After having used Google Chrome 16 Canary for a bit, I had too many issues, and per recommendation of Google accessibility, I installed Google Chrom 14 stable. The experience, especially responsiveness, stability, and ease of use has increased greatly. SO, I would recommend downloading/installing 14 stable, which will not conflict with 16 Canary and it will actually work as if the two don't know about one another.
If you delete 16 Canary, the next recommendation may help a lot more. CMD-SPACE to bring up Spotlight, type Chrome, RETURN, and Chrome will come up talking. At times, the website/homepage will load before ChromeVox does. If so, do a refresh with CMD-R to go to whatever URL by: CMD-L for omnibar, type URL, and RETURN. Note: This entire time, it's not required one has VoiceOver running at all. ChromeVox should speak within a website at all times, given it's in the HTML/web content/area. Once ChromeVox is outside, as you pointed out, such as getting to Chrome menu bar, bookmarks, etc. For this, it's easy enough to toggle On/Off VoiceOver. ChromeVox starts when Chrome does Please note: Chrome/ChromeVox is not a full replacement or substitute for Safari/VoiceOver, but often times, especially within websites that are rich and interactive, such as FaceBook, Google Plus, Docs, Gmail, CourseSmart, Blackboard, etc. Chrome/ChromeVox will perform exceptionally well and much better than VoiceOver/Safari. Tab browsing, views/list etc all work very well with Chrome/ChromeVox. Kevin On 10/4/11, Paul Hopewell <hopew...@hopewell.org.uk> wrote: > Hi Kevin, > I like your enthusiasm but I am not having as good an experience as you and > so wonder if I am doing something wrong. > > I have installed Chrome Canary and added ChromeVox from the Google web store > as you recommend. I am using VoiceOver on Lion 10.7.1 on an iMac with 4GB > memory. My problem is the relationship between ChromeVox and VoiceOver. I > need to use VoiceOver to get into Chrome in the first place and when in > Chrome I have to use VoiceOver to access the Chrome menu bar. When in a web > page I often have to tab around a bit to get ChromeVox to talk at all. Once > ChromeVox starts talking I have to turn VoiceOver off or it all gets very > confusing. > > Hence a few questions.... > > First is there a hotkey or the like to start ChromeVox talking when you open > a web page? Currently it sometimes talks automatically and it sometimes > stays silent. > > Second can ChromeVox access the menu bar for Chrome? If not then how do you > recommend using a mixture of ChromeVox and VoiceOver in a web environment? > > Third how do you recommend using ChromeVox or a mixture of ChromeVox and > VoiceOver to access web sites whose addresses are stored in bookmarks? > > Many thanks for any tips.... > > Paul Hopewell > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > mac-access@mac-access.net > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at > either the list's own dedicated web archive: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > or at the public Mail Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. > Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> > > The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus > and worm-free! > > Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting > the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
