

Re: amazon's accesability contact.

Indeed, there should be no separate site. after all access is more than about screen readers. How an individual interacts is tied to other things.the changes to the so called access site are rather new. I agree about the watered down functionality as well. Unless this has changed

Re: amazon's accesability contact.

No offense on the "excess ability wording so to play on it a bit... If this upper management is supposed to deal with accessibility, then is it not obvious they do not know the nuts and bolts thus they need to hear from those these efforts is supposedly aimed at? From E.T.'s Keyboard...

Re: amazon's accesability contact.

The broader problem is having a separate site for screaming ears at all. I have been on that site, not recently. When I was on it, it was very simplistic. It didn't offer anything like the full experience. But I didn't see anything that required a mouse. Mary Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 16,

Re: amazon's accesability contact.

I know for a fact that Peter corn is the head of the excess ability initiative and Amazon. I don't know who to take it too. I do know just as a general rule the people who are in charge of large efforts are not in the habit of answering nuts and bolts? This on an individual basis, just based on

Re: amazon's accesability contact.

I suppose I will find out as I sent him a copy of the email I provided the accessibility feedback team. Speaking only for myself, I would hope he took an interest. The lack of keyboard interaction, most notably on the areas defined as being for screen reader use does not reflect well on

Re: amazon's accesability contact.

Mary, Do you know this for a fact or are you speculating? If Peter Korn is not the one to take it to, then who or what or where? From E.T.'s Keyboard... Are We Alone in the Universe? ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 8/16/2016 8:45 PM, Mary Otten wrote: Given the fact that the email address

Re: amazon's accesability contact.

The web accessibility initiative groups have been generating guidelines for access for well decades. visit www.w3c.org If you wish to educate yourself about the rules. One basic guideline is that all functions are to work from the keyboard. Making the several links on the for screen reader

Re: amazon's accesability contact.

Chris.Brown noser? What the hell. If you cannot or will not try to do some advocating, then go crawl in a corner and be quiet. Some people like Karen are really wanting to level that damn playing field and all you can do is run your mouth off. From E.T.'s Keyboard... Are We Alone in

Re: amazon's accesability contact.

Agreed. --- Christopher Gilland JAWS Certified, 2016. Training Instructor. clgillan...@gmail.com Phone: (704) 256-8010. - Original Message - From: "Mary Otten" To: Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2016 11:45 PM Subject: Re: amazon's

Re: amazon's accesability contact.

Ehh? Ka! Brown Noser! You sure know your stuff. LOL! NO, I'm just kidding with ya. but Seriously though, thank you for the information. --- Christopher Gilland JAWS Certified, 2016. Training Instructor. clgillan...@gmail.com Phone: (704) 256-8010. - Original Message - From:

Re: amazon's accesability contact.

Given the fact that the email address you have is for Peter corn, the excess ability head guy at Amazon, I wouldn't expect a reply from that address from him personally. That sounds like something that would not be something he would directly deal with as head of the whole department. Mary

Re: amazon's accesability contact.

web access content guidelines, 2.0 developed by the w3c, these rules govern accessibility and inclusive web design in many countries. Reflected in say section 508, stateside, and considered by some to be the web extension of the Americans with disabilities act. In some places failing to

Re: Smart thermostat with Amazon Alexa

OK, I stand corrected then, thanks for the heads up, and my apology. --- Christopher Gilland JAWS Certified, 2016. Training Instructor. clgillan...@gmail.com Phone: (704) 256-8010. - Original Message - From: Michael Babcock To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday,

Re: Smart thermostat with Amazon Alexa

no home kit is an IOS9 feature: http://www.apple.com/ios/homekit/ *** Michael Babcock Consulting Blind entrepreneurs on digital marketing Your Own Pay Lets Connect On Twitter @payown Or facebook Consulting

Re: Smart thermostat with Amazon Alexa

I don't think homekit is available yet unless you have iOS 10, which we cannot discuss here. Someone correct me on the former of those two facts, if I'm wrong. --- Christopher Gilland JAWS Certified, 2016. Training Instructor. clgillan...@gmail.com Phone: (704) 256-8010. - Original

Re: amazon's accesability contact.

What? I'm totally confused at your message here. What on earth is Wacg 2.0? LOL! Smile. --- Christopher Gilland JAWS Certified, 2016. Training Instructor. clgillan...@gmail.com Phone: (704) 256-8010. - Original Message - From: "Karen Lewellen" To:

Re: amazon's accesability contact.

You are exactly correct, Arnald, and the app is totally 100% accessible the last that I tried it, both on Windows, as well as on OSX. --- Christopher Gilland JAWS Certified, 2016. Training Instructor. clgillan...@gmail.com Phone: (704) 256-8010. - Original Message - From: "Arnold

Re: IOS & watch beta question

Um, yeah. I can't say that I blame you. I upgraded my watch, but then, I see no reason to roll back. I can't reveal any specifics, but I will say I find it to be unbelievably rock solid. --- Christopher Gilland JAWS Certified, 2016. Training Instructor. clgillan...@gmail.com Phone: (704)

Re: text navigation help

Left and right arrows to move character by character. Make sure quick nav isn't on. Option+left and right arrow, again be sure quick nav isn't on, to move word by word. Up and down arrow, make sure quick nav isn't on, to move line by line. --- Christopher Gilland JAWS Certified, 2016.

Re: IOS & watch beta question

Ooo niauiss! You have an IPhone 6S+, says your signature? NO need to run wild with this thread, in fact, you can write me off list, if you'd like about this, but how do you like it? I love! my 6S, as well as my backup 6+. I'd love! to have the best of both worlds. LOL!

Re: IOS & watch beta question

Not exactly. On the watch, they make it a pain in the freaking kneck! You literally! have to send the watch in to Apple for service to downgrade it. Pretty dang stupid if you want my opinion, but, ok, whatever. --- Christopher Gilland JAWS Certified, 2016. Training Instructor.

Re: amazon's accesability contact.

Well. This was shared some time ago so may be out of service now, who knows. pk...@amazon.com From E.T.'s Keyboard... Are We Alone in the Universe? ancient.ali...@icloud.com On 8/16/2016 6:51 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: ...and when I go to the your orders page and choose digital orders,

Re: amazon's accesability contact.

...and when I go to the your orders page and choose digital orders, and locate my items, and choose download your music...I reach an error that says "we are having a problem with your music orders. I spent 2.5 hours with Amazon on the issue...which is why my question is for a direct

Re: amazon's accesability contact.

Mark Taylor posted some information probably last year about downloading music via web interface. I have not done this as I have not bought music in a while. I am pasting below the information Amazon sent to Mark. As an alternative, you can download your music directly through your web

RE: text navigation help

Character by character is just the left or right arrows. Word by word is option left or right arrow. For the visuals open the VO utility (VO F8) and look under the visuals category. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On

Smart thermostat with Amazon Alexa

Hello all, My family recently got an Ecobee Smart thermostat. It turns out that we did not get the correct version to work with Apple HomeKit. However, I fear that it works with Amazon Alexa. Has anybody on here used this or similar smart thermostat with Alexa for iOS? What is your experience?

Re: amazon's accesability contact.

wacg 2.0 is based in keyboard input, not operating system. I am told by amazon that I can download using my keyboard, no extra downloader required. hopefully your tips will help others, but it will not help here...which is why I desire the amazon contact. thanks, Kare On Tue, 16 Aug 2016,

Re: amazon's accesability contact.

I know nothing about how accessible it is, I am just passing along what I found. In Windows, one needs the Amazon mp3 downloader to download these files. I googled to find out if there is such a thing for the mac, and apparently there is. Google Amazon mp3 downloader for mac, and if it finds

amazon's accesability contact.

Hi folks, I am asking here because I believe someone before shared their name and e-mail. I am beyond dismayed that I cannot download the mp3 items, three files, that I have purchased. Amazon seems to be force feeding their library program, which I am told by a supervisor should not be the

Re: IOS & watch beta question

Oh, that’s that then. Again, will definitely stay away, until at least it will be possible to roll back yourself. > On 16 Aug 2016, at 10:46, Daniel Miller wrote: > > Actually, once you've upgraded your watch to a beta version of watchOS, there > is no way to restore back

Re: text navigation help

Option-left/right should do the trick. This is a system-wide OS X keyboard shortcut to move word by word. > On 16 Aug 2016, at 21:32, zoe fiogkos wrote: > > Hi everybody, please help, while in text edit how do I move caricter by > caricter and word by word? I want to go

text navigation help

Hi everybody, please help, while in text edit how do I move caricter by caricter and word by word? I want to go through a document in an other language and edit it. Also I want to visually see as I'm moving what's in the curser. So as I hear voiceover and use the keyboard I also want to see this

Re: Easy way to search FaceBook on iOS? Is there a way?

Hello Jessica I just figured out how to do this. 1. In the FaceBook app Double tap the "Search Facebook" at the top of the screen below the status bar. 2. Type your text in the edit box. 3. After a few seconds swipe right and you should see results. 4. If you press the search button on the

Re: Easy way to search FaceBook on iOS? Is there a way?

Go to the search field type in what you're looking for. Without going out of the text field swipe right until you hear the name of the group you're looking for and then double tap. Once you get into that group you are looking for, do a join request. Do not hit the search button, just stay with

RE: I successfully instlal windows on my Mac computer!, but I just hve some questions

Why bother, just use Sharpkeys to map the physical key of your choice to the insert key. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jonathan Cohn Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2016 10:40 AM To: macvisionaries

Re: I successfully instlal windows on my Mac computer!, but I just hve some questions

No, the problem is that when in laptop layout the "JAWS" key is the caps lock key and the insert key is no longer associated with the "jaws+functions". There might be a "use key for JAWS key" type setting in the settings center under the default configuration, or you you could edit default.jkm

Re: Easy way to search FaceBook on iOS? Is there a way?

And when they think they are improving they end up breaking accessibility. Doug Sent from my iPad > On Aug 16, 2016, at 9:49 AM, Jessica Moss wrote: > > I know, I wish they’d stop changing it so much, and just leave it the way it > was. It used to be easy as

Re: Easy way to search FaceBook on iOS? Is there a way?

I know, I wish they’d stop changing it so much, and just leave it the way it was. It used to be easy as ever to use and as soon as we all get used to it, they decide something has to be improved. > On Aug 16, 2016, at 9:21 AM, Douglas Lawlor wrote: > > > This really

Re: Easy way to search FaceBook on iOS? Is there a way?

This really diminishes the use of the service. I was looking for a group I'm interested in and all I'm seeing are a bunch of add friends and join groups. Regarding their web site, I have never seen a site so complicated to use. Doug Sent from my iPad > On Aug 16, 2016, at 9:04 AM, Jessica

Re: Easy way to search FaceBook on iOS? Is there a way?

I don’t know that there is one; I’ve tried that as well, and when someone’s name pops up, it just says “add friend,” which I obviously don’t want to do if I don’t know who they are, and I get tons of friend requests myself from people I have no idea who they are so 99.9% of them don’t get

Re: I successfully instlal windows on my Mac computer!, but I just hve some questions

Hi Helga and Scott, Well, I'm not sure what to tell you. Maybe Jaws doesn't like the command key as insert, I would try making the ` or \ keys as insert. I'm going to install jaws 17 tonight on my mac running windows 10 under bootcamp, and I'll play around with it. Best, Jeff On 8/15/16, Scott

Easy way to search FaceBook on iOS? Is there a way?

Hello all, Is there an accessible way to search FaceBook in their app for iOS? When I do a search I cannot see any results even though results are displayed. I'm not sure if Pictures are displayed instead of names or what. Any help on this would be appreciated. You would think after all

Re: Iphone Battery drain makes me worrid.

Hi! It may be that i had blindsquare in my appswitcher. We’ll see later on. The strange thing was that the battery draning occured even last saturday. /A > On 16 Aug 2016, at 04:59, Scott Granados wrote: > > Do you have an app like the KNFB reader or something like it that

Re: accessible app recommendation needed please

Hi! I must be a bit of a stupid one that didn’t think of googling. Sorry for that. I can only blame the Olympics for it as itts in the middle of the night here in sweden. At least the funny things. /A > On 14 Aug 2016, at 00:46, Jonathan Cohn wrote: > > I did a bit of

Re: IOS & watch beta question

Actually, once you've upgraded your watch to a beta version of watchOS, there is no way to restore back to the shipping version yourself. You need to send your watch back to Apple so they can do it for you. Sent from my iPhone 6S Plus > On Aug 16, 2016, at 5:31 AM, Simon Fogarty

RE: Iphone Battery drain makes me worrid.

Interesting, My beta version says IOS 10 through the software update and then 10.0.14 I think it is when looking at the about this phone But yet there are no updates available so I can only assume that my phone is completely up to date. -Original Message- From:

RE: IOS & watch beta question

Hi Chris Fully understand that one, I do know that if things go crazy the removal is done through the same process of how you install, its just a case of uninstalling the OS through removing the profile previously installed. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com