Brandon, Still learning the hot spot app myself, but wonder if your wife can tell you if the button always appears on the same spot on the screen. My thought is that, I believe there is a mouse cursoring option that allows you to move to a specific X,Y coordinate on the physical screen, so maybe doing so would allow you to put the mouse pointer in the same place each time. If that works, you could memorize that as a hotspot macros. Just ideas I have from listening to the hot spot and the mouse navigation webinars from GW, but I'm not savvy enough to put them into action.
Robin Van Lant | Sr. Program Manager Strategy & Performance Management Key Equipment Finance | 720-304-1060 From: Brandon Miller <[email protected]> To: GW Micro Product Discussion Listserv <[email protected]> Date: 02/16/2014 02:45 AM Subject: The Hotspot app 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 This communication may contain privileged and/or confidential information. It is intended solely for the use of the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, you are strictly prohibited from disclosing, copying, distributing or using any of this information. If you received this communication in error, please contact the sender immediately and destroy the material in its entirety, whether electronic or hard copy. This communication may contain nonpublic personal information about consumers subject to the restrictions of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. You may not directly or indirectly reuse or redisclose such information for any purpose other than to provide the services for which you are receiving the information. 127 Public Square, Cleveland, OH 44114 If you prefer not to receive future e-mail offers for products or services from Key send an e-mail to mailto:[email protected] with 'No Promotional E-mails' in the SUBJECT line. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
