annnd now that I think BCT has officially pod faded I don't think they will correct that. I'm actually surprised that they did not do any testing on this as they have been around for ever and a year.
On Aug 13, 2012, at 14:21, Esther <mori...@mac-access.net> wrote: > Hi Arthur and Jim, > > I want to amend a statement I made in my previous post about being able to > route your mouse cursor to your VoiceOver cursor and using Contol-click to > bring up the context menu if my previous instructions with the key advice of > first interacting on the link don't work for you. If those instructions > don't work, then routing your mouse cursor won't take you to the correct > location to Control-click. I just did some testing with VO-F5-F5 to check > where the mouse cursor is located in pixels on the screen before and after > interacting with the podcast link. If you don't interact with the link > before you route your mouse cursor to your VO cursor, you're centered on the > position the link would have if it occupied the full width of the web page -- > not the actual x center of the link. That's why nothing works if you don't > first interact; the HTML coding on the BCT web page is sending your screen > reader to the wrong location. I can go through every podcast link on the BCT > web page, r ou > te my mouse cursor to my VO cursor, and check the mouse cursor position with > VO-F5-F5, and they'll all have the same x positions in the middle of the > browser screen. I'll add that this is nowhere near the x pixel values for > the actual link, that you get if you first interact with the link before > trying to bring up a context menu, force download with Option-Return, or > check the position of the mouse cursor after routing mouse cursor to > VoiceOver cursor. > > Just wanted to provide information that this really is bad coding on BCT home > page as the source of your problems. Just keep doing extra interacting before > you try the regular commands. > > HTH. Cheers, > > Esther > > > On Aug 13, 2012, at 10:55 AM, Esther <mori...@mac-access.net> wrote: >> If neither of the methods I've outlined works for you, you can always route >> your mouse cursor to your VoiceOver cursor (VO-Commanf-F5), and use >> Control-Click, where you press the Control key at the same time as you click >> with your mouse or trackpad. This is the Mac equivalent of a "right mouse >> click" to bring up the contextual menu. > <--- 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/>
