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From: Ro
Date: Oct 25, 2010 3:12PM

Yes, I was having issues with Voiceover freezing when I hit reply.
However, that seems to have been fixed after the latest Voiceover
updates. At least it doesn't freeze when I submit a comment. But yeah,
replying within a thread didn't work. It did nothing just like the
follow word did.

~Randi and Guide Dog Jayden

In the Center of the Roof

http://raynaadi.blogspot.com/

On Oct 25, 2010, at 1:28 PM, Carin Headrick wrote:

> You said you also had trouble hitting reply from within a thread,
> right?
>
> I'm one of the blog authors, and I have felt helpless to help her, so
> for now, we've been sending her comments to her manually by email. But
> human errors do tend to happen.
>
> Really hopin' for some info so we can also pass it on to Echo since we
> kinda pay for their service.
>
> Carin
>
> On 25/10/2010 11:42 AM, Ro wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> If there are any Apple users with Leopard or Snow, can I get your
>> help
>> with something? One of my favorite blogs uses Echo's commenting
>> system. To follow comments, you can just click "follow", enter your
>> email, and then you can reply to comments by email. It's really nice,
>> but since one of the latest Safari updates, the word "follow" does
>> nothing. I've tried using group mode in Leopard to no avail.
>>
>> The Echo CEO actually suggested I get a PC user to enter my email
>> address for me. Wow. He says it works from on his Mac OS 10, which is
>> great but he's not using Voiceover. Can someone go check it out, just
>> arrow down until you find the comment field, keep going until you
>> hear
>> "follow", click it and see if you get an option to enter an email? I
>> want to know if this is something weird with my computer alone before
>> I respond to the Echo guy some more.
>>
>> If you're so inclined also, if you think you might know what the
>> problem is and if there's a fix, that would be great too because then
>> I could tell them.
>>
>> I was hoping I'd never have to bring this here, but I don't know what
>> else to do.
>>
>> Here's a post to test the comments:
>>
>> http://vomitcomet.blogspot.com/2010/10/i-got-world-series-i-wanted.html
>>
>> Thanks in advance...
>>
>> ~Randi and Guide Dog Jayden
>>
>> http://raynaadi.blogspot.com/
>>
>>