I am afraid this is an aspect of quick nav that it defaults to the last letter navigation. This is sometimes useful but like you I find this annoying at times.
In the end I reason that I was just used to line reading as this was the normal Windows way of doing things. It is not actually that logical in many web page elements where lines are not fixed quantities with the realities of adjustable fonts and text flows etc. A paragraph is a more logical web element. I also realise that you cannot, or even reasonably expect the Mac to reproduce all of the windows experience. I therefore learnt to adjust in Quick Nav by using right arrow key to read a paragraph at a time which suits the Mac and actually me most of the time . This is unaffected by use of any of the Quick Nav button navigation options. I retain line reading for occasional detailed reading or as a more flexible way of selecting text on Safari web pages. There are strength and weaknesses to Mac internet usage. There are aspects some of web reading on the Mac which is far superior to Windows. If you have not tried it, go to a BBC news site story and press command shift R to launch Reader. Even the latest versions of Jaws do not achieve this level of functionality. David Griffith -----Original Message----- From: mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net [mailto:mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net] On Behalf Of Parham Doustdar Sent: 21 October 2013 07:00 To: Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility Subject: Re: Question: Reading Webpages Hi David, Thanks a lot. I did as you had suggested (adding "line" to the router), but I met some unexpected behavior that I'm wondering how to work around of. When pressing H for jumping to the next heading, the router setting changes to headings instead of lines and then I'll constantly have to switch back to lines. Is there a way to do this quickly? Thanks. On 10/19/2013 12:41 PM, David Griffith wrote: > Also in relation to navigating by line this is indeed possible. > You need to check first of all that in Voiceover settings that you have > line as an item for the web rota checked. I believe it is not checked by > default. > Just navigate to web rota settings and look for line and then press space to > set this up. > Now in Safari press left and right arrows to turn quick nav on. > Press left and up arrow to cycle through the rota until you hear lines. > Pressing down and up arrow will now navigate you by a line at a time. Left > and right arrow will still read by paragraph or heading element. > > This is a good way of selecting text easily as you simply hold the shift key > whilst pressing the down key. Unlike more clunky forms of text selection in > Safari you will not be restricted to interactional elements like a > paragraph. > > David Griffith > > -----Original Message----- > From: mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net > [mailto:mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net] On Behalf Of David Griffith > Sent: 19 October 2013 09:04 > To: 'Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility' > Subject: RE: Question: Reading Webpages > > Try changing the punctuation settings of Voiceover in Safari. > It sounds like you have it set to all. You might be better off with some or > none. > You can access the major settings of Voiceover, including punctuation, > quickly by pressing control option command and right or left cursor keys to > cycle through the settings. > > David Griffith > > -----Original Message----- > From: mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net > [mailto:mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net] On Behalf Of Parham Doustdar > Sent: 19 October 2013 07:49 > To: Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility > Subject: Question: Reading Webpages > > Hi, > > I'm using Mac OSX 10.8.5. When trying to read the Google search results > and moving to the next item using VO + right from the heading that has > the webpage title, I hear things like this (each comma between the text > enclosed in quotes means I press VO + right at this point): > > "Test.com | The best test site", "www", "test.com", "/", "example". > > However, what I'd like to hear is this: > > "Test.com | The best test site", "www.test.com/example" > > Namely, I'd like to navigate by line. > > Is this possible? > > Thanks. > > <--- 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> > > As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that > the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free. 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