Hi Brandon,
Are you not able to use the letter B key, which moves to the next
(Shift-B to the previous) button? If you can, then you could use
surronding text to orient yourself to the silent button. If you were on
the button, you could just press Space to activate it. If that didn't
work, you could use Numpad Insert-Plus to route the mouse to the button
and then Numpad Slash to left-click it.
hth,
Rod
On 2/16/14 4:44 AM, Brandon Miller wrote:
Hello everyone, I've got what I hope is a relatively simple question
for any of you who are proficient at working with the Window-eyes
Hotspot app. Can you use it to mark and then later return to a
graphical element on a webpage? Here's what I'd like to be able to do.
There's a button used to post comments on this wall portion of a
website that I'm a member of. Unfortunately, it is not possible to tab
to this button, nor is it possible to use Window-eyes' mouse hotkeys
in any sort of readily apparent manner to get at it. Fortunately, my
wife is sighted, so because of her working with me I know that it is
of course in actuality indeed possible to get the mouse pointer to the
button I need to be able to click using the mouse up, down, left and
right hotkeys. However, even when the button is reached, Window-eyes
just announces something that is for all intense and purposes
practically meaningless, like the X-Y coordinates of the button, or
some other type of pointer reference location that sounds to me like
gobbledygook. The actual button itself visually says "post comment"!
Haha, so anyway, I got to thinking, well, ok, I'll just try setting up
a Window-eyes hotspot there. Well, sadly, even when I stay on the site
and simply navigate to a different place on the page, and then try to
use the hotspot, it doesn't work. Dad gum it, thoughts? Can the
Hotspot app only be used on textual elements? If so, can any of you
think of any other solutions I could try? The virtualView app perhaps?
Well, on second thought, the thing is, I'm trying to use Window-eyes
to activate a graphical button that cannot independently be accessibly
focused upon using the tab, arrow keys, or any mouse hotkeys that I
know of save the ones I've already mentioned. Thoughts? The sites'
support team are both cordial and pretty responsive, even if clueless
about assistive technology. If there's something I could ask them to
change about the HTML code itself to make this button able to be given
focus using the keyboard, do any of you know what that would be
technically referred to as?
Respectfully submitted,
Brandon Dean Miller
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