Hi Greg
The latest snapshots of Opera have some Voiceover compatibility. It's
not perfect and has some serious issues that prevent it from being
practical for every-day use, most notably the fact that the html
content area doesn't update when you click a link, and the only way to
make it update seems to be restarting Voiceover. However, it is useful
for test cases when something doesn't work right in Safari or another
webkit-based browser, and I've had to use opera on some sights that
contain multi-selection lists (which appear as tables on the Mac) and,
ever since Safari 3 came out, are not useable with Voiceover in Webkit.
If you want to try it out you can go to snapshot.opera.com, then go to
the desktop team blog where they post the latest snapshot builds.
On Mar 14, 2008, at 8:32 PM, Greg Kearney wrote:
You have Opera working with VoiceOver?
Greg Kearney
535 S. Jackson St.
Casper, Wyoming 82601
307-224-4022
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On Mar 14, 2008, at 9:30 PM, Jacob Schmude wrote:
HiGreg
Well, this is most interesting indeed. It appears at first glance
that the content area is invisible to Voiceover. This is true, up
to a point. However, if I tab a few times, bringing keyboard focus
to one of the links in the content area, voiceover is able to see
everything fine until I stop interacting with the html content
area. This holds true for both group navigation (my preference) and
dom navigation. I don't see anything that looks as if it would
cause this in the page source I can view, but given the external
scripts and references, that doesn't mean anything. This behavior
does not appear confined to Safari, as Omniweb exhibits the same
issue and it also uses Webkit as its underlying rendering engine.
Opera, however, does not seem to have the problem, and is not based
on Webkit.
Just my observations
On Mar 14, 2008, at 7:52 PM, Greg Kearney wrote:
Go to the following URL: http://www.vic.gov.au/
For reasons that I am unable to determine the content area of the
site is not reachable with VoiceOver. Neither VO find nor Item
chooser will locate any thing in the content area. Navigation take
you to the header and footer but never to the content. Am I doing
something wrong or is it the site? And if it is the site what have
they done to make the content area invisible to VoiceOver?
Greg Kearney
535 S. Jackson St.
Casper, Wyoming 82601
307-224-4022
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
