For what it's worth, I've also sent this issue along to Apple, and
just to add a bit to what Greg said, Safari find actually does work
for things not on the screen, however, once they're located, VO won't
track the cursors properly to move to the new cursor position, so VO
find won't find text unless it's visible on the screen, but safari
will, but then VO won't track Safari's find function. Go figure!
As I said though, I have pointed all this out to Apple as well, so
I do hope we'll see some action on it ASAP.
Simon, thanks very much for your comments. I totally agree with
you and I brought that up with Apple as well, saying that I feel it's
imperative that developers realize that using VO to navigate an
application really does mean absolutely relying on it to access that
app, and not just seeing if it will announce something under the mouse
pointer. <smile>
And, I'm very sure that they are completely aware of this sort of
thing, so again, I do hope we will see some improvements very soon...
Have a nice day / evening and chat with ya soon!...
Smiles,
Cara :)
On Jan 30, 2008, at 3:20 PM, Simon Cavendish wrote:
Greg, This is a helpful observation as many people do not realize
this is the case. And yet, the ability to look for a text you might
suspect is there is absolutely crucial. It is also crucial to be
absolutely sure that the text string you are looking for is not on
the page if you haven't got any sight. I cannot emphasize strongly
enough the fact that being blind means being blind. You can only
'See' what you can find by other than sight measures. I thank you
Greg, for bringing it up andmaking it clearer to people who should
know better. With best wishes
Simon Cavendish
On 30 Jan 2008, at 23:05, Greg Kearney wrote:
The issue I have with VoiceOVer find is that the text to be found
must be visually on the page before it will work. Should you be
attempting to find a word far down on a long webpage VoiceOVer find
will fail. A blind person would have no idea if the word they were
looking for was visually on the page or not. This limits the
usefulness of VoiceOver find.
Greg Kearney
535 S. Jackson St.
Casper, Wyoming 82601
307-224-4022
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